Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To be commenced in strands afar remote.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Did lately meet in the intestine shock
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And furious close of civil butchery
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|March all one way and be no more opposed
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|We are impressed and engaged to fight,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To chase these pagans in those holy fields
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But this our purpose now is twelve month old,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|What yesternight our council did decree
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|In forwarding this dear expedience.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|My liege, this haste was hot in question,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|And many limits of the charge set down
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|But yesternight: when all athwart there came
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|A post from Wales loaden with heavy news,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Against the irregular and wild Glendower,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|A thousand of his people butchered,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Such beastly shameless transformation,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|By those Welshwomen done as may not be
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Without much shame retold or spoken of.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|It seems then that the tidings of this broil
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Brake off our business for the Holy Land.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|This match'd with other did, my gracious lord,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|For more uneven and unwelcome news
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Came from the north and thus it did import:
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|That ever-valiant and approved Scot,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|At Holmedon met,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|As by discharge of their artillery,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|And shape of likelihood, the news was told,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|For he that brought them, in the very heat
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|And pride of their contention did take horse,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Uncertain of the issue any way.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Stain'd with the variation of each soil
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To beaten Douglas, and the Earl of Athol,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And is not this an honourable spoil?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|In faith,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|In envy that my Lord Northumberland
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Should be the father to so blest a son,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|A son who is the theme of honour's tongue,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|See riot and dishonour stain the brow
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which he in this adventure hath surprised,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To his own use he keeps, and sends me word,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|This is his uncle's teaching, this is Worcester,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Malevolent to you in all aspects,
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|The crest of youth against your dignity.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But I have sent for him to answer this,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And for this cause awhile we must neglect
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Will hold at Windsor, so inform the lords:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But come yourself with speed to us again,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For more is to be said and to be done
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Than out of anger can be uttered.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|I will, my liege.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Exeunt
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|SCENE II. London. An apartment of the Prince's.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Enter the PRINCE OF WALES and FALSTAFF
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|the time of the day.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Indeed, you come near me now, Hal, for we that take
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|by Phoebus, he,'that wandering knight so fair.' And,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|save thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thou wilt have none,--
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, none?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|prologue to an egg and butter.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|us that are squires of the night's body be called
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|moon, and let men say we be men of good government,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou sayest well, and it holds well too, for the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning, got with
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying 'Bring in,'
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And is not my
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|buff jerkin?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|time and oft.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|No, I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|and where it would not, I have used my credit.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|that thou art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweet
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|No, thou shalt.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave judge.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well, Hal, well, and in some sort it jumps with my
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|you.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For obtaining of suits?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|as a gib cat or a lugged bear.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Moor-ditch?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art indeed
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|commodity of good names were to be bought. An old
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|lord of the council rated me the other day in the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|street about you, sir, but I marked him not, and yet
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not, and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|yet he talked wisely, and in the street too.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|streets, and no man regards it.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me, Hal, God forgive thee for it! Before I knew
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thee, Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|should speak truly, little better than one of the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|it over: by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll be damned for never a king's son in
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Christendom.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Where shall we take a purse tomorrow, Jack?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad, I'll make one, an I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|do not, call me villain and baffle me.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I see a good amendment of life in thee, from praying
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|to purse-taking.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal, 'tis no sin for a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|man to labour in his vocation.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter POINS
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|a true man.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Good morrow, Ned.
Henry IV|POINS|Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse?
Henry IV|POINS|what says Sir John Sack and Sugar? Jack! how
Henry IV|POINS|agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou
Henry IV|POINS|soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira
Henry IV|POINS|and a cold capon's leg?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|his bargain, for he was never yet a breaker of
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|proverbs: he will give the devil his due.
Henry IV|POINS|Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Else he had been damned for cozening the devil.
Henry IV|POINS|But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four
Henry IV|POINS|o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going
Henry IV|POINS|to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders
Henry IV|POINS|riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards
Henry IV|POINS|for you all, you have horses for yourselves:
Henry IV|POINS|Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke
Henry IV|POINS|supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it
Henry IV|POINS|as secure as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff
Henry IV|POINS|your purses full of crowns, if you will not, tarry
Henry IV|POINS|at home and be hanged.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Hear ye, Yedward, if I tarry at home and go not,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll hang you for going.
Henry IV|POINS|You will, chops?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Hal, wilt thou make one?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Why, that's well said.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I care not.
Henry IV|POINS|Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone:
Henry IV|POINS|I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure
Henry IV|POINS|that he shall go.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|move and what he hears may be believed, that the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thief, for the poor abuses of the time want
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit Falstaff
Henry IV|POINS|Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us
Henry IV|POINS|to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot
Henry IV|POINS|manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill
Henry IV|POINS|shall rob those men that we have already waylaid:
Henry IV|POINS|yourself and I will not be there, and when they
Henry IV|POINS|have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut
Henry IV|POINS|this head off from my shoulders.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How shall we part with them in setting forth?
Henry IV|POINS|Why, we will set forth before or after them, and
Henry IV|POINS|appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at
Henry IV|POINS|our pleasure to fail, and then will they adventure
Henry IV|POINS|upon the exploit themselves, which they shall have
Henry IV|POINS|no sooner achieved, but we'll set upon them.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by our
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|horses, by our habits and by every other
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|appointment, to be ourselves.
Henry IV|POINS|Tut! our horses they shall not see: I'll tie them
Henry IV|POINS|in the wood, our vizards we will change after we
Henry IV|POINS|leave them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram
Henry IV|POINS|for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us.
Henry IV|POINS|Well, for two of them, I know them to be as
Henry IV|POINS|true-bred cowards as ever turned back, and for the
Henry IV|POINS|third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll
Henry IV|POINS|forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the
Henry IV|POINS|incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will
Henry IV|POINS|tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at
Henry IV|POINS|least, he fought with, what wards, what blows, what
Henry IV|POINS|extremities he endured, and in the reproof of this
Henry IV|POINS|lies the jest.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|there I'll sup. Farewell.
Henry IV|POINS|Farewell, my lord.
Henry IV|POINS|Exit Poins
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I know you all, and will awhile uphold
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The unyoked humour of your idleness:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|To smother up his beauty from the world,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That, when he please again to be himself,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|If all the year were playing holidays,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|To sport would be as tedious as to work,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|So, when this loose behavior I throw off
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And pay the debt I never promised,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|By how much better than my word I am,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|By so much shall I falsify men's hopes,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I'll so offend, to make offence a skill,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Redeeming time when men think least I will.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|SCENE III. London. The palace.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Enter the KING, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR, SIR WALTER BLUNT, with others
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Unapt to stir at these indignities,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And you have found me, for accordingly
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|You tread upon my patience: but be sure
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I will from henceforth rather be myself,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And therefore lost that title of respect
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The scourge of greatness to be used on it,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And that same greatness too which our own hands
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Have holp to make so portly.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|My lord.--
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Worcester, get thee gone, for I do see
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Danger and disobedience in thine eye:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And majesty might never yet endure
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The moody frontier of a servant brow.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|You have good leave to leave us: when we need
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Your use and counsel, we shall send for you.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exit Worcester
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|You were about to speak.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To North
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Yea, my good lord.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Were, as he says, not with such strength denied
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|As is deliver'd to your majesty:
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Either envy, therefore, or misprison
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Is guilty of this fault and not my son.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My liege, I did deny no prisoners.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But I remember, when the fight was done,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap'd
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He was perfumed like a milliner,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He gave his nose and took't away again,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Who therewith angry, when it next came there,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Took it in snuff, and still he smiled and talk'd,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|With many holiday and lady terms
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He question'd me, amongst the rest, demanded
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To be so pester'd with a popinjay,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Out of my grief and my impatience,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He should or he should not, for he made me mad
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Was parmaceti for an inward bruise,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And that it was great pity, so it was,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|So cowardly, and but for these vile guns,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He would himself have been a soldier.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I answer'd indirectly, as I said,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And I beseech you, let not his report
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Come current for an accusation
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Betwixt my love and your high majesty.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|The circumstance consider'd, good my lord,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|To such a person and in such a place,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|At such a time, with all the rest retold,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|May reasonably die and never rise
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|To do him wrong or any way impeach
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|What then he said, so he unsay it now.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But with proviso and exception,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That we at our own charge shall ransom straight
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The lives of those that he did lead to fight
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Shall we but treason? and indent with fears,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|When they have lost and forfeited themselves?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|No, on the barren mountains let him starve,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For I shall never hold that man my friend
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To ransom home revolted Mortimer.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Revolted Mortimer!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But by the chance of war, to prove that true
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In single opposition, hand to hand,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He did confound the best part of an hour
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In changing hardiment with great Glendower:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Three times they breathed and three times did
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|they drink,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Never did base and rotten policy
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Colour her working with such deadly wounds,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nor could the noble Mortimer
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Receive so many, and all willingly:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Then let not him be slander'd with revolt.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|He never did encounter with Glendower:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I tell thee,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|He durst as well have met the devil alone
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As Owen Glendower for an enemy.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|We licence your departure with your son.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|An if the devil come and roar for them,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I will not send them: I will after straight
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And tell him so, for I will ease my heart,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Albeit I make a hazard of my head.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile:
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Here comes your uncle.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Re-enter WORCESTER
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Speak of Mortimer!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'Zounds, I will speak of him, and let my soul
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Want mercy, if I do not join with him:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|As high in the air as this unthankful king,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Who struck this heat up after I was gone?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And when I urged the ransom once again
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim'd
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|By Richard that dead is the next of blood?
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|He was, I heard the proclamation:
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|And then it was when the unhappy king,
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|--Whose wrongs in us God pardon!--did set forth
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Upon his Irish expedition,
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|From whence he intercepted did return
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|To be deposed and shortly murdered.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Live scandalized and foully spoken of.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But soft, I pray you, did King Richard then
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Heir to the crown?
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|He did, myself did hear it.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That wished him on the barren mountains starve.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But shall it be that you, that set the crown
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Upon the head of this forgetful man
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And for his sake wear the detested blot
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of murderous subornation, shall it be,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That you a world of curses undergo,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Being the agents, or base second means,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O, pardon me that I descend so low,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To show the line and the predicament
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Wherein you range under this subtle king,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Or fill up chronicles in time to come,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That men of your nobility and power
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|As both of you--God pardon it!--have done,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And shall it in more shame be further spoken,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That you are fool'd, discarded and shook off
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|By him for whom these shames ye underwent?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|No, yet time serves wherein you may redeem
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Your banish'd honours and restore yourselves
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Into the good thoughts of the world again,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of this proud king, who studies day and night
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To answer all the debt he owes to you
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Even with the bloody payment of your deaths:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Therefore, I say--
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Peace, cousin, say no more:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And now I will unclasp a secret book,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And to your quick-conceiving discontents
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|As full of peril and adventurous spirit
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Send danger from the east unto the west,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|So honour cross it from the north to south,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And let them grapple: O, the blood more stirs
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Imagination of some great exploit
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And pluck up drowned honour by the locks,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Without corrival, all her dignities:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But out upon this half-faced fellowship!
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|He apprehends a world of figures here,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|But not the form of what he should attend.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Good cousin, give me audience for a while.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I cry you mercy.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Those same noble Scots
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|That are your prisoners,--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I'll keep them all,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|By God, he shall not have a Scot of them,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I'll keep them, by this hand.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|You start away
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And lend no ear unto my purposes.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Those prisoners you shall keep.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nay, I will, that's flat:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He said he would not ransom Mortimer,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But I will find him when he lies asleep,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!'
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nay,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To keep his anger still in motion.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Hear you, cousin, a word.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|All studies here I solemnly defy,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But that I think his father loves him not
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And would be glad he met with some mischance,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Farewell, kinsman: I'll talk to you
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|When you are better temper'd to attend.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Art thou to break into this woman's mood,
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In Richard's time,--what do you call the place?--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A plague upon it, it is in Gloucestershire,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|His uncle York, where I first bow'd my knee
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'Sblood!--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|At Berkley castle.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|You say true:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Look,'when his infant fortune came to age,'
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin,'
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Good uncle, tell your tale, I have done.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Nay, if you have not, to it again,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|We will stay your leisure.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I have done, i' faith.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Deliver them up without their ransom straight,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And make the Douglas' son your only mean
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For powers in Scotland, which, for divers reasons
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Which I shall send you written, be assured,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Will easily be granted. You, my lord,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To Northumberland
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Shall secretly into the bosom creep
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Of that same noble prelate, well beloved,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The archbishop.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of York, is it not?
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|True, who bears hard
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I speak not this in estimation,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|As what I think might be, but what I know
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Is ruminated, plotted and set down,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And only stays but to behold the face
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I smell it: upon my life, it will do well.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And then the power of Scotland and of York,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To join with Mortimer, ha?
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And so they shall.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And 'tis no little reason bids us speed,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To save our heads by raising of a head,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For, bear ourselves as even as we can,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The king will always think him in our debt,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Till he hath found a time to pay us home:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And see already how he doth begin
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To make us strangers to his looks of love.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He does, he does: we'll be revenged on him.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Cousin, farewell: no further go in this
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Than I by letters shall direct your course.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Which now we hold at much uncertainty.
Henry IV|NORTHUMBERLAND|Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Uncle, Adieu: O, let the hours be short
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Exeunt
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|ACT II
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|SCENE I. Rochester. An inn yard.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand
Henry IV|First Carrier|Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I'll be
Henry IV|First Carrier|hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and
Henry IV|First Carrier|yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!
Henry IV|Ostler|[Within]   Anon, anon.
Henry IV|First Carrier|I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks
Henry IV|First Carrier|in the point, poor jade, is wrung in the withers out
Henry IV|First Carrier|of all cess.
Henry IV|First Carrier|Enter another Carrier
Henry IV|Second Carrier|Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that
Henry IV|Second Carrier|is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this
Henry IV|Second Carrier|house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.
Henry IV|First Carrier|Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats
Henry IV|First Carrier|rose, it was the death of him.
Henry IV|Second Carrier|I think this be the most villanous house in all
Henry IV|Second Carrier|London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench.
Henry IV|First Carrier|Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a king
Henry IV|First Carrier|christen could be better bit than I have been since
Henry IV|First Carrier|the first cock.
Henry IV|Second Carrier|Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we
Henry IV|Second Carrier|leak in your chimney, and your chamber-lie breeds
Henry IV|Second Carrier|fleas like a loach.
Henry IV|First Carrier|What, ostler! come away and be hanged!
Henry IV|Second Carrier|I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger,
Henry IV|Second Carrier|to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.
Henry IV|First Carrier|God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite
Henry IV|First Carrier|starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou
Henry IV|First Carrier|never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An
Henry IV|First Carrier|'twere not as good deed as drink, to break the pate
Henry IV|First Carrier|on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged!
Henry IV|First Carrier|hast thou no faith in thee?
Henry IV|First Carrier|Enter GADSHILL
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?
Henry IV|First Carrier|I think it be two o'clock.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|I pray thee lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding
Henry IV|GADSHILL|in the stable.
Henry IV|First Carrier|Nay, by God, soft, I know a trick worth two of that, i' faith.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|I pray thee, lend me thine.
Henry IV|Second Carrier|Ay, when? can'st tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth
Henry IV|Second Carrier|he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?
Henry IV|Second Carrier|Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant
Henry IV|Second Carrier|thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the
Henry IV|Second Carrier|gentleman: they will along with company, for they
Henry IV|Second Carrier|have great charge.
Henry IV|Second Carrier|Exeunt carriers
Henry IV|GADSHILL|What, ho! chamberlain!
Henry IV|Chamberlain|[Within]  At hand, quoth pick-purse.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|That's even as fair as--at hand, quoth the
Henry IV|GADSHILL|chamberlain, for thou variest no more from picking
Henry IV|GADSHILL|of purses than giving direction doth from labouring,
Henry IV|GADSHILL|thou layest the plot how.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Enter Chamberlain
Henry IV|Chamberlain|Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that
Henry IV|Chamberlain|I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the
Henry IV|Chamberlain|wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with
Henry IV|Chamberlain|him in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his
Henry IV|Chamberlain|company last night at supper, a kind of auditor, one
Henry IV|Chamberlain|that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what.
Henry IV|Chamberlain|They are up already, and call for eggs and butter,
Henry IV|Chamberlain|they will away presently.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas'
Henry IV|GADSHILL|clerks, I'll give thee this neck.
Henry IV|Chamberlain|No, I'll none of it: I pray thee keep that for the
Henry IV|Chamberlain|hangman, for I know thou worshippest St. Nicholas
Henry IV|Chamberlain|as truly as a man of falsehood may.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang,
Henry IV|GADSHILL|I'll make a fat pair of gallows, for if I hang, old
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no
Henry IV|GADSHILL|starveling. Tut! there are other Trojans that thou
Henry IV|GADSHILL|dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are
Henry IV|GADSHILL|content to do the profession some grace, that would,
Henry IV|GADSHILL|if matters should be looked into, for their own
Henry IV|GADSHILL|credit sake, make all whole. I am joined with no
Henry IV|GADSHILL|foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,
Henry IV|GADSHILL|none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms,
Henry IV|GADSHILL|but with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and
Henry IV|GADSHILL|great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will
Henry IV|GADSHILL|strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than
Henry IV|GADSHILL|drink, and drink sooner than pray: and yet, zounds,
Henry IV|GADSHILL|I lie, for they pray continually to their saint, the
Henry IV|GADSHILL|commonwealth, or rather, not pray to her, but prey
Henry IV|GADSHILL|on her, for they ride up and down on her and make
Henry IV|GADSHILL|her their boots.
Henry IV|Chamberlain|What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold
Henry IV|Chamberlain|out water in foul way?
Henry IV|GADSHILL|She will, she will, justice hath liquored her. We
Henry IV|GADSHILL|steal as in a castle, cocksure, we have the receipt
Henry IV|GADSHILL|of fern-seed, we walk invisible.
Henry IV|Chamberlain|Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to
Henry IV|Chamberlain|the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our
Henry IV|GADSHILL|purchase, as I am a true man.
Henry IV|Chamberlain|Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Go to, 'homo' is a common name to all men. Bid the
Henry IV|GADSHILL|ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,
Henry IV|GADSHILL|you muddy knave.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Exeunt
Henry IV|GADSHILL|SCENE II. The highway, near Gadshill.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS
Henry IV|POINS|Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's
Henry IV|POINS|horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Stand close.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Enter FALSTAFF
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thou keep!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Where's Poins, Hal?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not but to die a fair death for all this, if I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|forsworn his company hourly any time this two and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged, it
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|They whistle
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|rogues, give me my horse, and be hanged!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down, lay thine ear close
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|of travellers.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou liest, thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|good king's son.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|garters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when a jest
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter GADSHILL, BARDOLPH and PETO
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Stand.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|So I do, against my will.
Henry IV|POINS|O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,
Henry IV|POINS|what news?
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Case ye, case ye, on with your vizards: there 's
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|money of the king's coming down the hill, 'tis going
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|to the king's exchequer.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|You lie, ye rogue, 'tis going to the king's tavern.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|There's enough to make us all.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|To be hanged.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|from your encounter, then they light on us.
Henry IV|PETO|How many be there of them?
Henry IV|GADSHILL|Some eight or ten.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Zounds, will they not rob us?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|but yet no coward, Hal.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well, we leave that to the proof.
Henry IV|POINS|Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge:
Henry IV|POINS|when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.
Henry IV|POINS|Farewell, and stand fast.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Ned, where are our disguises?
Henry IV|POINS|Here, hard by: stand close.
Henry IV|POINS|Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and POINS
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|every man to his business.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter the Travellers
Henry IV|First Traveller|Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our horses down
Henry IV|First Traveller|the hill, we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease our legs.
Henry IV|Thieves|Stand!
Henry IV|Travellers|Jesus bless us!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Strike, down with them, cut the villains' throats:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hate us youth: down with them: fleece them.
Henry IV|Travellers|O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|fat chuffs: I would your store were here! On,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must live.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|You are Grand-jurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|would be argument for a week, laughter for a month
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|and a good jest for ever.
Henry IV|POINS|Stand close, I hear them coming.
Henry IV|POINS|Enter the Thieves again
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Come, my masters, let us share, and then to  horse
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Your money!
Henry IV|POINS|Villains!
Henry IV|POINS|As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon  them, they all run away, and Falstaff, after a blow or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|So strongly that they dare not meet each other,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Each takes his fellow for an officer.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And lards the lean earth as he walks along:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.
Henry IV|POINS|How the rogue roar'd!
Henry IV|POINS|Exeunt
Henry IV|POINS|SCENE III. Warkworth castle
Henry IV|POINS|Enter HOTSPUR, solus, reading a letter
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|your house.' He could be contented: why is he not,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|then? In respect of the love he bears our house:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|he loves our house. Let me see some more. 'The
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|purpose you undertake is dangerous,'--why, that's
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|drink, but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 'The
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|purpose you undertake is dangerous, the friends you
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|have named uncertain, the time itself unsorted, and
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|great an opposition.' Say you so, say you so? I say
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|you lie.  What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|our plot is a good plot as ever was laid, our
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|friends true and constant: a good plot, good
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|friends, and full of expectation, an excellent plot,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot and the
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|general course of action. 'Zounds, an I were now by
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Is there not my father, my uncle and myself? lord
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Edmund Mortimer, My lord of York and Owen Glendower?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|next month? and are they not some of them set
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|forward already? What a pagan rascal is this! an
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sincerity
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|of fear and cold heart, will he to the king and lay
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|let him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|forward to-night.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Enter LADY PERCY
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|For what offence have I this fortnight been
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|And start so often when thou sit'st alone?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|And given my treasures and my rights of thee
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Of prisoners' ransom and of soldiers slain,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|And all the currents of a heady fight.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Such as we see when men restrain their breath
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|And I must know it, else he loves me not.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|What, ho!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Enter Servant
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Is Gilliams with the packet gone?
Henry IV|Servant|He is, my lord, an hour ago.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?
Henry IV|Servant|One horse, my lord, he brought even now.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?
Henry IV|Servant|It is, my lord.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That roan shall by my throne.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Well, I will back him straight: O esperance!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Exit Servant
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|But hear you, my lord.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|What say'st thou, my lady?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|What is it carries you away?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Why, my horse, my love, my horse.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Out, you mad-headed ape!
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|As you are toss'd with. In faith,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|About his title, and hath sent for you
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|To line his enterprise: but if you go,--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Come, come, you paraquito, answer me
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Directly unto this question that I ask:
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Away,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|have with me?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Well, do not then, for since you love me not,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|I will not love myself. Do you not love me?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Come, wilt thou see me ride?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And when I am on horseback, I will swear
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I must not have you henceforth question me
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Whither I must, I must, and, to conclude,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I know you wise, but yet no farther wise
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But yet a woman: and for secrecy,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|No lady closer, for I well believe
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|How! so far?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Whither I go, thither shall you go too,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Will this content you, Kate?
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|It must of force.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Exeunt
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|SCENE IV. The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thy hand to laugh a little.
Henry IV|POINS|Where hast been, Hal?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|score hogsheads. I have sounded the very
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|to a leash of drawers, and can call them all by
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|They take it already upon their salvation, that
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|of courtesy, and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|am king of England, I shall command all the good
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|scarlet, and when you breathe in your watering, they
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|cry  'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|that I can drink with any tinker in his own language
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|much honour, that thou wert not with me in this sweet
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|action. But, sweet Ned,--to sweeten which name of
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one that
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|never spake other English in his life than 'Eight
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|shillings and sixpence' and 'You are welcome,' with
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|this shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|of bastard in the Half-Moon,' or so. But, Ned, to
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar, and do
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thou never leave calling 'Francis,' that his tale
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' Step aside, and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I'll show thee a precedent.
Henry IV|POINS|Francis!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou art perfect.
Henry IV|POINS|Francis!
Henry IV|POINS|Exit POINS
Henry IV|POINS|Enter FRANCIS
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet, Ralph.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Come hither, Francis.
Henry IV|FRANCIS|My lord?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How long hast thou to serve, Francis?
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Forsooth, five years, and as much as to--
Henry IV|POINS|[Within]  Francis!
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Anon, anon, sir.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|a fair pair of heels and run from it?
Henry IV|FRANCIS|O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in
Henry IV|FRANCIS|England, I could find in my heart.
Henry IV|POINS|[Within]  Francis!
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Anon, sir.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How old art thou, Francis?
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Let me see--about Michaelmas next I shall be--
Henry IV|POINS|[Within]  Francis!
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|gavest me,'twas a pennyworth, wast't not?
Henry IV|FRANCIS|O Lord, I would it had been two!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it.
Henry IV|POINS|[Within]  Francis!
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Anon, anon.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Anon, Francis? No, Francis, but to-morrow, Francis,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|or, Francis, o' Thursday, or indeed, Francis, when
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thou wilt. But, Francis!
Henry IV|FRANCIS|My lord?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch,--
Henry IV|FRANCIS|O Lord, sir, who do you mean?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.
Henry IV|FRANCIS|What, sir?
Henry IV|POINS|[Within]  Francis!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them call?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Here they both call him, the drawer stands amazed, not knowing which way to go
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Enter Vintner
Henry IV|Vintner|What, standest thou still, and hearest such a
Henry IV|Vintner|calling? Look to the guests within.
Henry IV|Vintner|Exit Francis
Henry IV|Vintner|My lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are
Henry IV|Vintner|at the door: shall I let them in?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Let them alone awhile, and then open the door.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit Vintner
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Poins!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Re-enter POINS
Henry IV|POINS|Anon, anon, sir.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|the door: shall we be merry?
Henry IV|POINS|As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye, what
Henry IV|POINS|cunning match have you made with this jest of the
Henry IV|POINS|drawer? come, what's the issue?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I am now of all humours that have showed themselves
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Re-enter FRANCIS
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What's o'clock, Francis?
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Anon, anon, sir.
Henry IV|FRANCIS|Exit
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry is
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|upstairs and downstairs, his eloquence the parcel of
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Hotspur of the north, he that kills me some six or
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|hands, and says to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|life! I want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|'how many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|horse a drench,' says he, and answers 'Some
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|fourteen,' an hour after, 'a trifle, a trifle.' I
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Enter FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, and PETO, FRANCIS following with wine
Henry IV|POINS|Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|He drinks
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|in it. A villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|shotten herring. There live not three good men
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I would I were a weaver, I could sing psalms or any
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, you whoreson round man, what's the matter?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and Poins there?
Henry IV|POINS|'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by the
Henry IV|POINS|Lord, I'll stab thee.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|back: call you that backing of your friends? A
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|plague upon such backing! give me them that will
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|face me. Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|drunk to-day.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|drunkest last.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|All's one for that.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|He drinks
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|A plague of all cowards, still say I.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What's the matter?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What's the matter! there be four of us here have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Where is it, Jack? where is it?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|poor four of us.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, a hundred, man?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|miracle. I am eight times thrust through the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|through and through, my sword hacked like a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hand-saw--ecce signum! I never dealt better since
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Speak, sirs, how was it?
Henry IV|GADSHILL|We four set upon some dozen--
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Sixteen at least, my lord.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|And bound them.
Henry IV|PETO|No, no, they were not bound.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|You rogue, they were bound, every man of them, or I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.
Henry IV|GADSHILL|As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh men set upon us--
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|And unbound the rest, and then come in the other.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, fought you with them all?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|All! I know not what you call all, but if I fought
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Jack, then am I no two-legged creature.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Pray God you have not murdered some of them.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered two
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|of them, two I am sure I have paid, two rogues
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|knowest my old ward, here I lay and thus I bore my
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, four? thou saidst but two even now.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Four, Hal, I told thee four.
Henry IV|POINS|Ay, ay, he said four.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust at
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|points in my target, thus.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Seven? why, there were but four even now.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|In buckram?
Henry IV|POINS|Ay, four, in buckram suits.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Prithee, let him alone, we shall have more anon.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Dost thou hear me, Hal?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|in buckram that I told thee of--
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|So, two more already.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Their points being broken,--
Henry IV|POINS|Down fell their hose.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Began to give me ground: but I followed me close,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|came in foot and hand, and with a thought seven of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the eleven I paid.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|at me, for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not see thy hand.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|These lies are like their father that begets them,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|whoreson, obscene, grease tallow-catch,--
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the truth?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this?
Henry IV|POINS|Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|compulsion, I.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I'll be no longer guilty of this sin, this sanguine
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|this huge hill of flesh,--
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|for breath to utter what is like thee! you
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase, you vile
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|standing-tuck,--
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|hear me speak but this.
Henry IV|POINS|Mark, Jack.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|We two saw you four set on four and bound them, and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how a plain
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on you
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|four, and, with a word, out-faced you from your
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|prize, and have it, yea, and can show it you here in
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|the house: and, Falstaff, you carried your guts
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|for mercy and still run and roared, as ever I heard
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thou now find out to hide thee from this open and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|apparent shame?
Henry IV|POINS|Come, let's hear, Jack, what trick hast thou now?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|beware instinct, the lion will not touch the true
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|prince. Instinct is a great matter, I was now a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|coward on instinct. I shall think the better of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|myself and thee during my life, I for a valiant
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the Lord,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|merry? shall we have a play extempore?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Content, and the argument shall be thy running away.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter Hostess
Henry IV|Hostess|O Jesu, my lord the prince!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|me?
Henry IV|Hostess|Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at
Henry IV|Hostess|door would speak with you: he says he comes from
Henry IV|Hostess|your father.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|send him back again to my mother.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What manner of man is he?
Henry IV|Hostess|An old man.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I give him his answer?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Prithee, do, Jack.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Faith, and I'll send him packing.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Exit FALSTAFF
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair, so did you,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Peto, so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|prince, no, fie!
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|'Faith, I ran when I saw others run.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|'Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|sword so hacked?
Henry IV|PETO|Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would
Henry IV|PETO|swear truth out of England but he would make you
Henry IV|PETO|believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|did that I did not this seven year before, I blushed
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|to hear his monstrous devices.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|instinct hadst thou for it?
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|these exhalations?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I do.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|What think you they portend?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Hot livers and cold purses.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|No, if rightly taken, halter.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Re-enter FALSTAFF
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How long is't ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not an eagle's talon in the waist, I could have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Sir John Bracy from your father, you must to the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hook--what a plague call you him?
Henry IV|POINS|O, Glendower.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Owen, Owen, the same, and his son-in-law Mortimer,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|perpendicular,--
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|He that rides at high speed and with his pistol
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|kills a sparrow flying.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|You have hit it.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|So did he never the sparrow.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him, he will not run.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|for running!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|O' horseback, ye cuckoo, but afoot he will not budge a foot.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yes, Jack, upon instinct.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Worcester is stolen away to-night, thy father's
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|beard is turned white with the news: you may buy
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot June and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|By the mass, lad, thou sayest true, it is like we
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|art not thou horrible afeard? thou being
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|heir-apparent, could the world pick thee out three
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? Art thou
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|it?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Not a whit, i' faith, I lack some of thy instinct.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well, thou wert be horribly chid tomorrow when thou
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an answer.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|particulars of my life.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|crown for a pitiful bald crown!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|wept, for I must speak in passion, and I will do it
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|in King Cambyses' vein.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well, here is my leg.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.
Henry IV|Hostess|O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
Henry IV|Hostess|O, the father, how he holds his countenance!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.
Henry IV|Hostess|O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry
Henry IV|Hostess|players as ever I see!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Peace, good pint-pot, peace, good tickle-brain.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|sooner it wears. That thou art my son, I have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|foolish-hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me. If then thou be son to me, here lies the point,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the sun of England prove a thief and take purses? a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|which thou hast often heard of and it is known to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|as ancient writers do report, doth defile, so doth
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man whom I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What manner of man, an it like your majesty?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent, of a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|carriage, and, as I think, his age some fifty, or,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|by'r lady, inclining to three score, and now I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me, for, Harry,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish. And tell
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me, where hast
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thou been this month?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|and I'll play my father.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Well, here I am set.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|And here I stand: judge, my masters.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Now, Harry, whence come you?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|My noble lord, from Eastcheap.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ye for a young prince, i' faith.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth ne'er look
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|old fat man, a tun of man is thy companion. Why
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|capon and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I would your grace would take me with you: whom
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|means your grace?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That villanous abominable misleader of youth,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|My lord, the man I know.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I know thou dost.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|more the pity, his white hairs do witness it, but
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|are to be loved. No, my good lord, banish Peto,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I do, I will.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|A knocking heard
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exeunt Hostess, FRANCIS, and BARDOLPH
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Re-enter BARDOLPH, running
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|monstrous watch is at the door.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|say in the behalf of that Falstaff.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Re-enter the Hostess
Henry IV|Hostess|O Jesu, my lord, my lord!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|what's the matter?
Henry IV|Hostess|The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they
Henry IV|Hostess|are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|gold a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|without seeming so.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And thou a natural coward, without instinct.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|so, if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk up
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|conscience.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Both which I have had: but their date is out, and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|therefore I'll hide me.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Call in the sheriff.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exeunt all except PRINCE HENRY and PETO
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Enter Sheriff and the Carrier
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?
Henry IV|Sheriff|First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry
Henry IV|Sheriff|Hath follow'd certain men unto this house.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What men?
Henry IV|Sheriff|One of them is well known, my gracious lord,
Henry IV|Sheriff|A gross fat man.
Henry IV|Carrier|As fat as butter.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The man, I do assure you, is not here,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For I myself at this time have employ'd him.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Send him to answer thee, or any man,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For any thing he shall be charged withal:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And so let me entreat you leave the house.
Henry IV|Sheriff|I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen
Henry IV|Sheriff|Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|He shall be answerable, and so farewell.
Henry IV|Sheriff|Good night, my noble lord.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I think it is good morrow, is it not?
Henry IV|Sheriff|Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.
Henry IV|Sheriff|Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|call him forth.
Henry IV|PETO|Falstaff!--Fast asleep behind the arras, and
Henry IV|PETO|snorting like a horse.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|He searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain papers
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What hast thou found?
Henry IV|PETO|Nothing but papers, my lord.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Let's see what they be: read them.
Henry IV|PETO|[Reads]  Item, A capon,. . 2s. 2d.
Henry IV|PETO|Item, Sauce,. . . 4d.
Henry IV|PETO|Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d.
Henry IV|PETO|Item, Anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d.
Henry IV|PETO|Item, Bread,        ob.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|keep close, we'll read it at more advantage: there
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|charge of foot, and I know his death will be a
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|the morning, and so, good morrow, Peto.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exeunt
Henry IV|PETO|Good morrow, good my lord.
Henry IV|PETO|ACT III
Henry IV|PETO|SCENE I. Bangor. The Archdeacon's house.
Henry IV|PETO|Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, and GLENDOWER
Henry IV|MORTIMER|These promises are fair, the parties sure,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|And our induction full of prosperous hope.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Will you sit down?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I have forgot the map.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|No, here it is.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Sit, cousin Percy, sit, good cousin Hotspur,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|For by that name as oft as Lancaster
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And you in hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I cannot blame him: at my nativity
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Of burning cressets, and at my birth
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Shaked like a coward.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Why, so it would have done at the same season, if
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|had never been born.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I say the earth did shake when I was born.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And I say the earth was not of my mind,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If you suppose as fearing you it shook.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And not in fear of your nativity.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In strange eruptions, oft the teeming earth
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In passion shook.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Cousin, of many men
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|To tell you once again that at my birth
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|These signs have mark'd me extraordinary,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And all the courses of my life do show
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I am not in the roll of common men.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And bring him out that is but woman's son
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Can trace me in the tedious ways of art
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And hold me pace in deep experiments.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I'll to dinner.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Peace, cousin Percy, you will make him mad.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Why, so can I, or so can any man,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But will they come when you do call for them?
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The devil.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Against my power, thrice from the banks of Wye
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Bootless home and weather-beaten back.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Home without boots, and in foul weather too!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|According to our threefold order ta'en?
Henry IV|MORTIMER|The archdeacon hath divided it
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Into three limits very equally:
Henry IV|MORTIMER|England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|By south and east is to my part assign'd:
Henry IV|MORTIMER|All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|And all the fertile land within that bound,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you
Henry IV|MORTIMER|The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|And our indentures tripartite are drawn,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Which being sealed interchangeably,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|A business that this night may execute,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I
Henry IV|MORTIMER|And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth
Henry IV|MORTIMER|To meet your father and the Scottish power,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|My father Glendower is not ready yet,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Not shall we need his help these fourteen days.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Within that space you may have drawn together
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Your tenants, friends and neighbouring gentlemen.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And in my conduct shall your ladies come,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|From whom you now must steal and take no leave,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|For there will be a world of water shed
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Upon the parting of your wives and you.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In quantity equals not one of yours:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|See how this river comes me cranking in,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And cuts me from the best of all my land
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I'll have the current in this place damm'd up,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In a new channel, fair and evenly,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Not wind? it shall, it must, you see it doth.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Yea, but
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up
Henry IV|MORTIMER|With like advantage on the other side,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Gelding the opposed continent as much
Henry IV|MORTIMER|As on the other side it takes from you.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Yea, but a little charge will trench him here
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And on this north side win this cape of land,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And then he runs straight and even.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I'll have it so: a little charge will do it.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I'll not have it alter'd.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Will not you?
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|No, nor you shall not.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Who shall say me nay?
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Why, that will I.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Let me not understand you, then, speak it in Welsh.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I can speak English, lord, as well as you,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|For I was train'd up in the English court,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Where, being but young, I framed to the harp
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Many an English ditty lovely well
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And gave the tongue a helpful ornament,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|A virtue that was never seen in you.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Marry,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And I am glad of it with all my heart:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nothing so much as mincing poetry:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Come, you shall have Trent turn'd.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To any well-deserving friend,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Are the indentures drawn? shall we be gone?
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The moon shines fair, you may away by night:
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I'll haste the writer and withal
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Break with your wives of your departure hence:
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|I am afraid my daughter will run mad,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|So much she doteth on her Mortimer.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Exit GLENDOWER
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I cannot choose: sometime he angers me
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And of a dragon and a finless fish,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A couching lion and a ramping cat,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|As puts me from my faith. I tell you what,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He held me last night at least nine hours
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In reckoning up the several devils' names
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,'
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|As a tired horse, a railing wife,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In any summer-house in Christendom.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Exceedingly well read, and profited
Henry IV|MORTIMER|In strange concealments, valiant as a lion
Henry IV|MORTIMER|And as wondrous affable and as bountiful
Henry IV|MORTIMER|As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?
Henry IV|MORTIMER|He holds your temper in a high respect
Henry IV|MORTIMER|And curbs himself even of his natural scope
Henry IV|MORTIMER|When you come 'cross his humour, faith, he does:
Henry IV|MORTIMER|I warrant you, that man is not alive
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Might so have tempted him as you have done,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Without the taste of danger and reproof:
Henry IV|MORTIMER|But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And since your coming hither have done enough
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To put him quite beside his patience.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,--
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And that's the dearest grace it renders you,--
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Defect of manners, want of government,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The least of which haunting a nobleman
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Upon the beauty of all parts besides,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Beguiling them of commendation.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Well, I am school'd: good manners be your speed!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Re-enter GLENDOWER with the ladies
Henry IV|MORTIMER|This is the deadly spite that angers me,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|My daughter weeps: she will not part with you,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|She'll be a soldier too, she'll to the wars.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Shall follow in your conduct speedily.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and she answers him in the same
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|She is desperate here, a peevish self-wind harlotry,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|one that no persuasion can do good upon.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The lady speaks in Welsh
Henry IV|MORTIMER|I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens
Henry IV|MORTIMER|I am too perfect in, and, but for shame,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|In such a parley should I answer thee.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|The lady speaks again in Welsh
Henry IV|MORTIMER|I understand thy kisses and thou mine,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|And that's a feeling disputation:
Henry IV|MORTIMER|But I will never be a truant, love,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Till I have learned thy language, for thy tongue
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
Henry IV|MORTIMER|With ravishing division, to her lute.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The lady speaks again in Welsh
Henry IV|MORTIMER|O, I am ignorance itself in this!
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And she will sing the song that pleaseth you
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|As is the difference betwixt day and night
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Begins his golden progress in the east.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:
Henry IV|MORTIMER|By that time will our book, I think, be drawn
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Do so,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And those musicians that shall play to you
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Go, ye giddy goose.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|The music plays
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|By'r lady, he is a good musician.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Then should you be nothing but musical for you are
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief,
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|and hear the lady sing in Welsh.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Wouldst thou have thy head broken?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|No.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Then be still.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Neither,'tis a woman's fault.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Now God help thee!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To the Welsh lady's bed.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|What's that?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Peace! she sings.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Here the lady sings a Welsh song
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|Not mine, in good sooth.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|comfit-maker's wife. 'Not you, in good sooth,' and
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'as true as I live,' and 'as God shall mend me,' and
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'as sure as day,'
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A good mouth-filling oath, and leave 'in sooth,'
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Come, sing.
Henry IV|LADY PERCY|I will not sing.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|teacher. An the indentures be drawn, I'll away
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|within these two hours, and so, come in when ye will.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Exit
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|Come, come, Lord Mortimer, you are as slow
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|By this our book is drawn, we'll but seal,
Henry IV|GLENDOWER|And then to horse immediately.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|With all my heart.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Exeunt
Henry IV|MORTIMER|SCENE II. London. The palace.
Henry IV|MORTIMER|Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, and others
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Lords, give us leave, the Prince of Wales and I
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Must have some private conference, but be near at hand,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For we shall presently have need of you.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exeunt Lords
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I know not whether God will have it so,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For some displeasing service I have done,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That, in his secret doom, out of my blood
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But thou dost in thy passages of life
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Make me believe that thou art only mark'd
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Could such inordinate and low desires,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Such barren pleasures, rude society,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Accompany the greatness of thy blood
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And hold their level with thy princely heart?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|So please your majesty, I would I could
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Quit all offences with as clear excuse
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|As well as I am doubtless I can purge
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Myself of many I am charged withal:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yet such extenuation let me beg,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|As, in reproof of many tales devised,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I may, for some things true, wherein my youth
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Find pardon on my true submission.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|At thy affections, which do hold a wing
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which by thy younger brother is supplied,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And art almost an alien to the hearts
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of all the court and princes of my blood:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The hope and expectation of thy time
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Had I so lavish of my presence been,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|So stale and cheap to vulgar company,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Opinion, that did help me to the crown,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Had still kept loyal to possession
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And left me in reputeless banishment,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|By being seldom seen, I could not stir
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But like a comet I was wonder'd at,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That men would tell their children 'This is he,'
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Others would say 'Where, which is Bolingbroke?'
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And dress'd myself in such humility
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Even in the presence of the crowned king.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And won by rareness such solemnity.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The skipping king, he ambled up and down
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Mingled his royalty with capering fools,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Had his great name profaned with their scorns
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And gave his countenance, against his name,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of every beardless vain comparative,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Grew a companion to the common streets,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Enfeoff'd himself to popularity,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|They surfeited with honey and began
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|More than a little is by much too much.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|So when he had occasion to be seen,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Heard, not regarded, seen, but with such eyes
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As, sick and blunted with community,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Afford no extraordinary gaze,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|When it shines seldom in admiring eyes,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Slept in his face and render'd such aspect
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As cloudy men use to their adversaries,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Being with his presence glutted, gorged and full.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And in that very line, Harry, standest thou,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For thou has lost thy princely privilege
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|With vile participation: not an eye
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But is a-weary of thy common sight,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which now doth that I would not have it do,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Be more myself.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For all the world
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As thou art to this hour was Richard then
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And even as I was then is Percy now.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Now, by my sceptre and my soul to boot,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|He hath more worthy interest to the state
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Than thou the shadow of succession,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For of no right, nor colour like to right,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And, being no more in debt to years than thou,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To bloody battles and to bruising arms.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|What never-dying honour hath he got
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Whose hot incursions and great name in arms
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Holds from all soldiers chief majority
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And military title capital
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathling clothes,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|This infant warrior, in his enterprises
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Discomfited great Douglas, ta'en him once,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Enlarged him and made a friend of him,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To fill the mouth of deep defiance up
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And shake the peace and safety of our throne.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Capitulate against us and are up.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Base inclination and the start of spleen
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To fight against me under Percy's pay,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To show how much thou art degenerate.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Do not think so, you shall not find it so:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And God forgive them that so much have sway'd
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I will redeem all this on Percy's head
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And in the closing of some glorious day
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Be bold to tell you that I am your son,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|When I will wear a garment all of blood
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And stain my favours in a bloody mask,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That this same child of honour and renown,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For every honour sitting on his helm,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Would they were multitudes, and on my head
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|My shames redoubled! for the time will come,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That I shall make this northern youth exchange
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|His glorious deeds for my indignities.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Percy is but my factor, good my lord,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And I will call him to so strict account,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That he shall render every glory up,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|This, in the name of God, I promise here:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The which if He be pleased I shall perform,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I do beseech your majesty may salve
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The long-grown wounds of my intemperance:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|If not, the end of life cancels all bands,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|A hundred thousand rebels die in this:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Enter BLUNT
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|How now, good Blunt? thy looks are full of speed.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|So hath the business that I come to speak of.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|That Douglas and the English rebels met
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|A mighty and a fearful head they are,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|If promises be kept on every hand,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|As ever offer'd foul play in the state.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For this advertisement is five days old:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Is Bridgenorth: and, Harry, you shall march
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Through Gloucestershire, by which account,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Our business valued, some twelve days hence
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Our hands are full of business: let's away,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exeunt
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why my
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|gown, I am withered like an old apple-john. Well,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|liking, I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|shall have no strength to repent. An I have not
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|church! Company, villanous company, hath been the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|spoil of me.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song, make
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|need to be, virtuous enough, swore little, diced not
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|above seven times a week, went to a bawdy-house once
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|in a quarter--of an hour, paid money that I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|borrowed, three of four times, lived well and in
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|good compass: and now I live out of all order, out
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|of all compass.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must needs
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|be out of all compass, out of all reasonable
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|compass, Sir John.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee, thou art the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Knight of the Burning Lamp.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|No, I'll be sworn, I make as good use of it as many
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori: I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Dives that lived in purple, for there he is in his
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any way
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|given to virtue, I would swear by thy face, my oath
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|should be 'By this fire, that's God's angel:' but
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thou art altogether given over, and wert indeed, but
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|for the light in thy face, the son of utter
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|darkness. When thou rannest up Gadshill in the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|there's no purchase in money. O, thou art a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|tavern and tavern: but the sack that thou hast
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|maintained that salamander of yours with fire any
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|time this two and thirty years, God reward me for
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|it!
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heart-burned.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter Hostess
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|yet who picked my pocket?
Henry IV|Hostess|Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do you
Henry IV|Hostess|think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,
Henry IV|Hostess|I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy
Henry IV|Hostess|by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair
Henry IV|Hostess|was never lost in my house before.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved and lost many
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. Go
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|to, you are a woman, go.
Henry IV|Hostess|Who, I? no, I defy thee: God's light, I was never
Henry IV|Hostess|called so in mine own house before.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Go to, I know you well enough.
Henry IV|Hostess|No, Sir John, You do not know me, Sir John. I know
Henry IV|Hostess|you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John, and now
Henry IV|Hostess|you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought
Henry IV|Hostess|you a dozen of shirts to your back.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.
Henry IV|Hostess|Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight
Henry IV|Hostess|shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir
Henry IV|Hostess|John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent
Henry IV|Hostess|you, four and twenty pound.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|He had his part of it, let him pay.
Henry IV|Hostess|He? alas, he is poor, he hath nothing.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|How! poor? look upon his face, what call you rich?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Ill not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark.
Henry IV|Hostess|O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know not
Henry IV|Hostess|how oft, that ring was copper!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|would say so.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter PRINCE HENRY and PETO, marching, and FALSTAFF meets them playing on his truncheon like a life
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|How now, lad! is the wind in that door, i' faith?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|must we all march?
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.
Henry IV|Hostess|My lord, I pray you, hear me.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|husband? I love him well, he is an honest man.
Henry IV|Hostess|Good my lord, hear me.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What sayest thou, Jack?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|and had my pocket picked: this house is turned
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|bawdy-house, they pick pockets.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What didst thou lose, Jack?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|grandfather's.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|A trifle, some eight-penny matter.
Henry IV|Hostess|So I told him, my lord, and I said I heard your
Henry IV|Hostess|grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely
Henry IV|Hostess|of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is, and said
Henry IV|Hostess|he would cudgel you.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What! he did not?
Henry IV|Hostess|There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|fox, and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|deputy's wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|go
Henry IV|Hostess|Say, what thing? what thing?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What thing! why, a thing to thank God on.
Henry IV|Hostess|I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou
Henry IV|Hostess|shouldst know it, I am an honest man's wife: and,
Henry IV|Hostess|setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to
Henry IV|Hostess|call me so.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|otherwise.
Henry IV|Hostess|Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What beast! why, an otter.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|An otter, Sir John! Why an otter?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Why, she's neither fish nor flesh, a man knows not
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|where to have her.
Henry IV|Hostess|Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or any
Henry IV|Hostess|man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou sayest true, hostess, and he slanders thee most grossly.
Henry IV|Hostess|So he doth you, my lord, and said this other day you
Henry IV|Hostess|ought him a thousand pound.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|A thousand pound, Ha! a million: thy love is worth
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|a million: thou owest me thy love.
Henry IV|Hostess|Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he would
Henry IV|Hostess|cudgel you.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Did I, Bardolph?
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Indeed, Sir John, you said so.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Yea, if he said my ring was copper.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as thy word now?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|roaring of a lion's whelp.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And why not as the lion?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|The king is to be feared as the lion: dost thou
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? nay, an
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I do, I pray God my girdle break.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|knees! But, sirrah, there's no room for faith,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine, it is all
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|filled up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|woman with picking thy pocket! why, thou whoreson,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|impudent, embossed rascal, if there were anything in
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thy pocket but tavern-reckonings, memorandums of
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|bawdy-houses, and one poor penny-worth of
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if thy pocket
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|were enriched with any other injuries but these, I
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|am a villain: and yet you will stand to if, you will
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|innocency Adam fell, and what should poor Jack
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Falstaff do in the days of villany? Thou seest I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|have more flesh than another man, and therefore more
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|It appears so by the story.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Hostess, I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|reason: thou seest I am pacified still. Nay,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|prithee, be gone.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Exit Hostess
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Now Hal, to the news at court: for the robbery,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|lad, how is that answered?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thee: the money is paid back again.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labour.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I am good friends with my father and may do any thing.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest, and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|do it with unwashed hands too.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Do, my lord.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|one that can steal well? O for a fine thief, of the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|age of two and twenty or thereabouts! I am
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|heinously unprovided. Well, God be thanked for
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|these rebels, they offend none but the virtuous: I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|laud them, I praise them.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Bardolph!
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|My lord?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster, to my
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|brother John, this to my Lord of Westmoreland.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit Bardolph
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Go, Peto, to horse, to horse, for thou and I have
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit Peto
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Jack, meet me to-morrow in the temple hall at two
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|o'clock in the afternoon.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|There shalt thou know thy charge, and there receive
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Money and order for their furniture.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The land is burning, Percy stands on high,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And either we or they must lower lie.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit PRINCE HENRY
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my breakfast, come!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|O, I could wish this tavern were my drum!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Exit
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ACT IV
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|SCENE I. The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, and DOUGLAS
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In this fine age were not thought flattery,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Such attribution should the Douglas have,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|As not a soldier of this season's stamp
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Should go so general current through the world.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In my heart's love hath no man than yourself:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nay, task me to my word, approve me, lord.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Thou art the king of honour:
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|No man so potent breathes upon the ground
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|But I will beard him.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Do so, and 'tis well.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Enter a Messenger with letters
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|What letters hast thou there?--I can but thank you.
Henry IV|Messenger|These letters come from your father.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Letters from him! why comes he not himself?
Henry IV|Messenger|He cannot come, my lord, he is grievous sick.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In such a rustling time? Who leads his power?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Under whose government come they along?
Henry IV|Messenger|His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?
Henry IV|Messenger|He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth,
Henry IV|Messenger|And at the time of my departure thence
Henry IV|Messenger|He was much fear'd by his physicians.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I would the state of time had first been whole
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Ere he by sickness had been visited:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|His health was never better worth than now.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth infect
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The very life-blood of our enterprise,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He writes me here, that inward sickness--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And that his friends by deputation could not
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|On any soul removed but on his own.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That with our small conjunction we should on,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To see how fortune is disposed to us,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|For, as he writes, there is no quailing now.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Because the king is certainly possess'd
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of all our purposes. What say you to it?
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Your father's sickness is a maim to us.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And yet, in faith, it is not, his present want
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Seems more than we shall find it: were it good
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To set the exact wealth of all our states
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|All at one cast? to set so rich a main
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|It were not good, for therein should we read
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The very bottom and the soul of hope,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The very list, the very utmost bound
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of all our fortunes.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|'Faith, and so we should,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Where now remains a sweet reversion:
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|We may boldly spend upon the hope of what
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Is to come in:
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|A comfort of retirement lives in this.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If that the devil and mischance look big
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|But yet I would your father had been here.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The quality and hair of our attempt
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Brooks no division: it will be thought
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|By some, that know not why he is away,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|That wisdom, loyalty and mere dislike
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Of our proceedings kept the earl from hence:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And think how such an apprehension
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|May turn the tide of fearful faction
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And breed a kind of question in our cause,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For well you know we of the offering side
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The eye of reason may pry in upon us:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|This absence of your father's draws a curtain,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Before not dreamt of.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|You strain too far.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I rather of his absence make this use:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|It lends a lustre and more great opinion,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A larger dare to our great enterprise,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Than if the earl were here, for men must think,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If we without his help can make a head
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To push against a kingdom, with his help
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|As heart can think: there is not such a word
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Enter SIR RICHARD VERNON
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My cousin Vernon, welcome, by my soul.
Henry IV|VERNON|Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.
Henry IV|VERNON|The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,
Henry IV|VERNON|Is marching hitherwards, with him Prince John.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|No harm: what more?
Henry IV|VERNON|And further, I have learn'd,
Henry IV|VERNON|The king himself in person is set forth,
Henry IV|VERNON|Or hitherwards intended speedily,
Henry IV|VERNON|With strong and mighty preparation.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And bid it pass?
Henry IV|VERNON|All furnish'd, all in arms,
Henry IV|VERNON|All plumed like estridges that with the wind
Henry IV|VERNON|Baited like eagles having lately bathed,
Henry IV|VERNON|Glittering in golden coats, like images,
Henry IV|VERNON|As full of spirit as the month of May,
Henry IV|VERNON|And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer,
Henry IV|VERNON|Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Henry IV|VERNON|I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
Henry IV|VERNON|His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd
Henry IV|VERNON|Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,
Henry IV|VERNON|And vaulted with such ease into his seat,
Henry IV|VERNON|As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,
Henry IV|VERNON|To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
Henry IV|VERNON|And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|No more, no more: worse than the sun in March,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|They come like sacrifices in their trim,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|All hot and bleeding will we offer them:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O that Glendower were come!
Henry IV|VERNON|There is more news:
Henry IV|VERNON|I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along,
Henry IV|VERNON|He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.
Henry IV|WORCESTER|Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|What may the king's whole battle reach unto?
Henry IV|VERNON|To thirty thousand.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Forty let it be:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My father and Glendower being both away,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The powers of us may serve so great a day
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Come, let us take a muster speedily:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Doomsday is near, die all, die merrily.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Talk not of dying: I am out of fear
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Of death or death's hand for this one-half year.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Exeunt
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|SCENE II. A public road near Coventry.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry, fill me a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|we'll to Sutton Co'fil' tonight.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Will you give me money, captain?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Lay out, lay out.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|This bottle makes an angel.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|An if it do, take it for thy labour, and if it make
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|twenty, take them all, I'll answer the coinage. Bid
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|I will, captain: farewell.
Henry IV|BARDOLPH|Exit
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|none but good house-holders, yeoman's sons, inquire
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|twice on the banns, such a commodity of warm slaves,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum, such as
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but such
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|bigger than pins' heads, and they have bought out
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|their services, and now my whole charge consists of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|sores, and such as indeed were never soldiers, but
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|long peace, ten times more dishonourable ragged than
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the rooms of them that have bought out their
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|services, that you would think that I had a hundred
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|gyves on, for indeed I had the most of them out of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|together and thrown over the shoulders like an
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|herald's coat without sleeves, and the shirt, to say
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|one, they'll find linen enough on every hedge.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter the PRINCE and WESTMORELAND
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt!
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil dost thou
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland, I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already been
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|at Shrewsbury.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Faith, Sir John,'tis more than time that I were
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|there, and you too, but my powers are there already.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|The king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|away all night.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|steal cream.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|fellows are these that come after?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Mine, Hal, mine.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I did never see such pitiful rascals.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder, food
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|for powder, they'll fill a pit as well as better:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|and bare, too beggarly.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|that, and for their bareness, I am sure they never
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|learned that of me.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|No I'll be sworn, unless you call three fingers on
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|already in the field.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|What, is the king encamped?
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Exeunt
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|SCENE III. The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, DOUGLAS, and VERNON
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|We'll fight with him to-night.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|It may not be.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|You give him then the advantage.
Henry IV|VERNON|Not a whit.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Why say you so? looks he not for supply?
Henry IV|VERNON|So do we.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|His is certain, ours is doubtful.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Good cousin, be advised, stir not tonight.
Henry IV|VERNON|Do not, my lord.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|You do not counsel well:
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|You speak it out of fear and cold heart.
Henry IV|VERNON|Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life,
Henry IV|VERNON|And I dare well maintain it with my life,
Henry IV|VERNON|If well-respected honour bid me on,
Henry IV|VERNON|I hold as little counsel with weak fear
Henry IV|VERNON|As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:
Henry IV|VERNON|Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle
Henry IV|VERNON|Which of us fears.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Yea, or to-night.
Henry IV|VERNON|Content.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To-night, say I.
Henry IV|VERNON|Come, come it nay not be. I wonder much,
Henry IV|VERNON|Being men of such great leading as you are,
Henry IV|VERNON|That you foresee not what impediments
Henry IV|VERNON|Drag back our expedition: certain horse
Henry IV|VERNON|Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up:
Henry IV|VERNON|Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today,
Henry IV|VERNON|And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
Henry IV|VERNON|Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
Henry IV|VERNON|That not a horse is half the half of himself.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|So are the horses of the enemy
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In general, journey-bated and brought low:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The better part of ours are full of rest.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The number of the king exceedeth ours:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For God's sake. cousin, stay till all come in.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The trumpet sounds a parley
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Enter SIR WALTER BLUNT
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|I come with gracious offers from the king,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|if you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt, and would to God
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|You were of our determination!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Some of us love you well, and even those some
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Envy your great deservings and good name,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Because you are not of our quality,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But stand against us like an enemy.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|And God defend but still I should stand so,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|So long as out of limit and true rule
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|You stand against anointed majesty.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|But to my charge. The king hath sent to know
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|You conjure from the breast of civil peace
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Audacious cruelty. If that the king
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Have any way your good deserts forgot,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Which he confesseth to be manifold,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|He bids you name your griefs, and with all speed
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|You shall have your desires with interest
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|And pardon absolute for yourself and these
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Herein misled by your suggestion.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The king is kind, and well we know the king
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My father and my uncle and myself
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Did give him that same royalty he wears,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And when he was not six and twenty strong,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My father gave him welcome to the shore,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And when he heard him swear and vow to God
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To sue his livery and beg his peace,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My father, in kind heart and pity moved,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Swore him assistance and perform'd it too.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Now when the lords and barons of the realm
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The more and less came in with cap and knee,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Even at the heels in golden multitudes.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|He presently, as greatness knows itself,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Steps me a little higher than his vow
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Made to my father, while his blood was poor,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Over his country's wrongs, and by this face,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This seeming brow of justice, did he win
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The hearts of all that he did angle for,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Proceeded further, cut me off the heads
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of all the favourites that the absent king
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In deputation left behind him here,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|When he was personal in the Irish war.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Tut, I came not to hear this.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Then to the point.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In short time after, he deposed the king,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Soon after that, deprived him of his life,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And in the neck of that, task'd the whole state:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Who is, if every owner were well placed,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Indeed his king, to be engaged in Wales,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|There without ransom to lie forfeited,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Disgraced me in my happy victories,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Sought to entrap me by intelligence,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Rated mine uncle from the council-board,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In rage dismiss'd my father from the court,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And in conclusion drove us to seek out
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This head of safety, and withal to pry
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Into his title, the which we find
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Too indirect for long continuance.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Shall I return this answer to the king?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Go to the king, and let there be impawn'd
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Some surety for a safe return again,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And in the morning early shall my uncle
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Bring him our purposes: and so farewell.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|I would you would accept of grace and love.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And may be so we shall.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Pray God you do.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Exeunt
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|SCENE IV. York. The ARCHBISHOP'S palace.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK and SIR MICHAEL
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Hie, good Sir Michael, bear this sealed brief
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|With winged haste to the lord marshal,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|To whom they are directed. If you knew
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|How much they do to import, you would make haste.
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|My good lord,
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|I guess their tenor.
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Like enough you do.
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Must bide the touch, for, sir, at Shrewsbury,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|As I am truly given to understand,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|The king with mighty and quick-raised power
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|What with the sickness of Northumberland,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Whose power was in the first proportion,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Who with them was a rated sinew too
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|I fear the power of Percy is too weak
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|To wage an instant trial with the king.
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|Why, my good lord, you need not fear,
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|No, Mortimer is not there.
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|The special head of all the land together:
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|And moe corrivals and dear men
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Of estimation and command in arms.
Henry IV|SIR MICHAEL|Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed:
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|For he hath heard of our confederacy,
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Therefore make haste. I must go write again
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|To other friends, and so farewell, Sir Michael.
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Exeunt
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|ACT V
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|SCENE I. KING HENRY IV's camp near Shrewsbury.
Henry IV|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, Lord John of  LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and FALSTAFF
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|How bloodily the sun begins to peer
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|At his distemperature.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The southern wind
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Then with the losers let it sympathize,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The trumpet sounds
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Enter WORCESTER and VERNON
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|How now, my Lord of Worcester! 'tis not well
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That you and I should meet upon such terms
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And made us doff our easy robes of peace,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|This is not well, my lord, this is not well.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|What say you to it? will you again unknit
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|This curlish knot of all-abhorred war?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And move in that obedient orb again
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Where you did give a fair and natural light,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And be no more an exhaled meteor,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|A prodigy of fear and a portent
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of broached mischief to the unborn times?
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Hear me, my liege:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For mine own part, I could be well content
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To entertain the lag-end of my life
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|With quiet hours, for I do protest,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I have not sought the day of this dislike.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|You have not sought it! how comes it, then?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Peace, chewet, peace!
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|It pleased your majesty to turn your looks
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Of favour from myself and all our house,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And yet I must remember you, my lord,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|We were the first and dearest of your friends.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For you my staff of office did I break
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|In Richard's time, and posted day and night
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|to meet you on the way, and kiss your hand,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|When yet you were in place and in account
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|It was myself, my brother and his son,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|That brought you home and boldly did outdare
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The dangers of the time. You swore to us,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To this we swore our aid. But in short space
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|It rain'd down fortune showering on your head,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And such a flood of greatness fell on you,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|What with our help, what with the absent king,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|What with the injuries of a wanton time,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The seeming sufferances that you had borne,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And the contrarious winds that held the king
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|So long in his unlucky Irish wars
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|That all in England did repute him dead:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And from this swarm of fair advantages
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|You took occasion to be quickly woo'd
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To gripe the general sway into your hand,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Forget your oath to us at Doncaster,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And being fed by us you used us so
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|As that ungentle hull, the cuckoo's bird,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Useth the sparrow, did oppress our nest,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|That even our love durst not come near your sight
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For fear of swallowing, but with nimble wing
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|We were enforced, for safety sake, to fly
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Out of sight and raise this present head,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Whereby we stand opposed by such means
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|As you yourself have forged against yourself
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And violation of all faith and troth
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|These things indeed you have articulate,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To face the garment of rebellion
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|With some fine colour that may please the eye
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of hurlyburly innovation:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And never yet did insurrection want
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Such water-colours to impaint his cause,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Nor moody beggars, starving for a time
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of pellmell havoc and confusion.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|In both your armies there is many a soul
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Shall pay full dearly for this encounter,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|This present enterprise set off his head,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I do not think a braver gentleman,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|More active-valiant or more valiant-young,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|More daring or more bold, is now alive
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|To grace this latter age with noble deeds.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I have a truant been to chivalry,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And so I hear he doth account me too,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Yet this before my father's majesty--
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I am content that he shall take the odds
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Of his great name and estimation,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And will, to save the blood on either side,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Try fortune with him in a single fight.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Albeit considerations infinite
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|We love our people well, even those we love
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|That are misled upon your cousin's part,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And, will they take the offer of our grace,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Both he and they and you, every man
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Shall be my friend again and I'll be his:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|So tell your cousin, and bring me word
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|What he will do: but if he will not yield,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Rebuke and dread correction wait on us
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And they shall do their office. So, be gone,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|We will not now be troubled with reply:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|We offer fair, take it advisedly.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|It will not be accepted, on my life:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The Douglas and the Hotspur both together
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Are confident against the world in arms.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|For, on their answer, will we set on them:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And God befriend us, as our cause is just!
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exeunt all but PRINCE HENRY and FALSTAFF
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me, so, 'tis a point of friendship.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Say thy prayers, and farewell.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I  would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, thou owest God a death.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit PRINCE HENRY
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'Tis not due yet, I would be loath to pay him before
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|his day. What need I be so forward with him that
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter, honour pricks
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|to the dead. But will it not live with the living?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|ends my catechism.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Exit
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|SCENE II. The rebel camp.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter WORCESTER and VERNON
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|O, no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The liberal and kind offer of the king.
Henry IV|VERNON|'Twere best he did.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Then are we all undone.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|It is not possible, it cannot be,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The king should keep his word in loving us,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|He will suspect us still and find a time
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|To punish this offence in other faults:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|For treason is but trusted like the fox,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Interpretation will misquote our looks,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|My nephew's trespass may be well forgot,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|it hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And an adopted name of privilege,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|A hair-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|All his offences live upon my head
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And on his father's, we did train him on,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And, his corruption being ta'en from us,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|In any case, the offer of the king.
Henry IV|VERNON|Deliver what you will, I'll say 'tis so.
Henry IV|VERNON|Here comes your cousin.
Henry IV|VERNON|Enter HOTSPUR and DOUGLAS
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My uncle is return'd:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Uncle, what news?
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The king will bid you battle presently.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Marry, and shall, and very willingly.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Exit
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|There is no seeming mercy in the king.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Did you beg any? God forbid!
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|I told him gently of our grievances,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Of his oath-breaking, which he mended thus,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|By now forswearing that he is forsworn:
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|He calls us rebels, traitors, and will scourge
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|With haughty arms this hateful name in us.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Re-enter the EARL OF DOUGLAS
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Arm, gentlemen, to arms! for I have thrown
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And that no man might draw short breath today
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt?
Henry IV|VERNON|No, by my soul, I never in my life
Henry IV|VERNON|Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
Henry IV|VERNON|Unless a brother should a brother dare
Henry IV|VERNON|To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
Henry IV|VERNON|He gave you all the duties of a man,
Henry IV|VERNON|Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue,
Henry IV|VERNON|Spoke to your deservings like a chronicle,
Henry IV|VERNON|Making you ever better than his praise
Henry IV|VERNON|By still dispraising praise valued in you,
Henry IV|VERNON|And, which became him like a prince indeed,
Henry IV|VERNON|He made a blushing cital of himself,
Henry IV|VERNON|And chid his truant youth with such a grace
Henry IV|VERNON|As if he master'd there a double spirit.
Henry IV|VERNON|Of teaching and of learning instantly.
Henry IV|VERNON|There did he pause: but let me tell the world,
Henry IV|VERNON|If he outlive the envy of this day,
Henry IV|VERNON|England did never owe so sweet a hope,
Henry IV|VERNON|So much misconstrued in his wantonness.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Cousin, I think thou art enamoured
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|On his follies: never did I hear
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Of any prince so wild a libertine.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But be he as he will, yet once ere night
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Arm, arm with speed: and, fellows, soldiers, friends,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Better consider what you have to do
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Can lift your blood up with persuasion.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Enter a Messenger
Henry IV|Messenger|My lord, here are letters for you.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I cannot read them now.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To spend that shortness basely were too long,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|An if we live, we live to tread on kings,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If die, brave death, when princes die with us!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|When the intent of bearing them is just.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Enter another Messenger
Henry IV|Messenger|My lord, prepare, the king comes on apace.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I thank him, that he cuts me from my tale,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|For I profess not talking, only this--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Let each man do his best: and here draw I
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A sword, whose temper I intend to stain
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|With the best blood that I can meet withal
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|In the adventure of this perilous day.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Now, Esperance! Percy! and set on.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And by that music let us all embrace,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A second time do such a courtesy.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The trumpets sound. They embrace, and exeunt
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|SCENE III. Plain between the camps.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|KING HENRY enters with his power. Alarum to the battle. Then enter DOUGLAS and SIR WALTER BLUNT
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|What is thy name, that in the battle thus
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Thou crossest me? what honour dost thou seek
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Upon my head?
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Know then, my name is Douglas,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|And I do haunt thee in the battle thus
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Because some tell me that thou art a king.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|They tell thee true.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath bought
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|This sword hath ended him: so shall it thee,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot,
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|And thou shalt find a king that will revenge
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|Lord Stafford's death.
Henry IV|SIR WALTER BLUNT|They fight. DOUGLAS kills SIR WALTER BLUNT. Enter HOTSPUR
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|never had triumph'd upon a Scot.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|All's done, all's won, here breathless lies the king.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Where?
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Here.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|This, Douglas? no: I know this face full well:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Semblably furnish'd like the king himself.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes!
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear:
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|The king hath many marching in his coats.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Until I meet the king.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Up, and away!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Exeunt
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Alarum. Enter FALSTAFF, solus
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Though I could 'scape shot-free at London, I fear
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|the shot here, here's no scoring but upon the pate.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|for you! here's no vanity! I am as hot as moulten
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|lead, and as heavy too: God keep lead out of me! I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|need no more weight than mine own bowels. I have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|led my ragamuffins where they are peppered: there's
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not three of my hundred and fifty left alive, and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|they are for the town's end, to beg during life.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|But who comes here?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Enter PRINCE HENRY
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, stand'st thou idle here? lend me thy sword:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Whose deaths are yet unrevenged: I prithee,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|lend me thy sword.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|O Hal, I prithee, give me leave to breathe awhile.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|done this day. I have paid Percy, I have made him sure.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|He is, indeed, and living to kill thee. I prithee,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|lend me thy sword.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou get'st
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not my sword, but take my pistol, if thou wilt.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Give it to me: what, is it in the case?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Ay, Hal, 'tis hot, 'tis hot, there's that will sack a city.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|PRINCE HENRY draws it out, and finds it to be a bottle of sack
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, is it a time to jest and dally now?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|He throws the bottle at him. Exit
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|life: which if I can save, so, if not, honour comes
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|unlooked for, and there's an end.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Exit FALSTAFF
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Alarum. Excursions. Enter PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, and EARL OF WESTMORELAND
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I prithee,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Harry, withdraw thyself, thou bleed'st too much.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.
Henry IV|LANCASTER|Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I beseech your majesty, make up,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I will do so.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|My Lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent.
Henry IV|WESTMORELAND|Come, my lord, I'll lead you to your tent.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|and rebels' arms triumph in massacres!
Henry IV|LANCASTER|We breathe too long: come, cousin Westmoreland,
Henry IV|LANCASTER|Our duty this way lies, for God's sake come.
Henry IV|LANCASTER|Exeunt LANCASTER and WESTMORELAND
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I did not think thee lord of such a spirit:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Before, I loved thee as a brother, John,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|But now, I do respect thee as my soul.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|With lustier maintenance than I did look for
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Of such an ungrown warrior.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O, this boy
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Lends mettle to us all!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Enter DOUGLAS
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|Another king! they grow like Hydra's heads:
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|That wear those colours on them: what art thou,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|That counterfeit'st the person of a king?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|The king himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|So many of his shadows thou hast met
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And not the very king. I have two boys
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Seek Percy and thyself about the field:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|I will assay thee: so, defend thyself.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|I fear thou art another counterfeit,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king:
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|And thus I win thee.
Henry IV|EARL OF DOUGLAS|They fight. KING HENRY being in danger, PRINCE HENRY enters
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Never to hold it up again! the spirits
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Who never promiseth but he means to pay.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|They fight: DOUGLAS flies
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Cheerly, my lord	how fares your grace?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succor sent,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And so hath Clifton: I'll to Clifton straight.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Stay, and breathe awhile:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And show'd thou makest some tender of my life,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O God! they did me too much injury
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That ever said I hearken'd for your death.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|If it were so, I might have let alone
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The insulting hand of Douglas over you,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Which would have been as speedy in your end
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|As all the poisonous potions in the world
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And saved the treacherous labour of your son.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Make up to Clifton: I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exit
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Enter HOTSPUR
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|My name is Harry Percy.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, then I see
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|A very valiant rebel of the name.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I am the Prince of Wales, and think not, Percy,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|To share with me in glory any more:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Nor can one England brook a double reign,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|To end the one of us, and would to God
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Thy name in arms were now as great as mine!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I'll make it greater ere I part from thee,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And all the budding honours on thy crest
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I'll crop, to make a garland for my head.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I can no longer brook thy vanities.
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|They fight
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Enter FALSTAFF
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Well said, Hal! to it Hal! Nay, you shall find no
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|boy's play here, I can tell you.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Re-enter DOUGLAS, he fights with FALSTAFF,  who falls down as if he were dead, and exit DOUGLAS. HOTSPUR is wounded, and falls
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth!
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|I better brook the loss of brittle life
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Than those proud titles thou hast won of me,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|They wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh:
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|But that the earthy and cold hand of death
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|And food for--
Henry IV|HOTSPUR|Dies
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|When that this body did contain a spirit,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|But now two paces of the vilest earth
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|If thou wert sensible of courtesy,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I should not make so dear a show of zeal:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|But let my favours hide thy mangled face,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For doing these fair rites of tenderness.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|But not remember'd in thy epitaph!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|He spieth FALSTAFF on the ground
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I could have better spared a better man:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|If I were much in love with vanity!
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Though many dearer, in this bloody fray.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Embowell'd will I see thee by and by:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Till then in blood by noble Percy lie.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exit PRINCE HENRY
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|[Rising up]  Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|to-morrow. 'Sblood,'twas time to counterfeit, or
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|perfect image of life indeed. The better part of
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|valour is discretion, in the which better part I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|have saved my life.'Zounds, I am afraid of this
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: how, if he
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|should counterfeit too and rise? by my faith, I am
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|afraid he would prove the better counterfeit.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Therefore I'll make him sure, yea, and I'll swear I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I?
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Therefore, sirrah,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Stabbing him
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Takes up HOTSPUR on his back
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Come, brother John, full bravely hast thou flesh'd
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Thy maiden sword.
Henry IV|LANCASTER|But, soft! whom have we here?
Henry IV|LANCASTER|Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I did, I saw him dead,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|thou alive?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I prithee, speak, we will not trust our eyes
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Without our ears: thou art not what thou seem'st.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|No, that's certain, I am not a double man: but if I
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy:
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Throwing the body down
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|if your father will do me any honour, so, if not, let
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|earl or duke, I can assure you.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Why, Percy I killed myself and saw thee dead.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|believed, so, if not, let them that should reward
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|thigh: if the man were alive and would deny it,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.
Henry IV|LANCASTER|This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|This is the strangest fellow, brother John.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|A retreat is sounded
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The trumpet sounds retreat, the day is ours.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|To see what friends are living, who are dead.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and LANCASTER
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great,
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|I'll grow less, for I'll purge, and leave sack, and
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|live cleanly as a nobleman should do.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|Exit
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|SCENE V. Another part of the field.
Henry IV|FALSTAFF|The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE  HENRY, LORD JOHN LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, with WORCESTER and VERNON prisoners
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Pardon and terms of love to all of you?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Three knights upon our party slain to-day,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|A noble earl and many a creature else
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Had been alive this hour,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Betwixt our armies true intelligence.
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|What I have done my safety urged me to,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|And I embrace this fortune patiently,
Henry IV|EARL OF WORCESTER|Since not to be avoided it falls on me.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Other offenders we will pause upon.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|How goes the field?
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The noble Percy slain, and all his men
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest,
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|And falling from a hill, he was so bruised
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|That the pursuers took him. At my tent
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|The Douglas is, and I beseech your grace
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|I may dispose of him.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|With all my heart.
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|This honourable bounty shall belong:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Go to the Douglas, and deliver him
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free:
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|His valour shown upon our crests to-day
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds
Henry IV|PRINCE HENRY|Even in the bosom of our adversaries.
Henry IV|LANCASTER|I thank your grace for this high courtesy,
Henry IV|LANCASTER|Which I shall give away immediately.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Then this remains, that we divide our power.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Meeting the cheque of such another day:
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|And since this business so fair is done,
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Let us not leave till all our own be won.
Henry IV|KING HENRY IV|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY IV|ACT I
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY IV|SCENE I. Westminster Abbey.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY IV|Dead March. Enter the Funeral of KING HENRY the  Fifth, attended on by Dukes of BEDFORD, Regent of  France, GLOUCESTER, Protector, and EXETER, Earl of WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Heralds,  and c
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Comets, importing change of times and states,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|And with them scourge the bad revolting stars
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|That have consented unto Henry's death!
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|England ne'er had a king until his time.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Virtue he had, deserving to command:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|More dazzled and drove back his enemies
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Henry is dead and never shall revive:
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Upon a wooden coffin we attend,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|And death's dishonourable victory
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|We with our stately presence glorify,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Like captives bound to a triumphant car.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|What! shall we curse the planets of mishap
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Or shall we think the subtle-witted French
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Conjurers and sorcerers, that afraid of him
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|By magic verses have contrived his end?
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|He was a king bless'd of the King of kings.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Unto the French the dreadful judgement-day
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|So dreadful will not be as was his sight.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|The church's prayers made him so prosperous.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|The church! where is it? Had not churchmen pray'd,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|His thread of life had not so soon decay'd:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|None do you like but an effeminate prince,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art protector
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And lookest to command the prince and realm.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Thy wife is proud, she holdeth thee in awe,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|More than God or religious churchmen may.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Except it be to pray against thy foes.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Since arms avail not now that Henry's dead.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Posterity, await for wretched years,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|And none but women left to wail the dead.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|A far more glorious star thy soul will make
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Than Julius Caesar or bright--
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|My honourable lords, health to you all!
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Of loss, of slaughter and discomfiture:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Guienne, Champagne, Rheims, Orleans,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Paris, Guysors, Poictiers, are all quite lost.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|What say'st thou, man, before dead Henry's corse?
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|If Henry were recall'd to life again,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|How were they lost? what treachery was used?
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|No treachery, but want of men and money.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Amongst the soldiers this is muttered,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|That here you maintain several factions,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|And whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|You are disputing of your generals:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|One would have lingering wars with little cost,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|A third thinks, without expense at all,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Awake, awake, English nobility!
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Of England's coat one half is cut away.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Were our tears wanting to this funeral,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|These tidings would call forth their flowing tides.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Me they concern, Regent I am of France.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|To weep their intermissive miseries.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Enter to them another Messenger
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|France is revolted from the English quite,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Except some petty towns of no import:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The Dauphin Charles is crowned king of Rheims,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The Duke of Alencon flieth to his side.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|The Dauphin crowned king! all fly to him!
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|An army have I muster'd in my thoughts,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Wherewith already France is overrun.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Enter another Messenger
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|My gracious lords, to add to your laments,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|I must inform you of a dismal fight
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't so?
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|O, no, wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Retiring from the siege of Orleans,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Having full scarce six thousand in his troop.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|By three and twenty thousand of the French
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Was round encompassed and set upon.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|No leisure had he to enrank his men,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|He wanted pikes to set before his archers,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|They pitched in the ground confusedly,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|More than three hours the fight continued,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Where valiant Talbot above human thought
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|All the whole army stood agazed on him:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|And rush'd into the bowels of the battle.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|He, being in the vaward, placed behind
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|With purpose to relieve and follow them,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Hence grew the general wreck and massacre,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Enclosed were they with their enemies:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Whom all France with their chief assembled strength
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Durst not presume to look once in the face.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|For living idly here in pomp and ease,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|O no, he lives, but is took prisoner,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|And Lord Scales with him and Lord Hungerford:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|His ransom there is none but I shall pay:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|His crown shall be the ransom of my friend,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Farewell, my masters, to my task will I,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|To keep our great Saint George's feast withal:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|So you had need, for Orleans is besieged,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The English army is grown weak and faint:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Since they, so few, watch such a multitude.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|I do remember it, and here take my leave,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|To go about my preparation.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To view the artillery and munition,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And then I will proclaim young Henry king.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|To Eltham will I, where the young king is,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Being ordain'd his special governor,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|And for his safety there I'll best devise.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Each hath his place and function to attend:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|I am left out, for me nothing remains.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|But long I will not be Jack out of office:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|The king from Eltham I intend to steal
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|SCENE II. France. Before Orleans.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Sound a flourish. Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER, marching with drum and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|So in the earth, to this day is not known:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Late did he shine upon the English side,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Now we are victors, upon us he smiles.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|What towns of any moment but we have?
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|At pleasure here we lie near Orleans,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves:
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Either they must be dieted like mules
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And have their provender tied to their mouths
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here?
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear:
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|And he may well in fretting spend his gall,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Nor men nor money hath he to make war.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Now for the honour of the forlorn French!
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Him I forgive my death that killeth me
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|When he sees me go back one foot or fly.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Here alarum, they are beaten back by the English with great loss. Re-enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Who ever saw the like? what men have I!
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Dogs! cowards! dastards! I would ne'er have fled,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|But that they left me 'midst my enemies.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Salisbury is a desperate homicide,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|He fighteth as one weary of his life.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|The other lords, like lions wanting food,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|England all Olivers and Rowlands bred,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|During the time Edward the Third did reign.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|More truly now may this be verified,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|For none but Samsons and Goliases
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Lean, raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|They had such courage and audacity?
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Let's leave this town, for they are hare-brain'd slaves,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And hunger will enforce them to be more eager:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Of old I know them, rather with their teeth
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|I think, by some odd gimmors or device
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|By my consent, we'll even let them alone.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Be it so.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall'd:
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Be not dismay'd, for succor is at hand:
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|A holy maid hither with me I bring,
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Which by a vision sent to her from heaven
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Ordained is to raise this tedious siege
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|And drive the English forth the bounds of France.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome:
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|What's past and what's to come she can descry.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Speak, shall I call her in? Believe my words,
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|For they are certain and unfallible.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Go, call her in.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Exit BASTARD OF ORLEANS
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|But first, to try her skill,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Reignier, stand thou as Dauphin in my place:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Question her proudly, let thy looks be stern:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|By this means shall we sound what skill she hath.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Re-enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, with JOAN LA PUCELLE
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Fair maid, is't thou wilt do these wondrous feats?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Reignier, is't thou that thinkest to beguile me?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from behind,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I know thee well, though never seen before.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Be not amazed, there's nothing hid from me:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|In private will I talk with thee apart.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Stand back, you lords, and give us leave awhile.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|She takes upon her bravely at first dash.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|My wit untrain'd in any kind of art.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To shine on my contemptible estate:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|God's mother deigned to appear to me
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And in a vision full of majesty
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Will'd me to leave my base vocation
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And free my country from calamity:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Her aid she promised and assured success:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|In complete glory she reveal'd herself,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And, whereas I was black and swart before,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|With those clear rays which she infused on me
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That beauty am I bless'd with which you see.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Ask me what question thou canst possible,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And I will answer unpremeditated:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|My courage try by combat, if thou darest,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Resolve on this, thou shalt be fortunate,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Only this proof I'll of thy valour make,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|In single combat thou shalt buckle with me,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Otherwise I renounce all confidence.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I am prepared: here is my keen-edged sword,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each side,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine's
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|churchyard,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Then come, o' God's name, I fear no woman.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Here they fight, and JOAN LA PUCELLE overcomes
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Impatiently I burn with thy desire,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Let me thy servant and not sovereign be:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I must not yield to any rites of love,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|For my profession's sacred from above:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|When I have chased all thy foes from hence,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Then will I think upon a recompense.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|My lord, methinks, is very long in talk.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|He may mean more than we poor men do know:
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|My lord, where are you? what devise you on?
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Shall we give over Orleans, or no?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Why, no, I say, distrustful recreants!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Fight till the last gasp, I will be your guard.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|What she says I'll confirm: we'll fight it out.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Assign'd am I to be the English scourge.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|This night the siege assuredly I'll raise:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Since I have entered into these wars.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Glory is like a circle in the water,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|With Henry's death the English circle ends,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Dispersed are the glories it included.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Now am I like that proud insulting ship
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Was Mahomet inspired with a dove?
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Thou with an eagle art inspired then.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters, were like thee.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|How may I reverently worship thee enough?
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Drive them from Orleans and be immortalized.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Presently we'll try: come, let's away about it:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|No prophet will I trust, if she prove false.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|SCENE III. London. Before the Tower.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Enter GLOUCESTER, with his Serving-men in blue coats
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I am come to survey the Tower this day:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Where be these warders, that they wait not here?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Open the gates, 'tis Gloucester that calls.
Henry VI Part 1|First Warder|[Within]  Who's there that knocks so imperiously?
Henry VI Part 1|First Warder|First Serving-Man	It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.
Henry VI Part 1|Second Warder|[Within]  Whoe'er he be, you may not be let in.
Henry VI Part 1|Second Warder|First Serving-Man	Villains, answer you so the lord protector?
Henry VI Part 1|First Warder|[Within]  The Lord protect him! so we answer him:
Henry VI Part 1|First Warder|We do no otherwise than we are will'd.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Who willed you? or whose will stands but mine?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|There's none protector of the realm but I.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Gloucester's men rush at the Tower Gates, and WOODVILE the Lieutenant speaks within
Henry VI Part 1|WOODVILE|What noise is this? what traitors have we here?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Open the gates, here's Gloucester that would enter.
Henry VI Part 1|WOODVILE|Have patience, noble duke, I may not open,
Henry VI Part 1|WOODVILE|The Cardinal of Winchester forbids:
Henry VI Part 1|WOODVILE|From him I have express commandment
Henry VI Part 1|WOODVILE|That thou nor none of thine shall be let in.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Faint-hearted Woodvile, prizest him 'fore me?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thou art no friend to God or to the king:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Serving-Men	Open the gates unto the lord protector,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates BISHOP OF WINCHESTER and his men in tawny coats
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|How now, ambitious Humphry! what means this?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Peel'd priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|I do, thou most usurping proditor,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And not protector, of the king or realm.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|If thou proceed in this thy insolence.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Nay, stand thou back, I will not budge a foot:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I'll use to carry thee out of this place.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Do what thou darest, I beard thee to thy face.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|What! am I dared and bearded to my face?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Draw, men, for all this privileged place,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|In spite of pope or dignities of church,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the pope.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Winchester goose, I cry, a rope! a rope!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Now beat them hence, why do you let them stay?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Out, tawny coats! out, scarlet hypocrite!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Here GLOUCESTER's men beat out BISHOP OF  WINCHESTER's men, and enter in the hurly- burly the Mayor of London and his Officers
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates,
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Thus contumeliously should break the peace!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Peace, mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|One that still motions war and never peace,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|O'ercharging your free purses with large fines,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|That seeks to overthrow religion,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Because he is protector of the realm,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And would have armour here out of the Tower,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|To crown himself king and suppress the prince.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I will not answer thee with words, but blows.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Here they skirmish again
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|But to make open proclamation:
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Come, officer, as loud as e'er thou canst,
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Cry.
Henry VI Part 1|Officer|All manner of men assembled here in arms this day
Henry VI Part 1|Officer|against God's peace and the king's, we charge and
Henry VI Part 1|Officer|command you, in his highness' name, to repair to
Henry VI Part 1|Officer|your several dwelling-places, and not to wear,
Henry VI Part 1|Officer|handle, or use any sword, weapon, or dagger,
Henry VI Part 1|Officer|henceforward, upon pain of death.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|But we shall meet, and break our minds at large.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Gloucester, we will meet, to thy cost, be sure:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|This cardinal's more haughty than the devil.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|For I intend to have it ere long.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Exeunt, severally, GLOUCESTER and BISHOP OF WINCHESTER with their Serving-men
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|I myself fight not once in forty year.
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|SCENE IV. Orleans.
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Enter, on the walls, a Master Gunner and his Boy
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Master-Gunner	Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged,
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|And how the English have the suburbs won.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Father, I know, and oft have shot at them,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Master-Gunner	But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me:
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Chief master-gunner am I of this town,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Something I must do to procure me grace.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|The prince's espials have informed me
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|How the English, in the suburbs close intrench'd,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|And thence discover how with most advantage
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|They may vex us with shot, or with assault.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|To intercept this inconvenience,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|And even these three days have I watch'd,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|If I could see them.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|And thou shalt find me at the governor's.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Father, I warrant you, take you no care,
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|Boy|Enter, on the turrets, SALISBURY and TALBOT, GLANSDALE, GARGRAVE, and others
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|How wert thou handled being prisoner?
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Or by what means got'st thou to be released?
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Call'd the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For him was I exchanged and ransomed.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But with a baser man of arms by far
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Once in contempt they would have barter'd me:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Which I, disdaining, scorn'd, and craved death,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Rather than I would be so vile esteem'd.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In fine, redeem'd I was as I desired.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Whom with my bare fists I would execute,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If I now had him brought into my power.
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In open market-place produced they me,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To be a public spectacle to all:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Here, said they, is the terror of the French,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The scarecrow that affrights our children so.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Then broke I from the officers that led me,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To hurl at the beholders of my shame:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My grisly countenance made others fly,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|None durst come near for fear of sudden death.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In iron walls they deem'd me not secure,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That they supposed I could rend bars of steel,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And spurn in pieces posts of adamant:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That walked about me every minute-while,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And if I did but stir out of my bed,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Enter the Boy with a linstock
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|I grieve to hear what torments you endured,
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|But we will be revenged sufficiently
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Now it is supper-time in Orleans:
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Here, through this grate, I count each one
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|and view the Frenchmen how they fortify:
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Let us look in, the sight will much delight thee.
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale,
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Let me have your express opinions
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|Where is best place to make our battery next.
Henry VI Part 1|GARGRAVE|I think, at the north gate, for there stand lords.
Henry VI Part 1|GLANSDALE|And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For aught I see, this city must be famish'd,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Here they shoot. SALISBURY and GARGRAVE fall
Henry VI Part 1|SALISBURY|O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!
Henry VI Part 1|GARGRAVE|O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Speak, Salisbury, at least, if thou canst speak:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|How farest thou, mirror of all martial men?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That hath contrived this woful tragedy!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Yet livest thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth fail,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|One eye thou hast, to look to heaven for grace:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Bear hence his body, I will help to bury it.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Speak unto Talbot, nay, look up to him.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Thou shalt not die whiles--
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|He beckons with his hand and smiles on me.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|As who should say 'When I am dead and gone,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Remember to avenge me on the French.'
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Plantagenet, I will, and like thee, Nero,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Wretched shall France be only in my name.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Here an alarum, and it thunders and lightens
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|What stir is this? what tumult's in the heavens?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|A holy prophetess new risen up,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Is come with a great power to raise the siege.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Here SALISBURY lifteth himself up and groans
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Convey me Salisbury into his tent,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Alarum. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|SCENE V. The same.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Here an alarum again: and TALBOT pursueth the  DAUPHIN, and driveth him: then enter JOAN LA  PUCELLE, driving Englishmen before her, and exit after them then re-enter TALBOT
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A woman clad in armour chaseth them.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Here, here she comes. I'll have a bout with thee,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And straightway give thy soul to him thou servest.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Here they fight
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|They fight again
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Talbot, farewell, thy hour is not yet come:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I must go victual Orleans forthwith.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|A short alarum, then enter the town with soldiers
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|O'ertake me, if thou canst, I scorn thy strength.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Help Salisbury to make his testament:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|This day is ours, as many more shall be.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I know not where I am, nor what I do,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Are from their hives and houses driven away.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|They call'd us for our fierceness English dogs,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now, like to whelps, we crying run away.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A short alarum
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Or tear the lions out of England's coat,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions' stead:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Or horse or oxen from the leopard,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Alarum. Here another skirmish
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|It will not be: retire into your trenches:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|You all consented unto Salisbury's death,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Pucelle is enter'd into Orleans,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In spite of us or aught that we could do.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|O, would I were to die with Salisbury!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The shame hereof will make me hide my head.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exit TALBOT. Alarum, retreat, flourish
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|SCENE VI. The same.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Enter, on the walls, JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, REIGNIER, ALENCON, and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Advance our waving colours on the walls,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Rescued is Orleans from the English
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform'd her word.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|How shall I honour thee for this success?
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Recover'd is the town of Orleans:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|And feast and banquet in the open streets,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|All France will be replete with mirth and joy,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|When they shall hear how we have play'd the men.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|For which I will divide my crown with her,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And all the priests and friars in my realm
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|In memory of her when she is dead,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Her ashes, in an urn more precious
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Than the rich-jewel'd of Darius,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Transported shall be at high festivals
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Before the kings and queens of France.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Come in, and let us banquet royally,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|After this golden day of victory.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Flourish. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|ACT II
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|SCENE I. Before Orleans.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Enter a Sergeant of a band with two Sentinels
Henry VI Part 1|Sergeant|Sirs, take your places and be vigilant:
Henry VI Part 1|Sergeant|If any noise or soldier you perceive
Henry VI Part 1|Sergeant|Near to the walls, by some apparent sign
Henry VI Part 1|Sergeant|Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.
Henry VI Part 1|First Sentinel|Sergeant, you shall.
Henry VI Part 1|First Sentinel|Exit Sergeant
Henry VI Part 1|First Sentinel|Thus are poor servitors,
Henry VI Part 1|First Sentinel|When others sleep upon their quiet beds,
Henry VI Part 1|First Sentinel|Constrain'd to watch in darkness, rain and cold.
Henry VI Part 1|First Sentinel|Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, and Forces, with scaling-ladders, their drums beating a dead march
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|By whose approach the regions of Artois,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Wallon and Picardy are friends to us,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Having all day caroused and banqueted:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Embrace we then this opportunity
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|As fitting best to quittance their deceit
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Contrived by art and baleful sorcery.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Coward of France! how much he wrongs his fame,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Despairing of his own arm's fortitude,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|To join with witches and the help of hell!
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Traitors have never other company.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|But what's that Pucelle whom they term so pure?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A maid, they say.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|A maid! and be so martial!
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Pray God she prove not masculine ere long,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|If underneath the standard of the French
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|She carry armour as she hath begun.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Well, let them practise and converse with spirits:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Ascend, brave Talbot, we will follow thee.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Not all together: better far, I guess,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That we do make our entrance several ways,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That, if it chance the one of us do fail,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The other yet may rise against their force.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Agreed: I'll to yond corner.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|And I to this.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Of English Henry, shall this night appear
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|How much in duty I am bound to both.
Henry VI Part 1|Sentinels|Arm! arm! the enemy doth make assault!
Henry VI Part 1|Sentinels|Cry: 'St. George,' 'A Talbot.'
Henry VI Part 1|Sentinels|The French leap over the walls in their shirts.  Enter, several ways, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, and REIGNIER, half ready, and half unready
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|How now, my lords! what, all unready so?
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Unready! ay, and glad we 'scaped so well.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Of all exploits since first I follow'd arms,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|More venturous or desperate than this.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|If not of hell, the heavens, sure, favour him.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Here cometh Charles: I marvel how he sped.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Enter CHARLES and JOAN LA PUCELLE
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Make us partakers of a little gain,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|That now our loss might be ten times so much?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|At all times will you have my power alike?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|This sudden mischief never could have fall'n.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Duke of Alencon, this was your default,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|That, being captain of the watch to-night,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Did look no better to that weighty charge.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Had all your quarters been as safely kept
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|As that whereof I had the government,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|We had not been thus shamefully surprised.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Mine was secure.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|And so was mine, my lord.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And, for myself, most part of all this night,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Within her quarter and mine own precinct
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|I was employ'd in passing to and fro,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|About relieving of the sentinels:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Then how or which way should they first break in?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Question, my lords, no further of the case,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|How or which way: 'tis sure they found some place
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And now there rests no other shift but this,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and dispersed,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And lay new platforms to endamage them.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Alarum. Enter an English Soldier, crying 'A  Talbot! a Talbot!' They fly, leaving their clothes behind
Henry VI Part 1|Soldier|I'll be so bold to take what they have left.
Henry VI Part 1|Soldier|The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword,
Henry VI Part 1|Soldier|For I have loaden me with many spoils,
Henry VI Part 1|Soldier|Using no other weapon but his name.
Henry VI Part 1|Soldier|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|Soldier|SCENE II. Orleans. Within the town.
Henry VI Part 1|Soldier|Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, a Captain, and others
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|The day begins to break, and night is fled,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Here sound retreat, and cease our hot pursuit.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Retreat sounded
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Bring forth the body of old Salisbury,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And here advance it in the market-place,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The middle centre of this cursed town.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now have I paid my vow unto his soul,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For every drop of blood was drawn from him,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And that hereafter ages may behold
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|What ruin happen'd in revenge of him,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Within their chiefest temple I'll erect
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interr'd:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Upon the which, that every one may read,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Shall be engraved the sack of Orleans,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The treacherous manner of his mournful death
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And what a terror he had been to France.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But, lords, in all our bloody massacre,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Nor any of his false confederates.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|They did amongst the troops of armed men
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Myself, as far as I could well discern
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|That could not live asunder day or night.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|After that things are set in order here,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|We'll follow them with all the power we have.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|All hail, my lords! which of this princely train
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|So much applauded through the realm of France?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Here is the Talbot: who would speak with him?
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|With modesty admiring thy renown,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|To visit her poor castle where she lies,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|That she may boast she hath beheld the man
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Whose glory fills the world with loud report.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Is it even so? Nay, then, I see our wars
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|When ladies crave to be encounter'd with.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Ne'er trust me then, for when a world of men
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Could not prevail with all their oratory,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Yet hath a woman's kindness over-ruled:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And therefore tell her I return great thanks,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And in submission will attend on her.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Will not your honours bear me company?
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|No, truly, it is more than manners will:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|And I have heard it said, unbidden guests
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Well then, alone, since there's no remedy,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Come hither, captain.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Whispers
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|You perceive my mind?
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|I do, my lord, and mean accordingly.
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|SCENE III. Auvergne. The COUNTESS's castle.
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Enter the COUNTESS and her Porter
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Porter, remember what I gave in charge,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.
Henry VI Part 1|Porter|Madam, I will.
Henry VI Part 1|Porter|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|Porter|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|The plot is laid: if all things fall out right,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|I shall as famous be by this exploit
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death.
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And his achievements of no less account:
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|To give their censure of these rare reports.
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Enter Messenger and TALBOT
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Madam,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|According as your ladyship desired,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And he is welcome. What! is this the man?
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Madam, it is.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Is this the scourge of France?
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|That with his name the mothers still their babes?
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|I see report is fabulous and false:
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|I thought I should have seen some Hercules,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|A second Hector, for his grim aspect,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf!
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Should strike such terror to his enemies.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Madam, I have been bold to trouble you,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But since your ladyship is not at leisure,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I'll sort some other time to visit you.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|What means he now? Go ask him whither he goes.
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Stay, my Lord Talbot, for my lady craves
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|To know the cause of your abrupt departure.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I go to certify her Talbot's here.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Re-enter Porter with keys
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Prisoner! to whom?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|To me, blood-thirsty lord,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And for that cause I trained thee to my house.
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|For in my gallery thy picture hangs:
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|But now the substance shall endure the like,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And I will chain these legs and arms of thine,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|That hast by tyranny these many years
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Wasted our country, slain our citizens
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And sent our sons and husbands captivate.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Ha, ha, ha!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Laughest thou, wretch? thy mirth shall turn to moan.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Whereon to practise your severity.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Why, art not thou the man?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I am indeed.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Then have I substance too.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|You are deceived, my substance is not here,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For what you see is but the smallest part
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And least proportion of humanity:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Your roof were not sufficient to contain't.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|This is a riddling merchant for the nonce,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|He will be here, and yet he is not here:
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|How can these contrarieties agree?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That will I show you presently.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Winds his horn. Drums strike up: a peal of ordnance. Enter soldiers
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|How say you, madam? are you now persuaded
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That Talbot is but shadow of himself?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|These are his substance, sinews, arms and strength,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Razeth your cities and subverts your towns
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And in a moment makes them desolate.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Victorious Talbot! pardon my abuse:
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|And more than may be gather'd by thy shape.
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath,
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|For I am sorry that with reverence
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|I did not entertain thee as thou art.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Be not dismay'd, fair lady, nor misconstrue
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The outward composition of his body.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|What you have done hath not offended me,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Nor other satisfaction do I crave,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But only, with your patience, that we may
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Taste of your wine and see what cates you have,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|COUNTESS
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|With all my heart, and think me honoured
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|To feast so great a warrior in my house.
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|SCENE IV. London. The Temple-garden.
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|Enter the Earls of SOMERSET, SUFFOLK, and WARWICK, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, VERNON, and another Lawyer
Henry VI Part 1|OF AUVERGNE|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Dare no man answer in a case of truth?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Within the Temple-hall we were too loud,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|The garden here is more convenient.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And never yet could frame my will to it,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And therefore frame the law unto my will.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Judge you, my Lord of Warwick, then, between us.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Between two blades, which bears the better temper:
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Between two horses, which doth bear him best,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance:
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|The truth appears so naked on my side
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|That any purblind eye may find it out.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And on my side it is so well apparell'd,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|So clear, so shining and so evident
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts:
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Let him that is a true-born gentleman
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And stands upon the honour of his birth,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|But dare maintain the party of the truth,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|I love no colours, and without all colour
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Of base insinuating flattery
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|I pluck this red rose with young Somerset
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And say withal I think he held the right.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Till you conclude that he upon whose side
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Shall yield the other in the right opinion.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Good Master Vernon, it is well objected:
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And I.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Then for the truth and plainness of the case.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Giving my verdict on the white rose side.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And fall on my side so, against your will.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|If I my lord, for my opinion bleed,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|And keep me on the side where still I am.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Well, well, come on: who else?
Henry VI Part 1|Lawyer|Unless my study and my books be false,
Henry VI Part 1|Lawyer|The argument you held was wrong in you:
Henry VI Part 1|Lawyer|To SOMERSET
Henry VI Part 1|Lawyer|In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.
Henry VI Part 1|Lawyer|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Now, Somerset, where is your argument?
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Here in my scabbard, meditating that
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|For pale they look with fear, as witnessing
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|The truth on our side.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|No, Plantagenet,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|That shall maintain what I have said is true,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Away, away, good William de la Pole!
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Third son to the third Edward King of England:
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|He bears him on the place's privilege,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Or durst not, for his craven heart, say thus.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|By him that made me, I'll maintain my words
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|On any plot of ground in Christendom.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|For treason executed in our late king's days?
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And, by his treason, stand'st not thou attainted,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And, till thou be restored, thou art a yeoman.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|My father was attached, not attainted,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Condemn'd to die for treason, but no traitor,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Were growing time once ripen'd to my will.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|For your partaker Pole and you yourself,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|I'll note you in my book of memory,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|To scourge you for this apprehension:
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Look to it well and say you are well warn'd.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And know us by these colours for thy foes,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Will I for ever and my faction wear,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Until it wither with me to my grave
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Or flourish to the height of my degree.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And so farewell until I meet thee next.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|How I am braved and must perforce endure it!
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|This blot that they object against your house
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Shall be wiped out in the next parliament
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|And if thou be not then created York,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|I will not live to be accounted Warwick.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Against proud Somerset and William Pole,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Will I upon thy party wear this rose:
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Grown to this faction in the Temple-garden,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Shall send between the red rose and the white
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|In your behalf still will I wear the same.
Henry VI Part 1|Lawyer|And so will I.
Henry VI Part 1|Lawyer|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Thanks, gentle sir.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Come, let us four to dinner: I dare say
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|This quarrel will drink blood another day.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|SCENE V. The Tower of London.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Enter MORTIMER, brought in a chair, and Gaolers
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Even like a man new haled from the rack,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|So fare my limbs with long imprisonment.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Nestor-like aged in an age of care,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Weak shoulders, overborne with burthening grief,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|That droops his sapless branches to the ground,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Unable to support this lump of clay,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|As witting I no other comfort have.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?
Henry VI Part 1|First Gaoler|Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come:
Henry VI Part 1|First Gaoler|We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber,
Henry VI Part 1|First Gaoler|And answer was return'd that he will come.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Enough: my soul shall then be satisfied.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Before whose glory I was great in arms,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|This loathsome sequestration have I had:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And even since then hath Richard been obscured,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Deprived of honour and inheritance.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|But now the arbitrator of despairs,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|I would his troubles likewise were expired,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|That so he might recover what was lost.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET
Henry VI Part 1|First Gaoler|My lord, your loving nephew now is come.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And in his bosom spend my latter gasp:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|That I may kindly give one fainting kiss.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Why didst thou say, of late thou wert despised?
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|First, lean thine aged back against mine arm,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|This day, in argument upon a case,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Among which terms he used his lavish tongue
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And did upbraid me with my father's death:
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Else with the like I had requited him.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|In honour of a true Plantagenet
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And for alliance sake, declare the cause
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|That cause, fair nephew, that imprison'd me
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And hath detain'd me all my flowering youth
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Was cursed instrument of his decease.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Discover more at large what cause that was,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|For I am ignorant and cannot guess.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|I will, if that my fading breath permit
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And death approach not ere my tale be done.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this king,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|The first-begotten and the lawful heir,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Of Edward king, the third of that descent:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|During whose reign the Percies of the north,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Finding his usurpation most unjust,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Endeavor'd my advancement to the throne:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|The reason moved these warlike lords to this
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Was, for that--young King Richard thus removed,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Leaving no heir begotten of his body--
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|I was the next by birth and parentage,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|For by my mother I derived am
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|To King Edward the Third, whereas he
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Being but fourth of that heroic line.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|But mark: as in this haughty attempt
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|They laboured to plant the rightful heir,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|I lost my liberty and they their lives.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Thy father, Earl of Cambridge, then derived
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Marrying my sister that thy mother was,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Again in pity of my hard distress
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Levied an army, weening to redeem
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And have install'd me in the diadem:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|In whom the tide rested, were suppress'd.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|True, and thou seest that I no issue have
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And that my fainting words do warrant death,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Thou art my heir, the rest I wish thee gather:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|But yet be wary in thy studious care.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Thy grave admonishments prevail with me:
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|But yet, methinks, my father's execution
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|With silence, nephew, be thou politic:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And like a mountain, not to be removed.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|But now thy uncle is removing hence:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|As princes do their courts, when they are cloy'd
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|With long continuance in a settled place.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|O, uncle, would some part of my young years
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Might but redeem the passage of your age!
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good,
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Only give order for my funeral:
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|And prosperous be thy life in peace and war!
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|Dies
Henry VI Part 1|MORTIMER|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul!
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And like a hermit overpass'd thy days.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And what I do imagine let that rest.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Will see his burial better than his life.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Exeunt Gaolers, bearing out the body of MORTIMER
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Choked with ambition of the meaner sort:
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Which Somerset hath offer'd to my house:
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|I doubt not but with honour to redress,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And therefore haste I to the parliament,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Either to be restored to my blood,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Or make my ill the advantage of my good.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|ACT III
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|SCENE I. London. The Parliament-house.
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, EXETER, GLOUCESTER,  WARWICK, SOMERSET, and SUFFOLK, the BISHOP OF  WINCHESTER, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, and others.  GLOUCESTER offers to put up a bill, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER snatches it, and tears it
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Comest thou with deep premeditated lines,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|With written pamphlets studiously devised,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Humphrey of Gloucester? If thou canst accuse,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Do it without invention, suddenly,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|As I with sudden and extemporal speech
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Purpose to answer what thou canst object.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour'd me.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Think not, although in writing I preferr'd
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|That therefore I have forged, or am not able
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|No, prelate, such is thy audacious wickedness,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thy lewd, pestiferous and dissentious pranks,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|As very infants prattle of thy pride.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Forward by nature, enemy to peace,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|A man of thy profession and degree,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And for thy treachery, what's more manifest?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|As well at London bridge as at the Tower.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|The king, thy sovereign, is not quite exempt
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|From envious malice of thy swelling heart.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords, vouchsafe
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|To give me hearing what I shall reply.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|If I were covetous, ambitious or perverse,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|As he will have me, how am I so poor?
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Or how haps it I seek not to advance
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And for dissension, who preferreth peace
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|More than I do?--except I be provoked.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|No, my good lords, it is not that offends,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|It is not that that hath incensed the duke:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|It is, because no one should sway but he,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|No one but he should be about the king,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And that engenders thunder in his breast
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And makes him roar these accusations forth.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|But he shall know I am as good--
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|As good!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thou bastard of my grandfather!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Ay, lordly sir, for what are you, I pray,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|But one imperious in another's throne?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Am I not protector, saucy priest?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And am not I a prelate of the church?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And useth it to patronage his theft.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Unreverent Gloster!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Thou art reverent
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Rome shall remedy this.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Roam thither, then.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|My lord, it were your duty to forbear.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Ay, see the bishop be not overborne.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Methinks my lord should be religious
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And know the office that belongs to such.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Methinks his lordship should be humbler,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|it fitteth not a prelate so to plead.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Yes, when his holy state is touch'd so near.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|State holy or unhallow'd, what of that?
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Is not his grace protector to the king?
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|[Aside]  Plantagenet, I see, must hold his tongue,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Lest it be said 'Speak, sirrah, when you should,
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?'
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Else would I have a fling at Winchester.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|The special watchmen of our English weal,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|To join your hearts in love and amity.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|O, what a scandal is it to our crown,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Civil dissension is a viperous worm
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|A noise within, 'Down with the tawny-coats!'
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|What tumult's this?
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|An uproar, I dare warrant,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Begun through malice of the bishop's men.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|A noise again, 'Stones! stones!' Enter Mayor
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|O, my good lords, and virtuous Henry,
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Pity the city of London, pity us!
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Forbidden late to carry any weapon,
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble stones
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|And banding themselves in contrary parts
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Do pelt so fast at one another's pate
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|That many have their giddy brains knock'd out:
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Our windows are broke down in every street
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|And we for fear compell'd to shut our shops.
Henry VI Part 1|Mayor|Enter Serving-men, in skirmish, with bloody pates
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|First Serving-man	Nay, if we be forbidden stones,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|We'll fall to it with our teeth.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Second Serving-man	Do what ye dare, we are as resolute.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Skirmish again
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|You of my household, leave this peevish broil
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And set this unaccustom'd fight aside.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Third Serving-man	My lord, we know your grace to be a man
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Just and upright, and, for your royal birth,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Inferior to none but to his majesty:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|So kind a father of the commonweal,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|We and our wives and children all will fight
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|First Serving-man	Ay, and the very parings of our nails
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Shall pitch a field when we are dead.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Begin again
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Stay, stay, I say!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And if you love me, as you say you do,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Let me persuade you to forbear awhile.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|O, how this discord doth afflict my soul!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|My sighs and tears and will not once relent?
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Who should be pitiful, if you be not?
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Or who should study to prefer a peace.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|If holy churchmen take delight in broils?
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Yield, my lord protector, yield, Winchester,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Except you mean with obstinate repulse
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|You see what mischief and what murder too
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Hath been enacted through your enmity,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Then be at peace except ye thirst for blood.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|He shall submit, or I will never yield.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Compassion on the king commands me stoop,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Or I would see his heart out, ere the priest
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Should ever get that privilege of me.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Behold, my Lord of Winchester, the duke
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Hath banish'd moody discontented fury,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|As by his smoothed brows it doth appear:
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Why look you still so stern and tragical?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That malice was a great and grievous sin,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|But prove a chief offender in the same?
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Sweet king! the bishop hath a kindly gird.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent!
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|What, shall a child instruct you what to do?
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Love for thy love and hand for hand I give.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  Ay, but, I fear me, with a hollow heart.--
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|See here, my friends and loving countrymen,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|This token serveth for a flag of truce
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Betwixt ourselves and all our followers:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|So help me God, as I dissemble not!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|[Aside]  So help me God, as I intend it not!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|O, loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|How joyful am I made by this contract!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Away, my masters! trouble us no more,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|But join in friendship, as your lords have done.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|First Serving-man	Content: I'll to the surgeon's.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Second Serving-man	And so will I.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Third Serving-man	And I will see what physic the tavern affords.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt Serving-men, Mayor,  and c
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|We do exhibit to your majesty.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Well urged, my Lord of Warwick: or sweet prince,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And if your grace mark every circumstance,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|You have great reason to do Richard right,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Especially for those occasions
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|At Eltham Place I told your majesty.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And those occasions, uncle, were of force:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That Richard be restored to his blood.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Let Richard be restored to his blood,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|If Richard will be true, not that alone
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|But all the whole inheritance I give
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That doth belong unto the house of York,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|From whence you spring by lineal descent.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|Thy humble servant vows obedience
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And humble service till the point of death.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Stoop then and set your knee against my foot,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And, in reguerdon of that duty done,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I gird thee with the valiant sword of York:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Rise Richard, like a true Plantagenet,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And rise created princely Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|RICHARD
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall!
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|And as my duty springs, so perish they
Henry VI Part 1|PLANTAGENET|That grudge one thought against your majesty!
Henry VI Part 1|ALL|Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke of York!
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|[Aside]  Perish, base prince, ignoble Duke of York!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Now will it best avail your majesty
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|The presence of a king engenders love
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|As it disanimates his enemies.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Your ships already are in readiness.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but EXETER
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Ay, we may march in England or in France,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Not seeing what is likely to ensue.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Burns under feigned ashes of forged love
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|And will at last break out into a flame:
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|As fester'd members rot but by degree,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|So will this base and envious discord breed.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|And now I fear that fatal prophecy
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Was in the mouth of every sucking babe,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|That Henry born at Monmouth should win all
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|And Henry born at Windsor lose all:
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|His days may finish ere that hapless time.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|SCENE II. France. Before Rouen.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE disguised, with four Soldiers with sacks upon their backs
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Through which our policy must make a breach:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Take heed, be wary how you place your words,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Talk like the vulgar sort of market men
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That come to gather money for their corn.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And that we find the slothful watch but weak,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.
Henry VI Part 1|First Soldier|Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
Henry VI Part 1|First Soldier|And we be lords and rulers over Rouen,
Henry VI Part 1|First Soldier|Therefore we'll knock.
Henry VI Part 1|First Soldier|Knocks
Henry VI Part 1|Watch|[Within]  Qui est la?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Paysans, pauvres gens de France,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.
Henry VI Part 1|Watch|Enter, go in, the market bell is rung.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, REIGNIER, and forces
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem!
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Here enter'd Pucelle and her practisants,
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Now she is there, how will she specify
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Where is the best and safest passage in?
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Which, once discern'd, shows that her meaning is,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|No way to that, for weakness, which she enter'd.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE on the top, thrusting out a torch burning
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Behold, this is the happy wedding torch
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But burning fatal to the Talbotites!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend,
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|The burning torch in yonder turret stands.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Enter, and cry 'The Dauphin!' presently,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|And then do execution on the watch.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Alarum. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|An alarum. Enter TALBOT in an excursion
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That hardly we escaped the pride of France.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|An alarum: excursions. BEDFORD, brought in sick  in a chair. Enter TALBOT and BURGUNDY without:  within JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, and REIGNIER, on the walls
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Good morrow, gallants! want ye corn for bread?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Before he'll buy again at such a rate:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|'Twas full of darnel, do you like the taste?
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtezan!
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Your grace may starve perhaps before that time.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|O, let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|What will you do, good grey-beard? break a lance,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And run a tilt at death within a chair?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Encompass'd with thy lustful paramours!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Are ye so hot, sir? yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|The English whisper together in council
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|God speed the parliament! who shall be the speaker?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To try if that our own be ours or no.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I speak not to that railing Hecate,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But unto thee, Alencon, and the rest,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Signior, no.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Signior, hang! base muleters of France!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Away, captains! let's get us from the walls,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|God be wi' you, my lord! we came but to tell you
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That we are here.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Exeunt from the walls
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And there will we be too, ere it be long,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Vow, Burgundy, by honour of thy house,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Prick'd on by public wrongs sustain'd in France,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Either to get the town again or die:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And I, as sure as English Henry lives
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And as his father here was conqueror,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|As sure as in this late-betrayed town
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|So sure I swear to get the town or die.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|My vows are equal partners with thy vows.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But, ere we go, regard this dying prince,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The valiant Duke of Bedford. Come, my lord,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|We will bestow you in some better place,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|And will be partner of your weal or woe.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Not to be gone from hence, for once I read
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|That stout Pendragon in his litter sick
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Came to the field and vanquished his foes:
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Because I ever found them as myself.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Then be it so: heavens keep old Bedford safe!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But gather we our forces out of hand
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And set upon our boasting enemy.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exeunt all but BEDFORD and Attendants
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|An alarum: excursions. Enter FASTOLFE and a Captain
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Whither away, Sir John Fastolfe, in such haste?
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|Whither away! to save myself by flight:
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|We are like to have the overthrow again.
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|What! will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|Ay,
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|All the Talbots in the world, to save my life!
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Cowardly knight! ill fortune follow thee!
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Retreat: excursions. JOAN LA PUCELLE, ALENCON, and CHARLES fly
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|What is the trust or strength of foolish man?
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|They that of late were daring with their scoffs
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves.
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|BEDFORD dies, and is carried in by two in his chair
Henry VI Part 1|BEDFORD|An alarum. Re-enter TALBOT, BURGUNDY, and the rest
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Lost, and recover'd in a day again!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|This is a double honour, Burgundy:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Yet heavens have glory for this victory!
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Enshrines thee in his heart and there erects
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Thanks, gentle duke. But where is Pucelle now?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I think her old familiar is asleep:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That such a valiant company are fled.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now will we take some order in the town,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Placing therein some expert officers,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And then depart to Paris to the king,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For there young Henry with his nobles lie.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But yet, before we go, let's not forget
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But see his exequies fulfill'd in Rouen:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A braver soldier never couched lance,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A gentler heart did never sway in court,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But kings and mightiest potentates must die,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|For that's the end of human misery.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|SCENE III. The plains near Rouen.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|For things that are not to be remedied.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And like a peacock sweep along his tail,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|We have been guided by thee hitherto,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And of thy cunning had no diffidence:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Search out thy wit for secret policies,
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|And we will make thee famous through the world.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|We'll set thy statue in some holy place,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint:
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Then thus it must be, this doth Joan devise:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|By fair persuasions mix'd with sugar'd words
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|We will entice the Duke of Burgundy
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To leave the Talbot and to follow us.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|France were no place for Henry's warriors,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Nor should that nation boast it so with us,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|But be extirped from our provinces.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|For ever should they be expulsed from France
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And not have title of an earldom here.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Your honours shall perceive how I will work
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To bring this matter to the wished end.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Drum sounds afar off
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Hark! by the sound of drum you may perceive
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Here sound an English march. Enter, and pass over at a distance, TALBOT and his forces
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And all the troops of English after him.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|French march. Enter BURGUNDY and forces
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Now in the rearward comes the duke and his:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Summon a parley, we will talk with him.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Trumpets sound a parley
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|A parley with the Duke of Burgundy!
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|What say'st thou, Charles? for I am marching hence.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Look on thy country, look on fertile France,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And see the cities and the towns defaced
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|As looks the mother on her lowly babe
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|When death doth close his tender dying eyes,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|See, see the pining malady of France,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Which thou thyself hast given her woful breast.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|O, turn thy edged sword another way,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Return thee therefore with a flood of tears,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And wash away thy country's stained spots.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Either she hath bewitch'd me with her words,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Or nature makes me suddenly relent.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Who joint'st thou with but with a lordly nation
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|When Talbot hath set footing once in France
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And fashion'd thee that instrument of ill,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Who then but English Henry will be lord
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And was he not in England prisoner?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But when they heard he was thine enemy,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|They set him free without his ransom paid,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And joint'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Come, come, return, return, thou wandering lord:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|I am vanquished, these haughty words of hers
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-shot,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|And made me almost yield upon my knees.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Forgive me, country, and sweet countrymen,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace:
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|My forces and my power of men are yours:
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|So farewell, Talbot, I'll no longer trust thee.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|[Aside]  Done like a Frenchman: turn, and turn again!
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Welcome, brave duke! thy friendship makes us fresh.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|And doth beget new courage in our breasts.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And doth deserve a coronet of gold.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And seek how we may prejudice the foe.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|SCENE IV. Paris. The palace.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF  WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK,  EXETER, VERNON	BASSET, and others. To them with his Soldiers, TALBOT
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My gracious prince, and honourable peers,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Hearing of your arrival in this realm,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I have awhile given truce unto my wars,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To do my duty to my sovereign:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In sign, whereof, this arm, that hath reclaim'd
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To your obedience fifty fortresses,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And with submissive loyalty of heart
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Ascribes the glory of his conquest got
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|First to my God and next unto your grace.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Kneels
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That hath so long been resident in France?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|When I was young, as yet I am not old,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I do remember how my father said
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|A stouter champion never handled sword.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Long since we were resolved of your truth,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Your faithful service and your toil in war,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Yet never have you tasted our reward,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Because till now we never saw your face:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Therefore, stand up, and, for these good deserts,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And in our coronation take your place.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but VERNON and BASSET
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Disgracing of these colours that I wear
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|In honour of my noble Lord of York:
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Yes, sir, as well as you dare patronage
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|The envious barking of your saucy tongue
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Why, what is he? as good a man as York.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Hark ye, not so: in witness, take ye that.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Strikes him
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|That whoso draws a sword, 'tis present death,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|But I'll unto his majesty, and crave
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|I may have liberty to venge this wrong,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|And, after, meet you sooner than you would.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|ACT IV
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|SCENE I. Paris. A hall of state.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF  WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK, TALBOT, EXETER, the Governor, of Paris, and others
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Lord bishop, set the crown upon his head.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|BISHOP
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|God save King Henry, of that name the sixth!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Now, governor of Paris, take your oath,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|That you elect no other king but him,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And none your foes but such as shall pretend
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Malicious practises against his state:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|This shall ye do, so help you righteous God!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Enter FASTOLFE
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais,
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|To haste unto your coronation,
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|A letter was deliver'd to my hands,
Henry VI Part 1|FASTOLFE|Writ to your grace from the Duke of Burgundy.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I vow'd, base knight, when I did meet thee next,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To tear the garter from thy craven's leg,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Plucking it off
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Which I have done, because unworthily
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Thou wast installed in that high degree.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Pardon me, princely Henry, and the rest
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|This dastard, at the battle of Patay,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|When but in all I was six thousand strong
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And that the French were almost ten to one,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Before we met or that a stroke was given,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Like to a trusty squire did run away:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In which assault we lost twelve hundred men,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Myself and divers gentlemen beside
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Were there surprised and taken prisoners.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Or whether that such cowards ought to wear
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|This ornament of knighthood, yea or no.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To say the truth, this fact was infamous
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And ill beseeming any common man,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|When first this order was ordain'd, my lords,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Knights of the garter were of noble birth,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Such as were grown to credit by the wars,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But always resolute in most extremes.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|He then that is not furnish'd in this sort
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Profaning this most honourable order,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And should, if I were worthy to be judge,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Henceforth we banish thee, on pain of death.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Exit FASTOLFE
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And now, my lord protector, view the letter
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Sent from our uncle Duke of Burgundy.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|What means his grace, that he hath changed his style?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|No more but, plain and bluntly, 'To the king!'
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Or doth this churlish superscription
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Pretend some alteration in good will?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|What's here?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Reads
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|'I have, upon especial cause,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Moved with compassion of my country's wreck,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Together with the pitiful complaints
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Of such as your oppression feeds upon,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Forsaken your pernicious faction
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And join'd with Charles, the rightful King of France.'
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|O monstrous treachery! can this be so,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|That in alliance, amity and oaths,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|There should be found such false dissembling guile?
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|What! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Is that the worst this letter doth contain?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Why, then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And give him chastisement for this abuse.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|How say you, my lord? are you not content?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Content, my liege! yes, but that I am prevented,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I should have begg'd I might have been employ'd.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Then gather strength and march unto him straight:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And what offence it is to flout his friends.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I go, my lord, in heart desiring still
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|You may behold confusion of your foes.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Enter VERNON and BASSET
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Grant me the combat, gracious sovereign.
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|And me, my lord, grant me the combat too.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|This is my servant: hear him, noble prince.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And this is mine: sweet Henry, favour him.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Be patient, lords, and give them leave to speak.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim?
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And wherefore crave you combat? or with whom?
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|With him, my lord, for he hath done me wrong.
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|And I with him, for he hath done me wrong.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|What is that wrong whereof you both complain?
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|First let me know, and then I'll answer you.
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Crossing the sea from England into France,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|This fellow here, with envious carping tongue,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Upbraided me about the rose I wear,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Saying, the sanguine colour of the leaves
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Did represent my master's blushing cheeks,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|About a certain question in the law
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|With other vile and ignominious terms:
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|In confutation of which rude reproach
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|And in defence of my lord's worthiness,
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|I crave the benefit of law of arms.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|And that is my petition, noble lord:
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|For though he seem with forged quaint conceit
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|To set a gloss upon his bold intent,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|And he first took exceptions at this badge,
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Your private grudge, my Lord of York, will out,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Such factious emulations shall arise!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Good cousins both, of York and Somerset,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Let this dissension first be tried by fight,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And then your highness shall command a peace.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|The quarrel toucheth none but us alone,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|There is my pledge, accept it, Somerset.
Henry VI Part 1|VERNON|Nay, let it rest where it began at first.
Henry VI Part 1|BASSET|Confirm it so, mine honourable lord.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Confirm it so! Confounded be your strife!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And perish ye, with your audacious prate!
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|With this immodest clamorous outrage
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To trouble and disturb the king and us?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To bear with their perverse objections,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Much less to take occasion from their mouths
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Let me persuade you take a better course.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|It grieves his highness: good my lords, be friends.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Come hither, you that would be combatants:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And you, my lords, remember where we are,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|If they perceive dissension in our looks
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And that within ourselves we disagree,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|To wilful disobedience, and rebel!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Beside, what infamy will there arise,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|When foreign princes shall be certified
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That for a toy, a thing of no regard,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|King Henry's peers and chief nobility
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Destroy'd themselves, and lost the realm of France!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|O, think upon the conquest of my father,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|My tender years, and let us not forego
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That for a trifle that was bought with blood
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I see no reason, if I wear this rose,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Putting on a red rose
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That any one should therefore be suspicious
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I more incline to Somerset than York:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|As well they may upbraid me with my crown,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Because, forsooth, the king of Scots is crown'd.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|But your discretions better can persuade
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Than I am able to instruct or teach:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And therefore, as we hither came in peace,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|So let us still continue peace and love.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Cousin of York, we institute your grace
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|To be our regent in these parts of France:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And, good my Lord of Somerset, unite
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And, like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Go cheerfully together and digest.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Your angry choler on your enemies.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Ourself, my lord protector and the rest
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|After some respite will return to Calais,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|From thence to England, where I hope ere long
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|To be presented, by your victories,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|With Charles, Alencon and that traitorous rout.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Flourish. Exeunt all but YORK, WARWICK, EXETER and VERNON
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|My Lord of York, I promise you, the king
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Prettily, methought, did play the orator.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And so he did, but yet I like it not,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|In that he wears the badge of Somerset.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Tush, that was but his fancy, blame him not,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|I dare presume, sweet prince, he thought no harm.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|An if I wist he did,--but let it rest,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Other affairs must now be managed.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Exeunt all but EXETER
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|For, had the passions of thy heart burst out,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|I fear we should have seen decipher'd there
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Than yet can be imagined or supposed.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|This jarring discord of nobility,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|This shouldering of each other in the court,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|This factious bandying of their favourites,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|But that it doth presage some ill event.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|But more when envy breeds unkind division,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|There comes the rain, there begins confusion.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|SCENE II. Before Bourdeaux.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Enter TALBOT, with trump and drum
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Summon their general unto the wall.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Trumpet sounds. Enter General and others, aloft
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Servant in arms to Harry King of England,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And thus he would: Open your city gates,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Be humble to us, call my sovereign yours,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And do him homage as obedient subjects,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But, if you frown upon this proffer'd peace,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|You tempt the fury of my three attendants,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Who in a moment even with the earth
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If you forsake the offer of their love.
Henry VI Part 1|General|Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,
Henry VI Part 1|General|Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge!
Henry VI Part 1|General|The period of thy tyranny approacheth.
Henry VI Part 1|General|On us thou canst not enter but by death,
Henry VI Part 1|General|For, I protest, we are well fortified
Henry VI Part 1|General|And strong enough to issue out and fight:
Henry VI Part 1|General|If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,
Henry VI Part 1|General|Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
Henry VI Part 1|General|On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd,
Henry VI Part 1|General|To wall thee from the liberty of flight,
Henry VI Part 1|General|And no way canst thou turn thee for redress,
Henry VI Part 1|General|But death doth front thee with apparent spoil
Henry VI Part 1|General|And pale destruction meets thee in the face.
Henry VI Part 1|General|Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament
Henry VI Part 1|General|To rive their dangerous artillery
Henry VI Part 1|General|Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.
Henry VI Part 1|General|Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man,
Henry VI Part 1|General|Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit!
Henry VI Part 1|General|This is the latest glory of thy praise
Henry VI Part 1|General|That I, thy enemy, due thee withal,
Henry VI Part 1|General|For ere the glass, that now begins to run,
Henry VI Part 1|General|Finish the process of his sandy hour,
Henry VI Part 1|General|These eyes, that see thee now well coloured,
Henry VI Part 1|General|Shall see thee wither'd, bloody, pale and dead.
Henry VI Part 1|General|Drum afar off
Henry VI Part 1|General|Hark! hark! the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,
Henry VI Part 1|General|Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul,
Henry VI Part 1|General|And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.
Henry VI Part 1|General|Exeunt General,  and c
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|He fables not, I hear the enemy:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|O, negligent and heedless discipline!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A little herd of England's timorous deer,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If we be English deer, be then in blood,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And make the cowards stand aloof at bay:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Sell every man his life as dear as mine,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|SCENE III. Plains in Gascony.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Enter a Messenger that meets YORK. Enter YORK with trumpet and many Soldiers
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Are not the speedy scouts return'd again,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin?
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|They are return'd, my lord, and give it out
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|That he is march'd to Bourdeaux with his power,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|To fight with Talbot: as he march'd along,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|By your espials were discovered
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,
Henry VI Part 1|Messenger|Which join'd with him and made their march for Bourdeaux.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|A plague upon that villain Somerset,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|That thus delays my promised supply
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Of horsemen, that were levied for this siege!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And I am lowted by a traitor villain
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And cannot help the noble chevalier:
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|God comfort him in this necessity!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|If he miscarry, farewell wars in France.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Enter Sir William LUCY
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Thou princely leader of our English strength,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Never so needful on the earth of France,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Who now is girdled with a waist of iron
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And hemm'd about with grim destruction:
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|To Bourdeaux, warlike duke! to Bourdeaux, York!
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Else, farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|So should we save a valiant gentleman
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|That thus we die, while remiss traitors sleep.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|O, send some succor to the distress'd lord!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|He dies, we lose, I break my warlike word,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|We mourn, France smiles, we lose, they daily get,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And on his son young John, who two hours since
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|I met in travel toward his warlike father!
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|This seven years did not Talbot see his son,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And now they meet where both their lives are done.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|To bid his young son welcome to his grave?
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Away! vexation almost stops my breath,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Lucy, farewell, no more my fortune can,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Maine, Blois, Poictiers, and Tours, are won away,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|'Long all of Somerset and his delay.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Exit, with his soldiers
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Thus, while the vulture of sedition
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|The conquest of our scarce cold conqueror,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|That ever living man of memory,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Henry the Fifth: whiles they each other cross,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Lives, honours, lands and all hurry to loss.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|SCENE IV. Other plains in Gascony.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Enter SOMERSET, with his army, a Captain of TALBOT's with him
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|It is too late, I cannot send them now:
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|This expedition was by York and Talbot
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Too rashly plotted: all our general force
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Might with a sally of the very town
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|York set him on to fight and die in shame,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.
Henry VI Part 1|Captain|Enter Sir William LUCY
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|How now, Sir William! whither were you sent?
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Whither, my lord? from bought and sold Lord Talbot,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Who, ring'd about with bold adversity,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Cries out for noble York and Somerset,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|To beat assailing death from his weak legions:
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And whiles the honourable captain there
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|You, his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Let not your private discord keep away
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|The levied succors that should lend him aid,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|While he, renowned noble gentleman,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Yields up his life unto a world of odds:
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Alencon, Reignier, compass him about,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And Talbot perisheth by your default.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|York set him on, York should have sent him aid.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And York as fast upon your grace exclaims,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Swearing that you withhold his levied host,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Collected for this expedition.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|York lies, he might have sent and had the horse,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|I owe him little duty, and less love,
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|The fraud of England, not the force of France,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot:
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Never to England shall he bear his life,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Come, go, I will dispatch the horsemen straight:
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|Within six hours they will be at his aid.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|For fly he could not, if he would have fled,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And fly would Talbot never, though he might.
Henry VI Part 1|SOMERSET|If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|His fame lives in the world, his shame in you.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|SCENE V. The English camp near Bourdeaux.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Enter TALBOT and JOHN his son
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|O young John Talbot! I did send for thee
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To tutor thee in stratagems of war,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|That Talbot's name might be in thee revived
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|When sapless age and weak unable limbs
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But, O malignant and ill-boding stars!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now thou art come unto a feast of death,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|A terrible and unavoided danger:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|By sudden flight: come, dally not, be gone.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Is my name Talbot? and am I your son?
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|And shall I fly? O if you love my mother,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Dishonour not her honourable name,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|To make a bastard and a slave of me!
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|The world will say, he is not Talbot's blood,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Fly, to revenge my death, if I be slain.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|He that flies so will ne'er return again.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If we both stay, we both are sure to die.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Then let me stay, and, father, do you fly:
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Your loss is great, so your regard should be,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Upon my death the French can little boast,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Flight cannot stain the honour you have won,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|But mine it will, that no exploit have done:
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|You fled for vantage, everyone will swear,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|But, if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|There is no hope that ever I will stay,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|If the first hour I shrink and run away.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Here on my knee I beg mortality,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Rather than life preserved with infamy.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Upon my blessing, I command thee go.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Part of thy father may be saved in thee.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|No part of him but will be shame in me.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Yes, your renowned name: shall flight abuse it?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|You cannot witness for me, being slain.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|If death be so apparent, then both fly.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And leave my followers here to fight and die?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My age was never tainted with such shame.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|No more can I be sever'd from your side,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|For live I will not, if my father die.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Come, side by side together live and die.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And soul with soul from France to heaven fly.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|SCENE VI. A field of battle.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Alarum: excursions, wherein JOHN TALBOT is hemmed about, and TALBOT rescues him
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Saint George and victory! fight, soldiers, fight.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The regent hath with Talbot broke his word
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And left us to the rage of France his sword.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Where is John Talbot? Pause, and take thy breath,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|I gave thee life and rescued thee from death.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|O, twice my father, twice am I thy son!
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|The life thou gavest me first was lost and done,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Till with thy warlike sword, despite of late,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|To my determined time thou gavest new date.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|It warm'd thy father's heart with proud desire
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Beat down Alencon, Orleans, Burgundy,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The ireful bastard Orleans, that drew blood
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And interchanging blows I quickly shed
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Some of his bastard blood, and in disgrace
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Bespoke him thus, 'Contaminated, base
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy:'
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Came in strong rescue. Speak, thy father's care,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Art thou not weary, John? how dost thou fare?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Fly, to revenge my death when I am dead:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|The help of one stands me in little stead.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|O, too much folly is it, well I wot,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To hazard all our lives in one small boat!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If I to-day die not with Frenchmen's rage,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|To-morrow I shall die with mickle age:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|By me they nothing gain an if I stay,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|'Tis but the shortening of my life one day:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|All these and more we hazard by thy stay,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart:
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|On that advantage, bought with such a shame,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|The coward horse that bears me fail and die!
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|And like me to the peasant boys of France,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Surely, by all the glory you have won,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|An if I fly, I am not Talbot's son:
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot,
Henry VI Part 1|JOHN TALBOT|If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Thou Icarus, thy life to me is sweet:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And, commendable proved, let's die in pride.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Alarum: excursions. Enter TALBOT led by a Servant
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Where is my other life? mine own is gone,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|O, where's young Talbot? where is valiant John?
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Triumphant death, smear'd with captivity,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|His bloody sword he brandish'd over me,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And, like a hungry lion, did commence
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|But when my angry guardant stood alone,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Suddenly made him from my side to start
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Into the clustering battle of the French,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|And in that sea of blood my boy did drench
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|His over-mounting spirit, and there died,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride.
Henry VI Part 1|Servant|O, my dear lord, lo, where your son is borne!
Henry VI Part 1|Servant|Enter Soldiers, with the body of JOHN TALBOT
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|In thy despite shall 'scape mortality.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|O, thou, whose wounds become hard-favour'd death,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath!
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Poor boy! he smiles, methinks, as who should say,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Had death been French, then death had died to-day.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Come, come and lay him in his father's arms:
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|My spirit can no longer bear these harms.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Soldiers, adieu! I have what I would have,
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave.
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Dies
Henry VI Part 1|TALBOT|Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BURGUNDY, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|We should have found a bloody day of this.
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging-wood,
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|'Thou maiden youth, be vanquish'd by a maid:'
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But, with a proud majestical high scorn,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|He answer'd thus: 'Young Talbot was not born
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To be the pillage of a giglot wench:'
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|So, rushing in the bowels of the French,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Doubtless he would have made a noble knight,
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder
Henry VI Part 1|BASTARD OF ORLEANS|Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|O, no, forbear! for that which we have fled
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|During the life, let us not wrong it dead.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Enter Sir William LUCY, attended, Herald of the French preceding
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|On what submissive message art thou sent?
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|We English warriors wot not what it means.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And to survey the bodies of the dead.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|But tell me whom thou seek'st.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|But where's the great Alcides of the field,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Created, for his rare success in arms,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Knight of the noble order of Saint George,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Great marshal to Henry the Sixth
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Of all his wars within the realm of France?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Here is a silly stately style indeed!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Writes not so tedious a style as this.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|O, that I could but call these dead to life!
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|It were enough to fright the realm of France:
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Were but his picture left amongst you here,
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|It would amaze the proudest of you all.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|And give them burial as beseems their worth.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|For God's sake let him have 'em, to keep them here,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|They would but stink, and putrefy the air.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Go, take their bodies hence.
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|I'll bear them hence, but from their ashes shall be rear'd
Henry VI Part 1|LUCY|A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And now to Paris, in this conquering vein:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|ACT V
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|SCENE I. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Have you perused the letters from the pope,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|The emperor and the Earl of Armagnac?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I have, my lord: and their intent is this:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|They humbly sue unto your excellence
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To have a godly peace concluded of
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Between the realms of England and of France.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|How doth your grace affect their motion?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Well, my good lord, and as the only means
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|To stop effusion of our Christian blood
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And 'stablish quietness on every side.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|It was both impious and unnatural
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That such immanity and bloody strife
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Should reign among professors of one faith.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And surer bind this knot of amity,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|A man of great authority in France,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Proffers his only daughter to your grace
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And fitter is my study and my books
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Yet call the ambassador, and, as you please,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|So let them have their answers every one:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I shall be well content with any choice
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Tends to God's glory and my country's weal.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER in Cardinal's habit, a Legate and two Ambassadors
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|'If once he come to be a cardinal,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|My lords ambassadors, your several suits
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Have been consider'd and debated on.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And therefore are we certainly resolved
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Shall be transported presently to France.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And for the proffer of my lord your master,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|I have inform'd his highness so at large
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|As liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Her beauty and the value of her dower,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|He doth intend she shall be England's queen.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|In argument and proof of which contract,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And so, my lord protector, see them guarded
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And safely brought to Dover, where inshipp'd
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt all but CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER and Legate
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|CARDINAL
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Stay, my lord legate: you shall first receive
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|The sum of money which I promised
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Should be deliver'd to his holiness
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
Henry VI Part 1|Legate|I will attend upon your lordship's leisure.
Henry VI Part 1|Legate|CARDINAL
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|[Aside]  Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|That, neither in birth or for authority,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|The bishop will be overborne by thee:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Or sack this country with a mutiny.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|SCENE II. France. Plains in Anjou.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Enter CHARLES, BURGUNDY, ALENCON, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, REIGNIER, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|These news, my lord, may cheer our drooping spirits:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And turn again unto the warlike French.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And keep not back your powers in dalliance.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Peace be amongst them, if they turn to us,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Else, ruin combat with their palaces!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Enter Scout
Henry VI Part 1|Scout|Success unto our valiant general,
Henry VI Part 1|Scout|And happiness to his accomplices!
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.
Henry VI Part 1|Scout|The English army, that divided was
Henry VI Part 1|Scout|Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,
Henry VI Part 1|Scout|And means to give you battle presently.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|But we will presently provide for them.
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there:
Henry VI Part 1|BURGUNDY|Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Let Henry fret and all the world repine.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Then on, my lords, and France be fortunate!
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|SCENE III. Before Angiers.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Alarum. Excursions. Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Now help, ye charming spells and periapts,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And ye choice spirits that admonish me
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And give me signs of future accidents.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Thunder
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|You speedy helpers, that are substitutes
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Under the lordly monarch of the north,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Enter Fiends
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|This speedy and quick appearance argues proof
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Of your accustom'd diligence to me.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Out of the powerful regions under earth,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Help me this once, that France may get the field.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|They walk, and speak not
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|O, hold me not with silence over-long!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I'll lop a member off and give it you
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|In earnest of further benefit,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|So you do condescend to help me now.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|They hang their heads
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|No hope to have redress? My body shall
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|They shake their heads
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Then take my soul, my body, soul and all,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Before that England give the French the foil.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|They depart
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|See, they forsake me! Now the time is come
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And let her head fall into England's lap.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|My ancient incantations are too weak,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And hell too strong for me to buckle with:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Excursions. Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE fighting hand  to hand with YORK. JOAN LA PUCELLE is taken. The French fly.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Damsel of France, I think I have you fast:
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And try if they can gain your liberty.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|See, how the ugly wench doth bend her brows,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|As if with Circe she would change my shape!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|No shape but his can please your dainty eye.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|And may ye both be suddenly surprised
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|By bloody hands, in sleeping on your beds!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy tongue!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I prithee, give me leave to curse awhile.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the stake.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Alarum. Enter SUFFOLK with MARGARET in his hand
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Gazes on her
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly!
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|For I will touch thee but with reverent hands,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|I kiss these fingers for eternal peace,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And lay them gently on thy tender side.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Who art thou? say, that I may honour thee.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Be not offended, nature's miracle,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Yet, if this servile usage once offend.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|She is going
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|O, stay! I have no power to let her pass,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|My hand would free her, but my heart says no
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Twinkling another counterfeited beam,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Fie, de la Pole! disable not thyself,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Hast not a tongue? is she not here?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Say, Earl of Suffolk--if thy name be so--
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|What ransom must I pay before I pass?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|For I perceive I am thy prisoner.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Before thou make a trial of her love?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Why speak'st thou not? what ransom must I pay?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Wilt thou accept of ransom? yea, or no.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Fond man, remember that thou hast a wife,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|I were best to leave him, for he will not hear.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|There all is marr'd, there lies a cooling card.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|He talks at random, sure, the man is mad.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And yet a dispensation may be had.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|And yet I would that you would answer me.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|I'll win this Lady Margaret. For whom?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Why, for my king: tush, that's a wooden thing!
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|He talks of wood: it is some carpenter.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And peace established between these realms
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|But there remains a scruple in that too,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|For though her father be the King of Naples,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And our nobility will scorn the match.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Hear ye, captain, are you not at leisure?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Henry is youthful and will quickly yield.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|What though I be enthrall'd? he seems a knight,
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|And will not any way dishonour me.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French,
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|And then I need not crave his courtesy.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Sweet madam, give me a hearing in a cause--
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Tush, women have been captivate ere now.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Lady, wherefore talk you so?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|I cry you mercy, 'tis but Quid for Quo.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|To be a queen in bondage is more vile
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Than is a slave in base servility,
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|For princes should be free.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And so shall you,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|If happy England's royal king be free.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|To put a golden sceptre in thy hand
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And set a precious crown upon thy head,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|If thou wilt condescend to be my--
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|What?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|His love.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|No, gentle madam, I unworthy am
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|To woo so fair a dame to be his wife,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And have no portion in the choice myself.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|How say you, madam, are ye so content?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|An if my father please, I am content.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Then call our captains and our colours forth.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And, madam, at your father's castle walls
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|We'll crave a parley, to confer with him.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|A parley sounded. Enter REIGNIER on the walls
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|See, Reignier, see, thy daughter prisoner!
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|To whom?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|To me.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Suffolk, what remedy?
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.
Henry VI Part 1|SU FFOLK|Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord:
Henry VI Part 1|SU FFOLK|Consent, and for thy honour give consent,
Henry VI Part 1|SU FFOLK|Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king,
Henry VI Part 1|SU FFOLK|Whom I with pain have woo'd and won thereto,
Henry VI Part 1|SU FFOLK|And this her easy-held imprisonment
Henry VI Part 1|SU FFOLK|Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Fair Margaret knows
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Upon thy princely warrant, I descend
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|To give thee answer of thy just demand.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Exit from the walls
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And here I will expect thy coming.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Trumpets sound. Enter REIGNIER, below
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Welcome, brave earl, into our territories:
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a child,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Fit to be made companion with a king:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|What answer makes your grace unto my suit?
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|To be the princely bride of such a lord,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Upon condition I may quietly
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Enjoy mine own, the country Maine and Anjou,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Free from oppression or the stroke of war,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|That is her ransom, I deliver her,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And those two counties I will undertake
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|And I again, in Henry's royal name,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|As deputy unto that gracious king,
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|Give thee her hand, for sign of plighted faith.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Because this is in traffic of a king.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Aside
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And yet, methinks, I could be well content
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|To be mine own attorney in this case.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|I'll over then to England with this news,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And make this marriage to be solemnized.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|So farewell, Reignier: set this diamond safe
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|In golden palaces, as it becomes.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|I do embrace thee, as I would embrace
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|The Christian prince, King Henry, were he here.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Farewell, my lord: good wishes, praise and prayers
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Going
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Farewell, sweet madam: but hark you, Margaret,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|No princely commendations to my king?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Such commendations as becomes a maid,
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|A virgin and his servant, say to him.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Words sweetly placed and modestly directed.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|But madam, I must trouble you again,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|No loving token to his majesty?
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Yes, my good lord, a pure unspotted heart,
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Never yet taint with love, I send the king.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And this withal.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Kisses her
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|That for thyself: I will not so presume
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|To send such peevish tokens to a king.
Henry VI Part 1|MARGARET|Exeunt REIGNIER and MARGARET
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|O, wert thou for myself! But, Suffolk, stay,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And natural graces that extinguish art,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|That, when thou comest to kneel at Henry's feet,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|SCENE IV. Camp of the YORK in Anjou.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Enter YORK, WARWICK, and others
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Bring forth that sorceress condemn'd to burn.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE, guarded, and a Shepherd
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart outright!
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Have I sought every country far and near,
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|And, now it is my chance to find thee out,
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Ah, Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I am descended of a gentler blood:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Out, out! My lords, an please you, 'tis not so,
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|I did beget her, all the parish knows:
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Her mother liveth yet, can testify
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|She was the first fruit of my bachelorship.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Graceless! wilt thou deny thy parentage?
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|This argues what her kind of life hath been,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Wicked and vile, and so her death concludes.
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle!
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|God knows thou art a collop of my flesh,
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|And for thy sake have I shed many a tear:
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn'd this man,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|'Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|The morn that I was wedded to her mother.
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl.
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Of thy nativity! I would the milk
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast,
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee!
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|O, burn her, burn her! hanging is too good.
Henry VI Part 1|Shepherd|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Take her away, for she hath lived too long,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|To fill the world with vicious qualities.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Not me begotten of a shepherd swain,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But issued from the progeny of kings,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Virtuous and holy, chosen from above,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|By inspiration of celestial grace,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To work exceeding miracles on earth.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I never had to do with wicked spirits:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But you, that are polluted with your lusts,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Because you want the grace that others have,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|You judge it straight a thing impossible
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|To compass wonders but by help of devils.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|No, misconceived! Joan of Arc hath been
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|A virgin from her tender infancy,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Chaste and immaculate in very thought,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effused,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Ay, ay: away with her to execution!
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|And hark ye, sirs, because she is a maid,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Spare for no faggots, let there be enow:
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|That so her torture may be shortened.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|That warranteth by law to be thy privilege.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|I am with child, ye bloody homicides:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Murder not then the fruit within my womb,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Although ye hale me to a violent death.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Now heaven forfend! the holy maid with child!
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|The greatest miracle that e'er ye wrought:
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Is all your strict preciseness come to this?
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|She and the Dauphin have been juggling:
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|I did imagine what would be her refuge.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Well, go to, we'll have no bastards live,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Especially since Charles must father it.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|You are deceived, my child is none of his:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|It was Alencon that enjoy'd my love.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Alencon! that notorious Machiavel!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|It dies, an if it had a thousand lives.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|O, give me leave, I have deluded you:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|'Twas neither Charles nor yet the duke I named,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But Reignier, king of Naples, that prevail'd.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|A married man! that's most intolerable.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Why, here's a girl! I think she knows not well,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|There were so many, whom she may accuse.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|It's sign she hath been liberal and free.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee:
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Then lead me hence, with whom I leave my curse:
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|May never glorious sun reflex his beams
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Upon the country where you make abode,
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Environ you, till mischief and despair
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!
Henry VI Part 1|JOAN LA PUCELLE|Exit, guarded
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Thou foul accursed minister of hell!
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER, attended
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|CARDINAL
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Lord regent, I do greet your excellence
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|With letters of commission from the king.
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Have earnestly implored a general peace
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And here at hand the Dauphin and his train
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Approacheth, to confer about some matter.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Is all our travail turn'd to this effect?
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|After the slaughter of so many peers,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|So many captains, gentlemen and soldiers,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|That in this quarrel have been overthrown
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Have we not lost most part of all the towns,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|By treason, falsehood and by treachery,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Our great progenitors had conquered?
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|O Warwick, Warwick! I foresee with grief
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|The utter loss of all the realm of France.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Be patient, York: if we conclude a peace,
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, REIGNIER, and others
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|That peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in France,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|We come to be informed by yourselves
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|What the conditions of that league must be.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Speak, Winchester, for boiling choler chokes
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|The hollow passage of my poison'd voice,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|By sight of these our baleful enemies.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|CARDINAL
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Charles, and the rest, it is enacted thus:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|That, in regard King Henry gives consent,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Of mere compassion and of lenity,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|To ease your country of distressful war,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|You shall become true liegemen to his crown:
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|To pay him tribute, submit thyself,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,
Henry VI Part 1|OF WINCHESTER|And still enjoy thy regal dignity.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Must he be then as shadow of himself?
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Adorn his temples with a coronet,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And yet, in substance and authority,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Retain but privilege of a private man?
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|'Tis known already that I am possess'd
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|With more than half the Gallian territories,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|And therein reverenced for their lawful king:
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Detract so much from that prerogative,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|As to be call'd but viceroy of the whole?
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|That which I have than, coveting for more,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Be cast from possibility of all.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Insulting Charles! hast thou by secret means
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Used intercession to obtain a league,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And, now the matter grows to compromise,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Either accept the title thou usurp'st,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Of benefit proceeding from our king
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|And not of any challenge of desert,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|My lord, you do not well in obstinacy
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|To cavil in the course of this contract:
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|If once it be neglected, ten to one
Henry VI Part 1|REIGNIER|We shall not find like opportunity.
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|To say the truth, it is your policy
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|To save your subjects from such massacre
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|By our proceeding in hostility,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|And therefore take this compact of a truce,
Henry VI Part 1|ALENCON|Although you break it when your pleasure serves.
Henry VI Part 1|WARWICK|How say'st thou, Charles? shall our condition stand?
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|It shall,
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|Only reserved, you claim no interest
Henry VI Part 1|CHARLES|In any of our towns of garrison.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Then swear allegiance to his majesty,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|As thou art knight, never to disobey
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Thou, nor thy nobles, to the crown of England.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|So, now dismiss your army when ye please:
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Hang up your ensign, let your drums be still,
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|For here we entertain a solemn peace.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|SCENE V. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 1|YORK|Enter SUFFOLK in conference with KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER and EXETER
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Your wondrous rare description, noble earl,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Of beauteous Margaret hath astonish'd me:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Her virtues graced with external gifts
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Do breed love's settled passions in my heart:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And like as rigor of tempestuous gusts
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|So am I driven by breath of her renown
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Where I may have fruition of her love.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Is but a preface of her worthy praise,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|The chief perfections of that lovely dame
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Had I sufficient skill to utter them,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Would make a volume of enticing lines,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Able to ravish any dull conceit:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And, which is more, she is not so divine,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|So full-replete with choice of all delights,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|But with as humble lowliness of mind
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|She is content to be at your command,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|To love and honour Henry as her lord.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Therefore, my lord protector, give consent
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That Margaret may be England's royal queen.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|So should I give consent to flatter sin.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|You know, my lord, your highness is betroth'd
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Unto another lady of esteem:
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|How shall we then dispense with that contract,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And not deface your honour with reproach?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Or one that, at a triumph having vow'd
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|By reason of his adversary's odds:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And therefore may be broke without offence.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Her father is no better than an earl,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Although in glorious titles he excel.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Yes, lord, her father is a king,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|The King of Naples and Jerusalem,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And of such great authority in France
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|As his alliance will confirm our peace
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,
Henry VI Part 1|EXETER|Where Reignier sooner will receive than give.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|That he should be so abject, base and poor,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Henry is able to enrich his queen
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And not seek a queen to make him rich:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Marriage is a matter of more worth
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Than to be dealt in by attorneyship,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Not whom we will, but whom his grace affects,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Must be companion of his nuptial bed:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|It most of all these reasons bindeth us,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|In our opinions she should be preferr'd.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|An age of discord and continual strife?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|And is a pattern of celestial peace.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Approves her fit for none but for a king:
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|More than in women commonly is seen,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Will answer our hope in issue of a king,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|For Henry, son unto a conqueror,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Is likely to beget more conquerors,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|If with a lady of so high resolve
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Then yield, my lords, and here conclude with me
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Whether it be through force of your report,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|My tender youth was never yet attaint
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|With any passion of inflaming love,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I cannot tell, but this I am assured,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|As I am sick with working of my thoughts.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Take, therefore, shipping, post, my lord, to France,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Agree to any covenants, and procure
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|To cross the seas to England and be crown'd
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|For your expenses and sufficient charge,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Among the people gather up a tenth.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Be gone, I say, for, till you do return,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And you, good uncle, banish all offence:
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|If you do censure me by what you were,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Not what you are, I know it will excuse
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|This sudden execution of my will.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|And so, conduct me where, from company,
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|I may revolve and ruminate my grief.
Henry VI Part 1|KING HENRY VI|Exit
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.
Henry VI Part 1|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EXETER
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd, and thus he goes,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|With hope to find the like event in love,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|But prosper better than the Trojan did.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king,
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|But I will rule both her, the king and realm.
Henry VI Part 1|SUFFOLK|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|ACT I
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|SCENE I. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter KING  HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and  CARDINAL, on the one side, QUEEN MARGARET, SUFFOLK, YORK, SOMERSET, and BUCKINGHAM, on the other
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As by your high imperial majesty
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I had in charge at my depart for France,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As procurator to your excellence,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I have perform'd my task and was espoused:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And humbly now upon my bended knee,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|In sight of England and her lordly peers,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Deliver up my title in the queen
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To your most gracious hands, that are the substance
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Of that great shadow I did represent,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The fairest queen that ever king received.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Suffolk, arise. Welcome, Queen Margaret:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I can express no kinder sign of love
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Than this kind kiss. O Lord, that lends me life,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Great King of England and my gracious lord,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The mutual conference that my mind hath had,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|In courtly company or at my beads,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|With you, mine alder-liefest sovereign,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Makes me the bolder to salute my king
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|With ruder terms, such as my wit affords
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And over-joy of heart doth minister.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Her sight did ravish, but her grace in speech,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Such is the fulness of my heart's content.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|[Kneeling]  Long live Queen Margaret, England's
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|happiness!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|We thank you all.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Flourish
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|My lord protector, so it please your grace,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Here are the articles of contracted peace
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Between our sovereign and the French king Charles,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|For eighteen months concluded by consent.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|[Reads]  'Imprimis, it is agreed between the French
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|king Charles, and William de la Pole, Marquess of
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Suffolk, ambassador for Henry King of England, that
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia and
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|and delivered to the king her father'--
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Lets the paper fall
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Uncle, how now!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Pardon me, gracious lord,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|[Reads]  'Item, It is further agreed between them,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|that the duchies of Anjou and Maine shall be
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|released and delivered over to the king her father,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|and she sent over of the King of England's own
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|proper cost and charges, without having any dowry.'
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|They please us well. Lord marquess, kneel down:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|We here discharge your grace from being regent
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I' the parts of France, till term of eighteen months
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Salisbury, and Warwick,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|We thank you all for the great favour done,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|In entertainment to my princely queen.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Come, let us in, and with all speed provide
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To see her coronation be perform'd.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and SUFFOLK
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Your grief, the common grief of all the land.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|What! did my brother Henry spend his youth,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|His valour, coin and people, in the wars?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Did he so often lodge in open field,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To conquer France, his true inheritance?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And did my brother Bedford toil his wits,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To keep by policy what Henry got?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Received deep scars in France and Normandy?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|With all the learned council of the realm,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Studied so long, sat in the council-house
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Early and late, debating to and fro
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And had his highness in his infancy
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And shall these labours and these honours die?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Your deeds of war and all our counsel die?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|O peers of England, shameful is this league!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Blotting your names from books of memory,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Razing the characters of your renown,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Defacing monuments of conquer'd France,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Undoing all, as all had never been!
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|This peroration with such circumstance?
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|For France, 'tis ours, and we will keep it still.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we can,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But now it is impossible we should:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Now, by the death of Him that died for all,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|These counties were the keys of Normandy.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|For grief that they are past recovery:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|For, were there hope to conquer them again,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And are the cities, that I got with wounds,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Delivered up again with peaceful words?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Mort Dieu!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That dims the honour of this warlike isle!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|France should have torn and rent my very heart,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Before I would have yielded to this league.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I never read but England's kings have had
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And our King Henry gives away his own,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To match with her that brings no vantages.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|A proper jest, and never heard before,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|For costs and charges in transporting her!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|She should have stayed in France and starved
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|in France, Before--
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|My Lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|It was the pleasure of my lord the King.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Rancour will out: proud prelate, in thy face
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I see thy fury: if I longer stay,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|We shall begin our ancient bickerings.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Lordings, farewell, and say, when I am gone,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I prophesied France will be lost ere long.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|So, there goes our protector in a rage.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|'Tis known to you he is mine enemy,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Nay, more, an enemy unto you all,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And no great friend, I fear me, to the king.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Consider, lords, he is the next of blood,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And heir apparent to the English crown:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Had Henry got an empire by his marriage,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|There's reason he should be displeased at it.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Look to it, lords! let not his smoothing words
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Bewitch your hearts, be wise and circumspect.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|What though the common people favour him,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Calling him 'Humphrey, the good Duke of
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Gloucester,'
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|'Jesu maintain your royal excellence!'
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|With 'God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!'
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|He will be found a dangerous protector.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Why should he, then, protect our sovereign,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|He being of age to govern of himself?
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|And all together, with the Duke of Suffolk,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|We'll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|This weighty business will not brook delay:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|I'll to the Duke of Suffolk presently.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey's pride
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|And greatness of his place be grief to us,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal:
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|His insolence is more intolerable
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Than all the princes in the land beside:
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|If Gloucester be displaced, he'll be protector.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Or thou or I, Somerset, will be protector,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Despite Duke Humphrey or the cardinal.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and SOMERSET
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Pride went before, ambition follows him.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|While these do labour for their own preferment,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Behoves it us to labour for the realm.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|I never saw but Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Did bear him like a noble gentleman.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|More like a soldier than a man o' the church,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|As stout and proud as he were lord of all,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Swear like a ruffian and demean himself
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Unlike the ruler of a commonweal.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Thy deeds, thy plainness and thy housekeeping,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Hath won the greatest favour of the commons,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey:
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|In bringing them to civil discipline,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Thy late exploits done in the heart of France,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|When thou wert regent for our sovereign,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Have made thee fear'd and honour'd of the people:
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Join we together, for the public good,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|In what we can, to bridle and suppress
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey's deeds,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|While they do tend the profit of the land.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|So God help Warwick, as he loves the land,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And common profit of his country!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|[Aside]  And so says York, for he hath greatest cause.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Then let's make haste away, and look unto the main.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That Maine which by main force Warwick did win,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And would have kept so long as breath did last!
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Main chance, father, you meant, but I meant Maine,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Which I will win from France, or else be slain,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Exeunt WARWICK and SALISBURY
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Anjou and Maine are given to the French,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Paris is lost, the state of Normandy
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Stands on a tickle point, now they are gone:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Suffolk concluded on the articles,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I cannot blame them all: what is't to them?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Tis thine they give away, and not their own.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And purchase friends and give to courtezans,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Still revelling like lords till all be gone,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|While as the silly owner of the goods
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Weeps over them and wrings his hapless hands
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And shakes his head and trembling stands aloof,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|While all is shared and all is borne away,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Ready to starve and dare not touch his own:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|While his own lands are bargain'd for and sold.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Methinks the realms of England, France and Ireland
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Unto the prince's heart of Calydon.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Anjou and Maine both given unto the French!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Cold news for me, for I had hope of France,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Even as I have of fertile England's soil.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|A day will come when York shall claim his own,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And therefore I will take the Nevils' parts
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For that's the golden mark I seek to hit:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Nor wear the diadem upon his head,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Then, York, be still awhile, till time do serve:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Watch thou and wake when others be asleep,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To pry into the secrets of the state,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And in my standard bear the arms of York
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To grapple with the house of Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|SCENE II. GLOUCESTER'S house.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter GLOUCESTER and his DUCHESS
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Why droops my lord, like over-ripen'd corn,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|As frowning at the favours of the world?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|What seest thou there? King Henry's diadem,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Enchased with all the honours of the world?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Until thy head be circled with the same.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And, having both together heaved it up,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|We'll both together lift our heads to heaven,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And never more abase our sight so low
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And may that thought, when I imagine ill
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Against my king and nephew, virtuous Henry,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Be my last breathing in this mortal world!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My troublous dream this night doth make me sad.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|What dream'd my lord? tell me, and I'll requite it
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Was broke in twain, by whom I have forgot,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But, as I think, it was by the cardinal,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And on the pieces of the broken wand
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Were placed the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|This was my dream: what it doth bode, God knows.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Tut, this was nothing but an argument
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Shall lose his head for his presumption.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|But list to me, my Humphrey, my sweet duke:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Methought I sat in seat of majesty
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|In the cathedral church of Westminster,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And in that chair where kings and queens are crown'd,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Where Henry and dame Margaret kneel'd to me
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And on my head did set the diadem.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtured Eleanor,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Art thou not second woman in the realm,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And the protector's wife, beloved of him?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Above the reach or compass of thy thought?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To tumble down thy husband and thyself
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|From top of honour to disgrace's feet?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Away from me, and let me hear no more!
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|What, what, my lord! are you so choleric
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|With Eleanor, for telling but her dream?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Next time I'll keep my dreams unto myself,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And not be cheque'd.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Nay, be not angry, I am pleased again.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Enter Messenger
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|My lord protector, 'tis his highness' pleasure
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|You do prepare to ride unto Saint Alban's,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Where as the king and queen do mean to hawk.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Yes, my good lord, I'll follow presently.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Messenger
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Follow I must, I cannot go before,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And smooth my way upon their headless necks,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And, being a woman, I will not be slack
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|To play my part in Fortune's pageant.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Where are you there? Sir John! nay, fear not, man,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|We are alone, here's none but thee and I.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Enter HUME
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Jesus preserve your royal majesty!
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|What say'st thou? majesty! I am but grace.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|But, by the grace of God, and Hume's advice,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Your grace's title shall be multiplied.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|What say'st thou, man? hast thou as yet conferr'd
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|With Roger Bolingbroke, the conjurer?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And will they undertake to do me good?
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|This they have promised, to show your highness
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|A spirit raised from depth of under-ground,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|That shall make answer to such questions
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|As by your grace shall be propounded him.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|It is enough, I'll think upon the questions:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|When from St. Alban's we do make return,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|We'll see these things effected to the full.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Here, Hume, take this reward, make merry, man,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|With thy confederates in this weighty cause.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|The business asketh silent secrecy.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Yet have I gold flies from another coast,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|I dare not say, from the rich cardinal
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Yet I do find it so, for to be plain,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Have hired me to undermine the duchess
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|And buz these conjurations in her brain.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker,'
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Well, so it stands, and thus, I fear, at last
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|SCENE III. The palace.
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Enter three or four Petitioners, PETER, the Armourer's man, being one
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|our supplications in the quill.
Henry VI Part 2|Second Petitioner|Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man!
Henry VI Part 2|Second Petitioner|Jesu bless him!
Henry VI Part 2|Second Petitioner|Enter SUFFOLK and QUEEN MARGARET
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Here a' comes, methinks, and the queen with him.
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|I'll be the first, sure.
Henry VI Part 2|Second Petitioner|Come back, fool, this is the Duke of Suffolk, and
Henry VI Part 2|Second Petitioner|not my lord protector.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|How now, fellow! would'st anything with me?
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|I pray, my lord, pardon me, I took ye for my lord
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|protector.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|[Reading]  'To my Lord Protector!' Are your
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|supplications to his lordship? Let me see them:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|what is thine?
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|Mine is, an't please your grace, against John
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|Goodman, my lord cardinal's man, for keeping my
Henry VI Part 2|First Petitioner|house, and lands, and wife and all, from me.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thy wife, too! that's some wrong, indeed. What's
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|yours? What's here!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Reads
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|'Against the Duke of Suffolk, for enclosing the
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|commons of Melford.' How now, sir knave!
Henry VI Part 2|Second Petitioner|Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|[Giving his petition]  Against my master, Thomas
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|heir to the crown.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What sayst thou? did the Duke of York say he was
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|rightful heir to the crown?
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|That my master was? no, forsooth: my master said
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|that he was, and that the king was an usurper.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Who is there?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Enter Servant
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Take this fellow in, and send for
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|his master with a pursuivant presently: we'll hear
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|more of your matter before the King.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Exit Servant with PETER
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And as for you, that love to be protected
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Under the wings of our protector's grace,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Begin your suits anew, and sue to him.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Tears the supplication
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|Come, let's be gone.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|My Lord of Suffolk, say, is this the guise,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Is this the fashion in the court of England?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Is this the government of Britain's isle,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And this the royalty of Albion's king?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What shall King Henry be a pupil still
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Under the surly Gloucester's governance?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Am I a queen in title and in style,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And must be made a subject to a duke?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And stolest away the ladies' hearts of France,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I thought King Henry had resembled thee
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|In courage, courtship and proportion:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But all his mind is bent to holiness,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To number Ave-Maries on his beads,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|His champions are the prophets and apostles,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Are brazen images of canonized saints.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I would the college of the cardinals
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Would choose him pope, and carry him to Rome,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And set the triple crown upon his head:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That were a state fit for his holiness.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Madam, be patient: as I was cause
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Your highness came to England, so will I
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|In England work your grace's full content.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Beside the haughty protector, have we Beaufort,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And grumbling York: and not the least of these
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But can do more in England than the king.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And he of these that can do most of all
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Cannot do more in England than the Nevils:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Not all these lords do vex me half so much
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|More like an empress than Duke Humphrey's wife:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Strangers in court do take her for the queen:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And in her heart she scorns our poverty:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Shall I not live to be avenged on her?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Contemptuous base-born callet as she is,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|She vaunted 'mongst her minions t'other day,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The very train of her worst wearing gown
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Was better worth than all my father's lands,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Madam, myself have limed a bush for her,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And placed a quire of such enticing birds,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That she will light to listen to the lays,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And never mount to trouble you again.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|So, let her rest: and, madam, list to me,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|For I am bold to counsel you in this.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Although we fancy not the cardinal,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Yet must we join with him and with the lords,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As for the Duke of York, this late complaint
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Will make but little for his benefit.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|So, one by one, we'll weed them all at last,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And you yourself shall steer the happy helm.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER,  CARDINAL, BUCKINGHAM, YORK, SOMERSET, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and the DUCHESS
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For my part, noble lords, I care not which,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Or Somerset or York, all's one to me.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|If York have ill demean'd himself in France,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Then let him be denay'd the regentship.
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|If Somerset be unworthy of the place,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Let York be regent, I will yield to him.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Whether your grace be worthy, yea or no,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Dispute not that: York is the worthier.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|The cardinal's not my better in the field.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|All in this presence are thy betters, Warwick.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Warwick may live to be the best of all.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Peace, son! and show some reason, Buckingham,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Why Somerset should be preferred in this.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Because the king, forsooth, will have it so.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Madam, the king is old enough himself
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To give his censure: these are no women's matters.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|If he be old enough, what needs your grace
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To be protector of his excellence?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Madam, I am protector of the realm,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And, at his pleasure, will resign my place.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Resign it then and leave thine insolence.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Since thou wert king--as who is king but thou?--
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The commonwealth hath daily run to wreck,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The Dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And all the peers and nobles of the realm
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|The commons hast thou rack'd, the clergy's bags
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Are lank and lean with thy extortions.
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Have cost a mass of public treasury.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Thy cruelty in execution
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Upon offenders, hath exceeded law,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|And left thee to the mercy of the law.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|They sale of offices and towns in France,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|If they were known, as the suspect is great,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Would make thee quickly hop without thy head.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Exit GLOUCESTER. QUEEN MARGARET drops her fan
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Give me my fan: what, minion! can ye not?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|She gives the DUCHESS a box on the ear
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I cry you mercy, madam, was it you?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Was't I! yea, I it was, proud Frenchwoman:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Sweet aunt, be quiet, 'twas against her will.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Against her will! good king, look to't in time,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Though in this place most master wear no breeches,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Lord cardinal, I will follow Eleanor,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|And listen after Humphrey, how he proceeds:
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|She's tickled now, her fume needs no spurs,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|She'll gallop far enough to her destruction.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Re-enter GLOUCESTER
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Now, lords, my choler being over-blown
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|With walking once about the quadrangle,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I come to talk of commonwealth affairs.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As for your spiteful false objections,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Prove them, and I lie open to the law:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But God in mercy so deal with my soul,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As I in duty love my king and country!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But, to the matter that we have in hand:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To be your regent in the realm of France.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Before we make election, give me leave
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To show some reason, of no little force,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That York is most unmeet of any man.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I'll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|First, for I cannot flatter thee in pride,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Next, if I be appointed for the place,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|My Lord of Somerset will keep me here,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Without discharge, money, or furniture,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Till France be won into the Dauphin's hands:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Last time, I danced attendance on his will
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Till Paris was besieged, famish'd, and lost.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That can I witness, and a fouler fact
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Did never traitor in the land commit.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Peace, headstrong Warwick!
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Image of pride, why should I hold my peace?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Enter HORNER, the Armourer, and his man PETER, guarded
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Because here is a man accused of treason:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Doth any one accuse York for a traitor?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What mean'st thou, Suffolk, tell me, what are these?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Please it your majesty, this is the man
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That doth accuse his master of high treason:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|His words were these: that Richard, Duke of York,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Was rightful heir unto the English crown
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And that your majesty was a usurper.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Say, man, were these thy words?
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|An't shall please your majesty, I never said nor
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|thought any such matter: God is my witness, I am
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|falsely accused by the villain.
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak them to
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|me in the garret one night, as we were scouring my
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Lord of York's armour.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Base dunghill villain and mechanical,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I do beseech your royal majesty,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Let him have all the rigor of the law.
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|Alas, my lord, hang me, if ever I spake the words.
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|My accuser is my 'prentice, and when I did correct
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|knees he would be even with me: I have good
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|witness of this: therefore I beseech your majesty,
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|do not cast away an honest man for a villain's
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|accusation.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Uncle, what shall we say to this in law?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|This doom, my lord, if I may judge:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Let Somerset be regent over the French,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Because in York this breeds suspicion:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And let these have a day appointed them
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|For single combat in convenient place,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|For he hath witness of his servant's malice:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|I humbly thank your royal majesty.
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|And I accept the combat willingly.
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Alas, my lord, I cannot fight, for God's sake, pity
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|my case. The spite of man prevaileth against me. O
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Lord, have mercy upon me! I shall never be able to
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|fight a blow. O Lord, my heart!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Sirrah, or you must fight, or else be hang'd.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Away with them to prison, and the day of combat
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|shall be the last of the next month. Come,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Somerset, we'll see thee sent away.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Flourish. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|SCENE IV. GLOUCESTER's garden.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter MARGARET JOURDAIN, HUME, SOUTHWELL, and BOLINGBROKE
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Come, my masters, the duchess, I tell you, expects
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|performance of your promises.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Master Hume, we are therefore provided: will her
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms?
Henry VI Part 2|HUME|Ay, what else? fear you not her courage.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|I have heard her reported to be a woman of an
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|invincible spirit: but it shall be convenient,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Master Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|busy below, and so, I pray you, go, in God's name,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|and leave us.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Exit HUME
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Mother Jourdain, be you
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|prostrate and grovel on the earth, John Southwell,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|read you, and let us to our work.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Enter the DUCHESS aloft, HUME following
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Well said, my masters, and welcome all. To this
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|gear the sooner the better.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Patience, good lady, wizards know their times:
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|The time of night when Troy was set on fire,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|That time best fits the work we have in hand.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|We will make fast within a hallow'd verge.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Here they do the ceremonies belonging, and make the  circle, BOLINGBROKE or SOUTHWELL reads, Conjuro te, and c. It thunders and lightens terribly, then the Spirit riseth
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|Adsum.
Henry VI Part 2|MARGARET JOURDAIN|Asmath,
Henry VI Part 2|MARGARET JOURDAIN|By the eternal God, whose name and power
Henry VI Part 2|MARGARET JOURDAIN|Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask,
Henry VI Part 2|MARGARET JOURDAIN|For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|'First of the king: what shall of him become?'
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Reading out of a paper
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose,
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|But him outlive, and die a violent death.
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|As the Spirit speaks, SOUTHWELL writes the answer
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|'What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?'
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|By water shall he die, and take his end.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|'What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?'
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|Let him shun castles,
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|Than where castles mounted stand.
Henry VI Part 2|Spirit|Have done, for more I hardly can endure.
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Descend to darkness and the burning lake!
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|False fiend, avoid!
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Thunder and lightning. Exit Spirit
Henry VI Part 2|BOLINGBROKE|Enter YORK and BUCKINGHAM with their Guard and break in
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Lay hands upon these traitors and their trash.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Beldam, I think we watch'd you at an inch.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|What, madam, are you there? the king and commonweal
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|My lord protector will, I doubt it not,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Not half so bad as thine to England's king,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Injurious duke, that threatest where's no cause.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|True, madam, none at all: what call you this?
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Away with them! let them be clapp'd up close.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|And kept asunder. You, madam, shall with us.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Stafford, take her to thee.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt above DUCHESS and HUME, guarded
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|We'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|All, away!
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt guard with MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL,  and c
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Lord Buckingham, methinks, you watch'd her well:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Now, pray, my lord, let's see the devil's writ.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|What have we here?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Reads
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'The duke yet lives, that Henry shall depose,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|But him outlive, and die a violent death.'
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Why, this is just
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse.'
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Well, to the rest:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|By water shall he die, and take his end.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|What shall betide the Duke of Somerset?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Let him shun castles,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Than where castles mounted stand.'
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Come, come, my lords,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|These oracles are hardly attain'd,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And hardly understood.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban's,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|With him the husband of this lovely lady:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Thither go these news, as fast as horse can
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|carry them:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Your grace shall give me leave, my Lord of York,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|To be the post, in hope of his reward.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|At your pleasure, my good lord. Who's within
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|there, ho!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter a Servingman
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Invite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To sup with me to-morrow night. Away!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|ACT II
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|SCENE I. Saint Alban's.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, GLOUCESTER, CARDINAL, and SUFFOLK, with Falconers halloing
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I saw not better sport these seven years' day:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And what a pitch she flew above the rest!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To see how God in all his creatures works!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|No marvel, an it like your majesty,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|My lord protector's hawks do tower so well,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|They know their master loves to be aloft,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|I thought as much, he would be above the clouds.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ay, my lord cardinal? how think you by that?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The treasury of everlasting joy.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Thy heaven is on earth, thine eyes and thoughts
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Pernicious protector, dangerous peer,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|That smooth'st it so with king and commonweal!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|What, cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremptory?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Churchmen so hot? good uncle, hide such malice,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|With such holiness can you do it?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|No malice, sir, no more than well becomes
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|So good a quarrel and so bad a peer.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As who, my lord?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Why, as you, my lord,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|An't like your lordly lord-protectorship.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Why, Suffolk, England knows thine insolence.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And thy ambition, Gloucester.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I prithee, peace, good queen,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And whet not on these furious peers,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Let me be blessed for the peace I make,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Against this proud protector, with my sword!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CARDINAL]  Faith, holy uncle, would
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|'twere come to that!
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  Marry, when thou darest.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CARDINAL]  Make up no factious
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|numbers for the matter,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|In thine own person answer thy abuse.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  Ay, where thou darest
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|not peep: an if thou darest,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|This evening, on the east side of the grove.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|How now, my lords!
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Believe me, cousin Gloucester,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|We had had more sport.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Aside to GLOUCESTER
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Come with thy two-hand sword.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|True, uncle.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  Are ye advised? the
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|east side of the grove?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CARDINAL]  Cardinal, I am with you.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Why, how now, uncle Gloucester!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Talking of hawking, nothing else, my lord.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Aside to CARDINAL
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown for this,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Or all my fence shall fail.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  Medice, teipsum--
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Protector, see to't well, protect yourself.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The winds grow high, so do your stomachs, lords.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|How irksome is this music to my heart!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter a Townsman of Saint Alban's, crying 'A miracle!'
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|What means this noise?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?
Henry VI Part 2|Townsman|A miracle! a miracle!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Come to the king and tell him what miracle.
Henry VI Part 2|Townsman|Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine,
Henry VI Part 2|Townsman|Within this half-hour, hath received his sight,
Henry VI Part 2|Townsman|A man that ne'er saw in his life before.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Now, God be praised, that to believing souls
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter the Mayor of Saint Alban's and his  brethren, bearing SIMPCOX, between two in a chair, SIMPCOX's Wife following
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Here comes the townsmen on procession,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|To present your highness with the man.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Although by his sight his sin be multiplied.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Stand by, my masters: bring him near the king,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|His highness' pleasure is to talk with him.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That we for thee may glorify the Lord.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What, hast thou been long blind and now restored?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Born blind, an't please your grace.
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|Ay, indeed, was he.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|What woman is this?
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|His wife, an't like your worship.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Hadst thou been his mother, thou couldst have
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|better told.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Where wert thou born?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|At Berwick in the north, an't like your grace.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Poor soul, God's goodness hath been great to thee:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But still remember what the Lord hath done.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Tell me, good fellow, camest thou here by chance,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Or of devotion, to this holy shrine?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|God knows, of pure devotion, being call'd
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep,
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|By good Saint Alban, who said, 'Simpcox, come,
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee.'
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|Most true, forsooth, and many time and oft
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|Myself have heard a voice to call him so.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|What, art thou lame?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Ay, God Almighty help me!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|How camest thou so?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|A fall off of a tree.
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|A plum-tree, master.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|How long hast thou been blind?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Born so, master.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|What, and wouldst climb a tree?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|But that in all my life, when I was a youth.
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|Too true, and bought his climbing very dear.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Mass, thou lovedst plums well, that wouldst
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|venture so.
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Alas,  good master, my wife desired some damsons,
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|And made me climb, with danger of my life.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|A subtle knave! but yet it shall not serve.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Let me see thine eyes: wink now: now open them:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|In my opinion yet thou seest not well.
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Saint Alban.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Say'st thou me so? What colour is this cloak of?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Red, master, red as blood.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Why, that's well said. What colour is my gown of?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Black, forsooth: coal-black as jet.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Why, then, thou know'st what colour jet is of?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And yet, I think, jet did he never see.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But cloaks and gowns, before this day, a many.
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|Never, before this day, in all his life.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Tell me, sirrah, what's my name?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Alas, master, I know not.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|What's his name?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|I know not.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Nor his?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|No, indeed, master.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|What's thine own name?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Saunder Simpcox, an if it please you, master.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|mightest as well have known all our names as thus to
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|name the several colours we do wear. Sight may
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|distinguish of colours, but suddenly to nominate them
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|all, it is impossible. My lords, Saint Alban here
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|hath done a miracle, and would ye not think his
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|cunning to be great, that could restore this cripple
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|to his legs again?
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|O master, that you could!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My masters of Saint Alban's, have you not beadles in
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|your town, and things called whips?
Henry VI Part 2|Mayor|Yes, my lord, if it please your grace.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Then send for one presently.
Henry VI Part 2|Mayor|Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight.
Henry VI Part 2|Mayor|Exit an Attendant
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Now fetch me a stool hither by and by. Now, sirrah,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|if you mean to save yourself from whipping, leap me
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|over this stool and run away.
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Alas, master, I am not able to stand alone:
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|You go about to torture me in vain.
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Enter a Beadle with whips
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. Sirrah
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool.
Henry VI Part 2|Beadle|I will, my lord. Come on, sirrah, off with your
Henry VI Part 2|Beadle|doublet quickly.
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|Alas, master, what shall I do? I am not able to stand.
Henry VI Part 2|SIMPCOX|After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over the stool and runs away, and they follow and cry, 'A miracle!'
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O God, seest Thou this, and bearest so long?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|It made me laugh to see the villain run.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Follow the knave, and take this drab away.
Henry VI Part 2|Wife|Alas, sir, we did it for pure need.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Let them be whipped through every market-town, till
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|they come to Berwick, from whence they came.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt Wife, Beadle, Mayor,  and c
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Duke Humphrey has done a miracle to-day.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|True, made the lame to leap and fly away.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But you have done more miracles than I,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Enter BUCKINGHAM
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What tidings with our cousin Buckingham?
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Under the countenance and confederacy
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|The ringleader and head of all this rout,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Have practised dangerously against your state,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Dealing with witches and with conjurers:
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Whom we have apprehended in the fact,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Demanding of King Henry's life and death,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|And other of your highness' privy-council,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|As more at large your grace shall understand.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  And so, my lord protector,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|by this means
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Your lady is forthcoming yet at London.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|This news, I think, hath turn'd your weapon's edge,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And, vanquish'd as I am, I yield to thee,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Or to the meanest groom.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|How I have loved my king and commonweal:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And, for my wife, I know not how it stands,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Sorry I am to hear what I have heard:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Noble she is, but if she have forgot
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Honour and virtue and conversed with such
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As, like to pitch, defile nobility,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I banish her my bed and company
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And give her as a prey to law and shame,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|That hath dishonour'd Gloucester's honest name.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Well, for this night we will repose us here:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To-morrow toward London back again,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To look into this business thoroughly
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And call these foul offenders to their answers
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Flourish. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|SCENE II. London. YORK'S garden.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter YORK, SALISBURY, and WARWICK
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Now, my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Our simple supper ended, give me leave
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|In this close walk to satisfy myself,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|In craving your opinion of my title,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Which is infallible, to England's crown.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|My lord, I long to hear it at full.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Sweet York, begin: and if thy claim be good,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|The Nevils are thy subjects to command.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Then thus:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The second, William of Hatfield, and the third,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Lionel Duke of Clarence: next to whom
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|William of Windsor was the seventh and last.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Edward the Black Prince died before his father
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And left behind him Richard, his only son,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Who after Edward the Third's death reign'd as king,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And him to Pomfret, where, as all you know,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Harmless Richard was murder'd traitorously.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Father, the duke hath told the truth:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Which now they hold by force and not by right,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For Richard, the first son's heir, being dead,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The issue of the next son should have reign'd.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|But William of Hatfield died without an heir.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I claimed the crown, had issue, Philippe, a daughter,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Edmund had issue, Roger Earl of March,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Roger had issue, Edmund, Anne and Eleanor.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|As I have read, laid claim unto the crown,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And, but for Owen Glendower, had been king,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Who kept him in captivity till he died.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|But to the rest.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|His eldest sister, Anne,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|My mother, being heir unto the crown
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Married Richard Earl of Cambridge, who was son
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To Edmund Langley, Edward the Third's fifth son.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To Roger Earl of March, who was the son
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Philippe,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Sole daughter unto Lionel Duke of Clarence:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|So, if the issue of the elder son
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Succeed before the younger, I am king.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|What plain proceeding is more plain than this?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|The fourth son, York claims it from the third.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And in this private plot be we the first
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That shall salute our rightful sovereign
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|With honour of his birthright to the crown.
Henry VI Part 2|BOTH|Long live our sovereign Richard, England's king!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|We thank you, lords. But I am not your king
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Till I be crown'd and that my sword be stain'd
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And that's not suddenly to be perform'd,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|But with advice and silent secrecy.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Do you as I do in these dangerous days:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Wink at the Duke of Suffolk's insolence,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|At Beaufort's pride, at Somerset's ambition,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|At Buckingham and all the crew of them,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That virtuous prince, the good Duke Humphrey:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Tis that they seek, and they in seeking that
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Shall find their deaths, if York can prophesy.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|My lord, break we off, we know your mind at full.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Shall one day make the Duke of York a king.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And, Nevil, this I do assure myself:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The greatest man in England but the king.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|SCENE III. A hall of justice.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN  MARGARET, GLOUCESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, and SALISBURY,  the DUCHESS, MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, HUME, and BOLINGBROKE, under guard
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|In sight of God and us, your guilt is great:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Receive the sentence of the law for sins
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Such as by God's book are adjudged to death.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|You four, from hence to prison back again,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|From thence unto the place of execution:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And you three shall be strangled on the gallows.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|You, madam, for you are more nobly born,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Despoiled of your honour in your life,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Shall, after three days' open penance done,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Live in your country here in banishment,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|With Sir John Stanley, in the Isle of Man.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Welcome is banishment, welcome were my death.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Eleanor, the law, thou see'st, hath judged thee:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt DUCHESS and other prisoners, guarded
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Sorrow would solace and mine age would ease.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester: ere thou go,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Give up thy staff: Henry will to himself
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Protector be, and God shall be my hope,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Than when thou wert protector to thy King.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I see no reason why a king of years
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Should be to be protected like a child.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|God and King Henry govern England's realm.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Give up your staff, sir, and the king his realm.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My staff? here, noble Henry, is my staff:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As willingly do I the same resign
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As e'er thy father Henry made it mine,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And even as willingly at thy feet I leave it
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As others would ambitiously receive it.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Farewell, good king: when I am dead and gone,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|May honourable peace attend thy throne!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Why, now is Henry king, and Margaret queen,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That bears so shrewd a maim, two pulls at once,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|His lady banish'd, and a limb lopp'd off.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|This staff of honour raught, there let it stand
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Where it best fits to be, in Henry's hand.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Lords, let him go. Please it your majesty,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|This is the day appointed for the combat,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And ready are the appellant and defendant,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The armourer and his man, to enter the lists,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|So please your highness to behold the fight.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, good my lord, for purposely therefore
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O God's name, see the lists and all things fit:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Here let them end it, and God defend the right!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I never saw a fellow worse bested,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The servant of this armourer, my lords.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter at one door, HORNER, the Armourer, and his  Neighbours, drinking to him so much that he is drunk,  and he enters with a drum before him and his staff  with a sand-bag fastened to it, and at the other  door PETER, his man, with a drum and sand-bag, and 'Prentices drinking to him
Henry VI Part 2|First Neighbour|Here, neighbour Horner, I drink to you in a cup of
Henry VI Part 2|First Neighbour|sack: and fear not, neighbour, you shall do well enough.
Henry VI Part 2|Second Neighbour|And here, neighbour, here's a cup of charneco.
Henry VI Part 2|Third Neighbour|And here's a pot of good double beer, neighbour:
Henry VI Part 2|Third Neighbour|drink, and fear not your man.
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|Let it come, i' faith, and I'll pledge you all, and
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|a fig for Peter!
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|First 'Prentice	Here, Peter, I drink to thee: and be not afraid.
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|Second 'Prentice	Be merry, Peter, and fear not thy master: fight
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|for credit of the 'prentices.
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|I thank you all: drink, and pray for me, I pray
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|you, for I think I have taken my last draught in
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|this world. Here, Robin, an if I die, I give thee
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|my apron: and, Will, thou shalt have my hammer:
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|and here, Tom, take all the money that I have. O
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Lord bless me! I pray God! for I am never able to
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|deal with my master, he hath learnt me so much fence already.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Sirrah, what's thy name?
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Peter, forsooth.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Peter! what more?
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|Thump.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Thump! then see thou thump thy master well.
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man's
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|honest man: and touching the Duke of York, I will
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|king, nor the queen: and therefore, Peter, have at
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|thee with a downright blow!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Dispatch: this knave's tongue begins to double.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Sound, trumpets, alarum to the combatants!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Alarum. They fight, and PETER strikes him down
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason.
Henry VI Part 2|HORNER|Dies
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Take away his weapon. Fellow, thank God, and the
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|good wine in thy master's way.
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|O God, have I overcome mine enemy in this presence?
Henry VI Part 2|PETER|O Peter, thou hast prevailed in right!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Go, take hence that traitor from our sight,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For his death we do perceive his guilt:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And God in justice hath revealed to us
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Which he had thought to have murder'd wrongfully.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Come, fellow, follow us for thy reward.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Sound a flourish. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|SCENE IV. A street.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter GLOUCESTER and his Servingmen, in mourning cloaks
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And after summer evermore succeeds
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Sirs, what's o'clock?
Henry VI Part 2|Servants|Ten, my lord.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ten is the hour that was appointed me
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To watch the coming of my punish'd duchess:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Uneath may she endure the flinty streets,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|The abject people gazing on thy face,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|With envious looks, laughing at thy shame,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|That erst did follow thy proud chariot-wheels
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But, soft! I think she comes, and I'll prepare
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My tear-stain'd eyes to see her miseries.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Enter the DUCHESS in a white sheet, and a taper  burning in her hand, with STANLEY, the Sheriff, and Officers
Henry VI Part 2|Servant|So please your grace, we'll take her from the sheriff.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|No, stir not, for your lives, let her pass by.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Come you, my lord, to see my open shame?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze!
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|See how the giddy multitude do point,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And nod their heads, and throw their eyes on thee!
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Ah, Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And, in thy closet pent up, rue my shame,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Be patient, gentle Nell, forget this grief.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|For whilst I think I am thy married wife
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And thou a prince, protector of this land,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Methinks I should not thus be led along,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Mail'd up in shame, with papers on my back,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And followed with a rabble that rejoice
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And when I start, the envious people laugh
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And bid me be advised how I tread.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Trow'st thou that e'er I'll look upon the world,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|No, dark shall be my light and night my day,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Sometime I'll say, I am Duke Humphrey's wife,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And he a prince and ruler of the land:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Yet so he ruled and such a prince he was
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|As he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Was made a wonder and a pointing-stock
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|To every idle rascal follower.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Hang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|For Suffolk, he that can do all in all
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|With her that hateth thee and hates us all,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And, fly thou how thou canst, they'll tangle thee:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ah, Nell, forbear! thou aimest all awry,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I must offend before I be attainted,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And had I twenty times so many foes,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And each of them had twenty times their power,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|All these could not procure me any scathe,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|So long as I am loyal, true and crimeless.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Why, yet thy scandal were not wiped away
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But I in danger for the breach of law.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|These few days' wonder will be quickly worn.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Enter a Herald
Henry VI Part 2|Herald|I summon your grace to his majesty's parliament,
Henry VI Part 2|Herald|Holden at Bury the first of this next month.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And my consent ne'er ask'd herein before!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|This is close dealing. Well, I will be there.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Exit Herald
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My Nell, I take my leave: and, master sheriff,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Let not her penance exceed the king's commission.
Henry VI Part 2|Sheriff|An't please your grace, here my commission stays,
Henry VI Part 2|Sheriff|And Sir John Stanley is appointed now
Henry VI Part 2|Sheriff|To take her with him to the Isle of Man.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?
Henry VI Part 2|STANLEY|So am I given in charge, may't please your grace.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Entreat her not the worse in that I pray
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|You use her well: the world may laugh again,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And I may live to do you kindness if
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|You do it her: and so, Sir John, farewell!
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|What, gone, my lord, and bid me not farewell!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Witness my tears, I cannot stay to speak.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Servingmen
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Art thou gone too? all comfort go with thee!
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|For none abides with me: my joy is death,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Stanley, I prithee, go, and take me hence,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|I care not whither, for I beg no favour,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Only convey me where thou art commanded.
Henry VI Part 2|STANLEY|Why, madam, that is to the Isle of Man,
Henry VI Part 2|STANLEY|There to be used according to your state.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|That's bad enough, for I am but reproach:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And shall I then be used reproachfully?
Henry VI Part 2|STANLEY|Like to a duchess, and Duke Humphrey's lady,
Henry VI Part 2|STANLEY|According to that state you shall be used.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Sheriff, farewell, and better than I fare,
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.
Henry VI Part 2|Sheriff|It is my office, and, madam, pardon me.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Ay, ay, farewell, thy office is discharged.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Come, Stanley, shall we go?
Henry VI Part 2|STANLEY|Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet,
Henry VI Part 2|STANLEY|And go we to attire you for our journey.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|My shame will not be shifted with my sheet:
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|No, it will hang upon my richest robes
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|And show itself, attire me how I can.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Go, lead the way, I long to see my prison.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|ACT III
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|SCENE I. The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund's.
Henry VI Part 2|DUCHESS|Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN  MARGARET, CARDINAL, SUFFOLK, YORK, BUCKINGHAM, SALISBURY and WARWICK to the Parliament
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Can you not see? or will ye not observe
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The strangeness of his alter'd countenance?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|With what a majesty he bears himself,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|How insolent of late he is become,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|We know the time since he was mild and affable,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And if we did but glance a far-off look,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Immediately he was upon his knee,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That all the court admired him for submission:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But meet him now, and, be it in the morn,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|When every one will give the time of day,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Disdaining duty that to us belongs.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Small curs are not regarded when they grin,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But great men tremble when the lion roars,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And Humphrey is no little man in England.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|First note that he is near you in descent,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And should you fall, he as the next will mount.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Me seemeth then it is no policy,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And his advantage following your decease,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That he should come about your royal person
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Or be admitted to your highness' council.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|By flattery hath he won the commons' hearts,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And when he please to make commotion,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|'Tis to be fear'd they all will follow him.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The reverent care I bear unto my lord
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Made me collect these dangers in the duke.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|If it be fond, call it a woman's fear,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Which fear if better reasons can supplant,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I will subscribe and say I wrong'd the duke.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|My Lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Reprove my allegation, if you can,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Or else conclude my words effectual.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Well hath your highness seen into this duke,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And, had I first been put to speak my mind,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I think I should have told your grace's tale.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The duchess, by his subornation,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Upon my life, began her devilish practises:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Or, if he were not privy to those faults,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Yet, by reputing of his high descent,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As next the king he was successive heir,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And such high vaunts of his nobility,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick duchess
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And in his simple show he harbours treason.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Did he not, contrary to form of law,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Devise strange deaths for small offences done?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And did he not, in his protectorship,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Levy great sums of money through the realm
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|By means whereof the towns each day revolted.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Tut, these are petty faults to faults unknown.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Which time will bring to light in smooth
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Duke Humphrey.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|My lords, at once: the care you have of us,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Is worthy praise: but, shall I speak my conscience,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|From meaning treason to our royal person
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The duke is virtuous, mild and too well given
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To dream on evil or to work my downfall.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Ah, what's more dangerous than this fond affiance!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Seems he a dove? his feathers are but borrowed,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|For he's disposed as the hateful raven:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|For he's inclined as is the ravenous wolf.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Take heed, my lord, the welfare of us all
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Enter SOMERSET
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|All health unto my gracious sovereign!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Welcome, Lord Somerset. What news from France?
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|That all your interest in those territories
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Is utterly bereft you, all is lost.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Cold news, Lord Somerset: but God's will be done!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|[Aside]  Cold news for me, for I had hope of France
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|As firmly as I hope for fertile England.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And caterpillars eat my leaves away,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|But I will remedy this gear ere long,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Or sell my title for a glorious grave.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter GLOUCESTER
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|All happiness unto my lord the king!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Pardon, my liege, that I have stay'd so long.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Nay, Gloucester, know that thou art come too soon,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I do arrest thee of high treason here.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Well, Suffolk, thou shalt not see me blush
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Nor change my countenance for this arrest:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|The purest spring is not so free from mud
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|As I am clear from treason to my sovereign:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Who can accuse me? wherein am I guilty?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes of France,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And, being protector, stayed the soldiers' pay,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|By means whereof his highness hath lost France.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Is it but thought so? what are they that think it?
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I never robb'd the soldiers of their pay,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Nor ever had one penny bribe from France.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|So help me God, as I have watch'd the night,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ay, night by night, in studying good for England,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|That doit that e'er I wrested from the king,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Or any groat I hoarded to my use,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Be brought against me at my trial-day!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|No, many a pound of mine own proper store,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Because I would not tax the needy commons,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Have I disbursed to the garrisons,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And never ask'd for restitution.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|It serves you well, my lord, to say so much.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I say no more than truth, so help me God!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|In your protectorship you did devise
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That England was defamed by tyranny.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Why, 'tis well known that, whiles I was
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|protector,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Pity was all the fault that was in me,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|For I should melt at an offender's tears,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And lowly words were ransom for their fault.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Unless it were a bloody murderer,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I never gave them condign punishment:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Above the felon or what trespass else.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|My lord, these faults are easy, quickly answered:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I do arrest you in his highness' name,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And here commit you to my lord cardinal
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To keep, until your further time of trial.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|My lord of Gloucester, 'tis my special hope
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That you will clear yourself from all suspect:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|My conscience tells me you are innocent.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Virtue is choked with foul ambition
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And charity chased hence by rancour's hand,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Foul subornation is predominant
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And equity exiled your highness' land.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I know their complot is to have my life,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And if my death might make this island happy,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And prove the period of their tyranny,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I would expend it with all willingness:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|But mine is made the prologue to their play,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|For thousands more, that yet suspect no peril,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Will not conclude their plotted tragedy.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Sharp Buckingham unburthens with his tongue
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|The envious load that lies upon his heart,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|By false accuse doth level at my life:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Causeless have laid disgraces on my head,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And with your best endeavour have stirr'd up
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|My liefest liege to be mine enemy:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ay, all you have laid your heads together--
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Myself had notice of your conventicles--
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And all to make away my guiltless life.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|The ancient proverb will be well effected:
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|'A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.'
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|My liege, his railing is intolerable:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|If those that care to keep your royal person
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|From treason's secret knife and traitors' rage
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Be thus upbraided, chid and rated at,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And the offender granted scope of speech,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|'Twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As if she had suborned some to swear
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|False allegations to o'erthrow his state?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But I can give the loser leave to chide.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Far truer spoke than meant: I lose, indeed,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Beshrew the winners, for they play'd me false!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And well such losers may have leave to speak.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day:
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Lord cardinal, he is your prisoner.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Sirs, take away the duke, and guard him sure.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ah! thus King Henry throws away his crutch
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Before his legs be firm to bear his body.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Ah, that my fear were false! ah, that it were!
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear.
Henry VI Part 2|GLOUCESTER|Exit, guarded
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Do or undo, as if ourself were here.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What, will your highness leave the parliament?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Ay, Margaret, my heart is drown'd with grief,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|My body round engirt with misery,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For what's more miserable than discontent?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Ah, uncle Humphrey! in thy face I see
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The map of honour, truth and loyalty:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That e'er I proved thee false or fear'd thy faith.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What louring star now envies thy estate,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That these great lords and Margaret our queen
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And as the butcher takes away the calf
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Even so remorseless have they borne him hence,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And as the dam runs lowing up and down,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Looking the way her harmless young one went,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And can do nought but wail her darling's loss,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimm'd eyes
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Look after him and cannot do him good,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|So mighty are his vowed enemies.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|His fortunes I will weep, and, 'twixt each groan
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Say 'Who's a traitor? Gloucester he is none.'
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL, SUFFOLK, and YORK, SOMERSET remains apart
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Henry my lord is cold in great affairs,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Too full of foolish pity, and Gloucester's show
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|With sorrow snares relenting passengers,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Or as the snake roll'd in a flowering bank,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|With shining chequer'd slough, doth sting a child
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That for the beauty thinks it excellent.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Believe me, lords, were none more wise than I--
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And yet herein I judge mine own wit good--
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To rid us of the fear we have of him.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|That he should die is worthy policy,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|But yet we want a colour for his death:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|'Tis meet he be condemn'd by course of law.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But, in my mind, that were no policy:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The king will labour still to save his life,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The commons haply rise, to save his life,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And yet we have but trivial argument,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|More than mistrust, that shows him worthy death.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|So that, by this, you would not have him die.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Tis York that hath more reason for his death.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|But, my lord cardinal, and you, my Lord of Suffolk,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Say as you think, and speak it from your souls,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Were't not all one, an empty eagle were set
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|As place Duke Humphrey for the king's protector?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|So the poor chicken should be sure of death.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Madam, 'tis true, and were't not madness, then,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To make the fox surveyor of the fold?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Who being accused a crafty murderer,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|His guilt should be but idly posted over,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Because his purpose is not executed.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|No, let him die, in that he is a fox,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|By nature proved an enemy to the flock,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Before his chaps be stain'd with crimson blood,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As Humphrey, proved by reasons, to my liege.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And do not stand on quillets how to slay him:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|So he be dead, for that is good deceit
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Which mates him first that first intends deceit.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Thrice-noble Suffolk, 'tis resolutely spoke.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Not resolute, except so much were done,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|For things are often spoke and seldom meant:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Seeing the deed is meritorious,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And to preserve my sovereign from his foe,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Say but the word, and I will be his priest.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|But I would have him dead, my Lord of Suffolk,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Ere you can take due orders for a priest:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Say you consent and censure well the deed,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And I'll provide his executioner,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|I tender so the safety of my liege.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Here is my hand, the deed is worthy doing.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And so say I.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And I    and now we three have spoke it,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|It skills not greatly who impugns our doom.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter a Post
Henry VI Part 2|Post|Great lords, from Ireland am I come amain,
Henry VI Part 2|Post|To signify that rebels there are up
Henry VI Part 2|Post|And put the Englishmen unto the sword:
Henry VI Part 2|Post|Send succors, lords, and stop the rage betime,
Henry VI Part 2|Post|Before the wound do grow uncurable,
Henry VI Part 2|Post|For, being green, there is great hope of help.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|A breach that craves a quick expedient stop!
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|What counsel give you in this weighty cause?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That Somerset be sent as regent thither:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Tis meet that lucky ruler be employ'd,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Witness the fortune he hath had in France.
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|If York, with all his far-fet policy,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Had been the regent there instead of me,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|He never would have stay'd in France so long.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|No, not to lose it all, as thou hast done:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I rather would have lost my life betimes
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Than bring a burthen of dishonour home
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|By staying there so long till all were lost.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Show me one scar character'd on thy skin:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Nay, then, this spark will prove a raging fire,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|No more, good York, sweet Somerset, be still:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy fortune, York, hadst thou been regent there,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Might happily have proved far worse than his.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|What, worse than nought? nay, then, a shame take all!
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|And, in the number, thee that wishest shame!
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|My Lord of York, try what your fortune is.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And temper clay with blood of Englishmen:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|To Ireland will you lead a band of men,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Collected choicely, from each county some,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And try your hap against the Irishmen?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I will, my lord, so please his majesty.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Why, our authority is his consent,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And what we do establish he confirms:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I am content: provide me soldiers, lords,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|A charge, Lord York, that I will see perform'd.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|No more of him, for I will deal with him
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|That henceforth he shall trouble us no more.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|And so break off, the day is almost spent:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Lord Suffolk, you and I must talk of that event.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|My Lord of Suffolk, within fourteen days
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|At Bristol I expect my soldiers,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For there I'll ship them all for Ireland.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I'll see it truly done, my Lord of York.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Exeunt all but YORK
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And change misdoubt to resolution:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Be that thou hopest to be, or what thou art
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Resign to death, it is not worth the enjoying:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And find no harbour in a royal heart.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Faster than spring-time showers comes thought
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|on thought,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And not a thought but thinks on dignity.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|My brain more busy than the labouring spider
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Well, nobles, well, 'tis politicly done,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To send me packing with an host of men:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I fear me you but warm the starved snake,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Who, cherish'd in your breasts, will sting
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|your hearts.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|'Twas men I lack'd and you will give them me:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I take it kindly, and yet be well assured
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I will stir up in England some black storm
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Until the golden circuit on my head,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And, for a minister of my intent,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|John Cade of Ashford,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To make commotion, as full well he can,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Under the title of John Mortimer.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And fought so long, till that his thighs with darts
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And, in the end being rescued, I have seen
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Him caper upright like a wild Morisco,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty kern,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Hath he conversed with the enemy,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And undiscover'd come to me again
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And given me notice of their villanies.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|This devil here shall be my substitute,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For that John Mortimer, which now is dead,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|In face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|By this I shall perceive the commons' mind,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|How they affect the house and claim of York.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Say he be taken, rack'd and tortured,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I know no pain they can inflict upon him
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Will make him say I moved him to those arms.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Say that he thrive, as 'tis great like he will,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Why, then from Ireland come I with my strength
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And reap the harvest which that rascal sow'd,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For Humphrey being dead, as he shall be,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And Henry put apart, the next for me.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|SCENE II. Bury St. Edmund's. A room of state.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter certain Murderers, hastily
Henry VI Part 2|First Murderer|Run to my Lord of Suffolk, let him know
Henry VI Part 2|First Murderer|We have dispatch'd the duke, as he commanded.
Henry VI Part 2|Second Murderer|O that it were to do! What have we done?
Henry VI Part 2|Second Murderer|Didst ever hear a man so penitent?
Henry VI Part 2|Second Murderer|Enter SUFFOLK
Henry VI Part 2|First Murder|Here comes my lord.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Now, sirs, have you dispatch'd this thing?
Henry VI Part 2|First Murderer|Ay, my good lord, he's dead.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Why, that's well said. Go, get you to my house,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I will reward you for this venturous deed.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The king and all the peers are here at hand.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|According as I gave directions?
Henry VI Part 2|First Murderer|'Tis, my good lord.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Away! be gone.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Exeunt Murderers
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL, SOMERSET, with Attendants
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Go, call our uncle to our presence straight,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Say we intend to try his grace to-day.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|If he be guilty, as 'tis published.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I'll call him presently, my noble lord.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Lords, take your places, and, I pray you all,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Than from true evidence of good esteem
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|He be approved in practise culpable.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|God forbid any malice should prevail,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That faultless may condemn a nobleman!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I thank thee, Meg, these words content me much.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Re-enter SUFFOLK
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|How now! why look'st thou pale? why tremblest thou?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Where is our uncle? what's the matter, Suffolk?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Dead in his bed, my lord, Gloucester is dead.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Marry, God forfend!
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|God's secret judgment: I did dream to-night
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|The duke was dumb and could not speak a word.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|KING HENRY VI swoons
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|How fares my lord? Help, lords! the king is dead.
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Rear up his body, wring him by the nose.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Run, go, help, help! O Henry, ope thine eyes!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|He doth revive again: madam, be patient.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O heavenly God!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|How fares my gracious lord?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Came he right now to sing a raven's note,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|By crying comfort from a hollow breast,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Can chase away the first-conceived sound?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Lay not thy hands on me, forbear, I say,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Look not upon me, for thine eyes are wounding:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Yet do not go away: come, basilisk,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For in the shade of death I shall find joy,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|In life but double death, now Gloucester's dead.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolk thus?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Although the duke was enemy to him,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet he most Christian-like laments his death:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And for myself, foe as he was to me,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And all to have the noble duke alive.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What know I how the world may deem of me?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|For it is known we were but hollow friends:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|It may be judged I made the duke away,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And princes' courts be fill'd with my reproach.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|This get I by his death: ay me, unhappy!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To be a queen, and crown'd with infamy!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Ah, woe is me for Gloucester, wretched man!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Be woe for me, more wretched than he is.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What, dost thou turn away and hide thy face?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I am no loathsome leper, look on me.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What! art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Why, then, dame Margaret was ne'er thy joy.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Erect his statue and worship it,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And make my image but an alehouse sign.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Was I for this nigh wreck'd upon the sea
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And twice by awkward wind from England's bank
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Drove back again unto my native clime?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What boded this, but well forewarning wind
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Did seem to say 'Seek not a scorpion's nest,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Nor set no footing on this unkind shore'?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What did I then, but cursed the gentle gusts
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And he that loosed them forth their brazen caves:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And bid them blow towards England's blessed shore,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet AEolus would not be a murderer,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But left that hateful office unto thee:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown'd on shore,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The splitting rocks cower'd in the sinking sands
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And would not dash me with their ragged sides,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Might in thy palace perish Margaret.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I stood upon the hatches in the storm,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And when the dusky sky began to rob
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I took a costly jewel from my neck,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And threw it towards thy land: the sea received it,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And so I wish'd thy body might my heart:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And even with this I lost fair England's view
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And call'd them blind and dusky spectacles,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|For losing ken of Albion's wished coast.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|The agent of thy foul inconstancy,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|When he to madding Dido would unfold
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|His father's acts commenced in burning Troy!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Am I not witch'd like her? or thou not false like him?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay me, I can no more! die, Margaret!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Noise within. Enter WARWICK, SALISBURY, and many Commons
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|It is reported, mighty sovereign,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murder'd
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|The commons, like an angry hive of bees
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That want their leader, scatter up and down
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And care not who they sting in his revenge.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Until they hear the order of his death.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That he is dead, good Warwick, 'tis too true,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But how he died God knows, not Henry:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And comment then upon his sudden death.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That shall I do, my liege. Stay, Salisbury,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|With the rude multitude till I return.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|My thoughts, that labour to persuade my soul
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|If my suspect be false, forgive me, God,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For judgment only doth belong to thee.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Upon his face an ocean of salt tears,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But all in vain are these mean obsequies,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And to survey his dead and earthly image,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What were it but to make my sorrow greater?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Re-enter WARWICK and others, bearing GLOUCESTER'S body on a bed
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That is to see how deep my grave is made,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For with his soul fled all my worldly solace,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For seeing him I see my life in death.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|As surely as my soul intends to live
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|With that dread King that took our state upon him
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|To free us from his father's wrathful curse,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|I do believe that violent hands were laid
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|See how the blood is settled in his face.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale and bloodless,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Being all descended to the labouring heart,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|To blush and beautify the cheek again.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|But see, his face is black and full of blood,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|His eye-balls further out than when he lived,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Staring full ghastly like a strangled man,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretched with struggling,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Look, on the sheets his hair you see, is sticking,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|It cannot be but he was murder'd here,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|The least of all these signs were probable.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Why, Warwick, who should do the duke to death?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Myself and Beaufort had him in protection,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|But both of you were vow'd Duke Humphrey's foes,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And you, forsooth, had the good duke to keep:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And 'tis well seen he found an enemy.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|But may imagine how the bird was dead,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Even so suspicious is this tragedy.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Is Beaufort term'd a kite? Where are his talons?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That slanders me with murder's crimson badge.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Say, if thou darest, proud Lord of Warwick-shire,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Exeunt CARDINAL, SOMERSET, and others
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|What dares not Warwick, if false Suffolk dare him?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|He dares not calm his contumelious spirit
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Madam, be still, with reverence may I say,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|For every word you speak in his behalf
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Is slander to your royal dignity.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thy mother took into her blameful bed
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Was graft with crab-tree slip, whose fruit thou art,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And never of the Nevils' noble race.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And I should rob the deathsman of his fee,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And that my sovereign's presence makes me mild,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And say it was thy mother that thou meant'st
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That thou thyself was born in bastardy,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And after all this fearful homage done,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thou shall be waking well I shed thy blood,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|If from this presence thou darest go with me.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Away even now, or I will drag thee hence:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Unworthy though thou art, I'll cope with thee
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Exeunt SUFFOLK and WARWICK
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|A noise within
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What noise is this?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Re-enter SUFFOLK and WARWICK, with their weapons drawn
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Why, how now, lords! your wrathful weapons drawn
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Here in our presence! dare you be so bold?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Why, what tumultuous clamour have we here?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The traitorous Warwick with the men of Bury
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Set all upon me, mighty sovereign.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|[To the Commons, entering]  Sirs, stand apart,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|the king shall know your mind.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Dread lord, the commons send you word by me,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Unless Lord Suffolk straight be done to death,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Or banished fair England's territories,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|They will by violence tear him from your palace
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And torture him with grievous lingering death.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|They say, by him the good Duke Humphrey died,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|They say, in him they fear your highness' death,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And mere instinct of love and loyalty,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Free from a stubborn opposite intent,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|As being thought to contradict your liking,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Makes them thus forward in his banishment.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|They say, in care of your most royal person,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|That if your highness should intend to sleep
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And charge that no man should disturb your rest
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|In pain of your dislike or pain of death,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|That slily glided towards your majesty,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|It were but necessary you were waked,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Lest, being suffer'd in that harmful slumber,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And therefore do they cry, though you forbid,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|That they will guard you, whether you will or no,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|With whose envenomed and fatal sting,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Your loving uncle, twenty times his worth,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|They say, is shamefully bereft of life.
Henry VI Part 2|Commons|[Within]  An answer from the king, my
Henry VI Part 2|Commons|Lord of Salisbury!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|'Tis like the commons, rude unpolish'd hinds,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Could send such message to their sovereign:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But you, my lord, were glad to be employ'd,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To show how quaint an orator you are:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But all the honour Salisbury hath won
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Is, that he was the lord ambassador
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Sent from a sort of tinkers to the king.
Henry VI Part 2|Commons|[Within]  An answer from the king, or we will all break in!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I thank them for their tender loving care,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And had I not been cited so by them,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Yet did I purpose as they do entreat,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For, sure, my thoughts do hourly prophesy
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And therefore, by His majesty I swear,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Whose far unworthy deputy I am,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|He shall not breathe infection in this air
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But three days longer, on the pain of death.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Exit SALISBURY
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|O Henry, let me plead for gentle Suffolk!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Ungentle queen, to call him gentle Suffolk!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|No more, I say: if thou dost plead for him,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Had I but said, I would have kept my word,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But when I swear, it is irrevocable.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|If, after three days' space, thou here be'st found
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|On any ground that I am ruler of,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The world shall not be ransom for thy life.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Come, Warwick, come, good Warwick, go with me,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I have great matters to impart to thee.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET and SUFFOLK
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Mischance and sorrow go along with you!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Heart's discontent and sour affliction
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Be playfellows to keep you company!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|There's two of you, the devil make a third!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Cease, gentle queen, these execrations,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I would invent as bitter-searching terms,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|With full as many signs of deadly hate,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And even now my burthen'd heart would break,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Their softest touch as smart as lizards' sting!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And boding screech-owls make the concert full!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell--
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Enough, sweet Suffolk, thou torment'st thyself,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Or like an overcharged gun, recoil,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And turn the force of them upon thyself.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Well could I curse away a winter's night,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Though standing naked on a mountain top,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And think it but a minute spent in sport.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|O, let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That I may dew it with my mournful tears,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To wash away my woful monuments.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|As one that surfeits thinking on a want.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Adventure to be banished myself:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And banished I am, if but from thee.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Go, speak not to me, even now be gone.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Loather a hundred times to part than die.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet now farewell, and farewell life with thee!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Once by the king, and three times thrice by thee.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|A wilderness is populous enough,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|So Suffolk had thy heavenly company:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|For where thou art, there is the world itself,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|With every several pleasure in the world,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And where thou art not, desolation.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I can no more: live thou to joy thy life,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Myself no joy in nought but that thou livest.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Enter VAUX
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Wither goes Vaux so fast? what news, I prithee?
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|To signify unto his majesty
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death,
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|For suddenly a grievous sickness took him,
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|That makes him gasp and stare and catch the air,
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|Blaspheming God and cursing men on earth.
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|Sometimes he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|Were by his side, sometime he calls the king,
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|And whispers to his pillow, as to him,
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|The secrets of his overcharged soul,
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|And I am sent to tell his majesty
Henry VI Part 2|VAUX|That even now he cries aloud for him.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Go tell this heavy message to the king.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Exit VAUX
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay me! what is this world! what news are these!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And with the southern clouds contend in tears,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Now get thee hence: the king, thou know'st, is coming,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|If thou be found by me, thou art but dead.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|If I depart from thee, I cannot live,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And in thy sight to die, what were it else
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Here could I breathe my soul into the air,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Dying with mother's dug between its lips:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Where, from thy sight, I should be raging mad,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Or I should breathe it so into thy body,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And then it lived in sweet Elysium.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|To die by thee were but to die in jest,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|From thee to die were torture more than death:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|O, let me stay, befall what may befall!
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Away! though parting be a fretful corrosive,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|It is applied to a deathful wound.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To France, sweet Suffolk: let me hear from thee,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I go.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And take my heart with thee.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|A jewel, lock'd into the wofull'st cask
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That ever did contain a thing of worth.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|This way fall I to death.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|This way for me.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Exeunt severally
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|SCENE III. A bedchamber.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Enter the KING, SALISBURY, WARWICK, to the CARDINAL in bed
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|How fares my lord? speak, Beaufort, to
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|thy sovereign.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|If thou be'st death, I'll give thee England's treasure,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Enough to purchase such another island,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Bring me unto my trial when you will.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Died he not in his bed? where should he die?
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Can I make men live, whether they will or no?
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|O, torture me no more! I will confess.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Alive again? then show me where he is:
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Comb down his hair, look, look! it stands upright,
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul.
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Give me some drink, and bid the apothecary
Henry VI Part 2|CARDINAL|Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O thou eternal Mover of the heavens.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O, beat away the busy meddling fiend
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And from his bosom purge this black despair!
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Disturb him not, let him pass peaceably.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|He dies, and makes no sign. O God, forgive him!
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And let us all to meditation.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|ACT IV
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|SCENE I. The coast of Kent.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Alarum. Fight at sea. Ordnance goes off. Enter a  Captain, a Master, a Master's-mate, WALTER WHITMORE, and others, with them SUFFOLK, and others, prisoners
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Is crept into the bosom of the sea,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|That drag the tragic melancholy night,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Who, with their drowsy, slow and flagging wings,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|For, whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Here shall they make their ransom on the sand,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Or with their blood stain this discolour'd shore.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Master, this prisoner freely give I thee,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And thou that art his mate, make boot of this,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|The other, Walter Whitmore, is thy share.
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|What is my ransom, master? let me know.
Henry VI Part 2|Master|A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head.
Henry VI Part 2|Master|Master's-Mate	And so much shall you give, or off goes yours.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|What, think you much to pay two thousand crowns,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And bear the name and port of gentlemen?
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Cut both the villains' throats, for die you shall:
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|The lives of those which we have lost in fight
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|I'll give it, sir, and therefore spare my life.
Henry VI Part 2|Second Gentleman|And so will I and write home for it straight.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard,
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|And therefore to revenge it, shalt thou die,
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|To SUFFOLK
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|And so should these, if I might have my will.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Be not so rash, take ransom, let him live.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Look on my George, I am a gentleman:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|And so am I, my name is Walter Whitmore.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|How now! why start'st thou? what, doth
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|death affright?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|A cunning man did calculate my birth
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And told me that by water I should die:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thy name is Gaultier, being rightly sounded.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Gaultier or Walter, which it is, I care not:
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Never yet did base dishonour blur our name,
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|But with our sword we wiped away the blot,
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge,
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defaced,
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|And I proclaim'd a coward through the world!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Stay, Whitmore, for thy prisoner is a prince,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|The Duke of Suffolk muffled up in rags!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Ay, but these rags are no part of the duke:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Jove sometimes went disguised, and why not I?
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|But Jove was never slain, as thou shalt be.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Obscure and lowly swain, King Henry's blood,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|The honourable blood of Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Must not be shed by such a jaded groom.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Hast thou not kiss'd thy hand and held my stirrup?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And thought thee happy when I shook my head?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|How often hast thou waited at my cup,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Fed from my trencher, kneel'd down at the board.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|When I have feasted with Queen Margaret?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Remember it and let it make thee crest-fall'n,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And duly waited for my coming forth?
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain?
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|First let my words stab him, as he hath me.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Convey him hence and on our longboat's side
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Strike off his head.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thou darest not, for thy own.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Yes, Pole.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Pole!
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Pool! Sir Pool! lord!
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Troubles the silver spring where England drinks.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|For swallowing the treasure of the realm:
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Thy lips that kiss'd the queen shall sweep the ground,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey's death,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again:
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|For daring to affy a mighty lord
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Unto the daughter of a worthless king,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|By devilish policy art thou grown great,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|The false revolting Normans thorough thee
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|The princely Warwick, and the Nevils all,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|As hating thee, are rising up in arms:
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And now the house of York, thrust from the crown
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|By shameful murder of a guiltless king
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And lofty proud encroaching tyranny,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Burns with revenging fire, whose hopeful colours
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Under the which is writ 'Invitis nubibus.'
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|The commons here in Kent are up in arms:
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And, to conclude, reproach and beggary
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Is crept into the palace of our king.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And all by thee. Away! convey him hence.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Small things make base men proud: this villain here,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Drones suck not eagles' blood but rob beehives:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|It is impossible that I should die
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|By such a lowly vassal as thyself.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Thy words move rage and not remorse in me:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I go of message from the queen to France,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|I charge thee waft me safely cross the Channel.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Walter,--
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Gelidus timor occupat artus it is thee I fear.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|What, are ye daunted now? now will ye stoop?
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|My gracious lord, entreat him, speak him fair.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Used to command, untaught to plead for favour.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Far be it we should honour such as these
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|With humble suit: no, rather let my head
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Save to the God of heaven and to my king,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|And sooner dance upon a bloody pole
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|True nobility is exempt from fear:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|More can I bear than you dare execute.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Hale him away, and let him talk no more.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Come, soldiers, show what cruelty ye can,
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|That this my death may never be forgot!
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Great men oft die by vile bezonians:
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|A Roman sworder and banditto slave
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Murder'd sweet Tully, Brutus' bastard hand
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Stabb'd Julius Caesar, savage islanders
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Pompey the Great, and Suffolk dies by pirates.
Henry VI Part 2|SUFFOLK|Exeunt Whitmore and others with Suffolk
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|And as for these whose ransom we have set,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|It is our pleasure one of them depart,
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Therefore come you with us and let him go.
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Exeunt all but the First Gentleman
Henry VI Part 2|Captain|Re-enter WHITMORE with SUFFOLK's body
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|There let his head and lifeless body lie,
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Until the queen his mistress bury it.
Henry VI Part 2|WHITMORE|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|O barbarous and bloody spectacle!
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|His body will I bear unto the king:
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|If he revenge it not, yet will his friends,
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|So will the queen, that living held him dear.
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|Exit with the body
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|SCENE II. Blackheath.
Henry VI Part 2|First Gentleman|Enter GEORGE BEVIS and JOHN HOLLAND
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath,
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|they have been up these two days.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|They have the more need to sleep now, then.
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I say it
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up.
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons.
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|True, and yet it is said, labour in thy vocation,
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|labouring men, and therefore should we be
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|magistrates.
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|Thou hast hit it, for there's no better sign of a
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|brave mind than a hard hand.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|I see them! I see them! there's Best's son, the
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|tanner of Wingham,--
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|dog's-leather of.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|And Dick the Butcher,--
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|throat cut like a calf.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|And Smith the weaver,--
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|Argo, their thread of life is spun.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|Come, come, let's fall in with them.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|Drum. Enter CADE, DICK the Butcher, SMITH the Weaver, and a Sawyer, with infinite numbers
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|We John Cade, so termed of our supposed father,--
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|[Aside]  Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|the spirit of putting down kings and princes,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|--Command silence.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|Silence!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|My father was a Mortimer,--
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|[Aside]  He was an honest man, and a good
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|bricklayer.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|My mother a Plantagenet,--
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|[Aside]  I knew her well, she was a midwife.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|My wife descended of the Lacies,--
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|[Aside]  She was, indeed, a pedler's daughter, and
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|sold many laces.
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|[Aside]  But now of late, notable to travel with her
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|furred pack, she washes bucks here at home.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Therefore am I of an honourable house.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|[Aside]  Ay, by my faith, the field is honourable,
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|and there was he borne, under a hedge, for his
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|father had never a house but the cage.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Valiant I am.
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|[Aside]  A' must needs, for beggary is valiant.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|I am able to endure much.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|[Aside]  No question of that, for I have seen him
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|whipped three market-days together.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|I fear neither sword nor fire.
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|[Aside]  He need not fear the sword, for his coat is of proof.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|[Aside]  But methinks he should stand in fear of
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Be brave, then, for your captain is brave, and vows
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|reformation. There shall be in England seven
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|pot, shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|grass: and when I am king, as king I will be,--
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|God save your majesty!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|I thank you, good people: there shall be no money,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|like brothers and worship me their lord.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|but I say, 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|once to a thing, and I was never mine own man
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|since. How now! who's there?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter some, bringing forward the Clerk of Chatham
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|cast accompt.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|O monstrous!
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|We took him setting of boys' copies.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Here's a villain!
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Nay, then, he is a conjurer.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|I am sorry for't: the man is a proper man, of mine
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|honour, unless I find him guilty, he shall not die.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee: what is thy name?
Henry VI Part 2|Clerk|Emmanuel.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|They use to write it on the top of letters: 'twill
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|go hard with you.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? or
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|plain-dealing man?
Henry VI Part 2|CLERK|Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up
Henry VI Part 2|CLERK|that I can write my name.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|He hath confessed: away with him! he's a villain
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|and a traitor.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|ink-horn about his neck.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Exit one with the Clerk
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter MICHAEL
Henry VI Part 2|MICHAEL|Where's our general?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Here I am, thou particular fellow.
Henry VI Part 2|MICHAEL|Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his
Henry VI Part 2|MICHAEL|brother are hard by, with the king's forces.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Stand, villain, stand, or I'll fell thee down. He
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|shall be encountered with a man as good as himself:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|he is but a knight, is a'?
Henry VI Part 2|MICHAEL|No.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Kneels
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Rise up Sir John Mortimer.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Rises
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Now have at him!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD, with drum and soldiers
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Rebellious hinds, the filth and scum of Kent,
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Mark'd for the gallows, lay your weapons down,
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Home to your cottages, forsake this groom:
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|The king is merciful, if you revolt.
Henry VI Part 2|WILLIAM STAFFORD|But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,
Henry VI Part 2|WILLIAM STAFFORD|If you go forward, therefore yield, or die.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|It is to you, good people, that I speak,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|For I am rightful heir unto the crown.
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Villain, thy father was a plasterer,
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|And Adam was a gardener.
Henry VI Part 2|WILLIAM STAFFORD|And what of that?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Married the Duke of Clarence' daughter, did he not?
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Ay, sir.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|By her he had two children at one birth.
Henry VI Part 2|WILLIAM STAFFORD|That's false.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Ay, there's the question, but I say, 'tis true:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|The elder of them, being put to nurse,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Was by a beggar-woman stolen away,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Became a bricklayer when he came to age:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|His son am I, deny it, if you can.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|Nay, 'tis too true, therefore he shall be king.
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|the bricks are alive at this day to testify it,
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|therefore deny it not.
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|And will you credit this base drudge's words,
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|That speaks he knows not what?
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|Ay, marry, will we, therefore get ye gone.
Henry VI Part 2|WILLIAM STAFFORD|Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you this.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|[Aside]  He lies, for I invented it myself.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Go to, sirrah, tell the king from me, that, for his
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|he shall reign, but I'll be protector over him.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|And furthermore, well have the Lord Say's head for
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|selling the dukedom of Maine.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|And good reason, for thereby is England mained, and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|it up. Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord Say
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|and more than that, he can speak French, and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|therefore he is a traitor.
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|O gross and miserable ignorance!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Nay, answer, if you can: the Frenchmen are our
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|enemies, go to, then, I ask but this: can he that
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|counsellor, or no?
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|No, no, and therefore we'll have his head.
Henry VI Part 2|WILLIAM STAFFORD|Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail,
Henry VI Part 2|WILLIAM STAFFORD|Assail them with the army of the king.
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Herald, away, and throughout every town
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade,
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|That those which fly before the battle ends
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|May, even in their wives' and children's sight,
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Be hang'd up for example at their doors:
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|And you that be the king's friends, follow me.
Henry VI Part 2|SIR HUMPHREY|Exeunt WILLIAM STAFFORD and SIR HUMPHREY, and soldiers
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|And you that love the commons, follow me.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Now show yourselves men, 'tis for liberty.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|We will not leave one lord, one gentleman:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|For they are thrifty honest men, and such
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|As would, but that they dare not, take our parts.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|They are all in order and march toward us.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|But then are we in order when we are most
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|out of order. Come, march forward.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|SCENE III. Another part of Blackheath.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Alarums to the fight, wherein SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD are slain. Enter CADE and the rest
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford?
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|Here, sir.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|slaughter-house: therefore thus will I reward thee,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|the Lent shall be as long again as it is, and thou
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|one.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|I desire no more.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|And, to speak truth, thou deservest no less. This
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|monument of the victory will I bear,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Putting on SIR HUMPHREY'S brigandine
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse' heels
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|till I do come to London, where we will have the
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|mayor's sword borne before us.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|gaols and let out the prisoners.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let's march
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|towards London.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|SCENE IV. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter KING HENRY VI with a supplication, and the QUEEN with SUFFOLK'S head, BUCKINGHAM and Lord SAY
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And makes it fearful and degenerate,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But who can cease to weep and look on this?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But where's the body that I should embrace?
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|What answer makes your grace to the rebels'
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|supplication?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I'll send some holy bishop to entreat,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For God forbid so many simple souls
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Should perish by the sword! And I myself,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Will parley with Jack Cade their general:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But stay, I'll read it over once again.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Ah, barbarous villains! hath this lovely face
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Ruled, like a wandering planet, over me,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And could it not enforce them to relent,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|That were unworthy to behold the same?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Lord Say, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Ay, but I hope your highness shall have his.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|How now, madam!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk's death?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I fear me, love, if that I had been dead,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Thou wouldst not have mourn'd so much for me.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|No, my love, I should not mourn, but die for thee.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|How now! what news? why comest thou in such haste?
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|The rebels are in Southwark, fly, my lord!
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|And calls your grace usurper openly
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|And vows to crown himself in Westminster.
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|His army is a ragged multitude
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless:
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Sir Humphrey Stafford and h is brother's death
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Hath given them heart and courage to proceed:
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|They call false caterpillars, and intend their death.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O graceless men! they know not what they do.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|My gracious lord, return to Killingworth,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Until a power be raised to put them down.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Ah, were the Duke of Suffolk now alive,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|These Kentish rebels would be soon appeased!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Lord Say, the traitors hate thee,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Therefore away with us to Killingworth.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|So might your grace's person be in danger.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|The sight of me is odious in their eyes,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|And therefore in this city will I stay
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|And live alone as secret as I may.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Enter another Messenger
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge:
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|The citizens fly and forsake their houses:
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|The rascal people, thirsting after prey,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Join with the traitor, and they jointly swear
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|To spoil the city and your royal court.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Then linger not, my lord, away, take horse.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Come, Margaret, God, our hope, will succor us.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|My hope is gone, now Suffolk is deceased.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Farewell, my lord: trust not the Kentish rebels.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Trust nobody, for fear you be betray'd.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|The trust I have is in mine innocence,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|And therefore am I bold and resolute.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|SCENE V. London. The Tower.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Enter SCALES upon the Tower, walking. Then enter two or three Citizens below
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|How now! is Jack Cade slain?
Henry VI Part 2|First Citizen|No, my lord, nor likely to be slain, for they have
Henry VI Part 2|First Citizen|won the bridge, killing all those that withstand
Henry VI Part 2|First Citizen|them: the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from
Henry VI Part 2|First Citizen|the Tower, to defend the city from the rebels.
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|Such aid as I can spare you shall command,
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|But I am troubled here with them myself,
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower.
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|But get you to Smithfield, and gather head,
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe,
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|Fight for your king, your country and your lives,
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|And so, farewell, for I must hence again.
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|SCENE VI. London. Cannon Street.
Henry VI Part 2|SCALES|Enter CADE and the rest, and strikes his staff on London-stone
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|upon London-stone, I charge and command that, of the
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|claret wine this first year of our reign. And now
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|me other than Lord Mortimer.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter a Soldier, running
Henry VI Part 2|Soldier|Jack Cade! Jack Cade!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Knock him down there.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|They kill him
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|If this fellow be wise, he'll never call ye Jack
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|Cade more: I think he hath a very fair warning.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|My lord, there's an army gathered together in
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|Smithfield.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Come, then, let's go fight with them, but first, go
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|and set London bridge on fire, and, if you can, burn
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|down the Tower too. Come, let's away.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|SCENE VII. London. Smithfield.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Alarums. MATTHEW GOFFE is slain, and all the rest. Then enter CADE, with his company.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|So, sirs: now go some and pull down the Savoy,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|others to the inns of court, down with them all.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|I have a suit unto your lordship.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|Only that the laws of England may come out of your mouth.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|[Aside]  Mass, 'twill be sore law, then, for he was
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|thrust in the mouth with a spear, and 'tis not whole
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|yet.
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|[Aside]  Nay, John, it will be stinking law for his
Henry VI Part 2|SMITH|breath stinks with eating toasted cheese.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|I have thought upon it, it shall be so. Away, burn
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|all the records of the realm: my mouth shall be
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|the parliament of England.
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|[Aside]  Then we are like to have biting statutes,
Henry VI Part 2|HOLLAND|unless his teeth be pulled out.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|And henceforward all things shall be in common.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|My lord, a prize, a prize! here's the Lord Say,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|which sold the towns in France, he that made us pay
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|one and twenty fifteens, and one shilling to the
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|pound, the last subsidy.
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Enter BEVIS, with Lord SAY
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. Ah,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! now
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|art thou within point-blank of our jurisdiction
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|regal. What canst thou answer to my majesty for
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|giving up of Normandy unto Mounsieur Basimecu, the
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|dauphin of France? Be it known unto thee by these
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|filth as thou art. Thou hast most traitorously
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|grammar school, and whereas, before, our forefathers
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|had no other books but the score and the tally, thou
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|justices of peace, to call poor men before them
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|about matters they were not able to answer.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Moreover, thou hast put them in prison, and because
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|they could not read, thou hast hanged them, when,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|indeed, only for that cause they have been most
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|worthy to live. Thou dost ride in a foot-cloth, dost thou not?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|What of that?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Marry, thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|and doublets.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|And work in their shirt too, as myself, for example,
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|that am a butcher.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|You men of Kent,--
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|What say you of Kent?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Nothing but this, 'tis 'bona terra, mala gens.'
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Hear me but speak, and bear me where you will.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar writ,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Is term'd the civil'st place of this isle:
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Sweet is the country, because full of riches,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Which makes me hope you are not void of pity.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Yet, to recover them, would lose my life.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Justice with favour have I always done,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Prayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|When have I aught exacted at your hands,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|But to maintain the king, the realm and you?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Because my book preferr'd me to the king,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|You cannot but forbear to murder me:
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|For your behoof,--
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Tut, when struck'st thou one blow in the field?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Those that I never saw and struck them dead.
Henry VI Part 2|BEVIS|O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|These cheeks are pale for watching for your good.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Give him a box o' the ear and that will make 'em red again.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Long sitting to determine poor men's causes
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Hath made me full of sickness and diseases.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|Why dost thou quiver, man?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|The palsy, and not fear, provokes me.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Nay, he nods at us, as who should say, I'll be even
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|with you: I'll see if his head will stand steadier
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|on a pole, or no. Take him away, and behead him.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Tell me wherein have I offended most?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Have I affected wealth or honour? speak.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Are my chests fill'd up with extorted gold?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|O, let me live!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|[Aside]  I feel remorse in myself with his words,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|but I'll bridle it: he shall die, an it be but for
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|pleading so well for his life. Away with him! he
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|has a familiar under his tongue, he speaks not o'
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|God's name. Go, take him away, I say, and strike
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|off his head presently, and then break into his
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|son-in-law's house, Sir James Cromer, and strike off
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|his head, and bring them both upon two poles hither.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|It shall be done.
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|Ah, countrymen! if when you make your prayers,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|How would it fare with your departed souls?
Henry VI Part 2|SAY|And therefore yet relent, and save my life.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Away with him! and do as I command ye.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Exeunt some with Lord SAY
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|on his shoulders, unless he pay me tribute, there
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|shall not a maid be married, but she shall pay to me
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|her maidenhead ere they have it: men shall hold of
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|me in capite, and we charge and command that their
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell.
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take up
Henry VI Part 2|DICK|commodities upon our bills?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Marry, presently.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|O, brave!
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|Re-enter one with the heads
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|for they loved well when they were alive. Now part
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|them again, lest they consult about the giving up of
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|some more towns in France. Soldiers, defer the
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|spoil of the city until night: for with these borne
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|before us, instead of maces, will we ride through
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|the streets, and at every corner have them kiss. Away!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|SCENE VIII. Southwark.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Alarum and retreat. Enter CADE and all his rabblement
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Up Fish Street! down Saint Magnus' Corner! Kill
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|and knock down! throw them into Thames!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Sound a parley
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|What noise is this I hear? Dare any be so bold to
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|sound retreat or parley, when I command them kill?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD, attended
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Ay, here they be that dare and will disturb thee:
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Know, Cade, we come ambassadors from the king
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Unto the commons whom thou hast misled,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|And here pronounce free pardon to them all
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|That will forsake thee and go home in peace.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|What say ye, countrymen? will ye relent,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And yield to mercy whilst 'tis offer'd you,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Who loves the king and will embrace his pardon,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Fling up his cap, and say 'God save his majesty!'
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Who hateth him and honours not his father,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|God save the king! God save the king!
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave? And
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|you, base peasants, do ye believe him? will you
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|needs be hanged with your pardons about your necks?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|that you should leave me at the White Hart in
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Southwark? I thought ye would never have given out
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|these arms till you had recovered your ancient
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Let
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|them break your backs with burthens, take your
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|houses over your heads, ravish your wives and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|daughters before your faces: for me, I will make
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|shift for one, and so, God's curse light upon you
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|all!
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|We'll follow Cade, we'll follow Cade!
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him?
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Will he conduct you through the heart of France,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Unless by robbing of your friends and us.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Were't not a shame, that whilst you live at jar,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|The fearful French, whom you late vanquished,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you?
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Methinks already in this civil broil
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|I see them lording it in London streets,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Crying 'Villiago!' unto all they meet.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's mercy.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|To France, to France, and get what you have lost,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Spare England, for it is your native coast,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Henry hath money, you are strong and manly,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|God on our side, doubt not of victory.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|A Clifford! a Clifford! we'll follow the king and Clifford.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|multitude? The name of Henry the Fifth hales them
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|to an hundred mischiefs, and makes them leave me
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|desolate. I see them lay their heads together to
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|surprise me. My sword make way for me, for here is
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|no staying. In despite of the devils and hell, have
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|through the very middest of you? and heavens and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|but only my followers' base and ignominious
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|What, is he fled? Go some, and follow him,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|And he that brings his head unto the king
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt some of them
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Follow me, soldiers: we'll devise a mean
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|To reconcile you all unto the king.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|SCENE IX. Kenilworth Castle.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Sound Trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and SOMERSET, on the terrace
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And could command no more content than I?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But I was made a king, at nine months old.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Was never subject long'd to be a king
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|As I do long and wish to be a subject.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Health and glad tidings to your majesty!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Or is he but retired to make him strong?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter below, multitudes, with halters about their necks
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do yield,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And humbly thus, with halters on their necks,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Expect your highness' doom of life or death.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|To entertain my vows of thanks and praise!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Soldiers, this day have you redeemed your lives,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And show'd how well you love your prince and country:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Continue still in this so good a mind,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And Henry, though he be infortunate,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Assure yourselves, will never be unkind:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And so, with thanks and pardon to you all,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I do dismiss you to your several countries.
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|God save the king! God save the king!
Henry VI Part 2|ALL|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Please it your grace to be advertised
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|And with a puissant and a mighty power
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Of gallowglasses and stout kerns
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|Is marching hitherward in proud array,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|And still proclaimeth, as he comes along,
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|His arms are only to remove from thee
Henry VI Part 2|Messenger|The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms traitor.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distress'd.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Like to a ship that, having 'scaped a tempest,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And now is York in arms to second him.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And ask him what's the reason of these arms.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And, Somerset, we'll commit thee thither,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Until his army be dismiss'd from him.
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|My lord,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|I'll yield myself to prison willingly,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Or unto death, to do my country good.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|In any case, be not too rough in terms,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|I will, my lord, and doubt not so to deal
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|As all things shall redound unto your good.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Come, wife, let's in, and learn to govern better,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For yet may England curse my wretched reign.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Flourish. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|SCENE X. Kent. IDEN's garden.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Enter CADE
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Fie on ambition! fie on myself, that have a sword,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|and yet am ready to famish! These five days have I
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|hid me in these woods and durst not peep out, for
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|all the country is laid for me, but now am I so
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|hungry that if I might have a lease of my life for a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|thousand years I could stay no longer. Wherefore,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|this hot weather. And I think this word 'sallet'
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|was born to do me good: for many a time, but for a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|bill, and many a time, when I have been dry and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|quart pot to drink in, and now the word 'sallet'
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|must serve me to feed on.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Enter IDEN
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|This small inheritance my father left me
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|I seek not to wax great by others' waning,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Or gather wealth, I care not, with what envy:
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Sufficeth that I have maintains my state
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And sends the poor well pleased from my gate.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Here's the lord of the soil come to seize me for a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|crowns of the king carrying my head to him: but
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Why, rude companion, whatsoe'er thou be,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|I know thee not, why, then, should I betray thee?
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Is't not enough to break into my garden,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Brave thee! ay, by the best blood that ever was
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|broached, and beard thee too. Look on me well: I
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|have eat no meat these five days, yet, come thou and
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|as a doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Nay, it shall ne'er be said, while England stands,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Took odds to combat a poor famish'd man.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Oppose thy steadfast-gazing eyes to mine,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|See if thou canst outface me with thy looks:
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And if mine arm be heaved in the air,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|As for words, whose greatness answers words,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Let this my sword report what speech forbears.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|mayst be turned to hobnails.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Here they fight. CADE falls
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|O, I am slain! famine and no other hath slain me:
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|but the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|all. Wither, garden, and be henceforth a
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|burying-place to all that do dwell in this house,
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Is't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Sword, I will hollow thee for this thy deed,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead:
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|To emblaze the honour that thy master got.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Kent from me, she hath lost her best man, and exhort
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|all the world to be cowards, for I, that never
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|feared any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour.
Henry VI Part 2|CADE|Dies
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|How much thou wrong'st me, heaven be my judge.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And as I thrust thy body in with my sword,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And there cut off thy most ungracious head,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Which I will bear in triumph to the king,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|ACT V
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|SCENE I. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Enter YORK, and his army of Irish, with drum and colours
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Ring, bells, aloud, burn, bonfires, clear and bright,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To entertain great England's lawful king.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Ah! sancta majestas, who would not buy thee dear?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Let them obey that know not how to rule,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|This hand was made to handle naught but gold.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I cannot give due action to my words,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Except a sword or sceptre balance it:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter BUCKINGHAM
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Whom have we here? Buckingham, to disturb me?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure?
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|To know the reason of these arms in peace,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Or why thou, being a subject as I am,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Should raise so great a power without his leave,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Or dare to bring thy force so near the court.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|[Aside]  Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I am so angry at these abject terms,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And now, like Ajax Telamonius,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I am far better born than is the king,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|But I must make fair weather yet a while,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Till Henry be more weak and I more strong,--
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Buckingham, I prithee, pardon me,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That I have given no answer all this while,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The cause why I have brought this army hither
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Is to remove proud Somerset from the king,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Seditious to his grace and to the state.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|That is too much presumption on thy part:
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|But if thy arms be to no other end,
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|The king hath yielded unto thy demand:
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Upon thine honour, is he prisoner?
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Upon mine honour, he is prisoner.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Soldiers, I thank you all, disperse yourselves,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Meet me to-morrow in St. George's field,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|You shall have pay and every thing you wish.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And let my sovereign, virtuous Henry,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Command my eldest son, nay, all my sons,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|As pledges of my fealty and love,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I'll send them all as willing as I live:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Lands, goods, horse, armour, any thing I have,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Is his to use, so Somerset may die.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|York, I commend this kind submission:
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|We twain will go into his highness' tent.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|Enter KING HENRY VI and Attendants
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|In all submission and humility
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|York doth present himself unto your highness.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Then what intends these forces thou dost bring?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To heave the traitor Somerset from hence,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Who since I heard to be discomfited.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter IDEN, with CADE'S head
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|If one so rude and of so mean condition
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|May pass into the presence of a king,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Lo, I present your grace a traitor's head,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|The head of Cade, whom I in combat slew.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|The head of Cade! Great God, how just art Thou!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O, let me view his visage, being dead,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Tell me, my friend, art thou the man that slew him?
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|I was, an't like your majesty.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|How art thou call'd? and what is thy degree?
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Alexander Iden, that's my name,
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|A poor esquire of Kent, that loves his king.
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|So please it you, my lord, 'twere not amiss
Henry VI Part 2|BUCKINGHAM|He were created knight for his good service.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Iden, kneel down.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|He kneels
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Rise up a knight.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|We give thee for reward a thousand marks,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And will that thou henceforth attend on us.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|May Iden live to merit such a bounty.
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|And never live but true unto his liege!
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Rises
Henry VI Part 2|IDEN|Enter QUEEN MARGARET and SOMERSET
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|See, Buckingham, Somerset comes with the queen:
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Go, bid her hide him quickly from the duke.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|But boldly stand and front him to his face.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|How now! is Somerset at liberty?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Then, York, unloose thy long-imprison'd thoughts,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|False king! why hast thou broken faith with me,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|King did I call thee? no, thou art not king,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Not fit to govern and rule multitudes,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Which darest not, no, nor canst not rule a traitor.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That head of thine doth not become a crown,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And not to grace an awful princely sceptre.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That gold must round engirt these brows of mine,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Is able with the change to kill and cure.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And with the same to act controlling laws.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Give place: by heaven, thou shalt rule no more
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|O'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler.
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Of capital treason 'gainst the king and crown,
Henry VI Part 2|SOMERSET|Obey, audacious traitor, kneel for grace.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Wouldst have me kneel? first let me ask of these,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|If they can brook I bow a knee to man.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Exit Attendant
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I know, ere they will have me go to ward,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Call hither Clifford! bid him come amain,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To say if that the bastard boys of York
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Shall be the surety for their traitor father.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Exit BUCKINGHAM
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|O blood-besotted Neapolitan,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Outcast of Naples, England's bloody scourge!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The sons of York, thy betters in their birth,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Shall be their father's bail, and bane to those
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That for my surety will refuse the boys!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter EDWARD and RICHARD
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|See where they come: I'll warrant they'll
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|make it good.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter CLIFFORD and YOUNG CLIFFORD
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And here comes Clifford to deny their bail.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Health and all happiness to my lord the king!
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Kneels
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I thank thee, Clifford: say, what news with thee?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Nay, do not fright us with an angry look,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|We are thy sovereign, Clifford, kneel again,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|This is my king, York, I do not mistake,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|But thou mistakest me much to think I do:
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|To Bedlam with him! is the man grown mad?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Ay, Clifford, a bedlam and ambitious humour
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Makes him oppose himself against his king.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|He is a traitor, let him to the Tower,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And chop away that factious pate of his.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|He is arrested, but will not obey,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|His sons, he says, shall give their words for him.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Will you not, sons?
Henry VI Part 2|EDWARD|Ay, noble father, if our words will serve.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|And if words will not, then our weapons shall.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Why, what a brood of traitors have we here!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Look in a glass, and call thy image so:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I am thy king, and thou a false-heart traitor.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Call hither to the stake my two brave bears,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That with the very shaking of their chains
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|They may astonish these fell-lurking curs:
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter the WARWICK and SALISBURY
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Are these thy bears? we'll bait thy bears to death.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And manacle the bear-ward in their chains,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|If thou darest bring them to the baiting place.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Run back and bite, because he was withheld,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Who, being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs and cried:
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|And such a piece of service will you do,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Nay, we shall heat you thoroughly anon.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sick son!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|What, wilt thou on thy death-bed play the ruffian,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|If it be banish'd from the frosty head,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|And shame thine honourable age with blood?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Why art thou old, and want'st experience?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Or wherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it?
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|For shame! in duty bend thy knee to me
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|That bows unto the grave with mickle age.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|My lord, I have consider'd with myself
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|The title of this most renowned duke,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And in my conscience do repute his grace
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|The rightful heir to England's royal seat.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me?
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|I have.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|It is great sin to swear unto a sin,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Who can be bound by any solemn vow
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|To force a spotless virgin's chastity,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|To reave the orphan of his patrimony,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|To wring the widow from her custom'd right,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And have no other reason for this wrong
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|But that he was bound by a solemn oath?
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|A subtle traitor needs no sophister.
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Call Buckingham, and all the friends thou hast,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I am resolved for death or dignity.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|The first I warrant thee, if dreams prove true.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|You were best to go to bed and dream again,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|To keep thee from the tempest of the field.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|I am resolved to bear a greater storm
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Than any thou canst conjure up to-day,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And that I'll write upon thy burgonet,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Might I but know thee by thy household badge.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Now, by my father's badge, old Nevil's crest,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|This day I'll wear aloft my burgonet,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|As on a mountain top the cedar shows
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Even to affright thee with the view thereof.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|And tread it under foot with all contempt,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Despite the bear-ward that protects the bear.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|And so to arms, victorious father,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|To quell the rebels and their complices.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Fie! charity, for shame! speak not in spite,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|For you shall sup with Jesu Christ to-night.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst tell.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|If not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Exeunt severally
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|SCENE II. Saint Alban's.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Alarums to the battle. Enter WARWICK
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Clifford of Cumberland, 'tis Warwick calls:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And if thou dost not hide thee from the bear,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Now, when the angry trumpet sounds alarum
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And dead men's cries do fill the empty air,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Clifford, I say, come forth and fight with me:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Enter YORK
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|How now, my noble lord? what, all afoot?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|But match to match I have encounter'd him
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And made a prey for carrion kites and crows
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Even of the bonny beast he loved so well.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter CLIFFORD
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Of one or both of us the time is come.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Then, nobly, York, 'tis for a crown thou fight'st.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|As I intend, Clifford, to thrive to-day,
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|It grieves my soul to leave thee unassail'd.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|What seest thou in me, York? why dost thou pause?
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|With thy brave bearing should I be in love,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|But that thou art so fast mine enemy.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem,
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|So let it help me now against thy sword
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|As I in justice and true right express it.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|My soul and body on the action both!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|A dreadful lay! Address thee instantly.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|They fight, and CLIFFORD falls
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|La fin couronne les oeuvres.
Henry VI Part 2|CLIFFORD|Dies
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Thus war hath given thee peace, for thou art still.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Peace with his soul, heaven, if it be thy will!
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Enter YOUNG CLIFFORD
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Shame and confusion! all is on the rout,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Whom angry heavens do make their minister
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|He that is truly dedicate to war
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Hath no self-love, nor he that loves himself
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Hath not essentially but by circumstance
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|The name of valour.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Seeing his dead father
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|O, let the vile world end,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|And the premised flames of the last day
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Knit earth and heaven together!
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Particularities and petty sounds
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|To cease! Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|The silver livery of advised age,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|And, in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|It shall be stony. York not our old men spares,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|No more will I their babes: tears virginal
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Shall be to me even as the dew to fire,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|And beauty that the tyrant oft reclaims
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Henceforth I will not have to do with pity:
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Meet I an infant of the house of York,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Into as many gobbets will I cut it
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|As wild Medea young Absyrtus did:
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|In cruelty will I seek out my fame.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house:
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|As did AEneas old Anchises bear,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|But then AEneas bare a living load,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Exit, bearing off his father
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Enter RICHARD and SOMERSET to fight. SOMERSET is killed
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|So, lie thou there,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|The Castle in Saint Alban's, Somerset
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Hath made the wizard famous in his death.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Sword, hold thy temper, heart, be wrathful still:
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Exit
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Fight: excursions. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and others
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Away, my lord! you are slow, for shame, away!
Henry VI Part 2|KING HENRY VI|Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|What are you made of? you'll nor fight nor fly:
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Now is it manhood, wisdom and defence,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|To give the enemy way, and to secure us
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|By what we can, which can no more but fly.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Alarum afar off
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|As well we may, if not through your neglect,
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|We shall to London get, where you are loved
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|And where this breach now in our fortunes made
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|May readily be stopp'd.
Henry VI Part 2|QUEEN MARGARET|Re-enter YOUNG CLIFFORD
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|But that my heart's on future mischief set,
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly:
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|But fly you must, uncurable discomfit
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Away, for your relief! and we will live
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|To see their day and them our fortune give:
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Away, my lord, away!
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|SCENE III. Fields near St. Alban's.
Henry VI Part 2|YOUNG CLIFFORD|Alarum. Retreat. Enter YORK, RICHARD, WARWICK, and Soldiers, with drum and colours
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Of Salisbury, who can report of him,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|That winter lion, who in rage forgets
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Aged contusions and all brush of time,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Repairs him with occasion? This happy day
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|If Salisbury be lost.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|My noble father,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Three times bestrid him, thrice I led him off,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Persuaded him from any further act:
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|But still, where danger was, still there I met him,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|And like rich hangings in a homely house,
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|So was his will in his old feeble body.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|But, noble as he is, look where he comes.
Henry VI Part 2|RICHARD|Enter SALISBURY
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|By the mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard:
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|God knows how long it is I have to live,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|And it hath pleased him that three times to-day
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|You have defended me from imminent death.
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,
Henry VI Part 2|SALISBURY|Being opposites of such repairing nature.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|I know our safety is to follow them,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|To call a present court of parliament.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.
Henry VI Part 2|YORK|What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|After them! nay, before them, if we can.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Saint Alban's battle won by famous York
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Shall be eternized in all age to come.
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|And more such days as these to us befall!
Henry VI Part 2|WARWICK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|ACT I
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|SCENE I. London. The Parliament-house.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Alarum. Enter YORK, EDWARD, RICHARD, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I wonder how the king escaped our hands.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|While we pursued the horsemen of the north,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|He slily stole away and left his men:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Cheer'd up the drooping army, and himself,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Charged our main battle's front, and breaking in
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingham,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Is either slain or wounded dangerously,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|That this is true, father, behold his blood.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|And, brother, here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Whom I encounter'd as the battles join'd.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Speak thou for me and tell them what I did.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Throwing down SOMERSET's head
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Richard hath best deserved of all my sons.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But is your grace dead, my Lord of Somerset?
Henry VI Part 3|NORFOLK|Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt!
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Thus do I hope to shake King Henry's head.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And so do I. Victorious Prince of York,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Before I see thee seated in that throne
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Which now the house of Lancaster usurps,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|This is the palace of the fearful king,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And this the regal seat: possess it, York,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For this is thine and not King Henry's heirs'
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Assist me, then, sweet Warwick, and I will,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|For hither we have broken in by force.
Henry VI Part 3|NORFOLK|We'll all assist you, he that flies shall die.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Thanks, gentle Norfolk: stay by me, my lords,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|They go up
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And when the king comes, offer no violence,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|The queen this day here holds her parliament,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But little thinks we shall be of her council:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|By words or blows here let us win our right.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Arm'd as we are, let's stay within this house.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The bloody parliament shall this be call'd,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Hath made us by-words to our enemies.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Then leave me not, my lords, be resolute,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I mean to take possession of my right.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Neither the king, nor he that loves him best,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Resolve thee, Richard, claim the English crown.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Even in the chair of state: belike he means,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And thine, Lord Clifford, and you both have vow'd revenge
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|If I be not, heavens be revenged on me!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel.
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down:
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|My heart for anger burns, I cannot brook it.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Patience is for poltroons, such as he:
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|He durst not sit there, had your father lived.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|My gracious lord, here in the parliament
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Let us assail the family of York.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Well hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ah, know you not the city favours them,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And they have troops of soldiers at their beck?
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|But when the duke is slain, they'll quickly fly.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To make a shambles of the parliament-house!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words and threats
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Shall be the war that Henry means to use.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I am thy sovereign.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I am thine.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|For shame, come down: he made thee Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|'Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Thy father was a traitor to the crown.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|In following this usurping Henry.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Whom should he follow but his natural king?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|True, Clifford, and that's Richard Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|It must and shall be so: content thyself.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Be Duke of Lancaster, let him be king.
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|He is both king and Duke of Lancaster,
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That we are those which chased you from the field
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And slew your fathers, and with colours spread
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|March'd through the city to the palace gates.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|Thy kinsman and thy friends, I'll have more lives
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|Than drops of blood were in my father's veins.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Urge it no more, lest that, instead of words,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|As shall revenge his death before I stir.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Poor Clifford! how I scorn his worthless threats!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Will you we show our title to the crown?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I am the son of Henry the Fifth,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And seized upon their towns and provinces.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The lord protector lost it, and not I:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|When I was crown'd I was but nine months old.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Father, tear the crown from the usurper's head.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Sweet father, do so, set it on your head.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Good brother, as thou lovest and honourest arms,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Sound drums and trumpets, and the king will fly.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Sons, peace!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Peace, thou! and give King Henry leave to speak.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Plantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lords,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And be you silent and attentive too,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For he that interrupts him shall not live.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|No: first shall war unpeople this my realm,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My title's good, and better far than his.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|'Twas by rebellion against his king.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|[Aside]  I know not what to say, my title's weak.--
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|What then?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|An if he may, then am I lawful king,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For Richard, in the view of many lords,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Resign'd the crown to Henry the Fourth,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whose heir my father was, and I am his.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|He rose against him, being his sovereign,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And made him to resign his crown perforce.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrain'd,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown?
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|No, for he could not so resign his crown
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|But that the next heir should succeed and reign.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Art thou against us, Duke of Exeter?
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|His is the right, and therefore pardon me.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|My conscience tells me he is lawful king.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|[Aside]  All will revolt from me, and turn to him.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Plantagenet, for all the claim thou lay'st,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Think not that Henry shall be so deposed.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Deposed he shall be, in despite of all.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Thou art deceived: 'tis not thy southern power,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Can set the duke up in despite of me.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence:
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|May that ground gape and swallow me alive,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|O Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Henry of Lancaster, resign thy crown.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|What mutter you, or what conspire you, lords?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Do right unto this princely Duke of York,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Or I will fill the house with armed men,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And over the chair of state, where now he sits,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Write up his title with usurping blood.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|He stamps with his foot and the soldiers show themselves
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My Lord of Warwick, hear me but one word:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Let me for this my life-time reign as king.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou livest.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I am content: Richard Plantagenet,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|What wrong is this unto the prince your son!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|What good is this to England and himself!
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|Base, fearful and despairing Henry!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|How hast thou injured both thyself and us!
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|I cannot stay to hear these articles.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Nor I.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Come, cousin, let us tell the queen these news.
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,
Henry VI Part 3|WESTMORELAND|In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Be thou a prey unto the house of York,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|And die in bands for this unmanly deed!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Or live in peace abandon'd and despised!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND, CLIFFORD, and WESTMORELAND
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Turn this way, Henry, and regard them not.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|They seek revenge and therefore will not yield.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ah, Exeter!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why should you sigh, my lord?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|But be it as it may: I here entail
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Conditionally, that here thou take an oath
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To cease this civil war, and, whilst I live,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To honour me as thy king and sovereign,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And neither by treason nor hostility
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To seek to put me down and reign thyself.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|This oath I willingly take and will perform.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Long live King Henry! Plantagenet embrace him.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And long live thou and these thy forward sons!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Now York and Lancaster are reconciled.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes!
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Sennet. Here they come down
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Farewell, my gracious lord, I'll to my castle.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And I'll keep London with my soldiers.
Henry VI Part 3|NORFOLK|And I to Norfolk with my followers.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|And I unto the sea from whence I came.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Exeunt YORK, EDWARD, EDMUND, GEORGE, RICHARD,  WARWICK, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, their Soldiers, and Attendants
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And I, with grief and sorrow, to the court.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Enter QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Here comes the queen, whose looks bewray her anger:
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|I'll steal away.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Exeter, so will I.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Nay, go not from me, I will follow thee.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Be patient, gentle queen, and I will stay.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Who can be patient in such extremes?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ah, wretched man! would I had died a maid
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And never seen thee, never borne thee son,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Hadst thou but loved him half so well as I,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Or felt that pain which I did for him once,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Or nourish'd him as I did with my blood,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Rather than have that savage duke thine heir
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And disinherited thine only son.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Father, you cannot disinherit me:
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|If you be king, why should not I succeed?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Pardon me, Margaret, pardon me, sweet son:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The Earl of Warwick and the duke enforced me.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Enforced thee! art thou king, and wilt be forced?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou hast undone thyself, thy son and me,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And given unto the house of York such head
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|To entail him and his heirs unto the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What is it, but to make thy sepulchre
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And creep into it far before thy time?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Warwick is chancellor and the lord of Calais,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The duke is made protector of the realm,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And yet shalt thou be safe? such safety finds
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The trembling lamb environed with wolves.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Had I been there, which am a silly woman,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Before I would have granted to that act.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Until that act of parliament be repeal'd
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Whereby my son is disinherited.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Will follow mine, if once they see them spread,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And utter ruin of the house of York.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thus do I leave thee. Come, son, let's away,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Our army is ready, come, we'll after them.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Stay, gentle Margaret, and hear me speak.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou hast spoke too much already: get thee gone.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Gentle son Edward, thou wilt stay with me?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, to be murder'd by his enemies.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|When I return with victory from the field
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|I'll see your grace: till then I'll follow her.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Come, son, away, we may not linger thus.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Exeunt QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Poor queen! how love to me and to her son
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Hath made her break out into terms of rage!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Revenged may she be on that hateful duke,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Tire on the flesh of me and of my son!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The loss of those three lords torments my heart:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I'll write unto them and entreat them fair.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Come, cousin you shall be the messenger.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|SCENE II. Sandal Castle.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Enter RICHARD, EDWARD, and MONTAGUE
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Brother, though I be youngest, give me leave.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|No, I can better play the orator.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|But I have reasons strong and forcible.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Enter YORK
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Why, how now, sons and brother! at a strife?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|What is your quarrel? how began it first?
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|No quarrel, but a slight contention.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|About what?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|About that which concerns your grace and us,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|The crown of England, father, which is yours.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Mine boy? not till King Henry be dead.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Your right depends not on his life or death.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Now you are heir, therefore enjoy it now:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|It will outrun you, father, in the end.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I took an oath that he should quietly reign.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|But for a kingdom any oath may be broken:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|No, God forbid your grace should be forsworn.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I shall be, if I claim by open war.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I'll prove the contrary, if you'll hear me speak.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Thou canst not, son, it is impossible.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|An oath is of no moment, being not took
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Before a true and lawful magistrate,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|That hath authority over him that swears:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Henry had none, but did usurp the place,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Within whose circuit is Elysium
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Until the white rose that I wear be dyed
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Richard, enough, I will be king, or die.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Brother, thou shalt to London presently,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And whet on Warwick to this enterprise.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And tell him privily of our intent.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|You Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|In them I trust, for they are soldiers,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|While you are thus employ'd, what resteth more,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But that I seek occasion how to rise,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And yet the king not privy to my drift,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Nor any of the house of Lancaster?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such post?
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|The queen with all the northern earls and lords
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Intend here to besiege you in your castle:
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|She is hard by with twenty thousand men,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Ay, with my sword. What! think'st thou that we fear them?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|My brother Montague shall post to London:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Whom we have left protectors of the king,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|With powerful policy strengthen themselves,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Brother, I go, I'll win them, fear it not:
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|And thus most humbly I do take my leave.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Exit
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Enter JOHN MORTIMER and HUGH MORTIMER
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, mine uncles,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|You are come to Sandal in a happy hour,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|The army of the queen mean to besiege us.
Henry VI Part 3|JOHN MORTIMER|She shall not need, we'll meet her in the field.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|What, with five thousand men?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|A woman's general, what should we fear?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|A march afar off
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I hear their drums: let's set our men in order,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And issue forth and bid them battle straight.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Five men to twenty! though the odds be great,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I doubt not, uncle, of our victory.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Many a battle have I won in France,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|When as the enemy hath been ten to one:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Why should I not now have the like success?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Alarum. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|SCENE III. Field of battle betwixt Sandal Castle and Wakefield.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Alarums. Enter RUTLAND and his Tutor
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes!
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Enter CLIFFORD and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|As for the brat of this accursed duke,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Whose father slew my father, he shall die.
Henry VI Part 3|Tutor|And I, my lord, will bear him company.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Soldiers, away with him!
Henry VI Part 3|Tutor|Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child,
Henry VI Part 3|Tutor|Lest thou be hated both of God and man!
Henry VI Part 3|Tutor|Exit, dragged off by Soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|How now! is he dead already? or is it fear
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|That makes him close his eyes? I'll open them.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|That trembles under his devouring paws,
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey,
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|And so he comes, to rend his limbs asunder.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword,
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|And not with such a cruel threatening look.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|I am too mean a subject for thy wrath:
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Be thou revenged on men, and let me live.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|In vain thou speak'st, poor boy, my father's blood
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Hath stopp'd the passage where thy words should enter.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Then let my father's blood open it again:
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Had thy brethren here, their lives and thine
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Were not revenge sufficient for me,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|The sight of any of the house of York
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Is as a fury to torment my soul,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And till I root out their accursed line
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And leave not one alive, I live in hell.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Therefore--
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Lifting his hand
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|O, let me pray before I take my death!
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|To thee I pray, sweet Clifford, pity me!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Such pity as my rapier's point affords.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|I never did thee harm: why wilt thou slay me?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Thy father hath.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|But 'twas ere I was born.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Thou hast one son, for his sake pity me,
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|He be as miserably slain as I.
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Ah, let me live in prison all my days,
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|And when I give occasion of offence,
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|No cause!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Thy father slew my father, therefore, die.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Stabs him
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae!
Henry VI Part 3|RUTLAND|Dies
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Plantagenet! I come, Plantagenet!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Shall rust upon my weapon, till thy blood,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Congeal'd with this, do make me wipe off both.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Exit
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Alarum. Enter YORK
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|The army of the queen hath got the field:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|My uncles both are slain in rescuing me,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And all my followers to the eager foe
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Turn back and fly, like ships before the wind
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|My sons, God knows what hath bechanced them:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But this I know, they have demean'd themselves
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Like men born to renown by life or death.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Three times did Richard make a lane to me.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And thrice cried 'Courage, father! fight it out!'
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And full as oft came Edward to my side,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|With purple falchion, painted to the hilt
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|In blood of those that had encounter'd him:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And when the hardiest warriors did retire,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Richard cried 'Charge! and give no foot of ground!'
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And cried 'A crown, or else a glorious tomb!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre!'
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|With this, we charged again: but, out, alas!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|We bodged again, as I have seen a swan
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|With bootless labour swim against the tide
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|A short alarum within
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Ah, hark! the fatal followers do pursue,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And I am faint and cannot fly their fury:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And were I strong, I would not shun their fury:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|The sands are number'd that make up my life,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Enter QUEEN MARGARET, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Come, bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I dare your quenchless fury to more rage:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I am your butt, and I abide your shot.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Yield to our mercy, proud Plantagenet.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|With downright payment, show'd unto my father.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Now Phaethon hath tumbled from his car,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And made an evening at the noontide prick.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|A bird that will revenge upon you all:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Why come you not? what! multitudes, and fear?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|So cowards fight when they can fly no further,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|O Clifford, but bethink thee once again,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And in thy thought o'er-run my former time,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And, if though canst for blushing, view this face,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|I will not bandy with thee word for word,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Hold, valiant Clifford! for a thousand causes
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|I would prolong awhile the traitor's life.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Wrath makes him deaf: speak thou, Northumberland.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Hold, Clifford! do not honour him so much
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart:
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|When he might spurn him with his foot away?
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|It is war's prize to take all vantages,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|And ten to one is no impeach of valour.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|They lay hands on YORK, who struggles
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|So doth the cony struggle in the net.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|What would your grace have done unto him now?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Come, make him stand upon this molehill here,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That raught at mountains with outstretched arms,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What! was it you that would be England's king?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Was't you that revell'd in our parliament,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And made a preachment of your high descent?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Where are your mess of sons to back you now?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The wanton Edward, and the lusty George?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And where's that valiant crook-back prodigy,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Dicky your boy, that with his grumbling voice
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Or, with the rest, where is your darling Rutland?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Look, York: I stain'd this napkin with the blood
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That valiant Clifford, with his rapier's point,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Made issue from the bosom of the boy,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And if thine eyes can water for his death,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Alas poor York! but that I hate thee deadly,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|I should lament thy miserable state.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|I prithee, grieve, to make me merry, York.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What, hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Why art thou patient, man? thou shouldst be mad,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou wouldst be fee'd, I see, to make me sport:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|York cannot speak, unless he wear a crown.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|A crown for York! and, lords, bow low to him:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Hold you his hands, whilst I do set it on.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Putting a paper crown on his head
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And this is he was his adopted heir.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But how is it that great Plantagenet
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Is crown'd so soon, and broke his solemn oath?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|As I bethink me, you should not be king
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Till our King Henry had shook hands with death.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And will you pale your head in Henry's glory,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And rob his temples of the diadem,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Now in his life, against your holy oath?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|O, 'tis a fault too too unpardonable!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Off with the crown, and with the crown his head,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And, whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|That is my office, for my father's sake.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Nay, stay, lets hear the orisons he makes.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But that thy face is, vizard-like, unchanging,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Made impudent with use of evil deeds,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Unless the adage must be verified,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|'Tis government that makes them seem divine,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|The want thereof makes thee abominable:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Thou art as opposite to every good
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|As the Antipodes are unto us,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Or as the south to the septentrion.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And yet be seen to bear a woman's face?
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Bids't thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Wouldst have me weep? why, now thou hast thy will:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|For raging wind blows up incessant showers,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And when the rage allays, the rain begins.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|These tears are my sweet Rutland's obsequies:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And every drop cries vengeance for his death,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|'Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Frenchwoman.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|That hardly can I cheque my eyes from tears.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|That face of his the hungry cannibals
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Would not have touch'd, would not have stain'd with blood:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|O, ten times more, than tigers of Hyrcania.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|This cloth thou dip'dst in blood of my sweet boy,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And I with tears do wash the blood away.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And if thou tell'st the heavy story right,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Yea even my foes will shed fast-falling tears,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And say 'Alas, it was a piteous deed!'
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|There, take the crown, and, with the crown, my curse,
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|And in thy need such comfort come to thee
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|As now I reap at thy too cruel hand!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world:
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|I should not for my life but weep with him.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What, weeping-ripe, my Lord Northumberland?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Think but upon the wrong he did us all,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And that will quickly dry thy melting tears.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Stabbing him
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And here's to right our gentle-hearted king.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Stabbing him
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God!
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee.
Henry VI Part 3|YORK|Dies
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Off with his head, and set it on York gates,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|So York may overlook the town of York.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Flourish. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|ACT II
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|SCENE I. A plain near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|A march. Enter EDWARD, RICHARD, and their power
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I wonder how our princely father 'scaped,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Or whether he be 'scaped away or no
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Had he been ta'en, we should have heard the news,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Had he been slain, we should have heard the news,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Or had he 'scaped, methinks we should have heard
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|The happy tidings of his good escape.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|How fares my brother? why is he so sad?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I cannot joy, until I be resolved
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Where our right valiant father is become.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I saw him in the battle range about,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|And watch'd him how he singled Clifford forth.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Methought he bore him in the thickest troop
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|As doth a lion in a herd of neat,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Or as a bear, encompass'd round with dogs,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Who having pinch'd a few and made them cry,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|So fared our father with his enemies,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|So fled his enemies my warlike father:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Methinks, 'tis prize enough to be his son.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|See how the morning opes her golden gates,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|How well resembles it the prime of youth,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Not separated with the racking clouds,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|As if they vow'd some league inviolable:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|In this the heaven figures some event.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I think it cites us, brother, to the field,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Each one already blazing by our meeds,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Should notwithstanding join our lights together
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And over-shine the earth as this the world.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Upon my target three fair-shining suns.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Nay, bear three daughters: by your leave I speak it,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|You love the breeder better than the male.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Ah, one that was a woful looker-on
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|When as the noble Duke of York was slain,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Your princely father and my loving lord!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|O, speak no more, for I have heard too much.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Say how he died, for I will hear it all.
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Environed he was with many foes,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|And stood against them, as the hope of Troy
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Against the Greeks that would have enter'd Troy.
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|But Hercules himself must yield to odds,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|By many hands your father was subdued,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|But only slaughter'd by the ireful arm
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Of unrelenting Clifford and the queen,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Who crown'd the gracious duke in high despite,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Laugh'd in his face, and when with grief he wept,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|The ruthless queen gave him to dry his cheeks
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|A napkin steeped in the harmless blood
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain:
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|And after many scorns, many foul taunts,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|They took his head, and on the gates of York
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|They set the same, and there it doth remain,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|O Clifford, boisterous Clifford! thou hast slain
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|The flower of Europe for his chivalry,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|For hand to hand he would have vanquish'd thee.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Now my soul's palace is become a prison:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Might in the ground be closed up in rest!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|For never henceforth shall I joy again,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Never, O never shall I see more joy!
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I cannot weep, for all my body's moisture
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burthen,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|For selfsame wind that I should speak withal
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Is kindling coals that fires all my breast,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|And burns me up with flames that tears would quench.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|To weep is to make less the depth of grief:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Tears then for babes, blows and revenge for me
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Richard, I bear thy name, I'll venge thy death,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Or die renowned by attempting it.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|His name that valiant duke hath left with thee,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|His dukedom and his chair with me is left.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|March. Enter WARWICK, MONTAGUE, and their army
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|How now, fair lords! What fare? what news abroad?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Great Lord of Warwick, if we should recount
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|The words would add more anguish than the wounds.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|O valiant lord, the Duke of York is slain!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|O Warwick, Warwick! that Plantagenet,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Which held three dearly as his soul's redemption,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And now, to add more measure to your woes,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I come to tell you things sith then befall'n.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Were brought me of your loss and his depart.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I, then in London keeper of the king,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Muster'd my soldiers, gather'd flocks of friends,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And very well appointed, as I thought,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|March'd toward Saint Alban's to intercept the queen,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Bearing the king in my behalf along,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For by my scouts I was advertised
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That she was coming with a full intent
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To dash our late decree in parliament
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Touching King Henry's oath and your succession.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Short tale to make, we at Saint Alban's met
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Our battles join'd, and both sides fiercely fought:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But whether 'twas the coldness of the king,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Who look'd full gently on his warlike queen,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Or whether 'twas report of her success,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Or more than common fear of Clifford's rigour,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Who thunders to his captives blood and death,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I cannot judge: but to conclude with truth,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Their weapons like to lightning came and went,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Our soldiers', like the night-owl's lazy flight,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Or like an idle thresher with a flail,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I cheer'd them up with justice of our cause,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With promise of high pay and great rewards:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But all in vain, they had no heart to fight,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And we in them no hope to win the day,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|So that we fled, the king unto the queen,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Lord George your brother, Norfolk and myself,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For in the marches here we heard you were,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Making another head to fight again.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Where is the Duke of Norfolk, gentle Warwick?
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And when came George from Burgundy to England?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Some six miles off the duke is with the soldiers,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And for your brother, he was lately sent
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|From your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With aid of soldiers to this needful war.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|'Twas odds, belike, when valiant Warwick fled:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|But ne'er till now his scandal of retire.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Nor now my scandal, Richard, dost thou hear,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And wring the awful sceptre from his fist,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Were he as famous and as bold in war
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I know it well, Lord Warwick, blame me not:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|'Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|But in this troublous time what's to be done?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Shall we go throw away our coats of steel,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Or shall we on the helmets of our foes
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Tell our devotion with revengeful arms?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And therefore comes my brother Montague.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With Clifford and the haught Northumberland,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And of their feather many more proud birds,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|He swore consent to your succession,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|His oath enrolled in the parliament,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And now to London all the crew are gone,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To frustrate both his oath and what beside
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|May make against the house of Lancaster.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Will but amount to five and twenty thousand,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why, Via! to London will we march amain,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And once again bestride our foaming steeds,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And once again cry 'Charge upon our foes!'
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But never once again turn back and fly.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|That cries 'Retire,' if Warwick bid him stay.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And when thou fail'st--as God forbid the hour!--
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The next degree is England's royal throne,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For King of England shalt thou be proclaim'd
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|In every borough as we pass along,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And he that throws not up his cap for joy
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But sound the trumpets, and about our task.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Then strike up drums: God and Saint George for us!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|How now! what news?
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|The queen is coming with a puissant host,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|And craves your company for speedy counsel.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why then it sorts, brave warriors, let's away.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|SCENE II. Before York.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET,  PRINCE EDWARD, CLIFFORD, and NORTHUMBERLAND, with drum and trumpets
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of York.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That sought to be encompass'd with your crown:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To see this sight, it irks my very soul.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Withhold revenge, dear God! 'tis not my fault,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|My gracious liege, this too much lenity
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And harmful pity must be laid aside.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Not his that spoils her young before her face.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Not he that sets his foot upon her back.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Ambitious York doth level at thy crown,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows:
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|He, but a duke, would have his son a king,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And raise his issue, like a loving sire,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Didst yield consent to disinherit him,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Which argued thee a most unloving father.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Unreasonable creatures feed their young,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And though man's face be fearful to their eyes,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Yet, in protection of their tender ones,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Who hath not seen them, even with those wings
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Offer their own lives in their young's defence?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|For shame, my liege, make them your precedent!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Were it not pity that this goodly boy
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And long hereafter say unto his child,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|'What my great-grandfather and his grandsire got
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|My careless father fondly gave away'?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And let his manly face, which promiseth
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|To hold thine own and leave thine own with him.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Inferring arguments of mighty force.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|That things ill-got had ever bad success?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And happy always was it for that son
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And would my father had left me no more!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For all the rest is held at such a rate
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Than in possession and jot of pleasure.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ah, cousin York! would thy best friends did know
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|How it doth grieve me that thy head is here!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|My lord, cheer up your spirits: our foes are nigh,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And this soft courage makes your followers faint.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|You promised knighthood to our forward son:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Unsheathe your sword, and dub him presently.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Edward, kneel down.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And learn this lesson, draw thy sword in right.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE|My gracious father, by your kingly leave,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE|I'll draw it as apparent to the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE|And in that quarrel use it to the death.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Royal commanders, be in readiness:
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|For with a band of thirty thousand men
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|And in the towns, as they do march along,
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Proclaims him king, and many fly to him:
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Darraign your battle, for they are at hand.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|I would your highness would depart the field:
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|The queen hath best success when you are absent.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Why, that's my fortune too, therefore I'll stay.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|Be it with resolution then to fight.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|My royal father, cheer these noble lords
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And hearten those that fight in your defence:
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Unsheathe your sword, good father, cry 'Saint George!'
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|March. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD, WARWICK, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Now, perjured Henry! wilt thou kneel for grace,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And set thy diadem upon my head,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Or bide the mortal fortune of the field?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king?
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I am his king, and he should bow his knee,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I was adopted heir by his consent:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Since when, his oath is broke, for, as I hear,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|You, that are king, though he do wear the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Have caused him, by new act of parliament,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|To blot out me, and put his own son in.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And reason too:
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Who should succeed the father but the son?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Ay, crook-back, here I stand to answer thee,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Or any he the proudest of thy sort.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|'Twas you that kill'd young Rutland, was it not?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Ay, and old York, and yet not satisfied.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|For God's sake, lords, give signal to the fight.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|What say'st thou, Henry, wilt thou yield the crown?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick! dare you speak?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|When you and I met at Saint Alban's last,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Your legs did better service than your hands.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Then 'twas my turn to fly, and now 'tis thine.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|You said so much before, and yet you fled.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|'Twas not your valour, Clifford, drove me thence.
Henry VI Part 3|NORTHUMBERLAND|No, nor your manhood that durst make you stay.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Northumberland, I hold thee reverently.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Break off the parley, for scarce I can refrain
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|The execution of my big-swoln heart
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|I slew thy father, call'st thou him a child?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|But ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Have done with words, my lords, and hear me speak.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Defy them then, or else hold close thy lips.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I prithee, give no limits to my tongue:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I am a king, and privileged to speak.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|My liege, the wound that bred this meeting here
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Cannot be cured by words, therefore be still.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|By him that made us all, I am resolved
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|that Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Say, Henry, shall I have my right, or no?
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|A thousand men have broke their fasts to-day,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|If thou deny, their blood upon thy head,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For York in justice puts his armour on.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|If that be right which Warwick says is right,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|There is no wrong, but every thing is right.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|For, well I wot, thou hast thy mother's tongue.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But like a foul mis-shapen stigmatic,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|As venom toads, or lizards' dreadful stings.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Iron of Naples hid with English gilt,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Whose father bears the title of a king,--
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|As if a channel should be call'd the sea,--
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|To make this shameless callet know herself.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Although thy husband may be Menelaus,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|By that false woman, as this king by thee.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|His father revell'd in the heart of France,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And tamed the king, and made the dauphin stoop,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And had he match'd according to his state,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|He might have kept that glory to this day,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|But when he took a beggar to his bed,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And graced thy poor sire with his bridal-day,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And heap'd sedition on his crown at home.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|For what hath broach'd this tumult but thy pride?
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Hadst thou been meek, our title still had slept,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And we, in pity of the gentle king,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Had slipp'd our claim until another age.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|And that thy summer bred us no increase,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|We set the axe to thy usurping root,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|And though the edge hath something hit ourselves,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Yet, know thou, since we have begun to strike,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|We'll never leave till we have hewn thee down,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And, in this resolution, I defy thee,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Not willing any longer conference,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Since thou deniest the gentle king to speak.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And either victory, or else a grave.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Stay, Edward.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|No, wrangling woman, we'll no longer stay:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|These words will cost ten thousand lives this day.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|SCENE III. A field of battle between Towton and Saxton, in
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Yorkshire.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Alarum. Excursions. Enter WARWICK
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Forspent with toil, as runners with a race,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I lay me down a little while to breathe,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For strokes received, and many blows repaid,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And spite of spite needs must I rest awhile.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter EDWARD, running
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Smile, gentle heaven! or strike, ungentle death!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|For this world frowns, and Edward's sun is clouded.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|How now, my lord! what hap? what hope of good?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter GEORGE
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us:
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|What counsel give you? whither shall we fly?
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Bootless is flight, they follow us with wings,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Enter RICHARD
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Ah, Warwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyself?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|And in the very pangs of death he cried,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Like to a dismal clangour heard from far,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|'Warwick, revenge! brother, revenge my death!'
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|So, underneath the belly of their steeds,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|That stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|The noble gentleman gave up the ghost.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Then let the earth be drunken with our blood:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I'll kill my horse, because I will not fly.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And look upon, as if the tragedy
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Were play'd in jest by counterfeiting actors?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Here on my knee I vow to God above,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I'll never pause again, never stand still,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Or fortune given me measure of revenge.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|O Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And in this vow do chain my soul to thine!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And, ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to thee,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Thou setter up and plucker down of kings,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Beseeching thee, if with they will it stands
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|That to my foes this body must be prey,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And give sweet passage to my sinful soul!
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Now, lords, take leave until we meet again,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Where'er it be, in heaven or in earth.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Brother, give me thy hand, and, gentle Warwick,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Let me embrace thee in my weary arms:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I, that did never weep, now melt with woe
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|That winter should cut off our spring-time so.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Away, away! Once more, sweet lords farewell.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Yet let us all together to our troops,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|And give them leave to fly that will not stay,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|And call them pillars that will stand to us,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|As victors wear at the Olympian games:
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|This may plant courage in their quailing breasts,
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|For yet is hope of life and victory.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Forslow no longer, make we hence amain.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Excursions. Enter RICHARD and CLIFFORD
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|And this for Rutland, both bound to revenge,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone:
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|This is the hand that stabb'd thy father York,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And here's the heart that triumphs in their death
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|To execute the like upon thyself,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And so, have at thee!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|They fight. WARWICK comes, CLIFFORD flies
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Nay Warwick, single out some other chase,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|For I myself will hunt this wolf to death.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|SCENE V. Another part of the field.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Alarum. Enter KING HENRY VI alone
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|This battle fares like to the morning's war,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|When dying clouds contend with growing light,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Can neither call it perfect day nor night.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Forced by the tide to combat with the wind,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Forced to retire by fury of the wind:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Now one the better, then another best,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Yet neither conqueror nor conquered:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So is the equal of this fell war.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Here on this molehill will I sit me down.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To whom God will, there be the victory!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Have chid me from the battle, swearing both
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|They prosper best of all when I am thence.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Would I were dead! if God's good will were so,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For what is in this world but grief and woe?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|O God! methinks it were a happy life,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To be no better than a homely swain,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thereby to see the minutes how they run,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|How many make the hour full complete,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|How many hours bring about the day,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|How many days will finish up the year,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|How many years a mortal man may live.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|When this is known, then to divide the times:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So many hours must I tend my flock,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So many hours must I take my rest,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So many hours must I contemplate,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So many hours must I sport myself,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So many days my ewes have been with young,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So many years ere I shall shear the fleece:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|O, yes, it doth, a thousand-fold it doth.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Is far beyond a prince's delicates,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|His viands sparkling in a golden cup,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|His body couched in a curious bed,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his father, dragging in the dead body
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
Henry VI Part 3|Son|This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|May be possessed with some store of crowns,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|And I, that haply take them from him now,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|May yet ere night yield both my life and them
Henry VI Part 3|Son|To some man else, as this dead man doth me.
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Who's this? O God! it is my father's face,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd.
Henry VI Part 3|Son|O heavy times, begetting such events!
Henry VI Part 3|Son|From London by the king was I press'd forth,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Came on the part of York, press'd by his master,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|And I, who at his hands received my life, him
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Have by my hands of life bereaved him.
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did!
Henry VI Part 3|Son|And pardon, father, for I knew not thee!
Henry VI Part 3|Son|My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks,
Henry VI Part 3|Son|And no more words till they have flow'd their fill.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whiles lions war and battle for their dens,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Enter a Father that has killed his son, bringing in the body
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold:
Henry VI Part 3|Father|For I have bought it with an hundred blows.
Henry VI Part 3|Father|But let me see: is this our foeman's face?
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son!
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart!
Henry VI Part 3|Father|O, pity, God, this miserable age!
Henry VI Part 3|Father|What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Erroneous, mutinous and unnatural,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
Henry VI Part 3|Father|O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Woe above woe! grief more than common grief!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The red rose and the white are on his face,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The fatal colours of our striving houses:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The one his purple blood right well resembles,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Wither one rose, and let the other flourish,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.
Henry VI Part 3|Son|How will my mother for a father's death
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Take on with me and ne'er be satisfied!
Henry VI Part 3|Father|How will my wife for slaughter of my son
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|How will the country for these woful chances
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Misthink the king and not be satisfied!
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Was ever son so rued a father's death?
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Was ever father so bemoan'd his son?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Was ever king so grieved for subjects' woe?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Much is your sorrow, mine ten times so much.
Henry VI Part 3|Son|I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.
Henry VI Part 3|Son|Exit with the body
Henry VI Part 3|Father|These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|And so obsequious will thy father be,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Even for the loss of thee, having no more,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|As Priam was for all his valiant sons.
Henry VI Part 3|Father|I'll bear thee hence, and let them fight that will,
Henry VI Part 3|Father|For I have murdered where I should not kill.
Henry VI Part 3|Father|Exit with the body
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Here sits a king more woful than you are.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Alarums: excursions. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD, and EXETER
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Fly, father, fly! for all your friends are fled,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And Warwick rages like a chafed bull:
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Away! for death doth hold us in pursuit.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Mount you, my lord, towards Berwick post amain:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Having the fearful flying hare in sight,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Are at our backs, and therefore hence amain.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Away! for vengeance comes along with them:
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed,
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Or else come after: I'll away before.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Not that I fear to stay, but love to go
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whither the queen intends. Forward, away!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|SCENE VI. Another part of the field.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|A loud alarum. Enter CLIFFORD, wounded
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Here burns my candle out, ay, here it dies,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|More than my body's parting with my soul!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|My love and fear glued many friends to thee,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And, now I fall, thy tough commixture melts.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|The common people swarm like summer flies,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And who shines now but Henry's enemies?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|That Phaethon should cheque thy fiery steeds,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth!
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And, Henry, hadst thou sway'd as kings should do,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Or as thy father and his father did,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Giving no ground unto the house of York,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|They never then had sprung like summer flies,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|I and ten thousand in this luckless realm
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Had left no mourning widows for our death,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight:
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|The foe is merciless, and will not pity,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|For at their hands I have deserved no pity.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|The air hath got into my deadly wounds,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|And much effuse of blood doth make me faint.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Come, York and Richard, Warwick and the rest,
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms, split my breast.
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|He faints
Henry VI Part 3|CLIFFORD|Alarum and retreat. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD, MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|That led calm Henry, though he were a king,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Command an argosy to stem the waves.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|No, 'tis impossible he should escape,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For, though before his face I speak the words
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Your brother Richard mark'd him for the grave:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And wheresoe'er he is, he's surely dead.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|CLIFFORD groans, and dies
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|See who it is: and, now the battle's ended,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|If friend or foe, let him be gently used.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|But set his murdering knife unto the root
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I mean our princely father, Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|From off the gates of York fetch down the head,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Your father's head, which Clifford placed there,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Instead whereof let this supply the room:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Measure for measure must be answered.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|That nothing sung but death to us and ours:
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I think his understanding is bereft.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And he nor sees nor hears us what we say.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|O, would he did! and so perhaps he doth:
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|'Tis but his policy to counterfeit,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Because he would avoid such bitter taunts
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Which in the time of death he gave our father.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Clifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Clifford, repent in bootless penitence.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Thou didst love York, and I am son to York.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Thou pitied'st Rutland, I will pity thee.
Henry VI Part 3|GEORGE|Where's Captain Margaret, to fence you now?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|They mock thee, Clifford: swear as thou wast wont.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|What, not an oath? nay, then the world goes hard
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|I know by that he's dead, and, by my soul,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|If this right hand would buy two hour's life,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|That I in all despite might rail at him,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|This hand should chop it off, and with the
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|issuing blood
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|York and young Rutland could not satisfy.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Ay, but he's dead: off with the traitor's head,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And rear it in the place your father's stands.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And now to London with triumphant march,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|There to be crowned England's royal king:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|So shalt thou sinew both these lands together,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And, having France thy friend, thou shalt not dread
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The scatter'd foe that hopes to rise again,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|First will I see the coronation,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To effect this marriage, so it please my lord.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Even as thou wilt, sweet Warwick, let it be,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|For in thy shoulder do I build my seat,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And never will I undertake the thing
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|And George, of Clarence: Warwick, as ourself,
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester,
Henry VI Part 3|RICHARD|For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Tut, that's a foolish observation:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Richard, be Duke of Gloucester. Now to London,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To see these honours in possession.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|ACT III
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|SCENE I. A forest in the north of England.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud ourselves,
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|For through this laund anon the deer will come,
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|And in this covert will we make our stand,
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|Culling the principal of all the deer.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|I'll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|That cannot be, the noise of thy cross-bow
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|Here stand we both, and aim we at the best:
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|And, for the time shall not seem tedious,
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|I'll tell thee what befell me on a day
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|In this self-place where now we mean to stand.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Here comes a man, let's stay till he be past.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Enter KING HENRY VI, disguised, with a prayerbook
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|From Scotland am I stol'n, even of pure love,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|No, Harry, Harry, 'tis no land of thine,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thy place is fill'd, thy sceptre wrung from thee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thy balm wash'd off wherewith thou wast anointed:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|No bending knee will call thee Caesar now,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|No humble suitors press to speak for right,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|No, not a man comes for redress of thee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For how can I help them, and not myself?
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|Ay, here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee:
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|This is the quondam king, let's seize upon him.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For wise men say it is the wisest course.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Why linger we? let us lay hands upon him.
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|Forbear awhile, we'll hear a little more.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My queen and son are gone to France for aid,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Is thither gone, to crave the French king's sister
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To wife for Edward: if this news be true,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Poor queen and son, your labour is but lost,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For Warwick is a subtle orator,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|By this account then Margaret may win him,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For she's a woman to be pitied much:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Her sighs will make a battery in his breast,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Her tears will pierce into a marble heart,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And Nero will be tainted with remorse,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ay, but she's come to beg, Warwick to give,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|She, on his left side, craving aid for Henry,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|She weeps, and says her Henry is deposed,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|He smiles, and says his Edward is install'd,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And in conclusion wins the king from her,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|With promise of his sister, and what else,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To strengthen and support King Edward's place.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|O Margaret, thus 'twill be, and thou, poor soul,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Art then forsaken, as thou went'st forlorn!
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Say, what art thou that talk'st of kings and queens?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|More than I seem, and less than I was born to:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|A man at least, for less I should not be,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And men may talk of kings, and why not I?
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Why, so I am, in mind, and that's enough.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My crown is in my heart, not on my head,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Nor to be seen: my crown is called content:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Well, if you be a king crown'd with content,
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Your crown content and you must be contented
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|To go along with us, for as we think,
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|You are the king King Edward hath deposed,
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|And we his subjects sworn in all allegiance
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Will apprehend you as his enemy.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|But did you never swear, and break an oath?
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|No, never such an oath, nor will not now.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Where did you dwell when I was King of England?
Henry VI Part 3|Second Keeper|Here in this country, where we now remain.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I was anointed king at nine months old,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My father and my grandfather were kings,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And you were sworn true subjects unto me:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|No,
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|For we were subjects but while you were king.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Why, am I dead? do I not breathe a man?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ah, simple men, you know not what you swear!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Look, as I blow this feather from my face,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And as the air blows it to me again,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Obeying with my wind when I do blow,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And yielding to another when it blows,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Commanded always by the greater gust,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Such is the lightness of you common men.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|But do not break your oaths, for of that sin
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Go where you will, the king shall be commanded,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And be you kings, command, and I'll obey.
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|We are true subjects to the king, King Edward.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So would you be again to Henry,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|If he were seated as King Edward is.
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|We charge you, in God's name, and the king's,
Henry VI Part 3|First Keeper|To go with us unto the officers.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|In God's name, lead, your king's name be obey'd:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And what God will, that let your king perform,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And what he will, I humbly yield unto.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|SCENE II. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and LADY GREY
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Alban's field
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|This lady's husband, Sir Richard Grey, was slain,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|His lands then seized on by the conqueror:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Her suit is now to repossess those lands,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Which we in justice cannot well deny,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Because in quarrel of the house of York
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|The worthy gentleman did lose his life.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Your highness shall do well to grant her suit,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|It were dishonour to deny it her.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|It were no less, but yet I'll make a pause.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  Yea, is it so?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I see the lady hath a thing to grant,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Before the king will grant her humble suit.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  He knows the game: how true
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|he keeps the wind!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  Silence!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Widow, we will consider of your suit,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And come some other time to know our mind.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay:
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|May it please your highness to resolve me now,
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|And what your pleasure is, shall satisfy me.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  Ay, widow? then I'll warrant
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|you all your lands,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|An if what pleases him shall pleasure you.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Fight closer, or, good faith, you'll catch a blow.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  I fear her not, unless she
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|chance to fall.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE] God forbid that! for he'll
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|take vantages.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|How many children hast thou, widow? tell me.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  I think he means to beg a
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|child of her.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  Nay, whip me then: he'll rather
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|give her two.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Three, my most gracious lord.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  You shall have four, if you'll
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|be ruled by him.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|'Twere pity they should lose their father's lands.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Lords, give us leave: I'll try this widow's wit.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  Ay, good leave have you, for
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|you will have leave,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|GLOUCESTER and CLARENCE retire
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And would you not do much to do them good?
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|To do them good, I would sustain some harm.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Then get your husband's lands, to do them good.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Therefore I came unto your majesty.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|I'll tell you how these lands are to be got.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|So shall you bind me to your highness' service.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What service wilt thou do me, if I give them?
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|What you command, that rests in me to do.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But you will take exceptions to my boon.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Why, then I will do what your grace commands.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  He plies her hard, and much rain
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|wears the marble.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  As red as fire! nay, then
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|her wax must melt.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Why stops my lord, shall I not hear my task?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|An easy task, 'tis but to love a king.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|That's soon perform'd, because I am a subject.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Why, then, thy husband's lands I freely give thee.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|I take my leave with many thousand thanks.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  The match is made, she seals it
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|with a curtsy.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But stay thee, 'tis the fruits of love I mean.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ay, but, I fear me, in another sense.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get?
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers,
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|That love which virtue begs and virtue grants.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|No, by my troth, I did not mean such love.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Why, then you mean not as I thought you did.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But now you partly may perceive my mind.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|My mind will never grant what I perceive
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Your highness aims at, if I aim aright.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Why, then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Why, then mine honesty shall be my dower,
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|For by that loss I will not purchase them.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Herein your highness wrongs both them and me.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|But, mighty lord, this merry inclination
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Accords not with the sadness of my suit:
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Please you dismiss me either with 'ay' or 'no.'
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ay, if thou wilt say 'ay' to my request,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|No if thou dost say 'no' to my demand.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|Then, no, my lord. My suit is at an end.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  The widow likes him not, she
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|knits her brows.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  He is the bluntest wooer in
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Christendom.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|[Aside]  Her looks do argue her replete with modesty,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Her words do show her wit incomparable,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|All her perfections challenge sovereignty:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|One way or other, she is for a king,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And she shall be my love, or else my queen.--
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Say that King Edward take thee for his queen?
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|'Tis better said than done, my gracious lord:
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|I am a subject fit to jest withal,
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|But far unfit to be a sovereign.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Sweet widow, by my state I swear to thee
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|I speak no more than what my soul intends,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And that is, to enjoy thee for my love.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|And that is more than I will yield unto:
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|I know I am too mean to be your queen,
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|And yet too good to be your concubine.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|You cavil, widow: I did mean, my queen.
Henry VI Part 3|LADY GREY|'Twill grieve your grace my sons should call you father.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|No more than when my daughters call thee mother.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Thou art a widow, and thou hast some children,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Have other some: why, 'tis a happy thing
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|To be the father unto many sons.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside to CLARENCE]  The ghostly father now hath done
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|his shrift.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|[Aside to GLOUCESTER]  When he was made a shriver,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|'twas for shift.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The widow likes it not, for she looks very sad.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|You'll think it strange if I should marry her.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To whom, my lord?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Why, Clarence, to myself.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That would be ten days' wonder at the least.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|That's a day longer than a wonder lasts.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|By so much is the wonder in extremes.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Well, jest on, brothers: I can tell you both
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Her suit is granted for her husband's lands.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Enter a Nobleman
Henry VI Part 3|Nobleman|My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken,
Henry VI Part 3|Nobleman|And brought your prisoner to your palace gate.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|See that he be convey'd unto the Tower:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|To question of his apprehension.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Widow, go you along. Lords, use her honourably.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Ay, Edward will use women honourably.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Would he were wasted, marrow, bones and all,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To cross me from the golden time I look for!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And yet, between my soul's desire and me--
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The lustful Edward's title buried--
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And all the unlook'd for issue of their bodies,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To take their rooms, ere I can place myself:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|A cold premeditation for my purpose!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Why, then, I do but dream on sovereignty,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Like one that stands upon a promontory,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Wishing his foot were equal with his eye,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|So do I wish the crown, being so far off,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And so I chide the means that keeps me from it,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And so I say, I'll cut the causes off,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Flattering me with impossibilities.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Unless my hand and strength could equal them.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Well, say there is no kingdom then for Richard,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|What other pleasure can the world afford?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And deck my body in gay ornaments,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|O miserable thought! and more unlikely
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Why, love forswore me in my  mother's womb:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To make an envious mountain on my back,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Where sits deformity to mock my body,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To shape my legs of an unequal size,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To disproportion me in every part,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelp
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That carries no impression like the dam.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And am I then a man to be beloved?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|O monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Then, since this earth affords no joy to me,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|But to command, to cheque, to o'erbear such
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|As are of better person than myself,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Be round impaled with a glorious crown.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And yet I know not how to get the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|For many lives stand between me and home:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And I,--like one lost in a thorny wood,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Seeking a way and straying from the way,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Not knowing how to find the open air,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|But toiling desperately to find it out,--
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Torment myself to catch the English crown:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And from that torment I will free myself,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And frame my face to all occasions.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I can add colours to the chameleon,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|SCENE III. France. KING LEWIS XI's palace.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Flourish. Enter KING LEWIS XI, his sister BONA,  his Admiral, called BOURBON, PRINCE EDWARD, QUEEN  MARGARET, and OXFORD. KING LEWIS XI sits, and riseth up again
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Fair Queen of England, worthy Margaret,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Sit down with us: it ill befits thy state
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And birth, that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|No, mighty King of France: now Margaret
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Must strike her sail and learn awhile to serve
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Where kings command. I was, I must confess,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Great Albion's queen in former golden days:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But now mischance hath trod my title down,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And with dishonour laid me on the ground,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Where I must take like seat unto my fortune,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And to my humble seat conform myself.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Why, say, fair queen, whence springs this deep despair?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And stops my tongue, while heart is drown'd in cares.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Whate'er it be, be thou still like thyself,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And sit thee by our side:
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Seats her by him
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Yield not thy neck
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|It shall be eased, if France can yield relief.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Now, therefore, be it known to noble Lewis,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That Henry, sole possessor of my love,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Is of a king become a banish'd man,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Usurps the regal title and the seat
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Of England's true-anointed lawful king.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|This is the cause that I, poor Margaret,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|With this my son, Prince Edward, Henry's heir,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And if thou fail us, all our hope is done:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Our people and our peers are both misled,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Our treasures seized, our soldiers put to flight,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Renowned queen, with patience calm the storm,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|While we bethink a means to break it off.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The more we stay, the stronger grows our foe.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|The more I stay, the more I'll succor thee.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Enter WARWICK
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|What's he approacheth boldly to our presence?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Our Earl of Warwick, Edward's greatest friend.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Welcome, brave Warwick! What brings thee to France?
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|He descends. She ariseth
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, now begins a second storm to rise,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|For this is he that moves both wind and tide.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|From worthy Edward, King of Albion,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I come, in kindness and unfeigned love,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|First, to do greetings to thy royal person,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And then to crave a league of amity,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And lastly, to confirm that amity
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With a nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To England's king in lawful marriage.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|[Aside]  If that go forward, Henry's hope is done.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|[To BONA]  And, gracious madam, in our king's behalf,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I am commanded, with your leave and favour,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Humbly to kiss your hand, and with my tongue
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To tell the passion of my sovereign's heart,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Where fame, late entering at his heedful ears,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Hath placed thy beauty's image and thy virtue.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|King Lewis and Lady Bona, hear me speak,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Before you answer Warwick. His demand
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But from deceit bred by necessity,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|For how can tyrants safely govern home,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That Henry liveth still: but were he dead,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet here Prince Edward stands, King Henry's son.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Look, therefore, Lewis, that by this league and marriage
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|For though usurpers sway the rule awhile,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Injurious Margaret!
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And why not queen?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Because thy father Henry did usurp,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And thou no more are prince than she is queen.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|And, after John of Gaunt, Henry the Fourth,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|And, after that wise prince, Henry the Fifth,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Who by his prowess conquered all France:
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|From these our Henry lineally descends.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Oxford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|All that which Henry Fifth had gotten?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Methinks these peers of France should smile at that.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But for the rest, you tell a pedigree
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Of threescore and two years, a silly time
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To make prescription for a kingdom's worth.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Whom thou obeyed'st thirty and six years,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|And not bewray thy treason with a blush?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For shame! leave Henry, and call Edward king.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Call him my king by whose injurious doom
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Was done to death? and more than so, my father,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Even in the downfall of his mellow'd years,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|When nature brought him to the door of death?
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|No, Warwick, no, while life upholds this arm,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|This arm upholds the house of Lancaster.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And I the house of York.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Vouchsafe, at our request, to stand aside,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|While I use further conference with Warwick.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|They stand aloof
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not!
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Now Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Is Edward your true king? for I were loath
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|To link with him that were not lawful chosen.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|But is he gracious in the people's eye?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The more that Henry was unfortunate.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Then further, all dissembling set aside,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Tell me for truth the measure of his love
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Unto our sister Bona.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Such it seems
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|As may beseem a monarch like himself.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Myself have often heard him say and swear
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That this his love was an eternal plant,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Now, sister, let us hear your firm resolve.
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|Your grant, or your denial, shall be mine:
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|To WARWICK
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|Yet I confess that often ere this day,
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|When I have heard your king's desert recounted,
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward's,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And now forthwith shall articles be drawn
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Touching the jointure that your king must make,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Draw near, Queen Margaret, and be a witness
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|That Bona shall be wife to the English king.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|To Edward, but not to the English king.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Deceitful Warwick! it was thy device
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|By this alliance to make void my suit:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Before thy coming Lewis was Henry's friend.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And still is friend to him and Margaret:
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|But if your title to the crown be weak,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|As may appear by Edward's good success,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Then 'tis but reason that I be released
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|From giving aid which late I promised.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|That your estate requires and mine can yield.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Henry now lives in Scotland at his ease,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Where having nothing, nothing can he lose.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And as for you yourself, our quondam queen,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|You have a father able to maintain you,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And better 'twere you troubled him than France.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, peace,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Proud setter up and puller down of kings!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|I will not hence, till, with my talk and tears,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|For both of you are birds of selfsame feather.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Post blows a horn within
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Warwick, this is some post to us or thee.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Enter a Post
Henry VI Part 3|Post|[To WARWICK]  My lord ambassador, these letters are for you,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|Sent from your brother, Marquess Montague:
Henry VI Part 3|Post|To KING LEWIS XI
Henry VI Part 3|Post|These from our king unto your majesty:
Henry VI Part 3|Post|To QUEEN MARGARET
Henry VI Part 3|Post|And, madam, these for you, from whom I know not.
Henry VI Part 3|Post|They all read their letters
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|I like it well that our fair queen and mistress
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns at his.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Nay, mark how Lewis stamps, as he were nettled:
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|I hope all's for the best.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Warwick, what are thy news? and yours, fair queen?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Mine, such as fill my heart with unhoped joys.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Mine, full of sorrow and heart's discontent.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|What! has your king married the Lady Grey!
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And now, to soothe your forgery and his,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Sends me a paper to persuade me patience?
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Is this the alliance that he seeks with France?
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|I told your majesty as much before:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|This proveth Edward's love and Warwick's honesty.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|King Lewis, I here protest, in sight of heaven,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|No more my king, for he dishonours me,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But most himself, if he could see his shame.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Did I forget that by the house of York
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My father came untimely to his death?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Did I impale him with the regal crown?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Did I put Henry from his native right?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And am I guerdon'd at the last with shame?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Shame on himself! for my desert is honour:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And to repair my honour lost for him,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I here renounce him and return to Henry.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My noble queen, let former grudges pass,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And henceforth I am thy true servitor:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And replant Henry in his former state.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Warwick, these words have turn'd my hate to love,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And I forgive and quite forget old faults,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And joy that thou becomest King Henry's friend.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That, if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With some few bands of chosen soldiers,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I'll undertake to land them on our coast
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And force the tyrant from his seat by war.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|'Tis not his new-made bride shall succor him:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|He's very likely now to fall from him,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For matching more for wanton lust than honour,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Or than for strength and safety of our country.
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|Dear brother, how shall Bona be revenged
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|But by thy help to this distressed queen?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Renowned prince, how shall poor Henry live,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Unless thou rescue him from foul despair?
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|My quarrel and this English queen's are one.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And mine, fair lady Bona, joins with yours.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And mine with hers, and thine, and Margaret's.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Therefore at last I firmly am resolved
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|You shall have aid.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Let me give humble thanks for all at once.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Then, England's messenger, return in post,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|That Lewis of France is sending over masquers
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|To revel it with him and his new bride:
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Thou seest what's past, go fear thy king withal.
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,
Henry VI Part 3|BONA|I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Tell him, my mourning weeds are laid aside,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And I am ready to put armour on.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|There's thy reward: be gone.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exit Post
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|But, Warwick,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Thou and Oxford, with five thousand men,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Shall cross the seas, and bid false Edward battle,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And, as occasion serves, this noble queen
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And prince shall follow with a fresh supply.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Yet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|This shall assure my constant loyalty,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That if our queen and this young prince agree,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Son Edward, she is fair and virtuous,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Therefore delay not, give thy hand to Warwick,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And, with thy hand, thy faith irrevocable,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That only Warwick's daughter shall be thine.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Yes, I accept her, for she well deserves it,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|He gives his hand to WARWICK
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Why stay we now? These soldiers shall be levied,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|And thou, Lord Bourbon, our high admiral,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Shalt waft them over with our royal fleet.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|I long till Edward fall by war's mischance,
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|For mocking marriage with a dame of France.
Henry VI Part 3|KING LEWIS XI|Exeunt all but WARWICK
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I came from Edward as ambassador,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But I return his sworn and mortal foe:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But dreadful war shall answer his demand.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Had he none else to make a stale but me?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I was the chief that raised him to the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And I'll be chief to bring him down again:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Not that I pity Henry's misery,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But seek revenge on Edward's mockery.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exit
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|ACT IV
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|SCENE I. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, SOMERSET, and MONTAGUE
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Now tell me, brother Clarence, what think you
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Hath not our brother made a worthy choice?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Alas, you know, 'tis far from hence to France,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|How could he stay till Warwick made return?
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|My lords, forbear this talk, here comes the king.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And his well-chosen bride.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, attended, QUEEN ELIZABETH, PEMBROKE, STAFFORD, HASTINGS, and others
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, brother of Clarence, how like you our choice,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That you stand pensive, as half malcontent?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|As well as Lewis of France, or the Earl of Warwick,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Which are so weak of courage and in judgment
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|That they'll take no offence at our abuse.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Suppose they take offence without a cause,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And shall have your will, because our king:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Not I:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|No, God forbid that I should wish them sever'd
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Whom God hath join'd together, ay, and 'twere pity
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To sunder them that yoke so well together.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Should not become my wife and England's queen.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And you too, Somerset and Montague,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Speak freely what you think.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Becomes your enemy, for mocking him
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|About the marriage of the Lady Bona.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|By such invention as I can devise?
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Yet, to have join'd with France in such alliance
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|'Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Why, knows not Montague that of itself
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|England is safe, if true within itself?
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|But the safer when 'tis back'd with France.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|'Tis better using France than trusting France:
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Let us be back'd with God and with the seas
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|And with their helps only defend ourselves,
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|In them and in ourselves our safety lies.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ay, what of that? it was my will and grant,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And for this once my will shall stand for law.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And yet methinks your grace hath not done well,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Unto the brother of your loving bride,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|She better would have fitted me or Clarence:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|But in your bride you bury brotherhood.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Or else you would not have bestow'd the heir
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Alas, poor Clarence! is it for a wife
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|In choosing for yourself, you show'd your judgment,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Which being shallow, you give me leave
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To play the broker in mine own behalf,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And to that end I shortly mind to leave you.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Leave me, or tarry, Edward will be king,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And not be tied unto his brother's will.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My lords, before it pleased his majesty
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To raise my state to title of a queen,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Do me but right, and you must all confess
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That I was not ignoble of descent,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And meaner than myself have had like fortune.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But as this title honours me and mine,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|So your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What danger or what sorrow can befall thee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|So long as Edward is thy constant friend,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Unless they seek for hatred at my hands,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Enter a Post
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, messenger, what letters or what news
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|From France?
Henry VI Part 3|Post|My sovereign liege, no letters, and few words,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|But such as I, without your special pardon,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|Dare not relate.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Go to, we pardon thee: therefore, in brief,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters?
Henry VI Part 3|Post|At my depart, these were his very words:
Henry VI Part 3|Post|'Go tell false Edward, thy supposed king,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|That Lewis of France is sending over masquers
Henry VI Part 3|Post|To revel it with him and his new bride.'
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Is Lewis so brave? belike he thinks me Henry.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But what said Lady Bona to my marriage?
Henry VI Part 3|Post|These were her words, utter'd with mad disdain:
Henry VI Part 3|Post|'Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.'
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|I blame not her, she could say little less,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|She had the wrong. But what said Henry's queen?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For I have heard that she was there in place.
Henry VI Part 3|Post|'Tell him,' quoth she, 'my mourning weeds are done,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|And I am ready to put armour on.'
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Belike she minds to play the Amazon.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But what said Warwick to these injuries?
Henry VI Part 3|Post|He, more incensed against your majesty
Henry VI Part 3|Post|Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:
Henry VI Part 3|Post|'Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.'
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ha! durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Well I will arm me, being thus forewarn'd:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|They shall have wars and pay for their presumption.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret?
Henry VI Part 3|Post|Ay, gracious sovereign, they are so link'd in
Henry VI Part 3|Post|friendship
Henry VI Part 3|Post|That young Prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Belike the elder, Clarence will have the younger.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Now, brother king, farewell, and sit you fast,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|For I will hence to Warwick's other daughter,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|I may not prove inferior to yourself.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|You that love me and Warwick, follow me.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Exit CLARENCE, and SOMERSET follows
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  Not I:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|My thoughts aim at a further matter, I
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yet am I arm'd against the worst can happen,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And haste is needful in this desperate case.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Go levy men, and make prepare for war,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|They are already, or quickly will be landed:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Myself in person will straight follow you.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt PEMBROKE and STAFFORD
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But, ere I go, Hastings and Montague,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Are near to Warwick by blood and by alliance:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Tell me if you love Warwick more than me?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|If it be so, then both depart to him,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|I rather wish you foes than hollow friends:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But if you mind to hold your true obedience,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Give me assurance with some friendly vow,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That I may never have you in suspect.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|So God help Montague as he proves true!
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Why, so! then am I sure of victory.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now therefore let us hence, and lose no hour,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|SCENE II. A plain in Warwickshire.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Enter WARWICK and OXFORD, with French soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The common people by numbers swarm to us.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter CLARENCE and SOMERSET
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But see where Somerset and Clarence come!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Speak suddenly, my lords, are we all friends?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Fear not that, my lord.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And welcome, Somerset: I hold it cowardice
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Else might I think that Clarence, Edward's brother,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But welcome, sweet Clarence, my daughter shall be thine.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And now what rests but, in night's coverture,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Thy brother being carelessly encamp'd,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|His soldiers lurking in the towns about,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And but attended by a simple guard,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|We may surprise and take him at our pleasure?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Our scouts have found the adventure very easy:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That as Ulysses and stout Diomede
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|So we, well cover'd with the night's black mantle,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|At unawares may beat down Edward's guard
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And seize himself, I say not, slaughter him,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For I intend but only to surprise him.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|You that will follow me to this attempt,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Applaud the name of Henry with your leader.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|They all cry, 'Henry!'
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|SCENE III. Edward's camp, near Warwick.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter three Watchmen, to guard KING EDWARD IV's tent
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|Come on, my masters, each man take his stand:
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|The king by this is set him down to sleep.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|What, will he not to bed?
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|Why, no, for he hath made a solemn vow
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|Never to lie and take his natural rest
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|Till Warwick or himself be quite suppress'd.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|To-morrow then belike shall be the day,
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|If Warwick be so near as men report.
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|But say, I pray, what nobleman is that
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|That with the king here resteth in his tent?
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|'Tis the Lord Hastings, the king's chiefest friend.
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|O, is it so? But why commands the king
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|While he himself keeps in the cold field?
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|'Tis the more honour, because more dangerous.
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|Ay, but give me worship and quietness,
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|I like it better than a dangerous honour.
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,
Henry VI Part 3|Third Watchman|'Tis to be doubted he would waken him.
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|Unless our halberds did shut up his passage.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent,
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|But to defend his person from night-foes?
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|Enter WARWICK, CLARENCE, OXFORD, SOMERSET, and French soldiers, silent all
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|This is his tent, and see where stand his guard.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Courage, my masters! honour now or never!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But follow me, and Edward shall be ours.
Henry VI Part 3|First Watchman|Who goes there?
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|Stay, or thou diest!
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|WARWICK and the rest cry all, 'Warwick! Warwick!'  and set upon the Guard, who fly, crying, 'Arm! arm!' WARWICK and the rest following them
Henry VI Part 3|Second Watchman|The drum playing and trumpet sounding, reenter  WARWICK, SOMERSET, and the rest, bringing KING  EDWARD IV out in his gown, sitting in a chair. RICHARD and HASTINGS fly over the stage
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|What are they that fly there?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Richard and Hastings: let them go, here is The duke.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|The duke! Why, Warwick, when we parted,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Thou call'dst me king.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Ay, but the case is alter'd:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|When you disgraced me in my embassade,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Then I degraded you from being king,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And come now to create you Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Alas! how should you govern any kingdom,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That know not how to use ambassadors,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Nor how to be contented with one wife,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Nor how to study for the people's welfare,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yea, brother of Clarence, are thou here too?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Of thee thyself and all thy complices,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Edward will always bear himself as king:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Though fortune's malice overthrow my state,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Then, for his mind, be Edward England's king:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Takes off his crown
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But Henry now shall wear the English crown,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My Lord of Somerset, at my request,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey'd
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Unto my brother, Archbishop of York.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I'll follow you, and tell what answer
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Now, for a while farewell, good Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|They lead him out forcibly
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What fates impose, that men must needs abide,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exit, guarded
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|What now remains, my lords, for us to do
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|But march to London with our soldiers?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To free King Henry from imprisonment
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And see him seated in the regal throne.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|SCENE IV. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and RIVERS
Henry VI Part 3|RIVERS|Madam, what makes you in this sudden change?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward?
Henry VI Part 3|RIVERS|What! loss of some pitch'd battle against Warwick?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|No, but the loss of his own royal person.
Henry VI Part 3|RIVERS|Then is my sovereign slain?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Or by his foe surprised at unawares:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And, as I further have to understand,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Is new committed to the Bishop of York,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe.
Henry VI Part 3|RIVERS|These news I must confess are full of grief,
Henry VI Part 3|RIVERS|Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may:
Henry VI Part 3|RIVERS|Warwick may lose, that now hath won the day.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And I the rather wean me from despair
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|For love of Edward's offspring in my womb:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|This is it that makes me bridle passion
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.
Henry VI Part 3|RIVERS|But, madam, where is Warwick then become?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I am inform'd that he comes towards London,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To set the crown once more on Henry's head:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Guess thou the rest, King Edward's friends must down,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But, to prevent the tyrant's violence,--
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|For trust not him that hath once broken faith,--
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To save at least the heir of Edward's right:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If Warwick take us we are sure to die.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|SCENE V. A park near Middleham Castle In Yorkshire.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and STANLEY
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Now, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Into this chiefest thicket of the park.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Thus stands the case: you know our king, my brother,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|He hath good usage and great liberty,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And, often but attended with weak guard,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Comes hunting this way to disport himself.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I have advertised him by secret means
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That if about this hour he make his way
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Under the colour of his usual game,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|He shall here find his friends with horse and men
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|To set him free from his captivity.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Enter KING EDWARD IV and a Huntsman with him
Henry VI Part 3|Huntsman|This way, my lord, for this way lies the game.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Nay, this way, man: see where the huntsmen stand.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, brother of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Stand you thus close, to steal the bishop's deer?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Brother, the time and case requireth haste:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Your horse stands ready at the park-corner.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But whither shall we then?
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|To Lynn, my lord,
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|And ship from thence to Flanders.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Well guess'd, believe me, for that was my meaning.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Stanley, I will requite thy forwardness.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|But wherefore stay we? 'tis no time to talk.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Huntsman, what say'st thou? wilt thou go along?
Henry VI Part 3|Huntsman|Better do so than tarry and be hang'd.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Come then, away, let's ha' no more ado.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Bishop, farewell: shield thee from Warwick's frown,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And pray that I may repossess the crown.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|SCENE VI. London. The Tower.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLARENCE, WARWICK,  SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, OXFORD, MONTAGUE, and Lieutenant of the Tower
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Master lieutenant, now that God and friends
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Have shaken Edward from the regal seat,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And turn'd my captive state to liberty,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|At our enlargement what are thy due fees?
Henry VI Part 3|Lieutenant|Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns,
Henry VI Part 3|Lieutenant|But if an humble prayer may prevail,
Henry VI Part 3|Lieutenant|I then crave pardon of your majesty.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For what, lieutenant? for well using me?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Nay, be thou sure I'll well requite thy kindness,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Conceive when after many moody thoughts
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|At last by notes of household harmony
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|They quite forget their loss of liberty.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|But, Warwick, after God, thou set'st me free,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|He was the author, thou the instrument.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Therefore, that I may conquer fortune's spite
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|By living low, where fortune cannot hurt me,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And that the people of this blessed land
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|May not be punish'd with my thwarting stars,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Warwick, although my head still wear the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I here resign my government to thee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Your grace hath still been famed for virtuous,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And now may seem as wise as virtuous,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|By spying and avoiding fortune's malice,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For few men rightly temper with the stars:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Yet in this one thing let me blame your grace,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For choosing me when Clarence is in place.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To whom the heavens in thy nativity
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|As likely to be blest in peace and war,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And therefore I yield thee my free consent.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And I choose Clarence only for protector.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Warwick and Clarence give me both your hands:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|That no dissension hinder government:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I make you both protectors of this land,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|While I myself will lead a private life
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And in devotion spend my latter days,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|That he consents, if Warwick yield consent,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|For on thy fortune I repose myself.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|We'll yoke together, like a double shadow
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To Henry's body, and supply his place,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I mean, in bearing weight of government,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|While he enjoys the honour and his ease.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Forthwith that Edward be pronounced a traitor,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And all his lands and goods be confiscate.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|What else? and that succession be determined.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|But, with the first of all your chief affairs,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Let me entreat, for I command no more,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|That Margaret your queen and my son Edward
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Be sent for, to return from France with speed,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|For, till I see them here, by doubtful fear
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My Lord of Somerset, what youth is that,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Of whom you seem to have so tender care?
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|My liege, it is young Henry, earl of Richmond.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Come hither, England's hope.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Lays his hand on his head
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|If secret powers
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|His looks are full of peaceful majesty,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|His head by nature framed to wear a crown,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Likely in time to bless a regal throne.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Make much of him, my lords, for this is he
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Must help you more than you are hurt by me.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Enter a Post
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|What news, my friend?
Henry VI Part 3|Post|That Edward is escaped from your brother,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|And fled, as he hears since, to Burgundy.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Unsavoury news! but how made he escape?
Henry VI Part 3|Post|He was convey'd by Richard Duke of Gloucester
Henry VI Part 3|Post|And the Lord Hastings, who attended him
Henry VI Part 3|Post|In secret ambush on the forest side
Henry VI Part 3|Post|And from the bishop's huntsmen rescued him,
Henry VI Part 3|Post|For hunting was his daily exercise.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My brother was too careless of his charge.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|But let us hence, my sovereign, to provide
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|A salve for any sore that may betide.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exeunt all but SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, and OXFORD
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|My lord, I like not of this flight of Edward's,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|And we shall have more wars before 't be long.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|As Henry's late presaging prophecy
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|What may befall him, to his harm and ours:
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Till storms be past of civil enmity.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Ay, for if Edward repossess the crown,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|'Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|It shall be so, he shall to Brittany.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Come, therefore, let's about it speedily.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|SCENE VII. Before York.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and Soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And says that once more I shall interchange
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|My waned state for Henry's regal crown.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Well have we pass'd and now repass'd the seas
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And brought desired help from Burgundy:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What then remains, we being thus arrived
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But that we enter, as into our dukedom?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The gates made fast! Brother, I like not this,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|For many men that stumble at the threshold
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|By fair or foul means we must enter in,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For hither will our friends repair to us.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|My liege, I'll knock once more to summon them.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Enter, on the walls, the Mayor of York, and his Brethren
Henry VI Part 3|Mayor|My lords, we were forewarned of your coming,
Henry VI Part 3|Mayor|And shut the gates for safety of ourselves,
Henry VI Part 3|Mayor|For now we owe allegiance unto Henry.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But, master mayor, if Henry be your king,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 3|Mayor|True, my good lord, I know you for no less.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|As being well content with that alone.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|He'll soon find means to make the body follow.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Why, master mayor, why stand you in a doubt?
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Open the gates, we are King Henry's friends.
Henry VI Part 3|Mayor|Ay, say you so? the gates shall then be open'd.
Henry VI Part 3|Mayor|They descend
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|A wise stout captain, and soon persuaded!
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|The good old man would fain that all were well,
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|So 'twere not 'long of him, but being enter'd,
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Both him and all his brothers unto reason.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Enter the Mayor and two Aldermen, below
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|So, master mayor: these gates must not be shut
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But in the night or in the time of war.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What! fear not, man, but yield me up the keys,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Takes his keys
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For Edward will defend the town and thee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And all those friends that deign to follow me.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|March. Enter MONTGOMERY, with drum and soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Brother, this is Sir John Montgomery,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Our trusty friend, unless I be deceived.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Welcome, Sir John! But why come you in arms?
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|To help King Edward in his time of storm,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|As every loyal subject ought to do.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Thanks, good Montgomery, but we now forget
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Our title to the crown and only claim
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Our dukedom till God please to send the rest.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Then fare you well, for I will hence again:
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|I came to serve a king and not a duke.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Drummer, strike up, and let us march away.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|The drum begins to march
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Nay, stay, Sir John, awhi le, and we'll debate
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|By what safe means the crown may be recover'd.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|What talk you of debating? in few words,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|If you'll not here proclaim yourself our king,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|I'll leave you to your fortune and be gone
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|To keep them back that come to succor you:
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Why shall we fight, if you pretend no title?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|When we grow stronger, then we'll make our claim:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Till then, 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Away with scrupulous wit! now arms must rule.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Then be it as you will, for 'tis my right,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And Henry but usurps the diadem.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|And now will I be Edward's champion.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Sound trumpet, Edward shall be here proclaim'd:
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Come, fellow-soldier, make thou proclamation.
Henry VI Part 3|HASTINGS|Flourish
Henry VI Part 3|Soldier|Edward the Fourth, by the grace of God, king of
Henry VI Part 3|Soldier|England and France, and lord of Ireland,  and c.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|And whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right,
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|By this I challenge him to single fight.
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Throws down his gauntlet
Henry VI Part 3|All|Long live Edward the Fourth!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Thanks, brave Montgomery, and thanks unto you all:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|If fortune serve me, I'll requite this kindness.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And when the morning sun shall raise his car
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Above the border of this horizon,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For well I wot that Henry is no soldier.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ah, froward Clarence! how evil it beseems thee
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Come on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|SCENE VIII. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, WARWICK, MONTAGUE, CLARENCE, EXETER, and OXFORD
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|What counsel, lords? Edward from Belgia,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And with his troops doth march amain to London,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And many giddy people flock to him.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Let's levy men, and beat him back again.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Those will I muster up: and thou, son Clarence,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The knights and gentlemen to come with thee:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Thou, brother Montague, in Buckingham,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Northampton and in Leicestershire, shalt find
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Men well inclined to hear what thou command'st:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My sovereign, with the loving citizens,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Like to his island girt in with the ocean,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Shall rest in London till we come to him.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Fair lords, take leave and stand not to reply.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Farewell, my sovereign.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Farewell, my Hector, and my Troy's true hope.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|In sign of truth, I kiss your highness' hand.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Well-minded Clarence, be thou fortunate!
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Comfort, my lord, and so I take my leave.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|And thus I seal my truth, and bid adieu.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Sweet Oxford, and my loving Montague,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And all at once, once more a happy farewell.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Farewell, sweet lords: let's meet at Coventry.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Exeunt all but KING HENRY VI and EXETER
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Here at the palace I will rest awhile.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Cousin of Exeter, what thinks your lordship?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Methinks the power that Edward hath in field
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Should not be able to encounter mine.
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|The doubt is that he will seduce the rest.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|That's not my fear, my meed hath got me fame:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Nor posted off their suits with slow delays,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My mercy dried their water-flowing tears,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I have not been desirous of their wealth,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Nor forward of revenge, though they much err'd:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Then why should they love Edward more than me?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And when the lion fawns upon the lamb,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The lamb will never cease to follow him.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Shout within. 'A Lancaster! A Lancaster!'
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Hark, hark, my lord! what shouts are these?
Henry VI Part 3|EXETER|Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Seize on the shame-faced Henry, bear him hence,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And once again proclaim us King of England.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now stops thy spring, my sea sha$l suck them dry,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And swell so much the higher by their ebb.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Hence with him to the Tower, let him not speak.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt some with KING HENRY VI
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Where peremptory Warwick now remains:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|The sun shines hot, and, if we use delay,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Away betimes, before his forces join,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And take the great-grown traitor unawares:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|ACT V
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|SCENE I. Coventry.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Enter WARWICK, the Mayor of Coventry, two Messengers, and others upon the walls
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|How far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellow?
Henry VI Part 3|First Messenger|By this at Dunsmore, marching hitherward.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|How far off is our brother Montague?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Where is the post that came from Montague?
Henry VI Part 3|Second Messenger|By this at Daintry, with a puissant troop.
Henry VI Part 3|Second Messenger|Enter SIR JOHN SOMERVILLE
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Say, Somerville, what says my loving son?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now?
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|At Southam I did leave him with his forces,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|And do expect him here some two hours hence.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Drum heard
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Then Clarence is at hand, I hear his drum.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|It is not his, my lord, here Southam lies:
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Who should that be? belike, unlook'd-for friends.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|They are at hand, and you shall quickly know.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|March: flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Go, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a parle.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|See how the surly Warwick mans the wall!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|O unbid spite! is sportful Edward come?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That we could hear no news of his repair?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Call Edward king and at his hands beg mercy?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And he shall pardon thee these outrages.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee own,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Call Warwick patron and be penitent?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I thought, at least, he would have said the king,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Or did he make the jest against his will?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll do thee service for so good a gift.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|'Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Why then 'tis mine, if but by Warwick's gift.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And weakling, Warwick takes his gift again,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What is the body when the head is off?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The king was slily finger'd from the deck!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|You left poor Henry at the Bishop's palace,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And, ten to one, you'll meet him in the Tower.
Henry VI Part 3|EDWARD|'Tis even so, yet you are Warwick still.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Come, Warwick, take the time, kneel down, kneel down:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron cools.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And with the other fling it at thy face,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Sail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Shall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|'Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more.'
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Enter OXFORD, with drum and colours
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|O cheerful colours! see where Oxford comes!
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster!
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|He and his forces enter the city
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The gates are open, let us enter too.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|So other foes may set upon our backs.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Stand we in good array, for they no doubt
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Will issue out again and bid us battle:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|If not, the city being but of small defence,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|We'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|O, welcome, Oxford! for we want thy help.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter MONTAGUE with drum and colours
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|Montague, Montague, for Lancaster!
Henry VI Part 3|MONTAGUE|He and his forces enter the city
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|The harder match'd, the greater victory:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|My mind presageth happy gain and conquest.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Enter SOMERSET, with drum and colours
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Somerset, Somerset, for Lancaster!
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|He and his forces enter the city
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Have sold their lives unto the house of York,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And thou shalt be the third if this sword hold.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Enter CLARENCE, with drum and colours
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Of force enough to bid his brother battle,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|With whom an upright zeal to right prevails
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|More than the nature of a brother's love!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Come, Clarence, come, thou wilt, if Warwick call.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Father of Warwick, know you what this means?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Taking his red rose out of his hat
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Look here, I throw my infamy at thee
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|I will not ruinate my father's house,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Who gave his blood to lime the stones together,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And set up Lancaster. Why, trow'st thou, Warwick,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To bend the fatal instruments of war
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Against his brother and his lawful king?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath:
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To keep that oath were more impiety
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Than Jephthah's, when he sacrificed his daughter.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|I am so sorry for my trespass made
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|That, to deserve well at my brother's hands,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|With resolution, wheresoe'er I meet thee--
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|As I will meet thee, if thou stir abroad--
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To plague thee for thy foul misleading me.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And so, proud-hearted Warwick, I defy thee,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Pardon me, Edward, I will make amends:
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And, Richard, do not frown upon my faults,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|For I will henceforth be no more unconstant.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now welcome more, and ten times more beloved,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Than if thou never hadst deserved our hate.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Welcome, good Clarence, this is brotherlike.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Alas, I am not coop'd here for defence!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|I will away towards Barnet presently,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou darest.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Yes, Warwick, Edward dares, and leads the way.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Lords, to the field, Saint George and victory!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt King Edward and his company. March. Warwick and his company follow
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|SCENE II. A field of battle near Barnet.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Alarum and excursions. Enter KING EDWARD IV, bringing forth WARWICK wounded
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|So, lie thou there: die thou, and die our fear,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now, Montague, sit fast, I seek for thee,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That Warwick's bones may keep thine company.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exit
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Ah, who is nigh? come to me, friend or foe,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why ask I that? my mangled body shows,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That I must yield my body to the earth
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|To search the secret treasons of the world:
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For who lived king, but I could dig his grave?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And who durst mine when Warwick bent his brow?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Lo, now my glory smear'd in dust and blood!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|My parks, my walks, my manors that I had.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Even now forsake me, and of all my lands
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Is nothing left me but my body's length.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Enter OXFORD and SOMERSET
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Ah, Warwick, Warwick! wert thou as we are.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|We might recover all our loss again,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|The queen from France hath brought a puissant power:
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Even now we heard the news: ah, could'st thou fly!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Why, then I would not fly. Ah, Montague,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile!
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Thou lovest me not, for, brother, if thou didst,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|That glues my lips and will not let me speak.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|And said 'Commend me to my valiant brother.'
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|And more he would have said, and more he spoke,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Which sounded like a clamour in a vault,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|That mought not be distinguished, but at last
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|I well might hear, delivered with a groan,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|'O, farewell, Warwick!'
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Sweet rest his soul! Fly, lords, and save yourselves,
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|For Warwick bids you all farewell to meet in heaven.
Henry VI Part 3|WARWICK|Dies
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Away, away, to meet the queen's great power!
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Here they bear away his body. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|SCENE III. Another part of the field.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV in triumph, with GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And we are graced with wreaths of victory.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|But, in the midst of this bright-shining day,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That will encounter with our glorious sun,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ere he attain his easeful western bed:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|I mean, my lords, those powers that the queen
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And, as we hear, march on to fight with us.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|A little gale will soon disperse that cloud
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And blow it to the source from whence it came:
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|The very beams will dry those vapours up,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|For every cloud engenders not a storm.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The queen is valued thirty thousand strong,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And Somerset, with Oxford fled to her:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|If she have time to breathe be well assured
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Her faction will be full as strong as ours.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|We are advertised by our loving friends
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|We, having now the best at Barnet field,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Will thither straight, for willingness rids way,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And, as we march, our strength will be augmented
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|In every county as we go along.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Strike up the drum, cry 'Courage!' and away.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|SCENE IV. Plains near Tewksbury.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|March. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD, SOMERSET, OXFORD, and soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What though the mast be now blown overboard,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet lives our pilot still. Is't meet that he
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Should leave the helm and like a fearful lad
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|With tearful eyes add water to the sea
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And give more strength to that which hath too much,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Which industry and courage might have saved?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ah, what a shame! ah, what a fault were this!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Say Warwick was our anchor, what of that?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And Montague our topmost, what of him?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Our slaughter'd friends the tackles, what of these?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Why, is not Oxford here another anchor?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And Somerset another goodly mast?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|We will not from the helm to sit and weep,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|As good to chide the waves as speak them fair.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And what is Edward but ruthless sea?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And Richard but a ragged fatal rock?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|All these the enemies to our poor bark.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Say you can swim, alas, 'tis but a while!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Tread on the sand, why, there you quickly sink:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Bestride the rock, the tide will wash you off,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Or else you famish, that's a threefold death.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|This speak I, lords, to let you understand,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|If case some one of you would fly from us,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|That there's no hoped-for mercy with the brothers
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Infuse his breast with magnanimity
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And make him, naked, foil a man at arms.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|I speak not this as doubting any here
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|For did I but suspect a fearful man
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|He should have leave to go away betimes,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Lest in our need he might infect another
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And make him of like spirit to himself.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|If any such be here--as God forbid!--
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Let him depart before we need his help.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Women and children of so high a courage,
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|And warriors faint! why, 'twere perpetual shame.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|O brave young prince! thy famous grandfather
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Doth live again in thee: long mayst thou live
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|To bear his image and renew his glories!
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|And he that will not fight for such a hope.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Go home to bed, and like the owl by day,
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thanks, gentle Somerset, sweet Oxford, thanks.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Enter a Messenger
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand.
Henry VI Part 3|Messenger|Ready to fight, therefore be resolute.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|I thought no less: it is his policy
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|To haste thus fast, to find us unprovided.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|But he's deceived, we are in readiness.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|This cheers my heart, to see your forwardness.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Here pitch our battle, hence we will not budge.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|Flourish and march. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and soldiers
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Which, by the heavens' assistance and your strength,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|I need not add more fuel to your fire,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Lords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|My tears gainsay, for every word I speak,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Therefore, no more but this: Henry, your sovereign,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Is prisoner to the foe, his state usurp'd,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|His statutes cancell'd and his treasure spent,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|You fight in justice: then, in God's name, lords,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Be valiant and give signal to the fight.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Alarum. Retreat. Excursions. Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|SCENE V. Another part of the field.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE,  and soldiers, with QUEEN MARGARET, OXFORD, and SOMERSET, prisoners
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now here a period of tumultuous broils.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For Somerset, off with his guilty head.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Go, bear them hence, I will not hear them speak.
Henry VI Part 3|OXFORD|For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.
Henry VI Part 3|SOMERSET|Exeunt Oxford and Somerset, guarded
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|So part we sadly in this troublous world,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Is proclamation made, that who finds Edward
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Shall have a high reward, and he his life?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|It is: and lo, where youthful Edward comes!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Enter soldiers, with PRINCE EDWARD
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Bring forth the gallant, let us hear him speak.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to?
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York!
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Suppose that I am now my father's mouth,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Resign thy chair, and where I stand kneel thou,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Whilst I propose the selfsame words to thee,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Which traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ah, that thy father had been so resolved!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That you might still have worn the petticoat,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Let AEsop fable in a winter's night,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|His currish riddles sort not with this place.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|By heaven, brat, I'll plague ye for that word.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|For God's sake, take away this captive scold.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Untutor'd lad, thou art too malapert.
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|I know my duty, you are all undutiful:
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George,
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|I am your better, traitors as ye are:
Henry VI Part 3|PRINCE EDWARD|And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Take that, thou likeness of this railer here.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Stabs him
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Sprawl'st thou? take that, to end thy agony.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Stabs him
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And there's for twitting me with perjury.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Stabs him
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|O, kill me too!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Marry, and shall.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Offers to kill her
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Hold, Richard, hold, for we have done too much.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Why should she live, to fill the world with words?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What, doth she swoon? use means for her recovery.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Clarence, excuse me to the king my brother,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll hence to London on a serious matter:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|What? what?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The Tower, the Tower.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|O Ned, sweet Ned! speak to thy mother, boy!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Canst thou not speak? O traitors! murderers!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|They that stabb'd Caesar shed no blood at all,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|If this foul deed were by to equal it:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|He was a man, this, in respect, a child:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And men ne'er spend their fury on a child.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What's worse than murderer, that I may name it?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|No, no, my heart will burst, and if I speak:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|And I will speak, that so my heart may burst.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Butchers and villains! bloody cannibals!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|You have no children, butchers! if you had,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|But if you ever chance to have a child,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Look in his youth to have him so cut off
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|As, deathmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Away with her, go, bear her hence perforce.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Nay, never bear me hence, dispatch me here,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Here sheathe thy sword, I'll pardon thee my death:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What, wilt thou not? then, Clarence, do it thou.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Good Clarence, do, sweet Clarence, do thou do it.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself:
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|'Twas sin before, but now 'tis charity.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Hard-favour'd Richard? Richard, where art thou?
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou art not here: murder is thy alms-deed,
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Away, I say, I charge ye, bear her hence.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|So come to you and yours, as to this Prince!
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN MARGARET|Exit, led out forcibly
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Where's Richard gone?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To London, all in post, and, as I guess,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|To make a bloody supper in the Tower.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|He's sudden, if a thing comes in his head.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now march we hence: discharge the common sort
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|With pay and thanks, and let's away to London
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And see our gentle queen how well she fares:
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|By this, I hope, she hath a son for me.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|SCENE VI. London. The Tower.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Enter KING HENRY VI and GLOUCESTER, with the Lieutenant, on the walls
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ay, my good lord:--my lord, I should say rather,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|'Tis sin to flatter, 'good' was little better:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|'Good Gloucester' and 'good devil' were alike,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And both preposterous, therefore, not 'good lord.'
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Sirrah, leave us to ourselves: we must confer.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Exit Lieutenant
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And next his throat unto the butcher's knife.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The bird that hath been limed in a bush,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Have now the fatal object in my eye
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Where my poor young was limed, was caught and kill'd.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That taught his son the office of a fowl!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|An yet, for all his wings, the fool was drown'd.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|I, Daedalus, my poor boy, Icarus,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thy father, Minos, that denied our course,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The sun that sear'd the wings of my sweet boy
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thy brother Edward, and thyself the sea
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|My breast can better brook thy dagger's point
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Than can my ears that tragic history.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|But wherefore dost thou come? is't for my life?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Think'st thou I am an executioner?
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|A persecutor, I am sure, thou art:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|If murdering innocents be executing,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Why, then thou art an executioner.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Thy son I kill'd for his presumption.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Hadst thou been kill'd when first thou didst presume,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And thus I prophesy, that many a thousand,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And many an old man's sigh and many a widow's,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And many an orphan's water-standing eye--
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Men for their sons, wives for their husbands,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And orphans for their parents timeless death--
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The owl shriek'd at thy birth,--an evil sign,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempest shook down trees,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And chattering pies in dismal discords sung.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And, yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|To signify thou camest to bite the world:
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|And, if the rest be true which I have heard,
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Thou camest--
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll hear no more: die, prophet in thy speech:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Stabs him
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|For this amongst the rest, was I ordain'd.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Ay, and for much more slaughter after this.
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|God forgive my sins, and pardon thee!
Henry VI Part 3|KING HENRY VI|Dies
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|See how my sword weeps for the poor king's death!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|O, may such purple tears be alway shed
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|From those that wish the downfall of our house!
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|If any spark of life be yet remaining,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee thither:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Stabs him again
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|For I have often heard my mother say
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I came into the world with my legs forward:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right?
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|The midwife wonder'd and the women cried
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And so I was, which plainly signified
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That I should snarl and bite and play the dog.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I have no brother, I am like no brother,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And this word 'love,' which graybeards call divine,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Be resident in men like one another
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And not in me: I am myself alone.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Clarence, beware, thou keep'st me from the light:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|But I will sort a pitchy day for thee,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|For I will buz abroad such prophecies
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|That Edward shall be fearful of his life,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|King Henry and the prince his son are gone:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Counting myself but bad till I be best.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|I'll throw thy body in another room
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Exit, with the body
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|SCENE VII. London. The palace.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, QUEEN ELIZABETH,  CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, a Nurse with the young Prince, and Attendants
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Once more we sit in England's royal throne,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Re-purchased with the blood of enemies.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their pride!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Three Dukes of Somerset, threefold renown'd
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For hardy and undoubted champions,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Two Cliffords, as the father and the son,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And two Northumberlands, two braver men
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And made the forest tremble when they roar'd.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And made our footstool of security.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  I'll blast his harvest, if your head were laid,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|For yet I am not look'd on in the world.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|This shoulder was ordain'd so thick to heave,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And heave it shall some weight, or break my back:
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Work thou the way,--and thou shalt execute.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Clarence and Gloucester, love my lovely queen,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And kiss your princely nephew, brothers both.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|The duty that I owe unto your majesty
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe.
Henry VI Part 3|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Thanks, noble Clarence, worthy brother, thanks.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And, that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st,
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|Aside
Henry VI Part 3|GLOUCESTER|And cried 'all hail!' when as he meant all harm.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Now am I seated as my soul delights,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Having my country's peace and brothers' loves.
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|What will your grace have done with Margaret?
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Reignier, her father, to the king of France
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem,
Henry VI Part 3|CLARENCE|And hither have they sent it for her ransom.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Away with her, and waft her hence to France.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|And now what rests but that we spend the time
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Such as befits the pleasure of the court?
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Sound drums and trumpets! farewell sour annoy!
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
Henry VI Part 3|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|KING EDWARD IV|ACT I
Alls well that ends well|KING EDWARD IV|SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|KING EDWARD IV|Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|You shall find of the king a husband, madam, you,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|good must of necessity hold his virtue to you, whose
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|than lack it where there is such abundance.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|He hath abandoned his physicians, madam, under whose
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|finds no other advantage in the process but only the
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|losing of hope by time.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|almost as great as his honesty, had it stretched so
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|far, would have made nature immortal, and death
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|should have play for lack of work. Would, for the
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|king's sake, he were living! I think it would be
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|the death of the king's disease.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|How called you the man you speak of, madam?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|could be set up against mortality.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|A fistula, my lord.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I heard not of it before.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|her education promises, her dispositions she
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer, for where
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|commendations go with pity, they are virtues and
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|traitors too, in her they are the better for their
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|simpleness, she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|in. The remembrance of her father never approaches
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|go to, no more, lest it be rather thought you affect
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|a sorrow than have it.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|excessive grief the enemy to the living.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|makes it soon mortal.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Madam, I desire your holy wishes.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|How understand we that?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|'Tis an unseason'd courtier, good my lord,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Advise him.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|He cannot want the best
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|That shall attend his love.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Exit
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|[To HELENA]  The best wishes that can be forged in
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|your father.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|O, were that all! I think not on my father,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And these great tears grace his remembrance more
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Than those I shed for him. What was he like?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I have forgot him: my imagination
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I am undone: there is no living, none,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That I should love a bright particular star
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And think to wed it, he is so above me:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In his bright radiance and collateral light
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The hind that would be mated by the lion
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To see him every hour, to sit and draw
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In our heart's table, heart too capable
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Enter PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Aside
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|One that goes with him: I love him for his sake,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And yet I know him a notorious liar,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Think him a great way fool, solely a coward,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That they take place, when virtue's steely bones
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Save you, fair queen!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And you, monarch!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|No.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And no.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Are you meditating on virginity?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity, how
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|may we barricado it against him?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Keep him out.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But he assails, and our virginity, though valiant,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|warlike resistance.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|There is none: man, sitting down before you, will
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|undermine you and blow you up.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Bless our poor virginity from underminers and
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|blowers up! Is there no military policy, how
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|virgins might blow up men?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|increase and there was never virgin got till
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|virginity was first lost. That you were made of is
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|may be ten times found, by being ever kept, it is
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion, away with 't!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|There's little can be said in 't, 'tis against the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|is to accuse your mothers, which is most infallible
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|virginity murders itself and should be buried in
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|much like a cheese, consumes itself to the very
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|canon. Keep it not, you cannot choose but loose
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|itself ten, which is a goodly increase, and the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|lying, the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|while 'tis vendible, answer the time of request.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|now. Your date is better in your pie and your
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|porridge than in your cheek, and your virginity,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|your old virginity, is like one of our French
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily, marry,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|'tis a withered pear, it was formerly better,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Not my virginity yet [         ]
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|There shall your master have a thousand loves,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|A mother and a mistress and a friend,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|A phoenix, captain and an enemy,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His humble ambition, proud humility,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His faith, his sweet disaster, with a world
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I know not what he shall. God send him well!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The court's a learning place, and he is one--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|What one, i' faith?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That I wish well. 'Tis pity--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|What's pity?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That wishing well had not a body in't,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which might be felt, that we, the poorer born,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Might with effects of them follow our friends,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And show what we alone must think, which never
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Return us thanks.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Enter Page
Alls well that ends well|Page|Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.
Alls well that ends well|Page|Exit
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Little Helen, farewell, if I can remember thee, I
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|will think of thee at court.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Under Mars, I.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I especially think, under Mars.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Why under Mars?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The wars have so kept you under that you must needs
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|be born under Mars.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|When he was predominant.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|When he was retrograde, I think, rather.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Why think you so?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|You go so much backward when you fight.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|That's for advantage.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|So is running away, when fear proposes the safety,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|but the composition that your valour and fear makes
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|acutely. I will return perfect courtier, in the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|thee, else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|thou hast leisure, say thy prayers, when thou hast
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|none, remember thy friends, get thee a good husband,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|and use him as he uses thee, so, farewell.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Exit
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What power is it which mounts my love so high,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The mightiest space in fortune nature brings
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To join like likes and kiss like native things.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Impossible be strange attempts to those
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What hath been cannot be: who ever strove
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|So show her merit, that did miss her love?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The king's disease--my project may deceive me,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exit
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|SCENE II. Paris. The KING's palace.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France, with letters, and divers Attendants
Alls well that ends well|KING|The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Have fought with equal fortune and continue
Alls well that ends well|KING|A braving war.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|So 'tis reported, sir.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Nay, 'tis most credible, we here received it
Alls well that ends well|KING|A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,
Alls well that ends well|KING|With caution that the Florentine will move us
Alls well that ends well|KING|For speedy aid, wherein our dearest friend
Alls well that ends well|KING|Prejudicates the business and would seem
Alls well that ends well|KING|To have us make denial.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|His love and wisdom,
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Approved so to your majesty, may plead
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|For amplest credence.
Alls well that ends well|KING|He hath arm'd our answer,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And Florence is denied before he comes:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see
Alls well that ends well|KING|The Tuscan service, freely have they leave
Alls well that ends well|KING|To stand on either part.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|It well may serve
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|A nursery to our gentry, who are sick
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|For breathing and exploit.
Alls well that ends well|KING|What's he comes here?
Alls well that ends well|KING|Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord,
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Young Bertram.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts
Alls well that ends well|KING|Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My thanks and duty are your majesty's.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I would I had that corporal soundness now,
Alls well that ends well|KING|As when thy father and myself in friendship
Alls well that ends well|KING|First tried our soldiership! He did look far
Alls well that ends well|KING|Into the service of the time and was
Alls well that ends well|KING|Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long,
Alls well that ends well|KING|But on us both did haggish age steal on
Alls well that ends well|KING|And wore us out of act. It much repairs me
Alls well that ends well|KING|To talk of your good father. In his youth
Alls well that ends well|KING|He had the wit which I can well observe
Alls well that ends well|KING|To-day in our young lords, but they may jest
Alls well that ends well|KING|Till their own scorn return to them unnoted
Alls well that ends well|KING|Ere they can hide their levity in honour,
Alls well that ends well|KING|So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness
Alls well that ends well|KING|Were in his pride or sharpness, if they were,
Alls well that ends well|KING|His equal had awaked them, and his honour,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Clock to itself, knew the true minute when
Alls well that ends well|KING|Exception bid him speak, and at this time
Alls well that ends well|KING|His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him
Alls well that ends well|KING|He used as creatures of another place
Alls well that ends well|KING|And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Making them proud of his humility,
Alls well that ends well|KING|In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man
Alls well that ends well|KING|Might be a copy to these younger times,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now
Alls well that ends well|KING|But goers backward.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|His good remembrance, sir,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|So in approof lives not his epitaph
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|As in your royal speech.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Would I were with him! He would always say--
Alls well that ends well|KING|Methinks I hear him now, his plausive words
Alls well that ends well|KING|He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,
Alls well that ends well|KING|To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--
Alls well that ends well|KING|This his good melancholy oft began,
Alls well that ends well|KING|On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,
Alls well that ends well|KING|When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he,
Alls well that ends well|KING|'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses
Alls well that ends well|KING|All but new things disdain, whose judgments are
Alls well that ends well|KING|Mere fathers of their garments, whose constancies
Alls well that ends well|KING|Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd,
Alls well that ends well|KING|I after him do after him wish too,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,
Alls well that ends well|KING|I quickly were dissolved from my hive,
Alls well that ends well|KING|To give some labourers room.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|You are loved, sir:
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|They that least lend it you shall lack you first.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Since the physician at your father's died?
Alls well that ends well|KING|He was much famed.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Some six months since, my lord.
Alls well that ends well|KING|If he were living, I would try him yet.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Lend me an arm, the rest have worn me out
Alls well that ends well|KING|With several applications, nature and sickness
Alls well that ends well|KING|Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count,
Alls well that ends well|KING|My son's no dearer.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Thank your majesty.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Exeunt. Flourish
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I will now hear, what say you of this gentlewoman?
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I
Alls well that ends well|Steward|wish might be found in the calendar of my past
Alls well that ends well|Steward|endeavours, for then we wound our modesty and make
Alls well that ends well|Steward|foul the clearness of our deservings, when of
Alls well that ends well|Steward|ourselves we publish them.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|the complaints I have heard of you I do not all
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not, for I know
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|enough to make such knaveries yours.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Well, sir.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though
Alls well that ends well|Clown|many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have
Alls well that ends well|Clown|your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel
Alls well that ends well|Clown|the woman and I will do as we may.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Wilt thou needs be a beggar?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I do beg your good will in this case.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|In what case?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no
Alls well that ends well|Clown|heritage: and I think I shall never have the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|blessing of God till I have issue o' my body, for
Alls well that ends well|Clown|they say barnes are blessings.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on
Alls well that ends well|Clown|by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil drives.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Is this all your worship's reason?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they
Alls well that ends well|Clown|are.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|May the world know them?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and
Alls well that ends well|Clown|all flesh and blood are, and, indeed, I do marry
Alls well that ends well|Clown|that I may repent.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I am out o' friends, madam, and I hope to have
Alls well that ends well|Clown|friends for my wife's sake.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Such friends are thine enemies, knave.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|You're shallow, madam, in great friends, for the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|He that ears my land spares my team and gives me
Alls well that ends well|Clown|leave to in the crop, if I be his cuckold, he's my
Alls well that ends well|Clown|drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher
Alls well that ends well|Clown|of my flesh and blood, he that cherishes my flesh
Alls well that ends well|Clown|and blood loves my flesh and blood, he that loves my
Alls well that ends well|Clown|flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses
Alls well that ends well|Clown|my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to
Alls well that ends well|Clown|be what they are, there were no fear in marriage,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in
Alls well that ends well|Clown|religion, their heads are both one, they may jowl
Alls well that ends well|Clown|horns together, like any deer i' the herd.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|A prophet I, madam, and I speak the truth the next
Alls well that ends well|Clown|way:
Alls well that ends well|Clown|For I the ballad will repeat,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Which men full true shall find,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Your marriage comes by destiny,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Your cuckoo sings by kind.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Get you gone, sir, I'll talk with you more anon.
Alls well that ends well|Steward|May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to
Alls well that ends well|Steward|you: of her I am to speak.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Helen, I mean.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Why the Grecians sacked Troy?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Fond done, done fond,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Was this King Priam's joy?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|With that she sighed as she stood,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|With that she sighed as she stood,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|And gave this sentence then,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Among nine bad if one be good,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Among nine bad if one be good,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|There's yet one good in ten.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|One good woman in ten, madam, which is a purifying
Alls well that ends well|Clown|o' the song: would God would serve the world so all
Alls well that ends well|Clown|the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we
Alls well that ends well|Clown|might have a good woman born but one every blazing
Alls well that ends well|Clown|star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery
Alls well that ends well|Clown|well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck
Alls well that ends well|Clown|one.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|That man should be at woman's command, and yet no
Alls well that ends well|Clown|hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it
Alls well that ends well|Clown|will do no hurt, it will wear the surplice of
Alls well that ends well|Clown|humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am
Alls well that ends well|Clown|going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Exit
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Well, now.
Alls well that ends well|Steward|I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me, and
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|make title to as much love as she finds: there is
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|more owing her than is paid, and more shall be paid
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|her than she'll demand.
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Madam, I was very late more near her than I think
Alls well that ends well|Steward|she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate
Alls well that ends well|Steward|to herself her own words to her own ears, she
Alls well that ends well|Steward|thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any
Alls well that ends well|Steward|stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son:
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put
Alls well that ends well|Steward|such difference betwixt their two estates, Love no
Alls well that ends well|Steward|god, that would not extend his might, only where
Alls well that ends well|Steward|qualities were level, Dian no queen of virgins, that
Alls well that ends well|Steward|would suffer her poor knight surprised, without
Alls well that ends well|Steward|rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward.
Alls well that ends well|Steward|This she delivered in the most bitter touch of
Alls well that ends well|Steward|sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I
Alls well that ends well|Steward|held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal,
Alls well that ends well|Steward|sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns
Alls well that ends well|Steward|you something to know it.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You have discharged this honestly, keep it to
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|before, which hung so tottering in the balance that
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|leave me: stall this in your bosom, and I thank you
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Exit Steward
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Enter HELENA
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Even so it was with me when I was young:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|If ever we are nature's, these are ours, this thorn
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Our blood to us, this to our blood is born,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|It is the show and seal of nature's truth,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|By our remembrances of days foregone,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What is your pleasure, madam?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You know, Helen,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I am a mother to you.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Mine honourable mistress.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Nay, a mother:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That you start at it? I say, I am your mother,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And put you in the catalogue of those
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|A native slip to us from foreign seeds:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Yet I express to you a mother's care:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That this distemper'd messenger of wet,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Why? that you are my daughter?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That I am not.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I say, I am your mother.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Pardon, madam,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I am from humble, he from honour'd name,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|No note upon my parents, his all noble:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My master, my dear lord he is, and I
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His servant live, and will his vassal die:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|He must not be my brother.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Nor I your mother?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|You are my mother, madam, would you were,--
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|So that my lord your son were not my brother,--
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I care no more for than I do for heaven,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|So I were not his sister. Can't no other,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|The mystery of your loneliness, and find
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You love my son, invention is ashamed,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Against the proclamation of thy passion,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|But tell me then, 'tis so, for, look thy cheeks
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Confess it, th' one to th' other, and thine eyes
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That in their kind they speak it: only sin
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Tell me truly.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Good madam, pardon me!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Do you love my son?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Your pardon, noble mistress!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Love you my son?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Do not you love him, madam?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Go not about, my love hath in't a bond,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|The state of your affection, for your passions
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Have to the full appeach'd.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Then, I confess,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That before you, and next unto high heaven,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I love your son.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Be not offended, for it hurts not him
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That he is loved of me: I follow him not
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|By any token of presumptuous suit,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Nor would I have him till I do deserve him,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Yet never know how that desert should be.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I know I love in vain, strive against hope,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Yet in this captious and intenible sieve
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I still pour in the waters of my love
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Religious in mine error, I adore
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Let not your hate encounter with my love
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|For loving where you do: but if yourself,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Did ever in so true a flame of liking
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To her, whose state is such that cannot choose
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But lend and give where she is sure to lose,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That seeks not to find that her search implies,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To go to Paris?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Madam, I had.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Wherefore? tell true.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I will tell truth, by grace itself I swear.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|You know my father left me some prescriptions
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And manifest experience had collected
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|For general sovereignty, and that he will'd me
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|As notes whose faculties inclusive were
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|More than they were in note: amongst the rest,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|There is a remedy, approved, set down,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To cure the desperate languishings whereof
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The king is render'd lost.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|This was your motive
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|For Paris, was it? speak.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My lord your son made me to think of this,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Else Paris and the medicine and the king
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Had from the conversation of my thoughts
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Haply been absent then.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|But think you, Helen,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|If you should tender your supposed aid,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|He would receive it? he and his physicians
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Are of a mind, he, that they cannot help him,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|The danger to itself?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|There's something in't,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|More than my father's skill, which was the greatest
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of his profession, that his good receipt
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Shall for my legacy be sanctified
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|By such a day and hour.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Dost thou believe't?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ay, madam, knowingly.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Means and attendants and my loving greetings
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And pray God's blessing into thy attempt:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Be gone to-morrow, and be sure of this,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|ACT II
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended  with divers young Lords taking leave for the Florentine war, BERTRAM, and PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|KING|Farewell, young lords, these warlike principles
Alls well that ends well|KING|Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Share the advice betwixt you, if both gain, all
Alls well that ends well|KING|The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And is enough for both.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|'Tis our hope, sir,
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|After well enter'd soldiers, to return
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|And find your grace in health.
Alls well that ends well|KING|No, no, it cannot be, and yet my heart
Alls well that ends well|KING|Will not confess he owes the malady
Alls well that ends well|KING|That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Whether I live or die, be you the sons
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,--
Alls well that ends well|KING|Those bated that inherit but the fall
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of the last monarchy,--see that you come
Alls well that ends well|KING|Not to woo honour, but to wed it, when
Alls well that ends well|KING|The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,
Alls well that ends well|KING|That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!
Alls well that ends well|KING|Those girls of Italy, take heed of them:
Alls well that ends well|KING|They say, our French lack language to deny,
Alls well that ends well|KING|If they demand: beware of being captives,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Before you serve.
Alls well that ends well|Both|Our hearts receive your warnings.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Farewell. Come hither to me.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Exit, attended
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|'Tis not his fault, the spark.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|O, 'tis brave wars!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Most admirable: I have seen those wars.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I am commanded here, and kept a coil with
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.'
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Till honour be bought up and no sword worn
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|There's honour in the theft.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Commit it, count.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I am your accessary, and so, farewell.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Farewell, captain.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Sweet Monsieur Parolles!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|on his sinister cheek, it was this very sword
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|entrenched it: say to him, I live, and observe his
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|reports for me.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|We shall, noble captain.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Exeunt Lords
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Stay: the king.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|[To BERTRAM]  Use a more spacious ceremony to the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|noble lords, you have restrained yourself within the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|move under the influence of the most received star,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|and though the devil lead the measure, such are to
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And I will do so.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Enter LAFEU
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|[Kneeling]  Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I'll fee thee to stand up.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|And that at my bidding you could so stand up.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I would I had, so I had broke thy pate,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And ask'd thee mercy for't.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Will you be cured of your infirmity?
Alls well that ends well|KING|No.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|That's able to breathe life into a stone,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|With spritely fire and motion, whose simple touch,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|And write to her a love-line.
Alls well that ends well|KING|What 'her' is this?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|If seriously I may convey my thoughts
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|In this my light deliverance, I have spoke
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|With one that, in her sex, her years, profession,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|For that is her demand, and know her business?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|That done, laugh well at me.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Now, good Lafeu,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Bring in the admiration, that we with thee
Alls well that ends well|KING|May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
Alls well that ends well|KING|By wondering how thou took'st it.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Nay, I'll fit you,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|And not be all day neither.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Exit
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Nay, come your ways.
Alls well that ends well|KING|This haste hath wings indeed.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Nay, come your ways:
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|This is his majesty, say your mind to him:
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|A traitor you do look like, but such traitors
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|That dare leave two together, fare you well.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Exit
Alls well that ends well|KING|Now, fair one, does your business follow us?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ay, my good lord.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Gerard de Narbon was my father,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In what he did profess, well found.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I knew him.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The rather will I spare my praises towards him:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which, as the dearest issue of his practise,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And of his old experience the oily darling,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|He bade me store up, as a triple eye,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Safer than mine own two, more dear, I have so,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And hearing your high majesty is touch'd
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|With that malignant cause wherein the honour
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I come to tender it and my appliance
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|With all bound humbleness.
Alls well that ends well|KING|We thank you, maiden,
Alls well that ends well|KING|But may not be so credulous of cure,
Alls well that ends well|KING|When our most learned doctors leave us and
Alls well that ends well|KING|The congregated college have concluded
Alls well that ends well|KING|That labouring art can never ransom nature
Alls well that ends well|KING|From her inaidible estate, I say we must not
Alls well that ends well|KING|So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,
Alls well that ends well|KING|To prostitute our past-cure malady
Alls well that ends well|KING|To empirics, or to dissever so
Alls well that ends well|KING|Our great self and our credit, to esteem
Alls well that ends well|KING|A senseless help when help past sense we deem.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My duty then shall pay me for my pains:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I will no more enforce mine office on you.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|A modest one, to bear me back again.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give
Alls well that ends well|KING|As one near death to those that wish him live:
Alls well that ends well|KING|But what at full I know, thou know'st no part,
Alls well that ends well|KING|I knowing all my peril, thou no art.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What I can do can do no hurt to try,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|He that of greatest works is finisher
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Oft does them by the weakest minister:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|When judges have been babes, great floods have flown
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|From simple sources, and great seas have dried
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I must not hear thee, fare thee well, kind maid,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|It is not so with Him that all things knows
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But most it is presumption in us when
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The help of heaven we count the act of men.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I am not an impostor that proclaim
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Myself against the level of mine aim,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But know I think and think I know most sure
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My art is not past power nor you past cure.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Are thou so confident? within what space
Alls well that ends well|KING|Hopest thou my cure?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The great'st grace lending grace
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ere twice in murk and occidental damp
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Health shall live free and sickness freely die.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Upon thy certainty and confidence
Alls well that ends well|KING|What darest thou venture?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Tax of impudence,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Sear'd otherwise, nay, worse--if worse--extended
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|With vilest torture let my life be ended.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak
Alls well that ends well|KING|His powerful sound within an organ weak:
Alls well that ends well|KING|And what impossibility would slay
Alls well that ends well|KING|In common sense, sense saves another way.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thy life is dear, for all that life can rate
Alls well that ends well|KING|Worth name of life in thee hath estimate,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all
Alls well that ends well|KING|That happiness and prime can happy call:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou this to hazard needs must intimate
Alls well that ends well|KING|Skill infinite or monstrous desperate.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,
Alls well that ends well|KING|That ministers thine own death if I die.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|If I break time, or flinch in property
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But, if I help, what do you promise me?
Alls well that ends well|KING|Make thy demand.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But will you make it even?
Alls well that ends well|KING|Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What husband in thy power I will command:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exempted be from me the arrogance
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To choose from forth the royal blood of France,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My low and humble name to propagate
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|With any branch or image of thy state,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Here is my hand, the premises observed,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thy will by my performance shall be served:
Alls well that ends well|KING|So make the choice of thy own time, for I,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.
Alls well that ends well|KING|More should I question thee, and more I must,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Though more to know could not be more to trust,
Alls well that ends well|KING|From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Alls well that ends well|KING|Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
Alls well that ends well|KING|As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Flourish. Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|KING|SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Enter COUNTESS and Clown
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Come on, sir, I shall now put you to the height of
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|your breeding.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I
Alls well that ends well|Clown|know my business is but to the court.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To the court! why, what place make you special,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court!
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he
Alls well that ends well|Clown|may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make
Alls well that ends well|Clown|a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap, and indeed
Alls well that ends well|Clown|such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|court, but for me, I have an answer will serve all
Alls well that ends well|Clown|men.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|questions.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn
Alls well that ends well|Clown|buttock, or any buttock.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Will your answer serve fit to all questions?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's
Alls well that ends well|Clown|rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his
Alls well that ends well|Clown|hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen
Alls well that ends well|Clown|to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|questions?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|From below your duke to beneath your constable, it
Alls well that ends well|Clown|will fit any question.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|It must be an answer of most monstrous size that
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|must fit all demands.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned
Alls well that ends well|Clown|should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that
Alls well that ends well|Clown|belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall
Alls well that ends well|Clown|do you no harm to learn.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|pray you, sir, are you a courtier?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|more, a hundred of them.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|O Lord, sir! spare not me.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I play the noble housewife with the time
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To entertain't so merrily with a fool.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|An end, sir, to your business. Give Helen this,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And urge her to a present answer back:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|This is not much.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Not much commendation to them.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Not much employment for you: you understand me?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Haste you again.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Exeunt severally
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|They say miracles are past, and we have our
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|into seeming knowledge, when we should submit
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|ourselves to an unknown fear.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|shot out in our latter times.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And so 'tis.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|To be relinquish'd of the artists,--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|So I say.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Both of Galen and Paracelsus.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|So I say.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Right, so I say.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|That gave him out incurable,--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Why, there 'tis, so say I too.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Not to be helped,--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Right, as 'twere, a man assured of a--
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Uncertain life, and sure death.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Just, you say well, so would I have said.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|shall read it in--what do you call there?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|That's it, I would have said the very same.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I speak in respect--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|brief and the tedious of it, and he's of a most
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the--
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Very hand of heaven.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Ay, so I say.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|In a most weak--
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|pausing
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|and debile minister, great power, great
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|further use to be made than alone the recovery of
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|the king, as to be--
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|pausing
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|generally thankful.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I would have said it, you say well. Here comes the king.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and PAROLLES retire
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|able to lead her a coranto.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|'Fore God, I think so.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Go, call before me all the lords in court.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive
Alls well that ends well|KING|The confirmation of my promised gift,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Which but attends thy naming.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Enter three or four Lords
Alls well that ends well|KING|Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
Alls well that ends well|KING|O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice
Alls well that ends well|KING|I have to use: thy frank election make,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|My mouth no more were broken than these boys',
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|And writ as little beard.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Peruse them well:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Not one of those but had a noble father.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Gentlemen,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Heaven hath through me restored the king to health.
Alls well that ends well|All|We understand it, and thank heaven for you.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That I protest I simply am a maid.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Please it your majesty, I have done already:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|'We blush that thou shouldst choose, but, be refused,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|We'll ne'er come there again.'
Alls well that ends well|KING|Make choice, and, see,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And to imperial Love, that god most high,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|And grant it.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Thanks, sir, all the rest is mute.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|for my life.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Before I speak, too threateningly replies:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Love make your fortunes twenty times above
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Her that so wishes and her humble love!
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|No better, if you please.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My wish receive,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I'd have them whipped, or I would send them to the
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Turk, to make eunuchs of.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Be not afraid that I your hand should take,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her:
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|sure, they are bastards to the English, the French
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|ne'er got 'em.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|You are too young, too happy, and too good,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To make yourself a son out of my blood.
Alls well that ends well|Fourth Lord|Fair one, I think not so.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|There's one grape yet, I am sure thy father drunk
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|of fourteen, I have known thee already.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|[To BERTRAM]  I dare not say I take you, but I give
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Me and my service, ever whilst I live,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Into your guiding power. This is the man.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Why, then, young Bertram, take her, she's thy wife.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|In such a business give me leave to use
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|The help of mine own eyes.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Know'st thou not, Bertram,
Alls well that ends well|KING|What she has done for me?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Yes, my good lord,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|But never hope to know why I should marry her.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|But follows it, my lord, to bring me down
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Must answer for your raising? I know her well:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|She had her breeding at my father's charge.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Rather corrupt me ever!
Alls well that ends well|KING|'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which
Alls well that ends well|KING|I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
Alls well that ends well|KING|In differences so mighty. If she be
Alls well that ends well|KING|All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,
Alls well that ends well|KING|A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of virtue for the name: but do not so:
Alls well that ends well|KING|From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
Alls well that ends well|KING|The place is dignified by the doer's deed:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,
Alls well that ends well|KING|It is a dropsied honour. Good alone
Alls well that ends well|KING|Is good without a name. Vileness is so:
Alls well that ends well|KING|The property by what it is should go,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair,
Alls well that ends well|KING|In these to nature she's immediate heir,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Which challenges itself as honour's born
Alls well that ends well|KING|And is not like the sire: honours thrive,
Alls well that ends well|KING|When rather from our acts we them derive
Alls well that ends well|KING|Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave
Alls well that ends well|KING|Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave
Alls well that ends well|KING|A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
Alls well that ends well|KING|Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?
Alls well that ends well|KING|If thou canst like this creature as a maid,
Alls well that ends well|KING|I can create the rest: virtue and she
Alls well that ends well|KING|Is her own dower, honour and wealth from me.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Let the rest go.
Alls well that ends well|KING|My honour's at the stake, which to defeat,
Alls well that ends well|KING|I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift,
Alls well that ends well|KING|That dost in vile misprision shackle up
Alls well that ends well|KING|My love and her desert, that canst not dream,
Alls well that ends well|KING|We, poising us in her defective scale,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Shall weigh thee to the beam, that wilt not know,
Alls well that ends well|KING|It is in us to plant thine honour where
Alls well that ends well|KING|We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Obey our will, which travails in thy good:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Believe not thy disdain, but presently
Alls well that ends well|KING|Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
Alls well that ends well|KING|Which both thy duty owes and our power claims,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Or I will throw thee from my care for ever
Alls well that ends well|KING|Into the staggers and the careless lapse
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of youth and ignorance, both my revenge and hate
Alls well that ends well|KING|Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Without all terms of pity. Speak, thine answer.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Pardon, my gracious lord, for I submit
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My fancy to your eyes: when I consider
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|What great creation and what dole of honour
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|The praised of the king, who, so ennobled,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Is as 'twere born so.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Take her by the hand,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise
Alls well that ends well|KING|A counterpoise, if not to thy estate
Alls well that ends well|KING|A balance more replete.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I take her hand.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Good fortune and the favour of the king
Alls well that ends well|KING|Smile upon this contract, whose ceremony
Alls well that ends well|KING|Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast
Alls well that ends well|KING|Shall more attend upon the coming space,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thy love's to me religious, else, does err.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|[Advancing]  Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Your pleasure, sir?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Your lord and master did well to make his
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|recantation.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Recantation! My lord! my master!
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Ay, is it not a language I speak?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|A most harsh one, and not to be understood without
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|bloody succeeding. My master!
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|To any count, to all counts, to what is man.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|To what is count's man: count's master is of
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|another style.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|You are too old, sir, let it satisfy you, you are too old.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man, to which
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|title age cannot bring thee.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|What I dare too well do, I dare not do.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|wise fellow, thou didst make tolerable vent of thy
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|travel, it might pass: yet the scarfs and the
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|have now found thee, when I lose thee again, I care
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, and
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|that thou't scarce worth.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,--
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|hasten thy trial, which if--Lord have mercy on thee
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|well: thy casement I need not open, for I look
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|through thee. Give me thy hand.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Ay, with all my heart, and thou art worthy of it.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I have not, my lord, deserved it.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Yes, good faith, every dram of it, and I will not
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|bate thee a scruple.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Well, I shall be wiser.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|that I may say in the default, he is a man I know.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|thee, in what motion age will give me leave.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Exit
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|me, scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|be patient, there is no fettering of authority.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|any convenience, an he were double and double a
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Re-enter LAFEU
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Sirrah, your lord and master's married, there's news
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|for you: you have a new mistress.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|lord: whom I serve above is my master.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Who? God?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Ay, sir.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|every man should beat thee: I think thou wast
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Go to, sir, you were beaten in Italy for picking a
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|kernel out of a pomegranate, you are a vagabond and
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|and honourable personages than the commission of your
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Exit
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Good, very good, it is so then: good, very good,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|let it be concealed awhile.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Re-enter BERTRAM
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|What's the matter, sweet-heart?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I will not bed her.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|What, what, sweet-heart?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|O my Parolles, they have married me!
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|There's letters from my mother: what the import is,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I know not yet.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|He wears his honour in a box unseen,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Spending his manly marrow in her arms,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|France is a stable, we that dwell in't jades,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Therefore, to the war!
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And wherefore I am fled, write to the king
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|That which I durst not speak, his present gift
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|To the dark house and the detested wife.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Go with me to my chamber, and advise me.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I'll send her straight away: to-morrow
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Why, these balls bound, there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|A young man married is a man that's marr'd:
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Therefore away, and leave her bravely, go:
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Enter HELENA and Clown
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My mother greets me kindly, is she well?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|She is not well, but yet she has her health: she's
Alls well that ends well|Clown|very merry, but yet she is not well: but thanks be
Alls well that ends well|Clown|given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|world, but yet she is not well.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|not very well?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What two things?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her
Alls well that ends well|Clown|quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence
Alls well that ends well|Clown|God send her quickly!
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Enter PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Bless you, my fortunate lady!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|good fortunes.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|You had my prayers to lead them on, and to keep them
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I would she did as you say.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Why, I say nothing.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Marry, you are the wiser man, for many a man's
Alls well that ends well|Clown|tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say
Alls well that ends well|Clown|nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have
Alls well that ends well|Clown|nothing, is to be a great part of your title, which
Alls well that ends well|Clown|is within a very little of nothing.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Away! thou'rt a knave.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a
Alls well that ends well|Clown|knave, that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had
Alls well that ends well|Clown|been truth, sir.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Go to, thou art a witty fool, I have found thee.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you
Alls well that ends well|Clown|taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|and much fool may you find in you, even to the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Madam, my lord will go away to-night,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|A very serious business calls on him.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|The great prerogative and rite of love,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|But puts it off to a compell'd restraint,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Which they distil now in the curbed time,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|And pleasure drown the brim.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What's his will else?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|That you will take your instant leave o' the king
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Strengthen'd with what apology you think
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|May make it probable need.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What more commands he?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|That, having this obtain'd, you presently
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Attend his further pleasure.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In every thing I wait upon his will.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I shall report it so.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I pray you.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exit PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Come, sirrah.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|You have it from his own deliverance.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And by other warranted testimony.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|knowledge and accordingly valiant.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I have then sinned against his experience and
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|transgressed against his valour, and my state that
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|us friends, I will pursue the amity.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Enter PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|[To BERTRAM]  These things shall be done, sir.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Pray you, sir, who's his tailor?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Sir?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|O, I know him well, I, sir, he, sir, 's a good
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|workman, a very good tailor.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|[Aside to PAROLLES]  Is she gone to the king?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|She is.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Will she away to-night?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|As you'll have her.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Given order for our horses, and to-night,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|When I should take possession of the bride,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|End ere I do begin.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|A good traveller is something at the latter end of a
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|dinner, but one that lies three thirds and uses a
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|displeasure.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|and all, like him that leaped into the custard, and
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|question for your residence.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|prayers. Fare you well, my lord, and believe this
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut, the
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|matter of heavy consequence, I have kept of them
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur:
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I have spoken better of you than you have or will to
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|deserve at my hand, but we must do good against evil.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Exit
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|An idle lord. I swear.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I think so.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Why, do you not know him?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Yes, I do know him well, and common speech
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Enter HELENA
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Spoke with the king and have procured his leave
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|For present parting, only he desires
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Some private speech with you.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I shall obey his will.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Which holds not colour with the time, nor does
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|The ministration and required office
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|On my particular. Prepared I was not
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|For such a business, therefore am I found
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|That presently you take our way for home,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|For my respects are better than they seem
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And my appointments have in them a need
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Greater than shows itself at the first view
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|To you that know them not. This to my mother:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Giving a letter
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I leave you to your wisdom.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Sir, I can nothing say,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But that I am your most obedient servant.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Come, come, no more of that.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And ever shall
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|With true observance seek to eke out that
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To equal my great fortune.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Let that go:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My haste is very great: farewell, hie home.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Pray, sir, your pardon.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Well, what would you say?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What law does vouch mine own.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|What would you have?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Something, and scarce so much: nothing, indeed.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I would not tell you what I would, my lord:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Faith yes,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Exit HELENA
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Go thou toward home, where I will never come
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Away, and for our flight.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Bravely, coragio!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|ACT III
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended, the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|So that from point to point now have you heard
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|The fundamental reasons of this war,
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Whose great decision hath much blood let forth
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|And more thirsts after.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Holy seems the quarrel
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Upon your grace's part, black and fearful
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|On the opposer.
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Would in so just a business shut his bosom
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Against our borrowing prayers.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Good my lord,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|The reasons of our state I cannot yield,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|But like a common and an outward man,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|That the great figure of a council frames
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|By self-unable motion: therefore dare not
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Say what I think of it, since I have found
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|As often as I guess'd.
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Be it his pleasure.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|But I am sure the younger of our nature,
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Come here for physic.
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Welcome shall they be,
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|And all the honours that can fly from us
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Shall on them settle. You know your places well,
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|When better fall, for your avails they fell:
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|To-morrow to the field.
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Flourish. Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Enter COUNTESS and Clown
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|It hath happened all as I would have had it, save
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|that he comes not along with her.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very
Alls well that ends well|Clown|melancholy man.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|By what observance, I pray you?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Why, he will look upon his boot and sing, mend the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|ruff and sing, ask questions and sing, pick his
Alls well that ends well|Clown|teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of
Alls well that ends well|Clown|melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Opening a letter
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our
Alls well that ends well|Clown|old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing
Alls well that ends well|Clown|like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:
Alls well that ends well|Clown|the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to
Alls well that ends well|Clown|love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|What have we here?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|E'en that you have there.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Exit
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|[Reads]  I have sent you a daughter-in-law: she hath
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|her, not bedded her, and sworn to make the 'not'
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|before the report come. If there be breadth enough
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|to you.	Your unfortunate son,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|BERTRAM.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|This is not well, rash and unbridled boy.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To fly the favours of so good a king,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To pluck his indignation on thy head
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|By the misprising of a maid too virtuous
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|For the contempt of empire.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Re-enter Clown
Alls well that ends well|Clown|O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two
Alls well that ends well|Clown|soldiers and my young lady!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|What is the matter?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some
Alls well that ends well|Clown|comfort, your son will not be killed so soon as I
Alls well that ends well|Clown|thought he would.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Why should he be killed?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does:
Alls well that ends well|Clown|the danger is in standing to't, that's the loss of
Alls well that ends well|Clown|men, though it be the getting of children. Here
Alls well that ends well|Clown|they come will tell you more: for my part, I only
Alls well that ends well|Clown|hear your son was run away.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Exit
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|Save you, good madam.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|Do not say so.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That the first face of neither, on the start,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you?
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence:
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|We met him thitherward, for thence we came,
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|And, after some dispatch in hand at court,
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|Thither we bend again.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Look on his letter, madam, here's my passport.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Reads
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|When thou canst get the ring upon my finger which
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|never shall come off, and show me a child begotten
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|of thy body that I am father to, then call me
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|This is a dreadful sentence.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Brought you this letter, gentlemen?
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|Ay, madam,
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pain.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I prithee, lady, have a better cheer,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|But I do wash his name out of my blood,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he?
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|Ay, madam.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And to be a soldier?
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|Such is his noble purpose, and believe 't,
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|The duke will lay upon him all the honour
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|That good convenience claims.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Return you thither?
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|[Reads]  Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|'Tis bitter.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Find you that there?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ay, madam.
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|heart was not consenting to.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Nothing in France, until he have no wife!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|There's nothing here that is too good for him
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|But only she, and she deserves a lord
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That twenty such rude boys might tend upon
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|A servant only, and a gentleman
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|Which I have sometime known.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Parolles, was it not?
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|Ay, my good lady, he.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|My son corrupts a well-derived nature
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|With his inducement.
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|Indeed, good lady,
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|The fellow has a deal of that too much,
Alls well that ends well|First Gentleman|Which holds him much to have.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You're welcome, gentlemen.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I will entreat you, when you see my son,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To tell him that his sword can never win
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Written to bear along.
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|We serve you, madam,
Alls well that ends well|Second Gentleman|In that and all your worthiest affairs.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Not so, but as we change our courtesies.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Will you draw near!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Nothing in France, until he has no wife!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That chase thee from thy country and expose
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Those tender limbs of thine to the event
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of the none-sparing war? and is it I
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That ride upon the violent speed of fire,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Fly with false aim, move the still-peering air,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That sings with piercing, do not touch my lord.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Whoever shoots at him, I set him there,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Whoever charges on his forward breast,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I am the caitiff that do hold him to't,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And, though I kill him not, I am the cause
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His death was so effected: better 'twere
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I met the ravin lion when he roar'd
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|With sharp constraint of hunger, better 'twere
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That all the miseries which nature owes
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|As oft it loses all: I will be gone,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My being here it is that holds thee hence:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Shall I stay here to do't?  no, no, although
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The air of paradise did fan the house
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And angels officed all: I will be gone,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That pitiful rumour may report my flight,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To consolate thine ear. Come, night, end, day!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exit
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|SCENE III. Florence. Before the DUKE's palace.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|The general of our horse thou art, and we,
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Upon thy promising fortune.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Sir, it is
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|To the extreme edge of hazard.
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|Then go thou forth,
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,
Alls well that ends well|DUKE|As thy auspicious mistress!
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|This very day,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|A lover of thy drum, hater of love.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|SCENE IV. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Enter COUNTESS and Steward
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Alas! and would you take the letter of her?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Might you not know she would do as she has done,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|By sending me a letter? Read it again.
Alls well that ends well|Steward|[Reads]
Alls well that ends well|Steward|I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Ambitious love hath so in me offended,
Alls well that ends well|Steward|That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,
Alls well that ends well|Steward|With sainted vow my faults to have amended.
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Write, write, that from the bloody course of war
Alls well that ends well|Steward|My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far
Alls well that ends well|Steward|His name with zealous fervor sanctify:
Alls well that ends well|Steward|His taken labours bid him me forgive,
Alls well that ends well|Steward|I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth
Alls well that ends well|Steward|From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth:
Alls well that ends well|Steward|He is too good and fair for death and me:
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Whom I myself embrace, to set him free.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I could have well diverted her intents,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Which thus she hath prevented.
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Pardon me, madam:
Alls well that ends well|Steward|If I had given you this at over-night,
Alls well that ends well|Steward|She might have been o'erta'en, and yet she writes,
Alls well that ends well|Steward|Pursuit would be but vain.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|What angel shall
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To this unworthy husband of his wife,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Let every word weigh heavy of her worth
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Dispatch the most convenient messenger:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|When haply he shall hear that she is gone,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|He will return, and hope I may that she,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Led hither by pure love: which of them both
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|To make distinction: provide this messenger:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|My heart is heavy and mine age is weak,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|SCENE V. Florence. Without the walls. A tucket afar off.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, and MARIANA, with other Citizens
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Nay, come, for if they do approach the city, we
Alls well that ends well|Widow|shall lose all the sight.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|They say the French count has done most honourable service.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|It is reported that he has taken their greatest
Alls well that ends well|Widow|commander, and that with his own hand he slew the
Alls well that ends well|Widow|duke's brother.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Tucket
Alls well that ends well|Widow|We have lost our labour, they are gone a contrary
Alls well that ends well|Widow|way: hark! you may know by their trumpets.
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|French earl: the honour of a maid is her name, and
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|no legacy is so rich as honesty.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited
Alls well that ends well|Widow|by a gentleman his companion.
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|I know that knave, hang him! one Parolles: a
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|young earl. Beware of them, Diana, their promises,
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|lust, are not the things they go under: many a maid
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|hath been seduced by them, and the misery is,
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession,
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|them. I hope I need not to advise you further, but
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|I hope your own grace will keep you where you are,
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|though there were no further danger known but the
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|modesty which is so lost.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|You shall not need to fear me.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|I hope so.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at
Alls well that ends well|Widow|my house, thither they send one another: I'll
Alls well that ends well|Widow|question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To Saint Jaques le Grand.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?
Alls well that ends well|Widow|At the Saint Francis here beside the port.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Is this the way?
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Ay, marry, is't.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|A march afar
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Hark you! they come this way.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|But till the troops come by,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|I will conduct you where you shall be lodged,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|The rather, for I think I know your hostess
Alls well that ends well|Widow|As ample as myself.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Is it yourself?
Alls well that ends well|Widow|If you shall please so, pilgrim.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|You came, I think, from France?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I did so.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Here you shall see a countryman of yours
Alls well that ends well|Widow|That has done worthy service.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His name, I pray you.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His face I know not.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Whatsome'er he is,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|As 'tis reported, for the king had married him
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Against his liking: think you it is so?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|There is a gentleman that serves the count
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Reports but coarsely of her.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|What's his name?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Monsieur Parolles.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|O, I believe with him,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In argument of praise, or to the worth
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Of the great count himself, she is too mean
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To have her name repeated: all her deserving
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Is a reserved honesty, and that
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I have not heard examined.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Alas, poor lady!
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Of a detesting lord.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her
Alls well that ends well|Widow|A shrewd turn, if she pleased.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|How do you mean?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|May be the amorous count solicits her
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In the unlawful purpose.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|He does indeed,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|And brokes with all that can in such a suit
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Corrupt the tender honour of a maid:
Alls well that ends well|Widow|But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard
Alls well that ends well|Widow|In honestest defence.
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|The gods forbid else!
Alls well that ends well|Widow|So, now they come:
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Drum and Colours
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army
Alls well that ends well|Widow|That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|That, Escalus.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which is the Frenchman?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I would he loved his wife: if he were honester
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I like him well.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|That leads him to these places: were I his lady,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I would Poison that vile rascal.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which is he?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Perchance he's hurt i' the battle.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Lose our drum! well.
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Marry, hang you!
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!
Alls well that ends well|MARIANA|Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army
Alls well that ends well|Widow|The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents
Alls well that ends well|Widow|There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Already at my house.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I humbly thank you:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Please it this matron and this gentle maid
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Shall be for me, and, to requite you further,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I will bestow some precepts of this virgin
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Worthy the note.
Alls well that ends well|BOTH|We'll take your offer kindly.
Alls well that ends well|BOTH|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|BOTH|SCENE VI. Camp before Florence.
Alls well that ends well|BOTH|Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Nay, good my lord, put him to't, let him have his
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|way.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|more in your respect.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|On my life, my lord, a bubble.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Do you think I am so far deceived in him?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|without any malice, but to speak of him as my
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|of no one good quality worthy your lordship's
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|entertainment.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|It were fit you knew him, lest, reposing too far in
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|great and trusty business in a main danger fail you.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I would I knew in what particular action to try him.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|None better than to let him fetch off his drum,
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|which you hear him so confidently undertake to do.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|surprise him, such I will have, whom I am sure he
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|present at his examination: if he do not, for the
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|intelligence in his power against you, and that with
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|trust my judgment in any thing.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum,
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|he says he has a stratagem for't: when your
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|melted, if you give him not John Drum's
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Here he comes.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Enter PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|[Aside to BERTRAM]  O, for the love of laughter,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|off his drum in any hand.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|disposition.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|A pox on't, let it go, 'tis but a drum.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|There was excellent command,--to charge in with our
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|That was not to be blamed in the command of the
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|himself could not have prevented, if he had been
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|there to command.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|dishonour we had in the loss of that drum, but it is
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|not to be recovered.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|It might have been recovered.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|It might, but it is not now.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|It is to be recovered: but that the merit of
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|service is seldom attributed to the true and exact
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|performer, I would have that drum or another, or
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|'hic jacet.'
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|think your mystery in stratagem can bring this
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|instrument of honour again into his native quarter,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on, I will
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|and extend to you what further becomes his
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|worthiness.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|But you must not now slumber in it.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I'll about it this evening: and I will presently
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|and by midnight look to hear further from me.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I know not what the success will be, my lord, but
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|the attempt I vow.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I know thou'rt valiant, and, to the possibility of
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I love not many words.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Exit
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|to undertake this business, which he knows is not to
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|be done, damns himself to do and dares better be
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|damned than to do't?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|for a week escape a great deal of discoveries, but
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|when you find him out, you have him ever after.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|this that so seriously he does address himself unto?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|None in the world, but return with an invention and
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|have almost embossed him, you shall see his fall
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|to-night, for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu:
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|sprat you shall find him, which you shall see this
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|very night.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Your brother he shall go along with me.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|As't please your lordship: I'll leave you.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Exit
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Now will I lead you to the house, and show you
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|The lass I spoke of.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|But you say she's honest.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And found her wondrous cold, but I sent to her,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Tokens and letters which she did re-send,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Will you go see her?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|With all my heart, my lord.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|SCENE VII. Florence. The Widow's house.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Enter HELENA and Widow
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I know not how I shall assure you further,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Nothing acquainted with these businesses,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|And would not put my reputation now
Alls well that ends well|Widow|In any staining act.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Nor would I wish you.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|First, give me trust, the count he is my husband,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Is so from word to word, and then you cannot,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Err in bestowing it.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|I should believe you:
Alls well that ends well|Widow|For you have show'd me that which well approves
Alls well that ends well|Widow|You're great in fortune.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Take this purse of gold,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And let me buy your friendly help thus far,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which I will over-pay and pay again
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Now his important blood will nought deny
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That downward hath succeeded in his house
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|From son to son, some four or five descents
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In most rich choice, yet in his idle fire,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Howe'er repented after.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Now I see
Alls well that ends well|Widow|The bottom of your purpose.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|You see it lawful, then: it is no more,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Desires this ring, appoints him an encounter,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|In fine, delivers me to fill the time,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Herself most chastely absent: after this,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To what is passed already.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|I have yielded:
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|That time and place with this deceit so lawful
Alls well that ends well|Widow|May prove coherent. Every night he comes
Alls well that ends well|Widow|With musics of all sorts and songs composed
Alls well that ends well|Widow|To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us
Alls well that ends well|Widow|To chide him from our eaves, for he persists
Alls well that ends well|Widow|As if his life lay on't.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Why then to-night
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Let us assay our plot, which, if it speed,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And lawful meaning in a lawful act,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But let's about it.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|ACT IV
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other Soldiers in ambush
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|When you sally upon him, speak what terrible
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|language you will: though you understand it not
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|yourselves, no matter, for we must not seem to
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|understand him, unless some one among us whom we
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|must produce for an interpreter.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Good captain, let me be the interpreter.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice?
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|No, sir, I warrant you.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|E'en such as you speak to me.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|He must think us some band of strangers i' the
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|all neighbouring languages, therefore we must every
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|speak one to another, so we seem to know, is to
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|know straight our purpose: choughs' language,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|and then to return and swear the lies he forges.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Enter PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|time enough to go home. What shall I say I have
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|done? It must be a very plausive invention that
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|carries it: they begin to smoke me, and disgraces
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|have of late knocked too often at my door. I find
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|my tongue is too foolhardy, but my heart hath the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|daring the reports of my tongue.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|was guilty of.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|What the devil should move me to undertake the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it, they
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|instance? Tongue, I must put you into a
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Is it possible he should know what he is, and be
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|that he is?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I would the cutting of my garments would serve the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|We cannot afford you so.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Or the baring of my beard, and to say it was in
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|stratagem.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|'Twould not do.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Hardly serve.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|How deep?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Thirty fathom.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I recovered it.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|You shall hear one anon.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|A drum now of the enemy's,--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Alarum within
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.
Alls well that ends well|All|Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|They seize and blindfold him
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Boskos thromuldo boskos.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I know you are the Muskos' regiment:
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|And I shall lose my life for want of language,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Italian, or French, let him speak to me, I'll
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Discover that which shall undo the Florentine.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|O!
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Oscorbidulchos volivorco.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|The general is content to spare thee yet,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Something to save thy life.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|O, let me live!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Their force, their purposes, nay, I'll speak that
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Which you will wonder at.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|But wilt thou faithfully?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|If I do not, damn me.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Acordo linta.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Come on, thou art granted space.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Till we do hear from them.
Alls well that ends well|Second Soldier|Captain, I will.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|A' will betray us all unto ourselves:
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Inform on that.
Alls well that ends well|Second Soldier|So I will, sir.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|SCENE II. Florence. The Widow's house.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Enter BERTRAM and DIANA
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|They told me that your name was Fontibell.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|No, my good lord, Diana.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Titled goddess,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|In your fine frame hath love no quality?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|If quick fire of youth light not your mind,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|You are no maiden, but a monument:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|When you are dead, you should be such a one
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|As you are now, for you are cold and stem,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And now you should be as your mother was
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|When your sweet self was got.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|She then was honest.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|So should you be.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|No:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|My mother did but duty, such, my lord,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|As you owe to your wife.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|No more o' that,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I prithee, do not strive against my vows:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I was compell'd to her, but I love thee
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Do thee all rights of service.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Ay, so you serve us
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Till we serve you, but when you have our roses,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And mock us with our bareness.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|How have I sworn!
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|What is not holy, that we swear not by,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|If I should swear by God's great attributes,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|When I did love you ill? This has no holding,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|To swear by him whom I protest to love,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|That I will work against him: therefore your oaths
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|At least in my opinion.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Change it, change it,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|But give thyself unto my sick desires,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My love as it begins shall so persever.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I see that men make ropes in such a scarre
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|To give it from me.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Will you not, my lord?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|It is an honour 'longing to our house,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|In me to lose.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Mine honour's such a ring:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Brings in the champion Honour on my part,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Against your vain assault.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Here, take my ring:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And I'll be bid by thee.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I'll order take my mother shall not hear.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Now will I charge you in the band of truth,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|My reasons are most strong, and you shall know them
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|When back again this ring shall be deliver'd:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And on your finger in the night I'll put
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Another ring, that what in time proceeds
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|May token to the future our past deeds.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Adieu, till then, then, fail not. You have won
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|A wife of me, though there my hope be done.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Exit
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|For which live long to thank both heaven and me!
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|You may so in the end.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|My mother told me just how he would woo,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|As if she sat in 's heart, she says all men
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|When his wife's dead, therefore I'll lie with him
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Marry that will, I live and die a maid:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Only in this disguise I think't no sin
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|To cozen him that would unjustly win.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Exit
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|SCENE III. The Florentine camp.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Enter the two French Lords and some two or three Soldiers
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|You have not given him his mother's letter?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I have delivered it an hour since: there is
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|something in't that stings his nature, for on the
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|reading it he changed almost into another man.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|off so good a wife and so sweet a lady.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Especially he hath incurred the everlasting
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|grave of it.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Florence, of a most chaste renown, and this night he
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|made in the unchaste composition.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves,
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|what things are we!
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|of all treasons, we still see them reveal
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|so he that in this action contrives against his own
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters of
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|company to-night?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Not till after midnight, for he is dieted to his hour.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|That approaches apace, I would gladly have him see
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|his company anatomized, that he might take a measure
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|set this counterfeit.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|We will not meddle with him till he come, for his
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|presence must be the whip of the other.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|In the mean time, what hear you of these wars?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I hear there is an overture of peace.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|higher, or return again into France?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|of his council.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Let it be forbid, sir, so should I be a great deal
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|of his act.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|le Grand, which holy undertaking with most austere
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|sanctimony she accomplished, and, there residing the
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|grief, in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|now she sings in heaven.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|How is this justified?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|The stronger part of it by her own letters, which
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|makes her story true, even to the point of her
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|death: her death itself, which could not be her
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|the rector of the place.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Hath the count all this intelligence?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|point, so to the full arming of the verity.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|And how mightily some other times we drown our gain
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|here acquired for him shall at home be encountered
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|with a shame as ample.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|faults whipped them not, and our crimes would
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Enter a Messenger
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|How now! where's your master?
Alls well that ends well|Servant|He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath
Alls well that ends well|Servant|taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next
Alls well that ends well|Servant|morning for France. The duke hath offered him
Alls well that ends well|Servant|letters of commendations to the king.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|They shall be no more than needful there, if they
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|were more than they can commend.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Here's his lordship now.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Enter BERTRAM
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with his
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|nearest, buried a wife, mourned for her, writ to my
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|lady mother I am returning, entertained my convoy,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|and between these main parcels of dispatch effected
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|many nicer needs, the last was the greatest, but
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|that I have not ended yet.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|If the business be of any difficulty, and this
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|morning your departure hence, it requires haste of
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|your lordship.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|me, like a double-meaning prophesier.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|poor gallant knave.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|No matter: his heels have deserved it, in usurping
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I have told your lordship already, the stocks carry
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|him. But to answer you as you would be understood,
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|this very instant disaster of his setting i' the
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|stocks: and what think you he hath confessed?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Nothing of me, has a'?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|are, you must have the patience to hear it.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|me: hush, hush!
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|He calls for the tortures: what will you say
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|without 'em?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I will confess what I know without constraint: if
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Bosko chimurcho.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Boblibindo chicurmurco.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|You are a merciful general. Our general bids you
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|answer to what I shall ask you out of a note.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|And truly, as I hope to live.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|[Reads]  'First demand of him how many horse the
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|duke is strong.' What say you to that?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Five or six thousand, but very weak and
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|and credit and as I hope to live.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Shall I set down your answer so?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this!
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his own
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in the
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|his dagger.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|clean. nor believe he can have every thing in him
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|by wearing his apparel neatly.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Well, that's set down.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak truth.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|He's very near the truth in this.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|delivers it.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Poor rogues, I pray you, say.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Well, that's set down.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|rogues are marvellous poor.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|[Reads]  'Demand of him, of what strength they are
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|a-foot.' What say you to that?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|hundred and fifty, Sebastian, so many, Corambus, so
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|many, Jaques, so many, Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each, mine own
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred and
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|poll, half of the which dare not shake snow from off
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|What shall be done to him?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|condition, and what credit I have with the duke.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Well, that's set down.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Reads
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumain
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|be i' the camp, a Frenchman, what his reputation is
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|with the duke, what his valour, honesty, and
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|expertness in wars, or whether he thinks it were not
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this? what
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|do you know of it?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|the inter'gatories: demand them singly.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Do you know this Captain Dumain?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|say him nay.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Nay, by your leave, hold your hands, though I know
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's camp?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Nay look not so upon me, we shall hear of your
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|lordship anon.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|What is his reputation with the duke?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|of mine, and writ to me this other day to turn him
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Marry, we'll search.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|In good sadness, I do not know, either it is there,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|in my tent.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Here 'tis, here's a paper: shall I read it to you?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I do not know if it be it or no.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Our interpreter does it well.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Excellently.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|[Reads]  'Dian, the count's a fool, and full of gold,'--
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|That is not the duke's letter, sir, that is an
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|behalf of the maid, for I knew the young count to be
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|virginity and devours up all the fry it finds.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Damnable both-sides rogue!
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|[Reads]  'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|After he scores, he never pays the score:
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Half won is match well made, match, and well make it,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|PAROLLES.'
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|in's forehead.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|linguist and the armipotent soldier.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|he's a cat to me.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|fain to hang you.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|die, but that, my offences being many, I would
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely,
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|have answered to his reputation with the duke and to
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|his valour: what is his honesty?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|professes not keeping of oaths, in breaking 'em he
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, with
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|such volubility, that you would think truth were a
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|be swine-drunk, and in his sleep he does little
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|harm, save to his bed-clothes about him, but they
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|every thing that an honest man should not have, what
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|an honest man should have, he has nothing.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|I begin to love him for this.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|him for me, he's more and more a cat.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|What say you to his expertness in war?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|tragedians, to belie him, I will not, and more of
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|his soldiership I know not, except, in that country
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|he had the honour to be the officer at a place there
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|this I am not certain.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|He hath out-villained villany so far, that the
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|rarity redeems him.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|A pox on him, he's a cat still.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|His qualities being at this poor price, I need not
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|of his salvation, the inheritance of it, and cut the
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|entail from all remainders, and a perpetual
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|succession for it perpetually.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Why does be ask him of me?
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|What's he?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|E'en a crow o' the same nest, not altogether so
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|great as the first in goodness, but greater a great
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|deal in evil: he excels his brother for a coward,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is:
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|in a retreat he outruns any lackey, marry, in coming
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|on he has the cramp.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|the Florentine?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|[Aside]  I'll no more drumming, a plague of all
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|general says, you that have so traitorously
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|discovered the secrets of your army and made such
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|serve the world for no honest use, therefore you
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death!
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Unblinding him
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|So, look about you: know you any here?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Good morrow, noble captain.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|God bless you, Captain Parolles.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|God save you, noble captain.
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu?
Alls well that ends well|Second Lord|I am for France.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon?
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of you:
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|but fare you well.
Alls well that ends well|First Lord|Exeunt BERTRAM and Lords
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|You are undone, captain, all but your scarf, that
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|has a knot on't yet
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Who cannot be crushed with a plot?
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|If you could find out a country where but women were
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|that had received so much shame, you might begin an
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir, I am for France
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|too: we shall speak of you there.
Alls well that ends well|First Soldier|Exit with Soldiers
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|As captain shall: simply the thing I am
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Let him fear this, for it will come to pass
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|that every braggart shall be found an ass.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|There's place and means for every man alive.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I'll after them.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Exit
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|SCENE IV. Florence. The Widow's house.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|One of the greatest in the Christian world
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Shall be my surety, 'fore whose throne 'tis needful,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Time was, I did him a desired office,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Dear almost as his life, which gratitude
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|His grace is at Marseilles, to which place
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|We have convenient convoy. You must know
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I am supposed dead: the army breaking,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|My husband hies him home, where, heaven aiding,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And by the leave of my good lord the king,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|We'll be before our welcome.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Gentle madam,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|You never had a servant to whose trust
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Your business was more welcome.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Nor you, mistress,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|As it hath fated her to be my motive
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That can such sweet use make of what they hate,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|With what it loathes for that which is away.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Under my poor instructions yet must suffer
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Something in my behalf.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Let death and honesty
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Go with your impositions, I am yours
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Upon your will to suffer.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Yet, I pray you:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But with the word the time will bring on summer,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And be as sweet as sharp. We must away,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|All's well that ends well, still the fine's the crown,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|SCENE V. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and Clown
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I would I had not known him, it was the death of the
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|praise for creating. If she had partaken of my
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|could not have owed her a more rooted love.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|They are not herbs, you knave, they are nose-herbs.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir, I have not much
Alls well that ends well|Clown|skill in grass.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Your distinction?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|So you were a knave at his service, indeed.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|At your service.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|No, no, no.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as
Alls well that ends well|Clown|great a prince as you are.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Who's that? a Frenchman?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Faith, sir, a' has an English name, but his fisnomy
Alls well that ends well|Clown|is more hotter in France than there.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|What prince is that?
Alls well that ends well|Clown|The black prince, sir, alias, the prince of
Alls well that ends well|Clown|darkness, alias, the devil.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|serve him still.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a
Alls well that ends well|Clown|great fire, and the master I speak of ever keeps a
Alls well that ends well|Clown|good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|world, let his nobility remain in's court. I am for
Alls well that ends well|Clown|the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be
Alls well that ends well|Clown|too little for pomp to enter: some that humble
Alls well that ends well|Clown|themselves may, but the many will be too chill and
Alls well that ends well|Clown|tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that
Alls well that ends well|Clown|leads to the broad gate and the great fire.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee, and I
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|tell thee so before, because I would not fall out
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|looked to, without any tricks.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be
Alls well that ends well|Clown|jades' tricks, which are their own right by the law of nature.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Exit
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|A shrewd knave and an unhappy.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|sport out of him: by his authority he remains here,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness, and,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I like him well, 'tis not amiss. And I was about to
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|that my lord your son was upon his return home, I
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|my daughter, which, in the minority of them both,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|first propose: his highness hath promised me to do
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|conceived against your son, there is no fitter
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|matter. How does your ladyship like it?
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|With very much content, my lord, and I wish it
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|happily effected.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|intelligence hath seldom failed.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|die. I have letters that my son will be here
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|with me till they meet together.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|safely be admitted.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|You need but plead your honourable privilege.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Lady, of that I have made a bold charter, but I
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|thank my God it holds yet.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Re-enter Clown
Alls well that ends well|Clown|O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of
Alls well that ends well|Clown|velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't
Alls well that ends well|Clown|or no, the velvet knows, but 'tis a goodly patch of
Alls well that ends well|Clown|velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a
Alls well that ends well|Clown|half, but his right cheek is worn bare.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|of honour, so belike is that.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|But it is your carbonadoed face.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to talk
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|with the young noble soldier.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine
Alls well that ends well|Clown|hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head
Alls well that ends well|Clown|and nod at every man.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|Clown|ACT V
Alls well that ends well|Clown|SCENE I. Marseilles. A street.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two Attendants
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But this exceeding posting day and night
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Must wear your spirits low, we cannot help it:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But since you have made the days and nights as one,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Be bold you do so grow in my requital
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|As nothing can unroot you. In happy time,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Enter a Gentleman
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|This man may help me to his majesty's ear,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|If he would spend his power. God save you, sir.
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|And you.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|I have been sometimes there.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|From the report that goes upon your goodness,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which lay nice manners by, I put you to
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The use of your own virtues, for the which
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I shall continue thankful.
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|What's your will?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|That it will please you
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To give this poor petition to the king,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And aid me with that store of power you have
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|To come into his presence.
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|The king's not here.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Not here, sir!
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Not, indeed:
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|He hence removed last night and with more haste
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Than is his use.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Lord, how we lose our pains!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL yet,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I do beseech you, whither is he gone?
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon,
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Whither I am going.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I do beseech you, sir,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Since you are like to see the king before me,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Commend the paper to his gracious hand,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Which I presume shall render you no blame
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|But rather make you thank your pains for it.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I will come after you with what good speed
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Our means will make us means.
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|This I'll do for you.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Go, go, provide.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|SCENE II. Rousillon. Before the COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Enter Clown, and PAROLLES, following
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|you, when I have held familiarity with fresher
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|clothes, but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|displeasure.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it
Alls well that ends well|Clown|smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will
Alls well that ends well|Clown|henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Prithee, allow the wind.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir, I spake
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|but by a metaphor.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my
Alls well that ends well|Clown|nose, or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get
Alls well that ends well|Clown|thee further.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's
Alls well that ends well|Clown|close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he
Alls well that ends well|Clown|comes himself.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Enter LAFEU
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's
Alls well that ends well|Clown|cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he
Alls well that ends well|Clown|says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the
Alls well that ends well|Clown|carp as you may, for he looks like a poor, decayed,
Alls well that ends well|Clown|ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his
Alls well that ends well|Clown|distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to
Alls well that ends well|Clown|your lordship.
Alls well that ends well|Clown|Exit
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|scratched.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|you: let the justices make you and fortune friends:
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I am for other business.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I beseech your honour to hear me one single word.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|save your word.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|My name, my good lord, is Parolles.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|give me your hand. How does your drum?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|O my good lord, you were the first that found me!
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|for you did bring me out.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|both the office of God and the devil? One brings
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|thee in grace and the other brings thee out.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Trumpets sound
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|The king's coming, I know by his trumpets. Sirrah,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|inquire further after me, I had talk of you last
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|eat, go to, follow.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I praise God for you.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Exeunt
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two French Lords, with Attendants
Alls well that ends well|KING|We lost a jewel of her, and our esteem
Alls well that ends well|KING|Was made much poorer by it: but your son,
Alls well that ends well|KING|As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know
Alls well that ends well|KING|Her estimation home.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|'Tis past, my liege,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|And I beseech your majesty to make it
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|O'erbears it and burns on.
Alls well that ends well|KING|My honour'd lady,
Alls well that ends well|KING|I have forgiven and forgotten all,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Though my revenges were high bent upon him,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And watch'd the time to shoot.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|This I must say,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|But first I beg my pardon, the young lord
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Offence of mighty note, but to himself
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Whose beauty did astonish the survey
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Humbly call'd mistress.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Praising what is lost
Alls well that ends well|KING|Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither,
Alls well that ends well|KING|We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill
Alls well that ends well|KING|All repetition: let him not ask our pardon,
Alls well that ends well|KING|The nature of his great offence is dead,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And deeper than oblivion we do bury
Alls well that ends well|KING|The incensing relics of it: let him approach,
Alls well that ends well|KING|A stranger, no offender, and inform him
Alls well that ends well|KING|So 'tis our will he should.
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|I shall, my liege.
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Exit
Alls well that ends well|KING|What says he to your daughter? have you spoke?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|All that he is hath reference to your highness.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me
Alls well that ends well|KING|That set him high in fame.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Enter BERTRAM
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|He looks well on't.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I am not a day of season,
Alls well that ends well|KING|For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
Alls well that ends well|KING|In me at once: but to the brightest beams
Alls well that ends well|KING|Distracted clouds give way, so stand thou forth,
Alls well that ends well|KING|The time is fair again.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My high-repented blames,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Dear sovereign, pardon to me.
Alls well that ends well|KING|All is whole,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Not one word more of the consumed time.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Let's take the instant by the forward top,
Alls well that ends well|KING|For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
Alls well that ends well|KING|The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Alls well that ends well|KING|Steals ere we can effect them. You remember
Alls well that ends well|KING|The daughter of this lord?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Admiringly, my liege, at first
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Where the impression of mine eye infixing,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Which warp'd the line of every other favour,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Extended or contracted all proportions
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|To a most hideous object: thence it came
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|That she whom all men praised and whom myself,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|The dust that did offend it.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Well excused:
Alls well that ends well|KING|That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away
Alls well that ends well|KING|From the great compt: but love that comes too late,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
Alls well that ends well|KING|To the great sender turns a sour offence,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults
Alls well that ends well|KING|Make trivial price of serious things we have,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Not knowing them until we know their grave:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Destroy our friends and after weep their dust
Alls well that ends well|KING|Our own love waking cries to see what's done,
Alls well that ends well|KING|While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin:
Alls well that ends well|KING|The main consents are had, and here we'll stay
Alls well that ends well|KING|To see our widower's second marriage-day.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Come on, my son, in whom my house's name
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Must be digested, give a favour from you
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|That she may quickly come.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|BERTRAM gives a ring
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|By my old beard,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|The last that e'er I took her at court,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I saw upon her finger.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Hers it was not.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Now, pray you, let me see it, for mine eye,
Alls well that ends well|KING|While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't.
Alls well that ends well|KING|This ring was mine, and, when I gave it Helen,
Alls well that ends well|KING|I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood
Alls well that ends well|KING|Necessitied to help, that by this token
Alls well that ends well|KING|I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to reave
Alls well that ends well|KING|her
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of what should stead her most?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My gracious sovereign,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|The ring was never hers.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Son, on my life,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|I have seen her wear it, and she reckon'd it
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|At her life's rate.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I am sure I saw her wear it.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|You are deceived, my lord, she never saw it:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I could not answer in that course of honour
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|As she had made the overture, she ceased
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|In heavy satisfaction and would never
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Receive the ring again.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Plutus himself,
Alls well that ends well|KING|That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Hath not in nature's mystery more science
Alls well that ends well|KING|Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know
Alls well that ends well|KING|That you are well acquainted with yourself,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement
Alls well that ends well|KING|You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety
Alls well that ends well|KING|That she would never put it from her finger,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Where you have never come, or sent it us
Alls well that ends well|KING|Upon her great disaster.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|She never saw it.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And makest conjectural fears to come into me
Alls well that ends well|KING|Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove
Alls well that ends well|KING|That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so,--
Alls well that ends well|KING|And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And she is dead, which nothing, but to close
Alls well that ends well|KING|Her eyes myself, could win me to believe,
Alls well that ends well|KING|More than to see this ring. Take him away.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Guards seize BERTRAM
Alls well that ends well|KING|My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Shall tax my fears of little vanity,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him!
Alls well that ends well|KING|We'll sift this matter further.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|If you shall prove
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Where yet she never was.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Exit, guarded
Alls well that ends well|KING|I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Enter a Gentleman
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Gracious sovereign,
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Here's a petition from a Florentine,
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Who hath for four or five removes come short
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|To tender it herself. I undertook it,
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Is here attending: her business looks in her
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|With an importing visage, and she told me,
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern
Alls well that ends well|Gentleman|Your highness with herself.
Alls well that ends well|KING|[Reads]  Upon his many protestations to marry me
Alls well that ends well|KING|when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won
Alls well that ends well|KING|me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his vows
Alls well that ends well|KING|are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He
Alls well that ends well|KING|stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow
Alls well that ends well|KING|him to his country for justice: grant it me, O
Alls well that ends well|KING|king! in you it best lies, otherwise a seducer
Alls well that ends well|KING|flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.
Alls well that ends well|KING|DIANA CAPILET.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|this: I'll none of him.
Alls well that ends well|KING|The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,
Alls well that ends well|KING|To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Go speedily and bring again the count.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Was foully snatch'd.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Now, justice on the doers!
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Re-enter BERTRAM, guarded
Alls well that ends well|KING|I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you,
Alls well that ends well|KING|And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Yet you desire to marry.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Enter Widow and DIANA
Alls well that ends well|KING|What woman's that?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Derived from the ancient Capilet:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|My suit, as I do understand, you know,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And therefore know how far I may be pitied.
Alls well that ends well|Widow|I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour
Alls well that ends well|Widow|Both suffer under this complaint we bring,
Alls well that ends well|Widow|And both shall cease, without your remedy.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Come hither, count, do you know these women?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My lord, I neither can nor will deny
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|But that I know them: do they charge me further?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Why do you look so strange upon your wife?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|She's none of mine, my lord.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|If you shall marry,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|You give away this hand, and that is mine,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|You give away myself, which is known mine,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|For I by vow am so embodied yours,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|That she which marries you must marry me,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Either both or none.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Your reputation comes too short for my daughter, you
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|are no husband for her.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Than for to think that I would sink it here.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend
Alls well that ends well|KING|Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour
Alls well that ends well|KING|Than in my thought it lies.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Good my lord,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Ask him upon his oath, if he does think
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He had not my virginity.
Alls well that ends well|KING|What say'st thou to her?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|She's impudent, my lord,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And was a common gamester to the camp.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He does me wrong, my lord, if I were so,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He might have bought me at a common price:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Whose high respect and rich validity
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Did lack a parallel, yet for all that
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He gave it to a commoner o' the camp,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|If I be one.
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|He blushes, and 'tis it:
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife,
Alls well that ends well|COUNTESS|That ring's a thousand proofs.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Methought you said
Alls well that ends well|KING|You saw one here in court could witness it.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I did, my lord, but loath am to produce
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I saw the man to-day, if man he be.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Find him, and bring him hither.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Exit an Attendant
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|What of him?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|That will speak any thing?
Alls well that ends well|KING|She hath that ring of yours.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I think she has: certain it is I liked her,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth:
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|She knew her distance and did angle for me,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Madding my eagerness with her restraint,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|As all impediments in fancy's course
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Are motives of more fancy, and, in fine,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|And I had that which any inferior might
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|At market-price have bought.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I must be patient:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|May justly diet me. I pray you yet,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Send for your ring, I will return it home,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And give me mine again.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I have it not.
Alls well that ends well|KING|What ring was yours, I pray you?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Sir, much like
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|The same upon your finger.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Know you this ring? this ring was his of late.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And this was it I gave him, being abed.
Alls well that ends well|KING|The story then goes false, you threw it him
Alls well that ends well|KING|Out of a casement.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I have spoke the truth.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Enter PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.
Alls well that ends well|KING|You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Is this the man you speak of?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Ay, my lord.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Not fearing the displeasure of your master,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off,
Alls well that ends well|KING|By him and by this woman here what know you?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|So please your majesty, my master hath been an
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|which gentlemen have.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Faith, sir, he did love her, but how?
Alls well that ends well|KING|How, I pray you?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman.
Alls well that ends well|KING|How is that?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|He loved her, sir, and loved her not.
Alls well that ends well|KING|As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an
Alls well that ends well|KING|equivocal companion is this!
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Do you know he promised me marriage?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Faith, I know more than I'll speak.
Alls well that ends well|KING|But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest?
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|as I said, but more than that, he loved her: for
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan and
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet I
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|was in that credit with them at that time that I
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|knew of their going to bed, and of other motions,
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|as promising her marriage, and things which would
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|derive me ill will to speak of, therefore I will not
Alls well that ends well|PAROLLES|speak what I know.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say
Alls well that ends well|KING|they are married: but thou art too fine in thy
Alls well that ends well|KING|evidence, therefore stand aside.
Alls well that ends well|KING|This ring, you say, was yours?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Ay, my good lord.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Who lent it you?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|It was not lent me neither.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Where did you find it, then?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I found it not.
Alls well that ends well|KING|If it were yours by none of all these ways,
Alls well that ends well|KING|How could you give it him?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I never gave it him.
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|This woman's an easy glove, my lord, she goes off
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|and on at pleasure.
Alls well that ends well|KING|This ring was mine, I gave it his first wife.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|It might be yours or hers, for aught I know.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Take her away, I do not like her now,
Alls well that ends well|KING|To prison with her: and away with him.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou diest within this hour.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I'll never tell you.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Take her away.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I'll put in bail, my liege.
Alls well that ends well|KING|I think thee now some common customer.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.
Alls well that ends well|KING|She does abuse our ears: to prison with her.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Exit Widow
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And he shall surety me. But for this lord,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|He knows himself my bed he hath defiled,
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And at that time he got his wife with child:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|And now behold the meaning.
Alls well that ends well|DIANA|Re-enter Widow, with HELENA
Alls well that ends well|KING|Is there no exorcist
Alls well that ends well|KING|Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?
Alls well that ends well|KING|Is't real that I see?
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|No, my good lord,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|The name and not the thing.
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|Both, both. O, pardon!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|O my good lord, when I was like this maid,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And, look you, here's your letter, this it says:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|'When from my finger you can get this ring
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|And are by me with child,'  and c. This is done:
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,
Alls well that ends well|BERTRAM|I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|If it appear not plain and prove untrue,
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|Deadly divorce step between me and you!
Alls well that ends well|HELENA|O my dear mother, do I see you living?
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon:
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|To PAROLLES
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee:
Alls well that ends well|LAFEU|Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Let us from point to point this story know,
Alls well that ends well|KING|To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
Alls well that ends well|KING|To DIANA
Alls well that ends well|KING|If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower,
Alls well that ends well|KING|For I can guess that by thy honest aid
Alls well that ends well|KING|Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Of that and all the progress, more or less,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Resolvedly more leisure shall express:
Alls well that ends well|KING|All yet seems well, and if it end so meet,
Alls well that ends well|KING|The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Flourish
Alls well that ends well|KING|EPILOGUE
Alls well that ends well|KING|The king's a beggar, now the play is done:
Alls well that ends well|KING|All is well ended, if this suit be won,
Alls well that ends well|KING|That you express content, which we will pay,
Alls well that ends well|KING|With strife to please you, day exceeding day:
Alls well that ends well|KING|Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts,
Alls well that ends well|KING|Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.
Alls well that ends well|KING|Exeunt
As you like it|KING|ACT I
As you like it|KING|SCENE I. Orchard of Oliver's house.
As you like it|KING|Enter ORLANDO and ADAM
As you like it|ORLANDO|As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
As you like it|ORLANDO|bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,
As you like it|ORLANDO|and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his
As you like it|ORLANDO|blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my
As you like it|ORLANDO|sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and
As you like it|ORLANDO|report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part,
As you like it|ORLANDO|he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more
As you like it|ORLANDO|properly, stays me here at home unkept, for call you
As you like it|ORLANDO|that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that
As you like it|ORLANDO|differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses
As you like it|ORLANDO|are bred better, for, besides that they are fair
As you like it|ORLANDO|with their feeding, they are taught their manage,
As you like it|ORLANDO|and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his
As you like it|ORLANDO|brother, gain nothing under him but growth, for the
As you like it|ORLANDO|which his animals on his dunghills are as much
As you like it|ORLANDO|bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so
As you like it|ORLANDO|plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave
As you like it|ORLANDO|me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets
As you like it|ORLANDO|me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a
As you like it|ORLANDO|brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my
As you like it|ORLANDO|gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that
As you like it|ORLANDO|grieves me, and the spirit of my father, which I
As you like it|ORLANDO|think is within me, begins to mutiny against this
As you like it|ORLANDO|servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I
As you like it|ORLANDO|know no wise remedy how to avoid it.
As you like it|ADAM|Yonder comes my master, your brother.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will
As you like it|ORLANDO|shake me up.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Enter OLIVER
As you like it|OLIVER|Now, sir! what make you here?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.
As you like it|OLIVER|What mar you then, sir?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God
As you like it|ORLANDO|made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.
As you like it|OLIVER|Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them?
As you like it|ORLANDO|What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should
As you like it|ORLANDO|come to such penury?
As you like it|OLIVER|Know you where your are, sir?
As you like it|ORLANDO|O, sir, very well, here in your orchard.
As you like it|OLIVER|Know you before whom, sir?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know
As you like it|ORLANDO|you are my eldest brother, and, in the gentle
As you like it|ORLANDO|condition of blood, you should so know me. The
As you like it|ORLANDO|courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that
As you like it|ORLANDO|you are the first-born, but the same tradition
As you like it|ORLANDO|takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers
As you like it|ORLANDO|betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as
As you like it|ORLANDO|you, albeit, I confess, your coming before me is
As you like it|ORLANDO|nearer to his reverence.
As you like it|OLIVER|What, boy!
As you like it|ORLANDO|Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
As you like it|OLIVER|Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I am no villain, I am the youngest son of Sir
As you like it|ORLANDO|Rowland de Boys, he was my father, and he is thrice
As you like it|ORLANDO|a villain that says such a father begot villains.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand
As you like it|ORLANDO|from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy
As you like it|ORLANDO|tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself.
As you like it|ADAM|Sweet masters, be patient: for your father's
As you like it|ADAM|remembrance, be at accord.
As you like it|OLIVER|Let me go, I say.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My
As you like it|ORLANDO|father charged you in his will to give me good
As you like it|ORLANDO|education: you have trained me like a peasant,
As you like it|ORLANDO|obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like
As you like it|ORLANDO|qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in
As you like it|ORLANDO|me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow
As you like it|ORLANDO|me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or
As you like it|ORLANDO|give me the poor allottery my father left me by
As you like it|ORLANDO|testament, with that I will go buy my fortunes.
As you like it|OLIVER|And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent?
As you like it|OLIVER|Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled
As you like it|OLIVER|with you, you shall have some part of your will: I
As you like it|OLIVER|pray you, leave me.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good.
As you like it|OLIVER|Get you with him, you old dog.
As you like it|ADAM|Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my
As you like it|ADAM|teeth in your service. God be with my old master!
As you like it|ADAM|he would not have spoke such a word.
As you like it|ADAM|Exeunt ORLANDO and ADAM
As you like it|OLIVER|Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will
As you like it|OLIVER|physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand
As you like it|OLIVER|crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!
As you like it|OLIVER|Enter DENNIS
As you like it|DENNIS|Calls your worship?
As you like it|OLIVER|Was not Charles, the duke's wrestler, here to speak with me?
As you like it|DENNIS|So please you, he is here at the door and importunes
As you like it|DENNIS|access to you.
As you like it|OLIVER|Call him in.
As you like it|OLIVER|Exit DENNIS
As you like it|OLIVER|'Twill be a good way, and to-morrow the wrestling is.
As you like it|OLIVER|Enter CHARLES
As you like it|CHARLES|Good morrow to your worship.
As you like it|OLIVER|Good Monsieur Charles, what's the new news at the
As you like it|OLIVER|new court?
As you like it|CHARLES|There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news:
As you like it|CHARLES|that is, the old duke is banished by his younger
As you like it|CHARLES|brother the new duke, and three or four loving lords
As you like it|CHARLES|have put themselves into voluntary exile with him,
As you like it|CHARLES|whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke,
As you like it|CHARLES|therefore he gives them good leave to wander.
As you like it|OLIVER|Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke's daughter, be
As you like it|OLIVER|banished with her father?
As you like it|CHARLES|O, no, for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves
As you like it|CHARLES|her, being ever from their cradles bred together,
As you like it|CHARLES|that she would have followed her exile, or have died
As you like it|CHARLES|to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no
As you like it|CHARLES|less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter, and
As you like it|CHARLES|never two ladies loved as they do.
As you like it|OLIVER|Where will the old duke live?
As you like it|CHARLES|They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and
As you like it|CHARLES|a many merry men with him, and there they live like
As you like it|CHARLES|the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young
As you like it|CHARLES|gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time
As you like it|CHARLES|carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
As you like it|OLIVER|What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?
As you like it|CHARLES|Marry, do I, sir, and I came to acquaint you with a
As you like it|CHARLES|matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand
As you like it|CHARLES|that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition
As you like it|CHARLES|to come in disguised against me to try a fall.
As you like it|CHARLES|To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that
As you like it|CHARLES|escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him
As you like it|CHARLES|well. Your brother is but young and tender, and,
As you like it|CHARLES|for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I
As you like it|CHARLES|must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore,
As you like it|CHARLES|out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you
As you like it|CHARLES|withal, that either you might stay him from his
As you like it|CHARLES|intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall
As you like it|CHARLES|run into, in that it is a thing of his own search
As you like it|CHARLES|and altogether against my will.
As you like it|OLIVER|Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which
As you like it|OLIVER|thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had
As you like it|OLIVER|myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and
As you like it|OLIVER|have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from
As you like it|OLIVER|it, but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles:
As you like it|OLIVER|it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full
As you like it|OLIVER|of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's
As you like it|OLIVER|good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against
As you like it|OLIVER|me his natural brother: therefore use thy
As you like it|OLIVER|discretion, I had as lief thou didst break his neck
As you like it|OLIVER|as his finger. And thou wert best look to't, for if
As you like it|OLIVER|thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not
As you like it|OLIVER|mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise
As you like it|OLIVER|against thee by poison, entrap thee by some
As you like it|OLIVER|treacherous device and never leave thee till he
As you like it|OLIVER|hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other,
As you like it|OLIVER|for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak
As you like it|OLIVER|it, there is not one so young and so villanous this
As you like it|OLIVER|day living. I speak but brotherly of him, but
As you like it|OLIVER|should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must
As you like it|OLIVER|blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder.
As you like it|CHARLES|I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come
As you like it|CHARLES|to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go
As you like it|CHARLES|alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more: and
As you like it|CHARLES|so God keep your worship!
As you like it|OLIVER|Farewell, good Charles.
As you like it|OLIVER|Exit CHARLES
As you like it|OLIVER|Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see
As you like it|OLIVER|an end of him, for my soul, yet I know not why,
As you like it|OLIVER|hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never
As you like it|OLIVER|schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of
As you like it|OLIVER|all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much
As you like it|OLIVER|in the heart of the world, and especially of my own
As you like it|OLIVER|people, who best know him, that I am altogether
As you like it|OLIVER|misprised: but it shall not be so long, this
As you like it|OLIVER|wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that
As you like it|OLIVER|I kindle the boy thither, which now I'll go about.
As you like it|OLIVER|Exit
As you like it|OLIVER|SCENE II. Lawn before the Duke's palace.
As you like it|OLIVER|Enter CELIA and ROSALIND
As you like it|CELIA|I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of,
As you like it|ROSALIND|and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could
As you like it|ROSALIND|teach me to forget a banished father, you must not
As you like it|ROSALIND|learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure.
As you like it|CELIA|Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight
As you like it|CELIA|that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father,
As you like it|CELIA|had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou
As you like it|CELIA|hadst been still with me, I could have taught my
As you like it|CELIA|love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou,
As you like it|CELIA|if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously
As you like it|CELIA|tempered as mine is to thee.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to
As you like it|ROSALIND|rejoice in yours.
As you like it|CELIA|You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is
As you like it|CELIA|like to have: and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt
As you like it|CELIA|be his heir, for what he hath taken away from thy
As you like it|CELIA|father perforce, I will render thee again in
As you like it|CELIA|affection, by mine honour, I will, and when I break
As you like it|CELIA|that oath, let me turn monster: therefore, my
As you like it|CELIA|sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry.
As you like it|ROSALIND|From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let
As you like it|ROSALIND|me see, what think you of falling in love?
As you like it|CELIA|Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but
As you like it|CELIA|love no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport
As you like it|CELIA|neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst
As you like it|CELIA|in honour come off again.
As you like it|ROSALIND|What shall be our sport, then?
As you like it|CELIA|Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from
As you like it|CELIA|her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I would we could do so, for her benefits are
As you like it|ROSALIND|mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman
As you like it|ROSALIND|doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
As you like it|CELIA|'Tis true, for those that she makes fair she scarce
As you like it|CELIA|makes honest, and those that she makes honest she
As you like it|CELIA|makes very ill-favouredly.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nature's: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world,
As you like it|ROSALIND|not in the lineaments of Nature.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter TOUCHSTONE
As you like it|CELIA|No? when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she
As you like it|CELIA|not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature
As you like it|CELIA|hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not
As you like it|CELIA|Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when
As you like it|ROSALIND|Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nature's wit.
As you like it|CELIA|Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but
As you like it|CELIA|Nature's, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull
As you like it|CELIA|to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this
As you like it|CELIA|natural for our whetstone, for always the dulness of
As you like it|CELIA|the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now,
As you like it|CELIA|wit! whither wander you?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Mistress, you must come away to your father.
As you like it|CELIA|Were you made the messenger?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Where learned you that oath, fool?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|were good pancakes and swore by his honour the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|yet was not the knight forsworn.
As you like it|CELIA|How prove you that, in the great heap of your
As you like it|CELIA|knowledge?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|swear by your beards that I am a knave.
As you like it|CELIA|By our beards, if we had them, thou art.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|By my knavery, if I had it, then I were, but if you
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|never had any, or if he had, he had sworn it away
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.
As you like it|CELIA|Prithee, who is't that thou meanest?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|One that old Frederick, your father, loves.
As you like it|CELIA|My father's love is enough to honour him: enough!
As you like it|CELIA|speak no more of him, you'll be whipped for taxation
As you like it|CELIA|one of these days.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|wise men do foolishly.
As you like it|CELIA|By my troth, thou sayest true, for since the little
As you like it|CELIA|wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery
As you like it|CELIA|that wise men have makes a great show. Here comes
As you like it|CELIA|Monsieur Le Beau.
As you like it|ROSALIND|With his mouth full of news.
As you like it|CELIA|Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Then shall we be news-crammed.
As you like it|CELIA|All the better, we shall be the more marketable.
As you like it|CELIA|Enter LE BEAU
As you like it|CELIA|Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news?
As you like it|LE BEAU|Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.
As you like it|CELIA|Sport! of what colour?
As you like it|LE BEAU|What colour, madam! how shall I answer you?
As you like it|ROSALIND|As wit and fortune will.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Or as the Destinies decree.
As you like it|CELIA|Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Nay, if I keep not my rank,--
As you like it|ROSALIND|Thou losest thy old smell.
As you like it|LE BEAU|You amaze me, ladies: I would have told you of good
As you like it|LE BEAU|wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.
As you like it|ROSALIND|You tell us the manner of the wrestling.
As you like it|LE BEAU|I will tell you the beginning, and, if it please
As you like it|LE BEAU|your ladyships, you may see the end, for the best is
As you like it|LE BEAU|yet to do, and here, where you are, they are coming
As you like it|LE BEAU|to perform it.
As you like it|CELIA|Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried.
As you like it|LE BEAU|There comes an old man and his three sons,--
As you like it|CELIA|I could match this beginning with an old tale.
As you like it|LE BEAU|Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence.
As you like it|ROSALIND|With bills on their necks, 'Be it known unto all men
As you like it|ROSALIND|by these presents.'
As you like it|LE BEAU|The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the
As you like it|LE BEAU|duke's wrestler, which Charles in a moment threw him
As you like it|LE BEAU|and broke three of his ribs, that there is little
As you like it|LE BEAU|hope of life in him: so he served the second, and
As you like it|LE BEAU|so the third. Yonder they lie, the poor old man,
As you like it|LE BEAU|their father, making such pitiful dole over them
As you like it|LE BEAU|that all the beholders take his part with weeping.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Alas!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|have lost?
As you like it|LE BEAU|Why, this that I speak of.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is the first
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|for ladies.
As you like it|CELIA|Or I, I promise thee.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But is there any else longs to see this broken music
As you like it|ROSALIND|in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon
As you like it|ROSALIND|rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?
As you like it|LE BEAU|You must, if you stay here, for here is the place
As you like it|LE BEAU|appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to
As you like it|LE BEAU|perform it.
As you like it|CELIA|Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it.
As you like it|CELIA|Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO, CHARLES, and Attendants
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Come on: since the youth will not be entreated, his
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|own peril on his forwardness.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Is yonder the man?
As you like it|LE BEAU|Even he, madam.
As you like it|CELIA|Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|How now, daughter and cousin! are you crept hither
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|to see the wrestling?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|You will take little delight in it, I can tell you,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|there is such odds in the man. In pity of the
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies, see if
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|you can move him.
As you like it|CELIA|Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Do so: I'll not be by.
As you like it|LE BEAU|Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I attend them with all respect and duty.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?
As you like it|ORLANDO|No, fair princess, he is the general challenger: I
As you like it|ORLANDO|come but in, as others do, to try with him the
As you like it|ORLANDO|strength of my youth.
As you like it|CELIA|Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your
As you like it|CELIA|years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's
As you like it|CELIA|strength: if you saw yourself with your eyes or
As you like it|CELIA|knew yourself with your judgment, the fear of your
As you like it|CELIA|adventure would counsel you to a more equal
As you like it|CELIA|enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to
As you like it|CELIA|embrace your own safety and give over this attempt.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Do, young sir, your reputation shall not therefore
As you like it|ROSALIND|be misprised: we will make it our suit to the duke
As you like it|ROSALIND|that the wrestling might not go forward.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I beseech you, punish me not with your hard
As you like it|ORLANDO|thoughts, wherein I confess me much guilty, to deny
As you like it|ORLANDO|so fair and excellent ladies any thing. But let
As you like it|ORLANDO|your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my
As you like it|ORLANDO|trial: wherein if I be foiled, there is but one
As you like it|ORLANDO|shamed that was never gracious, if killed, but one
As you like it|ORLANDO|dead that was willing to be so: I shall do my
As you like it|ORLANDO|friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me, the
As you like it|ORLANDO|world no injury, for in it I have nothing, only in
As you like it|ORLANDO|the world I fill up a place, which may be better
As you like it|ORLANDO|supplied when I have made it empty.
As you like it|ROSALIND|The little strength that I have, I would it were with you.
As you like it|CELIA|And mine, to eke out hers.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you!
As you like it|CELIA|Your heart's desires be with you!
As you like it|CHARLES|Come, where is this young gallant that is so
As you like it|CHARLES|desirous to lie with his mother earth?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Ready, sir, but his will hath in it a more modest working.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|You shall try but one fall.
As you like it|CHARLES|No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him
As you like it|CHARLES|to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him
As you like it|CHARLES|from a first.
As you like it|ORLANDO|An you mean to mock me after, you should not have
As you like it|ORLANDO|mocked me before: but come your ways.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Now Hercules be thy speed, young man!
As you like it|CELIA|I would I were invisible, to catch the strong
As you like it|CELIA|fellow by the leg.
As you like it|CELIA|They wrestle
As you like it|ROSALIND|O excellent young man!
As you like it|CELIA|If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who
As you like it|CELIA|should down.
As you like it|CELIA|Shout. CHARLES is thrown
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|No more, no more.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|How dost thou, Charles?
As you like it|LE BEAU|He cannot speak, my lord.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Orlando, my liege, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|I would thou hadst been son to some man else:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|The world esteem'd thy father honourable,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|But I did find him still mine enemy:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Hadst thou descended from another house.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|But fare thee well, thou art a gallant youth:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|I would thou hadst told me of another father.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, train, and LE BEAU
As you like it|CELIA|Were I my father, coz, would I do this?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,
As you like it|ORLANDO|His youngest son, and would not change that calling,
As you like it|ORLANDO|To be adopted heir to Frederick.
As you like it|ROSALIND|My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,
As you like it|ROSALIND|And all the world was of my father's mind:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Had I before known this young man his son,
As you like it|ROSALIND|I should have given him tears unto entreaties,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ere he should thus have ventured.
As you like it|CELIA|Gentle cousin,
As you like it|CELIA|Let us go thank him and encourage him:
As you like it|CELIA|My father's rough and envious disposition
As you like it|CELIA|Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved:
As you like it|CELIA|If you do keep your promises in love
As you like it|CELIA|But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,
As you like it|CELIA|Your mistress shall be happy.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Gentleman,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Giving him a chain from her neck
As you like it|ROSALIND|Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune,
As you like it|ROSALIND|That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Shall we go, coz?
As you like it|CELIA|Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts
As you like it|ORLANDO|Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up
As you like it|ORLANDO|Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
As you like it|ROSALIND|He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes,
As you like it|ROSALIND|I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown
As you like it|ROSALIND|More than your enemies.
As you like it|CELIA|Will you go, coz?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Have with you. Fare you well.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA
As you like it|ORLANDO|What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.
As you like it|ORLANDO|O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!
As you like it|ORLANDO|Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Re-enter LE BEAU
As you like it|LE BEAU|Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you
As you like it|LE BEAU|To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved
As you like it|LE BEAU|High commendation, true applause and love,
As you like it|LE BEAU|Yet such is now the duke's condition
As you like it|LE BEAU|That he misconstrues all that you have done.
As you like it|LE BEAU|The duke is humorous, what he is indeed,
As you like it|LE BEAU|More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this:
As you like it|ORLANDO|Which of the two was daughter of the duke
As you like it|ORLANDO|That here was at the wrestling?
As you like it|LE BEAU|Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners,
As you like it|LE BEAU|But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter
As you like it|LE BEAU|The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,
As you like it|LE BEAU|And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,
As you like it|LE BEAU|To keep his daughter company, whose loves
As you like it|LE BEAU|Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.
As you like it|LE BEAU|But I can tell you that of late this duke
As you like it|LE BEAU|Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,
As you like it|LE BEAU|Grounded upon no other argument
As you like it|LE BEAU|But that the people praise her for her virtues
As you like it|LE BEAU|And pity her for her good father's sake,
As you like it|LE BEAU|And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady
As you like it|LE BEAU|Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well:
As you like it|LE BEAU|Hereafter, in a better world than this,
As you like it|LE BEAU|I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I rest much bounden to you: fare you well.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Exit LE BEAU
As you like it|ORLANDO|Thus must I from the smoke into the smother,
As you like it|ORLANDO|From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:
As you like it|ORLANDO|But heavenly Rosalind!
As you like it|ORLANDO|Exit
As you like it|ORLANDO|SCENE III. A room in the palace.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Enter CELIA and ROSALIND
As you like it|CELIA|Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Not one to throw at a dog.
As you like it|CELIA|No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon
As you like it|CELIA|curs, throw some of them at me, come, lame me with reasons.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Then there were two cousins laid up, when the one
As you like it|ROSALIND|should be lamed with reasons and the other mad
As you like it|ROSALIND|without any.
As you like it|CELIA|But is all this for your father?
As you like it|ROSALIND|No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how
As you like it|ROSALIND|full of briers is this working-day world!
As you like it|CELIA|They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in
As you like it|CELIA|holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden
As you like it|CELIA|paths our very petticoats will catch them.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart.
As you like it|CELIA|Hem them away.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.
As you like it|CELIA|Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.
As you like it|ROSALIND|O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!
As you like it|CELIA|O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in
As you like it|CELIA|despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of
As you like it|CELIA|service, let us talk in good earnest: is it
As you like it|CELIA|possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so
As you like it|CELIA|strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?
As you like it|ROSALIND|The duke my father loved his father dearly.
As you like it|CELIA|Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son
As you like it|CELIA|dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,
As you like it|CELIA|for my father hated his father dearly, yet I hate
As you like it|CELIA|not Orlando.
As you like it|ROSALIND|No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.
As you like it|CELIA|Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Let me love him for that, and do you love him
As you like it|ROSALIND|because I do. Look, here comes the duke.
As you like it|CELIA|With his eyes full of anger.
As you like it|CELIA|Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|And get you from our court.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Me, uncle?
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|You, cousin
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|So near our public court as twenty miles,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Thou diest for it.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I do beseech your grace,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:
As you like it|ROSALIND|If with myself I hold intelligence
As you like it|ROSALIND|Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,
As you like it|ROSALIND|If that I do not dream or be not frantic,--
As you like it|ROSALIND|As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Never so much as in a thought unborn
As you like it|ROSALIND|Did I offend your highness.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Thus do all traitors:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|If their purgation did consist in words,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|They are as innocent as grace itself:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Thou art thy father's daughter, there's enough.
As you like it|ROSALIND|So was I when your highness took his dukedom,
As you like it|ROSALIND|So was I when your highness banish'd him:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Treason is not inherited, my lord,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
As you like it|ROSALIND|What's that to me? my father was no traitor:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
As you like it|ROSALIND|To think my poverty is treacherous.
As you like it|CELIA|Dear sovereign, hear me speak.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Ay, Celia, we stay'd her for your sake,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Else had she with her father ranged along.
As you like it|CELIA|I did not then entreat to have her stay,
As you like it|CELIA|It was your pleasure and your own remorse:
As you like it|CELIA|I was too young that time to value her,
As you like it|CELIA|But now I know her: if she be a traitor,
As you like it|CELIA|Why so am I, we still have slept together,
As you like it|CELIA|Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,
As you like it|CELIA|And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,
As you like it|CELIA|Still we went coupled and inseparable.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|She is too subtle for thee, and her smoothness,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Her very silence and her patience
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Speak to the people, and they pity her.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Firm and irrevocable is my doom
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Which I have pass'd upon her, she is banish'd.
As you like it|CELIA|Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege:
As you like it|CELIA|I cannot live out of her company.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|And in the greatness of my word, you die.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords
As you like it|CELIA|O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?
As you like it|CELIA|Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.
As you like it|CELIA|I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I have more cause.
As you like it|CELIA|Thou hast not, cousin,
As you like it|CELIA|Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke
As you like it|CELIA|Hath banish'd me, his daughter?
As you like it|ROSALIND|That he hath not.
As you like it|CELIA|No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love
As you like it|CELIA|Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one:
As you like it|CELIA|Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?
As you like it|CELIA|No: let my father seek another heir.
As you like it|CELIA|Therefore devise with me how we may fly,
As you like it|CELIA|Whither to go and what to bear with us,
As you like it|CELIA|And do not seek to take your change upon you,
As you like it|CELIA|To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out,
As you like it|CELIA|For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,
As you like it|CELIA|Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why, whither shall we go?
As you like it|CELIA|To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Alas, what danger will it be to us,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
As you like it|ROSALIND|Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
As you like it|CELIA|I'll put myself in poor and mean attire
As you like it|CELIA|And with a kind of umber smirch my face,
As you like it|CELIA|The like do you: so shall we pass along
As you like it|CELIA|And never stir assailants.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Were it not better,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Because that I am more than common tall,
As you like it|ROSALIND|That I did suit me all points like a man?
As you like it|ROSALIND|A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,
As you like it|ROSALIND|A boar-spear in my hand, and--in my heart
As you like it|ROSALIND|Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will--
As you like it|ROSALIND|We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
As you like it|ROSALIND|As many other mannish cowards have
As you like it|ROSALIND|That do outface it with their semblances.
As you like it|CELIA|What shall I call thee when thou art a man?
As you like it|ROSALIND|I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page,
As you like it|ROSALIND|And therefore look you call me Ganymede.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But what will you be call'd?
As you like it|CELIA|Something that hath a reference to my state
As you like it|CELIA|No longer Celia, but Aliena.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal
As you like it|ROSALIND|The clownish fool out of your father's court?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Would he not be a comfort to our travel?
As you like it|CELIA|He'll go along o'er the wide world with me,
As you like it|CELIA|Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,
As you like it|CELIA|And get our jewels and our wealth together,
As you like it|CELIA|Devise the fittest time and safest way
As you like it|CELIA|To hide us from pursuit that will be made
As you like it|CELIA|After my flight. Now go we in content
As you like it|CELIA|To liberty and not to banishment.
As you like it|CELIA|Exeunt
As you like it|CELIA|ACT II
As you like it|CELIA|SCENE I. The Forest of Arden.
As you like it|CELIA|Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords, like foresters
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|More free from peril than the envious court?
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|'This is no flattery: these are counsellors
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That feelingly persuade me what I am.'
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Sweet are the uses of adversity,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Wears yet a precious jewel in his head,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And this our life exempt from public haunt
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|I would not change it.
As you like it|AMIENS|Happy is your grace,
As you like it|AMIENS|That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
As you like it|AMIENS|Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Being native burghers of this desert city,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Should in their own confines with forked heads
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Have their round haunches gored.
As you like it|First Lord|Indeed, my lord,
As you like it|First Lord|The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,
As you like it|First Lord|And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp
As you like it|First Lord|Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you.
As you like it|First Lord|To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself
As you like it|First Lord|Did steal behind him as he lay along
As you like it|First Lord|Under an oak whose antique root peeps out
As you like it|First Lord|Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:
As you like it|First Lord|To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,
As you like it|First Lord|That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,
As you like it|First Lord|Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord,
As you like it|First Lord|The wretched animal heaved forth such groans
As you like it|First Lord|That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
As you like it|First Lord|Almost to bursting, and the big round tears
As you like it|First Lord|Coursed one another down his innocent nose
As you like it|First Lord|In piteous chase, and thus the hairy fool
As you like it|First Lord|Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,
As you like it|First Lord|Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,
As you like it|First Lord|Augmenting it with tears.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|But what said Jaques?
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Did he not moralize this spectacle?
As you like it|First Lord|O, yes, into a thousand similes.
As you like it|First Lord|First, for his weeping into the needless stream,
As you like it|First Lord|'Poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou makest a testament
As you like it|First Lord|As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
As you like it|First Lord|To that which had too much:' then, being there alone,
As you like it|First Lord|Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends,
As you like it|First Lord|''Tis right:' quoth he, 'thus misery doth part
As you like it|First Lord|The flux of company:' anon a careless herd,
As you like it|First Lord|Full of the pasture, jumps along by him
As you like it|First Lord|And never stays to greet him, 'Ay' quoth Jaques,
As you like it|First Lord|'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens,
As you like it|First Lord|'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look
As you like it|First Lord|Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'
As you like it|First Lord|Thus most invectively he pierceth through
As you like it|First Lord|The body of the country, city, court,
As you like it|First Lord|Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we
As you like it|First Lord|Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,
As you like it|First Lord|To fright the animals and to kill them up
As you like it|First Lord|In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And did you leave him in this contemplation?
As you like it|Second Lord|We did, my lord, weeping and commenting
As you like it|Second Lord|Upon the sobbing deer.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Show me the place:
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|I love to cope him in these sullen fits,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|For then he's full of matter.
As you like it|First Lord|I'll bring you to him straight.
As you like it|First Lord|Exeunt
As you like it|First Lord|SCENE II. A room in the palace.
As you like it|First Lord|Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Can it be possible that no man saw them?
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|It cannot be: some villains of my court
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Are of consent and sufferance in this.
As you like it|First Lord|I cannot hear of any that did see her.
As you like it|First Lord|The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,
As you like it|First Lord|Saw her abed, and in the morning early
As you like it|First Lord|They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.
As you like it|Second Lord|My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
As you like it|Second Lord|Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
As you like it|Second Lord|Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman,
As you like it|Second Lord|Confesses that she secretly o'erheard
As you like it|Second Lord|Your daughter and her cousin much commend
As you like it|Second Lord|The parts and graces of the wrestler
As you like it|Second Lord|That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles,
As you like it|Second Lord|And she believes, wherever they are gone,
As you like it|Second Lord|That youth is surely in their company.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Send to his brother, fetch that gallant hither,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|If he be absent, bring his brother to me,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|I'll make him find him: do this suddenly,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|And let not search and inquisition quail
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|To bring again these foolish runaways.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Exeunt
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|SCENE III. Before OLIVER'S house.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting
As you like it|ORLANDO|Who's there?
As you like it|ADAM|What, my young master? O, my gentle master!
As you like it|ADAM|O my sweet master! O you memory
As you like it|ADAM|Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?
As you like it|ADAM|Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?
As you like it|ADAM|And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?
As you like it|ADAM|Why would you be so fond to overcome
As you like it|ADAM|The bonny priser of the humorous duke?
As you like it|ADAM|Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.
As you like it|ADAM|Know you not, master, to some kind of men
As you like it|ADAM|Their graces serve them but as enemies?
As you like it|ADAM|No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,
As you like it|ADAM|Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.
As you like it|ADAM|O, what a world is this, when what is comely
As you like it|ADAM|Envenoms him that bears it!
As you like it|ORLANDO|Why, what's the matter?
As you like it|ADAM|O unhappy youth!
As you like it|ADAM|Come not within these doors, within this roof
As you like it|ADAM|The enemy of all your graces lives:
As you like it|ADAM|Your brother--no, no brother, yet the son--
As you like it|ADAM|Yet not the son, I will not call him son
As you like it|ADAM|Of him I was about to call his father--
As you like it|ADAM|Hath heard your praises, and this night he means
As you like it|ADAM|To burn the lodging where you use to lie
As you like it|ADAM|And you within it: if he fail of that,
As you like it|ADAM|He will have other means to cut you off.
As you like it|ADAM|I overheard him and his practises.
As you like it|ADAM|This is no place, this house is but a butchery:
As you like it|ADAM|Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?
As you like it|ADAM|No matter whither, so you come not here.
As you like it|ORLANDO|What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce
As you like it|ORLANDO|A thievish living on the common road?
As you like it|ORLANDO|This I must do, or know not what to do:
As you like it|ORLANDO|Yet this I will not do, do how I can,
As you like it|ORLANDO|I rather will subject me to the malice
As you like it|ORLANDO|Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.
As you like it|ADAM|But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,
As you like it|ADAM|The thrifty hire I saved under your father,
As you like it|ADAM|Which I did store to be my foster-nurse
As you like it|ADAM|When service should in my old limbs lie lame
As you like it|ADAM|And unregarded age in corners thrown:
As you like it|ADAM|Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,
As you like it|ADAM|Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
As you like it|ADAM|Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold,
As you like it|ADAM|And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:
As you like it|ADAM|Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty,
As you like it|ADAM|For in my youth I never did apply
As you like it|ADAM|Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
As you like it|ADAM|Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
As you like it|ADAM|The means of weakness and debility,
As you like it|ADAM|Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
As you like it|ADAM|Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you,
As you like it|ADAM|I'll do the service of a younger man
As you like it|ADAM|In all your business and necessities.
As you like it|ORLANDO|O good old man, how well in thee appears
As you like it|ORLANDO|The constant service of the antique world,
As you like it|ORLANDO|When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
As you like it|ORLANDO|Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Where none will sweat but for promotion,
As you like it|ORLANDO|And having that, do choke their service up
As you like it|ORLANDO|Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
As you like it|ORLANDO|But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,
As you like it|ORLANDO|That cannot so much as a blossom yield
As you like it|ORLANDO|In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry
As you like it|ORLANDO|But come thy ways, well go along together,
As you like it|ORLANDO|And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,
As you like it|ORLANDO|We'll light upon some settled low content.
As you like it|ADAM|Master, go on, and I will follow thee,
As you like it|ADAM|To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
As you like it|ADAM|From seventeen years till now almost fourscore
As you like it|ADAM|Here lived I, but now live here no more.
As you like it|ADAM|At seventeen years many their fortunes seek,
As you like it|ADAM|But at fourscore it is too late a week:
As you like it|ADAM|Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
As you like it|ADAM|Than to die well and not my master's debtor.
As you like it|ADAM|Exeunt
As you like it|ADAM|SCENE IV. The Forest of Arden.
As you like it|ADAM|Enter ROSALIND for Ganymede, CELIA for Aliena, and TOUCHSTONE
As you like it|ROSALIND|O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's
As you like it|ROSALIND|apparel and to cry like a woman, but I must comfort
As you like it|ROSALIND|the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show
As you like it|ROSALIND|itself courageous to petticoat: therefore courage,
As you like it|ROSALIND|good Aliena!
As you like it|CELIA|I pray you, bear with me, I cannot go no further.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|you, yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|for I think you have no money in your purse.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Well, this is the forest of Arden.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I, when I was
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|at home, I was in a better place: but travellers
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|must be content.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, be so, good Touchstone.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter CORIN and SILVIUS
As you like it|ROSALIND|Look you, who comes here, a young man and an old in
As you like it|ROSALIND|solemn talk.
As you like it|CORIN|That is the way to make her scorn you still.
As you like it|SILVIUS|O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!
As you like it|CORIN|I partly guess, for I have loved ere now.
As you like it|SILVIUS|No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
As you like it|SILVIUS|As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow:
As you like it|SILVIUS|But if thy love were ever like to mine--
As you like it|SILVIUS|As sure I think did never man love so--
As you like it|SILVIUS|How many actions most ridiculous
As you like it|SILVIUS|Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?
As you like it|CORIN|Into a thousand that I have forgotten.
As you like it|SILVIUS|O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily!
As you like it|SILVIUS|If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
As you like it|SILVIUS|That ever love did make thee run into,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Thou hast not loved:
As you like it|SILVIUS|Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Thou hast not loved:
As you like it|SILVIUS|Or if thou hast not broke from company
As you like it|SILVIUS|Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Thou hast not loved.
As you like it|SILVIUS|O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!
As you like it|SILVIUS|Exit
As you like it|ROSALIND|Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,
As you like it|ROSALIND|I have by hard adventure found mine own.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|And I mine. I remember, when I was in love I broke
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|coming a-night to Jane Smile, and I remember the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|pretty chopt hands had milked, and I remember the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|two cods and, giving her them again, said with
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.' We that are
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|true lovers run into strange capers, but as all is
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|break my shins against it.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion
As you like it|ROSALIND|Is much upon my fashion.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|And mine, but it grows something stale with me.
As you like it|CELIA|I pray you, one of you question yond man
As you like it|CELIA|If he for gold will give us any food:
As you like it|CELIA|I faint almost to death.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Holla, you clown!
As you like it|ROSALIND|Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman.
As you like it|CORIN|Who calls?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Your betters, sir.
As you like it|CORIN|Else are they very wretched.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.
As you like it|CORIN|And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold
As you like it|ROSALIND|Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd
As you like it|ROSALIND|And faints for succor.
As you like it|CORIN|Fair sir, I pity her
As you like it|CORIN|And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
As you like it|CORIN|My fortunes were more able to relieve her,
As you like it|CORIN|But I am shepherd to another man
As you like it|CORIN|And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:
As you like it|CORIN|My master is of churlish disposition
As you like it|CORIN|And little recks to find the way to heaven
As you like it|CORIN|By doing deeds of hospitality:
As you like it|CORIN|Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed
As you like it|CORIN|Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,
As you like it|CORIN|By reason of his absence, there is nothing
As you like it|CORIN|That you will feed on, but what is, come see.
As you like it|CORIN|And in my voice most welcome shall you be.
As you like it|ROSALIND|What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?
As you like it|CORIN|That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,
As you like it|CORIN|That little cares for buying any thing.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock,
As you like it|ROSALIND|And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.
As you like it|CELIA|And we will mend thy wages. I like this place.
As you like it|CELIA|And willingly could waste my time in it.
As you like it|CORIN|Assuredly the thing is to be sold:
As you like it|CORIN|Go with me: if you like upon report
As you like it|CORIN|The soil, the profit and this kind of life,
As you like it|CORIN|I will your very faithful feeder be
As you like it|CORIN|And buy it with your gold right suddenly.
As you like it|CORIN|Exeunt
As you like it|CORIN|SCENE V. The Forest.
As you like it|CORIN|Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others
As you like it|CORIN|SONG.
As you like it|AMIENS|Under the greenwood tree
As you like it|AMIENS|Who loves to lie with me,
As you like it|AMIENS|And turn his merry note
As you like it|AMIENS|Unto the sweet bird's throat,
As you like it|AMIENS|Come hither, come hither, come hither:
As you like it|AMIENS|Here shall he see No enemy
As you like it|AMIENS|But winter and rough weather.
As you like it|JAQUES|More, more, I prithee, more.
As you like it|AMIENS|It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.
As you like it|JAQUES|I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck
As you like it|JAQUES|melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
As you like it|JAQUES|More, I prithee, more.
As you like it|AMIENS|My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.
As you like it|JAQUES|I do not desire you to please me, I do desire you to
As you like it|JAQUES|sing. Come, more, another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?
As you like it|AMIENS|What you will, Monsieur Jaques.
As you like it|JAQUES|Nay, I care not for their names, they owe me
As you like it|JAQUES|nothing. Will you sing?
As you like it|AMIENS|More at your request than to please myself.
As you like it|JAQUES|Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you,
As you like it|JAQUES|but that they call compliment is like the encounter
As you like it|JAQUES|of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily,
As you like it|JAQUES|methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me
As you like it|JAQUES|the beggarly thanks. Come, sing, and you that will
As you like it|JAQUES|not, hold your tongues.
As you like it|AMIENS|Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while, the
As you like it|AMIENS|duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all
As you like it|AMIENS|this day to look you.
As you like it|JAQUES|And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is
As you like it|JAQUES|too disputable for my company: I think of as many
As you like it|JAQUES|matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no
As you like it|JAQUES|boast of them. Come, warble, come.
As you like it|JAQUES|SONG.
As you like it|JAQUES|Who doth ambition shun
As you like it|JAQUES|All together here
As you like it|JAQUES|And loves to live i' the sun,
As you like it|JAQUES|Seeking the food he eats
As you like it|JAQUES|And pleased with what he gets,
As you like it|JAQUES|Come hither, come hither, come hither:
As you like it|JAQUES|Here shall he see No enemy
As you like it|JAQUES|But winter and rough weather.
As you like it|JAQUES|I'll give you a verse to this note that I made
As you like it|JAQUES|yesterday in despite of my invention.
As you like it|AMIENS|And I'll sing it.
As you like it|JAQUES|Thus it goes:--
As you like it|JAQUES|If it do come to pass
As you like it|JAQUES|That any man turn ass,
As you like it|JAQUES|Leaving his wealth and ease,
As you like it|JAQUES|A stubborn will to please,
As you like it|JAQUES|Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:
As you like it|JAQUES|Here shall he see
As you like it|JAQUES|Gross fools as he,
As you like it|JAQUES|An if he will come to me.
As you like it|AMIENS|What's that 'ducdame'?
As you like it|JAQUES|'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a
As you like it|JAQUES|circle. I'll go sleep, if I can, if I cannot, I'll
As you like it|JAQUES|rail against all the first-born of Egypt.
As you like it|AMIENS|And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared.
As you like it|AMIENS|Exeunt severally
As you like it|AMIENS|SCENE VI. The forest.
As you like it|AMIENS|Enter ORLANDO and ADAM
As you like it|ADAM|Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food!
As you like it|ADAM|Here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell,
As you like it|ADAM|kind master.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live
As you like it|ORLANDO|a little, comfort a little, cheer thyself a little.
As you like it|ORLANDO|If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I
As you like it|ORLANDO|will either be food for it or bring it for food to
As you like it|ORLANDO|thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers.
As you like it|ORLANDO|For my sake be comfortable, hold death awhile at
As you like it|ORLANDO|the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently,
As you like it|ORLANDO|and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will
As you like it|ORLANDO|give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I
As you like it|ORLANDO|come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!
As you like it|ORLANDO|thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear
As you like it|ORLANDO|thee to some shelter, and thou shalt not die for
As you like it|ORLANDO|lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this
As you like it|ORLANDO|desert. Cheerly, good Adam!
As you like it|ORLANDO|Exeunt
As you like it|ORLANDO|SCENE VII. The forest.
As you like it|ORLANDO|A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and Lords like outlaws
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|I think he be transform'd into a beast,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|For I can no where find him like a man.
As you like it|First Lord|My lord, he is but even now gone hence:
As you like it|First Lord|Here was he merry, hearing of a song.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|If he, compact of jars, grow musical,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Go, seek him: tell him I would speak with him.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Enter JAQUES
As you like it|First Lord|He saves my labour by his own approach.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That your poor friends must woo your company?
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|What, you look merrily!
As you like it|JAQUES|A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,
As you like it|JAQUES|A motley fool, a miserable world!
As you like it|JAQUES|As I do live by food, I met a fool
As you like it|JAQUES|Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
As you like it|JAQUES|And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
As you like it|JAQUES|In good set terms and yet a motley fool.
As you like it|JAQUES|'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he,
As you like it|JAQUES|'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune:'
As you like it|JAQUES|And then he drew a dial from his poke,
As you like it|JAQUES|And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
As you like it|JAQUES|Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:
As you like it|JAQUES|Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:
As you like it|JAQUES|'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
As you like it|JAQUES|And after one hour more 'twill be eleven,
As you like it|JAQUES|And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
As you like it|JAQUES|And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot,
As you like it|JAQUES|And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear
As you like it|JAQUES|The motley fool thus moral on the time,
As you like it|JAQUES|My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
As you like it|JAQUES|That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
As you like it|JAQUES|And I did laugh sans intermission
As you like it|JAQUES|An hour by his dial. O noble fool!
As you like it|JAQUES|A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|What fool is this?
As you like it|JAQUES|O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,
As you like it|JAQUES|And says, if ladies be but young and fair,
As you like it|JAQUES|They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,
As you like it|JAQUES|Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
As you like it|JAQUES|After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
As you like it|JAQUES|With observation, the which he vents
As you like it|JAQUES|In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!
As you like it|JAQUES|I am ambitious for a motley coat.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Thou shalt have one.
As you like it|JAQUES|It is my only suit,
As you like it|JAQUES|Provided that you weed your better judgments
As you like it|JAQUES|Of all opinion that grows rank in them
As you like it|JAQUES|That I am wise. I must have liberty
As you like it|JAQUES|Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
As you like it|JAQUES|To blow on whom I please, for so fools have,
As you like it|JAQUES|And they that are most galled with my folly,
As you like it|JAQUES|They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?
As you like it|JAQUES|The 'why' is plain as way to parish church:
As you like it|JAQUES|He that a fool doth very wisely hit
As you like it|JAQUES|Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
As you like it|JAQUES|Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not,
As you like it|JAQUES|The wise man's folly is anatomized
As you like it|JAQUES|Even by the squandering glances of the fool.
As you like it|JAQUES|Invest me in my motley, give me leave
As you like it|JAQUES|To speak my mind, and I will through and through
As you like it|JAQUES|Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,
As you like it|JAQUES|If they will patiently receive my medicine.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.
As you like it|JAQUES|What, for a counter, would I do but good?
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|For thou thyself hast been a libertine,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|As sensual as the brutish sting itself,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And all the embossed sores and headed evils,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That thou with licence of free foot hast caught,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.
As you like it|JAQUES|Why, who cries out on pride,
As you like it|JAQUES|That can therein tax any private party?
As you like it|JAQUES|Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,
As you like it|JAQUES|Till that the weary very means do ebb?
As you like it|JAQUES|What woman in the city do I name,
As you like it|JAQUES|When that I say the city-woman bears
As you like it|JAQUES|The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
As you like it|JAQUES|Who can come in and say that I mean her,
As you like it|JAQUES|When such a one as she such is her neighbour?
As you like it|JAQUES|Or what is he of basest function
As you like it|JAQUES|That says his bravery is not of my cost,
As you like it|JAQUES|Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits
As you like it|JAQUES|His folly to the mettle of my speech?
As you like it|JAQUES|There then, how then? what then? Let me see wherein
As you like it|JAQUES|My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right,
As you like it|JAQUES|Then he hath wrong'd himself, if he be free,
As you like it|JAQUES|Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies,
As you like it|JAQUES|Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here?
As you like it|JAQUES|Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn
As you like it|ORLANDO|Forbear, and eat no more.
As you like it|JAQUES|Why, I have eat none yet.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Nor shalt not, till necessity be served.
As you like it|JAQUES|Of what kind should this cock come of?
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That in civility thou seem'st so empty?
As you like it|ORLANDO|You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point
As you like it|ORLANDO|Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
As you like it|ORLANDO|Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred
As you like it|ORLANDO|And know some nurture. But forbear, I say:
As you like it|ORLANDO|He dies that touches any of this fruit
As you like it|ORLANDO|Till I and my affairs are answered.
As you like it|JAQUES|An you will not be answered with reason, I must die.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|What would you have? Your gentleness shall force
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|More than your force move us to gentleness.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I almost die for food, and let me have it.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:
As you like it|ORLANDO|I thought that all things had been savage here,
As you like it|ORLANDO|And therefore put I on the countenance
As you like it|ORLANDO|Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are
As you like it|ORLANDO|That in this desert inaccessible,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time
As you like it|ORLANDO|If ever you have look'd on better days,
As you like it|ORLANDO|If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
As you like it|ORLANDO|If ever sat at any good man's feast,
As you like it|ORLANDO|If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear
As you like it|ORLANDO|And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Let gentleness my strong enforcement be:
As you like it|ORLANDO|In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|True is it that we have seen better days,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd:
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And therefore sit you down in gentleness
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And take upon command what help we have
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That to your wanting may be minister'd.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Then but forbear your food a little while,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn
As you like it|ORLANDO|And give it food. There is an old poor man,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Who after me hath many a weary step
As you like it|ORLANDO|Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,
As you like it|ORLANDO|I will not touch a bit.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Go find him out,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And we will nothing waste till you return.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I thank ye, and be blest for your good comfort!
As you like it|ORLANDO|Exit
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|This wide and universal theatre
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Wherein we play in.
As you like it|JAQUES|All the world's a stage,
As you like it|JAQUES|And all the men and women merely players:
As you like it|JAQUES|They have their exits and their entrances,
As you like it|JAQUES|And one man in his time plays many parts,
As you like it|JAQUES|His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
As you like it|JAQUES|Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
As you like it|JAQUES|And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
As you like it|JAQUES|And shining morning face, creeping like snail
As you like it|JAQUES|Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
As you like it|JAQUES|Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
As you like it|JAQUES|Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
As you like it|JAQUES|Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
As you like it|JAQUES|Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
As you like it|JAQUES|Seeking the bubble reputation
As you like it|JAQUES|Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
As you like it|JAQUES|In fair round belly with good capon lined,
As you like it|JAQUES|With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
As you like it|JAQUES|Full of wise saws and modern instances,
As you like it|JAQUES|And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
As you like it|JAQUES|Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
As you like it|JAQUES|With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
As you like it|JAQUES|His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
As you like it|JAQUES|For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
As you like it|JAQUES|Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
As you like it|JAQUES|And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
As you like it|JAQUES|That ends this strange eventful history,
As you like it|JAQUES|Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
As you like it|JAQUES|Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
As you like it|JAQUES|Re-enter ORLANDO, with ADAM
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Welcome. Set down your venerable burthen,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And let him feed.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I thank you most for him.
As you like it|ADAM|So had you need:
As you like it|ADAM|I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Welcome, fall to: I will not trouble you
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|As yet, to question you about your fortunes.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Give us some music, and, good cousin, sing.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|SONG.
As you like it|AMIENS|Blow, blow, thou winter wind.
As you like it|AMIENS|Thou art not so unkind
As you like it|AMIENS|As man's ingratitude,
As you like it|AMIENS|Thy tooth is not so keen,
As you like it|AMIENS|Because thou art not seen,
As you like it|AMIENS|Although thy breath be rude.
As you like it|AMIENS|Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
As you like it|AMIENS|Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
As you like it|AMIENS|Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
As you like it|AMIENS|This life is most jolly.
As you like it|AMIENS|Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
As you like it|AMIENS|That dost not bite so nigh
As you like it|AMIENS|As benefits forgot:
As you like it|AMIENS|Though thou the waters warp,
As you like it|AMIENS|Thy sting is not so sharp
As you like it|AMIENS|As friend remember'd not.
As you like it|AMIENS|Heigh-ho! sing,  and c.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Most truly limn'd and living in your face,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Thou art right welcome as thy master is.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And let me all your fortunes understand.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Exeunt
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|ACT III
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|SCENE I. A room in the palace.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|But were I not the better part made mercy,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|I should not seek an absent argument
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|To seek a living in our territory.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Of what we think against thee.
As you like it|OLIVER|O that your highness knew my heart in this!
As you like it|OLIVER|I never loved my brother in my life.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors,
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|And let my officers of such a nature
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Make an extent upon his house and lands:
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Do this expediently and turn him going.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Exeunt
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|SCENE II. The forest.
As you like it|DUKE FREDERICK|Enter ORLANDO, with a paper
As you like it|ORLANDO|Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:
As you like it|ORLANDO|And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey
As you like it|ORLANDO|With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.
As you like it|ORLANDO|O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books
As you like it|ORLANDO|And in their barks my thoughts I'll character,
As you like it|ORLANDO|That every eye which in this forest looks
As you like it|ORLANDO|Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree
As you like it|ORLANDO|The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Exit
As you like it|ORLANDO|Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE
As you like it|CORIN|And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|life, but in respect that it is a shepherd's life,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|like it very well, but in respect that it is
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|is in the fields, it pleaseth me well, but in
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|is it a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?
As you like it|CORIN|No more but that I know the more one sickens the
As you like it|CORIN|worse at ease he is, and that he that wants money,
As you like it|CORIN|means and content is without three good friends,
As you like it|CORIN|that the property of rain is to wet and fire to
As you like it|CORIN|burn, that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a
As you like it|CORIN|great cause of the night is lack of the sun, that
As you like it|CORIN|he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may
As you like it|CORIN|complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|court, shepherd?
As you like it|CORIN|No, truly.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Then thou art damned.
As you like it|CORIN|Nay, I hope.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|on one side.
As you like it|CORIN|For not being at court? Your reason.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|good manners, if thou never sawest good manners,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|then thy manners must be wicked, and wickedness is
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|state, shepherd.
As you like it|CORIN|Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners
As you like it|CORIN|at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the
As you like it|CORIN|behavior of the country is most mockable at the
As you like it|CORIN|court. You told me you salute not at the court, but
As you like it|CORIN|you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be
As you like it|CORIN|uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Instance, briefly, come, instance.
As you like it|CORIN|Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their
As you like it|CORIN|fells, you know, are greasy.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say, come.
As you like it|CORIN|Besides, our hands are hard.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|A more sounder instance, come.
As you like it|CORIN|And they are often tarred over with the surgery of
As you like it|CORIN|our sheep: and would you have us kiss tar? The
As you like it|CORIN|courtier's hands are perfumed with civet.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|good piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd.
As you like it|CORIN|You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|God make incision in thee! thou art raw.
As you like it|CORIN|Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get
As you like it|CORIN|that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's
As you like it|CORIN|happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my
As you like it|CORIN|harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes
As you like it|CORIN|graze and my lambs suck.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|and the rams together and to offer to get your
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|living by the copulation of cattle, to be bawd to a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|damned for this, the devil himself will have no
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|shepherds, I cannot see else how thou shouldst
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|'scape.
As you like it|CORIN|Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother.
As you like it|CORIN|Enter ROSALIND, with a paper, reading
As you like it|ROSALIND|From the east to western Ind,
As you like it|ROSALIND|No jewel is like Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Her worth, being mounted on the wind,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Through all the world bears Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|All the pictures fairest lined
As you like it|ROSALIND|Are but black to Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Let no fair be kept in mind
As you like it|ROSALIND|But the fair of Rosalind.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|right butter-women's rank to market.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Out, fool!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|For a taste:
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|If a hart do lack a hind,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Let him seek out Rosalind.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|If the cat will after kind,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|So be sure will Rosalind.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Winter garments must be lined,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|So must slender Rosalind.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|They that reap must sheaf and bind,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Then to cart with Rosalind.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Such a nut is Rosalind.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|He that sweetest rose will find
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Must find love's prick and Rosalind.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|infect yourself with them?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it
As you like it|ROSALIND|with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit
As you like it|ROSALIND|i' the country, for you'll be rotten ere you be half
As you like it|ROSALIND|ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medlar.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|You have said, but whether wisely or no, let the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|forest judge.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Enter CELIA, with a writing
As you like it|ROSALIND|Peace! Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside.
As you like it|CELIA|[Reads]
As you like it|CELIA|Why should this a desert be?
As you like it|CELIA|For it is unpeopled? No:
As you like it|CELIA|Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
As you like it|CELIA|That shall civil sayings show:
As you like it|CELIA|Some, how brief the life of man
As you like it|CELIA|Runs his erring pilgrimage,
As you like it|CELIA|That the stretching of a span
As you like it|CELIA|Buckles in his sum of age,
As you like it|CELIA|Some, of violated vows
As you like it|CELIA|'Twixt the souls of friend and friend:
As you like it|CELIA|But upon the fairest boughs,
As you like it|CELIA|Or at every sentence end,
As you like it|CELIA|Will I Rosalinda write,
As you like it|CELIA|Teaching all that read to know
As you like it|CELIA|The quintessence of every sprite
As you like it|CELIA|Heaven would in little show.
As you like it|CELIA|Therefore Heaven Nature charged
As you like it|CELIA|That one body should be fill'd
As you like it|CELIA|With all graces wide-enlarged:
As you like it|CELIA|Nature presently distill'd
As you like it|CELIA|Helen's cheek, but not her heart,
As you like it|CELIA|Cleopatra's majesty,
As you like it|CELIA|Atalanta's better part,
As you like it|CELIA|Sad Lucretia's modesty.
As you like it|CELIA|Thus Rosalind of many parts
As you like it|CELIA|By heavenly synod was devised,
As you like it|CELIA|Of many faces, eyes and hearts,
As you like it|CELIA|To have the touches dearest prized.
As you like it|CELIA|Heaven would that she these gifts should have,
As you like it|CELIA|And I to live and die her slave.
As you like it|ROSALIND|O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love
As you like it|ROSALIND|have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never
As you like it|ROSALIND|cried 'Have patience, good people!'
As you like it|CELIA|How now! back, friends! Shepherd, go off a little.
As you like it|CELIA|Go with him, sirrah.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE
As you like it|CELIA|Didst thou hear these verses?
As you like it|ROSALIND|O, yes, I heard them all, and more too, for some of
As you like it|ROSALIND|them had in them more feet than the verses would bear.
As you like it|CELIA|That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear
As you like it|ROSALIND|themselves without the verse and therefore stood
As you like it|ROSALIND|lamely in the verse.
As you like it|CELIA|But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name
As you like it|CELIA|should be hanged and carved upon these trees?
As you like it|ROSALIND|I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder
As you like it|ROSALIND|before you came, for look here what I found on a
As you like it|ROSALIND|palm-tree. I was never so be-rhymed since
As you like it|ROSALIND|Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I
As you like it|ROSALIND|can hardly remember.
As you like it|CELIA|Trow you who hath done this?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Is it a man?
As you like it|CELIA|And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.
As you like it|CELIA|Change you colour?
As you like it|ROSALIND|I prithee, who?
As you like it|CELIA|O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to
As you like it|CELIA|meet, but mountains may be removed with earthquakes
As you like it|CELIA|and so encounter.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay, but who is it?
As you like it|CELIA|Is it possible?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence,
As you like it|ROSALIND|tell me who it is.
As you like it|CELIA|O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful
As you like it|CELIA|wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that,
As you like it|CELIA|out of all hooping!
As you like it|ROSALIND|Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am
As you like it|ROSALIND|caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in
As you like it|ROSALIND|my disposition? One inch of delay more is a
As you like it|ROSALIND|South-sea of discovery, I prithee, tell me who is it
As you like it|ROSALIND|quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst
As you like it|ROSALIND|stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man
As you like it|ROSALIND|out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-
As you like it|ROSALIND|mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at
As you like it|ROSALIND|all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth that
As you like it|ROSALIND|may drink thy tidings.
As you like it|CELIA|So you may put a man in your belly.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Is he of God's making? What manner of man? Is his
As you like it|ROSALIND|head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard?
As you like it|CELIA|Nay, he hath but a little beard.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why, God will send more, if the man will be
As you like it|ROSALIND|thankful: let me stay the growth of his beard, if
As you like it|ROSALIND|thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin.
As you like it|CELIA|It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's
As you like it|CELIA|heels and your heart both in an instant.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay, but the devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and
As you like it|ROSALIND|true maid.
As you like it|CELIA|I' faith, coz, 'tis he.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Orlando?
As you like it|CELIA|Orlando.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and
As you like it|ROSALIND|hose? What did he when thou sawest him? What said
As you like it|ROSALIND|he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes
As you like it|ROSALIND|him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he?
As you like it|ROSALIND|How parted he with thee? and when shalt thou see
As you like it|ROSALIND|him again? Answer me in one word.
As you like it|CELIA|You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a
As you like it|CELIA|word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To
As you like it|CELIA|say ay and no to these particulars is more than to
As you like it|CELIA|answer in a catechism.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But doth he know that I am in this forest and in
As you like it|ROSALIND|man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the
As you like it|ROSALIND|day he wrestled?
As you like it|CELIA|It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the
As you like it|CELIA|propositions of a lover, but take a taste of my
As you like it|CELIA|finding him, and relish it with good observance.
As you like it|CELIA|I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn.
As you like it|ROSALIND|It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops
As you like it|ROSALIND|forth such fruit.
As you like it|CELIA|Give me audience, good madam.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Proceed.
As you like it|CELIA|There lay he, stretched along, like a wounded knight.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well
As you like it|ROSALIND|becomes the ground.
As you like it|CELIA|Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee, it curvets
As you like it|CELIA|unseasonably. He was furnished like a hunter.
As you like it|ROSALIND|O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart.
As you like it|CELIA|I would sing my song without a burden: thou bringest
As you like it|CELIA|me out of tune.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must
As you like it|ROSALIND|speak. Sweet, say on.
As you like it|CELIA|You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here?
As you like it|CELIA|Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES
As you like it|ROSALIND|'Tis he: slink by, and note him.
As you like it|JAQUES|I thank you for your company, but, good faith, I had
As you like it|JAQUES|as lief have been myself alone.
As you like it|ORLANDO|And so had I, but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you
As you like it|ORLANDO|too for your society.
As you like it|JAQUES|God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I do desire we may be better strangers.
As you like it|JAQUES|I pray you, mar no more trees with writing
As you like it|JAQUES|love-songs in their barks.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading
As you like it|ORLANDO|them ill-favouredly.
As you like it|JAQUES|Rosalind is your love's name?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Yes, just.
As you like it|JAQUES|I do not like her name.
As you like it|ORLANDO|There was no thought of pleasing you when she was
As you like it|ORLANDO|christened.
As you like it|JAQUES|What stature is she of?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Just as high as my heart.
As you like it|JAQUES|You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been
As you like it|JAQUES|acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them
As you like it|JAQUES|out of rings?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Not so, but I answer you right painted cloth, from
As you like it|ORLANDO|whence you have studied your questions.
As you like it|JAQUES|You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of
As you like it|JAQUES|Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and
As you like it|JAQUES|we two will rail against our mistress the world and
As you like it|JAQUES|all our misery.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I will chide no breather in the world but myself,
As you like it|ORLANDO|against whom I know most faults.
As you like it|JAQUES|The worst fault you have is to be in love.
As you like it|ORLANDO|'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I am weary of you.
As you like it|JAQUES|By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found
As you like it|JAQUES|you.
As you like it|ORLANDO|He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you
As you like it|ORLANDO|shall see him.
As you like it|JAQUES|There I shall see mine own figure.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.
As you like it|JAQUES|I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good
As you like it|JAQUES|Signior Love.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur
As you like it|ORLANDO|Melancholy.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Exit JAQUES
As you like it|ROSALIND|[Aside to CELIA]  I will speak to him, like a saucy
As you like it|ROSALIND|lackey and under that habit play the knave with him.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Do you hear, forester?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Very well: what would you?
As you like it|ROSALIND|I pray you, what is't o'clock?
As you like it|ORLANDO|You should ask me what time o' day: there's no clock
As you like it|ORLANDO|in the forest.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Then there is no true lover in the forest, else
As you like it|ROSALIND|sighing every minute and groaning every hour would
As you like it|ROSALIND|detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock.
As you like it|ORLANDO|And why not the swift foot of Time? had not that
As you like it|ORLANDO|been as proper?
As you like it|ROSALIND|By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with
As you like it|ROSALIND|divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles
As you like it|ROSALIND|withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops
As you like it|ROSALIND|withal and who he stands still withal.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I prithee, who doth he trot withal?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the
As you like it|ROSALIND|contract of her marriage and the day it is
As you like it|ROSALIND|solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of
As you like it|ROSALIND|seven year.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Who ambles Time withal?
As you like it|ROSALIND|With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that
As you like it|ROSALIND|hath not the gout, for the one sleeps easily because
As you like it|ROSALIND|he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because
As you like it|ROSALIND|he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean
As you like it|ROSALIND|and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden
As you like it|ROSALIND|of heavy tedious penury, these Time ambles withal.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Who doth he gallop withal?
As you like it|ROSALIND|With a thief to the gallows, for though he go as
As you like it|ROSALIND|softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Who stays it still withal?
As you like it|ROSALIND|With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between
As you like it|ROSALIND|term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Where dwell you, pretty youth?
As you like it|ROSALIND|With this shepherdess, my sister, here in the
As you like it|ROSALIND|skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Are you native of this place?
As you like it|ROSALIND|As the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Your accent is something finer than you could
As you like it|ORLANDO|purchase in so removed a dwelling.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I have been told so of many: but indeed an old
As you like it|ROSALIND|religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was
As you like it|ROSALIND|in his youth an inland man, one that knew courtship
As you like it|ROSALIND|too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard
As you like it|ROSALIND|him read many lectures against it, and I thank God
As you like it|ROSALIND|I am not a woman, to be touched with so many
As you like it|ROSALIND|giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their
As you like it|ROSALIND|whole sex withal.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Can you remember any of the principal evils that he
As you like it|ORLANDO|laid to the charge of women?
As you like it|ROSALIND|There were none principal, they were all like one
As you like it|ROSALIND|another as half-pence are, every one fault seeming
As you like it|ROSALIND|monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I prithee, recount some of them.
As you like it|ROSALIND|No, I will not cast away my physic but on those that
As you like it|ROSALIND|are sick. There is a man haunts the forest, that
As you like it|ROSALIND|abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on
As you like it|ROSALIND|their barks, hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies
As you like it|ROSALIND|on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of
As you like it|ROSALIND|Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would
As you like it|ROSALIND|give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the
As you like it|ROSALIND|quotidian of love upon him.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me
As you like it|ORLANDO|your remedy.
As you like it|ROSALIND|There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he
As you like it|ROSALIND|taught me how to know a man in love, in which cage
As you like it|ROSALIND|of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
As you like it|ORLANDO|What were his marks?
As you like it|ROSALIND|A lean cheek, which you have not, a blue eye and
As you like it|ROSALIND|sunken, which you have not, an unquestionable
As you like it|ROSALIND|spirit, which you have not, a beard neglected,
As you like it|ROSALIND|which you have not, but I pardon you for that, for
As you like it|ROSALIND|simply your having in beard is a younger brother's
As you like it|ROSALIND|revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your
As you like it|ROSALIND|bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe
As you like it|ROSALIND|untied and every thing about you demonstrating a
As you like it|ROSALIND|careless desolation, but you are no such man, you
As you like it|ROSALIND|are rather point-device in your accoutrements as
As you like it|ROSALIND|loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you
As you like it|ROSALIND|love believe it, which, I warrant, she is apter to
As you like it|ROSALIND|do than to confess she does: that is one of the
As you like it|ROSALIND|points in the which women still give the lie to
As you like it|ROSALIND|their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he
As you like it|ROSALIND|that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind
As you like it|ROSALIND|is so admired?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of
As you like it|ORLANDO|Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves
As you like it|ROSALIND|as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and
As you like it|ROSALIND|the reason why they are not so punished and cured
As you like it|ROSALIND|is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers
As you like it|ROSALIND|are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Did you ever cure any so?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me
As you like it|ROSALIND|his love, his mistress, and I set him every day to
As you like it|ROSALIND|woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish
As you like it|ROSALIND|youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing
As you like it|ROSALIND|and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,
As you like it|ROSALIND|inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every
As you like it|ROSALIND|passion something and for no passion truly any
As you like it|ROSALIND|thing, as boys and women are for the most part
As you like it|ROSALIND|cattle of this colour, would now like him, now loathe
As you like it|ROSALIND|him, then entertain him, then forswear him, now weep
As you like it|ROSALIND|for him, then spit at him, that I drave my suitor
As you like it|ROSALIND|from his mad humour of love to a living humour of
As you like it|ROSALIND|madness, which was, to forswear the full stream of
As you like it|ROSALIND|the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And thus I cured him, and this way will I take upon
As you like it|ROSALIND|me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's
As you like it|ROSALIND|heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in't.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I would not be cured, youth.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind
As you like it|ROSALIND|and come every day to my cote and woo me.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me
As you like it|ORLANDO|where it is.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Go with me to it and I'll show it you and by the way
As you like it|ROSALIND|you shall tell me where in the forest you live.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Will you go?
As you like it|ORLANDO|With all my heart, good youth.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exeunt
As you like it|ROSALIND|SCENE III. The forest.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY, JAQUES behind
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Come apace, good Audrey: I will fetch up your
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? am I the man yet?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|doth my simple feature content you?
As you like it|AUDREY|Your features! Lord warrant us! what features!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.
As you like it|JAQUES|[Aside]  O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove
As you like it|JAQUES|in a thatched house!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|man's good wit seconded with the forward child
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|the gods had made thee poetical.
As you like it|AUDREY|I do not know what 'poetical' is: is it honest in
As you like it|AUDREY|deed and word? is it a true thing?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|No, truly, for the truest poetry is the most
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|feigning, and lovers are given to poetry, and what
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.
As you like it|AUDREY|Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|I do, truly, for thou swearest to me thou art
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|honest: now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|hope thou didst feign.
As you like it|AUDREY|Would you not have me honest?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured, for
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
As you like it|JAQUES|[Aside]  A material fool!
As you like it|AUDREY|Well, I am not fair, and therefore I pray the gods
As you like it|AUDREY|make me honest.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|were to put good meat into an unclean dish.
As you like it|AUDREY|I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|be, I will marry thee, and to that end I have been
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|village, who hath promised to meet me in this place
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|of the forest and to couple us.
As you like it|JAQUES|[Aside]  I would fain see this meeting.
As you like it|AUDREY|Well, the gods give us joy!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|stagger in this attempt, for here we have no temple
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|though? C ourage! As horns are odious, they are
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|necessary. It is said, 'many a man knows no end of
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|his goods:' right, many a man has good horns, and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|his wife, 'tis none of his own getting. Horns?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Even so. Poor men alone? No, no, the noblest deer
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|married man more honourable than the bare brow of a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|bachelor, and by how much defence is better than no
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|want. Here comes Sir Oliver.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|with you to your chapel?
As you like it|SIR OLIVER MARTEXT|Is there none here to give the woman?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|I will not take her on gift of any man.
As you like it|SIR OLIVER MARTEXT|Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful.
As you like it|JAQUES|[Advancing]
As you like it|JAQUES|Proceed, proceed	I'll give her.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Good even, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|sir? You are very well met: God 'ild you for your
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|last company: I am very glad to see you: even a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|toy in hand here, sir: nay, pray be covered.
As you like it|JAQUES|Will you be married, motley?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires, and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.
As you like it|JAQUES|And will you, being a man of your breeding, be
As you like it|JAQUES|married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to
As you like it|JAQUES|church, and have a good priest that can tell you
As you like it|JAQUES|what marriage is: this fellow will but join you
As you like it|JAQUES|together as they join wainscot, then one of you will
As you like it|JAQUES|prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|[Aside]  I am not in the mind but I were better to be
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|married of him than of another: for he is not like
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|to marry me well, and not being well married, it
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.
As you like it|JAQUES|Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|'Come, sweet Audrey:
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Farewell, good Master Oliver: not,--
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|O sweet Oliver,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|O brave Oliver,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Leave me not behind thee: but,--
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Wind away,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Begone, I say,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|I will not to wedding with thee.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
As you like it|SIR OLIVER MARTEXT|'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them
As you like it|SIR OLIVER MARTEXT|all shall flout me out of my calling.
As you like it|SIR OLIVER MARTEXT|Exit
As you like it|SIR OLIVER MARTEXT|SCENE IV. The forest.
As you like it|SIR OLIVER MARTEXT|Enter ROSALIND and CELIA
As you like it|ROSALIND|Never talk to me, I will weep.
As you like it|CELIA|Do, I prithee, but yet have the grace to consider
As you like it|CELIA|that tears do not become a man.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But have I not cause to weep?
As you like it|CELIA|As good cause as one would desire, therefore weep.
As you like it|ROSALIND|His very hair is of the dissembling colour.
As you like it|CELIA|Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are
As you like it|CELIA|Judas's own children.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.
As you like it|CELIA|An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch
As you like it|ROSALIND|of holy bread.
As you like it|CELIA|He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun
As you like it|CELIA|of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously,
As you like it|CELIA|the very ice of chastity is in them.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But why did he swear he would come this morning, and
As you like it|ROSALIND|comes not?
As you like it|CELIA|Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Do you think so?
As you like it|CELIA|Yes, I think he is not a pick-purse nor a
As you like it|CELIA|horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do
As you like it|CELIA|think him as concave as a covered goblet or a
As you like it|CELIA|worm-eaten nut.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Not true in love?
As you like it|CELIA|Yes, when he is in, but I think he is not in.
As you like it|ROSALIND|You have heard him swear downright he was.
As you like it|CELIA|'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is
As you like it|CELIA|no stronger than the word of a tapster, they are
As you like it|CELIA|both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends
As you like it|CELIA|here in the forest on the duke your father.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I met the duke yesterday and had much question with
As you like it|ROSALIND|him: he asked me of what parentage I was, I told
As you like it|ROSALIND|him, of as good as he, so he laughed and let me go.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a
As you like it|ROSALIND|man as Orlando?
As you like it|CELIA|O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses,
As you like it|CELIA|speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks
As you like it|CELIA|them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of
As you like it|CELIA|his lover, as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse
As you like it|CELIA|but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble
As you like it|CELIA|goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly
As you like it|CELIA|guides. Who comes here?
As you like it|CELIA|Enter CORIN
As you like it|CORIN|Mistress and master, you have oft inquired
As you like it|CORIN|After the shepherd that complain'd of love,
As you like it|CORIN|Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,
As you like it|CORIN|Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
As you like it|CORIN|That was his mistress.
As you like it|CELIA|Well, and what of him?
As you like it|CORIN|If you will see a pageant truly play'd,
As you like it|CORIN|Between the pale complexion of true love
As you like it|CORIN|And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
As you like it|CORIN|Go hence a little and I shall conduct you,
As you like it|CORIN|If you will mark it.
As you like it|ROSALIND|O, come, let us remove:
As you like it|ROSALIND|The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Bring us to this sight, and you shall say
As you like it|ROSALIND|I'll prove a busy actor in their play.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exeunt
As you like it|ROSALIND|SCENE V. Another part of the forest.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE
As you like it|SILVIUS|Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me, do not, Phebe,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Say that you love me not, but say not so
As you like it|SILVIUS|In bitterness. The common executioner,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
As you like it|SILVIUS|But first begs pardon: will you sterner be
As you like it|SILVIUS|Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?
As you like it|SILVIUS|Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN, behind
As you like it|PHEBE|I would not be thy executioner:
As you like it|PHEBE|I fly thee, for I would not injure thee.
As you like it|PHEBE|Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:
As you like it|PHEBE|'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,
As you like it|PHEBE|That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
As you like it|PHEBE|Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
As you like it|PHEBE|Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!
As you like it|PHEBE|Now I do frown on thee with all my heart,
As you like it|PHEBE|And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee:
As you like it|PHEBE|Now counterfeit to swoon, why now fall down,
As you like it|PHEBE|Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,
As you like it|PHEBE|Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers!
As you like it|PHEBE|Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee:
As you like it|PHEBE|Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains
As you like it|PHEBE|Some scar of it, lean but upon a rush,
As you like it|PHEBE|The cicatrice and capable impressure
As you like it|PHEBE|Thy palm some moment keeps, but now mine eyes,
As you like it|PHEBE|Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not,
As you like it|PHEBE|Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes
As you like it|PHEBE|That can do hurt.
As you like it|SILVIUS|O dear Phebe,
As you like it|SILVIUS|If ever,--as that ever may be near,--
As you like it|SILVIUS|You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Then shall you know the wounds invisible
As you like it|SILVIUS|That love's keen arrows make.
As you like it|PHEBE|But till that time
As you like it|PHEBE|Come not thou near me: and when that time comes,
As you like it|PHEBE|Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not,
As you like it|PHEBE|As till that time I shall not pity thee.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother,
As you like it|ROSALIND|That you insult, exult, and all at once,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,--
As you like it|ROSALIND|As, by my faith, I see no more in you
As you like it|ROSALIND|Than without candle may go dark to bed--
As you like it|ROSALIND|Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?
As you like it|ROSALIND|I see no more in you than in the ordinary
As you like it|ROSALIND|Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life,
As you like it|ROSALIND|I think she means to tangle my eyes too!
As you like it|ROSALIND|No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it:
As you like it|ROSALIND|'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
As you like it|ROSALIND|That can entame my spirits to your worship.
As you like it|ROSALIND|You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain?
As you like it|ROSALIND|You are a thousand times a properer man
As you like it|ROSALIND|Than she a woman: 'tis such fools as you
As you like it|ROSALIND|That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children:
As you like it|ROSALIND|'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her,
As you like it|ROSALIND|And out of you she sees herself more proper
As you like it|ROSALIND|Than any of her lineaments can show her.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees,
As you like it|ROSALIND|And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:
As you like it|ROSALIND|For I must tell you friendly in your ear,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Sell when you can: you are not for all markets:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Cry the man mercy, love him, take his offer:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer.
As you like it|ROSALIND|So take her to thee, shepherd: fare you well.
As you like it|PHEBE|Sweet youth, I pray you, chide a year together:
As you like it|PHEBE|I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.
As you like it|ROSALIND|He's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll
As you like it|ROSALIND|fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as
As you like it|ROSALIND|she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her
As you like it|ROSALIND|with bitter words. Why look you so upon me?
As you like it|PHEBE|For no ill will I bear you.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I pray you, do not fall in love with me,
As you like it|ROSALIND|For I am falser than vows made in wine:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,
As you like it|ROSALIND|'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,
As you like it|ROSALIND|And be not proud: though all the world could see,
As you like it|ROSALIND|None could be so abused in sight as he.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Come, to our flock.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exeunt ROSALIND, CELIA and CORIN
As you like it|PHEBE|Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,
As you like it|PHEBE|'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'
As you like it|SILVIUS|Sweet Phebe,--
As you like it|PHEBE|Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius?
As you like it|SILVIUS|Sweet Phebe, pity me.
As you like it|PHEBE|Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.
As you like it|SILVIUS|Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:
As you like it|SILVIUS|If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
As you like it|SILVIUS|By giving love your sorrow and my grief
As you like it|SILVIUS|Were both extermined.
As you like it|PHEBE|Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly?
As you like it|SILVIUS|I would have you.
As you like it|PHEBE|Why, that were covetousness.
As you like it|PHEBE|Silvius, the time was that I hated thee,
As you like it|PHEBE|And yet it is not that I bear thee love,
As you like it|PHEBE|But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
As you like it|PHEBE|Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
As you like it|PHEBE|I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:
As you like it|PHEBE|But do not look for further recompense
As you like it|PHEBE|Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.
As you like it|SILVIUS|So holy and so perfect is my love,
As you like it|SILVIUS|And I in such a poverty of grace,
As you like it|SILVIUS|That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
As you like it|SILVIUS|To glean the broken ears after the man
As you like it|SILVIUS|That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then
As you like it|SILVIUS|A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon.
As you like it|PHEBE|Know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile?
As you like it|SILVIUS|Not very well, but I have met him oft,
As you like it|SILVIUS|And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
As you like it|SILVIUS|That the old carlot once was master of.
As you like it|PHEBE|Think not I love him, though I ask for him:
As you like it|PHEBE|'Tis but a peevish boy, yet he talks well,
As you like it|PHEBE|But what care I for words? yet words do well
As you like it|PHEBE|When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
As you like it|PHEBE|It is a pretty youth: not very pretty:
As you like it|PHEBE|But, sure, he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him:
As you like it|PHEBE|He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him
As you like it|PHEBE|Is his complexion, and faster than his tongue
As you like it|PHEBE|Did make offence his eye did heal it up.
As you like it|PHEBE|He is not very tall, yet for his years he's tall:
As you like it|PHEBE|His leg is but so so, and yet 'tis well:
As you like it|PHEBE|There was a pretty redness in his lip,
As you like it|PHEBE|A little riper and more lusty red
As you like it|PHEBE|Than that mix'd in his cheek, 'twas just the difference
As you like it|PHEBE|Between the constant red and mingled damask.
As you like it|PHEBE|There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him
As you like it|PHEBE|In parcels as I did, would have gone near
As you like it|PHEBE|To fall in love with him, but, for my part,
As you like it|PHEBE|I love him not nor hate him not, and yet
As you like it|PHEBE|I have more cause to hate him than to love him:
As you like it|PHEBE|For what had he to do to chide at me?
As you like it|PHEBE|He said mine eyes were black and my hair black:
As you like it|PHEBE|And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:
As you like it|PHEBE|I marvel why I answer'd not again:
As you like it|PHEBE|But that's all one, omittance is no quittance.
As you like it|PHEBE|I'll write to him a very taunting letter,
As you like it|PHEBE|And thou shalt bear it: wilt thou, Silvius?
As you like it|SILVIUS|Phebe, with all my heart.
As you like it|PHEBE|I'll write it straight,
As you like it|PHEBE|The matter's in my head and in my heart:
As you like it|PHEBE|I will be bitter with him and passing short.
As you like it|PHEBE|Go with me, Silvius.
As you like it|PHEBE|Exeunt
As you like it|PHEBE|ACT IV
As you like it|PHEBE|SCENE I. The forest.
As you like it|PHEBE|Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES
As you like it|JAQUES|I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted
As you like it|JAQUES|with thee.
As you like it|ROSALIND|They say you are a melancholy fellow.
As you like it|JAQUES|I am so, I do love it better than laughing.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Those that are in extremity of either are abominable
As you like it|ROSALIND|fellows and betray themselves to every modern
As you like it|ROSALIND|censure worse than drunkards.
As you like it|JAQUES|Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why then, 'tis good to be a post.
As you like it|JAQUES|I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is
As you like it|JAQUES|emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,
As you like it|JAQUES|nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the
As you like it|JAQUES|soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,
As you like it|JAQUES|which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor
As you like it|JAQUES|the lover's, which is all these: but it is a
As you like it|JAQUES|melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,
As you like it|JAQUES|extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's
As you like it|JAQUES|contemplation of my travels, in which my often
As you like it|JAQUES|rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness.
As you like it|ROSALIND|A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to
As you like it|ROSALIND|be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see
As you like it|ROSALIND|other men's, then, to have seen much and to have
As you like it|ROSALIND|nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
As you like it|JAQUES|Yes, I have gained my experience.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have
As you like it|ROSALIND|a fool to make me merry than experience to make me
As you like it|ROSALIND|sad, and to travel for it too!
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter ORLANDO
As you like it|ORLANDO|Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!
As you like it|JAQUES|Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse.
As you like it|JAQUES|Exit
As you like it|ROSALIND|Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and
As you like it|ROSALIND|wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your
As you like it|ROSALIND|own country, be out of love with your nativity and
As you like it|ROSALIND|almost chide God for making you that countenance you
As you like it|ROSALIND|are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a
As you like it|ROSALIND|gondola. Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been
As you like it|ROSALIND|all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such
As you like it|ROSALIND|another trick, never come in my sight more.
As you like it|ORLANDO|My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Break an hour's promise in love! He that will
As you like it|ROSALIND|divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but
As you like it|ROSALIND|a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the
As you like it|ROSALIND|affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid
As you like it|ROSALIND|hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant
As you like it|ROSALIND|him heart-whole.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Pardon me, dear Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I
As you like it|ROSALIND|had as lief be wooed of a snail.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Of a snail?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, of a snail, for though he comes slowly, he
As you like it|ROSALIND|carries his house on his head, a better jointure,
As you like it|ROSALIND|I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings
As you like it|ROSALIND|his destiny with him.
As you like it|ORLANDO|What's that?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be
As you like it|ROSALIND|beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in
As you like it|ROSALIND|his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Virtue is no horn-maker, and my Rosalind is virtuous.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And I am your Rosalind.
As you like it|CELIA|It pleases him to call you so, but he hath a
As you like it|CELIA|Rosalind of a better leer than you.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday
As you like it|ROSALIND|humour and like enough to consent. What would you
As you like it|ROSALIND|say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I would kiss before I spoke.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were
As you like it|ROSALIND|gravelled for lack of matter, you might take
As you like it|ROSALIND|occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are
As you like it|ROSALIND|out, they will spit, and for lovers lacking--God
As you like it|ROSALIND|warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
As you like it|ORLANDO|How if the kiss be denied?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or
As you like it|ROSALIND|I should think my honesty ranker than my wit.
As you like it|ORLANDO|What, of my suit?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Am not I your Rosalind?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I take some joy to say you are, because I would be
As you like it|ORLANDO|talking of her.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Well in her person I say I will not have you.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Then in mine own person I die.
As you like it|ROSALIND|No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is
As you like it|ROSALIND|almost six thousand years old, and in all this time
As you like it|ROSALIND|there was not any man died in his own person,
As you like it|ROSALIND|videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains
As you like it|ROSALIND|dashed out with a Grecian club, yet he did what he
As you like it|ROSALIND|could to die before, and he is one of the patterns
As you like it|ROSALIND|of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair
As you like it|ROSALIND|year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been
As you like it|ROSALIND|for a hot midsummer night, for, good youth, he went
As you like it|ROSALIND|but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being
As you like it|ROSALIND|taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
As you like it|ROSALIND|coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'
As you like it|ROSALIND|But these are all lies: men have died from time to
As you like it|ROSALIND|time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind,
As you like it|ORLANDO|for, I protest, her frown might kill me.
As you like it|ROSALIND|By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now
As you like it|ROSALIND|I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on
As you like it|ROSALIND|disposition, and ask me what you will. I will grant
As you like it|ROSALIND|it.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Then love me, Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all.
As you like it|ORLANDO|And wilt thou have me?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, and twenty such.
As you like it|ORLANDO|What sayest thou?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Are you not good?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I hope so.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Pray thee, marry us.
As you like it|CELIA|I cannot say the words.
As you like it|ROSALIND|You must begin, 'Will you, Orlando--'
As you like it|CELIA|Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I will.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, but when?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Why now, as fast as she can marry us.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'
As you like it|ORLANDO|I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I might ask you for your commission, but I do take
As you like it|ROSALIND|thee, Orlando, for my husband: there's a girl goes
As you like it|ROSALIND|before the priest, and certainly a woman's thought
As you like it|ROSALIND|runs before her actions.
As you like it|ORLANDO|So do all thoughts, they are winged.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Now tell me how long you would have her after you
As you like it|ROSALIND|have possessed her.
As you like it|ORLANDO|For ever and a day.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando,
As you like it|ROSALIND|men are April when they woo, December when they wed:
As you like it|ROSALIND|maids are May when they are maids, but the sky
As you like it|ROSALIND|changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous
As you like it|ROSALIND|of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,
As you like it|ROSALIND|more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more
As you like it|ROSALIND|new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires
As you like it|ROSALIND|than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana
As you like it|ROSALIND|in the fountain, and I will do that when you are
As you like it|ROSALIND|disposed to be merry, I will laugh like a hyen, and
As you like it|ROSALIND|that when thou art inclined to sleep.
As you like it|ORLANDO|But will my Rosalind do so?
As you like it|ROSALIND|By my life, she will do as I do.
As you like it|ORLANDO|O, but she is wise.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the
As you like it|ROSALIND|wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's
As you like it|ROSALIND|wit and it will out at the casement, shut that and
As you like it|ROSALIND|'twill out at the key-hole, stop that, 'twill fly
As you like it|ROSALIND|with the smoke out at the chimney.
As you like it|ORLANDO|A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say
As you like it|ORLANDO|'Wit, whither wilt?'
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met
As you like it|ROSALIND|your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.
As you like it|ORLANDO|And what wit could wit have to excuse that?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall
As you like it|ROSALIND|never take her without her answer, unless you take
As you like it|ROSALIND|her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot
As you like it|ROSALIND|make her fault her husband's occasion, let her
As you like it|ROSALIND|never nurse her child herself, for she will breed
As you like it|ROSALIND|it like a fool!
As you like it|ORLANDO|For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.
As you like it|ORLANDO|I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I
As you like it|ORLANDO|will be with thee again.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Ay, go your ways, go your ways, I knew what you
As you like it|ROSALIND|would prove: my friends told me as much, and I
As you like it|ROSALIND|thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours
As you like it|ROSALIND|won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come,
As you like it|ROSALIND|death! Two o'clock is your hour?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Ay, sweet Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend
As you like it|ROSALIND|me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous,
As you like it|ROSALIND|if you break one jot of your promise or come one
As you like it|ROSALIND|minute behind your hour, I will think you the most
As you like it|ROSALIND|pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover
As you like it|ROSALIND|and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that
As you like it|ROSALIND|may be chosen out of the gross band of the
As you like it|ROSALIND|unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep
As you like it|ROSALIND|your promise.
As you like it|ORLANDO|With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my
As you like it|ORLANDO|Rosalind: so adieu.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such
As you like it|ROSALIND|offenders, and let Time try: adieu.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exit ORLANDO
As you like it|CELIA|You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate:
As you like it|CELIA|we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your
As you like it|CELIA|head, and show the world what the bird hath done to
As you like it|CELIA|her own nest.
As you like it|ROSALIND|O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou
As you like it|ROSALIND|didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But
As you like it|ROSALIND|it cannot be sounded: my affection hath an unknown
As you like it|ROSALIND|bottom, like the bay of Portugal.
As you like it|CELIA|Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour
As you like it|CELIA|affection in, it runs out.
As you like it|ROSALIND|No, that same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot
As you like it|ROSALIND|of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness,
As you like it|ROSALIND|that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes
As you like it|ROSALIND|because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I
As you like it|ROSALIND|am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out
As you like it|ROSALIND|of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and
As you like it|ROSALIND|sigh till he come.
As you like it|CELIA|And I'll sleep.
As you like it|CELIA|Exeunt
As you like it|CELIA|SCENE II. The forest.
As you like it|CELIA|Enter JAQUES, Lords, and Foresters
As you like it|JAQUES|Which is he that killed the deer?
As you like it|A Lord|Sir, it was I.
As you like it|JAQUES|Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman
As you like it|JAQUES|conqueror, and it would do well to set the deer's
As you like it|JAQUES|horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have
As you like it|JAQUES|you no song, forester, for this purpose?
As you like it|Forester|Yes, sir.
As you like it|JAQUES|Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it
As you like it|JAQUES|make noise enough.
As you like it|JAQUES|SONG.
As you like it|Forester|What shall he have that kill'd the deer?
As you like it|Forester|His leather skin and horns to wear.
As you like it|Forester|Then sing him home,
As you like it|Forester|The rest shall bear this burden
As you like it|Forester|Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
As you like it|Forester|It was a crest ere thou wast born:
As you like it|Forester|Thy father's father wore it,
As you like it|Forester|And thy father bore it:
As you like it|Forester|The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
As you like it|Forester|Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
As you like it|Forester|Exeunt
As you like it|Forester|SCENE III. The forest.
As you like it|Forester|Enter ROSALIND and CELIA
As you like it|ROSALIND|How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and
As you like it|ROSALIND|here much Orlando!
As you like it|CELIA|I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he
As you like it|CELIA|hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to
As you like it|CELIA|sleep. Look, who comes here.
As you like it|CELIA|Enter SILVIUS
As you like it|SILVIUS|My errand is to you, fair youth,
As you like it|SILVIUS|My gentle Phebe bid me give you this:
As you like it|SILVIUS|I know not the contents, but, as I guess
As you like it|SILVIUS|By the stern brow and waspish action
As you like it|SILVIUS|Which she did use as she was writing of it,
As you like it|SILVIUS|It bears an angry tenor: pardon me:
As you like it|SILVIUS|I am but as a guiltless messenger.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Patience herself would startle at this letter
As you like it|ROSALIND|And play the swaggerer, bear this, bear all:
As you like it|ROSALIND|She says I am not fair, that I lack manners,
As you like it|ROSALIND|She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will!
As you like it|ROSALIND|Her love is not the hare that I do hunt:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,
As you like it|ROSALIND|This is a letter of your own device.
As you like it|SILVIUS|No, I protest, I know not the contents:
As you like it|SILVIUS|Phebe did write it.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Come, come, you are a fool
As you like it|ROSALIND|And turn'd into the extremity of love.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand.
As you like it|ROSALIND|A freestone-colour'd hand, I verily did think
As you like it|ROSALIND|That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands:
As you like it|ROSALIND|She has a huswife's hand, but that's no matter:
As you like it|ROSALIND|I say she never did invent this letter,
As you like it|ROSALIND|This is a man's invention and his hand.
As you like it|SILVIUS|Sure, it is hers.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style.
As you like it|ROSALIND|A style for-challengers, why, she defies me,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain
As you like it|ROSALIND|Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention
As you like it|ROSALIND|Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect
As you like it|ROSALIND|Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?
As you like it|SILVIUS|So please you, for I never heard it yet,
As you like it|SILVIUS|Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty.
As you like it|ROSALIND|She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Reads
As you like it|ROSALIND|Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,
As you like it|ROSALIND|That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Can a woman rail thus?
As you like it|SILVIUS|Call you this railing?
As you like it|ROSALIND|[Reads]
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why, thy godhead laid apart,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Did you ever hear such railing?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Whiles the eye of man did woo me,
As you like it|ROSALIND|That could do no vengeance to me.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Meaning me a beast.
As you like it|ROSALIND|If the scorn of your bright eyne
As you like it|ROSALIND|Have power to raise such love in mine,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Alack, in me what strange effect
As you like it|ROSALIND|Would they work in mild aspect!
As you like it|ROSALIND|Whiles you chid me, I did love,
As you like it|ROSALIND|How then might your prayers move!
As you like it|ROSALIND|He that brings this love to thee
As you like it|ROSALIND|Little knows this love in me:
As you like it|ROSALIND|And by him seal up thy mind,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Whether that thy youth and kind
As you like it|ROSALIND|Will the faithful offer take
As you like it|ROSALIND|Of me and all that I can make,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Or else by him my love deny,
As you like it|ROSALIND|And then I'll study how to die.
As you like it|SILVIUS|Call you this chiding?
As you like it|CELIA|Alas, poor shepherd!
As you like it|ROSALIND|Do you pity him? no, he deserves no pity. Wilt
As you like it|ROSALIND|thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an
As you like it|ROSALIND|instrument and play false strains upon thee! not to
As you like it|ROSALIND|be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see
As you like it|ROSALIND|love hath made thee a tame snake, and say this to
As you like it|ROSALIND|her: that if she love me, I charge her to love
As you like it|ROSALIND|thee, if she will not, I will never have her unless
As you like it|ROSALIND|thou entreat for her. If you be a true lover,
As you like it|ROSALIND|hence, and not a word, for here comes more company.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exit SILVIUS
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter OLIVER
As you like it|OLIVER|Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know,
As you like it|OLIVER|Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
As you like it|OLIVER|A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees?
As you like it|CELIA|West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom:
As you like it|CELIA|The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
As you like it|CELIA|Left on your right hand brings you to the place.
As you like it|CELIA|But at this hour the house doth keep itself,
As you like it|CELIA|There's none within.
As you like it|OLIVER|If that an eye may profit by a tongue,
As you like it|OLIVER|Then should I know you by description,
As you like it|OLIVER|Such garments and such years: 'The boy is fair,
As you like it|OLIVER|Of female favour, and bestows himself
As you like it|OLIVER|Like a ripe sister: the woman low
As you like it|OLIVER|And browner than her brother.' Are not you
As you like it|OLIVER|The owner of the house I did inquire for?
As you like it|CELIA|It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are.
As you like it|OLIVER|Orlando doth commend him to you both,
As you like it|OLIVER|And to that youth he calls his Rosalind
As you like it|OLIVER|He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?
As you like it|ROSALIND|I am: what must we understand by this?
As you like it|OLIVER|Some of my shame, if you will know of me
As you like it|OLIVER|What man I am, and how, and why, and where
As you like it|OLIVER|This handkercher was stain'd.
As you like it|CELIA|I pray you, tell it.
As you like it|OLIVER|When last the young Orlando parted from you
As you like it|OLIVER|He left a promise to return again
As you like it|OLIVER|Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,
As you like it|OLIVER|Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
As you like it|OLIVER|Lo, what befell! he threw his eye aside,
As you like it|OLIVER|And mark what object did present itself:
As you like it|OLIVER|Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age
As you like it|OLIVER|And high top bald with dry antiquity,
As you like it|OLIVER|A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
As you like it|OLIVER|Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck
As you like it|OLIVER|A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,
As you like it|OLIVER|Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd
As you like it|OLIVER|The opening of his mouth, but suddenly,
As you like it|OLIVER|Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
As you like it|OLIVER|And with indented glides did slip away
As you like it|OLIVER|Into a bush: under which bush's shade
As you like it|OLIVER|A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
As you like it|OLIVER|Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,
As you like it|OLIVER|When that the sleeping man should stir, for 'tis
As you like it|OLIVER|The royal disposition of that beast
As you like it|OLIVER|To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead:
As you like it|OLIVER|This seen, Orlando did approach the man
As you like it|OLIVER|And found it was his brother, his elder brother.
As you like it|CELIA|O, I have heard him speak of that same brother,
As you like it|CELIA|And he did render him the most unnatural
As you like it|CELIA|That lived amongst men.
As you like it|OLIVER|And well he might so do,
As you like it|OLIVER|For well I know he was unnatural.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?
As you like it|OLIVER|Twice did he turn his back and purposed so,
As you like it|OLIVER|But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
As you like it|OLIVER|And nature, stronger than his just occasion,
As you like it|OLIVER|Made him give battle to the lioness,
As you like it|OLIVER|Who quickly fell before him: in which hurtling
As you like it|OLIVER|From miserable slumber I awaked.
As you like it|CELIA|Are you his brother?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Wast you he rescued?
As you like it|CELIA|Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?
As you like it|OLIVER|'Twas I, but 'tis not I	I do not shame
As you like it|OLIVER|To tell you what I was, since my conversion
As you like it|OLIVER|So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But, for the bloody napkin?
As you like it|OLIVER|By and by.
As you like it|OLIVER|When from the first to last betwixt us two
As you like it|OLIVER|Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed,
As you like it|OLIVER|As how I came into that desert place:--
As you like it|OLIVER|In brief, he led me to the gentle duke,
As you like it|OLIVER|Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,
As you like it|OLIVER|Committing me unto my brother's love,
As you like it|OLIVER|Who led me instantly unto his cave,
As you like it|OLIVER|There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm
As you like it|OLIVER|The lioness had torn some flesh away,
As you like it|OLIVER|Which all this while had bled, and now he fainted
As you like it|OLIVER|And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind.
As you like it|OLIVER|Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound,
As you like it|OLIVER|And, after some small space, being strong at heart,
As you like it|OLIVER|He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
As you like it|OLIVER|To tell this story, that you might excuse
As you like it|OLIVER|His broken promise, and to give this napkin
As you like it|OLIVER|Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth
As you like it|OLIVER|That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.
As you like it|OLIVER|ROSALIND swoons
As you like it|CELIA|Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!
As you like it|OLIVER|Many will swoon when they do look on blood.
As you like it|CELIA|There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!
As you like it|OLIVER|Look, he recovers.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I would I were at home.
As you like it|CELIA|We'll lead you thither.
As you like it|CELIA|I pray you, will you take him by the arm?
As you like it|OLIVER|Be of good cheer, youth: you a man! you lack a
As you like it|OLIVER|man's heart.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would
As you like it|ROSALIND|think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell
As you like it|ROSALIND|your brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!
As you like it|OLIVER|This was not counterfeit: there is too great
As you like it|OLIVER|testimony in your complexion that it was a passion
As you like it|OLIVER|of earnest.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Counterfeit, I assure you.
As you like it|OLIVER|Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.
As you like it|ROSALIND|So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right.
As you like it|CELIA|Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw
As you like it|CELIA|homewards. Good sir, go with us.
As you like it|OLIVER|That will I, for I must bear answer back
As you like it|OLIVER|How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend
As you like it|ROSALIND|my counterfeiting to him. Will you go?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exeunt
As you like it|ROSALIND|ACT V
As you like it|ROSALIND|SCENE I. The forest.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|We shall find a time, Audrey, patience, gentle Audrey.
As you like it|AUDREY|Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old
As you like it|AUDREY|gentleman's saying.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|forest lays claim to you.
As you like it|AUDREY|Ay, I know who 'tis, he hath no interest in me in
As you like it|AUDREY|the world: here comes the man you mean.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|troth, we that have good wits have much to answer
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|for, we shall be flouting, we cannot hold.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Enter WILLIAM
As you like it|WILLIAM|Good even, Audrey.
As you like it|AUDREY|God ye good even, William.
As you like it|WILLIAM|And good even to you, sir.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|head, nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend?
As you like it|WILLIAM|Five and twenty, sir.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|A ripe age. Is thy name William?
As you like it|WILLIAM|William, sir.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here?
As you like it|WILLIAM|Ay, sir, I thank God.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|'Thank God,' a good answer. Art rich?
As you like it|WILLIAM|Faith, sir, so so.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good, and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|yet it is not, it is but so so. Art thou wise?
As you like it|WILLIAM|Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|would open his lips when he put it into his mouth,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|lips to open. You do love this maid?
As you like it|WILLIAM|I do, sir.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Give me your hand. Art thou learned?
As you like it|WILLIAM|No, sir.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Then learn this of me: to have, is to have, for it
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|the other, for all your writers do consent that ipse
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he.
As you like it|WILLIAM|Which he, sir?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|female,--which in the common is woman, which
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|together is, abandon the society of this female, or,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|clown, thou perishest, or, to thy better
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|understanding, diest, or, to wit I kill thee, make
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|thee away, translate thy life into death, thy
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|thee, or in bastinado, or in steel, I will bandy
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|with thee in faction, I will o'errun thee with
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|policy, I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|therefore tremble and depart.
As you like it|AUDREY|Do, good William.
As you like it|WILLIAM|God rest you merry, sir.
As you like it|WILLIAM|Exit
As you like it|WILLIAM|Enter CORIN
As you like it|CORIN|Our master and mistress seeks you, come, away, away!
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Exeunt
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|SCENE II. The forest.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER
As you like it|ORLANDO|Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you
As you like it|ORLANDO|should like her? that but seeing you should love
As you like it|ORLANDO|her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should
As you like it|ORLANDO|grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?
As you like it|OLIVER|Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the
As you like it|OLIVER|poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden
As you like it|OLIVER|wooing, nor her sudden consenting, but say with me,
As you like it|OLIVER|I love Aliena, say with her that she loves me,
As you like it|OLIVER|consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it
As you like it|OLIVER|shall be to your good, for my father's house and all
As you like it|OLIVER|the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I
As you like it|OLIVER|estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.
As you like it|ORLANDO|You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:
As you like it|ORLANDO|thither will I invite the duke and all's contented
As you like it|ORLANDO|followers. Go you and prepare Aliena, for look
As you like it|ORLANDO|you, here comes my Rosalind.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Enter ROSALIND
As you like it|ROSALIND|God save you, brother.
As you like it|OLIVER|And you, fair sister.
As you like it|OLIVER|Exit
As you like it|ROSALIND|O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee
As you like it|ROSALIND|wear thy heart in a scarf!
As you like it|ORLANDO|It is my arm.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws
As you like it|ROSALIND|of a lion.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to
As you like it|ROSALIND|swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?
As you like it|ORLANDO|Ay, and greater wonders than that.
As you like it|ROSALIND|O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was
As you like it|ROSALIND|never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams
As you like it|ROSALIND|and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and
As you like it|ROSALIND|overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner
As you like it|ROSALIND|met but they looked, no sooner looked but they
As you like it|ROSALIND|loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner
As you like it|ROSALIND|sighed but they asked one another the reason, no
As you like it|ROSALIND|sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy,
As you like it|ROSALIND|and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs
As you like it|ROSALIND|to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or
As you like it|ROSALIND|else be incontinent before marriage: they are in
As you like it|ROSALIND|the very wrath of love and they will together, clubs
As you like it|ROSALIND|cannot part them.
As you like it|ORLANDO|They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the
As you like it|ORLANDO|duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it
As you like it|ORLANDO|is to look into happiness through another man's
As you like it|ORLANDO|eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at
As you like it|ORLANDO|the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall
As you like it|ORLANDO|think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I can live no longer by thinking.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I will weary you then no longer with idle talking.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose,
As you like it|ROSALIND|that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I
As you like it|ROSALIND|speak not this that you should bear a good opinion
As you like it|ROSALIND|of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are,
As you like it|ROSALIND|neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in
As you like it|ROSALIND|some little measure draw a belief from you, to do
As you like it|ROSALIND|yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if
As you like it|ROSALIND|you please, that I can do strange things: I have,
As you like it|ROSALIND|since I was three year old, conversed with a
As you like it|ROSALIND|magician, most profound in his art and yet not
As you like it|ROSALIND|damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart
As you like it|ROSALIND|as your gesture cries it out, when your brother
As you like it|ROSALIND|marries Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into
As you like it|ROSALIND|what straits of fortune she is driven, and it is
As you like it|ROSALIND|not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient
As you like it|ROSALIND|to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human
As you like it|ROSALIND|as she is and without any danger.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Speakest thou in sober meanings?
As you like it|ROSALIND|By my life, I do, which I tender dearly, though I
As you like it|ROSALIND|say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your
As you like it|ROSALIND|best array: bid your friends, for if you will be
As you like it|ROSALIND|married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE
As you like it|ROSALIND|Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.
As you like it|PHEBE|Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,
As you like it|PHEBE|To show the letter that I writ to you.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I care not if I have: it is my study
As you like it|ROSALIND|To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:
As you like it|ROSALIND|You are there followed by a faithful shepherd,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Look upon him, love him, he worships you.
As you like it|PHEBE|Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.
As you like it|SILVIUS|It is to be all made of sighs and tears,
As you like it|SILVIUS|And so am I for Phebe.
As you like it|PHEBE|And I for Ganymede.
As you like it|ORLANDO|And I for Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And I for no woman.
As you like it|SILVIUS|It is to be all made of faith and service,
As you like it|SILVIUS|And so am I for Phebe.
As you like it|PHEBE|And I for Ganymede.
As you like it|ORLANDO|And I for Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And I for no woman.
As you like it|SILVIUS|It is to be all made of fantasy,
As you like it|SILVIUS|All made of passion and all made of wishes,
As you like it|SILVIUS|All adoration, duty, and observance,
As you like it|SILVIUS|All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
As you like it|SILVIUS|All purity, all trial, all observance,
As you like it|SILVIUS|And so am I for Phebe.
As you like it|PHEBE|And so am I for Ganymede.
As you like it|ORLANDO|And so am I for Rosalind.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And so am I for no woman.
As you like it|PHEBE|If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
As you like it|SILVIUS|If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
As you like it|ORLANDO|If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
As you like it|ROSALIND|Who do you speak to, 'Why blame you me to love you?'
As you like it|ORLANDO|To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Pray you, no more of this, 'tis like the howling
As you like it|ROSALIND|of Irish wolves against the moon.
As you like it|ROSALIND|To SILVIUS
As you like it|ROSALIND|I will help you, if I can:
As you like it|ROSALIND|To PHEBE
As you like it|ROSALIND|I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together.
As you like it|ROSALIND|To PHEBE
As you like it|ROSALIND|I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be
As you like it|ROSALIND|married to-morrow:
As you like it|ROSALIND|To ORLANDO
As you like it|ROSALIND|I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you
As you like it|ROSALIND|shall be married to-morrow:
As you like it|ROSALIND|To SILVIUS
As you like it|ROSALIND|I will content you, if what pleases you contents
As you like it|ROSALIND|you, and you shall be married to-morrow.
As you like it|ROSALIND|To ORLANDO
As you like it|ROSALIND|As you love Rosalind, meet:
As you like it|ROSALIND|To SILVIUS
As you like it|ROSALIND|as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love no woman,
As you like it|ROSALIND|I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left you commands.
As you like it|SILVIUS|I'll not fail, if I live.
As you like it|PHEBE|Nor I.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Nor I.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Exeunt
As you like it|ORLANDO|SCENE III. The forest.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey, to-morrow will
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|we be married.
As you like it|AUDREY|I do desire it with all my heart, and I hope it is
As you like it|AUDREY|no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the
As you like it|AUDREY|world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages.
As you like it|AUDREY|Enter two Pages
As you like it|First Page|Well met, honest gentleman.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.
As you like it|Second Page|We are for you: sit i' the middle.
As you like it|First Page|Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or
As you like it|First Page|spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only
As you like it|First Page|prologues to a bad voice?
As you like it|Second Page|I'faith, i'faith, and both in a tune, like two
As you like it|Second Page|gipsies on a horse.
As you like it|Second Page|SONG.
As you like it|Second Page|It was a lover and his lass,
As you like it|Second Page|With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
As you like it|Second Page|That o'er the green corn-field did pass
As you like it|Second Page|In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
As you like it|Second Page|When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:
As you like it|Second Page|Sweet lovers love the spring.
As you like it|Second Page|Between the acres of the rye,
As you like it|Second Page|With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino
As you like it|Second Page|These pretty country folks would lie,
As you like it|Second Page|In spring time,  and c.
As you like it|Second Page|This carol they began that hour,
As you like it|Second Page|With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
As you like it|Second Page|How that a life was but a flower
As you like it|Second Page|In spring time,  and c.
As you like it|Second Page|And therefore take the present time,
As you like it|Second Page|With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
As you like it|Second Page|For love is crowned with the prime
As you like it|Second Page|In spring time,  and c.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|matter in the ditty, yet the note was very
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|untuneable.
As you like it|First Page|You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|By my troth, yes, I count it but time lost to hear
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|such a foolish song. God be wi' you, and God mend
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|your voices! Come, Audrey.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Exeunt
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|SCENE IV. The forest.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and CELIA
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Can do all this that he hath promised?
As you like it|ORLANDO|I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not,
As you like it|ORLANDO|As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE
As you like it|ROSALIND|Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged:
As you like it|ROSALIND|You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,
As you like it|ROSALIND|You will bestow her on Orlando here?
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.
As you like it|ROSALIND|And you say, you will have her, when I bring her?
As you like it|ORLANDO|That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.
As you like it|ROSALIND|You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing?
As you like it|PHEBE|That will I, should I die the hour after.
As you like it|ROSALIND|But if you do refuse to marry me,
As you like it|ROSALIND|You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
As you like it|PHEBE|So is the bargain.
As you like it|ROSALIND|You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will?
As you like it|SILVIUS|Though to have her and death were both one thing.
As you like it|ROSALIND|I have promised to make all this matter even.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter,
As you like it|ROSALIND|You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,
As you like it|ROSALIND|Or else refusing me, to wed this shepherd:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her.
As you like it|ROSALIND|If she refuse me: and from hence I go,
As you like it|ROSALIND|To make these doubts all even.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|I do remember in this shepherd boy
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.
As you like it|ORLANDO|My lord, the first time that I ever saw him
As you like it|ORLANDO|Methought he was a brother to your daughter:
As you like it|ORLANDO|But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
As you like it|ORLANDO|And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
As you like it|ORLANDO|Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Whom he reports to be a great magician,
As you like it|ORLANDO|Obscured in the circle of this forest.
As you like it|ORLANDO|Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
As you like it|JAQUES|There is, sure, another flood toward, and these
As you like it|JAQUES|couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of
As you like it|JAQUES|very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Salutation and greeting to you all!
As you like it|JAQUES|Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the
As you like it|JAQUES|motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in
As you like it|JAQUES|the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|If any man doubt that, let him put me to my
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|purgation. I have trod a measure, I have flattered
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|with mine enemy, I have undone three tailors, I have
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.
As you like it|JAQUES|And how was that ta'en up?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|seventh cause.
As you like it|JAQUES|How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|I like him very well.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|God 'ild you, sir, I desire you of the like. I
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own, a poor
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases.
As you like it|JAQUES|But, for the seventh cause, how did you find the
As you like it|JAQUES|quarrel on the seventh cause?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Upon a lie seven times removed:--bear your body more
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|seeming, Audrey:--as thus, sir. I did dislike the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me word,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|If I sent him word again 'it was not well cut,' he
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|would send me word, he cut it to please himself:
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|this is called the Quip Modest. If again 'it was
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|not well cut,' he disabled my judgment: this is
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|called the Reply Churlish. If again 'it was not
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|well cut,' he would answer, I spake not true: this
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|is called the Reproof Valiant. If again 'it was not
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|well cut,' he would say I lied: this is called the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Counter-cheque Quarrelsome: and so to the Lie
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.
As you like it|JAQUES|And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial,
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct, and so we
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|measured swords and parted.
As you like it|JAQUES|Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|books for good manners: I will name you the degrees.
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|The first, the Retort Courteous, the second, the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Quip Modest, the third, the Reply Churlish, the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|fourth, the Reproof Valiant, the fifth, the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Countercheque Quarrelsome, the sixth, the Lie with
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|Circumstance, the seventh, the Lie Direct. All
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|these you may avoid but the Lie Direct, and you may
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|parties were met themselves, one of them thought but
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so,' and
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the
As you like it|TOUCHSTONE|only peacemaker, much virtue in If.
As you like it|JAQUES|Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at
As you like it|JAQUES|any thing and yet a fool.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Still Music
As you like it|HYMEN|Then is there mirth in heaven,
As you like it|HYMEN|When earthly things made even
As you like it|HYMEN|Atone together.
As you like it|HYMEN|Good duke, receive thy daughter
As you like it|HYMEN|Hymen from heaven brought her,
As you like it|HYMEN|Yea, brought her hither,
As you like it|HYMEN|That thou mightst join her hand with his
As you like it|HYMEN|Whose heart within his bosom is.
As you like it|ROSALIND|[To DUKE SENIOR]  To you I give myself, for I am yours.
As you like it|ROSALIND|To ORLANDO
As you like it|ROSALIND|To you I give myself, for I am yours.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.
As you like it|ORLANDO|If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.
As you like it|PHEBE|If sight and shape be true,
As you like it|PHEBE|Why then, my love adieu!
As you like it|ROSALIND|I'll have no father, if you be not he:
As you like it|ROSALIND|I'll have no husband, if you be not he:
As you like it|ROSALIND|Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.
As you like it|HYMEN|Peace, ho! I bar confusion:
As you like it|HYMEN|'Tis I must make conclusion
As you like it|HYMEN|Of these most strange events:
As you like it|HYMEN|Here's eight that must take hands
As you like it|HYMEN|To join in Hymen's bands,
As you like it|HYMEN|If truth holds true contents.
As you like it|HYMEN|You and you no cross shall part:
As you like it|HYMEN|You and you are heart in heart
As you like it|HYMEN|You to his love must accord,
As you like it|HYMEN|Or have a woman to your lord:
As you like it|HYMEN|You and you are sure together,
As you like it|HYMEN|As the winter to foul weather.
As you like it|HYMEN|Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,
As you like it|HYMEN|Feed yourselves with questioning,
As you like it|HYMEN|That reason wonder may diminish,
As you like it|HYMEN|How thus we met, and these things finish.
As you like it|HYMEN|SONG.
As you like it|HYMEN|Wedding is great Juno's crown:
As you like it|HYMEN|O blessed bond of board and bed!
As you like it|HYMEN|'Tis Hymen peoples every town,
As you like it|HYMEN|High wedlock then be honoured:
As you like it|HYMEN|Honour, high honour and renown,
As you like it|HYMEN|To Hymen, god of every town!
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree.
As you like it|PHEBE|I will not eat my word, now thou art mine,
As you like it|PHEBE|Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.
As you like it|PHEBE|Enter JAQUES DE BOYS
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|Let me have audience for a word or two:
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|Men of great worth resorted to this forest,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|Address'd a mighty power, which were on foot,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|In his own conduct, purposely to take
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|His brother here and put him to the sword:
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|And to the skirts of this wild wood he came,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|Where meeting with an old religious man,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|After some question with him, was converted
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|Both from his enterprise and from the world,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|And all their lands restored to them again
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|That were with him exiled. This to be true,
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|I do engage my life.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Welcome, young man,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|To one his lands withheld, and to the other
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|First, in this forest, let us do those ends
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That here were well begun and well begot:
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And after, every of this happy number
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|That have endured shrewd days and nights with us
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Shall share the good of our returned fortune,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|According to the measure of their states.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|And fall into our rustic revelry.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.
As you like it|JAQUES|Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,
As you like it|JAQUES|The duke hath put on a religious life
As you like it|JAQUES|And thrown into neglect the pompous court?
As you like it|JAQUES DE BOYS|He hath.
As you like it|JAQUES|To him will I : out of these convertites
As you like it|JAQUES|There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.
As you like it|JAQUES|To DUKE SENIOR
As you like it|JAQUES|You to your former honour I bequeath,
As you like it|JAQUES|Your patience and your virtue well deserves it:
As you like it|JAQUES|To ORLANDO
As you like it|JAQUES|You to a love that your true faith doth merit:
As you like it|JAQUES|To OLIVER
As you like it|JAQUES|You to your land and love and great allies:
As you like it|JAQUES|To SILVIUS
As you like it|JAQUES|You to a long and well-deserved bed:
As you like it|JAQUES|To TOUCHSTONE
As you like it|JAQUES|And you to wrangling, for thy loving voyage
As you like it|JAQUES|Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures:
As you like it|JAQUES|I am for other than for dancing measures.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Stay, Jaques, stay.
As you like it|JAQUES|To see no pastime I	what you would have
As you like it|JAQUES|I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.
As you like it|JAQUES|Exit
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|As we do trust they'll end, in true delights.
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|A dance
As you like it|DUKE SENIOR|EPILOGUE
As you like it|ROSALIND|It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue,
As you like it|ROSALIND|but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord
As you like it|ROSALIND|the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs
As you like it|ROSALIND|no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no
As you like it|ROSALIND|epilogue, yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
As you like it|ROSALIND|and good plays prove the better by the help of good
As you like it|ROSALIND|epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am
As you like it|ROSALIND|neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with
As you like it|ROSALIND|you in the behalf of a good play! I am not
As you like it|ROSALIND|furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not
As you like it|ROSALIND|become me: my way is to conjure you, and I'll begin
As you like it|ROSALIND|with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love
As you like it|ROSALIND|you bear to men, to like as much of this play as
As you like it|ROSALIND|please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love
As you like it|ROSALIND|you bear to women--as I perceive by your simpering,
As you like it|ROSALIND|none of you hates them--that between you and the
As you like it|ROSALIND|women the play may please. If I were a woman I
As you like it|ROSALIND|would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased
As you like it|ROSALIND|me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I
As you like it|ROSALIND|defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good
As you like it|ROSALIND|beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my
As you like it|ROSALIND|kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
As you like it|ROSALIND|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|ROSALIND|ACT I
Antony and Cleopatra|ROSALIND|SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|ROSALIND|Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Nay, but this dotage of our general's
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|That o'er the files and musters of the war
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|The office and devotion of their view
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|And is become the bellows and the fan
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|To cool a gipsy's lust.
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Look, where they come:
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Take but good note, and you shall see in him.
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|The triple pillar of the world transform'd
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter an Attendant
Antony and Cleopatra|Attendant|News, my good lord, from Rome.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Grates me: the sum.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Nay, hear them, Antony:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Fulvia perchance is angry, or, who knows
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|How, my love!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Perchance! nay, and most like:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|You must not stay here longer, your dismission
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is come from Caesar, therefore hear it, Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Embracing
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|On pain of punishment, the world to weet
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We stand up peerless.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Excellent falsehood!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I'll seem the fool I am not, Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Will be himself.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|But stirr'd by Cleopatra.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Hear the ambassadors.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Fie, wrangling queen!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To weep, whose every passion fully strives
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|No messenger, but thine, and all alone
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To-night we'll wander through the streets and note
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The qualities of people. Come, my queen,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with their train
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|He comes too short of that great property
Antony and Cleopatra|PHILO|Which still should go with Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|I am full sorry
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|That he approves the common liar, who
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|SCENE II. The same. Another room.
Antony and Cleopatra|DEMETRIUS|Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|with garlands!
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Soothsayer!
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Your will?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|In nature's infinite book of secrecy
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|A little I can read.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Show him your hand.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Bring in the banquet quickly, wine enough
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Cleopatra's health to drink.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Good sir, give me good fortune.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|I make not, but foresee.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Pray, then, foresee me one.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|You shall be yet far fairer than you are.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|He means in flesh.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|No, you shall paint when you are old.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Wrinkles forbid!
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Vex not his prescience, be attentive.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Hush!
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|You shall be more beloving than beloved.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|I had rather heat my liver with drinking.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Nay, hear him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Than that which is to approach.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Then belike my children shall have no names:
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|If every of your wishes had a womb.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|And fertile every wish, a million.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Nay, come, tell Iras hers.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|We'll know all our fortunes.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|be--drunk to bed.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|tell her but a worky-day fortune.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Your fortunes are alike.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|But how, but how? give me particulars.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|I have said.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|I, where would you choose it?
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Not in my husband's nose.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,--come,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|follow worse, till the worst of all follow him
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|matter of more weight, good Isis, I beseech thee!
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|decorum, and fortune him accordingly!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Amen.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|they'ld do't!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Hush! here comes Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Not he, the queen.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Enter CLEOPATRA
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Saw you my lord?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|No, lady.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Was he not here?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|No, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He was disposed to mirth, but on the sudden
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Madam?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Seek him, and bring him hither.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where's Alexas?
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Here, at your service. My lord approaches.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|We will not look upon him: go with us.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Against my brother Lucius?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Ay:
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|But soon that war had end, and the time's state
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Whose better issue in the war, from Italy,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Upon the first encounter, drave them.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Well, what worst?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|The nature of bad news infects the teller.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When it concerns the fool or coward. On:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I hear him as he flatter'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Labienus--
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|This is stiff news--hath, with his Parthian force,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Extended Asia from Euphrates,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|His conquering banner shook from Syria
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|To Lydia and to Ionia, Whilst--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Antony, thou wouldst say,--
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|O, my lord!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my faults
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With such full licence as both truth and malice
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When our quick minds lie still, and our ills told us
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|At your noble pleasure.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!
Antony and Cleopatra|First Attendant|The man from Sicyon,--is there such an one?
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Attendant|He stays upon your will.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let him appear.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Or lose myself in dotage.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter another Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What are you?
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Messenger|Fulvia thy wife is dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Where died she?
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Messenger|In Sicyon:
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Messenger|Her length of sickness, with what else more serious
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Messenger|Importeth thee to know, this bears.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Messenger|Gives a letter
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Forbear me.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit Second Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What our contempt doth often hurl from us,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We wish it ours again, the present pleasure,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By revolution lowering, does become
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I must from this enchanting queen break off:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|What's your pleasure, sir?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I must with haste from hence.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Why, then, we kill all our women:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|we see how mortal an unkindness is to them,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|if they suffer our departure, death's the word.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I must be gone.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Under a compelling occasion, let women die, it were
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|pity to cast them away for nothing, though, between
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|them and a great cause, they should be esteemed
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|this, dies instantly, I have seen her die twenty
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|her, she hath such a celerity in dying.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|She is cunning past man's thought.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit ALEXAS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Alack, sir, no, her passions are made of nothing but
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|winds and waters sighs and tears, they are greater
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|cannot be cunning in her, if it be, she makes a
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|shower of rain as well as Jove.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Would I had never seen her.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|of work, which not to have been blest withal would
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|have discredited your travel.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Fulvia is dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Sir?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Fulvia is dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Fulvia!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|comforting therein, that when old robes are worn
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|out, there are members to make new. If there were
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|with consolation, your old smock brings forth a new
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|that should water this sorrow.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The business she hath broached in the state
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Cannot endure my absence.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And the business you have broached here cannot be
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|without you, especially that of Cleopatra's, which
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|wholly depends on your abode.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|No more light answers. Let our officers
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have notice what we purpose. I shall break
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The cause of our expedience to the queen,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And get her leave to part. For not alone
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Do strongly speak to us, but the letters too
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of many our contriving friends in Rome
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The empire of the sea: our slippery people,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Whose love is never link'd to the deserver
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Till his deserts are past, begin to throw
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Pompey the Great and all his dignities
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Upon his son, who, high in name and power,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Higher than both in blood and life, stands up
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To such whose place is under us, requires
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Our quick remove from hence.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I shall do't.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|SCENE III. The same. Another room.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where is he?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|I did not see him since.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|See where he is, who's with him, what he does:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I did not send you: if you find him sad,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Say I am dancing, if in mirth, report
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That I am sudden sick: quick, and return.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit ALEXAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|You do not hold the method to enforce
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|The like from him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What should I do, I do not?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|In each thing give him way, cross him nothing.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou teachest like a fool, the way to lose him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Tempt him not so too far, I wish, forbear:
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|In time we hate that which we often fear.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|But here comes Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Enter MARK ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I am sick and sullen.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Will not sustain it.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now, my dearest queen,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Pray you, stand further from me.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What's the matter?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I know, by that same eye, there's some good news.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What says the married woman? You may go:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Would she had never given you leave to come!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I have no power upon you, hers you are.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The gods best know,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, never was there queen
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|So mightily betray'd! yet at the first
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I saw the treasons planted.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Cleopatra,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Why should I think you can be mine and true,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Which break themselves in swearing!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Most sweet queen,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Then was the time for words: no going then,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Bliss in our brows' bent, none our parts so poor,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But was a race of heaven: they are so still,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Art turn'd the greatest liar.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|How now, lady!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I would I had thy inches, thou shouldst know
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|There were a heart in Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hear me, queen:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The strong necessity of time commands
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Our services awhile, but my full heart
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Remains in use with you. Our Italy
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Equality of two domestic powers
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Into the hearts of such as have not thrived
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By any desperate change: my more particular,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And that which most with you should safe my going,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is Fulvia's death.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Though age from folly could not give me freedom,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|It does from childishness: can Fulvia die?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|She's dead, my queen:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The garboils she awaked, at the last, best:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|See when and where she died.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O most false love!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The purposes I bear, which are, or cease,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As you shall give the advice. By the fire
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thy soldier, servant, making peace or war
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As thou affect'st.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Cut my lace, Charmian, come,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|So Antony loves.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My precious queen, forbear,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And give true evidence to his love, which stands
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|An honourable trial.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|So Fulvia told me.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Of excellent dissembling, and let it look
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Life perfect honour.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You'll heat my blood: no more.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|You can do better yet, but this is meetly.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now, by my sword,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And target. Still he mends,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|How this Herculean Roman does become
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The carriage of his chafe.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I'll leave you, lady.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Courteous lord, one word.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That you know well: something it is I would,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, my oblivion is a very Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And I am all forgotten.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|But that your royalty
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Holds idleness your subject, I should take you
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For idleness itself.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|'Tis sweating labour
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To bear such idleness so near the heart
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Since my becomings kill me, when they do not
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And all the gods go with you! upon your sword
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sit laurel victory! and smooth success
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be strew'd before your feet!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let us go. Come,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Our separation so abides, and flies,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE IV. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS, and their Train
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Our great competitor: from Alexandria
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The lamps of night in revel, is not more man-like
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|More womanly than he, hardly gave audience, or
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|A man who is the abstract of all faults
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That all men follow.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|I must not think there are
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Evils enow to darken all his goodness:
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|More fiery by night's blackness, hereditary,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Rather than purchased, what he cannot change,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Than what he chooses.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And keep the turn of tippling with a slave,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|With knaves that smell of sweat: say this
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|becomes him,--
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|As his composure must be rare indeed
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Whom these things cannot blemish,--yet must Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|No way excuse his soils, when we do bear
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|His vacancy with his voluptuousness,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Call on him for't: but to confound such time,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|As his own state and ours,--'tis to be chid
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And so rebel to judgment.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter a Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Here's more news.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Thy biddings have been done, and every hour,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|And it appears he is beloved of those
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|The discontents repair, and men's reports
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Give him much wrong'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I should have known no less.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|It hath been taught us from the primal state,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That he which is was wish'd until he were,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To rot itself with motion.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Caesar, I bring thee word,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|With keels of every kind: many hot inroads
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|They make in Italy, the borders maritime
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Taken as seen, for Pompey's name strikes more
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Than could his war resisted.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Did famine follow, whom thou fought'st against,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Though daintily brought up, with patience more
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The roughest berry on the rudest hedge,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The barks of trees thou browsed'st, on the Alps
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Which some did die to look on: and all this--
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|It wounds thine honour that I speak it now--
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|So much as lank'd not.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|'Tis pity of him.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Let his shames quickly
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Drive him to Rome: 'tis time we twain
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Did show ourselves i' the field, and to that end
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Assemble we immediate council: Pompey
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Thrives in our idleness.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|To-morrow, Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Both what by sea and land I can be able
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|To front this present time.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Till which encounter,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|It is my business too. Farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|To let me be partaker.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Doubt not, sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I knew it for my bond.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Charmian!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Madam?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ha, ha!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Give me to drink mandragora.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Why, madam?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That I might sleep out this great gap of time
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My Antony is away.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|You think of him too much.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, 'tis treason!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Madam, I trust, not so.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou, eunuch Mardian!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|What's your highness' pleasure?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Not now to hear thee sing, I take no pleasure
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Yes, gracious madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Indeed!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Not in deed, madam, for I can do nothing
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|But what indeed is honest to be done:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Yet have I fierce affections, and think
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|What Venus did with Mars.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O Charmian,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|For so he calls me: now I feed myself
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|With most delicious poison. Think on me,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|When thou wast here above the ground, I was
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|There would he anchor his aspect and die
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|With looking on his life.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Sovereign of Egypt, hail!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|With his tinct gilded thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Last thing he did, dear queen,
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,--
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Mine ear must pluck it thence.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|'Good friend,' quoth he,
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|This treasure of an oyster, at whose foot,
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|To mend the petty present, I will piece
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Her opulent throne with kingdoms, all the east,
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Was beastly dumb'd by him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What, was he sad or merry?
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Like to the time o' the year between the extremes
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O well-divided disposition! Note him,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man, but note him:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He was not sad, for he would shine on those
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That make their looks by his, he was not merry,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|In Egypt with his joy, but between both:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The violence of either thee becomes,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Why do you send so thick?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Who's born that day
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|When I forget to send to Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ever love Caesar so?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O that brave Caesar!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be choked with such another emphasis!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Say, the brave Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|The valiant Caesar!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If thou with Caesar paragon again
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My man of men.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|By your most gracious pardon,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|I sing but after you.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My salad days,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To say as I said then! But, come, away,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Get me ink and paper:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He shall have every day a several greeting,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Or I'll unpeople Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|ACT II
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|SCENE I. Messina. POMPEY's house.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in warlike manner
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|If the great gods be just, they shall assist
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The deeds of justest men.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENECRATES|Know, worthy Pompey,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENECRATES|That what they do delay, they not deny.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The thing we sue for.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENECRATES|We, ignorant of ourselves,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENECRATES|Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Antony and Cleopatra|MENECRATES|Deny us for our good, so find we profit
Antony and Cleopatra|MENECRATES|By losing of our prayers.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I shall do well:
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The people love me, and the sea is mine,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Of both is flatter'd, but he neither loves,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Nor either cares for him.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Caesar and Lepidus
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Where have you this? 'tis false.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|From Silvius, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|He dreams: I know they are in Rome together,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Keep his brain fuming, Epicurean cooks
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Even till a Lethe'd dulness!
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Enter VARRIUS
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|How now, Varrius!
Antony and Cleopatra|VARRIUS|This is most certain that I shall deliver:
Antony and Cleopatra|VARRIUS|Mark Antony is every hour in Rome
Antony and Cleopatra|VARRIUS|Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis
Antony and Cleopatra|VARRIUS|A space for further travel.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I could have given less matter
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|A better ear. Menas, I did not think
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|For such a petty war: his soldiership
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Is twice the other twain: but let us rear
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The higher our opinion, that our stirring
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|I cannot hope
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Caesar and Antony shall well greet together:
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|His brother warr'd upon him, although, I think,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Not moved by Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I know not, Menas,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|How lesser enmities may give way to greater.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Were't not that we stand up against them all,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|'Twere pregnant they should square between
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|themselves,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|For they have entertained cause enough
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|To draw their swords: but how the fear of us
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|May cement their divisions and bind up
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The petty difference, we yet not know.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Come, Menas.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|SCENE II. Rome. The house of LEPIDUS.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|To soft and gentle speech.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I shall entreat him
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Let Antony look over Caesar's head
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I would not shave't to-day.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|'Tis not a time
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|For private stomaching.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Every time
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Serves for the matter that is then born in't.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|But small to greater matters must give way.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Not if the small come first.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Your speech is passion:
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|The noble Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And yonder, Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|If we compose well here, to Parthia:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hark, Ventidius.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I do not know,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Mecaenas, ask Agrippa.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Noble friends,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|That which combined us was most great, and let not
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|May it be gently heard: when we debate
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|The rather, for I earnestly beseech,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Nor curstness grow to the matter.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'Tis spoken well.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Were we before our armies, and to fight.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I should do thus.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Flourish
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Welcome to Rome.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thank you.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Sit.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Sit, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Nay, then.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I learn, you take things ill which are not so,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Or being, concern you not.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I must be laugh'd at,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|If, or for nothing or a little, I
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Should say myself offended, and with you
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Chiefly i' the world, more laugh'd at, that I should
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Once name you derogately, when to sound your name
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|It not concern'd me.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My being in Egypt, Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What was't to you?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|No more than my residing here at Rome
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Might be my question.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|How intend you, practised?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You may be pleased to catch at mine intent
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Made wars upon me, and their contestation
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Was theme for you, you were the word of war.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You do mistake your business, my brother never
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And have my learning from some true reports,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Discredit my authority with yours,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And make the wars alike against my stomach,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Having alike your cause? Of this my letters
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As matter whole you have not to make it with,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|It must not be with this.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You praise yourself
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|By laying defects of judgment to me, but
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You patch'd up your excuses.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Not so, not so,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I know you could not lack, I am certain on't,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Very necessity of this thought, that I,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I would you had her spirit in such another:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The third o' the world is yours, which with a snaffle
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Would we had all such wives, that the men might go
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|to wars with the women!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Made out of her impatience, which not wanted
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Did you too much disquiet: for that you must
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|But say, I could not help it.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I wrote to you
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|When rioting in Alexandria, you
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Did gibe my missive out of audience.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He fell upon me ere admitted: then
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of what I was i' the morning: but next day
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I told him of myself, which was as much
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Be nothing of our strife, if we contend,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Out of our question wipe him.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You have broken
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The article of your oath, which you shall never
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Have tongue to charge me with.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Soft, Caesar!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|No,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Lepidus, let him speak:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The honour is sacred which he talks on now,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The article of my oath.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To lend me arms and aid when I required them,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The which you both denied.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Neglected, rather,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And then when poison'd hours had bound me up
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To have me out of Egypt, made wars here,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For which myself, the ignorant motive, do
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|So far ask pardon as befits mine honour
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To stoop in such a case.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|'Tis noble spoken.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|If it might please you, to enforce no further
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|The griefs between ye: to forget them quite
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Were to remember that the present need
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Speaks to atone you.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Worthily spoken, Mecaenas.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Or, if you borrow one another's love for the
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|instant, you may, when you hear no more words of
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Pompey, return it again: you shall have time to
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou art a soldier only: speak no more.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You wrong this presence, therefore speak no more.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Go to, then, your considerate stone.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I do not much dislike the matter, but
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The manner of his speech, for't cannot be
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|We shall remain in friendship, our conditions
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|O' the world I would pursue it.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Give me leave, Caesar,--
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Speak, Agrippa.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Is now a widower.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Say not so, Agrippa:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Were well deserved of rashness.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I am not married, Caesar: let me hear
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Agrippa further speak.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|To hold you in perpetual amity,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|With an unslipping  knot, take Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Octavia to his wife, whose beauty claims
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|No worse a husband than the best of men,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|That which none else can utter. By this marriage,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|All little jealousies, which now seem great,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|And all great fears, which now import their dangers,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Where now half tales be truths: her love to both
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Would, each to other and all loves to both,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|By duty ruminated.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Will Caesar speak?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|With what is spoke already.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What power is in Agrippa,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,'
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To make this good?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The power of Caesar, and
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|His power unto Octavia.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|May I never
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Further this act of grace: and from this hour
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The heart of brothers govern in our loves
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And sway our great designs!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|There is my hand.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Did ever love so dearly: let her live
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To join our kingdoms and our hearts, and never
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Fly off our loves again!
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Happily, amen!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For he hath laid strange courtesies and great
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of late upon me: I must thank him only,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Lest my remembrance suffer ill report,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|At heel of that, defy him.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Time calls upon's:
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Of us must Pompey presently be sought,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Or else he seeks out us.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Where lies he?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|About the mount Misenum.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What is his strength by land?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Great and increasing: but by sea
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|He is an absolute master.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|So is the fame.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The business we have talk'd of.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|With most gladness:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And do invite you to my sister's view,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Whither straight I'll lead you.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let us, Lepidus,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Not lack your company.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Noble Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Not sickness should detain me.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, and LEPIDUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Welcome from Egypt, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|honourable friend, Agrippa!
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Good Enobarbus!
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|We have cause to be glad that matters are so well
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance, and
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|made the night light with drinking.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|but twelve persons there, is this true?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|her.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|There she appeared indeed, or my reporter devised
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|well for her.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I will tell you.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The water which they beat to follow faster,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|It beggar'd all description: she did lie
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The fancy outwork nature: on each side her
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And what they undid did.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|O, rare for Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And made their bends adornings: at the helm
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That yarely frame the office. From the barge
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Her people out upon her, and Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Whistling to the air, which, but for vacancy,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And made a gap in nature.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Rare Egyptian!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Invited her to supper: she replied,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|It should be better he became her guest,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And for his ordinary pays his heart
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|For what his eyes eat only.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Royal wench!
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I saw her once
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Hop forty paces through the public street,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That she did make defect perfection,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And, breathless, power breathe forth.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Now Antony must leave her utterly.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Never, he will not:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Her infinite variety: other women cloy
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Where most she satisfies, for vilest things
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Become themselves in her: that the holy priests
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Bless her when she is riggish.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|The heart of Antony, Octavia is
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|A blessed lottery to him.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Let us go.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Whilst you abide here.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Humbly, sir, I thank you.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|SCENE III. The same. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIA between them, and Attendants
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The world and my great office will sometimes
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Divide me from your bosom.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|All which time
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|To them for you.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Good night, sir. My Octavia,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Read not my blemishes in the world's report:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have not kept my square, but that to come
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shall all be done by the rule. Good night, dear lady.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Good night, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Good night.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter Soothsayer
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now, sirrah, you do wish yourself in Egypt?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Would I had never come from thence, nor you Thither!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|If you can, your reason?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|I see it in
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Hie you to Egypt again.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Say to me,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Caesar's.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side:
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Noble, courageous high, unmatchable,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Where Caesar's is not, but, near him, thy angel
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Becomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Make space enough between you.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Speak this no more.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|To none but thee, no more, but when to thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|If thou dost play with him at any game,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Thou art sure to lose, and, of that natural luck,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|Is all afraid to govern thee near him,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soothsayer|But, he away, 'tis noble.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Get thee gone:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit Soothsayer
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And in our sports my better cunning faints
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|His cocks do win the battle still of mine,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When it is all to nought, and his quails ever
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And though I make this marriage for my peace,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I' the east my pleasure lies.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter VENTIDIUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O, come, Ventidius,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You must to Parthia: your commission's ready,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Follow me, and receive't.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE IV. The same. A street.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Your generals after.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Sir, Mark Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Which will become you both, farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|We shall,
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Before you, Lepidus.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Your way is shorter,
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|My purposes do draw me much about:
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|You'll win two days upon me.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Sir, good success!
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Give me some music, music, moody food
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Of us that trade in love.
Antony and Cleopatra|Attendants|The music, ho!
Antony and Cleopatra|Attendants|Enter MARDIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Let it alone, let's to billiards: come, Charmian.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|My arm is sore, best play with Mardian.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As well a woman with an eunuch play'd
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|As well as I can, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And when good will is show'd, though't come
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|too short,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Give me mine angle, we'll to the river: there,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My music playing far off, I will betray
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Tawny-finn'd fishes, my bended hook shall pierce
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Their slimy jaws, and, as I draw them up,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I'll think them every one an Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|'Twas merry when
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|You wager'd on your angling, when your diver
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|With fervency drew up.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That time,--O times!--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I laugh'd him out of patience, and that night
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I laugh'd him into patience, and next morn,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I wore his sword Philippan.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter a Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, from Italy
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That long time have been barren.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Madam, madam,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Antonius dead!--If thou say so, villain,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My bluest veins to kiss, a hand that kings
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|First, madam, he is well.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Why, there's more gold.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But, sirrah, mark, we use
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To say the dead are well: bring it to that,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The gold I give thee will I melt and pour
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Down thy ill-uttering throat.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Good madam, hear me.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Well, go to, I will,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be free and healthful,--so tart a favour
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Not like a formal man.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Will't please you hear me?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Rich pearls upon thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Madam, he's well.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Well said.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|And friends with Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou'rt an honest man.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Make thee a fortune from me.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|But yet, madam,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The good precedence, fie upon 'But yet'!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The good and bad together: he's friends with Caesar:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|In state of health thou say'st, and thou say'st free.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Free, madam! no, I made no such report:
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|He's bound unto Octavia.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|For what good turn?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|For the best turn i' the bed.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I am pale, Charmian.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Madam, he's married to Octavia.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The most infectious pestilence upon thee!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Strikes him down
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Good madam, patience.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What say you? Hence,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Strikes him again
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Like balls before me, I'll unhair thy head:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|She hales him up and down
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Smarting in lingering pickle.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Gracious madam,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|I that do bring the news made not the match.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And I will boot thee with what gift beside
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thy modesty can beg.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|He's married, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Rogue, thou hast lived too long.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Draws a knife
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Nay, then I'll run.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Good madam, keep yourself within yourself:
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|The man is innocent.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Though I am mad, I will not bite him: call.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|He is afeard to come.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I will not hurt him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit CHARMIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|These hands do lack nobility, that they strike
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A meaner than myself, since I myself
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Have given myself the cause.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Re-enter CHARMIAN and Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Come hither, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Though it be honest, it is never good
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To bring bad news: give to a gracious message.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Themselves when they be felt.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|I have done my duty.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is he married?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I cannot hate thee worser than I do,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If thou again say 'Yes.'
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|He's married, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Should I lie, madam?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, I would thou didst,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|So half my Egypt were submerged and made
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|I crave your highness' pardon.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He is married?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Take no offence that I would not offend you:
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|To punish me for what you make me do.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Seems much unequal: he's married to Octavia.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, that his fault should make a knave of thee,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And be undone by 'em!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Good your highness, patience.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Many times, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I am paid for't now.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Lead me from hence:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Go to the fellow, good Alexas, bid him
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Report the feature of Octavia, her years,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Her inclination, let him not leave out
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit ALEXAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Let him for ever go:--let him not--Charmian,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To MARDIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|SCENE VI. Near Misenum.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door,  with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR,  MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS, with Soldiers marching
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Your hostages I have, so have you mine,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|And we shall talk before we fight.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Most meet
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That first we come to words, and therefore have we
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Our written purposes before us sent,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And carry back to Sicily much tall youth
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That else must perish here.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|To you all three,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The senators alone of this great world,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Chief factors for the gods, I do not know
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Wherefore my father should revengers want,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|There saw you labouring for him. What was't
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|That moved pale Cassius to conspire, and what
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|To drench the Capitol, but that they would
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Have one man but a man? And that is it
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burthen
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The anger'd ocean foams, with which I meant
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Cast on my noble father.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Take your time.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|How much we do o'er-count thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|At land, indeed,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house:
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Remain in't as thou mayst.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Be pleased to tell us--
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|For this is from the present--how you take
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|The offers we have sent you.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|There's the point.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which do not be entreated to, but weigh
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What it is worth embraced.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And what may follow,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To try a larger fortune.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|You have made me offer
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Of Sicily, Sardinia, and I must
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Rid all the sea of pirates, then, to send
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Measures of wheat to Rome, this 'greed upon
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Our targes undinted.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|That's our offer.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Know, then,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I came before you here a man prepared
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|To take this offer: but Mark Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Put me to some impatience: though I lose
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The praise of it by telling, you must know,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|When Caesar and your brother were at blows,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Your mother came to Sicily and did find
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Her welcome friendly.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have heard it, Pompey,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And am well studied for a liberal thanks
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which I do owe you.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Let me have your hand:
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I did not think, sir, to have met you here.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The beds i' the east are soft, and thanks to you,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For I have gain'd by 't.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Since I saw you last,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|There is a change upon you.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Well, I know not
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|But in my bosom shall she never come,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|To make my heart her vassal.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Well met here.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed:
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I crave our composition may be written,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|And seal'd between us.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That's the next to do.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|We'll feast each other ere we part, and let's
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Draw lots who shall begin.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That will I, Pompey.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|No, Antony, take the lot: but, first
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Grew fat with feasting there.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You have heard much.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I have fair meanings, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And fair words to them.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Then so much have I heard:
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|And I have heard, Apollodorus carried--
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|No more of that: he did so.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|What, I pray you?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Well,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And well am like to do, for, I perceive,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Four feasts are toward.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Let me shake thy hand,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|When I have envied thy behavior.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I never loved you much, but I ha' praised ye,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|When you have well deserved ten times as much
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|As I have said you did.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Enjoy thy plainness,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|It nothing ill becomes thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Aboard my galley I invite you all:
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Will you lead, lords?
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Show us the way, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Come.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|[Aside]  Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|made this treaty.--You and I have known, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|At sea, I think.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|We have, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|You have done well by water.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|And you by land.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I will praise any man that will praise me, though it
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|cannot be denied what I have done by land.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Nor what I have done by water.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Yes, something you can deny for your own
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|safety: you have been a great thief by sea.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|And you by land.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|There I deny my land service. But give me your
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|might take two thieves kissing.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|But there is never a fair woman has a true face.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|No slander, they steal hearts.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|We came hither to fight with you.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|If he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Caesar's sister is called Octavia.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|True, sir, she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Pray ye, sir?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|'Tis true.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|not prophesy so.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|I think the policy of that purpose made more in the
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|marriage than the love of the parties.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I think so too. But you shall find, the band that
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|seems to tie their friendship together will be the
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|holy, cold, and still conversation.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Who would not have his wife so?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Not he that himself is not so, which is Mark Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar, and, as
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I said before, that which is the strength of their
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|amity shall prove the immediate author of their
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|variance. Antony will use his affection where it is:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|he married but his occasion here.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|I have a health for you.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Come, let's away.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|SCENE VII. On board POMPEY's galley, off Misenum.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|will blow them down.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Servant|Lepidus is high-coloured.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|They have made him drink alms-drink.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Servant|As they pinch one another by the disposition, he
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Servant|cries out 'No more,' reconciles them to his
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Servant|entreaty, and himself to the drink.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|But it raises the greater war between him and
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|his discretion.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Servant|Why, this is to have a name in great men's
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Servant|fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Servant|me no service as a partisan I could not heave.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be,
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Servant|A sennet sounded. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK  ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|[To OCTAVIUS CAESAR]  Thus do they, sir: they take
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|the flow o' the Nile
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By certain scales i' the pyramid, they know,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And shortly comes to harvest.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|You've strange serpents there.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ay, Lepidus.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|operation of your sun: so is your crocodile.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|They are so.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Sit,--and some wine! A health to Lepidus!
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Not till you have slept, I fear me you'll be in till then.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|pyramises are very goodly things, without
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|contradiction, I have heard that.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|[Aside to POMPEY]  Pompey, a word.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|[Aside to MENAS]                 Say in mine ear:
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|what is't?
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|[Aside to POMPEY]  Forsake thy seat, I do beseech
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|thee, captain,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|And hear me speak a word.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|[Aside to MENAS]  Forbear me till anon.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|This wine for Lepidus!
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|What manner o' thing is your crocodile?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|and moves with its own organs: it lives by that
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|it, it transmigrates.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|What colour is it of?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of it own colour too.
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|'Tis a strange serpent.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Will this description satisfy him?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|very epicure.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|[Aside to MENAS]  Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|that? away!
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Do as I bid you. Where's this cup I call'd for?
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|[Aside to POMPEY]  If for the sake of merit thou
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|wilt hear me,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Rise from thy stool.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|[Aside to MENAS]  I think thou'rt mad.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|The matter?
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Rises, and walks aside
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Be jolly, lords.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|These quick-sands, Lepidus,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Keep off them, for you sink.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Wilt thou be lord of all the world?
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|What say'st thou?
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|How should that be?
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|But entertain it,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|And, though thou think me poor, I am the man
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Will give thee all the world.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Hast thou drunk well?
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove:
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Show me which way.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|These three world-sharers, these competitors,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|All there is thine.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Ah, this thou shouldst have done,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|In thee't had been good service. Thou must know,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I should have found it afterwards well done,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|[Aside]  For this,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Shall never find it more.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|This health to Lepidus!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Bear him ashore. I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Here's to thee, Menas!
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Enobarbus, welcome!
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Fill till the cup be hid.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|There's a strong fellow, Menas.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Why?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A' bears the third part of the world, man, see'st
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|not?
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all,
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|That it might go on wheels!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Drink thou, increase the reels.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Come.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Here is to Caesar!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I could well forbear't.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And it grows fouler.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Be a child o' the time.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Possess it, I'll make answer:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|But I had rather fast from all four days
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Than drink so much in one.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Ha, my brave emperor!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To MARK ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And celebrate our drink?
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Let's ha't, good soldier.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Come, let's all take hands,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|In soft and delicate Lethe.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|All take hands.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Make battery to our ears with the loud music:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The holding every man shall bear as loud
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|As his strong sides can volley.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Music plays. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS places them hand in hand
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|THE SONG.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|In thy fats our cares be drown'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Cup us, till the world go round,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Cup us, till the world go round!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Let me request you off: our graver business
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Is weaker than the wine, and mine own tongue
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Good Antony, your hand.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|I'll try you on the shore.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And shall, sir, give's your hand.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|O Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|You have my father's house,--But, what? we are friends.
Antony and Cleopatra|POMPEY|Come, down into the boat.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Take heed you fall not.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and MENAS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Menas, I'll not on shore.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|No, to my cabin.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out!
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Sound a flourish, with drums
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Ho! says a' There's my cap.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Ho! Noble captain, come.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|ACT III
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|SCENE I. A plain in Syria.
Antony and Cleopatra|MENAS|Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS,  and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers, the dead body of PACORUS borne before him
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck, and now
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Pays this for Marcus Crassus.
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Noble Ventidius,
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|The fugitive Parthians follow, spur through Media,
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Put garlands on thy head.
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|O Silius, Silius,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|I have done enough, a lower place, note well,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Better to leave undone, than by our deed
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Caesar and Antony have ever won
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|More in their officer than person: Sossius,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|For quick accumulation of renown,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour.
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Who does i' the wars more than his captain can
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Than gain which darkens him.
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|I could do more to do Antonius good,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|But 'twould offend him, and in his offence
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Should my performance perish.
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Thou hast, Ventidius,
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|that
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Without the which a soldier, and his sword,
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|I'll humbly signify what in his name,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|That magical word of war, we have effected,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|We have jaded out o' the field.
Antony and Cleopatra|SILIUS|Where is he now?
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|The weight we must convey with's will permit,
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|We shall appear before him. On there, pass along!
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
Antony and Cleopatra|VENTIDIUS|Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS at another
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|What, are the brothers parted?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To part from Rome, Caesar is sad, and Lepidus,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|With the green sickness.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|'Tis a noble Lepidus.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|But he loves Caesar best, yet he loves Antony:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|poets, cannot
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Both he loves.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|They are his shards, and he their beetle.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Trumpets within
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|So,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Good fortune, worthy soldier, and farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|No further, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You take from me a great part of myself,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Let not the piece of virtue, which is set
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Betwixt us as the cement of our love,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The fortress of it, for better might we
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Have loved without this mean, if on both parts
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|This be not cherish'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Make me not offended
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|In your distrust.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I have said.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You shall not find,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Though you be therein curious, the least cause
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We will here part.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The elements be kind to thee, and make
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|My noble brother!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Sir, look well to my husband's house, and--
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|What, Octavia?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|I'll tell you in your ear.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|down-feather,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And neither way inclines.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside to AGRIPPA]  Will Caesar weep?
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]  He has a cloud in 's face.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside to AGRIPPA]  He were the worse for that,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|were he a horse,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|So is he, being a man.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]  Why, Enobarbus,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|He cried almost to roaring, and he wept
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside to AGRIPPA]  That year, indeed, he was
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|troubled with a rheum,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|What willingly he did confound he wail'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Believe't, till I wept too.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|No, sweet Octavia,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You shall hear from me still, the time shall not
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Out-go my thinking on you.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Come, sir, come,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And give you to the gods.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Adieu, be happy!
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|Let all the number of the stars give light
Antony and Cleopatra|LEPIDUS|To thy fair way!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Farewell, fa rewell!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Kisses OCTAVIA
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Farewell!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Trumpets sound. Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where is the fellow?
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Half afeard to come.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Go to, go to.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter the Messenger as before
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Come hither, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Good majesty,
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you
Antony and Cleopatra|ALEXAS|But when you are well pleased.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That Herod's head
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Through whom I might command it? Come thou near.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Most gracious majesty,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Didst thou behold Octavia?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Ay, dread queen.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Madam, in Rome,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|I look'd her in the face, and saw her led
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Between her brother and Mark Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is she as tall as me?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|She is not, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Madam, I heard her speak, she is low-voiced.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That's not so good: he cannot like her long.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What majesty is in her gait? Remember,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|She creeps:
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Her motion and her station are as one,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|She shows a body rather than a life,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|A statue than a breather.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is this certain?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Or I have no observance.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Three in Egypt
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Cannot make better note.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He's very knowing,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The fellow has good judgment.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Excellent.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Guess at her years, I prithee.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Madam,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|She was a widow,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Widow! Charmian, hark.
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|And I do think she's thirty.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Round even to faultiness.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Her hair, what colour?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Brown, madam: and her forehead
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|As low as she would wish it.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|There's gold for thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I will employ thee back again, I find thee
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Most fit for business: go make thee ready,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Our letters are prepared.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|A proper man.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Indeed, he is so: I repent me much
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|This creature's no such thing.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Nothing, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|And serving you so long!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But 'tis no matter, thou shalt bring him to me
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where I will write. All may be well enough.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|I warrant you, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|SCENE IV. Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That were excusable, that, and thousands more
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of semblable import,--but he hath waged
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|New wars 'gainst Pompey, made his will, and read it
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To public ear:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He vented them, most narrow measure lent me:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When the best hint was given him, he not took't,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Or did it from his teeth.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|O my good lord,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Believe not all, or, if you must believe,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|If this division chance, ne'er stood between,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Praying for both parts:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|The good gods me presently,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!'
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Prays, and destroys the prayer, no midway
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|'Twixt these extremes at all.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Gentle Octavia,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I lose myself: better I were not yours
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I'll raise the preparation of a war
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|So your desires are yours.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Thanks to my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|As if the world should cleave, and that slain men
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Should solder up the rift.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When it appears to you where this begins,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Can never be so equal, that your love
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Can equally move with them. Provide your going,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Choose your own company, and command what cost
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Your heart has mind to.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE V. The same. Another room.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|How now, friend Eros!
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|There's strange news come, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|What, man?
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|This is old: what is the success?
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Pompey, presently denied him rivality, would not let
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|him partake in the glory of the action: and not
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|wrote to Pompey, upon his own appeal, seizes him: so
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And throw between them all the food thou hast,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|He's walking in the garden--thus, and spurns
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|The rush that lies before him, cries, 'Fool Lepidus!'
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|And threats the throat of that his officer
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|That murder'd Pompey.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Our great navy's rigg'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius,
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|My lord desires you presently: my news
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|I might have told hereafter.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|'Twill be naught:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|But let it be. Bring me to Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Come, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|SCENE VI. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In Alexandria: here's the manner of 't:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And all the unlawful issue that their lust
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Since then hath made between them. Unto her
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|He gave the stablishment of Egypt, made her
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Absolute queen.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|This in the public eye?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I' the common show-place, where they exercise.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|He gave to Alexander, to Ptolemy he assign'd
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In the habiliments of the goddess Isis
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That day appear'd, and oft before gave audience,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|As 'tis reported, so.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Let Rome be thus Inform'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Who, queasy with his insolence
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Already, will their good thoughts call from him.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The people know it, and have now received
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|His accusations.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Who does he accuse?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Caesar: and that, having in Sicily
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Some shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That Lepidus of the triumvirate
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Should be deposed, and, being, that we detain
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|All his revenue.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Sir, this should be answer'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That he his high authority abused,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And did deserve his change: for what I have conquer'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I grant him part, but then, in his Armenia,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Demand the like.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|He'll never yield to that.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Nor must not then be yielded to in this.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter OCTAVIA with her train
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That ever I should call thee castaway!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Why have you stol'n upon us thus! You come not
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Like Caesar's sister: the wife of Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Should have an army for an usher, and
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The neighs of horse to tell of her approach
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Long ere she did appear, the trees by the way
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Should have borne men, and expectation fainted,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Longing for what it had not, nay, the dust
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Raised by your populous troops: but you are come
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|A market-maid to Rome, and have prevented
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Is often left unloved, we should have met you
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|By sea and land, supplying every stage
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|With an augmented greeting.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Good my lord,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|My grieved ear withal, whereon, I begg'd
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|His pardon for return.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Which soon he granted,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Do not say so, my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I have eyes upon him,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And his affairs come to me on the wind.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Where is he now?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|My lord, in Athens.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|No, my most wronged sister, Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Up to a whore, who now are levying
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The kings o' the earth for war, he hath assembled
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Bocchus, the king of Libya, Archelaus,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of Cappadocia, Philadelphos, king
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of Paphlagonia, the Thracian king, Adallas,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|King Malchus of Arabia, King of Pont,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Herod of Jewry, Mithridates, king
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of Comagene, Polemon and Amyntas,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The kings of Mede and Lycaonia,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|With a more larger list of sceptres.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Ay me, most wretched,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|That have my heart parted betwixt two friends
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|That do afflict each other!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Welcome hither:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Your letters did withhold our breaking forth,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Be you not troubled with the time, which drives
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|O'er your content these strong necessities,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|But let determined things to destiny
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Nothing more dear to me. You are abused
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To do you justice, make them ministers
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And ever welcome to us.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Welcome, lady.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Welcome, dear madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Each heart in Rome does love and pity you:
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Only the adulterous Antony, most large
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|In his abominations, turns you off,
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|And gives his potent regiment to a trull,
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|That noises it against us.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIA|Is it so, sir?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|SCENE VII. Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I will be even with thee, doubt it not.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|But why, why, why?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And say'st it is not fit.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Well, is it, is it?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If not denounced against us, why should not we
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be there in person?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside]  Well, I could reply:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|If we should serve with horse and mares together,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The horse were merely lost, the mares would bear
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A soldier and his horse.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What is't you say?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Your presence needs must puzzle Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Take from his heart, take from his brain,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|from's time,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|What should not then be spared. He is already
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Traduced for levity, and 'tis said in Rome
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That Photinus an eunuch and your maids
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Manage this war.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sink Rome, and their tongues rot
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That speak against us! A charge we bear i' the war,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And, as the president of my kingdom, will
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Appear there for a man. Speak not against it:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I will not stay behind.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Nay, I have done.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Here comes the emperor.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is it not strange, Canidius,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That from Tarentum and Brundusium
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Celerity is never more admired
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Than by the negligent.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A good rebuke,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which might have well becomed the best of men,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Will fight with him by sea.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|By sea! what else?
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Why will my lord do so?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For that he dares us to't.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|So hath my lord dared him to single fight.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers,
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off,
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|And so should you.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Your ships are not well mann'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Ingross'd by swift impress, in Caesar's fleet
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Their ships are yare, yours, heavy: no disgrace
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Being prepared for land.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By sea, by sea.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Most worthy sir, you therein throw away
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The absolute soldiership you have by land,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Distract your army, which doth most consist
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Of war-mark'd footmen, leave unexecuted
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Your own renowned knowledge, quite forego
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The way which promises assurance, and
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|From firm security.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I'll fight at sea.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Our overplus of shipping will we burn,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And, with the rest full-mann'd, from the head of Actium
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We then can do't at land.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter a Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thy business?
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|The news is true, my lord, he is descried,
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Caesar has taken Toryne.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Strange that power should be. Canidius,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Away, my Thetis!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter a Soldier
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|How now, worthy soldier?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|O noble emperor, do not fight by sea,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|And the Phoenicians go a-ducking, we
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Have used to conquer, standing on the earth,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|And fighting foot to foot.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Well, well: away!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|By Hercules, I think I am i' the right.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Soldier, thou art: but his whole action grows
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Not in the power on't: so our leader's led,
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|And we are women's men.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|You keep by land
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|The legions and the horse whole, do you not?
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea:
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Carries beyond belief.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|While he was yet in Rome,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|His power went out in such distractions as
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Beguiled all spies.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Who's his lieutenant, hear you?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|They say, one Taurus.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Well I know the man.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Enter a Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|The emperor calls Canidius.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|With news the time's with labour, and throes forth,
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Each minute, some.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Taurus!
Antony and Cleopatra|TAURUS|My lord?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Strike not by land, keep whole: provoke not battle,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Upon this jump.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|SCENE IX. Another part of the plain.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|In eye of Caesar's battle, from which place
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We may the number of the ships behold,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And so proceed accordingly.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE X. Another part of the plain.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over  the stage, and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS  CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is heard the noise of a sea-fight
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To see't mine eyes are blasted.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter SCARUS
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Gods and goddesses,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|All the whole synod of them!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|What's thy passion!
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|The greater cantle of the world is lost
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|With very ignorance, we have kiss'd away
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Kingdoms and provinces.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|How appears the fight?
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|On our side like the token'd pestilence,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,--
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|The breese upon her, like a cow in June,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Hoists sails and flies.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That I beheld:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Endure a further view.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|She once being loof'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|I never saw an action of such shame,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Did violate so itself.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Alack, alack!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter CANIDIUS
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|And sinks most lamentably. Had our general
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|O, he has given example for our flight,
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Most grossly, by his own!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Ay, are you thereabouts?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Why, then, good night indeed.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|'Tis easy to't, and there I will attend
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|What further comes.
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|To Caesar will I render
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|My legions and my horse: six kings already
Antony and Cleopatra|CANIDIUS|Show me the way of yielding.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I'll yet follow
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Sits in the wind against me.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|SCENE XI. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I am so lated in the world, that I
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Laden with gold, take that, divide it, fly,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And make your peace with Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Fly! not we.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have myself resolved upon a course
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which has no need of you, be gone:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I follow'd that I blush to look upon:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My very hairs do mutiny, for the white
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have letters from me to some friends that will
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which my despair proclaims, let that be left
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Nay, do so, for, indeed, I have lost command,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Sits down
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter CLEOPATRA led by CHARMIAN and IRAS, EROS following
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Do, most dear queen.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Do! why: what else?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Let me sit down. O Juno!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|No, no, no, no, no.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|See you here, sir?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O fie, fie, fie!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Madam!
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Madam, O good empress!
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Sir, sir,--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Yes, my lord, yes, he at Philippi kept
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|His sword e'en like a dancer, while I struck
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The lean and wrinkled Cassius, and 'twas I
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That the mad Brutus ended: he alone
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|In the brave squares of war: yet now--No matter.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ah, stand by.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|The queen, my lord, the queen.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Go to him, madam, speak to him:
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|He is unqualitied with very shame.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Well then, sustain him: O!
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Most noble sir, arise, the queen approaches:
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Your comfort makes the rescue.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have offended reputation,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A most unnoble swerving.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Sir, the queen.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By looking back what I have left behind
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'Stroy'd in dishonour.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O my lord, my lord,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|You would have follow'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Egypt, thou knew'st too well
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Command me.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, my pardon!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now I must
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And palter in the shifts of lowness, who
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Making and marring fortunes. You did know
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|How much you were my conqueror, and that
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My sword, made weak by my affection, would
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Obey it on all cause.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Pardon, pardon!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Fall not a tear, I say, one of them rates
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|All that is won and lost: give me a kiss,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We scorn her most when most she offers blows.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE XII. Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Let him appear that's come from Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Know you him?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|He sends so poor a pinion off his wing,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Which had superfluous kings for messengers
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Not many moons gone by.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Enter EUPHRONIUS, ambassador from MARK ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Approach, and speak.
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Such as I am, I come from Antony:
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|I was of late as petty to his ends
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|To his grand sea.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Be't so: declare thine office.
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|He lessens his requests, and to thee sues
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|A private man in Athens: this for him.
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness,
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Submits her to thy might, and of thee craves
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Now hazarded to thy grace.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|For Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I have no ears to his request. The queen
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Or take his life there: this if she perform,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Fortune pursue thee!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Bring him through the bands.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exit EUPHRONIUS
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To THYREUS
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And in our name, what she requires, add more,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|From thine invention, offers: women are not
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Will answer as a law.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Caesar, I go.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And what thou think'st his very action speaks
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In every power that moves.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Caesar, I shall.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|SCENE XIII. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Enter CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What shall we do, Enobarbus?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Think, and die.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is Antony or we in fault for this?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Antony only, that would make his will
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Lord of his reason. What though you fled
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|From that great face of war, whose several ranges
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Frighted each other? why should he follow?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The itch of his affection should not then
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Have nick'd his captainship, at such a point,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|When half to half the world opposed, he being
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The meered question: 'twas a shame no less
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And leave his navy gazing.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Prithee, peace.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter MARK ANTONY with EUPHRONIUS, the Ambassador
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is that his answer?
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|Ay, my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The queen shall then have courtesy, so she
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Will yield us up.
Antony and Cleopatra|EUPHRONIUS|He says so.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let her know't.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And he will fill thy wishes to the brim
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With principalities.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That head, my lord?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To him again: tell him he wears the rose
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of youth upon him, from which the world should note
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|May be a coward's, whose ministers would prevail
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Under the service of a child as soon
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To lay his gay comparisons apart,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And answer me declined, sword against sword,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt MARK ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside]  Yes, like enough, high-battled Caesar will
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A parcel of their fortunes, and things outward
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Do draw the inward quality after them,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To suffer all alike. That he should dream,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|His judgment too.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter an Attendant
Antony and Cleopatra|Attendant|A messenger from CAESAR.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What, no more ceremony? See, my women!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Against the blown rose may they stop their nose
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit Attendant
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside]  Mine honesty and I begin to square.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The loyalty well held to fools does make
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Does conquer him that did his master conquer
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And earns a place i' the story.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter THYREUS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Caesar's will?
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Hear it apart.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|None but friends: say boldly.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|So, haply, are they friends to Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Whose he is we are, and that is, Caesar's.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|So.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Thus then, thou most renown'd: Caesar entreats,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Not to consider in what case thou stand'st,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Further than he is Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Go on: right royal.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|He knows that you embrace not Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|As you did love, but as you fear'd him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O!
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|The scars upon your honour, therefore, he
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Does pity, as constrained blemishes,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Not as deserved.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He is a god, and knows
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What is most right: mine honour was not yielded,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But conquer'd merely.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside]             To be sure of that,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Thy dearest quit thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Shall I say to Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|What you require of him? for he partly begs
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|To be desired to give. It much would please him,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|That of his fortunes you should make a staff
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|To hear from me you had left Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|And put yourself under his shrowd,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|The universal landlord.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What's your name?
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|My name is Thyreus.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Most kind messenger,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Say to great Caesar this: in deputation
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I kiss his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Tell him from his all-obeying breath I hear
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The doom of Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|'Tis your noblest course.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Wisdom and fortune combating together,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|If that the former dare but what it can,
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|My duty on your hand.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Your Caesar's father oft,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As it rain'd kisses.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Re-enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Favours, by Jove that thunders!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What art thou, fellow?
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|One that but performs
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|To have command obey'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside]               You will be whipp'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Approach, there! Ah, you kite! Now, gods
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|and devils!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!'
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Antony yet.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter Attendants
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Take hence this Jack, and whip him.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside]  'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Than with an old one dying.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Moon and stars!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Whip him. Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|So saucy with the hand of she here,--what's her name,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence.
Antony and Cleopatra|THYREUS|Mark Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Tug him away: being whipp'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Bear us an errand to him.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt Attendants with THYREUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Forborne the getting of a lawful race,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And by a gem of women, to be abused
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By one that looks on feeders?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Good my lord,--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You have been a boggler ever:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|But when we in our viciousness grow hard--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O misery on't!--the wise gods seel our eyes,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|In our own filth drop our clear judgments, make us
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Adore our errors, laugh at's, while we strut
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To our confusion.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, is't come to this?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I found you as a morsel cold upon
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Dead Caesar's trencher, nay, you were a fragment
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of Cneius Pompey's, besides what hotter hours,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Luxuriously pick'd out: for, I am sure,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Though you can guess what temperance should be,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You know not what it is.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Wherefore is this?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To let a fellow that will take rewards
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And say 'God quit you!' be familiar with
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My playfellow, your hand, this kingly seal
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And plighter of high hearts! O, that I were
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The horned herd! for I have savage cause,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And to proclaim it civilly, were like
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A halter'd neck which does the hangman thank
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For being yare about him.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Re-enter Attendants with THYREUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is he whipp'd?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Attendant|Soundly, my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Cried he? and begg'd a' pardon?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Attendant|He did ask favour.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|If that thy father live, let him repent
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou wast not made his daughter, and be thou sorry
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To follow Caesar in his triumph, since
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The white hand of a lady fever thee,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He makes me angry with him, for he seems
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And at this time most easy 'tis to do't,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When my good stars, that were my former guides,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My speech and what is done, tell him he has
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hence with thy stripes, begone!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit THYREUS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Have you done yet?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Alack, our terrene moon
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is now eclipsed, and it portends alone
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The fall of Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I must stay his time.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With one that ties his points?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Not know me yet?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Cold-hearted toward me?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ah, dear, if I be so,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And poison it in the source, and the first stone
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Drop in my neck: as it determines, so
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Till by degrees the memory of my womb,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Together with my brave Egyptians all,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|By the discandying of this pelleted storm,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Have buried them for prey!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I am satisfied.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Caesar sits down in Alexandria, where
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I will oppose his fate. Our force by land
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hath nobly held, our sever'd navy too
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|If from the field I shall return once more
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I and my sword will earn our chronicle:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|There's hope in't yet.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That's my brave lord!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And fight maliciously: for when mine hours
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of me for jests, but now I'll set my teeth,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|All my sad captains, fill our bowls once more,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let's mock the midnight bell.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|It is my birth-day:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We will yet do well.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Call all his noble captains to my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Do so, we'll speak to them, and to-night I'll force
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I'll make death love me, for I will contend
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Even with his pestilent scythe.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Is to be frighted out of fear, and in that mood
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The dove will peck the estridge, and I see still,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A diminution in our captain's brain
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Some way to leave him.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|ACT IV
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|SCENE I. Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS, with his Army, OCTAVIUS CAESAR reading a letter
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|He calls me boy, and chides, as he had power
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To beat me out of Egypt, my messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|He hath whipp'd with rods, dares me to personal combat,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I have many other ways to die, meantime
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Laugh at his challenge.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Caesar must think,
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Make boot of his distraction: never anger
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Made good guard for itself.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Let our best heads
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|We mean to fight: within our files there are,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of those that served Mark Antony but late,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enough to fetch him in. See it done:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And feast the army, we have store to do't,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|SCENE II. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He will not fight with me, Domitius.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|No.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Why should he not?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|He is twenty men to one.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To-morrow, soldier,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.'
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Well said, come on.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Call forth my household servants: let's to-night
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Be bounteous at our meal.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter three or four Servitors
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Give me thy hand,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou hast been rightly honest,--so hast thou,--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou,--and thou,--and thou:--you have served me well,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And kings have been your fellows.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]  What means this?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside to CLEOPATRA]  'Tis one of those odd
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|tricks which sorrow shoots
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Out of the mind.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And thou art honest too.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I wish I could be made so many men,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And all of you clapp'd up together in
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|An Antony, that I might do you service
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|So good as you have done.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|The gods forbid!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Scant not my cups, and make as much of me
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As when mine empire was your fellow too,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And suffer'd my command.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]  What does he mean?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|[Aside to CLEOPATRA]  To make his followers weep.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Tend me to-night,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|May be it is the period of your duty:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Haply you shall not see me more, or if,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You'll serve another master. I look on you
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I turn you not away, but, like a master
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Married to your good service, stay till death:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And the gods yield you for't!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|What mean you, sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Transform us not to women.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ho, ho, ho!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Grace grow where those drops fall!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My hearty friends,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You take me in too dolorous a sense,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I hope well of to-morrow, and will lead you
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Where rather I'll expect victorious life
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And drown consideration.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE III. The same. Before the palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter two Soldiers to their guard
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Brother, good night: to-morrow is the day.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|It will determine one way: fare you well.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Nothing. What news?
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Well, sir, good night.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Enter two other Soldiers
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Soldiers, have careful watch.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|And you. Good night, good night.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|They place themselves in every corner of the stage
Antony and Cleopatra|Fourth Soldier|Here we: and if to-morrow
Antony and Cleopatra|Fourth Soldier|Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope
Antony and Cleopatra|Fourth Soldier|Our landmen will stand up.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|'Tis a brave army,
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|And full of purpose.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Music of the hautboys as under the stage
Antony and Cleopatra|Fourth Soldier|Peace! what noise?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|List, list!
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Hark!
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Music i' the air.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Under the earth.
Antony and Cleopatra|Fourth Soldier|It signs well, does it not?
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|No.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Peace, I say!
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|What should this mean?
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Now leaves him.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Walk, let's see if other watchmen
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Do hear what we do?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|They advance to another post
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|How now, masters!
Antony and Cleopatra|All|[Speaking together]  How now!
Antony and Cleopatra|All|How now! do you hear this?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Ay, is't not strange?
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Do you hear, masters? do you hear?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Follow the noise so far as we have quarter,
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Let's see how it will give off.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Content. 'Tis strange.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|All|SCENE IV. The same. A room in the palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and others attending
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Eros! mine armour, Eros!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sleep a little.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|No, my chuck. Eros, come, mine armour, Eros!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter EROS with armour
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Come good fellow, put mine iron on:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|If fortune be not ours to-day, it is
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Because we brave her: come.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Nay, I'll help too.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What's this for?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ah, let be, let be! thou art
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The armourer of my heart: false, false, this, this.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sooth, la, I'll help: thus it must be.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Well, well,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Go put on thy defences.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Briefly, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is not this buckled well?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Rarely, rarely:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He that unbuckles this, till we do please
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou fumblest, Eros, and my queen's a squire
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The royal occupation! thou shouldst see
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A workman in't.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter an armed Soldier
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Good morrow to thee, welcome:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To business that we love we rise betime,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And go to't with delight.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|A thousand, sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Early though't be, have on their riveted trim,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|And at the port expect you.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Shout. Trumpets flourish
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Enter Captains and Soldiers
Antony and Cleopatra|Captain|The morn is fair. Good morrow, general.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Good morrow, general.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'Tis well blown, lads:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|This morning, like the spirit of a youth
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That means to be of note, begins betimes.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|So, so, come, give me that: this way, well said.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Kisses her
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|On more mechanic compliment, I'll leave thee
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Follow me close, I'll bring you to't. Adieu.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt MARK ANTONY, EROS, Captains, and Soldiers
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Please you, retire to your chamber.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Lead me.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Determine this great war in single fight!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Then Antony,--but now--Well, on.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|SCENE V. Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS, a Soldier meeting them
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|The gods make this a happy day to Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To make me fight at land!
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Hadst thou done so,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|The kings that have revolted, and the soldier
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|That has this morning left thee, would have still
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Follow'd thy heels.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Who's gone this morning?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Who!
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|He shall not hear thee, or from Caesar's camp
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Say 'I am none of thine.'
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What say'st thou?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|He is with Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Sir, his chests and treasure
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|He has not with him.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is he gone?
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Most certain.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Go, Eros, send his treasure after, do it,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I will subscribe--gentle adieus and greetings,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Say that I wish he never find more cause
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To change a master. O, my fortunes have
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.--Enobarbus!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE VI. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Our will is Antony be took alive,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Make it so known.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Caesar, I shall.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The time of universal peace is near:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Shall bear the olive freely.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter a Messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|Messenger|Is come into the field.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Go charge Agrippa
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Plant those that have revolted in the van,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That Antony may seem to spend his fury
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Upon himself.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Alexas did revolt, and went to Jewry on
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Affairs of Antony, there did persuade
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And leave his master Antony: for this pains
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That fell away have entertainment, but
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|No honourable trust. I have done ill,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That I will joy no more.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Enter a Soldier of CAESAR's
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Enobarbus, Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|His bounty overplus: the messenger
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Unloading of his mules.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I give it you.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Mock not, Enobarbus.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|I tell you true: best you safed the bringer
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Out of the host, I must attend mine office,
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Or would have done't myself. Your emperor
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Continues still a Jove.
Antony and Cleopatra|Soldier|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I am alone the villain of the earth,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And feel I am so most. O Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|My better service, when my turpitude
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|I fight against thee! No: I will go seek
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Some ditch wherein to die, the foul'st best fits
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|My latter part of life.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|SCENE VII. Field of battle between the camps.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA and others
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Caesar himself has work, and our oppression
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Exceeds what we expected.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Had we done so at first, we had droven them home
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|With clouts about their heads.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou bleed'st apace.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|I had a wound here that was like a T,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|But now 'tis made an H.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|They do retire.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Room for six scotches more.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Enter EROS
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|For a fair victory.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Let us score their backs,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|'Tis sport to maul a runner.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I will reward thee
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For thy good valour. Come thee on.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|I'll halt after.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|SCENE VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march, SCARUS, with others
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We have beat him to his camp: run one before,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That has to-day escaped. I thank you all,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For doughty-handed are you, and have fought
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Each man's like mine, you have shown all Hectors.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Tell them your feats, whilst they with joyful tears
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The honour'd gashes whole.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To SCARUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Give me thy hand
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter CLEOPATRA, attended
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Make her thanks bless thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To CLEOPATRA
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O thou day o' the world,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Chain mine arm'd neck, leap thou, attire and all,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Through proof of harness to my heart, and there
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ride on the pants triumphing!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Lord of lords!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The world's great snare uncaught?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My nightingale,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We have beat them to their beds. What, girl!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|though grey
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As if a god, in hate of mankind, had
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Destroy'd in such a shape.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I'll give thee, friend,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|An armour all of gold, it was a king's.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|He has deserved it, were it carbuncled
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Through Alexandria make a jolly march,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Had our great palace the capacity
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To camp this host, we all would sup together,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And drink carouses to the next day's fate,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With brazen din blast you the city's ear,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Make mingle with rattling tabourines,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Applauding our approach.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE IX. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Sentinels at their post
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|If we be not relieved within this hour,
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|We must return to the court of guard: the night
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|By the second hour i' the morn.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|This last day was
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|A shrewd one to's.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|O, bear me witness, night,--
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|What man is this?
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Stand close, and list him.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|When men revolted shall upon record
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Before thy face repent!
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Enobarbus!
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Peace!
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Hark further.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|That life, a very rebel to my will,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|May hang no longer on me: throw my heart
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Against the flint and hardness of my fault:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Forgive me in thine own particular,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|But let the world rank me in register
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|A master-leaver and a fugitive:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|O Antony! O Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS|Dies
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Let's speak To him.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Let's hear him, for the things he speaks
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|May concern Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Let's do so. But he sleeps.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Was never yet for sleep.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Go we to him.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Awake, sir, awake, speak to us.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Soldier|Hear you, sir?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|The hand of death hath raught him.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Drums afar off
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Hark! the drums
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|To the court of guard, he is of note: our hour
Antony and Cleopatra|First Soldier|Is fully out.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Come on, then,
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|He may recover yet.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Exeunt with the body
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|SCENE X. Between the two camps.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Soldier|Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Their preparation is to-day by sea,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We please them not by land.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|For both, my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|We'ld fight there too. But this it is, our foot
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Upon the hills adjoining to the city
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Shall stay with us: order for sea is given,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|They have put forth the haven
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Where their appointment we may best discover,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And look on their endeavour.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE XI. Another part of the same.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|But being charged, we will be still by land,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Which, as I take't, we shall, for his best force
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And hold our best advantage.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|SCENE XII. Another part of the same.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|does stand,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Straight, how 'tis like to go.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Swallows have built
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Say they know not, they cannot tell, look grimly,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Is valiant, and dejected, and, by starts,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Of what he has, and has not.
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight
Antony and Cleopatra|SCARUS|Re-enter MARK ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|All is lost,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|They cast their caps up and carouse together
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'tis thou
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hast sold me to this novice, and my heart
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For when I am revenged upon my charm,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have done all. Bid them all fly, begone.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit SCARUS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Fortune and Antony part here, even here
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|On blossoming Caesar, and this pine is bark'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|What, Eros, Eros!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter CLEOPATRA
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Why is my lord enraged against his love?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of all thy sex, most monster-like, be shown
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|For poor'st diminutives, for doits, and let
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With her prepared nails.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit CLEOPATRA
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'Tis well thou'rt gone,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|If it be well to live, but better 'twere
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Under this plot, she dies for't. Eros, ho!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE XIII. Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Help me, my women! O, he is more mad
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Than Telamon for his shield, the boar of Thessaly
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Was never so emboss'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|To the monument!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|The soul and body rive not more in parting
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Than greatness going off.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To the monument!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,'
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And bring me how he takes my death.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To the monument!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|SCENE XIV. The same. Another room.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Eros, thou yet behold'st me?
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Ay, noble lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A forked mountain, or blue promontory
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With trees upon't, that nod unto the world,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|these signs,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|They are black vesper's pageants.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Ay, my lord,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That which is now a horse, even with a thought
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As water is in water.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|It does, my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My good knave Eros, now thy captain is
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Even such a body: here I am Antony:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,--
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Unto an enemy's triumph.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Nay, weep not, gentle Eros, there is left us
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Ourselves to end ourselves.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter MARDIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O! thy vile lady!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|She has robb'd me of my sword.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|No, Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|With thine entirely.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Hence, saucy eunuch, peace!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|She hath betray'd me and shall die the death.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Death of one person can be paid but once,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|And that she has discharged: what thou wouldst do
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Is done unto thy hand: the last she spake
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Was 'Antony! most noble Antony!'
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Then in the midst a tearing groan did break
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|The name of Antony, it was divided
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Between her heart and lips: she render'd life,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Thy name so buried in her.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Dead, then?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARDIAN|Dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Unarm, Eros, the long day's task is done,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And we must sleep.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To MARDIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That thou depart'st hence safe,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Does pay thy labour richly, go.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit MARDIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Off, pluck off:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|You have been nobly borne. From me awhile.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exit EROS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|All length is torture: since the torch is out,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Mars what it does, yea, very force entangles
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Eros!--I come, my queen:--Eros!--Stay for me:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Dido and her AEneas shall want troops,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Re-enter EROS
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|What would my lord?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Since Cleopatra died,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The courage of a woman, less noble mind
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Than she which by her death our Caesar tells
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|That, when the exigent should come, which now
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Is come indeed, when I should see behind me
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The inevitable prosecution of
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Disgrace and horror, that, on my command,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou then wouldst kill me: do't, the time is come:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou strikest not me, 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Put colour in thy cheek.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|The gods withhold me!
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Though enemy, lost aim, and could not?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Eros,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|His corrigible neck, his face subdued
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To penetrative shame, whilst the wheel'd seat
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|His baseness that ensued?
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|I would not see't.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Come, then, for with a wound I must be cured.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Most useful for thy country.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|O, sir, pardon me!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Or thy precedent services are all
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Turn from me, then, that noble countenance,
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Lo thee!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Turning from him
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|My sword is drawn.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Then let it do at once
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The thing why thou hast drawn it.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|My dear master,
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|My captain, and my emperor, let me say,
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'Tis said, man, and farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Now, Eros.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Of Antony's death.
Antony and Cleopatra|EROS|Kills himself
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thrice-nobler than myself!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Have by their brave instruction got upon me
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A nobleness in record: but I will be
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|As to a lover's bed. Come, then, and, Eros,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Falling on his sword
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter DERCETAS and Guard
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|What's the noise?
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of what I have begun.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Guard|The star is fall'n.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|And time is at his period.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Alas, and woe!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Let him that loves me strike me dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|Not I.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Guard|Nor I.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Guard|Nor any one.
Antony and Cleopatra|Third Guard|Exeunt Guard
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly.
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Shall enter me with him.
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Enter DIOMEDES
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Where's Antony?
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|There, Diomed there.
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Lives he?
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Wilt thou not answer, man?
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Exit DERCETAS
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Sufficing strokes for death.
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Most absolute lord,
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|When did she send thee?
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Now, my lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Where is she?
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Lock'd in her monument. She had a prophesying fear
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Of what hath come to pass: for when she saw--
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Which never shall be found--you did suspect
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead,
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Me to proclaim the truth, and I am come,
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|I dread, too late.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Too late, good Diomed: call my guard, I prithee.
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho!
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Come, your lord calls!
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Enter four or five of the Guard of MARK ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|'Tis the last service that I shall command you.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|All your true followers out.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Most heavy day!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Which comes to punish us, and we punish it
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|And have my thanks for all.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Exeunt, bearing MARK ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|SCENE XV. The same. A monument.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with CHARMIAN and IRAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O Charmian, I will never go from hence.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Be comforted, dear madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|No, I will not:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|All strange and terrible events are welcome,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But comforts we despise, our size of sorrow,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As that which makes it.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter, below, DIOMEDES
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|How now! is he dead?
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|His death's upon him, but not dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Look out o' the other side your monument,
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|His guard have brought him thither.
Antony and Cleopatra|DIOMEDES|Enter, below, MARK ANTONY, borne by the Guard
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O sun,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Burn the great sphere thou movest in!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|darkling stand
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The varying shore o' the world. O Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Help, friends below, let's draw him hither.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Peace!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|So it should be, that none but Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Should conquer Antony, but woe 'tis so!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I am dying, Egypt, dying, only
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I here importune death awhile, until
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of many thousand kisses the poor last
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I lay up thy lips.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I dare not, dear,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Dear my lord, pardon,--I dare not,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Lest I be taken: not the imperious show
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be brooch'd with me, if knife, drugs,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|serpents, have
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Help me, my women,--we must draw thee up:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Assist, good friends.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|O, quick, or I am gone.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Our strength is all gone into heaviness,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Wishes were ever fools,--O, come, come, come,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|They heave MARK ANTONY aloft to CLEOPATRA
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thus would I wear them out.
Antony and Cleopatra|All|A heavy sight!
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I am dying, Egypt, dying:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|No, let me speak, and let me rail so high,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Provoked by my offence.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|One word, sweet queen:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|They do not go together.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Gentle, hear me:
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My resolution and my hands I'll trust,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|None about Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The miserable change now at my end
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Lament nor sorrow at, but please your thoughts
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|In feeding them with those my former fortunes
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|The noblest, and do now not basely die,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Not cowardly put off my helmet to
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|My countryman,--a Roman by a Roman
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going,
Antony and Cleopatra|MARK ANTONY|I can no more.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Noblest of men, woo't die?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|In this dull world, which in thy absence is
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|No better than a sty? O, see, my women,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|MARK ANTONY dies
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, wither'd is the garland of the war,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Are level now with men, the odds is gone,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And there is nothing left remarkable
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Beneath the visiting moon.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Faints
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O, quietness, lady!
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|She is dead too, our sovereign.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Lady!
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Madam!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O madam, madam, madam!
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Royal Egypt, Empress!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Peace, peace, Iras!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|By such poor passion as the maid that milks
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And does the meanest chares. It were for me
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To tell them that this world did equal theirs
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Patience is scottish, and impatience does
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To rush into the secret house of death,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|We'll bury him, and then, what's brave,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|what's noble,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And make death proud to take us. Come, away:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|This case of that huge spirit now is cold:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ah, women, women! come, we have no friend
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But resolution, and the briefest end.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exeunt, those above bearing off MARK ANTONY's body
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|ACT V
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|SCENE I. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The pauses that he makes.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Caesar, I shall.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Appear thus to us?
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|I am call'd Dercetas,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|He was my master, and I wore my life
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|To spend upon his haters. If thou please
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|To take me to thee, as I was to him
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|I'll be to Caesar, if thou pleasest not,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|I yield thee up my life.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|What is't thou say'st?
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The breaking of so great a thing should make
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|A greater crack: the round world
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Should have shook lions into civil streets,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Is not a single doom, in the name lay
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|A moiety of the world.
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|He is dead, Caesar:
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Not by a public minister of justice,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Nor by a hired knife, but that self hand,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Which writ his honour in the acts it did,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|Splitted the heart. This is his sword,
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|I robb'd his wound of it, behold it stain'd
Antony and Cleopatra|DERCETAS|With his most noble blood.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Look you sad, friends?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To wash the eyes of kings.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|And strange it is,
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|That nature must compel us to lament
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Our most persisted deeds.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|His taints and honours
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|Waged equal with him.
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|A rarer spirit never
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us
Antony and Cleopatra|AGRIPPA|Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|When such a spacious mirror's set before him,
Antony and Cleopatra|MECAENAS|He needs must see himself.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|O Antony!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I have follow'd thee to this, but we do lance
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Have shown to thee such a declining day,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Or look on thine, we could not stall together
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In the whole world: but yet let me lament,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That thou, my brother, my competitor
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In top of all design, my mate in empire,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Friend and companion in the front of war,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The arm of mine own body, and the heart
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Where mine his thoughts did kindle,--that our stars,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Unreconciliable, should divide
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends--
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|But I will tell you at some meeter season:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter an Egyptian
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The business of this man looks out of him,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you?
Antony and Cleopatra|Egyptian|A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress,
Antony and Cleopatra|Egyptian|Confined in all she has, her monument,
Antony and Cleopatra|Egyptian|Of thy intents desires instruction,
Antony and Cleopatra|Egyptian|That she preparedly may frame herself
Antony and Cleopatra|Egyptian|To the way she's forced to.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Bid her have good heart:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|How honourable and how kindly we
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Determine for her, for Caesar cannot live
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To be ungentle.
Antony and Cleopatra|Egyptian|So the gods preserve thee!
Antony and Cleopatra|Egyptian|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The quality of her passion shall require,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|She do defeat us, for her life in Rome
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Would be eternal in our triumph: go,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And with your speediest bring us what she says,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And how you find of her.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Caesar, I shall.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Gallus, go you along.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exit GALLUS
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Where's Dolabella,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To second Proculeius?
Antony and Cleopatra|All|Dolabella!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Let him alone, for I remember now
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Go with me to my tent, where you shall see
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|How hardly I was drawn into this war,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|How calm and gentle I proceeded still
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In all my writings: go with me, and see
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|What I can show in this.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|SCENE II. Alexandria. A room in the monument.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My desolation does begin to make
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A minister of her will: and it is great
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To do that thing that ends all other deeds,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Which shackles accidents and bolts up change,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS, GALLUS and Soldiers
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt,
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|And bids thee study on what fair demands
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Thou mean'st to have him grant thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What's thy name?
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|My name is Proculeius.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Did tell me of you, bade me trust you, but
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I do not greatly care to be deceived,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That have no use for trusting. If your master
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That majesty, to keep decorum, must
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|No less beg than a kingdom: if he please
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He gives me so much of mine own, as I
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Will kneel to him with thanks.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Be of good cheer,
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|You're fall'n into a princely hand, fear nothing:
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Make your full reference freely to my lord,
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Who is so full of grace, that it flows over
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|On all that need: let me report to him
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Your sweet dependency, and you shall find
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness,
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Where he for grace is kneel'd to.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Pray you, tell him
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The greatness he has got. I hourly learn
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A doctrine of obedience, and would gladly
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Look him i' the face.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|This I'll report, dear lady.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Of him that caused it.
Antony and Cleopatra|GALLUS|You see how easily she may be surprised:
Antony and Cleopatra|GALLUS|Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the  monument by a ladder placed against a window, and,  having descended, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of the Guard unbar and open the gates
Antony and Cleopatra|GALLUS|To PROCULEIUS and the Guard
Antony and Cleopatra|GALLUS|Guard her till Caesar come.
Antony and Cleopatra|GALLUS|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Royal queen!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Quick, quick, good hands.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Drawing a dagger
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Hold, worthy lady, hold:
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Seizes and disarms her
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Relieved, but not betray'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What, of death too,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That rids our dogs of languish?
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Cleopatra,
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Do not abuse my master's bounty by
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|The undoing of yourself: let the world see
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|His nobleness well acted, which your death
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Will never let come forth.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Where art thou, death?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Worthy many babes and beggars!
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|O, temperance, lady!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If idle talk will once be necessary,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Nor once be chastised with the sober eye
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And show me to the shouting varletry
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Blow me into abhorring! rather make
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My country's high pyramides my gibbet,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And hang me up in chains!
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|You do extend
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|These thoughts of horror further than you shall
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Find cause in Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|Enter DOLABELLA
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Proculeius,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|And he hath sent for thee: for the queen,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|I'll take her to my guard.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|So, Dolabella,
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|It shall content me best: be gentle to her.
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|To CLEOPATRA
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|To Caesar I will speak what you shall please,
Antony and Cleopatra|PROCULEIUS|If you'll employ me to him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Say, I would die.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Most noble empress, you have heard of me?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I cannot tell.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Assuredly you know me.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Is't not your trick?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|I understand not, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O, such another sleep, that I might see
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But such another man!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|If it might please ye,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|A sun and moon, which kept their course,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|and lighted
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The little O, the earth.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Most sovereign creature,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Crested the world: his voice was propertied
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|There was no winter in't, an autumn 'twas
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That grew the more by reaping: his delights
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Were dolphin-like, they show'd his back above
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The element they lived in: in his livery
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Walk'd crowns and crownets, realms and islands were
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As plates dropp'd from his pocket.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Cleopatra!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Think you there was, or might be, such a man
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As this I dream'd of?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Gentle madam, no.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|But, if there be, or ever were, one such,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To vie strange forms with fancy, yet, to imagine
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Condemning shadows quite.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Hear me, good madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Your loss is as yourself, great, and you bear it
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|As answering to the weight: would I might never
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|My very heart at root.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I thank you, sir,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Know you what Caesar means to do with me?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Nay, pray you, sir,--
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Though he be honourable,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He'll lead me, then, in triumph?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Madam, he will, I know't.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Flourish, and shout within, 'Make way there: Octavius Caesar!'
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, MECAENAS, SELEUCUS, and others of his Train
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Which is the Queen of Egypt?
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|It is the emperor, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|CLEOPATRA kneels
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Arise, you shall not kneel:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I pray you, rise, rise, Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sir, the gods
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Will have it thus, my master and my lord
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I must obey.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Take to you no hard thoughts:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|The record of what injuries you did us,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Though written in our flesh, we shall remember
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|As things but done by chance.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Sole sir o' the world,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I cannot project mine own cause so well
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To make it clear, but do confess I have
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Been laden with like frailties which before
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Have often shamed our sex.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Cleopatra, know,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|We will extenuate rather than enforce:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|If you apply yourself to our intents,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|A benefit in this change, but if you seek
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To lay on me a cruelty, by taking
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of my good purposes, and put your children
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|To that destruction which I'll guard them from,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And may, through all the world: 'tis yours, and we,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus?
Antony and Cleopatra|SELEUCUS|Here, madam.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|This is my treasurer: let him speak, my lord,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Upon his peril, that I have reserved
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus.
Antony and Cleopatra|SELEUCUS|Madam,
Antony and Cleopatra|SELEUCUS|I had rather seal my lips, than, to my peril,
Antony and Cleopatra|SELEUCUS|Speak that which is not.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What have I kept back?
Antony and Cleopatra|SELEUCUS|Enough to purchase what you have made known.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Nay, blush not, Cleopatra, I approve
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Your wisdom in the deed.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|See, Caesar! O, behold,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be yours,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And, should we shift estates, yours would be mine.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The ingratitude of this Seleucus does
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Even make me wild: O slave, of no more trust
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? thou shalt
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Go back, I warrant thee, but I'll catch thine eyes,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Though they had wings: slave, soulless villain, dog!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O rarely base!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Good queen, let us entreat you.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Doing the honour of thy lordliness
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To one so meek, that mine own servant should
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That I some lady trifles have reserved,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Immoment toys, things of such dignity
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As we greet modern friends withal, and say,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Some nobler token I have kept apart
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|For Livia and Octavia, to induce
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Their mediation, must I be unfolded
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|With one that I have bred? The gods! it smites me
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Beneath the fall I have.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To SELEUCUS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Prithee, go hence,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Through the ashes of my chance: wert thou a man,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou wouldst have mercy on me.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Forbear, Seleucus.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exit SELEUCUS
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|For things that others do, and, when we fall,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|We answer others' merits in our name,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Are therefore to be pitied.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Cleopatra,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Not what you have reserved, nor what acknowledged,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Bestow it at your pleasure, and believe,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheer'd,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Make not your thoughts your prisons: no, dear queen,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|For we intend so to dispose you as
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and sleep:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Our care and pity is so much upon you,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That we remain your friend, and so, adieu.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My master, and my lord!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Not so. Adieu.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and his train
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Whispers CHARMIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Finish, good lady, the bright day is done,
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|And we are for the dark.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Hie thee again:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I have spoke already, and it is provided,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Go put it to the haste.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Madam, I will.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Re-enter DOLABELLA
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Where is the queen?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Behold, sir.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Dolabella!
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Which my love makes religion to obey,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|I tell you this: Caesar through Syria
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Intends his journey, and within three days
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|You with your children will he send before:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Make your best use of this: I have perform'd
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Your pleasure and my promise.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Dolabella,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I shall remain your debtor.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|I your servant,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Adieu, good queen, I must attend on Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Farewell, and thanks.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit DOLABELLA
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Now, Iras, what think'st thou?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|In Rome, as well as I	mechanic slaves
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Uplift us to the view, in their thick breaths,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And forced to drink their vapour.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|The gods forbid!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lictors
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Will catch at us, like strumpets, and scald rhymers
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ballad us out o' tune: the quick comedians
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Extemporally will stage us, and present
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Our Alexandrian revels, Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I' the posture of a whore.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|O the good gods!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Nay, that's certain.
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|I'll never see 't, for, I am sure, my nails
Antony and Cleopatra|IRAS|Are stronger than mine eyes.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Why, that's the way
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To fool their preparation, and to conquer
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Their most absurd intents.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Re-enter CHARMIAN
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Now, Charmian!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My best attires: I am again for Cydnus,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Wherefore's this noise?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit IRAS. A noise within
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Enter a Guardsman
Antony and Cleopatra|Guard|Here is a rural fellow
Antony and Cleopatra|Guard|That will not be denied your highness presence:
Antony and Cleopatra|Guard|He brings you figs.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Let him come in.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit Guardsman
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What poor an instrument
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|My resolution's placed, and I have nothing
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Of woman in me: now from head to foot
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I am marble-constant, now the fleeting moon
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|No planet is of mine.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket
Antony and Cleopatra|Guard|This is the man.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Avoid, and leave him.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Exit Guardsman
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That kills and pains not?
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Truly, I have him: but I would not be the party
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|that should desire you to touch him, for his biting
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|is immortal, those that do die of it do seldom or
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|never recover.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Rememberest thou any that have died on't?
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|them no longer than yesterday: a very honest woman,
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|but something given to lie, as a woman should not
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|do, but in the way of honesty: how she died of the
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|biting of it, what pain she felt: truly, she makes
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|a very good report o' the worm, but he that will
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|believe all that they say, shall never be saved by
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|half that they do: but this is most fallible, the
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|worm's an odd worm.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Get thee hence, farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|I wish you all joy of the worm.
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Setting down his basket
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|You must think this, look you, that the worm will
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|do his kind.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Ay, ay, farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|keeping of wise people, for, indeed, there is no
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|goodness in worm.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Take thou no care, it shall be heeded.
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|not worth the feeding.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Will it eat me?
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|You must not think I am so simple but I know the
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|devil himself will not eat a woman: I know that a
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|gods great harm in their women, for in every ten
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|that they make, the devils mar five.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Well, get thee gone, farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm.
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Exit
Antony and Cleopatra|Clown|Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown,  and c
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Immortal longings in me: now no more
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Yare, yare, good Iras, quick. Methinks I hear
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Antony call, I see him rouse himself
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To praise my noble act, I hear him mock
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Now to that name my courage prove my title!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I am fire and air, my other elements
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|I give to baser life. So, have you done?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Farewell, kind Charmian, Iras, long farewell.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If thou and nature can so gently part,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|It is not worth leave-taking.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|The gods themselves do weep!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|This proves me base:
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|If she first meet the curled Antony,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|mortal wretch,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|To an asp, which she applies to her breast
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Unpolicied!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O eastern star!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Peace, peace!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|That sucks the nurse asleep?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O, break! O, break!
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too.
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Applying another asp to her arm
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|What should I stay--
Antony and Cleopatra|CLEOPATRA|Dies
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|In this vile world? So, fare thee well.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|And golden Phoebus never be beheld
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry,
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|I'll mend it, and then play.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Enter the Guard, rushing in
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|Where is the queen?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Speak softly, wake her not.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|Caesar hath sent--
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Too slow a messenger.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Applies an asp
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled.
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Guard|There's Dolabella sent from Caesar, call him.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|What work is here! Charmian, is this well done?
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|It is well done, and fitting for a princess
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Descended of so many royal kings.
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Ah, soldier!
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Dies
Antony and Cleopatra|CHARMIAN|Re-enter DOLABELLA
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|How goes it here?
Antony and Cleopatra|Second Guard|All dead.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Caesar, thy thoughts
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|So sought'st to hinder.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Within  'A way there, a way for Caesar!'
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|O sir, you are too sure an augurer,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|That you did fear is done.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Bravest at the last,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|I do not see them bleed.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Who was last with them?
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|A simple countryman, that brought her figs:
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|This was his basket.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Poison'd, then.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|O Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|This Charmian lived but now, she stood and spake:
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|I found her trimming up the diadem
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|On her dead mistress, tremblingly she stood
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|And on the sudden dropp'd.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|O noble weakness!
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|As she would catch another Antony
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In her strong toil of grace.
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|Here, on her breast,
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|There is a vent of blood and something blown:
Antony and Cleopatra|DOLABELLA|The like is on her arm.
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves
Antony and Cleopatra|First Guard|Upon the caves of Nile.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Most probable
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|That so she died, for her physician tells me
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|She hath pursued conclusions infinite
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And bear her women from the monument:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|She shall be buried by her Antony:
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|A pair so famous. High events as these
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Strike those that make them, and their story is
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|No less in pity than his glory which
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|In solemn show attend this funeral,
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|High order in this great solemnity.
Antony and Cleopatra|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Exeunt
A Comedy of Errors|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|ACT I
A Comedy of Errors|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|SCENE I. A hall in DUKE SOLINUS'S palace.
A Comedy of Errors|OCTAVIUS CAESAR|Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And by the doom of death end woes and all.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|I am not partial to infringe our laws:
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|The enmity and discord which of late
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|For, since the mortal and intestine jars
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|It hath in solemn synods been decreed
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|If any born at Ephesus be seen
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|At any Syracusian marts and fairs,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Again: if any Syracusian born
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Unless a thousand marks be levied,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|To quit the penalty and to ransom him.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Cannot amount unto a hundred marks,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Therefore by law thou art condemned to die.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Why thou departed'st from thy native home
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|A heavier task could not have been imposed
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Yet, that the world may witness that my end
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|I'll utter what my sorrows give me leave.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|In Syracusa was I born, and wed
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Unto a woman, happy but for me,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And by me, had not our hap been bad.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|With her I lived in joy, our wealth increased
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|By prosperous voyages I often made
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|To Epidamnum, till my factor's death
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And the great care of goods at random left
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|From whom my absence was not six months old
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Before herself, almost at fainting under
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|The pleasing punishment that women bear,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Had made provision for her following me
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And soon and safe arrived where I was.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|There had she not been long, but she became
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|A joyful mother of two goodly sons,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And, which was strange, the one so like the other,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|As could not be distinguish'd but by names.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|That very hour, and in the self-same inn,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|A meaner woman was delivered
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Of such a burden, male twins, both alike:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Those,--for their parents were exceeding poor,--
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|I bought and brought up to attend my sons.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Made daily motions for our home return:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|We came aboard.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Before the always wind-obeying deep
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Gave any tragic instance of our harm:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|But longer did we not retain much hope,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|For what obscured light the heavens did grant
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Did but convey unto our fearful minds
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|A doubtful warrant of immediate death,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Which though myself would gladly have embraced,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Weeping before for what she saw must come,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Forced me to seek delays for them and me.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And this it was, for other means was none:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|The sailors sought for safety by our boat,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|My wife, more careful for the latter-born,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Such as seafaring men provide for storms,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|To him one of the other twins was bound,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Whilst I had been like heedful of the other:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|The children thus disposed, my wife and I,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And floating straight, obedient to the stream,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Dispersed those vapours that offended us,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And by the benefit of his wished light,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Two ships from far making amain to us,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|But ere they came,--O, let me say no more!
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Gather the sequel by that went before.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Nay, forward, old man, do not break off so,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|For we may pity, though not pardon thee.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|O, had the gods done so, I had not now
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Worthily term'd them merciless to us!
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|We were encounterd by a mighty rock,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Which being violently borne upon,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|So that, in this unjust divorce of us,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Fortune had left to both of us alike
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|What to delight in, what to sorrow for.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Her part, poor soul! seeming as burdened
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|With lesser weight but not with lesser woe,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Was carried with more speed before the wind,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And in our sight they three were taken up
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|At length, another ship had seized on us,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And, knowing whom it was their hap to save,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Gave healthful welcome to their shipwreck'd guests,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And would have reft the fishers of their prey,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Had not their bark been very slow of sail,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And therefore homeward did they bend their course.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|To tell sad stories of my own mishaps.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Do me the favour to dilate at full
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|What hath befall'n of them and thee till now.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|At eighteen years became inquisitive
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|After his brother: and importuned me
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|That his attendant--so his case was like,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Reft of his brother, but retain'd his name--
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Might bear him company in the quest of him:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And, coasting homeward, came to Ephesus,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Or that or any place that harbours men.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|But here must end the story of my life,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And happy were I in my timely death,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Could all my travels warrant me they live.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Hapless AEgeon, whom the fates have mark'd
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|To bear the extremity of dire mishap!
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Now, trust me, were it not against our laws,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Which princes, would they, may not disannul,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|My soul would sue as advocate for thee.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|But, though thou art adjudged to the death
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And passed sentence may not be recall'd
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|But to our honour's great disparagement,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Yet I will favour thee in what I can.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|To seek thy life by beneficial help:
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And live, if no, then thou art doom'd to die.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Gaoler, take him to thy custody.
A Comedy of Errors|Gaoler|I will, my lord.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|But to procrastinate his lifeless end.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Exeunt
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|SCENE II. The Mart.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse, and First Merchant
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|This very day a Syracusian merchant
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Is apprehended for arrival here,
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|And not being able to buy out his life
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|According to the statute of the town,
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|There is your money that I had to keep.
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Within this hour it will be dinner-time:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Till that, I'll view the manners of the town,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And then return and sleep within mine inn,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|For with long travel I am stiff and weary.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Get thee away.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Many a man would take you at your word,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|And go indeed, having so good a mean.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|When I am dull with care and melancholy,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Lightens my humour with his merry jests.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What, will you walk with me about the town,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And then go to my inn and dine with me?
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|I am invited, sir, to certain merchants,
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Of whom I hope to make much benefit,
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock,
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|And afterward consort you till bed-time:
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|My present business calls me from you now.
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Farewell till then: I will go lose myself
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And wander up and down to view the city.
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Sir, I commend you to your own content.
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|First Merchant|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|He that commends me to mine own content
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I to the world am like a drop of water
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|That in the ocean seeks another drop,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|So I, to find a mother and a brother,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter DROMIO of Ephesus
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Here comes the almanac of my true date.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What now? how chance thou art return'd so soon?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Return'd so soon! rather approach'd too late:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|My mistress made it one upon my cheek:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|She is so hot because the meat is cold,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|The meat is cold because you come not home,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|You come not home because you have no stomach,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|You have no stomach having broke your fast,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|But we that know what 'tis to fast and pray
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Are penitent for your default to-day.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where have you left the money that I gave you?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|O,--sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|The saddler had it, sir, I kept it not.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I am not in a sportive humour now:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|We being strangers here, how darest thou trust
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|So great a charge from thine own custody?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I pray you, air, as you sit at dinner:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I from my mistress come to you in post,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|If I return, I shall be post indeed,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|For she will score your fault upon my pate.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|And strike you home without a messenger.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Reserve them till a merrier hour than this.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|To me, sir? why, you gave no gold to me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|My charge was but to fetch you from the mart
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|My mistress and her sister stays for you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|In what safe place you have bestow'd my money,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|That stands on tricks when I am undisposed:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I have some marks of yours upon my pate,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|But not a thousand marks between you both.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|If I should pay your worship those again,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Perchance you will not bear them patiently.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thy mistress' marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|And prays that you will hie you home to dinner.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|What mean you, sir? for God's sake, hold your hands!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Nay, and you will not, sir, I'll take my heels.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Upon my life, by some device or other
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|They say this town is full of cozenage,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And many such-like liberties of sin:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I greatly fear my money is not safe.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|ACT II
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|SCENE I. The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Neither my husband nor the slave return'd,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That in such haste I sent to seek his master!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Good sister, let us dine and never fret:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|A man is master of his liberty:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Time is their master, and, when they see time,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|They'll go or come: if so, be patient, sister.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Why should their liberty than ours be more?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Because their business still lies out o' door.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|O, know he is the bridle of your will.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|There's none but asses will be bridled so.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Are their males' subjects and at their controls:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Men, more divine, the masters of all these,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Indued with intellectual sense and souls,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Of more preeminence than fish and fowls,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Are masters to their females, and their lords:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Then let your will attend on their accords.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|This servitude makes you to keep unwed.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|How if your husband start some other where?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Till he come home again, I would forbear.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Patience unmoved! no marvel though she pause,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|They can be meek that have no other cause.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|We bid be quiet when we hear it cry,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|As much or more would we ourselves complain:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|But, if thou live to see like right bereft,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Well, I will marry one day, but to try.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Here comes your man, now is your husband nigh.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Enter DROMIO of Ephesus
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Say, is your tardy master now at hand?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|can witness.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Say, didst thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|blows, and withal so doubtfully that I could scarce
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|understand them.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|But say, I prithee, is he coming home? It seems he
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|hath great care to please his wife.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Horn-mad, thou villain!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I mean not cuckold-mad,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|But, sure, he is stark mad.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|When I desired him to come home to dinner,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|''Tis dinner-time,' quoth I, 'My gold!' quoth he,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|'Your meat doth burn,' quoth I, 'My gold!' quoth he:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|'Will you come home?' quoth I, 'My gold!' quoth he.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|'Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?'
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|'The pig,' quoth I, 'is burn'd,' 'My gold!' quoth he:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|'My mistress, sir' quoth I, 'Hang up thy mistress!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I know not thy mistress, out on thy mistress!'
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Quoth who?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Quoth my master:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|'I know,' quoth he, 'no house, no wife, no mistress.'
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|So that my errand, due unto my tongue,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|For, in conclusion, he did beat me there.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Go back again, and be new beaten home?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|For God's sake, send some other messenger.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|And he will bless that cross with other beating:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Between you I shall have a holy head.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Hence, prating peasant! fetch thy master home.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Am I so round with you as you with me,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|That like a football you do spurn me thus?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Fie, how impatience loureth in your face!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|His company must do his minions grace,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Whilst I at home starve for a merry look.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Hath homely age the alluring beauty took
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Are my discourses dull? barren my wit?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Do their gay vestments his affections bait?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That's not my fault: he's master of my state:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|What ruins are in me that can be found,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Of my defeatures. My decayed fair
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|A sunny look of his would soon repair
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And feeds from home, poor I am but his stale.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Or else what lets it but he would be here?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Sister, you know he promised me a chain,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Would that alone, alone he would detain,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|So he would keep fair quarter with his bed!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I see the jewel best enamelled
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Will lose his beauty, yet the gold bides still,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That others touch, and often touching will
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Wear gold: and no man that hath a name,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Exeunt
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|SCENE II. A public place.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Safe at the Centaur, and the heedful slave
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|By computation and mine host's report.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I could not speak with Dromio since at first
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter DROMIO of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|As you love strokes, so jest with me again.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|You know no Centaur? you received no gold?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|That thus so madly thou didst answer me?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|What answer, sir? when spake I such a word?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Even now, even here, not half an hour since.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I did not see you since you sent me hence,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|For which, I hope, thou felt'st I was displeased.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I am glad to see you in this merry vein:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Beating him
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is earnest:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Upon what bargain do you give it me?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Because that I familiarly sometimes
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Do use you for my fool and chat with you,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Your sauciness will jest upon my love
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And make a common of my serious hours.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|If you will jest with me, know my aspect,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And fashion your demeanor to my looks,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Or I will beat this method in your sconce.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Sconce call you it? so you would leave battering, I
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|had rather have it a head: an you use these blows
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|long, I must get a sconce for my head and ensconce
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|it too, or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|But, I pray, sir why am I beaten?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Dost thou not know?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Shall I tell you why?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Ay, sir, and wherefore, for they say every why hath
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|a wherefore.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Why, first,--for flouting me, and then, wherefore--
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|For urging it the second time to me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|nor reason?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Well, sir, I thank you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thank me, sir, for what?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I'll make you amends next, to give you nothing for
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|something. But say, sir, is it dinner-time?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|No, sir, I think the meat wants that I have.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|In good time, sir, what's that?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Basting.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Well, sir, then 'twill be dry.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Your reason?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|dry basting.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|time for all things.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|By what rule, sir?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|pate of father Time himself.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Let's hear it.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|There's no time for a man to recover his hair that
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|grows bald by nature.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|May he not do it by fine and recovery?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|lost hair of another man.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|so plentiful an excrement?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|The plainer dealer, the sooner lost: yet he loseth
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|it in a kind of jollity.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|For what reason?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|For two, and sound ones too.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Nay, not sound, I pray you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Sure ones, then.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Certain ones then.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Name them.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|The one, to save the money that he spends in
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|trimming, the other, that at dinner they should not
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|drop in his porridge.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|You would all this time have proved there is no
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|time for all things.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry, and did, sir, namely, no time to recover hair
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|lost by nature.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|But your reason was not substantial, why there is no
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|time to recover.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald and therefore
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|to the world's end will have bald followers.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|But, soft! who wafts us yonder?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I am not Adriana nor thy wife.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That never words were music to thine ear,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That never object pleasing in thine eye,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That never touch well welcome to thy hand,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That never meat sweet-savor'd in thy taste,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved to thee.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That thou art thus estranged from thyself?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Thyself I call it, being strange to me,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That, undividable, incorporate,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Am better than thy dear self's better part.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ah, do not tear away thyself from me!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|For know, my love, as easy mayest thou fall
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And take unmingled that same drop again,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Without addition or diminishing,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|As take from me thyself and not me too.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|How dearly would it touch me to the quick,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And that this body, consecrate to thee,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|By ruffian lust should be contaminate!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And hurl the name of husband in my face
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And tear the stain'd skin off my harlot-brow
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And break it with a deep-divorcing vow?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I know thou canst, and therefore see thou do it.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I am possess'd with an adulterate blot,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|My blood is mingled with the crime of lust:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|For if we too be one and thou play false,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I do digest the poison of thy flesh,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I live unstain'd, thou undishonoured.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|In Ephesus I am but two hours old,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|As strange unto your town as to your talk,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Who, every word by all my wit being scann'd,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Want wit in all one word to understand.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you!
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|When were you wont to use my sister thus?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|By Dromio?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|By me?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|By thee, and this thou didst return from him,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That he did buffet thee, and, in his blows,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Denied my house for his, me for his wife.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What is the course and drift of your compact?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I, sir? I never saw her till this time.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Villain, thou liest, for even her very words
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Didst thou deliver to me on the mart.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I never spake with her in all my life.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|How can she thus then call us by our names,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Unless it be by inspiration.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|How ill agrees it with your gravity
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Be it my wrong you are from me exempt,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Makes me with thy strength to communicate:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|To me she speaks, she moves me for her theme:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What, was I married to her in my dream?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Or sleep I now and think I hear all this?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Until I know this sure uncertainty,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|O, for my beads! I cross me for a sinner.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|This is the fairy land: O spite of spites!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|We talk with goblins, owls and sprites:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|If we obey them not, this will ensue,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Why pratest thou to thyself and answer'st not?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I am transformed, master, am I not?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I think thou art in mind, and so am I.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thou hast thine own form.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|No, I am an ape.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|'Tis true, she rides me and I long for grass.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|'Tis so, I am an ass, else it could never be
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|But I should know her as well as she knows me.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|To put the finger in the eye and weep,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Known unto these, and to myself disguised!
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I'll say as they say and persever so,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And in this mist at all adventures go.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Master, shall I be porter at the gate?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ay, and let none enter, lest I break your pate.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Exeunt
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ACT III
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|SCENE I. Before the house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, DROMIO of Ephesus, ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Say that I linger'd with you at your shop
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To see the making of her carcanet,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And that to-morrow you will bring it home.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But here's a villain that would face me down
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And charged him with a thousand marks in gold,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And that I did deny my wife and house.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I think thou art an ass.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Marry, so it doth appear
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I should kick, being kick'd, and, being at that pass,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|You would keep from my heels and beware of an ass.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|You're sad, Signior Balthazar: pray God our cheer
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|May answer my good will and your good welcome here.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|welcome dear.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|A table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Good meat, sir, is common, that every churl affords.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And welcome more common, for that's nothing but words.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Ay, to a niggardly host, and more sparing guest:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But though my cates be mean, take them in good part,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But, soft! my door is lock'd. Go bid them let us in.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicel, Gillian, Ginn!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|idiot, patch!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Either get thee from the door, or sit down at the hatch.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|for such store,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|What patch is made our porter? My master stays in
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|the street.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  Let him walk from whence he came, lest he
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|catch cold on's feet.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Who talks within there? ho, open the door!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  Right, sir, I'll tell you when, an you tell
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|me wherefore.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Wherefore? for my dinner: I have not dined to-day.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  Nor to-day here you must not, come again
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|when you may.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|What art thou that keepest me out from the house I owe?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  The porter for this time, sir, and my name
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|is Dromio.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|O villain! thou hast stolen both mine office and my name.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name or thy
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|name for an ass.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|[Within]  What a coil is there, Dromio? who are those
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|at the gate?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Let my master in, Luce.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|[Within]  Faith, no, he comes too late,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|And so tell your master.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|O Lord, I must laugh!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Have at you with a proverb--Shall I set in my staff?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|[Within]  Have at you with another, that's--When?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|can you tell?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  If thy name be call'd Luce--Luce, thou hast
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|answered him well.
A Comedy of Errors|ANTIPHOLUS|Do you hear, you minion? you'll let us in, I hope?
A Comedy of Errors|ANTIPHOLUS|OF EPHESUS
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|[Within]  I thought to have asked you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  And you said no.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|So, come, help: well struck! there was blow for blow.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Thou baggage, let me in.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|[Within]  Can you tell for whose sake?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Master, knock the door hard.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|[Within]  Let him knock till it ache.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|You'll cry for this, minion, if I beat the door down.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCE|[Within]  What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|[Within]  Who is that at the door that keeps all
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|this noise?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  By my troth, your town is troubled with
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|unruly boys.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Are you there, wife? you might have come before.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|[Within]  Your wife, sir knave! go get you from the door.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|If you went in pain, master, this 'knave' would go sore.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome: we would
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|fain have either.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|They stand at the door, master, bid them welcome hither.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|You would say so, master, if your garments were thin.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Your cake there is warm within, you stand here in the cold:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|It would make a man mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Go fetch me something: I'll break ope the gate.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  Break any breaking here, and I'll break your
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|knave's pate.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  It seems thou want'st breaking: out upon
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|thee, hind!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Here's too much 'out upon thee!' I pray thee,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|let me in.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|[Within]  Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Well, I'll break in: go borrow me a crow.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Go get thee gone, fetch me an iron crow.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Have patience, sir, O, let it not be so!
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Herein you war against your reputation
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|And draw within the compass of suspect
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|The unviolated honour of your wife.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Once this,--your long experience of her wisdom,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Her sober virtue, years and modesty,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Plead on her part some cause to you unknown:
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Why at this time the doors are made against you.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Be ruled by me: depart in patience,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|And about evening come yourself alone
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|To know the reason of this strange restraint.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|If by strong hand you offer to break in
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Now in the stirring passage of the day,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|A vulgar comment will be made of it,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|And that supposed by the common rout
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|Against your yet ungalled estimation
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|That may with foul intrusion enter in
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|And dwell upon your grave when you are dead,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|For slander lives upon succession,
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|For ever housed where it gets possession.
A Comedy of Errors|BALTHAZAR|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|You have prevailed: I will depart in quiet,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And, in despite of mirth, mean to be merry.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I know a wench of excellent discourse,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Pretty and witty, wild, and yet, too, gentle:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|There will we dine. This woman that I mean,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|My wife--but, I protest, without desert--
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To her will we to dinner.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To Angelo
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Get you home
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And fetch the chain, by this I know 'tis made:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|For there's the house: that chain will I bestow--
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Be it for nothing but to spite my wife--
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Upon mine hostess there: good sir, make haste.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I'll meet you at that place some hour hence.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Do so. This jest shall cost me some expense.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Exeunt
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|SCENE II. The same.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Enter LUCIANA and ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|And may it be that you have quite forgot
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|A husband's office? shall, Antipholus.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Let not my sister read it in your eye,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Look sweet, be fair, become disloyalty,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|What simple thief brags of his own attaint?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|'Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|And let her read it in thy looks at board:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Ill d eeds are doubled with an evil word.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Alas, poor women! make us but believe,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Being compact of credit, that you love us,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|We in your motion turn and you may move us.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Then, gentle brother, get you in again,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|'Tis holy sport to be a little vain,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine,--
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|The folded meaning of your words' deceit.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Against my soul's pure truth why labour you
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|To make it wander in an unknown field?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Are you a god? would you create me new?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|But if that I am I, then well I know
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Your weeping sister is no wife of mine,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Nor to her bed no homage do I owe
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Far more, far more to you do I decline.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And in that glorious supposition think
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|He gains by death that hath such means to die:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|What, are you mad, that you do reason so?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Not mad, but mated, how, I do not know.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|It is a fault that springeth from your eye.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|As good to wink, sweet love, as look on night.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Why call you me love? call my sister so.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thy sister's sister.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|That's my sister.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|No,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|It is thyself, mine own self's better part,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|My food, my fortune and my sweet hope's aim,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|All this my sister is, or else should be.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Call thyself sister, sweet, for I am thee.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thee will I love and with thee lead my life:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thou hast no husband yet nor I no wife.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Give me thy hand.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|O, soft, air! hold you still:
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|I'll fetch my sister, to get her good will.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Enter DROMIO of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Why, how now, Dromio! where runn'st thou so fast?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Do you know me, sir? am I Dromio? am I your man?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|am I myself?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thou art Dromio, thou art my man, thou art thyself.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I am an ass, I am a woman's man and besides myself.
A Comedy of Errors|ANTIPHOLUS|What woman's man? and how besides thyself? besides thyself?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman, one
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What claim lays she to thee?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|horse, and she would have me as a beast: not that, I
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|being a beast, she would have me, but that she,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What is she?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A very reverent body, ay, such a one as a man may
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|not speak of without he say 'Sir-reverence.' I have
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|but lean luck in the match, and yet is she a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|wondrous fat marriage.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|How dost thou mean a fat marriage?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|and I know not what use to put her to but to make a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What complexion is she of?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing half so
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|clean kept: for why, she sweats, a man may go over
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|shoes in the grime of it.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|That's a fault that water will mend.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|No, sir, 'tis in grain, Noah's flood could not do it.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What's her name?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Nell, sir, but her name and three quarters, that's
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|hip to hip.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Then she bears some breadth?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|she is spherical, like a globe, I could find out
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|countries in her.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|In what part of her body stands Ireland?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry, in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where Scotland?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I found it by the barrenness, hard in the palm of the hand.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where France?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|In her forehead, armed and reverted, making war
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|against her heir.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where England?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|whiteness in them, but I guess it stood in her chin,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|by the salt rheum that ran between France and it.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where Spain?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Faith, I saw it not, but I felt it hot in her breath.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where America, the Indies?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|aspect to the hot breath of Spain, who sent whole
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Oh, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude, this
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, call'd me
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Dromio, swore I was assured to her, told me what
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|privy marks I had about me, as, the mark of my
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|left arm, that I amazed ran from her as a witch:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|And, I think, if my breast had not been made of
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|faith and my heart of steel,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|me turn i' the wheel.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Go hie thee presently, post to the road:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|An if the wind blow any way from shore,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I will not harbour in this town to-night:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|If any bark put forth, come to the mart,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Where I will walk till thou return to me.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|If every one knows us and we know none,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|As from a bear a man would run for life,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|So fly I from her that would be my wife.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|There's none but witches do inhabit here,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|She that doth call me husband, even my soul
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Hath almost made me traitor to myself:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter ANGELO with the chain
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Master Antipholus,--
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Ay, that's my name.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I know it well, sir, lo, here is the chain.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What is your will that I shall do with this?
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|What please yourself, sir: I have made it for you.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Go home with it and please your wife withal,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|And soon at supper-time I'll visit you
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|And then receive my money for the chain.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I pray you, sir, receive the money now,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|You are a merry man, sir: fare you well.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What I should think of this, I cannot tell:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|But this I think, there's no man is so vain
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I see a man here needs not live by shifts,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|When in the streets he meets such golden gifts.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|If any ship put out, then straight away.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|ACT IV
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|SCENE I. A public place.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|You know since Pentecost the sum is due,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|And since I have not much importuned you,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Nor now I had not, but that I am bound
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage:
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Therefore make present satisfaction,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Or I'll attach you by this officer.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Even just the sum that I do owe to you
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Is growing to me by Antipholus,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|And in the instant that I met with you
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|He had of me a chain: at five o'clock
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I shall receive the money for the same.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I will discharge my bond and thank you too.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus from the courtezan's
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|That labour may you save: see where he comes.
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And buy a rope's end: that will I bestow
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Among my wife and her confederates,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|For locking me out of my doors by day.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But, soft! I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Buy thou a rope and bring it home to me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I buy a thousand pound a year: I buy a rope.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|A man is well holp up that trusts to you:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I promised your presence and the chain,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Belike you thought our love would last too long,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|If it were chain'd together, and therefore came not.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Saving your merry humour, here's the note
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Which doth amount to three odd ducats more
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Than I stand debted to this gentleman:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I pray you, see him presently discharged,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|For he is bound to sea and stays but for it.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I am not furnish'd with the present money,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Besides, I have some business in the town.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Good signior, take the stranger to my house
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And with you take the chain and bid my wife
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Perchance I will be there as soon as you.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|No, bear it with you, lest I come not time enough.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you?
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|An if I have not, sir, I hope you have,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Or else you may return without your money.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|And I, to blame, have held him here too long.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Good Lord! you use this dalliance to excuse
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Your breach of promise to the Porpentine.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I should have chid you for not bringing it,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|The hour steals on, I pray you, sir, dispatch.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|You hear how he importunes me,--the chain!
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Why, give it to my wife and fetch your money.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Come, come, you know I gave it you even now.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Either send the chain or send me by some token.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Fie, now you run this humour out of breath,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|where's the chain? I pray you, let me see it.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|My business cannot brook this dalliance.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Good sir, say whether you'll answer me or no:
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|If not, I'll leave him to the officer.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I answer you! what should I answer you?
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|The money that you owe me for the chain.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I owe you none till I receive the chain.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|You know I gave it you half an hour since.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|You gave me none: you wrong me much to say so.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|You wrong me more, sir, in denying it:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Consider how it stands upon my credit.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Well, officer, arrest him at my suit.
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|I do, and charge you in the duke's name to obey me.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|This touches me in reputation.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Either consent to pay this sum for me
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Or I attach you by this officer.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Consent to pay thee that I never had!
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Here is thy fee, arrest him, officer,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I would not spare my brother in this case,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|If he should scorn me so apparently.
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|I do arrest you, sir: you hear the suit.
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I do obey thee till I give thee bail.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|As all the metal in your shop will answer.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Sir, sir, I will have law in Ephesus,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|To your notorious shame, I doubt it not.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Enter DROMIO of Syracuse, from the bay
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|That stays but till her owner comes aboard,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|And then, sir, she bears away. Our fraughtage, sir,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I have convey'd aboard, and I have bought
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|The oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|The ship is in her trim, the merry wind
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|But for their owner, master, and yourself.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|How now! a madman! Why, thou peevish sheep,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And told thee to what purpose and what end.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|You sent me for a rope's end as soon:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I will debate this matter at more leisure
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And teach your ears to list me with more heed.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|There is a purse of ducats, let her send it:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Tell her I am arrested in the street
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And that shall bail me, hie thee, slave, be gone!
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|On, officer, to prison till it come.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Exeunt Second Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and Antipholus of Ephesus
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|To Adriana! that is where we dined,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Thither I must, although against my will,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|For servants must their masters' minds fulfil.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|SCENE II. The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That he did plead in earnest? yea or no?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|What observation madest thou in this case
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|First he denied you had in him no right.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|He meant he did me none, the more my spite.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Then swore he that he was a stranger here.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Then pleaded I for you.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And what said he?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|With words that in an honest suit might move.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Didst speak him fair?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Have patience, I beseech.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Who would be jealous then of such a one?
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ah, but I think him better than I say,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And yet would herein others' eyes were worse.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Far from her nest the lapwing cries away:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Enter DROMIO of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Here! go, the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|How hast thou lost thy breath?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|By running fast.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A devil in an everlasting garment hath him,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|countermands
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|The passages of alleys, creeks and narrow lands,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|One that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Why, man, what is the matter?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I know not at whose suit he is arrested well,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Go fetch it, sister.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Exit Luciana
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|This I wonder at,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That he, unknown to me, should be in debt.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Tell me, was he arrested on a band?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Not on a band, but on a stronger thing,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|What, the chain?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|No, no, the bell: 'tis time that I were gone:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|It was two ere I left him, and now the clock
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|strikes one.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|The hours come back! that did I never hear.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|O, yes, if any hour meet a sergeant, a' turns back for
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|very fear.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|worth, to season.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Re-enter LUCIANA with a purse
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Go, Dromio, there's the money, bear it straight,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And bring thy master home immediately.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Come, sister: I am press'd down with conceit--
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Conceit, my comfort and my injury.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Exeunt
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|SCENE III. A public place.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|As if I were their well-acquainted friend,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And every one doth call me by my name.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Some tender money to me, some invite me,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Some other give me thanks for kindnesses,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Some offer me commodities to buy:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And show'd me silks that he had bought for me,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And therewithal took measure of my body.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Sure, these are but imaginary wiles
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Master, here's the gold you sent me for. What, have
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What gold is this? what Adam dost thou mean?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|skin that was killed for the Prodigal, he that came
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|forsake your liberty.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I understand thee not.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|No? why, 'tis a plain case: he that went, like a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|bass-viol, in a case of leather, the man, sir,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a sob
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|and 'rests them, he, sir, that takes pity on decayed
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|men and gives them suits of durance, he that sets up
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|morris-pike.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What, thou meanest an officer?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band, he that brings
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|any man to answer it that breaks his band, one that
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|thinks a man always going to bed, and says, 'God
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|give you good rest!'
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Is there any
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|bark Expedition put forth to-night, and then were
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|deliver you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|The fellow is distract, and so am I,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And here we wander in illusions:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Some blessed power deliver us from hence!
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter a Courtezan
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Well met, well met, Master Antipholus.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now:
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Is that the chain you promised me to-day?
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Master, is this Mistress Satan?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|It is the devil.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's dam, and here
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|she comes in the habit of a light wench: and thereof
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|comes that the wenches say 'God damn me,' that's as
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|much to say 'God make me a light wench.' It is
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|written, they appear to men like angels of light:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|long spoon.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Why, Dromio?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|the devil.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me of supping?
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I conjure thee to leave me and be gone.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Or, for my diamond, the chain you promised,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|A nut, a cherry-stone,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|But she, more covetous, would have a chain.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Master, be wise: an if you give it her,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain:
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|I hope you do not mean to cheat me so.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, let us go.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|'Fly pride,' says the peacock: mistress, that you know.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Else would he never so demean himself.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|And for the same he promised me a chain:
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Both one and other he denies me now.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|The reason that I gather he is mad,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Besides this present instance of his rage,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|On purpose shut the doors against his way.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|My way is now to hie home to his house,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|And tell his wife that, being lunatic,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|He rush'd into my house and took perforce
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|My ring away. This course I fittest choose,
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|For forty ducats is too much to lose.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|SCENE IV. A street.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and the Officer
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Fear me not, man, I will not break away:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I'll give thee, ere I leave thee, so much money,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To warrant thee, as I am 'rested for.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|My wife is in a wayward mood to-day,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And will not lightly trust the messenger
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That I should be attach'd in Ephesus,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I tell you, 'twill sound harshly in her ears.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Enter DROMIO of Ephesus with a rope's-end
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Here comes my man, I think he brings the money.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|How now, sir! have you that I sent you for?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But where's the money?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To what end did I bid thee hie thee home?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|To a rope's-end, sir, and to that end am I returned.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And to that end, sir, I will welcome you.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Beating him
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|Good sir, be patient.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Nay, 'tis for me to be patient, I am in adversity.
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|Good, now, hold thy tongue.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Thou whoreson, senseless villain!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|your blows.
A Comedy of Errors|ANTIPHOLUS|Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an
A Comedy of Errors|ANTIPHOLUS|ass.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I am an ass, indeed, you may prove it by my long
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ears. I have served him from the hour of my
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|heats me with beating, when I am warm, he cools me
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|with beating, I am waked with it when I sleep,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|raised with it when I sit, driven out of doors with
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|it when I go from home, welcomed home with it when
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I return, nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|beggar wont her brat, and, I think when he hath
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Come, go along, my wife is coming yonder.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and PINCH
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Mistress, 'respice finem,' respect your end, or
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|rather, the prophecy like the parrot, 'beware the
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|rope's-end.'
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Wilt thou still talk?
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Beating him
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|How say you now? is not your husband mad?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|His incivility confirms no less.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Establish him in his true sense again,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And I will please you what you will demand.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Striking him
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|To yield possession to my holy prayers
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|You minion, you, are these your customers?
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Did this companion with the saffron face
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Revel and feast it at my house to-day,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And I denied to enter in my house?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|O husband, God doth know you dined at home,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Where would you had remain'd until this time,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Free from these slanders and this open shame!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And did not she herself revile me there?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Sans fable, she herself reviled you there.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Certes, she did, the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And did not I in rage depart from thence?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|In verity you did, my bones bear witness,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|That since have felt the vigour of his rage.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein,
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|And yielding to him humours well his frenzy.
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Money by me! heart and goodwill you might,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|But surely master, not a rag of money.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|He came to me and I deliver'd it.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|And I am witness with her that she did.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|God and the rope-maker bear me witness
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|That I was sent for nothing but a rope!
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|Mistress, both man and master is possess'd,
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|I know it by their pale and deadly looks:
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|They must be bound and laid in some dark room.
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day?
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|And, gentle master, I received no gold,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And art confederate with a damned pack
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To make a loathsome abject scorn of me:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That would behold in me this shameful sport.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Enter three or four, and offer to bind him. He strives
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|More company! The fiend is strong within him.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks!
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To make a rescue?
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|Masters, let him go
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|Go bind this man, for he is frantic too.
A Comedy of Errors|PINCH|They offer to bind Dromio of Ephesus
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Do outrage and displeasure to himself?
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|He is my prisoner: if I let him go,
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|The debt he owes will be required of me.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I will discharge thee ere I go from thee:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Home to my house. O most unhappy day!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|O most unhappy strumpet!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Master, I am here entered in bond for you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|cry 'The devil!'
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer and Courtezan
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I know the man. What is the sum he owes?
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|Two hundred ducats.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Say, how grows it due?
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|Due for a chain your husband had of him.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|When as your husband all in rage to-day
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Came to my house and took away my ring--
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|The ring I saw upon his finger now--
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Straight after did I meet him with a chain.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|It may be so, but I did never see it.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I long to know the truth hereof at large.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse with his rapier drawn, and DROMIO of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|God, for thy mercy! they are loose again.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And come with naked swords.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Let's call more help to have them bound again.
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|Away! they'll kill us.
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|Officer|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I see these witches are afraid of swords.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|She that would be your wife now ran from you.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Come to the Centaur, fetch our stuff from thence:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I long that we were safe and sound aboard.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Faith, stay here this night, they will surely do us
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|no harm: you saw they speak us fair, give us gold:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|turn witch.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I will not stay to-night for all the town,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Exeunt
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|ACT V
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|SCENE I. A street before a Priory.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Enter Second Merchant and ANGELO
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|But, I protest, he had the chain of me,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|How is the man esteemed here in the city?
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Of very reverend reputation, sir,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Of credit infinite, highly beloved,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Second to none that lives here in the city:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|His word might bear my wealth at any time.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Speak softly, yonder, as I think, he walks.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|'Tis so, and that self chain about his neck
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Which he forswore most monstrously to have.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Good sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Signior Antipholus, I wonder much
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|That you would put me to this shame and trouble,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|And, not without some scandal to yourself,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|With circumstance and oaths so to deny
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|This chain which now you wear so openly:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|You have done wrong to this my honest friend,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Who, but for staying on our controversy,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|This chain you had of me, can you deny it?
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I think I had, I never did deny it.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|These ears of mine, thou know'st did hear thee.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou livest
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|To walk where any honest man resort.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Against thee presently, if thou darest stand.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|I dare, and do defy thee for a villain.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|They draw
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and others
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Some get within him, take his sword away:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Run, master, run, for God's sake, take a house!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|This is some priory. In, or we are spoil'd!
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse to the Priory
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Enter the Lady Abbess, AEMILIA
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|To fetch my poor distracted husband hence.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Let us come in, that we may bind him fast
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And bear him home for his recovery.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I knew he was not in his perfect wits.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|I am sorry now that I did draw on him.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|How long hath this possession held the man?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And much different from the man he was,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|But till this afternoon his passion
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ne'er brake into extremity of rage.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea?
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Stray'd his affection in unlawful love?
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|A sin prevailing much in youthful men,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Which of these sorrows is he subject to?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|To none of these, except it be the last,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Namely, some love that drew him oft from home.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|You should for that have reprehended him.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Why, so I did.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Ay, but not rough enough.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|As roughly as my modesty would let me.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Haply, in private.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And in assemblies too.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Ay, but not enough.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|It was the copy of our conference:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|In bed he slept not for my urging it,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|At board he fed not for my urging it,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Alone, it was the subject of my theme,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|In company I often glanced it,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And thereof came it that the man was mad.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|The venom clamours of a jealous woman
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And therefore comes it that his head is light.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings:
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Unquiet meals make ill digestions,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Thereof the raging fire of fever bred,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And what's a fever but a fit of madness?
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Thou say'st his sports were hinderd by thy brawls:
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|But moody and dull melancholy,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And at her heels a huge infectious troop
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|In food, in sport and life-preserving rest
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|To be disturb'd, would mad or man or beast:
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|The consequence is then thy jealous fits
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Have scared thy husband from the use of wits.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|She never reprehended him but mildly,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|When he demean'd himself rough, rude and wildly.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|She did betray me to my own reproof.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Good people enter and lay hold on him.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|No, not a creature enters in my house.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Then let your servants bring my husband forth.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Neither: he took this place for sanctuary,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And it shall privilege him from your hands
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Till I have brought him to his wits again,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Or lose my labour in assaying it.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I will attend my husband, be his nurse,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Diet his sickness, for it is my office,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And will have no attorney but myself,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And therefore let me have him home with me.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Be patient, for I will not let him stir
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Till I have used the approved means I have,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|With wholesome syrups, drugs and holy prayers,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|To make of him a formal man again:
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|It is a branch and parcel of mine oath,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|A charitable duty of my order.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Therefore depart and leave him here with me.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I will not hence and leave my husband here:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And ill it doth beseem your holiness
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|To separate the husband and the wife.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Be quiet and depart: thou shalt not have him.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Exit
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Complain unto the duke of this indignity.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And never rise until my tears and prayers
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Have won his grace to come in person hither
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And take perforce my husband from the abbess.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|By this, I think, the dial points at five:
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Anon, I'm sure, the duke himself in person
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Comes this way to the melancholy vale,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|The place of death and sorry execution,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Behind the ditches of the abbey here.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|Upon what cause?
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|To see a reverend Syracusian merchant,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Who put unluckily into this bay
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Against the laws and statutes of this town,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Beheaded publicly for his offence.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|See where they come: we will behold his death.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey.
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Enter DUKE SOLINUS, attended, AEGEON bareheaded, with the Headsman and other Officers
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Yet once again proclaim it publicly,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|If any friend will pay the sum for him,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|He shall not die, so much we tender him.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess!
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|She is a virtuous and a reverend lady:
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Whom I made lord of me and all I had,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|At your important letters,--this ill day
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|A most outrageous fit of madness took him,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That desperately he hurried through the street,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|With him his bondman, all as mad as he--
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Doing displeasure to the citizens
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|By rushing in their houses, bearing thence
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Once did I get him bound and sent him home,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That here and there his fury had committed.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|He broke from those that had the guard of him,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And with his mad attendant and himself,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Met us again and madly bent on us,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Chased us away, till, raising of more aid,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|We came again to bind them. Then they fled
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Into this abbey, whither we pursued them:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And here the abbess shuts the gates on us
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And will not suffer us to fetch him out,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Long since thy husband served me in my wars,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And I to thee engaged a prince's word,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|When thou didst make him master of thy bed,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|To do him all the grace and good I could.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And bid the lady abbess come to me.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|I will determine this before I stir.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Enter a Servant
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|My master and his man are both broke loose,
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire,
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|My master preaches patience to him and the while
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|His man with scissors nicks him like a fool,
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|And sure, unless you send some present help,
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|Between them they will kill the conjurer.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Peace, fool! thy master and his man are here,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And that is false thou dost report to us.
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true,
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|I have not breathed almost since I did see it.
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|To scorch your face and to disfigure you.
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|Cry within
A Comedy of Errors|Servant|Hark, hark! I hear him, mistress. fly, be gone!
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Come, stand by me, fear nothing. Guard with halberds!
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Ay me, it is my husband! Witness you,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|That he is borne about invisible:
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Even now we housed him in the abbey here,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And now he's there, past thought of human reason.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Justice, most gracious duke, O, grant me justice!
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Even for the service that long since I did thee,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|When I bestrid thee in the wars and took
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Deep scars to save thy life, even for the blood
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Unless the fear of death doth make me dote,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|I see my son Antipholus and Dromio.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there!
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That hath abused and dishonour'd me
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Even in the strength and height of injury!
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Beyond imagination is the wrong
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Discover how, and thou shalt find me just.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|While she with harlots feasted in my house.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|A grievous fault! Say, woman, didst thou so?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|No, my good lord: myself, he and my sister
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|To-day did dine together. So befall my soul
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|As this is false he burdens me withal!
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night,
A Comedy of Errors|LUCIANA|But she tells to your highness simple truth!
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|O perjured woman! They are both forsworn:
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|In this the madman justly chargeth them.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|My liege, I am advised what I say,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Neither disturbed with the effect of wine,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Nor heady-rash, provoked with raging ire,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Could witness it, for he was with me then,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Where Balthazar and I did dine together.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Our dinner done, and he not coming thither,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I went to seek him: in the street I met him
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And in his company that gentleman.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|There did this perjured goldsmith swear me down
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|That I this day of him received the chain,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the which
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|He did arrest me with an officer.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I did obey, and sent my peasant home
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|For certain ducats: he with none return'd
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Then fairly I bespoke the officer
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To go in person with me to my house.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|By the way we met
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|My wife, her sister, and a rabble more
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Of vile confederates. Along with them
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Cries out, I was possess'd. Then all together
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And in a dark and dankish vault at home
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|There left me and my man, both bound together,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I gain'd my freedom, and immediately
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Ran hither to your grace, whom I beseech
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|To give me ample satisfaction
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|For these deep shames and great indignities.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|But had he such a chain of thee or no?
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|He had, my lord: and when he ran in here,
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|These people saw the chain about his neck.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|Heard you confess you had the chain of him
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|After you first forswore it on the mart:
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|And thereupon I drew my sword on you,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|And then you fled into this abbey here,
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|From whence, I think, you are come by miracle.
A Comedy of Errors|Second Merchant|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I never came within these abbey-walls,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me:
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I never saw the chain, so help me Heaven!
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And this is false you burden me withal.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Why, what an intricate impeach is this!
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|If here you housed him, here he would have been,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly:
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|You say he dined at home, the goldsmith here
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Denies that saying. Sirrah, what say you?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porpentine.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|He did, and from my finger snatch'd that ring.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|'Tis true, my liege, this ring I had of her.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here?
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|I think you are all mated or stark mad.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Exit one to Abbess
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Haply I see a friend will save my life
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And pay the sum that may deliver me.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Is not your name, sir, call'd Antipholus?
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And is not that your bondman, Dromio?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Within this hour I was his bondman sir,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Now am I Dromio and his man unbound.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|I am sure you both of you remember me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|For lately we were bound, as you are now
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Why look you strange on me? you know me well.
A Comedy of Errors|ANTIPHOLUS|I never saw you in my life till now.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And careful hours with time's deformed hand
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Have written strange defeatures in my face:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Neither.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Dromio, nor thou?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|No, trust me, sir, nor I.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|I am sure thou dost.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not, and whatsoever a
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|man denies, you are now bound to believe him.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Not know my voice! O time's extremity,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|In seven short years, that here my only son
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares?
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Though now this grained face of mine be hid
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Yet hath my night of life some memory,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|My dull deaf ears a little use to hear:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|All these old witnesses--I cannot err--
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Tell me thou art my son Antipholus.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I never saw my father in my life.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son,
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery.
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|The duke and all that know me in the city
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Can witness with me that it is not so
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Have I been patron to Antipholus,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa:
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|I see thy age and dangers make thee dote.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Re-enter AEMILIA, with ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|All gather to see them
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|One of these men is Genius to the other,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And so of these. Which is the natural man,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And which the spirit? who deciphers them?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|I, sir, am Dromio, command him away.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I, sir, am Dromio, pray, let me stay.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|AEgeon art thou not? or else his ghost?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|O, my old master! who hath bound him here?
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And gain a husband by his liberty.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Speak, old AEgeon, if thou be'st the man
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|That hadst a wife once call'd AEmilia
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|That bore thee at a burden two fair sons:
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|O, if thou be'st the same AEgeon, speak,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And speak unto the same AEmilia!
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|If I dream not, thou art AEmilia:
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|If thou art she, tell me where is that son
A Comedy of Errors|AEGEON|That floated with thee on the fatal raft?
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|By men of Epidamnum he and I
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And the twin Dromio all were taken up,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|By force took Dromio and my son from them
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And me they left with those of Epidamnum.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|What then became of them I cannot tell
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|I to this fortune that you see me in.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Why, here begins his morning story right,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|These two Antipholuses, these two so like,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|And these two Dromios, one in semblance,--
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,--
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|These are the parents to these children,
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Which accidentally are met together.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first?
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|No, sir, not I, I came from Syracuse.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Stay, stand apart, I know not which is which.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,--
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|And I with him.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Brought to this town by that most famous warrior,
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|Which of you two did dine with me to-day?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I, gentle mistress.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|And are not you my husband?
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|No, I say nay to that.
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And so do I, yet did she call me so:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Did call me brother.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|To Luciana
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|What I told you then,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I hope I shall have leisure to make good,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|If this be not a dream I see and hear.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I think it be, sir, I deny it not.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|And you, sir, for this chain arrested me.
A Comedy of Errors|ANGELO|I think I did, sir, I deny it not.
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|I sent you money, sir, to be your bail,
A Comedy of Errors|ADRIANA|By Dromio, but I think he brought it not.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|No, none by me.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|This purse of ducats I received from you,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And Dromio, my man, did bring them me.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|I see we still did meet each other's man,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And I was ta'en for him, and he for me,
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|And thereupon these errors are arose.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|These ducats pawn I for my father here.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|It shall not need, thy father hath his life.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|Sir, I must have that diamond from you.
A Comedy of Errors|Courtezan|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|There, take it, and much thanks for my good cheer.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|To go with us into the abbey here
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And all that are assembled in this place,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|That by this sympathized one day's error
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Have suffer'd wrong, go keep us company,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And we shall make full satisfaction.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Of you, my sons, and till this present hour
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|My heavy burden ne'er delivered.
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|The duke, my husband and my children both,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|And you the calendars of their nativity,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|Go to a gossips' feast and go with me,
A Comedy of Errors|AEMELIA|After so long grief, such festivity!
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast.
A Comedy of Errors|DUKE SOLINUS|Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse, Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF EPHESUS|Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|ANTIPHOLUS
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Come, go with us, we'll look to that anon:
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him.
A Comedy of Errors|OF SYRACUSE|Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|There is a fat friend at your master's house,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|She now shall be my sister, not my wife.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Will you walk in to see their gossiping?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|Not I, sir, you are my elder.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|That's a question: how shall we try it?
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF SYRACUSE|We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Nay, then, thus:
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|We came into the world like brother and brother,
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
A Comedy of Errors|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|ACT I
Coriolanus|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|SCENE I. Rome. A street.
Coriolanus|DROMIO OF EPHESUS|Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.
Coriolanus|All|Speak, speak.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?
Coriolanus|All|Resolved. resolved.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people.
Coriolanus|All|We know't, we know't.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Is't a verdict?
Coriolanus|All|No more talking on't, let it be done: away, away!
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|One word, good citizens.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they
Coriolanus|First Citizen|would yield us but the superfluity, while it were
Coriolanus|First Citizen|wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|but they think we are too dear: the leanness that
Coriolanus|First Citizen|afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an
Coriolanus|First Citizen|inventory to particularise their abundance, our
Coriolanus|First Citizen|sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with
Coriolanus|First Citizen|our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I
Coriolanus|First Citizen|speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius?
Coriolanus|All|Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Consider you what services he has done for his country?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Very well, and could be content to give him good
Coriolanus|First Citizen|report fort, but that he pays himself with being proud.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Nay, but speak not maliciously.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did
Coriolanus|First Citizen|it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be
Coriolanus|First Citizen|content to say it was for his country he did it to
Coriolanus|First Citizen|please his mother and to be partly proud, which he
Coriolanus|First Citizen|is, even till the altitude of his virtue.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|What he cannot help in his nature, you account a
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Shouts within
Coriolanus|First Citizen|What shouts are these? The other side o' the city
Coriolanus|First Citizen|is risen: why stay we prating here? to the Capitol!
Coriolanus|All|Come, come.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Soft! who comes here?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath always loved
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|the people.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|He's one honest enough: would all the rest were so!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Our business is not unknown to the senate, they have
Coriolanus|First Citizen|had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor
Coriolanus|First Citizen|suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we
Coriolanus|First Citizen|have strong arms too.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Will you undo yourselves?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|We cannot, sir, we are undone already.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I tell you, friends, most charitable care
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Have the patricians of you. For your wants,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Against the Roman state, whose course will on
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of more strong link asunder than can ever
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The gods, not the patricians, make it, and
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You are transported by calamity
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Thither where more attends you, and you slander
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|When you curse them as enemies.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us
Coriolanus|First Citizen|yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
Coriolanus|First Citizen|crammed with grain, make edicts for usury, to
Coriolanus|First Citizen|support usurers, repeal daily any wholesome act
Coriolanus|First Citizen|established against the rich, and provide more
Coriolanus|First Citizen|piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
Coriolanus|First Citizen|the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will, and
Coriolanus|First Citizen|there's all the love they bear us.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Either you must
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Confess yourselves wondrous malicious,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A pretty tale: it may be you have heard it,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To stale 't a little more.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to
Coriolanus|First Citizen|fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an 't please
Coriolanus|First Citizen|you, deliver.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|There was a time when all the body's members
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Rebell'd against the belly, thus accused it:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That only like a gulf it did remain
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Like labour with the rest, where the other instruments
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And, mutually participate, did minister
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Unto the appetite and affection common
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of the whole body. The belly answer'd--
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Well, sir, what answer made the belly?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For, look you, I may make the belly smile
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As well as speak--it tauntingly replied
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To the discontented members, the mutinous parts
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That envied his receipt, even so most fitly
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As you malign our senators for that
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|They are not such as you.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Your belly's answer? What!
Coriolanus|First Citizen|The kingly-crowned head, the vigilant eye,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|With other muniments and petty helps
Coriolanus|First Citizen|In this our fabric, if that they--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What then?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|'Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? what then?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Who is the sink o' the body,--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Well, what then?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|The former agents, if they did complain,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|What could the belly answer?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I will tell you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|If you'll bestow a small--of what you have little--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Patience awhile, you'll hear the belly's answer.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Ye're long about it.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Note me this, good friend,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Your most grave belly was deliberate,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Not rash like his accusers, and thus answer'd:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|'True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|'That I receive the general food at first,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Which you do live upon, and fit it is,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Because I am the store-house and the shop
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of the whole body: but, if you do remember,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I send it through the rivers of your blood,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Even to the court, the heart, to the seat o' the brain,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And, through the cranks and offices of man,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The strongest nerves and small inferior veins
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|From me receive that natural competency
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Whereby they live: and though that all at once,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You, my good friends,'--this says the belly, mark me,--
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Ay, sir, well, well.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|'Though all at once cannot
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|See what I do deliver out to each,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Yet I can make my audit up, that all
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|From me do back receive the flour of all,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And leave me but the bran.' What say you to't?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|It was an answer: how apply you this?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The senators of Rome are this good belly,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And you the mutinous members, for examine
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Touching the weal o' the common, you shall find
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|No public benefit which you receive
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But it proceeds or comes from them to you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And no way from yourselves. What do you think,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You, the great toe of this assembly?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|I the great toe! why the great toe?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For that, being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of this most wise rebellion, thou go'st foremost:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Lead'st first to win some vantage.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Rome and her rats are at the point of battle,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The one side must have bale.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Enter CAIUS MARCIUS
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Hail, noble Marcius!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Make yourselves scabs?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|We have ever your good word.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|He that will give good words to thee will flatter
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Where he should find you lions, finds you hares,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Where foxes, geese: you are no surer, no,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|To make him worthy whose offence subdues him
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And curse that justice did it.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Who deserves greatness
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Deserves your hate, and your affections are
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|A sick man's appetite, who desires most that
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Which would increase his evil. He that depends
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Upon your favours swims with fins of lead
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust Ye?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|With every minute you do change a mind,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And call him noble that was now your hate,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That in these several places of the city
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|You cry against the noble senate, who,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Would feed on one another? What's their seeking?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For corn at their own rates, whereof, they say,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The city is well stored.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Hang 'em! They say!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|What's done i' the Capitol, who's like to rise,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Who thrives and who declines, side factions
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|and give out
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Conjectural marriages, making parties strong
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And feebling such as stand not in their liking
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|grain enough!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And let me use my sword, I'll make a quarry
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As I could pick my lance.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For though abundantly they lack discretion,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What says the other troop?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They are dissolved: hang 'em!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They said they were an-hungry, sigh'd forth proverbs,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Corn for the rich men only: with these shreds
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They vented their complainings, which being answer'd,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And a petition granted them, a strange one--
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|To break the heart of generosity,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And make bold power look pale--they threw their caps
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Shouting their emulation.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What is granted them?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Of their own choice: one's Junius Brutus,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Sicinius Velutus, and I know not--'Sdeath!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|The rabble should have first unroof'd the city,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Ere so prevail'd with me: it will in time
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Win upon power and throw forth greater themes
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|For insurrection's arguing.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This is strange.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Go, get you home, you fragments!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Enter a Messenger, hastily
Coriolanus|Messenger|Where's Caius Marcius?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Here: what's the matter?
Coriolanus|Messenger|The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I am glad on 't: then we shall ha' means to vent
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Enter COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators, JUNIUS BRUTUS and SICINIUS VELUTUS
Coriolanus|First Senator|Marcius, 'tis true that you have lately told us,
Coriolanus|First Senator|The Volsces are in arms.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They have a leader,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I sin in envying his nobility,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And were I any thing but what I am,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I would wish me only he.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|You have fought together.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Were half to half the world by the ears and he.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Only my wars with him: he is a lion
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That I am proud to hunt.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Then, worthy Marcius,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Attend upon Cominius to these wars.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|It is your former promise.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Sir, it is,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And I am constant. Titus Lartius, thou
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|What, art thou stiff? stand'st out?
Coriolanus|TITUS|No, Caius Marcius,
Coriolanus|TITUS|I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other,
Coriolanus|TITUS|Ere stay behind this business.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|O, true-bred!
Coriolanus|First Senator|Your company to the Capitol, where, I know,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Our greatest friends attend us.
Coriolanus|TITUS|[To COMINIUS]                Lead you on.
Coriolanus|TITUS|To MARCIUS
Coriolanus|TITUS|Right worthy you priority.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Noble Marcius!
Coriolanus|First Senator|[To the Citizens]  Hence to your homes, be gone!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Nay, let them follow:
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|The Volsces have much corn, take these rats thither
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|To gnaw their garners. Worshipful mutiners,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Your valour puts well forth: pray, follow.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Citizens steal away. Exeunt all but SICINIUS and BRUTUS
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Was ever man so proud as is this Marcius?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He has no equal.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|When we were chosen tribunes for the people,--
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Mark'd you his lip and eyes?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Nay. but his taunts.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Be-mock the modest moon.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The present wars devour him: he is grown
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Too proud to be so valiant.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Such a nature,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Which he treads on at noon: but I do wonder
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|His insolence can brook to be commanded
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Under Cominius.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Fame, at the which he aims,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|In whom already he's well graced, can not
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Better be held nor more attain'd than by
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|A place below the first: for what miscarries
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Shall be the general's fault, though he perform
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|To the utmost of a man, and giddy censure
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Will then cry out of Marcius 'O if he
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Had borne the business!'
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Besides, if things go well,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Opinion that so sticks on Marcius shall
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Of his demerits rob Cominius.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Come:
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Half all Cominius' honours are to Marcius.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Though Marcius earned them not, and all his faults
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|To Marcius shall be honours, though indeed
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|In aught he merit not.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Let's hence, and hear
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|More than his singularity, he goes
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Upon this present action.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Lets along.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|SCENE II. Corioli. The Senate-house.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS and certain Senators
Coriolanus|First Senator|So, your opinion is, Aufidius,
Coriolanus|First Senator|That they of Rome are entered in our counsels
Coriolanus|First Senator|And know how we proceed.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Is it not yours?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|What ever have been thought on in this state,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days gone
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Since I heard thence, these are the words: I think
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I have the letter here, yes, here it is.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Reads
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|'They have press'd a power, but it is not known
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Whether for east or west: the dearth is great,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The people mutinous, and it is rumour'd,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Cominius, Marcius your old enemy,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|These three lead on this preparation
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Whither 'tis bent: most likely 'tis for you:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Consider of it.'
Coriolanus|First Senator|Our army's in the field
Coriolanus|First Senator|We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready
Coriolanus|First Senator|To answer us.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Nor did you think it folly
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To keep your great pretences veil'd till when
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|They needs must show themselves, which
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|in the hatching,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|It seem'd, appear'd to Rome. By the discovery.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To take in many towns ere almost Rome
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Should know we were afoot.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Noble Aufidius,
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Take your commission, hie you to your bands:
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Let us alone to guard Corioli:
Coriolanus|Second Senator|If they set down before 's, for the remove
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Bring your army, but, I think, you'll find
Coriolanus|Second Senator|They've not prepared for us.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|O, doubt not that,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I speak from certainties. Nay, more,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Some parcels of their power are forth already,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And only hitherward. I leave your honours.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|If we and Caius Marcius chance to meet,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|'Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Till one can do no more.
Coriolanus|All|The gods assist you!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And keep your honours safe!
Coriolanus|First Senator|Farewell.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Farewell.
Coriolanus|All|Farewell.
Coriolanus|All|Exeunt
Coriolanus|All|SCENE III. Rome. A room in Marcius' house.
Coriolanus|All|Enter VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA	they set them down on two low stools, and sew
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I pray you, daughter, sing, or express yourself in a
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|won honour than in the embracements of his bed where
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|he would show most love. When yet he was but
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, when
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|sell him an hour from her beholding, I, considering
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|how honour would become such a person. that it was
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|renown made it not stir, was pleased to let him seek
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|war I sent him, from whence he returned, his brows
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|than now in first seeing he had proved himself a
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|man.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|But had he died in the business, madam, how then?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Then his good report should have been my son, I
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|therein would have found issue. Hear me profess
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|alike and none less dear than thine and my good
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Enter a Gentlewoman
Coriolanus|Gentlewoman|Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Indeed, you shall not.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Methinks I see him stamp thus, and call thus:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|'Come on, you cowards! you were got in fear,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Though you were born in Rome:' his bloody brow
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he goes,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Like to a harvest-man that's task'd to mow
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Or all or lose his hire.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|His bloody brow! O Jupiter, no blood!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Away, you fool! it more becomes a man
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than gilt his trophy: the breasts of Hecuba,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|When she did suckle Hector, look'd not lovelier
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|At Grecian sword, contemning. Tell Valeria,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|We are fit to bid her welcome.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Exit Gentlewoman
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And tread upon his neck.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Enter VALERIA, with an Usher and Gentlewoman
Coriolanus|VALERIA|My ladies both, good day to you.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Sweet madam.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|I am glad to see your ladyship.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|How do you both? you are manifest house-keepers.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|What are you sewing here? A fine spot, in good
Coriolanus|VALERIA|faith. How does your little son?
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|I thank your ladyship, well, good madam.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|He had rather see the swords, and hear a drum, than
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|look upon his school-master.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|O' my word, the father's son: I'll swear,'tis a
Coriolanus|VALERIA|very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o'
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Wednesday half an hour together: has such a
Coriolanus|VALERIA|confirmed countenance. I saw him run after a gilded
Coriolanus|VALERIA|butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go
Coriolanus|VALERIA|again, and after it again, and over and over he
Coriolanus|VALERIA|comes, and again, catched it again, or whether his
Coriolanus|VALERIA|fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his
Coriolanus|VALERIA|teeth and tear it, O, I warrant it, how he mammocked
Coriolanus|VALERIA|it!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|One on 's father's moods.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Indeed, la, 'tis a noble child.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|A crack, madam.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Come, lay aside your stitchery, I must have you play
Coriolanus|VALERIA|the idle husewife with me this afternoon.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|No, good madam, I will not out of doors.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Not out of doors!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|She shall, she shall.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Indeed, no, by your patience, I'll not over the
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|threshold till my lord return from the wars.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably: come,
Coriolanus|VALERIA|you must go visit the good lady that lies in.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|my prayers, but I cannot go thither.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Why, I pray you?
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|You would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all
Coriolanus|VALERIA|the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Ithaca full of moths. Come, I would your cambric
Coriolanus|VALERIA|were sensible as your finger, that you might leave
Coriolanus|VALERIA|pricking it for pity. Come, you shall go with us.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|No, good madam, pardon me, indeed, I will not forth.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|In truth, la, go with me, and I'll tell you
Coriolanus|VALERIA|excellent news of your husband.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|O, good madam, there can be none yet.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Verily, I do not jest with you, there came news from
Coriolanus|VALERIA|him last night.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Indeed, madam?
Coriolanus|VALERIA|In earnest, it's true, I heard a senator speak it.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth, against
Coriolanus|VALERIA|whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of
Coriolanus|VALERIA|our Roman power: your lord and Titus Lartius are set
Coriolanus|VALERIA|down before their city Corioli, they nothing doubt
Coriolanus|VALERIA|prevailing and to make it brief wars. This is true,
Coriolanus|VALERIA|on mine honour, and so, I pray, go with us.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Give me excuse, good madam, I will obey you in every
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|thing hereafter.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|disease our better mirth.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy
Coriolanus|VALERIA|solemness out o' door. and go along with us.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|No, at a word, madam, indeed, I must not. I wish
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|you much mirth.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Well, then, farewell.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Exeunt
Coriolanus|VALERIA|SCENE IV. Before Corioli.
Coriolanus|VALERIA|Enter, with drum and colours, MARCIUS, TITUS  LARTIUS, Captains and Soldiers. To them a Messenger
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Yonder comes news. A wager they have met.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|My horse to yours, no.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|'Tis done.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Agreed.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Say, has our general met the enemy?
Coriolanus|Messenger|They lie in view, but have not spoke as yet.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|So, the good horse is mine.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I'll buy him of you.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|No, I'll nor sell nor give him: lend you him I will
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|For half a hundred years. Summon the town.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|How far off lie these armies?
Coriolanus|Messenger|Within this mile and half.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That we with smoking swords may march from hence,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|To help our fielded friends! Come, blow thy blast.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They sound a parley. Enter two Senators with others on the walls
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Tutus Aufidius, is he within your walls?
Coriolanus|First Senator|No, nor a man that fears you less than he,
Coriolanus|First Senator|That's lesser than a little.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Drums afar off
Coriolanus|First Senator|Hark! our drums
Coriolanus|First Senator|Are bringing forth our youth. We'll break our walls,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Rather than they shall pound us up: our gates,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Which yet seem shut, we, have but pinn'd with rushes,
Coriolanus|First Senator|They'll open of themselves.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Alarum afar off
Coriolanus|First Senator|Hark you. far off!
Coriolanus|First Senator|There is Aufidius, list, what work he makes
Coriolanus|First Senator|Amongst your cloven army.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|O, they are at it!
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Their noise be our instruction. Ladders, ho!
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Enter the army of the Volsces
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They fear us not, but issue forth their city.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|With hearts more proof than shields. Advance,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|brave Titus:
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows:
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|He that retires I'll take him for a Volsce,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And he shall feel mine edge.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Alarum. The Romans are beat back to their trenches. Re-enter MARCIUS cursing
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|All the contagion of the south light on you,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Further than seen and one infect another
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|All hurt behind, backs red, and faces pale
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And make my wars on you: look to't: come on,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As they us to our trenches followed.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Another alarum. The Volsces fly, and MARCIUS follows them to the gates
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|So, now the gates are ope: now prove good seconds:
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|'Tis for the followers fortune widens them,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Not for the fliers: mark me, and do the like.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Enters the gates
Coriolanus|First Soldier|Fool-hardiness, not I.
Coriolanus|Second Soldier|Nor I.
Coriolanus|Second Soldier|MARCIUS is shut in
Coriolanus|First Soldier|See, they have shut him in.
Coriolanus|All|To the pot, I warrant him.
Coriolanus|All|Alarum continues
Coriolanus|All|Re-enter TITUS LARTIUS
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|What is become of Marcius?
Coriolanus|All|Slain, sir, doubtless.
Coriolanus|First Soldier|Following the fliers at the very heels,
Coriolanus|First Soldier|With them he enters, who, upon the sudden,
Coriolanus|First Soldier|Clapp'd to their gates: he is himself alone,
Coriolanus|First Soldier|To answer all the city.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|O noble fellow!
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|And, when it bows, stands up. Thou art left, Marcius:
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Only in strokes, but, with thy grim looks and
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Were feverous and did tremble.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Re-enter MARCIUS, bleeding, assaulted by the enemy
Coriolanus|First Soldier|Look, sir.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|O,'tis Marcius!
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|They fight, and all enter the city
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|SCENE V. Corioli. A street.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Enter certain Romans, with spoils
Coriolanus|First Roman|This will I carry to Rome.
Coriolanus|Second Roman|And I this.
Coriolanus|Third Roman|A murrain on't! I took this for silver.
Coriolanus|Third Roman|Alarum continues still afar off
Coriolanus|Third Roman|Enter MARCIUS and TITUS LARTIUS with a trumpet
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|See here these movers that do prize their hours
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|At a crack'd drachm! Cushions, leaden spoons,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Ere yet the fight be done, pack up: down with them!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And hark, what noise the general makes! To him!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|There is the man of my soul's hate, Aufidius,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Piercing our Romans: then, valiant Titus, take
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Convenient numbers to make good the city,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|To help Cominius.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Worthy sir, thou bleed'st,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Thy exercise hath been too violent for
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|A second course of fight.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Sir, praise me not,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|My work hath yet not warm'd me: fare you well:
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|The blood I drop is rather physical
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Than dangerous to me: to Aufidius thus
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I will appear, and fight.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Misguide thy opposers' swords! Bold gentleman,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Prosperity be thy page!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Thy friend no less
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Than those she placeth highest! So, farewell.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Thou worthiest Marcius!
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Exit MARCIUS
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Call thither all the officers o' the town,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Where they shall know our mind: away!
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|SCENE VI. Near the camp of Cominius.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Enter COMINIUS, as it were in retire, with soldiers
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Breathe you, my friends: well fought,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|we are come off
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|By interims and conveying gusts we have heard
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The charges of our friends. Ye Roman gods!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Lead their successes as we wish our own,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That both our powers, with smiling
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|fronts encountering,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|May give you thankful sacrifice.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Enter a Messenger
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Thy news?
Coriolanus|Messenger|The citizens of Corioli have issued,
Coriolanus|Messenger|And given to Lartius and to Marcius battle:
Coriolanus|Messenger|I saw our party to their trenches driven,
Coriolanus|Messenger|And then I came away.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Though thou speak'st truth,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Methinks thou speak'st not well.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|How long is't since?
Coriolanus|Messenger|Above an hour, my lord.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|'Tis not a mile, briefly we heard their drums:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And bring thy news so late?
Coriolanus|Messenger|Spies of the Volsces
Coriolanus|Messenger|Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel
Coriolanus|Messenger|Three or four miles about, else had I, sir,
Coriolanus|Messenger|Half an hour since brought my report.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Who's yonder,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That does appear as he were flay'd? O gods
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He has the stamp of Marcius, and I have
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Before-time seen him thus.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|[Within]                 Come I too late?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|More than I know the sound of Marcius' tongue
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|From every meaner man.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Enter MARCIUS
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Come I too late?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|But mantled in your own.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|O, let me clip ye
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|In arms as sound as when I woo'd, in heart
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As merry as when our nuptial day was done,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And tapers burn'd to bedward!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Flower of warriors,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|How is it with Titus Lartius?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As with a man busied about decrees:
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Condemning some to death, and some to exile,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Ransoming him, or pitying, threatening the other,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Holding Corioli in the name of Rome,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|To let him slip at will.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Where is that slave
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Where is he? call him hither.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Let him alone,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|He did inform the truth: but for our gentlemen,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|The common file--a plague! tribunes for them!--
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|From rascals worse than they.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|But how prevail'd you?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Where is the enemy? are you lords o' the field?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|If not, why cease you till you are so?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Marcius,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|We have at disadvantage fought and did
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Retire to win our purpose.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|How lies their battle? know you on which side
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They have placed their men of trust?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|As I guess, Marcius,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Of their best trust, o'er them Aufidius,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Their very heart of hope.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I do beseech you,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|By all the battles wherein we have fought,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|By the blood we have shed together, by the vows
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|We have made to endure friends, that you directly
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And that you not delay the present, but,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|We prove this very hour.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Though I could wish
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|You were conducted to a gentle bath
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And balms applied to, you, yet dare I never
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Deny your asking: take your choice of those
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That best can aid your action.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Those are they
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That most are willing. If any such be here--
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As it were sin to doubt--that love this painting
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Wherein you see me smear'd, if any fear
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Lesser his person than an ill report,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|If any think brave death outweighs bad life
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And that his country's dearer than himself,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Let him alone, or so many so minded,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Wave thus, to express his disposition,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And follow Marcius.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in their arms, and cast up their caps
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|O, me alone! make you a sword of me?
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|If these shows be not outward, which of you
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|But is four Volsces? none of you but is
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Able to bear against the great Aufidius
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|A shield as hard as his. A certain number,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Though thanks to all, must I select
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|from all: the rest
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Shall bear the business in some other fight,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As cause will be obey'd. Please you to march,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And four shall quickly draw out my command,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Which men are best inclined.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|March on, my fellows:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Make good this ostentation, and you shall
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Divide in all with us.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|SCENE VII. The gates of Corioli.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|TITUS LARTIUS, having set a guard upon  Corioli, going with drum and trumpet toward  COMINIUS and CAIUS MARCIUS, enters with Lieutenant, other Soldiers, and a Scout
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|So, let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Those centuries to our aid: the rest will serve
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|For a short holding: if we lose the field,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|We cannot keep the town.
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Fear not our care, sir.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Hence, and shut your gates upon's.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Our guider, come, to the Roman camp conduct us.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|SCENE VIII. A field of battle.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Alarum as in battle. Enter, from opposite sides, MARCIUS and AUFIDIUS
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I'll fight with none but thee, for I do hate thee
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Worse than a promise-breaker.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|We hate alike:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Let the first budger die the other's slave,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And the gods doom him after!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|If I fly, Marcius,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Holloa me like a hare.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Within these three hours, Tullus,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Alone I fought in your Corioli walls,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And made what work I pleased: 'tis not my blood
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Wherein thou seest me mask'd, for thy revenge
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Wrench up thy power to the highest.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Wert thou the Hector
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Thou shouldst not scape me here.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|They fight, and certain Volsces come to the aid of  AUFIDIUS. MARCIUS fights till they be driven in breathless
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Officious, and not valiant, you have shamed me
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|In your condemned seconds.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|SCENE IX. The Roman camp.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish.  Enter, from one side, COMINIUS with the Romans, from the other side, MARCIUS, with his arm in a scarf
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Thou'ldst not believe thy deeds: but I'll report it
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I' the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And, gladly quaked, hear more, where the
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|dull tribunes,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Shall say against their hearts 'We thank the gods
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Our Rome hath such a soldier.'
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Having fully dined before.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Enter TITUS LARTIUS, with his power, from the pursuit
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|O general,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Here is the steed, we the caparison:
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Hadst thou beheld--
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Pray now, no more: my mother,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Who has a charter to extol her blood,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|When she does praise me grieves me. I have done
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As you have done, that's what I can, induced
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As you have been, that's for my country:
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|He that has but effected his good will
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Hath overta'en mine act.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|You shall not be
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The grave of your deserving, Rome must know
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The value of her own: 'twere a concealment
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To hide your doings, and to silence that,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|In sign of what you are, not to reward
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|What you have done--before our army hear me.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|To hear themselves remember'd.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Should they not,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Whereof we have ta'en good and good store, of all
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The treasure in this field achieved and city,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|We render you the tenth, to be ta'en forth,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Before the common distribution, at
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Your only choice.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I thank you, general,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|But cannot make my heart consent to take
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|A bribe to pay my sword: I do refuse it,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|And stand upon my common part with those
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|That have beheld the doing.
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|A long flourish. They all cry 'Marcius! Marcius!'  cast up their caps and lances: COMINIUS and LARTIUS stand bare
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|May these same instruments, which you profane,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Never sound more! when drums and trumpets shall
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Made all of false-faced soothing!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Let him be made a coverture for the wars!
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|No more, I say! For that I have not wash'd
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|My nose that bled, or foil'd some debile wretch.--
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|Which, without note, here's many else have done,--
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|You shout me forth
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|In acclamations hyperbolical,
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|As if I loved my little should be dieted
Coriolanus|MARCIUS|In praises sauced with lies.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Too modest are you,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|More cruel to your good report than grateful
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To us that give you truly: by your patience,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|If 'gainst yourself you be incensed, we'll put you,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Then reason safely with you. Therefore, be it known,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|As to us, to all the world, that Caius Marcius
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Wears this war's garland: in token of the which,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|With all his trim belonging, and from this time,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|For what he did before Corioli, call him,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|With all the applause and clamour of the host,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS! Bear
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The addition nobly ever!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums
Coriolanus|All|Caius Marcius Coriolanus!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I will go wash,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I mean to stride your steed, and at all times
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To undercrest your good addition
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To the fairness of my power.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|So, to our tent,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Where, ere we do repose us, we will write
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To Rome of our success. You, Titus Lartius,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Must to Corioli back: send us to Rome
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The best, with whom we may articulate,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|For their own good and ours.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|I shall, my lord.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The gods begin to mock me. I, that now
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of my lord general.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Take't, 'tis yours. What is't?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I sometime lay here in Corioli
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|At a poor man's house, he used me kindly:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|He cried to me, I saw him prisoner,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|But then Aufidius was with in my view,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity: I request you
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To give my poor host freedom.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|O, well begg'd!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Were he the butcher of my son, he should
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Be free as is the wind. Deliver him, Titus.
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Marcius, his name?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|By Jupiter! forgot.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I am weary, yea, my memory is tired.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Have we no wine here?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Go we to our tent:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The blood upon your visage dries, 'tis time
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|It should be look'd to: come.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|SCENE X. The camp of the Volsces.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|A flourish. Cornets. Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, bloody, with two or three Soldiers
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The town is ta'en!
Coriolanus|First Soldier|'Twill be deliver'd back on good condition.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Condition!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I would I were a Roman, for I cannot,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|What good condition can a treaty find
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I' the part that is at mercy? Five times, Marcius,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I have fought with thee: so often hast thou beat me,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As often as we eat. By the elements,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|If e'er again I meet him beard to beard,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He's mine, or I am his: mine emulation
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Hath not that honour in't it had, for where
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I thought to crush him in an equal force,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Or wrath or craft may get him.
Coriolanus|First Soldier|He's the devil.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour's poison'd
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|With only suffering stain by him, for him
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Shall fly out of itself: nor sleep nor sanctuary,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|My hate to Marcius: where I find him, were it
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|At home, upon my brother's guard, even there,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Against the hospitable canon, would I
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to the city,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Learn how 'tis held, and what they are that must
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Be hostages for Rome.
Coriolanus|First Soldier|Will not you go?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I am attended at the cypress grove: I pray you--
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|'Tis south the city mills--bring me word thither
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|How the world goes, that to the pace of it
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I may spur on my journey.
Coriolanus|First Soldier|I shall, sir.
Coriolanus|First Soldier|Exeunt
Coriolanus|First Soldier|ACT II
Coriolanus|First Soldier|SCENE I. Rome. A public place.
Coriolanus|First Soldier|Enter MENENIUS with the two Tribunes of the people, SICINIUS and BRUTUS.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Good or bad?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Not according to the prayer of the people, for they
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|love not Marcius.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Pray you, who does the wolf love?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The lamb.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Ay, to devour him, as the hungry plebeians would the
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|noble Marcius.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. You two
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you.
Coriolanus|Both|Well, sir.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|In what enormity is Marcius poor in, that you two
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|have not in abundance?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Especially in pride.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And topping all others in boasting.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This is strange now: do you two know how you are
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|censured here in the city, I mean of us o' the
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|right-hand file? do you?
Coriolanus|Both|Why, how are we censured?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Because you talk of pride now,--will you not be angry?
Coriolanus|Both|Well, well, sir, well.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Why, 'tis no great matter, for a very little thief of
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|your pleasures, at the least if you take it as a
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|pleasure to you in being so. You blame Marcius for
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|being proud?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We do it not alone, sir.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I know you can do very little alone, for your helps
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|single: your abilities are too infant-like for
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|doing much alone. You talk of pride: O that you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|and make but an interior survey of your good selves!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|O that you could!
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|What then, sir?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|any in Rome.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Menenius, you are known well enough too.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Tiber in't, said to be something imperfect in
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|favouring the first complaint, hasty and tinder-like
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|upon too trivial motion, one that converses more
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|with the buttock of the night than with the forehead
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|of the morning: what I think I utter, and spend my
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|malice in my breath. Meeting two such wealsmen as
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|you are--I cannot call you Lycurguses--if the drink
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|you give me touch my palate adversely, I make a
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|crooked face at it. I can't say your worships have
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|delivered the matter well, when I find the ass in
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|compound with the major part of your syllables: and
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|though I must be content to bear with those that say
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|tell you you have good faces. If you see this in
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|well enough too? what barm can your bisson
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|known well enough too?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Come, sir, come, we know you well enough.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You know neither me, yourselves nor any thing. You
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs: you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|second day of audience. When you are hearing a
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|matter between party and party, if you chance to be
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|pinched with the colic, you make faces like
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|mummers, set up the bloody flag against all
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|patience, and, in roaring for a chamber-pot,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|by your hearing: all the peace you make in their
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|cause is, calling both the parties knaves. You are
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|a pair of strange ones.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Come, come, you are well understood to be a
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|perfecter giber for the table than a necessary
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|bencher in the Capitol.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|wagging of your beards, and your beards deserve not
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's pack-
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|saddle. Yet you must be saying, Marcius is proud,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|who in a cheap estimation, is worth predecessors
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|since Deucalion, though peradventure some of the
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|best of 'em were hereditary hangmen. God-den to
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|your worships: more of your conversation would
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|BRUTUS and SICINIUS go aside
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and VALERIA
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|How now, my as fair as noble ladies,--and the moon,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|were she earthly, no nobler,--whither do you follow
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|your eyes so fast?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Honourable Menenius, my boy Marcius approaches, for
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|the love of Juno, let's go.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Ha! Marcius coming home!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Ay, worthy Menenius, and with most prosperous
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|approbation.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee. Hoo!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Marcius coming home!
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Nay,'tis true.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Look, here's a letter from him: the state hath
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|another, his wife another, and, I think, there's one
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|at home for you.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I will make my very house reel tonight: a letter for
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|me!
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Yes, certain, there's a letter for you, I saw't.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A letter for me! it gives me an estate of seven
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|years' health, in which time I will make a lip at
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|the physician: the most sovereign prescription in
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|of no better report than a horse-drench. Is he
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|not wounded? he was wont to come home wounded.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|O, no, no, no.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|O, he is wounded, I thank the gods for't.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|So do I too, if it be not too much: brings a'
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|victory in his pocket? the wounds become him.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time home
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|with the oaken garland.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, but
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Aufidius got off.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him that:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|fidiused for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Good ladies, let's go. Yes, yes, yes, the senate
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|has letters from the general, wherein he gives my
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|son the whole name of the war: he hath in this
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|action outdone his former deeds doubly
Coriolanus|VALERIA|In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|true purchasing.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|The gods grant them true!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|True! pow, wow.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|True! I'll be sworn they are true.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Where is he wounded?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To the Tribunes
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|God save your good worships! Marcius is coming
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|home: he has more cause to be proud. Where is he wounded?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I' the shoulder and i' the left arm there will be
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|stand for his place. He received in the repulse of
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Tarquin seven hurts i' the body.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh,--there's
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|nine that I know.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|He had, before this last expedition, twenty-five
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|wounds upon him.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Now it's twenty-seven: every gash was an enemy's grave.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A shout and flourish
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Hark! the trumpets.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|These are the ushers of Marcius: before him he
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|A sennet. Trumpets sound. Enter COMINIUS the  general, and TITUS LARTIUS, between them, CORIOLANUS,  crowned with an oaken garland, with Captains and Soldiers, and a Herald
Coriolanus|Herald|Know, Rome, that all alone Marcius did fight
Coriolanus|Herald|Within Corioli gates: where he hath won,
Coriolanus|Herald|With fame, a name to Caius Marcius, these
Coriolanus|Herald|In honour follows Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|Herald|Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!
Coriolanus|Herald|Flourish
Coriolanus|All|Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|No more of this, it does offend my heart:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Pray now, no more.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Look, sir, your mother!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|O,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You have, I know, petition'd all the gods
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For my prosperity!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Kneels
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Nay, my good soldier, up,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|My gentle Marcius, worthy Caius, and
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|By deed-achieving honour newly named,--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|What is it?--Coriolanus must I call thee?--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But O, thy wife!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My gracious silence, hail!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Wouldst thou have laugh'd had I come coffin'd home,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That weep'st to see me triumph? Ay, my dear,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And mothers that lack sons.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Now, the gods crown thee!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And live you yet?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To VALERIA
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|O my sweet lady, pardon.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I know not where to turn: O, welcome home:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And welcome, general: and ye're welcome all.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A curse begin at very root on's heart,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That is not glad to see thee! You are three
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That Rome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We have some old crab-trees here
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|at home that will not
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We call a nettle but a nettle and
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The faults of fools but folly.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Ever right.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Menenius ever, ever.
Coriolanus|Herald|Give way there, and go on!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|[To VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA]  Your hand, and yours:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ere in our own house I do shade my head,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The good patricians must be visited,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|From whom I have received not only greetings,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|But with them change of honours.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I have lived
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To see inherited my very wishes
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And the buildings of my fancy: only
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Our Rome will cast upon thee.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Know, good mother,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I had rather be their servant in my way,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than sway with them in theirs.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|On, to the Capitol!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Flourish. Cornets. Exeunt in state, as before. BRUTUS and SICINIUS come forward
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Into a rapture lets her baby cry
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges horsed
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|With variable complexions, all agreeing
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|In earnestness to see him: seld-shown flamens
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Do press among the popular throngs and puff
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|To win a vulgar station: or veil'd dames
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Commit the war of white and damask in
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Their nicely-gawded cheeks to the wanton spoil
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Of Phoebus' burning kisses: such a pother
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|As if that whatsoever god who leads him
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Were slily crept into his human powers
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And gave him graceful posture.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|On the sudden,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|I warrant him consul.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Then our office may,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|During his power, go sleep.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|He cannot temperately transport his honours
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|From where he should begin and end, but will
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Lose those he hath won.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|In that there's comfort.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Doubt not
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The commoners, for whom we stand, but they
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Upon their ancient malice will forget
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|With the least cause these his new honours, which
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|That he will give them make I as little question
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As he is proud to do't.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|I heard him swear,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Were he to stand for consul, never would he
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Appear i' the market-place nor on him put
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The napless vesture of humility,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Nor showing, as the manner is, his wounds
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|To the people, beg their stinking breaths.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|'Tis right.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|It was his word: O, he would miss it rather
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Than carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And the desire of the nobles.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|I wish no better
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Than have him hold that purpose and to put it
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|In execution.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|'Tis most like he will.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|It shall be to him then as our good wills,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|A sure destruction.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|So it must fall out
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|To him or our authorities. For an end,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We must suggest the people in what hatred
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He still hath held them, that to's power he would
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders and
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|In human action and capacity,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Than camels in the war, who have their provand
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|For sinking under them.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This, as you say, suggested
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|At some time when his soaring insolence
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Shall touch the people--which time shall not want,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|If he be put upon 't, and that's as easy
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As to set dogs on sheep--will be his fire
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To kindle their dry stubble, and their blaze
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Shall darken him for ever.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Enter a Messenger
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|What's the matter?
Coriolanus|Messenger|You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought
Coriolanus|Messenger|That Marcius shall be consul:
Coriolanus|Messenger|I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and
Coriolanus|Messenger|The blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,
Coriolanus|Messenger|Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,
Coriolanus|Messenger|Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended,
Coriolanus|Messenger|As to Jove's statue, and the commons made
Coriolanus|Messenger|A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:
Coriolanus|Messenger|I never saw the like.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Let's to the Capitol,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And carry with us ears and eyes for the time,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|But hearts for the event.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Have with you.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|SCENE II. The same. The Capitol.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Enter two Officers, to lay cushions
Coriolanus|First Officer|Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand
Coriolanus|First Officer|for consulships?
Coriolanus|Second Officer|Three, they say: but 'tis thought of every one
Coriolanus|Second Officer|Coriolanus will carry it.
Coriolanus|First Officer|That's a brave fellow, but he's vengeance proud, and
Coriolanus|First Officer|loves not the common people.
Coriolanus|Second Officer|Faith, there had been many great men that have
Coriolanus|Second Officer|flattered the people, who ne'er loved them, and there
Coriolanus|Second Officer|be many that they have loved, they know not
Coriolanus|Second Officer|wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why,
Coriolanus|Second Officer|they hate upon no better a ground: therefore, for
Coriolanus|Second Officer|Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate
Coriolanus|Second Officer|him manifests the true knowledge he has in their
Coriolanus|Second Officer|disposition, and out of his noble carelessness lets
Coriolanus|Second Officer|them plainly see't.
Coriolanus|First Officer|If he did not care whether he had their love or no,
Coriolanus|First Officer|he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
Coriolanus|First Officer|good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater
Coriolanus|First Officer|devotion than can render it him, and leaves
Coriolanus|First Officer|nothing undone that may fully discover him their
Coriolanus|First Officer|opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and
Coriolanus|First Officer|displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he
Coriolanus|First Officer|dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
Coriolanus|Second Officer|He hath deserved worthily of his country: and his
Coriolanus|Second Officer|ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who,
Coriolanus|Second Officer|having been supple and courteous to the people,
Coriolanus|Second Officer|bonneted, without any further deed to have them at
Coriolanus|Second Officer|an into their estimation and report: but he hath so
Coriolanus|Second Officer|planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions
Coriolanus|Second Officer|in their hearts, that for their tongues to be
Coriolanus|Second Officer|silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of
Coriolanus|Second Officer|ingrateful injury, to report otherwise, were a
Coriolanus|Second Officer|malice, that, giving itself the lie, would pluck
Coriolanus|Second Officer|reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it.
Coriolanus|First Officer|No more of him, he is a worthy man: make way, they
Coriolanus|First Officer|are coming.
Coriolanus|First Officer|A sennet. Enter, with actors before them, COMINIUS  the consul, MENENIUS, CORIOLANUS, Senators,  SICINIUS and BRUTUS. The Senators take their  places, the Tribunes take their Places by themselves. CORIOLANUS stands
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Having determined of the Volsces and
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To send for Titus Lartius, it remains,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As the main point of this our after-meeting,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To gratify his noble service that
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Hath thus stood for his country: therefore,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|please you,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Most reverend and grave elders, to desire
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The present consul, and last general
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|In our well-found successes, to report
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A little of that worthy work perform'd
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|By Caius Marcius Coriolanus, whom
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We met here both to thank and to remember
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|With honours like himself.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Speak, good Cominius:
Coriolanus|First Senator|Leave nothing out for length, and make us think
Coriolanus|First Senator|Rather our state's defective for requital
Coriolanus|First Senator|Than we to stretch it out.
Coriolanus|First Senator|To the Tribunes
Coriolanus|First Senator|Masters o' the people,
Coriolanus|First Senator|We do request your kindest ears, and after,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Your loving motion toward the common body,
Coriolanus|First Senator|To yield what passes here.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We are convented
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Inclinable to honour and advance
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The theme of our assembly.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Which the rather
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We shall be blest to do, if he remember
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|A kinder value of the people than
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He hath hereto prized them at.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That's off, that's off,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I would you rather had been silent. Please you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To hear Cominius speak?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Most willingly,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|But yet my caution was more pertinent
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Than the rebuke you give it.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He loves your people
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But tie him not to be their bedfellow.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Worthy Cominius, speak.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|CORIOLANUS offers to go away
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Nay, keep your place.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Sit, Coriolanus, never shame to hear
Coriolanus|First Senator|What you have nobly done.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your horror's pardon:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I had rather have my wounds to heal again
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than hear say how I got them.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Sir, I hope
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|My words disbench'd you not.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|No, sir: yet oft,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You soothed not, therefore hurt not: but
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|your people,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I love them as they weigh.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Pray now, sit down.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|When the alarum were struck than idly sit
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To hear my nothings monster'd.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Exit
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Masters of the people,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That's thousand to one good one--when you now see
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He had rather venture all his limbs for honour
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Than one on's ears to hear it? Proceed, Cominius.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Should not be utter'd feebly. It is held
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That valour is the chiefest virtue, and
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Most dignifies the haver: if it be,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The man I speak of cannot in the world
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Beyond the mark of others: our then dictator,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|When with his Amazonian chin he drove
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The bristled lips before him: be bestrid
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|An o'er-press'd Roman and i' the consul's view
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Slew three opposers: Tarquin's self he met,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And struck him on his knee: in that day's feats,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|When he might act the woman in the scene,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He proved best man i' the field, and for his meed
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Man-enter'd thus, he waxed like a sea,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He lurch'd all swords of the garland. For this last,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Before and in Corioli, let me say,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I cannot speak him home: he stopp'd the fliers,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And by his rare example made the coward
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Turn terror into sport: as weeds before
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|A vessel under sail, so men obey'd
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And fell below his stem: his sword, death's stamp,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Where it did mark, it took, from face to foot
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Was timed with dying cries: alone he enter'd
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The mortal gate of the city, which he painted
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|With shunless destiny, aidless came off,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And with a sudden reinforcement struck
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Corioli like a planet: now all's his:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|His ready sense, then straight his doubled spirit
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And to the battle came he, where he did
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|'Twere a perpetual spoil: and till we call'd
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Both field and city ours, he never stood
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To ease his breast with panting.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Worthy man!
Coriolanus|First Senator|He cannot but with measure fit the honours
Coriolanus|First Senator|Which we devise him.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Our spoils he kick'd at,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And look'd upon things precious as they were
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The common muck of the world: he covets less
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Than misery itself would give, rewards
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|His deeds with doing them, and is content
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To spend the time to end it.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He's right noble:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Let him be call'd for.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Call Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|Officer|He doth appear.
Coriolanus|Officer|Re-enter CORIOLANUS
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To make thee consul.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I do owe them still
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My life and services.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|It then remains
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That you do speak to the people.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I do beseech you,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Put on the gown, stand naked and entreat them,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage: please you
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That I may pass this doing.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Sir, the people
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Must have their voices, neither will they bate
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|One jot of ceremony.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Put them not to't:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Pray you, go fit you to the custom and
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Take to you, as your predecessors have,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Your honour with your form.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|It is apart
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That I shall blush in acting, and might well
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Be taken from the people.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Mark you that?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To brag unto them, thus I did, and thus,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Show them the unaching scars which I should hide,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As if I had received them for the hire
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of their breath only!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Do not stand upon't.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Our purpose to them: and to our noble consul
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Wish we all joy and honour.
Coriolanus|Senators|To Coriolanus come all joy and honour!
Coriolanus|Senators|Flourish of cornets. Exeunt all but SICINIUS and BRUTUS
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|You see how he intends to use the people.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|May they perceive's intent! He will require them,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As if he did contemn what he requested
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Should be in them to give.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Come, we'll inform them
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Of our proceedings here: on the marketplace,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|I know, they do attend us.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|SCENE III. The same. The Forum.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter seven or eight Citizens
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|We may, sir, if we will.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|power that we have no power to do, for if he show us
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|tongues into those wounds and speak for them, so, if
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|were to make a monster of the multitude: of the
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|which we being members, should bring ourselves to be
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|monstrous members.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|And to make us no better thought of, a little help
Coriolanus|First Citizen|will serve, for once we stood up about the corn, he
Coriolanus|First Citizen|himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|We have been called so of many, not that our heads
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|and their consent of one direct way should be at
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|once to all the points o' the compass.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|fly?
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man's
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|will,'tis strongly wedged up in a block-head, but
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|if it were at liberty, 'twould, sure, southward.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Why that way?
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|To lose itself in a fog, where being three parts
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|You are never without your tricks: you may, you may.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Are you all resolved to give your voices? But
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|say, if he would incline to the people, there was
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|never a worthier man.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Enter CORIOLANUS in a gown of humility, with MENENIUS
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|behavior. We are not to stay all together, but to
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|by threes. He's to make his requests by
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|particulars, wherein every one of us has a single
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|honour, in giving him our own voices with our own
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|you shall go by him.
Coriolanus|All|Content, content.
Coriolanus|All|Exeunt Citizens
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|O sir, you are not right: have you not known
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The worthiest men have done't?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What must I say?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|'I Pray, sir'--Plague upon't! I cannot bring
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My tongue to such a pace:--'Look, sir, my wounds!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I got them in my country's service, when
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|From the noise of our own drums.'
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|O me, the gods!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You must not speak of that: you must desire them
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To think upon you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Think upon me! hang 'em!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I would they would forget me, like the virtues
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which our divines lose by 'em.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You'll mar all:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'll leave you: pray you, speak to 'em, I pray you,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|In wholesome manner.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Exit
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Bid them wash their faces
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And keep their teeth clean.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Re-enter two of the Citizens
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|So, here comes a brace.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Re-enter a third Citizen
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You know the cause, air, of my standing here.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|We do, sir, tell us what hath brought you to't.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Mine own desert.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Your own desert!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ay, but not mine own desire.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|How not your own desire?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|No, sir,'twas never my desire yet to trouble the
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|poor with begging.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|You must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|gain by you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|The price is to ask it kindly.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Kindly! Sir, I pray, let me ha't: I have wounds to
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|show you, which shall be yours in private. Your
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|good voice, sir, what say you?
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|You shall ha' it, worthy sir.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A match, sir. There's in all two worthy voices
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|begged. I have your alms: adieu.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|But this is something odd.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|An 'twere to give again,--but 'tis no matter.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Exeunt the three Citizens
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Re-enter two other Citizens
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|voices that I may be consul, I have here the
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|customary gown.
Coriolanus|Fourth Citizen|You have deserved nobly of your country, and you
Coriolanus|Fourth Citizen|have not deserved nobly.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your enigma?
Coriolanus|Fourth Citizen|You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have
Coriolanus|Fourth Citizen|been a rod to her friends, you have not indeed loved
Coriolanus|Fourth Citizen|the common people.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You should account me the more virtuous that I have
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|not been common in my love. I will, sir, flatter my
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|estimation of them, 'tis a condition they account
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|the insinuating nod and be off to them most
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|counterfeitly, that is, sir, I will counterfeit the
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|bewitchment of some popular man and give it
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|bountiful to the desirers. Therefore, beseech you,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I may be consul.
Coriolanus|Fifth Citizen|We hope to find you our friend, and therefore give
Coriolanus|Fifth Citizen|you our voices heartily.
Coriolanus|Fourth Citizen|You have received many wounds for your country.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|will make much of your voices, and so trouble you no further.
Coriolanus|Both Citizens|The gods give you joy, sir, heartily!
Coriolanus|Both Citizens|Exeunt
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Most sweet voices!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Better it is to die, better to starve,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than crave the hire which first we do deserve.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Why in this woolvish toge should I stand here,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What custom wills, in all things should we do't,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And mountainous error be too highly heapt
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For truth to o'er-peer. Rather than fool it so,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let the high office and the honour go
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To one that would do thus. I am half through,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The one part suffer'd, the other will I do.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Re-enter three Citizens more
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Here come more voices.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your voices: for your voices I have fought,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Watch'd for your voices, for Your voices bear
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of wounds two dozen odd, battles thrice six
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I have seen and heard of, for your voices have
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Done many things, some less, some more your voices:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Indeed I would be consul.
Coriolanus|Sixth Citizen|He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest
Coriolanus|Sixth Citizen|man's voice.
Coriolanus|Seventh Citizen|Therefore let him be consul: the gods give him joy,
Coriolanus|Seventh Citizen|and make him good friend to the people!
Coriolanus|All Citizens|Amen, amen. God save thee, noble consul!
Coriolanus|All Citizens|Exeunt
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Worthy voices!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Re-enter MENENIUS, with BRUTUS and SICINIUS
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You have stood your limitation, and the tribunes
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Endue you with the people's voice: remains
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That, in the official marks invested, you
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Anon do meet the senate.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Is this done?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The custom of request you have discharged:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The people do admit you, and are summon'd
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To meet anon, upon your approbation.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Where? at the senate-house?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|There, Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|May I change these garments?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|You may, sir.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That I'll straight do, and, knowing myself again,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Repair to the senate-house.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'll keep you company. Will you along?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We stay here for the people.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Fare you well.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Exeunt CORIOLANUS and MENENIUS
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|He has it now, and by his looks methink
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|'Tis warm at 's heart.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|will you dismiss the people?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Re-enter Citizens
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
Coriolanus|First Citizen|He has our voices, sir.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Amen, sir: to my poor unworthy notice,
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|He mock'd us when he begg'd our voices.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Certainly
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|He flouted us downright.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|No,'tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|He used us scornfully: he should have show'd us
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|His marks of merit, wounds received for's country.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Why, so he did, I am sure.
Coriolanus|Citizens|No, no, no man saw 'em.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|He said he had wounds, which he could show
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|in private,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|'I would be consul,' says he: 'aged custom,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|But by your voices, will not so permit me,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Your voices therefore.' When we granted that,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Here was 'I thank you for your voices: thank you:
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|Your most sweet voices: now you have left
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|your voices,
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|I have no further with you.' Was not this mockery?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Why either were you ignorant to see't,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To yield your voices?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Could you not have told him
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|As you were lesson'd, when he had no power,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|But was a petty servant to the state,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He was your enemy, ever spake against
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Your liberties and the charters that you bear
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|I' the body of the weal, and now, arriving
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|A place of potency and sway o' the state,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|If he should still malignantly remain
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Fast foe to the plebeii, your voices might
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Be curses to yourselves? You should have said
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|That as his worthy deeds did claim no less
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Would think upon you for your voices and
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Translate his malice towards you into love,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Standing your friendly lord.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Thus to have said,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As you were fore-advised, had touch'd his spirit
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And tried his inclination, from him pluck'd
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Either his gracious promise, which you might,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As cause had call'd you up, have held him to
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Which easily endures not article
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Tying him to aught, so putting him to rage,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And pass'd him unelected.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Did you perceive
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He did solicit you in free contempt
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|When he did need your loves, and do you think
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|That his contempt shall not be bruising to you,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Against the rectorship of judgment?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Have you
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Ere now denied the asker? and now again
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Your sued-for tongues?
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|He's not confirm'd, we may deny him yet.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|And will deny him:
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|I'll have five hundred voices of that sound.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|I twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|They have chose a consul that will from them take
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Their liberties, make them of no more voice
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Than dogs that are as often beat for barking
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|As therefore kept to do so.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Let them assemble,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And on a safer judgment all revoke
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Your ignorant election, enforce his pride,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And his old hate unto you, besides, forget not
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|With what contempt he wore the humble weed,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|How in his suit he scorn'd you, but your loves,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Thinking upon his services, took from you
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The apprehension of his present portance,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|After the inveterate hate he bears you.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Lay
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|A fault on us, your tribunes, that we laboured,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|No impediment between, but that you must
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Cast your election on him.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Say, you chose him
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|More after our commandment than as guided
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|By your own true affections, and that your minds,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Preoccupied with what you rather must do
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Than what you should, made you against the grain
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|How youngly he began to serve his country,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|How long continued, and what stock he springs of,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's son,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Who, after great Hostilius, here was king,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|That our beat water brought by conduits hither,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And  [Censorinus,]  nobly named so,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Twice being  [by the people chosen]  censor,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Was his great ancestor.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|One thus descended,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|That hath beside well in his person wrought
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To be set high in place, we did commend
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To your remembrances: but you have found,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Scaling his present bearing with his past,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Your sudden approbation.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Say, you ne'er had done't--
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Harp on that still--but by our putting on,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And presently, when you have drawn your number,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Repair to the Capitol.
Coriolanus|All|We will so: almost all
Coriolanus|All|Repent in their election.
Coriolanus|All|Exeunt Citizens
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Let them go on,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|This mutiny were better put in hazard,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Than stay, past doubt, for greater:
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|With their refusal, both observe and answer
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The vantage of his anger.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To the Capitol, come:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We will be there before the stream o' the people,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Which we have goaded onward.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|ACT III
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|SCENE I. Rome. A street.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the Gentry, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|He had, my lord, and that it was which caused
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Our swifter composition.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|So then the Volsces stand but as at first,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Upon's again.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|They are worn, lord consul, so,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That we shall hardly in our ages see
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Their banners wave again.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Saw you Aufidius?
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|On safe-guard he  came to me, and did curse
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Yielded the town: he is retired to Antium.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Spoke he of me?
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|He did, my lord.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|How? what?
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|How often he had met you, sword to sword,
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|That of all things upon the earth he hated
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Your person most, that he would pawn his fortunes
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|To hopeless restitution, so he might
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|Be call'd your vanquisher.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|At Antium lives he?
Coriolanus|LARTIUS|At Antium.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For they do prank them in authority,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Against all noble sufferance.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Pass no further.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ha! what is that?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|It will be dangerous to go on: no further.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What makes this change?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The matter?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Cominius, no.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Have I had children's voices?
Coriolanus|First Senator|Tribunes, give way, he shall to the market-place.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The people are incensed against him.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Stop,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Or all will fall in broil.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Are these your herd?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Must these have voices, that can yield them now
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And straight disclaim their tongues? What are
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|your offices?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Have you not set them on?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Be calm, be calm.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To curb the will of the nobility:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Suffer't, and live with such as cannot rule
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Nor ever will be ruled.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Call't not a plot:
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The people cry you mock'd them, and of late,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|When corn was given them gratis, you repined,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Scandal'd the suppliants for the people, call'd them
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Why, this was known before.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Not to them all.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Have you inform'd them sithence?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|How! I inform them!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You are like to do such business.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Not unlike,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Each way, to better yours.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your fellow tribune.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|You show too much of that
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|For which the people stir: if you will pass
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Or never be so noble as a consul,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Nor yoke with him for tribune.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Let's be calm.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The people are abused, set on. This paltering
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I' the plain way of his merit.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Tell me of corn!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|This was my speech, and I will speak't again--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Not now, not now.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Not in this heat, sir, now.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I crave their pardons:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Regard me as I do not flatter, and
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Therein behold themselves: I say again,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|and scatter'd,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|By mingling them with us, the honour'd number,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which they have given to beggars.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Well, no more.
Coriolanus|First Senator|No more words, we beseech you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|How! no more!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As for my country I have shed my blood,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Coin words till their decay against those measles,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which we disdain should tatter us, yet sought
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The very way to catch them.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|You speak o' the people,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|As if you were a god to punish, not
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|A man of their infirmity.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|'Twere well
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We let the people know't.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What, what? his choler?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Choler!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|By Jove, 'twould be my mind!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|It is a mind
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|That shall remain a poison where it is,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Not poison any further.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Shall remain!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|His absolute 'shall'?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|'Twas from the canon.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|'Shall'!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|O good but most unwise patricians! why,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You grave but reckless senators, have you thus
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Given Hydra here to choose an officer,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That with his peremptory 'shall,' being but
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The horn and noise o' the monster's, wants not spirit
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To say he'll turn your current in a ditch,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And make your channel his? If he have power
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Then vail your ignorance, if none, awake
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your dangerous lenity. If you are learn'd,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Be not as common fools, if you are not,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|If they be senators: and they are no less,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|When, both your voices blended, the great'st taste
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And such a one as he, who puts his 'shall,'
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|His popular 'shall' against a graver bench
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than ever frown in Greece. By Jove himself!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|It makes the consuls base: and my soul aches
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To know, when two authorities are up,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Neither supreme, how soon confusion
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The one by the other.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Well, on to the market-place.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The corn o' the storehouse gratis, as 'twas used
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Sometime in Greece,--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Well, well, no more of that.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Though there the people had more absolute power,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I say, they nourish'd disobedience, fed
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The ruin of the state.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Why, shall the people give
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|One that speaks thus their voice?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I'll give my reasons,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|More worthier than their voices. They know the corn
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Was not our recompense, resting well assured
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That ne'er did service for't: being press'd to the war,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Even when the navel of the state was touch'd,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|They would not thread the gates. This kind of service
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i' the war
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they show'd
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Most valour, spoke not for them: the accusation
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which they have often made against the senate,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|All cause unborn, could never be the motive
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of our so frank donation. Well, what then?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|How shall this bisson multitude digest
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What's like to be their words: 'we did request it,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|We are the greater poll, and in true fear
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|They gave us our demands.' Thus we debase
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The nature of our seats and make the rabble
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Call our cares fears, which will in time
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Break ope the locks o' the senate and bring in
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The crows to peck the eagles.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Come, enough.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enough, with over-measure.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|No, take more:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What may be sworn by, both divine and human,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Seal what I end withal! This double worship,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Where one part does disdain with cause, the other
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Cannot conclude but by the yea and no
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of general ignorance,--it must omit
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Real necessities, and give way the while
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To unstable slightness: purpose so barr'd,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|it follows,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you,--
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You that will be less fearful than discreet,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That love the fundamental part of state
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A noble life before a long, and wish
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To jump a body with a dangerous physic
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That's sure of death without it, at once pluck out
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The multitudinous tongue, let them not lick
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The sweet which is their poison: your dishonour
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Mangles true judgment and bereaves the state
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of that integrity which should become't,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Not having the power to do the good it would,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For the in which doth control't.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Has said enough.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As traitors do.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What should the people do with these bald tribunes?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|On whom depending, their obedience fails
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To the greater bench: in a rebellion,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|When what's not meet, but what must be, was law,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Then were they chosen: in a better hour,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let what is meet be said it must be meet,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And throw their power i' the dust.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Manifest treason!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This a consul? no.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The aediles, ho!
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter an AEdile
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Let him be apprehended.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Go, call the people:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Exit AEdile
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|in whose name myself
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|A foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And follow to thine answer.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hence, old goat!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Senators,  and C	We'll surety him.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Aged sir, hands off.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hence, rotten thing! or I shall shake thy bones
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Out of thy garments.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Help, ye citizens!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Enter a rabble of Citizens (Plebeians), with the AEdiles
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|On both sides more respect.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Here's he that would take from you all your power.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Seize him, AEdiles!
Coriolanus|Citizens|Down with him! down with him!
Coriolanus|Citizens|Senators,  and C	Weapons, weapons, weapons!
Coriolanus|Citizens|They all bustle about CORIOLANUS, crying
Coriolanus|Citizens|'Tribunes!' 'Patricians!' 'Citizens!' 'What, ho!'
Coriolanus|Citizens|'Sicinius!' 'Brutus!' 'Coriolanus!' 'Citizens!'
Coriolanus|Citizens|'Peace, peace, peace!' 'Stay, hold, peace!'
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What is about to be? I am out of breath,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Confusion's near, I cannot speak. You, tribunes
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To the people! Coriolanus, patience!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Speak, good Sicinius.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Hear me, people, peace!
Coriolanus|Citizens|Let's hear our tribune: peace Speak, speak, speak.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|You are at point to lose your liberties:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Marcius would have all from you, Marcius,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Whom late you have named for consul.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Fie, fie, fie!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This is the way to kindle, not to quench.
Coriolanus|First Senator|To unbuild the city and to lay all flat.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|What is the city but the people?
Coriolanus|Citizens|True,
Coriolanus|Citizens|The people are the city.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|By the consent of all, we were establish'd
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The people's magistrates.
Coriolanus|Citizens|You so remain.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And so are like to do.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That is the way to lay the city flat,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To bring the roof to the foundation,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|In heaps and piles of ruin.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This deserves death.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Or let us stand to our authority,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Or let us lose it. We do here pronounce,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Upon the part o' the people, in whose power
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We were elected theirs, Marcius is worthy
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Of present death.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Therefore lay hold of him,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Into destruction cast him.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|AEdiles, seize him!
Coriolanus|Citizens|Yield, Marcius, yield!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Hear me one word,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Beseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word.
Coriolanus|AEdile|Peace, peace!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|[To BRUTUS]  Be that you seem, truly your
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|country's friend,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And temperately proceed to what you would
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Thus violently redress.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Sir, those cold ways,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And bear him to the rock.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|No, I'll die here.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Drawing his sword
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|There's some among you have beheld me fighting:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Down with that sword! Tribunes, withdraw awhile.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Lay hands upon him.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Help Marcius, help,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|You that be noble, help him, young and old!
Coriolanus|Citizens|Down with him, down with him!
Coriolanus|Citizens|In this mutiny, the Tribunes, the AEdiles, and the People, are beat in
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Go, get you to your house, be gone, away!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|All will be naught else.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Get you gone.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Stand fast,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|We have as many friends as enemies.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Sham it be put to that?
Coriolanus|First Senator|The gods forbid!
Coriolanus|First Senator|I prithee, noble friend, home to thy house,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Leave us to cure this cause.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For 'tis a sore upon us,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You cannot tent yourself: be gone, beseech you.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Come, sir, along with us.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I would they were barbarians--as they are,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Though in Rome litter'd--not Romans--as they are not,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Though calved i' the porch o' the Capitol--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Be gone,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Put not your worthy rage into your tongue,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|One time will owe another.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|On fair ground
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I could beat forty of them.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I could myself
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Take up a brace o' the best of them, yea, the
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|two tribunes:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Against a falling fabric. Will you hence,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Before the tag return? whose rage doth rend
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Like interrupted waters and o'erbear
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|What they are used to bear.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Pray you, be gone:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'll try whether my old wit be in request
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|With those that have but little: this must be patch'd
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|With cloth of any colour.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Nay, come away.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, and others
Coriolanus|A Patrician|This man has marr'd his fortune.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|His nature is too noble for the world:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Or Jove for's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And, being angry, does forget that ever
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He heard the name of death.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A noise within
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Here's goodly work!
Coriolanus|Second Patrician|I would they were abed!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I would they were in Tiber! What the vengeance!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Could he not speak 'em fair?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Re-enter BRUTUS and SICINIUS, with the rabble
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Where is this viper
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|That would depopulate the city and
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Be every man himself?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You worthy tribunes,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|With rigorous hands: he hath resisted law,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Than the severity of the public power
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Which he so sets at nought.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|He shall well know
Coriolanus|First Citizen|The noble tribunes are the people's mouths,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|And we their hands.
Coriolanus|Citizens|He shall, sure on't.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Sir, sir,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Peace!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|With modest warrant.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Sir, how comes't that you
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Have holp to make this rescue?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Hear me speak:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As I do know the consul's worthiness,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|So can I name his faults,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Consul! what consul?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The consul Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|He consul!
Coriolanus|Citizens|No, no, no, no, no.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|If, by the tribunes' leave, and yours, good people,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I may be heard, I would crave a word or two,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The which shall turn you to no further harm
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Than so much loss of time.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Speak briefly then,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|For we are peremptory to dispatch
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This viperous traitor: to eject him hence
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Were but one danger, and to keep him here
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Our certain death: therefore it is decreed
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|He dies to-night.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Now the good gods forbid
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Towards her deserved children is enroll'd
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Should now eat up her own!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|He's a disease that must be cut away.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|O, he's a limb that has but a disease,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Mortal, to cut it off, to cure it, easy.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What has he done to Rome that's worthy death?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Which, I dare vouch, is more than that he hath,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|By many an ounce--he dropp'd it for his country,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And what is left, to lose it by his country,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Were to us all, that do't and suffer it,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A brand to the end o' the world.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This is clean kam.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Merely awry: when he did love his country,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|It honour'd him.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The service of the foot
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Being once gangrened, is not then respected
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For what before it was.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We'll hear no more.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Pursue him to his house, and pluck him thence:
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Lest his infection, being of catching nature,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Spread further.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|One word more, one word.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Tie leaden pounds to's heels. Proceed by process,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Lest parties, as he is beloved, break out,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And sack great Rome with Romans.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|If it were so,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|What do ye talk?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Have we not had a taste of his obedience?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Our aediles smote? ourselves resisted? Come.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Consider this: he has been bred i' the wars
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Since he could draw a sword, and is ill school'd
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|In bolted language, meal and bran together
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He throws without distinction. Give me leave,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'll go to him, and undertake to bring him
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Where he shall answer, by a lawful form,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|In peace, to his utmost peril.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Noble tribunes,
Coriolanus|First Senator|It is the humane way: the other course
Coriolanus|First Senator|Will prove too bloody, and the end of it
Coriolanus|First Senator|Unknown to the beginning.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Noble Menenius,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Be you then as the people's officer.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Masters, lay down your weapons.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Go not home.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|In our first way.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'll bring him to you.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To the Senators
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Let me desire your company: he must come,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Or what is worst will follow.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Pray you, let's to him.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Exeunt
Coriolanus|First Senator|SCENE II. A room in CORIOLANUS'S house.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Enter CORIOLANUS with Patricians
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let them puff all about mine ears, present me
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That the precipitation might down stretch
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Below the beam of sight, yet will I still
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Be thus to them.
Coriolanus|A Patrician|You do the nobler.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I muse my mother
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Does not approve me further, who was wont
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To call them woollen vassals, things created
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|When one but of my ordinance stood up
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To speak of peace or war.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter VOLUMNIA
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I talk of you:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|False to my nature? Rather say I play
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The man I am.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|O, sir, sir, sir,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I would have had you put your power well on,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Before you had worn it out.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let go.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|You might have been enough the man you are,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|With striving less to be so, lesser had been
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The thwartings of your dispositions, if
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|You had not show'd them how ye were disposed
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Ere they lack'd power to cross you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let them hang.
Coriolanus|A Patrician|Ay, and burn too.
Coriolanus|A Patrician|Enter MENENIUS and Senators
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Come, come, you have been too rough, something
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|too rough,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You must return and mend it.
Coriolanus|First Senator|There's no remedy,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Unless, by not so doing, our good city
Coriolanus|First Senator|Cleave in the midst, and perish.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Pray, be counsell'd:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I have a heart as little apt as yours,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To better vantage.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Well said, noble woman?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Before he should thus stoop to the herd, but that
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The violent fit o' the time craves it as physic
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Which I can scarcely bear.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What must I do?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Return to the tribunes.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Well, what then? what then?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Repent what you have spoke.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For them! I cannot do it to the gods,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Must I then do't to them?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|You are too absolute,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Though therein you can never be too noble,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But when extremities speak. I have heard you say,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I' the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|In peace what each of them by the other lose,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That they combine not there.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Tush, tush!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A good demand.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|If it be honour in your wars to seem
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The same you are not, which, for your best ends,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That it shall hold companionship in peace
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|With honour, as in war, since that to both
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|It stands in like request?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Why force you this?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Because that now it lies you on to speak
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To the people, not by your own instruction,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Nor by the matter which your heart prompts you,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But with such words that are but rooted in
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Of no allowance to your bosom's truth.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Now, this no more dishonours you at all
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than to take in a town with gentle words,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Which else would put you to your fortune and
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The hazard of much blood.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I would dissemble with my nature where
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|My fortunes and my friends at stake required
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I should do so in honour: I am in this,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And you will rather show our general louts
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|How you can frown than spend a fawn upon 'em,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Of what that want might ruin.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Noble lady!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Come, go with us, speak fair: you may salve so,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Not what is dangerous present, but the loss
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of what is past.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I prithee now, my son,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And thus far having stretch'd it--here be with them--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thy knee bussing the stones--for in such business
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|More learned than the ears--waving thy head,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Which often, thus, correcting thy stout heart,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Now humble as the ripest mulberry
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That will not hold the handling: or say to them,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thou art their soldier, and being bred in broils
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Hast not the soft way which, thou dost confess,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Were fit for thee to use as they to claim,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|In asking their good loves, but thou wilt frame
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|As thou hast power and person.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This but done,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Even as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For they have pardons, being ask'd, as free
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As words to little purpose.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Prithee now,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Go, and be ruled: although I know thou hadst rather
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than flatter him in a bower. Here is Cominius.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Enter COMINIUS
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I have been i' the market-place, and, sir,'tis fit
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|You make strong party, or defend yourself
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|By calmness or by absence: all's in anger.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Only fair speech.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I think 'twill serve, if he
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Can thereto frame his spirit.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|He must, and will
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Prithee now, say you will, and go about it.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Must I with base tongue give my noble heart
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A lie that it must bear? Well, I will do't:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Yet, were there but this single plot to lose,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|This mould of Marcius, they to dust should grind it
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And throw't against the wind. To the market-place!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You have put me now to such a part which never
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I shall discharge to the life.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Come, come, we'll prompt you.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|My praises made thee first a soldier, so,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To have my praise for this, perform a part
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thou hast not done before.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Well, I must do't:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Away, my disposition, and possess me
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Some harlot's spirit! my throat of war be turn'd,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which quired with my drum, into a pipe
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That babies lulls asleep! the smiles of knaves
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The glasses of my sight! a beggar's tongue
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That hath received an alms! I will not do't,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And by my body's action teach my mind
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A most inherent baseness.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|At thy choice, then:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than thou of them. Come all to ruin, let
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But owe thy pride thyself.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Pray, be content:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Mother, I am going to the market-place,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Commend me to my wife. I'll return consul,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Or never trust to what my tongue can do
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I' the way of flattery further.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Do your will.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Exit
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Away! the tribunes do attend you: arm yourself
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To answer mildly, for they are prepared
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|With accusations, as I hear, more strong
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Than are upon you yet.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The word is 'mildly.' Pray you, let us go:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let them accuse me by invention, I
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Will answer in mine honour.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Ay, but mildly.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Well, mildly be it then. Mildly!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|SCENE III. The same. The Forum.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|In this point charge him home, that he affects
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Tyrannical power: if he evade us there,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enforce him with his envy to the people,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And that the spoil got on the Antiates
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Was ne'er distributed.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter an AEdile
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|What, will he come?
Coriolanus|AEdile|He's coming.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|How accompanied?
Coriolanus|AEdile|With old Menenius, and those senators
Coriolanus|AEdile|That always favour'd him.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Have you a catalogue
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Of all the voices that we have procured
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Set down by the poll?
Coriolanus|AEdile|I have, 'tis ready.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Have you collected them by tribes?
Coriolanus|AEdile|I have.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Assemble presently the people hither,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And when they bear me say 'It shall be so
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|If I say fine, cry 'Fine,' if death, cry 'Death.'
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Insisting on the old prerogative
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And power i' the truth o' the cause.
Coriolanus|AEdile|I shall inform them.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And when such time they have begun to cry,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Let them not cease, but with a din confused
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enforce the present execution
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Of what we chance to sentence.
Coriolanus|AEdile|Very well.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Make them be strong and ready for this hint,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|When we shall hap to give 't them.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Go about it.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Exit AEdile
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Put him to choler straight: he hath been used
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Ever to conquer, and to have his worth
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Be rein'd again to temperance, then he speaks
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|What's in his heart, and that is there which looks
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|With us to break his neck.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Well, here he comes.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, and COMINIUS, with Senators and Patricians
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Calmly, I do beseech you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Supplied with worthy men! plant love among 's!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And not our streets with war!
Coriolanus|First Senator|Amen, amen.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A noble wish.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Re-enter AEdile, with Citizens
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Draw near, ye people.
Coriolanus|AEdile|List to your tribunes. Audience: peace, I say!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|First, hear me speak.
Coriolanus|Both Tribunes|Well, say. Peace, ho!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Shall I be charged no further than this present?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Must all determine here?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|I do demand,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|If you submit you to the people's voices,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Allow their officers and are content
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To suffer lawful censure for such faults
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As shall be proved upon you?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I am content.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Lo, citizens, he says he is content:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The warlike service he has done, consider, think
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Upon the wounds his body bears, which show
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Like graves i' the holy churchyard.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Scratches with briers,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Scars to move laughter only.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Consider further,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That when he speaks not like a citizen,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You find him like a soldier: do not take
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|His rougher accents for malicious sounds,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But, as I say, such as become a soldier,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Rather than envy you.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Well, well, no more.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What is the matter
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That being pass'd for consul with full voice,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I am so dishonour'd that the very hour
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You take it off again?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Answer to us.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We charge you, that you have contrived to take
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|From Rome all season'd office and to wind
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Yourself into a power tyrannical,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|For which you are a traitor to the people.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|How! traitor!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Nay, temperately, your promise.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In thy hand clutch'd as many millions, in
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As I do pray the gods.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Mark you this, people?
Coriolanus|Citizens|To the rock, to the rock with him!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Peace!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We need not put new matter to his charge:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|What you have seen him do and heard him speak,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Opposing laws with strokes and here defying
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Those whose great power must try him, even this,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|So criminal and in such capital kind,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Deserves the extremest death.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|But since he hath
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Served well for Rome,--
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What do you prate of service?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|I talk of that, that know it.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Is this the promise that you made your mother?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Know, I pray you,--
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I know no further:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|But with a grain a day, I would not buy
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Their mercy at the price of one fair word,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|For that he has,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As much as in him lies, from time to time
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Envied against the people, seeking means
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To pluck away their power, as now at last
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|That do distribute it, in the name o' the people
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And in the power of us the tribunes, we,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Even from this instant, banish him our city,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|In peril of precipitation
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|From off the rock Tarpeian never more
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|I say it shall be so.
Coriolanus|Citizens|It shall be so, it shall be so, let him away:
Coriolanus|Citizens|He's banish'd, and it shall be so.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|He's sentenced, no more hearing.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Let me speak:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I have been consul, and can show for Rome
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|My country's good with a respect more tender,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|More holy and profound, than mine own life,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And treasure of my loins, then if I would
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Speak that,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We know your drift: speak what?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|As enemy to the people and his country:
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|It shall be so.
Coriolanus|Citizens|It shall be so, it shall be so.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As the dead carcasses of unburied men
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That do corrupt my air, I banish you,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And here remain with your uncertainty!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Fan you into despair! Have the power still
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To banish your defenders, till at length
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Making not reservation of yourselves,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Still your own foes, deliver you as most
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Abated captives to some nation
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That won you without blows! Despising,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|There is a world elsewhere.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators, and Patricians
Coriolanus|AEdile|The people's enemy is gone, is gone!
Coriolanus|Citizens|Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!
Coriolanus|Citizens|Shouting, and throwing up their caps
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As he hath followed you, with all despite,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Attend us through the city.
Coriolanus|Citizens|Come, come, let's see him out at gates, come.
Coriolanus|Citizens|The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come.
Coriolanus|Citizens|Exeunt
Coriolanus|Citizens|ACT IV
Coriolanus|Citizens|SCENE I. Rome. Before a gate of the city.
Coriolanus|Citizens|Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS, with the young Nobility of Rome
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Where is your ancient courage? you were used
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To say extremity was the trier of spirits,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That common chances common men could bear,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That when the sea was calm all boats alike
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Show'd mastership in floating, fortune's blows,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A noble cunning: you were used to load me
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|With precepts that would make invincible
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The heart that conn'd them.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|O heavens! O heavens!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Nay! prithee, woman,--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And occupations perish!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What, what, what!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|If you had been the wife of Hercules,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Droop not, adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Heart-hardening spectacles, tell these sad women
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My hazards still have been your solace: and
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Believe't not lightly--though I go alone,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Will or exceed the common or be caught
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|With cautelous baits and practise.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|My first son.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|With thee awhile: determine on some course,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|More than a wild exposture to each chance
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That starts i' the way before thee.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|O the gods!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And we of thee: so if the time thrust forth
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|O'er the vast world to seek a single man,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I' the absence of the needer.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Fare ye well:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thou hast years upon thee, and thou art too full
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|While I remain above the ground, you shall
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hear from me still, and never of me aught
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|But what is like me formerly.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That's worthily
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|If I could shake off but one seven years
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'ld with thee every foot.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Give me thy hand: Come.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|SCENE II. The same. A  street near the gate.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and an AEdile
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Bid them all home, he's gone, and we'll no further.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|In his behalf.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Now we have shown our power,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Let us seem humbler after it is done
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Than when it was a-doing.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Bid them home:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Say their great enemy is gone, and they
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Stand in their ancient strength.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Dismiss them home.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Exit AEdile
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Here comes his mother.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Let's not meet her.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Why?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|They say she's mad.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|They have ta'en note of us: keep on your way.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and MENENIUS
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|O, ye're well met: the hoarded plague o' the gods
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Requite your love!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Peace, peace, be not so loud.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|If that I could for weeping, you should hear,--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Nay, and you shall hear some.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To BRUTUS
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Will you be gone?
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|[To SICINIUS]  You shall stay too: I would I had the power
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|To say so to my husband.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Are  you mankind?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Ay, fool, is that a shame? Note but this fool.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than thou hast spoken words?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|O blessed heavens!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|More noble blows than ever thou wise words,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what, yet go:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|His good sword in his hand.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|What then?
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|What then!
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|He'ld make an end of thy posterity.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Bastards and all.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Come, come, peace.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|I would he had continued to his country
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As he began, and not unknit himself
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The noble knot he made.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|I would he had.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|'I would he had'! 'Twas you incensed the rabble:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|As I can of those mysteries which heaven
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Will not have earth to know.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Pray, let us go.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Now, pray, sir, get you gone:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|As far as doth the Capitol exceed
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The meanest house in Rome, so far my son--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|This lady's husband here, this, do you see--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Whom you have banish'd, does exceed you all.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Well, well, we'll leave you.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Why stay we to be baited
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|With one that wants her wits?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Take my prayers with you.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Exeunt Tribunes
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I would the gods had nothing else to do
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But to confirm my curses! Could I meet 'em
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But once a-day, it would unclog my heart
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Of what lies heavy to't.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You have told them home,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Anger's my meat, I sup upon myself,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And so shall starve with feeding. Come, let's go:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Fie, fie, fie!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|SCENE III. A highway between Rome and Antium.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Enter a Roman and a Volsce, meeting
Coriolanus|Roman|I know you well, sir, and you know
Coriolanus|Roman|me: your name, I think, is Adrian.
Coriolanus|Volsce|It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.
Coriolanus|Roman|I am a Roman, and my services are,
Coriolanus|Roman|as you are, against 'em: know you me yet?
Coriolanus|Volsce|Nicanor? no.
Coriolanus|Roman|The same, sir.
Coriolanus|Volsce|You had more beard when I last saw you, but your
Coriolanus|Volsce|favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the
Coriolanus|Volsce|news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state,
Coriolanus|Volsce|to find you out there: you have well saved me a
Coriolanus|Volsce|day's journey.
Coriolanus|Roman|There hath been in Rome strange insurrections, the
Coriolanus|Roman|people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.
Coriolanus|Volsce|Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not
Coriolanus|Volsce|so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and
Coriolanus|Volsce|hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.
Coriolanus|Roman|The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing
Coriolanus|Roman|would make it flame again: for the nobles receive
Coriolanus|Roman|so to heart the banishment of that worthy
Coriolanus|Roman|Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take
Coriolanus|Roman|all power from the people and to pluck from them
Coriolanus|Roman|their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can
Coriolanus|Roman|tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
Coriolanus|Roman|breaking out.
Coriolanus|Volsce|Coriolanus banished!
Coriolanus|Roman|Banished, sir.
Coriolanus|Volsce|You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.
Coriolanus|Roman|The day serves well for them now. I have heard it
Coriolanus|Roman|said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is
Coriolanus|Roman|when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble
Coriolanus|Roman|Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his
Coriolanus|Roman|great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request
Coriolanus|Roman|of his country.
Coriolanus|Volsce|He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus
Coriolanus|Volsce|accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my
Coriolanus|Volsce|business, and I will merrily accompany you home.
Coriolanus|Roman|I shall, between this and supper, tell you most
Coriolanus|Roman|strange things from Rome, all tending to the good of
Coriolanus|Roman|their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?
Coriolanus|Volsce|A most royal one, the centurions and their charges,
Coriolanus|Volsce|distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,
Coriolanus|Volsce|and to be on foot at an hour's warning.
Coriolanus|Roman|I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the
Coriolanus|Roman|man, I think, that shall set them in present action.
Coriolanus|Roman|So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.
Coriolanus|Volsce|You take my part from me, sir, I have the most cause
Coriolanus|Volsce|to be glad of yours.
Coriolanus|Roman|Well, let us go together.
Coriolanus|Roman|Exeunt
Coriolanus|Roman|SCENE IV. Antium. Before Aufidius's house.
Coriolanus|Roman|Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised and muffled
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A goodly city is this Antium. City,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In puny battle slay me.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter a Citizen
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Save you, sir.
Coriolanus|Citizen|And you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Direct me, if it be your will,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?
Coriolanus|Citizen|He is, and feasts the nobles of the state
Coriolanus|Citizen|At his house this night.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which is his house, beseech you?
Coriolanus|Citizen|This, here before you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thank you, sir: farewell.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Exit Citizen
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Unseparable, shall within this hour,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|On a dissension of a doit, break out
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To take the one the other, by some chance,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And interjoin their issues. So with me:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|He does fair justice, if he give me way,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I'll do his country service.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Exit
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|SCENE V. The same. A hall in Aufidius's house.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Music within. Enter a Servingman
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Wine, wine, wine! What service
Coriolanus|First Servingman|is here! I think our fellows are asleep.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Exit
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Enter a second Servingman
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Where's Cotus? my master calls
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|for him. Cotus!
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Exit
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Enter CORIOLANUS
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A goodly house: the feast smells well, but I
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Appear not like a guest.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Re-enter the first Servingman
Coriolanus|First Servingman|What would you have, friend? whence are you?
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Exit
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I have deserved no better entertainment,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In being Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Re-enter second Servingman
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|head, that he gives entrance to such companions?
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Pray, get you out.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Away!
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Away! get you away.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Now thou'rt troublesome.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Are you so brave? I'll have you talked with anon.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Enter a third Servingman. The first meets him
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|What fellow's this?
Coriolanus|First Servingman|A strange one as ever I looked on: I cannot get him
Coriolanus|First Servingman|out of the house: prithee, call my master to him.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Retires
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you, avoid
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|the house.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let me but stand, I will not hurt your hearth.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|What are you?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A gentleman.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|A marvellous poor one.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|True, so I am.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|station, here's no place for you, pray you, avoid: come.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Pushes him away
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|What, you will not? Prithee, tell my master what a
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|strange guest he has here.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|And I shall.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Exit
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Where dwellest thou?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Under the canopy.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Under the canopy!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ay.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Where's that?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I' the city of kites and crows.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|I' the city of kites and crows! What an ass it is!
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Then thou dwellest with daws too?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|No, I serve not thy master.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|How, sir! do you meddle with my master?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ay, 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|mistress. Thou pratest, and pratest, serve with thy
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|trencher, hence!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Beats him away. Exit third Servingman
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter AUFIDIUS with the second Servingman
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Where is this fellow?
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Here, sir: I'ld have beaten him like a dog, but for
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|disturbing the lords within.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Retires
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|If, Tullus,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Unmuffling
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Not yet thou knowest me, and, seeing me, dost not
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Think me for the man I am, necessity
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Commands me name myself.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|What is thy name?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And harsh in sound to thine.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Say, what's thy name?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Bears a command in't, though thy tackle's torn.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Thou show'st a noble vessel: what's thy name?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Prepare thy brow to frown: know'st
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|thou me yet?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I know thee not: thy name?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To thee particularly and to all the Volsces
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Great hurt and mischief, thereto witness may
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My surname, Coriolanus: the painful service,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The extreme dangers and the drops of blood
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Shed for my thankless country are requited
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|But with that surname, a good memory,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And witness of the malice and displeasure
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name remains,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The cruelty and envy of the people,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Permitted by our dastard nobles, who
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Whoop'd out of Rome. Now this extremity
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hath brought me to thy hearth, not out of hope--
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Mistake me not--to save my life, for if
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I would have 'voided thee, but in mere spite,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To be full quit of those my banishers,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of shame seen through thy country, speed
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|thee straight,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That my revengeful services may prove
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As benefits to thee, for I will fight
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Against my canker'd country with the spleen
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of all the under fiends. But if so be
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Longer to live most weary, and present
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And cannot live but to thy shame, unless
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|It be to do thee service.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|O Marcius, Marcius!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Should from yond cloud speak divine things,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And say 'Tis true,' I'ld not believe them more
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Than thee, all noble Marcius. Let me twine
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Mine arms about that body, where against
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|My grained ash an hundred times hath broke
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The anvil of my sword, and do contest
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As hotly and as nobly with thy love
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As ever in ambitious strength I did
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I loved the maid I married, never man
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Sigh'd truer breath, but that I see thee here,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|We have a power on foot, and I had purpose
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Or lose mine arm fort: thou hast beat me out
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|We have been down together in my sleep,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy Marcius,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|From twelve to seventy, and pouring war
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Like a bold flood o'er-bear. O, come, go in,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And take our friendly senators by the hands,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Who now are here, taking their leaves of me,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Who am prepared against your territories,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Though not for Rome itself.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You bless me, gods!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The leading of thine own revenges, take
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The one half of my commission, and set down--
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As best thou art experienced, since thou know'st
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Thy country's strength and weakness,--thine own ways,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Whether to knock against the gates of Rome,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Or rudely visit them in parts remote,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To fright them, ere destroy. But come in:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Let me commend thee first to those that shall
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And more a friend than e'er an enemy,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Yet, Marcius, that was much. Your hand: most welcome!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS. The two Servingmen come forward
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Here's a strange alteration!
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|a cudgel, and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|false report of him.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|What an arm he has! he turned me about with his
Coriolanus|First Servingman|finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,--I
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|cannot tell how to term it.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|He had so, looking as it were--would I were hanged,
Coriolanus|First Servingman|but I thought there was more in him than I could think.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|So did I, I'll be sworn: he is simply the rarest
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|man i' the world.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|I think he is: but a greater soldier than he you wot on.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Who, my master?
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Nay, it's no matter for that.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Worth six on him.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Nay, not so neither: but I take him to be the
Coriolanus|First Servingman|greater soldier.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that:
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|for the defence of a town, our general is excellent.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Ay, and for an assault too.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Re-enter third Servingman
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|O slaves, I can tell you news,-- news, you rascals!
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|What, what, what? let's partake.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|I would not be a Roman, of all nations, I had as
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|lieve be a condemned man.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Wherefore? wherefore?
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Why, here's he that was wont to thwack our general,
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Caius Marcius.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Why do you say 'thwack our general '?
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|I do not say 'thwack our general,' but he was always
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|good enough for him.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Come, we are fellows and friends: he was ever too
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|hard for him, I have heard him say so himself.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth
Coriolanus|First Servingman|on't: before Corioli he scotched him and notched
Coriolanus|First Servingman|him like a carbon ado.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|An he had been cannibally given, he might have
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|broiled and eaten him too.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|But, more of thy news?
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|and heir to Mars, set at upper end o' the table, no
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|question asked him by any of the senators, but they
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|stand bald before him: our general himself makes a
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|mistress of him: sanctifies himself with's hand and
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse. But
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i'
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|the middle and but one half of what he was
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|yesterday, for the other has half, by the entreaty
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|and grant of the whole table. He'll go, he says,
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|And he's as like to do't as any man I can imagine.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Do't! he will do't, for, look you, sir, he has as
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|many friends as enemies, which friends, sir, as it
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|we term it, his friends whilst he's in directitude.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Directitude! what's that?
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|and the man in blood, they will out of their
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|him.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|But when goes this forward?
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|To-morrow, to-day, presently, you shall have the
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|drum struck up this afternoon: 'tis, as it were, a
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|wipe their lips.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|Why, then we shall have a stirring world again.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|tailors, and breed ballad-makers.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Let me have war, say I, it exceeds peace as far as
Coriolanus|First Servingman|day does night, it's spritely, waking, audible, and
Coriolanus|First Servingman|full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy,
Coriolanus|First Servingman|mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible, a getter of more
Coriolanus|First Servingman|bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a
Coriolanus|Second Servingman|great maker of cuckolds.
Coriolanus|First Servingman|Ay, and it makes men hate one another.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|Reason, because they then less need one another.
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans as cheap
Coriolanus|Third Servingman|as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising.
Coriolanus|All|In, in, in, in!
Coriolanus|All|Exeunt
Coriolanus|All|SCENE VI. Rome. A public place.
Coriolanus|All|Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We hear not of him, neither need we fear him,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|His remedies are tame i' the present peace
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And quietness of the people, which before
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Our tradesmen with in their shops and going
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|About their functions friendly.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|We stood to't in good time.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter MENENIUS
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Is this Menenius?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|'Tis he,'tis he: O, he is grown most kind of late.
Coriolanus|Both Tribunes|Hail sir!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Hail to you both!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Your Coriolanus
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Is not much miss'd, but with his friends:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The commonwealth doth stand, and so would do,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Were he more angry at it.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|All's well, and might have been much better, if
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He could have temporized.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Where is he, hear you?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Nay, I hear nothing: his mother and his wife
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Hear nothing from him.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Enter three or four Citizens
Coriolanus|Citizens|The gods preserve you both!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|God-den, our neighbours.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|God-den to you all, god-den to you all.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|Are bound to pray for you both.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Live, and thrive!
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Farewell, kind neighbours: we wish'd Coriolanus
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Had loved you as we did.
Coriolanus|Citizens|Now the gods keep you!
Coriolanus|Both Tribunes|Farewell, farewell.
Coriolanus|Both Tribunes|Exeunt Citizens
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This is a happier and more comely time
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Than when these fellows ran about the streets,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Crying confusion.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Caius Marcius was
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|A worthy officer i' the war, but insolent,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Self-loving,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And affecting one sole throne,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Without assistance.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I think not so.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We should by this, to all our lamentation,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|If he had gone forth consul, found it so.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The gods have well prevented it, and Rome
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Sits safe and still without him.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter an AEdile
Coriolanus|AEdile|Worthy tribunes,
Coriolanus|AEdile|There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,
Coriolanus|AEdile|Reports, the Volsces with two several powers
Coriolanus|AEdile|Are enter'd in the Roman territories,
Coriolanus|AEdile|And with the deepest malice of the war
Coriolanus|AEdile|Destroy what lies before 'em.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|'Tis Aufidius,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Who, hearing of our Marcius' banishment,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Thrusts forth his horns again into the world,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And durst not once peep out.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Come, what talk you
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Of Marcius?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Go see this rumourer whipp'd. It cannot be
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|The Volsces dare break with us.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Cannot be!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We have record that very well it can,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And three examples of the like have been
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Within my age. But reason with the fellow,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Before you punish him, where he heard this,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Lest you shall chance to whip your information
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And beat the messenger who bids beware
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of what is to be dreaded.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Tell not me:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|I know this cannot be.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Not possible.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Enter a Messenger
Coriolanus|Messenger|The nobles in great earnestness are going
Coriolanus|Messenger|All to the senate-house: some news is come
Coriolanus|Messenger|That turns their countenances.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|'Tis this slave,--
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Nothing but his report.
Coriolanus|Messenger|Yes, worthy sir,
Coriolanus|Messenger|The slave's report is seconded, and more,
Coriolanus|Messenger|More fearful, is deliver'd.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|What more fearful?
Coriolanus|Messenger|It is spoke freely out of many mouths--
Coriolanus|Messenger|How probable I do not know--that Marcius,
Coriolanus|Messenger|Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,
Coriolanus|Messenger|And vows revenge as spacious as between
Coriolanus|Messenger|The young'st and oldest thing.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This is most likely!
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Good Marcius home again.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The very trick on't.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This is unlikely:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He and Aufidius can no more atone
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Than violentest contrariety.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Enter a second Messenger
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|You are sent for to the senate:
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|A fearful army, led by Caius Marcius
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Associated with Aufidius, rages
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Upon our territories, and have already
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|O'erborne their way, consumed with fire, and took
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|What lay before them.
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Enter COMINIUS
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|O, you have made good work!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What news? what news?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|You have holp to ravish your own daughters and
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To melt the city leads upon your pates,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses,--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What's the news? what's the news?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Your temples burned in their cement, and
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Into an auger's bore.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Pray now, your news?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You have made fair work, I fear me.--Pray, your news?--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|If Marcius should be join'd with Volscians,--
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|If!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He is their god: he leads them like a thing
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Made by some other deity than nature,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That shapes man better, and they follow him,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Against us brats, with no less confidence
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Than boys pursuing summer butterflies,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Or butchers killing flies.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You have made good work,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You and your apron-men, you that stood so up much
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|on the voice of occupation and
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The breath of garlic-eaters!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He will shake
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Your Rome about your ears.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As Hercules
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Did shake down mellow fruit.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You have made fair work!
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|But is this true, sir?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Ay, and you'll look pale
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Before you find it other. All the regions
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Do smilingly revolt, and who resist
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Your enemies and his find something in him.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We are all undone, unless
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The noble man have mercy.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Who shall ask it?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The tribunes cannot do't for shame, the people
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Deserve such pity of him as the wolf
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Should say 'Be good to Rome,' they charged him even
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|As those should do that had deserved his hate,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And therein show'd like enemies.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|'Tis true:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|If he were putting to my house the brand
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That should consume it, I have not the face
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To say 'Beseech you, cease.' You have made fair hands,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You and your crafts! you have crafted fair!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|You have brought
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|A trembling upon Rome, such as was never
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|So incapable of help.
Coriolanus|Both Tribunes|Say not we brought it.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|How! Was it we? we loved him but, like beasts
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Who did hoot him out o' the city.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|But I fear
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The second name of men, obeys his points
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|As if he were his officer: desperation
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Is all the policy, strength and defence,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That Rome can make against them.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Enter a troop of Citizens
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Here come the clusters.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And is Aufidius with him? You are they
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|That made the air unwholesome, when you cast
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And not a hair upon a soldier's head
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Which will not prove a whip: as many coxcombs
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|As you threw caps up will he tumble down,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|if he could burn us all into one coal,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We have deserved it.
Coriolanus|Citizens|Faith, we hear fearful news.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|For mine own part,
Coriolanus|First Citizen|When I said, banish him, I said 'twas pity.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|And so did I.
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|And so did I, and, to say the truth, so did very
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|many of us: that we did, we did for the best, and
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet
Coriolanus|Third Citizen|it was against our will.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Ye re goodly things, you voices!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You have made
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Good work, you and your cry! Shall's to the Capitol?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|O, ay, what else?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Exeunt COMINIUS and MENENIUS
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Go, masters, get you home, be not dismay'd:
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|These are a side that would be glad to have
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And show no sign of fear.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home.
Coriolanus|First Citizen|I ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished
Coriolanus|First Citizen|him.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|So did we all. But, come, let's home.
Coriolanus|Second Citizen|Exeunt Citizens
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|I do not like this news.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Nor I.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Let's to the Capitol. Would half my wealth
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Would buy this for a lie!
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Pray, let us go.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|SCENE VII. A camp, at a small distance from Rome.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Enter AUFIDIUS and his Lieutenant
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Do they still fly to the Roman?
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Their talk at table, and their thanks at end,
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|And you are darken'd in this action, sir,
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Even by your own.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I cannot help it now,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Unless, by using means, I lame the foot
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Even to my person, than I thought he would
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|When first I did embrace him: yet his nature
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|In that's no changeling, and I must excuse
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|What cannot be amended.
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Yet I wish, sir,--
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|I mean for your particular,--you had not
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Join'd in commission with him, but either
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Had borne the action of yourself, or else
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|To him had left it solely.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I understand thee well, and be thou sure,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|when he shall come to his account, he knows not
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|What I can urge against him. Although it seems,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And so he thinks, and is no less apparent
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As draw his sword, yet he hath left undone
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|That which shall break his neck or hazard mine,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Whene'er we come to our account.
Coriolanus|Lieutenant|Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|All places yield to him ere he sits down,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And the nobility of Rome are his:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The senators and patricians love him too:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The tribunes are no soldiers, and their people
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|By sovereignty of nature. First he was
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|A noble servant to them, but he could not
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Which out of daily fortune ever taints
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The happy man, whether defect of judgment,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To fail in the disposing of those chances
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Which he was lord of, or whether nature,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Not to be other than one thing, not moving
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Even with the same austerity and garb
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As he controll'd the war, but one of these--
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As he hath spices of them all, not all,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Lie in the interpretation of the time:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And power, unto itself most commendable,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To extol what it hath done.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|One fire drives out one fire, one nail, one nail,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Thou art poor'st of all, then shortly art thou mine.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|ACT V
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|SCENE I. Rome. A public place.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and others
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|No, I'll not go: you hear what he hath said
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Which was sometime his general, who loved him
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|In a most dear particular. He call'd me father:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But what o' that? Go, you that banish'd him,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A mile before his tent fall down, and knee
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The way into his mercy: nay, if he coy'd
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He would not seem to know me.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Do you hear?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Yet one time he did call me by my name:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|That we have bled together. Coriolanus
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He would not answer to: forbad all names,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He was a kind of nothing, titleless,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Of burning Rome.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Why, so: you have made good work!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A pair of tribunes that have rack'd for Rome,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To make coals cheap,--a noble memory!
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|When it was less expected: he replied,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|It was a bare petition of a state
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|To one whom they had punish'd.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Very well:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Could he say less?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I offer'd to awaken his regard
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|For's private friends: his answer to me was,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He could not stay to pick them in a pile
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Of noisome musty chaff: he said 'twas folly,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|For one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And still to nose the offence.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For one poor grain or two!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I am one of those, his mother, wife, his child,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And this brave fellow too, we are the grains:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You are the musty chaff, and you are smelt
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Above the moon: we must be burnt for you.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Nay, pray, be patient: if you refuse your aid
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|In this so never-needed help, yet do not
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Upbraid's with our distress. But, sure, if you
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|More than the instant army we can make,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Might stop our countryman.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|No, I'll not meddle.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Pray you, go to him.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|What should I do?
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|Only make trial what your love can do
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|For Rome, towards Marcius.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Well, and say that Marcius
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Return me, as Cominius is return'd,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Unheard, what then?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But as a discontented friend, grief-shot
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|With his unkindness? say't be so?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Yet your good will
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|must have that thanks from Rome, after the measure
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|As you intended well.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'll undertake 't:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I think he'll hear me. Yet, to bite his lip
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts me.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|He was not taken well, he had not dined:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|We pout upon the morning, are unapt
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To give or to forgive, but when we have stuff'd
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|These and these conveyances of our blood
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Than in our priest-like fasts: therefore I'll watch him
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Till he be dieted to my request,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And then I'll set upon him.
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|You know the very road into his kindness,
Coriolanus|BRUTUS|And cannot lose your way.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Good faith, I'll prove him,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Speed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of my success.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Exit
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He'll never hear him.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Not?
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Red as 'twould burn Rome, and his injury
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|The gaoler to his pity. I kneel'd before him,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|'Twas very faintly he said 'Rise,' dismiss'd me
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Thus, with his speechless hand: what he would do,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|He sent in writing after me, what he would not,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions:
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|So that all hope is vain.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Unless his noble mother, and his wife,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|For mercy to his country. Therefore, let's hence,
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|And with our fair entreaties haste them on.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|SCENE II. Entrance of the Volscian camp before Rome.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Two Sentinels on guard.
Coriolanus|COMINIUS|Enter to them, MENENIUS
Coriolanus|First Senator|Stay: whence are you?
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Stand, and go back.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You guard like men, 'tis well: but, by your leave,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I am an officer of state, and come
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To speak with Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|First Senator|From whence?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|From Rome.
Coriolanus|First Senator|You may not pass, you must return: our general
Coriolanus|First Senator|Will no more hear from thence.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before
Coriolanus|Second Senator|You'll speak with Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Good my friends,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|If you have heard your general talk of Rome,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Be it so, go back: the virtue of your name
Coriolanus|First Senator|Is not here passable.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I tell thee, fellow,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The general is my lover: I have been
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The book of his good acts, whence men have read
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|His name unparallel'd, haply amplified,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|For I have ever verified my friends,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Would without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I have tumbled past the throw, and in his praise
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Have almost stamp'd the leasing: therefore, fellow,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I must have leave to pass.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Faith, sir, if you had told as many lies in his
Coriolanus|First Senator|behalf as you have uttered words in your own, you
Coriolanus|First Senator|should not pass here, no, though it were as virtuous
Coriolanus|First Senator|to lie as to live chastely. Therefore, go back.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|always factionary on the party of your general.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you
Coriolanus|Second Senator|have, I am one that, telling true under him, must
Coriolanus|Second Senator|say, you cannot pass. Therefore, go back.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Has he dined, canst thou tell? for I would not
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|speak with him till after dinner.
Coriolanus|First Senator|You are a Roman, are you?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I am, as thy general is.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Then you should hate Rome, as he does. Can you,
Coriolanus|First Senator|when you have pushed out your gates the very
Coriolanus|First Senator|defender of them, and, in a violent popular
Coriolanus|First Senator|ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to
Coriolanus|First Senator|front his revenges with the easy groans of old
Coriolanus|First Senator|women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with
Coriolanus|First Senator|the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as
Coriolanus|First Senator|you seem to be? Can you think to blow out the
Coriolanus|First Senator|intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with
Coriolanus|First Senator|such weak breath as this? No, you are deceived,
Coriolanus|First Senator|therefore, back to Rome, and prepare for your
Coriolanus|First Senator|execution: you are condemned, our general has sworn
Coriolanus|First Senator|you out of reprieve and pardon.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he would
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|use me with estimation.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Come, my captain knows you not.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I mean, thy general.
Coriolanus|First Senator|My general cares not for you. Back, I say, go, lest
Coriolanus|First Senator|I let forth your half-pint of blood, back,--that's
Coriolanus|First Senator|the utmost of your having: back.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Nay, but, fellow, fellow,--
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Enter CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What's the matter?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Now, you companion, I'll say an errand for you:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|You shall know now that I am in estimation, you shall
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|my son Coriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|with him, if thou standest not i' the state of
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|hanging, or of some death more long in
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|spectatorship, and crueller in suffering, behold now
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|presently, and swoon for what's to come upon thee.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|To CORIOLANUS
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|thy old father Menenius does! O my son, my son!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|thou art preparing fire for us, look thee, here's
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come to
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|thee, but being assured none but myself could move
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|thee, I have been blown out of your gates with
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|sighs, and conjure thee to pardon Rome, and thy
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|petitionary countrymen. The good gods assuage thy
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|wrath, and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|here,--this, who, like a block, hath denied my
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|access to thee.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Away!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|How! away!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Are servanted to others: though I owe
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My revenge properly, my remission lies
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than pity note how much. Therefore, be gone.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Mine ears against your suits are stronger than
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Take this along, I writ it for thy sake
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Gives a letter
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And would have rent it. Another word, Menenius,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I will not hear thee speak. This man, Aufidius,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Was my beloved in Rome: yet thou behold'st!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|You keep a constant temper.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS
Coriolanus|First Senator|Now, sir, is your name Menenius?
Coriolanus|Second Senator|'Tis a spell, you see, of much  power: you know the
Coriolanus|Second Senator|way home again.
Coriolanus|First Senator|Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your
Coriolanus|First Senator|greatness back?
Coriolanus|Second Senator|What cause, do you think, I have to swoon?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I neither care for the world nor your general: for
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|such things as you, I can scarce think there's any,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|ye're so slight. He that hath a will to die by
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|himself fears it not from another: let your general
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|do his worst. For you, be that you are, long, and
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|your misery increase with your age! I say to you,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|as I was said to, Away!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Exit
Coriolanus|First Senator|A noble fellow, I warrant him.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|The worthy fellow is our general: he's the rock, the
Coriolanus|Second Senator|oak not to be wind-shaken.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Exeunt
Coriolanus|Second Senator|SCENE III. The tent of Coriolanus.
Coriolanus|Second Senator|Enter CORIOLANUS, AUFIDIUS, and others
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|We will before the walls of Rome tomorrow
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Set down our host. My partner in this action,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You must report to the Volscian lords, how plainly
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I have borne this business.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Only their ends
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|You have respected, stopp'd your ears against
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The general suit of Rome, never admitted
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|A private whisper, no, not with such friends
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|That thought them sure of you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|This last old man,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Loved me above the measure of a father,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Nay, godded me, indeed. Their latest refuge
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Was to send him, for whose old love I have,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Though I show'd sourly to him, once more offer'd
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The first conditions, which they did refuse
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And cannot now accept, to grace him only
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That thought he could do more, a very little
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I have yielded to: fresh embassies and suits,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Nor from the state nor private friends, hereafter
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Will I lend ear to. Ha! what shout is this?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Shout within
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In the same time 'tis made? I will not.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter in mourning habits, VIRGILIA, VOLUMNIA, leading young MARCIUS, VALERIA, and Attendants
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|My wife comes foremost, then the honour'd mould
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The grandchild to her blood. But, out, affection!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|All bond and privilege of nature, break!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What is that curt'sy worth? or those doves' eyes,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Which can make gods forsworn? I melt, and am not
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of stronger earth than others. My mother bows,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As if Olympus to a molehill should
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In supplication nod: and my young boy
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hath an aspect of intercession, which
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Great nature cries 'Deny not.' let the Volsces
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Plough Rome and harrow Italy: I'll never
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|As if a man were author of himself
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And knew no other kin.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|My lord and husband!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|The sorrow that delivers us thus changed
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Makes you think so.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Like a dull actor now,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I have forgot my part, and I am out,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Forgive my tyranny, but do not say
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|For that 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hath virgin'd it e'er since. You gods! I prate,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And the most noble mother of the world
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Leave unsaluted: sink, my knee, i' the earth,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Kneels
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Of thy deep duty more impression show
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than that of common sons.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|O, stand up blest!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Whilst, with no softer cushion than the flint,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I kneel before thee, and unproperly
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Show duty, as mistaken all this while
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Between the child and parent.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Kneels
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What is this?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your knees to me? to your corrected son?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Fillip the stars, then let the mutinous winds
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Murdering impossibility, to make
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What cannot be, slight work.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thou art my warrior,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I holp to frame thee. Do you know this lady?
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The noble sister of Publicola,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That's curdied by the frost from purest snow
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And hangs on Dian's temple: dear Valeria!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|This is a poor epitome of yours,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Which by the interpretation of full time
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|May show like all yourself.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The god of soldiers,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|With the consent of supreme Jove, inform
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Thy thoughts with nobleness, that thou mayst prove
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' the wars
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And saving those that eye thee!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Your knee, sirrah.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That's my brave boy!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Even he, your wife, this lady, and myself,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Are suitors to you.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I beseech you, peace:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Or, if you'ld ask, remember this before:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The thing I have forsworn to grant may never
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Be held by you denials. Do not bid me
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Again with Rome's mechanics: tell me not
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Wherein I seem unnatural: desire not
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To ally my rages and revenges with
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Your colder reasons.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|O, no more, no more!
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|You have said you will not grant us any thing,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|For we have nothing else to ask, but that
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Which you deny already: yet we will ask,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That, if you fail in our request, the blame
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|May hang upon your hardness: therefore hear us.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark, for we'll
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hear nought from Rome in private. Your request?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And state of bodies would bewray what life
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|How more unfortunate than all living women
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Are we come hither: since that thy sight,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|which should
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|with comforts,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Making the mother, wife and child to see
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The son, the husband and the father tearing
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|His country's bowels out. And to poor we
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That all but we enjoy, for how can we,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Alas, how can we for our country pray.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Our comfort in the country. We must find
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|An evident calamity, though we had
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Our wish, which side should win: for either thou
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Must, as a foreign recreant, be led
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|With manacles thorough our streets, or else
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And bear the palm for having bravely shed
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I purpose not to wait on fortune till
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Rather to show a noble grace to both parts
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|March to assault thy country than to tread--
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Trust to't, thou shalt not--on thy mother's womb,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That brought thee to this world.
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Ay, and mine,
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|That brought you forth this boy, to keep your name
Coriolanus|VIRGILIA|Living to time.
Coriolanus|Young MARCIUS|A' shall not tread on me,
Coriolanus|Young MARCIUS|I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Not of a woman's tenderness to be,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Requires nor child nor woman's face to see.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I have sat too long.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Rising
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Nay, go not from us thus.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|If it were so that our request did tend
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To save the Romans, thereby to destroy
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|As poisonous of your honour: no, our suit
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Is that you reconcile them: while the Volsces
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|May say 'This mercy we have show'd,' the Romans,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|'This we received,' and each in either side
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Give the all-hail to thee and cry 'Be blest
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|For making up this peace!' Thou know'st, great son,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But with his last attempt he wiped it out,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Destroy'd his country, and his name remains
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To the ensuing age abhorr'd.' Speak to me, son:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To imitate the graces of the gods,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak?
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Still to remember wrongs? Daughter, speak you:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|He cares not for your weeping. Speak thou, boy:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Perhaps thy childishness will move him more
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than can our reasons. There's no man in the world
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|More bound to 's mother, yet here he lets me prate
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Like one i' the stocks. Thou hast never in thy life
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Show'd thy dear mother any courtesy,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Has cluck'd thee to the wars and safely home,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Loaden with honour. Say my request's unjust,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And spurn me back: but if it be not so,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Thou art not honest, and the gods will plague thee,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|That thou restrain'st from me the duty which
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To a mother's part belongs. He turns away:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Down, ladies, let us shame him with our knees.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than pity to our prayers. Down: an end,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|This is the last: so we will home to Rome,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And die among our neighbours. Nay, behold 's:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|This boy, that cannot tell what he would have
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|But kneels and holds up bands for fellowship,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Does reason our petition with more strength
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Than thou hast to deny 't. Come, let us go:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|This fellow had a Volscian to his mother,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|His wife is in Corioli and his child
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|Like him by chance. Yet give us our dispatch:
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|I am hush'd until our city be a-fire,
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|And then I'll speak a little.
Coriolanus|VOLUMNIA|He holds her by the hand, silent
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|O mother, mother!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|You have won a happy victory to Rome,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|If not most mortal to him. But, let it come.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Were you in my stead, would you have heard
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A mother less? or granted less, Aufidius?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I was moved withal.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I dare be sworn you were:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|And, sir, it is no little thing to make
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|What peace you'll make, advise me: for my part,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I'll not to Rome, I'll back with you, and pray you,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Stand to me in this cause. O mother! wife!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|[Aside]  I am glad thou hast set thy mercy and
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|thy honour
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|At difference in thee: out of that I'll work
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Myself a former fortune.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The Ladies make signs to CORIOLANUS
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ay, by and by,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA,  and c
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|But we will drink together, and you shall bear
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|A better witness back than words, which we,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|On like conditions, will have counter-seal'd.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To have a temple built you: all the swords
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|In Italy, and her confederate arms,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Could not have made this peace.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|SCENE IV. Rome. A public place.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Enter MENENIUS and SICINIUS
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|See you yond coign o' the Capitol, yond
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|corner-stone?
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Why, what of that?
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|If it be possible for you to displace it with your
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|little finger, there is some hope the ladies of
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Rome, especially his mother, may prevail with him.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|But I say there is no hope in't: our throats are
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|sentenced and stay upon execution.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Is't possible that so short a time can alter the
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|condition of a man!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|There is differency between a grub and a butterfly,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|yet your butterfly was a grub. This Marcius is grown
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|from man to dragon: he has wings, he's more than a
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|creeping thing.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|He loved his mother dearly.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|So did he me: and he no more remembers his mother
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|of his face sours ripe grapes: when he walks, he
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|his eye, talks like a knell, and his hum is a
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|battery. He sits in his state, as a thing made for
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Alexander. What he bids be done is finished with
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|and a heaven to throne in.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Yes, mercy, if you report him truly.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy his
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|in him than there is milk in a male tiger, that
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|shall our poor city find: and all this is long of
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|you.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|The gods be good unto us!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|No, in such a case the gods will not be good unto
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|us. When we banished him, we respected not them,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|and, he returning to break our necks, they respect not us.
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Enter a Messenger
Coriolanus|Messenger|Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:
Coriolanus|Messenger|The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune
Coriolanus|Messenger|And hale him up and down, all swearing, if
Coriolanus|Messenger|The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,
Coriolanus|Messenger|They'll give him death by inches.
Coriolanus|Messenger|Enter a second Messenger
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|What's the news?
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Good news, good news, the ladies have prevail'd,
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone:
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|A merrier day did never yet greet Rome,
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Friend,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Art thou certain this is true? is it most certain?
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|As certain as I know the sun is fire:
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Where have you lurk'd, that you make doubt of it?
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide,
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|As the recomforted through the gates. Why, hark you!
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Trumpets, hautboys, drums beat, all together
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Make the sun dance. Hark you!
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|A shout within
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This is good news:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A city full, of tribunes, such as you,
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|A sea and land full. You have pray'd well to-day:
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|This morning for ten thousand of your throats
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|I'd not have given a doit. Hark, how they joy!
Coriolanus|MENENIUS|Music still, with shouts
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|First, the gods bless you for your tidings, next,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Accept my thankfulness.
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Sir, we have all
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Great cause to give great thanks.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|They are near the city?
Coriolanus|Second Messenger|Almost at point to enter.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|We will meet them,
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|And help the joy.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Exeunt
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|SCENE V. The same. A street near the gate.
Coriolanus|SICINIUS|Enter two Senators with VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA,  VALERIA,  and c. passing over the stage, followed by Patricians and others
Coriolanus|First Senator|Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!
Coriolanus|First Senator|Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,
Coriolanus|First Senator|And make triumphant fires, strew flowers before them:
Coriolanus|First Senator|Unshout the noise that banish'd Marcius,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Repeal him with the welcome of his mother,
Coriolanus|First Senator|Cry 'Welcome, ladies, welcome!'
Coriolanus|All|Welcome, ladies, Welcome!
Coriolanus|All|A flourish with drums and trumpets. Exeunt
Coriolanus|All|SCENE VI. Antium. A public place.
Coriolanus|All|Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, with Attendants
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Go tell the lords o' the city I am here:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Deliver them this paper: having read it,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Bid them repair to the market place, where I,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Even in theirs and in the commons' ears,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|The city ports by this hath enter'd and
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Intends to appear before the people, hoping
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To purge herself with words: dispatch.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Exeunt Attendants
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Enter three or four Conspirators of AUFIDIUS' faction
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Most welcome!
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|How is it with our general?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Even so
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As with a man by his own alms empoison'd,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And with his charity slain.
Coriolanus|Second Conspirator|Most noble sir,
Coriolanus|Second Conspirator|If you do hold the same intent wherein
Coriolanus|Second Conspirator|You wish'd us parties, we'll deliver you
Coriolanus|Second Conspirator|Of your great danger.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Sir, I cannot tell:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|We must proceed as we do find the people.
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|The people will remain uncertain whilst
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|'Twixt you there's difference, but the fall of either
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|Makes the survivor heir of all.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I know it,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And my pretext to strike at him admits
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|A good construction. I raised him, and I pawn'd
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Mine honour for his truth: who being so heighten'd,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Seducing so my friends, and, to this end,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He bow'd his nature, never known before
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|But to be rough, unswayable and free.
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|Sir, his stoutness
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|When he did stand for consul, which he lost
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|By lack of stooping,--
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|That I would have spoke of:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Being banish'd for't, he came unto my hearth,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Presented to my knife his throat: I took him,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Made him joint-servant with me, gave him way
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|In all his own desires, nay, let him choose
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Out of my files, his projects to accomplish,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|My best and freshest men, served his designments
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|In mine own person, holp to reap the fame
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Which he did end all his, and took some pride
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To do myself this wrong: till, at the last,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I seem'd his follower, not partner, and
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He waged me with his countenance, as if
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I had been mercenary.
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|So he did, my lord:
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|The army marvell'd at it, and, in the last,
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|When he had carried Rome and that we look'd
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|For no less spoil than glory,--
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|There was it:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|For which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|At a few drops of women's rheum, which are
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Of our great action: therefore shall he die,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And I'll renew me in his fall. But, hark!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Drums and trumpets sound, with great shouts of the People
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|Your native town you enter'd like a post,
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|And had no welcomes home: but he returns,
Coriolanus|First Conspirator|Splitting the air with noise.
Coriolanus|Second Conspirator|And patient fools,
Coriolanus|Second Conspirator|Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear
Coriolanus|Second Conspirator|With giving him glory.
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|Therefore, at your vantage,
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|Ere he express himself, or move the people
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|With what he would say, let him feel your sword,
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|Which we will second. When he lies along,
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|After your way his tale pronounced shall bury
Coriolanus|Third Conspirator|His reasons with his body.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Say no more:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Here come the lords.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Enter the Lords of the city
Coriolanus|All The Lords|You are most welcome home.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I have not deserved it.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|What I have written to you?
Coriolanus|Lords|We have.
Coriolanus|First Lord|And grieve to hear't.
Coriolanus|First Lord|What faults he made before the last, I think
Coriolanus|First Lord|Might have found easy fines: but there to end
Coriolanus|First Lord|Where he was to begin and give away
Coriolanus|First Lord|The benefit of our levies, answering us
Coriolanus|First Lord|With our own charge, making a treaty where
Coriolanus|First Lord|There was a yielding,--this admits no excuse.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He approaches: you shall hear him.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Enter CORIOLANUS, marching with drum and colours, commoners being with him
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hail, lords! I am return'd your soldier,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|No more infected with my country's love
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Under your great command. You are to know
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That prosperously I have attempted and
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|With bloody passage led your wars even to
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Do more than counterpoise a full third part
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|The charges of the action. We have made peace
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|With no less honour to the Antiates
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Than shame to the Romans: and we here deliver,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Subscribed by the consuls and patricians,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Together with the seal o' the senate, what
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|We have compounded on.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Read it not, noble lords,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|But tell the traitor, in the high'st degree
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He hath abused your powers.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Traitor! how now!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Ay, traitor, Marcius!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Marcius!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Ay, Marcius, Caius Marcius: dost thou think
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Coriolanus in Corioli?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|You lords and heads o' the state, perfidiously
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He has betray'd your business, and given up,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|For certain drops of salt, your city Rome,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|I say 'your city,' to his wife and mother,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Breaking his oath and resolution like
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|A twist of rotten silk, never admitting
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Counsel o' the war, but at his nurse's tears
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|He whined and roar'd away your victory,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|That pages blush'd at him and men of heart
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Look'd wondering each at other.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Hear'st thou, Mars?
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Name not the god, thou boy of tears!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Ha!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|No more.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Too great for what contains it. Boy! O slave!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|I was forced to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Must give this cur the lie: and his own notion--
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him, that
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Must bear my beating to his grave--shall join
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To thrust the lie unto him.
Coriolanus|First Lord|Peace, both, and hear me speak.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Cut me to pieces, Volsces, men and lads,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Stain all your edges on me. Boy! false hound!
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|Alone I did it. Boy!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Why, noble lords,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|'Fore your own eyes and ears?
Coriolanus|All Conspirators|Let him die for't.
Coriolanus|All The People|'Tear him to pieces.' 'Do it presently.' 'He kill'd
Coriolanus|All The People|my son.' 'My daughter.' 'He killed my cousin
Coriolanus|All The People|Marcus.' 'He killed my father.'
Coriolanus|Second Lord|Peace, ho! no outrage: peace!
Coriolanus|Second Lord|The man is noble and his fame folds-in
Coriolanus|Second Lord|This orb o' the earth. His last offences to us
Coriolanus|Second Lord|Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius,
Coriolanus|Second Lord|And trouble not the peace.
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|O that I had him,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|With six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe,
Coriolanus|CORIOLANUS|To use my lawful sword!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Insolent villain!
Coriolanus|All Conspirators|Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him!
Coriolanus|All Conspirators|The Conspirators draw, and kill CORIOLANUS: AUFIDIUS stands on his body
Coriolanus|Lords|Hold, hold, hold, hold!
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|My noble masters, hear me speak.
Coriolanus|First Lord|O Tullus,--
Coriolanus|Second Lord|Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.
Coriolanus|Third Lord|Tread not upon him. Masters all, be quiet,
Coriolanus|Third Lord|Put up your swords.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|My lords, when you shall know--as in this rage,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Provoked by him, you cannot--the great danger
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Which this man's life did owe you, you'll rejoice
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|That he is thus cut off. Please it your honours
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|To call me to your senate, I'll deliver
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Myself your loyal servant, or endure
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Your heaviest censure.
Coriolanus|First Lord|Bear from hence his body,
Coriolanus|First Lord|And mourn you for him: let him be regarded
Coriolanus|First Lord|As the most noble corse that ever herald
Coriolanus|First Lord|Did follow to his urn.
Coriolanus|Second Lord|His own impatience
Coriolanus|Second Lord|Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame.
Coriolanus|Second Lord|Let's make the best of it.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|My rage is gone,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Help, three o' the chiefest soldiers, I'll be one.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully:
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Which to this hour bewail the injury,
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.
Coriolanus|AUFIDIUS|Exeunt, bearing the body of CORIOLANUS. A dead march sounded
Cymbeline|AUFIDIUS|ACT I
Cymbeline|AUFIDIUS|SCENE I. Britain. The garden of Cymbeline's palace.
Cymbeline|AUFIDIUS|Enter two Gentlemen
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Still seem as does the king.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|But what's the matter?
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|He purposed to his wife's sole son--a widow
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|That late he married--hath referr'd herself
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Unto a poor but worthy gentleman: she's wedded,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Her husband banish'd, she imprison'd: all
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Is outward sorrow, though I think the king
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Be touch'd at very heart.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|None but the king?
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|He that hath lost her too, so is the queen,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|That most desired the match, but not a courtier,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Although they wear their faces to the bent
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Of the king's look's, hath a heart that is not
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Glad at the thing they scowl at.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|And why so?
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|He that hath miss'd the princess is a thing
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Too bad for bad report: and he that hath her--
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|I mean, that married her, alack, good man!
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|And therefore banish'd--is a creature such
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|As, to seek through the regions of the earth
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|For one his like, there would be something failing
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|In him that should compare. I do not think
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|So fair an outward and such stuff within
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Endows a man but he.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|You speak him far.
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|I do extend him, sir, within himself,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Crush him together rather than unfold
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|His measure duly.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|What's his name and birth?
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|I cannot delve him to the root: his father
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Was call'd Sicilius, who did join his honour
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Against the Romans with Cassibelan,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|But had his titles by Tenantius whom
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|He served with glory and admired success,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|So gain'd the sur-addition Leonatus,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|And had, besides this gentleman in question,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Two other sons, who in the wars o' the time
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Died with their swords in hand, for which
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|their father,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|That he quit being, and his gentle lady,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Big of this gentleman our theme, deceased
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|As he was born. The king he takes the babe
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|To his protection, calls him Posthumus Leonatus,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Breeds him and makes him of his bed-chamber,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Puts to him all the learnings that his time
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Could make him the receiver of, which he took,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|As we do air, fast as 'twas minister'd,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|And in's spring became a harvest, lived in court--
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Which rare it is to do--most praised, most loved,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|A sample to the youngest, to the more mature
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|A glass that feated them, and to the graver
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|A child that guided dotards, to his mistress,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|For whom he now is banish'd, her own price
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|By her election may be truly read
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|What kind of man he is.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|I honour him
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|Even out of your report. But, pray you, tell me,
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|Is she sole child to the king?
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|His only child.
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|He had two sons: if this be worth your hearing,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Mark it: the eldest of them at three years old,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|I' the swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Were stol'n, and to this hour no guess in knowledge
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Which way they went.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|How long is this ago?
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Some twenty years.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|That a king's children should be so convey'd,
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|So slackly guarded, and the search so slow,
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|That could not trace them!
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Howsoe'er 'tis strange,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Yet is it true, sir.
Cymbeline|Second Gentleman|I do well believe you.
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|We must forbear: here comes the gentleman,
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|The queen, and princess.
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Exeunt
Cymbeline|First Gentleman|Enter the QUEEN, POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and IMOGEN
Cymbeline|QUEEN|No, be assured you shall not find me, daughter,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|After the slander of most stepmothers,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Evil-eyed unto you: you're my prisoner, but
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That lock up your restraint. For you, Posthumus,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|So soon as I can win the offended king,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|I will be known your advocate: marry, yet
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The fire of rage is in him, and 'twere good
Cymbeline|QUEEN|You lean'd unto his sentence with what patience
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Your wisdom may inform you.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Please your highness,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I will from hence to-day.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|You know the peril.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The pangs of barr'd affections, though the king
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Hath charged you should not speak together.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Exit
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I something fear my father's wrath, but nothing--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Always reserved my holy duty--what
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|His rage can do on me: you must be gone,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And I shall here abide the hourly shot
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of angry eyes, not comforted to live,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But that there is this jewel in the world
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That I may see again.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|My queen! my mistress!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To be suspected of more tenderness
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Than doth become a man. I will remain
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|My residence in Rome at one Philario's,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Who to my father was a friend, to me
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Known but by letter: thither write, my queen,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Though ink be made of gall.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Re-enter QUEEN
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Be brief, I pray you:
Cymbeline|QUEEN|If the king come, I shall incur I know not
Cymbeline|QUEEN|How much of his displeasure.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Aside
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Yet I'll move him
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To walk this way: I never do him wrong,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|But he does buy my injuries, to be friends,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Pays dear for my offences.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Exit
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Should we be taking leave
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|As long a term as yet we have to live,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Nay, stay a little:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Were you but riding forth to air yourself,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Such parting were too petty. Look here, love,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|This diamond was my mother's: take it, heart,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But keep it till you woo another wife,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When Imogen is dead.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|How, how! another?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|You gentle gods, give me but this I have,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And sear up my embracements from a next
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|With bonds of death!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Putting on the ring
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Remain, remain thou here
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|While sense can keep it on. And, sweetest, fairest,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|As I my poor self did exchange for you,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I still win of you: for my sake wear this,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|It is a manacle of love, I'll place it
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Upon this fairest prisoner.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Putting a bracelet upon her arm
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O the gods!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When shall we see again?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter CYMBELINE and Lords
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Alack, the king!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou basest thing, avoid! hence, from my sight!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|If after this command thou fraught the court
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|With thy unworthiness, thou diest: away!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou'rt poison to my blood.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The gods protect you!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And bless the good remainders of the court! I am gone.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Exit
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|There cannot be a pinch in death
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|More sharp than this is.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|O disloyal thing,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A year's age on me.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I beseech you, sir,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Harm not yourself with your vexation
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am senseless of your wrath, a touch more rare
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Subdues all pangs, all fears.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Past grace? obedience?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Past hope, and in despair, that way, past grace.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That mightst have had the sole son of my queen!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O blest, that I might not! I chose an eagle,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And did avoid a puttock.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou took'st a beggar, wouldst have made my throne
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A seat for baseness.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|No, I rather added
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A lustre to it.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|O thou vile one!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Sir,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You bred him as my playfellow, and he is
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A man worth any woman, overbuys me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Almost the sum he pays.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|What, art thou mad?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Almost, sir: heaven restore me! Would I were
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Our neighbour shepherd's son!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou foolish thing!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Re-enter QUEEN
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|They were again together: you have done
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Not after our command. Away with her,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And pen her up.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Beseech your patience. Peace,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Dear lady daughter, peace! Sweet sovereign,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Leave us to ourselves, and make yourself some comfort
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Out of your best advice.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Nay, let her languish
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A drop of blood a day, and, being aged,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Die of this folly!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exeunt CYMBELINE and Lords
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Fie! you must give way.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Enter PISANIO
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Here is your servant. How now, sir! What news?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|My lord your son drew on my master.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Ha!
Cymbeline|QUEEN|No harm, I trust, is done?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|There might have been,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|But that my master rather play'd than fought
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And had no help of anger: they were parted
Cymbeline|PISANIO|By gentlemen at hand.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|I am very glad on't.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Your son's my father's friend, he takes his part.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To draw upon an exile! O brave sir!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I would they were in Afric both together,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Myself by with a needle, that I might prick
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The goer-back. Why came you from your master?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|On his command: he would not suffer me
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To bring him to the haven, left these notes
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Of what commands I should be subject to,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|When 't pleased you to employ me.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|This hath been
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Your faithful servant: I dare lay mine honour
Cymbeline|QUEEN|He will remain so.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I humbly thank your highness.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Pray, walk awhile.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|About some half-hour hence,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I pray you, speak with me: you shall at least
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Go see my lord aboard: for this time leave me.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exeunt
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|SCENE II. The same. A public place.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter CLOTEN and two Lords
Cymbeline|First Lord|Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt, the
Cymbeline|First Lord|violence of action hath made you reek as a
Cymbeline|First Lord|sacrifice: where air comes out, air comes in:
Cymbeline|First Lord|there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  No, 'faith, not so much as his patience.
Cymbeline|First Lord|Hurt him! his body's a passable carcass, if he be
Cymbeline|First Lord|not hurt: it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  His steel was in debt, it went o' the
Cymbeline|Second Lord|backside the town.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The villain would not stand me.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  No, but he fled forward still, toward your face.
Cymbeline|First Lord|Stand you! You have land enough of your own: but
Cymbeline|First Lord|he added to your having, gave you some ground.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I would they had not come between us.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  So would I, till you had measured how long
Cymbeline|Second Lord|a fool you were upon the ground.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|And that she should love this fellow and refuse me!
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  If it be a sin to make a true election, she
Cymbeline|Second Lord|is damned.
Cymbeline|First Lord|Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain
Cymbeline|First Lord|go not together: she's a good sign, but I have seen
Cymbeline|First Lord|small reflection of her wit.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  She shines not upon fools, lest the
Cymbeline|Second Lord|reflection should hurt her.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been some
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|hurt done!
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  I wish not so, unless it had been the fall
Cymbeline|Second Lord|of an ass, which is no great hurt.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|You'll go with us?
Cymbeline|First Lord|I'll attend your lordship.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Nay, come, let's go together.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Well, my lord.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Exeunt
Cymbeline|Second Lord|SCENE III. A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Enter IMOGEN and PISANIO
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' the haven,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And question'dst every sail: if he should write
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And not have it, 'twere a paper lost,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As offer'd mercy is. What was the last
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That he spake to thee?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|It was his queen, his queen!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Then waved his handkerchief?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And kiss'd it, madam.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Senseless Linen! happier therein than I!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And that was all?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|No, madam, for so long
Cymbeline|PISANIO|As he could make me with this eye or ear
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Distinguish him from others, he did keep
Cymbeline|PISANIO|The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|How swift his ship.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou shouldst have made him
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As little as a crow, or less, ere left
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To after-eye him.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Madam, so I did.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I would have broke mine eye-strings, crack'd them, but
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To look upon him, till the diminution
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The smallness of a gnat to air, and then
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Have turn'd mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When shall we hear from him?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Be assured, madam,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|With his next vantage.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I did not take my leave of him, but had
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How I would think on him at certain hours
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Such thoughts and such, or I could make him swear
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The shes of Italy should not betray
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Mine interest and his honour, or have charged him,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To encounter me with orisons, for then
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am in heaven for him, or ere I could
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Give him that parting kiss which I had set
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And like the tyrannous breathing of the north
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Shakes all our buds from growing.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter a Lady
Cymbeline|Lady|The queen, madam,
Cymbeline|Lady|Desires your highness' company.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I will attend the queen.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Madam, I shall.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Exeunt
Cymbeline|PISANIO|SCENE IV. Rome. Philario's house.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, and a Spaniard
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain: he was
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|as since he hath been allowed the name of, but I
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|could then have looked on him without the help of
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|had been tabled by his side and I to peruse him by items.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|You speak of him when he was less furnished than now
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|he is with that which makes him both without and within.
Cymbeline|Frenchman|I have seen him in France: we had very many there
Cymbeline|Frenchman|could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|This matter of marrying his king's daughter, wherein
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|he must be weighed rather by her value than his own,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter.
Cymbeline|Frenchman|And then his banishment.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|to extend him, be it but to fortify her judgment,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|which else an easy battery might lay flat, for
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|taking a beggar without less quality. But how comes
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|it he is to sojourn with you? How creeps
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|acquaintance?
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|His father and I were soldiers together, to whom I
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|have been often bound for no less than my life.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Here comes the Briton: let him be so entertained
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|amongst you as suits, with gentlemen of your
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|knowing, to a stranger of his quality.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|I beseech you all, be better known to this
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|gentleman, whom I commend to you as a noble friend
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|of mine: how worthy he is I will leave to appear
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
Cymbeline|Frenchman|Sir, we have known together in Orleans.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|which I will be ever to pay and yet pay still.
Cymbeline|Frenchman|Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness: I was glad I
Cymbeline|Frenchman|did atone my countryman and you, it had been pity
Cymbeline|Frenchman|you should have been put together with so mortal a
Cymbeline|Frenchman|purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so
Cymbeline|Frenchman|slight and trivial a nature.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|By your pardon, sir, I was then a young traveller,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|my every action to be guided by others' experiences:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|but upon my mended judgment--if I offend not to say
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|it is mended--my quarrel was not altogether slight.
Cymbeline|Frenchman|'Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of swords,
Cymbeline|Frenchman|and by such two that would by all likelihood have
Cymbeline|Frenchman|confounded one the other, or have fallen both.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Can we, with manners, ask what was the difference?
Cymbeline|Frenchman|Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public,
Cymbeline|Frenchman|which may, without contradiction, suffer the report.
Cymbeline|Frenchman|It was much like an argument that fell out last
Cymbeline|Frenchman|night, where each of us fell in praise of our
Cymbeline|Frenchman|country mistresses, this gentleman at that time
Cymbeline|Frenchman|vouching--and upon warrant of bloody
Cymbeline|Frenchman|affirmation--his to be more fair, virtuous, wise,
Cymbeline|Frenchman|chaste, constant-qualified and less attemptable
Cymbeline|Frenchman|than any the rarest of our ladies in France.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That lady is not now living, or this gentleman's
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|opinion by this worn out.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|She holds her virtue still and I my mind.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|You must not so far prefer her 'fore ours of Italy.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|abate her nothing, though I profess myself her
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|adorer, not her friend.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|As fair and as good--a kind of hand-in-hand
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|comparison--had been something too fair and too good
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|for any lady in Britain. If she went before others
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I have seen, as that diamond of yours outlustres
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|many I have beheld. I could not but believe she
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|excelled many: but I have not seen the most
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|precious diamond that is, nor you the lady.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|What do you esteem it at?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|More than the world enjoys.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she's
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|outprized by a trifle.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|You are mistaken: the one may be sold, or given, if
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|there were wealth enough for the purchase, or merit
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|for the gift: the other is not a thing for sale,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|and only the gift of the gods.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which the gods have given you?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Which, by their graces, I will keep.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|You may wear her in title yours: but, you know,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|ring may be stolen too: so your brace of unprizable
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|estimations, the one is but frail and the other
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|casual, a cunning thief, or a that way accomplished
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|courtier, would hazard the winning both of first and last.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|to convince the honour of my mistress, if, in the
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|holding or loss of that, you term her frail. I do
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|nothing doubt you have store of thieves,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|notwithstanding, I fear not my ring.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Let us leave here, gentlemen.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signior, I
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|thank him, makes no stranger of me, we are familiar at first.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With five times so much conversation, I should get
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|ground of your fair mistress, make her go back, even
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|to the yielding, had I admittance and opportunity to friend.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|No, no.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|your ring, which, in my opinion, o'ervalues it
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|something: but I make my wager rather against your
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|confidence than her reputation: and, to bar your
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|offence herein too, I durst attempt it against any
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|lady in the world.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|You are a great deal abused in too bold a
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|persuasion, and I doubt not you sustain what you're
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|worthy of by your attempt.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|What's that?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A repulse: though your attempt, as you call it,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|deserve more, a punishment too.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Gentlemen, enough of this: it came in too suddenly,
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|let it die as it was born, and, I pray you, be
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|better acquainted.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Would I had put my estate and my neighbour's on the
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|approbation of what I have spoke!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|What lady would you choose to assail?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Yours, whom in constancy you think stands so safe.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|that, commend me to the court where your lady is,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|with no more advantage than the opportunity of a
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|second conference, and I will bring from thence
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|that honour of hers which you imagine so reserved.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I will wage against your gold, gold to it: my ring
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I hold dear as my finger, 'tis part of it.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|You are afraid, and therein the wiser. If you buy
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|preserve it from tainting: but I see you have some
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|religion in you, that you fear.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|This is but a custom in your tongue, you bear a
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|graver purpose, I hope.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I am the master of my speeches, and would undergo
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|what's spoken, I swear.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Will you? I shall but lend my diamond till your
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|return: let there be covenants drawn between's: my
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|unworthy thinking: I dare you to this match: here's my ring.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|I will have it no lay.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|By the gods, it is one. If I bring you no
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|sufficient testimony that I have enjoyed the dearest
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|bodily part of your mistress, my ten thousand ducats
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|are yours, so is your diamond too: if I come off,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|and leave her in such honour as you have trust in,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|she your jewel, this your jewel, and my gold are
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|yours: provided I have your commendation for my more
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|free entertainment.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I embrace these conditions, let us have articles
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|betwixt us. Only, thus far you shall answer: if
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|you make your voyage upon her and give me directly
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|to understand you have prevailed, I am no further
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|your enemy, she is not worth our debate: if she
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|remain unseduced, you not making it appear
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|otherwise, for your ill opinion and the assault you
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|have made to her chastity you shall answer me with
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|your sword.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Your hand, a covenant: we will have these things set
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|down by lawful counsel, and straight away for
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|starve: I will fetch my gold and have our two
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|wagers recorded.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Agreed.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and IACHIMO
Cymbeline|Frenchman|Will this hold, think you?
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Signior Iachimo will not from it.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Pray, let us follow 'em.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Exeunt
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|SCENE V. Britain. A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Enter QUEEN, Ladies, and CORNELIUS
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Make haste: who has the note of them?
Cymbeline|First Lady|I, madam.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Dispatch.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Exeunt Ladies
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs?
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam:
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Presenting a small box
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|But I beseech your grace, without offence,--
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|My conscience bids me ask--wherefore you have
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Commanded of me those most poisonous compounds,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Which are the movers of a languishing death,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|But though slow, deadly?
Cymbeline|QUEEN|I wonder, doctor,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Thou ask'st me such a question. Have I not been
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn'd me how
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That our great king himself doth woo me oft
Cymbeline|QUEEN|For my confections? Having thus far proceeded,--
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Unless thou think'st me devilish--is't not meet
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That I did amplify my judgment in
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Other conclusions? I will try the forces
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
Cymbeline|QUEEN|We count not worth the hanging, but none human,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To try the vigour of them and apply
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Allayments to their act, and by them gather
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Their several virtues and effects.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Your highness
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Shall from this practise but make hard your heart:
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Besides, the seeing these effects will be
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Both noisome and infectious.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|O, content thee.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Enter PISANIO
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Aside
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Here comes a flattering rascal, upon him
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Will I first work: he's for his master,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|An enemy to my son. How now, Pisanio!
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Doctor, your service for this time is ended,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Take your own way.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|[Aside]          I do suspect you, madam,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|But you shall do no harm.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|[To PISANIO]            Hark thee, a word.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|[Aside]  I do not like her. She doth think she has
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Strange lingering poisons: I do know her spirit,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|And will not trust one of her malice with
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|A drug of such damn'd nature. Those she has
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Which first, perchance, she'll prove on
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|cats and dogs,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Then afterward up higher: but there is
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|No danger in what show of death it makes,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|More than the locking-up the spirits a time,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool'd
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|With a most false effect, and I the truer,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|So to be false with her.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|No further service, doctor,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Until I send for thee.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|I humbly take my leave.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Exit
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Weeps she still, say'st thou? Dost thou think in time
Cymbeline|QUEEN|She will not quench and let instructions enter
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Where folly now possesses? Do thou work:
Cymbeline|QUEEN|When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|I'll tell thee on the instant thou art then
Cymbeline|QUEEN|As great as is thy master, greater, for
Cymbeline|QUEEN|His fortunes all lie speechless and his name
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Is at last gasp: return he cannot, nor
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Continue where he is: to shift his being
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Is to exchange one misery with another,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|And every day that comes comes to decay
Cymbeline|QUEEN|A day's work in him. What shalt thou expect,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To be depender on a thing that leans,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Who cannot be new built, nor has no friends,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|So much as but to prop him?
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The QUEEN drops the box: PISANIO takes it up
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Thou takest up
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Thou know'st not what, but take it for thy labour:
Cymbeline|QUEEN|It is a thing I made, which hath the king
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Five times redeem'd from death: I do not know
Cymbeline|QUEEN|What is more cordial. Nay, I prethee, take it,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|It is an earnest of a further good
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The case stands with her, do't as from thyself.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Think what a chance thou changest on, but think
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Thou hast thy mistress still, to boot, my son,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Who shall take notice of thee: I'll move the king
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To any shape of thy preferment such
Cymbeline|QUEEN|As thou'lt desire, and then myself, I chiefly,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That set thee on to this desert, am bound
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To load thy merit richly. Call my women:
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Think on my words.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Exit PISANIO
Cymbeline|QUEEN|A sly and constant knave,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Not to be shaked, the agent for his master
Cymbeline|QUEEN|And the remembrancer of her to hold
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Except she bend her humour, shall be assured
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To taste of too.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Re-enter PISANIO and Ladies
Cymbeline|QUEEN|So, so: well done, well done:
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The violets, cowslips, and the primroses,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Bear to my closet. Fare thee well, Pisanio,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Think on my words.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And shall do:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|But when to my good lord I prove untrue,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I'll choke myself: there's all I'll do for you.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Exit
Cymbeline|PISANIO|SCENE VI. The same. Another room in the palace.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Enter IMOGEN
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A father cruel, and a step-dame false,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A foolish suitor to a wedded lady,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That hath her husband banish'd,--O, that husband!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As my two brothers, happy! but most miserable
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is the desire that's glorious: blest be those,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Which seasons comfort. Who may this be? Fie!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter PISANIO and IACHIMO
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Comes from my lord with letters.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Change you, madam?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The worthy Leonatus is in safety
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And greets your highness dearly.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Presents a letter
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thanks, good sir:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You're kindly welcome.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|[Aside]  All of her that is out of door most rich!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|She is alone the Arabian bird, and I
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Rather directly fly.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|[Reads]  'He is one of the noblest note, to whose
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|kindnesses I am most infinitely tied. Reflect upon
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|him accordingly, as you value your trust--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|LEONATUS.'
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|So far I read aloud:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But even the very middle of my heart
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is warm'd by the rest, and takes it thankfully.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Have words to bid you, and shall find it so
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|In all that I can do.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Thanks, fairest lady.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of sea and land, which can distinguish 'twixt
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Upon the number'd beach? and can we not
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Partition make with spectacles so precious
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Twixt fair and foul?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What makes your admiration?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|It cannot be i' the eye, for apes and monkeys
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Twixt two such shes would chatter this way and
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Contemn with mows the other, nor i' the judgment,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|For idiots in this case of favour would
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Be wisely definite, nor i' the appetite,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Sluttery to such neat excellence opposed
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Should make desire vomit emptiness,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Not so allured to feed.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What is the matter, trow?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The cloyed will,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Both fill'd and running, ravening first the lamb
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Longs after for the garbage.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What, dear sir,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thus raps you? Are you well?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Thanks, madam, well.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To PISANIO
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Beseech you, sir, desire
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|My man's abode where I did leave him: he
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Is strange and peevish.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I was going, sir,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To give him welcome.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Exit
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Continues well my lord? His health, beseech you?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Well, madam.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Exceeding pleasant, none a stranger there
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|So merry and so gamesome: he is call'd
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The Briton reveller.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When he was here,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|He did incline to sadness, and oft-times
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Not knowing why.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I never saw him sad.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|There is a Frenchman his companion, one
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|A Gallian girl at home, he furnaces
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The thick sighs from him, whiles the jolly Briton--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Your lord, I mean--laughs from's free lungs, cries 'O,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Can my sides hold, to think that man, who knows
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|By history, report, or his own proof,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|But must be, will his free hours languish for
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Assured bondage?'
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Will my lord say so?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|It is a recreation to be by
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And hear him mock the Frenchman. But, heavens know,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Some men are much to blame.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Not he, I hope.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Not he: but yet heaven's bounty towards him might
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Be used more thankfully. In himself, 'tis much,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|In you, which I account his beyond all talents,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To pity too.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What do you pity, sir?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Two creatures heartily.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Am I one, sir?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You look on me: what wreck discern you in me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Deserves your pity?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Lamentable! What,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To hide me from the radiant sun and solace
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I' the dungeon by a snuff?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I pray you, sir,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Deliver with more openness your answers
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To my demands. Why do you pity me?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That others do--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I was about to say--enjoy your--But
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|It is an office of the gods to venge it,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Not mine to speak on 't.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You do seem to know
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Something of me, or what concerns me: pray you,--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Since doubling things go ill often hurts more
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Than to be sure they do, for certainties
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The remedy then born--discover to me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What both you spur and stop.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Had I this cheek
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To bathe my lips upon, this hand, whose touch,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To the oath of loyalty, this object, which
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Fixing it only here, should I, damn'd then,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Slaver with lips as common as the stairs
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That mount the Capitol, join gripes with hands
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Made hard with hourly falsehood--falsehood, as
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With labour, then by-peeping in an eye
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Base and unlustrous as the smoky light
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That's fed with stinking tallow, it were fit
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That all the plagues of hell should at one time
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Encounter such revolt.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|My lord, I fear,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Has forgot Britain.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And himself. Not I,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Inclined to this intelligence, pronounce
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The beggary of his change, but 'tis your graces
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That from pay mutest conscience to my tongue
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Charms this report out.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Let me hear no more.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|O dearest soul! your cause doth strike my heart
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With pity, that doth make me sick. A lady
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|So fair, and fasten'd to an empery,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Would make the great'st king double,--to be partner'd
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With tomboys hired with that self-exhibition
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which your own coffers yield! with diseased ventures
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That play with all infirmities for gold
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which rottenness can lend nature! such boil'd stuff
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|As well might poison poison! Be revenged,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Or she that bore you was no queen, and you
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Recoil from your great stock.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Revenged!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How should I be revenged? If this be true,--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As I have such a heart that both mine ears
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Must not in haste abuse--if it be true,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How should I be revenged?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Should he make me
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Live, like Diana's priest, betwixt cold sheets,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|In your despite, upon your purse? Revenge it.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|More noble than that runagate to your bed,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And will continue fast to your affection,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Still close as sure.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What, ho, Pisanio!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Let me my service tender on your lips.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Away! I do condemn mine ears that have
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|For such an end thou seek'st,--as base as strange.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|From thy report as thou from honour, and
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Solicit'st here a lady that disdains
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thee and the devil alike. What ho, Pisanio!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The king my father shall be made acquainted
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of thy assault: if he shall think it fit,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A saucy stranger in his court to mart
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As in a Romish stew and to expound
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|His beastly mind to us, he hath a court
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|He little cares for and a daughter who
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|He not respects at all. What, ho, Pisanio!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|O happy Leonatus! I may say
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The credit that thy lady hath of thee
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Her assured credit. Blessed live you long!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|A lady to the worthiest sir that ever
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Country call'd his! and you his mistress, only
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|For the most worthiest fit! Give me your pardon.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I have spoke this, to know if your affiance
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Were deeply rooted, and shall make your lord,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That which he is, new o'er: and he is one
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The truest manner'd, such a holy witch
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That he enchants societies into him,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Half all men's hearts are his.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You make amends.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|He sits 'mongst men like a descended god:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|He hath a kind of honour sets him off,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Most mighty princess, that I have adventured
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To try your taking a false report, which hath
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Honour'd with confirmation your great judgment
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|In the election of a sir so rare,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which you know cannot err: the love I bear him
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Made me to fan you thus, but the gods made you,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|All's well, sir: take my power i' the court
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|for yours.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|My humble thanks. I had almost forgot
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To entreat your grace but in a small request,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And yet of moment to, for it concerns
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Your lord, myself and other noble friends,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Are partners in the business.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Pray, what is't?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Some dozen Romans of us and your lord--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The best feather of our wing--have mingled sums
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To buy a present for the emperor
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which I, the factor for the rest, have done
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|In France: 'tis plate of rare device, and jewels
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of rich and exquisite form, their values great,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And I am something curious, being strange,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To have them in safe stowage: may it please you
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To take them in protection?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Willingly,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And pawn mine honour for their safety: since
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|In my bedchamber.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|They are in a trunk,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Attended by my men: I will make bold
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To send them to you, only for this night,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I must aboard to-morrow.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O, no, no.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Yes, I beseech, or I shall short my word
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|By lengthening my return. From Gallia
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I cross'd the seas on purpose and on promise
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To see your grace.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I thank you for your pains:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But not away to-morrow!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|O, I must, madam:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To greet your lord with writing, do't to-night:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I have outstood my time, which is material
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To the tender of our present.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I will write.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Send your trunk to me, it shall safe be kept,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And truly yielded you. You're very welcome.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exeunt
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|ACT II
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|SCENE I. Britain. Before Cymbeline's palace.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter CLOTEN and two Lords
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|hundred pound on't: and then a whoreson jackanapes
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.
Cymbeline|First Lord|What got he by that? You have broke his pate with
Cymbeline|First Lord|your bowl.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  If his wit had been like him that broke it,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|it would have run all out.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
Cymbeline|Second Lord|No my lord,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Aside
Cymbeline|Second Lord|nor crop the ears of them.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Whoreson dog! I give him satisfaction?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Would he had been one of my rank!
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  To have smelt like a fool.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I am not vexed more at any thing in the earth: a
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|mother: every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|nobody can match.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  You are cock and capon too, and you crow,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|cock, with your comb on.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Sayest thou?
Cymbeline|Second Lord|It is not fit your lordship should undertake every
Cymbeline|Second Lord|companion that you give offence to.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|No, I know that: but it is fit I should commit
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|offence to my inferiors.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Why, so I say.
Cymbeline|First Lord|Did you hear of a stranger that's come to court to-night?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|A stranger, and I not know on't!
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  He's a strange fellow himself, and knows it
Cymbeline|Second Lord|not.
Cymbeline|First Lord|There's an Italian come, and, 'tis thought, one of
Cymbeline|First Lord|Leonatus' friends.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Leonatus! a banished rascal, and he's another,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger?
Cymbeline|First Lord|One of your lordship's pages.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Is it fit I went to look upon him? is there no
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|derogation in't?
Cymbeline|Second Lord|You cannot derogate, my lord.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Not easily, I think.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|[Aside]  You are a fool granted, therefore your
Cymbeline|Second Lord|issues, being foolish, do not derogate.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Come, I'll go see this Italian: what I have lost
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|to-day at bowls I'll win to-night of him. Come, go.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|I'll attend your lordship.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Exeunt CLOTEN and First Lord
Cymbeline|Second Lord|That such a crafty devil as is his mother
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Should yield the world this ass! a woman that
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Bears all down with her brain, and this her son
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Thou divine Imogen, what thou endurest,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern'd,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer
Cymbeline|Second Lord|More hateful than the foul expulsion is
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Of the divorce he'ld make! The heavens hold firm
Cymbeline|Second Lord|The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked
Cymbeline|Second Lord|That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand,
Cymbeline|Second Lord|To enjoy thy banish'd lord and this great land!
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Exit
Cymbeline|Second Lord|SCENE II. Imogen's bedchamber in Cymbeline's palace:
Cymbeline|Second Lord|a trunk in one corner of it.
Cymbeline|Second Lord|IMOGEN in bed, reading, a Lady attending
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Who's there? my woman Helen?
Cymbeline|Lady|Please you, madam
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What hour is it?
Cymbeline|Lady|Almost midnight, madam.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Take not away the taper, leave it burning,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I prithee, call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exit Lady
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To your protection I commend me, gods.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|From fairies and the tempters of the night
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Guard me, beseech ye.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Sleeps. IACHIMO comes from the trunk
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|But kiss, one kiss! Rubies unparagon'd,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|How dearly they do't! 'Tis her breathing that
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o' the taper
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To see the enclosed lights, now canopied
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Under these windows, white and azure laced
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To note the chamber: I will write all down:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Such and such pictures, there the window, such
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The adornment of her bed, the arras, figures,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Why, such and such, and the contents o' the story.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Ah, but some natural notes about her body,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Above ten thousand meaner moveables
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Would testify, to enrich mine inventory.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And be her sense but as a monument,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Thus in a chapel lying! Come off, come off:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Taking off her bracelet
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Tis mine, and this will witness outwardly,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|As strongly as the conscience does within,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To the madding of her lord. On her left breast
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I' the bottom of a cowslip: here's a voucher,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Stronger than ever law could make: this secret
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Will force him think I have pick'd the lock and ta'en
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Why should I write this down, that's riveted,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Screw'd to my memory? She hath been reading late
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The tale of Tereus, here the leaf's turn'd down
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Where Philomel gave up. I have enough:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To the trunk again, and shut the spring of it.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|May bare the raven's eye! I lodge in fear,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Clock strikes
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|One, two, three: time, time!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Goes into the trunk. The scene closes
Cymbeline|First Lord|Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the
Cymbeline|First Lord|most coldest that ever turned up ace.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|It would make any man cold to lose.
Cymbeline|First Lord|But not every man patient after the noble temper of
Cymbeline|First Lord|your lordship. You are most hot and furious when you win.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Winning will put any man into courage. If I could
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|get this foolish Imogen, I should have gold enough.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|It's almost morning, is't not?
Cymbeline|First Lord|Day, my lord.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I would this music would come: I am advised to give
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|her music o' mornings, they say it will penetrate.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Enter Musicians
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Come on, tune: if you can penetrate her with your
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|fingering, so, we'll try with tongue too: if none
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|will do, let her remain, but I'll never give o'er.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|First, a very excellent good-conceited thing,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|after, a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|words to it: and then let her consider.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|SONG
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|And Phoebus 'gins arise,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|His steeds to water at those springs
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|On chaliced flowers that lies,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|And winking Mary-buds begin
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|To ope their golden eyes:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|With every thing that pretty is,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|My lady sweet, arise:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Arise, arise.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|consider your music the better: if it do not, it is
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|a vice in her ears, which horse-hairs and
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|calves'-guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|boot, can never amend.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Exeunt Musicians
Cymbeline|Second Lord|Here comes the king.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|was up so early: he cannot choose but take this
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|service I have done fatherly.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Enter CYMBELINE and QUEEN
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Will she not forth?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I have assailed her with music, but she vouchsafes no notice.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The exile of her minion is too new,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|She hath not yet forgot him: some more time
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Must wear the print of his remembrance out,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And then she's yours.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|You are most bound to the king,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Who lets go by no vantages that may
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Prefer you to his daughter. Frame yourself
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To orderly soliciting, and be friended
Cymbeline|QUEEN|With aptness of the season, make denials
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Increase your services, so seem as if
Cymbeline|QUEEN|You were inspired to do those duties which
Cymbeline|QUEEN|You tender to her, that you in all obey her,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Save when command to your dismission tends,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|And therein you are senseless.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Senseless! not so.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Enter a Messenger
Cymbeline|Messenger|So like you, sir, ambassadors from Rome,
Cymbeline|Messenger|The one is Caius Lucius.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A worthy fellow,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Albeit he comes on angry purpose now,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|But that's no fault of his: we must receive him
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|According to the honour of his sender,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|We must extend our notice. Our dear son,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|When you have given good morning to your mistress,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Attend the queen and us, we shall have need
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exeunt all but CLOTEN
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|If she be up, I'll speak with her, if not,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Let her lie still and dream.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Knocks
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|By your leave, ho!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I Know her women are about her: what
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|If I do line one of their hands? 'Tis gold
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Which buys admittance, oft it doth, yea, and makes
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Their deer to the stand o' the stealer, and 'tis gold
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man: what
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Can it not do and undo? I will make
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|One of her women lawyer to me, for
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I yet not understand the case myself.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Knocks
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|By your leave.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Enter a Lady
Cymbeline|Lady|Who's there that knocks?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|A gentleman.
Cymbeline|Lady|No more?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Yes, and a gentlewoman's son.
Cymbeline|Lady|That's more
Cymbeline|Lady|Than some, whose tailors are as dear as yours,
Cymbeline|Lady|Can justly boast of. What's your lordship's pleasure?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Your lady's person: is she ready?
Cymbeline|Lady|Ay,
Cymbeline|Lady|To keep her chamber.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|There is gold for you,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Sell me your good report.
Cymbeline|Lady|How! my good name? or to report of you
Cymbeline|Lady|What I shall think is good?--The princess!
Cymbeline|Lady|Enter IMOGEN
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Good morrow, fairest: sister, your sweet hand.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Exit Lady
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Good morrow, sir. You lay out too much pains
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|For purchasing but trouble, the thanks I give
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is telling you that I am poor of thanks
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And scarce can spare them.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Still, I swear I love you.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If you but said so, 'twere as deep with me:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If you swear still, your recompense is still
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That I regard it not.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|This is no answer.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But that you shall not say I yield being silent,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I would not speak. I pray you, spare me: 'faith,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I shall unfold equal discourtesy
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To your best kindness: one of your great knowing
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Should learn, being taught, forbearance.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I will not.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Fools are not mad folks.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Do you call me fool?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As I am mad, I do:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If you'll be patient, I'll no more be mad,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That cures us both. I am much sorry, sir,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You put me to forget a lady's manners,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|By being so verbal: and learn now, for all,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|By the very truth of it, I care not for you,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And am so near the lack of charity--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To accuse myself--I hate you, which I had rather
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You felt than make't my boast.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|You sin against
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Obedience, which you owe your father. For
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The contract you pretend with that base wretch,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|With scraps o' the court, it is no contract, none:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|And though it be allow'd in meaner parties--
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Yet who than he more mean?--to knit their souls,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|On whom there is no more dependency
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|But brats and beggary, in self-figured knot,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The consequence o' the crown, and must not soil
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The precious note of it with a base slave.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|A pantler, not so eminent.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Profane fellow
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Wert thou the son of Jupiter and no more
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But what thou art besides, thou wert too base
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To be his groom: thou wert dignified enough,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Comparative for your virtues, to be styled
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|For being preferred so well.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The south-fog rot him!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|He never can meet more mischance than come
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To be but named of thee. His meanest garment,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That ever hath but clipp'd his body, is dearer
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|In my respect than all the hairs above thee,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Were they all made such men. How now, Pisanio!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter PISANIO
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|'His garment!' Now the devil--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To Dorothy my woman hie thee presently--
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|'His garment!'
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am sprited with a fool.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Frighted, and anger'd worse: go bid my woman
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Search for a jewel that too casually
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Hath left mine arm: it was thy master's: 'shrew me,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If I would lose it for a revenue
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of any king's in Europe. I do think
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I saw't this morning: confident I am
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Last night 'twas on mine arm, I kiss'd it:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I hope it be not gone to tell my lord
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That I kiss aught but he.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|'Twill not be lost.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I hope so: go and search.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exit PISANIO
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|You have abused me:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|'His meanest garment!'
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Ay, I said so, sir:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If you will make't an action, call witness to't.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I will inform your father.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Your mother too:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|She's my good lady, and will conceive, I hope,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But the worst of me. So, I leave you, sir,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To the worst of discontent.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exit
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I'll be revenged:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|'His meanest garment!' Well.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Exit
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|CYMBELINE
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|SCENE IV. Rome. Philario's house.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Fear it not, sir: I would I were so sure
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To win the king as I am bold her honour
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Will remain hers.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|What means do you make to him?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Not any, but abide the change of time,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Quake in the present winter's state and wish
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That warmer days would come: in these sear'd hopes,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I barely gratify your love, they failing,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I must die much your debtor.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Your very goodness and your company
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|O'erpays all I can do. By this, your king
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Hath heard of great Augustus: Caius Lucius
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Will do's commission throughly: and I think
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|He'll grant the tribute, send the arrearages,
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Is yet fresh in their grief.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I do believe,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Statist though I am none, nor like to be,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That this will prove a war, and you shall hear
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The legions now in Gallia sooner landed
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of any penny tribute paid. Our countrymen
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Are men more order'd than when Julius Caesar
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Smiled at their lack of skill, but found
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|their courage
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Worthy his frowning at: their discipline,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Now mingled with their courages, will make known
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To their approvers they are people such
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That mend upon the world.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Enter IACHIMO
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|See! Iachimo!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The swiftest harts have posted you by land,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And winds of all the comers kiss'd your sails,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To make your vessel nimble.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Welcome, sir.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I hope the briefness of your answer made
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The speediness of your return.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Your lady
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And therewithal the best, or let her beauty
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Look through a casement to allure false hearts
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And be false with them.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Here are letters for you.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Their tenor good, I trust.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Tis very like.
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Was Caius Lucius in the Britain court
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|When you were there?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|He was expected then,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|But not approach'd.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|All is well yet.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Sparkles this stone as it was wont? or is't not
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Too dull for your good wearing?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|If I had lost it,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I should have lost the worth of it in gold.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I'll make a journey twice as far, to enjoy
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|A second night of such sweet shortness which
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Was mine in Britain, for the ring is won.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The stone's too hard to come by.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Not a whit,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Your lady being so easy.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Make not, sir,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Your loss your sport: I hope you know that we
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Must not continue friends.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Good sir, we must,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|If you keep covenant. Had I not brought
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The knowledge of your mistress home, I grant
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|We were to question further: but I now
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Profess myself the winner of her honour,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Together with your ring, and not the wronger
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of her or you, having proceeded but
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|By both your wills.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|If you can make't apparent
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That you have tasted her in bed, my hand
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And ring is yours, if not, the foul opinion
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|You had of her pure honour gains or loses
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To who shall find them.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Sir, my circumstances,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Being so near the truth as I will make them,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Must first induce you to believe: whose strength
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I will confirm with oath, which, I doubt not,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|You'll give me leave to spare, when you shall find
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|You need it not.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Proceed.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|First, her bedchamber,--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Where, I confess, I slept not, but profess
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Had that was well worth watching--it was hang'd
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With tapesty of silk and silver, the story
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Proud Cleopatra, when she met her Roman,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The press of boats or pride: a piece of work
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|In workmanship and value, which I wonder'd
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Could be so rarely and exactly wrought,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Since the true life on't was--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|This is true,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And this you might have heard of here, by me,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Or by some other.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|More particulars
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Must justify my knowledge.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|So they must,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Or do your honour injury.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The chimney
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Is south the chamber, and the chimney-piece
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Chaste Dian bathing: never saw I figures
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|So likely to report themselves: the cutter
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Was as another nature, dumb, outwent her,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Motion and breath left out.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|This is a thing
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Which you might from relation likewise reap,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Being, as it is, much spoke of.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The roof o' the chamber
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With golden cherubins is fretted: her andirons--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I had forgot them--were two winking Cupids
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Depending on their brands.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|This is her honour!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Let it be granted you have seen all this--and praise
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Be given to your remembrance--the description
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of what is in her chamber nothing saves
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The wager you have laid.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Then, if you can,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Showing the bracelet
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Be pale: I beg but leave to air this jewel, see!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And now 'tis up again: it must be married
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To that your diamond, I'll keep them.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Jove!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Once more let me behold it: is it that
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Which I left with her?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Sir--I thank her--that:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|She stripp'd it from her arm, I see her yet,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And yet enrich'd it too: she gave it me, and said
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|She prized it once.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|May be she pluck'd it off
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To send it me.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|She writes so to you, doth she?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|O, no, no, no! 'tis true. Here, take this too,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Gives the ring
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|It is a basilisk unto mine eye,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Kills me to look on't. Let there be no honour
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Where there is beauty, truth, where semblance, love,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Where there's another man: the vows of women
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of no more bondage be, to where they are made,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Than they are to their virtues, which is nothing.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|O, above measure false!
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Have patience, sir,
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|And take your ring again, 'tis not yet won:
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|It may be probable she lost it, or
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Who knows if one of her women, being corrupted,
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Hath stol'n it from her?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Very true,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And so, I hope, he came by't. Back my ring:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Render to me some corporal sign about her,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|More evident than this, for this was stolen.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|By Jupiter, I had it from her arm.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Hark you, he swears, by Jupiter he swears.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|'Tis true:--nay, keep the ring--'tis true: I am sure
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|She would not lose it: her attendants are
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|All sworn and honourable:--they induced to steal it!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And by a stranger!--No, he hath enjoyed her:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The cognizance of her incontinency
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Is this: she hath bought the name of whore
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|thus dearly.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|There, take thy hire, and all the fiends of hell
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Divide themselves between you!
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Sir, be patient:
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|This is not strong enough to be believed
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Of one persuaded well of--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Never talk on't,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|She hath been colted by him.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|If you seek
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|For further satisfying, under her breast--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Worthy the pressing--lies a mole, right proud
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of that most delicate lodging: by my life,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I kiss'd it, and it gave me present hunger
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To feed again, though full. You do remember
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|This stain upon her?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Ay, and it doth confirm
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Another stain, as big as hell can hold,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Were there no more but it.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Will you hear more?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Spare your arithmetic: never count the turns,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Once, and a million!
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I'll be sworn--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|No swearing.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|If you will swear you have not done't, you lie,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And I will kill thee, if thou dost deny
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Thou'st made me cuckold.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I'll deny nothing.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I will go there and do't, i' the court, before
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Her father. I'll do something--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Exit
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Quite besides
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|The government of patience! You have won:
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath
Cymbeline|PHILARIO|He hath against himself.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With an my heart.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Exeunt
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|SCENE V. Another room in Philario's house.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Is there no way for men to be but women
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Must be half-workers? We are all bastards,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And that most venerable man which I
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Did call my father, was I know not where
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|When I was stamp'd, some coiner with his tools
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Made me a counterfeit: yet my mother seem'd
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The Dian of that time so doth my wife
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The nonpareil of this. O, vengeance, vengeance!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And pray'd me oft forbearance, did it with
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Might well have warm'd old Saturn, that I thought her
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|As chaste as unsunn'd snow. O, all the devils!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|This yellow Iachimo, in an hour,--wast not?--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Or less,--at first?--perchance he spoke not, but,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Cried 'O!' and mounted, found no opposition
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|But what he look'd for should oppose and she
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Should from encounter guard. Could I find out
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The woman's part in me! For there's no motion
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|It is the woman's part: be it lying, note it,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The woman's, flattering, hers, deceiving, hers,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers, revenges, hers,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Nice longing, slanders, mutability,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Why, hers, in part or all, but rather, all,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For even to vice
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|They are not constant but are changing still
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|One vice, but of a minute old, for one
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Not half so old as that. I'll write against them,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater skill
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|In a true hate, to pray they have their will:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The very devils cannot plague them better.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Exit
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|ACT III
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|SCENE I. Britain. A hall in Cymbeline's palace.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Enter in state, CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN,  and Lords at one door, and at another, CAIUS LUCIUS and Attendants
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us?
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|When Julius Caesar, whose remembrance yet
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Lives in men's eyes and will to ears and tongues
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Be theme and hearing ever, was in this Britain
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And conquer'd it, Cassibelan, thine uncle,--
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Famous in Caesar's praises, no whit less
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Than in his feats deserving it--for him
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And his succession granted Rome a tribute,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Is left untender'd.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|And, to kill the marvel,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Shall be so ever.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|There be many Caesars,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Ere such another Julius. Britain is
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|A world by itself, and we will nothing pay
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|For wearing our own noses.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That opportunity
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Which then they had to take from 's, to resume
Cymbeline|QUEEN|We have again. Remember, sir, my liege,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The kings your ancestors, together with
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The natural bravery of your isle, which stands
Cymbeline|QUEEN|As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in
Cymbeline|QUEEN|With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|But suck them up to the topmast. A kind of conquest
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Caesar made here, but made not here his brag
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Of 'Came' and 'saw' and 'overcame: ' with shame--
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That first that ever touch'd him--he was carried
Cymbeline|QUEEN|From off our coast, twice beaten, and his shipping--
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Poor ignorant baubles!-- upon our terrible seas,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Like egg-shells moved upon their surges, crack'd
Cymbeline|QUEEN|As easily 'gainst our rocks: for joy whereof
Cymbeline|QUEEN|The famed Cassibelan, who was once at point--
Cymbeline|QUEEN|O giglot fortune!--to master Caesar's sword,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright
Cymbeline|QUEEN|And Britons strut with courage.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Come, there's no more tribute to be paid: our
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|kingdom is stronger than it was at that time, and,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|as I said, there is no moe such Caesars: other of
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|them may have crook'd noses, but to owe such
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|straight arms, none.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Son, let your mother end.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Cassibelan: I do not say I am one, but I have a
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|hand. Why tribute? why should we pay tribute? If
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|for light, else, sir, no more tribute, pray you now.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|You must know,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Till the injurious Romans did extort
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|This tribute from us, we were free:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Caesar's ambition,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The sides o' the world, against all colour here
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Did put the yoke upon 's, which to shake off
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Ourselves to be.
Cymbeline|Lords|We do.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Say, then, to Caesar,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Ordain'd our laws, whose use the sword of Caesar
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Hath too much mangled, whose repair and franchise
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Though Rome be therefore angry: Mulmutius made our laws,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Who was the first of Britain which did put
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|His brows within a golden crown and call'd
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Himself a king.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|I am sorry, Cymbeline,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|That I am to pronounce Augustus Caesar--
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Caesar, that hath more kings his servants than
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thyself domestic officers--thine enemy:
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Receive it from me, then: war and confusion
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|In Caesar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee: look
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|For fury not to be resisted. Thus defied,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|I thank thee for myself.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou art welcome, Caius.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thy Caesar knighted me, my youth I spent
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Much under him, of him I gather'd honour,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Which he to seek of me again, perforce,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Their liberties are now in arms, a precedent
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Which not to read would show the Britons cold:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|So Caesar shall not find them.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Let proof speak.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|His majesty bids you welcome. Make
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|pastime with us a day or two, or longer: if
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|you seek us afterwards in other terms, you
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|shall find us in our salt-water girdle: if you
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|beat us out of it, it is yours, if you fall in
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|the adventure, our crows shall fare the better
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|for you, and there's an end.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|So, sir.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I know your master's pleasure and he mine:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|All the remain is 'Welcome!'
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exeunt
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|SCENE II. Another room in the palace.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Enter PISANIO, with a letter
Cymbeline|PISANIO|How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not
Cymbeline|PISANIO|What monster's her accuser? Leonatus,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|O master! what a strange infection
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|As poisonous-tongued as handed, hath prevail'd
Cymbeline|PISANIO|On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal! No:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|She's punish'd for her truth, and undergoes,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults
Cymbeline|PISANIO|As would take in some virtue. O my master!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Thy mind to her is now as low as were
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Thy fortunes. How! that I should murder her?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Upon the love and truth and vows which I
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Have made to thy command? I, her? her blood?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|If it be so to do good service, never
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|That I should seem to lack humanity
Cymbeline|PISANIO|so much as this fact comes to?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Reading
Cymbeline|PISANIO|'Do't: the letter
Cymbeline|PISANIO|that I have sent her, by her own command
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Shall give thee opportunity.' O damn'd paper!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Art thou a feodary for this act, and look'st
Cymbeline|PISANIO|So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I am ignorant in what I am commanded.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Enter IMOGEN
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How now, Pisanio!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Madam, here is a letter from my lord.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Who? thy lord? that is my lord, Leonatus!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That knew the stars as I his characters,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|He'ld lay the future open. You good gods,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Let what is here contain'd relish of love,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of my lord's health, of his content, yet not
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That we two are asunder, let that grieve him:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Some griefs are med'cinable, that is one of them,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|For it doth physic love: of his content,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|All but in that! Good wax, thy leave. Blest be
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You clasp young Cupid's tables. Good news, gods!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Reads
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|'Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|in his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, as
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|with your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|at Milford-Haven: what your own love will out of
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|increasing in love,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|LEONATUS POSTHUMUS.'
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|May plod it in a week, why may not I
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord, who long'st,--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|let me bate,-but not like me--yet long'st,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But in a fainter kind:--O, not like me,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|For mine's beyond beyond--say, and speak thick,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To the smothering of the sense--how far it is
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To this same blessed Milford: and by the way
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Tell me how Wales was made so happy as
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To inherit such a haven: but first of all,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How we may steal from hence, and for the gap
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That we shall make in time, from our hence-going
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And our return, to excuse: but first, how get hence:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Why should excuse be born or e'er begot?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|We'll talk of that hereafter. Prithee, speak,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|How many score of miles may we well ride
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|'Twixt hour and hour?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|One score 'twixt sun and sun,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Madam, 's enough for you:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Aside
Cymbeline|PISANIO|and too much too.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Why, one that rode to's execution, man,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Could never go so slow: I have heard of
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|riding wagers,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Where horses have been nimbler than the sands
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That run i' the clock's behalf. But this is foolery:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Go bid my woman feign a sickness, say
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|She'll home to her father: and provide me presently
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A riding-suit, no costlier than would fit
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A franklin's housewife.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Madam, you're best consider.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I see before me, man: nor here, nor here,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Do as I bid thee: there's no more to say,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Accessible is none but Milford way.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exeunt
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|SCENE III. Wales: a mountainous country with a cave.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS following
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|A goodly day not to keep house, with such
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys, this gate
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To a morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And keep their impious turbans on, without
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As prouder livers do.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Hail, heaven!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Hail, heaven!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Your legs are young, I'll tread these flats. Consider,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|When you above perceive me like a crow,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|That it is place which lessens and sets off,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And you may then revolve what tales I have told you
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This service is not service, so being done,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But being so allow'd: to apprehend thus,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Draws us a profit from all things we see,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And often, to our comfort, shall we find
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The sharded beetle in a safer hold
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O, this life
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Is nobler than attending for a cheque,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Richer than doing nothing for a bauble,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Yet keeps his book uncross'd: no life to ours.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Out of your proof you speak: we, poor unfledged,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|What air's from home. Haply this life is best,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|If quiet life be best, sweeter to you
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|That have a sharper known, well corresponding
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|With your stiff age: but unto us it is
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|A cell of ignorance, travelling a-bed,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|A prison for a debtor, that not dares
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|To stride a limit.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|What should we speak of
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|When we are old as you? when we shall hear
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|We are beastly, subtle as the fox for prey,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Our valour is to chase what flies, our cage
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And sing our bondage freely.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|How you speak!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Did you but know the city's usuries
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And felt them knowingly, the art o' the court
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As hard to leave as keep, whose top to climb
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Is certain falling, or so slippery that
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The fear's as bad as falling, the toil o' the war,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|A pain that only seems to seek out danger
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I' the name of fame and honour, which dies i'
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|the search,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As record of fair act, nay, many times,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Doth ill deserve by doing well, what's worse,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Must court'sy at the censure:--O boys, this story
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The world may read in me: my body's mark'd
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|With Roman swords, and my report was once
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|First with the best of note: Cymbeline loved me,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And when a soldier was the theme, my name
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Was not far off: then was I as a tree
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but in one night,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|A storm or robbery, call it what you will,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And left me bare to weather.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Uncertain favour!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|My fault being nothing--as I have told you oft--
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I was confederate with the Romans: so
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Follow'd my banishment, and this twenty years
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This rock and these demesnes have been my world,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Where I have lived at honest freedom, paid
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|More pious debts to heaven than in all
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The fore-end of my time. But up to the mountains!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This is not hunters' language: he that strikes
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To him the other two shall minister,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And we will fear no poison, which attends
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Exeunt GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|These boys know little they are sons to the king,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|They think they are mine, and though train'd
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|up thus meanly
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I' the cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The roofs of palaces, and nature prompts them
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|In simple and low things to prince it much
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, who
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The king his father call'd Guiderius,--Jove!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Into my story: say 'Thus, mine enemy fell,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And thus I set my foot on 's neck,' even then
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Strains his young nerves and puts himself in posture
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Once Arviragus, in as like a figure,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Strikes life into my speech and shows much more
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|His own conceiving.--Hark, the game is roused!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|O Cymbeline! heaven and my conscience knows
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Thou didst unjustly banish me: whereon,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|At three and two years old, I stole these babes,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Thinking to bar thee of succession, as
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Thou reft'st me of my lands. Euriphile,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Thou wast their nurse, they took thee for
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|their mother,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And every day do honour to her grave:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan call'd,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|They take for natural father. The game is up.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Exit
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|SCENE IV. Country near Milford-Haven.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Enter PISANIO and IMOGEN
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou told'st me, when we came from horse, the place
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Was near at hand: ne'er long'd my mother so
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To see me first, as I have now. Pisanio! man!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|From the inward of thee? One, but painted thus,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Would be interpreted a thing perplex'd
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Beyond self-explication: put thyself
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Into a havior of less fear, ere wildness
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Vanquish my staider senses. What's the matter?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Why tender'st thou that paper to me, with
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A look untender? If't be summer news,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Smile to't before, if winterly, thou need'st
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But keep that countenance still. My husband's hand!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That drug-damn'd Italy hath out-craftied him,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And he's at some hard point. Speak, man: thy tongue
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|May take off some extremity, which to read
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Would be even mortal to me.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Please you, read,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing
Cymbeline|PISANIO|The most disdain'd of fortune.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|[Reads]  'Thy mistress, Pisanio, hath played the
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|strumpet in my bed, the testimonies whereof lie
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|as I expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|the breach of hers. Let thine own hands take away
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|her life: I shall give thee opportunity at
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Milford-Haven. She hath my letter for the purpose
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|where, if thou fear to strike and to make me certain
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour and
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|equally to me disloyal.'
Cymbeline|PISANIO|What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
Cymbeline|PISANIO|All corners of the world: kings, queens and states,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
Cymbeline|PISANIO|This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|False to his bed! What is it to be false?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To lie in watch there and to think on him?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To weep 'twixt clock and clock? if sleep
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|charge nature,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To break it with a fearful dream of him
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And cry myself awake? that's false to's bed, is it?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Alas, good lady!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I false! Thy conscience witness: Iachimo,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou didst accuse him of incontinency,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou then look'dst like a villain, now methinks
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I must be ripp'd:--to pieces with me!--O,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Put on for villany, not born where't grows,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But worn a bait for ladies.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Good madam, hear me.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|True honest men being heard, like false Aeneas,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Were in his time thought false, and Sinon's weeping
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|From most true wretchedness: so thou, Posthumus,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|From thy great fall. Come, fellow, be thou honest:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Do thou thy master's bidding: when thou see'st him,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A little witness my obedience: look!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I draw the sword myself: take it, and hit
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The innocent mansion of my love, my heart,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Fear not, 'tis empty of all things but grief,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thy master is not there, who was indeed
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The riches of it: do his bidding, strike
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But now thou seem'st a coward.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Hence, vile instrument!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Thou shalt not damn my hand.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Why, I must die,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And if I do not by thy hand, thou art
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|There is a prohibition so divine
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Something's afore't. Soft, soft! we'll no defence,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|All turn'd to heresy? Away, away,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Corrupters of my faith! you shall no more
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Believe false teachers: though those that
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|are betray'd
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Stands in worse case of woe.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|My disobedience 'gainst the king my father
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And make me put into contempt the suits
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|It is no act of common passage, but
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That now thou tirest on, how thy memory
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Will then be pang'd by me. Prithee, dispatch:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The lamb entreats the butcher: where's thy knife?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When I desire it too.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|O gracious lady,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Since I received command to do this business
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I have not slept one wink.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Do't, and to bed then.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I'll wake mine eye-balls blind first.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Wherefore then
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Didst undertake it? Why hast thou abused
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|So many miles with a pretence? this place?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Mine action and thine own? our horses' labour?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The time inviting thee? the perturb'd court,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|For my being absent? whereunto I never
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Purpose return. Why hast thou gone so far,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The elected deer before thee?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|But to win time
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To lose so bad employment, in the which
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I have consider'd of a course. Good lady,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Hear me with patience.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Talk thy tongue weary, speak
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I have heard I am a strumpet, and mine ear
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Nor tent to bottom that. But speak.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Then, madam,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I thought you would not back again.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Most like,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Bringing me here to kill me.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Not so, neither:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|But if I were as wise as honest, then
Cymbeline|PISANIO|My purpose would prove well. It cannot be
Cymbeline|PISANIO|But that my master is abused:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Some villain, ay, and singular in his art.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Hath done you both this cursed injury.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Some Roman courtezan.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|No, on my life.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I'll give but notice you are dead and send him
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Some bloody sign of it, for 'tis commanded
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I should do so: you shall be miss'd at court,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And that will well confirm it.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Why good fellow,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|What shall I do the where? where bide? how live?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Or in my life what comfort, when I am
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Dead to my husband?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|If you'll back to the court--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|No court, no father, nor no more ado
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|With that harsh, noble, simple nothing,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That Cloten, whose love-suit hath been to me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As fearful as a siege.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|If not at court,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Then not in Britain must you bide.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Where then
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Our Britain seems as of it, but not in 't,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|There's livers out of Britain.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I am most glad
Cymbeline|PISANIO|You think of other place. The ambassador,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Lucius the Roman, comes to Milford-Haven
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To-morrow: now, if you could wear a mind
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise
Cymbeline|PISANIO|That which, to appear itself, must not yet be
Cymbeline|PISANIO|But by self-danger, you should tread a course
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Pretty and full of view, yea, haply, near
Cymbeline|PISANIO|The residence of Posthumus, so nigh at least
Cymbeline|PISANIO|That though his actions were not visible, yet
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Report should render him hourly to your ear
Cymbeline|PISANIO|As truly as he moves.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O, for such means!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Though peril to my modesty, not death on't,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I would adventure.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Well, then, here's the point:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|You must forget to be a woman, change
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Command into obedience: fear and niceness--
Cymbeline|PISANIO|The handmaids of all women, or, more truly,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Woman its pretty self--into a waggish courage:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Ready in gibes, quick-answer'd, saucy and
Cymbeline|PISANIO|As quarrelous as the weasel, nay, you must
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Exposing it--but, O, the harder heart!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Alack, no remedy!--to the greedy touch
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Of common-kissing Titan, and forget
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein
Cymbeline|PISANIO|You made great Juno angry.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Nay, be brief
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I see into thy end, and am almost
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A man already.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|First, make yourself but like one.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Fore-thinking this, I have already fit--
Cymbeline|PISANIO|'Tis in my cloak-bag--doublet, hat, hose, all
Cymbeline|PISANIO|That answer to them: would you in their serving,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And with what imitation you can borrow
Cymbeline|PISANIO|From youth of such a season, 'fore noble Lucius
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Present yourself, desire his service, tell him
Cymbeline|PISANIO|wherein you're happy,--which you'll make him know,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|If that his head have ear in music,--doubtless
Cymbeline|PISANIO|With joy he will embrace you, for he's honourable
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|You have me, rich, and I will never fail
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Beginning nor supplyment.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou art all the comfort
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The gods will diet me with. Prithee, away:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|There's more to be consider'd, but we'll even
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|All that good time will give us: this attempt
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am soldier to, and will abide it with
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A prince's courage. Away, I prithee.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Well, madam, we must take a short farewell,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Lest, being miss'd, I be suspected of
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Your carriage from the court. My noble mistress,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Here is a box, I had it from the queen:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|What's in't is precious, if you are sick at sea,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Or stomach-qualm'd at land, a dram of this
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Will drive away distemper. To some shade,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And fit you to your manhood. May the gods
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Direct you to the best!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Amen: I thank thee.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exeunt, severally
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|SCENE V. A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, LUCIUS, Lords, and Attendants
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thus far, and so farewell.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thanks, royal sir.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|My emperor hath wrote, I must from hence,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And am right sorry that I must report ye
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|My master's enemy.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Our subjects, sir,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Will not endure his yoke, and for ourself
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To show less sovereignty than they, must needs
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Appear unkinglike.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|So, sir: I desire of you
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|A conduct over-land to Milford-Haven.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Madam, all joy befal your grace!
Cymbeline|QUEEN|And you!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|My lords, you are appointed for that office,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The due of honour in no point omit.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|So farewell, noble Lucius.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Your hand, my lord.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Receive it friendly, but from this time forth
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I wear it as your enemy.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Sir, the event
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Is yet to name the winner: fare you well.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Till he have cross'd the Severn. Happiness!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exeunt LUCIUS and Lords
Cymbeline|QUEEN|He goes hence frowning: but it honours us
Cymbeline|QUEEN|That we have given him cause.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|'Tis all the better,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Lucius hath wrote already to the emperor
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|How it goes here. It fits us therefore ripely
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The powers that he already hath in Gallia
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|His war for Britain.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|'Tis not sleepy business,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|But must be look'd to speedily and strongly.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Our expectation that it would be thus
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Hath made us forward. But, my gentle queen,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Where is our daughter? She hath not appear'd
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Before the Roman, nor to us hath tender'd
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The duty of the day: she looks us like
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A thing more made of malice than of duty:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|We have noted it. Call her before us, for
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|We have been too slight in sufferance.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exit an Attendant
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Royal sir,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Since the exile of Posthumus, most retired
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Hath her life been, the cure whereof, my lord,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|'Tis time must do. Beseech your majesty,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Forbear sharp speeches to her: she's a lady
Cymbeline|QUEEN|So tender of rebukes that words are strokes
Cymbeline|QUEEN|And strokes death to her.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Re-enter Attendant
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Where is she, sir? How
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Can her contempt be answer'd?
Cymbeline|Attendant|Please you, sir,
Cymbeline|Attendant|Her chambers are all lock'd, and there's no answer
Cymbeline|Attendant|That will be given to the loudest noise we make.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|My lord, when last I went to visit her,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Whereto constrain'd by her infirmity,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|She should that duty leave unpaid to you,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Which daily she was bound to proffer: this
Cymbeline|QUEEN|She wish'd me to make known, but our great court
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Made me to blame in memory.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Her doors lock'd?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Not seen of late? Grant, heavens, that which I fear
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Prove false!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exit
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Son, I say, follow the king.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|have not seen these two days.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Go, look after.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Exit CLOTEN
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Pisanio, thou that stand'st so for Posthumus!
Cymbeline|QUEEN|He hath a drug of mine, I pray his absence
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Proceed by swallowing that, for he believes
Cymbeline|QUEEN|It is a thing most precious. But for her,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Where is she gone? Haply, despair hath seized her,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Or, wing'd with fervor of her love, she's flown
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To her desired Posthumus: gone she is
Cymbeline|QUEEN|To death or to dishonour, and my end
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Can make good use of either: she being down,
Cymbeline|QUEEN|I have the placing of the British crown.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Re-enter CLOTEN
Cymbeline|QUEEN|How now, my son!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|'Tis certain she is fled.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Go in and cheer the king: he rages, none
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Dare come about him.
Cymbeline|QUEEN|[Aside]            All the better: may
Cymbeline|QUEEN|This night forestall him of the coming day!
Cymbeline|QUEEN|Exit
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I love and hate her: for she's fair and royal,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Than lady, ladies, woman, from every one
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Outsells them all, I love her therefore: but
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Disdaining me and throwing favours on
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The low Posthumus slanders so her judgment
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|That what's else rare is choked, and in that point
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I will conclude to hate her, nay, indeed,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|To be revenged upon her. For when fools Shall--
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Enter PISANIO
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Come hither: ah, you precious pander! Villain,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Where is thy lady? In a word, or else
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Thou art straightway with the fiends.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|O, good my lord!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Where is thy lady? Or, by Jupiter,--
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I will not ask again. Close villain,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I'll have this secret from thy heart, or rip
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Thy heart to find it. Is she with Posthumus?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|A dram of worth be drawn.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Alas, my lord,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|How can she be with him? When was she missed?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|He is in Rome.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Where is she, sir? Come nearer,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|No further halting: satisfy me home
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|What is become of her.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|O, my all-worthy lord!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|All-worthy villain!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Discover where thy mistress is at once,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|At the next word: no more of 'worthy lord!'
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Speak, or thy silence on the instant is
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Thy condemnation and thy death.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Then, sir,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|This paper is the history of my knowledge
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Touching her flight.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Presenting a letter
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Let's see't. I will pursue her
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Even to Augustus' throne.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|[Aside]                 Or this, or perish.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|She's far enough, and what he learns by this
Cymbeline|PISANIO|May prove his travel, not her danger.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Hum!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|[Aside]  I'll write to my lord she's dead. O Imogen,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Sirrah, is this letter true?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Sir, as I think.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|It is Posthumus' hand, I know't. Sirrah, if thou
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|wouldst not be a villain, but do me true service,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|undergo those employments wherein I should have
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|cause to use thee with a serious industry, that is,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|what villany soe'er I bid thee do, to perform it
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|directly and truly, I would think thee an honest
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|man: thou shouldst neither want my means for thy
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|relief nor my voice for thy preferment.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Well, my good lord.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Wilt thou serve me? for since patiently and
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|that beggar Posthumus, thou canst not, in the
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|course of gratitude, but be a diligent follower of
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|mine: wilt thou serve me?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Sir, I will.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Give me thy hand, here's my purse. Hast any of thy
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|late master's garments in thy possession?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I have, my lord, at my lodging, the same suit he
Cymbeline|PISANIO|wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|The first service thou dost me, fetch that suit
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|hither: let it be thy lint service, go.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I shall, my lord.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Exit
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Meet thee at Milford-Haven!--I forgot to ask him one
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|thing, I'll remember't anon:--even there, thou
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|villain Posthumus, will I kill thee. I would these
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|garments were come. She said upon a time--the
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|bitterness of it I now belch from my heart--that she
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|than my noble and natural person together with the
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|back, will I ravish her: first kill him, and in her
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|eyes, there shall she see my valour, which will then
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, my
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|when my lust hath dined,--which, as I say, to vex
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|her I will execute in the clothes that she so
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|praised,--to the court I'll knock her back, foot
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|her home again. She hath despised me rejoicingly,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|and I'll be merry in my revenge.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Re-enter PISANIO, with the clothes
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Be those the garments?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Ay, my noble lord.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|How long is't since she went to Milford-Haven?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|She can scarce be there yet.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Bring this apparel to my chamber, that is the second
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|thing that I have commanded thee: the third is,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design. Be
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|to thee. My revenge is now at Milford: would I had
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|wings to follow it! Come, and be true.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Exit
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Thou bid'st me to my loss: for true to thee
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Were to prove false, which I will never be,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To him that is most true. To Milford go,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|And find not her whom thou pursuest. Flow, flow,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|You heavenly blessings, on her! This fool's speed
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Be cross'd with slowness, labour be his meed!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Exit
Cymbeline|PISANIO|SCENE VI. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Enter IMOGEN, in boy's clothes
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I see a man's life is a tedious one:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I have tired myself, and for two nights together
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But that my resolution helps me. Milford,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd thee,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou wast within a ken: O Jove! I think
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Foundations fly the wretched, such, I mean,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Where they should be relieved. Two beggars told me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I could not miss my way: will poor folks lie,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That have afflictions on them, knowing 'tis
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A punishment or trial? Yes, no wonder,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou art one o' the false ones. Now I think on thee,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|My hunger's gone, but even before, I was
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|At point to sink for food. But what is this?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Here is a path to't: 'tis some savage hold:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I were best not to call, I dare not call:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|yet famine,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of hardiness is mother. Ho! who's here?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If any thing that's civil, speak, if savage,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Take or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I'll enter.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Best draw my sword: and if mine enemy
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But fear the sword like me, he'll scarcely look on't.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Such a foe, good heavens!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Exit, to the cave
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Will play the cook and servant, 'tis our match:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The sweat of industry would dry and die,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But for the end it works to. Come, our stomachs
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Will make what's homely savoury: weariness
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Finds the down pillow hard. Now peace be here,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Poor house, that keep'st thyself!
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I am thoroughly weary.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|There is cold meat i' the cave, we'll browse on that,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Whilst what we have kill'd be cook'd.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|[Looking into the cave]
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Stay, come not in.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But that it eats our victuals, I should think
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Here were a fairy.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|What's the matter, sir?
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|An earthly paragon! Behold divineness
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|No elder than a boy!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Re-enter IMOGEN
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Good masters, harm me not:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Before I enter'd here, I call'd, and thought
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To have begg'd or bought what I have took:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|good troth,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I have stol'n nought, nor would not, though I had found
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Gold strew'd i' the floor. Here's money for my meat:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I would have left it on the board so soon
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As I had made my meal, and parted
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|With prayers for the provider.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Money, youth?
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Who worship dirty gods.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I see you're angry:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Have died had I not made it.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Whither bound?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To Milford-Haven.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|What's your name?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Fidele, sir. I have a kinsman who
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is bound for Italy, he embark'd at Milford,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am fall'n in this offence.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Prithee, fair youth,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|By this rude place we live in. Well encounter'd!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|'Tis almost night: you shall have better cheer
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Ere you depart: and thanks to stay and eat it.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Boys, bid him welcome.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Were you a woman, youth,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I should woo hard but be your groom. In honesty,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I bid for you as I'd buy.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I'll make't my comfort
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|He is a man, I'll love him as my brother:
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And such a welcome as I'd give to him
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|After long absence, such is yours: most welcome!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|'Mongst friends,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If brothers.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Aside
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Would it had been so, that they
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Had been my father's sons! then had my prize
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Been less, and so more equal ballasting
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To thee, Posthumus.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|He wrings at some distress.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Would I could free't!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Or I, whate'er it be,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|What pain it cost, what danger. God's!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Hark, boys.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Whispering
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Great men,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That had a court no bigger than this cave,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That did attend themselves and had the virtue
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Which their own conscience seal'd them--laying by
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That nothing-gift of differing multitudes--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Could not out-peer these twain. Pardon me, gods!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I'd change my sex to be companion with them,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Since Leonatus's false.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|It shall be so.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Boys, we'll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Discourse is heavy, fasting, when we have supp'd,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|So far as thou wilt speak it.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Pray, draw near.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The night to the owl and morn to the lark
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|less welcome.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thanks, sir.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I pray, draw near.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Exeunt
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|SCENE VII. Rome. A public place.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Enter two Senators and Tribunes
Cymbeline|First Senator|This is the tenor of the emperor's writ:
Cymbeline|First Senator|That since the common men are now in action
Cymbeline|First Senator|'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,
Cymbeline|First Senator|And that the legions now in Gallia are
Cymbeline|First Senator|Full weak to undertake our wars against
Cymbeline|First Senator|The fall'n-off Britons, that we do incite
Cymbeline|First Senator|The gentry to this business. He creates
Cymbeline|First Senator|Lucius preconsul: and to you the tribunes,
Cymbeline|First Senator|For this immediate levy, he commends
Cymbeline|First Senator|His absolute commission. Long live Caesar!
Cymbeline|First Tribune|Is Lucius general of the forces?
Cymbeline|Second Senator|Ay.
Cymbeline|First Tribune|Remaining now in Gallia?
Cymbeline|First Senator|With those legions
Cymbeline|First Senator|Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy
Cymbeline|First Senator|Must be supplyant: the words of your commission
Cymbeline|First Senator|Will tie you to the numbers and the time
Cymbeline|First Senator|Of their dispatch.
Cymbeline|First Tribune|We will discharge our duty.
Cymbeline|First Tribune|Exeunt
Cymbeline|First Tribune|ACT IV
Cymbeline|First Tribune|SCENE I. Wales: near the cave of Belarius.
Cymbeline|First Tribune|Enter CLOTEN
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I am near to the place where they should meet, if
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|serve me! Why should his mistress, who was made by
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|him that made the tailor, not be fit too? the
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|rather--saving reverence of the word--for 'tis said
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|a woman's fitness comes by fits. Therein I must
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|play the workman. I dare speak it to myself--for it
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|in his own chamber--I mean, the lines of my body are
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|as well drawn as his, no less young, more strong,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|conversant in general services, and more remarkable
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|in single oppositions: yet this imperceiverant
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is!
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|shoulders, shall within this hour be off, thy
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|mistress enforced, thy garments cut to pieces before
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|thy face: and all this done, spurn her home to her
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|father, who may haply be a little angry for my so
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|rough usage, but my mother, having power of his
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|horse is tied up safe: out, sword, and to a sore
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand! This is
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|the very description of their meeting-place, and
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|the fellow dares not deceive me.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Exit
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|SCENE II. Before the cave of Belarius.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, and IMOGEN
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|[To IMOGEN]  You are not well: remain here in the cave,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We'll come to you after hunting.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|[To IMOGEN]	Brother, stay here
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Are we not brothers?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|So man and man should be,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But clay and clay differs in dignity,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Go you to hunting, I'll abide with him.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|So sick I am not, yet I am not well,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But not so citizen a wanton as
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To seem to die ere sick: so please you, leave me,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Cannot amend me, society is no comfort
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To one not sociable: I am not very sick,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Since I can reason of it. Pray you, trust me here:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I'll rob none but myself, and let me die,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Stealing so poorly.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I love thee, I have spoke it
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|How much the quantity, the weight as much,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|As I do love my father.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|What! how! how!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|If it be sin to say so, I yoke me
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|In my good brother's fault: I know not why
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I love this youth, and I have heard you say,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Love's reason's without reason: the bier at door,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And a demand who is't shall die, I'd say
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|'My father, not this youth.'
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|[Aside]	O noble strain!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|O worthiness of nature! breed of greatness!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Cowards father cowards and base things sire base:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I'm not their father, yet who this should be,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Doth miracle itself, loved before me.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Brother, farewell.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I wish ye sport.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|You health. So please you, sir.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|[Aside]  These are kind creatures. Gods, what lies
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I have heard!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Our courtiers say all's savage but at court:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Experience, O, thou disprovest report!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am sick still, heart-sick. Pisanio,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I'll now taste of thy drug.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Swallows some
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I could not stir him:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|He said he was gentle, but unfortunate,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Thus did he answer me: yet said, hereafter
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I might know more.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To the field, to the field!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We'll leave you for this time: go in and rest.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|We'll not be long away.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Pray, be not sick,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|For you must be our housewife.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Well or ill,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am bound to you.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And shalt be ever.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Exit IMOGEN, to the cave
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This youth, how'er distress'd, appears he hath had
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Good ancestors.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|How angel-like he sings!
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|But his neat cookery! he cut our roots
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|In characters,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And he her dieter.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Nobly he yokes
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Was that it was, for not being such a smile,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|From so divine a temple, to commix
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|With winds that sailors rail at.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I do note
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|That grief and patience, rooted in him both,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Mingle their spurs together.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Grow, patience!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|His perishing root with the increasing vine!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|It is great morning. Come, away!--
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Who's there?
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Enter CLOTEN
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I cannot find those runagates, that villain
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Hath mock'd me. I am faint.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|'Those runagates!'
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Means he not us? I partly know him: 'tis
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Cloten, the son o' the queen. I fear some ambush.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I saw him not these many years, and yet
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I know 'tis he. We are held as outlaws: hence!
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|He is but one: you and my brother search
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|What companies are near: pray you, away,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Let me alone with him.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Exeunt BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Soft! What are you
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|That fly me thus? some villain mountaineers?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I have heard of such. What slave art thou?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|A thing
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|More slavish did I ne'er than answering
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|A slave without a knock.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Thou art a robber,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|A law-breaker, a villain: yield thee, thief.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|To who? to thee? What art thou? Have not I
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|An arm as big as thine? a heart as big?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|My dagger in my mouth. Say what thou art,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Why I should yield to thee?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Thou villain base,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Know'st me not by my clothes?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Which, as it seems, make thee.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Thou precious varlet,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|My tailor made them not.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Hence, then, and thank
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|The man that gave them thee. Thou art some fool,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I am loath to beat thee.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Thou injurious thief,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Hear but my name, and tremble.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|What's thy name?
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Cloten, thou villain.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I cannot tremble at it: were it Toad, or
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Adder, Spider,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|'Twould move me sooner.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|To thy further fear,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I am son to the queen.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I am sorry for 't, not seeming
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|So worthy as thy birth.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Art not afeard?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|At fools I laugh, not fear them.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Die the death:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|When I have slain thee with my proper hand,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|I'll follow those that even now fled hence,
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|And on the gates of Lud's-town set your heads:
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Yield, rustic mountaineer.
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Exeunt, fighting
Cymbeline|CLOTEN|Re-enter BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|No companies abroad?
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|None in the world: you did mistake him, sure.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I cannot tell: long is it since I saw him,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Which then he wore, the snatches in his voice,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And burst of speaking, were as his: I am absolute
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|'Twas very Cloten.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|In this place we left them:
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I wish my brother make good time with him,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|You say he is so fell.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Being scarce made up,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I mean, to man, he had not apprehension
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Of roaring terrors, for the effect of judgment
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Is oft the cause of fear. But, see, thy brother.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Re-enter GUIDERIUS, with CLOTEN'S head
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|There was no money in't: not Hercules
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|My head as I do his.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|What hast thou done?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Son to the queen, after his own report,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer, and swore
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|With his own single hand he'ld take us in
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Displace our heads where--thank the gods!--they grow,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And set them on Lud's-town.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We are all undone.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Why, worthy father, what have we to lose,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|But that he swore to take, our lives? The law
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Protects not us: then why should we be tender
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Play judge and executioner all himself,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|For we do fear the law? What company
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Discover you abroad?
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|No single soul
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Can we set eye on, but in all safe reason
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|He must have some attendants. Though his humour
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|From one bad thing to worse, not frenzy, not
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Absolute madness could so far have raved
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To bring him here alone, although perhaps
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|It may be heard at court that such as we
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|May make some stronger head, the which he hearing--
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As it is like him--might break out, and swear
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|He'ld fetch us in, yet is't not probable
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To come alone, either he so undertaking,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Or they so suffering: then on good ground we fear,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|If we do fear this body hath a tail
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|More perilous than the head.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Let ordinance
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Come as the gods foresay it: howsoe'er,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|My brother hath done well.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I had no mind
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To hunt this day: the boy Fidele's sickness
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Did make my way long forth.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|With his own sword,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|His head from him: I'll throw't into the creek
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Behind our rock, and let it to the sea,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And tell the fishes he's the queen's son, Cloten:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|That's all I reck.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Exit
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I fear 'twill be revenged:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Would, Polydote, thou hadst not done't! though valour
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Becomes thee well enough.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Would I had done't
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|So the revenge alone pursued me! Polydore,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I love thee brotherly, but envy much
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Thou hast robb'd me of this deed: I would revenges,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|That possible strength might meet, would seek us through
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And put us to our answer.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Well, 'tis done:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We'll hunt no more to-day, nor seek for danger
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Where there's no profit. I prithee, to our rock,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|You and Fidele play the cooks: I'll stay
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Till hasty Polydote return, and bring him
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To dinner presently.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Poor sick Fidele!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I'll weringly to him: to gain his colour
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I'ld let a parish of such Clotens' blood,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And praise myself for charity.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Exit
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|O thou goddess,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|In these two princely boys! They are as gentle
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As zephyrs blowing below the violet,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Not wagging his sweet head, and yet as rough,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Their royal blood enchafed, as the rudest wind,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|That by the top doth take the mountain pine,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And make him stoop to the vale. 'Tis wonder
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|That an invisible instinct should frame them
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To royalty unlearn'd, honour untaught,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Civility not seen from other, valour
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As if it had been sow'd. Yet still it's strange
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|What Cloten's being here to us portends,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Or what his death will bring us.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Re-enter GUIDERIUS
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Where's my brother?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I have sent Cloten's clotpoll down the stream,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|In embassy to his mother: his body's hostage
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|For his return.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Solemn music
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|My ingenious instrument!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Hark, Polydore, it sounds! But what occasion
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark!
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Is he at home?
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|He went hence even now.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|What does he mean? since death of my dear'st mother
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|it did not speak before. All solemn things
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Should answer solemn accidents. The matter?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Is Cadwal mad?
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Look, here he comes,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And brings the dire occasion in his arms
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Of what we blame him for.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Re-enter ARVIRAGUS, with IMOGEN, as dead, bearing her in his arms
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The bird is dead
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|That we have made so much on. I had rather
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Than have seen this.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|O sweetest, fairest lily!
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|My brother wears thee not the one half so well
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|As when thou grew'st thyself.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|O melancholy!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Might easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Jove knows what man thou mightst have made, but I,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|How found you him?
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Stark, as you see:
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Thus smiling, as some fly hid tickled slumber,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Not as death's dart, being laugh'd at, his
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|right cheek
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Reposing on a cushion.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Where?
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|O' the floor,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|His arms thus leagued: I thought he slept, and put
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Answer'd my steps too loud.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Why, he but sleeps:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And worms will not come to thee.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|With fairest flowers
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Out-sweeten'd not thy breath: the ruddock would,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|With charitable bill,--O bill, sore-shaming
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Without a monument!--bring thee all this,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|To winter-ground thy corse.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Prithee, have done,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And do not play in wench-like words with that
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Which is so serious. Let us bury him,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And not protract with admiration what
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Is now due debt. To the grave!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Say, where shall's lay him?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|By good Euriphile, our mother.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Be't so:
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And let us, Polydore, though now our voices
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|As once our mother, use like note and words,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Save that Euriphile must be Fidele.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Cadwal,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Than priests and fanes that lie.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|We'll speak it, then.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Great griefs, I see, medicine the less, for Cloten
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Is quite forgot. He was a queen's son, boys,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And though he came our enemy, remember
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|He was paid for that: though mean and
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|mighty, rotting
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Together, have one dust, yet reverence,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|That angel of the world, doth make distinction
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Of place 'tween high and low. Our foe was princely
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And though you took his life, as being our foe,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Yet bury him as a prince.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Pray You, fetch him hither.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Thersites' body is as good as Ajax',
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|When neither are alive.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|If you'll go fetch him,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|We'll say our song the whilst. Brother, begin.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Exit BELARIUS
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|My father hath a reason for't.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|'Tis true.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Come on then, and remove him.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|So. Begin.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|SONG
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Nor the furious winter's rages,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Golden lads and girls all must,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Fear no more the frown o' the great,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Thou art past the tyrant's stroke,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Care no more to clothe and eat,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|To thee the reed is as the oak:
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The sceptre, learning, physic, must
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|All follow this, and come to dust.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Fear no more the lightning flash,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Fear not slander, censure rash,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|All lovers young, all lovers must
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Consign to thee, and come to dust.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|No exorciser harm thee!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Nothing ill come near thee!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Quiet consummation have,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And renowned be thy grave!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Re-enter BELARIUS, with the body of CLOTEN
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|We have done our obsequies: come, lay him down.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Here's a few flowers, but 'bout midnight, more:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Are strewings fitt'st for graves. Upon their faces.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|You were as flowers, now wither'd: even so
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|These herblets shall, which we upon you strew.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Come on, away: apart upon our knees.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The ground that gave them first has them again:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Exeunt BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|[Awaking]  Yes, sir, to Milford-Haven, which is
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|the way?--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I thank you.--By yond bush?--Pray, how far thither?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|'Ods pittikins! can it be six mile yet?--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I have gone all night. 'Faith, I'll lie down and sleep.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But, soft! no bedfellow!--O god s and goddesses!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Seeing the body of CLOTEN
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|These flowers are like the pleasures of the world,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|This bloody man, the care on't. I hope I dream,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|For so I thought I was a cave-keeper,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And cook to honest creatures: but 'tis not so,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Which the brain makes of fumes: our very eyes
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. Good faith,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I tremble stiff with fear: but if there be
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Without me, as within me, not imagined, felt.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A headless man! The garments of Posthumus!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I know the shape of's leg: this is his hand,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|His foot Mercurial, his Martial thigh,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The brawns of Hercules: but his Jovial face
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Murder in heaven?--How!--'Tis gone. Pisanio,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And mine to boot, be darted on thee! Thou,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Conspired with that irregulous devil, Cloten,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Hast here cut off my lord. To write and read
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Be henceforth treacherous! Damn'd Pisanio
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Hath with his forged letters,--damn'd Pisanio--
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|From this most bravest vessel of the world
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Struck the main-top! O Posthumus! alas,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Where is thy head? where's that? Ay me!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|where's that?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And left this head on. How should this be? Pisanio?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|'Tis he and Cloten: malice and lucre in them
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Have laid this woe here. O, 'tis pregnant, pregnant!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|The drug he gave me, which he said was precious
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And cordial to me, have I not found it
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Murderous to the senses? That confirms it home:
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|This is Pisanio's deed, and Cloten's: O!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That we the horrider may seem to those
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Which chance to find us: O, my lord, my lord!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Falls on the body
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Enter LUCIUS, a Captain and other Officers, and a Soothsayer
Cymbeline|Captain|To them the legions garrison'd in Gailia,
Cymbeline|Captain|After your will, have cross'd the sea, attending
Cymbeline|Captain|You here at Milford-Haven with your ships:
Cymbeline|Captain|They are in readiness.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|But what from Rome?
Cymbeline|Captain|The senate hath stirr'd up the confiners
Cymbeline|Captain|And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,
Cymbeline|Captain|That promise noble service: and they come
Cymbeline|Captain|Under the conduct of bold Iachimo,
Cymbeline|Captain|Syenna's brother.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|When expect you them?
Cymbeline|Captain|With the next benefit o' the wind.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|This forwardness
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Be muster'd, bid the captains look to't. Now, sir,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose?
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Last night the very gods show'd me a vision--
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|I fast and pray'd for their intelligence--thus:
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|From the spongy south to this part of the west,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|There vanish'd in the sunbeams: which portends--
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Unless my sins abuse my divination--
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Success to the Roman host.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Dream often so,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And never false. Soft, ho! what trunk is here
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|It was a worthy building. How! a page!
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|For nature doth abhor to make his bed
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Let's see the boy's face.
Cymbeline|Captain|He's alive, my lord.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|He'll then instruct us of this body. Young one,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Inform us of thy fortunes, for it seems
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|They crave to be demanded. Who is this
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thou makest thy bloody pillow? Or who was he
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|That, otherwise than noble nature did,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Hath alter'd that good picture? What's thy interest
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|In this sad wreck? How came it? Who is it?
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|What art thou?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am nothing: or if not,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Nothing to be were better. This was my master,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|A very valiant Briton and a good,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That here by mountaineers lies slain. Alas!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|There is no more such masters: I may wander
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|From east to occident, cry out for service,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Try many, all good, serve truly, never
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Find such another master.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|'Lack, good youth!
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thou movest no less with thy complaining than
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thy master in bleeding: say his name, good friend.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Richard du Champ.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Aside
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|If I do lie and do
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|No harm by it, though the gods hear, I hope
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|They'll pardon it.--Say you, sir?
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thy name?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Fidele, sir.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thou dost approve thyself the very same:
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thy name well fits thy faith, thy faith thy name.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Wilt take thy chance with me? I will not say
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Thou shalt be so well master'd, but, be sure,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|No less beloved. The Roman emperor's letters,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Sent by a consul to me, should not sooner
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Than thine own worth prefer thee: go with me.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I'll follow, sir. But first, an't please the gods,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I'll hide my master from the flies, as deep
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|As these poor pickaxes can dig, and when
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd his grave,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And on it said a century of prayers,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Such as I can, twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|And leaving so his service, follow you,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|So please you entertain me.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Ay, good youth!
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And rather father thee than master thee.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|My friends,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|The boy hath taught us manly duties: let us
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And make him with our pikes and partisans
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|A grave: come, arm him. Boy, he is preferr'd
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|By thee to us, and he shall be interr'd
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|As soldiers can. Be cheerful, wipe thine eyes
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Some falls are means the happier to arise.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Exeunt
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|SCENE III. A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Enter CYMBELINE, Lords, PISANIO, and Attendants
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Again, and bring me word how 'tis with her.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exit an Attendant
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A fever with the absence of her son,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A madness, of which her life's in danger. Heavens,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The great part of my comfort, gone, my queen
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Upon a desperate bed, and in a time
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|When fearful wars point at me, her son gone,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|So needful for this present: it strikes me, past
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The hope of comfort. But for thee, fellow,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Who needs must know of her departure and
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Dost seem so ignorant, we'll enforce it from thee
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|By a sharp torture.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Sir, my life is yours,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I humbly set it at your will, but, for my mistress,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I nothing know where she remains, why gone,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your highness,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Hold me your loyal servant.
Cymbeline|First Lord|Good my liege,
Cymbeline|First Lord|The day that she was missing he was here:
Cymbeline|First Lord|I dare be bound he's true and shall perform
Cymbeline|First Lord|All parts of his subjection loyally. For Cloten,
Cymbeline|First Lord|There wants no diligence in seeking him,
Cymbeline|First Lord|And will, no doubt, be found.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The time is troublesome.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To PISANIO
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|We'll slip you for a season, but our jealousy
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Does yet depend.
Cymbeline|First Lord|So please your majesty,
Cymbeline|First Lord|The Roman legions, all from Gallia drawn,
Cymbeline|First Lord|Are landed on your coast, with a supply
Cymbeline|First Lord|Of Roman gentlemen, by the senate sent.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Now for the counsel of my son and queen!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I am amazed with matter.
Cymbeline|First Lord|Good my liege,
Cymbeline|First Lord|Your preparation can affront no less
Cymbeline|First Lord|Than what you hear of: come more, for more
Cymbeline|First Lord|you're ready:
Cymbeline|First Lord|The want is but to put those powers in motion
Cymbeline|First Lord|That long to move.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I thank you. Let's withdraw,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|What can from Italy annoy us, but
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|We grieve at chances here. Away!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exeunt all but PISANIO
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I heard no letter from my master since
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I wrote him Imogen was slain: 'tis strange:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Nor hear I from my mistress who did promise
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To yield me often tidings: neither know I
Cymbeline|PISANIO|What is betid to Cloten, but remain
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Perplex'd in all. The heavens still must work.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Wherein I am false I am honest, not true, to be true.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|These present wars shall find I love my country,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Even to the note o' the king, or I'll fall in them.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Exit
Cymbeline|PISANIO|SCENE IV. Wales: before the cave of Belarius.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|The noise is round about us.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Let us from it.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|From action and adventure?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Nay, what hope
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Have we in hiding us? This way, the Romans
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Must or for Britons slay us, or receive us
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|For barbarous and unnatural revolts
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|During their use, and slay us after.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Sons,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We'll higher to the mountains, there secure us.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To the king's party there's no going: newness
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Of Cloten's death--we being not known, not muster'd
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Among the bands--may drive us to a render
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Where we have lived, and so extort from's that
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Which we have done, whose answer would be death
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Drawn on with torture.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|This is, sir, a doubt
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|In such a time nothing becoming you,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Nor satisfying us.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|It is not likely
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Behold their quarter'd fires, have both their eyes
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|And ears so cloy'd importantly as now,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|That they will waste their time upon our note,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|To know from whence we are.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|O, I am known
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Of many in the army: many years,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|From my remembrance. And, besides, the king
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Hath not deserved my service nor your loves,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But to be still hot summer's tamings and
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The shrinking slaves of winter.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Than be so
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to the army:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I and my brother are not known, yourself
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Cannot be question'd.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|By this sun that shines,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|I'll thither: what thing is it that I never
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Did see man die! scarce ever look'd on blood,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Never bestrid a horse, save one that had
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|A rider like myself, who ne'er wore rowel
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|To look upon the holy sun, to have
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|The benefit of his blest beams, remaining
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|So long a poor unknown.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|By heavens, I'll go:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I'll take the better care, but if you will not,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|The hazard therefore due fall on me by
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|The hands of Romans!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|So say I	amen.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|No reason I, since of your lives you set
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|So slight a valuation, should reserve
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|My crack'd one to more care. Have with you, boys!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|If in your country wars you chance to die,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|That is my bed too, lads, an there I'll lie:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Lead, lead.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Aside
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The time seems long, their blood
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|thinks scorn,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Till it fly out and show them princes born.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Exeunt
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|ACT V
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|SCENE I. Britain. The Roman camp.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Enter POSTHUMUS, with a bloody handkerchief
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I wish'd
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|If each of you should take this course, how many
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Must murder wives much better than themselves
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For wrying but a little! O Pisanio!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Every good servant does not all commands:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|No bond but to do just ones. Gods! if you
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Had lived to put on this: so had you saved
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The noble Imogen to repent, and struck
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Me, wretch more worth your vengeance. But, alack,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|You snatch some hence for little faults, that's love,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To have them fall no more: you some permit
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To second ills with ills, each elder worse,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|But Imogen is your own: do your best wills,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And make me blest to obey! I am brought hither
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Among the Italian gentry, and to fight
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Against my lady's kingdom: 'tis enough
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That, Britain, I have kill'd thy mistress, peace!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I'll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Hear patiently my purpose: I'll disrobe me
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of these Italian weeds and suit myself
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|As does a Briton peasant: so I'll fight
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Against the part I come with, so I'll die
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For thee, O Imogen, even for whom my life
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Is every breath a death, and thus, unknown,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Pitied nor hated, to the face of peril
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|More valour in me than my habits show.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Gods, put the strength o' the Leonati in me!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To shame the guise o' the world, I will begin
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The fashion, less without and more within.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Exit
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|SCENE II. Field of battle between the British and Roman camps.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Enter, from one side, LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and  the Roman Army: from the other side, the  British Army, POSTHUMUS LEONATUS following,  like a poor soldier. They march over and go  out. Then enter again, in skirmish, IACHIMO  and POSTHUMUS LEONATUS he vanquisheth and disarmeth IACHIMO, and then leaves him
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The heaviness and guilt within my bosom
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Takes off my manhood: I have belied a lady,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The princess of this country, and the air on't
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Revengingly enfeebles me, or could this carl,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|In my profession? Knighthoods and honours, borne
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|If that thy gentry, Britain, go before
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Exit
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The battle continues, the Britons fly, CYMBELINE is  taken: then enter, to his rescue, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Stand, stand! We have the advantage of the ground,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The lane is guarded: nothing routs us but
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The villany of our fears.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Stand, stand, and fight!
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Re-enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and seconds the  Britons: they rescue CYMBELINE, and exeunt. Then re-enter LUCIUS, and IACHIMO, with IMOGEN
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|For friends kill friends, and the disorder's such
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|As war were hoodwink'd.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Tis their fresh supplies.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|It is a day turn'd strangely: or betimes
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Let's reinforce, or fly.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Exeunt
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|SCENE III. Another part of the field.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and a British Lord
Cymbeline|Lord|Camest thou from where they made the stand?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I did.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.
Cymbeline|Lord|I did.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|No blame be to you, sir, for all was lost,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|But that the heavens fought: the king himself
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of his wings destitute, the army broken,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And but the backs of Britons seen, all flying
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Through a straight lane, the enemy full-hearted,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Merely through fear, that the straight pass was damm'd
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To die with lengthen'd shame.
Cymbeline|Lord|Where was this lane?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Close by the battle, ditch'd, and wall'd with turf,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|An honest one, I warrant, who deserved
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|So long a breeding as his white beard came to,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|In doing this for's country: athwart the lane,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|He, with two striplings-lads more like to run
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The country base than to commit such slaughter
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Than those for preservation cased, or shame--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Made good the passage, cried to those that fled,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|'Our Britain s harts die flying, not our men:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards. Stand,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Or we are Romans and will give you that
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|But to look back in frown: stand, stand.'
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|These three,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Three thousand confident, in act as many--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For three performers are the file when all
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The rest do nothing--with this word 'Stand, stand,'
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Accommodated by the place, more charming
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Part shame, part spirit renew'd, that some,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|turn'd coward
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|But by example--O, a sin in war,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Damn'd in the first beginners!--gan to look
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The way that they did, and to grin like lions
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A stop i' the chaser, a retire, anon
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A rout, confusion thick, forthwith they fly
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles, slaves,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The strides they victors made: and now our cowards,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Like fragments in hard voyages, became
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The life o' the need: having found the backdoor open
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of the unguarded hearts, heavens, how they wound!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Some slain before, some dying, some their friends
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|O'er borne i' the former wave: ten, chased by one,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Those that would die or ere resist are grown
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The mortal bugs o' the field.
Cymbeline|Lord|This was strange chance
Cymbeline|Lord|A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Nay, do not wonder at it: you are made
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Rather to wonder at the things you hear
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And vent it for a mockery? Here is one:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|'Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Preserved the Britons, was the Romans' bane.'
Cymbeline|Lord|Nay, be not angry, sir.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|'Lack, to what end?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Who dares not stand his foe, I'll be his friend,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For if he'll do as he is made to do,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I know he'll quickly fly my friendship too.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|You have put me into rhyme.
Cymbeline|Lord|Farewell, you're angry.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Still going?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Exit Lord
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|This is a lord! O noble misery,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To be i' the field, and ask 'what news?' of me!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To-day how many would have given their honours
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To have saved their carcasses! took heel to do't,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And yet died too! I, in mine own woe charm'd,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Could not find death where I did hear him groan,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Nor feel him where he struck: being an ugly monster,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Sweet words, or hath more ministers than we
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That draw his knives i' the war. Well, I will find him
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For being now a favourer to the Briton,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|No more a Briton, I have resumed again
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The part I came in: fight I will no more,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|But yield me to the veriest hind that shall
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Here made by the Roman, great the answer be
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Britons must take. For me, my ransom's death,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|On either side I come to spend my breath,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Which neither here I'll keep nor bear again,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|But end it by some means for Imogen.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Enter two British Captains and Soldiers
Cymbeline|First Captain|Great Jupiter be praised! Lucius is taken.
Cymbeline|First Captain|'Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels.
Cymbeline|Second Captain|There was a fourth man, in a silly habit,
Cymbeline|Second Captain|That gave the affront with them.
Cymbeline|First Captain|So 'tis reported:
Cymbeline|First Captain|But none of 'em can be found. Stand! who's there?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A Roman,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Who had not now been drooping here, if seconds
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Had answer'd him.
Cymbeline|Second Captain|Lay hands on him, a dog!
Cymbeline|Second Captain|A leg of Rome shall not return to tell
Cymbeline|Second Captain|What crows have peck'd them here. He brags
Cymbeline|Second Captain|his service
Cymbeline|Second Captain|As if he were of note: bring him to the king.
Cymbeline|Second Captain|Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS,  PISANIO, Soldiers, Attendants, and Roman Captives.  The Captains present POSTHUMUS LEONATUS to  CYMBELINE, who delivers him over to a Gaoler: then exeunt omnes
Cymbeline|Second Captain|SCENE IV. A British prison.
Cymbeline|Second Captain|Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and two Gaolers
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|You shall not now be stol'n, you have locks upon you,
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|So graze as you find pasture.
Cymbeline|Second Gaoler|Ay, or a stomach.
Cymbeline|Second Gaoler|Exeunt Gaolers
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Most welcome, bondage! for thou art away,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|think, to liberty: yet am I better
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Than one that's sick o' the gout, since he had rather
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Groan so in perpetuity than be cured
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|By the sure physician, death, who is the key
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fetter'd
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|More than my shanks and wrists: you good gods, give me
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The penitent instrument to pick that bolt,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Then, free for ever! Is't enough I am sorry?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|So children temporal fathers do appease,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Gods are more full of mercy. Must I repent?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I cannot do it better than in gyves,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Desired more than constrain'd: to satisfy,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|If of my freedom 'tis the main part, take
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|No stricter render of me than my all.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I know you are more clement than vile men,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Who of their broken debtors take a third,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|On their abatement: that's not my desire:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For Imogen's dear life take mine, and though
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|'Tis not so dear, yet 'tis a life, you coin'd it:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|You rather mine, being yours: and so, great powers,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|If you will take this audit, take this life,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And cancel these cold bonds. O Imogen!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I'll speak to thee in silence.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Sleeps
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Solemn music. Enter, as in an apparition,  SICILIUS LEONATUS, father to Posthumus Leonatus,  an old man, attired like a warrior, leading in  his hand an ancient matron, his wife, and mother  to Posthumus Leonatus, with music before them:  then, after other music, follow the two young  Leonati, brothers to Posthumus Leonatus, with  wounds as they died in the wars. They circle Posthumus Leonatus round, as he lies sleeping
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|No more, thou thunder-master, show
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Thy spite on mortal flies:
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|With Mars fall out, with Juno chide,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|That thy adulteries
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Rates and revenges.
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Hath my poor boy done aught but well,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Whose face I never saw?
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|I died whilst in the womb he stay'd
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Attending nature's law:
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Whose father then, as men report
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Thou orphans' father art,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|From this earth-vexing smart.
Cymbeline|Mother|Lucina lent not me her aid,
Cymbeline|Mother|But took me in my throes,
Cymbeline|Mother|That from me was Posthumus ript,
Cymbeline|Mother|Came crying 'mongst his foes,
Cymbeline|Mother|A thing of pity!
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Great nature, like his ancestry,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Moulded the stuff so fair,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|That he deserved the praise o' the world,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|As great Sicilius' heir.
Cymbeline|First Brother|When once he was mature for man,
Cymbeline|First Brother|In Britain where was he
Cymbeline|First Brother|That could stand up his parallel,
Cymbeline|First Brother|Or fruitful object be
Cymbeline|First Brother|In eye of Imogen, that best
Cymbeline|First Brother|Could deem his dignity?
Cymbeline|Mother|With marriage wherefore was he mock'd,
Cymbeline|Mother|To be exiled, and thrown
Cymbeline|Mother|From Leonati seat, and cast
Cymbeline|Mother|From her his dearest one,
Cymbeline|Mother|Sweet Imogen?
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Why did you suffer Iachimo,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Slight thing of Italy,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|To taint his nobler heart and brain
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|With needless jealosy,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|And to become the geck and scorn
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|O' th' other's villany?
Cymbeline|Second Brother|For this from stiller seats we came,
Cymbeline|Second Brother|Our parents and us twain,
Cymbeline|Second Brother|That striking in our country's cause
Cymbeline|Second Brother|Fell bravely and were slain,
Cymbeline|Second Brother|Our fealty and Tenantius' right
Cymbeline|Second Brother|With honour to maintain.
Cymbeline|First Brother|Like hardiment Posthumus hath
Cymbeline|First Brother|To Cymbeline perform'd:
Cymbeline|First Brother|Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,
Cymbeline|First Brother|Why hast thou thus adjourn'd
Cymbeline|First Brother|The graces for his merits due,
Cymbeline|First Brother|Being all to dolours turn'd?
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Thy crystal window ope, look out,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|No longer exercise
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Upon a valiant race thy harsh
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|And potent injuries.
Cymbeline|Mother|Since, Jupiter, our son is good,
Cymbeline|Mother|Take off his miseries.
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Peep through thy marble mansion, help,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Or we poor ghosts will cry
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|To the shining synod of the rest
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Against thy deity.
Cymbeline|Second Brother|Help, Jupiter, or we appeal,
Cymbeline|Second Brother|And from thy justice fly.
Cymbeline|Second Brother|Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting  upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The Apparitions fall on their knees
Cymbeline|Jupiter|No more, you petty spirits of region low,
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Offend our hearing, hush! How dare you ghosts
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt, you know,
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Sky-planted batters all rebelling coasts?
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Poor shadows of Elysium, hence, and rest
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Upon your never-withering banks of flowers:
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Be not with mortal accidents opprest,
Cymbeline|Jupiter|No care of yours it is, you know 'tis ours.
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Whom best I love I cross, to make my gift,
Cymbeline|Jupiter|The more delay'd, delighted. Be content,
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift:
Cymbeline|Jupiter|His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Our Jovial star reign'd at his birth, and in
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade.
Cymbeline|Jupiter|He shall be lord of lady Imogen,
Cymbeline|Jupiter|And happier much by his affliction made.
Cymbeline|Jupiter|This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine:
Cymbeline|Jupiter|and so, away: no further with your din
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Express impatience, lest you stir up mine.
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.
Cymbeline|Jupiter|Ascends
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|He came in thunder, his celestial breath
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Was sulphurous to smell: the holy eagle
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Stoop'd as to foot us: his ascension is
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|More sweet than our blest fields: his royal bird
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|As when his god is pleased.
Cymbeline|All|Thanks, Jupiter!
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|The marble pavement closes, he is enter'd
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|His radiant root. Away! and, to be blest,
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|Let us with care perform his great behest.
Cymbeline|Sicilius Leonatus|The Apparitions vanish
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|[Waking]  Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|A father to me, and thou hast created
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|A mother and two brothers: but, O scorn!
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Gone! they went hence so soon as they were born:
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|And so I am awake. Poor wretches that depend
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|On greatness' favour dream as I have done,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Wake and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve:
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Many dream not to find, neither deserve,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|And yet are steep'd in favours: so am I,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|That have this golden chance and know not why.
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one!
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Nobler than that it covers: let thy effects
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|So follow, to be most unlike our courtiers,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|As good as promise.
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Reads
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|tender air, and when from a stately cedar shall be
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|lopped branches, which, being dead many years,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock and
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|freshly grow, then shall Posthumus end his miseries,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Britain be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty.'
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Tongue and brain not, either both or nothing,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Or senseless speaking or a speaking such
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|The action of my life is like it, which
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|I'll keep, if but for sympathy.
Cymbeline|Posthumus Leonatus|Re-enter First Gaoler
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Come, sir, are you ready for death?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Over-roasted rather, ready long ago.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Hanging is the word, sir: if
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|you be ready for that, you are well cooked.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|So, if I prove a good repast to the
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|spectators, the dish pays the shot.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort is,
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|you shall be called to no more payments, fear no
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|more tavern-bills, which are often the sadness of
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|flint for want of meat, depart reeling with too
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|much drink, sorry that you have paid too much, and
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|sorry that you are paid too much, purse and brain
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|both empty, the brain the heavier for being too
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|light, the purse too light, being drawn of
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|heaviness: of this contradiction you shall now be
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|quit. O, the charity of a penny cord! It sums up
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|creditor but it, of what's past, is, and to come,
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|the discharge: your neck, sir, is pen, book and
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|counters, so the acquittance follows.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I am merrier to die than thou art to live.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|tooth-ache: but a man that were to sleep your
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|would change places with his officer, for, look you,
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|sir, you know not which way you shall go.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Yes, indeed do I, fellow.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Your death has eyes in 's head then, I have not seen
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|him so pictured: you must either be directed by
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|some that take upon them to know, or do take upon
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|jump the after inquiry on your own peril: and how
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|you shall speed in your journey's end, I think you'll
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|never return to tell one.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|direct them the way I am going, but such as wink and
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|will not use them.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|What an infinite mock is this, that a man should
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|have the best use of eyes to see the way of
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|blindness! I am sure hanging's the way of winking.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Enter a Messenger
Cymbeline|Messenger|Knock off his manacles, bring your prisoner to the king.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Thou bring'st good news, I am called to be made free.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|I'll be hang'd then.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler, no bolts for the dead.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and Messenger
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|gibbets, I never saw one so prone. Yet, on my
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live,
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|for all he be a Roman: and there be some of them
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|too that die against their wills, so should I, if I
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|were one. I would we were all of one mind, and one
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|mind good, O, there were desolation of gaolers and
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|gallowses! I speak against my present profit, but
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|my wish hath a preferment in 't.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Exeunt
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|SCENE V. Cymbeline's tent.
Cymbeline|First Gaoler|Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, PISANIO, Lords, Officers, and Attendants
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That the poor soldier that so richly fought,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Stepp'd before larges of proof, cannot be found:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|He shall be happy that can find him, if
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Our grace can make him so.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I never saw
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Such noble fury in so poor a thing,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Such precious deeds in one that promises nought
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But beggary and poor looks.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|No tidings of him?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|He hath been search'd among the dead and living,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|But no trace of him.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To my grief, I am
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The heir of his reward,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|which I will add
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To you, the liver, heart and brain of Britain,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|By whom I grant she lives. 'Tis now the time
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To ask of whence you are. Report it.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Sir,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Further to boast were neither true nor modest,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Unless I add, we are honest.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Bow your knees.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Arise my knights o' the battle: I create you
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Companions to our person and will fit you
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|With dignities becoming your estates.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Enter CORNELIUS and Ladies
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|There's business in these faces. Why so sadly
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Greet you our victory? you look like Romans,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And not o' the court of Britain.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Hail, great king!
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|To sour your happiness, I must report
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|The queen is dead.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Who worse than a physician
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Would this report become? But I consider,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|With horror, madly dying, like her life,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Which, being cruel to the world, concluded
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Most cruel to herself. What she confess'd
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|I will report, so please you: these her women
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Can trip me, if I err, who with wet cheeks
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Were present when she finish'd.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Prithee, say.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|First, she confess'd she never loved you, only
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Affected greatness got by you, not you:
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Married your royalty, was wife to your place,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Abhorr'd your person.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|She alone knew this,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And, but she spoke it dying, I would not
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Believe her lips in opening it. Proceed.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|With such integrity, she did confess
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Was as a scorpion to her sight, whose life,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|But that her flight prevented it, she had
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Ta'en off by poison.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|O most delicate fiend!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Who is 't can read a woman? Is there more?
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|For you a mortal mineral, which, being took,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Should by the minute feed on life and lingering
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|By inches waste you: in which time she purposed,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|O'ercome you with her show, and in time,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|When she had fitted you with her craft, to work
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Her son into the adoption of the crown:
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|But, failing of her end by his strange absence,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Grew shameless-desperate, open'd, in despite
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Of heaven and men, her purposes, repented
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|The evils she hatch'd were not effected, so
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Despairing died.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Heard you all this, her women?
Cymbeline|First Lady|We did, so please your highness.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Mine eyes
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Were not in fault, for she was beautiful,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Mine ears, that heard her flattery, nor my heart,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That thought her like her seeming, it had
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|been vicious
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To have mistrusted her: yet, O my daughter!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That it was folly in me, thou mayst say,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Enter LUCIUS, IACHIMO, the Soothsayer, and other  Roman Prisoners, guarded, POSTHUMUS LEONATUS behind, and IMOGEN
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou comest not, Caius, now for tribute that
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The Britons have razed out, though with the loss
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Of many a bold one, whose kinsmen have made suit
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Of you their captives, which ourself have granted:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|So think of your estate.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Was yours by accident, had it gone with us,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|We should not, when the blood was cool,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|have threaten'd
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|May be call'd ransom, let it come: sufficeth
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer:
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Augustus lives to think on't: and so much
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|For my peculiar care. This one thing only
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|I will entreat, my boy, a Briton born,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Let him be ransom'd: never master had
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|So tender over his occasions, true,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|So feat, so nurse-like: let his virtue join
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|With my request, which I make bold your highness
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Cannot deny, he hath done no Briton harm,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Though he have served a Roman: save him, sir,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And spare no blood beside.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I have surely seen him:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|His favour is familiar to me. Boy,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou hast look'd thyself into my grace,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And art mine own. I know not why, wherefore,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To say 'live, boy:' ne'er thank thy master, live:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Fitting my bounty and thy state, I'll give it,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Yea, though thou do demand a prisoner,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The noblest ta'en.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I humbly thank your highness.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|And yet I know thou wilt.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|No, no: alack,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|There's other work in hand: I see a thing
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Bitter to me as death: your life, good master,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Must shuffle for itself.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|The boy disdains me,
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|He leaves me, scorns me: briefly die their joys
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|That place them on the truth of girls and boys.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Why stands he so perplex'd?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|What wouldst thou, boy?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I love thee more and more: think more and more
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|What's best to ask. Know'st him thou look'st on? speak,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Wilt have him live? Is he thy kin? thy friend?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|He is a Roman, no more kin to me
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Than I to your highness, who, being born your vassal,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Am something nearer.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Wherefore eyest him so?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I'll tell you, sir, in private, if you please
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To give me hearing.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Ay, with all my heart,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And lend my best attention. What's thy name?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Fidele, sir.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou'rt my good youth, my page,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I'll be thy master: walk with me, speak freely.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|CYMBELINE and IMOGEN converse apart
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Is not this boy revived from death?
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|One sand another
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Who died, and was Fidele. What think you?
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|The same dead thing alive.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Peace, peace! see further, he eyes us not, forbear,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Creatures may be alike: were 't he, I am sure
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|He would have spoke to us.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|But we saw him dead.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Be silent, let's see further.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|[Aside]	It is my mistress:
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Since she is living, let the time run on
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To good or bad.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|CYMBELINE and IMOGEN come forward
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Come, stand thou by our side,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Make thy demand aloud.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To IACHIMO
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Sir, step you forth,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Give answer to this boy, and do it freely,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Or, by our greatness and the grace of it,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Which is our honour, bitter torture shall
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Winnow the truth from falsehood. On, speak to him.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|My boon is, that this gentleman may render
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Of whom he had this ring.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|[Aside]                 What's that to him?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That diamond upon your finger, say
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|How came it yours?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which, to be spoke, would torture thee.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|How! me?
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which torments me to conceal. By villany
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I got this ring: 'twas Leonatus' jewel,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Whom thou didst banish, and--which more may
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|grieve thee,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|As it doth me--a nobler sir ne'er lived
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou hear more, my lord?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|All that belongs to this.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That paragon, thy daughter,--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Quail to remember--Give me leave, I faint.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|My daughter! what of her? Renew thy strength:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Than die ere I hear more: strive, man, and speak.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Upon a time,--unhappy was the clock
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That struck the hour!--it was in Rome,--accursed
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The mansion where!--'twas at a feast,--O, would
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Our viands had been poison'd, or at least
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Those which I heaved to head!--the good Posthumus--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|What should I say? he was too good to be
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Where ill men were, and was the best of all
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Amongst the rarest of good ones,--sitting sadly,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Hearing us praise our loves of Italy
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of him that best could speak, for feature, laming
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|The shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerva.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Postures beyond brief nature, for condition,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|A shop of all the qualities that man
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Loves woman for, besides that hook of wiving,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Fairness which strikes the eye--
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I stand on fire:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Come to the matter.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|All too soon I shall,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly. This Posthumus,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Most like a noble lord in love and one
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That had a royal lover, took his hint,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And, not dispraising whom we praised,--therein
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|He was as calm as virtue--he began
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|His mistress' picture, which by his tongue
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|being made,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And then a mind put in't, either our brags
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Were crack'd of kitchen-trolls, or his description
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Proved us unspeaking sots.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Nay, nay, to the purpose.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Your daughter's chastity--there it begins.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|He spake of her, as Dian had hot dreams,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And she alone were cold: whereat I, wretch,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Made scruple of his praise, and wager'd with him
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Pieces of gold 'gainst this which then he wore
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Upon his honour'd finger, to attain
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|In suit the place of's bed and win this ring
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|By hers and mine adultery. He, true knight,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|No lesser of her honour confident
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And would so, had it been a carbuncle
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of Phoebus' wheel, and might so safely, had it
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Been all the worth of's car. Away to Britain
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Post I in this design: well may you, sir,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Remember me at court, where I was taught
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of your chaste daughter the wide difference
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Twixt amorous and villanous. Being thus quench'd
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|'Gan in your duller Britain operate
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Most vilely, for my vantage, excellent:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And, to be brief, my practise so prevail'd,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That I return'd with simular proof enough
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|To make the noble Leonatus mad,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|By wounding his belief in her renown
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|With tokens thus, and thus, averting notes
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet,--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|O cunning, how I got it!--nay, some marks
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Of secret on her person, that he could not
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|I having ta'en the forfeit. Whereupon--
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Methinks, I see him now--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|[Advancing]             Ay, so thou dost,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Egregious murderer, thief, any thing
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That's due to all the villains past, in being,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|To come! O, give me cord, or knife, or poison,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Some upright justicer! Thou, king, send out
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|For torturers ingenious: it is I
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|By being worse than they. I am Posthumus,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That kill'd thy daughter:--villain-like, I lie--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|That caused a lesser villain than myself,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|A sacrilegious thief, to do't: the temple
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of virtue was she, yea, and she herself.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Spit, and throw stone s, cast mire upon me, set
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The dogs o' the street to bay me: every villain
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Be call'd Posthumus Leonitus, and
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Be villany less than 'twas! O Imogen!
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|My queen, my life, my wife! O Imogen,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Imogen, Imogen!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Peace, my lord, hear, hear--
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Shall's have a play of this? Thou scornful page,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|There lie thy part.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Striking her: she falls
Cymbeline|PISANIO|O, gentlemen, help!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Mine and your mistress! O, my lord Posthumus!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|You ne'er kill'd Imogen til now. Help, help!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Mine honour'd lady!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Does the world go round?
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|How come these staggers on me?
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Wake, my mistress!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To death with mortal joy.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|How fares thy mistress?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|O, get thee from my sight,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Thou gavest me poison: dangerous fellow, hence!
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Breathe not where princes are.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The tune of Imogen!
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Lady,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if
Cymbeline|PISANIO|That box I gave you was not thought by me
Cymbeline|PISANIO|A precious thing: I had it from the queen.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|New matter still?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|It poison'd me.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|O gods!
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|I left out one thing which the queen confess'd.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Which must approve thee honest: 'If Pisanio
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Have,' said she, 'given his mistress that confection
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Which I gave him for cordial, she is served
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|As I would serve a rat.'
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|What's this, Comelius?
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|The queen, sir, very oft importuned me
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|To temper poisons for her, still pretending
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|The satisfaction of her knowledge only
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs,
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Of no esteem: I, dreading that her purpose
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Was of more danger, did compound for her
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|A certain stuff, which, being ta'en, would cease
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|The present power of life, but in short time
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|All offices of nature should again
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|Do their due functions. Have you ta'en of it?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Most like I did, for I was dead.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|My boys,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|There was our error.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|This is, sure, Fidele.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Why did you throw your wedded lady from you?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Think that you are upon a rock, and now
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Throw me again.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Embracing him
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Hang there like a fruit, my soul,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Till the tree die!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|How now, my flesh, my child!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|What, makest thou me a dullard in this act?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Wilt thou not speak to me?
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|[Kneeling]               Your blessing, sir.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|[To GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS]  Though you did love
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|this youth, I blame ye not:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|You had a motive for't.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|My tears that fall
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Prove holy water on thee! Imogen,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thy mother's dead.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I am sorry for't, my lord.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|O, she was nought, and long of her it was
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That we meet here so strangely: but her son
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Is gone, we know not how nor where.
Cymbeline|PISANIO|My lord,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Now fear is from me, I'll speak troth. Lord Cloten,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Upon my lady's missing, came to me
Cymbeline|PISANIO|With his sword drawn, foam'd at the mouth, and swore,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|If I discover'd not which way she was gone,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|It was my instant death. By accident,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|had a feigned letter of my master's
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Then in my pocket, which directed him
Cymbeline|PISANIO|To seek her on the mountains near to Milford,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Where, in a frenzy, in my master's garments,
Cymbeline|PISANIO|Which he enforced from me, away he posts
Cymbeline|PISANIO|With unchaste purpose and with oath to violate
Cymbeline|PISANIO|My lady's honour: what became of him
Cymbeline|PISANIO|I further know not.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Let me end the story:
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I slew him there.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Marry, the gods forfend!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I would not thy good deeds should from my lips
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Pluck a bard sentence: prithee, valiant youth,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Deny't again.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|I have spoke it, and I did it.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|He was a prince.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|A most incivil one: the wrongs he did me
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Were nothing prince-like, for he did provoke me
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|With language that would make me spurn the sea,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|If it could so roar to me: I cut off's head,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And am right glad he is not standing here
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|To tell this tale of mine.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I am sorry for thee:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|By thine own tongue thou art condemn'd, and must
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Endure our law: thou'rt dead.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|That headless man
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I thought had been my lord.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Bind the offender,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And take him from our presence.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Stay, sir king:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This man is better than the man he slew,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As well descended as thyself, and hath
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|More of thee merited than a band of Clotens
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Had ever scar for.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To the Guard
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Let his arms alone,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|They were not born for bondage.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Why, old soldier,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|By tasting of our wrath? How of descent
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|As good as we?
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|In that he spake too far.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And thou shalt die for't.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|We will die all three:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|But I will prove that two on's are as good
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As I have given out him. My sons, I must,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|For mine own part, unfold a dangerous speech,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Though, haply, well for you.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Your danger's ours.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And our good his.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Have at it then, by leave.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Thou hadst, great king, a subject who
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Was call'd Belarius.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|What of him? he is
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A banish'd traitor.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|He it is that hath
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Assumed this age, indeed a banish'd man,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I know not how a traitor.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Take him hence:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The whole world shall not save him.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Not too hot:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|First pay me for the nursing of thy sons,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And let it be confiscate all, so soon
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|As I have received it.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Nursing of my sons!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I am too blunt and saucy: here's my knee:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Ere I arise, I will prefer my sons,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Then spare not the old father. Mighty sir,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|These two young gentlemen, that call me father
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And think they are my sons, are none of mine,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|They are the issue of your loins, my liege,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|And blood of your begetting.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|How! my issue!
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Am that Belarius whom you sometime banish'd:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Itself, and all my treason, that I suffer'd
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes--
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|For such and so they are--these twenty years
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Have I train'd up: those arts they have as I
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Could put into them, my breeding was, sir, as
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Your highness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Upon my banishment: I moved her to't,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Having received the punishment before,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|For that which I did then: beaten for loyalty
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Excited me to treason: their dear loss,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shaped
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Unto my end of stealing them. But, gracious sir,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Here are your sons again, and I must lose
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Two of the sweet'st companions in the world.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|The benediction of these covering heavens
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To inlay heaven with stars.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou weep'st, and speak'st.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The service that you three have done is more
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Unlike than this thou tell'st. I lost my children:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|If these be they, I know not how to wish
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A pair of worthier sons.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Be pleased awhile.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This gentleman, whom I call Polydore,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Your younger princely son, he, sir, was lapp'd
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Of his queen mother, which for more probation
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|I can with ease produce.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Guiderius had
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|It was a mark of wonder.
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|This is he,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|Who hath upon him still that natural stamp:
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|It was wise nature's end in the donation,
Cymbeline|BELARIUS|To be his evidence now.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|O, what, am I
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Rejoiced deliverance more. Blest pray you be,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|That, after this strange starting from your orbs,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|may reign in them now! O Imogen,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou hast lost by this a kingdom.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|No, my lord,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I have got two worlds by 't. O my gentle brothers,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|Have we thus met? O, never say hereafter
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|But I am truest speaker you call'd me brother,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When I was but your sister, I you brothers,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|When ye were so indeed.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Did you e'er meet?
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Ay, my good lord.
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|And at first meeting loved,
Cymbeline|GUIDERIUS|Continued so, until we thought he died.
Cymbeline|CORNELIUS|By the queen's dram she swallow'd.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|O rare instinct!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|When shall I hear all through? This fierce
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|abridgement
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Hath to it circumstantial branches, which
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Distinction should be rich in. Where? how lived You?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And when came you to serve our Roman captive?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|How parted with your brothers? how first met them?
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Why fled you from the court? and whither? These,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And your three motives to the battle, with
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|I know not how much more, should be demanded,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And all the other by-dependencies,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|From chance to chance: but nor the time nor place
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Will serve our long inter'gatories. See,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Posthumus anchors upon Imogen,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|On him, her brother, me, her master, hitting
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Each object with a joy: the counterchange
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And smoke the temple with our sacrifices.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To BELARIUS
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Thou art my brother, so we'll hold thee ever.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|You are my father too, and did relieve me,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|To see this gracious season.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|All o'erjoy'd,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Save these in bonds: let them be joyful too,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|For they shall taste our comfort.
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|My good master,
Cymbeline|IMOGEN|I will yet do you service.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Happy be you!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The forlorn soldier, that so nobly fought,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|He would have well becomed this place, and graced
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|The thankings of a king.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|I am, sir,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The soldier that did company these three
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|In poor beseeming, 'twas a fitment for
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The purpose I then follow'd. That I was he,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Speak, Iachimo: I had you down and might
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Have made you finish.
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|[Kneeling]          I am down again:
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|Which I so often owe: but your ring first,
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|And here the bracelet of the truest princess
Cymbeline|IACHIMO|That ever swore her faith.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Kneel not to me:
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The power that I have on you is, to spare you,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|The malice towards you to forgive you: live,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|And deal with others better.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Nobly doom'd!
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Pardon's the word to all.
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|You holp us, sir,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|As you did mean indeed to be our brother,
Cymbeline|ARVIRAGUS|Joy'd are we that you are.
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Your servant, princes. Good my lord of Rome,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Call forth your soothsayer: as I slept, methought
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd,
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Of mine own kindred: when I waked, I found
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|This label on my bosom, whose containing
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Is so from sense in hardness, that I can
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|Make no collection of it: let him show
Cymbeline|POSTHUMUS LEONATUS|His skill in the construction.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Philarmonus!
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Here, my good lord.
Cymbeline|CAIUS LUCIUS|Read, and declare the meaning.
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|[Reads]  'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced by a
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|piece of tender air, and when from a stately cedar
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|stock, and freshly grow, then shall Posthumus end
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|peace and plenty.'
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|The fit and apt construction of thy name,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Being Leonatus, doth import so much.
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|To CYMBELINE
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Which we call 'mollis aer,' and 'mollis aer'
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|We term it 'mulier:' which 'mulier' I divine
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Is this most constant wife, who, even now,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Answering the letter of the oracle,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Unknown to you, unsought, were clipp'd about
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|With this most tender air.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|This hath some seeming.
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Personates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Thy two sons forth, who, by Belarius stol'n,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|For many years thought dead, are now revived,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|To the majestic cedar join'd, whose issue
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Promises Britain peace and plenty.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Well
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|My peace we will begin. And, Caius Lucius,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Although the victor, we submit to Caesar,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And to the Roman empire, promising
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To pay our wonted tribute, from the which
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|We were dissuaded by our wicked queen,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Whom heavens, in justice, both on her and hers,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Have laid most heavy hand.
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|The fingers of the powers above do tune
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|The harmony of this peace. The vision
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Which I made known to Lucius, ere the stroke
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Of this yet scarce-cold battle, at this instant
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Is full accomplish'd, for the Roman eagle,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|From south to west on wing soaring aloft,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Lessen'd herself, and in the beams o' the sun
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|So vanish'd: which foreshow'd our princely eagle,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|The imperial Caesar, should again unite
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|His favour with the radiant Cymbeline,
Cymbeline|Soothsayer|Which shines here in the west.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Laud we the gods,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|From our blest altars. Publish we this peace
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|To all our subjects. Set we forward: let
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|A Roman and a British ensign wave
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Friendly together: so through Lud's-town march:
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|And in the temple of great Jupiter
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace.
Cymbeline|CYMBELINE|Exeunt
Hamlet|CYMBELINE|ACT I
Hamlet|CYMBELINE|SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.
Hamlet|CYMBELINE|FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Who's there?
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Long live the king!
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Bernardo?
Hamlet|BERNARDO|He.
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|You come most carefully upon your hour.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|'Tis now struck twelve, get thee to bed, Francisco.
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|And I am sick at heart.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Have you had quiet guard?
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Not a mouse stirring.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Well, good night.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
Hamlet|BERNARDO|The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS
Hamlet|HORATIO|Friends to this ground.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|And liegemen to the Dane.
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Give you good night.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|O, farewell, honest soldier:
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Who hath relieved you?
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Bernardo has my place.
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Give you good night.
Hamlet|FRANCISCO|Exit
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Holla! Bernardo!
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Say,
Hamlet|BERNARDO|What, is Horatio there?
Hamlet|HORATIO|A piece of him.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?
Hamlet|BERNARDO|I have seen nothing.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|And will not let belief take hold of him
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Therefore I have entreated him along
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|With us to watch the minutes of this night,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|That if again this apparition come,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Sit down awhile,
Hamlet|BERNARDO|And let us once again assail your ears,
Hamlet|BERNARDO|That are so fortified against our story
Hamlet|BERNARDO|What we have two nights seen.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Well, sit we down,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Last night of all,
Hamlet|BERNARDO|When yond same star that's westward from the pole
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
Hamlet|BERNARDO|The bell then beating one,--
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Enter Ghost
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Peace, break thee off, look, where it comes again!
Hamlet|BERNARDO|In the same figure, like the king that's dead.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Looks it not like the king?  mark it, Horatio.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|It would be spoke to.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Question it, Horatio.
Hamlet|HORATIO|What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Together with that fair and warlike form
Hamlet|HORATIO|In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Hamlet|HORATIO|Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|It is offended.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|See, it stalks away!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Exit Ghost
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|'Tis gone, and will not answer.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Is not this something more than fantasy?
Hamlet|BERNARDO|What think you on't?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Before my God, I might not this believe
Hamlet|HORATIO|Without the sensible and true avouch
Hamlet|HORATIO|Of mine own eyes.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Is it not like the king?
Hamlet|HORATIO|As thou art to thyself:
Hamlet|HORATIO|Such was the very armour he had on
Hamlet|HORATIO|When he the ambitious Norway combated,
Hamlet|HORATIO|So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,
Hamlet|HORATIO|He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
Hamlet|HORATIO|'Tis strange.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
Hamlet|HORATIO|In what particular thought to work I know not,
Hamlet|HORATIO|But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
Hamlet|HORATIO|This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Why this same strict and most observant watch
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|So nightly toils the subject of the land,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|And foreign mart for implements of war,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Does not divide the Sunday from the week,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Who is't that can inform me?
Hamlet|HORATIO|That can I,
Hamlet|HORATIO|At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Dared to the combat, in which our valiant Hamlet--
Hamlet|HORATIO|For so this side of our known world esteem'd him--
Hamlet|HORATIO|Did slay this Fortinbras, who by a seal'd compact,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Well ratified by law and heraldry,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands
Hamlet|HORATIO|Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:
Hamlet|HORATIO|Against the which, a moiety competent
Hamlet|HORATIO|Was gaged by our king, which had return'd
Hamlet|HORATIO|To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Had he been vanquisher, as, by the same covenant,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And carriage of the article design'd,
Hamlet|HORATIO|His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
Hamlet|HORATIO|Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,
Hamlet|HORATIO|For food and diet, to some enterprise
Hamlet|HORATIO|That hath a stomach in't, which is no other--
Hamlet|HORATIO|As it doth well appear unto our state--
Hamlet|HORATIO|But to recover of us, by strong hand
Hamlet|HORATIO|And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
Hamlet|HORATIO|So by his father lost: and this, I take it,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Is the main motive of our preparations,
Hamlet|HORATIO|The source of this our watch and the chief head
Hamlet|HORATIO|Of this post-haste and romage in the land.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|I think it be no other but e'en so:
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Well may it sort that this portentous figure
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Comes armed through our watch, so like the king
Hamlet|BERNARDO|That was and is the question of these wars.
Hamlet|HORATIO|A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
Hamlet|HORATIO|In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
Hamlet|HORATIO|A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
Hamlet|HORATIO|The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Hamlet|HORATIO|Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:
Hamlet|HORATIO|As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Disasters in the sun, and the moist star
Hamlet|HORATIO|Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
Hamlet|HORATIO|Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:
Hamlet|HORATIO|And even the like precurse of fierce events,
Hamlet|HORATIO|As harbingers preceding still the fates
Hamlet|HORATIO|And prologue to the omen coming on,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
Hamlet|HORATIO|Unto our climatures and countrymen.--
Hamlet|HORATIO|But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Re-enter Ghost
Hamlet|HORATIO|I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!
Hamlet|HORATIO|If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Speak to me:
Hamlet|HORATIO|If there be any good thing to be done,
Hamlet|HORATIO|That may to thee do ease and grace to me,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Speak to me:
Hamlet|HORATIO|Cock crows
Hamlet|HORATIO|If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
Hamlet|HORATIO|Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
Hamlet|HORATIO|For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Do, if it will not stand.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|'Tis here!
Hamlet|HORATIO|'Tis here!
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|'Tis gone!
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Exit Ghost
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|We do it wrong, being so majestical,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|To offer it the show of violence,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|For it is, as the air, invulnerable,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
Hamlet|HORATIO|And then it started like a guilty thing
Hamlet|HORATIO|Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,
Hamlet|HORATIO|The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Hamlet|HORATIO|Awake the god of day, and, at his warning,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
Hamlet|HORATIO|The extravagant and erring spirit hies
Hamlet|HORATIO|To his confine: and of the truth herein
Hamlet|HORATIO|This present object made probation.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|It faded on the crowing of the cock.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Hamlet|HORATIO|So have I heard and do in part believe it.
Hamlet|HORATIO|But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:
Hamlet|HORATIO|Break we our watch up, and by my advice,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Let us impart what we have seen to-night
Hamlet|HORATIO|Unto young Hamlet, for, upon my life,
Hamlet|HORATIO|This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
Hamlet|HORATIO|As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Let's do't, I pray, and I this morning know
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Where we shall find him most conveniently.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|SCENE II. A room of state in the castle.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET,  POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, and Attendants
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The memory be green, and that it us befitted
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Importing the surrender of those lands
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thus much the business is: we have here writ
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|His further gait herein, in that the levies,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The lists and full proportions, are all made
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Out of his subject: and we here dispatch
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For bearers of this greeting to old Norway,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Giving to you no further personal power
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To business with the king, more than the scope
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of these delated articles allow.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|In that and all things will we show our duty.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|You told us of some suit, what is't, Laertes?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The head is not more native to the heart,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
Hamlet|LAERTES|My dread lord,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Your leave and favour to return to France,
Hamlet|LAERTES|From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
Hamlet|LAERTES|To show my duty in your coronation,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,
Hamlet|LAERTES|My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
Hamlet|LAERTES|And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|By laboursome petition, and at last
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I do beseech you, give him leave to go.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Take thy fair hour, Laertes, time be thine,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And thy best graces spend it at thy will!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|[Aside]  A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Not so, my lord, I am too much i' the sun.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Thou know'st 'tis common, all that lives must die,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Passing through nature to eternity.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, madam, it is common.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|If it be,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Why seems it so particular with thee?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Seems, madam! nay it is, I know not 'seems.'
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For they are actions that a man might play:
Hamlet|HAMLET|But I have that within which passeth show,
Hamlet|HAMLET|These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To give these mourning duties to your father:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But, you must know, your father lost a father,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In filial obligation for some term
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In obstinate condolement is a course
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of impious stubbornness, 'tis unmanly grief,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|An understanding simple and unschool'd:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For what we know must be and is as common
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Why should we in our peevish opposition
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To reason most absurd: whose common theme
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|From the first corse till he that died to-day,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|This unprevailing woe, and think of us
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As of a father: for let the world take note,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|You are the most immediate to our throne,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And with no less nobility of love
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Than that which dearest father bears his son,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Do I impart toward you. For your intent
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In going back to school in Wittenberg,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It is most retrograde to our desire:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And we beseech you, bend you to remain
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I pray thee, stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt all but HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
Hamlet|HAMLET|His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
Hamlet|HAMLET|How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature
Hamlet|HAMLET|Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
Hamlet|HAMLET|But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
Hamlet|HAMLET|So excellent a king, that was, to this,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
Hamlet|HAMLET|That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Hamlet|HAMLET|Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As if increase of appetite had grown
Hamlet|HAMLET|By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
Hamlet|HAMLET|A little month, or ere those shoes were old
Hamlet|HAMLET|With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,
Hamlet|HAMLET|My father's brother, but no more like my father
Hamlet|HAMLET|Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Hamlet|HAMLET|Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
Hamlet|HAMLET|She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
Hamlet|HAMLET|With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
Hamlet|HAMLET|It is not nor it cannot come to good:
Hamlet|HAMLET|But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO
Hamlet|HORATIO|Hail to your lordship!
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am glad to see you well:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Horatio,--or I do forget myself.
Hamlet|HORATIO|The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, my good friend, I'll change that name with you:
Hamlet|HAMLET|And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|My good lord--
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir.
Hamlet|HAMLET|But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
Hamlet|HORATIO|A truant disposition, good my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I would not hear your enemy say so,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To make it truster of your own report
Hamlet|HAMLET|Against yourself: I know you are no truant.
Hamlet|HAMLET|But what is your affair in Elsinore?
Hamlet|HAMLET|We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
Hamlet|HORATIO|My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Hamlet|HAMLET|Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
Hamlet|HAMLET|My father!--methinks I see my father.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Where, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|In my mind's eye, Horatio.
Hamlet|HORATIO|I saw him once, he was a goodly king.
Hamlet|HAMLET|He was a man, take him for all in all,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I shall not look upon his like again.
Hamlet|HORATIO|My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Saw? who?
Hamlet|HORATIO|My lord, the king your father.
Hamlet|HAMLET|The king my father!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Season your admiration for awhile
Hamlet|HORATIO|With an attent ear, till I may deliver,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
Hamlet|HORATIO|This marvel to you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|For God's love, let me hear.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Two nights together had these gentlemen,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,
Hamlet|HORATIO|In the dead vast and middle of the night,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Appears before them, and with solemn march
Hamlet|HORATIO|Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd
Hamlet|HORATIO|By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Within his truncheon's length, whilst they, distilled
Hamlet|HORATIO|Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me
Hamlet|HORATIO|In dreadful secrecy impart they did,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And I with them the third night kept the watch,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
Hamlet|HORATIO|The apparition comes: I knew your father,
Hamlet|HORATIO|These hands are not more like.
Hamlet|HAMLET|But where was this?
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Did you not speak to it?
Hamlet|HORATIO|My lord, I did,
Hamlet|HORATIO|But answer made it none: yet once methought
Hamlet|HORATIO|It lifted up its head and did address
Hamlet|HORATIO|Itself to motion, like as it would speak,
Hamlet|HORATIO|But even then the morning cock crew loud,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And vanish'd from our sight.
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Tis very strange.
Hamlet|HORATIO|As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And we did think it writ down in our duty
Hamlet|HORATIO|To let you know of it.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hold you the watch to-night?
Hamlet|BERNARDO|We do, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Arm'd, say you?
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Arm'd, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|From top to toe?
Hamlet|BERNARDO|My lord, from head to foot.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then saw you not his face?
Hamlet|HORATIO|O, yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What, look'd he frowningly?
Hamlet|HORATIO|A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Pale or red?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Nay, very pale.
Hamlet|HAMLET|And fix'd his eyes upon you?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Most constantly.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I would I had been there.
Hamlet|HORATIO|It would have much amazed you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?
Hamlet|HORATIO|While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
Hamlet|BERNARDO|Longer, longer.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Not when I saw't.
Hamlet|HAMLET|His beard was grizzled--no?
Hamlet|HORATIO|It was, as I have seen it in his life,
Hamlet|HORATIO|A sable silver'd.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will watch to-night,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Perchance 'twill walk again.
Hamlet|HORATIO|I warrant it will.
Hamlet|HAMLET|If it assume my noble father's person,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
Hamlet|HAMLET|And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
Hamlet|HAMLET|If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let it be tenable in your silence still,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Give it an understanding, but no tongue:
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will requite your loves. So, fare you well:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll visit you.
Hamlet|All|Our duty to your honour.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt all but HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|My father's spirit in arms! all is not well,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|HAMLET|SCENE III. A room in Polonius' house.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA
Hamlet|LAERTES|My necessaries are embark'd: farewell:
Hamlet|LAERTES|And, sister, as the winds give benefit
Hamlet|LAERTES|And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,
Hamlet|LAERTES|But let me hear from you.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Do you doubt that?
Hamlet|LAERTES|For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,
Hamlet|LAERTES|A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
Hamlet|LAERTES|The perfume and suppliance of a minute, No more.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|No more but so?
Hamlet|LAERTES|Think it no more,
Hamlet|LAERTES|For nature, crescent, does not grow alone
Hamlet|LAERTES|In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,
Hamlet|LAERTES|The inward service of the mind and soul
Hamlet|LAERTES|Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
Hamlet|LAERTES|And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
Hamlet|LAERTES|The virtue of his will: but you must fear,
Hamlet|LAERTES|His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own,
Hamlet|LAERTES|For he himself is subject to his birth:
Hamlet|LAERTES|He may not, as unvalued persons do,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
Hamlet|LAERTES|The safety and health of this whole state,
Hamlet|LAERTES|And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
Hamlet|LAERTES|Unto the voice and yielding of that body
Hamlet|LAERTES|Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
Hamlet|LAERTES|It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
Hamlet|LAERTES|As he in his particular act and place
Hamlet|LAERTES|May give his saying deed, which is no further
Hamlet|LAERTES|Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,
Hamlet|LAERTES|If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
Hamlet|LAERTES|To his unmaster'd importunity.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
Hamlet|LAERTES|And keep you in the rear of your affection,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Out of the shot and danger of desire.
Hamlet|LAERTES|The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
Hamlet|LAERTES|If she unmask her beauty to the moon:
Hamlet|LAERTES|Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes:
Hamlet|LAERTES|The canker galls the infants of the spring,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
Hamlet|LAERTES|And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Hamlet|LAERTES|Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Be wary then, best safety lies in fear:
Hamlet|LAERTES|Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And recks not his own rede.
Hamlet|LAERTES|O, fear me not.
Hamlet|LAERTES|I stay too long: but here my father comes.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Enter POLONIUS
Hamlet|LAERTES|A double blessing is a double grace,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And you are stay'd for. There, my blessing with thee!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And these few precepts in thy memory
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But not express'd in fancy, rich, not gaudy,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And they in France of the best rank and station
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|This above all: to thine ownself be true,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And it must follow, as the night the day,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
Hamlet|LAERTES|Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The time invites you, go, your servants tend.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
Hamlet|LAERTES|What I have said to you.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|'Tis in my memory lock'd,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Farewell.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Exit
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Marry, well bethought:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Given private time to you, and you yourself
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|If it be so, as so 'tis put on me,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And that in way of caution, I must tell you,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You do not understand yourself so clearly
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As it behoves my daughter and your honour.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What is between you? give me up the truth.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Of his affection to me.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|My lord, he hath importuned me with love
Hamlet|OPHELIA|In honourable fashion.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Ay, fashion you may call it, go to, go to.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|With almost all the holy vows of heaven.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Even in their promise, as it is a-making,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You must not take for fire. From this time
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Believe so much in him, that he is young
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And with a larger tether may he walk
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Not of that dye which their investments show,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The better to beguile. This is for all:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Have you so slander any moment leisure,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I shall obey, my lord.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Exeunt
Hamlet|OPHELIA|SCENE IV. The platform.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold.
Hamlet|HORATIO|It is a nipping and an eager air.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What hour now?
Hamlet|HORATIO|I think it lacks of twelve.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, it is struck.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season
Hamlet|HORATIO|Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
Hamlet|HORATIO|A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within
Hamlet|HORATIO|What does this mean, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
Hamlet|HAMLET|The triumph of his pledge.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Is it a custom?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, marry, is't:
Hamlet|HAMLET|But to my mind, though I am native here
Hamlet|HAMLET|And to the manner born, it is a custom
Hamlet|HAMLET|More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet|HAMLET|This heavy-headed revel east and west
Hamlet|HAMLET|Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
Hamlet|HAMLET|They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
Hamlet|HAMLET|Soil our addition, and indeed it takes
Hamlet|HAMLET|From our achievements, though perform'd at height,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The pith and marrow of our attribute.
Hamlet|HAMLET|So, oft it chances in particular men,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Since nature cannot choose his origin--
Hamlet|HAMLET|By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens
Hamlet|HAMLET|The form of plausive manners, that these men,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As infinite as man may undergo--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Shall in the general censure take corruption
Hamlet|HAMLET|From that particular fault: the dram of eale
Hamlet|HAMLET|Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
Hamlet|HAMLET|To his own scandal.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Look, my lord, it comes!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Enter Ghost
Hamlet|HAMLET|Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thou comest in such a questionable shape
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
Hamlet|HAMLET|King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Have burst their cerements, why the sepulchre,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Hamlet|HAMLET|Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Making night hideous, and we fools of nature
Hamlet|HAMLET|So horridly to shake our disposition
Hamlet|HAMLET|With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ghost beckons HAMLET
Hamlet|HORATIO|It beckons you to go away with it,
Hamlet|HORATIO|As if it some impartment did desire
Hamlet|HORATIO|To you alone.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Look, with what courteous action
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|It waves you to a more removed ground:
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|But do not go with it.
Hamlet|HORATIO|No, by no means.
Hamlet|HAMLET|It will not speak, then I will follow it.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Do not, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, what should be the fear?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I do not set my life in a pin's fee,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Being a thing immortal as itself?
Hamlet|HAMLET|It waves me forth again: I'll follow it.
Hamlet|HORATIO|What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
Hamlet|HORATIO|That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And there assume some other horrible form,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
Hamlet|HORATIO|And draw you into madness? think of it:
Hamlet|HORATIO|The very place puts toys of desperation,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Without more motive, into every brain
Hamlet|HORATIO|That looks so many fathoms to the sea
Hamlet|HORATIO|And hears it roar beneath.
Hamlet|HAMLET|It waves me still.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Go on, I'll follow thee.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|You shall not go, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hold off your hands.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Be ruled, you shall not go.
Hamlet|HAMLET|My fate cries out,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And makes each petty artery in this body
Hamlet|HAMLET|As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.
Hamlet|HAMLET|By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
Hamlet|HAMLET|I say, away! Go on, I'll follow thee.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET
Hamlet|HORATIO|He waxes desperate with imagination.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Let's follow, 'tis not fit thus to obey him.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Have after. To what issue will this come?
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Heaven will direct it.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Nay, let's follow him.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|SCENE V. Another part of the platform.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Enter GHOST and HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|Where wilt thou lead me? speak, I'll go no further.
Hamlet|Ghost|Mark me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will.
Hamlet|Ghost|My hour is almost come,
Hamlet|Ghost|When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
Hamlet|Ghost|Must render up myself.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Alas, poor ghost!
Hamlet|Ghost|Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
Hamlet|Ghost|To what I shall unfold.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Speak, I am bound to hear.
Hamlet|Ghost|So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What?
Hamlet|Ghost|I am thy father's spirit,
Hamlet|Ghost|Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
Hamlet|Ghost|And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Hamlet|Ghost|Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Hamlet|Ghost|Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
Hamlet|Ghost|To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
Hamlet|Ghost|I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Hamlet|Ghost|Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Hamlet|Ghost|Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Hamlet|Ghost|Thy knotted and combined locks to part
Hamlet|Ghost|And each particular hair to stand on end,
Hamlet|Ghost|Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
Hamlet|Ghost|But this eternal blazon must not be
Hamlet|Ghost|To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
Hamlet|Ghost|If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
Hamlet|HAMLET|O God!
Hamlet|Ghost|Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Murder!
Hamlet|Ghost|Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
Hamlet|Ghost|But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
Hamlet|HAMLET|As meditation or the thoughts of love,
Hamlet|HAMLET|May sweep to my revenge.
Hamlet|Ghost|I find thee apt,
Hamlet|Ghost|And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
Hamlet|Ghost|That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
Hamlet|Ghost|Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:
Hamlet|Ghost|'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
Hamlet|Ghost|A serpent stung me, so the whole ear of Denmark
Hamlet|Ghost|Is by a forged process of my death
Hamlet|Ghost|Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
Hamlet|Ghost|The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Hamlet|Ghost|Now wears his crown.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
Hamlet|Ghost|Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
Hamlet|Ghost|With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--
Hamlet|Ghost|O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
Hamlet|Ghost|So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust
Hamlet|Ghost|The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
Hamlet|Ghost|O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!
Hamlet|Ghost|From me, whose love was of that dignity
Hamlet|Ghost|That it went hand in hand even with the vow
Hamlet|Ghost|I made to her in marriage, and to decline
Hamlet|Ghost|Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
Hamlet|Ghost|To those of mine!
Hamlet|Ghost|But virtue, as it never will be moved,
Hamlet|Ghost|Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
Hamlet|Ghost|So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
Hamlet|Ghost|Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
Hamlet|Ghost|And prey on garbage.
Hamlet|Ghost|But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air,
Hamlet|Ghost|Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,
Hamlet|Ghost|My custom always of the afternoon,
Hamlet|Ghost|Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
Hamlet|Ghost|With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,
Hamlet|Ghost|And in the porches of my ears did pour
Hamlet|Ghost|The leperous distilment, whose effect
Hamlet|Ghost|Holds such an enmity with blood of man
Hamlet|Ghost|That swift as quicksilver it courses through
Hamlet|Ghost|The natural gates and alleys of the body,
Hamlet|Ghost|And with a sudden vigour doth posset
Hamlet|Ghost|And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
Hamlet|Ghost|The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine,
Hamlet|Ghost|And a most instant tetter bark'd about,
Hamlet|Ghost|Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
Hamlet|Ghost|All my smooth body.
Hamlet|Ghost|Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand
Hamlet|Ghost|Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:
Hamlet|Ghost|Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Hamlet|Ghost|Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,
Hamlet|Ghost|No reckoning made, but sent to my account
Hamlet|Ghost|With all my imperfections on my head:
Hamlet|Ghost|O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
Hamlet|Ghost|If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not,
Hamlet|Ghost|Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
Hamlet|Ghost|A couch for luxury and damned incest.
Hamlet|Ghost|But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Hamlet|Ghost|Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Hamlet|Ghost|Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven
Hamlet|Ghost|And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
Hamlet|Ghost|To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!
Hamlet|Ghost|The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
Hamlet|Ghost|And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:
Hamlet|Ghost|Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.
Hamlet|Ghost|Exit
Hamlet|HAMLET|O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?
Hamlet|HAMLET|And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
Hamlet|HAMLET|But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
Hamlet|HAMLET|In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Yea, from the table of my memory
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
Hamlet|HAMLET|All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That youth and observation copied there,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And thy commandment all alone shall live
Hamlet|HAMLET|Within the book and volume of my brain,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Hamlet|HAMLET|O most pernicious woman!
Hamlet|HAMLET|O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
Hamlet|HAMLET|My tables,--meet it is I set it down,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain,
Hamlet|HAMLET|At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Writing
Hamlet|HAMLET|So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word,
Hamlet|HAMLET|It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.'
Hamlet|HAMLET|I have sworn 't.
Hamlet|HORATIO|[Within]  My lord, my lord,--
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|[Within]	Lord Hamlet,--
Hamlet|HORATIO|[Within]	Heaven secure him!
Hamlet|HAMLET|So be it!
Hamlet|HORATIO|[Within]  Hillo, ho, ho, my lord!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|How is't, my noble lord?
Hamlet|HORATIO|What news, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, wonderful!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Good my lord, tell it.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, you'll reveal it.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Not I, my lord, by heaven.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Nor I, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How say you, then, would heart of man once think it?
Hamlet|HAMLET|But you'll be secret?
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Ay, by heaven, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
Hamlet|HAMLET|But he's an arrant knave.
Hamlet|HORATIO|There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
Hamlet|HORATIO|To tell us this.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, right, you are i' the right,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And so, without more circumstance at all,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:
Hamlet|HAMLET|You, as your business and desire shall point you,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For every man has business and desire,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Such as it is, and for mine own poor part,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Look you, I'll go pray.
Hamlet|HORATIO|These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'm sorry they offend you, heartily,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Yes, 'faith heartily.
Hamlet|HORATIO|There's no offence, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And much offence too. Touching this vision here,
Hamlet|HAMLET|It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you:
Hamlet|HAMLET|For your desire to know what is between us,
Hamlet|HAMLET|O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Give me one poor request.
Hamlet|HORATIO|What is't, my lord? we will.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Never make known what you have seen to-night.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|My lord, we will not.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, but swear't.
Hamlet|HORATIO|In faith,
Hamlet|HORATIO|My lord, not I.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|Nor I, my lord, in faith.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Upon my sword.
Hamlet|MARCELLUS|We have sworn, my lord, already.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.
Hamlet|Ghost|[Beneath]  Swear.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there,
Hamlet|HAMLET|truepenny?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Consent to swear.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Propose the oath, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Never to speak of this that you have seen,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Swear by my sword.
Hamlet|Ghost|[Beneath]  Swear.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Come hither, gentlemen,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And lay your hands again upon my sword:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Never to speak of this that you have heard,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Swear by my sword.
Hamlet|Ghost|[Beneath]  Swear.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?
Hamlet|HAMLET|A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.
Hamlet|HORATIO|O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Hamlet|HAMLET|And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
Hamlet|HAMLET|There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
Hamlet|HAMLET|How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
Hamlet|HAMLET|To put an antic disposition on,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
Hamlet|HAMLET|With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
Hamlet|HAMLET|That you know aught of me: this not to do,
Hamlet|HAMLET|So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear.
Hamlet|Ghost|[Beneath]  Swear.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
Hamlet|HAMLET|They swear
Hamlet|HAMLET|So, gentlemen,
Hamlet|HAMLET|With all my love I do commend me to you:
Hamlet|HAMLET|And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
Hamlet|HAMLET|May do, to express his love and friending to you,
Hamlet|HAMLET|God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
Hamlet|HAMLET|The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That ever I was born to set it right!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, come, let's go together.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt
Hamlet|HAMLET|ACT II
Hamlet|HAMLET|SCENE I. A room in POLONIUS' house.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|I will, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Before you visit him, to make inquire
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Of his behavior.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|My lord, I did intend it.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What company, at what expense, and finding
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|By this encompassment and drift of question
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That they do know my son, come you more nearer
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Than your particular demands will touch it:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo?
Hamlet|REYNALDO|Ay, very well, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'And in part him, but' you may say 'not well:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Addicted so and so:' and there put on him
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What forgeries you please, marry, none so rank
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As may dishonour him, take heed of that,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As are companions noted and most known
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To youth and liberty.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|As gaming, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Drabbing: you may go so far.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|My lord, that would dishonour him.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You must not put another scandal on him,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That he is open to incontinency,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That they may seem the taints of liberty,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Of general assault.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|But, my good lord,--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Wherefore should you do this?
Hamlet|REYNALDO|Ay, my lord,
Hamlet|REYNALDO|I would know that.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Marry, sir, here's my drift,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And I believe, it is a fetch of wit:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You laying these slight sullies on my son,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Your party in converse, him you would sound,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|He closes with you in this consequence,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|According to the phrase or the addition
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Of man and country.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|Very good, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|about to say? By the mass, I was about to say
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|something: where did I leave?
Hamlet|REYNALDO|At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'
Hamlet|REYNALDO|and 'gentleman.'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I saw him yesterday, or t' other day,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Or then, or then, with such, or such, and, as you say,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|There was a' gaming, there o'ertook in's rouse,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|There falling out at tennis:' or perchance,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|See you now,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|With windlasses and with assays of bias,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|By indirections find directions out:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|So by my former lecture and advice,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?
Hamlet|REYNALDO|My lord, I have.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|God be wi' you, fare you well.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|Good my lord!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Observe his inclination in yourself.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|I shall, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And let him ply his music.
Hamlet|REYNALDO|Well, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Farewell!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Exit REYNALDO
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Enter OPHELIA
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|How now, Ophelia! what's the matter?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|With what, i' the name of God?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And with a look so piteous in purport
Hamlet|OPHELIA|As if he had been loosed out of hell
Hamlet|OPHELIA|To speak of horrors,--he comes before me.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Mad for thy love?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|My lord, I do not know,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|But truly, I do fear it.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What said he?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He took me by the wrist and held me hard,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He falls to such perusal of my face
Hamlet|OPHELIA|As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|At last, a little shaking of mine arm
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And thrice his head thus waving up and down,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He raised a sigh so piteous and profound
Hamlet|OPHELIA|As it did seem to shatter all his bulk
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And end his being: that done, he lets me go:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He seem'd to find his way without his eyes,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|For out o' doors he went without their helps,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And, to the last, bended their light on me.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Come, go with me: I will go seek the king.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|This is the very ecstasy of love,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Whose violent property fordoes itself
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And leads the will to desperate undertakings
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As oft as any passion under heaven
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What, have you given him any hard words of late?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|No, my good lord, but, as you did command,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I did repel his fetters and denied
Hamlet|OPHELIA|His access to me.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That hath made him mad.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And meant to wreck thee, but, beshrew my jealousy!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|By heaven, it is as proper to our age
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As it is common for the younger sort
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|This must be known, which, being kept close, might
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|move
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|More grief to hide than hate to utter love.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|SCENE II. A room in the castle.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and Attendants
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Moreover that we much did long to see you,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The need we have to use you did provoke
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Our hasty sending. Something have you heard
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of Hamlet's transformation, so call it,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Resembles that it was. What it should be,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|So much from the understanding of himself,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That, being of so young days brought up with him,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and havior,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Some little time: so by your companies
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|So much as from occasion you may glean,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That, open'd, lies within our remedy.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And sure I am two men there are not living
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To whom he more adheres. If it will please you
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To show us so much gentry and good will
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|As to expend your time with us awhile,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|For the supply and profit of our hope,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Your visitation shall receive such thanks
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|As fits a king's remembrance.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Both your majesties
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Put your dread pleasures more into command
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Than to entreaty.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|But we both obey,
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|And here give up ourselves, in the full bent
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|To lay our service freely at your feet,
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|To be commanded.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And I beseech you instantly to visit
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|My too much changed son. Go, some of you,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Heavens make our presence and our practises
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Pleasant and helpful to him!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Ay, amen!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and some Attendants
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Enter POLONIUS
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Are joyfully return'd.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thou still hast been the father of good news.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Both to my God and to my gracious king:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And I do think, or else this brain of mine
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As it hath used to do, that I have found
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O, speak of that, that do I long to hear.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Give first admittance to the ambassadors,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exit POLONIUS
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The head and source of all your son's distemper.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I doubt it is no other but the main,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Well, we shall sift him.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Re-enter POLONIUS, with VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Welcome, my good friends!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Most fair return of greetings and desires.
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|His nephew's levies, which to him appear'd
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|But, better look'd into, he truly found
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|It was against your highness: whereat grieved,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|That so his sickness, age and impotence
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|On Fortinbras, which he, in brief, obeys,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Makes vow before his uncle never more
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|To give the assay of arms against your majesty.
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|And his commission to employ those soldiers,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|So levied as before, against the Polack:
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|With an entreaty, herein further shown,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Giving a paper
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|That it might please you to give quiet pass
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|Through your dominions for this enterprise,
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|On such regards of safety and allowance
Hamlet|VOLTIMAND|As therein are set down.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It likes us well,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And at our more consider'd time well read,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Answer, and think upon this business.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Go to your rest, at night we'll feast together:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Most welcome home!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|This business is well ended.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|My liege, and madam, to expostulate
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What majesty should be, what duty is,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Mad call I it, for, to define true madness,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But let that go.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|More matter, with less art.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But farewell it, for I will use no art.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That we find out the cause of this effect,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|For this effect defective comes by cause:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I have a daughter--have while she is mine--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Reads
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|beautified Ophelia,'--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase, 'beautified' is
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Reads
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'In her excellent white bosom, these,  and c.'
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Came this from Hamlet to her?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Good madam, stay awhile, I will be faithful.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Reads
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Doubt that the sun doth move,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Doubt truth to be a liar,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But never doubt I love.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I have not art to reckon my groans: but that
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|this machine is to him, HAMLET.'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And more above, hath his solicitings,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As they fell out by time, by means and place,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|All given to mine ear.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But how hath she
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Received his love?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What do you think of me?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As of a man faithful and honourable.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I would fain prove so. But what might you think,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|When I had seen this hot love on the wing--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|As I perceived it, I must tell you that,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Before my daughter told me--what might you,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|If I had play'd the desk or table-book,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Or look'd upon this love with idle sight,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What might you think? No, I went round to work,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That she should lock herself from his resort,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Which done, she took the fruits of my advice,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And he, repulsed--a short tale to make--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Into the madness wherein now he raves,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And all we mourn for.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Do you think 'tis this?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|It may be, very likely.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Hath there been such a time--I'd fain know that--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That I have positively said 'Tis so,'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|When it proved otherwise?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Not that I know.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|[Pointing to his head and shoulder]
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Take this from this, if this be otherwise:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|If circumstances lead me, I will find
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Within the centre.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How may we try it further?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You know, sometimes he walks four hours together
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Here in the lobby.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|So he does indeed.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Be you and I behind an arras then,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Mark the encounter: if he love her not
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Let me be no assistant for a state,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But keep a farm and carters.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We will try it.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Away, I do beseech you, both away:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I'll board him presently.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, and Attendants
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Enter HAMLET, reading
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|O, give me leave:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|How does my good Lord Hamlet?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Well, God-a-mercy.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Do you know me, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Excellent well, you are a fishmonger.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Not I, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then I would you were so honest a man.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Honest, my lord!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be
Hamlet|HAMLET|one man picked out of ten thousand.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That's very true, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a
Hamlet|HAMLET|god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I have, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a
Hamlet|HAMLET|blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Friend, look to 't.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|[Aside]  How say you by that? Still harping on my
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|daughter: yet he knew me not at first, he said I
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|love, very near this. I'll speak to him again.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Words, words, words.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Between who?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here
Hamlet|HAMLET|that old men have grey beards, that their faces are
Hamlet|HAMLET|wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and
Hamlet|HAMLET|plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of
Hamlet|HAMLET|wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir,
Hamlet|HAMLET|though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet
Hamlet|HAMLET|I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for
Hamlet|HAMLET|yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab
Hamlet|HAMLET|you could go backward.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|[Aside]  Though this be madness, yet there is method
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Into my grave.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Indeed, that is out o' the air.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Aside
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|meeting between him and my daughter.--My honourable
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will
Hamlet|HAMLET|more willingly part withal: except my life, except
Hamlet|HAMLET|my life, except my life.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Fare you well, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|These tedious old fools!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You go to seek the Lord Hamlet, there he is.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|[To POLONIUS]  God save you, sir!
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Exit POLONIUS
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|My honoured lord!
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|My most dear lord!
Hamlet|HAMLET|My excellent good friends! How dost thou,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|As the indifferent children of the earth.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Happy, in that we are not over-happy,
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|On fortune's cap we are not the very button.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nor the soles of her shoe?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Neither, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of
Hamlet|HAMLET|her favours?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|'Faith, her privates we.
Hamlet|HAMLET|In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true, she
Hamlet|HAMLET|is a strumpet. What's the news?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let me question more in particular: what have you,
Hamlet|HAMLET|my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,
Hamlet|HAMLET|that she sends you to prison hither?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Prison, my lord!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Denmark's a prison.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Then is the world one.
Hamlet|HAMLET|A goodly one, in which there are many confines,
Hamlet|HAMLET|wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing
Hamlet|HAMLET|either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
Hamlet|HAMLET|it is a prison.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Why then, your ambition makes it one, 'tis too
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|narrow for your mind.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count
Hamlet|HAMLET|myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
Hamlet|HAMLET|have bad dreams.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Hamlet|HAMLET|A dream itself is but a shadow.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and
Hamlet|HAMLET|outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we
Hamlet|HAMLET|to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|We'll wait upon you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest
Hamlet|HAMLET|of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest
Hamlet|HAMLET|man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the
Hamlet|HAMLET|beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|To visit you, my lord, no other occasion.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I
Hamlet|HAMLET|thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are
Hamlet|HAMLET|too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it
Hamlet|HAMLET|your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come,
Hamlet|HAMLET|deal justly with me: come, come, nay, speak.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|What should we say, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent
Hamlet|HAMLET|for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks
Hamlet|HAMLET|which your modesties have not craft enough to colour:
Hamlet|HAMLET|I know the good king and queen have sent for you.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|To what end, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by
Hamlet|HAMLET|the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of
Hamlet|HAMLET|our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved
Hamlet|HAMLET|love, and by what more dear a better proposer could
Hamlet|HAMLET|charge you withal, be even and direct with me,
Hamlet|HAMLET|whether you were sent for, or no?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|[Aside to GUILDENSTERN]  What say you?
Hamlet|HAMLET|[Aside]  Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you
Hamlet|HAMLET|love me, hold not off.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|My lord, we were sent for.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will tell you why, so shall my anticipation
Hamlet|HAMLET|prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king
Hamlet|HAMLET|and queen moult no feather. I have of late--but
Hamlet|HAMLET|wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all
Hamlet|HAMLET|custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily
Hamlet|HAMLET|with my disposition that this goodly frame, the
Hamlet|HAMLET|earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most
Hamlet|HAMLET|excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
Hamlet|HAMLET|o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted
Hamlet|HAMLET|with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
Hamlet|HAMLET|me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
Hamlet|HAMLET|how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
Hamlet|HAMLET|express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
Hamlet|HAMLET|in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
Hamlet|HAMLET|world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
Hamlet|HAMLET|what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
Hamlet|HAMLET|me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
Hamlet|HAMLET|you seem to say so.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|lenten entertainment the players shall receive from
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|you: we coted them on the way, and hither are they
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|coming, to offer you service.
Hamlet|HAMLET|He that plays the king shall be welcome, his majesty
Hamlet|HAMLET|shall have tribute of me, the adventurous knight
Hamlet|HAMLET|shall use his foil and target, the lover shall not
Hamlet|HAMLET|sigh gratis, the humourous man shall end his part
Hamlet|HAMLET|in peace, the clown shall make those laugh whose
Hamlet|HAMLET|lungs are tickled o' the sere, and the lady shall
Hamlet|HAMLET|say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt
Hamlet|HAMLET|for't. What players are they?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Even those you were wont to take delight in, the
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|tragedians of the city.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How chances it they travel? their residence, both
Hamlet|HAMLET|in reputation and profit, was better both ways.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|I think their inhibition comes by the means of the
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|late innovation.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was
Hamlet|HAMLET|in the city? are they so followed?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|No, indeed, are they not.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How comes it? do they grow rusty?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|that cry out on the top of question, and are most
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|tyrannically clapped for't: these are now the
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|fashion, and so berattle the common stages--so they
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|call them--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What, are they children? who maintains 'em? how are
Hamlet|HAMLET|they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no
Hamlet|HAMLET|longer than they can sing? will they not say
Hamlet|HAMLET|afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common
Hamlet|HAMLET|players--as it is most like, if their means are no
Hamlet|HAMLET|better--their writers do them wrong, to make them
Hamlet|HAMLET|exclaim against their own succession?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|'Faith, there has been much to do on both sides, and
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|controversy: there was, for a while, no money bid
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|for argument, unless the poet and the player went to
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|cuffs in the question.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is't possible?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|O, there has been much throwing about of brains.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do the boys carry it away?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Ay, that they do, my lord, Hercules and his load too.
Hamlet|HAMLET|It is not very strange, for mine uncle is king of
Hamlet|HAMLET|Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while
Hamlet|HAMLET|my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, an
Hamlet|HAMLET|hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little.
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Sblood, there is something in this more than
Hamlet|HAMLET|natural, if philosophy could find it out.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Flourish of trumpets within
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|There are the players.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands,
Hamlet|HAMLET|come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion
Hamlet|HAMLET|and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb,
Hamlet|HAMLET|lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you,
Hamlet|HAMLET|must show fairly outward, should more appear like
Hamlet|HAMLET|entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my
Hamlet|HAMLET|uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|In what, my dear lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is
Hamlet|HAMLET|southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter POLONIUS
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Well be with you, gentlemen!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hark you, Guildenstern, and you too: at each ear a
Hamlet|HAMLET|hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet
Hamlet|HAMLET|out of his swaddling-clouts.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Happily he's the second time come to them, for they
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|say an old man is twice a child.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players,
Hamlet|HAMLET|mark it. You say right, sir: o' Monday morning,
Hamlet|HAMLET|'twas so indeed.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|My lord, I have news to tell you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|My lord, I have news to tell you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|When Roscius was an actor in Rome,--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The actors are come hither, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Buz, buz!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Upon mine honour,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then came each actor on his ass,--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|liberty, these are the only men.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What a treasure had he, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why,
Hamlet|HAMLET|'One fair daughter and no more,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The which he loved passing well.'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|[Aside]  Still on my daughter.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|that I love passing well.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, that follows not.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|What follows, then, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why,
Hamlet|HAMLET|'As by lot, God wot,'
Hamlet|HAMLET|and then, you know,
Hamlet|HAMLET|'It came to pass, as most like it was,'--
Hamlet|HAMLET|the first row of the pious chanson will show you
Hamlet|HAMLET|more, for look, where my abridgement comes.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter four or five Players
Hamlet|HAMLET|You are welcome, masters, welcome, all. I am glad
Hamlet|HAMLET|to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old
Hamlet|HAMLET|friend! thy face is valenced since I saw thee last:
Hamlet|HAMLET|comest thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young
Hamlet|HAMLET|lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is
Hamlet|HAMLET|nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the
Hamlet|HAMLET|altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like
Hamlet|HAMLET|apiece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the
Hamlet|HAMLET|ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en
Hamlet|HAMLET|to't like French falconers, fly at any thing we see:
Hamlet|HAMLET|we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste
Hamlet|HAMLET|of your quality, come, a passionate speech.
Hamlet|First Player|What speech, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was
Hamlet|HAMLET|never acted, or, if it was, not above once, for the
Hamlet|HAMLET|play, I remember, pleased not the million, 'twas
Hamlet|HAMLET|caviare to the general: but it was--as I received
Hamlet|HAMLET|it, and others, whose judgments in such matters
Hamlet|HAMLET|cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well
Hamlet|HAMLET|digested in the scenes, set down with as much
Hamlet|HAMLET|modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there
Hamlet|HAMLET|were no sallets in the lines to make the matter
Hamlet|HAMLET|savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might
Hamlet|HAMLET|indict the author of affectation, but called it an
Hamlet|HAMLET|honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very
Hamlet|HAMLET|much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I
Hamlet|HAMLET|chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido, and
Hamlet|HAMLET|thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of
Hamlet|HAMLET|Priam's slaughter: if it live in your memory, begin
Hamlet|HAMLET|at this line: let me see, let me see--
Hamlet|HAMLET|'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,'--
Hamlet|HAMLET|it is not so:--it begins with Pyrrhus:--
Hamlet|HAMLET|'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Black as his purpose, did the night resemble
Hamlet|HAMLET|When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd
Hamlet|HAMLET|With heraldry more dismal, head to foot
Hamlet|HAMLET|Now is he total gules, horridly trick'd
Hamlet|HAMLET|With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Baked and impasted with the parching streets,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That lend a tyrannous and damned light
Hamlet|HAMLET|To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,
Hamlet|HAMLET|With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
Hamlet|HAMLET|Old grandsire Priam seeks.'
Hamlet|HAMLET|So, proceed you.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|good discretion.
Hamlet|First Player|'Anon he finds him
Hamlet|First Player|Striking too short at Greeks, his antique sword,
Hamlet|First Player|Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,
Hamlet|First Player|Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,
Hamlet|First Player|Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide,
Hamlet|First Player|But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
Hamlet|First Player|The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
Hamlet|First Player|Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top
Hamlet|First Player|Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash
Hamlet|First Player|Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword,
Hamlet|First Player|Which was declining on the milky head
Hamlet|First Player|Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:
Hamlet|First Player|So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,
Hamlet|First Player|And like a neutral to his will and matter,
Hamlet|First Player|Did nothing.
Hamlet|First Player|But, as we often see, against some storm,
Hamlet|First Player|A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,
Hamlet|First Player|The bold winds speechless and the orb below
Hamlet|First Player|As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
Hamlet|First Player|Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause,
Hamlet|First Player|Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work,
Hamlet|First Player|And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall
Hamlet|First Player|On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne
Hamlet|First Player|With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword
Hamlet|First Player|Now falls on Priam.
Hamlet|First Player|Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,
Hamlet|First Player|In general synod 'take away her power,
Hamlet|First Player|Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
Hamlet|First Player|And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,
Hamlet|First Player|As low as to the fiends!'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|This is too long.
Hamlet|HAMLET|It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,
Hamlet|HAMLET|say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he
Hamlet|HAMLET|sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba.
Hamlet|First Player|'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--'
Hamlet|HAMLET|'The mobled queen?'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That's good, 'mobled queen' is good.
Hamlet|First Player|'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames
Hamlet|First Player|With bisson rheum, a clout upon that head
Hamlet|First Player|Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
Hamlet|First Player|About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,
Hamlet|First Player|A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up,
Hamlet|First Player|Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd,
Hamlet|First Player|'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have
Hamlet|First Player|pronounced:
Hamlet|First Player|But if the gods themselves did see her then
Hamlet|First Player|When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
Hamlet|First Player|In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
Hamlet|First Player|The instant burst of clamour that she made,
Hamlet|First Player|Unless things mortal move them not at all,
Hamlet|First Player|Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,
Hamlet|First Player|And passion in the gods.'
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|tears in's eyes. Pray you, no more.
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Good my lord, will you see the players well
Hamlet|HAMLET|bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for
Hamlet|HAMLET|they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the
Hamlet|HAMLET|time: after your death you were better have a bad
Hamlet|HAMLET|epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
Hamlet|HAMLET|God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man
Hamlet|HAMLET|after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less
Hamlet|HAMLET|they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Take them in.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Come, sirs.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit POLONIUS with all the Players but the First
Hamlet|HAMLET|Dost thou hear me, old friend, can you play the
Hamlet|HAMLET|Murder of Gonzago?
Hamlet|First Player|Ay, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need,
Hamlet|HAMLET|study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which
Hamlet|HAMLET|I would set down and insert in't, could you not?
Hamlet|First Player|Ay, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Very well. Follow that lord, and look you mock him
Hamlet|HAMLET|not.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit First Player
Hamlet|HAMLET|My good friends, I'll leave you till night: you are
Hamlet|HAMLET|welcome to Elsinore.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Good my lord!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, so, God be wi' ye,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|HAMLET|Now I am alone.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is it not monstrous that this player here,
Hamlet|HAMLET|But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Could force his soul so to his own conceit
Hamlet|HAMLET|That from her working all his visage wann'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
Hamlet|HAMLET|With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
Hamlet|HAMLET|For Hecuba!
Hamlet|HAMLET|What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Had he the motive and the cue for passion
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
Hamlet|HAMLET|And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
Hamlet|HAMLET|The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And can say nothing, no, not for a king,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Upon whose property and most dear life
Hamlet|HAMLET|A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ha!
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
Hamlet|HAMLET|But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
Hamlet|HAMLET|To make oppression bitter, or ere this
Hamlet|HAMLET|I should have fatted all the region kites
Hamlet|HAMLET|With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, vengeance!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A scullion!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard
Hamlet|HAMLET|That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Hamlet|HAMLET|Have by the very cunning of the scene
Hamlet|HAMLET|Been struck so to the soul that presently
Hamlet|HAMLET|They have proclaim'd their malefactions,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
Hamlet|HAMLET|With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
Hamlet|HAMLET|Play something like the murder of my father
Hamlet|HAMLET|Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
Hamlet|HAMLET|May be the devil: and the devil hath power
Hamlet|HAMLET|To assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps
Hamlet|HAMLET|Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As he is very potent with such spirits,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds
Hamlet|HAMLET|More relative than this: the play 's the thing
Hamlet|HAMLET|Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|HAMLET|ACT III
Hamlet|HAMLET|SCENE I. A room in the castle.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|He does confess he feels himself distracted,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|But from what cause he will by no means speak.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|When we would bring him on to some confession
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Of his true state.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Did he receive you well?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Most like a gentleman.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|But with much forcing of his disposition.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Niggard of question, but, of our demands,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Most free in his reply.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Did you assay him?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To any pastime?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Madam, it so fell out, that certain players
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|And there did seem in him a kind of joy
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|To hear of it: they are about the court,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|And, as I think, they have already order
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|This night to play before him.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Tis most true:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To hear and see the matter.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With all my heart, and it doth much content me
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To hear him so inclined.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And drive his purpose on to these delights.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|We shall, my lord.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Sweet Gertrude, leave us too,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Affront Ophelia:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Her father and myself, lawful espials,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We may of their encounter frankly judge,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And gather by him, as he is behaved,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If 't be the affliction of his love or no
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That thus he suffers for.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I shall obey you.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|That your good beauties be the happy cause
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Will bring him to his wonted way again,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To both your honours.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Madam, I wish it may.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|We will bestow ourselves.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To OPHELIA
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Read on this book,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That show of such an exercise may colour
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,--
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And pious action we do sugar o'er
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The devil himself.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|[Aside]          O, 'tis too true!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Than is my deed to my most painted word:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O heavy burthen!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Enter HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
Hamlet|HAMLET|The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep,
Hamlet|HAMLET|No more, and by a sleep to say we end
Hamlet|HAMLET|The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
Hamlet|HAMLET|That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Hamlet|HAMLET|Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
Hamlet|HAMLET|When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Must give us pause: there's the respect
Hamlet|HAMLET|That makes calamity of so long life,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The insolence of office and the spurns
Hamlet|HAMLET|That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
Hamlet|HAMLET|When he himself might his quietus make
Hamlet|HAMLET|With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
Hamlet|HAMLET|But that the dread of something after death,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
Hamlet|HAMLET|No traveller returns, puzzles the will
Hamlet|HAMLET|And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Hamlet|HAMLET|Than fly to others that we know not of?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And thus the native hue of resolution
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And enterprises of great pith and moment
Hamlet|HAMLET|With this regard their currents turn awry,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
Hamlet|HAMLET|The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Hamlet|HAMLET|Be all my sins remember'd.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Good my lord,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|How does your honour for this many a day?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I humbly thank you, well, well, well.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|My lord, I have remembrances of yours,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|That I have longed long to re-deliver,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I pray you, now receive them.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, not I,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I never gave you aught.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|My honour'd lord, you know right well you did,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed
Hamlet|OPHELIA|As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Take these again, for to the noble mind
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|There, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ha, ha! are you honest?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|My lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Are you fair?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|What means your lordship?
Hamlet|HAMLET|That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should
Hamlet|HAMLET|admit no discourse to your beauty.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than
Hamlet|OPHELIA|with honesty?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner
Hamlet|HAMLET|transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the
Hamlet|HAMLET|force of honesty can translate beauty into his
Hamlet|HAMLET|likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the
Hamlet|HAMLET|time gives it proof. I did love you once.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
Hamlet|HAMLET|You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot
Hamlet|HAMLET|so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of
Hamlet|HAMLET|it: I loved you not.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I was the more deceived.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a
Hamlet|HAMLET|breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest,
Hamlet|HAMLET|but yet I could accuse me of such things that it
Hamlet|HAMLET|were better my mother had not borne me: I am very
Hamlet|HAMLET|proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at
Hamlet|HAMLET|my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,
Hamlet|HAMLET|imagination to give them shape, or time to act them
Hamlet|HAMLET|in. What should such fellows as I do crawling
Hamlet|HAMLET|between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,
Hamlet|HAMLET|all, believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Where's your father?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|At home, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
Hamlet|HAMLET|fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|O, help him, you sweet heavens!
Hamlet|HAMLET|If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for
Hamlet|HAMLET|thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as
Hamlet|HAMLET|snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a
Hamlet|HAMLET|nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs
Hamlet|HAMLET|marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough
Hamlet|HAMLET|what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,
Hamlet|HAMLET|and quickly too. Farewell.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|O heavenly powers, restore him!
Hamlet|HAMLET|I have heard of your paintings too, well enough, God
Hamlet|HAMLET|has given you one face, and you make yourselves
Hamlet|HAMLET|another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and
Hamlet|HAMLET|nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness
Hamlet|HAMLET|your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't, it hath
Hamlet|HAMLET|made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:
Hamlet|HAMLET|those that are married already, all but one, shall
Hamlet|HAMLET|live, the rest shall keep as they are. To a
Hamlet|HAMLET|nunnery, go.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|OPHELIA|O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
Hamlet|OPHELIA|The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Re-enter KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Love! his affections do not that way tend,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Was not like madness. There's something in his soul,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O'er which his melancholy sits on brood,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Will be some danger: which for to prevent,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I have in quick determination
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For the demand of our neglected tribute
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Haply the seas and countries different
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With variable objects shall expel
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|This something-settled matter in his heart,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|From fashion of himself. What think you on't?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|It shall do well: but yet do I believe
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The origin and commencement of his grief
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|We heard it all. My lord, do as you please,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|But, if you hold it fit, after the play
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Let his queen mother all alone entreat him
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To show his grief: let her be round with him,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Of all their conference. If she find him not,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To England send him, or confine him where
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Your wisdom best shall think.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It shall be so:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|SCENE II. A hall in the castle.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter HAMLET and Players
Hamlet|HAMLET|Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
Hamlet|HAMLET|you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it,
Hamlet|HAMLET|as many of your players do, I had as lief the
Hamlet|HAMLET|town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air
Hamlet|HAMLET|too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently,
Hamlet|HAMLET|for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,
Hamlet|HAMLET|the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget
Hamlet|HAMLET|a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it
Hamlet|HAMLET|offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
Hamlet|HAMLET|periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
Hamlet|HAMLET|very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who
Hamlet|HAMLET|for the most part are capable of nothing but
Hamlet|HAMLET|inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such
Hamlet|HAMLET|a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant, it
Hamlet|HAMLET|out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.
Hamlet|First Player|I warrant your honour.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion
Hamlet|HAMLET|be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the
Hamlet|HAMLET|word to the action, with this special o'erstep not
Hamlet|HAMLET|the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is
Hamlet|HAMLET|from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
Hamlet|HAMLET|first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the
Hamlet|HAMLET|mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature,
Hamlet|HAMLET|scorn her own image, and the very age and body of
Hamlet|HAMLET|the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone,
Hamlet|HAMLET|or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful
Hamlet|HAMLET|laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the
Hamlet|HAMLET|censure of the which one must in your allowance
Hamlet|HAMLET|o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be
Hamlet|HAMLET|players that I have seen play, and heard others
Hamlet|HAMLET|praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely,
Hamlet|HAMLET|that, neither having the accent of Christians nor
Hamlet|HAMLET|the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so
Hamlet|HAMLET|strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of
Hamlet|HAMLET|nature's journeymen had made men and not made them
Hamlet|HAMLET|well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Hamlet|First Player|I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us,
Hamlet|First Player|sir.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, reform it altogether. And let those that play
Hamlet|HAMLET|your clowns speak no more than is set down for them,
Hamlet|HAMLET|for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to
Hamlet|HAMLET|set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh
Hamlet|HAMLET|too, though, in the mean time, some necessary
Hamlet|HAMLET|question of the play be then to be considered:
Hamlet|HAMLET|that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
Hamlet|HAMLET|in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt Players
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|HAMLET|How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And the queen too, and that presently.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Bid the players make haste.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit POLONIUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|Will you two help to hasten them?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|We will, my lord.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|HAMLET|What ho! Horatio!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter HORATIO
Hamlet|HORATIO|Here, sweet lord, at your service.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
Hamlet|HAMLET|As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Hamlet|HORATIO|O, my dear lord,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, do not think I flatter,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For what advancement may I hope from thee
Hamlet|HAMLET|That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Hamlet|HAMLET|Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
Hamlet|HAMLET|And could of men distinguish, her election
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hath seal'd thee for herself, for thou hast been
Hamlet|HAMLET|As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those
Hamlet|HAMLET|Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
Hamlet|HAMLET|To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
Hamlet|HAMLET|That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
Hamlet|HAMLET|In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As I do thee.--Something too much of this.--
Hamlet|HAMLET|There is a play to-night before the king,
Hamlet|HAMLET|One scene of it comes near the circumstance
Hamlet|HAMLET|Which I have told thee of my father's death:
Hamlet|HAMLET|I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Even with the very comment of thy soul
Hamlet|HAMLET|Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
Hamlet|HAMLET|It is a damned ghost that we have seen,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And my imaginations are as foul
Hamlet|HAMLET|As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And after we will both our judgments join
Hamlet|HAMLET|In censure of his seeming.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Well, my lord:
Hamlet|HORATIO|If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
Hamlet|HAMLET|They are coming to the play, I must be idle:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Get you a place.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS,  QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How fares our cousin Hamlet?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish: I eat
Hamlet|HAMLET|the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet, these words
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|are not mine.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, nor mine now.
Hamlet|HAMLET|To POLONIUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|My lord, you played once i' the university, you say?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What did you enact?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Capitol, Brutus killed me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf
Hamlet|HAMLET|there. Be the players ready?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Ay, my lord, they stay upon your patience.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, good mother, here's metal more attractive.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|[To KING CLAUDIUS]  O, ho! do you mark that?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Lying down at OPHELIA's feet
Hamlet|OPHELIA|No, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I mean, my head upon your lap?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Ay, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do you think I meant country matters?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|What is, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nothing.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|You are merry, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Who, I?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Ay, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do
Hamlet|HAMLET|but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my
Hamlet|HAMLET|mother looks, and my father died within these two hours.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two
Hamlet|HAMLET|months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's
Hamlet|HAMLET|hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half
Hamlet|HAMLET|a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches,
Hamlet|HAMLET|then, or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with
Hamlet|HAMLET|the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O,
Hamlet|HAMLET|the hobby-horse is forgot.'
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly, the Queen  embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes  show of protestation unto him. He takes her up,  and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down  upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep,  leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his  crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's  ears, and exit. The Queen returns, finds the King  dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner,  with some two or three Mutes, comes in again,  seeming to lament with her. The dead body is  carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with  gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt
Hamlet|OPHELIA|What means this, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Marry, this is miching mallecho, it means mischief.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Enter Prologue
Hamlet|HAMLET|We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot
Hamlet|HAMLET|keep counsel, they'll tell all.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Will he tell us what this show meant?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you
Hamlet|HAMLET|ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.
Hamlet|Prologue|For us, and for our tragedy,
Hamlet|Prologue|Here stooping to your clemency,
Hamlet|Prologue|We beg your hearing patiently.
Hamlet|Prologue|Exit
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|'Tis brief, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|As woman's love.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter two Players, King and Queen
Hamlet|Player King|Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round
Hamlet|Player King|Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,
Hamlet|Player King|And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen
Hamlet|Player King|About the world have times twelve thirties been,
Hamlet|Player King|Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands
Hamlet|Player King|Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
Hamlet|Player Queen|So many journeys may the sun and moon
Hamlet|Player Queen|Make us again count o'er ere love be done!
Hamlet|Player Queen|But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
Hamlet|Player Queen|So far from cheer and from your former state,
Hamlet|Player Queen|That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
Hamlet|Player Queen|Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:
Hamlet|Player Queen|For women's fear and love holds quantity,
Hamlet|Player Queen|In neither aught, or in extremity.
Hamlet|Player Queen|Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know,
Hamlet|Player Queen|And as my love is sized, my fear is so:
Hamlet|Player Queen|Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear,
Hamlet|Player Queen|Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
Hamlet|Player King|'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too,
Hamlet|Player King|My operant powers their functions leave to do:
Hamlet|Player King|And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
Hamlet|Player King|Honour'd, beloved, and haply one as kind
Hamlet|Player King|For husband shalt thou--
Hamlet|Player Queen|O, confound the rest!
Hamlet|Player Queen|Such love must needs be treason in my breast:
Hamlet|Player Queen|In second husband let me be accurst!
Hamlet|Player Queen|None wed the second but who kill'd the first.
Hamlet|HAMLET|[Aside]  Wormwood, wormwood.
Hamlet|Player Queen|The instances that second marriage move
Hamlet|Player Queen|Are base respects of thrift, but none of love:
Hamlet|Player Queen|A second time I kill my husband dead,
Hamlet|Player Queen|When second husband kisses me in bed.
Hamlet|Player King|I do believe you think what now you speak,
Hamlet|Player King|But what we do determine oft we break.
Hamlet|Player King|Purpose is but the slave to memory,
Hamlet|Player King|Of violent birth, but poor validity,
Hamlet|Player King|Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,
Hamlet|Player King|But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.
Hamlet|Player King|Most necessary 'tis that we forget
Hamlet|Player King|To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt:
Hamlet|Player King|What to ourselves in passion we propose,
Hamlet|Player King|The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
Hamlet|Player King|The violence of either grief or joy
Hamlet|Player King|Their own enactures with themselves destroy:
Hamlet|Player King|Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament,
Hamlet|Player King|Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
Hamlet|Player King|This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
Hamlet|Player King|That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
Hamlet|Player King|For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Hamlet|Player King|Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
Hamlet|Player King|The great man down, you mark his favourite flies,
Hamlet|Player King|The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
Hamlet|Player King|And hitherto doth love on fortune tend,
Hamlet|Player King|For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
Hamlet|Player King|And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
Hamlet|Player King|Directly seasons him his enemy.
Hamlet|Player King|But, orderly to end where I begun,
Hamlet|Player King|Our wills and fates do so contrary run
Hamlet|Player King|That our devices still are overthrown,
Hamlet|Player King|Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:
Hamlet|Player King|So think thou wilt no second husband wed,
Hamlet|Player King|But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
Hamlet|Player Queen|Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light!
Hamlet|Player Queen|Sport and repose lock from me day and night!
Hamlet|Player Queen|To desperation turn my trust and hope!
Hamlet|Player Queen|An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope!
Hamlet|Player Queen|Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
Hamlet|Player Queen|Meet what I would have well and it destroy!
Hamlet|Player Queen|Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
Hamlet|Player Queen|If, once a widow, ever I be wife!
Hamlet|HAMLET|If she should break it now!
Hamlet|Player King|'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile,
Hamlet|Player King|My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
Hamlet|Player King|The tedious day with sleep.
Hamlet|Player King|Sleeps
Hamlet|Player Queen|Sleep rock thy brain,
Hamlet|Player Queen|And never come mischance between us twain!
Hamlet|Player Queen|Exit
Hamlet|HAMLET|Madam, how like you this play?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|The lady protests too much, methinks.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, but she'll keep her word.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't?
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest, no offence
Hamlet|HAMLET|i' the world.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|What do you call the play?
Hamlet|HAMLET|The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play
Hamlet|HAMLET|is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is
Hamlet|HAMLET|the duke's name, his wife, Baptista: you shall see
Hamlet|HAMLET|anon, 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o'
Hamlet|HAMLET|that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it
Hamlet|HAMLET|touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our
Hamlet|HAMLET|withers are unwrung.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter LUCIANUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|You are as good as a chorus, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I could interpret between you and your love, if I
Hamlet|HAMLET|could see the puppets dallying.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
Hamlet|HAMLET|It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Still better, and worse.
Hamlet|HAMLET|So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer,
Hamlet|HAMLET|pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:
Hamlet|HAMLET|'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.'
Hamlet|LUCIANUS|Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing,
Hamlet|LUCIANUS|Confederate season, else no creature seeing,
Hamlet|LUCIANUS|Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,
Hamlet|LUCIANUS|With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
Hamlet|LUCIANUS|Thy natural magic and dire property,
Hamlet|LUCIANUS|On wholesome life usurp immediately.
Hamlet|LUCIANUS|Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears
Hamlet|HAMLET|He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His
Hamlet|HAMLET|name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in
Hamlet|HAMLET|choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer
Hamlet|HAMLET|gets the love of Gonzago's wife.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|The king rises.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What, frighted with false fire!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|How fares my lord?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Give o'er the play.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Give me some light: away!
Hamlet|All|Lights, lights, lights!
Hamlet|All|Exeunt all but HAMLET and HORATIO
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The hart ungalled play,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For some must watch, while some must sleep:
Hamlet|HAMLET|So runs the world away.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if
Hamlet|HAMLET|the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two
Hamlet|HAMLET|Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a
Hamlet|HAMLET|fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Half a share.
Hamlet|HAMLET|A whole one, I.
Hamlet|HAMLET|For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
Hamlet|HAMLET|This realm dismantled was
Hamlet|HAMLET|Of Jove himself, and now reigns here
Hamlet|HAMLET|A very, very--pajock.
Hamlet|HORATIO|You might have rhymed.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a
Hamlet|HAMLET|thousand pound. Didst perceive?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Very well, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Upon the talk of the poisoning?
Hamlet|HORATIO|I did very well note him.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders!
Hamlet|HAMLET|For if the king like not the comedy,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Come, some music!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, a whole history.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|The king, sir,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, sir, what of him?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Is in his retirement marvellous distempered.
Hamlet|HAMLET|With drink, sir?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|No, my lord, rather with choler.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Your wisdom should show itself more richer to
Hamlet|HAMLET|signify this to his doctor, for, for me to put him
Hamlet|HAMLET|to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far
Hamlet|HAMLET|more choler.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|start not so wildly from my affair.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am tame, sir: pronounce.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|spirit, hath sent me to you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|You are welcome.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|breed. If it shall please you to make me a
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|wholesome answer, I will do your mother's
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|commandment: if not, your pardon and my return
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|shall be the end of my business.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, I cannot.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|What, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Make you a wholesome answer, my wit's diseased: but,
Hamlet|HAMLET|sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command,
Hamlet|HAMLET|or, rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no
Hamlet|HAMLET|more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,--
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Then thus she says, your behavior hath struck her
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|into amazement and admiration.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! But
Hamlet|HAMLET|is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's
Hamlet|HAMLET|admiration? Impart.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|go to bed.
Hamlet|HAMLET|We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have
Hamlet|HAMLET|you any further trade with us?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|My lord, you once did love me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty, if
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|you deny your griefs to your friend.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, I lack advancement.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|How can that be, when you have the voice of the king
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|himself for your succession in Denmark?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,'--the proverb
Hamlet|HAMLET|is something musty.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Re-enter Players with recorders
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw with
Hamlet|HAMLET|you:--why do you go about to recover the wind of me,
Hamlet|HAMLET|as if you would drive me into a toil?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|unmannerly.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I do not well understand that. Will you play upon
Hamlet|HAMLET|this pipe?
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|My lord, I cannot.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I pray you.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Believe me, I cannot.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I do beseech you.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|I know no touch of it, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with
Hamlet|HAMLET|your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your
Hamlet|HAMLET|mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Look you, these are the stops.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|But these cannot I command to any utterance of
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|harmony, I have not the skill.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of
Hamlet|HAMLET|me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know
Hamlet|HAMLET|my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my
Hamlet|HAMLET|mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to
Hamlet|HAMLET|the top of my compass: and there is much music,
Hamlet|HAMLET|excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot
Hamlet|HAMLET|you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am
Hamlet|HAMLET|easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what
Hamlet|HAMLET|instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you
Hamlet|HAMLET|cannot play upon me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter POLONIUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|God bless you, sir!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|My lord, the queen would speak with you, and
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|presently.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Methinks it is like a weasel.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or like a whale?
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Very like a whale.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then I will come to my mother by and by. They fool
Hamlet|HAMLET|me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I will say so.
Hamlet|HAMLET|By and by is easily said.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit POLONIUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|Leave me, friends.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt all but HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|Tis now the very witching time of night,
Hamlet|HAMLET|When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Hamlet|HAMLET|Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And do such bitter business as the day
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O heart, lose not thy nature, let not ever
Hamlet|HAMLET|The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let me be cruel, not unnatural:
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will speak daggers to her, but use none,
Hamlet|HAMLET|My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites,
Hamlet|HAMLET|How in my words soever she be shent,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|HAMLET|SCENE III. A room in the castle.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter KING CLAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And he to England shall along with you:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The terms of our estate may not endure
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Out of his lunacies.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|We will ourselves provide:
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Most holy and religious fear it is
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|To keep those many many bodies safe
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|That live and feed upon your majesty.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|The single and peculiar life is bound,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|With all the strength and armour of the mind,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|To keep itself from noyance, but much more
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|The lives of many. The cease of majesty
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Dies not alone, but, like a gulf, doth draw
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Are mortised and adjoin'd, which, when it falls,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Each small annexment, petty consequence,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For we will fetters put upon this fear,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Which now goes too free-footed.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|We will haste us.
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|Enter POLONIUS
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|My lord, he's going to his mother's closet:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Behind the arras I'll convey myself,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|To hear the process, and warrant she'll tax him home:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And, as you said, and wisely was it said,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|I'll call upon you ere you go to bed,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And tell you what I know.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thanks, dear my lord.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exit POLONIUS
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A brother's murder. Pray can I not,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Though inclination be as sharp as will:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And, like a man to double business bound,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But to confront the visage of offence?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And what's in prayer but this two-fold force,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That cannot be, since I am still possess'd
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of those effects for which I did the murder,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In the corrupted currents of this world
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|There is no shuffling, there the action lies
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To give in evidence. What then? what rests?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Try what repentance can: what can it not?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Yet what can it when one can not repent?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|All may be well.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Retires and kneels
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|Now might I do it pat, now he is praying,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:
Hamlet|HAMLET|A villain kills my father, and for that,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I, his sole son, do this same villain send
Hamlet|HAMLET|To heaven.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
Hamlet|HAMLET|He took my father grossly, full of bread,
Hamlet|HAMLET|With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
Hamlet|HAMLET|But in our circumstance and course of thought,
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To take him in the purging of his soul,
Hamlet|HAMLET|When he is fit and season'd for his passage?
Hamlet|HAMLET|No!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent:
Hamlet|HAMLET|When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed,
Hamlet|HAMLET|At gaming, swearing, or about some act
Hamlet|HAMLET|That has no relish of salvation in't,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
Hamlet|HAMLET|As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:
Hamlet|HAMLET|This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|[Rising]  My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exit
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|SCENE IV. The Queen's closet.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE and POLONIUS
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here.
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Pray you, be round with him.
Hamlet|HAMLET|[Within]  Mother, mother, mother!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I'll warrant you,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|POLONIUS hides behind the arras
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Enter HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|Now, mother, what's the matter?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Mother, you have my father much offended.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Why, how now, Hamlet!
Hamlet|HAMLET|What's the matter now?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Have you forgot me?
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, by the rood, not so:
Hamlet|HAMLET|You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And--would it were not so!--you are my mother.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Come, come, and sit you down, you shall not budge,
Hamlet|HAMLET|You go not till I set you up a glass
Hamlet|HAMLET|Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Help, help, ho!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|[Behind]  What, ho! help, help, help!
Hamlet|HAMLET|[Drawing]  How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Makes a pass through the arras
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|[Behind]  O, I am slain!
Hamlet|LORD POLONIUS|Falls and dies
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O me, what hast thou done?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, I know not:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is it the king?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
Hamlet|HAMLET|A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As kill a king, and marry with his brother.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|As kill a king!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, lady, 'twas my word.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
Hamlet|HAMLET|I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And let me wring your heart, for so I shall,
Hamlet|HAMLET|If it be made of penetrable stuff,
Hamlet|HAMLET|If damned custom have not brass'd it so
Hamlet|HAMLET|That it is proof and bulwark against sense.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|In noise so rude against me?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Such an act
Hamlet|HAMLET|That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
Hamlet|HAMLET|From the fair forehead of an innocent love
Hamlet|HAMLET|And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows
Hamlet|HAMLET|As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed
Hamlet|HAMLET|As from the body of contraction plucks
Hamlet|HAMLET|The very soul, and sweet religion makes
Hamlet|HAMLET|A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
Hamlet|HAMLET|With tristful visage, as against the doom,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is thought-sick at the act.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Ay me, what act,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
Hamlet|HAMLET|See, what a grace was seated on this brow,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,
Hamlet|HAMLET|An eye like Mars, to threaten and command,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A station like the herald Mercury
Hamlet|HAMLET|New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A combination and a form indeed,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Where every god did seem to set his seal,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To give the world assurance of a man:
Hamlet|HAMLET|This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?
Hamlet|HAMLET|You cannot call it love, for at your age
Hamlet|HAMLET|The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Else could you not have motion, but sure, that sense
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is apoplex'd, for madness would not err,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd
Hamlet|HAMLET|But it reserved some quantity of choice,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
Hamlet|HAMLET|That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Hamlet|HAMLET|Could not so mope.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
Hamlet|HAMLET|If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
Hamlet|HAMLET|When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Since frost itself as actively doth burn
Hamlet|HAMLET|And reason panders will.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O Hamlet, speak no more:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And there I see such black and grained spots
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|As will not leave their tinct.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, but to live
Hamlet|HAMLET|In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love
Hamlet|HAMLET|Over the nasty sty,--
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O, speak to me no more,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|No more, sweet Hamlet!
Hamlet|HAMLET|A murderer and a villain,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Hamlet|HAMLET|Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And put it in his pocket!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|No more!
Hamlet|HAMLET|A king of shreds and patches,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter Ghost
Hamlet|HAMLET|Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings,
Hamlet|HAMLET|You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Alas, he's mad!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do you not come your tardy son to chide,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by
Hamlet|HAMLET|The important acting of your dread command? O, say!
Hamlet|Ghost|Do not forget: this visitation
Hamlet|Ghost|Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
Hamlet|Ghost|But, look, amazement on thy mother sits:
Hamlet|Ghost|O, step between her and her fighting soul:
Hamlet|Ghost|Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:
Hamlet|Ghost|Speak to her, Hamlet.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How is it with you, lady?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Alas, how is't with you,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|That you do bend your eye on vacancy
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Starts up, and stands on end. O gentle son,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?
Hamlet|HAMLET|On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares!
Hamlet|HAMLET|His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would make them capable. Do not look upon me,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Lest with this piteous action you convert
Hamlet|HAMLET|My stern effects: then what I have to do
Hamlet|HAMLET|Will want true colour, tears perchance for blood.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To whom do you speak this?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do you see nothing there?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Nothing at all, yet all that is I see.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nor did you nothing hear?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|No, nothing but ourselves.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!
Hamlet|HAMLET|My father, in his habit as he lived!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit Ghost
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|This the very coinage of your brain:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|This bodiless creation ecstasy
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Is very cunning in.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ecstasy!
Hamlet|HAMLET|My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And I the matter will re-word, which madness
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Lay not that mattering unction to your soul,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:
Hamlet|HAMLET|It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And do not spread the compost on the weeds,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For in the fatness of these pursy times
Hamlet|HAMLET|Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, throw away the worser part of it,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And live the purer with the other half.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Hamlet|HAMLET|That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That to the use of actions fair and good
Hamlet|HAMLET|He likewise gives a frock or livery,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And that shall lend a kind of easiness
Hamlet|HAMLET|To the next abstinence: the next more easy,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And either [         ] the devil, or throw him out
Hamlet|HAMLET|With wondrous potency. Once more, good night:
Hamlet|HAMLET|And when you are desirous to be bless'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Pointing to POLONIUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To punish me with this and this with me,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I must be their scourge and minister.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will bestow him, and will answer well
Hamlet|HAMLET|The death I gave him. So, again, good night.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
Hamlet|HAMLET|One word more, good lady.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|What shall I do?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Make you to ravel all this matter out,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I essentially am not in madness,
Hamlet|HAMLET|But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Such dear concernings hide? who would do so?
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, in despite of sense and secrecy,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Unpeg the basket on the house's top.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To try conclusions, in the basket creep,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And break your own neck down.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|What thou hast said to me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I must to England, you know that?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Alack,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on.
Hamlet|HAMLET|There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And marshal me to knavery. Let it work,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard
Hamlet|HAMLET|But I will delve one yard below their mines,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
Hamlet|HAMLET|When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Hamlet|HAMLET|This man shall set me packing:
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is now most still, most secret and most grave,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Who was in life a foolish prating knave.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Good night, mother.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt severally, HAMLET dragging in POLONIUS
Hamlet|HAMLET|ACT IV
Hamlet|HAMLET|SCENE I. A room in the castle.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Where is your son?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Bestow this place on us a little while.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Behind the arras hearing something stir,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!'
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And, in this brainish apprehension, kills
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|The unseen good old man.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O heavy deed!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It had been so with us, had we been there:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|His liberty is full of threats to all,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To you yourself, to us, to every one.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It will be laid to us, whose providence
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|This mad young man: but so much was our love,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We would not understand what was most fit,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But, like the owner of a foul disease,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To keep it from divulging, let it feed
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To draw apart the body he hath kill'd:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O'er whom his very madness, like some ore
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Among a mineral of metals base,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Shows itself pure, he weeps for what is done.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O Gertrude, come away!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We must, with all our majesty and skill,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Friends both, go join you with some further aid:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And let them know, both what we mean to do,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And what's untimely done. O, come away!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|My soul is full of discord and dismay.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|SCENE II. Another room in the castle.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|Safely stowed.
Hamlet|HAMLET|ROSENCRANTZ:
Hamlet|HAMLET|GUILDENSTERN:
Hamlet|HAMLET|[Within]  Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!
Hamlet|HAMLET|What noise? who calls on Hamlet?
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, here they come.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|And bear it to the chapel.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Do not believe it.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Believe what?
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what
Hamlet|HAMLET|replication should be made by the son of a king?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his
Hamlet|HAMLET|rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the
Hamlet|HAMLET|king best service in the end: he keeps them, like
Hamlet|HAMLET|an ape, in the corner of his jaw, first mouthed, to
Hamlet|HAMLET|be last swallowed: when he needs what you have
Hamlet|HAMLET|gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you
Hamlet|HAMLET|shall be dry again.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|I understand you not, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a
Hamlet|HAMLET|foolish ear.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|with us to the king.
Hamlet|HAMLET|The body is with the king, but the king is not with
Hamlet|HAMLET|the body. The king is a thing--
Hamlet|GUILDENSTERN|A thing, my lord!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt
Hamlet|HAMLET|SCENE III. Another room in the castle.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Yet must not we put the strong law on him:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|He's loved of the distracted multitude,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|This sudden sending him away must seem
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|By desperate appliance are relieved,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or not at all.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter ROSENCRANTZ
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How now! what hath befall'n?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|We cannot get from him.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But where is he?
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Without, my lord, guarded, to know your pleasure.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Bring him before us.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord.
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
Hamlet|HAMLET|At supper.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|At supper! where?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
Hamlet|HAMLET|convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your
Hamlet|HAMLET|worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all
Hamlet|HAMLET|creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for
Hamlet|HAMLET|maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but
Hamlet|HAMLET|variable service, two dishes, but to one table:
Hamlet|HAMLET|that's the end.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Alas, alas!
Hamlet|HAMLET|A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a
Hamlet|HAMLET|king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|What dost you mean by this?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nothing but to show you how a king may go a
Hamlet|HAMLET|progress through the guts of a beggar.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Where is Polonius?
Hamlet|HAMLET|In heaven, send hither to see: if your messenger
Hamlet|HAMLET|find him not there, seek him i' the other place
Hamlet|HAMLET|yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within
Hamlet|HAMLET|this month, you shall nose him as you go up the
Hamlet|HAMLET|stairs into the lobby.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Go seek him there.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To some Attendants
Hamlet|HAMLET|He will stay till ye come.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt Attendants
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The bark is ready, and the wind at help,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The associates tend, and every thing is bent
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For England.
Hamlet|HAMLET|For England!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Ay, Hamlet.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Good.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I see a cherub that sees them. But, come, for
Hamlet|HAMLET|England! Farewell, dear mother.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thy loving father, Hamlet.
Hamlet|HAMLET|My mother: father and mother is man and wife, man
Hamlet|HAMLET|and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother. Come, for England!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Follow him at foot, tempt him with speed aboard,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Delay it not, I'll have him hence to-night:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Away! for every thing is seal'd and done
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|By letters congruing to that effect,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exit
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|SCENE IV. A plain in Denmark.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Craves the conveyance of a promised march
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|If that his majesty would aught with us,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|We shall express our duty in his eye,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|And let him know so.
Hamlet|Captain|I will do't, my lord.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Go softly on.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others
Hamlet|HAMLET|Good sir, whose powers are these?
Hamlet|Captain|They are of Norway, sir.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How purposed, sir, I pray you?
Hamlet|Captain|Against some part of Poland.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Who commands them, sir?
Hamlet|Captain|The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or for some frontier?
Hamlet|Captain|Truly to speak, and with no addition,
Hamlet|Captain|We go to gain a little patch of ground
Hamlet|Captain|That hath in it no profit but the name.
Hamlet|Captain|To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it,
Hamlet|Captain|Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
Hamlet|Captain|A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
Hamlet|Captain|Yes, it is already garrison'd.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
Hamlet|HAMLET|Will not debate the question of this straw:
Hamlet|HAMLET|This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
Hamlet|Captain|God be wi' you, sir.
Hamlet|Captain|Exit
Hamlet|ROSENCRANTZ|Wilt please you go, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll be with you straight go a little before.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exeunt all except HAMLET
Hamlet|HAMLET|How all occasions do inform against me,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
Hamlet|HAMLET|If his chief good and market of his time
Hamlet|HAMLET|Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Looking before and after, gave us not
Hamlet|HAMLET|That capability and god-like reason
Hamlet|HAMLET|To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be
Hamlet|HAMLET|Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Hamlet|HAMLET|Of thinking too precisely on the event,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
Hamlet|HAMLET|And ever three parts coward, I do not know
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do,'
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
Hamlet|HAMLET|To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Witness this army of such mass and charge
Hamlet|HAMLET|Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
Hamlet|HAMLET|Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exposing what is mortal and unsure
Hamlet|HAMLET|To all that fortune, death and danger dare,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is not to stir without great argument,
Hamlet|HAMLET|But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
Hamlet|HAMLET|When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Excitements of my reason and my blood,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see
Hamlet|HAMLET|The imminent death of twenty thousand men,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Hamlet|HAMLET|Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Which is not tomb enough and continent
Hamlet|HAMLET|To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,
Hamlet|HAMLET|My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|HAMLET|SCENE V. Elsinore. A room in the castle.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I will not speak with her.
Hamlet|Gentleman|She is importunate, indeed distract:
Hamlet|Gentleman|Her mood will needs be pitied.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|What would she have?
Hamlet|Gentleman|She speaks much of her father, says she hears
Hamlet|Gentleman|There's tricks i' the world, and hems, and beats her heart,
Hamlet|Gentleman|Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt,
Hamlet|Gentleman|That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,
Hamlet|Gentleman|Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
Hamlet|Gentleman|The hearers to collection, they aim at it,
Hamlet|Gentleman|And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts,
Hamlet|Gentleman|Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures
Hamlet|Gentleman|yield them,
Hamlet|Gentleman|Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
Hamlet|Gentleman|Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
Hamlet|HORATIO|'Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew
Hamlet|HORATIO|Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Let her come in.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Exit HORATIO
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Re-enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|How now, Ophelia!
Hamlet|OPHELIA|[Sings]
Hamlet|OPHELIA|How should I your true love know
Hamlet|OPHELIA|From another one?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|By his cockle hat and staff,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And his sandal shoon.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Say you? nay, pray you, mark.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Sings
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He is dead and gone, lady,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He is dead and gone,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|At his head a grass-green turf,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|At his heels a stone.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Nay, but, Ophelia,--
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Pray you, mark.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Sings
Hamlet|OPHELIA|White his shroud as the mountain snow,--
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Enter KING CLAUDIUS
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Alas, look here, my lord.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|[Sings]
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Larded with sweet flowers
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Which bewept to the grave did go
Hamlet|OPHELIA|With true-love showers.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How do you, pretty lady?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's
Hamlet|OPHELIA|daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not
Hamlet|OPHELIA|what we may be. God be at your table!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Conceit upon her father.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Pray you, let's have no words of this, but when they
Hamlet|OPHELIA|ask you what it means, say you this:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Sings
Hamlet|OPHELIA|To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|All in the morning betime,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And I a maid at your window,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|To be your Valentine.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And dupp'd the chamber-door,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Let in the maid, that out a maid
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Never departed more.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Pretty Ophelia!
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Sings
Hamlet|OPHELIA|By Gis and by Saint Charity,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Alack, and fie for shame!
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Young men will do't, if they come to't,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|By cock, they are to blame.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Quoth she, before you tumbled me,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|You promised me to wed.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|An thou hadst not come to my bed.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How long hath she been thus?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I
Hamlet|OPHELIA|cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him
Hamlet|OPHELIA|i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my
Hamlet|OPHELIA|coach! Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|good night, good night.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Exit
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Follow her close, give her good watch,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I pray you.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exit HORATIO
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O, this is the poison of deep grief, it springs
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|When sorrows come, they come not single spies
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But in battalions. First, her father slain:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of his own just remove: the people muddied,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Last, and as much containing as all these,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Her brother is in secret come from France,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Will nothing stick our person to arraign
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Like to a murdering-piece, in many places
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Gives me superfluous death.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A noise within
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Alack, what noise is this?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter another Gentleman
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|What is the matter?
Hamlet|Gentleman|Save yourself, my lord:
Hamlet|Gentleman|The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Hamlet|Gentleman|Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Hamlet|Gentleman|Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
Hamlet|Gentleman|O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord,
Hamlet|Gentleman|And, as the world were now but to begin,
Hamlet|Gentleman|Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
Hamlet|Gentleman|The ratifiers and props of every word,
Hamlet|Gentleman|They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:'
Hamlet|Gentleman|Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds:
Hamlet|Gentleman|'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!'
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The doors are broke.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Noise within
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter LAERTES, armed, Danes following
Hamlet|LAERTES|Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.
Hamlet|Danes|No, let's come in.
Hamlet|LAERTES|I pray you, give me leave.
Hamlet|Danes|We will, we will.
Hamlet|Danes|They retire without the door
Hamlet|LAERTES|I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Give me my father!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Calmly, good Laertes.
Hamlet|LAERTES|That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot
Hamlet|LAERTES|Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow
Hamlet|LAERTES|Of my true mother.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|What is the cause, Laertes,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Let him go, Gertrude, do not fear our person:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That treason can but peep to what it would,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Speak, man.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Where is my father?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Dead.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|But not by him.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Let him demand his fill.
Hamlet|LAERTES|How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:
Hamlet|LAERTES|To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
Hamlet|LAERTES|Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
Hamlet|LAERTES|I dare damnation. To this point I stand,
Hamlet|LAERTES|That both the worlds I give to negligence,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged
Hamlet|LAERTES|Most thoroughly for my father.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Who shall stay you?
Hamlet|LAERTES|My will, not all the world:
Hamlet|LAERTES|And for my means, I'll husband them so well,
Hamlet|LAERTES|They shall go far with little.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Good Laertes,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If you desire to know the certainty
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Winner and loser?
Hamlet|LAERTES|None but his enemies.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Will you know them then?
Hamlet|LAERTES|To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms,
Hamlet|LAERTES|And like the kind life-rendering pelican,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Repast them with my blood.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Why, now you speak
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Like a good child and a true gentleman.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That I am guiltless of your father's death,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And am most sensible in grief for it,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It shall as level to your judgment pierce
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As day does to your eye.
Hamlet|Danes|[Within]                Let her come in.
Hamlet|LAERTES|How now! what noise is that?
Hamlet|LAERTES|Re-enter OPHELIA
Hamlet|LAERTES|O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!
Hamlet|LAERTES|By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!
Hamlet|LAERTES|Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
Hamlet|LAERTES|O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits
Hamlet|LAERTES|Should be as moral as an old man's life?
Hamlet|LAERTES|Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,
Hamlet|LAERTES|It sends some precious instance of itself
Hamlet|LAERTES|After the thing it loves.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|[Sings]
Hamlet|OPHELIA|They bore him barefaced on the bier,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And in his grave rain'd many a tear:--
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Fare you well, my dove!
Hamlet|LAERTES|Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,
Hamlet|LAERTES|It could not move thus.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|[Sings]
Hamlet|OPHELIA|You must sing a-down a-down,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|An you call him a-down-a.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false
Hamlet|OPHELIA|steward, that stole his master's daughter.
Hamlet|LAERTES|This nothing's more than matter.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|There's rosemary, that's for remembrance, pray,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.
Hamlet|LAERTES|A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue
Hamlet|OPHELIA|for you, and here's some for me: we may call it
Hamlet|OPHELIA|herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with
Hamlet|OPHELIA|a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you
Hamlet|OPHELIA|some violets, but they withered all when my father
Hamlet|OPHELIA|died: they say he made a good end,--
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Sings
Hamlet|OPHELIA|For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,
Hamlet|LAERTES|She turns to favour and to prettiness.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|[Sings]
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And will he not come again?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And will he not come again?
Hamlet|OPHELIA|No, no, he is dead:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Go to thy death-bed:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He never will come again.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|His beard was as white as snow,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|All flaxen was his poll:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|He is gone, he is gone,
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And we cast away moan:
Hamlet|OPHELIA|God ha' mercy on his soul!
Hamlet|OPHELIA|And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye.
Hamlet|OPHELIA|Exit
Hamlet|LAERTES|Do you see this, O God?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Laertes, I must commune with your grief,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or you deny me right. Go but apart,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If by direct or by collateral hand
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To you in satisfaction, but if not,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Be you content to lend your patience to us,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And we shall jointly labour with your soul
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To give it due content.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Let this be so,
Hamlet|LAERTES|His means of death, his obscure funeral--
Hamlet|LAERTES|No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
Hamlet|LAERTES|No noble rite nor formal ostentation--
Hamlet|LAERTES|Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,
Hamlet|LAERTES|That I must call't in question.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|So you shall,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And where the offence is let the great axe fall.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I pray you, go with me.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|SCENE VI. Another room in the castle.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter HORATIO and a Servant
Hamlet|HORATIO|What are they that would speak with me?
Hamlet|Servant|Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Let them come in.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Exit Servant
Hamlet|HORATIO|I do not know from what part of the world
Hamlet|HORATIO|I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Enter Sailors
Hamlet|First Sailor|God bless you, sir.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Let him bless thee too.
Hamlet|First Sailor|He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for
Hamlet|First Sailor|you, sir, it comes from the ambassador that was
Hamlet|First Sailor|bound for England, if your name be Horatio, as I am
Hamlet|First Sailor|let to know it is.
Hamlet|HORATIO|[Reads]  'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked
Hamlet|HORATIO|this, give these fellows some means to the king:
Hamlet|HORATIO|they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old
Hamlet|HORATIO|at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us
Hamlet|HORATIO|chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on
Hamlet|HORATIO|a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded
Hamlet|HORATIO|them: on the instant they got clear of our ship, so
Hamlet|HORATIO|I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with
Hamlet|HORATIO|me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they
Hamlet|HORATIO|did, I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king
Hamlet|HORATIO|have the letters I have sent, and repair thou to me
Hamlet|HORATIO|with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I
Hamlet|HORATIO|have words to speak in thine ear will make thee
Hamlet|HORATIO|dumb, yet are they much too light for the bore of
Hamlet|HORATIO|the matter. These good fellows will bring thee
Hamlet|HORATIO|where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their
Hamlet|HORATIO|course for England: of them I have much to tell
Hamlet|HORATIO|thee. Farewell.
Hamlet|HORATIO|'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'
Hamlet|HORATIO|Come, I will make you way for these your letters,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And do't the speedier, that you may direct me
Hamlet|HORATIO|To him from whom you brought them.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Exeunt
Hamlet|HORATIO|SCENE VII. Another room in the castle.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And you must put me in your heart for friend,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That he which hath your noble father slain
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Pursued my life.
Hamlet|LAERTES|It well appears: but tell me
Hamlet|LAERTES|Why you proceeded not against these feats,
Hamlet|LAERTES|So crimeful and so capital in nature,
Hamlet|LAERTES|As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
Hamlet|LAERTES|You mainly were stirr'd up.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O, for two special reasons,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Lives almost by his looks, and for myself--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|My virtue or my plague, be it either which--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I could not but by her. The other motive,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Why to a public count I might not go,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Is the great love the general gender bear him,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Convert his gyves to graces, so that my arrows,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Would have reverted to my bow again,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And not where I had aim'd them.
Hamlet|LAERTES|And so have I a noble father lost,
Hamlet|LAERTES|A sister driven into desperate terms,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Stood challenger on mount of all the age
Hamlet|LAERTES|For her perfections: but my revenge will come.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That we can let our beard be shook with danger
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I loved your father, and we love ourself,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter a Messenger
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How now! what news?
Hamlet|Messenger|Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
Hamlet|Messenger|This to your majesty, this to the queen.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|From Hamlet! who brought them?
Hamlet|Messenger|Sailors, my lord, they say, I saw them not:
Hamlet|Messenger|They were given me by Claudio, he received them
Hamlet|Messenger|Of him that brought them.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exit Messenger
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Reads
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|'High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|and more strange return.                  'HAMLET.'
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
Hamlet|LAERTES|Know you the hand?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|'Tis Hamlets character. 'Naked!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Can you advise me?
Hamlet|LAERTES|I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come,
Hamlet|LAERTES|It warms the very sickness in my heart,
Hamlet|LAERTES|That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
Hamlet|LAERTES|'Thus didest thou.'
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If it be so, Laertes--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As how should it be so? how otherwise?--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Will you be ruled by me?
Hamlet|LAERTES|Ay, my lord,
Hamlet|LAERTES|So you will not o'errule me to a peace.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To thine own peace. If he be now return'd,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As checking at his voyage, and that he means
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|No more to undertake it, I will work him
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To an exploit, now ripe in my device,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Under the which he shall not choose but fall:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But even his mother shall uncharge the practise
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And call it accident.
Hamlet|LAERTES|My lord, I will be ruled,
Hamlet|LAERTES|The rather, if you could devise it so
Hamlet|LAERTES|That I might be the organ.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|It falls right.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|You have been talk'd of since your travel much,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Did not together pluck such envy from him
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As did that one, and that, in my regard,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Of the unworthiest siege.
Hamlet|LAERTES|What part is that, my lord?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A very riband in the cap of youth,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The light and careless livery that it wears
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Importing health and graveness. Two months since,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Here was a gentleman of Normandy:--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I've seen myself, and served against, the French,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And they can well on horseback: but this gallant
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Had witchcraft in't, he grew unto his seat,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Come short of what he did.
Hamlet|LAERTES|A Norman was't?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A Norman.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Upon my life, Lamond.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The very same.
Hamlet|LAERTES|I know him well: he is the brooch indeed
Hamlet|LAERTES|And gem of all the nation.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|He made confession of you,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And gave you such a masterly report
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For art and exercise in your defence
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And for your rapier most especially,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If you opposed them. Sir, this report of his
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That he could nothing do but wish and beg
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Now, out of this,--
Hamlet|LAERTES|What out of this, my lord?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Laertes, was your father dear to you?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A face without a heart?
Hamlet|LAERTES|Why ask you this?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Not that I think you did not love your father,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But that I know love is begun by time,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And that I see, in passages of proof,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|There lives within the very flame of love
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And nothing is at a like goodness still,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Dies in his own too much: that we would do
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And hath abatements and delays as many
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To show yourself your father's son in deed
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|More than in words?
Hamlet|LAERTES|To cut his throat i' the church.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Will you do this, keep close within your chamber.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We'll put on those shall praise your excellence
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And set a double varnish on the fame
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And wager on your heads: he, being remiss,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Most generous and free from all contriving,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Will not peruse the foils, so that, with ease,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Requite him for your father.
Hamlet|LAERTES|I will do't:
Hamlet|LAERTES|And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword.
Hamlet|LAERTES|I bought an unction of a mountebank,
Hamlet|LAERTES|So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Collected from all simples that have virtue
Hamlet|LAERTES|Under the moon, can save the thing from death
Hamlet|LAERTES|That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point
Hamlet|LAERTES|With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
Hamlet|LAERTES|It may be death.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Let's further think of this,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Weigh what convenience both of time and means
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|May fit us to our shape: if this should fail,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And that our drift look through our bad performance,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Should have a back or second, that might hold,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|When in your motion you are hot and dry--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|As make your bouts more violent to that end--
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Our purpose may hold there.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How now, sweet queen!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|So fast they follow, your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Drown'd! O, where?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|There with fantastic garlands did she come
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|When down her weedy trophies and herself
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|As one incapable of her own distress,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Or like a creature native and indued
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Unto that element: but long it could not be
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|To muddy death.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Alas, then, she is drown'd?
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Drown'd, drown'd.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
Hamlet|LAERTES|And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet
Hamlet|LAERTES|It is our trick, nature her custom holds,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,
Hamlet|LAERTES|The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord:
Hamlet|LAERTES|I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
Hamlet|LAERTES|But that this folly douts it.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Exit
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Let's follow, Gertrude:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|How much I had to do to calm his rage!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Now fear I this will give it start again,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Therefore let's follow.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|ACT V
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|SCENE I. A churchyard.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter two Clowns, with spades,  and c
Hamlet|First Clown|Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
Hamlet|First Clown|wilfully seeks her own salvation?
Hamlet|Second Clown|I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave
Hamlet|Second Clown|straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it
Hamlet|Second Clown|Christian burial.
Hamlet|First Clown|How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her
Hamlet|First Clown|own defence?
Hamlet|Second Clown|Why, 'tis found so.
Hamlet|First Clown|It must be 'se offendendo,' it cannot be else. For
Hamlet|First Clown|here lies the point:  if I drown myself wittingly,
Hamlet|First Clown|it argues an act: and an act hath three branches: it
Hamlet|First Clown|is, to act, to do, to perform: argal, she drowned
Hamlet|First Clown|herself wittingly.
Hamlet|Second Clown|Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,--
Hamlet|First Clown|Give me leave. Here lies the water, good: here
Hamlet|First Clown|stands the man, good, if the man go to this water,
Hamlet|First Clown|and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he
Hamlet|First Clown|goes,--mark you that, but if the water come to him
Hamlet|First Clown|and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he
Hamlet|First Clown|that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
Hamlet|Second Clown|But is this law?
Hamlet|First Clown|Ay, marry, is't, crowner's quest law.
Hamlet|Second Clown|Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been
Hamlet|Second Clown|a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o'
Hamlet|Second Clown|Christian burial.
Hamlet|First Clown|Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that
Hamlet|First Clown|great folk should have countenance in this world to
Hamlet|First Clown|drown or hang themselves, more than their even
Hamlet|First Clown|Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient
Hamlet|First Clown|gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers:
Hamlet|First Clown|they hold up Adam's profession.
Hamlet|Second Clown|Was he a gentleman?
Hamlet|First Clown|He was the first that ever bore arms.
Hamlet|Second Clown|Why, he had none.
Hamlet|First Clown|What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the
Hamlet|First Clown|Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:'
Hamlet|First Clown|could he dig without arms? I'll put another
Hamlet|First Clown|question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the
Hamlet|First Clown|purpose, confess thyself--
Hamlet|Second Clown|Go to.
Hamlet|First Clown|What is he that builds stronger than either the
Hamlet|First Clown|mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
Hamlet|Second Clown|The gallows-maker, for that frame outlives a
Hamlet|Second Clown|thousand tenants.
Hamlet|First Clown|I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows
Hamlet|First Clown|does well, but how does it well? it does well to
Hamlet|First Clown|those that do in: now thou dost ill to say the
Hamlet|First Clown|gallows is built stronger than the church: argal,
Hamlet|First Clown|the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come.
Hamlet|Second Clown|'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or
Hamlet|Second Clown|a carpenter?'
Hamlet|First Clown|Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.
Hamlet|Second Clown|Marry, now I can tell.
Hamlet|First Clown|To't.
Hamlet|Second Clown|Mass, I cannot tell.
Hamlet|Second Clown|Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance
Hamlet|First Clown|Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull
Hamlet|First Clown|ass will not mend his pace with beating, and, when
Hamlet|First Clown|you are asked this question next, say 'a
Hamlet|First Clown|grave-maker: 'the houses that he makes last till
Hamlet|First Clown|doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a
Hamlet|First Clown|stoup of liquor.
Hamlet|First Clown|Exit Second Clown
Hamlet|First Clown|He digs and sings
Hamlet|First Clown|In youth, when I did love, did love,
Hamlet|First Clown|Methought it was very sweet,
Hamlet|First Clown|To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,
Hamlet|First Clown|O, methought, there was nothing meet.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he
Hamlet|HAMLET|sings at grave-making?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath
Hamlet|HAMLET|the daintier sense.
Hamlet|First Clown|[Sings]
Hamlet|First Clown|But age, with his stealing steps,
Hamlet|First Clown|Hath claw'd me in his clutch,
Hamlet|First Clown|And hath shipped me intil the land,
Hamlet|First Clown|As if I had never been such.
Hamlet|First Clown|Throws up a skull
Hamlet|HAMLET|That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:
Hamlet|HAMLET|how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were
Hamlet|HAMLET|Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It
Hamlet|HAMLET|might be the pate of a politician, which this ass
Hamlet|HAMLET|now o'er-reaches, one that would circumvent God,
Hamlet|HAMLET|might it not?
Hamlet|HORATIO|It might, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Or of a courtier, which could say 'Good morrow,
Hamlet|HAMLET|sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?' This might
Hamlet|HAMLET|be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord
Hamlet|HAMLET|such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it, might it not?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Ay, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's, chapless, and
Hamlet|HAMLET|knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade:
Hamlet|HAMLET|here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to
Hamlet|HAMLET|see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding,
Hamlet|HAMLET|but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't.
Hamlet|First Clown|[Sings]
Hamlet|First Clown|A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,
Hamlet|First Clown|For and a shrouding sheet:
Hamlet|First Clown|O, a pit of clay for to be made
Hamlet|First Clown|For such a guest is meet.
Hamlet|First Clown|Throws up another skull
Hamlet|HAMLET|There's another: why may not that be the skull of a
Hamlet|HAMLET|lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,
Hamlet|HAMLET|his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he
Hamlet|HAMLET|suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the
Hamlet|HAMLET|sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of
Hamlet|HAMLET|his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be
Hamlet|HAMLET|in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,
Hamlet|HAMLET|his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers,
Hamlet|HAMLET|his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and
Hamlet|HAMLET|the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine
Hamlet|HAMLET|pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him
Hamlet|HAMLET|no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than
Hamlet|HAMLET|the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The
Hamlet|HAMLET|very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in
Hamlet|HAMLET|this box, and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Not a jot more, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is not parchment made of sheepskins?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too.
Hamlet|HAMLET|They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance
Hamlet|HAMLET|in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose
Hamlet|HAMLET|grave's this, sirrah?
Hamlet|First Clown|Mine, sir.
Hamlet|First Clown|Sings
Hamlet|First Clown|O, a pit of clay for to be made
Hamlet|First Clown|For such a guest is meet.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I think it be thine, indeed, for thou liest in't.
Hamlet|First Clown|You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not
Hamlet|First Clown|yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine:
Hamlet|HAMLET|'tis for the dead, not for the quick, therefore thou liest.
Hamlet|First Clown|'Tis a quick lie, sir, 'twill away gain, from me to
Hamlet|First Clown|you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What man dost thou dig it for?
Hamlet|First Clown|For no man, sir.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What woman, then?
Hamlet|First Clown|For none, neither.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Who is to be buried in't?
Hamlet|First Clown|One that was a woman, sir, but, rest her soul, she's dead.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the
Hamlet|HAMLET|card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Horatio, these three years I have taken a note of
Hamlet|HAMLET|it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the
Hamlet|HAMLET|peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he
Hamlet|HAMLET|gaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a
Hamlet|HAMLET|grave-maker?
Hamlet|First Clown|Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day
Hamlet|First Clown|that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How long is that since?
Hamlet|First Clown|Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it
Hamlet|First Clown|was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that
Hamlet|First Clown|is mad, and sent into England.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?
Hamlet|First Clown|Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits
Hamlet|First Clown|there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why?
Hamlet|First Clown|'Twill, a not be seen in him there, there the men
Hamlet|First Clown|are as mad as he.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How came he mad?
Hamlet|First Clown|Very strangely, they say.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How strangely?
Hamlet|First Clown|Faith, e'en with losing his wits.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Upon what ground?
Hamlet|First Clown|Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man
Hamlet|First Clown|and boy, thirty years.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?
Hamlet|First Clown|I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we
Hamlet|First Clown|have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce
Hamlet|First Clown|hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year
Hamlet|First Clown|or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why he more than another?
Hamlet|First Clown|Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that
Hamlet|First Clown|he will keep out water a great while, and your water
Hamlet|First Clown|is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
Hamlet|First Clown|Here's a skull now, this skull has lain in the earth
Hamlet|First Clown|three and twenty years.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Whose was it?
Hamlet|First Clown|A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, I know not.
Hamlet|First Clown|A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a
Hamlet|First Clown|flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,
Hamlet|First Clown|sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
Hamlet|HAMLET|This?
Hamlet|First Clown|E'en that.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let me see.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Takes the skull
Hamlet|HAMLET|Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
Hamlet|HAMLET|of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
Hamlet|HAMLET|borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how
Hamlet|HAMLET|abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
Hamlet|HAMLET|it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
Hamlet|HAMLET|not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
Hamlet|HAMLET|gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
Hamlet|HAMLET|that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
Hamlet|HAMLET|now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
Hamlet|HAMLET|her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
Hamlet|HAMLET|come, make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
Hamlet|HAMLET|me one thing.
Hamlet|HORATIO|What's that, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'
Hamlet|HAMLET|the earth?
Hamlet|HORATIO|E'en so.
Hamlet|HAMLET|And smelt so? pah!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Puts down the skull
Hamlet|HORATIO|E'en so, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
Hamlet|HAMLET|not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,
Hamlet|HAMLET|till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
Hamlet|HORATIO|'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with
Hamlet|HAMLET|modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as
Hamlet|HAMLET|thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Alexander returneth into dust, the dust is earth, of
Hamlet|HAMLET|earth we make loam, and why of that loam, whereto he
Hamlet|HAMLET|was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
Hamlet|HAMLET|But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter Priest,  and c. in procession, the Corpse of  OPHELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following, KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their trains,  and c
Hamlet|HAMLET|The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow?
Hamlet|HAMLET|And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
Hamlet|HAMLET|The corse they follow did with desperate hand
Hamlet|HAMLET|Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Couch we awhile, and mark.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Retiring with HORATIO
Hamlet|LAERTES|What ceremony else?
Hamlet|HAMLET|That is Laertes,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A very noble youth: mark.
Hamlet|LAERTES|What ceremony else?
Hamlet|First Priest|Her obsequies have been as far enlarged
Hamlet|First Priest|As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful,
Hamlet|First Priest|And, but that great command o'ersways the order,
Hamlet|First Priest|She should in ground unsanctified have lodged
Hamlet|First Priest|Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers,
Hamlet|First Priest|Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her,
Hamlet|First Priest|Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,
Hamlet|First Priest|Her maiden strewments and the bringing home
Hamlet|First Priest|Of bell and burial.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Must there no more be done?
Hamlet|First Priest|No more be done:
Hamlet|First Priest|We should profane the service of the dead
Hamlet|First Priest|To sing a requiem and such rest to her
Hamlet|First Priest|As to peace-parted souls.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Lay her i' the earth:
Hamlet|LAERTES|And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
Hamlet|LAERTES|May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,
Hamlet|LAERTES|A ministering angel shall my sister be,
Hamlet|LAERTES|When thou liest howling.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What, the fair Ophelia!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Scattering flowers
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And not have strew'd thy grave.
Hamlet|LAERTES|O, treble woe
Hamlet|LAERTES|Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
Hamlet|LAERTES|Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:
Hamlet|LAERTES|Leaps into the grave
Hamlet|LAERTES|Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
Hamlet|LAERTES|To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head
Hamlet|LAERTES|Of blue Olympus.
Hamlet|HAMLET|[Advancing]     What is he whose grief
Hamlet|HAMLET|Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow
Hamlet|HAMLET|Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand
Hamlet|HAMLET|Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hamlet the Dane.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Leaps into the grave
Hamlet|LAERTES|The devil take thy soul!
Hamlet|LAERTES|Grappling with him
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thou pray'st not well.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For, though I am not splenitive and rash,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Yet have I something in me dangerous,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Pluck them asunder.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Hamlet, Hamlet!
Hamlet|All|Gentlemen,--
Hamlet|HORATIO|Good my lord, be quiet.
Hamlet|HORATIO|The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why I will fight with him upon this theme
Hamlet|HAMLET|Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|O my son, what theme?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Hamlet|HAMLET|Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O, he is mad, Laertes.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|For love of God, forbear him.
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?
Hamlet|HAMLET|To outface me with leaping in her grave?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
Hamlet|HAMLET|And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
Hamlet|HAMLET|Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll rant as well as thou.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|This is mere madness:
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|And thus awhile the fit will work on him,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Anon, as patient as the female dove,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|When that her golden couplets are disclosed,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|His silence will sit drooping.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hear you, sir,
Hamlet|HAMLET|What is the reason that you use me thus?
Hamlet|HAMLET|I loved you ever: but it is no matter,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let Hercules himself do what he may,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exit HORATIO
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|To LAERTES
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|We'll put the matter to the present push.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|This grave shall have a living monument:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|An hour of quiet shortly shall we see,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Till then, in patience our proceeding be.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Exeunt
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|SCENE II. A hall in the castle.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Enter HAMLET and HORATIO
Hamlet|HAMLET|So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other,
Hamlet|HAMLET|You do remember all the circumstance?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Remember it, my lord?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That would not let me sleep: methought I lay
Hamlet|HAMLET|Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And praised be rashness for it, let us know,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
Hamlet|HAMLET|When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us
Hamlet|HAMLET|There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Rough-hew them how we will,--
Hamlet|HORATIO|That is most certain.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Up from my cabin,
Hamlet|HAMLET|My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark
Hamlet|HAMLET|Groped I to find out them, had my desire.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew
Hamlet|HAMLET|To mine own room again, making so bold,
Hamlet|HAMLET|My fears forgetting manners, to unseal
Hamlet|HAMLET|Their grand commission, where I found, Horatio,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|O royal knavery!--an exact command,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Larded with many several sorts of reasons
Hamlet|HAMLET|Importing Denmark's health and England's too,
Hamlet|HAMLET|With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,
Hamlet|HAMLET|My head should be struck off.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Is't possible?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Here's the commission: read it at more leisure.
Hamlet|HAMLET|But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?
Hamlet|HORATIO|I beseech you.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Being thus be-netted round with villanies,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|Ere I could make a prologue to my brains,
Hamlet|HAMLET|They had begun the play--I sat me down,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Devised a new commission, wrote it fair:
Hamlet|HAMLET|I once did hold it, as our statists do,
Hamlet|HAMLET|A baseness to write fair and labour'd much
Hamlet|HAMLET|How to forget that learning, but, sir, now
Hamlet|HAMLET|It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know
Hamlet|HAMLET|The effect of what I wrote?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Ay, good my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|An earnest conjuration from the king,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As England was his faithful tributary,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As love between them like the palm might flourish,
Hamlet|HAMLET|As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear
Hamlet|HAMLET|And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And many such-like 'As'es of great charge,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Without debatement further, more or less,
Hamlet|HAMLET|He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Not shriving-time allow'd.
Hamlet|HORATIO|How was this seal'd?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I had my father's signet in my purse,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Which was the model of that Danish seal,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Folded the writ up in form of the other,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Subscribed it, gave't the impression, placed it safely,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The changeling never known. Now, the next day
Hamlet|HAMLET|Was our sea-fight, and what to this was sequent
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thou know'st already.
Hamlet|HORATIO|So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Why, man, they did make love to this employment,
Hamlet|HAMLET|They are not near my conscience, their defeat
Hamlet|HAMLET|Does by their own insinuation grow:
Hamlet|HAMLET|'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Hamlet|HAMLET|Between the pass and fell incensed points
Hamlet|HAMLET|Of mighty opposites.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Why, what a king is this!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon--
Hamlet|HAMLET|He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Popp'd in between the election and my hopes,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To let this canker of our nature come
Hamlet|HAMLET|In further evil?
Hamlet|HORATIO|It must be shortly known to him from England
Hamlet|HORATIO|What is the issue of the business there.
Hamlet|HAMLET|It will be short: the interim is mine,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And a man's life's no more than to say 'One.'
Hamlet|HAMLET|But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That to Laertes I forgot myself,
Hamlet|HAMLET|For, by the image of my cause, I see
Hamlet|HAMLET|The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours.
Hamlet|HAMLET|But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
Hamlet|HAMLET|Into a towering passion.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Peace! who comes here?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Enter OSRIC
Hamlet|OSRIC|Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly?
Hamlet|HORATIO|No, my good lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thy state is the more gracious, for 'tis a vice to
Hamlet|HAMLET|know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a
Hamlet|HAMLET|beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at
Hamlet|HAMLET|the king's mess: 'tis a chough, but, as I say,
Hamlet|HAMLET|spacious in the possession of dirt.
Hamlet|OSRIC|Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I
Hamlet|OSRIC|should impart a thing to you from his majesty.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of
Hamlet|HAMLET|spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use, 'tis for the head.
Hamlet|OSRIC|I thank your lordship, it is very hot.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, believe me, 'tis very cold, the wind is
Hamlet|HAMLET|northerly.
Hamlet|OSRIC|It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.
Hamlet|HAMLET|But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my
Hamlet|HAMLET|complexion.
Hamlet|OSRIC|Exceedingly, my lord, it is very sultry,--as
Hamlet|OSRIC|'twere,--I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his
Hamlet|OSRIC|majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a
Hamlet|OSRIC|great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|I beseech you, remember--
Hamlet|HAMLET|HAMLET moves him to put on his hat
Hamlet|OSRIC|Nay, good my lord, for mine ease, in good faith.
Hamlet|OSRIC|Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes, believe
Hamlet|OSRIC|me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent
Hamlet|OSRIC|differences, of very soft society and great showing:
Hamlet|OSRIC|indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or
Hamlet|OSRIC|calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the
Hamlet|OSRIC|continent of what part a gentleman would see.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you,
Hamlet|HAMLET|though, I know, to divide him inventorially would
Hamlet|HAMLET|dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw
Hamlet|HAMLET|neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the
Hamlet|HAMLET|verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of
Hamlet|HAMLET|great article, and his infusion of such dearth and
Hamlet|HAMLET|rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his
Hamlet|HAMLET|semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace
Hamlet|HAMLET|him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Hamlet|OSRIC|Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
Hamlet|HAMLET|The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman
Hamlet|HAMLET|in our more rawer breath?
Hamlet|OSRIC|Sir?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Is't not possible to understand in another tongue?
Hamlet|HORATIO|You will do't, sir, really.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
Hamlet|OSRIC|Of Laertes?
Hamlet|HORATIO|His purse is empty already, all's golden words are spent.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Of him, sir.
Hamlet|OSRIC|I know you are not ignorant--
Hamlet|HAMLET|I would you did, sir, yet, in faith, if you did,
Hamlet|HAMLET|it would not much approve me. Well, sir?
Hamlet|OSRIC|You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is--
Hamlet|HAMLET|I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with
Hamlet|HAMLET|him in excellence, but, to know a man well, were to
Hamlet|HAMLET|know himself.
Hamlet|OSRIC|I mean, sir, for his weapon, but in the imputation
Hamlet|OSRIC|laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What's his weapon?
Hamlet|OSRIC|Rapier and dagger.
Hamlet|HAMLET|That's two of his weapons: but, well.
Hamlet|OSRIC|The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary
Hamlet|OSRIC|horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take
Hamlet|OSRIC|it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their
Hamlet|OSRIC|assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the
Hamlet|OSRIC|carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very
Hamlet|OSRIC|responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages,
Hamlet|OSRIC|and of very liberal conceit.
Hamlet|HAMLET|What call you the carriages?
Hamlet|HORATIO|I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.
Hamlet|OSRIC|The carriages, sir, are the hangers.
Hamlet|HAMLET|The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we
Hamlet|HAMLET|could carry cannon by our sides: I would it might
Hamlet|HAMLET|be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses
Hamlet|HAMLET|against six French swords, their assigns, and three
Hamlet|HAMLET|liberal-conceited carriages, that's the French bet
Hamlet|HAMLET|against the Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it?
Hamlet|OSRIC|The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes
Hamlet|OSRIC|between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you
Hamlet|OSRIC|three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine, and it
Hamlet|OSRIC|would come to immediate trial, if your lordship
Hamlet|OSRIC|would vouchsafe the answer.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How if I answer 'no'?
Hamlet|OSRIC|I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his
Hamlet|HAMLET|majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me, let
Hamlet|HAMLET|the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the
Hamlet|HAMLET|king hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can,
Hamlet|HAMLET|if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
Hamlet|OSRIC|Shall I re-deliver you e'en so?
Hamlet|HAMLET|To this effect, sir, after what flourish your nature will.
Hamlet|OSRIC|I commend my duty to your lordship.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Yours, yours.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit OSRIC
Hamlet|HAMLET|He does well to commend it himself, there are no
Hamlet|HAMLET|tongues else for's turn.
Hamlet|HORATIO|This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
Hamlet|HAMLET|He did comply with his dug, before he sucked it.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I
Hamlet|HAMLET|know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of
Hamlet|HAMLET|the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of
Hamlet|HAMLET|yesty collection, which carries them through and
Hamlet|HAMLET|through the most fond and winnowed opinions, and do
Hamlet|HAMLET|but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter a Lord
Hamlet|Lord|My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young
Hamlet|Lord|Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in
Hamlet|Lord|the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to
Hamlet|Lord|play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am constant to my purpose, they follow the king's
Hamlet|HAMLET|pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready, now
Hamlet|HAMLET|or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.
Hamlet|Lord|The king and queen and all are coming down.
Hamlet|HAMLET|In happy time.
Hamlet|Lord|The queen desires you to use some gentle
Hamlet|Lord|entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.
Hamlet|HAMLET|She well instructs me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Exit Lord
Hamlet|HORATIO|You will lose this wager, my lord.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I do not think so: since he went into France, I
Hamlet|HAMLET|have been in continual practise: I shall win at the
Hamlet|HAMLET|odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here
Hamlet|HAMLET|about my heart: but it is no matter.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Nay, good my lord,--
Hamlet|HAMLET|It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of
Hamlet|HAMLET|gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.
Hamlet|HORATIO|If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will
Hamlet|HORATIO|forestall their repair hither, and say you are not
Hamlet|HORATIO|fit.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
Hamlet|HAMLET|providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
Hamlet|HAMLET|'tis not to come, if it be not to come, it will be
Hamlet|HAMLET|now, if it be not now, yet it will come: the
Hamlet|HAMLET|readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
Hamlet|HAMLET|leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES, Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils,  and c
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's
Hamlet|HAMLET|Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong,
Hamlet|HAMLET|But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.
Hamlet|HAMLET|This presence knows,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd
Hamlet|HAMLET|With sore distraction. What I have done,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That might your nature, honour and exception
Hamlet|HAMLET|Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:
Hamlet|HAMLET|If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd,
Hamlet|HAMLET|His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Sir, in this audience,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
Hamlet|HAMLET|Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And hurt my brother.
Hamlet|LAERTES|I am satisfied in nature,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most
Hamlet|LAERTES|To my revenge: but in my terms of honour
Hamlet|LAERTES|I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Till by some elder masters, of known honour,
Hamlet|LAERTES|I have a voice and precedent of peace,
Hamlet|LAERTES|To keep my name ungored. But till that time,
Hamlet|LAERTES|I do receive your offer'd love like love,
Hamlet|LAERTES|And will not wrong it.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I embrace it freely,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And will this brother's wager frankly play.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Give us the foils. Come on.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Come, one for me.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance
Hamlet|HAMLET|Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Stick fiery off indeed.
Hamlet|LAERTES|You mock me, sir.
Hamlet|HAMLET|No, by this hand.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|You know the wager?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Very well, my lord
Hamlet|HAMLET|Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I do not fear it, I have seen you both:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.
Hamlet|LAERTES|This is too heavy, let me see another.
Hamlet|HAMLET|This likes me well. These foils have all a length?
Hamlet|HAMLET|They prepare to play
Hamlet|OSRIC|Ay, my good lord.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Set me the stoops of wine upon that table.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|If Hamlet give the first or second hit,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Or quit in answer of the third exchange,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Let all the battlements their ordnance fire:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And in the cup an union shall he throw,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Richer than that which four successive kings
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|'Now the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin:
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Come on, sir.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Come, my lord.
Hamlet|LAERTES|They play
Hamlet|HAMLET|One.
Hamlet|LAERTES|No.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Judgment.
Hamlet|OSRIC|A hit, a very palpable hit.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Well, again.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Stay, give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine,
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Here's to thy health.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Give him the cup.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I'll play this bout first, set it by awhile. Come.
Hamlet|HAMLET|They play
Hamlet|HAMLET|Another hit, what say you?
Hamlet|LAERTES|A touch, a touch, I do confess.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Our son shall win.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|He's fat, and scant of breath.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows,
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Good madam!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Gertrude, do not drink.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|I will, my lord, I pray you, pardon me.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|[Aside]  It is the poison'd cup: it is too late.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I dare not drink yet, madam, by and by.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Come, let me wipe thy face.
Hamlet|LAERTES|My lord, I'll hit him now.
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|I do not think't.
Hamlet|LAERTES|[Aside]  And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I pray you, pass with your best violence,
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Say you so? come on.
Hamlet|LAERTES|They play
Hamlet|OSRIC|Nothing, neither way.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Have at you now!
Hamlet|LAERTES|LAERTES wounds HAMLET, then in scuffling, they change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|Part them, they are incensed.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Nay, come, again.
Hamlet|HAMLET|QUEEN GERTRUDE falls
Hamlet|OSRIC|Look to the queen there, ho!
Hamlet|HORATIO|They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?
Hamlet|OSRIC|How is't, Laertes?
Hamlet|LAERTES|Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric,
Hamlet|LAERTES|I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.
Hamlet|HAMLET|How does the queen?
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|She swounds to see them bleed.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|The drink, the drink! I am poison'd.
Hamlet|QUEEN GERTRUDE|Dies
Hamlet|HAMLET|O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd:
Hamlet|HAMLET|Treachery! Seek it out.
Hamlet|LAERTES|It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain,
Hamlet|LAERTES|No medicine in the world can do thee good,
Hamlet|LAERTES|In thee there is not half an hour of life,
Hamlet|LAERTES|The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise
Hamlet|LAERTES|Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:
Hamlet|LAERTES|I can no more: the king, the king's to blame.
Hamlet|HAMLET|The point!--envenom'd too!
Hamlet|HAMLET|Then, venom, to thy work.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Stabs KING CLAUDIUS
Hamlet|All|Treason! treason!
Hamlet|KING CLAUDIUS|O, yet defend me, friends, I am but hurt.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?
Hamlet|HAMLET|Follow my mother.
Hamlet|HAMLET|KING CLAUDIUS dies
Hamlet|LAERTES|He is justly served,
Hamlet|LAERTES|It is a poison temper'd by himself.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
Hamlet|LAERTES|Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
Hamlet|LAERTES|Nor thine on me.
Hamlet|LAERTES|Dies
Hamlet|HAMLET|Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
Hamlet|HAMLET|I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!
Hamlet|HAMLET|You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
Hamlet|HAMLET|That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you--
Hamlet|HAMLET|But let it be. Horatio, I am dead,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Thou livest, report me and my cause aright
Hamlet|HAMLET|To the unsatisfied.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Never believe it:
Hamlet|HORATIO|I am more an antique Roman than a Dane:
Hamlet|HORATIO|Here's yet some liquor left.
Hamlet|HAMLET|As thou'rt a man,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Give me the cup: let go, by heaven, I'll have't.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
Hamlet|HAMLET|If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Hamlet|HAMLET|Absent thee from felicity awhile,
Hamlet|HAMLET|And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
Hamlet|HAMLET|To tell my story.
Hamlet|HAMLET|March afar off, and shot within
Hamlet|HAMLET|What warlike noise is this?
Hamlet|OSRIC|Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,
Hamlet|OSRIC|To the ambassadors of England gives
Hamlet|OSRIC|This warlike volley.
Hamlet|HAMLET|O, I die, Horatio,
Hamlet|HAMLET|The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
Hamlet|HAMLET|I cannot live to hear the news from England,
Hamlet|HAMLET|But I do prophesy the election lights
Hamlet|HAMLET|On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice,
Hamlet|HAMLET|So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
Hamlet|HAMLET|Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
Hamlet|HAMLET|Dies
Hamlet|HORATIO|Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
Hamlet|HORATIO|And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Hamlet|HORATIO|Why does the drum come hither?
Hamlet|HORATIO|March within
Hamlet|HORATIO|Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors, and others
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Where is this sight?
Hamlet|HORATIO|What is it ye would see?
Hamlet|HORATIO|If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|That thou so many princes at a shot
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|So bloodily hast struck?
Hamlet|First Ambassador|The sight is dismal,
Hamlet|First Ambassador|And our affairs from England come too late:
Hamlet|First Ambassador|The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
Hamlet|First Ambassador|To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,
Hamlet|First Ambassador|That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
Hamlet|First Ambassador|Where should we have our thanks?
Hamlet|HORATIO|Not from his mouth,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Had it the ability of life to thank you:
Hamlet|HORATIO|He never gave commandment for their death.
Hamlet|HORATIO|But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
Hamlet|HORATIO|You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Are here arrived give order that these bodies
Hamlet|HORATIO|High on a stage be placed to the view,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
Hamlet|HORATIO|How these things came about: so shall you hear
Hamlet|HORATIO|Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Hamlet|HORATIO|Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I
Hamlet|HORATIO|Truly deliver.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Let us haste to hear it,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|And call the noblest to the audience.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.
Hamlet|HORATIO|Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
Hamlet|HORATIO|And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more,
Hamlet|HORATIO|But let this same be presently perform'd,
Hamlet|HORATIO|Even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance
Hamlet|HORATIO|On plots and errors, happen.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Let four captains
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|For he was likely, had he been put on,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|The soldiers' music and the rites of war
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Speak loudly for him.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Take up the bodies: such a sight as this
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
Hamlet|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies, after which a peal of ordnance is shot off
Henry V|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|ACT I
Henry V|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|PROLOGUE
Henry V|PRINCE FORTINBRAS|Enter Chorus
Henry V|Chorus|O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
Henry V|Chorus|The brightest heaven of invention,
Henry V|Chorus|A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
Henry V|Chorus|And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Henry V|Chorus|Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Henry V|Chorus|Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels,
Henry V|Chorus|Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Henry V|Chorus|Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
Henry V|Chorus|The flat unraised spirits that have dared
Henry V|Chorus|On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
Henry V|Chorus|So great an object: can this cockpit hold
Henry V|Chorus|The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Henry V|Chorus|Within this wooden O the very casques
Henry V|Chorus|That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Henry V|Chorus|O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Henry V|Chorus|Attest in little place a million,
Henry V|Chorus|And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
Henry V|Chorus|On your imaginary forces work.
Henry V|Chorus|Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Henry V|Chorus|Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Henry V|Chorus|Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
Henry V|Chorus|The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Henry V|Chorus|Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts,
Henry V|Chorus|Into a thousand parts divide on man,
Henry V|Chorus|And make imaginary puissance,
Henry V|Chorus|Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Henry V|Chorus|Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth,
Henry V|Chorus|For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Henry V|Chorus|Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times,
Henry V|Chorus|Turning the accomplishment of many years
Henry V|Chorus|Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Henry V|Chorus|Admit me Chorus to this history,
Henry V|Chorus|Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
Henry V|Chorus|Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
Henry V|Chorus|Exit
Henry V|Chorus|SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace.
Henry V|Chorus|Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY
Henry V|CANTERBURY|My lord, I'll tell you, that self bill is urged,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|But that the scambling and unquiet time
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Did push it out of farther question.
Henry V|ELY|But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?
Henry V|CANTERBURY|It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|We lose the better half of our possession:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|For all the temporal lands which men devout
Henry V|CANTERBURY|By testament have given to the church
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Would they strip from us, being valued thus:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Six thousand and two hundred good esquires,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|A hundred almshouses right well supplied,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And to the coffers of the king beside,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.
Henry V|ELY|This would drink deep.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|'Twould drink the cup and all.
Henry V|ELY|But what prevention?
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The king is full of grace and fair regard.
Henry V|ELY|And a true lover of the holy church.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The courses of his youth promised it not.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The breath no sooner left his father's body,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|But that his wildness, mortified in him,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Seem'd to die too, yea, at that very moment
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Consideration, like an angel, came
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Leaving his body as a paradise,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To envelop and contain celestial spirits.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Never was such a sudden scholar made,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Never came reformation in a flood,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|With such a heady currance, scouring faults
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness
Henry V|CANTERBURY|So soon did lose his seat and all at once
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As in this king.
Henry V|ELY|We are blessed in the change.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Hear him but reason in divinity,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And all-admiring with an inward wish
Henry V|CANTERBURY|You would desire the king were made a prelate:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|You would say it hath been all in all his study:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
Henry V|CANTERBURY|A fearful battle render'd you in music:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Turn him to any cause of policy,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|So that the art and practic part of life
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Must be the mistress to this theoric:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Since his addiction was to courses vain,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And never noted in him any study,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Any retirement, any sequestration
Henry V|CANTERBURY|From open haunts and popularity.
Henry V|ELY|The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
Henry V|ELY|And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Henry V|ELY|Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:
Henry V|ELY|And so the prince obscured his contemplation
Henry V|ELY|Under the veil of wildness, which, no doubt,
Henry V|ELY|Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Henry V|ELY|Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|It must be so, for miracles are ceased,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And therefore we must needs admit the means
Henry V|CANTERBURY|How things are perfected.
Henry V|ELY|But, my good lord,
Henry V|ELY|How now for mitigation of this bill
Henry V|ELY|Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty
Henry V|ELY|Incline to it, or no?
Henry V|CANTERBURY|He seems indifferent,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Or rather swaying more upon our part
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Than cherishing the exhibiters against us,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|For I have made an offer to his majesty,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Upon our spiritual convocation
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And in regard of causes now in hand,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Which I have open'd to his grace at large,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As touching France, to give a greater sum
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Than ever at one time the clergy yet
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Did to his predecessors part withal.
Henry V|ELY|How did this offer seem received, my lord?
Henry V|CANTERBURY|With good acceptance of his majesty,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Save that there was not time enough to hear,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As I perceived his grace would fain have done,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The severals and unhidden passages
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And generally to the crown and seat of France
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.
Henry V|ELY|What was the impediment that broke this off?
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The French ambassador upon that instant
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Craved audience, and the hour, I think, is come
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?
Henry V|ELY|It is.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Then go we in, to know his embassy,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Which I could with a ready guess declare,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.
Henry V|ELY|I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.
Henry V|ELY|Exeunt
Henry V|ELY|SCENE II. The same. The Presence chamber.
Henry V|ELY|Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
Henry V|EXETER|Not here in presence.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Send for him, good uncle.
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Before we hear him, of some things of weight
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY
Henry V|CANTERBURY|God and his angels guard your sacred throne
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And make you long become it!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Sure, we thank you.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My learned lord, we pray you to proceed
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And justly and religiously unfold
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Why the law Salique that they have in France
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or nicely charge your understanding soul
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With opening titles miscreate, whose right
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Suits not in native colours with the truth,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For God doth know how many now in health
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall drop their blood in approbation
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|How you awake our sleeping sword of war:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We charge you, in the name of God, take heed,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For never two such kingdoms did contend
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Without much fall of blood, whose guiltless drops
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Are every one a woe, a sore complaint
Henry V|KING HENRY V|'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That make such waste in brief mortality.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Under this conjuration, speak, my lord,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For we will hear, note and believe in heart
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As pure as sin with baptism.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|That owe yourselves, your lives and services
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To this imperial throne. There is no bar
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To make against your highness' claim to France
Henry V|CANTERBURY|But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'
Henry V|CANTERBURY|'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The founder of this law and female bar.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
Henry V|CANTERBURY|That the land Salique is in Germany,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|There left behind and settled certain French,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Who, holding in disdain the German women
Henry V|CANTERBURY|For some dishonest manners of their life,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Establish'd then this law, to wit, no female
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Should be inheritrix in Salique land:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Then doth it well appear that Salique law
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Was not devised for the realm of France:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Nor did the French possess the Salique land
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Until four hundred one and twenty years
Henry V|CANTERBURY|After defunction of King Pharamond,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Idly supposed the founder of this law,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Who died within the year of our redemption
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Four hundred twenty-six, and Charles the Great
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Beyond the river Sala, in the year
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Did, as heir general, being descended
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Make claim and title to the crown of France.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To find his title with some shows of truth,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
Henry V|CANTERBURY|That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Was re-united to the crown of France.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To hold in right and title of the female:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|So do the kings of France unto this day,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To bar your highness claiming from the female,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And rather choose to hide them in a net
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Than amply to imbar their crooked titles
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|May I with right and conscience make this claim?
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
Henry V|CANTERBURY|For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|When the man dies, let the inheritance
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Stand for your own, unwind your bloody flag,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Look back into your mighty ancestors:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|From whom you claim, invoke his warlike spirit,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Making defeat on the full power of France,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Forage in blood of French nobility.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|O noble English. that could entertain
Henry V|CANTERBURY|With half their forces the full Pride of France
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And let another half stand laughing by,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|All out of work and cold for action!
Henry V|ELY|Awake remembrance of these valiant dead
Henry V|ELY|And with your puissant arm renew their feats:
Henry V|ELY|You are their heir, you sit upon their throne,
Henry V|ELY|The blood and courage that renowned them
Henry V|ELY|Runs in your veins, and my thrice-puissant liege
Henry V|ELY|Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
Henry V|ELY|Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
Henry V|EXETER|Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
Henry V|EXETER|Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
Henry V|EXETER|As did the former lions of your blood.
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|They know your grace hath cause and means and might,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|So hath your highness, never king of England
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|With blood and sword and fire to win your right,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Will raise your highness such a mighty sum
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As never did the clergy at one time
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Bring in to any of your ancestors.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We must not only arm to invade the French,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But lay down our proportions to defend
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With all advantages.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|They of those marches, gracious sovereign,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But fear the main intendment of the Scot,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For you shall read that my great-grandfather
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Never went with his forces into France
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With ample and brim fulness of his force,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Girding with grievous siege castles and towns,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That England, being empty of defence,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|For hear her but exampled by herself:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|When all her chivalry hath been in France
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|She hath herself not only well defended
Henry V|CANTERBURY|But taken and impounded as a stray
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The King of Scots, whom she did send to France,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And make her chronicle as rich with praise
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
Henry V|CANTERBURY|With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|But there's a saying very old and true,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|'If that you will France win,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Then with Scotland first begin:'
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|For once the eagle England being in prey,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|To tear and havoc more than she can eat.
Henry V|EXETER|It follows then the cat must stay at home:
Henry V|EXETER|Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,
Henry V|EXETER|Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,
Henry V|EXETER|And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
Henry V|EXETER|While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,
Henry V|EXETER|The advised head defends itself at home,
Henry V|EXETER|For government, though high and low and lower,
Henry V|EXETER|Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
Henry V|EXETER|Congreeing in a full and natural close,
Henry V|EXETER|Like music.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Therefore doth heaven divide
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The state of man in divers functions,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Setting endeavour in continual motion,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|They have a king and officers of sorts,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Which pillage they with merry march bring home
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To the tent-royal of their emperor,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The singing masons building roofs of gold,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Delivering o'er to executors pale
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|That many things, having full reference
Henry V|CANTERBURY|To one consent, may work contrariously:
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As many arrows, loosed several ways,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Come to one mark, as many ways meet in one town,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|As many lines close in the dial's centre,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|So may a thousand actions, once afoot.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|End in one purpose, and be all well borne
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Divide your happy England into four,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Whereof take you one quarter into France,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
Henry V|CANTERBURY|If we, with thrice such powers left at home,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,
Henry V|CANTERBURY|Let us be worried and our nation lose
Henry V|CANTERBURY|The name of hardiness and policy.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt some Attendants
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now are we well resolved, and, by God's help,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And yours, the noble sinews of our power,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Ruling in large and ample empery
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Tombless, with no remembrance over them:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Either our history shall with full mouth
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter Ambassadors of France
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of our fair cousin Dauphin, for we hear
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
Henry V|First Ambassador|May't please your majesty to give us leave
Henry V|First Ambassador|Freely to render what we have in charge,
Henry V|First Ambassador|Or shall we sparingly show you far off
Henry V|First Ambassador|The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We are no tyrant, but a Christian king,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Unto whose grace our passion is as subject
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
Henry V|First Ambassador|Thus, then, in few.
Henry V|First Ambassador|Your highness, lately sending into France,
Henry V|First Ambassador|Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
Henry V|First Ambassador|Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
Henry V|First Ambassador|In answer of which claim, the prince our master
Henry V|First Ambassador|Says that you savour too much of your youth,
Henry V|First Ambassador|And bids you be advised there's nought in France
Henry V|First Ambassador|That can be with a nimble galliard won,
Henry V|First Ambassador|You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
Henry V|First Ambassador|He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
Henry V|First Ambassador|This tun of treasure, and, in lieu of this,
Henry V|First Ambassador|Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
Henry V|First Ambassador|Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What treasure, uncle?
Henry V|EXETER|Tennis-balls, my liege.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|His present and your pains we thank you for:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With chaces. And we understand him well,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Not measuring what use we made of them.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We never valued this poor seat of England,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To barbarous licence, as 'tis ever common
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That men are merriest when they are from home.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Be like a king and show my sail of greatness
Henry V|KING HENRY V|When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For that I have laid by my majesty
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And plodded like a man for working-days,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But I will rise there with so full a glory
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones, and his soul
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And some are yet ungotten and unborn
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But this lies all within the will of God,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To whom I do appeal, and in whose name
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To venge me as I may and to put forth
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|So get you hence in peace, and tell the Dauphin
Henry V|KING HENRY V|His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt Ambassadors
Henry V|EXETER|This was a merry message.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We hope to make the sender blush at it.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That may give furtherance to our expedition,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For we have now no thought in us but France,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Save those to God, that run before our business.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Therefore let our proportions for these wars
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Be soon collected and all things thought upon
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That may with reasonable swiftness add
Henry V|KING HENRY V|More feathers to our wings, for, God before,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Therefore let every man now task his thought,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That this fair action may on foot be brought.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt. Flourish
Henry V|KING HENRY V|ACT II
Henry V|KING HENRY V|PROLOGUE
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter Chorus
Henry V|Chorus|Now all the youth of England are on fire,
Henry V|Chorus|And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
Henry V|Chorus|Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
Henry V|Chorus|Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
Henry V|Chorus|They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,
Henry V|Chorus|Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
Henry V|Chorus|With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
Henry V|Chorus|For now sits Expectation in the air,
Henry V|Chorus|And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
Henry V|Chorus|With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,
Henry V|Chorus|Promised to Harry and his followers.
Henry V|Chorus|The French, advised by good intelligence
Henry V|Chorus|Of this most dreadful preparation,
Henry V|Chorus|Shake in their fear and with pale policy
Henry V|Chorus|Seek to divert the English purposes.
Henry V|Chorus|O England! model to thy inward greatness,
Henry V|Chorus|Like little body with a mighty heart,
Henry V|Chorus|What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,
Henry V|Chorus|Were all thy children kind and natural!
Henry V|Chorus|But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
Henry V|Chorus|A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills
Henry V|Chorus|With treacherous crowns, and three corrupted men,
Henry V|Chorus|One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second,
Henry V|Chorus|Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third,
Henry V|Chorus|Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,
Henry V|Chorus|Have, for the gilt of France,--O guilt indeed!
Henry V|Chorus|Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France,
Henry V|Chorus|And by their hands this grace of kings must die,
Henry V|Chorus|If hell and treason hold their promises,
Henry V|Chorus|Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
Henry V|Chorus|Linger your patience on, and we'll digest
Henry V|Chorus|The abuse of distance, force a play:
Henry V|Chorus|The sum is paid, the traitors are agreed,
Henry V|Chorus|The king is set from London, and the scene
Henry V|Chorus|Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton,
Henry V|Chorus|There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
Henry V|Chorus|And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
Henry V|Chorus|And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
Henry V|Chorus|To give you gentle pass, for, if we may,
Henry V|Chorus|We'll not offend one stomach with our play.
Henry V|Chorus|But, till the king come forth, and not till then,
Henry V|Chorus|Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
Henry V|Chorus|Exit
Henry V|Chorus|SCENE I. London. A street.
Henry V|Chorus|Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Well met, Corporal Nym.
Henry V|NYM|Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?
Henry V|NYM|For my part, I care not: I say little, but when
Henry V|NYM|time shall serve, there shall be smiles, but that
Henry V|NYM|shall be as it may. I dare not fight, but I will
Henry V|NYM|wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one, but
Henry V|NYM|what though? it will toast cheese, and it will
Henry V|NYM|endure cold as another man's sword will: and
Henry V|NYM|there's an end.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends, and
Henry V|BARDOLPH|we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it
Henry V|BARDOLPH|be so, good Corporal Nym.
Henry V|NYM|Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the
Henry V|NYM|certain of it, and when I cannot live any longer, I
Henry V|NYM|will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the
Henry V|NYM|rendezvous of it.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong, for you
Henry V|BARDOLPH|were troth-plight to her.
Henry V|NYM|I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men may
Henry V|NYM|sleep, and they may have their throats about them at
Henry V|NYM|that time, and some say knives have edges. It must
Henry V|NYM|be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet
Henry V|NYM|she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I
Henry V|NYM|cannot tell.
Henry V|NYM|Enter PISTOL and Hostess
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good
Henry V|BARDOLPH|corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!
Henry V|PISTOL|Base tike, call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand,
Henry V|PISTOL|I swear, I scorn the term, Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.
Henry V|Hostess|No, by my troth, not long, for we cannot lodge and
Henry V|Hostess|board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live
Henry V|Hostess|honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will
Henry V|Hostess|be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.
Henry V|Hostess|NYM and PISTOL draw
Henry V|Hostess|O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we
Henry V|Hostess|shall see wilful adultery and murder committed.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.
Henry V|NYM|Pish!
Henry V|PISTOL|Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!
Henry V|Hostess|Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.
Henry V|NYM|Will you shog off? I would have you solus.
Henry V|PISTOL|'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!
Henry V|PISTOL|The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face,
Henry V|PISTOL|The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
Henry V|PISTOL|And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,
Henry V|PISTOL|And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
Henry V|PISTOL|I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels,
Henry V|PISTOL|For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,
Henry V|PISTOL|And flashing fire will follow.
Henry V|NYM|I am not Barbason, you cannot conjure me. I have an
Henry V|NYM|humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow
Henry V|NYM|foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my
Henry V|NYM|rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk
Henry V|NYM|off, I would prick your guts a little, in good
Henry V|NYM|terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it.
Henry V|PISTOL|O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
Henry V|PISTOL|The grave doth gape, and doting death is near,
Henry V|PISTOL|Therefore exhale.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the
Henry V|BARDOLPH|first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Draws
Henry V|PISTOL|An oath of mickle might, and fury shall abate.
Henry V|PISTOL|Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:
Henry V|PISTOL|Thy spirits are most tall.
Henry V|NYM|I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair
Henry V|NYM|terms: that is the humour of it.
Henry V|PISTOL|'Couple a gorge!'
Henry V|PISTOL|That is the word. I thee defy again.
Henry V|PISTOL|O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?
Henry V|PISTOL|No, to the spital go,
Henry V|PISTOL|And from the powdering tub of infamy
Henry V|PISTOL|Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,
Henry V|PISTOL|Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:
Henry V|PISTOL|I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly
Henry V|PISTOL|For the only she, and--pauca, there's enough. Go to.
Henry V|PISTOL|Enter the Boy
Henry V|Boy|Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and
Henry V|Boy|you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed.
Henry V|Boy|Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and
Henry V|Boy|do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Away, you rogue!
Henry V|Hostess|By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of
Henry V|Hostess|these days. The king has killed his heart. Good
Henry V|Hostess|husband, come home presently.
Henry V|Hostess|Exeunt Hostess and Boy
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to
Henry V|BARDOLPH|France together: why the devil should we keep
Henry V|BARDOLPH|knives to cut one another's throats?
Henry V|PISTOL|Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
Henry V|NYM|You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?
Henry V|PISTOL|Base is the slave that pays.
Henry V|NYM|That now I will have: that's the humour of it.
Henry V|PISTOL|As manhood shall compound: push home.
Henry V|PISTOL|They draw
Henry V|BARDOLPH|By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll
Henry V|BARDOLPH|kill him, by this sword, I will.
Henry V|PISTOL|Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:
Henry V|BARDOLPH|an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Prithee, put up.
Henry V|NYM|I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?
Henry V|PISTOL|A noble shalt thou have, and present pay,
Henry V|PISTOL|And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
Henry V|PISTOL|And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:
Henry V|PISTOL|I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me,
Henry V|PISTOL|Is not this just? for I shall sutler be
Henry V|PISTOL|Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
Henry V|PISTOL|Give me thy hand.
Henry V|NYM|I shall have my noble?
Henry V|PISTOL|In cash most justly paid.
Henry V|NYM|Well, then, that's the humour of't.
Henry V|NYM|Re-enter Hostess
Henry V|Hostess|As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir
Henry V|Hostess|John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning
Henry V|Hostess|quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to
Henry V|Hostess|behold. Sweet men, come to him.
Henry V|NYM|The king hath run bad humours on the knight, that's
Henry V|NYM|the even of it.
Henry V|PISTOL|Nym, thou hast spoke the right,
Henry V|PISTOL|His heart is fracted and corroborate.
Henry V|NYM|The king is a good king: but it must be as it may,
Henry V|NYM|he passes some humours and careers.
Henry V|PISTOL|Let us condole the knight, for, lambkins we will live.
Henry V|PISTOL|SCENE II. Southampton. A council-chamber.
Henry V|PISTOL|Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND
Henry V|BEDFORD|'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
Henry V|EXETER|They shall be apprehended by and by.
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
Henry V|BEDFORD|The king hath note of all that they intend,
Henry V|BEDFORD|By interception which they dream not of.
Henry V|EXETER|Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
Henry V|EXETER|Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,
Henry V|EXETER|That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
Henry V|EXETER|His sovereign's life to death and treachery.
Henry V|EXETER|Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY V, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Think you not that the powers we bear with us
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Will cut their passage through the force of France,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Doing the execution and the act
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For which we have in head assembled them?
Henry V|SCROOP|No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I doubt not that, since we are well persuaded
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We carry not a heart with us from hence
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That grows not in a fair consent with ours,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Success and conquest to attend on us.
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|Never was monarch better fear'd and loved
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|Under the sweet shade of your government.
Henry V|GREY|True: those that were your father's enemies
Henry V|GREY|Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you
Henry V|GREY|With hearts create of duty and of zeal.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We therefore have great cause of thankfulness,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And shall forget the office of our hand,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
Henry V|KING HENRY V|According to the weight and worthiness.
Henry V|SCROOP|So service shall with steeled sinews toil,
Henry V|SCROOP|And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
Henry V|SCROOP|To do your grace incessant services.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That rail'd against our person: we consider
Henry V|KING HENRY V|it was excess of wine that set him on,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And on his more advice we pardon him.
Henry V|SCROOP|That's mercy, but too much security:
Henry V|SCROOP|Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example
Henry V|SCROOP|Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O, let us yet be merciful.
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|So may your highness, and yet punish too.
Henry V|GREY|Sir,
Henry V|GREY|You show great mercy, if you give him life,
Henry V|GREY|After the taste of much correction.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Alas, your too much love and care of me
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye
Henry V|KING HENRY V|When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And tender preservation of our person,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Would have him punished. And now to our French causes:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Who are the late commissioners?
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|I one, my lord:
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.
Henry V|SCROOP|So did you me, my liege.
Henry V|GREY|And I, my royal sovereign.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham, and, sir knight,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Read them, and know, I know your worthiness.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What see you in those papers that you lose
Henry V|KING HENRY V|So much complexion? Look ye, how they change!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That hath so cowarded and chased your blood
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Out of appearance?
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|I do confess my fault,
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|And do submit me to your highness' mercy.
Henry V|SCROOP|To which we all appeal.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The mercy that was quick in us but late,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|See you, my princes, and my noble peers,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|You know how apt our love was to accord
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To furnish him with all appertinents
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Belonging to his honour, and this man
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And sworn unto the practises of France,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To kill us here in Hampton: to the which
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|May it be possible, that foreign hire
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That, though the truth of it stands off as gross
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Treason and murder ever kept together,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Working so grossly in a natural cause,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That admiration did not whoop at them:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That wrought upon thee so preposterously
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|All other devils that suggest by treasons
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Do botch and bungle up damnation
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
Henry V|KING HENRY V|From glistering semblances of piety,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|He might return to vasty Tartar back,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And tell the legions 'I can never win
Henry V|KING HENRY V|A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O, how hast thou with 'jealousy infected
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Not working with the eye without the ear,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And but in purged judgment trusting neither?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To mark the full-fraught man and best indued
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With some suspicion. I will weep for thee,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Another fall of man. Their faults are open:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Arrest them to the answer of the law,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And God acquit them of their practises!
Henry V|EXETER|I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
Henry V|EXETER|Richard Earl of Cambridge.
Henry V|EXETER|I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
Henry V|EXETER|Henry Lord Scroop of Masham.
Henry V|EXETER|I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
Henry V|EXETER|Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.
Henry V|SCROOP|Our purposes God justly hath discover'd,
Henry V|SCROOP|And I repent my fault more than my death,
Henry V|SCROOP|Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
Henry V|SCROOP|Although my body pay the price of it.
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|For me, the gold of France did not seduce,
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|Although I did admit it as a motive
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|The sooner to effect what I intended:
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|But God be thanked for prevention,
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
Henry V|CAMBRIDGE|Beseeching God and you to pardon me.
Henry V|GREY|Never did faithful subject more rejoice
Henry V|GREY|At the discovery of most dangerous treason
Henry V|GREY|Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself.
Henry V|GREY|Prevented from a damned enterprise:
Henry V|GREY|My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|You have conspired against our royal person,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Received the golden earnest of our death,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|His princes and his peers to servitude,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|His subjects to oppression and contempt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And his whole kingdom into desolation.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Touching our person seek we no revenge,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The taste whereof, God of his mercy give
Henry V|KING HENRY V|You patience to endure, and true repentance
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt CAMBRIDGE, SCROOP and GREY, guarded
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now, lords, for France, the enterprise whereof
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Since God so graciously hath brought to light
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This dangerous treason lurking in our way
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But every rub is smoothed on our way.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Our puissance into the hand of God,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Putting it straight in expedition.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Cheerly to sea, the signs of war advance:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No king of England, if not king of France.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE III. London. Before a tavern.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy
Henry V|Hostess|Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.
Henry V|PISTOL|No, for my manly heart doth yearn.
Henry V|PISTOL|Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:
Henry V|PISTOL|Boy, bristle thy courage up, for Falstaff he is dead,
Henry V|PISTOL|And we must yearn therefore.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in
Henry V|BARDOLPH|heaven or in hell!
Henry V|Hostess|Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's
Henry V|Hostess|bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made
Henry V|Hostess|a finer end and went away an it had been any
Henry V|Hostess|christom child, a' parted even just between twelve
Henry V|Hostess|and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after
Henry V|Hostess|I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with
Henry V|Hostess|flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew
Henry V|Hostess|there was but one way, for his nose was as sharp as
Henry V|Hostess|a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,
Henry V|Hostess|sir John!' quoth I	'what, man! be o' good
Henry V|Hostess|cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or
Henry V|Hostess|four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'
Henry V|Hostess|should not think of God, I hoped there was no need
Henry V|Hostess|to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So
Henry V|Hostess|a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my
Henry V|Hostess|hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as
Henry V|Hostess|cold as any stone, then I felt to his knees, and
Henry V|Hostess|they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and
Henry V|Hostess|upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Henry V|NYM|They say he cried out of sack.
Henry V|Hostess|Ay, that a' did.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|And of women.
Henry V|Hostess|Nay, that a' did not.
Henry V|Boy|Yes, that a' did, and said they were devils
Henry V|Boy|incarnate.
Henry V|Hostess|A' could never abide carnation, 'twas a colour he
Henry V|Hostess|never liked.
Henry V|Boy|A' said once, the devil would have him about women.
Henry V|Hostess|A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women, but then
Henry V|Hostess|he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.
Henry V|Boy|Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon
Henry V|Boy|Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul
Henry V|Boy|burning in hell-fire?
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:
Henry V|BARDOLPH|that's all the riches I got in his service.
Henry V|NYM|Shall we shog? the king will be gone from
Henry V|NYM|Southampton.
Henry V|PISTOL|Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.
Henry V|PISTOL|Look to my chattels and my movables:
Henry V|PISTOL|Let senses rule, the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'
Henry V|PISTOL|Trust none,
Henry V|PISTOL|For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
Henry V|PISTOL|And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:
Henry V|PISTOL|Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.
Henry V|PISTOL|Go, clear thy c rystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,
Henry V|PISTOL|Let us to France, like horse-leeches, my boys,
Henry V|PISTOL|To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
Henry V|Boy|And that's but unwholesome food they say.
Henry V|PISTOL|Touch her soft mouth, and march.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Farewell, hostess.
Henry V|BARDOLPH|Kissing her
Henry V|NYM|I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it, but, adieu.
Henry V|PISTOL|Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
Henry V|Hostess|Farewell, adieu.
Henry V|Hostess|Exeunt
Henry V|Hostess|SCENE IV. France. The KING'S palace.
Henry V|Hostess|Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the Constable, and others
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Thus comes the English with full power upon us,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And more than carefully it us concerns
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To answer royally in our defences.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To line and new repair our towns of war
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|With men of courage and with means defendant,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|For England his approaches makes as fierce
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|It fits us then to be as provident
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|As fear may teach us out of late examples
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Left by the fatal and neglected English
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Upon our fields.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|My most redoubted father,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|But that defences, musters, preparations,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|As were a war in expectation.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth
Henry V|DAUPHIN|To view the sick and feeble parts of France:
Henry V|DAUPHIN|And let us do it with no show of fear,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|No, with no more than if we heard that England
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
Henry V|DAUPHIN|For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Her sceptre so fantastically borne
Henry V|DAUPHIN|By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|That fear attends her not.
Henry V|Constable|O peace, Prince Dauphin!
Henry V|Constable|You are too much mistaken in this king:
Henry V|Constable|Question your grace the late ambassadors,
Henry V|Constable|With what great state he heard their embassy,
Henry V|Constable|How well supplied with noble counsellors,
Henry V|Constable|How modest in exception, and withal
Henry V|Constable|How terrible in constant resolution,
Henry V|Constable|And you shall find his vanities forespent
Henry V|Constable|Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Henry V|Constable|Covering discretion with a coat of folly,
Henry V|Constable|As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
Henry V|Constable|That shall first spring and be most delicate.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|But though we think it so, it is no matter:
Henry V|DAUPHIN|In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
Henry V|DAUPHIN|The enemy more mighty than he seems:
Henry V|DAUPHIN|So the proportions of defence are fill'd,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Which of a weak or niggardly projection
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
Henry V|DAUPHIN|A little cloth.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Think we King Harry strong,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And he is bred out of that bloody strain
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|That haunted us in our familiar paths:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Witness our too much memorable shame
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Mangle the work of nature and deface
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|The patterns that by God and by French fathers
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Of that victorious stock, and let us fear
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|The native mightiness and fate of him.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Enter a Messenger
Henry V|Messenger|Ambassadors from Harry King of England
Henry V|Messenger|Do crave admittance to your majesty.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Turn head, and stop pursuit, for coward dogs
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Take up the English short, and let them know
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Of what a monarchy you are the head:
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
Henry V|DAUPHIN|As self-neglecting.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|From our brother England?
Henry V|EXETER|From him, and thus he greets your majesty.
Henry V|EXETER|He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
Henry V|EXETER|That you divest yourself, and lay apart
Henry V|EXETER|The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,
Henry V|EXETER|By law of nature and of nations, 'long
Henry V|EXETER|To him and to his heirs, namely, the crown
Henry V|EXETER|And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
Henry V|EXETER|By custom and the ordinance of times
Henry V|EXETER|Unto the crown of France. That you may know
Henry V|EXETER|'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
Henry V|EXETER|Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
Henry V|EXETER|Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
Henry V|EXETER|He sends you this most memorable line,
Henry V|EXETER|In every branch truly demonstrative,
Henry V|EXETER|Willing to overlook this pedigree:
Henry V|EXETER|And when you find him evenly derived
Henry V|EXETER|From his most famed of famous ancestors,
Henry V|EXETER|Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
Henry V|EXETER|Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
Henry V|EXETER|From him the native and true challenger.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Or else what follows?
Henry V|EXETER|Bloody constraint, for if you hide the crown
Henry V|EXETER|Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
Henry V|EXETER|Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
Henry V|EXETER|In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,
Henry V|EXETER|That, if requiring fail, he will compel,
Henry V|EXETER|And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
Henry V|EXETER|Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
Henry V|EXETER|On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
Henry V|EXETER|Opens his vasty jaws, and on your head
Henry V|EXETER|Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries
Henry V|EXETER|The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,
Henry V|EXETER|For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,
Henry V|EXETER|That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
Henry V|EXETER|This is his claim, his threatening and my message,
Henry V|EXETER|Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
Henry V|EXETER|To whom expressly I bring greeting too.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|For us, we will consider of this further:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Back to our brother England.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|For the Dauphin,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|I stand here for him: what to him from England?
Henry V|EXETER|Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt,
Henry V|EXETER|And any thing that may not misbecome
Henry V|EXETER|The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
Henry V|EXETER|Thus says my king, an' if your father's highness
Henry V|EXETER|Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
Henry V|EXETER|Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
Henry V|EXETER|He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
Henry V|EXETER|That caves and womby vaultages of France
Henry V|EXETER|Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
Henry V|EXETER|In second accent of his ordnance.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Say, if my father render fair return,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|It is against my will, for I desire
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|As matching to his youth and vanity,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|I did present him with the Paris balls.
Henry V|EXETER|He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,
Henry V|EXETER|Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:
Henry V|EXETER|And, be assured, you'll find a difference,
Henry V|EXETER|As we his subjects have in wonder found,
Henry V|EXETER|Between the promise of his greener days
Henry V|EXETER|And these he masters now: now he weighs time
Henry V|EXETER|Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read
Henry V|EXETER|In your own losses, if he stay in France.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.
Henry V|EXETER|Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king
Henry V|EXETER|Come here himself to question our delay,
Henry V|EXETER|For he is footed in this land already.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|You shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|A night is but small breath and little pause
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To answer matters of this consequence.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Flourish. Exeunt
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|ACT III
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|PROLOGUE
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Enter Chorus
Henry V|Chorus|Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
Henry V|Chorus|In motion of no less celerity
Henry V|Chorus|Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
Henry V|Chorus|The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
Henry V|Chorus|Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet
Henry V|Chorus|With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:
Henry V|Chorus|Play with your fancies, and in them behold
Henry V|Chorus|Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing,
Henry V|Chorus|Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
Henry V|Chorus|To sounds confused, behold the threaden sails,
Henry V|Chorus|Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Henry V|Chorus|Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Henry V|Chorus|Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
Henry V|Chorus|You stand upon the ravage and behold
Henry V|Chorus|A city on the inconstant billows dancing,
Henry V|Chorus|For so appears this fleet majestical,
Henry V|Chorus|Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow:
Henry V|Chorus|Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
Henry V|Chorus|And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
Henry V|Chorus|Guarded with grandsires, babies and old women,
Henry V|Chorus|Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance,
Henry V|Chorus|For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd
Henry V|Chorus|With one appearing hair, that will not follow
Henry V|Chorus|These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
Henry V|Chorus|Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege,
Henry V|Chorus|Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
Henry V|Chorus|With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
Henry V|Chorus|Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back,
Henry V|Chorus|Tells Harry that the king doth offer him
Henry V|Chorus|Katharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,
Henry V|Chorus|Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
Henry V|Chorus|The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner
Henry V|Chorus|With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,
Henry V|Chorus|Alarum, and chambers go off
Henry V|Chorus|And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
Henry V|Chorus|And eke out our performance with your mind.
Henry V|Chorus|Exit
Henry V|Chorus|SCENE I. France. Before Harfleur.
Henry V|Chorus|Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or close the wall up with our English dead.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As modest stillness and humility:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then imitate the action of the tiger,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Let pry through the portage of the head
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Like the brass cannon, let the brow o'erwhelm it
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As fearfully as doth a galled rock
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Have in these parts from morn till even fought
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Dishonour not your mothers, now attest
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The mettle of your pasture, let us swear
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For there is none of you so mean and base,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE II. The same.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy
Henry V|BARDOLPH|On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!
Henry V|NYM|Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot,
Henry V|NYM|and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:
Henry V|NYM|the humour of it is too hot, that is the very
Henry V|NYM|plain-song of it.
Henry V|PISTOL|The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound:
Henry V|PISTOL|Knocks go and come, God's vassals drop and die,
Henry V|PISTOL|And sword and shield,
Henry V|PISTOL|In bloody field,
Henry V|PISTOL|Doth win immortal fame.
Henry V|Boy|Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give
Henry V|Boy|all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
Henry V|PISTOL|And I:
Henry V|PISTOL|If wishes would prevail with me,
Henry V|PISTOL|My purpose should not fail with me,
Henry V|PISTOL|But thither would I hie.
Henry V|Boy|As duly, but not as truly,
Henry V|Boy|As bird doth sing on bough.
Henry V|Boy|Enter FLUELLEN
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Driving them forward
Henry V|PISTOL|Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.
Henry V|PISTOL|Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,
Henry V|PISTOL|Abate thy rage, great duke!
Henry V|PISTOL|Good bawcock, bate thy rage, use lenity, sweet chuck!
Henry V|NYM|These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.
Henry V|NYM|Exeunt all but Boy
Henry V|Boy|As young as I am, I have observed these three
Henry V|Boy|swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they
Henry V|Boy|three, though they would serve me, could not be man
Henry V|Boy|to me, for indeed three such antics do not amount to
Henry V|Boy|a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and
Henry V|Boy|red-faced, by the means whereof a' faces it out, but
Henry V|Boy|fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue
Henry V|Boy|and a quiet sword, by the means whereof a' breaks
Henry V|Boy|words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath
Henry V|Boy|heard that men of few words are the best men, and
Henry V|Boy|therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a'
Henry V|Boy|should be thought a coward: but his few bad words
Henry V|Boy|are matched with as few good deeds, for a' never
Henry V|Boy|broke any man's head but his own, and that was
Henry V|Boy|against a post when he was drunk. They will steal
Henry V|Boy|any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a
Henry V|Boy|lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for
Henry V|Boy|three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn
Henry V|Boy|brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a
Henry V|Boy|fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of service the
Henry V|Boy|men would carry coals. They would have me as
Henry V|Boy|familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their
Henry V|Boy|handkerchers: which makes much against my manhood,
Henry V|Boy|if I should take from another's pocket to put into
Henry V|Boy|mine, for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I
Henry V|Boy|must leave them, and seek some better service:
Henry V|Boy|their villany goes against my weak stomach, and
Henry V|Boy|therefore I must cast it up.
Henry V|Boy|Exit
Henry V|Boy|Re-enter FLUELLEN, GOWER following
Henry V|GOWER|Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the
Henry V|GOWER|mines, the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not so good
Henry V|FLUELLEN|to come to the mines, for, look you, the mines is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|not according to the disciplines of the war: the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|concavities of it is not sufficient, for, look you,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the athversary, you may discuss unto the duke, look
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you, is digt himself four yard under the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|countermines: by Cheshu, I think a' will plough up
Henry V|FLUELLEN|all, if there is not better directions.
Henry V|GOWER|The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the
Henry V|GOWER|siege is given, is altogether directed by an
Henry V|GOWER|Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i' faith.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?
Henry V|GOWER|I think it be.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will
Henry V|FLUELLEN|verify as much in his beard: be has no more
Henry V|FLUELLEN|directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY
Henry V|GOWER|Here a' comes, and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Captain Jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|that is certain, and of great expedition and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon my particular
Henry V|FLUELLEN|knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will
Henry V|FLUELLEN|maintain his argument as well as any military man in
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars
Henry V|FLUELLEN|of the Romans.
Henry V|JAMY|I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|God-den to your worship, good Captain James.
Henry V|GOWER|How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the
Henry V|GOWER|mines? have the pioneers given o'er?
Henry V|MACMORRIS|By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work ish give
Henry V|MACMORRIS|over, the trompet sound the retreat. By my hand, I
Henry V|MACMORRIS|swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done,
Henry V|MACMORRIS|it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so
Henry V|MACMORRIS|Chrish save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,
Henry V|MACMORRIS|tish ill done, by my hand, tish ill done!
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you
Henry V|FLUELLEN|voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations with you,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|look you, and friendly communication, partly to
Henry V|FLUELLEN|satisfy my opinion, and partly for the satisfaction,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the military discipline, that is the point.
Henry V|JAMY|It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath:
Henry V|JAMY|and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick
Henry V|JAMY|occasion, that sall I, marry.
Henry V|MACMORRIS|It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me: the
Henry V|MACMORRIS|day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the
Henry V|MACMORRIS|king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse. The
Henry V|MACMORRIS|town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the
Henry V|MACMORRIS|breach, and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing:
Henry V|MACMORRIS|'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to
Henry V|MACMORRIS|stand still, it is shame, by my hand: and there is
Henry V|MACMORRIS|throats to be cut, and works to be done, and there
Henry V|MACMORRIS|ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!
Henry V|JAMY|By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves
Henry V|JAMY|to slomber, ay'll de gud service, or ay'll lig i'
Henry V|JAMY|the grund for it, ay, or go to death, and ay'll pay
Henry V|JAMY|'t as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do,
Henry V|JAMY|that is the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full
Henry V|JAMY|fain hear some question 'tween you tway.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your
Henry V|FLUELLEN|correction, there is not many of your nation--
Henry V|MACMORRIS|Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain,
Henry V|MACMORRIS|and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish
Henry V|MACMORRIS|my nation? Who talks of my nation?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you do not use me with that affability as in
Henry V|FLUELLEN|discretion you ought to use me, look you: being as
Henry V|FLUELLEN|good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of
Henry V|FLUELLEN|war, and in the derivation of my birth, and in
Henry V|FLUELLEN|other particularities.
Henry V|MACMORRIS|I do not know you so good a man as myself: so
Henry V|MACMORRIS|Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.
Henry V|GOWER|Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.
Henry V|JAMY|A! that's a foul fault.
Henry V|JAMY|A parley sounded
Henry V|GOWER|The town sounds a parley.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Captain Macmorris, when there is more better
Henry V|FLUELLEN|opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so
Henry V|FLUELLEN|bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of war,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|and there is an end.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Exeunt
Henry V|FLUELLEN|SCENE III. The same. Before the gates.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|The Governor and some Citizens on the walls, the English forces below. Enter KING HENRY and his train
Henry V|KING HENRY V|How yet resolves the governor of the town?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This is the latest parle we will admit,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or like to men proud of destruction
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If I begin the battery once again,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Till in her ashes she lie buried.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|In liberty of bloody hand shall range
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What is it then to me, if impious war,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If your pure maidens fall into the hand
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of hot and forcing violation?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What rein can hold licentious wickedness
Henry V|KING HENRY V|When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We may as bootless spend our vain command
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As send precepts to the leviathan
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Take pity of your town and of your people,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If not, why, in a moment look to see
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
Henry V|KING HENRY V|At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?
Henry V|GOVERNOR|Our expectation hath this day an end:
Henry V|GOVERNOR|The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,
Henry V|GOVERNOR|Returns us that his powers are yet not ready
Henry V|GOVERNOR|To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,
Henry V|GOVERNOR|We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
Henry V|GOVERNOR|Enter our gates, dispose of us and ours,
Henry V|GOVERNOR|For we no longer are defensible.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Go you and enter Harfleur, there remain,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The winter coming on and sickness growing
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To-morrow for the march are we addrest.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Flourish. The King and his train enter the town
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE IV. The FRENCH KING's palace.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter KATHARINE and ALICE
Henry V|KATHARINE|Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage.
Henry V|ALICE|Un peu, madame.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Je te prie, m'enseignez: il faut que j'apprenne a
Henry V|KATHARINE|parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en Anglois?
Henry V|ALICE|La main? elle est appelee de hand.
Henry V|KATHARINE|De hand. Et les doigts?
Henry V|ALICE|Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les doigts, mais je me
Henry V|ALICE|souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont
Henry V|ALICE|appeles de fingres, oui, de fingres.
Henry V|KATHARINE|La main, de hand, les doigts, de fingres. Je pense
Henry V|KATHARINE|que je suis le bon ecolier, j'ai gagne deux mots
Henry V|KATHARINE|d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?
Henry V|ALICE|Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails.
Henry V|KATHARINE|De nails. Ecoutez, dites-moi, si je parle bien: de
Henry V|KATHARINE|hand, de fingres, et de nails.
Henry V|ALICE|C'est bien dit, madame, il est fort bon Anglois.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras.
Henry V|ALICE|De arm, madame.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Et le coude?
Henry V|ALICE|De elbow.
Henry V|KATHARINE|De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition de tous les
Henry V|KATHARINE|mots que vous m'avez appris des a present.
Henry V|ALICE|Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Excusez-moi, Alice, ecoutez: de hand, de fingres,
Henry V|KATHARINE|de nails, de arma, de bilbow.
Henry V|ALICE|De elbow, madame.
Henry V|KATHARINE|O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment
Henry V|KATHARINE|appelez-vous le col?
Henry V|ALICE|De neck, madame.
Henry V|KATHARINE|De nick. Et le menton?
Henry V|ALICE|De chin.
Henry V|KATHARINE|De sin. Le col, de nick, de menton, de sin.
Henry V|ALICE|Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, vous prononcez
Henry V|ALICE|les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu,
Henry V|KATHARINE|et en peu de temps.
Henry V|ALICE|N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne?
Henry V|KATHARINE|Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de
Henry V|KATHARINE|fingres, de mails--
Henry V|ALICE|De nails, madame.
Henry V|KATHARINE|De nails, de arm, de ilbow.
Henry V|ALICE|Sauf votre honneur, de elbow.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Ainsi dis-je, de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment
Henry V|KATHARINE|appelez-vous le pied et la robe?
Henry V|ALICE|De foot, madame, et de coun.
Henry V|KATHARINE|De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
Henry V|KATHARINE|de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
Henry V|KATHARINE|non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais
Henry V|KATHARINE|prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
Henry V|KATHARINE|pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
Henry V|KATHARINE|Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
Henry V|KATHARINE|ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de
Henry V|KATHARINE|elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.
Henry V|ALICE|Excellent, madame!
Henry V|KATHARINE|C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous a diner.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Exeunt
Henry V|KATHARINE|SCENE V. The same.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE oF BOURBON, the Constable Of France, and others
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.
Henry V|Constable|And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
Henry V|Constable|Let us not live in France, let us quit all
Henry V|Constable|And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|The emptying of our fathers' luxury,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|And overlook their grafters?
Henry V|BOURBON|Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!
Henry V|BOURBON|Mort de ma vie! if they march along
Henry V|BOURBON|Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,
Henry V|BOURBON|To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
Henry V|BOURBON|In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.
Henry V|Constable|Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?
Henry V|Constable|Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,
Henry V|Constable|On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,
Henry V|Constable|Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
Henry V|Constable|A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,
Henry V|Constable|Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?
Henry V|Constable|And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,
Henry V|Constable|Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,
Henry V|Constable|Let us not hang like roping icicles
Henry V|Constable|Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people
Henry V|Constable|Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!
Henry V|Constable|Poor we may call them in their native lords.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|By faith and honour,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Our madams mock at us, and plainly say
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Our mettle is bred out and they will give
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Their bodies to the lust of English youth
Henry V|DAUPHIN|To new-store France with bastard warriors.
Henry V|BOURBON|They bid us to the English dancing-schools,
Henry V|BOURBON|And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos,
Henry V|BOURBON|Saying our grace is only in our heels,
Henry V|BOURBON|And that we are most lofty runaways.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Charles Delabreth, high constable of France,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|For your great seats now quit you of great shames.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Go down upon him, you have power enough,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And in a captive chariot into Rouen
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Bring him our prisoner.
Henry V|Constable|This becomes the great.
Henry V|Constable|Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
Henry V|Constable|His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,
Henry V|Constable|For I am sure, when he shall see our army,
Henry V|Constable|He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear
Henry V|Constable|And for achievement offer us his ransom.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And let him say to England that we send
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To know what willing ransom he will give.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Not so, I do beseech your majesty.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Be patient, for you shall remain with us.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Now forth, lord constable and princes all,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|And quickly bring us word of England's fall.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Exeunt
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|SCENE VI. The English camp in Picardy.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting
Henry V|GOWER|How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I assure you, there is very excellent services
Henry V|FLUELLEN|committed at the bridge.
Henry V|GOWER|Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my
Henry V|FLUELLEN|heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|my uttermost power: he is not-God be praised and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|blessed!--any hurt in the world, but keeps the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as
Henry V|FLUELLEN|valiant a man as Mark Antony, and he is a man of no
Henry V|FLUELLEN|estimation in the world, but did see him do as
Henry V|FLUELLEN|gallant service.
Henry V|GOWER|What do you call him?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|He is called Aunchient Pistol.
Henry V|GOWER|I know him not.
Henry V|GOWER|Enter PISTOL
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Here is the man.
Henry V|PISTOL|Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:
Henry V|PISTOL|The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Ay, I praise God, and I have merited some love at
Henry V|FLUELLEN|his hands.
Henry V|PISTOL|Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
Henry V|PISTOL|And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate,
Henry V|PISTOL|And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,
Henry V|PISTOL|That goddess blind,
Henry V|PISTOL|That stands upon the rolling restless stone--
Henry V|FLUELLEN|By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to
Henry V|FLUELLEN|signify to you that Fortune is blind, and she is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which
Henry V|FLUELLEN|is the moral of it, that she is turning, and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|inconstant, and mutability, and variation: and her
Henry V|FLUELLEN|foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good truth,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the poet makes a most excellent description of it:
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Fortune is an excellent moral.
Henry V|PISTOL|Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him,
Henry V|PISTOL|For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:
Henry V|PISTOL|A damned death!
Henry V|PISTOL|Let gallows gape for dog, let man go free
Henry V|PISTOL|And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:
Henry V|PISTOL|But Exeter hath given the doom of death
Henry V|PISTOL|For pax of little price.
Henry V|PISTOL|Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice:
Henry V|PISTOL|And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
Henry V|PISTOL|With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
Henry V|PISTOL|Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.
Henry V|PISTOL|Why then, rejoice therefore.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice
Henry V|FLUELLEN|at: for if, look you, he were my brother, I would
Henry V|FLUELLEN|desire the duke to use his good pleasure, and put
Henry V|FLUELLEN|him to execution, for discipline ought to be used.
Henry V|PISTOL|Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!
Henry V|FLUELLEN|It is well.
Henry V|PISTOL|The fig of Spain!
Henry V|PISTOL|Exit
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Very good.
Henry V|GOWER|Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal, I
Henry V|GOWER|remember him now, a bawd, a cutpurse.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|bridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it
Henry V|FLUELLEN|is very well, what he has spoke to me, that is well,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I warrant you, when time is serve.
Henry V|GOWER|Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then
Henry V|GOWER|goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return
Henry V|GOWER|into London under the form of a soldier. And such
Henry V|GOWER|fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names:
Henry V|GOWER|and they will learn you by rote where services were
Henry V|GOWER|done, at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,
Henry V|GOWER|at such a convoy, who came off bravely, who was
Henry V|GOWER|shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on,
Henry V|GOWER|and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,
Henry V|GOWER|which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and what
Henry V|GOWER|a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of
Henry V|GOWER|the camp will do among foaming bottles and
Henry V|GOWER|ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. But
Henry V|GOWER|you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or
Henry V|GOWER|else you may be marvellously mistook.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I tell you what, Captain Gower, I do perceive he is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|not the man that he would gladly make show to the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|world he is: if I find a hole in his coat, I will
Henry V|FLUELLEN|tell him my mind.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Drum heard
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with
Henry V|FLUELLEN|him from the pridge.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Drum and colours. Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers
Henry V|FLUELLEN|God pless your majesty!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has
Henry V|FLUELLEN|very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|gone off, look you, and there is gallant and most
Henry V|FLUELLEN|prave passages, marry, th' athversary was have
Henry V|FLUELLEN|possession of the pridge, but he is enforced to
Henry V|FLUELLEN|retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a
Henry V|FLUELLEN|prave man.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What men have you lost, Fluellen?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|The perdition of th' athversary hath been very
Henry V|FLUELLEN|great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I
Henry V|FLUELLEN|think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that
Henry V|FLUELLEN|is like to be executed for robbing a church, one
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'
Henry V|FLUELLEN|fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like
Henry V|FLUELLEN|a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|but his nose is executed and his fire's out.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we
Henry V|KING HENRY V|give express charge, that in our marches through the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|country, there be nothing compelled from the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|French upbraided or abused in disdainful language,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Tucket. Enter MONTJOY
Henry V|MONTJOY|You know me by my habit.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?
Henry V|MONTJOY|My master's mind.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Unfold it.
Henry V|MONTJOY|Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:
Henry V|MONTJOY|Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage
Henry V|MONTJOY|is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we
Henry V|MONTJOY|could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we
Henry V|MONTJOY|thought not good to bruise an injury till it were
Henry V|MONTJOY|full ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our voice
Henry V|MONTJOY|is imperial: England shall repent his folly, see
Henry V|MONTJOY|his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him
Henry V|MONTJOY|therefore consider of his ransom, which must
Henry V|MONTJOY|proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we
Henry V|MONTJOY|have lost, the disgrace we have digested, which in
Henry V|MONTJOY|weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under.
Henry V|MONTJOY|For our losses, his exchequer is too poor, for the
Henry V|MONTJOY|effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too
Henry V|MONTJOY|faint a number, and for our disgrace, his own
Henry V|MONTJOY|person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and
Henry V|MONTJOY|worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and
Henry V|MONTJOY|tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his
Henry V|MONTJOY|followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far
Henry V|MONTJOY|my king and master, so much my office.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What is thy name? I know thy quality.
Henry V|MONTJOY|Montjoy.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And tell thy king I do not seek him now,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But could be willing to march on to Calais
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My numbers lessened, and those few I have
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Almost no better than so many French,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I thought upon one pair of English legs
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That I do brag thus! This your air of France
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Hath blown that vice in me: I must repent.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Go therefore, tell thy master here I am,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My army but a weak and sickly guard,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Though France himself and such another neighbour
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Go bid thy master well advise himself:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If we may pass, we will, if we be hinder'd,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Discolour: and so Montjoy, fare you well.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The sum of all our answer is but this:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We would not seek a battle, as we are,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|So tell your master.
Henry V|MONTJOY|I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness.
Henry V|MONTJOY|Exit
Henry V|GLOUCESTER|I hope they will not come upon us now.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|March to the bridge, it now draws toward night:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And on to-morrow, bid them march away.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE VII. The French camp, near Agincourt:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter the Constable of France, the LORD RAMBURES, ORLEANS, DAUPHIN, with others
Henry V|Constable|Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day!
Henry V|ORLEANS|You have an excellent armour, but let my horse have his due.
Henry V|Constable|It is the best horse of Europe.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Will it never be morning?
Henry V|DAUPHIN|My lord of Orleans, and my lord high constable, you
Henry V|DAUPHIN|talk of horse and armour?
Henry V|ORLEANS|You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|What a long night is this! I will not change my
Henry V|DAUPHIN|horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Ca, ha! he bounds from the earth, as if his
Henry V|DAUPHIN|entrails were hairs, le cheval volant, the Pegasus,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|chez les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I
Henry V|DAUPHIN|soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air, the earth
Henry V|DAUPHIN|sings when he touches it, the basest horn of his
Henry V|DAUPHIN|hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
Henry V|ORLEANS|He's of the colour of the nutmeg.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Perseus: he is pure air and fire, and the dull
Henry V|DAUPHIN|elements of earth and water never appear in him, but
Henry V|DAUPHIN|only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts
Henry V|DAUPHIN|him: he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you
Henry V|DAUPHIN|may call beasts.
Henry V|Constable|Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|It is the prince of palfreys, his neigh is like the
Henry V|DAUPHIN|bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.
Henry V|ORLEANS|No more, cousin.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the
Henry V|DAUPHIN|rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary
Henry V|DAUPHIN|deserved praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as
Henry V|DAUPHIN|fluent as the sea: turn the sands into eloquent
Henry V|DAUPHIN|tongues, and my horse is argument for them all:
Henry V|DAUPHIN|'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for
Henry V|DAUPHIN|a sovereign's sovereign to ride on, and for the
Henry V|DAUPHIN|world, familiar to us and unknown to lay apart
Henry V|DAUPHIN|their particular functions and wonder at him. I
Henry V|DAUPHIN|once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus:
Henry V|DAUPHIN|'Wonder of nature,'--
Henry V|ORLEANS|I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Then did they imitate that which I composed to my
Henry V|DAUPHIN|courser, for my horse is my mistress.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Your mistress bears well.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Me well, which is the prescript praise and
Henry V|DAUPHIN|perfection of a good and particular mistress.
Henry V|Constable|Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly
Henry V|Constable|shook your back.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|So perhaps did yours.
Henry V|Constable|Mine was not bridled.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|O then belike she was old and gentle, and you rode,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in
Henry V|DAUPHIN|your straight strossers.
Henry V|Constable|You have good judgment in horsemanship.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride
Henry V|DAUPHIN|not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have
Henry V|DAUPHIN|my horse to my mistress.
Henry V|Constable|I had as lief have my mistress a jade.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair.
Henry V|Constable|I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow
Henry V|Constable|to my mistress.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et
Henry V|DAUPHIN|la truie lavee au bourbier,' thou makest use of any thing.
Henry V|Constable|Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any
Henry V|Constable|such proverb so little kin to the purpose.
Henry V|RAMBURES|My lord constable, the armour that I saw in your tent
Henry V|RAMBURES|to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?
Henry V|Constable|Stars, my lord.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.
Henry V|Constable|And yet my sky shall not want.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and
Henry V|DAUPHIN|'twere more honour some were away.
Henry V|Constable|Even as your horse bears your praises, who would
Henry V|Constable|trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will
Henry V|DAUPHIN|it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and
Henry V|DAUPHIN|my way shall be paved with English faces.
Henry V|Constable|I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of
Henry V|Constable|my way: but I would it were morning, for I would
Henry V|Constable|fain be about the ears of the English.
Henry V|RAMBURES|Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?
Henry V|Constable|You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|'Tis midnight, I'll go arm myself.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Exit
Henry V|ORLEANS|The Dauphin longs for morning.
Henry V|RAMBURES|He longs to eat the English.
Henry V|Constable|I think he will eat all he kills.
Henry V|ORLEANS|By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant prince.
Henry V|Constable|Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath.
Henry V|ORLEANS|He is simply the most active gentleman of France.
Henry V|Constable|Doing is activity, and he will still be doing.
Henry V|ORLEANS|He never did harm, that I heard of.
Henry V|Constable|Nor will do none to-morrow: he will keep that good name still.
Henry V|ORLEANS|I know him to be valiant.
Henry V|Constable|I was told that  by one that knows him better than
Henry V|Constable|you.
Henry V|ORLEANS|What's he?
Henry V|Constable|Marry, he told me so himself, and he said he cared
Henry V|Constable|not who knew it
Henry V|ORLEANS|He needs not, it is no hidden virtue in him.
Henry V|Constable|By my faith, sir, but it is, never any body saw it
Henry V|Constable|but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour, and when it
Henry V|Constable|appears, it will bate.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Ill will never said well.
Henry V|Constable|I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.'
Henry V|ORLEANS|And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.'
Henry V|Constable|Well placed: there stands your friend for the
Henry V|Constable|devil: have at the very eye of that proverb with 'A
Henry V|Constable|pox of the devil.'
Henry V|ORLEANS|You are the better at proverbs, by how much 'A
Henry V|ORLEANS|fool's bolt is soon shot.'
Henry V|Constable|You have shot over.
Henry V|ORLEANS|'Tis not the first time you were overshot.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Enter a Messenger
Henry V|Messenger|My lord high constable, the English lie within
Henry V|Messenger|fifteen hundred paces of your tents.
Henry V|Constable|Who hath measured the ground?
Henry V|Messenger|The Lord Grandpre.
Henry V|Constable|A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were
Henry V|Constable|day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for
Henry V|Constable|the dawning as we do.
Henry V|ORLEANS|What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of
Henry V|ORLEANS|England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so
Henry V|ORLEANS|far out of his knowledge!
Henry V|Constable|If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.
Henry V|ORLEANS|That they lack, for if their heads had any
Henry V|ORLEANS|intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy
Henry V|ORLEANS|head-pieces.
Henry V|RAMBURES|That island of England breeds very valiant
Henry V|RAMBURES|creatures, their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a
Henry V|ORLEANS|Russian bear and have their heads crushed like
Henry V|ORLEANS|rotten apples! You may as well say, that's a
Henry V|ORLEANS|valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
Henry V|Constable|Just, just, and the men do sympathize with the
Henry V|Constable|mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving
Henry V|Constable|their wits with their wives: and then give them
Henry V|Constable|great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will
Henry V|Constable|eat like wolves and fight like devils.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.
Henry V|Constable|Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs
Henry V|Constable|to eat and none to fight. Now is it time to arm:
Henry V|Constable|come, shall we about it?
Henry V|ORLEANS|It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten
Henry V|ORLEANS|We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Exeunt
Henry V|ORLEANS|ACT IV
Henry V|ORLEANS|PROLOGUE
Henry V|ORLEANS|Enter Chorus
Henry V|Chorus|Now entertain conjecture of a time
Henry V|Chorus|When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Henry V|Chorus|Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
Henry V|Chorus|From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
Henry V|Chorus|The hum of either army stilly sounds,
Henry V|Chorus|That the fixed sentinels almost receive
Henry V|Chorus|The secret whispers of each other's watch:
Henry V|Chorus|Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Henry V|Chorus|Each battle sees the other's umber'd face,
Henry V|Chorus|Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Henry V|Chorus|Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents
Henry V|Chorus|The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
Henry V|Chorus|With busy hammers closing rivets up,
Henry V|Chorus|Give dreadful note of preparation:
Henry V|Chorus|The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,
Henry V|Chorus|And the third hour of drowsy morning name.
Henry V|Chorus|Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,
Henry V|Chorus|The confident and over-lusty French
Henry V|Chorus|Do the low-rated English play at dice,
Henry V|Chorus|And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night
Henry V|Chorus|Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
Henry V|Chorus|So tediously away. The poor condemned English,
Henry V|Chorus|Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
Henry V|Chorus|Sit patiently and inly ruminate
Henry V|Chorus|The morning's danger, and their gesture sad
Henry V|Chorus|Investing lank-lean, cheeks and war-worn coats
Henry V|Chorus|Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
Henry V|Chorus|So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold
Henry V|Chorus|The royal captain of this ruin'd band
Henry V|Chorus|Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
Henry V|Chorus|Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head!'
Henry V|Chorus|For forth he goes and visits all his host.
Henry V|Chorus|Bids them good morrow with a modest smile
Henry V|Chorus|And calls them brothers, friends and countrymen.
Henry V|Chorus|Upon his royal face there is no note
Henry V|Chorus|How dread an army hath enrounded him,
Henry V|Chorus|Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
Henry V|Chorus|Unto the weary and all-watched night,
Henry V|Chorus|But freshly looks and over-bears attaint
Henry V|Chorus|With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty,
Henry V|Chorus|That every wretch, pining and pale before,
Henry V|Chorus|Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
Henry V|Chorus|A largess universal like the sun
Henry V|Chorus|His liberal eye doth give to every one,
Henry V|Chorus|Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all,
Henry V|Chorus|Behold, as may unworthiness define,
Henry V|Chorus|A little touch of Harry in the night.
Henry V|Chorus|And so our scene must to the battle fly,
Henry V|Chorus|Where--O for pity!--we shall much disgrace
Henry V|Chorus|With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
Henry V|Chorus|Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous,
Henry V|Chorus|The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,
Henry V|Chorus|Minding true things by what their mockeries be.
Henry V|Chorus|Exit
Henry V|Chorus|SCENE I. The English camp at Agincourt.
Henry V|Chorus|Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOUCESTER
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The greater therefore should our courage be.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Would men observingly distil it out.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Which is both healthful and good husbandry:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Besides, they are our outward consciences,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And preachers to us all, admonishing
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That we should dress us fairly for our end.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And make a moral of the devil himself.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter ERPINGHAM
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|A good soft pillow for that good white head
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Were better than a churlish turf of France.
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'
Henry V|KING HENRY V|'Tis good for men to love their present pains
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Upon example, so the spirit is eased:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The organs, though defunct and dead before,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With casted slough and fresh legerity.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Commend me to the princes in our camp,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Do my good morrow to them, and anon
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Desire them an to my pavilion.
Henry V|GLOUCESTER|We shall, my liege.
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|Shall I attend your grace?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, my good knight,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Go with my brothers to my lords of England:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I and my bosom must debate awhile,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And then I would no other company.
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|Exeunt all but KING HENRY
Henry V|KING HENRY V|God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st cheerfully.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter PISTOL
Henry V|PISTOL|Qui va la?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|A friend.
Henry V|PISTOL|Discuss unto me, art thou officer?
Henry V|PISTOL|Or art thou base, common and popular?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I am a gentleman of a company.
Henry V|PISTOL|Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Even so. What are you?
Henry V|PISTOL|As good a gentleman as the emperor.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then you are a better than the king.
Henry V|PISTOL|The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
Henry V|PISTOL|A lad of life, an imp of fame,
Henry V|PISTOL|Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
Henry V|PISTOL|I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string
Henry V|PISTOL|I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Harry le Roy.
Henry V|PISTOL|Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, I am a Welshman.
Henry V|PISTOL|Know'st thou Fluellen?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Yes.
Henry V|PISTOL|Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate
Henry V|PISTOL|Upon Saint Davy's day.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|lest he knock that about yours.
Henry V|PISTOL|Art thou his friend?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And his kinsman too.
Henry V|PISTOL|The figo for thee, then!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I thank you: God be with you!
Henry V|PISTOL|My name is Pistol call'd.
Henry V|PISTOL|Exit
Henry V|KING HENRY V|It sorts well with your fierceness.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER
Henry V|GOWER|Captain Fluellen!
Henry V|FLUELLEN|So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the greatest admiration of the universal world, when
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to
Henry V|FLUELLEN|examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall
Henry V|FLUELLEN|find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle
Henry V|FLUELLEN|nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp, I warrant you,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety
Henry V|FLUELLEN|of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.
Henry V|GOWER|Why, the enemy is loud, you hear him all night.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
Henry V|FLUELLEN|coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating
Henry V|FLUELLEN|coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?
Henry V|GOWER|I will speak lower.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I pray you and beseech you that you will.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Though it appear a little out of fashion,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|There is much care and valour in this Welshman.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS
Henry V|COURT|Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which
Henry V|COURT|breaks yonder?
Henry V|BATES|I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire
Henry V|BATES|the approach of day.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think
Henry V|WILLIAMS|we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|A friend.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Under what captain serve you?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I
Henry V|WILLIAMS|pray you, what thinks he of our estate?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be
Henry V|KING HENRY V|washed off the next tide.
Henry V|BATES|He hath not told his thought to the king?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, nor it is not meet he should. For, though I
Henry V|KING HENRY V|speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I
Henry V|KING HENRY V|am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|element shows to him as it doth to me, all his
Henry V|KING HENRY V|senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies
Henry V|KING HENRY V|laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man, and
Henry V|KING HENRY V|though his affections are higher mounted than ours,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like
Henry V|KING HENRY V|wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we
Henry V|KING HENRY V|do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish
Henry V|KING HENRY V|as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess
Henry V|KING HENRY V|him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing
Henry V|KING HENRY V|it, should dishearten his army.
Henry V|BATES|He may show what outward courage he will, but I
Henry V|BATES|believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish
Henry V|BATES|himself in Thames up to the neck, and so I would he
Henry V|BATES|were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I think he would not wish himself any where but
Henry V|KING HENRY V|where he is.
Henry V|BATES|Then I would he were here alone, so should he be
Henry V|BATES|sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here
Henry V|KING HENRY V|alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's
Henry V|KING HENRY V|minds: methinks I could not die any where so
Henry V|KING HENRY V|contented as in the king's company, his cause being
Henry V|KING HENRY V|just and his quarrel honourable.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|That's more than we know.
Henry V|BATES|Ay, or more than we should seek after, for we know
Henry V|BATES|enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if
Henry V|BATES|his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes
Henry V|BATES|the crime of it out of us.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath
Henry V|WILLIAMS|a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and
Henry V|WILLIAMS|arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join
Henry V|WILLIAMS|together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at
Henry V|WILLIAMS|such a place,' some swearing, some crying for a
Henry V|WILLIAMS|surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind
Henry V|WILLIAMS|them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their
Henry V|WILLIAMS|children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die
Henry V|WILLIAMS|well that die in a battle, for how can they
Henry V|WILLIAMS|charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their
Henry V|WILLIAMS|argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it
Henry V|WILLIAMS|will be a black matter for the king that led them to
Henry V|WILLIAMS|it, whom to disobey were against all proportion of
Henry V|WILLIAMS|subjection.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|So, if a son that is by his father sent about
Henry V|KING HENRY V|merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be
Henry V|KING HENRY V|imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|servant, under his master's command transporting a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in
Henry V|KING HENRY V|many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|business of the master the author of the servant's
Henry V|KING HENRY V|damnation: but this is not so: the king is not
Henry V|KING HENRY V|bound to answer the particular endings of his
Henry V|KING HENRY V|soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|his servant, for they purpose not their death, when
Henry V|KING HENRY V|they purpose their services. Besides, there is no
Henry V|KING HENRY V|king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all
Henry V|KING HENRY V|unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them
Henry V|KING HENRY V|the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|perjury, some, making the wars their bulwark, that
Henry V|KING HENRY V|have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with
Henry V|KING HENRY V|pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have
Henry V|KING HENRY V|defeated the law and outrun native punishment,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|so that here men are punished for before-breach of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where
Henry V|KING HENRY V|they feared the death, they have borne life away,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|and where they would be safe, they perish: then if
Henry V|KING HENRY V|they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|their damnation than he was before guilty of those
Henry V|KING HENRY V|impieties for the which they are now visited. Every
Henry V|KING HENRY V|subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's
Henry V|KING HENRY V|soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in
Henry V|KING HENRY V|the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every
Henry V|KING HENRY V|mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death
Henry V|KING HENRY V|is to him advantage, or not dying, the time was
Henry V|KING HENRY V|blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think
Henry V|KING HENRY V|that, making God so free an offer, He let him
Henry V|KING HENRY V|outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach
Henry V|KING HENRY V|others how they should prepare.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon
Henry V|WILLIAMS|his own head, the king is not to answer it.
Henry V|BATES|But I do not desire he should answer for me, and
Henry V|BATES|yet I determine to fight lustily for him.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but
Henry V|WILLIAMS|when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we
Henry V|WILLIAMS|ne'er the wiser.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an
Henry V|WILLIAMS|elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can
Henry V|WILLIAMS|do against a monarch! you may as well go about to
Henry V|WILLIAMS|turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a
Henry V|WILLIAMS|peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word
Henry V|WILLIAMS|after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Your reproof is something too round: I should be
Henry V|KING HENRY V|angry with you, if the time were convenient.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I embrace it.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|How shall I know thee again?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my
Henry V|KING HENRY V|bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I
Henry V|KING HENRY V|will make it my quarrel.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Here's my glove: give me another of thine.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|There.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come
Henry V|WILLIAMS|to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'
Henry V|WILLIAMS|by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Thou darest as well be hanged.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|king's company.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Keep thy word: fare thee well.
Henry V|BATES|Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have
Henry V|BATES|French quarrels enow, if you could tell how to reckon.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|one, they will beat us, for they bear them on their
Henry V|KING HENRY V|shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut
Henry V|KING HENRY V|French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will
Henry V|KING HENRY V|be a clipper.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt soldiers
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Our debts, our careful wives,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Our children and our sins lay on the king!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We must bear all. O hard condition,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And what have kings, that privates have not too,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O ceremony, show me but thy worth!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What is thy soul of adoration?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Creating awe and fear in other men?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Than they in fearing.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With titles blown from adulation?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That play'st so subtly with a king's repose,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I am a king that find thee, and I know
Henry V|KING HENRY V|'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The farced title running 'fore the king,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That beats upon the high shore of this world,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But, like a lackey, from the rise to set
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Sleeps in Elysium, next day after dawn,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And follows so the ever-running year,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With profitable labour, to his grave:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The slave, a member of the country's peace,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enjoys it, but in gross brain little wots
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whose hours the peasant best advantages.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter ERPINGHAM
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|Seek through your camp to find you.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Good old knight,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Collect them all together at my tent:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I'll be before thee.
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|I shall do't, my lord.
Henry V|ERPINGHAM|Exit
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Possess them not with fear, take from them now
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My father made in compassing the crown!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I Richard's body have interred anew,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Than from it issued forced drops of blood:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Toward heaven, to pardon blood, and I have built
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Though all that I can do is nothing worth,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Since that my penitence comes after all,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Imploring pardon.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter GLOUCESTER
Henry V|GLOUCESTER|My liege!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I know thy errand, I will go with thee:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The day, my friends and all things stay for me.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE II. The French camp.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and others
Henry V|ORLEANS|The sun doth gild our armour, up, my lords!
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Montez A cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! ha!
Henry V|ORLEANS|O brave spirit!
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Via! les eaux et la terre.
Henry V|ORLEANS|Rien puis? L'air et la feu.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Ciel, cousin Orleans.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Enter Constable
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Now, my lord constable!
Henry V|Constable|Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!
Henry V|RAMBURES|What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?
Henry V|RAMBURES|How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?
Henry V|RAMBURES|Enter Messenger
Henry V|Messenger|The English are embattled, you French peers.
Henry V|Constable|To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
Henry V|Constable|Do but behold yon poor and starved band,
Henry V|Constable|And your fair show shall suck away their souls,
Henry V|Constable|Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.
Henry V|Constable|There is not work enough for all our hands,
Henry V|Constable|Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
Henry V|Constable|To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,
Henry V|Constable|That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,
Henry V|Constable|And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,
Henry V|Constable|The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them.
Henry V|Constable|'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,
Henry V|Constable|That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,
Henry V|Constable|Who in unnecessary action swarm
Henry V|Constable|About our squares of battle, were enow
Henry V|Constable|To purge this field of such a hilding foe,
Henry V|Constable|Though we upon this mountain's basis by
Henry V|Constable|Took stand for idle speculation:
Henry V|Constable|But that our honours must not. What's to say?
Henry V|Constable|A very little little let us do.
Henry V|Constable|And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound
Henry V|Constable|The tucket sonance and the note to mount,
Henry V|Constable|For our approach shall so much dare the field
Henry V|Constable|That England shall couch down in fear and yield.
Henry V|Constable|Enter GRANDPRE
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Ill-favouredly become the morning field:
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,
Henry V|GRANDPRE|And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host
Henry V|GRANDPRE|And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:
Henry V|GRANDPRE|The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,
Henry V|GRANDPRE|With torch-staves in their hand, and their poor jades
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,
Henry V|GRANDPRE|The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes
Henry V|GRANDPRE|And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless,
Henry V|GRANDPRE|And their executors, the knavish crows,
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
Henry V|GRANDPRE|Description cannot suit itself in words
Henry V|GRANDPRE|To demonstrate the life of such a battle
Henry V|GRANDPRE|In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
Henry V|Constable|They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits
Henry V|DAUPHIN|And give their fasting horses provender,
Henry V|DAUPHIN|And after fight with them?
Henry V|Constable|I stay but for my guidon: to the field!
Henry V|Constable|I will the banner from a trumpet take,
Henry V|Constable|And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!
Henry V|Constable|The sun is high, and we outwear the day.
Henry V|Constable|Exeunt
Henry V|Constable|SCENE III. The English camp.
Henry V|Constable|Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with all his host: SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND
Henry V|GLOUCESTER|Where is the king?
Henry V|BEDFORD|The king himself is rode to view their battle.
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.
Henry V|EXETER|There's five to one, besides, they all are fresh.
Henry V|SALISBURY|God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.
Henry V|SALISBURY|God be wi' you, princes all, I'll to my charge:
Henry V|SALISBURY|If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
Henry V|SALISBURY|Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,
Henry V|SALISBURY|My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,
Henry V|SALISBURY|And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!
Henry V|BEDFORD|Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
Henry V|EXETER|Farewell, kind lord, fight valiantly to-day:
Henry V|EXETER|And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,
Henry V|EXETER|For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.
Henry V|EXETER|Exit SALISBURY
Henry V|BEDFORD|He is full of valour as of kindness,
Henry V|BEDFORD|Princely in both.
Henry V|BEDFORD|Enter the KING
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|O that we now had here
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|But one ten thousand of those men in England
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|That do no work to-day!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What's he that wishes so?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To do our country loss, and if to live,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|It yearns me not if men my garments wear,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But if it be a sin to covet honour,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I am the most offending soul alive.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As one man more, methinks, would share from me
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Let him depart, his passport shall be made
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We would not die in that man's company
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This day is called the feast of Crispian:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But he'll remember with advantages
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Familiar in his mouth as household words
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This story shall the good man teach his son,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|From this day to the ending of the world,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But we in it shall be remember'd,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall be my brother, be he ne'er so vile,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This day shall gentle his condition:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Re-enter SALISBURY
Henry V|SALISBURY|My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:
Henry V|SALISBURY|The French are bravely in their battles set,
Henry V|SALISBURY|And will with all expedience charge on us.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|All things are ready, if our minds be so.
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Perish the man whose mind is backward now!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|Without more help, could fight this royal battle!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Which likes me better than to wish us one.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|You know your places: God be with you all!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Tucket. Enter MONTJOY
Henry V|MONTJOY|Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
Henry V|MONTJOY|If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
Henry V|MONTJOY|Before thy most assured overthrow:
Henry V|MONTJOY|For certainly thou art so near the gulf,
Henry V|MONTJOY|Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,
Henry V|MONTJOY|The constable desires thee thou wilt mind
Henry V|MONTJOY|Thy followers of repentance, that their souls
Henry V|MONTJOY|May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
Henry V|MONTJOY|From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies
Henry V|MONTJOY|Must lie and fester.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Who hath sent thee now?
Henry V|MONTJOY|The Constable of France.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The man that once did sell the lion's skin
Henry V|KING HENRY V|While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|A many of our bodies shall no doubt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Find native graves, upon the which, I trust,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And those that leave their valiant bones in France,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|They shall be famed, for there the sun shall greet them,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And draw their honours reeking up to heaven,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Mark then abounding valour in our English,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Break out into a second course of mischief,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Killing in relapse of mortality.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Let me speak proudly: tell the constable
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We are but warriors for the working-day,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With rainy marching in the painful field,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|There's not a piece of feather in our host--
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And time hath worn us into slovenry:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
Henry V|KING HENRY V|They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And turn them out of service. If they do this,--
Henry V|KING HENRY V|As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall yield them little, tell the constable.
Henry V|MONTJOY|I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:
Henry V|MONTJOY|Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
Henry V|MONTJOY|Exit
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter YORK
Henry V|YORK|My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg
Henry V|YORK|The leading of the vaward.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE IV. The field of battle.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy
Henry V|PISTOL|Yield, cur!
Henry V|French Soldier|Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.
Henry V|PISTOL|Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?
Henry V|PISTOL|what is thy name? discuss.
Henry V|French Soldier|O Seigneur Dieu!
Henry V|PISTOL|O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
Henry V|PISTOL|Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark,
Henry V|PISTOL|O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
Henry V|PISTOL|Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
Henry V|PISTOL|Egregious ransom.
Henry V|French Soldier|O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!
Henry V|PISTOL|Moy shall not serve, I will have forty moys,
Henry V|PISTOL|Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
Henry V|PISTOL|In drops of crimson blood.
Henry V|French Soldier|Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?
Henry V|PISTOL|Brass, cur!
Henry V|PISTOL|Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
Henry V|PISTOL|Offer'st me brass?
Henry V|French Soldier|O pardonnez moi!
Henry V|PISTOL|Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
Henry V|PISTOL|Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
Henry V|PISTOL|What is his name.
Henry V|Boy|Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?
Henry V|French Soldier|Monsieur le Fer.
Henry V|Boy|He says his name is Master Fer.
Henry V|PISTOL|Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret
Henry V|PISTOL|him: discuss the same in French unto him.
Henry V|Boy|I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
Henry V|PISTOL|Bid him prepare, for I will cut his throat.
Henry V|French Soldier|Que dit-il, monsieur?
Henry V|Boy|Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous
Henry V|Boy|pret, car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette
Henry V|Boy|heure de couper votre gorge.
Henry V|PISTOL|Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
Henry V|PISTOL|Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns,
Henry V|PISTOL|Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.
Henry V|French Soldier|O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me
Henry V|French Soldier|pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:
Henry V|French Soldier|gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.
Henry V|PISTOL|What are his words?
Henry V|Boy|He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of
Henry V|Boy|a good house, and for his ransom he will give you
Henry V|Boy|two hundred crowns.
Henry V|PISTOL|Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.
Henry V|French Soldier|Petit monsieur, que dit-il?
Henry V|Boy|Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner
Henry V|Boy|aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous
Henry V|Boy|l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la
Henry V|Boy|liberte, le franchisement.
Henry V|French Soldier|Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens, et
Henry V|French Soldier|je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les
Henry V|French Soldier|mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,
Henry V|French Soldier|vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.
Henry V|PISTOL|Expound unto me, boy.
Henry V|Boy|He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks, and
Henry V|Boy|he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into
Henry V|Boy|the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,
Henry V|Boy|valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.
Henry V|PISTOL|As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
Henry V|PISTOL|Follow me!
Henry V|Boy|Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.
Henry V|Boy|Exeunt PISTOL, and French Soldier
Henry V|Boy|I did never know so full a voice issue from so
Henry V|Boy|empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty
Henry V|Boy|vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym
Henry V|Boy|had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'
Henry V|Boy|the old play, that every one may pare his nails with
Henry V|Boy|a wooden dagger, and they are both hanged, and so
Henry V|Boy|would this be, if he durst steal any thing
Henry V|Boy|adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with
Henry V|Boy|the luggage of our camp: the French might have a
Henry V|Boy|good prey of us, if he knew of it, for there is
Henry V|Boy|none to guard it but boys.
Henry V|Boy|Exit
Henry V|Boy|SCENE V. Another part of the field.
Henry V|Boy|Enter Constable, ORLEANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES
Henry V|Constable|O diable!
Henry V|ORLEANS|O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Reproach and everlasting shame
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Do not run away.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|A short alarum
Henry V|Constable|Why, all our ranks are broke.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.
Henry V|DAUPHIN|Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?
Henry V|ORLEANS|Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
Henry V|BOURBON|Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
Henry V|BOURBON|Let us die in honour: once more back again,
Henry V|BOURBON|And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
Henry V|BOURBON|Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,
Henry V|BOURBON|Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door
Henry V|BOURBON|Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
Henry V|BOURBON|His fairest daughter is contaminated.
Henry V|Constable|Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
Henry V|Constable|Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
Henry V|ORLEANS|We are enow yet living in the field
Henry V|ORLEANS|To smother up the English in our throngs,
Henry V|ORLEANS|If any order might be thought upon.
Henry V|BOURBON|The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:
Henry V|BOURBON|Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
Henry V|BOURBON|Exeunt
Henry V|BOURBON|SCENE VI. Another part of the field.
Henry V|BOURBON|Alarums. Enter KING HENRY and forces, EXETER, and others
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But all's not done, yet keep the French the field.
Henry V|EXETER|The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I saw him down, thrice up again and fighting,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
Henry V|EXETER|In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,
Henry V|EXETER|Larding the plain, and by his bloody side,
Henry V|EXETER|Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,
Henry V|EXETER|The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.
Henry V|EXETER|Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
Henry V|EXETER|Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,
Henry V|EXETER|And takes him by the beard, kisses the gashes
Henry V|EXETER|That bloodily did spawn upon his face,
Henry V|EXETER|And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
Henry V|EXETER|My soul shall thine keep company to heaven,
Henry V|EXETER|Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
Henry V|EXETER|As in this glorious and well-foughten field
Henry V|EXETER|We kept together in our chivalry!'
Henry V|EXETER|Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:
Henry V|EXETER|He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,
Henry V|EXETER|And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,
Henry V|EXETER|Commend my service to me sovereign.'
Henry V|EXETER|So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck
Henry V|EXETER|He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips,
Henry V|EXETER|And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd
Henry V|EXETER|A testament of noble-ending love.
Henry V|EXETER|The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
Henry V|EXETER|Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd,
Henry V|EXETER|But I had not so much of man in me,
Henry V|EXETER|And all my mother came into mine eyes
Henry V|EXETER|And gave me up to tears.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I blame you not,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Alarum
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But, hark! what new alarum is this same?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then every soldier kill his prisoners:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Give the word through.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly
Henry V|FLUELLEN|against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of
Henry V|FLUELLEN|knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't, in your
Henry V|FLUELLEN|conscience, now, is it not?
Henry V|GOWER|'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive, and the
Henry V|GOWER|cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done
Henry V|GOWER|this slaughter: besides, they have burned and
Henry V|GOWER|carried away all that was in the king's tent,
Henry V|GOWER|wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every
Henry V|GOWER|soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 'tis a
Henry V|GOWER|gallant king!
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What
Henry V|FLUELLEN|call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born!
Henry V|GOWER|Alexander the Great.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase
Henry V|FLUELLEN|is a little variations.
Henry V|GOWER|I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon, his
Henry V|GOWER|father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I
Henry V|FLUELLEN|tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons
Henry V|FLUELLEN|between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|look you, is both alike. There is a river in
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|out of my prains what is the name of the other
Henry V|FLUELLEN|river, but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you
Henry V|FLUELLEN|mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life
Henry V|FLUELLEN|is come after it indifferent well, for there is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|figures in all things. Alexander, God knows, and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you know, in his rages, and his furies, and his
Henry V|FLUELLEN|wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his
Henry V|FLUELLEN|displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a
Henry V|FLUELLEN|little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.
Henry V|GOWER|Our king is not like him in that: he never killed
Henry V|GOWER|any of his friends.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|It is not well done, mark you now take the tales out
Henry V|FLUELLEN|of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak
Henry V|FLUELLEN|but in the figures and comparisons of it: as
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his
Henry V|FLUELLEN|ales and his cups, so also Harry Monmouth, being in
Henry V|FLUELLEN|his right wits and his good judgments, turned away
Henry V|FLUELLEN|the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he
Henry V|FLUELLEN|was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|mocks, I have forgot his name.
Henry V|GOWER|Sir John Falstaff.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|That is he: I'll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth.
Henry V|GOWER|Here comes his majesty.
Henry V|GOWER|Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, and forces, WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, EXETER, and others
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I was not angry since I came to France
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or void the field, they do offend our sight:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If they'll do neither, we will come to them,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And not a man of them that we shall take
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter MONTJOY
Henry V|EXETER|Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.
Henry V|GLOUCESTER|His eyes are humbler than they used to be.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|How now! what means this, herald? know'st thou not
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That I have  fined these bones of mine for ransom?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Comest thou again for ransom?
Henry V|MONTJOY|No, great king:
Henry V|MONTJOY|I come to thee for charitable licence,
Henry V|MONTJOY|That we may wander o'er this bloody field
Henry V|MONTJOY|To look our dead, and then to bury them,
Henry V|MONTJOY|To sort our nobles from our common men.
Henry V|MONTJOY|For many of our princes--woe the while!--
Henry V|MONTJOY|Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood,
Henry V|MONTJOY|So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
Henry V|MONTJOY|In blood of princes, and their wounded steeds
Henry V|MONTJOY|Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage
Henry V|MONTJOY|Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
Henry V|MONTJOY|Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
Henry V|MONTJOY|To view the field in safety and dispose
Henry V|MONTJOY|Of their dead bodies!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I tell thee truly, herald,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I know not if the day be ours or no,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For yet a many of your horsemen peer
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And gallop o'er the field.
Henry V|MONTJOY|The day is yours.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?
Henry V|MONTJOY|They call it Agincourt.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your
Henry V|FLUELLEN|majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|fought a most prave pattle here in France.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|They did, Fluellen.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a
Henry V|FLUELLEN|garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Monmouth caps, which, your majesty know, to this
Henry V|FLUELLEN|hour is an honourable badge of the service, and I do
Henry V|FLUELLEN|believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek
Henry V|FLUELLEN|upon Saint Tavy's day.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I wear it for a memorable honour,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:
Henry V|FLUELLEN|God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases
Henry V|FLUELLEN|his grace, and his majesty too!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Thanks, good my countryman.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not
Henry V|FLUELLEN|who know it, I will confess it to all the 'orld: I
Henry V|FLUELLEN|need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be
Henry V|FLUELLEN|God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
Henry V|KING HENRY V|On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy
Henry V|EXETER|Soldier, you must come to the king.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy cap?
Henry V|WILLIAMS|An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that
Henry V|WILLIAMS|I should fight withal, if he be alive.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|An Englishman?
Henry V|WILLIAMS|An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered
Henry V|WILLIAMS|with me last night, who, if alive and ever dare to
Henry V|WILLIAMS|challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box
Henry V|WILLIAMS|o' th' ear: or if I can see my glove in his cap,
Henry V|WILLIAMS|which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear
Henry V|WILLIAMS|if alive, I will strike it out soundly.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this
Henry V|KING HENRY V|soldier keep his oath?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your
Henry V|FLUELLEN|majesty, in my conscience.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|quite from the answer of his degree.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look
Henry V|FLUELLEN|your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath: if
Henry V|FLUELLEN|he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as
Henry V|FLUELLEN|arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black
Henry V|FLUELLEN|shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my
Henry V|FLUELLEN|conscience, la!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|So I will, my liege, as I live.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Who servest thou under?
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Under Captain Gower, my liege.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|literatured in the wars.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Call him hither to me, soldier.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|I will, my liege.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Exit
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Here, Fluellen, wear thou this favour for me and
Henry V|KING HENRY V|stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were
Henry V|KING HENRY V|down together, I plucked this glove from his helm:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|if any man challenge this, he is a friend to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Alencon, and an enemy to our person, if thou
Henry V|KING HENRY V|encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Your grace doo's me as great honours as can be
Henry V|FLUELLEN|desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain
Henry V|FLUELLEN|see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find
Henry V|FLUELLEN|himself aggrieved at this glove, that is all, but I
Henry V|FLUELLEN|would fain see it once, an please God of his grace
Henry V|FLUELLEN|that I might see.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Knowest thou Gower?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|He is my dear friend, an please you.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I will fetch him.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Exit
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The glove which I have given him for a favour
Henry V|KING HENRY V|May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|It is the soldier's, I by bargain should
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If that the soldier strike him, as I judge
Henry V|KING HENRY V|By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Some sudden mischief may arise of it,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For I do know Fluellen valiant
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And quickly will return an injury:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Follow and see there be no harm between them.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|SCENE VIII. Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS
Henry V|WILLIAMS|I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Enter FLUELLEN
Henry V|FLUELLEN|God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you
Henry V|FLUELLEN|now, come apace to the king: there is more good
Henry V|FLUELLEN|toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Sir, know you this glove?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|I know this, and thus I challenge it.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Strikes him
Henry V|FLUELLEN|'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|universal world, or in France, or in England!
Henry V|GOWER|How now, sir! you villain!
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Do you think I'll be forsworn?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Stand away, Captain Gower, I will give treason his
Henry V|FLUELLEN|payment into ploughs, I warrant you.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|I am no traitor.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his
Henry V|FLUELLEN|majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Duke Alencon's.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER
Henry V|WARWICK|How now, how now! what's the matter?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for it!
Henry V|FLUELLEN|--a most contagious treason come to light, look
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|his majesty.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Enter KING HENRY and EXETER
Henry V|KING HENRY V|How now! what's the matter?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|look your grace, has struck the glove which your
Henry V|FLUELLEN|majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|My liege, this was my glove, here is the fellow of
Henry V|WILLIAMS|it, and he that I gave it to in change promised to
Henry V|WILLIAMS|wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he
Henry V|WILLIAMS|did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I
Henry V|WILLIAMS|have been as good as my word.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's
Henry V|FLUELLEN|manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy
Henry V|FLUELLEN|knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me
Henry V|FLUELLEN|testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that
Henry V|FLUELLEN|this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|give me, in your conscience, now?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|fellow of it.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And thou hast given me most bitter terms.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|if there is any martial law in the world.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|How canst thou make me satisfaction?
Henry V|WILLIAMS|All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never
Henry V|WILLIAMS|came any from mine that might offend your majesty.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|It was ourself thou didst abuse.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to
Henry V|WILLIAMS|me but as a common man, witness the night, your
Henry V|WILLIAMS|garments, your lowliness, and what your highness
Henry V|WILLIAMS|suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for
Henry V|WILLIAMS|your own fault and not mine: for had you been as I
Henry V|WILLIAMS|took you for, I made no offence, therefore, I
Henry V|WILLIAMS|beseech your highness, pardon me.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And wear it for an honour in thy cap
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle
Henry V|FLUELLEN|enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence
Henry V|FLUELLEN|for you, and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you
Henry V|FLUELLEN|out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.
Henry V|WILLIAMS|I will none of your money.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|It is with a good will, I can tell you, it will
Henry V|FLUELLEN|serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you be so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis
Henry V|FLUELLEN|a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Enter an English Herald
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now, herald, are the dead number'd?
Henry V|Herald|Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
Henry V|EXETER|Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king,
Henry V|EXETER|John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:
Henry V|EXETER|Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
Henry V|EXETER|Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
Henry V|KING HENRY V|One hundred twenty six: added to these,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Eight thousand and four hundred, of the which,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And gentlemen of blood and quality.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The names of those their nobles that lie dead:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Charles Delabreth, high constable of France,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Here was a royal fellowship of death!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Where is the number of our English dead?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Herald shews him another paper
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|None else of name, and of all other men
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|But in plain shock and even play of battle,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Was ever known so great and little loss
Henry V|KING HENRY V|On one part and on the other? Take it, God,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|For it is none but thine!
Henry V|EXETER|'Tis wonderful!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Come, go we in procession to the village.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And be it death proclaimed through our host
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To boast of this or take the praise from God
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Which is his only.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell
Henry V|FLUELLEN|how many is killed?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Yes, captain, but with this acknowledgement,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That God fought for us.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Do we all holy rites,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum,'
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The dead with charity enclosed in clay:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And then to Calais, and to England then:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|ACT V
Henry V|KING HENRY V|PROLOGUE
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter Chorus
Henry V|Chorus|Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
Henry V|Chorus|That I may prompt them: and of such as have,
Henry V|Chorus|I humbly pray them to admit the excuse
Henry V|Chorus|Of time, of numbers and due course of things,
Henry V|Chorus|Which cannot in their huge and proper life
Henry V|Chorus|Be here presented. Now we bear the king
Henry V|Chorus|Toward Calais: grant him there, there seen,
Henry V|Chorus|Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
Henry V|Chorus|Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
Henry V|Chorus|Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,
Henry V|Chorus|Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep mouth'd sea,
Henry V|Chorus|Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king
Henry V|Chorus|Seems to prepare his way: so let him land,
Henry V|Chorus|And solemnly see him set on to London.
Henry V|Chorus|So swift a pace hath thought that even now
Henry V|Chorus|You may imagine him upon Blackheath,
Henry V|Chorus|Where that his lords desire him to have borne
Henry V|Chorus|His bruised helmet and his bended sword
Henry V|Chorus|Before him through the city: he forbids it,
Henry V|Chorus|Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride,
Henry V|Chorus|Giving full trophy, signal and ostent
Henry V|Chorus|Quite from himself to God. But now behold,
Henry V|Chorus|In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
Henry V|Chorus|How London doth pour out her citizens!
Henry V|Chorus|The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,
Henry V|Chorus|Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
Henry V|Chorus|With the plebeians swarming at their heels,
Henry V|Chorus|Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in:
Henry V|Chorus|As, by a lower but loving likelihood,
Henry V|Chorus|Were now the general of our gracious empress,
Henry V|Chorus|As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,
Henry V|Chorus|Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
Henry V|Chorus|How many would the peaceful city quit,
Henry V|Chorus|To welcome him! much more, and much more cause,
Henry V|Chorus|Did they this Harry. Now in London place him,
Henry V|Chorus|As yet the lamentation of the French
Henry V|Chorus|Invites the King of England's stay at home,
Henry V|Chorus|The emperor's coming in behalf of France,
Henry V|Chorus|To order peace between them, and omit
Henry V|Chorus|All the occurrences, whatever chanced,
Henry V|Chorus|Till Harry's back-return again to France:
Henry V|Chorus|There must we bring him, and myself have play'd
Henry V|Chorus|The interim, by remembering you 'tis past.
Henry V|Chorus|Then brook abridgment, and your eyes advance,
Henry V|Chorus|After your thoughts, straight back again to France.
Henry V|Chorus|Exit
Henry V|Chorus|SCENE I. France. The English camp.
Henry V|Chorus|Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER
Henry V|GOWER|Nay, that's right, but why wear you your leek today?
Henry V|GOWER|Saint Davy's day is past.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in
Henry V|FLUELLEN|all things: I will tell you, asse my friend,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|yourself and all the world know to be no petter
Henry V|FLUELLEN|than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is
Henry V|FLUELLEN|come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in place
Henry V|FLUELLEN|where I could not breed no contention with him, but
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see
Henry V|FLUELLEN|him once again, and then I will tell him a little
Henry V|FLUELLEN|piece of my desires.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Enter PISTOL
Henry V|GOWER|Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his
Henry V|FLUELLEN|turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you
Henry V|FLUELLEN|scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!
Henry V|PISTOL|Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
Henry V|PISTOL|To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?
Henry V|PISTOL|Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my
Henry V|FLUELLEN|desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|look you, this leek: because, look you, you do not
Henry V|FLUELLEN|love it, nor your affections and your appetites and
Henry V|FLUELLEN|your digestions doo's not agree with it, I would
Henry V|FLUELLEN|desire you to eat it.
Henry V|PISTOL|Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|There is one goat for you.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Strikes him
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?
Henry V|PISTOL|Base Trojan, thou shalt die.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat
Henry V|FLUELLEN|your victuals: come, there is sauce for it.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Strikes him
Henry V|FLUELLEN|You called me yesterday mountain-squire, but I will
Henry V|FLUELLEN|make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you,
Henry V|FLUELLEN|fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.
Henry V|GOWER|Enough, captain: you have astonished him.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or
Henry V|FLUELLEN|I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you, it
Henry V|FLUELLEN|is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.
Henry V|PISTOL|Must I bite?
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question
Henry V|FLUELLEN|too, and ambiguities.
Henry V|PISTOL|By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat
Henry V|PISTOL|and eat, I swear--
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to
Henry V|FLUELLEN|your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by.
Henry V|PISTOL|Quiet thy cudgel, thou dost see I eat.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you, throw none away, the skin is good for your
Henry V|FLUELLEN|broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks
Henry V|FLUELLEN|hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em, that is all.
Henry V|PISTOL|Good.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to
Henry V|FLUELLEN|heal your pate.
Henry V|PISTOL|Me a groat!
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it, or I
Henry V|FLUELLEN|have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.
Henry V|PISTOL|I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:
Henry V|FLUELLEN|you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but
Henry V|FLUELLEN|cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate.
Henry V|FLUELLEN|Exit
Henry V|PISTOL|All hell shall stir for this.
Henry V|GOWER|Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will
Henry V|GOWER|you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an
Henry V|GOWER|honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of
Henry V|GOWER|predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds
Henry V|GOWER|any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and
Henry V|GOWER|galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You
Henry V|GOWER|thought, because he could not speak English in the
Henry V|GOWER|native garb, he could not therefore handle an
Henry V|GOWER|English cudgel: you find it otherwise, and
Henry V|GOWER|henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good
Henry V|GOWER|English condition. Fare ye well.
Henry V|GOWER|Exit
Henry V|PISTOL|Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?
Henry V|PISTOL|News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital
Henry V|PISTOL|Of malady of France,
Henry V|PISTOL|And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
Henry V|PISTOL|Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs
Henry V|PISTOL|Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,
Henry V|PISTOL|And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.
Henry V|PISTOL|To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:
Henry V|PISTOL|And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,
Henry V|PISTOL|And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.
Henry V|PISTOL|Exit
Henry V|PISTOL|SCENE II. France. A royal palace.
Henry V|PISTOL|Enter, at one door KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD,  GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords,  at another, the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the  PRINCESS KATHARINE, ALICE and other Ladies, the DUKE of BURGUNDY, and his train
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Unto our brother France, and to our sister,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Health and fair time of day, joy and good wishes
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And, as a branch and member of this royalty,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|By whom this great assembly is contrived,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Right joyous are we to behold your face,
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Most worthy brother England, fairly met:
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|So are you, princes English, every one.
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|So happy be the issue, brother England,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|As we are now glad to behold your eyes,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Against the French, that met them in their bent,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Have lost their quality, and that this day
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To cry amen to that, thus we appear.
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|You English princes all, I do salute you.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|My duty to you both, on equal love,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|To bring your most imperial majesties
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Unto this bar and royal interview,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Since then my office hath so far prevail'd
Henry V|BURGUNDY|That, face to face and royal eye to eye,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|If I demand, before this royal view,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|What rub or what impediment there is,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Should not in this best garden of the world
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Corrupting in its own fertility.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Unpruned dies, her hedges even-pleach'd,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Put forth disorder'd twigs, her fallow leas
Henry V|BURGUNDY|The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts
Henry V|BURGUNDY|That should deracinate such savagery,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth
Henry V|BURGUNDY|The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Conceives by idleness and nothing teems
Henry V|BURGUNDY|But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Losing both beauty and utility.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Even so our houses and ourselves and children
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|The sciences that should become our country,
Henry V|BURGUNDY|But grow like savages,--as soldiers will
Henry V|BURGUNDY|That nothing do but meditate on blood,--
Henry V|BURGUNDY|To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire
Henry V|BURGUNDY|And every thing that seems unnatural.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Which to reduce into our former favour
Henry V|BURGUNDY|You are assembled: and my speech entreats
Henry V|BURGUNDY|That I may know the let, why gentle Peace
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Should not expel these inconveniences
Henry V|BURGUNDY|And bless us with her former qualities.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whose want gives growth to the imperfections
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
Henry V|KING HENRY V|With full accord to all our just demands,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Whose tenors and particular effects
Henry V|KING HENRY V|You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|The king hath heard them, to the which as yet
Henry V|BURGUNDY|There is no answer made.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Well then the peace,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|I have but with a cursorary eye
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To appoint some of your council presently
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To sit with us once more, with better heed
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|To re-survey them, we will suddenly
Henry V|KING OF FRANCE|Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And take with you free power to ratify,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Any thing in or out of our demands,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Our gracious brother, I will go with them:
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Haply a woman's voice may do some good,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|She is our capital demand, comprised
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Within the fore-rank of our articles.
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|She hath good leave.
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Exeunt all except HENRY, KATHARINE, and ALICE
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Fair Katharine, and most fair,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Such as will enter at a lady's ear
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
Henry V|KATHARINE|Your majesty shall mock at me, I cannot speak your England.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with
Henry V|KING HENRY V|your French heart, I will be glad to hear you
Henry V|KING HENRY V|confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do
Henry V|KING HENRY V|you like me, Kate?
Henry V|KATHARINE|Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'
Henry V|KING HENRY V|An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?
Henry V|ALICE|Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I said so, dear Katharine, and I must not blush to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|affirm it.
Henry V|KATHARINE|O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de
Henry V|KATHARINE|tromperies.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men
Henry V|KING HENRY V|are full of deceits?
Henry V|ALICE|Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of
Henry V|ALICE|deceits: dat is de princess.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am
Henry V|KING HENRY V|glad thou canst speak no better English, for, if
Henry V|KING HENRY V|thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king
Henry V|KING HENRY V|that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my
Henry V|KING HENRY V|crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
Henry V|KING HENRY V|directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me
Henry V|KING HENRY V|farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out
Henry V|KING HENRY V|my suit. Give me your answer, i' faith, do: and so
Henry V|KING HENRY V|clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?
Henry V|KATHARINE|Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for
Henry V|KING HENRY V|your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I
Henry V|KING HENRY V|have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I
Henry V|KING HENRY V|have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable
Henry V|KING HENRY V|measure in strength. If I could win a lady at
Henry V|KING HENRY V|leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my
Henry V|KING HENRY V|armour on my back, under the correction of bragging
Henry V|KING HENRY V|be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse
Henry V|KING HENRY V|for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and
Henry V|KING HENRY V|sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my
Henry V|KING HENRY V|eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth
Henry V|KING HENRY V|sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love
Henry V|KING HENRY V|of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy
Henry V|KING HENRY V|cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst
Henry V|KING HENRY V|love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee
Henry V|KING HENRY V|that I shall die, is true, but for thy love, by the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Lord, no, yet I love thee too. And while thou
Henry V|KING HENRY V|livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and
Henry V|KING HENRY V|uncoined constancy, for he perforce must do thee
Henry V|KING HENRY V|right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other
Henry V|KING HENRY V|places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that
Henry V|KING HENRY V|can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do
Henry V|KING HENRY V|always reason themselves out again. What! a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is but a ballad. A
Henry V|KING HENRY V|good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow
Henry V|KING HENRY V|bald, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax
Henry V|KING HENRY V|hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|moon, or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, for it
Henry V|KING HENRY V|shines bright and never changes, but keeps his
Henry V|KING HENRY V|course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
Henry V|KING HENRY V|me, and take me, take a soldier, take a soldier,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, it is not possible you should love the enemy of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love
Henry V|KING HENRY V|the friend of France, for I love France so well that
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I will not part with a village of it, I will have it
Henry V|KING HENRY V|all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am
Henry V|KING HENRY V|yours, then yours is France and you are mine.
Henry V|KATHARINE|I cannot tell vat is dat.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, Kate? I will tell thee in French, which I am
Henry V|KING HENRY V|sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married
Henry V|KING HENRY V|wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook
Henry V|KING HENRY V|off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand
Henry V|KING HENRY V|vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what
Henry V|KING HENRY V|then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est
Henry V|KING HENRY V|France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much
Henry V|KING HENRY V|more French: I shall never move thee in French,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|unless it be to laugh at me.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il
Henry V|KATHARINE|est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my
Henry V|KING HENRY V|tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs
Henry V|KING HENRY V|be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou
Henry V|KING HENRY V|understand thus much English, canst thou love me?
Henry V|KATHARINE|I cannot tell.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask
Henry V|KING HENRY V|them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|when you come into your closet, you'll question this
Henry V|KING HENRY V|gentlewoman about me, and I know, Kate, you will to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|her dispraise those parts in me that you love with
Henry V|KING HENRY V|your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully, the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|rather, gentle princess, because I love thee
Henry V|KING HENRY V|cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get
Henry V|KING HENRY V|thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs
Henry V|KING HENRY V|prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|boy, half French, half English, that shall go to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair
Henry V|KING HENRY V|flower-de-luce?
Henry V|KATHARINE|I do not know dat
Henry V|KING HENRY V|No, 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do
Henry V|KING HENRY V|but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your
Henry V|KING HENRY V|French part of such a boy, and for my English moiety
Henry V|KING HENRY V|take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer
Henry V|KING HENRY V|you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher
Henry V|KING HENRY V|et devin deesse?
Henry V|KATHARINE|Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de
Henry V|KATHARINE|most sage demoiselle dat is en France.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in
Henry V|KING HENRY V|true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I
Henry V|KING HENRY V|dare not swear thou lovest me, yet my blood begins to
Henry V|KING HENRY V|flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor
Henry V|KING HENRY V|and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew
Henry V|KING HENRY V|my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars
Henry V|KING HENRY V|when he got me: therefore was I created with a
Henry V|KING HENRY V|stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou
Henry V|KING HENRY V|hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou
Henry V|KING HENRY V|shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:
Henry V|KING HENRY V|and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you
Henry V|KING HENRY V|have me? Put off your maiden blushes, avouch the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am
Henry V|KING HENRY V|thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine
Henry V|KING HENRY V|ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is
Henry V|KING HENRY V|thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Plantagenet is thine,' who though I speak it before
Henry V|KING HENRY V|his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Come, your answer in broken music, for thy voice is
Henry V|KING HENRY V|music and thy English broken, therefore, queen of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken
Henry V|KING HENRY V|English, wilt thou have me?
Henry V|KATHARINE|Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please
Henry V|KING HENRY V|him, Kate.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Den it sall also content me.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je
Henry V|KATHARINE|ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en
Henry V|KATHARINE|baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne
Henry V|KATHARINE|serviteur, excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon
Henry V|KATHARINE|tres-puissant seigneur.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
Henry V|KATHARINE|Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant
Henry V|KATHARINE|leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Madam my interpreter, what says she?
Henry V|ALICE|Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of
Henry V|ALICE|France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|To kiss.
Henry V|ALICE|Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss
Henry V|KING HENRY V|before they are married, would she say?
Henry V|ALICE|Oui, vraiment.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak
Henry V|KING HENRY V|list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of
Henry V|KING HENRY V|manners, Kate, and the liberty that follows our
Henry V|KING HENRY V|places stops the mouth of all find-faults, as I will
Henry V|KING HENRY V|do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your
Henry V|KING HENRY V|country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently
Henry V|KING HENRY V|and yielding.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Kissing her
Henry V|KING HENRY V|You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is
Henry V|KING HENRY V|more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|tongues of the French council, and they should
Henry V|KING HENRY V|sooner persuade Harry of England than a general
Henry V|KING HENRY V|petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Re-enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY, and other Lords
Henry V|BURGUNDY|God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you
Henry V|BURGUNDY|our princess English?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how
Henry V|KING HENRY V|perfectly I love her, and that is good English.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Is she not apt?
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not
Henry V|KING HENRY V|smooth, so that, having neither the voice nor the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up
Henry V|KING HENRY V|the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in
Henry V|KING HENRY V|his true likeness.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you
Henry V|BURGUNDY|for that. If you would conjure in her, you must
Henry V|BURGUNDY|make a circle, if conjure up love in her in his true
Henry V|BURGUNDY|likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you
Henry V|BURGUNDY|blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the
Henry V|BURGUNDY|virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the
Henry V|BURGUNDY|appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing
Henry V|BURGUNDY|self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid
Henry V|BURGUNDY|to consign to.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|They are then excused, my lord, when they see not
Henry V|BURGUNDY|what they do.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will
Henry V|BURGUNDY|teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well
Henry V|BURGUNDY|summered and warm kept, are like flies at
Henry V|BURGUNDY|Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their
Henry V|BURGUNDY|eyes, and then they will endure handling, which
Henry V|BURGUNDY|before would not abide looking on.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the
Henry V|KING HENRY V|latter end and she must be blind too.
Henry V|BURGUNDY|As love is, my lord, before it loves.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for
Henry V|KING HENRY V|my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city
Henry V|KING HENRY V|for one fair French maid that stands in my way.
Henry V|FRENCH KING|Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities
Henry V|FRENCH KING|turned into a maid, for they are all girdled with
Henry V|FRENCH KING|maiden walls that war hath never entered.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Shall Kate be my wife?
Henry V|FRENCH KING|So please you.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I am content, so the maiden cities you talk of may
Henry V|KING HENRY V|wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for
Henry V|KING HENRY V|my wish shall show me the way to my will.
Henry V|FRENCH KING|We have consented to all terms of reason.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Is't so, my lords of England?
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|The king hath granted every article:
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|His daughter first, and then in sequel all,
Henry V|WESTMORELAND|According to their firm proposed natures.
Henry V|EXETER|Only he hath not yet subscribed this:
Henry V|EXETER|Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,
Henry V|EXETER|having any occasion to write for matter of grant,
Henry V|EXETER|shall name your highness in this form and with this
Henry V|EXETER|addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi
Henry V|EXETER|d'Angleterre, Heritier de France, and thus in
Henry V|EXETER|Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex
Henry V|EXETER|Angliae, et Haeres Franciae.
Henry V|FRENCH KING|Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,
Henry V|FRENCH KING|But your request shall make me let it pass.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Let that one article rank with the rest,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And thereupon give me your daughter.
Henry V|FRENCH KING|Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Henry V|FRENCH KING|Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms
Henry V|FRENCH KING|Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
Henry V|FRENCH KING|With envy of each other's happiness,
Henry V|FRENCH KING|May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction
Henry V|FRENCH KING|Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
Henry V|FRENCH KING|In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
Henry V|FRENCH KING|His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
Henry V|ALL|Amen!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Flourish
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|God, the best maker of all marriages,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|As man and wife, being two, are one in love,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|To make divorce of their incorporate league,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|That English may as French, French Englishmen,
Henry V|QUEEN ISABEL|Receive each other. God speak this Amen!
Henry V|ALL|Amen!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Prepare we for our marriage--on which day,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me,
Henry V|KING HENRY V|And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Sennet. Exeunt
Henry V|KING HENRY V|EPILOGUE
Henry V|KING HENRY V|Enter Chorus
Henry V|Chorus|Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Henry V|Chorus|Our bending author hath pursued the story,
Henry V|Chorus|In little room confining mighty men,
Henry V|Chorus|Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
Henry V|Chorus|Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
Henry V|Chorus|This star of England: Fortune made his sword,
Henry V|Chorus|By which the world's best garden be achieved,
Henry V|Chorus|And of it left his son imperial lord.
Henry V|Chorus|Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King
Henry V|Chorus|Of France and England, did this king succeed,
Henry V|Chorus|Whose state so many had the managing,
Henry V|Chorus|That they lost France and made his England bleed:
Henry V|Chorus|Which oft our stage hath shown, and, for their sake,
Henry V|Chorus|In your fair minds let this acceptance take.
Henry V|Chorus|Exit
Henry VIII|Chorus|ACT I
Henry VIII|Chorus|PROLOGUE
Henry VIII|Chorus|I come no more to make you laugh: things now,
Henry VIII|Chorus|That bear a weighty and a serious brow,
Henry VIII|Chorus|Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe,
Henry VIII|Chorus|Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow,
Henry VIII|Chorus|We now present. Those that can pity, here
Henry VIII|Chorus|May, if they think it well, let fall a tear,
Henry VIII|Chorus|The subject will deserve it. Such as give
Henry VIII|Chorus|Their money out of hope they may believe,
Henry VIII|Chorus|May here find truth too. Those that come to see
Henry VIII|Chorus|Only a show or two, and so agree
Henry VIII|Chorus|The play may pass, if they be still and willing,
Henry VIII|Chorus|I'll undertake may see away their shilling
Henry VIII|Chorus|Richly in two short hours. Only they
Henry VIII|Chorus|That come to hear a merry bawdy play,
Henry VIII|Chorus|A noise of targets, or to see a fellow
Henry VIII|Chorus|In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,
Henry VIII|Chorus|Will be deceived, for, gentle hearers, know,
Henry VIII|Chorus|To rank our chosen truth with such a show
Henry VIII|Chorus|As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting
Henry VIII|Chorus|Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring,
Henry VIII|Chorus|To make that only true we now intend,
Henry VIII|Chorus|Will leave us never an understanding friend.
Henry VIII|Chorus|Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known
Henry VIII|Chorus|The first and happiest hearers of the town,
Henry VIII|Chorus|Be sad, as we would make ye: think ye see
Henry VIII|Chorus|The very persons of our noble story
Henry VIII|Chorus|As they were living, think you see them great,
Henry VIII|Chorus|And follow'd with the general throng and sweat
Henry VIII|Chorus|Of thousand friends, then in a moment, see
Henry VIII|Chorus|How soon this mightiness meets misery:
Henry VIII|Chorus|And, if you can be merry then, I'll say
Henry VIII|Chorus|A man may weep upon his wedding-day.
Henry VIII|Chorus|SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the palace.
Henry VIII|Chorus|Enter NORFOLK at one door, at the other, BUCKINGHAM and ABERGAVENNY
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Good morrow, and well met. How have ye done
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Since last we saw in France?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|I thank your grace,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Healthful, and ever since a fresh admirer
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Of what I saw there.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|An untimely ague
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber when
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Met in the vale of Andren.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|'Twixt Guynes and Arde:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|I was then present, saw them salute on horseback,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|In their embracement, as they grew together,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Which had they, what four throned ones could have weigh'd
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Such a compounded one?
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|All the whole time
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I was my chamber's prisoner.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Then you lost
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The view of earthly glory: men might say,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Till this time pomp was single, but now married
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To one above itself. Each following day
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Became the next day's master, till the last
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Made former wonders its. To-day the French,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Shone down the English, and, to-morrow, they
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Made Britain India: every man that stood
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Show'd like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|As cherubins, all guilt: the madams too,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The pride upon them, that their very labour
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Was to them as a painting: now this masque
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Was cried incomparable, and the ensuing night
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|As presence did present them, him in eye,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Still him in praise: and, being present both
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|'Twas said they saw but one, and no discerner
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns--
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|For so they phrase 'em--by their heralds challenged
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The noble spirits to arms, they did perform
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Beyond thought's compass, that former fabulous story,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Being now seen possible enough, got credit,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That Bevis was believed.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|O, you go far.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|As I belong to worship and affect
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|In honour honesty, the tract of every thing
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Would by a good discourser lose some life,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To the disposing of it nought rebell'd.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Order gave each thing view, the office did
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Distinctly his full function.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Who did guide,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I mean, who set the body and the limbs
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Of this great sport together, as you guess?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|One, certes, that promises no element
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|In such a business.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I pray you, who, my lord?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|All this was order'd by the good discretion
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|From his ambitious finger. What had he
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|That such a keech can with his very bulk
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And keep it from the earth.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Surely, sir,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Chalks successors their way, nor call'd upon
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|For high feats done to the crown, neither allied
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|For eminent assistants, but, spider-like,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The force of his own merit makes his way
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|A place next to the king.
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|I cannot tell
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|What heaven hath given him,--let some graver eye
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|Pierce into that, but I can see his pride
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|Peep through each part of him: whence has he that,
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|If not from hell? the devil is a niggard,
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|Or has given all before, and he begins
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|A new hell in himself.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Why the devil,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Upon this French going out, took he upon him,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Without the privity o' the king, to appoint
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Who should attend on him? He makes up the file
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Of all the gentry, for the most part such
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To whom as great a charge as little honour
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|He meant to lay upon: and his own letter,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|The honourable board of council out,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Must fetch him in the papers.
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|I do know
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|By this so sickened their estates, that never
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|They shall abound as formerly.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|O, many
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|For this great journey. What did this vanity
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|But minister communication of
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|A most poor issue?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Grievingly I think,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The peace between the French and us not values
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The cost that did conclude it.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Every man,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|After the hideous storm that follow'd, was
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|A thing inspired, and, not consulting, broke
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Into a general prophecy, That this tempest,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|The sudden breach on't.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Which is budded out,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux.
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|Is it therefore
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|The ambassador is silenced?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Marry, is't.
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|A proper title of a peace, and purchased
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|At a superfluous rate!
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Why, all this business
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Our reverend cardinal carried.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Like it your grace,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The state takes notice of the private difference
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you--
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Honour and plenteous safety--that you read
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The cardinal's malice and his potency
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Together, to consider further that
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|What his high hatred would effect wants not
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|A minister in his power. You know his nature,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That he's revengeful, and I know his sword
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Hath a sharp edge: it's long and, 't may be said,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|It reaches far, and where 'twill not extend,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That I advise your shunning.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, the purse borne before him,  certain of the Guard, and two Secretaries with  papers. CARDINAL WOLSEY in his passage fixeth his  eye on BUCKINGHAM, and BUCKINGHAM on him, both full of disdain
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Where's his examination?
Henry VIII|First Secretary|Here, so please you.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Is he in person ready?
Henry VIII|First Secretary|Ay, please your grace.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Well, we shall then know more, and Buckingham
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Shall lessen this big look.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Exeunt CARDINAL WOLSEY and his Train
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Have not the power to muzzle him, therefore best
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Outworths a noble's blood.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|What, are you chafed?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Ask God for temperance, that's the appliance only
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Which your disease requires.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I read in's looks
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Matter against me, and his eye reviled
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Me, as his abject object: at this instant
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|He bores me with some trick: he's gone to the king,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I'll follow and outstare him.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Stay, my lord,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And let your reason with your choler question
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Requires slow pace at first: anger is like
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Can advise me like you: be to yourself
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|As you would to your friend.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I'll to the king,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|This Ipswich fellow's insolence, or proclaim
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|There's difference in no persons.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Be advised,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And lose by over-running. Know you not,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|I say again, there is no English soul
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|More stronger to direct you than yourself,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|If with the sap of reason you would quench,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Or but allay, the fire of passion.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Sir,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I am thankful to you, and I'll go along
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|By your prescription: but this top-proud fellow,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Whom from the flow of gall I name not but
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|From sincere motions, by intelligence,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And proofs as clear as founts in July when
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|We see each grain of gravel, I do know
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To be corrupt and treasonous.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Say not 'treasonous.'
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To the king I'll say't, and make my vouch as strong
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Or wolf, or both,--for he is equal ravenous
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As able to perform't, his mind and place
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally--
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Only to show his pomp as well in France
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As here at home, suggests the king our master
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To this last costly treaty, the interview,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Did break i' the rinsing.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Faith, and so it did.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|The articles o' the combination drew
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As himself pleased, and they were ratified
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As he cried 'Thus let be': to as much end
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As give a crutch to the dead: but our count-cardinal
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Has done this, and 'tis well, for worthy Wolsey,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows,--
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To the old dam, treason,--Charles the emperor,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Under pretence to see the queen his aunt--
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To whisper Wolsey,--here makes visitation:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|His fears were, that the interview betwixt
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|England and France might, through their amity,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Breed him some prejudice, for from this league
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Peep'd harms that menaced him: he privily
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Deals with our cardinal, and, as I trow,--
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Which I do well, for I am sure the emperor
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Paid ere he promised, whereby his suit was granted
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Ere it was ask'd, but when the way was made,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And paved with gold, the emperor thus desired,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|That he would please to alter the king's course,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And break the foresaid peace. Let the king know,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As soon he shall by me, that thus the cardinal
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And for his own advantage.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|I am sorry
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To hear this of him, and could wish he were
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Something mistaken in't.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|No, not a syllable:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I  do pronounce him in that very shape
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|He shall appear in proof.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Enter BRANDON, a Sergeant-at-arms before him, and two or three of the Guard
Henry VIII|BRANDON|Your office, sergeant, execute it.
Henry VIII|Sergeant|Sir,
Henry VIII|Sergeant|My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl
Henry VIII|Sergeant|Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I
Henry VIII|Sergeant|Arrest thee of high treason, in the name
Henry VIII|Sergeant|Of our most sovereign king.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Lo, you, my lord,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|The net has fall'n upon me! I shall perish
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Under device and practise.
Henry VIII|BRANDON|I am sorry
Henry VIII|BRANDON|To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on
Henry VIII|BRANDON|The business present: 'tis his highness' pleasure
Henry VIII|BRANDON|You shall to the Tower.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|It will help me nothing
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Which makes my whitest part black. The will of heaven
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Be done in this and all things! I obey.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|O my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well!
Henry VIII|BRANDON|Nay, he must bear you company. The king
Henry VIII|BRANDON|To ABERGAVENNY
Henry VIII|BRANDON|Is pleased you shall to the Tower, till you know
Henry VIII|BRANDON|How he determines further.
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|As the duke said,
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|The will of heaven be done, and the king's pleasure
Henry VIII|ABERGAVENNY|By me obey'd!
Henry VIII|BRANDON|Here is a warrant from
Henry VIII|BRANDON|The king to attach Lord Montacute, and the bodies
Henry VIII|BRANDON|Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car,
Henry VIII|BRANDON|One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor--
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|So, so,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|These are the limbs o' the plot: no more, I hope.
Henry VIII|BRANDON|A monk o' the Chartreux.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|O, Nicholas Hopkins?
Henry VIII|BRANDON|He.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|My surveyor is false, the o'er-great cardinal
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Hath show'd him gold, my life is spann'd already:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|By darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|SCENE II. The same. The council-chamber.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Cornets. Enter KING HENRY VIII, leaning on  CARDINAL WOLSEY's shoulder, the Nobles, and LOVELL,  CARDINAL WOLSEY places himself under KING HENRY VIII's feet on his right side
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My life itself, and the best heart of it,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thanks you for this great care: I stood i' the level
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To you that choked it. Let be call'd before us
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That gentleman of Buckingham's, in person
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I'll hear him his confessions justify,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And point by point the treasons of his master
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|He shall again relate.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A noise within, crying 'Room for the Queen!' Enter  QUEEN KATHARINE, ushered by NORFOLK, and SUFFOLK:  she kneels. KING HENRY VIII riseth from his state, takes her up, kisses and placeth her by him
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Nay, we must longer kneel: I am a suitor.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Arise, and take place by us: half your suit
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Never name to us, you have half our power:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The other moiety, ere you ask, is given,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Repeat your will and take it.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Thank your majesty.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That you would love yourself, and in that love
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Not unconsider'd leave your honour, nor
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The dignity of your office, is the point
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Of my petition.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Lady mine, proceed.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am solicited, not by a few,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And those of true condition, that your subjects
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Are in great grievance: there have been commissions
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Sent down among 'em, which hath flaw'd the heart
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Of all their loyalties: wherein, although,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My good lord cardinal, they vent reproaches
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Most bitterly on you, as putter on
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Of these exactions, yet the king our master--
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Whose honour heaven shield from soil!--even he
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|escapes not
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The sides of loyalty, and almost appears
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In loud rebellion.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Not almost appears,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|It doth appear, for, upon these taxations,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The clothiers all, not able to maintain
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The many to them longing, have put off
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And lack of other means, in desperate manner
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And danger serves among then!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Taxation!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Wherein? and what taxation? My lord cardinal,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You that are blamed for it alike with us,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Know you of this taxation?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Please you, sir,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I know but of a single part, in aught
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Pertains to the state, and front but in that file
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Where others tell steps with me.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|No, my lord,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You know no more than others, but you frame
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Things that are known alike, which are not wholesome
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To those which would not know them, and yet must
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Most pestilent to the bearing, and, to bear 'em,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The back is sacrifice to the load. They say
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|They are devised by you, or else you suffer
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Too hard an exclamation.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Still exaction!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The nature of it? in what kind, let's know,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Is this exaction?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am much too venturous
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In tempting of your patience, but am bolden'd
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Under your promised pardon. The subjects' grief
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Comes through commissions, which compel from each
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The sixth part of his substance, to be levied
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Without delay, and the pretence for this
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Is named, your wars in France: this makes bold mouths:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Allegiance in them, their curses now
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Live where their prayers did: and it's come to pass,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|This tractable obedience is a slave
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To each incensed will. I would your highness
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Would give it quick consideration, for
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|There is no primer business.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|By my life,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This is against our pleasure.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And for me,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I have no further gone in this than by
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A single voice, and that not pass'd me but
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|By learned approbation of the judges. If I am
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|My faculties nor person, yet will be
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The chronicles of my doing, let me say
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That virtue must go through. We must not stint
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Our necessary actions, in the fear
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That is new-trimm'd, but benefit no further
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Not ours, or not allow'd, what worst, as oft,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For our best act. If we shall stand still,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|We should take root here where we sit, or sit
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|State-statues only.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Things done well,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And with a care, exempt themselves from fear,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Things done without example, in their issue
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Are to be fear'd. Have you a precedent
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of this commission? I believe, not any.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|We must not rend our subjects from our laws,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A trembling contribution! Why, we take
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|From every tree lop, bark, and part o' the timber,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The air will drink the sap. To every county
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Where this is question'd send our letters, with
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Free pardon to each man that has denied
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The force of this commission: pray, look to't,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I put it to your care.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A word with you.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To the Secretary
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Let there be letters writ to every shire,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of the king's grace and pardon. The grieved commons
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Hardly conceive of me, let it be noised
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That through our intercession this revokement
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And pardon comes: I shall anon advise you
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Further in the proceeding.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Exit Secretary
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Enter Surveyor
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Is run in your displeasure.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|It grieves many:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To nature none more bound, his training such,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That he may furnish and instruct great teachers,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|When these so noble benefits shall prove
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when we,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Almost with ravish'd listening, could not find
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|His hour of speech a minute, he, my lady,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That once were his, and is become as black
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us, you shall hear--
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This was his gentleman in trust--of him
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Things to strike honour sad. Bid him recount
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The fore-recited practises, whereof
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|We cannot feel too little, hear too much.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate what you,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Most like a careful subject, have collected
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Out of the Duke of Buckingham.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Speak freely.
Henry VIII|Surveyor|First, it was usual with him, every day
Henry VIII|Surveyor|It would infect his speech, that if the king
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Should without issue die, he'll carry it so
Henry VIII|Surveyor|To make the sceptre his: these very words
Henry VIII|Surveyor|I've heard him utter to his son-in-law,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Lord Abergavenny, to whom by oath he menaced
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Revenge upon the cardinal.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Please your highness, note
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This dangerous conception in this point.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Not friended by by his wish, to your high person
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|His will is most malignant, and it stretches
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Beyond you, to your friends.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My learn'd lord cardinal,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Deliver all with charity.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Speak on:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|How grounded he his title to the crown,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Upon our fail? to this point hast thou heard him
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|At any time speak aught?
Henry VIII|Surveyor|He was brought to this
Henry VIII|Surveyor|By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What was that Hopkins?
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Sir, a Chartreux friar,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|His confessor, who fed him every minute
Henry VIII|Surveyor|With words of sovereignty.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|How know'st thou this?
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Not long before your highness sped to France,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|The duke being at the Rose, within the parish
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Saint Lawrence Poultney, did of me demand
Henry VIII|Surveyor|What was the speech among the Londoners
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Concerning the French journey: I replied,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Men fear'd the French would prove perfidious,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|To the king's danger. Presently the duke
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Said, 'twas the fear, indeed, and that he doubted
Henry VIII|Surveyor|'Twould prove the verity of certain words
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Spoke by a holy monk, 'that oft,' says he,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|'Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit
Henry VIII|Surveyor|John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour
Henry VIII|Surveyor|To hear from him a matter of some moment:
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Whom after under the confession's seal
Henry VIII|Surveyor|He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke
Henry VIII|Surveyor|My chaplain to no creature living, but
Henry VIII|Surveyor|To me, should utter, with demure confidence
Henry VIII|Surveyor|This pausingly ensued: neither the king nor's heirs,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Tell you the duke, shall prosper: bid him strive
Henry VIII|Surveyor|To gain the love o' the commonalty: the duke
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Shall govern England.'
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|If I know you well,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You were the duke's surveyor, and lost your office
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|On the complaint o' the tenants: take good heed
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You charge not in your spleen a noble person
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And spoil your nobler soul: I say, take heed,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Yes, heartily beseech you.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Let him on.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Go forward.
Henry VIII|Surveyor|On my soul, I'll speak but truth.
Henry VIII|Surveyor|I told my lord the duke, by the devil's illusions
Henry VIII|Surveyor|The monk might be deceived, and that 'twas dangerous for him
Henry VIII|Surveyor|To ruminate on this so far, until
Henry VIII|Surveyor|It forged him some design, which, being believed,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|It was much like to do: he answer'd, 'Tush,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|It can do me no damage,' adding further,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|That, had the king in his last sickness fail'd,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|The cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Should have gone off.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ha! what, so rank? Ah ha!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|There's mischief in this man: canst thou say further?
Henry VIII|Surveyor|I can, my liege.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Proceed.
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Being at Greenwich,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|After your highness had reproved the duke
Henry VIII|Surveyor|About Sir William Blomer,--
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I remember
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of such a time: being my sworn servant,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The duke retain'd him his. But on, what hence?
Henry VIII|Surveyor|'If,' quoth he, 'I for this had been committed,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|As, to the Tower, I thought, I would have play'd
Henry VIII|Surveyor|The part my father meant to act upon
Henry VIII|Surveyor|The usurper Richard, who, being at Salisbury,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Made suit to come in's presence, which if granted,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|As he made semblance of his duty, would
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Have put his knife to him.'
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A giant traitor!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Now, madam, may his highness live in freedom,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|and this man out of prison?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|God mend all!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|There's something more would out of thee, what say'st?
Henry VIII|Surveyor|After 'the duke his father,' with 'the knife,'
Henry VIII|Surveyor|He stretch'd him, and, with one hand on his dagger,
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes
Henry VIII|Surveyor|He did discharge a horrible oath, whose tenor
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Was,--were he evil used, he would outgo
Henry VIII|Surveyor|His father by as much as a performance
Henry VIII|Surveyor|Does an irresolute purpose.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|There's his period,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To sheathe his knife in us. He is attach'd,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Call him to present trial: if he may
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Find mercy in the law, 'tis his: if none,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Let him not seek 't of us: by day and night,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|He's traitor to the height.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|SCENE III. An ante-chamber in the palace.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter Chamberlain and SANDS
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Is't possible the spells of France should juggle
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Men into such strange mysteries?
Henry VIII|SANDS|New customs,
Henry VIII|SANDS|Though they be never so ridiculous,
Henry VIII|SANDS|Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|As far as I see, all the good our English
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Have got by the late voyage is but merely
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|A fit or two o' the face, but they are shrewd ones,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|For when they hold 'em, you would swear directly
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Their very noses had been counsellors
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|To Pepin or Clotharius, they keep state so.
Henry VIII|SANDS|They have all new legs, and lame ones: one would take it,
Henry VIII|SANDS|That never saw 'em pace before, the spavin
Henry VIII|SANDS|Or springhalt reign'd among 'em.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Death! my lord,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|That, sure, they've worn out Christendom.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Enter LOVELL
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|How now!
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Faith, my lord,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|I hear of none, but the new proclamation
Henry VIII|LOVELL|That's clapp'd upon the court-gate.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|What is't for?
Henry VIII|LOVELL|The reformation of our travell'd gallants,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|I'm glad 'tis there: now I would pray our monsieurs
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|To think an English courtier may be wise,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|And never see the Louvre.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|They must either,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|For so run the conditions, leave those remnants
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Of fool and feather that they got in France,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|With all their honourable point of ignorance
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Pertaining thereunto, as fights and fireworks,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Abusing better men than they can be,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean
Henry VIII|LOVELL|The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Short blister'd breeches, and those types of travel,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|And understand again like honest men,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Or pack to their old playfellows: there, I take it,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|They may, 'cum privilegio,' wear away
Henry VIII|LOVELL|The lag end of their lewdness and be laugh'd at.
Henry VIII|SANDS|'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
Henry VIII|SANDS|Are grown so catching.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|What a loss our ladies
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Will have of these trim vanities!
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Ay, marry,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|There will be woe indeed, lords: the sly whoresons
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.
Henry VIII|SANDS|The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going,
Henry VIII|SANDS|For, sure, there's no converting of 'em: now
Henry VIII|SANDS|An honest country lord, as I am, beaten
Henry VIII|SANDS|A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong
Henry VIII|SANDS|And have an hour of hearing, and, by'r lady,
Henry VIII|SANDS|Held current music too.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Well said, Lord Sands,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Your colt's tooth is not cast yet.
Henry VIII|SANDS|No, my lord,
Henry VIII|SANDS|Nor shall not, while I have a stump.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Sir Thomas,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Whither were you a-going?
Henry VIII|LOVELL|To the cardinal's:
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Your lordship is a guest too.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|O, 'tis true:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|This night he makes a supper, and a great one,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|To many lords and ladies, there will be
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|His dews fall every where.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|No doubt he's noble,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|He had a black mouth that said other of him.
Henry VIII|SANDS|He may, my lord, has wherewithal: in him
Henry VIII|SANDS|Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine:
Henry VIII|SANDS|Men of his way should be most liberal,
Henry VIII|SANDS|They are set here for examples.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|True, they are so:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|But few now give so great ones. My barge stays,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Your lordship shall along. Come, good Sir Thomas,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|We shall be late else, which I would not be,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|This night to be comptrollers.
Henry VIII|SANDS|I am your lordship's.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Exeunt
Henry VIII|SANDS|SCENE IV. A Hall in York Place.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Hautboys. A small table under a state for CARDINAL  WOLSEY, a longer table for the guests. Then enter  ANNE and divers other Ladies and Gentlemen as  guests, at one door, at another door, enter GUILDFORD
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|Ladies, a general welcome from his grace
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|Salutes ye all, this night he dedicates
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|To fair content and you: none here, he hopes,
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|In all this noble bevy, has brought with her
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|One care abroad, he would have all as merry
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome,
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|Can make good people. O, my lord, you're tardy:
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|Enter Chamberlain, SANDS, and LOVELL
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|The very thought of this fair company
Henry VIII|GUILDFORD|Clapp'd wings to me.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|You are young, Sir Harry Guildford.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Sir Thomas Lovell, had the cardinal
Henry VIII|SANDS|But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these
Henry VIII|SANDS|Should find a running banquet ere they rested,
Henry VIII|SANDS|I think would better please 'em: by my life,
Henry VIII|SANDS|They are a sweet society of fair ones.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|O, that your lordship were but now confessor
Henry VIII|LOVELL|To one or two of these!
Henry VIII|SANDS|I would I were,
Henry VIII|SANDS|They should find easy penance.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Faith, how easy?
Henry VIII|SANDS|As easy as a down-bed would afford it.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? Sir Harry,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Place you that side, I'll take the charge of this:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|His grace is entering. Nay, you must not freeze,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Two women placed together makes cold weather:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|My Lord Sands, you are one will keep 'em waking,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Pray, sit between these ladies.
Henry VIII|SANDS|By my faith,
Henry VIII|SANDS|And thank your lordship. By your leave, sweet ladies:
Henry VIII|SANDS|If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me,
Henry VIII|SANDS|I had it from my father.
Henry VIII|ANNE|Was he mad, sir?
Henry VIII|SANDS|O, very mad, exceeding mad, in love too:
Henry VIII|SANDS|But he would bite none, just as I do now,
Henry VIII|SANDS|He would kiss you twenty with a breath.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Kisses her
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Well said, my lord.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|So, now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The penance lies on you, if these fair ladies
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Pass away frowning.
Henry VIII|SANDS|For my little cure,
Henry VIII|SANDS|Let me alone.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Hautboys. Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, and takes his state
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You're welcome, my fair guests: that noble lady,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Or gentleman, that is not freely merry,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Is not my friend: this, to confirm my welcome,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And to you all, good health.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Drinks
Henry VIII|SANDS|Your grace is noble:
Henry VIII|SANDS|Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks,
Henry VIII|SANDS|And save me so much talking.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|My Lord Sands,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I am beholding to you: cheer your neighbours.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Ladies, you are not merry: gentlemen,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Whose fault is this?
Henry VIII|SANDS|The red wine first must rise
Henry VIII|SANDS|In their fair cheeks, my lord, then we shall have 'em
Henry VIII|SANDS|Talk us to silence.
Henry VIII|ANNE|You are a merry gamester,
Henry VIII|ANNE|My Lord Sands.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Yes, if I make my play.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Here's to your ladyship: and pledge it, madam,
Henry VIII|SANDS|For 'tis to such a thing,--
Henry VIII|ANNE|You cannot show me.
Henry VIII|SANDS|I told your grace they would talk anon.
Henry VIII|SANDS|Drum and trumpet, chambers discharged
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What's that?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Look out there, some of ye.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Exit Servant
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What warlike voice,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|By all the laws of war you're privileged.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Re-enter Servant
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|How now! what is't?
Henry VIII|Servant|A noble troop of strangers,
Henry VIII|Servant|For so they seem: they've left their barge and landed,
Henry VIII|Servant|And hither make, as great ambassadors
Henry VIII|Servant|From foreign princes.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Good lord chamberlain,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Go, give 'em welcome, you can speak the French tongue,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And, pray, receive 'em nobly, and conduct 'em
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Exit Chamberlain, attended. All rise, and tables removed
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You have now a broken banquet, but we'll mend it.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A good digestion to you all: and once more
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I shower a welcome on ye, welcome all.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Hautboys. Enter KING HENRY VIII and others, as  masquers, habited like shepherds, ushered by the  Chamberlain. They pass directly before CARDINAL WOLSEY, and gracefully salute him
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A noble company! what are their pleasures?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Because they speak no English, thus they pray'd
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|To tell your grace, that, having heard by fame
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Of this so noble and so fair assembly
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|This night to meet here, they could do no less
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|But leave their flocks, and, under your fair conduct,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Crave leave to view these ladies and entreat
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|An hour of revels with 'em.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Say, lord chamberlain,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|They have done my poor house grace, for which I pay 'em
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A thousand thanks, and pray 'em take their pleasures.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|They choose Ladies for the dance. KING HENRY VIII chooses ANNE
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The fairest hand I ever touch'd! O beauty,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Till now I never knew thee!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Music. Dance
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|My lord!
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Your grace?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Pray, tell 'em thus much from me:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There should be one amongst 'em, by his person,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|More worthy this place than myself, to whom,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|If I but knew him, with my love and duty
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I would surrender it.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|I will, my lord.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Whispers the Masquers
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What say they?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Such a one, they all confess,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|There is indeed, which they would have your grace
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Find out, and he will take it.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Let me see, then.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|By all your good leaves, gentlemen, here I'll make
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|My royal choice.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ye have found him, cardinal:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Unmasking
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You hold a fair assembly, you do well, lord:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You are a churchman, or, I'll tell you, cardinal,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I should judge now unhappily.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I am glad
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Your grace is grown so pleasant.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My lord chamberlain,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Prithee, come hither: what fair lady's that?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|An't please your grace, Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter--
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The Viscount Rochford,--one of her highness' women.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I were unmannerly, to take you out,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Let it go round.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I' the privy chamber?
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Yes, my lord.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Your grace,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I fear, with dancing is a little heated.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I fear, too much.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There's fresher air, my lord,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|In the next chamber.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Lead in your ladies, every one: sweet partner,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I must not yet forsake you: let's be merry:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Good my lord cardinal, I have half a dozen healths
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To lead 'em once again, and then let's dream
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Who's best in favour. Let the music knock it.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt with trumpets
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|ACT II
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|SCENE I. Westminster. A street.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter two Gentlemen, meeting
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Whither away so fast?
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|O, God save ye!
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Even to the hall, to hear what shall become
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Of the great Duke of Buckingham.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|I'll save you
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|That labour, sir. All's now done, but the ceremony
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Of bringing back the prisoner.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Were you there?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Yes, indeed, was I.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Pray, speak what has happen'd.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|You may guess quickly what.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Is he found guilty?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Yes, truly is he, and condemn'd upon't.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I am sorry for't.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|So are a number more.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|But, pray, how pass'd it?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|I'll tell you in a little. The great duke
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Came to the bar, where to his accusations
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|He pleaded still not guilty and alleged
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The king's attorney on the contrary
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Of divers witnesses, which the duke desired
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|To have brought viva voce to his face:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|At which appear'd against him his surveyor,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor, and John Car,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Confessor to him, with that devil-monk,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Hopkins, that made this mischief.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|That was he
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|That fed him with his prophecies?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The same.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|All these accused him strongly, which he fain
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Would have flung from him, but, indeed, he could not:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And so his peers, upon this evidence,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Have found him guilty of high treason. Much
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Was either pitied in him or forgotten.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|After all this, how did he bear himself?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|When he was brought again to the bar, to hear
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|With such an agony, he sweat extremely,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And something spoke in choler, ill, and hasty:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|But he fell to himself again, and sweetly
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|In all the rest show'd a most noble patience.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I do not think he fears death.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Sure, he does not:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|He never was so womanish, the cause
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|He may a little grieve at.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Certainly
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The cardinal is the end of this.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|'Tis likely,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Then deputy of Ireland, who removed,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Earl Surrey was sent thither, and in haste too,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Lest he should help his father.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|That trick of state
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Was a deep envious one.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|At his return
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And generally, whoever the king favours,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The cardinal instantly will find employment,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And far enough from court too.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|All the commons
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Wish him ten fathom deep: this duke as much
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|They love and dote on, call him bounteous Buckingham,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The mirror of all courtesy,--
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Stay there, sir,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And see the noble ruin'd man you speak of.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Enter BUCKINGHAM from his arraignment, tip-staves  before him, the axe with the edge towards him,  halberds on each side: accompanied with LOVELL, VAUX, SANDS, and common people
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Let's stand close, and behold him.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|All good people,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|You that thus far have come to pity me,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|I have this day received a traitor's judgment,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And by that name must die: yet, heaven bear witness,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And if I have a co nscience, let it sink me,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful!
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|The law I bear no malice for my death,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|'T has done, upon the premises, but justice:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|But those that sought it I could wish more Christians:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Be what they will, I heartily forgive 'em:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|For further life in this world I ne'er hope,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Nor will I sue, although the king have mercies
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Is only bitter to him, only dying,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Go with me, like good angels, to my end,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|I do beseech your grace, for charity,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|If ever any malice in your heart
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|As I would be forgiven: I forgive all,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|There cannot be those numberless offences
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|'Gainst me, that I cannot take peace with:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|no black envy
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And if he speak of Buckingham, pray, tell him
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|You met him half in heaven: my vows and prayers
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Yet are the king's, and, till my soul forsake,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Shall cry for blessings on him: may he live
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Longer than I have time to tell his years!
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Ever beloved and loving may his rule be!
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And when old time shall lead him to his end,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Goodness and he fill up one monument!
Henry VIII|LOVELL|To the water side I must conduct your grace,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Who undertakes you to your end.
Henry VIII|VAUX|Prepare there,
Henry VIII|VAUX|The duke is coming: see the barge be ready,
Henry VIII|VAUX|And fit it with such furniture as suits
Henry VIII|VAUX|The greatness of his person.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Nay, Sir Nicholas,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Let it alone, my state now will but mock me.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|When I came hither, I was lord high constable
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And Duke of Buckingham, now, poor Edward Bohun:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Yet I am richer than my base accusers,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|That never knew what truth meant: I now seal it,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for't.
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Who first raised head against usurping Richard,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Flying for succor to his servant Banister,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Being distress'd, was by that wretch betray'd,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And without trial fell, God's peace be with him!
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|My father's loss, like a most royal prince,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Restored me to my honours, and, out of ruins,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Made my name once more noble. Now his son,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name and all
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|That made me happy at one stroke has taken
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|For ever from the world. I had my trial,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And, must needs say, a noble one, which makes me,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|A little happier than my wretched father:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|A most unnatural and faithless service!
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Heaven has an end in all: yet, you that hear me,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|This from a dying man receive as certain:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Be sure you be not loose, for those you make friends
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Like water from ye, never found again
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|But where they mean to sink ye. All good people,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Pray for me! I must now forsake ye: the last hour
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Of my long weary life is come upon me. Farewell:
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|And when you would say something that is sad,
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Speak how I fell. I have done, and God forgive me!
Henry VIII|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and Train
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|O, this is full of pity! Sir, it calls,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|I fear, too many curses on their beads
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|That were the authors.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|If the duke be guiltless,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|'Tis full of woe: yet I can give you inkling
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Greater than this.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Good angels keep it from us!
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|This secret is so weighty, 'twill require
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|A strong faith to conceal it.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Let me have it,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|I do not talk much.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I am confident,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|You shall, sir: did you not of late days hear
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|A buzzing of a separation
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Between the king and Katharine?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Yes, but it held not:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|For when the king once heard it, out of anger
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|He sent command to the lord mayor straight
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|To stop the rumor, and allay those tongues
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|That durst disperse it.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|But that slander, sir,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Is found a truth now: for it grows again
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Fresher than e'er it was, and held for certain
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The king will venture at it. Either the cardinal,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Or some about him near, have, out of malice
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|To the good queen, possess'd him with a scruple
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|That will undo her: to confirm this too,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|As all think, for this business.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|'Tis the cardinal,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And merely to revenge him on the emperor
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|For not bestowing on him, at his asking,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The archbishopric of Toledo, this is purposed.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I think you have hit the mark: but is't not cruel
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|That she should feel the smart of this? The cardinal
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Will have his will, and she must fall.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|'Tis woful.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|We are too open here to argue this,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Let's think in private more.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Exeunt
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|SCENE II. An ante-chamber in the palace.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Enter Chamberlain, reading a letter
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|'My lord, the horses your lordship sent for, with
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|all the care I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|furnished. They were young and handsome, and of the
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|best breed in the north. When they were ready to
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|set out for London, a man of my lord cardinal's, by
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|commission and main power, took 'em from me, with
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|this reason: His master would be served before a
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|subject, if not before the king, which stopped our
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|mouths, sir.'
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|I fear he will indeed: well, let him have them:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|He will have all, I think.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Enter, to Chamberlain, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Well met, my lord chamberlain.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Good day to both your graces.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|How is the king employ'd?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|I left him private,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Full of sad thoughts and troubles.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|What's the cause?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|It seems the marriage with his brother's wife
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Has crept too near his conscience.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|No, his conscience
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Has crept too near another lady.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|'Tis so:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|This is the cardinal's doing, the king-cardinal:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Turns what he list. The king will know him one day.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Pray God he do! he'll never know himself else.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|How holily he works in all his business!
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And with what zeal! for, now he has crack'd the league
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Between us and the emperor, the queen's great nephew,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|He dives into the king's soul, and there scatters
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Fears, and despairs, and all these for his marriage:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And out of all these to restore the king,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|He counsels a divorce, a loss of her
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|About his neck, yet never lost her lustre,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Of her that loves him with that excellence
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That angels love good men with, even of her
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Will bless the king: and is not this course pious?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Heaven keep me from such counsel! 'Tis most true
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|These news are every where, every tongue speaks 'em,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|And every true heart weeps for't: all that dare
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Look into these affairs see this main end,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The French king's sister. Heaven will one day open
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The king's eyes, that so long have slept upon
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|This bold bad man.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|And free us from his slavery.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|We had need pray,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And heartily, for our deliverance,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Or this imperious man will work us all
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|From princes into pages: all men's honours
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Lie like one lump before him, to be fashion'd
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Into what pitch he please.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|For me, my lords,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|I love him not, nor fear him, there's my creed:
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|As I am made without him, so I'll stand,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|If the king please, his curses and his blessings
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Touch me alike, they're breath I not believe in.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|I knew him, and I know him, so I leave him
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|To him that made him proud, the pope.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Let's in,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And with some other business put the king
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|From these sad thoughts, that work too much upon him:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|My lord, you'll bear us company?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Excuse me,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The king has sent me otherwhere: besides,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Health to your lordships.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Thanks, my good lord chamberlain.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Exit Chamberlain, and KING HENRY VIII draws the curtain, and sits reading pensively
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|How sad he looks! sure, he is much afflicted.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Who's there, ha?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Pray God he be not angry.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Into my private meditations?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Who am I? ha?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|A gracious king that pardons all offences
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Malice ne'er meant: our breach of duty this way
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Is business of estate, in which we come
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To know your royal pleasure.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ye are too bold:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Go to, I'll make ye know your times of business:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS, with a commission
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Who's there? my good lord cardinal? O my Wolsey,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The quiet of my wounded conscience,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thou art a cure fit for a king.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You're welcome,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Use us and it.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To CARDINAL WOLSEY
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My good lord, have great care
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I be not found a talker.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Sir, you cannot.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I would your grace would give us but an hour
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of private conference.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|[To NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|We are busy, go.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|[Aside to SUFFOLK]
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|This priest has no pride in him?
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|[Aside to NORFOLK]             Not to speak of:
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|I would not be so sick though for his place:
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|But this cannot continue.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|[Aside to SUFFOLK]      If it do,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|I'll venture one have-at-him.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|[Aside to NORFOLK]          I another.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Exeunt NORFOLK and SUFFOLK
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Your grace has given a precedent of wisdom
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Above all princes, in committing freely
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Your scruple to the voice of Christendom:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Who can be angry now? what envy reach you?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The Spaniard, tied blood and favour to her,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Must now confess, if they have any goodness,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The trial just and noble. All the clerks,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Have their free voices: Rome, the nurse of judgment,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Invited by your noble self, hath sent
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|One general tongue unto us, this good man,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This just and learned priest, Cardinal Campeius,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Whom once more I present unto your highness.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And once more in mine arms I bid him welcome,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And thank the holy conclave for their loves:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|They have sent me such a man I would have wish'd for.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|You are so noble. To your highness' hand
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|I tender my commission, by whose virtue,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|The court of Rome commanding, you, my lord
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Cardinal of York, are join'd with me their servant
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|In the unpartial judging of this business.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Two equal men. The queen shall be acquainted
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Forthwith for what you come. Where's Gardiner?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I know your majesty has always loved her
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|So dear in heart, not to deny her that
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A woman of less place might ask by law:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Scholars allow'd freely to argue for her.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ay, and the best she shall have, and my favour
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To him that does best: God forbid else. Cardinal,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Prithee, call Gardiner to me, my new secretary:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I find him a fit fellow.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exit CARDINAL WOLSEY
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Re-enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, with GARDINER
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|[Aside to GARDINER]  Give me your hand much joy and
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|favour to you,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You are the king's now.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|[Aside to CARDINAL WOLSEY]
Henry VIII|GARDINER|But to be commanded
Henry VIII|GARDINER|For ever by your grace, whose hand has raised me.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Come hither, Gardiner.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Walks and whispers
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|My Lord of York, was not one Doctor Pace
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|In this man's place before him?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Yes, he was.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Was he not held a learned man?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Yes, surely.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Even of yourself, lord cardinal.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|How! of me?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|They will not stick to say you envied him,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Kept him a foreign man still, which so grieved him,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|That he ran mad and died.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Heaven's peace be with him!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That's Christian care enough: for living murmurers
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There's places of rebuke. He was a fool,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For he would needs be virtuous: that good fellow,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|If I command him, follows my appointment:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Deliver this with modesty to the queen.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exit GARDINER
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The most convenient place that I can think of
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|For such receipt of learning is Black-Friars,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|There ye shall meet about this weighty business.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My Wolsey, see it furnish'd. O, my lord,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Would it not grieve an able man to leave
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|So sweet a bedfellow? But, conscience, conscience!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|O, 'tis a tender place, and I must leave her.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|SCENE III. An ante-chamber of the QUEEN'S apartments.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter ANNE and an Old Lady
Henry VIII|ANNE|Not for that neither: here's the pang that pinches:
Henry VIII|ANNE|His highness having lived so long with her, and she
Henry VIII|ANNE|So good a lady that no tongue could ever
Henry VIII|ANNE|Pronounce dishonour of her, by my life,
Henry VIII|ANNE|She never knew harm-doing: O, now, after
Henry VIII|ANNE|So many courses of the sun enthroned,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Still growing in a majesty and pomp, the which
Henry VIII|ANNE|To leave a thousand-fold more bitter than
Henry VIII|ANNE|'Tis sweet at first to acquire,--after this process,
Henry VIII|ANNE|To give her the avaunt! it is a pity
Henry VIII|ANNE|Would move a monster.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Hearts of most hard temper
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Melt and lament for her.
Henry VIII|ANNE|O, God's will! much better
Henry VIII|ANNE|She ne'er had known pomp: though't be temporal,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce
Henry VIII|ANNE|It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging
Henry VIII|ANNE|As soul and body's severing.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Alas, poor lady!
Henry VIII|Old Lady|She's a stranger now again.
Henry VIII|ANNE|So much the more
Henry VIII|ANNE|Must pity drop upon her. Verily,
Henry VIII|ANNE|I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born,
Henry VIII|ANNE|And range with humble livers in content,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief,
Henry VIII|ANNE|And wear a golden sorrow.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Our content
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Is our best having.
Henry VIII|ANNE|By my troth and maidenhead,
Henry VIII|ANNE|I would not be a queen.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Beshrew me, I would,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|And venture maidenhead for't, and so would you,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|For all this spice of your hypocrisy:
Henry VIII|Old Lady|You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Have too a woman's heart, which ever yet
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Which, to say sooth, are blessings, and which gifts,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Saving your mincing, the capacity
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|If you might please to stretch it.
Henry VIII|ANNE|Nay, good troth.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Yes, troth, and troth, you would not be a queen?
Henry VIII|ANNE|No, not for all the riches under heaven.
Henry VIII|ANNE|Old Lady:	'Tis strange: a three-pence bow'd would hire me,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Old as I am, to queen it: but, I pray you,
Henry VIII|ANNE|What think you of a duchess? have you limbs
Henry VIII|ANNE|To bear that load of title?
Henry VIII|ANNE|No, in truth.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Then you are weakly made: pluck off a little,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|I would not be a young count in your way,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|For more than blushing comes to: if your back
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Cannot vouchsafe this burthen,'tis too weak
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Ever to get a boy.
Henry VIII|ANNE|How you do talk!
Henry VIII|ANNE|I swear again, I would not be a queen
Henry VIII|ANNE|For all the world.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|In faith, for little England
Henry VIII|Old Lady|You'ld venture an emballing: I myself
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Would for Carnarvonshire, although there long'd
Henry VIII|Old Lady|No more to the crown but that. Lo, who comes here?
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Enter Chamberlain
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Good morrow, ladies. What were't worth to know
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The secret of your conference?
Henry VIII|ANNE|My good lord,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Not your demand, it values not your asking:
Henry VIII|ANNE|Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|It was a gentle business, and becoming
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The action of good women: there is hope
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|All will be well.
Henry VIII|ANNE|Now, I pray God, amen!
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note's
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Ta'en of your many virtues, the king's majesty
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Commends his good opinion of you, and
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Does purpose honour to you no less flowing
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Than Marchioness of Pembroke: to which title
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|A thousand pound a year, annual support,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Out of his grace he adds.
Henry VIII|ANNE|I do not know
Henry VIII|ANNE|What kind of my obedience I should tender,
Henry VIII|ANNE|More than my all is nothing: nor my prayers
Henry VIII|ANNE|Are not words duly hallow'd, nor my wishes
Henry VIII|ANNE|More worth than empty vanities, yet prayers and wishes
Henry VIII|ANNE|Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,
Henry VIII|ANNE|As from a blushing handmaid, to his highness,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Whose health and royalty I pray for.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Lady,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|I shall not fail to approve the fair conceit
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The king hath of you.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Aside
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|I have perused her well,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Beauty and honour in her are so mingled
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|That they have caught the king: and who knows yet
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|But from this lady may proceed a gem
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|To lighten all this isle? I'll to the king,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|And say I spoke with you.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Exit Chamberlain
Henry VIII|ANNE|My honour'd lord.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Why, this it is, see, see!
Henry VIII|Old Lady|I have been begging sixteen years in court,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Come pat betwixt too early and too late
Henry VIII|Old Lady|For any suit of pounds, and you, O fate!
Henry VIII|Old Lady|A very fresh-fish here--fie, fie, fie upon
Henry VIII|Old Lady|This compell'd fortune!--have your mouth fill'd up
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Before you open it.
Henry VIII|ANNE|This is strange to me.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|How tastes it? is it bitter? forty pence, no.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|There was a lady once, 'tis an old story,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|That would not be a queen, that would she not,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|For all the mud in Egypt: have you heard it?
Henry VIII|ANNE|Come, you are pleasant.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|With your theme, I could
Henry VIII|Old Lady|O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke!
Henry VIII|Old Lady|A thousand pounds a year for pure respect!
Henry VIII|Old Lady|No other obligation! By my life,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|That promises moe thousands: honour's train
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time
Henry VIII|Old Lady|I know your back will bear a duchess: say,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Are you not stronger than you were?
Henry VIII|ANNE|Good lady,
Henry VIII|ANNE|Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,
Henry VIII|ANNE|And leave me out on't. Would I had no being,
Henry VIII|ANNE|If this salute my blood a jot: it faints me,
Henry VIII|ANNE|To think what follows.
Henry VIII|ANNE|The queen is comfortless, and we forgetful
Henry VIII|ANNE|In our long absence: pray, do not deliver
Henry VIII|ANNE|What here you've heard to her.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|What do you think me?
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Exeunt
Henry VIII|Old Lady|SCENE IV. A hall in Black-Friars.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Trumpets, sennet, and cornets. Enter two Vergers,  with short silver wands, next them, two Scribes, in  the habit of doctors, after them, CANTERBURY alone,  after him, LINCOLN, Ely, Rochester, and Saint  Asaph, next them, with some small distance, follows  a Gentleman bearing the purse, with the great seal,  and a cardinal's hat, then two Priests, bearing  each a silver cross, then a Gentleman-usher  bare-headed, accompanied with a Sergeant-at-arms  bearing a silver mace, then two Gentlemen bearing  two great silver pillars, after them, side by side,  CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS, two Noblemen  with the sword and mace. KING HENRY VIII takes  place under the cloth of state, CARDINAL WOLSEY and  CARDINAL CAMPEIUS sit under him as judges. QUEEN  KATHARINE takes place some distance from KING  HENRY VIII. The Bishops place themselves on each  side the court, in manner of a consistory, below  them, the Scribes. The Lords sit next the Bishops.  The rest of the Attendants stand in convenient order about the stage
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Whilst our commission from Rome is read,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Let silence be commanded.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What's the need?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|It hath already publicly been read,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And on all sides the authority allow'd,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You may, then, spare that time.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Be't so. Proceed.
Henry VIII|Scribe|Say, Henry King of England, come into the court.
Henry VIII|Crier|Henry King of England,  and c.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Here.
Henry VIII|Scribe|Say, Katharine Queen of England, come into the court.
Henry VIII|Crier|Katharine Queen of England,  and c.
Henry VIII|Crier|QUEEN KATHARINE makes no answer, rises out of her  chair, goes about the court, comes to KING HENRY VIII, and kneels at his feet, then speaks
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Sir, I desire you do me right and justice,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And to bestow your pity on me: for
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Born out of your dominions, having here
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In what have I offended you? what cause
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Hath my behavior given to your displeasure,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That thus you should proceed to put me off,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I have been to you a true and humble wife,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|At all times to your will conformable,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|As I saw it inclined: when was the hour
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I ever contradicted your desire,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Have I not strove to love, although I knew
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|He were mine enemy? what friend of mine
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That had to him derived your anger, did I
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Continue in my liking? nay, gave notice
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|He was from thence discharged. Sir, call to mind
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That I have been your wife, in this obedience,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Upward of twenty years, and have been blest
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|With many children by you: if, in the course
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And process of this time, you can report,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And prove it too, against mine honour aught,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Against your sacred person, in God's name,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Turn me away, and let the foul'st contempt
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Shut door upon me, and so give me up
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you sir,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The king, your father, was reputed for
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|A prince most prudent, of an excellent
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And unmatch'd wit and judgment: Ferdinand,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My father, king of Spain, was reckon'd one
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The wisest prince that there had reign'd by many
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|A year before: it is not to be question'd
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That they had gather'd a wise council to them
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Of every realm, that did debate this business,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Who deem'd our marriage lawful: wherefore I humbly
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Beseech you, sir, to spare me, till I may
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Be by my friends in Spain advised, whose counsel
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I will implore: if not, i' the name of God,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Your pleasure be fulfill'd!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You have here, lady,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And of your choice, these reverend fathers, men
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of singular integrity and learning,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Yea, the elect o' the land, who are assembled
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To plead your cause: it shall be therefore bootless
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That longer you desire the court, as well
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For your own quiet, as to rectify
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What is unsettled in the king.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|His grace
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Hath spoken well and justly: therefore, madam,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|It's fit this royal session do proceed,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|And that, without delay, their arguments
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Be now produced and heard.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Lord cardinal,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To you I speak.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Your pleasure, madam?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Sir,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am about to weep, but, thinking that
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|We are a queen, or long have dream'd so, certain
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The daughter of a king, my drops of tears
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I'll turn to sparks of fire.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Be patient yet.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I will, when you are humble, nay, before,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Or God will punish me. I do believe,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Induced by potent circumstances, that
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You are mine enemy, and make my challenge
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You shall not be my judge: for it is you
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Which God's dew quench! Therefore I say again,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Refuse you for my judge, whom, yet once more,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I hold my most malicious foe, and think not
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|At all a friend to truth.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I do profess
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You speak not like yourself, who ever yet
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Have stood to charity, and display'd the effects
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of disposition gentle, and of wisdom
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|O'ertopping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I have no spleen against you, nor injustice
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For you or any: how far I have proceeded,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Or how far further shall, is warranted
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|By a commission from the consistory,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That I have blown this coal: I do deny it:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The king is present: if it be known to him
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And worthily, my falsehood! yea, as much
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|As you have done my truth. If he know
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That I am free of your report, he knows
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|It lies to cure me: and the cure is, to
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Remove these thoughts from you: the which before
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|His highness shall speak in, I do beseech
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And to say so no more.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My lord, my lord,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am a simple woman, much too weak
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To oppose your cunning. You're meek and
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|humble-mouth'd,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|With meekness and humility, but your heart
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You have, by fortune and his highness' favours,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Gone slightly o'er low steps and now are mounted
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Where powers are your retainers, and your words,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Domestics to you, serve your will as't please
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You tender more your person's honour than
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Your high profession spiritual: that again
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I do refuse you for my judge, and here,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Before you all, appeal unto the pope,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And to be judged by him.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|She curtsies to KING HENRY VIII, and offers to depart
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|The queen is obstinate,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Disdainful to be tried by't: 'tis not well.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|She's going away.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Call her again.
Henry VIII|Crier|Katharine Queen of England, come into the court.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Madam, you are call'd back.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|What need you note it? pray you, keep your way:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|When you are call'd, return. Now, the Lord help,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|They vex me past my patience! Pray you, pass on:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I will not tarry, no, nor ever more
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Upon this business my appearance make
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In any of their courts.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Exeunt QUEEN KATHARINE and her Attendants
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Go thy ways, Kate:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That man i' the world who shall report he has
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A better wife, let him in nought be trusted,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|For speaking false in that: thou art, alone,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Obeying in commanding, and thy parts
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The queen of earthly queens: she's noble born,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And, like her true nobility, she has
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Carried herself towards me.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Most gracious sir,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|In humblest manner I require your highness,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That it shall please you to declare, in hearing
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of all these ears,--for where I am robb'd and bound,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There must I be unloosed, although not there
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|At once and fully satisfied,--whether ever I
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Did broach this business to your highness, or
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Laid any scruple in your way, which might
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Induce you to the question on't? or ever
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Have to you, but with thanks to God for such
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A royal lady, spake one the least word that might
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Be to the prejudice of her present state,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Or touch of her good person?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My lord cardinal,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I do excuse you, yea, upon mine honour,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I free you from't. You are not to be taught
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That you have many enemies, that know not
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Why they are so, but, like to village-curs,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Bark when their fellows do: by some of these
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The queen is put in anger. You're excused:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|But will you be more justified? You ever
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Have wish'd the sleeping of this business, never desired
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|It to be stirr'd, but oft have hinder'd, oft,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The passages made toward it: on my honour,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I speak my good lord cardinal to this point,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to't,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I will be bold with time and your attention:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Then mark the inducement. Thus it came, give heed to't:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My conscience first received a tenderness,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter'd
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|By the Bishop of Bayonne, then French ambassador,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Who had been hither sent on the debating
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleans and
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Our daughter Mary: i' the progress of this business,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ere a determinate resolution, he,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I mean the bishop, did require a respite,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Wherein he might the king his lord advertise
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Whether our daughter were legitimate,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Sometimes our brother's wife. This respite shook
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The bosom of my conscience, enter'd me,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The region of my breast, which forced such way,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That many mazed considerings did throng
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And press'd in with this caution. First, methought
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I stood not in the smile of heaven, who had
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Commanded nature, that my lady's womb,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|If it conceived a male child by me, should
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Do no more offices of life to't than
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The grave does to the dead, for her male issue
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Or died where they were made, or shortly after
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This world had air'd them: hence I took a thought,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This was a judgment on me, that my kingdom,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Be gladded in't by me: then follows, that
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I weigh'd the danger which my realms stood in
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|By this my issue's fail, and that gave to me
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Now present here together: that's to say,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I meant to rectify my conscience,--which
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,--
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|By all the reverend fathers of the land
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And doctors learn'd: first I began in private
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|With you, my Lord of Lincoln, you remember
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|How under my oppression I did reek,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|When I first moved you.
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|Very well, my liege.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I have spoke long: be pleased yourself to say
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|How far you satisfied me.
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|So please your highness,
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|The question did at first so stagger me,
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|Bearing a state of mighty moment in't
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|And consequence of dread, that I committed
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|The daring'st counsel which I had to doubt,
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|And did entreat your highness to this course
Henry VIII|LINCOLN|Which you are running here.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I then moved you,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My Lord of Canterbury, and got your leave
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To make this present summons: unsolicited
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I left no reverend person in this court,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|But by particular consent proceeded
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Under your hands and seals: therefore, go on:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|For no dislike i' the world against the person
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of the good queen, but the sharp thorny points
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of my alleged reasons, drive this forward:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And kingly dignity, we are contented
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To wear our mortal state to come with her,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Katharine our queen, before the primest creature
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That's paragon'd o' the world.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|So please your highness,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|The queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|That we adjourn this court till further day:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Meanwhile must be an earnest motion
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Made to the queen, to call back her appeal
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|She intends unto his holiness.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|[Aside]	I may perceive
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My learn'd and well-beloved servant, Cranmer,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Prithee, return: with thy approach, I know,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My comfort comes along. Break up the court:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I say, set on.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt in manner as they entered
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|ACT III
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|SCENE I. London. QUEEN KATHARINE's apartments.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter QUEEN KATHARINE and her Women, as at work
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Sing, and disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|SONG
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Orpheus with his lute made trees,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And the mountain tops that freeze,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Bow themselves when he did sing:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To his music plants and flowers
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Ever sprung, as sun and showers
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|There had made a lasting spring.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Every thing that heard him play,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Even the billows of the sea,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Hung their heads, and then lay by.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In sweet music is such art,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Killing care and grief of heart
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Enter a Gentleman
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|How now!
Henry VIII|Gentleman|An't please your grace, the two great cardinals
Henry VIII|Gentleman|Wait in the presence.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Would they speak with me?
Henry VIII|Gentleman|They will'd me say so, madam.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Pray their graces
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To come near.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Exit Gentleman
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|What can be their business
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I do not like their coming. Now I think on't,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|They should be good men, their affairs as righteous:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|But all hoods make not monks.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Peace to your highness!
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Your graces find me here part of a housewife,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I would be all, against the worst may happen.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|May it please you noble madam, to withdraw
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Into your private chamber, we shall give you
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The full cause of our coming.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Speak it here:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Deserves a corner: would all other women
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Could speak this with as free a soul as I do!
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My lords, I care not, so much I am happy
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Above a number, if my actions
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw 'em,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Envy and base opinion set against 'em,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I know my life so even. If your business
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Seek me out, and that way I am wife in,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Out with it boldly: truth loves open dealing.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|serenissima,--
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|O, good my lord, no Latin,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am not such a truant since my coming,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|As not to know the language I have lived in:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|A strange tongue makes my cause more strange,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|suspicious,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Pray, speak in English: here are some will thank you,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Believe me, she has had much wrong: lord cardinal,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The willing'st sin I ever yet committed
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|May be absolved in English.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Noble lady,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I am sorry my integrity should breed,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And service to his majesty and you,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|We come not by the way of accusation,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Nor to betray you any way to sorrow,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You have too much, good lady, but to know
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|How you stand minded in the weighty difference
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Between the king and you, and to deliver,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Like free and honest men, our just opinions
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And comforts to your cause.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Most honour'd madam,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|My Lord of York, out of his noble nature,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Zeal and obedience he still bore your grace,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Forgetting, like a good man your late censure
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Both of his truth and him, which was too far,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|His service and his counsel.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|[Aside]	To betray me.--
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My lords, I thank you both for your good wills,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Ye speak like honest men, pray God, ye prove so!
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|But how to make ye suddenly an answer,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In such a point of weight, so near mine honour,--
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|More near my life, I fear,--with my weak wit,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And to such men of gravity and learning,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In truth, I know not. I was set at work
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Among my maids: full little, God knows, looking
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Either for such men or such business.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|For her sake that I have been,--for I feel
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The last fit of my greatness,--good your graces,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Let me have time and counsel for my cause:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Alas, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Madam, you wrong the king's love with these fears:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Your hopes and friends are infinite.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In England
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|But little for my profit: can you think, lords,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That any Englishman dare give me counsel?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Or be a known friend, 'gainst his highness' pleasure,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Though he be grown so desperate to be honest,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|They that must weigh out my afflictions,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|They that my trust must grow to, live not here:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|They are, as all my other comforts, far hence
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|In mine own country, lords.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|I would your grace
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Would leave your griefs, and take my counsel.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|How, sir?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Put your main cause into the king's protection,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|He's loving and most gracious: 'twill be much
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Both for your honour better and your cause,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|You'll part away disgraced.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|He tells you rightly.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Ye tell me what ye wish for both,--my ruin:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Is this your Christian counsel? out upon ye!
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Heaven is above all yet, there sits a judge
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That no king can corrupt.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Your rage mistakes us.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Mend 'em, for shame, my lords. Is this your comfort?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|A woman lost among ye, laugh'd at, scorn'd?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I will not wish ye half my miseries,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I have more charity: but say, I warn'd ye,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Take heed, for heaven's sake, take heed, lest at once
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|The burthen of my sorrows fall upon ye.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Madam, this is a mere distraction,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You turn the good we offer into envy.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Ye turn me into nothing: woe upon ye
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And all such false professors! would you have me--
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|If you have any justice, any pity,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|If ye be any thing but churchmen's habits--
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Alas, has banish'd me his bed already,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|His love, too long ago! I am old, my lords,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And all the fellowship I hold now with him
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Is only my obedience. What can happen
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To me above this wretchedness? all your studies
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Make me a curse like this.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Your fears are worse.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Have I lived thus long--let me speak myself,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Since virtue finds no friends--a wife, a true one?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|A woman, I dare say without vain-glory,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Never yet branded with suspicion?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Have I with all my full affections
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Still met the king? loved him next heaven?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|obey'd him?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Been, out of fondness, superstitious to him?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Almost forgot my prayers to content him?
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And am I thus rewarded? 'tis not well, lords.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Bring me a constant woman to her husband,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|And to that woman, when she has done most,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Yet will I add an honour, a great patience.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To give up willingly that noble title
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Your master wed me to: nothing but death
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Shall e'er divorce my dignities.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Pray, hear me.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Would I had never trod this English earth,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|What will become of me now, wretched lady!
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I am the most unhappy woman living.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Alas, poor wenches, where are now your fortunes!
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no pity,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|No friend, no hope, no kindred weep for me,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Almost no grave allow'd me: like the lily,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|I'll hang my head and perish.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|If your grace
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You'ld feel more comfort: why should we, good lady,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Upon what cause, wrong you? alas, our places,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The way of our profession is against it:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow 'em.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For goodness' sake, consider what you do,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Grow from the king's acquaintance, by this carriage.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The hearts of princes kiss obedience,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|So much they love it, but to stubborn spirits
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|They swell, and grow as terrible as storms.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I know you have a gentle, noble temper,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A soul as even as a calm: pray, think us
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Those we profess, peace-makers, friends, and servants.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|With these weak women's fears: a noble spirit,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|As yours was put into you, ever casts
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king loves you,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|Beware you lose it not: for us, if you please
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|To trust us in your business, we are ready
Henry VIII|CARDINAL CAMPEIUS|To use our utmost  studies in your service.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Do what ye will, my lords: and, pray, forgive me,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|If I have used myself unmannerly,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|You know I am a woman, lacking wit
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|To make a seemly answer to such persons.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Pray, do my service to his majesty:
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Bestow your counsels on me: she now begs,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|That little thought, when she set footing here,
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|She should have bought her dignities so dear.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Exeunt
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|SCENE II. Ante-chamber to KING HENRY VIII's apartment.
Henry VIII|QUEEN KATHARINE|Enter NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, SURREY, and Chamberlain
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|If you will now unite in your complaints,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And force them with a constancy, the cardinal
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Cannot stand under them: if you omit
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The offer of this time, I cannot promise
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|With these you bear already.
Henry VIII|SURREY|I am joyful
Henry VIII|SURREY|To meet the least occasion that may give me
Henry VIII|SURREY|Remembrance of my father-in-law, the duke,
Henry VIII|SURREY|To be revenged on him.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Which of the peers
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Strangely neglected? when did he regard
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|The stamp of nobleness in any person
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Out of himself?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|My lords, you speak your pleasures:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|What he deserves of you and me I know,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|What we can do to him, though now the time
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Gives way to us, I much fear. If you cannot
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Bar his access to the king, never attempt
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Any thing on him, for he hath a witchcraft
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Over the king in's tongue.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|O, fear him not,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|His spell in that is out: the king hath found
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Matter against him that for ever mars
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The honey of his language. No, he's settled,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Not to come off, in his displeasure.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Sir,
Henry VIII|SURREY|I should be glad to hear such news as this
Henry VIII|SURREY|Once every hour.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Believe it, this is true:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|In the divorce his contrary proceedings
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Are all unfolded wherein he appears
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|As I would wish mine enemy.
Henry VIII|SURREY|How came
Henry VIII|SURREY|His practises to light?
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Most strangely.
Henry VIII|SURREY|O, how, how?
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|And came to the eye o' the king: wherein was read,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|How that the cardinal did entreat his holiness
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|To stay the judgment o' the divorce, for if
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|It did take place, 'I do,' quoth he, 'perceive
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|My king is tangled in affection to
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.'
Henry VIII|SURREY|Has the king this?
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Believe it.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Will this work?
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|The king in this perceives him, how he coasts
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|And hedges his own way. But in this point
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|After his patient's death: the king already
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Hath married the fair lady.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Would he had!
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|May you be happy in your wish, my lord
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|For, I profess, you have it.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Now, all my joy
Henry VIII|SURREY|Trace the conjunction!
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|My amen to't!
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|All men's!
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|There's order given for her coronation:
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|She is a gallant creature, and complete
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|In mind and feature: I persuade me, from her
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Will fall some blessing to this land, which shall
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|In it be memorised.
Henry VIII|SURREY|But, will the king
Henry VIII|SURREY|Digest this letter of the cardinal's?
Henry VIII|SURREY|The Lord forbid!
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Marry, amen!
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|No, no,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|There be moe wasps that buzz about his nose
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Is stol'n away to Rome, hath ta'en no leave,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Has left the cause o' the king unhandled, and
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Is posted, as the agent of our cardinal,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|To second all his plot. I do assure you
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|The king cried Ha! at this.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Now, God incense him,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|And let him cry Ha! louder!
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|But, my lord,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|When returns Cranmer?
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|He is return'd in his opinions, which
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Have satisfied the king for his divorce,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Together with all famous colleges
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Almost in Christendom: shortly, I believe,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|His second marriage shall be publish'd, and
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Her coronation. Katharine no more
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Shall be call'd queen, but princess dowager
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|And widow to Prince Arthur.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|This same Cranmer's
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|In the king's business.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|He has, and we shall see him
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|For it an archbishop.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|So I hear.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|'Tis so.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|The cardinal!
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CROMWELL
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Observe, observe, he's moody.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The packet, Cromwell.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Gave't you the king?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|To his own hand, in's bedchamber.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Look'd he o' the inside of the paper?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Presently
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|He did unseal them: and the first he view'd,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|He did it with a serious mind, a heed
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Was in his countenance. You he bade
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Attend him here this morning.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Is he ready
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To come abroad?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|I think, by this he is.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Leave me awhile.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Exit CROMWELL
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Aside
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|It shall be to the Duchess of Alencon,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The French king's sister: he shall marry her.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Anne Bullen! No, I'll no Anne Bullens for him:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There's more in't than fair visage. Bullen!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|No, we'll no Bullens. Speedily I wish
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke!
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|He's discontented.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|May be, he hears the king
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Does whet his anger to him.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Sharp enough,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Lord, for thy justice!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|[Aside]  The late queen's gentlewoman,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|a knight's daughter,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To be her mistress' mistress! the queen's queen!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must snuff it,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And well deserving? yet I know her for
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Our cause, that she should lie i' the bosom of
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Our hard-ruled king. Again, there is sprung up
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer, one
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And is his oracle.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|He is vex'd at something.
Henry VIII|SURREY|I would 'twere something that would fret the string,
Henry VIII|SURREY|The master-cord on's heart!
Henry VIII|SURREY|Enter KING HENRY VIII, reading of a schedule, and LOVELL
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|The king, the king!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What piles of wealth hath he accumulated
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To his own portion! and what expense by the hour
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Seems to flow from him! How, i' the name of thrift,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Does he rake this together! Now, my lords,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Saw you the cardinal?
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|My lord, we have
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Stood here observing him: some strange commotion
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Then lays his finger on his temple, straight
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Springs out into fast gait, then stops again,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|His eye against the moon: in most strange postures
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|We have seen him set himself.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|It may well be,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|There is a mutiny in's mind. This morning
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Papers of state he sent me to peruse,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|As I required: and wot you what I found
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|There,--on my conscience, put unwittingly?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household, which
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I find at such proud rate, that it out-speaks
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Possession of a subject.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|It's heaven's will:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Some spirit put this paper in the packet,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To bless your eye withal.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|If we did think
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|His contemplation were above the earth,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And fix'd on spiritual object, he should still
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Dwell in his musings: but I am afraid
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|His thinkings are below the moon, not worth
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|His serious considering.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|King HENRY VIII takes his seat, whispers LOVELL, who goes to CARDINAL WOLSEY
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Heaven forgive me!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Ever God bless your highness!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Good my lord,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of your best graces in your mind, the which
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You were now running o'er: you have scarce time
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To keep your earthly audit: sure, in that
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I deem you an ill husband, and am glad
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To have you therein my companion.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Sir,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For holy offices I have a time, a time
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To think upon the part of business which
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I bear i' the state, and nature does require
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Her times of preservation, which perforce
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Must give my tendence to.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You have said well.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And ever may your highness yoke together,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|As I will lend you cause, my doing well
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|With my well saying!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|'Tis well said again,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|His said he did, and with his deed did crown
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|His word upon you. Since I had my office,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I have kept you next my heart, have not alone
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Employ'd you where high profits might come home,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|But pared my present havings, to bestow
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My bounties upon you.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|[Aside]             What should this mean?
Henry VIII|SURREY|[Aside]  The Lord increase this business!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Have I not made you,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The prime man of the state? I pray you, tell me,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|If what I now pronounce you have found true:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And, if you may confess it, say withal,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|If you are bound to us or no. What say you?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|My sovereign, I confess your royal graces,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Shower'd on me daily, have been more than could
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|My studied purposes requite, which went
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Beyond all man's endeavours: my endeavours
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Have ever come too short of my desires,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Yet filed with my abilities: mine own ends
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Have been mine so that evermore they pointed
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To the good of your most sacred person and
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The profit of the state. For your great graces
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Heap'd upon me, poor undeserver, I
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Which ever has and ever shall be growing,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Till death, that winter, kill it.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Fairly answer'd,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A loyal and obedient subject is
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Therein illustrated: the honour of it
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Does pay the act of it, as, i' the contrary,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The foulness is the punishment. I presume
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That, as my hand has open'd bounty to you,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My heart dropp'd love, my power rain'd honour, more
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|On you than any, so your hand and heart,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Your brain, and every function of your power,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|As 'twere in love's particular, be more
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To me, your friend, than any.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I do profess
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That for your highness' good I ever labour'd
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|More than mine own, that am, have, and will be--
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Though all the world should crack their duty to you,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And throw it from their soul, though perils did
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Appear in forms more horrid,--yet my duty,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Should the approach of this wild river break,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And stand unshaken yours.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|'Tis nobly spoken:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|For you have seen him open't. Read o'er this,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Giving him papers
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And after, this: and then to breakfast with
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What appetite you have.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exit KING HENRY VIII, frowning upon CARDINAL WOLSEY: the Nobles throng after him, smiling and whispering
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What should this mean?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What sudden anger's this? how have I reap'd it?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Leap'd from his eyes: so looks the chafed lion
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I fear, the story of his anger. 'Tis so,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This paper has undone me: 'tis the account
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For mine own ends, indeed, to gain the popedom,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Fit for a fool to fall by: what cross devil
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Made me put this main secret in the packet
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I sent the king? Is there no way to cure this?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|No new device to beat this from his brains?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I know 'twill stir him strongly, yet I know
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Will bring me off again. What's this? 'To the Pope!'
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The letter, as I live, with all the business
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I writ to's holiness. Nay then, farewell!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And, from that full meridian of my glory,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I haste now to my setting: I shall fall
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Like a bright exhalation m the evening,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And no man see me more.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Re-enter to CARDINAL WOLSEY, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, SURREY, and the Chamberlain
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal: who commands you
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To render up the great seal presently
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Into our hands, and to confine yourself
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To Asher House, my Lord of Winchester's,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Till you hear further from his highness.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Stay:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Where's your commission, lords? words cannot carry
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Authority so weighty.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Who dare cross 'em,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Bearing the king's will from his mouth expressly?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Till I find more than will or words to do it,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I mean your malice, know, officious lords,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I dare and must deny it. Now I feel
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, envy:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|How eagerly ye follow my disgraces,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|As if it fed ye! and how sleek and wanton
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Follow your envious courses, men of malice,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You have Christian warrant for 'em, and, no doubt,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|In time will find their fit rewards. That seal,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You ask with such a violence, the king,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|During my life, and, to confirm his goodness,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Tied it by letters-patents: now, who'll take it?
Henry VIII|SURREY|The king, that gave it.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|It must be himself, then.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Thou art a proud traitor, priest.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Proud lord, thou liest:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Have burnt that tongue than said so.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Thy ambition,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land
Henry VIII|SURREY|Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law:
Henry VIII|SURREY|The heads of all thy brother cardinals,
Henry VIII|SURREY|With thee and all thy best parts bound together,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Weigh'd not a hair of his. Plague of your policy!
Henry VIII|SURREY|You sent me deputy for Ireland,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Far from his succor, from the king, from all
Henry VIII|SURREY|That might have mercy on the fault thou gavest him,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Absolved him with an axe.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This, and all else
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This talking lord can lay upon my credit,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I answer is most false. The duke by law
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Found his deserts: how innocent I was
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|From any private malice in his end,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|His noble jury and foul cause can witness.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|You have as little honesty as honour,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That in the way of loyalty and truth
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Toward the king, my ever royal master,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And all that love his follies.
Henry VIII|SURREY|By my soul,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Your long coat, priest, protects you, thou
Henry VIII|SURREY|shouldst feel
Henry VIII|SURREY|My sword i' the life-blood of thee else. My lords,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Can ye endure to hear this arrogance?
Henry VIII|SURREY|And from this fellow? if we live thus tamely,
Henry VIII|SURREY|To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Farewell nobility, let his grace go forward,
Henry VIII|SURREY|And dare us with his cap like larks.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|All goodness
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Is poison to thy stomach.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Yes, that goodness
Henry VIII|SURREY|Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Into your own hands, cardinal, by extortion,
Henry VIII|SURREY|The goodness of your intercepted packets
Henry VIII|SURREY|You writ to the pope against the king: your goodness,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
Henry VIII|SURREY|My Lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,
Henry VIII|SURREY|As you respect the common good, the state
Henry VIII|SURREY|Of our despised nobility, our issues,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Who, if he live, will scarce be gentlemen,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles
Henry VIII|SURREY|Collected from his life. I'll startle you
Henry VIII|SURREY|Worse than the scaring bell, when the brown wench
Henry VIII|SURREY|Lay kissing in your arms, lord cardinal.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|How much, methinks, I could despise this man,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|But that I am bound in charity against it!
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Those articles, my lord, are in the king's hand:
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|But, thus much, they are foul ones.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|So much fairer
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And spotless shall mine innocence arise,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|When the king knows my truth.
Henry VIII|SURREY|This cannot save you:
Henry VIII|SURREY|I thank my memory, I yet remember
Henry VIII|SURREY|Some of these articles, and out they shall.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Now, if you can blush and cry 'guilty,' cardinal,
Henry VIII|SURREY|You'll show a little honesty.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Speak on, sir,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I dare your worst objections: if I blush,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|It is to see a nobleman want manners.
Henry VIII|SURREY|I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!
Henry VIII|SURREY|First, that, without the king's assent or knowledge,
Henry VIII|SURREY|You wrought to be a legate, by which power
Henry VIII|SURREY|You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Then, that in all you writ to Rome, or else
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To foreign princes, 'Ego et Rex meus'
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Was still inscribed, in which you brought the king
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|To be your servant.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Then that, without the knowledge
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Either of king or council, when you went
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Ambassador to the emperor, you made bold
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|To carry into Flanders the great seal.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Item, you sent a large commission
Henry VIII|SURREY|To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Without the king's will or the state's allowance,
Henry VIII|SURREY|A league between his highness and Ferrara.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|That, out of mere ambition, you have caused
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin.
Henry VIII|SURREY|Then that you have sent innumerable substance--
Henry VIII|SURREY|By what means got, I leave to your own conscience--
Henry VIII|SURREY|To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
Henry VIII|SURREY|You have for dignities, to the mere undoing
Henry VIII|SURREY|Of all the kingdom. Many more there are,
Henry VIII|SURREY|Which, since they are of you, and odious,
Henry VIII|SURREY|I will not taint my mouth with.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|O my lord,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|His faults lie open to the laws, let them,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|So little of his great self.
Henry VIII|SURREY|I forgive him.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Lord cardinal, the king's further pleasure is,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Because all those things you have done of late,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|By your power legatine, within this kingdom,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Fall into the compass of a praemunire,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|That therefore such a writ be sued against you,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Out of the king's protection. This is my charge.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|And so we'll leave you to your meditations
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|How to live better. For your stubborn answer
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|About the giving back the great seal to us,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The king shall know it, and, no doubt, shall thank you.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|So fare you well, my little good lord cardinal.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Exeunt all but CARDINAL WOLSEY
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|So farewell to the little good you bear me.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And bears his blushing honours thick upon him,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|This many summers in a sea of glory,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|At length broke under me and now has left me,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Weary and old with service, to the mercy
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|More pangs and fears than wars or women have:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Never to hope again.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Enter CROMWELL, and stands amazed
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Why, how now, Cromwell!
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|I have no power to speak, sir.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What, amazed
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|At my misfortunes? can thy spirit wonder
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I am fall'n indeed.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|How does your grace?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Why, well,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I know myself now, and I feel within me
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A peace above all earthly dignities,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured me,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I humbly thank his grace, and from these shoulders,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A load would sink a navy, too much honour:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|O, 'tis a burthen, Cromwell, 'tis a burthen
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven!
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|I am glad your grace has made that right use of it.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I hope I have: I am able now, methinks,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To endure more miseries and greater far
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What news abroad?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|The heaviest and the worst
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Is your displeasure with the king.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|God bless him!
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|The next is, that Sir Thomas More is chosen
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Lord chancellor in your place.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That's somewhat sudden:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|But he's a learned man. May he continue
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Long in his highness' favour, and do justice
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For truth's sake and his conscience, that his bones,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on em! What more?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|That Cranmer is return'd with welcome,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Install'd lord archbishop of Canterbury.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That's news indeed.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Last, that the Lady Anne,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Whom the king hath in secrecy long married,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|This day was view'd in open as his queen,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Going to chapel, and the voice is now
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Only about her coronation.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There was the weight that pull'd me down. O Cromwell,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The king has gone beyond me: all my glories
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|In that one woman I have lost for ever:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Or gild again the noble troops that waited
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I am a poor fall'n man, unworthy now
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To be thy lord and master: seek the king,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|That sun, I pray, may never set! I have told him
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|What and how true thou art: he will advance thee,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Some little memory of me will stir him--
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I know his noble nature--not to let
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Thy hopeful service perish too: good Cromwell,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Neglect him not, make use now, and provide
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|For thine own future safety.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|O my lord,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|So good, so noble and so true a master?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|The king shall have my service: but my prayers
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|In all my miseries, but thou hast forced me,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|By that sin fell the angels, how can man, then,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Thy God's, and truth's, then if thou fall'st,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|O Cromwell,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Serve the king,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And,--prithee, lead me in:
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|There take an inventory of all I have,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|To the last penny, 'tis the king's: my robe,
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|And my integrity to heaven, is all
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell!
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Had I but served my God with half the zeal
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|I served my king, he would not in mine age
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Good sir, have patience.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|So I have. Farewell
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Exeunt
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|ACT IV
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|SCENE I. A street in Westminster.
Henry VIII|CARDINAL WOLSEY|Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|You're well met once again.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|So are you.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|You come to take your stand here, and behold
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|'Tis all my business. At our last encounter,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|'Tis very true: but that time offer'd sorrow,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|This, general joy.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|'Tis well: the citizens,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds--
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward--
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|In celebration of this day with shows,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Pageants and sights of honour.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Never greater,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|May I be bold to ask at what that contains,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|That paper in your hand?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Yes, 'tis the list
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Of those that claim their offices this day
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|By custom of the coronation.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|To be high-steward, next, the Duke of Norfolk,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|He to be earl marshal: you may read the rest.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I thank you, sir: had I not known those customs,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I should have been beholding to your paper.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|But, I beseech you, what's become of Katharine,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The princess dowager? how goes her business?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|That I can tell you too. The Archbishop
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Of Canterbury, accompanied with other
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Learned and reverend fathers of his order,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|From Ampthill where the princess lay, to which
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|She was often cited by them, but appear'd not:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And, to be short, for not appearance and
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The king's late scruple, by the main assent
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Of all these learned men she was divorced,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And the late marriage made of none effect
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Where she remains now sick.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Alas, good lady!
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Trumpets
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The trumpets sound: stand close, the queen is coming.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Hautboys
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|THE ORDER OF THE CORONATION
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|1. A lively flourish of Trumpets.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|2. Then, two Judges.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|3. Lord Chancellor, with the purse and mace
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|before him.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|4. Choristers, singing.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Music
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Garter, in his coat of arms, and on his
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|head a gilt copper crown.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|on his head a demi-coronal of gold. With
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|him, SURREY, bearing the rod of silver with
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|the dove, crowned with an earl's coronet.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Collars of SS.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|7. SUFFOLK, in his robe of estate, his coronet
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|on his head, bearing a long white wand, as
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|high-steward. With him, NORFOLK, with the
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Collars of SS.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque-ports,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|under it, QUEEN ANNE in her robe, in her hair
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|side her, the Bishops of London and
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Winchester.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|gold, wrought with flowers, bearing QUEEN
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|ANNE's train.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|circlets of gold without flowers.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|They pass over the stage in order and state
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|A royal train, believe me. These I know:
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Who's that that bears the sceptre?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Marquess Dorset:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|And that the Earl of Surrey, with the rod.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|A bold brave gentleman. That should be
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The Duke of Suffolk?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|'Tis the same: high-steward.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|And that my Lord of Norfolk?
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Yes,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Heaven bless thee!
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Looking on QUEEN ANNE
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look'd on.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Our king has all the Indies in his arms,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|And more and richer, when he strains that lady:
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I cannot blame his conscience.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|They that bear
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|The cloth of honour over her, are four barons
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Of the Cinque-ports.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Those men are happy, and so are all are near her.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|I take it, she that carries up the train
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|It is, and all the rest are countesses.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|And sometimes falling ones.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|No more of that.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Exit procession, and then a great flourish of trumpets
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Enter a third Gentleman
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|God save you, sir! where have you been broiling?
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Among the crowd i' the Abbey, where a finger
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|With the mere rankness of their joy.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|You saw
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The ceremony?
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|That I did.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|How was it?
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Well worth the seeing.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Good sir, speak it to us.
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|As well as I am able. The rich stream
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Of lords and ladies, having brought the queen
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|To a prepared place in the choir, fell off
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|A distance from her, while her grace sat down
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|To rest awhile, some half an hour or so,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|In a rich chair of state, opposing freely
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|The beauty of her person to the people.
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|That ever lay by man: which when the people
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Had the full view of, such a noise arose
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|As loud, and to as many tunes: hats, cloaks--
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Doublets, I think,--flew up, and had their faces
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|I never saw before. Great-bellied women,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|That had not half a week to go, like rams
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|In the old time of war, would shake the press,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Could say 'This is my wife' there, all were woven
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|So strangely in one piece.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|But, what follow'd?
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|At length her grace rose, and with modest paces
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Came to the altar, where she kneel'd, and saint-like
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly.
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Then rose again and bow'd her to the people:
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|She had all the royal makings of a queen,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Laid nobly on her: which perform'd, the choir,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|With all the choicest music of the kingdom,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|And with the same full state paced back again
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|To York-place, where the feast is held.
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|Sir,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|You must no more call it York-place, that's past,
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|For, since the cardinal fell, that title's lost:
Henry VIII|First Gentleman|'Tis now the king's, and call'd Whitehall.
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|I know it,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Is fresh about me.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|What two reverend bishops
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Were those that went on each side of the queen?
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Stokesly and Gardiner, the one of Winchester,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Newly preferr'd from the king's secretary,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|The other, London.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|He of Winchester
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's,
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|The virtuous Cranmer.
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|All the land knows that:
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|However, yet there is no great breach, when it comes,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|Who may that be, I pray you?
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Thomas Cromwell,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|A man in much esteem with the king, and truly
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|A worthy friend. The king has made him master
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|O' the jewel house,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|And one, already, of the privy council.
Henry VIII|Second Gentleman|He will deserve more.
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Yes, without all doubt.
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way, which
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Is to the court, and there ye shall be my guests:
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|Something I can command. As I walk thither,
Henry VIII|Third Gentleman|I'll tell ye more.
Henry VIII|Both|You may command us, sir.
Henry VIII|Both|Exeunt
Henry VIII|Both|SCENE II. Kimbolton.
Henry VIII|Both|Enter KATHARINE, Dowager, sick, led between GRIFFITH, her gentleman usher, and PATIENCE, her woman
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|How does your grace?
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|O Griffith, sick to death!
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|My legs, like loaden branches, bow to the earth,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Willing to leave their burthen. Reach a chair:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|So, now, methinks, I feel a little ease.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'st me,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey, Was dead?
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Yes, madam, but I think your grace,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Out of the pain you suffer'd, gave no ear to't.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|If well, he stepp'd before me, happily
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|For my example.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Well, the voice goes, madam:
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|For after the stout Earl Northumberland
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Arrested him at York, and brought him forward,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|He could not sit his mule.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Alas, poor man!
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|With all his covent, honourably received him,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|To whom he gave these words, 'O, father abbot,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Is come to lay his weary bones among ye,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Give him a little earth for charity!'
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Pursued him still: and, three nights after this,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|About the hour of eight, which he himself
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|He gave his honours to the world again,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|And yet with charity. He was a man
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Himself with princes, one that, by suggestion,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Tied all the kingdom: simony was fair-play,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|His own opinion was his law: i' the presence
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|He would say untruths, and be ever double
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Both in his words and meaning: he was never,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|But where he meant to ruin, pitiful:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|His promises were, as he then was, mighty,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|But his performance, as he is now, nothing:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Of his own body he was ill, and gave
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|The clergy in example.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Noble madam,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|We write in water. May it please your highness
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|To hear me speak his good now?
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Yes, good Griffith,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I were malicious else.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|This cardinal,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading:
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|And though he were unsatisfied in getting,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|He was most princely: ever witness for him
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Those twins Of learning that he raised in you,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Ipswich and Oxford! one of which fell with him,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Unwilling to outlive the good that did it,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|So excellent in art, and still so rising,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|And found the blessedness of being little:
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|And, to add greater honours to his age
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Than man could give him, he died fearing God.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|After my death I wish no other herald,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|No other speaker of my living actions,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|To keep mine honour from corruption,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|With thy religious truth and modesty,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Now in his ashes honour: peace be with him!
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Patience, be near me still, and set me lower:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Cause the musicians play me that sad note
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|On that celestial harmony I go to.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Sad and solemn music
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|She is asleep: good wench, let's sit down quiet,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|For fear we wake her: softly, gentle Patience.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|The vision. Enter, solemnly tripping one after  another, six personages, clad in white robes,  wearing on their heads garlands of bays, and golden  vizards on their faces, branches of bays or palm in  their hands. They first congee unto her, then  dance, and, at certain changes, the first two hold  a spare garland over her head, at which the other  four make reverent curtsies, then the two that held  the garland deliver the same to the other next two,  who observe the same order in their changes, and  holding the garland over her head: which done,  they deliver the same garland to the last two, who  likewise observe the same order: at which, as it  were by inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs  of rejoicing, and holdeth up her hands to heaven:  and so in their dancing vanish, carrying the garland with them. The music continues
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Madam, we are here.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|It is not you I call for:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Saw ye none enter since I slept?
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|None, madam.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|No? Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Invite me to a banquet, whose bright faces
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|They promised me eternal happiness,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I am not worthy yet to wear: I shall, assuredly.
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Possess your fancy.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Bid the music leave,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|They are harsh and heavy to me.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Music ceases
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|Do you note
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|How much her grace is alter'd on the sudden?
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|How long her face is drawn? how pale she looks,
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|And of an earthy cold? Mark her eyes!
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|She is going, wench: pray, pray.
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|Heaven comfort her!
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|Enter a Messenger
Henry VIII|Messenger|An't like your grace,--
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|You are a saucy fellow:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Deserve we no more reverence?
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|You are to blame,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,
Henry VIII|GRIFFITH|To use so rude behavior, go to, kneel.
Henry VIII|Messenger|I humbly do entreat your highness' pardon,
Henry VIII|Messenger|My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying
Henry VIII|Messenger|A gentleman, sent from the king, to see you.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Admit him entrance, Griffith: but this fellow
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Let me ne'er see again.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Exeunt GRIFFITH and Messenger
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Re-enter GRIFFITH, with CAPUCIUS
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|If my sight fail not,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|You should be lord ambassador from the emperor,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|My royal nephew, and your name Capucius.
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|Madam, the same, your servant.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|O, my lord,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|The times and titles now are alter'd strangely
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|With me since first you knew me. But, I pray you,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|What is your pleasure with me?
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|Noble lady,
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|First mine own service to your grace, the next,
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|The king's request that I would visit you,
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|Sends you his princely commendations,
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|And heartily entreats you take good comfort.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|'Tis like a pardon after execution:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|But now I am past an comforts here, but prayers.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|How does his highness?
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|Madam, in good health.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|So may he ever do! and ever flourish,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|When I shal l dwell with worms, and my poor name
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Banish'd the kingdom! Patience, is that letter,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I caused you write, yet sent away?
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|No, madam.
Henry VIII|PATIENCE|Giving it to KATHARINE
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|This to my lord the king.
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|Most willing, madam.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|In which I have commended to his goodness
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding--
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|She is young, and of a noble modest nature,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I hope she will deserve well,--and a little
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Is, that his noble grace would have some pity
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Upon my wretched women, that so long
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Have follow'd both my fortunes faithfully:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Of which there is not one, I dare avow,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|And now I should not lie, but will deserve
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|For virtue and true beauty of the soul,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|For honesty and decent carriage,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|A right good husband, let him be a noble
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|And, sure, those men are happy that shall have 'em.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|The last is, for my men, they are the poorest,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|But poverty could never draw 'em from me,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|And something over to remember me by:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|And able means, we had not parted thus.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|These are the whole contents: and, good my lord,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|By that you love the dearest in this world,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Stand these poor people's friend, and urge the king
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|To do me this last right.
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|By heaven, I will,
Henry VIII|CAPUCIUS|Or let me lose the fashion of a man!
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I thank you, honest lord. Remember me
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|In all humility unto his highness:
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Say his long trouble now is passing
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Out of this world, tell him, in death I bless'd him,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|My lord. Griffith, farewell. Nay, Patience,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|You must not leave me yet: I must to bed,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Let me be used with honour: strew me over
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I was a chaste wife to my grave: embalm me,
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Then lay me forth: although unqueen'd, yet like
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|I can no more.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Exeunt, leading KATHARINE
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|ACT V
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|SCENE I. London. A gallery in the palace.
Henry VIII|KATHARINE|Enter GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a torch before him, met by LOVELL
Henry VIII|GARDINER|It's one o'clock, boy, is't not?
Henry VIII|Boy|It hath struck.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|These should be hours for necessities,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Not for delights, times to repair our nature
Henry VIII|GARDINER|With comforting repose, and not for us
Henry VIII|GARDINER|To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Whither so late?
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Came you from the king, my lord
Henry VIII|GARDINER|I did, Sir Thomas: and left him at primero
Henry VIII|GARDINER|With the Duke of Suffolk.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|I must to him too,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|It seems you are in haste: an if there be
Henry VIII|GARDINER|No great offence belongs to't, give your friend
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Some touch of your late business: affairs, that walk,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|As they say spirits do, at midnight, have
Henry VIII|GARDINER|In them a wilder nature than the business
Henry VIII|GARDINER|That seeks dispatch by day.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|My lord, I love you,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|And durst commend a secret to your ear
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Much weightier than this work. The queen's in labour,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|They say, in great extremity, and fear'd
Henry VIII|LOVELL|She'll with the labour end.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|The fruit she goes with
Henry VIII|GARDINER|I pray for heartily, that it may find
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Good time, and live: but for the stock, Sir Thomas,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|I wish it grubb'd up now.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Methinks I could
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Cry the amen, and yet my conscience says
Henry VIII|LOVELL|She's a good creature, and, sweet lady, does
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Deserve our better wishes.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|But, sir, sir,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Hear me, Sir Thomas: you're a gentleman
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Of mine own way, I know you wise, religious,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|And, let me tell you, it will ne'er be well,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take't of me,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Sleep in their graves.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Now, sir, you speak of two
Henry VIII|LOVELL|The most remark'd i' the kingdom. As for Cromwell,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Beside that of the jewel house, is made master
Henry VIII|LOVELL|O' the rolls, and the king's secretary, further, sir,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments,
Henry VIII|LOVELL|With which the time will load him. The archbishop
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Is the king's hand and tongue, and who dare speak
Henry VIII|LOVELL|One syllable against him?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Yes, yes, Sir Thomas,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|There are that dare, and I myself have ventured
Henry VIII|GARDINER|To speak my mind of him: and indeed this day,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Sir, I may tell it you, I think I have
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Incensed the lords o' the council, that he is,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|For so I know he is, they know he is,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|A most arch heretic, a pestilence
Henry VIII|GARDINER|That does infect the land: with which they moved
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Have broken with the king, who hath so far
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace
Henry VIII|GARDINER|And princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded
Henry VIII|GARDINER|To-morrow morning to the council-board
Henry VIII|GARDINER|He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|And we must root him out. From your affairs
Henry VIII|GARDINER|I hinder you too long: good night, Sir Thomas.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Many good nights, my lord: I rest your servant.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Exeunt GARDINER and Page
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Enter KING HENRY VIII and SUFFOLK
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Charles, I will play no more tonight,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My mind's not on't, you are too hard for me.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Sir, I did never win of you before.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|But little, Charles,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Nor shall not, when my fancy's on my play.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Now, Lovell, from the queen what is the news?
Henry VIII|LOVELL|I could not personally deliver to her
Henry VIII|LOVELL|What you commanded me, but by her woman
Henry VIII|LOVELL|I sent your message, who return'd her thanks
Henry VIII|LOVELL|In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Most heartily to pray for her.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What say'st thou, ha?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To pray for her? what, is she crying out?
Henry VIII|LOVELL|So said her woman, and that her sufferance made
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Almost each pang a death.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Alas, good lady!
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|God safely quit her of her burthen, and
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|With gentle travail, to the gladding of
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Your highness with an heir!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|'Tis midnight, Charles,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Prithee, to bed, and in thy prayers remember
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|For I must think of that which company
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Would not be friendly to.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|I wish your highness
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|A quiet night, and my good mistress will
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Remember in my prayers.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Charles, good night.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exit SUFFOLK
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter DENNY
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Well, sir, what follows?
Henry VIII|DENNY|Sir, I have brought my lord the archbishop,
Henry VIII|DENNY|As you commanded me.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ha! Canterbury?
Henry VIII|DENNY|Ay, my good lord.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|'Tis true: where is he, Denny?
Henry VIII|DENNY|He attends your highness' pleasure.
Henry VIII|DENNY|Exit DENNY
Henry VIII|LOVELL|[Aside]  This is about that which the bishop spake:
Henry VIII|LOVELL|I am happily come hither.
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Re-enter DENNY, with CRANMER
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Avoid the gallery.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|LOVELL seems to stay
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ha! I have said. Be gone. What!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt LOVELL and DENNY
Henry VIII|CRANMER|[Aside]
Henry VIII|CRANMER|I am fearful: wherefore frowns he thus?
Henry VIII|CRANMER|'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|How now, my lord! you desire to know
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Wherefore I sent for you.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|[Kneeling]              It is my duty
Henry VIII|CRANMER|To attend your highness' pleasure.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Pray you, arise,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Come, you and I must walk a turn together,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I have news to tell you: come, come, give me your hand.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And am right sorry to repeat what follows
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I have, and most unwillingly, of late
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Heard many grievous, I do say, my lord,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Grievous complaints of you, which, being consider'd,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Have moved us and our council, that you shall
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This morning come before us, where, I know,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You cannot with such freedom purge yourself,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|But that, till further trial in those charges
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Which will require your answer, you must take
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Your patience to you, and be well contented
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To make your house our Tower: you a brother of us,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Would come against you.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|[Kneeling]
Henry VIII|CRANMER|I humbly thank your highness,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And am right glad to catch this good occasion
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Most throughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And corn shall fly asunder: for, I know,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|There's none stands under more calumnious tongues
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Than I myself, poor man.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Stand up, good Canterbury:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|In us, thy friend: give me thy hand, stand up:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Prithee, let's walk. Now, by my holidame.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What manner of man are you? My lord, I look'd
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You would have given me your petition, that
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I should have ta'en some pains to bring together
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Yourself and your accusers, and to have heard you,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Without indurance, further.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Most dread liege,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|The good I stand on is my truth and honesty:
Henry VIII|CRANMER|If they shall fail, I, with mine enemies,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Will triumph o'er my person, which I weigh not,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing
Henry VIII|CRANMER|What can be said against me.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Know you not
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|How your state stands i' the world, with the whole world?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Your enemies are many, and not small, their practises
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Must bear the same proportion, and not ever
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The justice and the truth o' the question carries
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The due o' the verdict with it: at what ease
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To swear against you? such things have been done.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You are potently opposed, and with a malice
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I mean, in perjured witness, than your master,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You take a precipice for no leap of danger,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And woo your own destruction.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|God and your majesty
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
Henry VIII|CRANMER|The trap is laid for me!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Be of good cheer,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|They shall no more prevail than we give way to.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Keep comfort to you, and this morning see
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You do appear before them: if they shall chance,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|In charging you with matters, to commit you,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The best persuasions to the contrary
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Fail not to use, and with what vehemency
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The occasion shall instruct you: if entreaties
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Will render you no remedy, this ring
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Deliver them, and your appeal to us
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|There make before them. Look, the good man weeps!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I swear he is true--hearted, and a soul
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|None better in my kingdom. Get you gone,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And do as I have bid you.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exit CRANMER
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|He has strangled
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|His language in his tears.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter Old Lady, LOVELL following
Henry VIII|Gentleman|[Within]                 Come back: what mean you?
Henry VIII|Old Lady|I'll not come back, the tidings that I bring
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Will make my boldness manners. Now, good angels
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Under their blessed wings!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Now, by thy looks
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I guess thy message. Is the queen deliver'd?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Say, ay, and of a boy.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Ay, ay, my liege,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|And of a lovely boy: the God of heaven
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Both now and ever bless her! 'tis a girl,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your queen
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Desires your visitation, and to be
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Acquainted with this stranger 'tis as like you
Henry VIII|Old Lady|As cherry is to cherry.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Lovell!
Henry VIII|LOVELL|Sir?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the queen.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exit
Henry VIII|Old Lady|An hundred marks! By this light, I'll ha' more.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|An ordinary groom is for such payment.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|I will have more, or scold it out of him.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Said I for this, the girl was like to him?
Henry VIII|Old Lady|I will have more, or else unsay't, and now,
Henry VIII|Old Lady|While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Exeunt
Henry VIII|Old Lady|SCENE II. Before the council-chamber. Pursuivants, Pages,  and c.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|attending.
Henry VIII|Old Lady|Enter CRANMER
Henry VIII|CRANMER|I hope I am not too late, and yet the gentleman,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|That was sent to me from the council, pray'd me
Henry VIII|CRANMER|To make great haste. All fast? what means this? Ho!
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Who waits there? Sure, you know me?
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Enter Keeper
Henry VIII|Keeper|Yes, my lord,
Henry VIII|Keeper|But yet I cannot help you.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Why?
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Enter DOCTOR BUTTS
Henry VIII|Keeper|Your grace must wait till you be call'd for.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|So.
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|[Aside]  This is a piece of malice. I am glad
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|I came this way so happily: the king
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|Shall understand it presently.
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|Exit
Henry VIII|CRANMER|[Aside]	'Tis Butts,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|The king's physician: as he pass'd along,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Pray heaven, he sound not my disgrace! For certain,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|This is of purpose laid by some that hate me--
Henry VIII|CRANMER|God turn their hearts! I never sought their malice--
Henry VIII|CRANMER|To quench mine honour: they would shame to make me
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Wait else at door, a fellow-counsellor,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Must be fulfill'd, and I attend with patience.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Enter the KING HENRY VIII and DOCTOR BUTTS at a window above
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|I'll show your grace the strangest sight--
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What's that, Butts?
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|I think your highness saw this many a day.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Body o' me, where is it?
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|There, my lord:
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury,
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,
Henry VIII|DOCTOR BUTTS|Pages, and footboys.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ha! 'tis he, indeed:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Is this the honour they do one another?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|'Tis well there's one above 'em yet. I had thought
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|They had parted so much honesty among 'em
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|At least, good manners, as not thus to suffer
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A man of his place, and so near our favour,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And at the door too, like a post with packets.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|We shall hear more anon.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|SCENE III. The Council-Chamber.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Enter Chancellor, places himself at the upper end  of the table on the left hand, a seat being left  void above him, as for CRANMER's seat. SUFFOLK,  NORFOLK, SURREY, Chamberlain, GARDINER, seat  themselves in order on each side. CROMWELL at lower end, as secretary. Keeper at the door
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Speak to the business, master-secretary:
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Why are we met in council?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Please your honours,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Has he had knowledge of it?
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Yes.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Who waits there?
Henry VIII|Keeper|Without, my noble lords?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Yes.
Henry VIII|Keeper|My lord archbishop,
Henry VIII|Keeper|And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Let him come in.
Henry VIII|Keeper|Your grace may enter now.
Henry VIII|Keeper|CRANMER enters and approaches the council-table
Henry VIII|Chancellor|My good lord archbishop, I'm very sorry
Henry VIII|Chancellor|To sit here at this present, and behold
Henry VIII|Chancellor|That chair stand empty: but we all are men,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|In our own natures frail, and capable
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Of our flesh, few are angels: out of which frailty
Henry VIII|Chancellor|And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Have misdemean'd yourself, and not a little,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Toward the king first, then his laws, in filling
Henry VIII|Chancellor|The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|For so we are inform'd, with new opinions,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Divers and dangerous, which are heresies,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|And, not reform'd, may prove pernicious.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Which reformation must be sudden too,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|My noble lords, for those that tame wild horses
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|But stop their mouths with stubborn bits, and spur 'em,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Till they obey the manage. If we suffer,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Out of our easiness and childish pity
Henry VIII|GARDINER|To one man's honour, this contagious sickness,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Farewell all physic: and what follows then?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Commotions, uproars, with a general taint
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Of the whole state: as, of late days, our neighbours,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|The upper Germany, can dearly witness,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Yet freshly pitied in our memories.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Both of my life and office, I have labour'd,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And with no little study, that my teaching
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And the strong course of my authority
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Might go one way, and safely, and the end
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Was ever, to do well: nor is there living,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|I speak it with a single heart, my lords,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|A man that more detests, more stirs against,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Both in his private conscience and his place,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Defacers of a public peace, than I do.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Pray heaven, the king may never find a heart
Henry VIII|CRANMER|With less allegiance in it! Men that make
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Envy and crooked malice nourishment
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|That, in this case of justice, my accusers,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And freely urge against me.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|Nay, my lord,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|That cannot be: you are a counsellor,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|And, by that virtue, no man dare accuse you.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|My lord, because we have business of more moment,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|We will be short with you. 'Tis his highness' pleasure,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|And our consent, for better trial of you,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|From hence you be committed to the Tower,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Where, being but a private man again,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|More than, I fear, you are provided for.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Ah, my good Lord of Winchester, I thank you,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|You are always my good friend, if your will pass,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|You are so merciful: I see your end,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|'Tis my undoing: love and meekness, lord,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Become a churchman better than ambition:
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Win straying souls with modesty again,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|I make as little doubt, as you do conscience
Henry VIII|CRANMER|In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|But reverence to your calling makes me modest.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|My lord, my lord, you are a sectary,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|That's the plain truth: your painted gloss discovers,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|To men that understand you, words and weakness.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|My Lord of Winchester, you are a little,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|By your good favour, too sharp, men so noble,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|However faulty, yet should find respect
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|To load a falling man.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Good master secretary,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|I cry your honour mercy, you may, worst
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Of all this table, say so.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Why, my lord?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Do not I know you for a favourer
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Of this new sect? ye are not sound.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Not sound?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Not sound, I say.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Would you were half so honest!
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|I shall remember this bold language.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Do.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Remember your bold life too.
Henry VIII|Chancellor|This is too much,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Forbear, for shame, my lords.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|I have done.
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|And I.
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Then thus for you, my lord: it stands agreed,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|I take it, by all voices, that forthwith
Henry VIII|Chancellor|You be convey'd to the Tower a prisoner,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|There to remain till the king's further pleasure
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Be known unto us: are you all agreed, lords?
Henry VIII|All|We are.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Is there no other way of mercy,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|But I must needs to the Tower, my lords?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|What other
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Would you expect? you are strangely troublesome.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Let some o' the guard be ready there.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Enter Guard
Henry VIII|CRANMER|For me?
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Must I go like a traitor thither?
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Receive him,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|And see him safe i' the Tower.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Stay, good my lords,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|By virtue of that ring, I take my cause
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Out of the gripes of cruel men, and give it
Henry VIII|CRANMER|To a most noble judge, the king my master.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|This is the king's ring.
Henry VIII|SURREY|'Tis no counterfeit.
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|'Tis the right ring, by heaven: I told ye all,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|When ye first put this dangerous stone a-rolling,
Henry VIII|SUFFOLK|'Twould fall upon ourselves.
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Do you think, my lords,
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|The king will suffer but the little finger
Henry VIII|NORFOLK|Of this man to be vex'd?
Henry VIII|Chancellor|'Tis now too certain:
Henry VIII|Chancellor|How much more is his life in value with him?
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Would I were fairly out on't!
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|My mind gave me,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|In seeking tales and informations
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Against this man, whose honesty the devil
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|And his disciples only envy at,
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye!
Henry VIII|CROMWELL|Enter KING, frowning on them, takes his seat
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven
Henry VIII|GARDINER|In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|Not only good and wise, but most religious:
Henry VIII|GARDINER|One that, in all obedience, makes the church
Henry VIII|GARDINER|The chief aim of his honour, and, to strengthen
Henry VIII|GARDINER|That holy duty, out of dear respect,
Henry VIII|GARDINER|His royal self in judgment comes to hear
Henry VIII|GARDINER|The cause betwixt her and this great offender.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You were ever good at sudden commendations,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Bishop of Winchester. But know, I come not
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To hear such flattery now, and in my presence,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|They are too thin and bare to hide offences.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To me you cannot reach, you play the spaniel,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And think with wagging of your tongue to win me,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|But, whatsoe'er thou takest me for, I'm sure
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To CRANMER
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Good man, sit down. Now let me see the proudest
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|He, that dares most, but wag his finger at thee:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|By all that's holy, he had better starve
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
Henry VIII|SURREY|May it please your grace,--
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|No, sir, it does not please me.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I had thought I had had men of some understanding
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And wisdom of my council, but I find none.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This good man,--few of you deserve that title,--
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|At chamber--door? and one as great as you are?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Power as he was a counsellor to try him,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Not as a groom: there's some of ye, I see,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|More out of malice than integrity,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Which ye shall never have while I live.
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Thus far,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|My most dread sovereign, may it like your grace
Henry VIII|Chancellor|To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed
Henry VIII|Chancellor|Concerning his imprisonment, was rather,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|If there be faith in men, meant for his trial,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|And fair purgation to the world, than malice,
Henry VIII|Chancellor|I'm sure, in me.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Well, well, my lords, respect him,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Take him, and use him well, he's worthy of it.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I will say thus much for him, if a prince
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|May be beholding to a subject, I
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Am, for his love and service, so to him.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Make me no more ado, but all embrace him:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Be friends, for shame, my lords! My Lord of
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Canterbury,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I have a suit which you must not deny me,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|You must be godfather, and answer for her.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|The greatest monarch now alive may glory
Henry VIII|CRANMER|In such an honour: how may I deserve it
Henry VIII|CRANMER|That am a poor and humble subject to you?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Come, come, my lord, you'ld spare your spoons: you
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|shall have two noble partners with you, the old
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|these please you?
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge you,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Embrace and love this man.
Henry VIII|GARDINER|With a true heart
Henry VIII|GARDINER|And brother-love I do it.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And let heaven
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Witness, how dear I hold this confirmation.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The common voice, I see, is verified
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Of thee, which says thus, 'Do my Lord of Canterbury
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|A shrewd turn, and he is your friend for ever.'
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Come, lords, we trifle time away, I long
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To have this young one made a Christian.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|As I have made ye one, lords, one remain,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|So I grow stronger, you more honour gain.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|SCENE IV. The palace yard.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter and his Man
Henry VIII|Porter|You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you
Henry VIII|Porter|take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves,
Henry VIII|Porter|leave your gaping.
Henry VIII|Porter|Within
Henry VIII|Porter|Good master porter, I belong to the larder.
Henry VIII|Porter|Belong to the gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue! is
Henry VIII|Porter|this a place to roar in? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree
Henry VIII|Porter|staves, and strong ones: these are but switches to
Henry VIII|Porter|'em. I'll scratch your heads: you must be seeing
Henry VIII|Porter|christenings? do you look for ale and cakes here,
Henry VIII|Porter|you rude rascals?
Henry VIII|Man|Pray, sir, be patient: 'tis as much impossible--
Henry VIII|Man|Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons--
Henry VIII|Man|To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleep
Henry VIII|Man|On May-day morning, which will never be:
Henry VIII|Man|We may as well push against Powle's, as stir em.
Henry VIII|Porter|How got they in, and be hang'd?
Henry VIII|Man|Alas, I know not, how gets the tide in?
Henry VIII|Man|As much as one sound cudgel of four foot--
Henry VIII|Man|You see the poor remainder--could distribute,
Henry VIII|Man|I made no spare, sir.
Henry VIII|Porter|You did nothing, sir.
Henry VIII|Man|I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,
Henry VIII|Man|To mow 'em down before me: but if I spared any
Henry VIII|Man|That had a head to hit, either young or old,
Henry VIII|Man|He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,
Henry VIII|Man|Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again
Henry VIII|Man|And that I would not for a cow, God save her!
Henry VIII|Man|Within
Henry VIII|Man|Do you hear, master porter?
Henry VIII|Porter|I shall be with you presently, good master puppy.
Henry VIII|Porter|Keep the door close, sirrah.
Henry VIII|Man|What would you have me do?
Henry VIII|Porter|What should you do, but knock 'em down by the
Henry VIII|Porter|dozens? Is this Moorfields to muster in? or have
Henry VIII|Porter|we some strange Indian with the great tool come to
Henry VIII|Porter|court, the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a
Henry VIII|Porter|fry of fornication is at door! On my Christian
Henry VIII|Porter|conscience, this one christening will beget a
Henry VIII|Porter|thousand, here will be father, godfather, and all together.
Henry VIII|Man|The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a
Henry VIII|Man|fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a
Henry VIII|Man|brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty
Henry VIII|Man|of the dog-days now reign in's nose, all that stand
Henry VIII|Man|about him are under the line, they need no other
Henry VIII|Man|penance: that fire-drake did I hit three times on
Henry VIII|Man|the head, and three times was his nose discharged
Henry VIII|Man|against me, he stands there, like a mortar-piece, to
Henry VIII|Man|blow us. There was a haberdasher's wife of small
Henry VIII|Man|wit near him, that railed upon me till her pinked
Henry VIII|Man|porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a
Henry VIII|Man|combustion in the state. I missed the meteor once,
Henry VIII|Man|and hit that woman, who cried out 'Clubs!' when I
Henry VIII|Man|might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to
Henry VIII|Man|her succor, which were the hope o' the Strand, where
Henry VIII|Man|she was quartered. They fell on, I made good my
Henry VIII|Man|place: at length they came to the broom-staff to
Henry VIII|Man|me, I defied 'em still: when suddenly a file of
Henry VIII|Man|boys behind 'em, loose shot, delivered such a shower
Henry VIII|Man|of pebbles, that I was fain to draw mine honour in,
Henry VIII|Man|and let 'em win the work: the devil was amongst
Henry VIII|Man|'em, I think, surely.
Henry VIII|Porter|These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse,
Henry VIII|Porter|and fight for bitten apples, that no audience, but
Henry VIII|Porter|the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the limbs of
Henry VIII|Porter|Limehouse, their dear brothers, are able to endure.
Henry VIII|Porter|I have some of 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they
Henry VIII|Porter|are like to dance these three days, besides the
Henry VIII|Porter|running banquet of two beadles that is to come.
Henry VIII|Porter|Enter Chamberlain
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Mercy o' me, what a multitude are here!
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|They grow still too, from all parts they are coming,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|These lazy knaves? Ye have made a fine hand, fellows:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|There's a trim rabble let in: are all these
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Your faithful friends o' the suburbs? We shall have
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|When they pass back from the christening.
Henry VIII|Porter|An't please
Henry VIII|Porter|your honour,
Henry VIII|Porter|We are but men, and what so many may do,
Henry VIII|Porter|Not being torn a-pieces, we have done:
Henry VIII|Porter|An army cannot rule 'em.
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|As I live,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|If the king blame me for't, I'll lay ye all
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|By the heels, and suddenly, and on your heads
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Clap round fines for neglect: ye are lazy knaves,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|And here ye lie baiting of bombards, when
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Ye should do service. Hark! the trumpets sound,
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|They're come already from the christening:
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|Go, break among the press, and find a way out
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|To let the troop pass fairly, or I'll find
Henry VIII|Chamberlain|A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months.
Henry VIII|Porter|Make way there for the princess.
Henry VIII|Man|You great fellow,
Henry VIII|Man|Stand close up, or I'll make your head ache.
Henry VIII|Porter|You i' the camlet, get up o' the rail,
Henry VIII|Porter|I'll peck you o'er the pales else.
Henry VIII|Porter|Exeunt
Henry VIII|Porter|SCENE V. The palace.
Henry VIII|Porter|Enter trumpets, sounding, then two Aldermen, Lord  Mayor, Garter, CRANMER, NORFOLK with his marshal's  staff, SUFFOLK, two Noblemen bearing great  standing-bowls for the christening-gifts, then  four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the  Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the child  richly habited in a mantle,  and c., train borne by a  Lady, then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the  other godmother, and Ladies. The troop pass once about the stage, and Garter speaks
Henry VIII|Garter|Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous
Henry VIII|Garter|life, long, and ever happy, to the high and mighty
Henry VIII|Garter|princess of England, Elizabeth!
Henry VIII|Garter|Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VIII and Guard
Henry VIII|CRANMER|[Kneeling] And to your royal grace, and the good queen,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|My noble partners, and myself, thus pray:
Henry VIII|CRANMER|All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|May hourly fall upon ye!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thank you, good lord archbishop:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|What is her name?
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Elizabeth.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Stand up, lord.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|KING HENRY VIII kisses the child
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|With this kiss take my blessing: God protect thee!
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Into whose hand I give thy life.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Amen.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I thank ye heartily, so shall this lady,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|When she has so much English.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Let me speak, sir,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|For heaven now bids me, and the words I utter
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|This royal infant--heaven still move about her!--
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Though in her cradle, yet now promises
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Which time shall bring to ripeness: she shall be--
Henry VIII|CRANMER|But few now living can behold that goodness--
Henry VIII|CRANMER|A pattern to all princes living with her,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And all that shall succeed: Saba was never
Henry VIII|CRANMER|More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Than this pure soul shall be: all princely graces,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|With all the virtues that attend the good,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Shall still be doubled on her: truth shall nurse her,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her:
Henry VIII|CRANMER|She shall be loved and fear'd: her own shall bless her,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And hang their heads with sorrow: good grows with her:
Henry VIII|CRANMER|In her days every man shall eat in safety,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Under his own vine, what he plants, and sing
Henry VIII|CRANMER|The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours:
Henry VIII|CRANMER|God shall be truly known, and those about her
Henry VIII|CRANMER|From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Nor shall this peace sleep with her: but as when
Henry VIII|CRANMER|The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Her ashes new create another heir,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|As great in admiration as herself,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|So shall she leave her blessedness to one,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Who from the sacred ashes of her honour
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Shall star-like rise, as great in fame as she was,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And so stand fix'd: peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|That were the servants to this chosen infant,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him:
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|His honour and the greatness of his name
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Shall be, and make new nations: he shall flourish,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches
Henry VIII|CRANMER|To all the plains about him: our children's children
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Shall see this, and bless heaven.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thou speakest wonders.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|She shall be, to the happiness of England,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|An aged princess, many days shall see her,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|And yet no day without a deed to crown it.
Henry VIII|CRANMER|Would I had known no more! but she must die,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|She must, the saints must have her, yet a virgin,
Henry VIII|CRANMER|A most unspotted lily shall she pass
Henry VIII|CRANMER|To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|O lord archbishop,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Thou hast made me now a man! never, before
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This happy child, did I get any thing:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This oracle of comfort has so pleased me,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|That when I am in heaven I shall desire
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|To see what this child does, and praise my Maker.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And your good brethren, I am much beholding,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|I have received much honour by your presence,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Ye must all see the queen, and she must thank ye,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|She will be sick else. This day, no man think
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Has business at his house, for all shall stay:
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|This little one shall make it holiday.
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Exeunt
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|EPILOGUE
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|'Tis ten to one this play can never please
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|All that are here: some come to take their ease,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And sleep an act or two, but those, we fear,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|We have frighted with our trumpets, so, 'tis clear,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|They'll say 'tis naught: others, to hear the city
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Abused extremely, and to cry 'That's witty!'
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|Which we have not done neither: that, I fear,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|All the expected good we're like to hear
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|For this play at this time, is only in
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|The merciful construction of good women,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|For such a one we show'd 'em: if they smile,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|And say 'twill do, I know, within a while
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|All the best men are ours, for 'tis ill hap,
Henry VIII|KING HENRY VIII|If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap.
King John|KING HENRY VIII|ACT I
King John|KING HENRY VIII|SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace.
King John|KING HENRY VIII|Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and others, with CHATILLON
King John|KING JOHN|Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?
King John|CHATILLON|Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France
King John|CHATILLON|In my behavior to the majesty,
King John|CHATILLON|The borrow'd majesty, of England here.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|A strange beginning: 'borrow'd majesty!'
King John|KING JOHN|Silence, good mother, hear the embassy.
King John|CHATILLON|Philip of France, in right and true behalf
King John|CHATILLON|Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,
King John|CHATILLON|Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
King John|CHATILLON|To this fair island and the territories,
King John|CHATILLON|To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
King John|CHATILLON|Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
King John|CHATILLON|Which sways usurpingly these several titles,
King John|CHATILLON|And put these same into young Arthur's hand,
King John|CHATILLON|Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.
King John|KING JOHN|What follows if we disallow of this?
King John|CHATILLON|The proud control of fierce and bloody war,
King John|CHATILLON|To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.
King John|KING JOHN|Here have we war for war and blood for blood,
King John|KING JOHN|Controlment for controlment: so answer France.
King John|CHATILLON|Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,
King John|CHATILLON|The farthest limit of my embassy.
King John|KING JOHN|Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:
King John|KING JOHN|Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France,
King John|KING JOHN|For ere thou canst report I will be there,
King John|KING JOHN|The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:
King John|KING JOHN|So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath
King John|KING JOHN|And sullen presage of your own decay.
King John|KING JOHN|An honourable conduct let him have:
King John|KING JOHN|Pembroke, look to 't. Farewell, Chatillon.
King John|KING JOHN|Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|What now, my son! have I not ever said
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|How that ambitious Constance would not cease
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Till she had kindled France and all the world,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Upon the right and party of her son?
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|This might have been prevented and made whole
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|With very easy arguments of love,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Which now the manage of two kingdoms must
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.
King John|KING JOHN|Our strong possession and our right for us.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Your strong possession much more than your right,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Or else it must go wrong with you and me:
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|So much my conscience whispers in your ear,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Enter a Sheriff
King John|ESSEX|My liege, here is the strangest controversy
King John|ESSEX|Come from country to be judged by you,
King John|ESSEX|That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?
King John|KING JOHN|Let them approach.
King John|KING JOHN|Our abbeys and our priories shall pay
King John|KING JOHN|This expedition's charge.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter ROBERT and the BASTARD
King John|KING JOHN|What men are you?
King John|BASTARD|Your faithful subject I, a gentleman
King John|BASTARD|Born in Northamptonshire and eldest son,
King John|BASTARD|As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,
King John|BASTARD|A soldier, by the honour-giving hand
King John|BASTARD|Of Coeur-de-lion knighted in the field.
King John|KING JOHN|What art thou?
King John|ROBERT|The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge.
King John|KING JOHN|Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?
King John|KING JOHN|You came not of one mother then, it seems.
King John|BASTARD|Most certain of one mother, mighty king,
King John|BASTARD|That is well known, and, as I think, one father:
King John|BASTARD|But for the certain knowledge of that truth
King John|BASTARD|I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother:
King John|BASTARD|Of that I doubt, as all men's children may.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|And wound her honour with this diffidence.
King John|BASTARD|I, madam? no, I have no reason for it,
King John|BASTARD|That is my brother's plea and none of mine,
King John|BASTARD|The which if he can prove, a' pops me out
King John|BASTARD|At least from fair five hundred pound a year:
King John|BASTARD|Heaven guard my mother's honour and my land!
King John|KING JOHN|A good blunt fellow. Why, being younger born,
King John|KING JOHN|Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?
King John|BASTARD|I know not why, except to get the land.
King John|BASTARD|But once he slander'd me with bastardy:
King John|BASTARD|But whether I be as true begot or no,
King John|BASTARD|That still I lay upon my mother's head,
King John|BASTARD|But that I am as well begot, my liege,--
King John|BASTARD|Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!--
King John|BASTARD|Compare our faces and be judge yourself.
King John|BASTARD|If old sir Robert did beget us both
King John|BASTARD|And were our father and this son like him,
King John|BASTARD|O old sir Robert, father, on my knee
King John|BASTARD|I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!
King John|KING JOHN|Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's face,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|The accent of his tongue affecteth him.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Do you not read some tokens of my son
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|In the large composition of this man?
King John|KING JOHN|Mine eye hath well examined his parts
King John|KING JOHN|And finds them perfect Richard. Sirrah, speak,
King John|KING JOHN|What doth move you to claim your brother's land?
King John|BASTARD|Because he hath a half-face, like my father.
King John|BASTARD|With half that face would he have all my land:
King John|BASTARD|A half-faced groat five hundred pound a year!
King John|ROBERT|My gracious liege, when that my father lived,
King John|ROBERT|Your brother did employ my father much,--
King John|BASTARD|Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land:
King John|BASTARD|Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother.
King John|ROBERT|And once dispatch'd him in an embassy
King John|ROBERT|To Germany, there with the emperor
King John|ROBERT|To treat of high affairs touching that time.
King John|ROBERT|The advantage of his absence took the king
King John|ROBERT|And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's,
King John|ROBERT|Where how he did prevail I shame to speak,
King John|ROBERT|But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores
King John|ROBERT|Between my father and my mother lay,
King John|ROBERT|As I have heard my father speak himself,
King John|ROBERT|When this same lusty gentleman was got.
King John|ROBERT|Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd
King John|ROBERT|His lands to me, and took it on his death
King John|ROBERT|That this my mother's son was none of his,
King John|ROBERT|And if he were, he came into the world
King John|ROBERT|Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.
King John|ROBERT|Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,
King John|ROBERT|My father's land, as was my father's will.
King John|KING JOHN|Sirrah, your brother is legitimate,
King John|KING JOHN|Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him,
King John|KING JOHN|And if she did play false, the fault was hers,
King John|KING JOHN|Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands
King John|KING JOHN|That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,
King John|KING JOHN|Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,
King John|KING JOHN|Had of your father claim'd this son for his?
King John|KING JOHN|In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept
King John|KING JOHN|This calf bred from his cow from all the world,
King John|KING JOHN|In sooth he might, then, if he were my brother's,
King John|KING JOHN|My brother might not claim him, nor your father,
King John|KING JOHN|Being none of his, refuse him: this concludes,
King John|KING JOHN|My mother's son did get your father's heir,
King John|KING JOHN|Your father's heir must have your father's land.
King John|ROBERT|Shall then my father's will be of no force
King John|ROBERT|To dispossess that child which is not his?
King John|BASTARD|Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,
King John|BASTARD|Than was his will to get me, as I think.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|And like thy brother, to enjoy thy land,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Lord of thy presence and no land beside?
King John|BASTARD|Madam, an if my brother had my shape,
King John|BASTARD|And I had his, sir Robert's his, like him,
King John|BASTARD|And if my legs were two such riding-rods,
King John|BASTARD|My arms such eel-skins stuff'd, my face so thin
King John|BASTARD|That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose
King John|BASTARD|Lest men should say 'Look, where three-farthings goes!'
King John|BASTARD|And, to his shape, were heir to all this land,
King John|BASTARD|Would I might never stir from off this place,
King John|BASTARD|I would give it every foot to have this face,
King John|BASTARD|I would not be sir Nob in any case.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|I like thee well: wilt thou forsake thy fortune,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Bequeath thy land to him and follow me?
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|I am a soldier and now bound to France.
King John|BASTARD|Brother, take you my land, I'll take my chance.
King John|BASTARD|Your face hath got five hundred pound a year,
King John|BASTARD|Yet sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear.
King John|BASTARD|Madam, I'll follow you unto the death.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Nay, I would have you go before me thither.
King John|BASTARD|Our country manners give our betters way.
King John|KING JOHN|What is thy name?
King John|BASTARD|Philip, my liege, so is my name begun,
King John|BASTARD|Philip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son.
King John|KING JOHN|From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st:
King John|KING JOHN|Kneel thou down Philip, but rise more great,
King John|KING JOHN|Arise sir Richard and Plantagenet.
King John|BASTARD|Brother by the mother's side, give me your hand:
King John|BASTARD|My father gave me honour, yours gave land.
King John|BASTARD|Now blessed by the hour, by night or day,
King John|BASTARD|When I was got, sir Robert was away!
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|The very spirit of Plantagenet!
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|I am thy grandam, Richard, call me so.
King John|BASTARD|Madam, by chance but not by truth, what though?
King John|BASTARD|Something about, a little from the right,
King John|BASTARD|In at the window, or else o'er the hatch:
King John|BASTARD|Who dares not stir by day must walk by night,
King John|BASTARD|And have is have, however men do catch:
King John|BASTARD|Near or far off, well won is still well shot,
King John|BASTARD|And I am I, howe'er I was begot.
King John|KING JOHN|Go, Faulconbridge: now hast thou thy desire,
King John|KING JOHN|A landless knight makes thee a landed squire.
King John|KING JOHN|Come, madam, and come, Richard, we must speed
King John|KING JOHN|For France, for France, for it is more than need.
King John|BASTARD|Brother, adieu: good fortune come to thee!
King John|BASTARD|For thou wast got i' the way of honesty.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt all but BASTARD
King John|BASTARD|A foot of honour better than I was,
King John|BASTARD|But many a many foot of land the worse.
King John|BASTARD|Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.
King John|BASTARD|'Good den, sir Richard!'--'God-a-mercy, fellow!'--
King John|BASTARD|And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter,
King John|BASTARD|For new-made honour doth forget men's names,
King John|BASTARD|'Tis too respective and too sociable
King John|BASTARD|For your conversion. Now your traveller,
King John|BASTARD|He and his toothpick at my worship's mess,
King John|BASTARD|And when my knightly stomach is sufficed,
King John|BASTARD|Why then I suck my teeth and catechise
King John|BASTARD|My picked man of countries: 'My dear sir,'
King John|BASTARD|Thus, leaning on mine elbow, I begin,
King John|BASTARD|'I shall beseech you'--that is question now,
King John|BASTARD|And then comes answer like an Absey book:
King John|BASTARD|'O sir,' says answer, 'at your best command,
King John|BASTARD|At your employment, at your service, sir,'
King John|BASTARD|'No, sir,' says question, 'I, sweet sir, at yours:'
King John|BASTARD|And so, ere answer knows what question would,
King John|BASTARD|Saving in dialogue of compliment,
King John|BASTARD|And talking of the Alps and Apennines,
King John|BASTARD|The Pyrenean and the river Po,
King John|BASTARD|It draws toward supper in conclusion so.
King John|BASTARD|But this is worshipful society
King John|BASTARD|And fits the mounting spirit like myself,
King John|BASTARD|For he is but a bastard to the time
King John|BASTARD|That doth not smack of observation,
King John|BASTARD|And so am I, whether I smack or no,
King John|BASTARD|And not alone in habit and device,
King John|BASTARD|Exterior form, outward accoutrement,
King John|BASTARD|But from the inward motion to deliver
King John|BASTARD|Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth:
King John|BASTARD|Which, though I will not practise to deceive,
King John|BASTARD|Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn,
King John|BASTARD|For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising.
King John|BASTARD|But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?
King John|BASTARD|What woman-post is this? hath she no husband
King John|BASTARD|That will take pains to blow a horn before her?
King John|BASTARD|Enter LADY FAULCONBRIDGE and GURNEY
King John|BASTARD|O me! it is my mother. How now, good lady!
King John|BASTARD|What brings you here to court so hastily?
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Where is that slave, thy brother? where is he,
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|That holds in chase mine honour up and down?
King John|BASTARD|My brother Robert? old sir Robert's son?
King John|BASTARD|Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?
King John|BASTARD|Is it sir Robert's son that you seek so?
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Sir Robert's son! Ay, thou unreverend boy,
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Sir Robert's son: why scorn'st thou at sir Robert?
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|He is sir Robert's son, and so art thou.
King John|BASTARD|James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile?
King John|GURNEY|Good leave, good Philip.
King John|BASTARD|Philip! sparrow: James,
King John|BASTARD|There's toys abroad: anon I'll tell thee more.
King John|BASTARD|Exit GURNEY
King John|BASTARD|Madam, I was not old sir Robert's son:
King John|BASTARD|Sir Robert might have eat his part in me
King John|BASTARD|Upon Good-Friday and ne'er broke his fast:
King John|BASTARD|Sir Robert could do well: marry, to confess,
King John|BASTARD|Could he get me? Sir Robert could not do it:
King John|BASTARD|We know his handiwork: therefore, good mother,
King John|BASTARD|To whom am I beholding for these limbs?
King John|BASTARD|Sir Robert never holp to make this leg.
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Hast thou conspired with thy brother too,
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave?
King John|BASTARD|Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like.
King John|BASTARD|What! I am dubb'd! I have it on my shoulder.
King John|BASTARD|But, mother, I am not sir Robert's son,
King John|BASTARD|I have disclaim'd sir Robert and my land,
King John|BASTARD|Legitimation, name and all is gone:
King John|BASTARD|Then, good my mother, let me know my father,
King John|BASTARD|Some proper man, I hope: who was it, mother?
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge?
King John|BASTARD|As faithfully as I deny the devil.
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|King Richard Coeur-de-lion was thy father:
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|By long and vehement suit I was seduced
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|To make room for him in my husband's bed:
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge!
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Thou art the issue of my dear offence,
King John|LADY FAULCONBRIDGE|Which was so strongly urged past my defence.
King John|BASTARD|Now, by this light, were I to get again,
King John|BASTARD|Madam, I would not wish a better father.
King John|BASTARD|Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
King John|BASTARD|And so doth yours, your fault was not your folly:
King John|BASTARD|Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
King John|BASTARD|Subjected tribute to commanding love,
King John|BASTARD|Against whose fury and unmatched force
King John|BASTARD|The aweless lion could not wage the fight,
King John|BASTARD|Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.
King John|BASTARD|He that perforce robs lions of their hearts
King John|BASTARD|May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother,
King John|BASTARD|With all my heart I thank thee for my father!
King John|BASTARD|Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well
King John|BASTARD|When I was got, I'll send his soul to hell.
King John|BASTARD|Come, lady, I will show thee to my kin,
King John|BASTARD|And they shall say, when Richard me begot,
King John|BASTARD|If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin:
King John|BASTARD|Who says it was, he lies, I say 'twas not.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt
King John|BASTARD|ACT II
King John|BASTARD|SCENE I. France. Before Angiers.
King John|BASTARD|Enter AUSTRIA and forces, drums, etc. on one side:  on the other KING PHILIP and his power, LEWIS, ARTHUR, CONSTANCE and attendants
King John|LEWIS|Before Angiers well met, brave Austria.
King John|LEWIS|Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood,
King John|LEWIS|Richard, that robb'd the lion of his heart
King John|LEWIS|And fought the holy wars in Palestine,
King John|LEWIS|By this brave duke came early to his grave:
King John|LEWIS|And for amends to his posterity,
King John|LEWIS|At our importance hither is he come,
King John|LEWIS|To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf,
King John|LEWIS|And to rebuke the usurpation
King John|LEWIS|Of thy unnatural uncle, English John:
King John|LEWIS|Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither.
King John|ARTHUR|God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion's death
King John|ARTHUR|The rather that you give his offspring life,
King John|ARTHUR|Shadowing their right under your wings of war:
King John|ARTHUR|I give you welcome with a powerless hand,
King John|ARTHUR|But with a heart full of unstained love:
King John|ARTHUR|Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke.
King John|LEWIS|A noble boy! Who would not do thee right?
King John|AUSTRIA|Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,
King John|AUSTRIA|As seal to this indenture of my love,
King John|AUSTRIA|That to my home I will no more return,
King John|AUSTRIA|Till Angiers and the right thou hast in France,
King John|AUSTRIA|Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,
King John|AUSTRIA|Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
King John|AUSTRIA|And coops from other lands her islanders,
King John|AUSTRIA|Even till that England, hedged in with the main,
King John|AUSTRIA|That water-walled bulwark, still secure
King John|AUSTRIA|And confident from foreign purposes,
King John|AUSTRIA|Even till that utmost corner of the west
King John|AUSTRIA|Salute thee for her king: till then, fair boy,
King John|AUSTRIA|Will I not think of home, but follow arms.
King John|CONSTANCE|O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,
King John|CONSTANCE|Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
King John|CONSTANCE|To make a more requital to your love!
King John|AUSTRIA|The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords
King John|AUSTRIA|In such a just and charitable war.
King John|KING PHILIP|Well then, to work: our cannon shall be bent
King John|KING PHILIP|Against the brows of this resisting town.
King John|KING PHILIP|Call for our chiefest men of discipline,
King John|KING PHILIP|To cull the plots of best advantages:
King John|KING PHILIP|We'll lay before this town our royal bones,
King John|KING PHILIP|Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's blood,
King John|KING PHILIP|But we will make it subject to this boy.
King John|CONSTANCE|Stay for an answer to your embassy,
King John|CONSTANCE|Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood:
King John|CONSTANCE|My Lord Chatillon may from England bring,
King John|CONSTANCE|That right in peace which here we urge in war,
King John|CONSTANCE|And then we shall repent each drop of blood
King John|CONSTANCE|That hot rash haste so indirectly shed.
King John|CONSTANCE|Enter CHATILLON
King John|KING PHILIP|A wonder, lady! lo, upon thy wish,
King John|KING PHILIP|Our messenger Chatillon is arrived!
King John|KING PHILIP|What England says, say briefly, gentle lord,
King John|KING PHILIP|We coldly pause for thee, Chatillon, speak.
King John|CHATILLON|Then turn your forces from this paltry siege
King John|CHATILLON|And stir them up against a mightier task.
King John|CHATILLON|England, impatient of your just demands,
King John|CHATILLON|Hath put himself in arms: the adverse winds,
King John|CHATILLON|Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time
King John|CHATILLON|To land his legions all as soon as I,
King John|CHATILLON|His marches are expedient to this town,
King John|CHATILLON|His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
King John|CHATILLON|With him along is come the mother-queen,
King John|CHATILLON|An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife,
King John|CHATILLON|With her her niece, the Lady Blanch of Spain,
King John|CHATILLON|With them a bastard of the king's deceased,
King John|CHATILLON|And all the unsettled humours of the land,
King John|CHATILLON|Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
King John|CHATILLON|With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,
King John|CHATILLON|Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
King John|CHATILLON|Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
King John|CHATILLON|To make hazard of new fortunes here:
King John|CHATILLON|In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits
King John|CHATILLON|Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er
King John|CHATILLON|Did nearer float upon the swelling tide,
King John|CHATILLON|To do offence and scath in Christendom.
King John|CHATILLON|Drum beats
King John|CHATILLON|The interruption of their churlish drums
King John|CHATILLON|Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,
King John|CHATILLON|To parley or to fight, therefore prepare.
King John|KING PHILIP|How much unlook'd for is this expedition!
King John|AUSTRIA|By how much unexpected, by so much
King John|AUSTRIA|We must awake endavour for defence,
King John|AUSTRIA|For courage mounteth with occasion:
King John|AUSTRIA|Let them be welcome then: we are prepared.
King John|AUSTRIA|Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, BLANCH, the BASTARD, Lords, and forces
King John|KING JOHN|Peace be to France, if France in peace permit
King John|KING JOHN|Our just and lineal entrance to our own,
King John|KING JOHN|If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven,
King John|KING JOHN|Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct
King John|KING JOHN|Their proud contempt that beats His peace to heaven.
King John|KING PHILIP|Peace be to England, if that war return
King John|KING PHILIP|From France to England, there to live in peace.
King John|KING PHILIP|England we love, and for that England's sake
King John|KING PHILIP|With burden of our armour here we sweat.
King John|KING PHILIP|This toil of ours should be a work of thine,
King John|KING PHILIP|But thou from loving England art so far,
King John|KING PHILIP|That thou hast under-wrought his lawful king
King John|KING PHILIP|Cut off the sequence of posterity,
King John|KING PHILIP|Out-faced infant state and done a rape
King John|KING PHILIP|Upon the maiden virtue of the crown.
King John|KING PHILIP|Look here upon thy brother Geffrey's face,
King John|KING PHILIP|These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his:
King John|KING PHILIP|This little abstract doth contain that large
King John|KING PHILIP|Which died in Geffrey, and the hand of time
King John|KING PHILIP|Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume.
King John|KING PHILIP|That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,
King John|KING PHILIP|And this his son, England was Geffrey's right
King John|KING PHILIP|And this is Geffrey's: in the name of God
King John|KING PHILIP|How comes it then that thou art call'd a king,
King John|KING PHILIP|When living blood doth in these temples beat,
King John|KING PHILIP|Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest?
King John|KING JOHN|From whom hast thou this great commission, France,
King John|KING JOHN|To draw my answer from thy articles?
King John|KING PHILIP|From that supernal judge, that stirs good thoughts
King John|KING PHILIP|In any breast of strong authority,
King John|KING PHILIP|To look into the blots and stains of right:
King John|KING PHILIP|That judge hath made me guardian to this boy:
King John|KING PHILIP|Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong
King John|KING PHILIP|And by whose help I mean to chastise it.
King John|KING JOHN|Alack, thou dost usurp authority.
King John|KING PHILIP|Excuse, it is to beat usurping down.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Who is it thou dost call usurper, France?
King John|CONSTANCE|Let me make answer, thy usurping son.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Out, insolent! thy bastard shall be king,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world!
King John|CONSTANCE|My bed was ever to thy son as true
King John|CONSTANCE|As thine was to thy husband, and this boy
King John|CONSTANCE|Liker in feature to his father Geffrey
King John|CONSTANCE|Than thou and John in manners, being as like
King John|CONSTANCE|As rain to water, or devil to his dam.
King John|CONSTANCE|My boy a bastard! By my soul, I think
King John|CONSTANCE|His father never was so true begot:
King John|CONSTANCE|It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|There's a good mother, boy, that blots thy father.
King John|CONSTANCE|There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee.
King John|AUSTRIA|Peace!
King John|BASTARD|Hear the crier.
King John|AUSTRIA|What the devil art thou?
King John|BASTARD|One that will play the devil, sir, with you,
King John|BASTARD|An a' may catch your hide and you alone:
King John|BASTARD|You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,
King John|BASTARD|Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard,
King John|BASTARD|I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right,
King John|BASTARD|Sirrah, look to't, i' faith, I will, i' faith.
King John|BLANCH|O, well did he become that lion's robe
King John|BLANCH|That did disrobe the lion of that robe!
King John|BASTARD|It lies as sightly on the back of him
King John|BASTARD|As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:
King John|BASTARD|But, ass, I'll take that burthen from your back,
King John|BASTARD|Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.
King John|AUSTRIA|What craker is this same that deafs our ears
King John|AUSTRIA|With this abundance of superfluous breath?
King John|KING PHILIP|Lewis, determine what we shall do straight.
King John|LEWIS|Women and fools, break off your conference.
King John|LEWIS|King John, this is the very sum of all,
King John|LEWIS|England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
King John|LEWIS|In right of Arthur do I claim of thee:
King John|LEWIS|Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?
King John|KING JOHN|My life as soon: I do defy thee, France.
King John|KING JOHN|Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand,
King John|KING JOHN|And out of my dear love I'll give thee more
King John|KING JOHN|Than e'er the coward hand of France can win:
King John|KING JOHN|Submit thee, boy.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Come to thy grandam, child.
King John|CONSTANCE|Do, child, go to it grandam, child:
King John|CONSTANCE|Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will
King John|CONSTANCE|Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:
King John|CONSTANCE|There's a good grandam.
King John|ARTHUR|Good my mother, peace!
King John|ARTHUR|I would that I were low laid in my grave:
King John|ARTHUR|I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps.
King John|CONSTANCE|Now shame upon you, whether she does or no!
King John|CONSTANCE|His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,
King John|CONSTANCE|Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,
King John|CONSTANCE|Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee,
King John|CONSTANCE|Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed
King John|CONSTANCE|To do him justice and revenge on you.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth!
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth!
King John|CONSTANCE|Call not me slanderer, thou and thine usurp
King John|CONSTANCE|The dominations, royalties and rights
King John|CONSTANCE|Of this oppressed boy: this is thy eld'st son's son,
King John|CONSTANCE|Infortunate in nothing but in thee:
King John|CONSTANCE|Thy sins are visited in this poor child,
King John|CONSTANCE|The canon of the law is laid on him,
King John|CONSTANCE|Being but the second generation
King John|CONSTANCE|Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.
King John|KING JOHN|Bedlam, have done.
King John|CONSTANCE|I have but this to say,
King John|CONSTANCE|That he is not only plagued for her sin,
King John|CONSTANCE|But God hath made her sin and her the plague
King John|CONSTANCE|On this removed issue, plague for her
King John|CONSTANCE|And with her plague, her sin his injury,
King John|CONSTANCE|Her injury the beadle to her sin,
King John|CONSTANCE|All punish'd in the person of this child,
King John|CONSTANCE|And all for her, a plague upon her!
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Thou unadvised scold, I can produce
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|A will that bars the title of thy son.
King John|CONSTANCE|Ay, who doubts that? a will! a wicked will:
King John|CONSTANCE|A woman's will, a canker'd grandam's will!
King John|KING PHILIP|Peace, lady! pause, or be more temperate:
King John|KING PHILIP|It ill beseems this presence to cry aim
King John|KING PHILIP|To these ill-tuned repetitions.
King John|KING PHILIP|Some trumpet summon hither to the walls
King John|KING PHILIP|These men of Angiers: let us hear them speak
King John|KING PHILIP|Whose title they admit, Arthur's or John's.
King John|KING PHILIP|Trumpet sounds. Enter certain Citizens upon the walls
King John|First Citizen|Who is it that hath warn'd us to the walls?
King John|KING PHILIP|'Tis France, for England.
King John|KING JOHN|England, for itself.
King John|KING JOHN|You men of Angiers, and my loving subjects--
King John|KING PHILIP|You loving men of Angiers, Arthur's subjects,
King John|KING PHILIP|Our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle--
King John|KING JOHN|For our advantage, therefore hear us first.
King John|KING JOHN|These flags of France, that are advanced here
King John|KING JOHN|Before the eye and prospect of your town,
King John|KING JOHN|Have hither march'd to your endamagement:
King John|KING JOHN|The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,
King John|KING JOHN|And ready mounted are they to spit forth
King John|KING JOHN|Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls:
King John|KING JOHN|All preparation for a bloody siege
King John|KING JOHN|All merciless proceeding by these French
King John|KING JOHN|Confronts your city's eyes, your winking gates,
King John|KING JOHN|And but for our approach those sleeping stones,
King John|KING JOHN|That as a waist doth girdle you about,
King John|KING JOHN|By the compulsion of their ordinance
King John|KING JOHN|By this time from their fixed beds of lime
King John|KING JOHN|Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made
King John|KING JOHN|For bloody power to rush upon your peace.
King John|KING JOHN|But on the sight of us your lawful king,
King John|KING JOHN|Who painfully with much expedient march
King John|KING JOHN|Have brought a countercheque before your gates,
King John|KING JOHN|To save unscratch'd your city's threatened cheeks,
King John|KING JOHN|Behold, the French amazed vouchsafe a parle,
King John|KING JOHN|And now, instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire,
King John|KING JOHN|To make a shaking fever in your walls,
King John|KING JOHN|They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke,
King John|KING JOHN|To make a faithless error in your ears:
King John|KING JOHN|Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,
King John|KING JOHN|And let us in, your king, whose labour'd spirits,
King John|KING JOHN|Forwearied in this action of swift speed,
King John|KING JOHN|Crave harbourage within your city walls.
King John|KING PHILIP|When I have said, make answer to us both.
King John|KING PHILIP|Lo, in this right hand, whose protection
King John|KING PHILIP|Is most divinely vow'd upon the right
King John|KING PHILIP|Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,
King John|KING PHILIP|Son to the elder brother of this man,
King John|KING PHILIP|And king o'er him and all that he enjoys:
King John|KING PHILIP|For this down-trodden equity, we tread
King John|KING PHILIP|In warlike march these greens before your town,
King John|KING PHILIP|Being no further enemy to you
King John|KING PHILIP|Than the constraint of hospitable zeal
King John|KING PHILIP|In the relief of this oppressed child
King John|KING PHILIP|Religiously provokes. Be pleased then
King John|KING PHILIP|To pay that duty which you truly owe
King John|KING PHILIP|To that owes it, namely this young prince:
King John|KING PHILIP|And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear,
King John|KING PHILIP|Save in aspect, hath all offence seal'd up,
King John|KING PHILIP|Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent
King John|KING PHILIP|Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven,
King John|KING PHILIP|And with a blessed and unvex'd retire,
King John|KING PHILIP|With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruised,
King John|KING PHILIP|We will bear home that lusty blood again
King John|KING PHILIP|Which here we came to spout against your town,
King John|KING PHILIP|And leave your children, wives and you in peace.
King John|KING PHILIP|But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer,
King John|KING PHILIP|'Tis not the roundure of your old-faced walls
King John|KING PHILIP|Can hide you from our messengers of war,
King John|KING PHILIP|Though all these English and their discipline
King John|KING PHILIP|Were harbour'd in their rude circumference.
King John|KING PHILIP|Then tell us, shall your city call us lord,
King John|KING PHILIP|In that behalf which we have challenged it?
King John|KING PHILIP|Or shall we give the signal to our rage
King John|KING PHILIP|And stalk in blood to our possession?
King John|First Citizen|In brief, we are the king of England's subjects:
King John|First Citizen|For him, and in his right, we hold this town.
King John|KING JOHN|Acknowledge then the king, and let me in.
King John|First Citizen|That can we not, but he that proves the king,
King John|First Citizen|To him will we prove loyal: till that time
King John|First Citizen|Have we ramm'd up our gates against the world.
King John|KING JOHN|Doth not the crown of England prove the king?
King John|KING JOHN|And if not that, I bring you witnesses,
King John|KING JOHN|Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed,--
King John|BASTARD|Bastards, and else.
King John|KING JOHN|To verify our title with their lives.
King John|KING PHILIP|As many and as well-born bloods as those,--
King John|BASTARD|Some bastards too.
King John|KING PHILIP|Stand in his face to contradict his claim.
King John|First Citizen|Till you compound whose right is worthiest,
King John|First Citizen|We for the worthiest hold the right from both.
King John|KING JOHN|Then God forgive the sin of all those souls
King John|KING JOHN|That to their everlasting residence,
King John|KING JOHN|Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet,
King John|KING JOHN|In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king!
King John|KING PHILIP|Amen, amen! Mount, chevaliers! to arms!
King John|BASTARD|Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since
King John|BASTARD|Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door,
King John|BASTARD|Teach us some fence!
King John|BASTARD|To AUSTRIA
King John|BASTARD|Sirrah, were I at home,
King John|BASTARD|At your den, sirrah, with your lioness
King John|BASTARD|I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide,
King John|BASTARD|And make a monster of you.
King John|AUSTRIA|Peace! no more.
King John|BASTARD|O tremble, for you hear the lion roar.
King John|KING JOHN|Up higher to the plain, where we'll set forth
King John|KING JOHN|In best appointment all our regiments.
King John|BASTARD|Speed then, to take advantage of the field.
King John|KING PHILIP|It shall be so, and at the other hill
King John|KING PHILIP|Command the rest to stand. God and our right!
King John|KING PHILIP|Exeunt
King John|KING PHILIP|Here after excursions, enter the Herald of France, with trumpets, to the gates
King John|French Herald|You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,
King John|French Herald|And let young Arthur, Duke of Bretagne, in,
King John|French Herald|Who by the hand of France this day hath made
King John|French Herald|Much work for tears in many an English mother,
King John|French Herald|Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground,
King John|French Herald|Many a widow's husband grovelling lies,
King John|French Herald|Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth,
King John|French Herald|And victory, with little loss, doth play
King John|French Herald|Upon the dancing banners of the French,
King John|French Herald|Who are at hand, triumphantly display'd,
King John|French Herald|To enter conquerors and to proclaim
King John|French Herald|Arthur of Bretagne England's king and yours.
King John|French Herald|Enter English Herald, with trumpet
King John|English Herald|Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells:
King John|English Herald|King John, your king and England's doth approach,
King John|English Herald|Commander of this hot malicious day:
King John|English Herald|Their armours, that march'd hence so silver-bright,
King John|English Herald|Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood,
King John|English Herald|There stuck no plume in any English crest
King John|English Herald|That is removed by a staff of France,
King John|English Herald|Our colours do return in those same hands
King John|English Herald|That did display them when we first march'd forth,
King John|English Herald|And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come
King John|English Herald|Our lusty English, all with purpled hands,
King John|English Herald|Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes:
King John|English Herald|Open your gates and gives the victors way.
King John|First Citizen|Heralds, from off our towers we might behold,
King John|First Citizen|From first to last, the onset and retire
King John|First Citizen|Of both your armies, whose equality
King John|First Citizen|By our best eyes cannot be censured:
King John|First Citizen|Blood hath bought blood and blows have answered blows,
King John|First Citizen|Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power:
King John|First Citizen|Both are alike, and both alike we like.
King John|First Citizen|One must prove greatest: while they weigh so even,
King John|First Citizen|We hold our town for neither, yet for both.
King John|First Citizen|Re-enter KING JOHN and KING PHILIP, with their powers, severally
King John|KING JOHN|France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away?
King John|KING JOHN|Say, shall the current of our right run on?
King John|KING JOHN|Whose passage, vex'd with thy impediment,
King John|KING JOHN|Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell
King John|KING JOHN|With course disturb'd even thy confining shores,
King John|KING JOHN|Unless thou let his silver water keep
King John|KING JOHN|A peaceful progress to the ocean.
King John|KING PHILIP|England, thou hast not saved one drop of blood,
King John|KING PHILIP|In this hot trial, more than we of France,
King John|KING PHILIP|Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear,
King John|KING PHILIP|That sways the earth this climate overlooks,
King John|KING PHILIP|Before we will lay down our just-borne arms,
King John|KING PHILIP|We'll put thee down, 'gainst whom these arms we bear,
King John|KING PHILIP|Or add a royal number to the dead,
King John|KING PHILIP|Gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss
King John|KING PHILIP|With slaughter coupled to the name of kings.
King John|BASTARD|Ha, majesty! how high thy glory towers,
King John|BASTARD|When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!
King John|BASTARD|O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel,
King John|BASTARD|The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs,
King John|BASTARD|And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men,
King John|BASTARD|In undetermined differences of kings.
King John|BASTARD|Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?
King John|BASTARD|Cry, 'havoc!' kings, back to the stained field,
King John|BASTARD|You equal potents, fiery kindled spirits!
King John|BASTARD|Then let confusion of one part confirm
King John|BASTARD|The other's peace: till then, blows, blood and death!
King John|KING JOHN|Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?
King John|KING PHILIP|Speak, citizens, for England, who's your king?
King John|First Citizen|The king of England, when we know the king.
King John|KING PHILIP|Know him in us, that here hold up his right.
King John|KING JOHN|In us, that are our own great deputy
King John|KING JOHN|And bear possession of our person here,
King John|KING JOHN|Lord of our presence, Angiers, and of you.
King John|First Citizen|A greater power then we denies all this,
King John|First Citizen|And till it be undoubted, we do lock
King John|First Citizen|Our former scruple in our strong-barr'd gates,
King John|First Citizen|King'd of our fears, until our fears, resolved,
King John|First Citizen|Be by some certain king purged and deposed.
King John|BASTARD|By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings,
King John|BASTARD|And stand securely on their battlements,
King John|BASTARD|As in a theatre, whence they gape and point
King John|BASTARD|At your industrious scenes and acts of death.
King John|BASTARD|Your royal presences be ruled by me:
King John|BASTARD|Do like the mutines of Jerusalem,
King John|BASTARD|Be friends awhile and both conjointly bend
King John|BASTARD|Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town:
King John|BASTARD|By east and west let France and England mount
King John|BASTARD|Their battering cannon charged to the mouths,
King John|BASTARD|Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd down
King John|BASTARD|The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city:
King John|BASTARD|I'ld play incessantly upon these jades,
King John|BASTARD|Even till unfenced desolation
King John|BASTARD|Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.
King John|BASTARD|That done, dissever your united strengths,
King John|BASTARD|And part your mingled colours once again,
King John|BASTARD|Turn face to face and bloody point to point,
King John|BASTARD|Then, in a moment, Fortune shall cull forth
King John|BASTARD|Out of one side her happy minion,
King John|BASTARD|To whom in favour she shall give the day,
King John|BASTARD|And kiss him with a glorious victory.
King John|BASTARD|How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?
King John|BASTARD|Smacks it not something of the policy?
King John|KING JOHN|Now, by the sky that hangs above our heads,
King John|KING JOHN|I like it well. France, shall we knit our powers
King John|KING JOHN|And lay this Angiers even to the ground,
King John|KING JOHN|Then after fight who shall be king of it?
King John|BASTARD|An if thou hast the mettle of a king,
King John|BASTARD|Being wronged as we are by this peevish town,
King John|BASTARD|Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,
King John|BASTARD|As we will ours, against these saucy walls,
King John|BASTARD|And when that we have dash'd them to the ground,
King John|BASTARD|Why then defy each other and pell-mell
King John|BASTARD|Make work upon ourselves, for heaven or hell.
King John|KING PHILIP|Let it be so. Say, where will you assault?
King John|KING JOHN|We from the west will send destruction
King John|KING JOHN|Into this city's bosom.
King John|AUSTRIA|I from the north.
King John|KING PHILIP|Our thunder from the south
King John|KING PHILIP|Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town.
King John|BASTARD|O prudent discipline! From north to south:
King John|BASTARD|Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth:
King John|BASTARD|I'll stir them to it. Come, away, away!
King John|First Citizen|Hear us, great kings: vouchsafe awhile to stay,
King John|First Citizen|And I shall show you peace and fair-faced league,
King John|First Citizen|Win you this city without stroke or wound,
King John|First Citizen|Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds,
King John|First Citizen|That here come sacrifices for the field:
King John|First Citizen|Persever not, but hear me, mighty kings.
King John|KING JOHN|Speak on with favour, we are bent to hear.
King John|First Citizen|That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch,
King John|First Citizen|Is niece to England: look upon the years
King John|First Citizen|Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid:
King John|First Citizen|If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,
King John|First Citizen|Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?
King John|First Citizen|If zealous love should go in search of virtue,
King John|First Citizen|Where should he find it purer than in Blanch?
King John|First Citizen|If love ambitious sought a match of birth,
King John|First Citizen|Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanch?
King John|First Citizen|Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth,
King John|First Citizen|Is the young Dauphin every way complete:
King John|First Citizen|If not complete of, say he is not she,
King John|First Citizen|And she again wants nothing, to name want,
King John|First Citizen|If want it be not that she is not he:
King John|First Citizen|He is the half part of a blessed man,
King John|First Citizen|Left to be finished by such as she,
King John|First Citizen|And she a fair divided excellence,
King John|First Citizen|Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
King John|First Citizen|O, two such silver currents, when they join,
King John|First Citizen|Do glorify the banks that bound them in,
King John|First Citizen|And two such shores to two such streams made one,
King John|First Citizen|Two such controlling bounds shall you be, kings,
King John|First Citizen|To these two princes, if you marry them.
King John|First Citizen|This union shall do more than battery can
King John|First Citizen|To our fast-closed gates, for at this match,
King John|First Citizen|With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,
King John|First Citizen|The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,
King John|First Citizen|And give you entrance: but without this match,
King John|First Citizen|The sea enraged is not half so deaf,
King John|First Citizen|Lions more confident, mountains and rocks
King John|First Citizen|More free from motion, no, not Death himself
King John|First Citizen|In moral fury half so peremptory,
King John|First Citizen|As we to keep this city.
King John|BASTARD|Here's a stay
King John|BASTARD|That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death
King John|BASTARD|Out of his rags! Here's a large mouth, indeed,
King John|BASTARD|That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas,
King John|BASTARD|Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
King John|BASTARD|As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
King John|BASTARD|What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
King John|BASTARD|He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce,
King John|BASTARD|He gives the bastinado with his tongue:
King John|BASTARD|Our ears are cudgell'd, not a word of his
King John|BASTARD|But buffets better than a fist of France:
King John|BASTARD|Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words
King John|BASTARD|Since I first call'd my brother's father dad.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Son, list to this conjunction, make this match,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Give with our niece a dowry large enough:
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Thy now unsured assurance to the crown,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|I see a yielding in the looks of France,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Mark, how they whisper: urge them while their souls
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Are capable of this ambition,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Of soft petitions, pity and remorse,
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Cool and congeal again to what it was.
King John|First Citizen|Why answer not the double majesties
King John|First Citizen|This friendly treaty of our threaten'd town?
King John|KING PHILIP|Speak England first, that hath been forward first
King John|KING PHILIP|To speak unto this city: what say you?
King John|KING JOHN|If that the Dauphin there, thy princely son,
King John|KING JOHN|Can in this book of beauty read 'I love,'
King John|KING JOHN|Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen:
King John|KING JOHN|For Anjou and fair Touraine, Maine, Poictiers,
King John|KING JOHN|And all that we upon this side the sea,
King John|KING JOHN|Except this city now by us besieged,
King John|KING JOHN|Find liable to our crown and dignity,
King John|KING JOHN|Shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich
King John|KING JOHN|In titles, honours and promotions,
King John|KING JOHN|As she in beauty, education, blood,
King John|KING JOHN|Holds hand with any princess of the world.
King John|KING PHILIP|What say'st thou, boy? look in the lady's face.
King John|LEWIS|I do, my lord, and in her eye I find
King John|LEWIS|A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,
King John|LEWIS|The shadow of myself form'd in her eye:
King John|LEWIS|Which being but the shadow of your son,
King John|LEWIS|Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:
King John|LEWIS|I do protest I never loved myself
King John|LEWIS|Till now infixed I beheld myself
King John|LEWIS|Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.
King John|LEWIS|Whispers with BLANCH
King John|BASTARD|Drawn in the flattering table of her eye!
King John|BASTARD|Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow!
King John|BASTARD|And quarter'd in her heart! he doth espy
King John|BASTARD|Himself love's traitor: this is pity now,
King John|BASTARD|That hang'd and drawn and quartered, there should be
King John|BASTARD|In such a love so vile a lout as he.
King John|BLANCH|My uncle's will in this respect is mine:
King John|BLANCH|If he see aught in you that makes him like,
King John|BLANCH|That any thing he sees, which moves his liking,
King John|BLANCH|I can with ease translate it to my will,
King John|BLANCH|Or if you will, to speak more properly,
King John|BLANCH|I will enforce it easily to my love.
King John|BLANCH|Further I will not flatter you, my lord,
King John|BLANCH|That all I see in you is worthy love,
King John|BLANCH|Than this, that nothing do I see in you,
King John|BLANCH|Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge,
King John|BLANCH|That I can find should merit any hate.
King John|KING JOHN|What say these young ones? What say you my niece?
King John|BLANCH|That she is bound in honour still to do
King John|BLANCH|What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.
King John|KING JOHN|Speak then, prince Dauphin, can you love this lady?
King John|LEWIS|Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love,
King John|LEWIS|For I do love her most unfeignedly.
King John|KING JOHN|Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine,
King John|KING JOHN|Poictiers and Anjou, these five provinces,
King John|KING JOHN|With her to thee, and this addition more,
King John|KING JOHN|Full thirty thousand marks of English coin.
King John|KING JOHN|Philip of France, if thou be pleased withal,
King John|KING JOHN|Command thy son and daughter to join hands.
King John|KING PHILIP|It likes us well, young princes, close your hands.
King John|AUSTRIA|And your lips too, for I am well assured
King John|AUSTRIA|That I did so when I was first assured.
King John|KING PHILIP|Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates,
King John|KING PHILIP|Let in that amity which you have made,
King John|KING PHILIP|For at Saint Mary's chapel presently
King John|KING PHILIP|The rites of marriage shall be solemnized.
King John|KING PHILIP|Is not the Lady Constance in this troop?
King John|KING PHILIP|I know she is not, for this match made up
King John|KING PHILIP|Her presence would have interrupted much:
King John|KING PHILIP|Where is she and her son? tell me, who knows.
King John|LEWIS|She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
King John|KING PHILIP|And, by my faith, this league that we have made
King John|KING PHILIP|Will give her sadness very little cure.
King John|KING PHILIP|Brother of England, how may we content
King John|KING PHILIP|This widow lady? In her right we came,
King John|KING PHILIP|Which we, God knows, have turn'd another way,
King John|KING PHILIP|To our own vantage.
King John|KING JOHN|We will heal up all,
King John|KING JOHN|For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne
King John|KING JOHN|And Earl of Richmond, and this rich fair town
King John|KING JOHN|We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance,
King John|KING JOHN|Some speedy messenger bid her repair
King John|KING JOHN|To our solemnity: I trust we shall,
King John|KING JOHN|If not fill up the measure of her will,
King John|KING JOHN|Yet in some measure satisfy her so
King John|KING JOHN|That we shall stop her exclamation.
King John|KING JOHN|Go we, as well as haste will suffer us,
King John|KING JOHN|To this unlook'd for, unprepared pomp.
King John|KING JOHN|Exeunt all but the BASTARD
King John|BASTARD|Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!
King John|BASTARD|John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole,
King John|BASTARD|Hath willingly departed with a part,
King John|BASTARD|And France, whose armour conscience buckled on,
King John|BASTARD|Whom zeal and charity brought to the field
King John|BASTARD|As God's own soldier, rounded in the ear
King John|BASTARD|With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil,
King John|BASTARD|That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith,
King John|BASTARD|That daily break-vow, he that wins of all,
King John|BASTARD|Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids,
King John|BASTARD|Who, having no external thing to lose
King John|BASTARD|But the word 'maid,' cheats the poor maid of that,
King John|BASTARD|That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity,
King John|BASTARD|Commodity, the bias of the world,
King John|BASTARD|The world, who of itself is peised well,
King John|BASTARD|Made to run even upon even ground,
King John|BASTARD|Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,
King John|BASTARD|This sway of motion, this Commodity,
King John|BASTARD|Makes it take head from all indifferency,
King John|BASTARD|From all direction, purpose, course, intent:
King John|BASTARD|And this same bias, this Commodity,
King John|BASTARD|This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word,
King John|BASTARD|Clapp'd on the outward eye of fickle France,
King John|BASTARD|Hath drawn him from his own determined aid,
King John|BASTARD|From a resolved and honourable war,
King John|BASTARD|To a most base and vile-concluded peace.
King John|BASTARD|And why rail I on this Commodity?
King John|BASTARD|But for because he hath not woo'd me yet:
King John|BASTARD|Not that I have the power to clutch my hand,
King John|BASTARD|When his fair angels would salute my palm,
King John|BASTARD|But for my hand, as unattempted yet,
King John|BASTARD|Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.
King John|BASTARD|Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
King John|BASTARD|And say there is no sin but to be rich,
King John|BASTARD|And being rich, my virtue then shall be
King John|BASTARD|To say there is no vice but beggary.
King John|BASTARD|Since kings break faith upon commodity,
King John|BASTARD|Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee.
King John|BASTARD|Exit
King John|BASTARD|ACT III
King John|BASTARD|SCENE I. The French King's pavilion.
King John|BASTARD|Enter CONSTANCE, ARTHUR, and SALISBURY
King John|CONSTANCE|Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace!
King John|CONSTANCE|False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends!
King John|CONSTANCE|Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces?
King John|CONSTANCE|It is not so, thou hast misspoke, misheard:
King John|CONSTANCE|Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again:
King John|CONSTANCE|It cannot be, thou dost but say 'tis so:
King John|CONSTANCE|I trust I may not trust thee, for thy word
King John|CONSTANCE|Is but the vain breath of a common man:
King John|CONSTANCE|Believe me, I do not believe thee, man,
King John|CONSTANCE|I have a king's oath to the contrary.
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me,
King John|CONSTANCE|For I am sick and capable of fears,
King John|CONSTANCE|Oppress'd with wrongs and therefore full of fears,
King John|CONSTANCE|A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,
King John|CONSTANCE|A woman, naturally born to fears,
King John|CONSTANCE|And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,
King John|CONSTANCE|With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce,
King John|CONSTANCE|But they will quake and tremble all this day.
King John|CONSTANCE|What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?
King John|CONSTANCE|Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?
King John|CONSTANCE|What means that hand upon that breast of thine?
King John|CONSTANCE|Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,
King John|CONSTANCE|Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?
King John|CONSTANCE|Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?
King John|CONSTANCE|Then speak again, not all thy former tale,
King John|CONSTANCE|But this one word, whether thy tale be true.
King John|SALISBURY|As true as I believe you think them false
King John|SALISBURY|That give you cause to prove my saying true.
King John|CONSTANCE|O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,
King John|CONSTANCE|Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die,
King John|CONSTANCE|And let belief and life encounter so
King John|CONSTANCE|As doth the fury of two desperate men
King John|CONSTANCE|Which in the very meeting fall and die.
King John|CONSTANCE|Lewis marry Blanch! O boy, then where art thou?
King John|CONSTANCE|France friend with England, what becomes of me?
King John|CONSTANCE|Fellow, be gone: I cannot brook thy sight:
King John|CONSTANCE|This news hath made thee a most ugly man.
King John|SALISBURY|What other harm have I, good lady, done,
King John|SALISBURY|But spoke the harm that is by others done?
King John|CONSTANCE|Which harm within itself so heinous is
King John|CONSTANCE|As it makes harmful all that speak of it.
King John|ARTHUR|I do beseech you, madam, be content.
King John|CONSTANCE|If thou, that bid'st me be content, wert grim,
King John|CONSTANCE|Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb,
King John|CONSTANCE|Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,
King John|CONSTANCE|Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
King John|CONSTANCE|Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks,
King John|CONSTANCE|I would not care, I then would be content,
King John|CONSTANCE|For then I should not love thee, no, nor thou
King John|CONSTANCE|Become thy great birth nor deserve a crown.
King John|CONSTANCE|But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
King John|CONSTANCE|Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
King John|CONSTANCE|Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
King John|CONSTANCE|And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,
King John|CONSTANCE|She is corrupted, changed and won from thee,
King John|CONSTANCE|She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,
King John|CONSTANCE|And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France
King John|CONSTANCE|To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,
King John|CONSTANCE|And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.
King John|CONSTANCE|France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,
King John|CONSTANCE|That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John!
King John|CONSTANCE|Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn?
King John|CONSTANCE|Envenom him with words, or get thee gone
King John|CONSTANCE|And leave those woes alone which I alone
King John|CONSTANCE|Am bound to under-bear.
King John|SALISBURY|Pardon me, madam,
King John|SALISBURY|I may not go without you to the kings.
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou mayst, thou shalt, I will not go with thee:
King John|CONSTANCE|I will instruct my sorrows to be proud,
King John|CONSTANCE|For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
King John|CONSTANCE|To me and to the state of my great grief
King John|CONSTANCE|Let kings assemble, for my grief's so great
King John|CONSTANCE|That no supporter but the huge firm earth
King John|CONSTANCE|Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit,
King John|CONSTANCE|Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
King John|CONSTANCE|Seats herself on the ground
King John|CONSTANCE|Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILLIP, LEWIS, BLANCH, QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, AUSTRIA, and Attendants
King John|KING PHILIP|'Tis true, fair daughter, and this blessed day
King John|KING PHILIP|Ever in France shall be kept festival:
King John|KING PHILIP|To solemnize this day the glorious sun
King John|KING PHILIP|Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
King John|KING PHILIP|Turning with splendor of his precious eye
King John|KING PHILIP|The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold:
King John|KING PHILIP|The yearly course that brings this day about
King John|KING PHILIP|Shall never see it but a holiday.
King John|CONSTANCE|A wicked day, and not a holy day!
King John|CONSTANCE|Rising
King John|CONSTANCE|What hath this day deserved? what hath it done,
King John|CONSTANCE|That it in golden letters should be set
King John|CONSTANCE|Among the high tides in the calendar?
King John|CONSTANCE|Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,
King John|CONSTANCE|This day of shame, oppression, perjury.
King John|CONSTANCE|Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child
King John|CONSTANCE|Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,
King John|CONSTANCE|Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd:
King John|CONSTANCE|But on this day let seamen fear no wreck,
King John|CONSTANCE|No bargains break that are not this day made:
King John|CONSTANCE|This day, all things begun come to ill end,
King John|CONSTANCE|Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!
King John|KING PHILIP|By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause
King John|KING PHILIP|To curse the fair proceedings of this day:
King John|KING PHILIP|Have I not pawn'd to you my majesty?
King John|CONSTANCE|You have beguiled me with a counterfeit
King John|CONSTANCE|Resembling majesty, which, being touch'd and tried,
King John|CONSTANCE|Proves valueless: you are forsworn, forsworn,
King John|CONSTANCE|You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood,
King John|CONSTANCE|But now in arms you strengthen it with yours:
King John|CONSTANCE|The grappling vigour and rough frown of war
King John|CONSTANCE|Is cold in amity and painted peace,
King John|CONSTANCE|And our oppression hath made up this league.
King John|CONSTANCE|Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjured kings!
King John|CONSTANCE|A widow cries, be husband to me, heavens!
King John|CONSTANCE|Let not the hours of this ungodly day
King John|CONSTANCE|Wear out the day in peace, but, ere sunset,
King John|CONSTANCE|Set armed discord 'twixt these perjured kings!
King John|CONSTANCE|Hear me, O, hear me!
King John|AUSTRIA|Lady Constance, peace!
King John|CONSTANCE|War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war
King John|CONSTANCE|O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame
King John|CONSTANCE|That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou little valiant, great in villany!
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight
King John|CONSTANCE|But when her humorous ladyship is by
King John|CONSTANCE|To teach thee safety! thou art perjured too,
King John|CONSTANCE|And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou,
King John|CONSTANCE|A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear
King John|CONSTANCE|Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
King John|CONSTANCE|Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,
King John|CONSTANCE|Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
King John|CONSTANCE|Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength,
King John|CONSTANCE|And dost thou now fall over to my fores?
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
King John|CONSTANCE|And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.
King John|AUSTRIA|O, that a man should speak those words to me!
King John|BASTARD|And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.
King John|AUSTRIA|Thou darest not say so, villain, for thy life.
King John|BASTARD|And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.
King John|KING JOHN|We like not this, thou dost forget thyself.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH
King John|KING PHILIP|Here comes the holy legate of the pope.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven!
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|To thee, King John, my holy errand is.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And from Pope Innocent the legate here,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Do in his name religiously demand
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Why thou against the church, our holy mother,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|So wilfully dost spurn, and force perforce
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Keep Stephen Langton, chosen archbishop
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Of Canterbury, from that holy see?
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|This, in our foresaid holy father's name,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.
King John|KING JOHN|What earthy name to interrogatories
King John|KING JOHN|Can task the free breath of a sacred king?
King John|KING JOHN|Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name
King John|KING JOHN|So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,
King John|KING JOHN|To charge me to an answer, as the pope.
King John|KING JOHN|Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England
King John|KING JOHN|Add thus much more, that no Italian priest
King John|KING JOHN|Shall tithe or toll in our dominions,
King John|KING JOHN|But as we, under heaven, are supreme head,
King John|KING JOHN|So under Him that great supremacy,
King John|KING JOHN|Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,
King John|KING JOHN|Without the assistance of a mortal hand:
King John|KING JOHN|So tell the pope, all reverence set apart
King John|KING JOHN|To him and his usurp'd authority.
King John|KING PHILIP|Brother of England, you blaspheme in this.
King John|KING JOHN|Though you and all the kings of Christendom
King John|KING JOHN|Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,
King John|KING JOHN|Dreading the curse that money may buy out,
King John|KING JOHN|And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,
King John|KING JOHN|Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,
King John|KING JOHN|Who in that sale sells pardon from himself,
King John|KING JOHN|Though you and all the rest so grossly led
King John|KING JOHN|This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish,
King John|KING JOHN|Yet I alone, alone do me oppose
King John|KING JOHN|Against the pope and count his friends my foes.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Then, by the lawful power that I have,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And blessed shall he be that doth revolt
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|From his allegiance to an heretic,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And meritorious shall that hand be call'd,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Canonized and worshipped as a saint,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|That takes away by any secret course
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Thy hateful life.
King John|CONSTANCE|O, lawful let it be
King John|CONSTANCE|That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!
King John|CONSTANCE|Good father cardinal, cry thou amen
King John|CONSTANCE|To my keen curses, for without my wrong
King John|CONSTANCE|There is no tongue hath power to curse him right.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|There's law and warrant, lady, for my curse.
King John|CONSTANCE|And for mine too: when law can do no right,
King John|CONSTANCE|Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong:
King John|CONSTANCE|Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,
King John|CONSTANCE|For he that holds his kingdom holds the law,
King John|CONSTANCE|Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,
King John|CONSTANCE|How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Philip of France, on peril of a curse,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Let go the hand of that arch-heretic,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And raise the power of France upon his head,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Unless he do submit himself to Rome.
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Look'st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand.
King John|CONSTANCE|Look to that, devil, lest that France repent,
King John|CONSTANCE|And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul.
King John|AUSTRIA|King Philip, listen to the cardinal.
King John|BASTARD|And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs.
King John|AUSTRIA|Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Because--
King John|BASTARD|Your breeches best may carry them.
King John|KING JOHN|Philip, what say'st thou to the cardinal?
King John|CONSTANCE|What should he say, but as the cardinal?
King John|LEWIS|Bethink you, father, for the difference
King John|LEWIS|Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,
King John|LEWIS|Or the light loss of England for a friend:
King John|LEWIS|Forego the easier.
King John|BLANCH|That's the curse of Rome.
King John|CONSTANCE|O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee here
King John|CONSTANCE|In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.
King John|BLANCH|The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,
King John|BLANCH|But from her need.
King John|CONSTANCE|O, if thou grant my need,
King John|CONSTANCE|Which only lives but by the death of faith,
King John|CONSTANCE|That need must needs infer this principle,
King John|CONSTANCE|That faith would live again by death of need.
King John|CONSTANCE|O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up,
King John|CONSTANCE|Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!
King John|KING JOHN|The king is moved, and answers not to this.
King John|CONSTANCE|O, be removed from him, and answer well!
King John|AUSTRIA|Do so, King Philip, hang no more in doubt.
King John|BASTARD|Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout.
King John|KING PHILIP|I am perplex'd, and know not what to say.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?
King John|KING PHILIP|Good reverend father, make my person yours,
King John|KING PHILIP|And tell me how you would bestow yourself.
King John|KING PHILIP|This royal hand and mine are newly knit,
King John|KING PHILIP|And the conjunction of our inward souls
King John|KING PHILIP|Married in league, coupled and linked together
King John|KING PHILIP|With all religious strength of sacred vows,
King John|KING PHILIP|The latest breath that gave the sound of words
King John|KING PHILIP|Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love
King John|KING PHILIP|Between our kingdoms and our royal selves,
King John|KING PHILIP|And even before this truce, but new before,
King John|KING PHILIP|No longer than we well could wash our hands
King John|KING PHILIP|To clap this royal bargain up of peace,
King John|KING PHILIP|Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and over-stain'd
King John|KING PHILIP|With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint
King John|KING PHILIP|The fearful difference of incensed kings:
King John|KING PHILIP|And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,
King John|KING PHILIP|So newly join'd in love, so strong in both,
King John|KING PHILIP|Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?
King John|KING PHILIP|Play fast and loose with faith? so jest with heaven,
King John|KING PHILIP|Make such unconstant children of ourselves,
King John|KING PHILIP|As now again to snatch our palm from palm,
King John|KING PHILIP|Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed
King John|KING PHILIP|Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,
King John|KING PHILIP|And make a riot on the gentle brow
King John|KING PHILIP|Of true sincerity? O, holy sir,
King John|KING PHILIP|My reverend father, let it not be so!
King John|KING PHILIP|Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose
King John|KING PHILIP|Some gentle order, and then we shall be blest
King John|KING PHILIP|To do your pleasure and continue friends.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|All form is formless, order orderless,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Save what is opposite to England's love.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Therefore to arms! be champion of our church,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|A mother's curse, on her revolting son.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|A chafed lion by the mortal paw,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.
King John|KING PHILIP|I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|So makest thou faith an enemy to faith,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And like a civil war set'st oath to oath,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|That is, to be the champion of our church!
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|What since thou sworest is sworn against thyself
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And may not be performed by thyself,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Is not amiss when it is truly done,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And being not done, where doing tends to ill,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The truth is then most done not doing it:
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The better act of purposes mistook
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Is to mistake again, though indirect,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Yet indirection thereby grows direct,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Within the scorched veins of one new-burn'd.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|It is religion that doth make vows kept,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|But thou hast sworn against religion,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|By what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And makest an oath the surety for thy truth
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Against an oath: the truth thou art unsure
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|To swear, swears only not to be forsworn,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Else what a mockery should it be to swear!
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|But thou dost swear only to be forsworn,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Therefore thy later vows against thy first
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Is in thyself rebellion to thyself,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And better conquest never canst thou make
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Against these giddy loose suggestions:
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Upon which better part our prayers come in,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The peril of our curses light on thee
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|But in despair die under their black weight.
King John|AUSTRIA|Rebellion, flat rebellion!
King John|BASTARD|Will't not be?
King John|BASTARD|Will not a calfs-skin stop that mouth of thine?
King John|LEWIS|Father, to arms!
King John|BLANCH|Upon thy wedding-day?
King John|BLANCH|Against the blood that thou hast married?
King John|BLANCH|What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men?
King John|BLANCH|Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,
King John|BLANCH|Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp?
King John|BLANCH|O husband, hear me! ay, alack, how new
King John|BLANCH|Is husband in my mouth! even for that name,
King John|BLANCH|Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce,
King John|BLANCH|Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms
King John|BLANCH|Against mine uncle.
King John|CONSTANCE|O, upon my knee,
King John|CONSTANCE|Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom
King John|CONSTANCE|Forethought by heaven!
King John|BLANCH|Now shall I see thy love: what motive may
King John|BLANCH|Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?
King John|CONSTANCE|That which upholdeth him that thee upholds,
King John|CONSTANCE|His honour: O, thine honour, Lewis, thine honour!
King John|LEWIS|I muse your majesty doth seem so cold,
King John|LEWIS|When such profound respects do pull you on.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|I will denounce a curse upon his head.
King John|KING PHILIP|Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee.
King John|CONSTANCE|O fair return of banish'd majesty!
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|O foul revolt of French inconstancy!
King John|KING JOHN|France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour.
King John|BASTARD|Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,
King John|BASTARD|Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue.
King John|BLANCH|The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!
King John|BLANCH|Which is the side that I must go withal?
King John|BLANCH|I am with both: each army hath a hand,
King John|BLANCH|And in their rage, I having hold of both,
King John|BLANCH|They swirl asunder and dismember me.
King John|BLANCH|Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win,
King John|BLANCH|Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose,
King John|BLANCH|Father, I may not wish the fortune thine,
King John|BLANCH|Grandam, I will not wish thy fortunes thrive:
King John|BLANCH|Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose
King John|BLANCH|Assured loss before the match be play'd.
King John|LEWIS|Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
King John|BLANCH|There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.
King John|KING JOHN|Cousin, go draw our puissance together.
King John|KING JOHN|Exit BASTARD
King John|KING JOHN|France, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath,
King John|KING JOHN|A rage whose heat hath this condition,
King John|KING JOHN|That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,
King John|KING JOHN|The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France.
King John|KING PHILIP|Thy rage sham burn thee up, and thou shalt turn
King John|KING PHILIP|To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire:
King John|KING PHILIP|Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.
King John|KING JOHN|No more than he that threats. To arms let's hie!
King John|KING JOHN|Exeunt
King John|KING JOHN|SCENE II. The same. Plains near Angiers.
King John|KING JOHN|Alarums, excursions. Enter the BASTARD, with AUSTRIA'S head
King John|BASTARD|Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot,
King John|BASTARD|Some airy devil hovers in the sky
King John|BASTARD|And pours down mischief. Austria's head lie there,
King John|BASTARD|While Philip breathes.
King John|BASTARD|Enter KING JOHN, ARTHUR, and HUBERT
King John|KING JOHN|Hubert, keep this boy. Philip, make up:
King John|KING JOHN|My mother is assailed in our tent,
King John|KING JOHN|And ta'en, I fear.
King John|BASTARD|My lord, I rescued her,
King John|BASTARD|Her highness is in safety, fear you not:
King John|BASTARD|But on, my liege, for very little pains
King John|BASTARD|Will bring this labour to an happy end.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt
King John|BASTARD|SCENE III. The same.
King John|BASTARD|Alarums, excursions, retreat. Enter KING JOHN,  QUEEN ELINOR, ARTHUR, the BASTARD, HUBERT, and Lords
King John|KING JOHN|[To QUEEN ELINOR]  So shall it be, your grace shall
King John|KING JOHN|stay behind
King John|KING JOHN|So strongly guarded.
King John|KING JOHN|To ARTHUR
King John|KING JOHN|Cousin, look not sad:
King John|KING JOHN|Thy grandam loves thee, and thy uncle will
King John|KING JOHN|As dear be to thee as thy father was.
King John|ARTHUR|O, this will make my mother die with grief!
King John|KING JOHN|[To the BASTARD]  Cousin, away for England!
King John|KING JOHN|haste before:
King John|KING JOHN|And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags
King John|KING JOHN|Of hoarding abbots, imprisoned angels
King John|KING JOHN|Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace
King John|KING JOHN|Must by the hungry now be fed upon:
King John|KING JOHN|Use our commission in his utmost force.
King John|BASTARD|Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,
King John|BASTARD|When gold and silver becks me to come on.
King John|BASTARD|I leave your highness. Grandam, I will pray,
King John|BASTARD|If ever I remember to be holy,
King John|BASTARD|For your fair safety, so, I kiss your hand.
King John|ELINOR|Farewell, gentle cousin.
King John|KING JOHN|Coz, farewell.
King John|KING JOHN|Exit the BASTARD
King John|QUEEN ELINOR|Come hither, little kinsman, hark, a word.
King John|KING JOHN|Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert,
King John|KING JOHN|We owe thee much! within this wall of flesh
King John|KING JOHN|There is a soul counts thee her creditor
King John|KING JOHN|And with advantage means to pay thy love:
King John|KING JOHN|And my good friend, thy voluntary oath
King John|KING JOHN|Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.
King John|KING JOHN|Give me thy hand. I had a thing to say,
King John|KING JOHN|But I will fit it with some better time.
King John|KING JOHN|By heaven, Hubert, I am almost ashamed
King John|KING JOHN|To say what good respect I have of thee.
King John|HUBERT|I am much bounden to your majesty.
King John|KING JOHN|Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet,
King John|KING JOHN|But thou shalt have, and creep time ne'er so slow,
King John|KING JOHN|Yet it shall come from me to do thee good.
King John|KING JOHN|I had a thing to say, but let it go:
King John|KING JOHN|The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,
King John|KING JOHN|Attended with the pleasures of the world,
King John|KING JOHN|Is all too wanton and too full of gawds
King John|KING JOHN|To give me audience: if the midnight bell
King John|KING JOHN|Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth,
King John|KING JOHN|Sound on into the drowsy race of night,
King John|KING JOHN|If this same were a churchyard where we stand,
King John|KING JOHN|And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs,
King John|KING JOHN|Or if that surly spirit, melancholy,
King John|KING JOHN|Had baked thy blood and made it heavy-thick,
King John|KING JOHN|Which else runs tickling up and down the veins,
King John|KING JOHN|Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes
King John|KING JOHN|And strain their cheeks to idle merriment,
King John|KING JOHN|A passion hateful to my purposes,
King John|KING JOHN|Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes,
King John|KING JOHN|Hear me without thine ears, and make reply
King John|KING JOHN|Without a tongue, using conceit alone,
King John|KING JOHN|Without eyes, ears and harmful sound of words,
King John|KING JOHN|Then, in despite of brooded watchful day,
King John|KING JOHN|I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts:
King John|KING JOHN|But, ah, I will not! yet I love thee well,
King John|KING JOHN|And, by my troth, I think thou lovest me well.
King John|HUBERT|So well, that what you bid me undertake,
King John|HUBERT|Though that my death were adjunct to my act,
King John|HUBERT|By heaven, I would do it.
King John|KING JOHN|Do not I know thou wouldst?
King John|KING JOHN|Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye
King John|KING JOHN|On yon young boy: I'll tell thee what, my friend,
King John|KING JOHN|He is a very serpent in my way,
King John|KING JOHN|And whereso'er this foot of mine doth tread,
King John|KING JOHN|He lies before me: dost thou understand me?
King John|KING JOHN|Thou art his keeper.
King John|HUBERT|And I'll keep him so,
King John|HUBERT|That he shall not offend your majesty.
King John|KING JOHN|Death.
King John|HUBERT|My lord?
King John|KING JOHN|A grave.
King John|HUBERT|He shall not live.
King John|KING JOHN|Enough.
King John|KING JOHN|I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee,
King John|KING JOHN|Well, I'll not say what I intend for thee:
King John|KING JOHN|Remember. Madam, fare you well:
King John|KING JOHN|I'll send those powers o'er to your majesty.
King John|ELINOR|My blessing go with thee!
King John|KING JOHN|For England, cousin, go:
King John|KING JOHN|Hubert shall be your man, attend on you
King John|KING JOHN|With all true duty. On toward Calais, ho!
King John|KING JOHN|Exeunt
King John|KING JOHN|SCENE IV. The same. KING PHILIP'S tent.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter KING PHILIP, LEWIS, CARDINAL PANDULPH, and Attendants
King John|KING PHILIP|So, by a roaring tempest on the flood,
King John|KING PHILIP|A whole armado of convicted sail
King John|KING PHILIP|Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well.
King John|KING PHILIP|What can go well, when we have run so ill?
King John|KING PHILIP|Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost?
King John|KING PHILIP|Arthur ta'en prisoner? divers dear friends slain?
King John|KING PHILIP|And bloody England into England gone,
King John|KING PHILIP|O'erbearing interruption, spite of France?
King John|LEWIS|What he hath won, that hath he fortified:
King John|LEWIS|So hot a speed with such advice disposed,
King John|LEWIS|Such temperate order in so fierce a cause,
King John|LEWIS|Doth want example: who hath read or heard
King John|LEWIS|Of any kindred action like to this?
King John|KING PHILIP|Well could I bear that England had this praise,
King John|KING PHILIP|So we could find some pattern of our shame.
King John|KING PHILIP|Enter CONSTANCE
King John|KING PHILIP|Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul,
King John|KING PHILIP|Holding the eternal spirit against her will,
King John|KING PHILIP|In the vile prison of afflicted breath.
King John|KING PHILIP|I prithee, lady, go away with me.
King John|CONSTANCE|Lo, now I now see the issue of your peace.
King John|KING PHILIP|Patience, good lady! comfort, gentle Constance!
King John|CONSTANCE|No, I defy all counsel, all redress,
King John|CONSTANCE|But that which ends all counsel, true redress,
King John|CONSTANCE|Death, death, O amiable lovely death!
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou odouriferous stench! sound rottenness!
King John|CONSTANCE|Arise forth from the couch of lasting night,
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou hate and terror to prosperity,
King John|CONSTANCE|And I will kiss thy detestable bones
King John|CONSTANCE|And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows
King John|CONSTANCE|And ring these fingers with thy household worms
King John|CONSTANCE|And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust
King John|CONSTANCE|And be a carrion monster like thyself:
King John|CONSTANCE|Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest
King John|CONSTANCE|And buss thee as thy wife. Misery's love,
King John|CONSTANCE|O, come to me!
King John|KING PHILIP|O fair affliction, peace!
King John|CONSTANCE|No, no, I will not, having breath to cry:
King John|CONSTANCE|O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
King John|CONSTANCE|Then with a passion would I shake the world,
King John|CONSTANCE|And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
King John|CONSTANCE|Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
King John|CONSTANCE|Which scorns a modern invocation.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow.
King John|CONSTANCE|Thou art not holy to belie me so,
King John|CONSTANCE|I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine,
King John|CONSTANCE|My name is Constance, I was Geffrey's wife,
King John|CONSTANCE|Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost:
King John|CONSTANCE|I am not mad: I would to heaven I were!
King John|CONSTANCE|For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:
King John|CONSTANCE|O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
King John|CONSTANCE|Preach some philosophy to make me mad,
King John|CONSTANCE|And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal,
King John|CONSTANCE|For being not mad but sensible of grief,
King John|CONSTANCE|My reasonable part produces reason
King John|CONSTANCE|How I may be deliver'd of these woes,
King John|CONSTANCE|And teaches me to kill or hang myself:
King John|CONSTANCE|If I were mad, I should forget my son,
King John|CONSTANCE|Or madly think a babe of clouts were he:
King John|CONSTANCE|I am not mad, too well, too well I feel
King John|CONSTANCE|The different plague of each calamity.
King John|KING PHILIP|Bind up those tresses. O, what love I note
King John|KING PHILIP|In the fair multitude of those her hairs!
King John|KING PHILIP|Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen,
King John|KING PHILIP|Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends
King John|KING PHILIP|Do glue themselves in sociable grief,
King John|KING PHILIP|Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,
King John|KING PHILIP|Sticking together in calamity.
King John|CONSTANCE|To England, if you will.
King John|KING PHILIP|Bind up your hairs.
King John|CONSTANCE|Yes, that I will, and wherefore will I do it?
King John|CONSTANCE|I tore them from their bonds and cried aloud
King John|CONSTANCE|'O that these hands could so redeem my son,
King John|CONSTANCE|As they have given these hairs their liberty!'
King John|CONSTANCE|But now I envy at their liberty,
King John|CONSTANCE|And will again commit them to their bonds,
King John|CONSTANCE|Because my poor child is a prisoner.
King John|CONSTANCE|And, father cardinal, I have heard you say
King John|CONSTANCE|That we shall see and know our friends in heaven:
King John|CONSTANCE|If that be true, I shall see my boy again,
King John|CONSTANCE|For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,
King John|CONSTANCE|To him that did but yesterday suspire,
King John|CONSTANCE|There was not such a gracious creature born.
King John|CONSTANCE|But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud
King John|CONSTANCE|And chase the native beauty from his cheek
King John|CONSTANCE|And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
King John|CONSTANCE|As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,
King John|CONSTANCE|And so he'll die, and, rising so again,
King John|CONSTANCE|When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
King John|CONSTANCE|I shall not know him: therefore never, never
King John|CONSTANCE|Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|You hold too heinous a respect of grief.
King John|CONSTANCE|He talks to me that never had a son.
King John|KING PHILIP|You are as fond of grief as of your child.
King John|CONSTANCE|Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
King John|CONSTANCE|Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
King John|CONSTANCE|Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
King John|CONSTANCE|Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
King John|CONSTANCE|Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form,
King John|CONSTANCE|Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?
King John|CONSTANCE|Fare you well: had you such a loss as I,
King John|CONSTANCE|I could give better comfort than you do.
King John|CONSTANCE|I will not keep this form upon my head,
King John|CONSTANCE|When there is such disorder in my wit.
King John|CONSTANCE|O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son!
King John|CONSTANCE|My life, my joy, my food, my all the world!
King John|CONSTANCE|My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure!
King John|CONSTANCE|Exit
King John|KING PHILIP|I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her.
King John|KING PHILIP|Exit
King John|LEWIS|There's nothing in this world can make me joy:
King John|LEWIS|Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
King John|LEWIS|Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man,
King John|LEWIS|And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste
King John|LEWIS|That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Before the curing of a strong disease,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Even in the instant of repair and health,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The fit is strongest, evils that take leave,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|On their departure most of all show evil:
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|What have you lost by losing of this day?
King John|LEWIS|All days of glory, joy and happiness.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|If you had won it, certainly you had.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|No, no, when Fortune means to men most good,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|In this which he accounts so clearly won:
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Are not you grieved that Arthur is his prisoner?
King John|LEWIS|As heartily as he is glad he hath him.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Your mind is all as youthful as your blood.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|For even the breath of what I mean to speak
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Out of the path which shall directly lead
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Thy foot to England's throne, and therefore mark.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|John hath seized Arthur, and it cannot be
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|That, whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The misplaced John should entertain an hour,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|One minute, nay, one quiet breath of rest.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And he that stands upon a slippery place
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up:
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|So be it, for it cannot be but so.
King John|LEWIS|But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall?
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|May then make all the claim that Arthur did.
King John|LEWIS|And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|How green you are and fresh in this old world!
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|John lays you plots, the times conspire with you,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|For he that steeps his safety in true blood
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Shall find but bloody safety and untrue.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|This act so evilly born shall cool the hearts
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Of all his people and freeze up their zeal,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|That none so small advantage shall step forth
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|To cheque his reign, but they will cherish it,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|No natural exhalation in the sky,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|No common wind, no customed event,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|But they will pluck away his natural cause
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And call them meteors, prodigies and signs,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Abortives, presages and tongues of heaven,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.
King John|LEWIS|May be he will not touch young Arthur's life,
King John|LEWIS|But hold himself safe in his prisonment.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|O, sir, when he shall hear of your approach,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|If that young Arthur be not gone already,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Even at that news he dies, and then the hearts
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Of all his people shall revolt from him
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And kiss the lips of unacquainted change
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Methinks I see this hurly all on foot:
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And, O, what better matter breeds for you
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Than I have named! The bastard Faulconbridge
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Is now in England, ransacking the church,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Offending charity: if but a dozen French
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Were there in arms, they would be as a call
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|To train ten thousand English to their side,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Or as a little snow, tumbled about,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Anon becomes a mountain. O noble Dauphin,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Go with me to the king: 'tis wonderful
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|What may be wrought out of their discontent,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Now that their souls are topful of offence.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|For England go: I will whet on the king.
King John|LEWIS|Strong reasons make strong actions: let us go:
King John|LEWIS|If you say ay, the king will not say no.
King John|LEWIS|Exeunt
King John|LEWIS|ACT IV
King John|LEWIS|SCENE I. A room in a castle.
King John|LEWIS|Enter HUBERT and Executioners
King John|HUBERT|Heat me these irons hot, and look thou stand
King John|HUBERT|Within the arras: when I strike my foot
King John|HUBERT|Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth,
King John|HUBERT|And bind the boy which you shall find with me
King John|HUBERT|Fast to the chair: be heedful: hence, and watch.
King John|First Executioner|I hope your warrant will bear out the deed.
King John|HUBERT|Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to't.
King John|HUBERT|Exeunt Executioners
King John|HUBERT|Young lad, come forth, I have to say with you.
King John|HUBERT|Enter ARTHUR
King John|ARTHUR|Good morrow, Hubert.
King John|HUBERT|Good morrow, little prince.
King John|ARTHUR|As little prince, having so great a title
King John|ARTHUR|To be more prince, as may be. You are sad.
King John|HUBERT|Indeed, I have been merrier.
King John|ARTHUR|Mercy on me!
King John|ARTHUR|Methinks no body should be sad but I:
King John|ARTHUR|Yet, I remember, when I was in France,
King John|ARTHUR|Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,
King John|ARTHUR|Only for wantonness. By my christendom,
King John|ARTHUR|So I were out of prison and kept sheep,
King John|ARTHUR|I should be as merry as the day is long,
King John|ARTHUR|And so I would be here, but that I doubt
King John|ARTHUR|My uncle practises more harm to me:
King John|ARTHUR|He is afraid of me and I of him:
King John|ARTHUR|Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son?
King John|ARTHUR|No, indeed, is't not, and I would to heaven
King John|ARTHUR|I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.
King John|HUBERT|[Aside]  If I talk to him, with his innocent prate
King John|HUBERT|He will awake my mercy which lies dead:
King John|HUBERT|Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch.
King John|ARTHUR|Are you sick, Hubert? you look pale to-day:
King John|ARTHUR|In sooth, I would you were a little sick,
King John|ARTHUR|That I might sit all night and watch with you:
King John|ARTHUR|I warrant I love you more than you do me.
King John|HUBERT|[Aside]  His words do take possession of my bosom.
King John|HUBERT|Read here, young Arthur.
King John|HUBERT|Showing a paper
King John|HUBERT|Aside
King John|HUBERT|How now, foolish rheum!
King John|HUBERT|Turning dispiteous torture out of door!
King John|HUBERT|I must be brief, lest resolution drop
King John|HUBERT|Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.
King John|HUBERT|Can you not read it? Is it not fair writ?
King John|ARTHUR|Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect:
King John|ARTHUR|Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?
King John|HUBERT|Young boy, I must.
King John|ARTHUR|And will you?
King John|HUBERT|And I will.
King John|ARTHUR|Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
King John|ARTHUR|I knit my handercher about your brows,
King John|ARTHUR|The best I had, a princess wrought it me,
King John|ARTHUR|And I did never ask it you again,
King John|ARTHUR|And with my hand at midnight held your head,
King John|ARTHUR|And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
King John|ARTHUR|Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,
King John|ARTHUR|Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'
King John|ARTHUR|Or 'What good love may I perform for you?'
King John|ARTHUR|Many a poor man's son would have lien still
King John|ARTHUR|And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you,
King John|ARTHUR|But you at your sick service had a prince.
King John|ARTHUR|Nay, you may think my love was crafty love
King John|ARTHUR|And call it cunning: do, an if you will:
King John|ARTHUR|If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,
King John|ARTHUR|Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?
King John|ARTHUR|These eyes that never did nor never shall
King John|ARTHUR|So much as frown on you.
King John|HUBERT|I have sworn to do it,
King John|HUBERT|And with hot irons must I burn them out.
King John|ARTHUR|Ah, none but in this iron age would do it!
King John|ARTHUR|The iron of itself, though heat red-hot,
King John|ARTHUR|Approaching near these eyes, would drink my tears
King John|ARTHUR|And quench his fiery indignation
King John|ARTHUR|Even in the matter of mine innocence,
King John|ARTHUR|Nay, after that, consume away in rust
King John|ARTHUR|But for containing fire to harm mine eye.
King John|ARTHUR|Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd iron?
King John|ARTHUR|An if an angel should have come to me
King John|ARTHUR|And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,
King John|ARTHUR|I would not have believed him,--no tongue but Hubert's.
King John|HUBERT|Come forth.
King John|HUBERT|Stamps
King John|HUBERT|Re-enter Executioners, with a cord, irons,  and c
King John|HUBERT|Do as I bid you do.
King John|ARTHUR|O, save me, Hubert, save me! my eyes are out
King John|ARTHUR|Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.
King John|HUBERT|Give me the iron, I say, and bind him here.
King John|ARTHUR|Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough?
King John|ARTHUR|I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still.
King John|ARTHUR|For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!
King John|ARTHUR|Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive these men away,
King John|ARTHUR|And I will sit as quiet as a lamb,
King John|ARTHUR|I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,
King John|ARTHUR|Nor look upon the iron angerly:
King John|ARTHUR|Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you,
King John|ARTHUR|Whatever torment you do put me to.
King John|HUBERT|Go, stand within, let me alone with him.
King John|First Executioner|I am best pleased to be from such a deed.
King John|First Executioner|Exeunt Executioners
King John|ARTHUR|Alas, I then have chid away my friend!
King John|ARTHUR|He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart:
King John|ARTHUR|Let him come back, that his compassion may
King John|ARTHUR|Give life to yours.
King John|HUBERT|Come, boy, prepare yourself.
King John|ARTHUR|Is there no remedy?
King John|HUBERT|None, but to lose your eyes.
King John|ARTHUR|O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours,
King John|ARTHUR|A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
King John|ARTHUR|Any annoyance in that precious sense!
King John|ARTHUR|Then feeling what small things are boisterous there,
King John|ARTHUR|Your vile intent must needs seem horrible.
King John|HUBERT|Is this your promise? go to, hold your tongue.
King John|ARTHUR|Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues
King John|ARTHUR|Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes:
King John|ARTHUR|Let me not hold my tongue, let me not, Hubert,
King John|ARTHUR|Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,
King John|ARTHUR|So I may keep mine eyes: O, spare mine eyes.
King John|ARTHUR|Though to no use but still to look on you!
King John|ARTHUR|Lo, by my truth, the instrument is cold
King John|ARTHUR|And would not harm me.
King John|HUBERT|I can heat it, boy.
King John|ARTHUR|No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief,
King John|ARTHUR|Being create for comfort, to be used
King John|ARTHUR|In undeserved extremes: see else yourself,
King John|ARTHUR|There is no malice in this burning coal,
King John|ARTHUR|The breath of heaven has blown his spirit out
King John|ARTHUR|And strew'd repentent ashes on his head.
King John|HUBERT|But with my breath I can revive it, boy.
King John|ARTHUR|An if you do, you will but make it blush
King John|ARTHUR|And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert:
King John|ARTHUR|Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes,
King John|ARTHUR|And like a dog that is compell'd to fight,
King John|ARTHUR|Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.
King John|ARTHUR|All things that you should use to do me wrong
King John|ARTHUR|Deny their office: only you do lack
King John|ARTHUR|That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,
King John|ARTHUR|Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.
King John|HUBERT|Well, see to live, I will not touch thine eye
King John|HUBERT|For all the treasure that thine uncle owes:
King John|HUBERT|Yet am I sworn and I did purpose, boy,
King John|HUBERT|With this same very iron to burn them out.
King John|ARTHUR|O, now you look like Hubert! all this while
King John|ARTHUR|You were disguised.
King John|HUBERT|Peace, no more. Adieu.
King John|HUBERT|Your uncle must not know but you are dead,
King John|HUBERT|I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports:
King John|HUBERT|And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure,
King John|HUBERT|That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,
King John|HUBERT|Will not offend thee.
King John|ARTHUR|O heaven! I thank you, Hubert.
King John|HUBERT|Silence, no more: go closely in with me:
King John|HUBERT|Much danger do I undergo for thee.
King John|HUBERT|Exeunt
King John|HUBERT|SCENE II. KING JOHN'S palace.
King John|HUBERT|Enter KING JOHN, PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and other Lords
King John|KING JOHN|Here once again we sit, once again crown'd,
King John|KING JOHN|And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes.
King John|PEMBROKE|This 'once again,' but that your highness pleased,
King John|PEMBROKE|Was once superfluous: you were crown'd before,
King John|PEMBROKE|And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off,
King John|PEMBROKE|The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt,
King John|PEMBROKE|Fresh expectation troubled not the land
King John|PEMBROKE|With any long'd-for change or better state.
King John|SALISBURY|Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
King John|SALISBURY|To guard a title that was rich before,
King John|SALISBURY|To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
King John|SALISBURY|To throw a perfume on the violet,
King John|SALISBURY|To smooth the ice, or add another hue
King John|SALISBURY|Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
King John|SALISBURY|To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
King John|SALISBURY|Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
King John|PEMBROKE|But that your royal pleasure must be done,
King John|PEMBROKE|This act is as an ancient tale new told,
King John|PEMBROKE|And in the last repeating troublesome,
King John|PEMBROKE|Being urged at a time unseasonable.
King John|SALISBURY|In this the antique and well noted face
King John|SALISBURY|Of plain old form is much disfigured,
King John|SALISBURY|And, like a shifted wind unto a sail,
King John|SALISBURY|It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about,
King John|SALISBURY|Startles and frights consideration,
King John|SALISBURY|Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected,
King John|SALISBURY|For putting on so new a fashion'd robe.
King John|PEMBROKE|When workmen strive to do better than well,
King John|PEMBROKE|They do confound their skill in covetousness,
King John|PEMBROKE|And oftentimes excusing of a fault
King John|PEMBROKE|Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,
King John|PEMBROKE|As patches set upon a little breach
King John|PEMBROKE|Discredit more in hiding of the fault
King John|PEMBROKE|Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.
King John|SALISBURY|To this effect, before you were new crown'd,
King John|SALISBURY|We breathed our counsel: but it pleased your highness
King John|SALISBURY|To overbear it, and we are all well pleased,
King John|SALISBURY|Since all and every part of what we would
King John|SALISBURY|Doth make a stand at what your highness will.
King John|KING JOHN|Some reasons of this double coronation
King John|KING JOHN|I have possess'd you with and think them strong,
King John|KING JOHN|And more, more strong, then lesser is my fear,
King John|KING JOHN|I shall indue you with: meantime but ask
King John|KING JOHN|What you would have reform'd that is not well,
King John|KING JOHN|And well shall you perceive how willingly
King John|KING JOHN|I will both hear and grant you your requests.
King John|PEMBROKE|Then I, as one that am the tongue of these,
King John|PEMBROKE|To sound the purpose of all their hearts,
King John|PEMBROKE|Both for myself and them, but, chief of all,
King John|PEMBROKE|Your safety, for the which myself and them
King John|PEMBROKE|Bend their best studies, heartily request
King John|PEMBROKE|The enfranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint
King John|PEMBROKE|Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent
King John|PEMBROKE|To break into this dangerous argument,--
King John|PEMBROKE|If what in rest you have in right you hold,
King John|PEMBROKE|Why then your fears, which, as they say, attend
King John|PEMBROKE|The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up
King John|PEMBROKE|Your tender kinsman and to choke his days
King John|PEMBROKE|With barbarous ignorance and deny his youth
King John|PEMBROKE|The rich advantage of good exercise?
King John|PEMBROKE|That the time's enemies may not have this
King John|PEMBROKE|To grace occasions, let it be our suit
King John|PEMBROKE|That you have bid us ask his liberty,
King John|PEMBROKE|Which for our goods we do no further ask
King John|PEMBROKE|Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,
King John|PEMBROKE|Counts it your weal he have his liberty.
King John|PEMBROKE|Enter HUBERT
King John|KING JOHN|Let it be so: I do commit his youth
King John|KING JOHN|To your direction. Hubert, what news with you?
King John|KING JOHN|Taking him apart
King John|PEMBROKE|This is the man should do the bloody deed,
King John|PEMBROKE|He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine:
King John|PEMBROKE|The image of a wicked heinous fault
King John|PEMBROKE|Lives in his eye, that close aspect of his
King John|PEMBROKE|Does show the mood of a much troubled breast,
King John|PEMBROKE|And I do fearfully believe 'tis done,
King John|PEMBROKE|What we so fear'd he had a charge to do.
King John|SALISBURY|The colour of the king doth come and go
King John|SALISBURY|Between his purpose and his conscience,
King John|SALISBURY|Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:
King John|SALISBURY|His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.
King John|PEMBROKE|And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence
King John|PEMBROKE|The foul corruption of a sweet child's death.
King John|KING JOHN|We cannot hold mortality's strong hand:
King John|KING JOHN|Good lords, although my will to give is living,
King John|KING JOHN|The suit which you demand is gone and dead:
King John|KING JOHN|He tells us Arthur is deceased to-night.
King John|SALISBURY|Indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure.
King John|PEMBROKE|Indeed we heard how near his death he was
King John|PEMBROKE|Before the child himself felt he was sick:
King John|PEMBROKE|This must be answer'd either here or hence.
King John|KING JOHN|Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?
King John|KING JOHN|Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
King John|KING JOHN|Have I commandment on the pulse of life?
King John|SALISBURY|It is apparent foul play, and 'tis shame
King John|SALISBURY|That greatness should so grossly offer it:
King John|SALISBURY|So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.
King John|PEMBROKE|Stay yet, Lord Salisbury, I'll go with thee,
King John|PEMBROKE|And find the inheritance of this poor child,
King John|PEMBROKE|His little kingdom of a forced grave.
King John|PEMBROKE|That blood which owed the breadth of all this isle,
King John|PEMBROKE|Three foot of it doth hold: bad world the while!
King John|PEMBROKE|This must not be thus borne: this will break out
King John|PEMBROKE|To all our sorrows, and ere long I doubt.
King John|PEMBROKE|Exeunt Lords
King John|KING JOHN|They burn in indignation. I repent:
King John|KING JOHN|There is no sure foundation set on blood,
King John|KING JOHN|No certain life achieved by others' death.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter a Messenger
King John|KING JOHN|A fearful eye thou hast: where is that blood
King John|KING JOHN|That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?
King John|KING JOHN|So foul a sky clears not without a storm:
King John|KING JOHN|Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?
King John|Messenger|From France to England. Never such a power
King John|Messenger|For any foreign preparation
King John|Messenger|Was levied in the body of a land.
King John|Messenger|The copy of your speed is learn'd by them,
King John|Messenger|For when you should be told they do prepare,
King John|Messenger|The tidings come that they are all arrived.
King John|KING JOHN|O, where hath our intelligence been drunk?
King John|KING JOHN|Where hath it slept? Where is my mother's care,
King John|KING JOHN|That such an army could be drawn in France,
King John|KING JOHN|And she not hear of it?
King John|Messenger|My liege, her ear
King John|Messenger|Is stopp'd with dust, the first of April died
King John|Messenger|Your noble mother: and, as I hear, my lord,
King John|Messenger|The Lady Constance in a frenzy died
King John|Messenger|Three days before: but this from rumour's tongue
King John|Messenger|I idly heard, if true or false I know not.
King John|KING JOHN|Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion!
King John|KING JOHN|O, make a league with me, till I have pleased
King John|KING JOHN|My discontented peers! What! mother dead!
King John|KING JOHN|How wildly then walks my estate in France!
King John|KING JOHN|Under whose conduct came those powers of France
King John|KING JOHN|That thou for truth givest out are landed here?
King John|Messenger|Under the Dauphin.
King John|KING JOHN|Thou hast made me giddy
King John|KING JOHN|With these ill tidings.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter the BASTARD and PETER of Pomfret
King John|KING JOHN|Now, what says the world
King John|KING JOHN|To your proceedings? do not seek to stuff
King John|KING JOHN|My head with more ill news, for it is full.
King John|BASTARD|But if you be afeard to hear the worst,
King John|BASTARD|Then let the worst unheard fall on your bead.
King John|KING JOHN|Bear with me cousin, for I was amazed
King John|KING JOHN|Under the tide: but now I breathe again
King John|KING JOHN|Aloft the flood, and can give audience
King John|KING JOHN|To any tongue, speak it of what it will.
King John|BASTARD|How I have sped among the clergymen,
King John|BASTARD|The sums I have collected shall express.
King John|BASTARD|But as I travell'd hither through the land,
King John|BASTARD|I find the people strangely fantasied,
King John|BASTARD|Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams,
King John|BASTARD|Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear:
King John|BASTARD|And here a prophet, that I brought with me
King John|BASTARD|From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found
King John|BASTARD|With many hundreds treading on his heels,
King John|BASTARD|To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes,
King John|BASTARD|That, ere the next Ascension-day at noon,
King John|BASTARD|Your highness should deliver up your crown.
King John|KING JOHN|Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so?
King John|PETER|Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so.
King John|KING JOHN|Hubert, away with him, imprison him,
King John|KING JOHN|And on that day at noon whereon he says
King John|KING JOHN|I shall yield up my crown, let him be hang'd.
King John|KING JOHN|Deliver him to safety, and return,
King John|KING JOHN|For I must use thee.
King John|KING JOHN|Exeunt HUBERT with PETER
King John|KING JOHN|O my gentle cousin,
King John|KING JOHN|Hear'st thou the news abroad, who are arrived?
King John|BASTARD|The French, my lord, men's mouths are full of it:
King John|BASTARD|Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,
King John|BASTARD|With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,
King John|BASTARD|And others more, going to seek the grave
King John|BASTARD|Of Arthur, who they say is kill'd to-night
King John|BASTARD|On your suggestion.
King John|KING JOHN|Gentle kinsman, go,
King John|KING JOHN|And thrust thyself into their companies:
King John|KING JOHN|I have a way to win their loves again,
King John|KING JOHN|Bring them before me.
King John|BASTARD|I will seek them out.
King John|KING JOHN|Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
King John|KING JOHN|O, let me have no subject enemies,
King John|KING JOHN|When adverse foreigners affright my towns
King John|KING JOHN|With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!
King John|KING JOHN|Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels,
King John|KING JOHN|And fly like thought from them to me again.
King John|BASTARD|The spirit of the time shall teach me speed.
King John|BASTARD|Exit
King John|KING JOHN|Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman.
King John|KING JOHN|Go after him, for he perhaps shall need
King John|KING JOHN|Some messenger betwixt me and the peers,
King John|KING JOHN|And be thou he.
King John|Messenger|With all my heart, my liege.
King John|Messenger|Exit
King John|KING JOHN|My mother dead!
King John|KING JOHN|Re-enter HUBERT
King John|HUBERT|My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night,
King John|HUBERT|Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about
King John|HUBERT|The other four in wondrous motion.
King John|KING JOHN|Five moons!
King John|HUBERT|Old men and beldams in the streets
King John|HUBERT|Do prophesy upon it dangerously:
King John|HUBERT|Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths:
King John|HUBERT|And when they talk of him, they shake their heads
King John|HUBERT|And whisper one another in the ear,
King John|HUBERT|And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,
King John|HUBERT|Whilst he that hears makes fearful action,
King John|HUBERT|With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.
King John|HUBERT|I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
King John|HUBERT|The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
King John|HUBERT|With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news,
King John|HUBERT|Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,
King John|HUBERT|Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste
King John|HUBERT|Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,
King John|HUBERT|Told of a many thousand warlike French
King John|HUBERT|That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent:
King John|HUBERT|Another lean unwash'd artificer
King John|HUBERT|Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.
King John|KING JOHN|Why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears?
King John|KING JOHN|Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death?
King John|KING JOHN|Thy hand hath murder'd him: I had a mighty cause
King John|KING JOHN|To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him.
King John|HUBERT|No had, my lord! why, did you not provoke me?
King John|KING JOHN|It is the curse of kings to be attended
King John|KING JOHN|By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
King John|KING JOHN|To break within the bloody house of life,
King John|KING JOHN|And on the winking of authority
King John|KING JOHN|To understand a law, to know the meaning
King John|KING JOHN|Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns
King John|KING JOHN|More upon humour than advised respect.
King John|HUBERT|Here is your hand and seal for what I did.
King John|KING JOHN|O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth
King John|KING JOHN|Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal
King John|KING JOHN|Witness against us to damnation!
King John|KING JOHN|How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
King John|KING JOHN|Make deeds ill done! Hadst not thou been by,
King John|KING JOHN|A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd,
King John|KING JOHN|Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame,
King John|KING JOHN|This murder had not come into my mind:
King John|KING JOHN|But taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect,
King John|KING JOHN|Finding thee fit for bloody villany,
King John|KING JOHN|Apt, liable to be employ'd in danger,
King John|KING JOHN|I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death,
King John|KING JOHN|And thou, to be endeared to a king,
King John|KING JOHN|Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.
King John|HUBERT|My lord--
King John|KING JOHN|Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause
King John|KING JOHN|When I spake darkly what I purposed,
King John|KING JOHN|Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face,
King John|KING JOHN|As bid me tell my tale in express words,
King John|KING JOHN|Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off,
King John|KING JOHN|And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me:
King John|KING JOHN|But thou didst understand me by my signs
King John|KING JOHN|And didst in signs again parley with sin,
King John|KING JOHN|Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,
King John|KING JOHN|And consequently thy rude hand to act
King John|KING JOHN|The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name.
King John|KING JOHN|Out of my sight, and never see me more!
King John|KING JOHN|My nobles leave me, and my state is braved,
King John|KING JOHN|Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers:
King John|KING JOHN|Nay, in the body of this fleshly land,
King John|KING JOHN|This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,
King John|KING JOHN|Hostility and civil tumult reigns
King John|KING JOHN|Between my conscience and my cousin's death.
King John|HUBERT|Arm you against your other enemies,
King John|HUBERT|I'll make a peace between your soul and you.
King John|HUBERT|Young Arthur is alive: this hand of mine
King John|HUBERT|Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,
King John|HUBERT|Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
King John|HUBERT|Within this bosom never enter'd yet
King John|HUBERT|The dreadful motion of a murderous thought,
King John|HUBERT|And you have slander'd nature in my form,
King John|HUBERT|Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,
King John|HUBERT|Is yet the cover of a fairer mind
King John|HUBERT|Than to be butcher of an innocent child.
King John|KING JOHN|Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers,
King John|KING JOHN|Throw this report on their incensed rage,
King John|KING JOHN|And make them tame to their obedience!
King John|KING JOHN|Forgive the comment that my passion made
King John|KING JOHN|Upon thy feature, for my rage was blind,
King John|KING JOHN|And foul imaginary eyes of blood
King John|KING JOHN|Presented thee more hideous than thou art.
King John|KING JOHN|O, answer not, but to my closet bring
King John|KING JOHN|The angry lords with all expedient haste.
King John|KING JOHN|I conjure thee but slowly, run more fast.
King John|KING JOHN|Exeunt
King John|KING JOHN|SCENE III. Before the castle.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter ARTHUR, on the walls
King John|ARTHUR|The wall is high, and yet will I leap down:
King John|ARTHUR|Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
King John|ARTHUR|There's few or none do know me: if they did,
King John|ARTHUR|This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite.
King John|ARTHUR|I am afraid, and yet I'll venture it.
King John|ARTHUR|If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
King John|ARTHUR|I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
King John|ARTHUR|As good to die and go, as die and stay.
King John|ARTHUR|Leaps down
King John|ARTHUR|O me! my uncle's spirit is in these stones:
King John|ARTHUR|Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
King John|ARTHUR|Dies
King John|ARTHUR|Enter PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and BIGOT
King John|SALISBURY|Lords, I will meet him at Saint Edmundsbury:
King John|SALISBURY|It is our safety, and we must embrace
King John|SALISBURY|This gentle offer of the perilous time.
King John|PEMBROKE|Who brought that letter from the cardinal?
King John|SALISBURY|The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,
King John|SALISBURY|Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love
King John|SALISBURY|Is much more general than these lines import.
King John|BIGOT|To-morrow morning let us meet him then.
King John|SALISBURY|Or rather then set forward, for 'twill be
King John|SALISBURY|Two long days' journey, lords, or ere we meet.
King John|SALISBURY|Enter the BASTARD
King John|BASTARD|Once more to-day well met, distemper'd lords!
King John|BASTARD|The king by me requests your presence straight.
King John|SALISBURY|The king hath dispossess'd himself of us:
King John|SALISBURY|We will not line his thin bestained cloak
King John|SALISBURY|With our pure honours, nor attend the foot
King John|SALISBURY|That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.
King John|SALISBURY|Return and tell him so: we know the worst.
King John|BASTARD|Whate'er you think, good words, I think, were best.
King John|SALISBURY|Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now.
King John|BASTARD|But there is little reason in your grief,
King John|BASTARD|Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now.
King John|PEMBROKE|Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege.
King John|BASTARD|'Tis true, to hurt his master, no man else.
King John|SALISBURY|This is the prison. What is he lies here?
King John|SALISBURY|Seeing ARTHUR
King John|PEMBROKE|O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
King John|PEMBROKE|The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.
King John|SALISBURY|Murder, as hating what himself hath done,
King John|SALISBURY|Doth lay it open to urge on revenge.
King John|BIGOT|Or, when he doom'd this beauty to a grave,
King John|BIGOT|Found it too precious-princely for a grave.
King John|SALISBURY|Sir Richard, what think you? have you beheld,
King John|SALISBURY|Or have you read or heard? or could you think?
King John|SALISBURY|Or do you almost think, although you see,
King John|SALISBURY|That you do see? could thought, without this object,
King John|SALISBURY|Form such another? This is the very top,
King John|SALISBURY|The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,
King John|SALISBURY|Of murder's arms: this is the bloodiest shame,
King John|SALISBURY|The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
King John|SALISBURY|That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
King John|SALISBURY|Presented to the tears of soft remorse.
King John|PEMBROKE|All murders past do stand excused in this:
King John|PEMBROKE|And this, so sole and so unmatchable,
King John|PEMBROKE|Shall give a holiness, a purity,
King John|PEMBROKE|To the yet unbegotten sin of times,
King John|PEMBROKE|And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,
King John|PEMBROKE|Exampled by this heinous spectacle.
King John|BASTARD|It is a damned and a bloody work,
King John|BASTARD|The graceless action of a heavy hand,
King John|BASTARD|If that it be the work of any hand.
King John|SALISBURY|If that it be the work of any hand!
King John|SALISBURY|We had a kind of light what would ensue:
King John|SALISBURY|It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand,
King John|SALISBURY|The practise and the purpose of the king:
King John|SALISBURY|From whose obedience I forbid my soul,
King John|SALISBURY|Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,
King John|SALISBURY|And breathing to his breathless excellence
King John|SALISBURY|The incense of a vow, a holy vow,
King John|SALISBURY|Never to taste the pleasures of the world,
King John|SALISBURY|Never to be infected with delight,
King John|SALISBURY|Nor conversant with ease and idleness,
King John|SALISBURY|Till I have set a glory to this hand,
King John|SALISBURY|By giving it the worship of revenge.
King John|BIGOT|Our souls religiously confirm thy words.
King John|BIGOT|Enter HUBERT
King John|HUBERT|Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you:
King John|HUBERT|Arthur doth live, the king hath sent for you.
King John|SALISBURY|O, he is old and blushes not at death.
King John|SALISBURY|Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!
King John|HUBERT|I am no villain.
King John|SALISBURY|Must I rob the law?
King John|SALISBURY|Drawing his sword
King John|BASTARD|Your sword is bright, sir, put it up again.
King John|SALISBURY|Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin.
King John|HUBERT|Stand back, Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say,
King John|HUBERT|By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours:
King John|HUBERT|I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,
King John|HUBERT|Nor tempt the danger of my true defence,
King John|HUBERT|Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget
King John|HUBERT|Your worth, your greatness and nobility.
King John|BIGOT|Out, dunghill! darest thou brave a nobleman?
King John|HUBERT|Not for my life: but yet I dare defend
King John|HUBERT|My innocent life against an emperor.
King John|SALISBURY|Thou art a murderer.
King John|HUBERT|Do not prove me so,
King John|HUBERT|Yet I am none: whose tongue soe'er speaks false,
King John|HUBERT|Not truly speaks, who speaks not truly, lies.
King John|PEMBROKE|Cut him to pieces.
King John|BASTARD|Keep the peace, I say.
King John|SALISBURY|Stand by, or I shall gall you, Faulconbridge.
King John|BASTARD|Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury:
King John|BASTARD|If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,
King John|BASTARD|Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,
King John|BASTARD|I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime,
King John|BASTARD|Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,
King John|BASTARD|That you shall think the devil is come from hell.
King John|BIGOT|What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?
King John|BIGOT|Second a villain and a murderer?
King John|HUBERT|Lord Bigot, I am none.
King John|BIGOT|Who kill'd this prince?
King John|HUBERT|'Tis not an hour since I left him well:
King John|HUBERT|I honour'd him, I loved him, and will weep
King John|HUBERT|My date of life out for his sweet life's loss.
King John|SALISBURY|Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
King John|SALISBURY|For villany is not without such rheum,
King John|SALISBURY|And he, long traded in it, makes it seem
King John|SALISBURY|Like rivers of remorse and innocency.
King John|SALISBURY|Away with me, all you whose souls abhor
King John|SALISBURY|The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house,
King John|SALISBURY|For I am stifled with this smell of sin.
King John|BIGOT|Away toward Bury, to the Dauphin there!
King John|PEMBROKE|There tell the king he may inquire us out.
King John|PEMBROKE|Exeunt Lords
King John|BASTARD|Here's a good world! Knew you of this fair work?
King John|BASTARD|Beyond the infinite and boundless reach
King John|BASTARD|Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,
King John|BASTARD|Art thou damn'd, Hubert.
King John|HUBERT|Do but hear me, sir.
King John|BASTARD|Ha! I'll tell thee what,
King John|BASTARD|Thou'rt damn'd as black--nay, nothing is so black,
King John|BASTARD|Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer:
King John|BASTARD|There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell
King John|BASTARD|As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child.
King John|HUBERT|Upon my soul--
King John|BASTARD|If thou didst but consent
King John|BASTARD|To this most cruel act, do but despair,
King John|BASTARD|And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread
King John|BASTARD|That ever spider twisted from her womb
King John|BASTARD|Will serve to strangle thee, a rush will be a beam
King John|BASTARD|To hang thee on, or wouldst thou drown thyself,
King John|BASTARD|Put but a little water in a spoon,
King John|BASTARD|And it shall be as all the ocean,
King John|BASTARD|Enough to stifle such a villain up.
King John|BASTARD|I do suspect thee very grievously.
King John|HUBERT|If I in act, consent, or sin of thought,
King John|HUBERT|Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
King John|HUBERT|Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,
King John|HUBERT|Let hell want pains enough to torture me.
King John|HUBERT|I left him well.
King John|BASTARD|Go, bear him in thine arms.
King John|BASTARD|I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way
King John|BASTARD|Among the thorns and dangers of this world.
King John|BASTARD|How easy dost thou take all England up!
King John|BASTARD|From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
King John|BASTARD|The life, the right and truth of all this realm
King John|BASTARD|Is fled to heaven, and England now is left
King John|BASTARD|To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
King John|BASTARD|The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
King John|BASTARD|Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty
King John|BASTARD|Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest
King John|BASTARD|And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace:
King John|BASTARD|Now powers from home and discontents at home
King John|BASTARD|Meet in one line, and vast confusion waits,
King John|BASTARD|As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast,
King John|BASTARD|The imminent decay of wrested pomp.
King John|BASTARD|Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can
King John|BASTARD|Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child
King John|BASTARD|And follow me with speed: I'll to the king:
King John|BASTARD|A thousand businesses are brief in hand,
King John|BASTARD|And heaven itself doth frown upon the land.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt
King John|BASTARD|ACT V
King John|BASTARD|SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace.
King John|BASTARD|Enter KING JOHN, CARDINAL PANDULPH, and Attendants
King John|KING JOHN|Thus have I yielded up into your hand
King John|KING JOHN|The circle of my glory.
King John|KING JOHN|Giving the crown
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Take again
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|From this my hand, as holding of the pope
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Your sovereign greatness and authority.
King John|KING JOHN|Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,
King John|KING JOHN|And from his holiness use all your power
King John|KING JOHN|To stop their marches 'fore we are inflamed.
King John|KING JOHN|Our discontented counties do revolt,
King John|KING JOHN|Our people quarrel with obedience,
King John|KING JOHN|Swearing allegiance and the love of soul
King John|KING JOHN|To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.
King John|KING JOHN|This inundation of mistemper'd humour
King John|KING JOHN|Rests by you only to be qualified:
King John|KING JOHN|Then pause not, for the present time's so sick,
King John|KING JOHN|That present medicine must be minister'd,
King John|KING JOHN|Or overthrow incurable ensues.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|It was my breath that blew this tempest up,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Upon your stubborn usage of the pope,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|But since you are a gentle convertite,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|My tongue shall hush again this storm of war
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And make fair weather in your blustering land.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|On this Ascension-day, remember well,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Upon your oath of service to the pope,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Go I to make the French lay down their arms.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Exit
King John|KING JOHN|Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet
King John|KING JOHN|Say that before Ascension-day at noon
King John|KING JOHN|My crown I should give off? Even so I have:
King John|KING JOHN|I did suppose it should be on constraint:
King John|KING JOHN|But, heaven be thank'd, it is but voluntary.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter the BASTARD
King John|BASTARD|All Kent hath yielded, nothing there holds out
King John|BASTARD|But Dover castle: London hath received,
King John|BASTARD|Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers:
King John|BASTARD|Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone
King John|BASTARD|To offer service to your enemy,
King John|BASTARD|And wild amazement hurries up and down
King John|BASTARD|The little number of your doubtful friends.
King John|KING JOHN|Would not my lords return to me again,
King John|KING JOHN|After they heard young Arthur was alive?
King John|BASTARD|They found him dead and cast into the streets,
King John|BASTARD|An empty casket, where the jewel of life
King John|BASTARD|By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away.
King John|KING JOHN|That villain Hubert told me he did live.
King John|BASTARD|So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew.
King John|BASTARD|But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
King John|BASTARD|Be great in act, as you have been in thought,
King John|BASTARD|Let not the world see fear and sad distrust
King John|BASTARD|Govern the motion of a kingly eye:
King John|BASTARD|Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire,
King John|BASTARD|Threaten the threatener and outface the brow
King John|BASTARD|Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,
King John|BASTARD|That borrow their behaviors from the great,
King John|BASTARD|Grow great by your example and put on
King John|BASTARD|The dauntless spirit of resolution.
King John|BASTARD|Away, and glister like the god of war,
King John|BASTARD|When he intendeth to become the field:
King John|BASTARD|Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
King John|BASTARD|What, shall they seek the lion in his den,
King John|BASTARD|And fright him there? and make him tremble there?
King John|BASTARD|O, let it not be said: forage, and run
King John|BASTARD|To meet displeasure farther from the doors,
King John|BASTARD|And grapple with him ere he comes so nigh.
King John|KING JOHN|The legate of the pope hath been with me,
King John|KING JOHN|And I have made a happy peace with him,
King John|KING JOHN|And he hath promised to dismiss the powers
King John|KING JOHN|Led by the Dauphin.
King John|BASTARD|O inglorious league!
King John|BASTARD|Shall we, upon the footing of our land,
King John|BASTARD|Send fair-play orders and make compromise,
King John|BASTARD|Insinuation, parley and base truce
King John|BASTARD|To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy,
King John|BASTARD|A cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,
King John|BASTARD|And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
King John|BASTARD|Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
King John|BASTARD|And find no cheque? Let us, my liege, to arms:
King John|BASTARD|Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace,
King John|BASTARD|Or if he do, let it at least be said
King John|BASTARD|They saw we had a purpose of defence.
King John|KING JOHN|Have thou the ordering of this present time.
King John|BASTARD|Away, then, with good courage! yet, I know,
King John|BASTARD|Our party may well meet a prouder foe.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt
King John|BASTARD|SCENE II. LEWIS's camp at St. Edmundsbury.
King John|BASTARD|Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and Soldiers
King John|LEWIS|My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,
King John|LEWIS|And keep it safe for our remembrance:
King John|LEWIS|Return the precedent to these lords again,
King John|LEWIS|That, having our fair order written down,
King John|LEWIS|Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes,
King John|LEWIS|May know wherefore we took the sacrament
King John|LEWIS|And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.
King John|SALISBURY|Upon our sides it never shall be broken.
King John|SALISBURY|And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear
King John|SALISBURY|A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith
King John|SALISBURY|To your proceedings, yet believe me, prince,
King John|SALISBURY|I am not glad that such a sore of time
King John|SALISBURY|Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt,
King John|SALISBURY|And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
King John|SALISBURY|By making many. O, it grieves my soul,
King John|SALISBURY|That I must draw this metal from my side
King John|SALISBURY|To be a widow-maker! O, and there
King John|SALISBURY|Where honourable rescue and defence
King John|SALISBURY|Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!
King John|SALISBURY|But such is the infection of the time,
King John|SALISBURY|That, for the health and physic of our right,
King John|SALISBURY|We cannot deal but with the very hand
King John|SALISBURY|Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
King John|SALISBURY|And is't not pity, O my grieved friends,
King John|SALISBURY|That we, the sons and children of this isle,
King John|SALISBURY|Were born to see so sad an hour as this,
King John|SALISBURY|Wherein we step after a stranger march
King John|SALISBURY|Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up
King John|SALISBURY|Her enemies' ranks,--I must withdraw and weep
King John|SALISBURY|Upon the spot of this enforced cause,--
King John|SALISBURY|To grace the gentry of a land remote,
King John|SALISBURY|And follow unacquainted colours here?
King John|SALISBURY|What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!
King John|SALISBURY|That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,
King John|SALISBURY|Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself,
King John|SALISBURY|And grapple thee unto a pagan shore,
King John|SALISBURY|Where these two Christian armies might combine
King John|SALISBURY|The blood of malice in a vein of league,
King John|SALISBURY|And not to spend it so unneighbourly!
King John|LEWIS|A noble temper dost thou show in this,
King John|LEWIS|And great affections wrestling in thy bosom
King John|LEWIS|Doth make an earthquake of nobility.
King John|LEWIS|O, what a noble combat hast thou fought
King John|LEWIS|Between compulsion and a brave respect!
King John|LEWIS|Let me wipe off this honourable dew,
King John|LEWIS|That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks:
King John|LEWIS|My heart hath melted at a lady's tears,
King John|LEWIS|Being an ordinary inundation,
King John|LEWIS|But this effusion of such manly drops,
King John|LEWIS|This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,
King John|LEWIS|Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed
King John|LEWIS|Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven
King John|LEWIS|Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
King John|LEWIS|Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,
King John|LEWIS|And with a great heart heave away the storm:
King John|LEWIS|Commend these waters to those baby eyes
King John|LEWIS|That never saw the giant world enraged,
King John|LEWIS|Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,
King John|LEWIS|Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.
King John|LEWIS|Come, come, for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep
King John|LEWIS|Into the purse of rich prosperity
King John|LEWIS|As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all,
King John|LEWIS|That knit your sinews to the strength of mine.
King John|LEWIS|And even there, methinks, an angel spake:
King John|LEWIS|Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH
King John|LEWIS|Look, where the holy legate comes apace,
King John|LEWIS|To give us warrant from the hand of heaven
King John|LEWIS|And on our actions set the name of right
King John|LEWIS|With holy breath.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Hail, noble prince of France!
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The next is this, King John hath reconciled
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Himself to Rome, his spirit is come in,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|That so stood out against the holy church,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The great metropolis and see of Rome:
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And tame the savage spirit of wild war,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|That like a lion foster'd up at hand,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|It may lie gently at the foot of peace,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And be no further harmful than in show.
King John|LEWIS|Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:
King John|LEWIS|I am too high-born to be propertied,
King John|LEWIS|To be a secondary at control,
King John|LEWIS|Or useful serving-man and instrument,
King John|LEWIS|To any sovereign state throughout the world.
King John|LEWIS|Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
King John|LEWIS|Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
King John|LEWIS|And brought in matter that should feed this fire,
King John|LEWIS|And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
King John|LEWIS|With that same weak wind which enkindled it.
King John|LEWIS|You taught me how to know the face of right,
King John|LEWIS|Acquainted me with interest to this land,
King John|LEWIS|Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart,
King John|LEWIS|And come ye now to tell me John hath made
King John|LEWIS|His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?
King John|LEWIS|I, by the honour of my marriage-bed,
King John|LEWIS|After young Arthur, claim this land for mine,
King John|LEWIS|And, now it is half-conquer'd, must I back
King John|LEWIS|Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?
King John|LEWIS|Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,
King John|LEWIS|What men provided, what munition sent,
King John|LEWIS|To underprop this action? Is't not I
King John|LEWIS|That undergo this charge? who else but I,
King John|LEWIS|And such as to my claim are liable,
King John|LEWIS|Sweat in this business and maintain this war?
King John|LEWIS|Have I not heard these islanders shout out
King John|LEWIS|'Vive le roi!' as I have bank'd their towns?
King John|LEWIS|Have I not here the best cards for the game,
King John|LEWIS|To win this easy match play'd for a crown?
King John|LEWIS|And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?
King John|LEWIS|No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|You look but on the outside of this work.
King John|LEWIS|Outside or inside, I will not return
King John|LEWIS|Till my attempt so much be glorified
King John|LEWIS|As to my ample hope was promised
King John|LEWIS|Before I drew this gallant head of war,
King John|LEWIS|And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world,
King John|LEWIS|To outlook conquest and to win renown
King John|LEWIS|Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
King John|LEWIS|Trumpet sounds
King John|LEWIS|What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?
King John|LEWIS|Enter the BASTARD, attended
King John|BASTARD|According to the fair play of the world,
King John|BASTARD|Let me have audience, I am sent to speak:
King John|BASTARD|My holy lord of Milan, from the king
King John|BASTARD|I come, to learn how you have dealt for him,
King John|BASTARD|And, as you answer, I do know the scope
King John|BASTARD|And warrant limited unto my tongue.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|And will not temporize with my entreaties,
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.
King John|BASTARD|By all the blood that ever fury breathed,
King John|BASTARD|The youth says well. Now hear our English king,
King John|BASTARD|For thus his royalty doth speak in me.
King John|BASTARD|He is prepared, and reason too he should:
King John|BASTARD|This apish and unmannerly approach,
King John|BASTARD|This harness'd masque and unadvised revel,
King John|BASTARD|This unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops,
King John|BASTARD|The king doth smile at, and is well prepared
King John|BASTARD|To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,
King John|BASTARD|From out the circle of his territories.
King John|BASTARD|That hand which had the strength, even at your door,
King John|BASTARD|To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,
King John|BASTARD|To dive like buckets in concealed wells,
King John|BASTARD|To crouch in litter of your stable planks,
King John|BASTARD|To lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks,
King John|BASTARD|To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out
King John|BASTARD|In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake
King John|BASTARD|Even at the crying of your nation's crow,
King John|BASTARD|Thinking his voice an armed Englishman,
King John|BASTARD|Shall that victorious hand be feebled here,
King John|BASTARD|That in your chambers gave you chastisement?
King John|BASTARD|No: know the gallant monarch is in arms
King John|BASTARD|And like an eagle o'er his aery towers,
King John|BASTARD|To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
King John|BASTARD|And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,
King John|BASTARD|You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb
King John|BASTARD|Of your dear mother England, blush for shame,
King John|BASTARD|For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids
King John|BASTARD|Like Amazons come tripping after drums,
King John|BASTARD|Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,
King John|BASTARD|Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts
King John|BASTARD|To fierce and bloody inclination.
King John|LEWIS|There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace,
King John|LEWIS|We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well,
King John|LEWIS|We hold our time too precious to be spent
King John|LEWIS|With such a brabbler.
King John|CARDINAL PANDULPH|Give me leave to speak.
King John|BASTARD|No, I will speak.
King John|LEWIS|We will attend to neither.
King John|LEWIS|Strike up the drums, and let the tongue of war
King John|LEWIS|Plead for our interest and our being here.
King John|BASTARD|Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out,
King John|BASTARD|And so shall you, being beaten: do but start
King John|BASTARD|An echo with the clamour of thy drum,
King John|BASTARD|And even at hand a drum is ready braced
King John|BASTARD|That shall reverberate all as loud as thine,
King John|BASTARD|Sound but another, and another shall
King John|BASTARD|As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear
King John|BASTARD|And mock the deep-mouth'd thunder: for at hand,
King John|BASTARD|Not trusting to this halting legate here,
King John|BASTARD|Whom he hath used rather for sport than need
King John|BASTARD|Is warlike John, and in his forehead sits
King John|BASTARD|A bare-ribb'd death, whose office is this day
King John|BASTARD|To feast upon whole thousands of the French.
King John|LEWIS|Strike up our drums, to find this danger out.
King John|BASTARD|And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt
King John|BASTARD|SCENE III. The field of battle.
King John|BASTARD|Alarums. Enter KING JOHN and HUBERT
King John|KING JOHN|How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.
King John|HUBERT|Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?
King John|KING JOHN|This fever, that hath troubled me so long,
King John|KING JOHN|Lies heavy on me, O, my heart is sick!
King John|KING JOHN|Enter a Messenger
King John|Messenger|My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,
King John|Messenger|Desires your majesty to leave the field
King John|Messenger|And send him word by me which way you go.
King John|KING JOHN|Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.
King John|Messenger|Be of good comfort, for the great supply
King John|Messenger|That was expected by the Dauphin here,
King John|Messenger|Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.
King John|Messenger|This news was brought to Richard but even now:
King John|Messenger|The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.
King John|KING JOHN|Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,
King John|KING JOHN|And will not let me welcome this good news.
King John|KING JOHN|Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight,
King John|KING JOHN|Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.
King John|KING JOHN|Exeunt
King John|KING JOHN|SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, and BIGOT
King John|SALISBURY|I did not think the king so stored with friends.
King John|PEMBROKE|Up once again, put spirit in the French:
King John|PEMBROKE|If they miscarry, we miscarry too.
King John|SALISBURY|That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge,
King John|SALISBURY|In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
King John|PEMBROKE|They say King John sore sick hath left the field.
King John|PEMBROKE|Enter MELUN, wounded
King John|MELUN|Lead me to the revolts of England here.
King John|SALISBURY|When we were happy we had other names.
King John|PEMBROKE|It is the Count Melun.
King John|SALISBURY|Wounded to death.
King John|MELUN|Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold,
King John|MELUN|Unthread the rude eye of rebellion
King John|MELUN|And welcome home again discarded faith.
King John|MELUN|Seek out King John and fall before his feet,
King John|MELUN|For if the French be lords of this loud day,
King John|MELUN|He means to recompense the pains you take
King John|MELUN|By cutting off your heads: thus hath he sworn
King John|MELUN|And I with him, and many moe with me,
King John|MELUN|Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury,
King John|MELUN|Even on that altar where we swore to you
King John|MELUN|Dear amity and everlasting love.
King John|SALISBURY|May this be possible? may this be true?
King John|MELUN|Have I not hideous death within my view,
King John|MELUN|Retaining but a quantity of life,
King John|MELUN|Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax
King John|MELUN|Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire?
King John|MELUN|What in the world should make me now deceive,
King John|MELUN|Since I must lose the use of all deceit?
King John|MELUN|Why should I then be false, since it is true
King John|MELUN|That I must die here and live hence by truth?
King John|MELUN|I say again, if Lewis do win the day,
King John|MELUN|He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours
King John|MELUN|Behold another day break in the east:
King John|MELUN|But even this night, whose black contagious breath
King John|MELUN|Already smokes about the burning crest
King John|MELUN|Of the old, feeble and day-wearied sun,
King John|MELUN|Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire,
King John|MELUN|Paying the fine of rated treachery
King John|MELUN|Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,
King John|MELUN|If Lewis by your assistance win the day.
King John|MELUN|Commend me to one Hubert with your king:
King John|MELUN|The love of him, and this respect besides,
King John|MELUN|For that my grandsire was an Englishman,
King John|MELUN|Awakes my conscience to confess all this.
King John|MELUN|In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence
King John|MELUN|From forth the noise and rumour of the field,
King John|MELUN|Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts
King John|MELUN|In peace, and part this body and my soul
King John|MELUN|With contemplation and devout desires.
King John|SALISBURY|We do believe thee: and beshrew my soul
King John|SALISBURY|But I do love the favour and the form
King John|SALISBURY|Of this most fair occasion, by the which
King John|SALISBURY|We will untread the steps of damned flight,
King John|SALISBURY|And like a bated and retired flood,
King John|SALISBURY|Leaving our rankness and irregular course,
King John|SALISBURY|Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd
King John|SALISBURY|And cabby run on in obedience
King John|SALISBURY|Even to our ocean, to our great King John.
King John|SALISBURY|My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence,
King John|SALISBURY|For I do see the cruel pangs of death
King John|SALISBURY|Right in thine eye. Away, my friends! New flight,
King John|SALISBURY|And happy newness, that intends old right.
King John|SALISBURY|Exeunt, leading off MELUN
King John|SALISBURY|SCENE V. The French camp.
King John|SALISBURY|Enter LEWIS and his train
King John|LEWIS|The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,
King John|LEWIS|But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,
King John|LEWIS|When English measure backward their own ground
King John|LEWIS|In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,
King John|LEWIS|When with a volley of our needless shot,
King John|LEWIS|After such bloody toil, we bid good night,
King John|LEWIS|And wound our tattering colours clearly up,
King John|LEWIS|Last in the field, and almost lords of it!
King John|LEWIS|Enter a Messenger
King John|Messenger|Where is my prince, the Dauphin?
King John|LEWIS|Here: what news?
King John|Messenger|The Count Melun is slain, the English lords
King John|Messenger|By his persuasion are again fall'n off,
King John|Messenger|And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,
King John|Messenger|Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands.
King John|LEWIS|Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart!
King John|LEWIS|I did not think to be so sad to-night
King John|LEWIS|As this hath made me. Who was he that said
King John|LEWIS|King John did fly an hour or two before
King John|LEWIS|The stumbling night did part our weary powers?
King John|Messenger|Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord.
King John|LEWIS|Well, keep good quarter and good care to-night:
King John|LEWIS|The day shall not be up so soon as I,
King John|LEWIS|To try the fair adventure of to-morrow.
King John|LEWIS|Exeunt
King John|LEWIS|SCENE VI. An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey.
King John|LEWIS|Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally
King John|HUBERT|Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot.
King John|BASTARD|A friend. What art thou?
King John|HUBERT|Of the part of England.
King John|BASTARD|Whither dost thou go?
King John|HUBERT|What's that to thee? why may not I demand
King John|HUBERT|Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?
King John|BASTARD|Hubert, I think?
King John|HUBERT|Thou hast a perfect thought:
King John|HUBERT|I will upon all hazards well believe
King John|HUBERT|Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well.
King John|HUBERT|Who art thou?
King John|BASTARD|Who thou wilt: and if thou please,
King John|BASTARD|Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think
King John|BASTARD|I come one way of the Plantagenets.
King John|HUBERT|Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night
King John|HUBERT|Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,
King John|HUBERT|That any accent breaking from thy tongue
King John|HUBERT|Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.
King John|BASTARD|Come, come, sans compliment, what news abroad?
King John|HUBERT|Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,
King John|HUBERT|To find you out.
King John|BASTARD|Brief, then, and what's the news?
King John|HUBERT|O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
King John|HUBERT|Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.
King John|BASTARD|Show me the very wound of this ill news:
King John|BASTARD|I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.
King John|HUBERT|The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:
King John|HUBERT|I left him almost speechless, and broke out
King John|HUBERT|To acquaint you with this evil, that you might
King John|HUBERT|The better arm you to the sudden time,
King John|HUBERT|Than if you had at leisure known of this.
King John|BASTARD|How did he take it? who did taste to him?
King John|HUBERT|A monk, I tell you, a resolved villain,
King John|HUBERT|Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king
King John|HUBERT|Yet speaks and peradventure may recover.
King John|BASTARD|Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?
King John|HUBERT|Why, know you not? the lords are all come back,
King John|HUBERT|And brought Prince Henry in their company,
King John|HUBERT|At whose request the king hath pardon'd them,
King John|HUBERT|And they are all about his majesty.
King John|BASTARD|Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,
King John|BASTARD|And tempt us not to bear above our power!
King John|BASTARD|I'll tell tree, Hubert, half my power this night,
King John|BASTARD|Passing these flats, are taken by the tide,
King John|BASTARD|These Lincoln Washes have devoured them,
King John|BASTARD|Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped.
King John|BASTARD|Away before: conduct me to the king,
King John|BASTARD|I doubt he will be dead or ere I come.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt
King John|BASTARD|SCENE VII. The orchard in Swinstead Abbey.
King John|BASTARD|Enter PRINCE HENRY, SALISBURY, and BIGOT
King John|PRINCE HENRY|It is too late: the life of all his blood
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Is touch'd corruptibly, and his pure brain,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Doth by the idle comments that it makes
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Foretell the ending of mortality.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Enter PEMBROKE
King John|PEMBROKE|His highness yet doth speak, and holds belief
King John|PEMBROKE|That, being brought into the open air,
King John|PEMBROKE|It would allay the burning quality
King John|PEMBROKE|Of that fell poison which assaileth him.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Let him be brought into the orchard here.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Doth he still rage?
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Exit BIGOT
King John|PEMBROKE|He is more patient
King John|PEMBROKE|Than when you left him, even now he sung.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|O vanity of sickness! fierce extremes
King John|PRINCE HENRY|In their continuance will not feel themselves.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Leaves them invisible, and his siege is now
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds
King John|PRINCE HENRY|With many legions of strange fantasies,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Whi ch, in their throng and press to that last hold,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death
King John|PRINCE HENRY|should sing.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
King John|PRINCE HENRY|His soul and body to their lasting rest.
King John|SALISBURY|Be of good comfort, prince, for you are born
King John|SALISBURY|To set a form upon that indigest
King John|SALISBURY|Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude.
King John|SALISBURY|Enter Attendants, and BIGOT, carrying KING JOHN in a chair
King John|KING JOHN|Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room,
King John|KING JOHN|It would not out at windows nor at doors.
King John|KING JOHN|There is so hot a summer in my bosom,
King John|KING JOHN|That all my bowels crumble up to dust:
King John|KING JOHN|I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen
King John|KING JOHN|Upon a parchment, and against this fire
King John|KING JOHN|Do I shrink up.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|How fares your majesty?
King John|KING JOHN|Poison'd,--ill fare--dead, forsook, cast off:
King John|KING JOHN|And none of you will bid the winter come
King John|KING JOHN|To thrust his icy fingers in my maw,
King John|KING JOHN|Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course
King John|KING JOHN|Through my burn'd bosom, nor entreat the north
King John|KING JOHN|To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips
King John|KING JOHN|And comfort me with cold. I do not ask you much,
King John|KING JOHN|I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait
King John|KING JOHN|And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|O that there were some virtue in my tears,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|That might relieve you!
King John|KING JOHN|The salt in them is hot.
King John|KING JOHN|Within me is a hell, and there the poison
King John|KING JOHN|Is as a fiend confined to tyrannize
King John|KING JOHN|On unreprievable condemned blood.
King John|KING JOHN|Enter the BASTARD
King John|BASTARD|O, I am scalded with my violent motion,
King John|BASTARD|And spleen of speed to see your majesty!
King John|KING JOHN|O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye:
King John|KING JOHN|The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd,
King John|KING JOHN|And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail
King John|KING JOHN|Are turned to one thread, one little hair:
King John|KING JOHN|My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
King John|KING JOHN|Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
King John|KING JOHN|And then all this thou seest is but a clod
King John|KING JOHN|And module of confounded royalty.
King John|BASTARD|The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,
King John|BASTARD|Where heaven He knows how we shall answer him,
King John|BASTARD|For in a night the best part of my power,
King John|BASTARD|As I upon advantage did remove,
King John|BASTARD|Were in the Washes all unwarily
King John|BASTARD|Devoured by the unexpected flood.
King John|BASTARD|KING JOHN dies
King John|SALISBURY|You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
King John|SALISBURY|My liege! my lord! but now a king, now thus.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|Even so must I run on, and even so stop.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|When this was now a king, and now is clay?
King John|BASTARD|Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind
King John|BASTARD|To do the office for thee of revenge,
King John|BASTARD|And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,
King John|BASTARD|As it on earth hath been thy servant still.
King John|BASTARD|Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres,
King John|BASTARD|Where be your powers? show now your mended faiths,
King John|BASTARD|And instantly return with me again,
King John|BASTARD|To push destruction and perpetual shame
King John|BASTARD|Out of the weak door of our fainting land.
King John|BASTARD|Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought,
King John|BASTARD|The Dauphin rages at our very heels.
King John|SALISBURY|It seems you know not, then, so much as we:
King John|SALISBURY|The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest,
King John|SALISBURY|Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin,
King John|SALISBURY|And brings from him such offers of our peace
King John|SALISBURY|As we with honour and respect may take,
King John|SALISBURY|With purpose presently to leave this war.
King John|BASTARD|He will the rather do it when he sees
King John|BASTARD|Ourselves well sinewed to our defence.
King John|SALISBURY|Nay, it is in a manner done already,
King John|SALISBURY|For many carriages he hath dispatch'd
King John|SALISBURY|To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel
King John|SALISBURY|To the disposing of the cardinal:
King John|SALISBURY|With whom yourself, myself and other lords,
King John|SALISBURY|If you think meet, this afternoon will post
King John|SALISBURY|To consummate this business happily.
King John|BASTARD|Let it be so: and you, my noble prince,
King John|BASTARD|With other princes that may best be spared,
King John|BASTARD|Shall wait upon your father's funeral.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|At Worcester must his body be interr'd,
King John|PRINCE HENRY|For so he will'd it.
King John|BASTARD|Thither shall it then:
King John|BASTARD|And happily may your sweet self put on
King John|BASTARD|The lineal state and glory of the land!
King John|BASTARD|To whom with all submission, on my knee
King John|BASTARD|I do bequeath my faithful services
King John|BASTARD|And true subjection everlastingly.
King John|SALISBURY|And the like tender of our love we make,
King John|SALISBURY|To rest without a spot for evermore.
King John|PRINCE HENRY|I have a kind soul that would give you thanks
King John|PRINCE HENRY|And knows not how to do it but with tears.
King John|BASTARD|O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
King John|BASTARD|Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.
King John|BASTARD|This England never did, nor never shall,
King John|BASTARD|Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
King John|BASTARD|But when it first did help to wound itself.
King John|BASTARD|Now these her princes are come home again,
King John|BASTARD|Come the three corners of the world in arms,
King John|BASTARD|And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
King John|BASTARD|If England to itself do rest but true.
King John|BASTARD|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|BASTARD|ACT I
Julius Caesar|BASTARD|SCENE I. Rome. A street.
Julius Caesar|BASTARD|Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Is this a holiday? what! know you not,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Being mechanical, you ought not walk
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Upon a labouring day without the sign
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?
Julius Caesar|First Commoner|Why, sir, a carpenter.
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|What dost thou with thy best apparel on?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|You, sir, what trade are you?
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|as you would say, a cobbler.
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|But what trade art thou? answer me directly.
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|conscience, which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|Why, sir, cobble you.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|to old shoes, when they are in great danger, I
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,
Julius Caesar|Second Commoner|to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|What tributaries follow him to Rome,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|The livelong day, with patient expectation,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Have you not made an universal shout,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|To hear the replication of your sounds
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Made in her concave shores?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|And do you now put on your best attire?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|And do you now cull out a holiday?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|And do you now strew flowers in his way
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Assemble all the poor men of your sort,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Exeunt all the Commoners
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|See whether their basest metal be not moved,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Go you down that way towards the Capitol,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|This way will I disrobe the images,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|May we do so?
Julius Caesar|MARULLUS|You know it is the feast of Lupercal.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|It is no matter, let no images
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|And drive away the vulgar from the streets:
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|So do you too, where you perceive them thick.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Who else would soar above the view of men
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|And keep us all in servile fearfulness.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|SCENE II. A public place.
Julius Caesar|FLAVIUS|Flourish. Enter CAESAR, ANTONY, for the course,  CALPURNIA, PORTIA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS,  CASSIUS, and CASCA, a great crowd following, among them a Soothsayer
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Calpurnia!
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Calpurnia!
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Here, my lord.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Stand you directly in Antonius' way,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|When he doth run his course. Antonius!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Caesar, my lord?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|To touch Calpurnia, for our elders say,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|The barren, touched in this holy chase,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Shake off their sterile curse.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I shall remember:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|When Caesar says 'do this,' it is perform'd.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Set on, and leave no ceremony out.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Flourish
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Caesar!
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Ha! who calls?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Who is it in the press that calls on me?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Cry 'Caesar!' Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Beware the ides of March.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What man is that?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Set him before me, let me see his face.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Fellow, come from the throng, look upon Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Beware the ides of March.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|He is a dreamer, let us leave him: pass.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Sennet. Exeunt all except BRUTUS and CASSIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Will you go see the order of the course?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Not I.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I pray you, do.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I'll leave you.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I have not from your eyes that gentleness
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And show of love as I was wont to have:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Over your friend that loves you.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Cassius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I turn the trouble of my countenance
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Of late with passions of some difference,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Conceptions only proper to myself,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Nor construe any further my neglect,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Forgets the shows of love to other men.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But by reflection, by some other things.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|'Tis just:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That you might see your shadow. I have heard,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Where many of the best respect in Rome,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That you would have me seek into myself
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For that which is not in me?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And since you know you cannot see yourself
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Will modestly discover to yourself
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That of yourself which you yet know not of.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Were I a common laugher, or did use
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To stale with ordinary oaths my love
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To every new protester, if you know
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That I do fawn on men and hug them hard
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And after scandal them, or if you know
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That I profess myself in banqueting
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Flourish, and shout
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Choose Caesar for their king.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Ay, do you fear it?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Then must I think you would not have it so.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I would not, Cassius, yet I love him well.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But wherefore do you hold me here so long?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What is it that you would impart to me?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If it be aught toward the general good,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And I will look on both indifferently,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For let the gods so speed me as I love
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The name of honour more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As well as I do know your outward favour.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Well, honour is the subject of my story.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I cannot tell what you and other men
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Think of this life, but, for my single self,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I had as lief not be as live to be
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I was born free as Caesar, so were you:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|We both have fed as well, and we can both
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Leap in with me into this angry flood,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And bade him follow, so indeed he did.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And stemming it with hearts of controversy,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Is now become a god, and Cassius is
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A wretched creature and must bend his body,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|He had a fever when he was in Spain,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And when the fit was on him, I did mark
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|His coward lips did from their colour fly,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Mark him and write his speeches in their books,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A man of such a feeble temper should
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So get the start of the majestic world
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And bear the palm alone.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Shout. Flourish
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Another general shout!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I do believe that these applauses are
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Walk under his huge legs and peep about
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Men at some time are masters of their fates:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Write them together, yours is as fair a name,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Weigh them, it is as heavy, conjure with 'em,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|When went there by an age, since the great flood,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But it was famed with more than with one man?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|When there is in it but one only man.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As easily as a king.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That you do love me, I am nothing jealous,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What you would work me to, I have some aim:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|How I have thought of this and of these times,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I shall recount hereafter, for this present,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I would not, so with love I might entreat you,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Be any further moved. What you have said
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will consider, what you have to say
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will with patience hear, and find a time
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Brutus had rather be a villager
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Under these hard conditions as this time
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Is like to lay upon us.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I am glad that my weak words
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The games are done and Caesar is returning.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Re-enter CAESAR and his Train
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And all the rest look like a chidden train:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Calpurnia's cheek is pale, and Cicero
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|As we have seen him in the Capitol,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Being cross'd in conference by some senators.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Casca will tell us what the matter is.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Antonius!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Caesar?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Let me have men about me that are fat,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Fear him not, Caesar, he's not dangerous,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He is a noble Roman and well given.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Yet if my name were liable to fear,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I do not know the man I should avoid
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|He is a great observer and he looks
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|As thou dost, Antony, he hears no music,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Such men as he be never at heart's ease
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And therefore are they very dangerous.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Sennet. Exeunt CAESAR and all his Train, but CASCA
Julius Caesar|CASCA|You pull'd me by the cloak, would you speak with me?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Ay, Casca, tell us what hath chanced to-day,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That Caesar looks so sad.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Why, you were with him, were you not?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Why, there was a crown offered him: and being
Julius Caesar|CASCA|offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|thus, and then the people fell a-shouting.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What was the second noise for?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Why, for that too.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Why, for that too.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Was the crown offered him thrice?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every
Julius Caesar|CASCA|time gentler than other, and at every putting-by
Julius Caesar|CASCA|mine honest neighbours shouted.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Who offered him the crown?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Why, Antony.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it:
Julius Caesar|CASCA|it was mere foolery, I did not mark it. I saw Mark
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Antony offer him a crown,--yet 'twas not a crown
Julius Caesar|CASCA|neither, 'twas one of these coronets,--and, as I told
Julius Caesar|CASCA|you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my
Julius Caesar|CASCA|thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he
Julius Caesar|CASCA|offered it to him again, then he put it by again:
Julius Caesar|CASCA|but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his
Julius Caesar|CASCA|fingers off it. And then he offered it the third
Julius Caesar|CASCA|time, he put it the third time by: and still as he
Julius Caesar|CASCA|refused it, the rabblement hooted and clapped their
Julius Caesar|CASCA|chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps
Julius Caesar|CASCA|and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Caesar, for he swounded and fell down at it: and
Julius Caesar|CASCA|for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of
Julius Caesar|CASCA|opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at
Julius Caesar|CASCA|mouth, and was speechless.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|'Tis very like: he hath the failing sickness.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|No, Caesar hath it not, but you and I,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|I know not what you mean by that, but, I am sure,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not
Julius Caesar|CASCA|clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and
Julius Caesar|CASCA|displeased them, as they use to do the players in
Julius Caesar|CASCA|the theatre, I am no true man.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What said he when he came unto himself?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the
Julius Caesar|CASCA|common herd was glad he refused the crown, he
Julius Caesar|CASCA|plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his
Julius Caesar|CASCA|throat to cut. An I had been a man of any
Julius Caesar|CASCA|occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so
Julius Caesar|CASCA|he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|If he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired
Julius Caesar|CASCA|their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three
Julius Caesar|CASCA|or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good
Julius Caesar|CASCA|soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts: but
Julius Caesar|CASCA|there's no heed to be taken of them, if Caesar had
Julius Caesar|CASCA|stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And after that, he came, thus sad, away?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Ay.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Did Cicero say any thing?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Ay, he spoke Greek.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To what effect?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the
Julius Caesar|CASCA|face again: but those that understood him smiled at
Julius Caesar|CASCA|one another and shook their heads, but, for mine own
Julius Caesar|CASCA|part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more
Julius Caesar|CASCA|news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs
Julius Caesar|CASCA|off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you
Julius Caesar|CASCA|well. There was more foolery yet, if I could
Julius Caesar|CASCA|remember it.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|No, I am promised forth.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Will you dine with me to-morrow?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner
Julius Caesar|CASCA|worth the eating.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Good: I will expect you.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Do so. Farewell, both.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Exit
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He was quick mettle when he went to school.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So is he now in execution
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Of any bold or noble enterprise,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|However he puts on this tardy form.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Which gives men stomach to digest his words
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|With better appetite.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And so it is. For this time I will leave you:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To-morrow, if you please to speak with me,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will come home to you, or, if you will,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come home to me, and I will wait for you.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I will do so: till then, think of the world.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Exit BRUTUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Well, Brutus, thou art noble, yet, I see,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Thy honourable metal may be wrought
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That noble minds keep ever with their likes,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|He should not humour me. I will this night,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In several hands, in at his windows throw,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As if they came from several citizens,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Writings all tending to the great opinion
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And after this let Caesar seat him sure,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For we will shake him, or worse days endure.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|SCENE III. The same. A street.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Thunder and lightning. Enter from opposite sides, CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Why are you breathless? and why stare you so?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen
Julius Caesar|CASCA|The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|To be exalted with the threatening clouds:
Julius Caesar|CASCA|But never till to-night, never till now,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Either there is a civil strife in heaven,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Incenses them to send destruction.
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Why, saw you any thing more wonderful?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|A common slave--you know him well by sight--
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Besides--I ha' not since put up my sword--
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Against the Capitol I met a lion,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Who glared upon me, and went surly by,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Without annoying me: and there were drawn
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Transformed with their fear, who swore they saw
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Men all in fire walk up and down the streets.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|And yesterday the bird of night did sit
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Even at noon-day upon the market-place,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
Julius Caesar|CASCA|'These are their reasons, they are natural,'
Julius Caesar|CASCA|For, I believe, they are portentous things
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Unto the climate that they point upon.
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time:
Julius Caesar|CICERO|But men may construe things after their fashion,
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Come Caesar to the Capitol to-morrow?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|He doth, for he did bid Antonius
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Send word to you he would be there to-morrow.
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky
Julius Caesar|CICERO|Is not to walk in.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Farewell, Cicero.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Exit CICERO
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Enter CASSIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Who's there?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|A Roman.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Casca, by your voice.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A very pleasing night to honest men.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Who ever knew the heavens menace so?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Those that have known the earth so full of faults.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For my part, I have walk'd about the streets,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Submitting me unto the perilous night,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The breast of heaven, I did present myself
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Even in the aim and very flash of it.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|It is the part of men to fear and tremble,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|When the most mighty gods by tokens send
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That should be in a Roman you do want,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To see the strange impatience of the heavens:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But if you would consider the true cause
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why birds and beasts from quality and kind,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why old men fool and children calculate,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why all these things change from their ordinance
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Their natures and preformed faculties
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To monstrous quality,--why, you shall find
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That heaven hath infused them with these spirits,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To make them instruments of fear and warning
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Unto some monstrous state.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Most like this dreadful night,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As doth the lion in the Capitol,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A man no mightier than thyself or me
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In personal action, yet prodigious grown
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|'Tis Caesar that you mean, is it not, Cassius?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Let it be who it is: for Romans now
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Mean to establish Caesar as a king,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|In every place, save here in Italy.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I know where I will wear this dagger then,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Can be retentive to the strength of spirit,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If I know this, know all the world besides,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That part of tyranny that I do bear
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I can shake off at pleasure.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Thunder still
Julius Caesar|CASCA|So can I:
Julius Caesar|CASCA|So every bondman in his own hand bears
Julius Caesar|CASCA|The power to cancel his captivity.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Those that with haste will make a mighty fire
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Begin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What rubbish and what offal, when it serves
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For the base matter to illuminate
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Before a willing bondman, then I know
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|My answer must be made. But I am arm'd,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And dangers are to me indifferent.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|You speak to Casca, and to such a man
Julius Caesar|CASCA|That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|And I will set this foot of mine as far
Julius Caesar|CASCA|As who goes farthest.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|There's a bargain made.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Now know you, Casca, I have moved already
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To undergo with me an enterprise
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Of honourable-dangerous consequence,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And I do know, by this, they stay for me
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In Pompey's porch: for now, this fearful night,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|There is no stir or walking in the streets,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And the complexion of the element
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In favour's like the work we have in hand,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|'Tis Cinna, I do know him by his gait,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|He is a friend.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Enter CINNA
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Cinna, where haste you so?
Julius Caesar|CINNA|To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|No, it is Casca, one incorporate
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?
Julius Caesar|CINNA|I am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!
Julius Caesar|CINNA|There's two or three of us have seen strange sights.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Am I not stay'd for? tell me.
Julius Caesar|CINNA|Yes, you are.
Julius Caesar|CINNA|O Cassius, if you could
Julius Caesar|CINNA|But win the noble Brutus to our party--
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Be you content: good Cinna, take this paper,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And look you lay it in the praetor's chair,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Where Brutus may but find it, and throw this
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In at his window, set this up with wax
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?
Julius Caesar|CINNA|All but Metellus Cimber, and he's gone
Julius Caesar|CINNA|To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,
Julius Caesar|CINNA|And so bestow these papers as you bade me.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That done, repair to Pompey's theatre.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Exit CINNA
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|See Brutus at his house: three parts of him
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Is ours already, and the man entire
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Upon the next encounter yields him ours.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:
Julius Caesar|CASCA|And that which would appear offence in us,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|His countenance, like richest alchemy,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Him and his worth and our great need of him
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You have right well conceited. Let us go,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For it is after midnight, and ere day
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|We will awake him and be sure of him.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|ACT II
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|SCENE I. Rome. BRUTUS's orchard.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Enter BRUTUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What, Lucius, ho!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I cannot, by the progress of the stars,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Call'd you, my lord?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When it is lighted, come and call me here.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|I will, my lord.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It must be by his death: and for my part,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But for the general. He would be crown'd:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|How that might change his nature, there's the question.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that,--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That at his will he may do danger with.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I have not known when his affections sway'd
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Whereto the climber-upward turns his face,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But when he once attains the upmost round.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Will bear no colour for the thing he is,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Fashion it thus, that what he is, augmented,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Would run to these and these extremities:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And kill him in the shell.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|The taper burneth in your closet, sir.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Searching the window for a flint, I found
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|This paper, thus seal'd up, and, I am sure,
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|It did not lie there when I went to bed.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Gives him the letter
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Get you to bed again, it is not day.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|I know not, sir.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Look in the calendar, and bring me word.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|I will, sir.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The exhalations whizzing in the air
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Give so much light that I may read by them.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Opens the letter and reads
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|'Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Shall Rome,  and c. Speak, strike, redress!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake!'
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Such instigations have been often dropp'd
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Where I have took them up.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|'Shall Rome,  and c.' Thus must I piece it out:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|'Speak, strike, redress!' Am I entreated
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If the redress will follow, thou receivest
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Sir, March is wasted fourteen days.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Knocking within
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|'Tis good. Go to the gate, somebody knocks.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I have not slept.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Between the acting of a dreadful thing
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And the first motion, all the interim is
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The Genius and the mortal instruments
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Are then in council, and the state of man,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The nature of an insurrection.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door,
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Who doth desire to see you.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Is he alone?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|No, sir, there are moe with him.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Do you know them?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|No, sir, their hats are pluck'd about their ears,
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|And half their faces buried in their cloaks,
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|That by no means I may discover them
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|By any mark of favour.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let 'em enter.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|They are the faction. O conspiracy,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When evils are most free? O, then by day
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hide it in smiles and affability:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For if thou path, thy native semblance on,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Not Erebus itself were dim enough
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To hide thee from prevention.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter the conspirators, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I think we are too bold upon your rest:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Good morrow, Brutus, do we trouble you?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I have been up this hour, awake all night.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Know I these men that come along with you?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Yes, every man of them, and no man here
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But honours you, and every one doth wish
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You had but that opinion of yourself
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Which every noble Roman bears of you.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This is Trebonius.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He is welcome hither.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This, Decius Brutus.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He is welcome too.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This, Casca, this, Cinna, and this, Metellus Cimber.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|They are all welcome.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What watchful cares do interpose themselves
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Betwixt your eyes and night?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Shall I entreat a word?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|BRUTUS and CASSIUS whisper
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|No.
Julius Caesar|CINNA|O, pardon, sir, it doth, and yon gray lines
Julius Caesar|CINNA|That fret the clouds are messengers of day.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|You shall confess that you are both deceived.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Which is a great way growing on the south,
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Weighing the youthful season of the year.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Some two months hence up higher toward the north
Julius Caesar|CASCA|He first presents his fire, and the high east
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Give me your hands all over, one by one.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And let us swear our resolution.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No, not an oath: if not the face of men,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse,--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If these be motives weak, break off betimes,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And every man hence to his idle bed,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|So let high-sighted tyranny range on,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|As I am sure they do, bear fire enough
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To kindle cowards and to steel with valour
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What need we any spur but our own cause,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To prick us to redress? what other bond
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And will not palter? and what other oath
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Than honesty to honesty engaged,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That this shall be, or we will fall for it?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That welcome wrongs, unto bad causes swear
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Such creatures as men doubt, but do not stain
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The even virtue of our enterprise,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To think that or our cause or our performance
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Did need an oath, when every drop of blood
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Is guilty of a several bastardy,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If he do break the smallest particle
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Of any promise that hath pass'd from him.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But what of Cicero? shall we sound him?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I think he will stand very strong with us.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Let us not leave him out.
Julius Caesar|CINNA|No, by no means.
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Will purchase us a good opinion
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands,
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|But all be buried in his gravity.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O, name him not: let us not break with him,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For he will never follow any thing
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That other men begin.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Then leave him out.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Indeed he is not fit.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A shrewd contriver, and, you know, his means,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If he improve them, may well stretch so far
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As to annoy us all: which to prevent,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Let Antony and Caesar fall together.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Like wrath in death and envy afterwards,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And in the spirit of men there is no blood:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Stir up their servants to an act of rage,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Our purpose necessary and not envious:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which so appearing to the common eyes,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And for Mark Antony, think not of him,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For he can do no more than Caesar's arm
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When Caesar's head is off.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Yet I fear him,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If he love Caesar, all that he can do
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Is to himself, take thought and die for Caesar:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And that were much he should, for he is given
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To sports, to wildness and much company.
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|There is no fear in him, let him not die,
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter.
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|Clock strikes
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Peace! count the clock.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The clock hath stricken three.
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|'Tis time to part.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But it is doubtful yet,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Whether Caesar will come forth to-day, or no,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For he is superstitious grown of late,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Quite from the main opinion he held once
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|It may be, these apparent prodigies,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The unaccustom'd terror of this night,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And the persuasion of his augurers,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|May hold him from the Capitol to-day.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Never fear that: if he be so resolved,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|I can o'ersway him, for he loves to hear
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Lions with toils and men with flatterers,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|He says he does, being then most flattered.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Let me work,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|For I can give his humour the true bent,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|And I will bring him to the Capitol.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?
Julius Caesar|CINNA|Be that the uttermost, and fail not then.
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey:
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|I wonder none of you have thought of him.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Now, good Metellus, go along by him:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He loves me well, and I have given him reasons,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The morning comes upon 's: we'll leave you, Brutus.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And, friends, disperse yourselves, but all remember
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let not our looks put on our purposes,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But bear it as our Roman actors do,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|With untired spirits and formal constancy:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And so good morrow to you every one.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt all but BRUTUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which busy care draws in the brains of men,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter PORTIA
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Brutus, my lord!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It is not for your health thus to commit
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Musing and sighing, with your arms across,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And when I ask'd you what the matter was,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|You stared upon me with ungentle looks,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I urged you further, then you scratch'd your head,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|But, with an angry wafture of your hand,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Fearing to strengthen that impatience
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Hoping it was but an effect of humour,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Which sometime hath his hour with every man.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And could it work so much upon your shape
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|As it hath much prevail'd on your condition,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I am not well in health, and that is all.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|He would embrace the means to come by it.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Is Brutus sick? and is it physical
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|To walk unbraced and suck up the humours
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|To dare the vile contagion of the night
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|You have some sick offence within your mind,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Which, by the right and virtue of my place,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|By all your vows of love and that great vow
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Which did incorporate and make us one,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|That you unfold to me, yourself, your half,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Why you are heavy, and what men to-night
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Have had to resort to you: for here have been
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Some six or seven, who did hide their faces
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Even from darkness.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Kneel not, gentle Portia.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Is it excepted I should know no secrets
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|That appertain to you? Am I yourself
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|But, as it were, in sort or limitation,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You are my true and honourable wife,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That visit my sad heart
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|If this were true, then should I know this secret.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I grant I am a woman, but withal
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I grant I am a woman, but withal
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Being so father'd and so husbanded?
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I have made strong proof of my constancy,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Giving myself a voluntary wound
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And not my husband's secrets?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O ye gods,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Render me worthy of this noble wife!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Knocking within
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And by and by thy bosom shall partake
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The secrets of my heart.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|All my engagements I will construe to thee,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|All the charactery of my sad brows:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Leave me with haste.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit PORTIA
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lucius, who's that knocks?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter LUCIUS with LIGARIUS
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|He is a sick man that would speak with you.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius! how?
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|Any exploit worthy the name of honour.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|By all the gods that Romans bow before,
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome!
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|Brave son, derived from honourable loins!
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|And I will strive with things impossible,
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|But are not some whole that we must make sick?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That must we also. What it is, my Caius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I shall unfold to thee, as we are going
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To whom it must be done.
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|Set on your foot,
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|And with a heart new-fired I follow you,
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|To do I know not what: but it sufficeth
Julius Caesar|LIGARIUS|That Brutus leads me on.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Follow me, then.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|SCENE II. CAESAR's house.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his night-gown
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|'Help, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Enter a Servant
Julius Caesar|Servant|My lord?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Go bid the priests do present sacrifice
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And bring me their opinions of success.
Julius Caesar|Servant|I will, my lord.
Julius Caesar|Servant|Exit
Julius Caesar|Servant|Enter CALPURNIA
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|You shall not stir out of your house to-day.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Ne'er look'd but on my back, when they shall see
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|The face of Caesar, they are vanished.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|A lioness hath whelped in the streets,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|And I do fear them.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What can be avoided
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Yet Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|When beggars die, there are no comets seen,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Cowards die many times before their deaths,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Will come when it will come.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Re-enter Servant
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What say the augurers?
Julius Caesar|Servant|They would not have you to stir forth to-day.
Julius Caesar|Servant|Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,
Julius Caesar|Servant|They could not find a heart within the beast.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|The gods do this in shame of cowardice:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Caesar should be a beast without a heart,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|If he should stay at home to-day for fear.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|That Caesar is more dangerous than he:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|We are two lions litter'd in one day,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And I the elder and more terrible:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And Caesar shall go forth.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Alas, my lord,
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|And he shall say you are not well to-day:
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Mark Antony shall say I am not well,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And, for thy humour, I will stay at home.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Enter DECIUS BRUTUS
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|I come to fetch you to the senate-house.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And you are come in very happy time,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|To bear my greeting to the senators
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And tell them that I will not come to-day:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.
Julius Caesar|CALPURNIA|Say he is sick.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Shall Caesar send a lie?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|The cause is in my will: I will not come,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|That is enough to satisfy the senate.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|But for your private satisfaction,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Because I love you, I will let you know:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And evils imminent, and on her knee
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|This dream is all amiss interpreted,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|It was a vision fair and fortunate:
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|In which so many smiling Romans bathed,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Reviving blood, and that great men shall press
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And this way have you well expounded it.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|I have, when you have heard what I can say:
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|And know it now: the senate have concluded
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|If you shall send them word you will not come,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Apt to be render'd, for some one to say
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|'Break up the senate till another time,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Pardon me, Caesar, for my dear dear love
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|To our proceeding bids me tell you this,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|And reason to my love is liable.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I am ashamed I did yield to them.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Give me my robe, for I will go.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Enter PUBLIUS, BRUTUS, LIGARIUS, METELLUS, CASCA, TREBONIUS, and CINNA
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And look where Publius is come to fetch me.
Julius Caesar|PUBLIUS|Good morrow, Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Welcome, Publius.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|As that same ague which hath made you lean.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What is 't o'clock?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I thank you for your pains and courtesy.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Enter ANTONY
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|So to most noble Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Bid them prepare within:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I am to blame to be thus waited for.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Now, Cinna: now, Metellus: what, Trebonius!
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I have an hour's talk in store for you,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Remember that you call on me to-day:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Be near me, that I may remember you.
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|Caesar, I will:
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|Aside
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|and so near will I be,
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And we, like friends, will straightway go together.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|[Aside]  That every like is not the same, O Caesar,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|SCENE III. A street near the Capitol.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter ARTEMIDORUS, reading a paper
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|'Caesar, beware of Brutus, take heed of Cassius,
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|come not near Casca, have an eye to Cinna, trust not
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|There is but one mind in all these men, and it is
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|'ARTEMIDORUS.'
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|And as a suitor will I give him this.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|Out of the teeth of emulation.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live,
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of BRUTUS.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|Enter PORTIA and LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone:
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Why dost thou stay?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|To know my errand, madam.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I would have had thee there, and here again,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|O constancy, be strong upon my side,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Art thou here yet?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Madam, what should I do?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|And so return to you, and nothing else?
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|For he went sickly forth: and take good note
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Hark, boy! what noise is that?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|I hear none, madam.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Prithee, listen well,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Enter the Soothsayer
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|At mine own house, good lady.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|What is't o'clock?
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|About the ninth hour, lady.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|To see him pass on to the Capitol.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|I shall beseech him to befriend himself.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|I'll get me to a place more void, and there
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Exit
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|The heart of woman is! O Brutus,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Say I am merry: come to me again,
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|And bring me word what he doth say to thee.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|Exeunt severally
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|ACT III
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol, the Senate sitting above.
Julius Caesar|PORTIA|A crowd of people, among them ARTEMIDORUS and the  Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter CAESAR, BRUTUS,  CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, METELLUS CIMBER,  TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS, PUBLIUS, and others
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|[To the Soothsayer]  The ides of March are come.
Julius Caesar|Soothsayer|Ay, Caesar, but not gone.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|Hail, Caesar! read this schedule.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Trebonius doth desire you to o'erread,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|At your best leisure, this his humble suit.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|O Caesar, read mine first, for mine's a suit
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What touches us ourself shall be last served.
Julius Caesar|ARTEMIDORUS|Delay not, Caesar, read it instantly.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What, is the fellow mad?
Julius Caesar|PUBLIUS|Sirrah, give place.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What, urge you your petitions in the street?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Come to the Capitol.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|CAESAR goes up to the Senate-House, the rest following
Julius Caesar|POPILIUS|I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What enterprise, Popilius?
Julius Caesar|POPILIUS|Fare you well.
Julius Caesar|POPILIUS|Advances to CAESAR
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What said Popilius Lena?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I fear our purpose is discovered.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Look, how he makes to Caesar, mark him.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For I will slay myself.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Cassius, be constant:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Trebonius knows his time, for, look you, Brutus.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|He draws Mark Antony out of the way.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Exeunt ANTONY and TREBONIUS
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He is address'd: press near and second him.
Julius Caesar|CINNA|Casca, you are the first that rears your hand.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Are we all ready? What is now amiss
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|That Caesar and his senate must redress?
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|An humble heart,--
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Kneeling
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I must prevent thee, Cimber.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|These couchings and these lowly courtesies
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|And turn pre-ordinance and first decree
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Into the law of children. Be not fond,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|That will be thaw'd from the true quality
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|With that which melteth fools, I mean, sweet words,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Low-crooked court'sies and base spaniel-fawning.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Thy brother by decree is banished:
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Will he be satisfied.
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Is there no voice more worthy than my own
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|For the repealing of my banish'd brother?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Have an immediate freedom of repeal.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|What, Brutus!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Pardon, Caesar, Caesar, pardon:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I could be well moved, if I were as you:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But I am constant as the northern star,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|There is no fellow in the firmament.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|They are all fire and every one doth shine,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But there's but one in all doth hold his place:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So in the world, 'tis furnish'd well with men,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Yet in the number I do know but one
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That unassailable holds on his rank,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Let me a little show it, even in this,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And constant do remain to keep him so.
Julius Caesar|CINNA|O Caesar,--
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|Great Caesar,--
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Speak, hands for me!
Julius Caesar|CASCA|CASCA first, then the other Conspirators and BRUTUS stab CAESAR
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.
Julius Caesar|CAESAR|Dies
Julius Caesar|CINNA|Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Julius Caesar|CINNA|Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Some to the common pulpits, and cry out
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|'Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!'
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|People and senators, be not affrighted,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Fly not, stand stiff: ambition's debt is paid.
Julius Caesar|CASCA|Go to the pulpit, Brutus.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|And Cassius too.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Where's Publius?
Julius Caesar|CINNA|Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's
Julius Caesar|METELLUS CIMBER|Should chance--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|There is no harm intended to your person,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Nor to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And leave us, Publius, lest that the people,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Do so: and let no man abide this deed,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But we the doers.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter TREBONIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Where is Antony?
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|Fled to his house amazed:
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|Men, wives and children stare, cry out and run
Julius Caesar|TREBONIUS|As it were doomsday.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Fates, we will know your pleasures:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That we shall die, we know, 'tis but the time
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And drawing days out, that men stand upon.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Grant that, and then is death a benefit:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That now on Pompey's basis lies along
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No worthier than the dust!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So oft as that shall be,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So often shall the knot of us be call'd
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The men that gave their country liberty.
Julius Caesar|DECIUS BRUTUS|What, shall we forth?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Ay, every man away:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus shall lead, and we will grace his heels
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Enter a Servant
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Soft! who comes here? A friend of Antony's.
Julius Caesar|Servant|Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel:
Julius Caesar|Servant|Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down,
Julius Caesar|Servant|And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:
Julius Caesar|Servant|Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest,
Julius Caesar|Servant|Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving:
Julius Caesar|Servant|Say I love Brutus, and I honour him,
Julius Caesar|Servant|Say I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him and loved him.
Julius Caesar|Servant|If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony
Julius Caesar|Servant|May safely come to him, and be resolved
Julius Caesar|Servant|How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,
Julius Caesar|Servant|Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead
Julius Caesar|Servant|So well as Brutus living, but will follow
Julius Caesar|Servant|The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus
Julius Caesar|Servant|Thorough the hazards of this untrod state
Julius Caesar|Servant|With all true faith. So says my master Antony.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I never thought him worse.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Tell him, so please him come unto this place,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He shall be satisfied, and, by my honour,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Depart untouch'd.
Julius Caesar|Servant|I'll fetch him presently.
Julius Caesar|Servant|Exit
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I know that we shall have him well to friend.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I wish we may: but yet have I a mind
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That fears him much, and my misgiving still
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Falls shrewdly to the purpose.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But here comes Antony.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter ANTONY
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Welcome, Mark Antony.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|If I myself, there is no hour so fit
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|With the most noble blood of all this world.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I shall not find myself so apt to die:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|No place will please me so, no mean of death,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The choice and master spirits of this age.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O Antony, beg not your death of us.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|As, by our hands and this our present act,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You see we do, yet see you but our hands
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And this the bleeding business they have done:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Our hearts you see not, they are pitiful,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And pity to the general wrong of Rome--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|As fire drives out fire, so pity pity--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Our arms, in strength of malice, and our hearts
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Of brothers' temper, do receive you in
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Your voice shall be as strong as any man's
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In the disposing of new dignities.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Only be patient till we have appeased
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The multitude, beside themselves with fear,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And then we will deliver you the cause,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Have thus proceeded.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I doubt not of your wisdom.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Let each man render me his bloody hand:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Yours, Cinna, and, my valiant Casca, yours,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Gentlemen all,--alas, what shall I say?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|My credit now stands on such slippery ground,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Either a coward or a flatterer.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|If then thy spirit look upon us now,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To see thy thy Anthony making his peace,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Most noble! in the presence of thy corse?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|It would become me better than to close
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|In terms of friendship with thine enemies.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Here didst thou fall, and here thy hunters stand,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|O world, thou wast the forest to this hart,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|How like a deer, strucken by many princes,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Dost thou here lie!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Mark Antony,--
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Pardon me, Caius Cassius:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The enemies of Caesar shall say this,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I blame you not for praising Caesar so,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But what compact mean you to have with us?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Will you be prick'd in number of our friends,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Or shall we on, and not depend on you?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Therefore I took your hands, but was, indeed,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Friends am I with you all and love you all,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Or else were this a savage spectacle:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Our reasons are so full of good regard
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You should be satisfied.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That's all I seek:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And am moreover suitor that I may
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Produce his body to the market-place,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Speak in the order of his funeral.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You shall, Mark Antony.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus, a word with you.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Aside to BRUTUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You know not what you do: do not consent
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That Antony speak in his funeral:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Know you how much the people may be moved
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|By that which he will utter?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By your pardon,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will myself into the pulpit first,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And show the reason of our Caesar's death:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What Antony shall speak, I will protest
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He speaks by leave and by permission,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And that we are contented Caesar shall
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It shall advantage more than do us wrong.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I know not what may fall, I like it not.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And say you do't by our permission,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Else shall you not have any hand at all
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|About his funeral: and you shall speak
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|In the same pulpit whereto I am going,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|After my speech is ended.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Be it so.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I do desire no more.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Prepare the body then, and follow us.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt all but ANTONY
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That ever lived in the tide of times.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|A curse shall light upon the limbs of men,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Shall cumber all the parts of Italy,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Blood and destruction shall be so in use
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And dreadful objects so familiar
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Cry  'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Enter a Servant
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?
Julius Caesar|Servant|I do, Mark Antony.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.
Julius Caesar|Servant|He did receive his letters, and is coming,
Julius Caesar|Servant|And bid me say to you by word of mouth--
Julius Caesar|Servant|O Caesar!--
Julius Caesar|Servant|Seeing the body
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Passion, I see, is catching, for mine eyes,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Began to water. Is thy master coming?
Julius Caesar|Servant|He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanced:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|No Rome of safety for Octavius yet,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet, stay awhile,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Into the market-place: there shall I try
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|In my oration, how the people take
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The cruel issue of these bloody men,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|According to the which, thou shalt discourse
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To young Octavius of the state of things.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Lend me your hand.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Exeunt with CAESAR's body
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|SCENE II. The Forum.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, and a throng of Citizens
Julius Caesar|Citizens|We will be satisfied, let us be satisfied.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Cassius, go you into the other street,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And part the numbers.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Those that will follow Cassius, go with him,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And public reasons shall be rendered
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Of Caesar's death.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|I will hear Brutus speak.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|I will hear Cassius, and compare their reasons,
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|When severally we hear them rendered.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Exit CASSIUS, with some of the Citizens. BRUTUS goes into the pulpit
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Be patient till the last.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|awake your senses, that you may the better judge.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|was no less than his. If then that friend demand
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it, as he was
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|fortune, honour for his valour, and death for his
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|ambition. Who is here so base that would be a
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|bondman? If any, speak, for him have I offended.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|vile that will not love his country? If any, speak,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Julius Caesar|All|None, Brutus, none.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Then none have I offended. I have done no more to
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|his death is enrolled in the Capitol, his glory not
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|enforced, for which he suffered death.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR's body
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|though he had no hand in his death, shall receive
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|the benefit of his dying, a place in the
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|commonwealth, as which of you shall not? With this
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|when it shall please my country to need my death.
Julius Caesar|All|Live, Brutus! live, live!
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Bring him with triumph home unto his house.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Give him a statue with his ancestors.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Let him be Caesar.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Caesar's better parts
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Shall be crown'd in Brutus.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|We'll bring him to his house
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|With shouts and clamours.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|My countrymen,--
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Peace, silence! Brutus speaks.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Peace, ho!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Good countrymen, let me depart alone,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Tending to Caesar's glories, which Mark Antony,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By our permission, is allow'd to make.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I do entreat you, not a man depart,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Let him go up into the public chair,
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|We'll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|For Brutus' sake, I am beholding to you.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Goes into the pulpit
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|What does he say of Brutus?
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|He says, for Brutus' sake,
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|He finds himself beholding to us all.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|This Caesar was a tyrant.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Nay, that's certain:
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|We are blest that Rome is rid of him.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You gentle Romans,--
Julius Caesar|Citizens|Peace, ho! let us hear him.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The evil that men do lives after them,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The good is oft interred with their bones,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|For Brutus is an honourable man,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|So are they all, all honourable men--
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But Brutus says he was ambitious,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And Brutus is an honourable man.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And Brutus is an honourable man.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You all did see that on the Lupercal
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But here I am to speak what I do know.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You all did love him once, not without cause:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And men have lost their reason. Bear with me,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And I must pause till it come back to me.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|If thou consider rightly of the matter,
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Caesar has had great wrong.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Has he, masters?
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|I fear there will a worse come in his place.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Mark'd ye his words? He would not take the crown,
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|If it be found so, some will dear abide it.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Now mark him, he begins again to speak.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But yesterday the word of Caesar might
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Have stood against the world, now lies he there.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And none so poor to do him reverence.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Who, you all know, are honourable men:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I will not do them wrong, I rather choose
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Than I will wrong such honourable men.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Let but the commons hear this testament--
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And, dying, mention it within their wills,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Unto their issue.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony.
Julius Caesar|All|The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You are not wood, you are not stones, but men,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|It will inflame you, it will make you mad:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|For, if you should, O, what would come of it!
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Read the will, we'll hear it, Antony,
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Will you be patient? will you stay awhile?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I fear I wrong the honourable men
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar, I do fear it.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|They were traitors: honourable men!
Julius Caesar|All|The will! the testament!
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|They were villains, murderers: the will! read the will.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You will compel me, then, to read the will?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And let me show you him that made the will.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Shall I descend? and will you give me leave?
Julius Caesar|Several Citizens|Come down.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Descend.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|You shall have leave.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|ANTONY comes down
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|A ring, stand round.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Room for Antony, most noble Antony.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Nay, press not so upon me, stand far off.
Julius Caesar|Several Citizens|Stand back, room, bear back.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You all do know this mantle: I remember
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The first time ever Caesar put it on,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That day he overcame the Nervii:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|See what a rent the envious Casca made:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|As rushing out of doors, to be resolved
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|This was the most unkindest cut of all,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And, in his mantle muffling up his face,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Even at the base of Pompey's statua,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|O, now you weep, and, I perceive, you feel
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The dint of pity: these are gracious drops.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|O piteous spectacle!
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|O noble Caesar!
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|O woful day!
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|O traitors, villains!
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|O most bloody sight!
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|We will be revenged.
Julius Caesar|All|Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!
Julius Caesar|All|Let not a traitor live!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Stay, countrymen.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Peace there! hear the noble Antony.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|They that have done this deed are honourable:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That made them do it: they are wise and honourable,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I am no orator, as Brutus is,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That love my friend, and that they know full well
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|That gave me public leave to speak of him:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To stir men's blood: I only speak right on,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|In every wound of Caesar that should move
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Julius Caesar|All|We'll mutiny.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|We'll burn the house of Brutus.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Away, then! come, seek the conspirators.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Yet hear me, countrymen, yet hear me speak.
Julius Caesar|All|Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Why, friends, you go to do you know not what:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Alas, you know not: I must tell you then:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You have forgot the will I told you of.
Julius Caesar|All|Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the will.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To every Roman citizen he gives,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|O royal Caesar!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Hear me with patience.
Julius Caesar|All|Peace, ho!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|His private arbours and new-planted orchards,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|On this side Tiber, he hath left them you,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Never, never. Come, away, away!
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|We'll burn his body in the holy place,
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Take up the body.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Go fetch fire.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Pluck down benches.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Exeunt Citizens with the body
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Take thou what course thou wilt!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Enter a Servant
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|How now, fellow!
Julius Caesar|Servant|Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Where is he?
Julius Caesar|Servant|He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And thither will I straight to visit him:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And in this mood will give us any thing.
Julius Caesar|Servant|I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius
Julius Caesar|Servant|Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Belike they had some notice of the people,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|SCENE III. A street.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Enter CINNA the poet
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|And things unlucky charge my fantasy:
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|I have no will to wander forth of doors,
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|Yet something leads me forth.
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|Enter Citizens
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|What is your name?
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Whither are you going?
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Where do you dwell?
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Are you a married man or a bachelor?
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|Answer every man directly.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Ay, and briefly.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Ay, and wisely.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Ay, and truly, you were best.
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed, directly.
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|As a friend or an enemy?
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|As a friend.
Julius Caesar|Second Citizen|That matter is answered directly.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|For your dwelling,--briefly.
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Your name, sir, truly.
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|Truly, my name is Cinna.
Julius Caesar|First Citizen|Tear him to pieces, he's a conspirator.
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
Julius Caesar|CINNA THE POET|I am not Cinna the conspirator.
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|It is no matter, his name's Cinna, pluck but his
Julius Caesar|Fourth Citizen|name out of his heart, and turn him going.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Tear him, tear him! Come, brands ho! fire-brands:
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|to Brutus', to Cassius', burn all: some to Decius'
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|house, and some to Casca's, some to Ligarius': away, go!
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|ACT IV
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|SCENE I. A house in Rome.
Julius Caesar|Third Citizen|ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|These many, then, shall die, their names are prick'd.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Your brother too must die, consent you, Lepidus?
Julius Caesar|LEPIDUS|I do consent--
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Prick him down, Antony.
Julius Caesar|LEPIDUS|Upon condition Publius shall not live,
Julius Caesar|LEPIDUS|Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He shall not live, look, with a spot I damn him.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|How to cut off some charge in legacies.
Julius Caesar|LEPIDUS|What, shall I find you here?
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Or here, or at the Capitol.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Exit LEPIDUS
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|This is a slight unmeritable man,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|The three-fold world divided, he should stand
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|One of the three to share it?
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|So you thought him,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|In our black sentence and proscription.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Octavius, I have seen more days than you:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And though we lay these honours on this man,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To groan and sweat under the business,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Either led or driven, as we point the way,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And having brought our treasure where we will,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Then take we down his load, and turn him off,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And graze in commons.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|You may do your will,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|But he's a tried and valiant soldier.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|So is my horse, Octavius, and for that
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|I do appoint him store of provender:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|It is a creature that I teach to fight,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To wind, to stop, to run directly on,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|A barren-spirited fellow, one that feeds
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|On abjects, orts and imitations,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Which, out of use and staled by other men,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Begin his fashion: do not talk of him,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But as a property. And now, Octavius,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Listen great things:--Brutus and Cassius
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Are levying powers: we must straight make head:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Therefore let our alliance be combined,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Our best friends made, our means stretch'd
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And let us presently go sit in council,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|How covert matters may be best disclosed,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And open perils surest answered.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Let us do so: for we are at the stake,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|And bay'd about with many enemies,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Millions of mischiefs.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|SCENE II. Camp near Sardis. Before BRUTUS's tent.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Drum. Enter BRUTUS, LUCILIUS, LUCIUS, and Soldiers, TITINIUS and PINDARUS meeting them
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Stand, ho!
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Give the word, ho! and stand.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|He is at hand, and Pindarus is come
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|To do you salutation from his master.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|In his own change, or by ill officers,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I shall be satisfied.
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|I do not doubt
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|But that my noble master will appear
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Such as he is, full of regard and honour.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|How he received you, let me be resolved.
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|With courtesy and with respect enough,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|But not with such familiar instances,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Nor with such free and friendly conference,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|As he hath used of old.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thou hast described
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|A hot friend cooling: ever note, Lucilius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When love begins to sicken and decay,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It useth an enforced ceremony.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|There are no tricks in plain and simple faith,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Make gallant show and promise of their mettle,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But when they should endure the bloody spur,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|The greater part, the horse in general,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Are come with Cassius.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hark! he is arrived.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Low march within
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|March gently on to meet him.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter CASSIUS and his powers
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Stand, ho!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Stand, ho! Speak the word along.
Julius Caesar|First Soldier|Stand!
Julius Caesar|Second Soldier|Stand!
Julius Caesar|Third Soldier|Stand!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemies?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And when you do them--
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Cassius, be content.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Speak your griefs softly: I do know you well.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Before the eyes of both our armies here,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which should perceive nothing but love from us,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let us not wrangle: bid them move away,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And I will give you audience.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Pindarus,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Bid our commanders lead their charges off
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A little from this ground.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lucilius, do you the like, and let no man
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come to our tent till we have done our conference.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|SCENE III. Brutus's tent.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For taking bribes here of the Sardians,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Wherein my letters, praying on his side,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Because I knew the man, were slighted off.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You wronged yourself to write in such a case.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In such a time as this it is not meet
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That every nice offence should bear his comment.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To sell and mart your offices for gold
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To undeservers.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I an itching palm!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You know that you are Brutus that speak this,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The name of Cassius honours this corruption,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Chastisement!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Remember March, the ides of March remember:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And not for justice? What, shall one of us
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That struck the foremost man of all this world
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But for supporting robbers, shall we now
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And sell the mighty space of our large honours
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Than such a Roman.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Brutus, bay not me,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To hedge me in, I am a soldier, I,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Older in practise, abler than yourself
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To make conditions.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Go to, you are not, Cassius.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I am.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I say you are not.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Urge me no more, I shall forget myself,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Away, slight man!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Is't possible?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hear me, for I will speak.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O ye gods, ye gods! must I endure all this?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Go show your slaves how choleric you are,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Under your testy humour? By the gods
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Though it do split you, for, from this day forth,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When you are waspish.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Is it come to this?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You say you are a better soldier:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let it appear so, make your vaunting true,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And it shall please me well: for mine own part,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I shall be glad to learn of noble men.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I said, an elder soldier, not a better:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Did I say 'better'?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If you did, I care not.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|When Caesar lived, he durst not thus have moved me.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I durst not!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What, durst not tempt him!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For your life you durst not!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Do not presume too much upon my love,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I may do that I shall be sorry for.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You have done that you should be sorry for.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For I am arm'd so strong in honesty
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which I respect not. I did send to you
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For certain sums of gold, which you denied me:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For I can raise no money by vile means:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By any indirection: I did send
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To you for gold to pay my legions,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Dash him to pieces!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I denied you not.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|You did.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I did not: he was but a fool that brought
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|My answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I do not, till you practise them on me.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You love me not.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I do not like your faults.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A friendly eye could never see such faults.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|A flatterer's would not, though they do appear
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|As huge as high Olympus.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For Cassius is aweary of the world,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Hated by one he loves, braved by his brother,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Cheque'd like a bondman, all his faults observed,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And here my naked breast, within, a heart
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Strike, as thou didst at Caesar, for, I know,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Sheathe your dagger:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Be angry when you will, it shall have scope,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That carries anger as the flint bears fire,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And straight is cold again.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Hath Cassius lived
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And my heart too.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O Brutus!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What's the matter?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Have not you love enough to bear with me,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|When that rash humour which my mother gave me
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Makes me forgetful?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Yes, Cassius, and, from henceforth,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.
Julius Caesar|Poet|[Within]  Let me go in to see the generals,
Julius Caesar|Poet|There is some grudge between 'em, 'tis not meet
Julius Caesar|Poet|They be alone.
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|[Within]  You shall not come to them.
Julius Caesar|Poet|[Within]  Nothing but death shall stay me.
Julius Caesar|Poet|Enter Poet, followed by LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, and LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|How now! what's the matter?
Julius Caesar|Poet|For shame, you generals! what do you mean?
Julius Caesar|Poet|Love, and be friends, as two such men should be,
Julius Caesar|Poet|For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Ha, ha! how vilely doth this cynic rhyme!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Get you hence, sirrah, saucy fellow, hence!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Bear with him, Brutus, 'tis his fashion.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I'll know his humour, when he knows his time:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What should the wars do with these jigging fools?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Companion, hence!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Away, away, be gone.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Exit Poet
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Prepare to lodge their companies to-night.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Immediately to us.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Exeunt LUCILIUS and TITINIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lucius, a bowl of wine!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I did not think you could have been so angry.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Of your philosophy you make no use,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If you give place to accidental evils.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Ha! Portia!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|She is dead.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|How 'scaped I killing when I cross'd you so?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O insupportable and touching loss!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Upon what sickness?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Impatient of my absence,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Have made themselves so strong:--for with her death
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That tidings came,--with this she fell distract,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And died so?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Even so.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O ye immortal gods!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Re-enter LUCIUS, with wine and taper
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come in, Titinius!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter TITINIUS, with MESSALA
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Welcome, good Messala.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Now sit we close about this taper here,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And call in question our necessities.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Portia, art thou gone?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No more, I pray you.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Messala, I have here received letters,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That young Octavius and Mark Antony
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come down upon us with a mighty power,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Bending their expedition toward Philippi.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|With what addition?
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|That by proscription and bills of outlawry,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Have put to death an hundred senators.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Therein our letters do not well agree,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Mine speak of seventy senators that died
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Cicero one!
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Cicero is dead,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|And by that order of proscription.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No, Messala.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Nothing, Messala.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|That, methinks, is strange.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why ask you? hear you aught of her in yours?
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|No, my lord.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell:
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|With meditating that she must die once,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I have the patience to endure it now.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Even so great men great losses should endure.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I have as much of this in art as you,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But yet my nature could not bear it so.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Well, to our work alive. What do you think
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Of marching to Philippi presently?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I do not think it good.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Your reason?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This it is:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|'Tis better that the enemy seek us:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Doing himself offence, whilst we, lying still,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Do stand but in a forced affection,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For they have grudged us contribution:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The enemy, marching along by them,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By them shall make a fuller number up,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|From which advantage shall we cut him off,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If at Philippi we do face him there,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|These people at our back.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Hear me, good brother.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Under your pardon. You must note beside,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That we have tried the utmost of our friends,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The enemy increaseth every day,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|We, at the height, are ready to decline.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|On such a full sea are we now afloat,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And we must take the current when it serves,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Then, with your will, go on,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And nature must obey necessity,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which we will niggard with a little rest.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|There is no more to say?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|No more. Good night:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lucius!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|My gown.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit LUCIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Farewell, good Messala:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Good night, and good repose.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O my dear brother!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This was an ill beginning of the night:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Never come such division 'tween our souls!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Let it not, Brutus.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Every thing is well.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Good night, my lord.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Good night, good brother.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Good night, Lord Brutus.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Farewell, every one.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt all but BRUTUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Re-enter LUCIUS, with the gown
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Here in the tent.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|What, thou speak'st drowsily?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Poor knave, I blame thee not, thou art o'er-watch'd.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Call Claudius and some other of my men:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Varro and Claudius!
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Enter VARRO and CLAUDIUS
Julius Caesar|VARRO|Calls my lord?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It may be I shall raise you by and by
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|On business to my brother Cassius.
Julius Caesar|VARRO|So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will not have it so: lie down, good sirs,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I put it in the pocket of my gown.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|VARRO and CLAUDIUS lie down
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|I was sure your lordship did not give it me.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And touch thy instrument a strain or two?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Ay, my lord, an't please you.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It does, my boy:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|It is my duty, sir.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I should not urge thy duty past thy might,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I know young bloods look for a time of rest.
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|I have slept, my lord, already.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will not hold thee long: if I do live,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will be good to thee.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Music, and a song
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|This is a sleepy tune. O murderous slumber,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If thou dost nod, thou break'st thy instrument,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I'll take it from thee, and, good boy, good night.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let me see, let me see, is not the leaf turn'd down
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Where I left reading? Here it is, I think.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Enter the Ghost of CAESAR
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That shapes this monstrous apparition.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Speak to me what thou art.
Julius Caesar|GHOST|Thy evil spirit, Brutus.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why comest thou?
Julius Caesar|GHOST|To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Well, then I shall see thee again?
Julius Caesar|GHOST|Ay, at Philippi.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit Ghost
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Now I have taken heart thou vanishest:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Boy, Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius!
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|The strings, my lord, are false.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He thinks he still is at his instrument.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lucius, awake!
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|My lord?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|My lord, I do not know that I did cry.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Yes, that thou didst: didst thou see any thing?
Julius Caesar|LUCIUS|Nothing, my lord.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To VARRO
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Fellow thou, awake!
Julius Caesar|VARRO|My lord?
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|My lord?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|Did we, my lord?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Ay: saw you any thing?
Julius Caesar|VARRO|No, my lord, I saw nothing.
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|Nor I, my lord.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Go and commend me to my brother Cassius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Bid him set on his powers betimes before,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And we will follow.
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|It shall be done, my lord.
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|ACT V
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|SCENE I. The plains of Philippi.
Julius Caesar|CLAUDIUS|Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Now, Antony, our hopes are answered:
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|You said the enemy would not come down,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|But keep the hills and upper regions,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|It proves not so: their battles are at hand,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|They mean to warn us at Philippi here,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Answering before we do demand of them.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Wherefore they do it: they could be content
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To visit other places, and come down
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|With fearful bravery, thinking by this face
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|But 'tis not so.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Enter a Messenger
Julius Caesar|Messenger|Prepare you, generals:
Julius Caesar|Messenger|The enemy comes on in gallant show,
Julius Caesar|Messenger|Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,
Julius Caesar|Messenger|And something to be done immediately.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Octavius, lead your battle softly on,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Upon the left hand of the even field.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Upon the right hand I, keep thou the left.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Why do you cross me in this exigent?
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|I do not cross you, but I will do so.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|March
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Drum. Enter BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and their Army, LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, and others
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|They stand, and would have parley.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Stand fast, Titinius: we must out and talk.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Make forth, the generals would have some words.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Stir not until the signal.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Not that we love words better, as you do.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Crying 'Long live! hail, Caesar!'
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Antony,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The posture of your blows are yet unknown,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And leave them honeyless.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Not stingless too.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O, yes, and soundless too,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And very wisely threat before you sting.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Villains, you did not so, when your vile daggers
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This tongue had not offended so to-day,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If Cassius might have ruled.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Come, come, the cause: if arguing make us sweat,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|The proof of it will turn to redder drops. Look,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|I draw a sword against conspirators,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|When think you that the sword goes up again?
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Be well avenged, or till another Caesar
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Unless thou bring'st them with thee.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|So I hope,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|I was not born to die on Brutus' sword.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Join'd with a masker and a reveller!
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Old Cassius still!
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Come, Antony, away!
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth:
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|If you dare fight to-day, come to the field,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|If not, when you have stomachs.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Exeunt OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Ho, Lucilius! hark, a word with you.
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|[Standing forth]	My lord?
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|BRUTUS and LUCILIUS converse apart
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Messala!
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|[Standing forth]  What says my general?
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Messala,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This is my birth-day, as this very day
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Be thou my witness that against my will,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As Pompey was, am I compell'd to set
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Upon one battle all our liberties.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You know that I held Epicurus strong
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And his opinion: now I change my mind,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And partly credit things that do presage.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch'd,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Who to Philippi here consorted us:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This morning are they fled away and gone,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And in their steads do ravens, crows and kites,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|A canopy most fatal, under which
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Believe not so.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I but believe it partly,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For I am fresh of spirit and resolved
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To meet all perils very constantly.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Even so, Lucilius.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Now, most noble Brutus,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The gods to-day stand friendly, that we may,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If we do lose this battle, then is this
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|The very last time we shall speak together:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What are you then determined to do?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Even by the rule of that philosophy
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By which I did blame Cato for the death
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Which he did give himself, I know not how,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But I do find it cowardly and vile,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For fear of what might fall, so to prevent
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The time of life: arming myself with patience
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To stay the providence of some high powers
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That govern us below.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Then, if we lose this battle,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|You are contented to be led in triumph
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Thorough the streets of Rome?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|He bears too great a mind. But this same day
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Must end that work the ides of March begun,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And whether we shall meet again I know not.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Therefore our everlasting farewell take:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If we do meet again, why, we shall smile,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why, then, lead on. O, that a man might know
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The end of this day's business ere it come!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But it sufficeth that the day will end,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And then the end is known. Come, ho! away!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|SCENE II. The same. The field of battle.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Alarum. Enter BRUTUS and MESSALA
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Unto the legions on the other side.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Loud alarum
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Let them set on at once, for I perceive
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And sudden push gives them the overthrow.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|SCENE III. Another part of the field.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Alarums. Enter CASSIUS and TITINIUS
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This ensign here of mine was turning back,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|I slew the coward, and did take it from him.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Who, having some advantage on Octavius,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Enter PINDARUS
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Fly further off, my lord, fly further off,
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|They are, my lord.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Titinius, if thou lovest me,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And here again, that I may rest assured
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|I will be here again, even with a thought.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|My sight was ever thick, regard Titinius,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And tell me what thou notest about the field.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|PINDARUS ascends the hill
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|This day I breathed first: time is come round,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And where I did begin, there shall I end,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|[Above]  O my lord!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|What news?
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|[Above]  Titinius is enclosed round about
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|With horsemen, that make to him on the spur,
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|He's ta'en.
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Shout
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|And, hark! they shout for joy.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Come down, behold no more.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|O, coward that I am, to live so long,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|To see my best friend ta'en before my face!
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|PINDARUS descends
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Come hither, sirrah:
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|In Parthia did I take thee prisoner,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That whatsoever I did bid thee do,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Now be a freeman: and with this good sword,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Guide thou the sword.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|PINDARUS stabs him
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Caesar, thou art revenged,
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Even with the sword that kill'd thee.
Julius Caesar|CASSIUS|Dies
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|So, I am free, yet would not so have been,
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Durst I have done my will. O Cassius,
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Far from this country Pindarus shall run,
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Where never Roman shall take note of him.
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|PINDARUS|Re-enter TITINIUS with MESSALA
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|It is but change, Titinius, for Octavius
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|As Cassius' legions are by Antony.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|These tidings will well comfort Cassius.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Where did you leave him?
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|All disconsolate,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Is not that he t hat lies upon the ground?
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|He lies not like the living. O my heart!
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Is not that he?
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|No, this was he, Messala,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|So in his red blood Cassius' day is set,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Clouds, dews, and dangers come, our deeds are done!
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Mistrust of my success hath done this deed.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|O hateful error, melancholy's child,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Thou never comest unto a happy birth,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee!
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus?
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|The noble Brutus, thrusting this report
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Into his ears, I may say, thrusting it,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|For piercing steel and darts envenomed
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|As tidings of this sight.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Hie you, Messala,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|And I will seek for Pindarus the while.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Exit MESSALA
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Put on my brows this wreath of victory,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing!
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|By your leave, gods:--this is a Roman's part
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart.
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Kills himself
Julius Caesar|TITINIUS|Alarum. Re-enter MESSALA, with BRUTUS, CATO, STRATO, VOLUMNIUS, and LUCILIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie?
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Titinius' face is upward.
Julius Caesar|CATO|He is slain.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|In our own proper entrails.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Low alarums
Julius Caesar|CATO|Brave Titinius!
Julius Caesar|CATO|Look, whether he have not crown'd dead Cassius!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Are yet two Romans living such as these?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It is impossible that ever Rome
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|To this dead man than you shall see me pay.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come, therefore, and to Thasos send his body:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|His funerals shall not be in our camp,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And come, young Cato, let us to the field.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|'Tis three o'clock, and, Romans, yet ere night
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|We shall try fortune in a second fight.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Alarum. Enter fighting, Soldiers of both armies, then BRUTUS, CATO, LUCILIUS, and others
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!
Julius Caesar|CATO|What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?
Julius Caesar|CATO|I will proclaim my name about the field:
Julius Caesar|CATO|I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
Julius Caesar|CATO|A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend,
Julius Caesar|CATO|I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Brutus, my country's friend, know me for Brutus!
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exit
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|O young and noble Cato, art thou down?
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son.
Julius Caesar|First Soldier|Yield, or thou diest.
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Only I yield to die:
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Offering money
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.
Julius Caesar|First Soldier|We must not. A noble prisoner!
Julius Caesar|Second Soldier|Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en.
Julius Caesar|First Soldier|I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.
Julius Caesar|First Soldier|Enter ANTONY
Julius Caesar|First Soldier|Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Where is he?
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Safe, Antony, Brutus is safe enough:
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|I dare assure thee that no enemy
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|The gods defend him from so great a shame!
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|When you do find him, or alive or dead,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|He will be found like Brutus, like himself.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|This is not Brutus, friend, but, I assure you,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Give him all kindness: I had rather have
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And see whether Brutus be alive or dead,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And bring us word unto Octavius' tent
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|How every thing is chanced.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Exeunt
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|SCENE V. Another part of the field.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Enter BRUTUS, DARDANIUS, CLITUS, STRATO, and VOLUMNIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|Statilius show'd the torch-light, but, my lord,
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Sit thee down, Clitus: slaying is the word,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Whispers
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Peace then! no words.
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|I'll rather kill myself.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hark thee, Dardanius.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Whispers
Julius Caesar|DARDANIUS|Shall I do such a deed?
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|O Dardanius!
Julius Caesar|DARDANIUS|O Clitus!
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|What ill request did Brutus make to thee?
Julius Caesar|DARDANIUS|To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|Now is that noble vessel full of grief,
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|That it runs over even at his eyes.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Come hither, good Volumnius, list a word.
Julius Caesar|VOLUMNIUS|What says my lord?
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Why, this, Volumnius:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Two several times by night, at Sardis once,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|And, this last night, here in Philippi fields:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I know my hour is come.
Julius Caesar|VOLUMNIUS|Not so, my lord.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Our enemies have beat us to the pit:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Low alarums
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|It is more worthy to leap in ourselves,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thou know'st that we two went to school together:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Even for that our love of old, I prithee,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.
Julius Caesar|VOLUMNIUS|That's not an office for a friend, my lord.
Julius Caesar|VOLUMNIUS|Alarum still
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|Fly, fly, my lord, there is no tarrying here.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Farewell to you, and you, and you, Volumnius.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|My heart doth joy that yet in all my life
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I found no man but he was true to me.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I shall have glory by this losing day
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|More than Octavius and Mark Antony
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|By this vile conquest shall attain unto.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|So fare you well at once, for Brutus' tongue
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hath almost ended his life's history:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Night hangs upon mine eyes, my bones would rest,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|That have but labour'd to attain this hour.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Alarum. Cry within, 'Fly, fly, fly!'
Julius Caesar|CLITUS|Fly, my lord, fly.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hence! I will follow.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Exeunt CLITUS, DARDANIUS, and VOLUMNIUS
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thou art a fellow of a good respect,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?
Julius Caesar|STRATO|Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Farewell, good Strato.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Runs on his sword
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Caesar, now be still:
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Dies
Julius Caesar|BRUTUS|Alarum. Retreat. Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, MESSALA, LUCILIUS, and the army
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|What man is that?
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?
Julius Caesar|STRATO|Free from the bondage you are in, Messala:
Julius Caesar|STRATO|The conquerors can but make a fire of him,
Julius Caesar|STRATO|For Brutus only overcame himself,
Julius Caesar|STRATO|And no man else hath honour by his death.
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,
Julius Caesar|LUCILIUS|That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|All that served Brutus, I will entertain them.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?
Julius Caesar|STRATO|Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Do so, good Messala.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|How died my master, Strato?
Julius Caesar|STRATO|I held the sword, and he did run on it.
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|Octavius, then take him to follow thee,
Julius Caesar|MESSALA|That did the latest service to my master.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|This was the noblest Roman of them all:
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|All the conspirators save only he
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|Did that they did in envy of great Caesar,
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|He only, in a general honest thought
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And common good to all, made one of them.
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|His life was gentle, and the elements
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
Julius Caesar|ANTONY|And say to all the world 'This was a man!'
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|According to his virtue let us use him,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|With all respect and rites of burial.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|So call the field to rest, and let's away,
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|To part the glories of this happy day.
Julius Caesar|OCTAVIUS|Exeunt
King Lear|OCTAVIUS|ACT I
King Lear|OCTAVIUS|SCENE I. King Lear's palace.
King Lear|OCTAVIUS|Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND
King Lear|KENT|I thought the king had more affected the Duke of
King Lear|KENT|Albany than Cornwall.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|It did always seem so to us: but now, in the
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|division of the kingdom, it appears not which of
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|the dukes he values most, for equalities are so
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|of either's moiety.
King Lear|KENT|Is not this your son, my lord?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|brazed to it.
King Lear|KENT|I cannot conceive you.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Do you smell a fault?
King Lear|KENT|I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it
King Lear|KENT|being so proper.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|though this knave came something saucily into the
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|world before he was sent for, yet was his mother
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|fair, there was good sport at his making, and the
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|noble gentleman, Edmund?
King Lear|EDMUND|No, my lord.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|honourable friend.
King Lear|EDMUND|My services to your lordship.
King Lear|KENT|I must love you, and sue to know you better.
King Lear|EDMUND|Sir, I shall study deserving.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He hath been out nine years, and away he shall
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|again. The king is coming.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Sennet. Enter KING LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA, and Attendants
King Lear|KING LEAR|Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I shall, my liege.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EDMUND
King Lear|KING LEAR|Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Give me the map there. Know that we have divided
King Lear|KING LEAR|In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent
King Lear|KING LEAR|To shake all cares and business from our age,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
King Lear|KING LEAR|Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
King Lear|KING LEAR|We have this hour a constant will to publish
King Lear|KING LEAR|Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife
King Lear|KING LEAR|May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|Since now we will divest us both of rule,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Interest of territory, cares of state,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
King Lear|KING LEAR|That we our largest bounty may extend
King Lear|KING LEAR|Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Our eldest-born, speak first.
King Lear|GONERIL|Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter,
King Lear|GONERIL|Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty,
King Lear|GONERIL|Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare,
King Lear|GONERIL|No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour,
King Lear|GONERIL|As much as child e'er loved, or father found,
King Lear|GONERIL|A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable,
King Lear|GONERIL|Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
King Lear|CORDELIA|[Aside]  What shall Cordelia do?
King Lear|CORDELIA|Love, and be silent.
King Lear|LEAR|Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,
King Lear|LEAR|With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,
King Lear|LEAR|With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,
King Lear|LEAR|We make thee lady: to thine and Albany's issue
King Lear|LEAR|Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,
King Lear|LEAR|Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.
King Lear|REGAN|Sir, I am made
King Lear|REGAN|Of the self-same metal that my sister is,
King Lear|REGAN|And prize me at her worth. In my true heart
King Lear|REGAN|I find she names my very deed of love,
King Lear|REGAN|Only she comes too short: that I profess
King Lear|REGAN|Myself an enemy to all other joys,
King Lear|REGAN|Which the most precious square of sense possesses,
King Lear|REGAN|And find I am alone felicitate
King Lear|REGAN|In your dear highness' love.
King Lear|CORDELIA|[Aside]	Then poor Cordelia!
King Lear|CORDELIA|And yet not so, since, I am sure, my love's
King Lear|CORDELIA|More richer than my tongue.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To thee and thine hereditary ever
King Lear|KING LEAR|Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom,
King Lear|KING LEAR|No less in space, validity, and pleasure,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our joy,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Although the last, not least, to whose young love
King Lear|KING LEAR|The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
King Lear|KING LEAR|Strive to be interess'd, what can you say to draw
King Lear|KING LEAR|A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Nothing, my lord.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Nothing!
King Lear|CORDELIA|Nothing.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
King Lear|CORDELIA|My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
King Lear|CORDELIA|According to my bond, nor more nor less.
King Lear|KING LEAR|How, how, Cordelia! mend your speech a little,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Lest it may mar your fortunes.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Good my lord,
King Lear|CORDELIA|You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I
King Lear|CORDELIA|Return those duties back as are right fit,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
King Lear|CORDELIA|They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
King Lear|CORDELIA|That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
King Lear|CORDELIA|Half my love with him, half my care and duty:
King Lear|CORDELIA|Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,
King Lear|CORDELIA|To love my father all.
King Lear|KING LEAR|But goes thy heart with this?
King Lear|CORDELIA|Ay, good my lord.
King Lear|KING LEAR|So young, and so untender?
King Lear|CORDELIA|So young, my lord, and true.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let it be so, thy truth, then, be thy dower:
King Lear|KING LEAR|For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The mysteries of Hecate, and the night,
King Lear|KING LEAR|By all the operation of the orbs
King Lear|KING LEAR|From whom we do exist, and cease to be,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Propinquity and property of blood,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And as a stranger to my heart and me
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Or he that makes his generation messes
King Lear|KING LEAR|To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
King Lear|KING LEAR|Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved,
King Lear|KING LEAR|As thou my sometime daughter.
King Lear|KENT|Good my liege,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|Peace, Kent!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I loved her most, and thought to set my rest
King Lear|KING LEAR|On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight!
King Lear|KING LEAR|So be my grave my peace, as here I give
King Lear|KING LEAR|Her father's heart from her! Call France, who stirs?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Call Burgundy. Cornwall and Albany,
King Lear|KING LEAR|With my two daughters' dowers digest this third:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I do invest you jointly with my power,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pre-eminence, and all the large effects
King Lear|KING LEAR|That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,
King Lear|KING LEAR|With reservation of an hundred knights,
King Lear|KING LEAR|By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode
King Lear|KING LEAR|Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain
King Lear|KING LEAR|The name, and all the additions to a king,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm,
King Lear|KING LEAR|This coronet part betwixt you.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Giving the crown
King Lear|KENT|Royal Lear,
King Lear|KENT|Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,
King Lear|KENT|Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,
King Lear|KENT|As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.
King Lear|KENT|Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
King Lear|KENT|The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly,
King Lear|KENT|When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man?
King Lear|KENT|Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,
King Lear|KENT|When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound,
King Lear|KENT|When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom,
King Lear|KENT|And, in thy best consideration, cheque
King Lear|KENT|This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgment,
King Lear|KENT|Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least,
King Lear|KENT|Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound
King Lear|KENT|Reverbs no hollowness.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Kent, on thy life, no more.
King Lear|KENT|My life I never held but as a pawn
King Lear|KENT|To wage against thy enemies, nor fear to lose it,
King Lear|KENT|Thy safety being the motive.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Out of my sight!
King Lear|KENT|See better, Lear, and let me still remain
King Lear|KENT|The true blank of thine eye.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Now, by Apollo,--
King Lear|KENT|Now, by Apollo, king,
King Lear|KENT|Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, vassal! miscreant!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Laying his hand on his sword
King Lear|CORNWALL|Dear sir, forbear.
King Lear|KENT|Do:
King Lear|KENT|Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
King Lear|KENT|Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom,
King Lear|KENT|Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,
King Lear|KENT|I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hear me, recreant!
King Lear|KING LEAR|On thine allegiance, hear me!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride
King Lear|KING LEAR|To come between our sentence and our power,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Our potency made good, take thy reward.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Five days we do allot thee, for provision
King Lear|KING LEAR|To shield thee from diseases of the world,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
King Lear|KING LEAR|Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The moment is thy death. Away! by Jupiter,
King Lear|KING LEAR|This shall not be revoked.
King Lear|KENT|Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
King Lear|KENT|Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
King Lear|KENT|To CORDELIA
King Lear|KENT|The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,
King Lear|KENT|That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!
King Lear|KENT|To REGAN and GONERIL
King Lear|KENT|And your large speeches may your deeds approve,
King Lear|KENT|That good effects may spring from words of love.
King Lear|KENT|Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu,
King Lear|KENT|He'll shape his old course in a country new.
King Lear|KENT|Exit
King Lear|KENT|Flourish. Re-enter GLOUCESTER, with KING OF FRANCE, BURGUNDY, and Attendants
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.
King Lear|KING LEAR|My lord of Burgundy.
King Lear|KING LEAR|We first address towards you, who with this king
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Will you require in present dower with her,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Or cease your quest of love?
King Lear|BURGUNDY|Most royal majesty,
King Lear|BURGUNDY|I crave no more than what your highness offer'd,
King Lear|BURGUNDY|Nor will you tender less.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Right noble Burgundy,
King Lear|KING LEAR|When she was dear to us, we did hold her so,
King Lear|KING LEAR|But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands:
King Lear|KING LEAR|If aught within that little seeming substance,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,
King Lear|KING LEAR|She's there, and she is yours.
King Lear|BURGUNDY|I know no answer.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Will you, with those infirmities she owes,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Take her, or leave her?
King Lear|BURGUNDY|Pardon me, royal sir,
King Lear|BURGUNDY|Election makes not up on such conditions.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Then leave her, sir, for, by the power that made me,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I tell you all her wealth.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To KING OF FRANCE
King Lear|KING LEAR|For you, great king,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I would not from your love make such a stray,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To match you where I hate, therefore beseech you
King Lear|KING LEAR|To avert your liking a more worthier way
King Lear|KING LEAR|Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed
King Lear|KING LEAR|Almost to acknowledge hers.
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|This is most strange,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|That she, that even but now was your best object,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|The argument of your praise, balm of your age,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Must be of such unnatural degree,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Must be a faith that reason without miracle
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Could never plant in me.
King Lear|CORDELIA|I yet beseech your majesty,--
King Lear|CORDELIA|If for I want that glib and oily art,
King Lear|CORDELIA|To speak and purpose not, since what I well intend,
King Lear|CORDELIA|I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known
King Lear|CORDELIA|It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,
King Lear|CORDELIA|No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,
King Lear|CORDELIA|That hath deprived me of your grace and favour,
King Lear|CORDELIA|But even for want of that for which I am richer,
King Lear|CORDELIA|A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
King Lear|CORDELIA|As I am glad I have not, though not to have it
King Lear|CORDELIA|Hath lost me in your liking.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Better thou
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better.
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Is it but this,--a tardiness in nature
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Which often leaves the history unspoke
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|What say you to the lady? Love's not love
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|When it is mingled with regards that stand
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|She is herself a dowry.
King Lear|BURGUNDY|Royal Lear,
King Lear|BURGUNDY|Give but that portion which yourself proposed,
King Lear|BURGUNDY|And here I take Cordelia by the hand,
King Lear|BURGUNDY|Duchess of Burgundy.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Nothing: I have sworn, I am firm.
King Lear|BURGUNDY|I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father
King Lear|BURGUNDY|That you must lose a husband.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Peace be with Burgundy!
King Lear|CORDELIA|Since that respects of fortune are his love,
King Lear|CORDELIA|I shall not be his wife.
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Most choice, forsaken, and most loved, despised!
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|My love should kindle to inflamed respect.
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Thou losest here, a better where to find.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou hast her, France: let her be thine, for we
King Lear|KING LEAR|Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
King Lear|KING LEAR|That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
King Lear|KING LEAR|Without our grace, our love, our benison.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come, noble Burgundy.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Flourish. Exeunt all but KING OF FRANCE, GONERIL, REGAN, and CORDELIA
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Bid farewell to your sisters.
King Lear|CORDELIA|The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes
King Lear|CORDELIA|Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are,
King Lear|CORDELIA|And like a sister am most loath to call
King Lear|CORDELIA|Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:
King Lear|CORDELIA|To your professed bosoms I commit him
King Lear|CORDELIA|But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,
King Lear|CORDELIA|I would prefer him to a better place.
King Lear|CORDELIA|So, farewell to you both.
King Lear|REGAN|Prescribe not us our duties.
King Lear|GONERIL|Let your study
King Lear|GONERIL|Be to content your lord, who hath received you
King Lear|GONERIL|At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,
King Lear|GONERIL|And well are worth the want that you have wanted.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:
King Lear|CORDELIA|Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Well may you prosper!
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Come, my fair Cordelia.
King Lear|KING OF FRANCE|Exeunt KING OF FRANCE and CORDELIA
King Lear|GONERIL|Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what
King Lear|GONERIL|most nearly appertains to us both. I think our
King Lear|GONERIL|father will hence to-night.
King Lear|REGAN|That's most certain, and with you, next month with us.
King Lear|GONERIL|You see how full of changes his age is, the
King Lear|GONERIL|observation we have made of it hath not been
King Lear|GONERIL|little: he always loved our sister most, and
King Lear|GONERIL|with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off
King Lear|GONERIL|appears too grossly.
King Lear|REGAN|'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever
King Lear|REGAN|but slenderly known himself.
King Lear|GONERIL|The best and soundest of his time hath been but
King Lear|GONERIL|rash, then must we look to receive from his age,
King Lear|GONERIL|not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed
King Lear|GONERIL|condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness
King Lear|GONERIL|that infirm and choleric years bring with them.
King Lear|REGAN|Such unconstant starts are we like to have from
King Lear|REGAN|him as this of Kent's banishment.
King Lear|GONERIL|There is further compliment of leavetaking
King Lear|GONERIL|between France and him. Pray you, let's hit
King Lear|GONERIL|together: if our father carry authority with
King Lear|GONERIL|such dispositions as he bears, this last
King Lear|GONERIL|surrender of his will but offend us.
King Lear|REGAN|We shall further think on't.
King Lear|GONERIL|We must do something, and i' the heat.
King Lear|GONERIL|Exeunt
King Lear|GONERIL|SCENE II. The Earl of Gloucester's castle.
King Lear|GONERIL|Enter EDMUND, with a letter
King Lear|EDMUND|Thou, nature, art my goddess, to thy law
King Lear|EDMUND|My services are bound. Wherefore should I
King Lear|EDMUND|Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
King Lear|EDMUND|The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
King Lear|EDMUND|For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines
King Lear|EDMUND|Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
King Lear|EDMUND|When my dimensions are as well compact,
King Lear|EDMUND|My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
King Lear|EDMUND|As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
King Lear|EDMUND|With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
King Lear|EDMUND|Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
King Lear|EDMUND|More composition and fierce quality
King Lear|EDMUND|Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
King Lear|EDMUND|Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
King Lear|EDMUND|Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,
King Lear|EDMUND|Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
King Lear|EDMUND|Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
King Lear|EDMUND|As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!
King Lear|EDMUND|Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
King Lear|EDMUND|And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
King Lear|EDMUND|Shall top the legitimate. I grow, I prosper:
King Lear|EDMUND|Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter GLOUCESTER
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Confined to exhibition! All this done
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?
King Lear|EDMUND|So please your lordship, none.
King Lear|EDMUND|Putting up the letter
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
King Lear|EDMUND|I know no news, my lord.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|What paper were you reading?
King Lear|EDMUND|Nothing, my lord.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.
King Lear|EDMUND|I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter
King Lear|EDMUND|from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read,
King Lear|EDMUND|and for so much as I have perused, I find it not
King Lear|EDMUND|fit for your o'er-looking.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Give me the letter, sir.
King Lear|EDMUND|I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The
King Lear|EDMUND|contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Let's see, let's see.
King Lear|EDMUND|I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote
King Lear|EDMUND|this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|[Reads]  'This policy and reverence of age makes
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|the world bitter to the best of our times, keeps
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|me, that of this I may speak more. If our father
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|would sleep till I waked him, you should half his
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|brother,	EDGAR.'
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Hum--conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him,--you
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|should enjoy half his revenue,'--My son Edgar!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|to breed it in?--When came this to you? who
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|brought it?
King Lear|EDMUND|It was not brought me, my lord, there's the
King Lear|EDMUND|cunning of it, I found it thrown in at the
King Lear|EDMUND|casement of my closet.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|You know the character to be your brother's?
King Lear|EDMUND|If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear
King Lear|EDMUND|it were his, but, in respect of that, I would
King Lear|EDMUND|fain think it were not.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|It is his.
King Lear|EDMUND|It is his hand, my lord, but I hope his heart is
King Lear|EDMUND|not in the contents.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business?
King Lear|EDMUND|Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft
King Lear|EDMUND|maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,
King Lear|EDMUND|and fathers declining, the father should be as
King Lear|EDMUND|ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|O villain, villain! His very opinion in the
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|seek him, I'll apprehend him: abominable villain!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Where is he?
King Lear|EDMUND|I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please
King Lear|EDMUND|you to suspend your indignation against my
King Lear|EDMUND|brother till you can derive from him better
King Lear|EDMUND|testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain
King Lear|EDMUND|course, where, if you violently proceed against
King Lear|EDMUND|him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great
King Lear|EDMUND|gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the
King Lear|EDMUND|heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life
King Lear|EDMUND|for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my
King Lear|EDMUND|affection to your honour, and to no further
King Lear|EDMUND|pretence of danger.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Think you so?
King Lear|EDMUND|If your honour judge it meet, I will place you
King Lear|EDMUND|where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an
King Lear|EDMUND|auricular assurance have your satisfaction, and
King Lear|EDMUND|that without any further delay than this very evening.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He cannot be such a monster--
King Lear|EDMUND|Nor is not, sure.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To his father, that so tenderly and entirely
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|business after your own wisdom. I would unstate
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|myself, to be in a due resolution.
King Lear|EDMUND|I will seek him, sir, presently: convey the
King Lear|EDMUND|business as I shall find means and acquaint you withal.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|friendship falls off, brothers divide: in
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|cities, mutinies, in countries, discord, in
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|palaces, treason, and the bond cracked 'twixt son
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|and father. This villain of mine comes under the
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|prediction, there's son against father: the king
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|falls from bias of nature, there's father against
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|child. We have seen the best of our time:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|graves. Find out this villain, Edmund, it shall
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|lose thee nothing, do it carefully. And the
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exit
King Lear|EDMUND|This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
King Lear|EDMUND|when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
King Lear|EDMUND|of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
King Lear|EDMUND|disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
King Lear|EDMUND|if we were villains by necessity, fools by
King Lear|EDMUND|heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and
King Lear|EDMUND|treachers, by spherical predominance, drunkards,
King Lear|EDMUND|liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
King Lear|EDMUND|planetary influence, and all that we are evil in,
King Lear|EDMUND|by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
King Lear|EDMUND|of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
King Lear|EDMUND|disposition to the charge of a star! My
King Lear|EDMUND|father compounded with my mother under the
King Lear|EDMUND|dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa
King Lear|EDMUND|major, so that it follows, I am rough and
King Lear|EDMUND|lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,
King Lear|EDMUND|had the maidenliest star in the firmament
King Lear|EDMUND|twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter EDGAR
King Lear|EDMUND|And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old
King Lear|EDMUND|comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a
King Lear|EDMUND|sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do
King Lear|EDMUND|portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi.
King Lear|EDGAR|How now, brother Edmund! what serious
King Lear|EDGAR|contemplation are you in?
King Lear|EDMUND|I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read
King Lear|EDMUND|this other day, what should follow these eclipses.
King Lear|EDGAR|Do you busy yourself about that?
King Lear|EDMUND|I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed
King Lear|EDMUND|unhappily, as of unnaturalness between the child
King Lear|EDMUND|and the parent, death, dearth, dissolutions of
King Lear|EDMUND|ancient amities, divisions in state, menaces and
King Lear|EDMUND|maledictions against king and nobles, needless
King Lear|EDMUND|diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation
King Lear|EDMUND|of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
King Lear|EDGAR|How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
King Lear|EDMUND|Come, come, when saw you my father last?
King Lear|EDGAR|Why, the night gone by.
King Lear|EDMUND|Spake you with him?
King Lear|EDGAR|Ay, two hours together.
King Lear|EDMUND|Parted you in good terms? Found you no
King Lear|EDMUND|displeasure in him by word or countenance?
King Lear|EDGAR|None at all.
King Lear|EDMUND|Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended
King Lear|EDMUND|him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence
King Lear|EDMUND|till some little time hath qualified the heat of
King Lear|EDMUND|his displeasure, which at this instant so rageth
King Lear|EDMUND|in him, that with the mischief of your person it
King Lear|EDMUND|would scarcely allay.
King Lear|EDGAR|Some villain hath done me wrong.
King Lear|EDMUND|That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent
King Lear|EDMUND|forbearance till the spied of his rage goes
King Lear|EDMUND|slower, and, as I say, retire with me to my
King Lear|EDMUND|lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to
King Lear|EDMUND|hear my lord speak: pray ye, go, there's my key:
King Lear|EDMUND|if you do stir abroad, go armed.
King Lear|EDGAR|Armed, brother!
King Lear|EDMUND|Brother, I advise you to the best, go armed: I
King Lear|EDMUND|am no honest man if there be any good meaning
King Lear|EDMUND|towards you: I have told you what I have seen
King Lear|EDMUND|and heard, but faintly, nothing like the image
King Lear|EDMUND|and horror of it: pray you, away.
King Lear|EDGAR|Shall I hear from you anon?
King Lear|EDMUND|I do serve you in this business.
King Lear|EDMUND|Exit EDGAR
King Lear|EDMUND|A credulous father! and a brother noble,
King Lear|EDMUND|Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
King Lear|EDMUND|That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty
King Lear|EDMUND|My practises ride easy! I see the business.
King Lear|EDMUND|Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:
King Lear|EDMUND|All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
King Lear|EDMUND|Exit
King Lear|EDMUND|SCENE III. The Duke of Albany's palace.
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter GONERIL, and OSWALD, her steward
King Lear|GONERIL|Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?
King Lear|OSWALD|Yes, madam.
King Lear|GONERIL|By day and night he wrongs me, every hour
King Lear|GONERIL|He flashes into one gross crime or other,
King Lear|GONERIL|That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:
King Lear|GONERIL|His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
King Lear|GONERIL|On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
King Lear|GONERIL|I will not speak with him, say I am sick:
King Lear|GONERIL|If you come slack of former services,
King Lear|GONERIL|You shall do well, the fault of it I'll answer.
King Lear|OSWALD|He's coming, madam, I hear him.
King Lear|OSWALD|Horns within
King Lear|GONERIL|Put on what weary negligence you please,
King Lear|GONERIL|You and your fellows, I'll have it come to question:
King Lear|GONERIL|If he dislike it, let him to our sister,
King Lear|GONERIL|Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,
King Lear|GONERIL|Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,
King Lear|GONERIL|That still would manage those authorities
King Lear|GONERIL|That he hath given away! Now, by my life,
King Lear|GONERIL|Old fools are babes again, and must be used
King Lear|GONERIL|With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused.
King Lear|GONERIL|Remember what I tell you.
King Lear|OSWALD|Well, madam.
King Lear|GONERIL|And let his knights have colder looks among you,
King Lear|GONERIL|What grows of it, no matter, advise your fellows so:
King Lear|GONERIL|I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
King Lear|GONERIL|That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,
King Lear|GONERIL|To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.
King Lear|GONERIL|Exeunt
King Lear|GONERIL|SCENE IV. A hall in the same.
King Lear|GONERIL|Enter KENT, disguised
King Lear|KENT|If but as well I other accents borrow,
King Lear|KENT|That can my speech defuse, my good intent
King Lear|KENT|May carry through itself to that full issue
King Lear|KENT|For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,
King Lear|KENT|If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,
King Lear|KENT|So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,
King Lear|KENT|Shall find thee full of labours.
King Lear|KENT|Horns within. Enter KING LEAR, Knights, and Attendants
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let me not stay a jot for dinner, go get it ready.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit an Attendant
King Lear|KING LEAR|How now! what art thou?
King Lear|KENT|A man, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What dost thou profess? what wouldst thou with us?
King Lear|KENT|I do profess to be no less than I seem, to serve
King Lear|KENT|him truly that will put me in trust: to love him
King Lear|KENT|that is honest, to converse with him that is wise,
King Lear|KENT|and says little, to fear judgment, to fight when I
King Lear|KENT|cannot choose, and to eat no fish.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What art thou?
King Lear|KENT|A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king.
King Lear|KING LEAR|If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a
King Lear|KING LEAR|king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?
King Lear|KENT|Service.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Who wouldst thou serve?
King Lear|KENT|You.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Dost thou know me, fellow?
King Lear|KENT|No, sir, but you have that in your countenance
King Lear|KENT|which I would fain call master.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What's that?
King Lear|KENT|Authority.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What services canst thou do?
King Lear|KENT|I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious
King Lear|KENT|tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message
King Lear|KENT|bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am
King Lear|KENT|qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.
King Lear|KING LEAR|How old art thou?
King Lear|KENT|Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor
King Lear|KENT|so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years
King Lear|KENT|on my back forty eight.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Follow me, thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no
King Lear|KING LEAR|worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Dinner, ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Go you, and call my fool hither.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit an Attendant
King Lear|KING LEAR|Enter OSWALD
King Lear|KING LEAR|You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?
King Lear|OSWALD|So please you,--
King Lear|OSWALD|Exit
King Lear|KING LEAR|What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit a Knight
King Lear|KING LEAR|Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's asleep.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Re-enter Knight
King Lear|KING LEAR|How now! where's that mongrel?
King Lear|Knight|He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why came not the slave back to me when I called him.
King Lear|Knight|Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would
King Lear|Knight|not.
King Lear|KING LEAR|He would not!
King Lear|Knight|My lord, I know not what the matter is, but, to my
King Lear|Knight|judgment, your highness is not entertained with that
King Lear|Knight|ceremonious affection as you were wont, there's a
King Lear|Knight|great abatement of kindness appears as well in the
King Lear|Knight|general dependants as in the duke himself also and
King Lear|Knight|your daughter.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ha! sayest thou so?
King Lear|Knight|I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken,
King Lear|Knight|for my duty cannot be silent when I think your
King Lear|Knight|highness wronged.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I
King Lear|KING LEAR|have perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I
King Lear|KING LEAR|have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity
King Lear|KING LEAR|than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness:
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will look further into't. But where's my fool? I
King Lear|KING LEAR|have not seen him this two days.
King Lear|Knight|Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the
King Lear|Knight|fool hath much pined away.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No more of that, I have noted it well. Go you, and
King Lear|KING LEAR|tell my daughter I would speak with her.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit an Attendant
King Lear|KING LEAR|Go you, call hither my fool.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit an Attendant
King Lear|KING LEAR|Re-enter OSWALD
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, you sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I,
King Lear|KING LEAR|sir?
King Lear|OSWALD|My lady's father.
King Lear|KING LEAR|'My lady's father'! my lord's knave: your
King Lear|KING LEAR|whoreson dog! you slave! you cur!
King Lear|OSWALD|I am none of these, my lord, I beseech your pardon.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Striking him
King Lear|OSWALD|I'll not be struck, my lord.
King Lear|KENT|Nor tripped neither, you base football player.
King Lear|KENT|Tripping up his heels
King Lear|KING LEAR|I thank thee, fellow, thou servest me, and I'll
King Lear|KING LEAR|love thee.
King Lear|KENT|Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences:
King Lear|KENT|away, away! if you will measure your lubber's
King Lear|KENT|length again, tarry: but away! go to, have you
King Lear|KENT|wisdom? so.
King Lear|KENT|Pushes OSWALD out
King Lear|KING LEAR|Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there's
King Lear|KING LEAR|earnest of thy service.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Giving KENT money
King Lear|KING LEAR|Enter Fool
King Lear|Fool|Let me hire him too: here's my coxcomb.
King Lear|Fool|Offering KENT his cap
King Lear|KING LEAR|How now, my pretty knave! how dost thou?
King Lear|Fool|Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.
King Lear|KENT|Why, fool?
King Lear|Fool|Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour:
King Lear|Fool|nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits,
King Lear|Fool|thou'lt catch cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb:
King Lear|Fool|why, this fellow has banished two on's daughters,
King Lear|Fool|and did the third a blessing against his will, if
King Lear|Fool|thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.
King Lear|Fool|How now, nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, my boy?
King Lear|Fool|If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs
King Lear|Fool|myself. There's mine, beg another of thy daughters.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Take heed, sirrah, the whip.
King Lear|Fool|Truth's a dog must to kennel, he must be whipped
King Lear|Fool|out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink.
King Lear|KING LEAR|A pestilent gall to me!
King Lear|Fool|Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Do.
King Lear|Fool|Mark it, nuncle:
King Lear|Fool|Have more than thou showest,
King Lear|Fool|Speak less than thou knowest,
King Lear|Fool|Lend less than thou owest,
King Lear|Fool|Ride more than thou goest,
King Lear|Fool|Learn more than thou trowest,
King Lear|Fool|Set less than thou throwest,
King Lear|Fool|Leave thy drink and thy whore,
King Lear|Fool|And keep in-a-door,
King Lear|Fool|And thou shalt have more
King Lear|Fool|Than two tens to a score.
King Lear|KENT|This is nothing, fool.
King Lear|Fool|Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer, you
King Lear|Fool|gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of
King Lear|Fool|nothing, nuncle?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, no, boy, nothing can be made out of nothing.
King Lear|Fool|[To KENT]  Prithee, tell him, so much the rent of
King Lear|Fool|his land comes to: he will not believe a fool.
King Lear|KING LEAR|A bitter fool!
King Lear|Fool|Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a
King Lear|Fool|bitter fool and a sweet fool?
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, lad, teach me.
King Lear|Fool|That lord that counsell'd thee
King Lear|Fool|To give away thy land,
King Lear|Fool|Come place him here by me,
King Lear|Fool|Do thou for him stand:
King Lear|Fool|The sweet and bitter fool
King Lear|Fool|Will presently appear,
King Lear|Fool|The one in motley here,
King Lear|Fool|The other found out there.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Dost thou call me fool, boy?
King Lear|Fool|All thy other titles thou hast given away, that
King Lear|Fool|thou wast born with.
King Lear|KENT|This is not altogether fool, my lord.
King Lear|Fool|No, faith, lords and great men will not let me, if
King Lear|Fool|I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't:
King Lear|Fool|and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool
King Lear|Fool|to myself, they'll be snatching. Give me an egg,
King Lear|Fool|nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What two crowns shall they be?
King Lear|Fool|Why, after I have cut the egg i' the middle, and eat
King Lear|Fool|up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou
King Lear|Fool|clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away
King Lear|Fool|both parts, thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er
King Lear|Fool|the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,
King Lear|Fool|when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak
King Lear|Fool|like myself in this, let him be whipped that first
King Lear|Fool|finds it so.
King Lear|Fool|Singing
King Lear|Fool|Fools had ne'er less wit in a year,
King Lear|Fool|For wise men are grown foppish,
King Lear|Fool|They know not how their wits to wear,
King Lear|Fool|Their manners are so apish.
King Lear|KING LEAR|When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?
King Lear|Fool|I have used it, nuncle, ever since thou madest thy
King Lear|Fool|daughters thy mothers: for when thou gavest them
King Lear|Fool|the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches,
King Lear|Fool|Singing
King Lear|Fool|Then they for sudden joy did weep,
King Lear|Fool|And I for sorrow sung,
King Lear|Fool|That such a king should play bo-peep,
King Lear|Fool|And go the fools among.
King Lear|Fool|Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach
King Lear|Fool|thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.
King Lear|KING LEAR|An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.
King Lear|Fool|I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are:
King Lear|Fool|they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt
King Lear|Fool|have me whipped for lying, and sometimes I am
King Lear|Fool|whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any
King Lear|Fool|kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be
King Lear|Fool|thee, nuncle, thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides,
King Lear|Fool|and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'
King Lear|Fool|the parings.
King Lear|Fool|Enter GONERIL
King Lear|KING LEAR|How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.
King Lear|Fool|Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to
King Lear|Fool|care for her frowning, now thou art an O without a
King Lear|Fool|figure: I am better than thou art now, I am a fool,
King Lear|Fool|thou art nothing.
King Lear|Fool|To GONERIL
King Lear|Fool|Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue, so your face
King Lear|Fool|bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum,
King Lear|Fool|He that keeps nor crust nor crum,
King Lear|Fool|Weary of all, shall want some.
King Lear|Fool|Pointing to KING LEAR
King Lear|Fool|That's a shealed peascod.
King Lear|GONERIL|Not only, sir, this your all-licensed fool,
King Lear|GONERIL|But other of your insolent retinue
King Lear|GONERIL|Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth
King Lear|GONERIL|In rank and not-to-be endured riots. Sir,
King Lear|GONERIL|I had thought, by making this well known unto you,
King Lear|GONERIL|To have found a safe redress, but now grow fearful,
King Lear|GONERIL|By what yourself too late have spoke and done.
King Lear|GONERIL|That you protect this course, and put it on
King Lear|GONERIL|By your allowance, which if you should, the fault
King Lear|GONERIL|Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,
King Lear|GONERIL|Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,
King Lear|GONERIL|Might in their working do you that offence,
King Lear|GONERIL|Which else were shame, that then necessity
King Lear|GONERIL|Will call discreet proceeding.
King Lear|Fool|For, you trow, nuncle,
King Lear|Fool|The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,
King Lear|Fool|That it's had it head bit off by it young.
King Lear|Fool|So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Are you our daughter?
King Lear|GONERIL|Come, sir,
King Lear|GONERIL|I would you would make use of that good wisdom,
King Lear|GONERIL|Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away
King Lear|GONERIL|These dispositions, that of late transform you
King Lear|GONERIL|From what you rightly are.
King Lear|Fool|May not an ass know when the cart
King Lear|Fool|draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Either his notion weakens, his discernings
King Lear|KING LEAR|Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Who is it that can tell me who I am?
King Lear|Fool|Lear's shadow.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I would learn that, for, by the
King Lear|KING LEAR|marks of sovereignty, knowledge, and reason,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I should be false persuaded I had daughters.
King Lear|Fool|Which they will make an obedient father.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Your name, fair gentlewoman?
King Lear|GONERIL|This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour
King Lear|GONERIL|Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
King Lear|GONERIL|To understand my purposes aright:
King Lear|GONERIL|As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
King Lear|GONERIL|Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires,
King Lear|GONERIL|Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,
King Lear|GONERIL|That this our court, infected with their manners,
King Lear|GONERIL|Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust
King Lear|GONERIL|Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
King Lear|GONERIL|Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak
King Lear|GONERIL|For instant remedy: be then desired
King Lear|GONERIL|By her, that else will take the thing she begs,
King Lear|GONERIL|A little to disquantity your train,
King Lear|GONERIL|And the remainder, that shall still depend,
King Lear|GONERIL|To be such men as may besort your age,
King Lear|GONERIL|And know themselves and you.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Darkness and devils!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Saddle my horses, call my train together:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Yet have I left a daughter.
King Lear|GONERIL|You strike my people, and your disorder'd rabble
King Lear|GONERIL|Make servants of their betters.
King Lear|GONERIL|Enter ALBANY
King Lear|KING LEAR|Woe, that too late repents,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|To ALBANY
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, sir, are you come?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
King Lear|KING LEAR|More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
King Lear|KING LEAR|Than the sea-monster!
King Lear|ALBANY|Pray, sir, be patient.
King Lear|KING LEAR|[To GONERIL]  Detested kite! thou liest.
King Lear|KING LEAR|My train are men of choice and rarest parts,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That all particulars of duty know,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And in the most exact regard support
King Lear|KING LEAR|The worships of their name. O most small fault,
King Lear|KING LEAR|How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!
King Lear|KING LEAR|That, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature
King Lear|KING LEAR|From the fix'd place, drew from heart all love,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Striking his head
King Lear|KING LEAR|And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people.
King Lear|ALBANY|My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant
King Lear|ALBANY|Of what hath moved you.
King Lear|KING LEAR|It may be so, my lord.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hear, nature, hear, dear goddess, hear!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
King Lear|KING LEAR|To make this creature fruitful!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Into her womb convey sterility!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Dry up in her the organs of increase,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And from her derogate body never spring
King Lear|KING LEAR|A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Create her child of spleen, that it may live,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,
King Lear|KING LEAR|With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
King Lear|KING LEAR|To laughter and contempt, that she may feel
King Lear|KING LEAR|How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
King Lear|KING LEAR|To have a thankless child! Away, away!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit
King Lear|ALBANY|Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
King Lear|GONERIL|Never afflict yourself to know the cause,
King Lear|GONERIL|But let his disposition have that scope
King Lear|GONERIL|That dotage gives it.
King Lear|GONERIL|Re-enter KING LEAR
King Lear|KING LEAR|What, fifty of my followers at a clap!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Within a fortnight!
King Lear|ALBANY|What's the matter, sir?
King Lear|KING LEAR|I'll tell thee:
King Lear|KING LEAR|To GONERIL
King Lear|KING LEAR|Life and death! I am ashamed
King Lear|KING LEAR|That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!
King Lear|KING LEAR|The untented woundings of a father's curse
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And cast you, with the waters that you lose,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To temper clay. Yea, it is come to this?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let is be so: yet have I left a daughter,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:
King Lear|KING LEAR|When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
King Lear|KING LEAR|She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find
King Lear|KING LEAR|That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think
King Lear|KING LEAR|I have cast off for ever: thou shalt,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I warrant thee.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exeunt KING LEAR, KENT, and Attendants
King Lear|GONERIL|Do you mark that, my lord?
King Lear|ALBANY|I cannot be so partial, Goneril,
King Lear|ALBANY|To the great love I bear you,--
King Lear|GONERIL|Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho!
King Lear|GONERIL|To the Fool
King Lear|GONERIL|You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.
King Lear|Fool|Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry and take the fool
King Lear|Fool|with thee.
King Lear|Fool|A fox, when one has caught her,
King Lear|Fool|And such a daughter,
King Lear|Fool|Should sure to the slaughter,
King Lear|Fool|If my cap would buy a halter:
King Lear|Fool|So the fool follows after.
King Lear|Fool|Exit
King Lear|GONERIL|This man hath had good counsel:--a hundred knights!
King Lear|GONERIL|'Tis politic and safe to let him keep
King Lear|GONERIL|At point a hundred knights: yes, that, on every dream,
King Lear|GONERIL|Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,
King Lear|GONERIL|He may enguard his dotage with their powers,
King Lear|GONERIL|And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say!
King Lear|ALBANY|Well, you may fear too far.
King Lear|GONERIL|Safer than trust too far:
King Lear|GONERIL|Let me still take away the harms I fear,
King Lear|GONERIL|Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.
King Lear|GONERIL|What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister
King Lear|GONERIL|If she sustain him and his hundred knights
King Lear|GONERIL|When I have show'd the unfitness,--
King Lear|GONERIL|Re-enter OSWALD
King Lear|GONERIL|How now, Oswald!
King Lear|GONERIL|What, have you writ that letter to my sister?
King Lear|OSWALD|Yes, madam.
King Lear|GONERIL|Take you some company, and away to horse:
King Lear|GONERIL|Inform her full of my particular fear,
King Lear|GONERIL|And thereto add such reasons of your own
King Lear|GONERIL|As may compact it more. Get you gone,
King Lear|GONERIL|And hasten your return.
King Lear|GONERIL|Exit OSWALD
King Lear|GONERIL|No, no, my lord,
King Lear|GONERIL|This milky gentleness and course of yours
King Lear|GONERIL|Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,
King Lear|GONERIL|You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom
King Lear|GONERIL|Than praised for harmful mildness.
King Lear|ALBANY|How far your eyes may pierce I can not tell:
King Lear|ALBANY|Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
King Lear|GONERIL|Nay, then--
King Lear|ALBANY|Well, well, the event.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exeunt
King Lear|ALBANY|SCENE V. Court before the same.
King Lear|ALBANY|Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool
King Lear|KING LEAR|Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you
King Lear|KING LEAR|know than comes from her demand out of the letter.
King Lear|KING LEAR|If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you.
King Lear|KENT|I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered
King Lear|KENT|your letter.
King Lear|KENT|Exit
King Lear|Fool|If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in
King Lear|Fool|danger of kibes?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ay, boy.
King Lear|Fool|Then, I prithee, be merry, thy wit shall ne'er go
King Lear|Fool|slip-shod.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ha, ha, ha!
King Lear|Fool|Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly,
King Lear|Fool|for though she's as like this as a crab's like an
King Lear|Fool|apple, yet I can tell what I can tell.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, what canst thou tell, my boy?
King Lear|Fool|She will taste as like this as a crab does to a
King Lear|Fool|crab. Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'
King Lear|Fool|the middle on's face?
King Lear|KING LEAR|No.
King Lear|Fool|Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose, that
King Lear|Fool|what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I did her wrong--
King Lear|Fool|Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?
King Lear|KING LEAR|No.
King Lear|Fool|Nor I neither, but I can tell why a snail has a house.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why?
King Lear|Fool|Why, to put his head in, not to give it away to his
King Lear|Fool|daughters, and leave his horns without a case.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my
King Lear|KING LEAR|horses ready?
King Lear|Fool|Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the
King Lear|Fool|seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Because they are not eight?
King Lear|Fool|Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!
King Lear|Fool|If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten
King Lear|Fool|for being old before thy time.
King Lear|KING LEAR|How's that?
King Lear|Fool|Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
King Lear|Fool|been wise.
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven
King Lear|KING LEAR|Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Enter Gentleman
King Lear|KING LEAR|How now! are the horses ready?
King Lear|Gentleman|Ready, my lord.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come, boy.
King Lear|Fool|She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
King Lear|Fool|Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.
King Lear|Fool|Exeunt
King Lear|Fool|ACT II
King Lear|Fool|SCENE I. GLOUCESTER's castle.
King Lear|Fool|Enter EDMUND, and CURAN meets him
King Lear|EDMUND|Save thee, Curan.
King Lear|CURAN|And you, sir. I have been with your father, and
King Lear|CURAN|given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan
King Lear|CURAN|his duchess will be here with him this night.
King Lear|EDMUND|How comes that?
King Lear|CURAN|Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad,
King Lear|CURAN|I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but
King Lear|CURAN|ear-kissing arguments?
King Lear|EDMUND|Not I	pray you, what are they?
King Lear|CURAN|Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt the
King Lear|CURAN|Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?
King Lear|EDMUND|Not a word.
King Lear|CURAN|You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir.
King Lear|CURAN|Exit
King Lear|EDMUND|The duke be here to-night? The better! best!
King Lear|EDMUND|This weaves itself perforce into my business.
King Lear|EDMUND|My father hath set guard to take my brother,
King Lear|EDMUND|And I have one thing, of a queasy question,
King Lear|EDMUND|Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work!
King Lear|EDMUND|Brother, a word, descend: brother, I say!
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter EDGAR
King Lear|EDMUND|My father watches: O sir, fly this place,
King Lear|EDMUND|Intelligence is given where you are hid,
King Lear|EDMUND|You have now the good advantage of the night:
King Lear|EDMUND|Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?
King Lear|EDMUND|He's coming hither: now, i' the night, i' the haste,
King Lear|EDMUND|And Regan with him: have you nothing said
King Lear|EDMUND|Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
King Lear|EDMUND|Advise yourself.
King Lear|EDGAR|I am sure on't, not a word.
King Lear|EDMUND|I hear my father coming: pardon me:
King Lear|EDMUND|In cunning I must draw my sword upon you
King Lear|EDMUND|Draw, seem to defend yourself, now quit you well.
King Lear|EDMUND|Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here!
King Lear|EDMUND|Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So, farewell.
King Lear|EDMUND|Exit EDGAR
King Lear|EDMUND|Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion.
King Lear|EDMUND|Wounds his arm
King Lear|EDMUND|Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards
King Lear|EDMUND|Do more than this in sport. Father, father!
King Lear|EDMUND|Stop, stop! No help?
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter GLOUCESTER, and Servants with torches
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Now, Edmund, where's the villain?
King Lear|EDMUND|Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
King Lear|EDMUND|Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
King Lear|EDMUND|To stand auspicious mistress,--
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|But where is he?
King Lear|EDMUND|Look, sir, I bleed.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Where is the villain, Edmund?
King Lear|EDMUND|Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Pursue him, ho! Go after.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt some Servants
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|By no means what?
King Lear|EDMUND|Persuade me to the murder of your lordship,
King Lear|EDMUND|But that I told him, the revenging gods
King Lear|EDMUND|'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend,
King Lear|EDMUND|Spoke, with how manifold and strong a bond
King Lear|EDMUND|The child was bound to the father, sir, in fine,
King Lear|EDMUND|Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
King Lear|EDMUND|To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion,
King Lear|EDMUND|With his prepared sword, he charges home
King Lear|EDMUND|My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:
King Lear|EDMUND|But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,
King Lear|EDMUND|Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,
King Lear|EDMUND|Or whether gasted by the noise I made,
King Lear|EDMUND|Full suddenly he fled.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Let him fly far:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Not in this land shall he remain uncaught,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|By his authority I will proclaim it,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Bringing the murderous coward to the stake,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He that conceals him, death.
King Lear|EDMUND|When I dissuaded him from his intent,
King Lear|EDMUND|And found him pight to do it, with curst speech
King Lear|EDMUND|I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,
King Lear|EDMUND|'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,
King Lear|EDMUND|If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
King Lear|EDMUND|Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee
King Lear|EDMUND|Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny,--
King Lear|EDMUND|As this I would: ay, though thou didst produce
King Lear|EDMUND|My very character,--I'ld turn it all
King Lear|EDMUND|To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practise:
King Lear|EDMUND|And thou must make a dullard of the world,
King Lear|EDMUND|If they not thought the profits of my death
King Lear|EDMUND|Were very pregnant and potential spurs
King Lear|EDMUND|To make thee seek it.'
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Strong and fasten'd villain
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Would he deny his letter? I never got him.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Tucket within
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|All ports I'll bar, the villain shall not 'scape,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I will send far and near, that all the kingdom
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|May have the due note of him, and of my land,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To make thee capable.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, and Attendants
King Lear|CORNWALL|How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,
King Lear|CORNWALL|Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.
King Lear|REGAN|If it be true, all vengeance comes too short
King Lear|REGAN|Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!
King Lear|REGAN|What, did my father's godson seek your life?
King Lear|REGAN|He whom my father named? your Edgar?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid!
King Lear|REGAN|Was he not companion with the riotous knights
King Lear|REGAN|That tend upon my father?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad.
King Lear|EDMUND|Yes, madam, he was of that consort.
King Lear|REGAN|No marvel, then, though he were ill affected:
King Lear|REGAN|'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,
King Lear|REGAN|To have the expense and waste of his revenues.
King Lear|REGAN|I have this present evening from my sister
King Lear|REGAN|Been well inform'd of them, and with such cautions,
King Lear|REGAN|That if they come to sojourn at my house,
King Lear|REGAN|I'll not be there.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Nor I, assure thee, Regan.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father
King Lear|CORNWALL|A child-like office.
King Lear|EDMUND|'Twas my duty, sir.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He did bewray his practise, and received
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Is he pursued?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Ay, my good lord.
King Lear|CORNWALL|If he be taken, he shall never more
King Lear|CORNWALL|Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,
King Lear|CORNWALL|How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,
King Lear|CORNWALL|Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
King Lear|CORNWALL|So much commend itself, you shall be ours:
King Lear|CORNWALL|Natures of such deep trust we shall much need,
King Lear|CORNWALL|You we first seize on.
King Lear|EDMUND|I shall serve you, sir,
King Lear|EDMUND|Truly, however else.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|For him I thank your grace.
King Lear|CORNWALL|You know not why we came to visit you,--
King Lear|REGAN|Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:
King Lear|REGAN|Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,
King Lear|REGAN|Wherein we must have use of your advice:
King Lear|REGAN|Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,
King Lear|REGAN|Of differences, which I least thought it fit
King Lear|REGAN|To answer from our home, the several messengers
King Lear|REGAN|From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,
King Lear|REGAN|Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow
King Lear|REGAN|Your needful counsel to our business,
King Lear|REGAN|Which craves the instant use.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I serve you, madam:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Your graces are right welcome.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|SCENE II. Before Gloucester's castle.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Enter KENT and OSWALD, severally
King Lear|OSWALD|Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?
King Lear|KENT|Ay.
King Lear|OSWALD|Where may we set our horses?
King Lear|KENT|I' the mire.
King Lear|OSWALD|Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.
King Lear|KENT|I love thee not.
King Lear|OSWALD|Why, then, I care not for thee.
King Lear|KENT|If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee
King Lear|KENT|care for me.
King Lear|OSWALD|Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.
King Lear|KENT|Fellow, I know thee.
King Lear|OSWALD|What dost thou know me for?
King Lear|KENT|A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats, a
King Lear|KENT|base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
King Lear|KENT|hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave, a
King Lear|KENT|lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
King Lear|KENT|glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue,
King Lear|KENT|one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a
King Lear|KENT|bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
King Lear|KENT|the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
King Lear|KENT|and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
King Lear|KENT|will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
King Lear|KENT|the least syllable of thy addition.
King Lear|OSWALD|Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail
King Lear|OSWALD|on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!
King Lear|KENT|What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou
King Lear|KENT|knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up
King Lear|KENT|thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw, you
King Lear|KENT|rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon
King Lear|KENT|shines, I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you:
King Lear|KENT|draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.
King Lear|KENT|Drawing his sword
King Lear|OSWALD|Away! I have nothing to do with thee.
King Lear|KENT|Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the
King Lear|KENT|king, and take vanity the puppet's part against the
King Lear|KENT|royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so
King Lear|KENT|carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal, come your ways.
King Lear|OSWALD|Help, ho! murder! help!
King Lear|KENT|Strike, you slave, stand, rogue, stand, you neat
King Lear|KENT|slave, strike.
King Lear|KENT|Beating him
King Lear|OSWALD|Help, ho! murder! murder!
King Lear|OSWALD|Enter EDMUND, with his rapier drawn, CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and Servants
King Lear|EDMUND|How now! What's the matter?
King Lear|KENT|With you, goodman boy, an you please: come, I'll
King Lear|KENT|flesh ye, come on, young master.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Weapons! arms! What 's the matter here?
King Lear|CORNWALL|Keep peace, upon your lives:
King Lear|CORNWALL|He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?
King Lear|REGAN|The messengers from our sister and the king.
King Lear|CORNWALL|What is your difference? speak.
King Lear|OSWALD|I am scarce in breath, my lord.
King Lear|KENT|No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour. You
King Lear|KENT|cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a
King Lear|KENT|tailor made thee.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?
King Lear|KENT|Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or painter could
King Lear|KENT|not have made him so ill, though he had been but two
King Lear|KENT|hours at the trade.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?
King Lear|OSWALD|This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared
King Lear|OSWALD|at suit of his gray beard,--
King Lear|KENT|Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My
King Lear|KENT|lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this
King Lear|KENT|unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of
King Lear|KENT|a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?
King Lear|CORNWALL|Peace, sirrah!
King Lear|CORNWALL|You beastly knave, know you no reverence?
King Lear|KENT|Yes, sir, but anger hath a privilege.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Why art thou angry?
King Lear|KENT|That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
King Lear|KENT|Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,
King Lear|KENT|Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain
King Lear|KENT|Which are too intrinse t' unloose, smooth every passion
King Lear|KENT|That in the natures of their lords rebel,
King Lear|KENT|Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods,
King Lear|KENT|Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
King Lear|KENT|With every gale and vary of their masters,
King Lear|KENT|Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
King Lear|KENT|A plague upon your epileptic visage!
King Lear|KENT|Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?
King Lear|KENT|Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,
King Lear|KENT|I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Why, art thou mad, old fellow?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|How fell you out? say that.
King Lear|KENT|No contraries hold more antipathy
King Lear|KENT|Than I and such a knave.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Why dost thou call him a knave?  What's his offence?
King Lear|KENT|His countenance likes me not.
King Lear|CORNWALL|No more, perchance, does mine, nor his, nor hers.
King Lear|KENT|Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:
King Lear|KENT|I have seen better faces in my time
King Lear|KENT|Than stands on any shoulder that I see
King Lear|KENT|Before me at this instant.
King Lear|CORNWALL|This is some fellow,
King Lear|CORNWALL|Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect
King Lear|CORNWALL|A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb
King Lear|CORNWALL|Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,
King Lear|CORNWALL|An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!
King Lear|CORNWALL|An they will take it, so, if not, he's plain.
King Lear|CORNWALL|These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
King Lear|CORNWALL|Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
King Lear|CORNWALL|Than twenty silly ducking observants
King Lear|CORNWALL|That stretch their duties nicely.
King Lear|KENT|Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,
King Lear|KENT|Under the allowance of your great aspect,
King Lear|KENT|Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
King Lear|KENT|On flickering Phoebus' front,--
King Lear|CORNWALL|What mean'st by this?
King Lear|KENT|To go out of my dialect, which you
King Lear|KENT|discommend so much. I know, sir, I am no
King Lear|KENT|flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain
King Lear|KENT|accent was a plain knave, which for my part
King Lear|KENT|I will not be, though I should win your displeasure
King Lear|KENT|to entreat me to 't.
King Lear|CORNWALL|What was the offence you gave him?
King Lear|OSWALD|I never gave him any:
King Lear|OSWALD|It pleased the king his master very late
King Lear|OSWALD|To strike at me, upon his misconstruction,
King Lear|OSWALD|When he, conjunct and flattering his displeasure,
King Lear|OSWALD|Tripp'd me behind, being down, insulted, rail'd,
King Lear|OSWALD|And put upon him such a deal of man,
King Lear|OSWALD|That worthied him, got praises of the king
King Lear|OSWALD|For him attempting who was self-subdued,
King Lear|OSWALD|And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,
King Lear|OSWALD|Drew on me here again.
King Lear|KENT|None of these rogues and cowards
King Lear|KENT|But Ajax is their fool.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Fetch forth the stocks!
King Lear|CORNWALL|You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,
King Lear|CORNWALL|We'll teach you--
King Lear|KENT|Sir, I am too old to learn:
King Lear|KENT|Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king,
King Lear|KENT|On whose employment I was sent to you:
King Lear|KENT|You shall do small respect, show too bold malice
King Lear|KENT|Against the grace and person of my master,
King Lear|KENT|Stocking his messenger.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,
King Lear|CORNWALL|There shall he sit till noon.
King Lear|REGAN|Till noon! till night, my lord, and all night too.
King Lear|KENT|Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,
King Lear|KENT|You should not use me so.
King Lear|REGAN|Sir, being his knave, I will.
King Lear|CORNWALL|This is a fellow of the self-same colour
King Lear|CORNWALL|Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!
King Lear|CORNWALL|Stocks brought out
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Let me beseech your grace not to do so:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|His fault is much, and the good king his master
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Will cheque him for 't: your purposed low correction
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|For pilferings and most common trespasses
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|That he's so slightly valued in his messenger,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Should have him thus restrain'd.
King Lear|CORNWALL|I'll answer that.
King Lear|REGAN|My sister may receive it much more worse,
King Lear|REGAN|To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,
King Lear|REGAN|For following her affairs. Put in his legs.
King Lear|REGAN|KENT is put in the stocks
King Lear|REGAN|Come, my good lord, away.
King Lear|REGAN|Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER and KENT
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I am sorry for thee, friend, 'tis the duke's pleasure,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.
King Lear|KENT|Pray, do not, sir: I have watched and travell'd hard,
King Lear|KENT|Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.
King Lear|KENT|A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:
King Lear|KENT|Give you good morrow!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The duke's to blame in this, 'twill be ill taken.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exit
King Lear|KENT|Good king, that must approve the common saw,
King Lear|KENT|Thou out of heaven's benediction comest
King Lear|KENT|To the warm sun!
King Lear|KENT|Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,
King Lear|KENT|That by thy comfortable beams I may
King Lear|KENT|Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles
King Lear|KENT|But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,
King Lear|KENT|Who hath most fortunately been inform'd
King Lear|KENT|Of my obscured course, and shall find time
King Lear|KENT|From this enormous state, seeking to give
King Lear|KENT|Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatch'd,
King Lear|KENT|Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
King Lear|KENT|This shameful lodging.
King Lear|KENT|Fortune, good night: smile once more: turn thy wheel!
King Lear|KENT|Sleeps
King Lear|KENT|SCENE III. A wood.
King Lear|KENT|Enter EDGAR
King Lear|EDGAR|I heard myself proclaim'd,
King Lear|EDGAR|And by the happy hollow of a tree
King Lear|EDGAR|Escaped the hunt. No port is free, no place,
King Lear|EDGAR|That guard, and most unusual vigilance,
King Lear|EDGAR|Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,
King Lear|EDGAR|I will preserve myself: and am bethought
King Lear|EDGAR|To take the basest and most poorest shape
King Lear|EDGAR|That ever penury, in contempt of man,
King Lear|EDGAR|Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth,
King Lear|EDGAR|Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots,
King Lear|EDGAR|And with presented nakedness out-face
King Lear|EDGAR|The winds and persecutions of the sky.
King Lear|EDGAR|The country gives me proof and precedent
King Lear|EDGAR|Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
King Lear|EDGAR|Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
King Lear|EDGAR|Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary,
King Lear|EDGAR|And with this horrible object, from low farms,
King Lear|EDGAR|Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,
King Lear|EDGAR|Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
King Lear|EDGAR|Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!
King Lear|EDGAR|That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am.
King Lear|EDGAR|Exit
King Lear|EDGAR|SCENE IV. Before GLOUCESTER's castle. KENT in the stocks.
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter KING LEAR, Fool, and Gentleman
King Lear|KING LEAR|'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And not send back my messenger.
King Lear|Gentleman|As I learn'd,
King Lear|Gentleman|The night before there was no purpose in them
King Lear|Gentleman|Of this remove.
King Lear|KENT|Hail to thee, noble master!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ha!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Makest thou this shame thy pastime?
King Lear|KENT|No, my lord.
King Lear|Fool|Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied
King Lear|Fool|by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by
King Lear|Fool|the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's
King Lear|Fool|over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden
King Lear|Fool|nether-stocks.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What's he that hath so much thy place mistook
King Lear|KING LEAR|To set thee here?
King Lear|KENT|It is both he and she,
King Lear|KENT|Your son and daughter.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No.
King Lear|KENT|Yes.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, I say.
King Lear|KENT|I say, yea.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, no, they would not.
King Lear|KENT|Yes, they have.
King Lear|KING LEAR|By Jupiter, I swear, no.
King Lear|KENT|By Juno, I swear, ay.
King Lear|KING LEAR|They durst not do 't,
King Lear|KING LEAR|They could not, would not do 't, 'tis worse than murder,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To do upon respect such violent outrage:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Coming from us.
King Lear|KENT|My lord, when at their home
King Lear|KENT|I did commend your highness' letters to them,
King Lear|KENT|Ere I was risen from the place that show'd
King Lear|KENT|My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,
King Lear|KENT|Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth
King Lear|KENT|From Goneril his mistress salutations,
King Lear|KENT|Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,
King Lear|KENT|Which presently they read: on whose contents,
King Lear|KENT|They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse,
King Lear|KENT|Commanded me to follow, and attend
King Lear|KENT|The leisure of their answer, gave me cold looks:
King Lear|KENT|And meeting here the other messenger,
King Lear|KENT|Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,--
King Lear|KENT|Being the very fellow that of late
King Lear|KENT|Display'd so saucily against your highness,--
King Lear|KENT|Having more man than wit about me, drew:
King Lear|KENT|He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
King Lear|KENT|Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
King Lear|KENT|The shame which here it suffers.
King Lear|Fool|Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.
King Lear|Fool|Fathers that wear rags
King Lear|Fool|Do make their children blind,
King Lear|Fool|But fathers that bear bags
King Lear|Fool|Shall see their children kind.
King Lear|Fool|Fortune, that arrant whore,
King Lear|Fool|Ne'er turns the key to the poor.
King Lear|Fool|But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours
King Lear|Fool|for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?
King Lear|KENT|With the earl, sir, here within.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Follow me not,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Stay here.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit
King Lear|Gentleman|Made you no more offence but what you speak of?
King Lear|KENT|None.
King Lear|KENT|How chance the king comes with so small a train?
King Lear|Fool|And thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that
King Lear|Fool|question, thou hadst well deserved it.
King Lear|KENT|Why, fool?
King Lear|Fool|We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee
King Lear|Fool|there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow
King Lear|Fool|their noses are led by their eyes but blind men, and
King Lear|Fool|there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him
King Lear|Fool|that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel
King Lear|Fool|runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with
King Lear|Fool|following it: but the great one that goes up the
King Lear|Fool|hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man
King Lear|Fool|gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I
King Lear|Fool|would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.
King Lear|Fool|That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
King Lear|Fool|And follows but for form,
King Lear|Fool|Will pack when it begins to rain,
King Lear|Fool|And leave thee in the storm,
King Lear|Fool|But I will tarry, the fool will stay,
King Lear|Fool|And let the wise man fly:
King Lear|Fool|The knave turns fool that runs away,
King Lear|Fool|The fool no knave, perdy.
King Lear|KENT|Where learned you this, fool?
King Lear|Fool|Not i' the stocks, fool.
King Lear|Fool|Re-enter KING LEAR with GLOUCESTER
King Lear|KING LEAR|Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
King Lear|KING LEAR|They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The images of revolt and flying off.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Fetch me a better answer.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|My dear lord,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|You know the fiery quality of the duke,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|How unremoveable and fix'd he is
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|In his own course.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Ay, my good lord.
King Lear|KING LEAR|The king would speak with Cornwall, the dear father
King Lear|KING LEAR|Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Fiery? the fiery duke? Tell the hot duke that--
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, but not yet: may be he is not well:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Infirmity doth still neglect all office
King Lear|KING LEAR|Whereto our health is bound, we are not ourselves
King Lear|KING LEAR|When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
King Lear|KING LEAR|To suffer with the body: I'll forbear,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And am fall'n out with my more headier will,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To take the indisposed and sickly fit
King Lear|KING LEAR|For the sound man. Death on my state! wherefore
King Lear|KING LEAR|Looking on KENT
King Lear|KING LEAR|Should he sit here? This act persuades me
King Lear|KING LEAR|That this remotion of the duke and her
King Lear|KING LEAR|Is practise only. Give me my servant forth.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Go tell the duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum
King Lear|KING LEAR|Till it cry sleep to death.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I would have all well betwixt you.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exit
King Lear|KING LEAR|O me, my heart, my rising heart! but, down!
King Lear|Fool|Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels
King Lear|Fool|when she put 'em i' the paste alive, she knapped 'em
King Lear|Fool|o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down,
King Lear|Fool|wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that, in pure
King Lear|Fool|kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
King Lear|Fool|Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and Servants
King Lear|KING LEAR|Good morrow to you both.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Hail to your grace!
King Lear|CORNWALL|KENT is set at liberty
King Lear|REGAN|I am glad to see your highness.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Regan, I think you are, I know what reason
King Lear|KING LEAR|I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Sepulchring an adultress.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To KENT
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, are you free?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied
King Lear|KING LEAR|Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Points to his heart
King Lear|KING LEAR|I can scarce speak to thee, thou'lt not believe
King Lear|KING LEAR|With how depraved a quality--O Regan!
King Lear|REGAN|I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope.
King Lear|REGAN|You less know how to value her desert
King Lear|REGAN|Than she to scant her duty.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Say, how is that?
King Lear|REGAN|I cannot think my sister in the least
King Lear|REGAN|Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance
King Lear|REGAN|She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,
King Lear|REGAN|'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,
King Lear|REGAN|As clears her from all blame.
King Lear|KING LEAR|My curses on her!
King Lear|REGAN|O, sir, you are old.
King Lear|REGAN|Nature in you stands on the very verge
King Lear|REGAN|Of her confine: you should be ruled and led
King Lear|REGAN|By some discretion, that discerns your state
King Lear|REGAN|Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you,
King Lear|REGAN|That to our sister you do make return,
King Lear|REGAN|Say you have wrong'd her, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ask her forgiveness?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Do you but mark how this becomes the house:
King Lear|KING LEAR|'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Kneeling
King Lear|KING LEAR|Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
King Lear|KING LEAR|That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'
King Lear|REGAN|Good sir, no more, these are unsightly tricks:
King Lear|REGAN|Return you to my sister.
King Lear|KING LEAR|[Rising]  Never, Regan:
King Lear|KING LEAR|She hath abated me of half my train,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Look'd black upon me, struck me with her tongue,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:
King Lear|KING LEAR|All the stored vengeances of heaven fall
King Lear|KING LEAR|On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
King Lear|KING LEAR|You taking airs, with lameness!
King Lear|CORNWALL|Fie, sir, fie!
King Lear|KING LEAR|You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames
King Lear|KING LEAR|Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,
King Lear|KING LEAR|You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To fall and blast her pride!
King Lear|REGAN|O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,
King Lear|REGAN|When the rash mood is on.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce, but thine
King Lear|KING LEAR|Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee
King Lear|KING LEAR|To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And in conclusion to oppose the bolt
King Lear|KING LEAR|Against my coming in: thou better know'st
King Lear|KING LEAR|The offices of nature, bond of childhood,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Wherein I thee endow'd.
King Lear|REGAN|Good sir, to the purpose.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Who put my man i' the stocks?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Tucket within
King Lear|CORNWALL|What trumpet's that?
King Lear|REGAN|I know't, my sister's: this approves her letter,
King Lear|REGAN|That she would soon be here.
King Lear|REGAN|Enter OSWALD
King Lear|REGAN|Is your lady come?
King Lear|KING LEAR|This is a slave, whose easy-borrow'd pride
King Lear|KING LEAR|Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Out, varlet, from my sight!
King Lear|CORNWALL|What means your grace?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here? O heavens,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Enter GONERIL
King Lear|KING LEAR|If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
King Lear|KING LEAR|Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Make it your cause, send down, and take my part!
King Lear|KING LEAR|To GONERIL
King Lear|KING LEAR|Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?
King Lear|KING LEAR|O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?
King Lear|GONERIL|Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?
King Lear|GONERIL|All's not offence that indiscretion finds
King Lear|GONERIL|And dotage terms so.
King Lear|KING LEAR|O sides, you are too tough,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?
King Lear|CORNWALL|I set him there, sir: but his own disorders
King Lear|CORNWALL|Deserved much less advancement.
King Lear|KING LEAR|You! did you?
King Lear|REGAN|I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.
King Lear|REGAN|If, till the expiration of your month,
King Lear|REGAN|You will return and sojourn with my sister,
King Lear|REGAN|Dismissing half your train, come then to me:
King Lear|REGAN|I am now from home, and out of that provision
King Lear|REGAN|Which shall be needful for your entertainment.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
King Lear|KING LEAR|To wage against the enmity o' the air,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took
King Lear|KING LEAR|Our youngest born, I could as well be brought
King Lear|KING LEAR|To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg
King Lear|KING LEAR|To keep base life afoot. Return with her?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
King Lear|KING LEAR|To this detested groom.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pointing at OSWALD
King Lear|GONERIL|At your choice, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will not trouble thee, my child, farewell:
King Lear|KING LEAR|We'll no more meet, no more see one another:
King Lear|KING LEAR|But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,
King Lear|KING LEAR|A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,
King Lear|KING LEAR|In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:
King Lear|KING LEAR|I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Mend when thou canst, be better at thy leisure:
King Lear|KING LEAR|I can be patient, I can stay with Regan,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I and my hundred knights.
King Lear|REGAN|Not altogether so:
King Lear|REGAN|I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided
King Lear|REGAN|For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister,
King Lear|REGAN|For those that mingle reason with your passion
King Lear|REGAN|Must be content to think you old, and so--
King Lear|REGAN|But she knows what she does.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Is this well spoken?
King Lear|REGAN|I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?
King Lear|REGAN|Is it not well? What should you need of more?
King Lear|REGAN|Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger
King Lear|REGAN|Speak 'gainst so great a number? How, in one house,
King Lear|REGAN|Should many people, under two commands,
King Lear|REGAN|Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible.
King Lear|GONERIL|Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance
King Lear|GONERIL|From those that she calls servants or from mine?
King Lear|REGAN|Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,
King Lear|REGAN|We could control them. If you will come to me,--
King Lear|REGAN|For now I spy a danger,--I entreat you
King Lear|REGAN|To bring but five and twenty: to no more
King Lear|REGAN|Will I give place or notice.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I gave you all--
King Lear|REGAN|And in good time you gave it.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Made you my guardians, my depositaries,
King Lear|KING LEAR|But kept a reservation to be follow'd
King Lear|KING LEAR|With such a number. What, must I come to you
King Lear|KING LEAR|With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?
King Lear|REGAN|And speak't again, my lord, no more with me.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,
King Lear|KING LEAR|When others are more wicked: not being the worst
King Lear|KING LEAR|Stands in some rank of praise.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To GONERIL
King Lear|KING LEAR|I'll go with thee:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And thou art twice her love.
King Lear|GONERIL|Hear me, my lord,
King Lear|GONERIL|What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,
King Lear|GONERIL|To follow in a house where twice so many
King Lear|GONERIL|Have a command to tend you?
King Lear|REGAN|What need one?
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
King Lear|KING LEAR|Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Allow not nature more than nature needs,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady,
King Lear|KING LEAR|If only to go warm were gorgeous,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
King Lear|KING LEAR|You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
King Lear|KING LEAR|As full of grief as age, wretched in both!
King Lear|KING LEAR|If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts
King Lear|KING LEAR|Against their father, fool me not so much
King Lear|KING LEAR|To bear it tamely, touch me with noble anger,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And let not women's weapons, water-drops,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will have such revenges on you both,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That all the world shall--I will do such things,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
King Lear|KING LEAR|The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, I'll not weep:
King Lear|KING LEAR|I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
King Lear|KING LEAR|Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exeunt KING LEAR, GLOUCESTER, KENT, and Fool
King Lear|KING LEAR|Storm and tempest
King Lear|CORNWALL|Let us withdraw, 'twill be a storm.
King Lear|REGAN|This house is little: the old man and his people
King Lear|REGAN|Cannot be well bestow'd.
King Lear|GONERIL|'Tis his own blame, hath put himself from rest,
King Lear|GONERIL|And must needs taste his folly.
King Lear|REGAN|For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
King Lear|REGAN|But not one follower.
King Lear|GONERIL|So am I purposed.
King Lear|GONERIL|Where is my lord of Gloucester?
King Lear|CORNWALL|Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Re-enter GLOUCESTER
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The king is in high rage.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Whither is he going?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He calls to horse, but will I know not whither.
King Lear|CORNWALL|'Tis best to give him way, he leads himself.
King Lear|GONERIL|My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Do sorely ruffle, for many miles a bout
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|There's scarce a bush.
King Lear|REGAN|O, sir, to wilful men,
King Lear|REGAN|The injuries that they themselves procure
King Lear|REGAN|Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:
King Lear|REGAN|He is attended with a desperate train,
King Lear|REGAN|And what they may incense him to, being apt
King Lear|REGAN|To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Shut up your doors, my lord, 'tis a wild night:
King Lear|CORNWALL|My Regan counsels well, come out o' the storm.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Exeunt
King Lear|CORNWALL|ACT III
King Lear|CORNWALL|SCENE I. A heath.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Storm still. Enter KENT and a Gentleman, meeting
King Lear|KENT|Who's there, besides foul weather?
King Lear|Gentleman|One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
King Lear|KENT|I know you. Where's the king?
King Lear|Gentleman|Contending with the fretful element:
King Lear|Gentleman|Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea,
King Lear|Gentleman|Or swell the curled water 'bove the main,
King Lear|Gentleman|That things might change or cease, tears his white hair,
King Lear|Gentleman|Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,
King Lear|Gentleman|Catch in their fury, and make nothing of,
King Lear|Gentleman|Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn
King Lear|Gentleman|The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.
King Lear|Gentleman|This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
King Lear|Gentleman|The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
King Lear|Gentleman|Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
King Lear|Gentleman|And bids what will take all.
King Lear|KENT|But who is with him?
King Lear|Gentleman|None but the fool, who labours to out-jest
King Lear|Gentleman|His heart-struck injuries.
King Lear|KENT|Sir, I do know you,
King Lear|KENT|And dare, upon the warrant of my note,
King Lear|KENT|Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,
King Lear|KENT|Although as yet the face of it be cover'd
King Lear|KENT|With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall,
King Lear|KENT|Who have--as who have not, that their great stars
King Lear|KENT|Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,
King Lear|KENT|Which are to France the spies and speculations
King Lear|KENT|Intelligent of our state, what hath been seen,
King Lear|KENT|Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,
King Lear|KENT|Or the hard rein which both of them have borne
King Lear|KENT|Against the old kind king, or something deeper,
King Lear|KENT|Whereof perchance these are but furnishings,
King Lear|KENT|But, true it is, from France there comes a power
King Lear|KENT|Into this scatter'd kingdom, who already,
King Lear|KENT|Wise in our negligence, have secret feet
King Lear|KENT|In some of our best ports, and are at point
King Lear|KENT|To show their open banner. Now to you:
King Lear|KENT|If on my credit you dare build so far
King Lear|KENT|To make your speed to Dover, you shall find
King Lear|KENT|Some that will thank you, making just report
King Lear|KENT|Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
King Lear|KENT|The king hath cause to plain.
King Lear|KENT|I am a gentleman of blood and breeding,
King Lear|KENT|And, from some knowledge and assurance, offer
King Lear|KENT|This office to you.
King Lear|Gentleman|I will talk further with you.
King Lear|KENT|No, do not.
King Lear|KENT|For confirmation that I am much more
King Lear|KENT|Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take
King Lear|KENT|What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--
King Lear|KENT|As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring,
King Lear|KENT|And she will tell you who your fellow is
King Lear|KENT|That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!
King Lear|KENT|I will go seek the king.
King Lear|Gentleman|Give me your hand: have you no more to say?
King Lear|KENT|Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet,
King Lear|KENT|That, when we have found the king,--in which your pain
King Lear|KENT|That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him
King Lear|KENT|Holla the other.
King Lear|KENT|Exeunt severally
King Lear|KENT|SCENE II. Another part of the heath. Storm still.
King Lear|KENT|Enter KING LEAR and Fool
King Lear|KING LEAR|Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
King Lear|KING LEAR|You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
King Lear|KING LEAR|Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
King Lear|KING LEAR|You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That make ingrateful man!
King Lear|Fool|O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry
King Lear|Fool|house is better than this rain-water out o' door.
King Lear|Fool|Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing:
King Lear|Fool|here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
King Lear|KING LEAR|I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
King Lear|KING LEAR|You owe me no subscription: then let fall
King Lear|KING LEAR|Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
King Lear|KING LEAR|A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
King Lear|KING LEAR|But yet I call you servile ministers,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That have with two pernicious daughters join'd
King Lear|KING LEAR|Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head
King Lear|KING LEAR|So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!
King Lear|Fool|He that has a house to put's head in has a good
King Lear|Fool|head-piece.
King Lear|Fool|The cod-piece that will house
King Lear|Fool|Before the head has any,
King Lear|Fool|The head and he shall louse,
King Lear|Fool|So beggars marry many.
King Lear|Fool|The man that makes his toe
King Lear|Fool|What he his heart should make
King Lear|Fool|Shall of a corn cry woe,
King Lear|Fool|And turn his sleep to wake.
King Lear|Fool|For there was never yet fair woman but she made
King Lear|Fool|mouths in a glass.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, I will be the pattern of all patience,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will say nothing.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Enter KENT
King Lear|KENT|Who's there?
King Lear|Fool|Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece, that's a wise
King Lear|Fool|man and a fool.
King Lear|KENT|Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night
King Lear|KENT|Love not such nights as these, the wrathful skies
King Lear|KENT|Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,
King Lear|KENT|And make them keep their caves: since I was man,
King Lear|KENT|Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
King Lear|KENT|Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
King Lear|KENT|Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry
King Lear|KENT|The affliction nor the fear.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let the great gods,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That hast within thee undivulged crimes,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue
King Lear|KING LEAR|That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That under covert and convenient seeming
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Rive your concealing continents, and cry
King Lear|KING LEAR|These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
King Lear|KING LEAR|More sinn'd against than sinning.
King Lear|KENT|Alack, bare-headed!
King Lear|KENT|Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel,
King Lear|KENT|Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:
King Lear|KENT|Repose you there, while I to this hard house--
King Lear|KENT|More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised,
King Lear|KENT|Which even but now, demanding after you,
King Lear|KENT|Denied me to come in--return, and force
King Lear|KENT|Their scanted courtesy.
King Lear|KING LEAR|My wits begin to turn.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold?
King Lear|KING LEAR|I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?
King Lear|KING LEAR|The art of our necessities is strange,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That can make vile things precious. Come,
King Lear|KING LEAR|your hovel.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart
King Lear|KING LEAR|That's sorry yet for thee.
King Lear|Fool|[Singing]
King Lear|Fool|He that has and a little tiny wit--
King Lear|Fool|With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--
King Lear|Fool|Must make content with his fortunes fit,
King Lear|Fool|For the rain it raineth every day.
King Lear|KING LEAR|True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exeunt KING LEAR and KENT
King Lear|Fool|This is a brave night to cool a courtezan.
King Lear|Fool|I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:
King Lear|Fool|When priests are more in word than matter,
King Lear|Fool|When brewers mar their malt with water,
King Lear|Fool|When nobles are their tailors' tutors,
King Lear|Fool|No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors,
King Lear|Fool|When every case in law is right,
King Lear|Fool|No squire in debt, nor no poor knight,
King Lear|Fool|When slanders do not live in tongues,
King Lear|Fool|Nor cutpurses come not to throngs,
King Lear|Fool|When usurers tell their gold i' the field,
King Lear|Fool|And bawds and whores do churches build,
King Lear|Fool|Then shall the realm of Albion
King Lear|Fool|Come to great confusion:
King Lear|Fool|Then comes the time, who lives to see't,
King Lear|Fool|That going shall be used with feet.
King Lear|Fool|This prophecy Merlin shall make, for I live before his time.
King Lear|Fool|Exit
King Lear|Fool|SCENE III. Gloucester's castle.
King Lear|Fool|Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|dealing. When I desire their leave that I might
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|pity him, they took from me the use of mine own
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|house, charged me, on pain of their perpetual
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|him, nor any way sustain him.
King Lear|EDMUND|Most savage and unnatural!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Go to, say you nothing. There's a division betwixt
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|the dukes, and a worse matter than that: I have
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|received a letter this night, 'tis dangerous to be
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|spoken, I have locked the letter in my closet:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|these injuries the king now bears will be revenged
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|home, there's part of a power already footed: we
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|must incline to the king. I will seek him, and
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|the king my old master must be relieved. There is
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|some strange thing toward, Edmund, pray you, be careful.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exit
King Lear|EDMUND|This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke
King Lear|EDMUND|Instantly know, and of that letter too:
King Lear|EDMUND|This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
King Lear|EDMUND|That which my father loses, no less than all:
King Lear|EDMUND|The younger rises when the old doth fall.
King Lear|EDMUND|Exit
King Lear|EDMUND|SCENE IV. The heath. Before a hovel.
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool
King Lear|KENT|Here is the place, my lord, good my lord, enter:
King Lear|KENT|The tyranny of the open night's too rough
King Lear|KENT|For nature to endure.
King Lear|KENT|Storm still
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let me alone.
King Lear|KENT|Good my lord, enter here.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Wilt break my heart?
King Lear|KENT|I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
King Lear|KING LEAR|Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee,
King Lear|KING LEAR|But where the greater malady is fix'd,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear,
King Lear|KING LEAR|But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the
King Lear|KING LEAR|mind's free,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind
King Lear|KING LEAR|Doth from my senses take all feeling else
King Lear|KING LEAR|Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
King Lear|KING LEAR|For lifting food to't? But I will punish home:
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, I will weep no more. In such a night
King Lear|KING LEAR|To shut me out! Pour on, I will endure.
King Lear|KING LEAR|In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, that way madness lies, let me shun that,
King Lear|KING LEAR|No more of that.
King Lear|KENT|Good my lord, enter here.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:
King Lear|KING LEAR|This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
King Lear|KING LEAR|On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To the Fool
King Lear|KING LEAR|In, boy, go first. You houseless poverty,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Fool goes in
King Lear|KING LEAR|Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
King Lear|KING LEAR|How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
King Lear|KING LEAR|From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
King Lear|KING LEAR|Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And show the heavens more just.
King Lear|EDGAR|[Within]  Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom!
King Lear|EDGAR|The Fool runs out from the hovel
King Lear|Fool|Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit
King Lear|Fool|Help me, help me!
King Lear|KENT|Give me thy hand. Who's there?
King Lear|Fool|A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom.
King Lear|KENT|What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?
King Lear|KENT|Come forth.
King Lear|KENT|Enter EDGAR disguised as a mad man
King Lear|EDGAR|Away! the foul fiend follows me!
King Lear|EDGAR|Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.
King Lear|EDGAR|Hum! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hast thou given all to thy two daughters?
King Lear|KING LEAR|And art thou come to this?
King Lear|EDGAR|Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the foul
King Lear|EDGAR|fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and
King Lear|EDGAR|through ford and whirlipool e'er bog and quagmire,
King Lear|EDGAR|that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters
King Lear|EDGAR|in his pew, set ratsbane by his porridge, made film
King Lear|EDGAR|proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting-horse over
King Lear|EDGAR|four-inched bridges, to course his own shadow for a
King Lear|EDGAR|traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's a-cold,--O, do
King Lear|EDGAR|de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds,
King Lear|EDGAR|star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some
King Lear|EDGAR|charity, whom the foul fiend vexes: there could I
King Lear|EDGAR|have him now,--and there,--and there again, and there.
King Lear|EDGAR|Storm still
King Lear|KING LEAR|What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?
King Lear|Fool|Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air
King Lear|KING LEAR|Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!
King Lear|KENT|He hath no daughters, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature
King Lear|KING LEAR|To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers
King Lear|KING LEAR|Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot
King Lear|KING LEAR|Those pelican daughters.
King Lear|EDGAR|Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:
King Lear|EDGAR|Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!
King Lear|Fool|This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
King Lear|EDGAR|Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents,
King Lear|EDGAR|keep thy word justly, swear not, commit not with
King Lear|EDGAR|man's sworn spouse, set not thy sweet heart on proud
King Lear|EDGAR|array. Tom's a-cold.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What hast thou been?
King Lear|EDGAR|A serving-man, proud in heart and mind, that curled
King Lear|EDGAR|my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of
King Lear|EDGAR|my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with
King Lear|EDGAR|her, swore as many oaths as I spake words, and
King Lear|EDGAR|broke them in the sweet face of heaven: one that
King Lear|EDGAR|slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it:
King Lear|EDGAR|wine loved I deeply, dice dearly: and in woman
King Lear|EDGAR|out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart, light of
King Lear|EDGAR|ear, bloody of hand, hog in sloth, fox in stealth,
King Lear|EDGAR|wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.
King Lear|EDGAR|Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of
King Lear|EDGAR|silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot
King Lear|EDGAR|out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen
King Lear|EDGAR|from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
King Lear|EDGAR|Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind:
King Lear|EDGAR|Says suum, mun, ha, no, nonny.
King Lear|EDGAR|Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by.
King Lear|EDGAR|Storm still
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer
King Lear|KING LEAR|with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou
King Lear|KING LEAR|owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep
King Lear|KING LEAR|no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on
King Lear|KING LEAR|'s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself:
King Lear|KING LEAR|unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare,
King Lear|KING LEAR|forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!
King Lear|KING LEAR|come unbutton here.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Tearing off his clothes
King Lear|Fool|Prithee, nuncle, be contented, 'tis a naughty night
King Lear|Fool|to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were
King Lear|Fool|like an old lecher's heart, a small spark, all the
King Lear|Fool|rest on's body cold. Look, here comes a walking fire.
King Lear|Fool|Enter GLOUCESTER, with a torch
King Lear|EDGAR|This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins
King Lear|EDGAR|at curfew, and walks till the first cock, he gives
King Lear|EDGAR|the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the
King Lear|EDGAR|hare-lip, mildews the white wheat, and hurts the
King Lear|EDGAR|poor creature of earth.
King Lear|EDGAR|S. Withold footed thrice the old,
King Lear|EDGAR|He met the night-mare, and her nine-fold,
King Lear|EDGAR|Bid her alight,
King Lear|EDGAR|And her troth plight,
King Lear|EDGAR|And, aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!
King Lear|KENT|How fares your grace?
King Lear|KING LEAR|What's he?
King Lear|KENT|Who's there? What is't you seek?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|What are you there? Your names?
King Lear|EDGAR|Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad,
King Lear|EDGAR|the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water, that in
King Lear|EDGAR|the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,
King Lear|EDGAR|eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and
King Lear|EDGAR|the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the
King Lear|EDGAR|standing pool, who is whipped from tithing to
King Lear|EDGAR|tithing, and stock- punished, and imprisoned, who
King Lear|EDGAR|hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his
King Lear|EDGAR|body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear,
King Lear|EDGAR|But mice and rats, and such small deer,
King Lear|EDGAR|Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
King Lear|EDGAR|Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin, peace, thou fiend!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|What, hath your grace no better company?
King Lear|EDGAR|The prince of darkness is a gentleman:
King Lear|EDGAR|Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|That it doth hate what gets it.
King Lear|EDGAR|Poor Tom's a-cold.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To obey in all your daughters' hard commands:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Though their injunction be to bar my doors,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Yet have I ventured to come seek you out,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And bring you where both fire and food is ready.
King Lear|KING LEAR|First let me talk with this philosopher.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What is the cause of thunder?
King Lear|KENT|Good my lord, take his offer, go into the house.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What is your study?
King Lear|EDGAR|How to prevent the fiend, and to kill vermin.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let me ask you one word in private.
King Lear|KENT|Importune him once more to go, my lord,
King Lear|KENT|His wits begin to unsettle.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Canst thou blame him?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Storm still
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|His daughters seek his death: ah, that good Kent!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He said it would be thus, poor banish'd man!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Thou say'st the king grows mad, I'll tell thee, friend,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I am almost mad myself: I had a son,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Now outlaw'd from my blood, he sought my life,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|But lately, very late: I loved him, friend,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|No father his son dearer: truth to tell thee,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I do beseech your grace,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, cry your mercy, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Noble philosopher, your company.
King Lear|EDGAR|Tom's a-cold.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|In, fellow, there, into the hovel: keep thee warm.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come let's in all.
King Lear|KENT|This way, my lord.
King Lear|KING LEAR|With him,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will keep still with my philosopher.
King Lear|KENT|Good my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Take him you on.
King Lear|KENT|Sirrah, come on, go along with us.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come, good Athenian.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|No words, no words: hush.
King Lear|EDGAR|Child Rowland to the dark tower came,
King Lear|EDGAR|His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum,
King Lear|EDGAR|I smell the blood of a British man.
King Lear|EDGAR|Exeunt
King Lear|EDGAR|SCENE V. Gloucester's castle.
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND
King Lear|CORNWALL|I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
King Lear|EDMUND|How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus
King Lear|EDMUND|gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think
King Lear|EDMUND|of.
King Lear|CORNWALL|I now perceive, it was not altogether your
King Lear|CORNWALL|brother's evil disposition made him seek his death,
King Lear|CORNWALL|but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable
King Lear|CORNWALL|badness in himself.
King Lear|EDMUND|How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to
King Lear|EDMUND|be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which
King Lear|EDMUND|approves him an intelligent party to the advantages
King Lear|EDMUND|of France: O heavens! that this treason were not,
King Lear|EDMUND|or not I the detector!
King Lear|CORNWALL|o with me to the duchess.
King Lear|EDMUND|If the matter of this paper be certain, you have
King Lear|EDMUND|mighty business in hand.
King Lear|CORNWALL|True or false, it hath made thee earl of
King Lear|CORNWALL|Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he
King Lear|CORNWALL|may be ready for our apprehension.
King Lear|EDMUND|[Aside]  If I find him comforting the king, it will
King Lear|EDMUND|stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in
King Lear|EDMUND|my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore
King Lear|EDMUND|between that and my blood.
King Lear|CORNWALL|I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a
King Lear|CORNWALL|dearer father in my love.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Exeunt
King Lear|CORNWALL|SCENE VI. A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Enter GLOUCESTER, KING LEAR, KENT, Fool, and EDGAR
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Here is better than the open air, take it
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|addition I can: I will not be long from you.
King Lear|KENT|All the power of his wits have given way to his
King Lear|KENT|impatience: the gods reward your kindness!
King Lear|KENT|Exit GLOUCESTER
King Lear|EDGAR|Frateretto calls me, and tells me
King Lear|EDGAR|Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.
King Lear|EDGAR|Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.
King Lear|Fool|Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a
King Lear|Fool|gentleman or a yeoman?
King Lear|KING LEAR|A king, a king!
King Lear|Fool|No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son,
King Lear|Fool|for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman
King Lear|Fool|before him.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To have a thousand with red burning spits
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come hissing in upon 'em,--
King Lear|EDGAR|The foul fiend bites my back.
King Lear|Fool|He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a
King Lear|Fool|horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
King Lear|KING LEAR|It shall be done, I will arraign them straight.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To EDGAR
King Lear|KING LEAR|Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To the Fool
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes!
King Lear|EDGAR|Look, where he stands and glares!
King Lear|EDGAR|Wantest thou eyes at trial, madam?
King Lear|EDGAR|Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,--
King Lear|Fool|Her boat hath a leak,
King Lear|Fool|And she must not speak
King Lear|Fool|Why she dares not come over to thee.
King Lear|EDGAR|The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a
King Lear|EDGAR|nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two
King Lear|EDGAR|white herring. Croak not, black angel, I have no
King Lear|EDGAR|food for thee.
King Lear|KENT|How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:
King Lear|KENT|Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?
King Lear|KING LEAR|I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To EDGAR
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou robed man of justice, take thy place,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To the Fool
King Lear|KING LEAR|And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Bench by his side:
King Lear|KING LEAR|To KENT
King Lear|KING LEAR|you are o' the commission,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Sit you too.
King Lear|EDGAR|Let us deal justly.
King Lear|EDGAR|Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
King Lear|EDGAR|Thy sheep be in the corn,
King Lear|EDGAR|And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,
King Lear|EDGAR|Thy sheep shall take no harm.
King Lear|EDGAR|Pur! the cat is gray.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Arraign her first, 'tis Goneril. I here take my
King Lear|KING LEAR|oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the
King Lear|KING LEAR|poor king her father.
King Lear|Fool|Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?
King Lear|KING LEAR|She cannot deny it.
King Lear|Fool|Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.
King Lear|KING LEAR|And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim
King Lear|KING LEAR|What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place!
King Lear|KING LEAR|False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?
King Lear|EDGAR|Bless thy five wits!
King Lear|KENT|O pity! Sir, where is the patience now,
King Lear|KENT|That thou so oft have boasted to retain?
King Lear|EDGAR|[Aside]  My tears begin to take his part so much,
King Lear|EDGAR|They'll mar my counterfeiting.
King Lear|KING LEAR|The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and
King Lear|KING LEAR|Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
King Lear|EDGAR|Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!
King Lear|EDGAR|Be thy mouth or black or white,
King Lear|EDGAR|Tooth that poisons if it bite,
King Lear|EDGAR|Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim,
King Lear|EDGAR|Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,
King Lear|EDGAR|Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,
King Lear|EDGAR|Tom will make them weep and wail:
King Lear|EDGAR|For, with throwing thus my head,
King Lear|EDGAR|Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.
King Lear|EDGAR|Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and
King Lear|EDGAR|fairs and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Then let them anatomize Regan, see what breeds
King Lear|KING LEAR|about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that
King Lear|KING LEAR|makes these hard hearts?
King Lear|KING LEAR|To EDGAR
King Lear|KING LEAR|You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred, only I
King Lear|KING LEAR|do not like the fashion of your garments: you will
King Lear|KING LEAR|say they are Persian attire: but let them be changed.
King Lear|KENT|Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Make no noise, make no noise, draw the curtains:
King Lear|KING LEAR|so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' he morning. So, so, so.
King Lear|Fool|And I'll go to bed at noon.
King Lear|Fool|Re-enter GLOUCESTER
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?
King Lear|KENT|Here, sir, but trouble him not, his wits are gone.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|There is a litter ready, lay him in 't,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|With thine, and all that offer to defend him,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Stand in assured loss: take up, take up,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And follow me, that will to some provision
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Give thee quick conduct.
King Lear|KENT|Oppressed nature sleeps:
King Lear|KENT|This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,
King Lear|KENT|Which, if convenience will not allow,
King Lear|KENT|Stand in hard cure.
King Lear|KENT|To the Fool
King Lear|KENT|Come, help to bear thy master,
King Lear|KENT|Thou must not stay behind.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Come, come, away.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt all but EDGAR
King Lear|EDGAR|When we our betters see bearing our woes,
King Lear|EDGAR|We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
King Lear|EDGAR|Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,
King Lear|EDGAR|Leaving free things and happy shows behind:
King Lear|EDGAR|But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip,
King Lear|EDGAR|When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
King Lear|EDGAR|How light and portable my pain seems now,
King Lear|EDGAR|When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,
King Lear|EDGAR|He childed as I father'd! Tom, away!
King Lear|EDGAR|Mark the high noises, and thyself bewray,
King Lear|EDGAR|When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,
King Lear|EDGAR|In thy just proof, repeals and reconciles thee.
King Lear|EDGAR|What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!
King Lear|EDGAR|Lurk, lurk.
King Lear|EDGAR|Exit
King Lear|EDGAR|SCENE VII. Gloucester's castle.
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND, and Servants
King Lear|CORNWALL|Post speedily to my lord your husband, show him
King Lear|CORNWALL|this letter: the army of France is landed. Seek
King Lear|CORNWALL|out the villain Gloucester.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Exeunt some of the Servants
King Lear|REGAN|Hang him instantly.
King Lear|GONERIL|Pluck out his eyes.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our
King Lear|CORNWALL|sister company: the revenges we are bound to take
King Lear|CORNWALL|upon your traitorous father are not fit for your
King Lear|CORNWALL|beholding. Advise the duke, where you are going, to
King Lear|CORNWALL|a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the
King Lear|CORNWALL|like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent
King Lear|CORNWALL|betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister: farewell, my
King Lear|CORNWALL|lord of Gloucester.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Enter OSWALD
King Lear|CORNWALL|How now! where's the king?
King Lear|OSWALD|My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence:
King Lear|OSWALD|Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
King Lear|OSWALD|Hot questrists after him, met him at gate,
King Lear|OSWALD|Who, with some other of the lords dependants,
King Lear|OSWALD|Are gone with him towards Dover, where they boast
King Lear|OSWALD|To have well-armed friends.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Get horses for your mistress.
King Lear|GONERIL|Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Edmund, farewell.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Exeunt GONERIL, EDMUND, and OSWALD
King Lear|CORNWALL|Go seek the traitor Gloucester,
King Lear|CORNWALL|Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Exeunt other Servants
King Lear|CORNWALL|Though well we may not pass upon his life
King Lear|CORNWALL|Without the form of justice, yet our power
King Lear|CORNWALL|Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men
King Lear|CORNWALL|May blame, but not control. Who's there? the traitor?
King Lear|CORNWALL|Enter GLOUCESTER, brought in by two or three
King Lear|REGAN|Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Bind fast his corky arms.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Bind him, I say.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Servants bind him
King Lear|REGAN|Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.
King Lear|CORNWALL|To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find--
King Lear|CORNWALL|REGAN plucks his beard
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To pluck me by the beard.
King Lear|REGAN|So white, and such a traitor!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Naughty lady,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Will quicken, and accuse thee: I am your host:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|With robbers' hands my hospitable favours
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?
King Lear|CORNWALL|Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?
King Lear|REGAN|Be simple answerer, for we know the truth.
King Lear|CORNWALL|And what confederacy have you with the traitors
King Lear|CORNWALL|Late footed in the kingdom?
King Lear|REGAN|To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king? Speak.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I have a letter guessingly set down,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And not from one opposed.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Cunning.
King Lear|REGAN|And false.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Where hast thou sent the king?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To Dover.
King Lear|REGAN|Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril--
King Lear|CORNWALL|Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.
King Lear|REGAN|Wherefore to Dover, sir?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Because I would not see thy cruel nails
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor thy fierce sister
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The sea, with such a storm as his bare head
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|In hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And quench'd the stelled fires:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Thou shouldst have said 'Good porter, turn the key,'
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The winged vengeance overtake such children.
King Lear|CORNWALL|See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He that will think to live till he be old,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Give me some help! O cruel! O you gods!
King Lear|REGAN|One side will mock another, the other too.
King Lear|CORNWALL|If you see vengeance,--
King Lear|First Servant|Hold your hand, my lord:
King Lear|First Servant|I have served you ever since I was a child,
King Lear|First Servant|But better service have I never done you
King Lear|First Servant|Than now to bid you hold.
King Lear|REGAN|How now, you dog!
King Lear|First Servant|If you did wear a beard upon your chin,
King Lear|First Servant|I'd shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?
King Lear|CORNWALL|My villain!
King Lear|CORNWALL|They draw and fight
King Lear|First Servant|Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.
King Lear|REGAN|Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!
King Lear|REGAN|Takes a sword, and runs at him behind
King Lear|First Servant|O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left
King Lear|First Servant|To see some mischief on him. O!
King Lear|First Servant|Dies
King Lear|CORNWALL|Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!
King Lear|CORNWALL|Where is thy lustre now?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To quit this horrid act.
King Lear|REGAN|Out, treacherous villain!
King Lear|REGAN|Thou call'st on him that hates thee: it was he
King Lear|REGAN|That made the overture of thy treasons to us,
King Lear|REGAN|Who is too good to pity thee.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|O my follies! then Edgar was abused.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!
King Lear|REGAN|Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell
King Lear|REGAN|His way to Dover.
King Lear|REGAN|Exit one with GLOUCESTER
King Lear|REGAN|How is't, my lord? how look you?
King Lear|CORNWALL|I have received a hurt: follow me, lady.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Turn out that eyeless villain, throw this slave
King Lear|CORNWALL|Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:
King Lear|CORNWALL|Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm.
King Lear|CORNWALL|Exit CORNWALL, led by REGAN
King Lear|Second Servant|I'll never care what wickedness I do,
King Lear|Second Servant|If this man come to good.
King Lear|Third Servant|If she live long,
King Lear|Third Servant|And in the end meet the old course of death,
King Lear|Third Servant|Women will all turn monsters.
King Lear|Second Servant|Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam
King Lear|Second Servant|To lead him where he would: his roguish madness
King Lear|Second Servant|Allows itself to any thing.
King Lear|Third Servant|Go thou: I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs
King Lear|Third Servant|To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!
King Lear|Third Servant|Exeunt severally
King Lear|Third Servant|ACT IV
King Lear|Third Servant|SCENE I. The heath.
King Lear|Third Servant|Enter EDGAR
King Lear|EDGAR|Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,
King Lear|EDGAR|Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,
King Lear|EDGAR|The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,
King Lear|EDGAR|Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:
King Lear|EDGAR|The lamentable change is from the best,
King Lear|EDGAR|The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,
King Lear|EDGAR|Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!
King Lear|EDGAR|The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
King Lear|EDGAR|Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter GLOUCESTER, led by an Old Man
King Lear|EDGAR|My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!
King Lear|EDGAR|But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
King Lear|EDGAR|Lie would not yield to age.
King Lear|Old Man|O, my good lord, I have been your tenant, and
King Lear|Old Man|your father's tenant, these fourscore years.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Away, get thee away, good friend, be gone:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Thy comforts can do me no good at all,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Thee they may hurt.
King Lear|Old Man|Alack, sir, you cannot see your way.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I have no way, and therefore want no eyes,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Our means secure us, and our mere defects
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The food of thy abused father's wrath!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Might I but live to see thee in my touch,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I'ld say I had eyes again!
King Lear|Old Man|How now! Who's there?
King Lear|EDGAR|[Aside]  O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at
King Lear|EDGAR|the worst'?
King Lear|EDGAR|I am worse than e'er I was.
King Lear|Old Man|'Tis poor mad Tom.
King Lear|EDGAR|[Aside]  And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
King Lear|EDGAR|So long as we can say  'This is the worst.'
King Lear|Old Man|Fellow, where goest?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Is it a beggar-man?
King Lear|Old Man|Madman and beggar too.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He has some reason, else he could not beg.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Which made me think a man a worm: my son
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Came then into my mind, and yet my mind
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Was then scarce friends with him: I have heard
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|more since.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|They kill us for their sport.
King Lear|EDGAR|[Aside]	How should this be?
King Lear|EDGAR|Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
King Lear|EDGAR|Angering itself and others.--Bless thee, master!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Is that the naked fellow?
King Lear|Old Man|Ay, my lord.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Then, prithee, get thee gone: if, for my sake,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Thou wilt o'ertake us, hence a mile or twain,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I' the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And bring some covering for this naked soul,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Who I'll entreat to lead me.
King Lear|Old Man|Alack, sir, he is mad.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Above the rest, be gone.
King Lear|Old Man|I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,
King Lear|Old Man|Come on't what will.
King Lear|Old Man|Exit
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Sirrah, naked fellow,--
King Lear|EDGAR|Poor Tom's a-cold.
King Lear|EDGAR|Aside
King Lear|EDGAR|I cannot daub it further.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Come hither, fellow.
King Lear|EDGAR|[Aside]  And yet I must.--Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Know'st thou the way to Dover?
King Lear|EDGAR|Both stile and gate, horse-way and foot-path. Poor
King Lear|EDGAR|Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless
King Lear|EDGAR|thee, good man's son, from the foul fiend! five
King Lear|EDGAR|fiends have been in poor Tom at once, of lust, as
King Lear|EDGAR|Obidicut, Hobbididence, prince of dumbness, Mahu, of
King Lear|EDGAR|stealing, Modo, of murder, Flibbertigibbet, of
King Lear|EDGAR|mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids
King Lear|EDGAR|and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Makes thee the happier: heavens, deal so still!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|That slaves your ordinance, that will not see
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|So distribution should undo excess,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?
King Lear|EDGAR|Ay, master.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|There is a cliff, whose high and bending head
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Looks fearfully in the confined deep:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Bring me but to the very brim of it,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|With something rich about me: from that place
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I shall no leading need.
King Lear|EDGAR|Give me thy arm:
King Lear|EDGAR|Poor Tom shall lead thee.
King Lear|EDGAR|Exeunt
King Lear|EDGAR|SCENE II. Before ALBANY's palace.
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter GONERIL and EDMUND
King Lear|GONERIL|Welcome, my lord: I marvel our mild husband
King Lear|GONERIL|Not met us on the way.
King Lear|GONERIL|Enter OSWALD
King Lear|GONERIL|Now, where's your master'?
King Lear|OSWALD|Madam, within, but never man so changed.
King Lear|OSWALD|I told him of the army that was landed,
King Lear|OSWALD|He smiled at it: I told him you were coming:
King Lear|OSWALD|His answer was 'The worse:' of Gloucester's treachery,
King Lear|OSWALD|And of the loyal service of his son,
King Lear|OSWALD|When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot,
King Lear|OSWALD|And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out:
King Lear|OSWALD|What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him,
King Lear|OSWALD|What like, offensive.
King Lear|GONERIL|[To EDMUND]  Then shall you go no further.
King Lear|GONERIL|It is the cowish terror of his spirit,
King Lear|GONERIL|That dares not undertake: he'll not feel wrongs
King Lear|GONERIL|Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way
King Lear|GONERIL|May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother,
King Lear|GONERIL|Hasten his musters and conduct his powers:
King Lear|GONERIL|I must change arms at home, and give the distaff
King Lear|GONERIL|Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant
King Lear|GONERIL|Shall pass between us: ere long you are like to hear,
King Lear|GONERIL|If you dare venture in your own behalf,
King Lear|GONERIL|A mistress's command. Wear this, spare speech,
King Lear|GONERIL|Giving a favour
King Lear|GONERIL|Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak,
King Lear|GONERIL|Would stretch thy spirits up into the air:
King Lear|GONERIL|Conceive, and fare thee well.
King Lear|EDMUND|Yours in the ranks of death.
King Lear|GONERIL|My most dear Gloucester!
King Lear|GONERIL|Exit EDMUND
King Lear|GONERIL|O, the difference of man and man!
King Lear|GONERIL|To thee a woman's services are due:
King Lear|GONERIL|My fool usurps my body.
King Lear|OSWALD|Madam, here comes my lord.
King Lear|OSWALD|Exit
King Lear|OSWALD|Enter ALBANY
King Lear|GONERIL|I have been worth the whistle.
King Lear|ALBANY|O Goneril!
King Lear|ALBANY|You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
King Lear|ALBANY|Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:
King Lear|ALBANY|That nature, which contemns its origin,
King Lear|ALBANY|Cannot be border'd certain in itself,
King Lear|ALBANY|She that herself will sliver and disbranch
King Lear|ALBANY|From her material sap, perforce must wither
King Lear|ALBANY|And come to deadly use.
King Lear|GONERIL|No more, the text is foolish.
King Lear|ALBANY|Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:
King Lear|ALBANY|Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?
King Lear|ALBANY|Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?
King Lear|ALBANY|A father, and a gracious aged man,
King Lear|ALBANY|Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,
King Lear|ALBANY|Most barbarous, most degenerate! have you madded.
King Lear|ALBANY|Could my good brother suffer you to do it?
King Lear|ALBANY|A man, a prince, by him so benefited!
King Lear|ALBANY|If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
King Lear|ALBANY|Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,
King Lear|ALBANY|It will come,
King Lear|ALBANY|Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
King Lear|ALBANY|Like monsters of the deep.
King Lear|GONERIL|Milk-liver'd man!
King Lear|GONERIL|That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs,
King Lear|GONERIL|Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
King Lear|GONERIL|Thine honour from thy suffering, that not know'st
King Lear|GONERIL|Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd
King Lear|GONERIL|Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
King Lear|GONERIL|France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
King Lear|GONERIL|With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats,
King Lear|GONERIL|Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest
King Lear|GONERIL|'Alack, why does he so?'
King Lear|ALBANY|See thyself, devil!
King Lear|ALBANY|Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
King Lear|ALBANY|So horrid as in woman.
King Lear|GONERIL|O vain fool!
King Lear|ALBANY|Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame,
King Lear|ALBANY|Be-monster not thy feature. Were't my fitness
King Lear|ALBANY|To let these hands obey my blood,
King Lear|ALBANY|They are apt enough to dislocate and tear
King Lear|ALBANY|Thy flesh and bones: howe'er thou art a fiend,
King Lear|ALBANY|A woman's shape doth shield thee.
King Lear|GONERIL|Marry, your manhood now--
King Lear|GONERIL|Enter a Messenger
King Lear|ALBANY|What news?
King Lear|Messenger|O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead:
King Lear|Messenger|Slain by his servant, going to put out
King Lear|Messenger|The other eye of Gloucester.
King Lear|ALBANY|Gloucester's eye!
King Lear|Messenger|A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,
King Lear|Messenger|Opposed against the act, bending his sword
King Lear|Messenger|To his great master, who, thereat enraged,
King Lear|Messenger|Flew on him, and amongst them fell'd him dead,
King Lear|Messenger|But not without that harmful stroke, which since
King Lear|Messenger|Hath pluck'd him after.
King Lear|ALBANY|This shows you are above,
King Lear|ALBANY|You justicers, that these our nether crimes
King Lear|ALBANY|So speedily can venge! But, O poor Gloucester!
King Lear|ALBANY|Lost he his other eye?
King Lear|Messenger|Both, both, my lord.
King Lear|Messenger|This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer,
King Lear|Messenger|'Tis from your sister.
King Lear|GONERIL|[Aside]              One way I like this well,
King Lear|GONERIL|But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,
King Lear|GONERIL|May all the building in my fancy pluck
King Lear|GONERIL|Upon my hateful life: another way,
King Lear|GONERIL|The news is not so tart.--I'll read, and answer.
King Lear|GONERIL|Exit
King Lear|ALBANY|Where was his son when they did take his eyes?
King Lear|Messenger|Come with my lady hither.
King Lear|ALBANY|He is not here.
King Lear|Messenger|No, my good lord, I met him back again.
King Lear|ALBANY|Knows he the wickedness?
King Lear|Messenger|Ay, my good lord, 'twas he inform'd against him,
King Lear|Messenger|And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment
King Lear|Messenger|Might have the freer course.
King Lear|ALBANY|Gloucester, I live
King Lear|ALBANY|To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king,
King Lear|ALBANY|And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend:
King Lear|ALBANY|Tell me what more thou know'st.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exeunt
King Lear|ALBANY|SCENE III. The French camp near Dover.
King Lear|ALBANY|Enter KENT and a Gentleman
King Lear|KENT|Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back
King Lear|KENT|know you the reason?
King Lear|Gentleman|Something he left imperfect in the
King Lear|Gentleman|state, which since his coming forth is thought
King Lear|Gentleman|of, which imports to the kingdom so much
King Lear|Gentleman|fear and danger, that his personal return was
King Lear|Gentleman|most required and necessary.
King Lear|KENT|Who hath he left behind him general?
King Lear|Gentleman|The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.
King Lear|KENT|Did your letters pierce the queen to any
King Lear|KENT|demonstration of grief?
King Lear|Gentleman|Ay, sir, she took them, read them in my presence,
King Lear|Gentleman|And now and then an ample tear trill'd down
King Lear|Gentleman|Her delicate cheek: it seem'd she was a queen
King Lear|Gentleman|Over her passion, who, most rebel-like,
King Lear|Gentleman|Sought to be king o'er her.
King Lear|KENT|O, then it moved her.
King Lear|Gentleman|Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove
King Lear|Gentleman|Who should express her goodliest. You have seen
King Lear|Gentleman|Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears
King Lear|Gentleman|Were like a better way: those happy smilets,
King Lear|Gentleman|That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know
King Lear|Gentleman|What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence,
King Lear|Gentleman|As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,
King Lear|Gentleman|Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved,
King Lear|Gentleman|If all could so become it.
King Lear|KENT|Made she no verbal question?
King Lear|Gentleman|'Faith, once or twice she heaved the name of 'father'
King Lear|Gentleman|Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart:
King Lear|Gentleman|Cried 'Sisters! sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters!
King Lear|Gentleman|Kent! father! sisters! What, i' the storm? i' the night?
King Lear|Gentleman|Let pity not be believed!' There she shook
King Lear|Gentleman|The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
King Lear|Gentleman|And clamour moisten'd: then away she started
King Lear|Gentleman|To deal with grief alone.
King Lear|KENT|It is the stars,
King Lear|KENT|The stars above us, govern our conditions,
King Lear|KENT|Else one self mate and mate could not beget
King Lear|KENT|Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?
King Lear|Gentleman|No.
King Lear|KENT|Was this before the king return'd?
King Lear|Gentleman|No, since.
King Lear|KENT|Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' the town,
King Lear|KENT|Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers
King Lear|KENT|What we are come about, and by no means
King Lear|KENT|Will yield to see his daughter.
King Lear|Gentleman|Why, good sir?
King Lear|KENT|A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness,
King Lear|KENT|That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her
King Lear|KENT|To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights
King Lear|KENT|To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting
King Lear|KENT|His mind so venomously, that burning shame
King Lear|KENT|Detains him from Cordelia.
King Lear|Gentleman|Alack, poor gentleman!
King Lear|KENT|Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
King Lear|Gentleman|'Tis so, they are afoot.
King Lear|KENT|Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master Lear,
King Lear|KENT|And leave you to attend him: some dear cause
King Lear|KENT|Will in concealment wrap me up awhile,
King Lear|KENT|When I am known aright, you shall not grieve
King Lear|KENT|Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you, go
King Lear|KENT|Along with me.
King Lear|KENT|Exeunt
King Lear|KENT|SCENE IV. The same. A tent.
King Lear|KENT|Enter, with drum and colours, CORDELIA, Doctor, and Soldiers
King Lear|CORDELIA|Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now
King Lear|CORDELIA|As mad as the vex'd sea, singing aloud,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
King Lear|CORDELIA|With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
King Lear|CORDELIA|In our sustaining corn. A century send forth,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Search every acre in the high-grown field,
King Lear|CORDELIA|And bring him to our eye.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Exit an Officer
King Lear|CORDELIA|What can man's wisdom
King Lear|CORDELIA|In the restoring his bereaved sense?
King Lear|CORDELIA|He that helps him take all my outward worth.
King Lear|Doctor|There is means, madam:
King Lear|Doctor|Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,
King Lear|Doctor|The which he lacks, that to provoke in him,
King Lear|Doctor|Are many simples operative, whose power
King Lear|Doctor|Will close the eye of anguish.
King Lear|CORDELIA|All blest secrets,
King Lear|CORDELIA|All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate
King Lear|CORDELIA|In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life
King Lear|CORDELIA|That wants the means to lead it.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Enter a Messenger
King Lear|Messenger|News, madam,
King Lear|Messenger|The British powers are marching hitherward.
King Lear|CORDELIA|'Tis known before, our preparation stands
King Lear|CORDELIA|In expectation of them. O dear father,
King Lear|CORDELIA|It is thy business that I go about,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Therefore great France
King Lear|CORDELIA|My mourning and important tears hath pitied.
King Lear|CORDELIA|No blown ambition doth our arms incite,
King Lear|CORDELIA|But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:
King Lear|CORDELIA|Soon may I hear and see him!
King Lear|CORDELIA|Exeunt
King Lear|CORDELIA|SCENE V. Gloucester's castle.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Enter REGAN and OSWALD
King Lear|REGAN|But are my brother's powers set forth?
King Lear|OSWALD|Ay, madam.
King Lear|REGAN|Himself in person there?
King Lear|OSWALD|Madam, with much ado:
King Lear|OSWALD|Your sister is the better soldier.
King Lear|REGAN|Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?
King Lear|OSWALD|No, madam.
King Lear|REGAN|What might import my sister's letter to him?
King Lear|OSWALD|I know not, lady.
King Lear|REGAN|'Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.
King Lear|REGAN|It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,
King Lear|REGAN|To let him live: where he arrives he moves
King Lear|REGAN|All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,
King Lear|REGAN|In pity of his misery, to dispatch
King Lear|REGAN|His nighted life: moreover, to descry
King Lear|REGAN|The strength o' the enemy.
King Lear|OSWALD|I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.
King Lear|REGAN|Our troops set forth to-morrow: stay with us,
King Lear|REGAN|The ways are dangerous.
King Lear|OSWALD|I may not, madam:
King Lear|OSWALD|My lady charged my duty in this business.
King Lear|REGAN|Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you
King Lear|REGAN|Transport her purposes by word? Belike,
King Lear|REGAN|Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much,
King Lear|REGAN|Let me unseal the letter.
King Lear|OSWALD|Madam, I had rather--
King Lear|REGAN|I know your lady does not love her husband,
King Lear|REGAN|I am sure of that: and at her late being here
King Lear|REGAN|She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks
King Lear|REGAN|To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.
King Lear|OSWALD|I, madam?
King Lear|REGAN|I speak in understanding, you are, I know't:
King Lear|REGAN|Therefore I do advise you, take this note:
King Lear|REGAN|My lord is dead, Edmund and I have talk'd,
King Lear|REGAN|And more convenient is he for my hand
King Lear|REGAN|Than for your lady's: you may gather more.
King Lear|REGAN|If you do find him, pray you, give him this,
King Lear|REGAN|And when your mistress hears thus much from you,
King Lear|REGAN|I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her.
King Lear|REGAN|So, fare you well.
King Lear|REGAN|If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
King Lear|REGAN|Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
King Lear|OSWALD|Would I could meet him, madam! I should show
King Lear|OSWALD|What party I do follow.
King Lear|REGAN|Fare thee well.
King Lear|REGAN|Exeunt
King Lear|REGAN|SCENE VI. Fields near Dover.
King Lear|REGAN|Enter GLOUCESTER, and EDGAR dressed like a peasant
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|When shall we come to the top of that same hill?
King Lear|EDGAR|You do climb up it now: look, how we labour.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Methinks the ground is even.
King Lear|EDGAR|Horrible steep.
King Lear|EDGAR|Hark, do you hear the sea?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|No, truly.
King Lear|EDGAR|Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect
King Lear|EDGAR|By your eyes' anguish.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|So may it be, indeed:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Methinks thy voice is alter'd, and thou speak'st
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
King Lear|EDGAR|You're much deceived: in nothing am I changed
King Lear|EDGAR|But in my garments.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Methinks you're better spoken.
King Lear|EDGAR|Come on, sir, here's the place: stand still. How fearful
King Lear|EDGAR|And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
King Lear|EDGAR|The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
King Lear|EDGAR|Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down
King Lear|EDGAR|Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
King Lear|EDGAR|Methinks he seems no bigger than his head:
King Lear|EDGAR|The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,
King Lear|EDGAR|Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark,
King Lear|EDGAR|Diminish'd to her cock, her cock, a buoy
King Lear|EDGAR|Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge,
King Lear|EDGAR|That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,
King Lear|EDGAR|Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more,
King Lear|EDGAR|Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight
King Lear|EDGAR|Topple down headlong.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Set me where you stand.
King Lear|EDGAR|Give me your hand: you are now within a foot
King Lear|EDGAR|Of the extreme verge: for all beneath the moon
King Lear|EDGAR|Would I not leap upright.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Let go my hand.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Here, friend, 's another purse, in it a jewel
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Well worth a poor man's taking: fairies and gods
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Prosper it with thee! Go thou farther off,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.
King Lear|EDGAR|Now fare you well, good sir.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|With all my heart.
King Lear|EDGAR|Why I do trifle thus with his despair
King Lear|EDGAR|Is done to cure it.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|[Kneeling]  O you mighty gods!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Shake patiently my great affliction off:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|If I could bear it longer, and not fall
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|My snuff and loathed part of nature should
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Now, fellow, fare thee well.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|He falls forward
King Lear|EDGAR|Gone, sir: farewell.
King Lear|EDGAR|And yet I know not how conceit may rob
King Lear|EDGAR|The treasury of life, when life itself
King Lear|EDGAR|Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought,
King Lear|EDGAR|By this, had thought been past. Alive or dead?
King Lear|EDGAR|Ho, you sir! friend! Hear you, sir! speak!
King Lear|EDGAR|Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives.
King Lear|EDGAR|What are you, sir?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Away, and let me die.
King Lear|EDGAR|Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,
King Lear|EDGAR|So many fathom down precipitating,
King Lear|EDGAR|Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe,
King Lear|EDGAR|Hast heavy substance, bleed'st not, speak'st, art sound.
King Lear|EDGAR|Ten masts at each make not the altitude
King Lear|EDGAR|Which thou hast perpendicularly fell:
King Lear|EDGAR|Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|But have I fall'n, or no?
King Lear|EDGAR|From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.
King Lear|EDGAR|Look up a-height, the shrill-gorged lark so far
King Lear|EDGAR|Cannot be seen or heard: do but look up.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Alack, I have no eyes.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Is wretchedness deprived that benefit,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And frustrate his proud will.
King Lear|EDGAR|Give me your arm:
King Lear|EDGAR|Up: so. How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Too well, too well.
King Lear|EDGAR|This is above all strangeness.
King Lear|EDGAR|Upon the crown o' the cliff, what thing was that
King Lear|EDGAR|Which parted from you?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|A poor unfortunate beggar.
King Lear|EDGAR|As I stood here below, methought his eyes
King Lear|EDGAR|Were two full moons, he had a thousand noses,
King Lear|EDGAR|Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea:
King Lear|EDGAR|It was some fiend, therefore, thou happy father,
King Lear|EDGAR|Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours
King Lear|EDGAR|Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I do remember now: henceforth I'll bear
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Affliction till it do cry out itself
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I took it for a man, often 'twould say
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|'The fiend, the fiend:' he led me to that place.
King Lear|EDGAR|Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter KING LEAR, fantastically dressed with wild flowers
King Lear|EDGAR|The safer sense will ne'er accommodate
King Lear|EDGAR|His master thus.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, they cannot touch me for coining, I am the
King Lear|KING LEAR|king himself.
King Lear|EDGAR|O thou side-piercing sight!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Nature's above art in that respect. There's your
King Lear|KING LEAR|press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a
King Lear|KING LEAR|crow-keeper: draw me a clothier's yard. Look,
King Lear|KING LEAR|look, a mouse! Peace, peace, this piece of toasted
King Lear|KING LEAR|cheese will do 't. There's my gauntlet, I'll prove
King Lear|KING LEAR|it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well
King Lear|KING LEAR|flown, bird! i' the clout, i' the clout: hewgh!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Give the word.
King Lear|EDGAR|Sweet marjoram.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pass.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I know that voice.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ha! Goneril, with a white beard! They flattered
King Lear|KING LEAR|me like a dog, and told me I had white hairs in my
King Lear|KING LEAR|beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay'
King Lear|KING LEAR|and 'no' to every thing that I said!--'Ay' and 'no'
King Lear|KING LEAR|too was no good divinity. When the rain came to
King Lear|KING LEAR|wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter, when
King Lear|KING LEAR|the thunder would not peace at my bidding, there I
King Lear|KING LEAR|found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are
King Lear|KING LEAR|not men o' their words: they told me I was every
King Lear|KING LEAR|thing, 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The trick of that voice I do well remember:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Is 't not the king?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ay, every inch a king:
King Lear|KING LEAR|When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:
King Lear|KING LEAR|The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly
King Lear|KING LEAR|Does lecher in my sight.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let copulation thrive, for Gloucester's bastard son
King Lear|KING LEAR|Was kinder to his father than my daughters
King Lear|KING LEAR|Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
King Lear|KING LEAR|To 't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Behold yond simpering dame,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Whose face between her forks presages snow,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That minces virtue, and does shake the head
King Lear|KING LEAR|To hear of pleasure's name,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't
King Lear|KING LEAR|With a more riotous appetite.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Down from the waist they are Centaurs,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Though women all above:
King Lear|KING LEAR|But to the girdle do the gods inherit,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Beneath is all the fiends',
King Lear|KING LEAR|There's hell, there's darkness, there's the
King Lear|KING LEAR|sulphurous pit,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Burning, scalding, stench, consumption, fie,
King Lear|KING LEAR|fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet,
King Lear|KING LEAR|good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination:
King Lear|KING LEAR|there's money for thee.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|O, let me kiss that hand!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Let me wipe it first, it smells of mortality.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?
King Lear|KING LEAR|I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny
King Lear|KING LEAR|at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll not
King Lear|KING LEAR|love. Read thou this challenge, mark but the
King Lear|KING LEAR|penning of it.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.
King Lear|EDGAR|I would not take this from report, it is,
King Lear|EDGAR|And my heart breaks at it.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Read.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|What, with the case of eyes?
King Lear|KING LEAR|O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your
King Lear|KING LEAR|head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in
King Lear|KING LEAR|a heavy case, your purse in a light, yet you see how
King Lear|KING LEAR|this world goes.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|I see it feelingly.
King Lear|KING LEAR|What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes
King Lear|KING LEAR|with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond
King Lear|KING LEAR|justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in
King Lear|KING LEAR|thine ear: change places, and, handy-dandy, which
King Lear|KING LEAR|is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen
King Lear|KING LEAR|a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Ay, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|And the creature run from the cur? There thou
King Lear|KING LEAR|mightst behold the great image of authority: a
King Lear|KING LEAR|dog's obeyed in office.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind
King Lear|KING LEAR|For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
King Lear|KING LEAR|None does offend, none, I say, none, I'll able 'em:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
King Lear|KING LEAR|To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And like a scurvy politician, seem
King Lear|KING LEAR|To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pull off my boots: harder, harder: so.
King Lear|EDGAR|O, matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!
King Lear|KING LEAR|If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I know thee well enough, thy name is Gloucester:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou must be patient, we came crying hither:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,
King Lear|KING LEAR|We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Alack, alack the day!
King Lear|KING LEAR|When we are born, we cry that we are come
King Lear|KING LEAR|To this great stage of fools: this a good block,
King Lear|KING LEAR|It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe
King Lear|KING LEAR|A troop of horse with felt: I'll put 't in proof,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Enter a Gentleman, with Attendants
King Lear|Gentleman|O, here he is: lay hand upon him. Sir,
King Lear|Gentleman|Your most dear daughter--
King Lear|KING LEAR|No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even
King Lear|KING LEAR|The natural fool of fortune. Use me well,
King Lear|KING LEAR|You shall have ransom. Let me have surgeons,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I am cut to the brains.
King Lear|Gentleman|You shall have any thing.
King Lear|KING LEAR|No seconds? all myself?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, this would make a man a man of salt,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To use his eyes for garden water-pots,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ay, and laying autumn's dust.
King Lear|Gentleman|Good sir,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will die bravely, like a bridegroom. What!
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will be jovial: come, come, I am a king,
King Lear|KING LEAR|My masters, know you that.
King Lear|Gentleman|You are a royal one, and we obey you.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Then there's life in't. Nay, if you get it, you
King Lear|KING LEAR|shall get it with running. Sa, sa, sa, sa.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exit running, Attendants follow
King Lear|Gentleman|A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,
King Lear|Gentleman|Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter,
King Lear|Gentleman|Who redeems nature from the general curse
King Lear|Gentleman|Which twain have brought her to.
King Lear|EDGAR|Hail, gentle sir.
King Lear|Gentleman|Sir, speed you: what's your will?
King Lear|EDGAR|Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?
King Lear|Gentleman|Most sure and vulgar: every one hears that,
King Lear|Gentleman|Which can distinguish sound.
King Lear|EDGAR|But, by your favour,
King Lear|EDGAR|How near's the other army?
King Lear|Gentleman|Near and on speedy foot, the main descry
King Lear|Gentleman|Stands on the hourly thought.
King Lear|EDGAR|I thank you, sir: that's all.
King Lear|Gentleman|Though that the queen on special cause is here,
King Lear|Gentleman|Her army is moved on.
King Lear|EDGAR|I thank you, sir.
King Lear|EDGAR|Exit Gentleman
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To die before you please!
King Lear|EDGAR|Well pray you, father.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Now, good sir, what are you?
King Lear|EDGAR|A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows,
King Lear|EDGAR|Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
King Lear|EDGAR|Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand,
King Lear|EDGAR|I'll lead you to some biding.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Hearty thanks:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The bounty and the benison of heaven
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|To boot, and boot!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Enter OSWALD
King Lear|OSWALD|A proclaim'd prize! Most happy!
King Lear|OSWALD|That eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh
King Lear|OSWALD|To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,
King Lear|OSWALD|Briefly thyself remember: the sword is out
King Lear|OSWALD|That must destroy thee.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Now let thy friendly hand
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Put strength enough to't.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|EDGAR interposes
King Lear|OSWALD|Wherefore, bold peasant,
King Lear|OSWALD|Darest thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence,
King Lear|OSWALD|Lest that the infection of his fortune take
King Lear|OSWALD|Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.
King Lear|EDGAR|Ch'ill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion.
King Lear|OSWALD|Let go, slave, or thou diest!
King Lear|EDGAR|Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk
King Lear|EDGAR|pass. An chud ha' bin zwaggered out of my life,
King Lear|EDGAR|'twould not ha' bin zo long as 'tis by a vortnight.
King Lear|EDGAR|Nay, come not near th' old man, keep out, che vor
King Lear|EDGAR|ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be
King Lear|EDGAR|the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.
King Lear|OSWALD|Out, dunghill!
King Lear|EDGAR|Ch'ill pick your teeth, zir: come, no matter vor
King Lear|EDGAR|your foins.
King Lear|EDGAR|They fight, and EDGAR knocks him down
King Lear|OSWALD|Slave, thou hast slain me: villain, take my purse:
King Lear|OSWALD|If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
King Lear|OSWALD|And give the letters which thou find'st about me
King Lear|OSWALD|To Edmund earl of Gloucester, seek him out
King Lear|OSWALD|Upon the British party: O, untimely death!
King Lear|OSWALD|Dies
King Lear|EDGAR|I know thee well: a serviceable villain,
King Lear|EDGAR|As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
King Lear|EDGAR|As badness would desire.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|What, is he dead?
King Lear|EDGAR|Sit you down, father, rest you
King Lear|EDGAR|Let's see these pockets: the letters that he speaks of
King Lear|EDGAR|May be my friends. He's dead, I am only sorry
King Lear|EDGAR|He had no other death's-man. Let us see:
King Lear|EDGAR|Leave, gentle wax, and, manners, blame us not:
King Lear|EDGAR|To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts,
King Lear|EDGAR|Their papers, is more lawful.
King Lear|EDGAR|Reads
King Lear|EDGAR|'Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have
King Lear|EDGAR|many opportunities to cut him off: if your will
King Lear|EDGAR|want not, time and place will be fruitfully offered.
King Lear|EDGAR|There is nothing done, if he return the conqueror:
King Lear|EDGAR|then am I the prisoner, and his bed my goal, from
King Lear|EDGAR|the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply
King Lear|EDGAR|the place for your labour.
King Lear|EDGAR|'Your--wife, so I would say--
King Lear|EDGAR|'Affectionate servant,
King Lear|EDGAR|'GONERIL.'
King Lear|EDGAR|O undistinguish'd space of woman's will!
King Lear|EDGAR|A plot upon her virtuous husband's life,
King Lear|EDGAR|And the exchange my brother! Here, in the sands,
King Lear|EDGAR|Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified
King Lear|EDGAR|Of murderous lechers: and in the mature time
King Lear|EDGAR|With this ungracious paper strike the sight
King Lear|EDGAR|Of the death practised duke: for him 'tis well
King Lear|EDGAR|That of thy death and business I can tell.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract:
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And woes by wrong imaginations lose
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|The knowledge of themselves.
King Lear|EDGAR|Give me your hand:
King Lear|EDGAR|Drum afar off
King Lear|EDGAR|Far off, methinks, I hear the beaten drum:
King Lear|EDGAR|Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend.
King Lear|EDGAR|Exeunt
King Lear|EDGAR|SCENE VII. A tent in the French camp. LEAR on a bed asleep,
King Lear|EDGAR|soft music playing, Gentleman, and others attending.
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter CORDELIA, KENT, and Doctor
King Lear|CORDELIA|O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,
King Lear|CORDELIA|To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,
King Lear|CORDELIA|And every measure fail me.
King Lear|KENT|To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid.
King Lear|KENT|All my reports go with the modest truth,
King Lear|KENT|Nor more nor clipp'd, but so.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Be better suited:
King Lear|CORDELIA|These weeds are memories of those worser hours:
King Lear|CORDELIA|I prithee, put them off.
King Lear|KENT|Pardon me, dear madam,
King Lear|KENT|Yet to be known shortens my made intent:
King Lear|KENT|My boon I make it, that you know me not
King Lear|KENT|Till time and I think meet.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Then be't so, my good lord.
King Lear|CORDELIA|To the Doctor
King Lear|CORDELIA|How does the king?
King Lear|Doctor|Madam, sleeps still.
King Lear|CORDELIA|O you kind gods,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Cure this great breach in his abused nature!
King Lear|CORDELIA|The untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up
King Lear|CORDELIA|Of this child-changed father!
King Lear|Doctor|So please your majesty
King Lear|Doctor|That we may wake the king: he hath slept long.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed
King Lear|CORDELIA|I' the sway of your own will. Is he array'd?
King Lear|Gentleman|Ay, madam, in the heaviness of his sleep
King Lear|Gentleman|We put fresh garments on him.
King Lear|Doctor|Be by, good madam, when we do awake him,
King Lear|Doctor|I doubt not of his temperance.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Very well.
King Lear|Doctor|Please you, draw near. Louder the music there!
King Lear|CORDELIA|O my dear father! Restoration hang
King Lear|CORDELIA|Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss
King Lear|CORDELIA|Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
King Lear|CORDELIA|Have in thy reverence made!
King Lear|KENT|Kind and dear princess!
King Lear|CORDELIA|Had you not been their father, these white flakes
King Lear|CORDELIA|Had challenged pity of them. Was this a face
King Lear|CORDELIA|To be opposed against the warring winds?
King Lear|CORDELIA|To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
King Lear|CORDELIA|In the most terrible and nimble stroke
King Lear|CORDELIA|Of quick, cross lightning? to watch--poor perdu!--
King Lear|CORDELIA|With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
King Lear|CORDELIA|Against my fire, and wast thou fain, poor father,
King Lear|CORDELIA|To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,
King Lear|CORDELIA|In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
King Lear|CORDELIA|'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
King Lear|CORDELIA|Had not concluded all. He wakes, speak to him.
King Lear|Doctor|Madam, do you, 'tis fittest.
King Lear|CORDELIA|How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?
King Lear|KING LEAR|You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound
King Lear|KING LEAR|Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
King Lear|KING LEAR|Do scald like moulten lead.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Sir, do you know me?
King Lear|KING LEAR|You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?
King Lear|CORDELIA|Still, still, far wide!
King Lear|Doctor|He's scarce awake: let him alone awhile.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?
King Lear|KING LEAR|I am mightily abused. I should e'en die with pity,
King Lear|KING LEAR|To see another thus. I know not what to say.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I will not swear these are my hands: let's see,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured
King Lear|KING LEAR|Of my condition!
King Lear|CORDELIA|O, look upon me, sir,
King Lear|CORDELIA|And hold your hands in benediction o'er me:
King Lear|CORDELIA|No, sir, you must not kneel.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pray, do not mock me:
King Lear|KING LEAR|I am a very foolish fond old man,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And, to deal plainly,
King Lear|KING LEAR|I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Methinks I should know you, and know this man,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Yet I am doubtful for I am mainly ignorant
King Lear|KING LEAR|What place this is, and all the skill I have
King Lear|KING LEAR|Remembers not these garments, nor I know not
King Lear|KING LEAR|Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
King Lear|KING LEAR|For, as I am a man, I think this lady
King Lear|KING LEAR|To be my child Cordelia.
King Lear|CORDELIA|And so I am, I am.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Be your tears wet? yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not:
King Lear|KING LEAR|If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I know you do not love me, for your sisters
King Lear|KING LEAR|Have, as I do remember, done me wrong:
King Lear|KING LEAR|You have some cause, they have not.
King Lear|CORDELIA|No cause, no cause.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Am I in France?
King Lear|KENT|In your own kingdom, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Do not abuse me.
King Lear|Doctor|Be comforted, good madam: the great rage,
King Lear|Doctor|You see, is kill'd in him: and yet it is danger
King Lear|Doctor|To make him even o'er the time he has lost.
King Lear|Doctor|Desire him to go in, trouble him no more
King Lear|Doctor|Till further settling.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Will't please your highness walk?
King Lear|KING LEAR|You must bear with me:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exeunt all but KENT and Gentleman
King Lear|Gentleman|Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain?
King Lear|KENT|Most certain, sir.
King Lear|Gentleman|Who is conductor of his people?
King Lear|KENT|As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.
King Lear|Gentleman|They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the Earl
King Lear|Gentleman|of Kent in Germany.
King Lear|KENT|Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about, the
King Lear|KENT|powers of the kingdom approach apace.
King Lear|Gentleman|The arbitrement is like to be bloody. Fare you
King Lear|Gentleman|well, sir.
King Lear|Gentleman|Exit
King Lear|KENT|My point and period will be throughly wrought,
King Lear|KENT|Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought.
King Lear|KENT|Exit
King Lear|KENT|ACT V
King Lear|KENT|SCENE I. The British camp, near Dover.
King Lear|KENT|Enter, with drum and colours, EDMUND, REGAN, Gentlemen, and Soldiers.
King Lear|EDMUND|Know of the duke if his last purpose hold,
King Lear|EDMUND|Or whether since he is advised by aught
King Lear|EDMUND|To change the course: he's full of alteration
King Lear|EDMUND|And self-reproving: bring his constant pleasure.
King Lear|EDMUND|To a Gentleman, who goes out
King Lear|REGAN|Our sister's man is certainly miscarried.
King Lear|EDMUND|'Tis to be doubted, madam.
King Lear|REGAN|Now, sweet lord,
King Lear|REGAN|You know the goodness I intend upon you:
King Lear|REGAN|Tell me--but truly--but then speak the truth,
King Lear|REGAN|Do you not love my sister?
King Lear|EDMUND|In honour'd love.
King Lear|REGAN|But have you never found my brother's way
King Lear|REGAN|To the forfended place?
King Lear|EDMUND|That thought abuses you.
King Lear|REGAN|I am doubtful that you have been conjunct
King Lear|REGAN|And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers.
King Lear|EDMUND|No, by mine honour, madam.
King Lear|REGAN|I never shall endure her: dear my lord,
King Lear|REGAN|Be not familiar with her.
King Lear|EDMUND|Fear me not:
King Lear|EDMUND|She and the duke her husband!
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter, with drum and colours, ALBANY, GONERIL, and Soldiers
King Lear|GONERIL|[Aside]  I had rather lose the battle than that sister
King Lear|GONERIL|Should loosen him and me.
King Lear|ALBANY|Our very loving sister, well be-met.
King Lear|ALBANY|Sir, this I hear, the king is come to his daughter,
King Lear|ALBANY|With others whom the rigor of our state
King Lear|ALBANY|Forced to cry out. Where I could not be honest,
King Lear|ALBANY|I never yet was valiant: for this business,
King Lear|ALBANY|It toucheth us, as France invades our land,
King Lear|ALBANY|Not bolds the king, with others, whom, I fear,
King Lear|ALBANY|Most just and heavy causes make oppose.
King Lear|EDMUND|Sir, you speak nobly.
King Lear|REGAN|Why is this reason'd?
King Lear|GONERIL|Combine together 'gainst the enemy,
King Lear|GONERIL|For these domestic and particular broils
King Lear|GONERIL|Are not the question here.
King Lear|ALBANY|Let's then determine
King Lear|ALBANY|With the ancient of war on our proceedings.
King Lear|EDMUND|I shall attend you presently at your tent.
King Lear|REGAN|Sister, you'll go with us?
King Lear|GONERIL|No.
King Lear|REGAN|'Tis most convenient, pray you, go with us.
King Lear|GONERIL|[Aside]  O, ho, I know the riddle.--I will go.
King Lear|GONERIL|As they are going out, enter EDGAR disguised
King Lear|EDGAR|If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor,
King Lear|EDGAR|Hear me one word.
King Lear|ALBANY|I'll overtake you. Speak.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exeunt all but ALBANY and EDGAR
King Lear|EDGAR|Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
King Lear|EDGAR|If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
King Lear|EDGAR|For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,
King Lear|EDGAR|I can produce a champion that will prove
King Lear|EDGAR|What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
King Lear|EDGAR|Your business of the world hath so an end,
King Lear|EDGAR|And machination ceases. Fortune love you.
King Lear|ALBANY|Stay till I have read the letter.
King Lear|EDGAR|I was forbid it.
King Lear|EDGAR|When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,
King Lear|EDGAR|And I'll appear again.
King Lear|ALBANY|Why, fare thee well: I will o'erlook thy paper.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exit EDGAR
King Lear|ALBANY|Re-enter EDMUND
King Lear|EDMUND|The enemy's in view, draw up your powers.
King Lear|EDMUND|Here is the guess of their true strength and forces
King Lear|EDMUND|By diligent discovery, but your haste
King Lear|EDMUND|Is now urged on you.
King Lear|ALBANY|We will greet the time.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exit
King Lear|EDMUND|To both these sisters have I sworn my love,
King Lear|EDMUND|Each jealous of the other, as the stung
King Lear|EDMUND|Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?
King Lear|EDMUND|Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,
King Lear|EDMUND|If both remain alive: to take the widow
King Lear|EDMUND|Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril,
King Lear|EDMUND|And hardly shall I carry out my side,
King Lear|EDMUND|Her husband being alive. Now then we'll use
King Lear|EDMUND|His countenance for the battle, which being done,
King Lear|EDMUND|Let her who would be rid of him devise
King Lear|EDMUND|His speedy taking off. As for the mercy
King Lear|EDMUND|Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,
King Lear|EDMUND|The battle done, and they within our power,
King Lear|EDMUND|Shall never see his pardon, for my state
King Lear|EDMUND|Stands on me to defend, not to debate.
King Lear|EDMUND|Exit
King Lear|EDMUND|SCENE II. A field between the two camps.
King Lear|EDMUND|Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours,  KING LEAR, CORDELIA, and Soldiers, over the stage, and exeunt
King Lear|EDMUND|Enter EDGAR and GLOUCESTER
King Lear|EDGAR|Here, father, take the shadow of this tree
King Lear|EDGAR|For your good host, pray that the right may thrive:
King Lear|EDGAR|If ever I return to you again,
King Lear|EDGAR|I'll bring you comfort.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Grace go with you, sir!
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exit EDGAR
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Alarum and retreat within. Re-enter EDGAR
King Lear|EDGAR|Away, old man, give me thy hand, away!
King Lear|EDGAR|King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en:
King Lear|EDGAR|Give me thy hand, come on.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|No farther, sir, a man may rot even here.
King Lear|EDGAR|What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
King Lear|EDGAR|Their going hence, even as their coming hither,
King Lear|EDGAR|Ripeness is all: come on.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|And that's true too.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|SCENE III. The British camp near Dover.
King Lear|GLOUCESTER|Enter, in conquest, with drum and colours, EDMUND,  KING LEAR and CORDELIA, prisoners, Captain, Soldiers,  and c
King Lear|EDMUND|Some officers take them away: good guard,
King Lear|EDMUND|Until their greater pleasures first be known
King Lear|EDMUND|That are to censure them.
King Lear|CORDELIA|We are not the first
King Lear|CORDELIA|Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.
King Lear|CORDELIA|For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down,
King Lear|CORDELIA|Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.
King Lear|CORDELIA|Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?
King Lear|KING LEAR|No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
King Lear|KING LEAR|We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
King Lear|KING LEAR|When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
King Lear|KING LEAR|At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
King Lear|KING LEAR|Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them too,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And take upon's the mystery of things,
King Lear|KING LEAR|As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
King Lear|KING LEAR|In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
King Lear|KING LEAR|That ebb and flow by the moon.
King Lear|EDMUND|Take them away.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?
King Lear|KING LEAR|He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes,
King Lear|KING LEAR|The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see 'em starve
King Lear|KING LEAR|first. Come.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Exeunt KING LEAR and CORDELIA, guarded
King Lear|EDMUND|Come hither, captain, hark.
King Lear|EDMUND|Take thou this note,
King Lear|EDMUND|Giving a paper
King Lear|EDMUND|go follow them to prison:
King Lear|EDMUND|One step I have advanced thee, if thou dost
King Lear|EDMUND|As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way
King Lear|EDMUND|To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men
King Lear|EDMUND|Are as the time is: to be tender-minded
King Lear|EDMUND|Does not become a sword: thy great employment
King Lear|EDMUND|Will not bear question, either say thou'lt do 't,
King Lear|EDMUND|Or thrive by other means.
King Lear|Captain|I'll do 't, my lord.
King Lear|EDMUND|About it, and write happy when thou hast done.
King Lear|EDMUND|Mark, I say, instantly, and carry it so
King Lear|EDMUND|As I have set it down.
King Lear|Captain|I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats,
King Lear|Captain|If it be man's work, I'll do 't.
King Lear|Captain|Exit
King Lear|Captain|Flourish. Enter ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, another Captain, and Soldiers
King Lear|ALBANY|Sir, you have shown to-day your valiant strain,
King Lear|ALBANY|And fortune led you well: you have the captives
King Lear|ALBANY|That were the opposites of this day's strife:
King Lear|ALBANY|We do require them of you, so to use them
King Lear|ALBANY|As we shall find their merits and our safety
King Lear|ALBANY|May equally determine.
King Lear|EDMUND|Sir, I thought it fit
King Lear|EDMUND|To send the old and miserable king
King Lear|EDMUND|To some retention and appointed guard,
King Lear|EDMUND|Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,
King Lear|EDMUND|To pluck the common bosom on his side,
King Lear|EDMUND|An turn our impress'd lances in our eyes
King Lear|EDMUND|Which do command them. With him I sent the queen,
King Lear|EDMUND|My reason all the same, and they are ready
King Lear|EDMUND|To-morrow, or at further space, to appear
King Lear|EDMUND|Where you shall hold your session. At this time
King Lear|EDMUND|We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend,
King Lear|EDMUND|And the best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed
King Lear|EDMUND|By those that feel their sharpness:
King Lear|EDMUND|The question of Cordelia and her father
King Lear|EDMUND|Requires a fitter place.
King Lear|ALBANY|Sir, by your patience,
King Lear|ALBANY|I hold you but a subject of this war,
King Lear|ALBANY|Not as a brother.
King Lear|REGAN|That's as we list to grace him.
King Lear|REGAN|Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded,
King Lear|REGAN|Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers,
King Lear|REGAN|Bore the commission of my place and person,
King Lear|REGAN|The which immediacy may well stand up,
King Lear|REGAN|And call itself your brother.
King Lear|GONERIL|Not so hot:
King Lear|GONERIL|In his own grace he doth exalt himself,
King Lear|GONERIL|More than in your addition.
King Lear|REGAN|In my rights,
King Lear|REGAN|By me invested, he compeers the best.
King Lear|GONERIL|That were the most, if he should husband you.
King Lear|REGAN|Jesters do oft prove prophets.
King Lear|GONERIL|Holla, holla!
King Lear|GONERIL|That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint.
King Lear|REGAN|Lady, I am not well, else I should answer
King Lear|REGAN|From a full-flowing stomach. General,
King Lear|REGAN|Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony,
King Lear|REGAN|Dispose of them, of me, the walls are thine:
King Lear|REGAN|Witness the world, that I create thee here
King Lear|REGAN|My lord and master.
King Lear|GONERIL|Mean you to enjoy him?
King Lear|ALBANY|The let-alone lies not in your good will.
King Lear|EDMUND|Nor in thine, lord.
King Lear|ALBANY|Half-blooded fellow, yes.
King Lear|REGAN|[To EDMUND]  Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.
King Lear|ALBANY|Stay yet, hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee
King Lear|ALBANY|On capital treason, and, in thine attaint,
King Lear|ALBANY|This gilded serpent
King Lear|ALBANY|Pointing to Goneril
King Lear|ALBANY|For your claim, fair sister,
King Lear|ALBANY|I bar it in the interest of my wife:
King Lear|ALBANY|'Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord,
King Lear|ALBANY|And I, her husband, contradict your bans.
King Lear|ALBANY|If you will marry, make your loves to me,
King Lear|ALBANY|My lady is bespoke.
King Lear|GONERIL|An interlude!
King Lear|ALBANY|Thou art arm'd, Gloucester: let the trumpet sound:
King Lear|ALBANY|If none appear to prove upon thy head
King Lear|ALBANY|Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,
King Lear|ALBANY|There is my pledge,
King Lear|ALBANY|Throwing down a glove
King Lear|ALBANY|I'll prove it on thy heart,
King Lear|ALBANY|Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less
King Lear|ALBANY|Than I have here proclaim'd thee.
King Lear|REGAN|Sick, O, sick!
King Lear|GONERIL|[Aside]  If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.
King Lear|EDMUND|There's my exchange:
King Lear|EDMUND|Throwing down a glove
King Lear|EDMUND|what in the world he is
King Lear|EDMUND|That names me traitor, villain-like he lies:
King Lear|EDMUND|Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach,
King Lear|EDMUND|On him, on you, who not? I will maintain
King Lear|EDMUND|My truth and honour firmly.
King Lear|ALBANY|A herald, ho!
King Lear|EDMUND|A herald, ho, a herald!
King Lear|ALBANY|Trust to thy single virtue, for thy soldiers,
King Lear|ALBANY|All levied in my name, have in my name
King Lear|ALBANY|Took their discharge.
King Lear|REGAN|My sickness grows upon me.
King Lear|ALBANY|She is not well, convey her to  my tent.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exit Regan, led
King Lear|ALBANY|Enter a Herald
King Lear|ALBANY|Come hither, herald,--Let the trumpet sound,
King Lear|ALBANY|And read out this.
King Lear|Captain|Sound, trumpet!
King Lear|Captain|A trumpet sounds
King Lear|Herald|[Reads]  'If any man of quality or degree within
King Lear|Herald|the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund,
King Lear|Herald|supposed Earl of Gloucester, that he is a manifold
King Lear|Herald|traitor, let him appear by the third sound of the
King Lear|Herald|trumpet: he is bold in his defence.'
King Lear|EDMUND|Sound!
King Lear|EDMUND|First trumpet
King Lear|Herald|Again!
King Lear|Herald|Second trumpet
King Lear|Herald|Again!
King Lear|Herald|Third trumpet
King Lear|Herald|Trumpet answers within
King Lear|Herald|Enter EDGAR, at the third sound, armed, with a trumpet before him
King Lear|ALBANY|Ask him his purposes, why he appears
King Lear|ALBANY|Upon this call o' the trumpet.
King Lear|Herald|What are you?
King Lear|Herald|Your name, your quality? and why you answer
King Lear|Herald|This present summons?
King Lear|EDGAR|Know, my name is lost,
King Lear|EDGAR|By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit:
King Lear|EDGAR|Yet am I noble as the adversary
King Lear|EDGAR|I come to cope.
King Lear|ALBANY|Which is that adversary?
King Lear|EDGAR|What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?
King Lear|EDMUND|Himself: what say'st thou to him?
King Lear|EDGAR|Draw thy sword,
King Lear|EDGAR|That, if my speech offend a noble heart,
King Lear|EDGAR|Thy arm may do thee justice: here is mine.
King Lear|EDGAR|Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,
King Lear|EDGAR|My oath, and my profession: I protest,
King Lear|EDGAR|Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,
King Lear|EDGAR|Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,
King Lear|EDGAR|Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor,
King Lear|EDGAR|False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father,
King Lear|EDGAR|Conspirant 'gainst this high-illustrious prince,
King Lear|EDGAR|And, from the extremest upward of thy head
King Lear|EDGAR|To the descent and dust below thy foot,
King Lear|EDGAR|A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'No,'
King Lear|EDGAR|This sword, this arm, and my best spirits, are bent
King Lear|EDGAR|To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,
King Lear|EDGAR|Thou liest.
King Lear|EDMUND|In wisdom I should ask thy name,
King Lear|EDMUND|But, since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,
King Lear|EDMUND|And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,
King Lear|EDMUND|What safe and nicely I might well delay
King Lear|EDMUND|By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn:
King Lear|EDMUND|Back do I toss these treasons to thy head,
King Lear|EDMUND|With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart,
King Lear|EDMUND|Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,
King Lear|EDMUND|This sword of mine shall give them instant way,
King Lear|EDMUND|Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!
King Lear|EDMUND|Alarums. They fight. EDMUND falls
King Lear|ALBANY|Save him, save him!
King Lear|GONERIL|This is practise, Gloucester:
King Lear|GONERIL|By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer
King Lear|GONERIL|An unknown opposite, thou art not vanquish'd,
King Lear|GONERIL|But cozen'd and beguiled.
King Lear|ALBANY|Shut your mouth, dame,
King Lear|ALBANY|Or with this paper shall I stop it: Hold, sir:
King Lear|ALBANY|Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil:
King Lear|ALBANY|No tearing, lady: I perceive you know it.
King Lear|ALBANY|Gives the letter to EDMUND
King Lear|GONERIL|Say, if I do, the laws are mine, not thine:
King Lear|GONERIL|Who can arraign me for't.
King Lear|ALBANY|Most monstrous! oh!
King Lear|ALBANY|Know'st thou this paper?
King Lear|GONERIL|Ask me not what I know.
King Lear|GONERIL|Exit
King Lear|ALBANY|Go after her: she's desperate, govern her.
King Lear|EDMUND|What you have charged me with, that have I done,
King Lear|EDMUND|And more, much more, the time will bring it out:
King Lear|EDMUND|'Tis past, and so am I. But what art thou
King Lear|EDMUND|That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,
King Lear|EDMUND|I do forgive thee.
King Lear|EDGAR|Let's exchange charity.
King Lear|EDGAR|I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund,
King Lear|EDGAR|If more, the more thou hast wrong'd me.
King Lear|EDGAR|My name is Edgar, and thy father's son.
King Lear|EDGAR|The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
King Lear|EDGAR|Make instruments to plague us:
King Lear|EDGAR|The dark and vicious place where thee he got
King Lear|EDGAR|Cost him his eyes.
King Lear|EDMUND|Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true,
King Lear|EDMUND|The wheel is come full circle: I am here.
King Lear|ALBANY|Methought thy very gait did prophesy
King Lear|ALBANY|A royal nobleness: I must embrace thee:
King Lear|ALBANY|Let sorrow split my heart, if ever I
King Lear|ALBANY|Did hate thee or thy father!
King Lear|EDGAR|Worthy prince, I know't.
King Lear|ALBANY|Where have you hid yourself?
King Lear|ALBANY|How have you known the miseries of your father?
King Lear|EDGAR|By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale,
King Lear|EDGAR|And when 'tis told, O, that my heart would burst!
King Lear|EDGAR|The bloody proclamation to escape,
King Lear|EDGAR|That follow'd me so near,--O, our lives' sweetness!
King Lear|EDGAR|That we the pain of death would hourly die
King Lear|EDGAR|Rather than die at once!--taught me to shift
King Lear|EDGAR|Into a madman's rags, to assume a semblance
King Lear|EDGAR|That very dogs disdain'd: and in this habit
King Lear|EDGAR|Met I my father with his bleeding rings,
King Lear|EDGAR|Their precious stones new lost: became his guide,
King Lear|EDGAR|Led him, begg'd for him, saved him from despair,
King Lear|EDGAR|Never,--O fault!--reveal'd myself unto him,
King Lear|EDGAR|Until some half-hour past, when I was arm'd:
King Lear|EDGAR|Not sure, though hoping, of this good success,
King Lear|EDGAR|I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last
King Lear|EDGAR|Told him my pilgrimage: but his flaw'd heart,
King Lear|EDGAR|Alack, too weak the conflict to support!
King Lear|EDGAR|'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,
King Lear|EDGAR|Burst smilingly.
King Lear|EDMUND|This speech of yours hath moved me,
King Lear|EDMUND|And shall perchance do good: but speak you on,
King Lear|EDMUND|You look as you had something more to say.
King Lear|ALBANY|If there be more, more woeful, hold it in,
King Lear|ALBANY|For I am almost ready to dissolve,
King Lear|ALBANY|Hearing of this.
King Lear|EDGAR|This would have seem'd a period
King Lear|EDGAR|To such as love not sorrow, but another,
King Lear|EDGAR|To amplify too much, would make much more,
King Lear|EDGAR|And top extremity.
King Lear|EDGAR|Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,
King Lear|EDGAR|Who, having seen me in my worst estate,
King Lear|EDGAR|Shunn'd my abhorr'd society, but then, finding
King Lear|EDGAR|Who 'twas that so endured, with his strong arms
King Lear|EDGAR|He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out
King Lear|EDGAR|As he'ld burst heaven, threw him on my father,
King Lear|EDGAR|Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him
King Lear|EDGAR|That ever ear received: which in recounting
King Lear|EDGAR|His grief grew puissant and the strings of life
King Lear|EDGAR|Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded,
King Lear|EDGAR|And there I left him tranced.
King Lear|ALBANY|But who was this?
King Lear|EDGAR|Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent, who in disguise
King Lear|EDGAR|Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service
King Lear|EDGAR|Improper for a slave.
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter a Gentleman, with a bloody knife
King Lear|Gentleman|Help, help, O, help!
King Lear|EDGAR|What kind of help?
King Lear|ALBANY|Speak, man.
King Lear|EDGAR|What means that bloody knife?
King Lear|Gentleman|'Tis hot, it smokes,
King Lear|Gentleman|It came even from the heart of--O, she's dead!
King Lear|ALBANY|Who dead? speak, man.
King Lear|Gentleman|Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister
King Lear|Gentleman|By her is poisoned, she hath confess'd it.
King Lear|EDMUND|I was contracted to them both: all three
King Lear|EDMUND|Now marry in an instant.
King Lear|EDGAR|Here comes Kent.
King Lear|ALBANY|Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead:
King Lear|ALBANY|This judgment of the heavens, that makes us tremble,
King Lear|ALBANY|Touches us not with pity.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exit Gentleman
King Lear|ALBANY|Enter KENT
King Lear|ALBANY|O, is this he?
King Lear|ALBANY|The time will not allow the compliment
King Lear|ALBANY|Which very manners urges.
King Lear|KENT|I am come
King Lear|KENT|To bid my king and master aye good night:
King Lear|KENT|Is he not here?
King Lear|ALBANY|Great thing of us forgot!
King Lear|ALBANY|Speak, Edmund, where's the king? and where's Cordelia?
King Lear|ALBANY|See'st thou this object, Kent?
King Lear|ALBANY|The bodies of GONERIL and REGAN are brought in
King Lear|KENT|Alack, why thus?
King Lear|EDMUND|Yet Edmund was beloved:
King Lear|EDMUND|The one the other poison'd for my sake,
King Lear|EDMUND|And after slew herself.
King Lear|ALBANY|Even so. Cover their faces.
King Lear|EDMUND|I pant for life: some good I mean to do,
King Lear|EDMUND|Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,
King Lear|EDMUND|Be brief in it, to the castle, for my writ
King Lear|EDMUND|Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia:
King Lear|EDMUND|Nay, send in time.
King Lear|ALBANY|Run, run, O, run!
King Lear|EDGAR|To who, my lord? Who hath the office? send
King Lear|EDGAR|Thy token of reprieve.
King Lear|EDMUND|Well thought on: take my sword,
King Lear|EDMUND|Give it the captain.
King Lear|ALBANY|Haste thee, for thy life.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exit EDGAR
King Lear|EDMUND|He hath commission from thy wife and me
King Lear|EDMUND|To hang Cordelia in the prison, and
King Lear|EDMUND|To lay the blame upon her own despair,
King Lear|EDMUND|That she fordid herself.
King Lear|ALBANY|The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.
King Lear|ALBANY|EDMUND is borne off
King Lear|ALBANY|Re-enter KING LEAR, with CORDELIA dead in his arms, EDGAR, Captain, and others following
King Lear|KING LEAR|Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:
King Lear|KING LEAR|Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so
King Lear|KING LEAR|That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever!
King Lear|KING LEAR|I know when one is dead, and when one lives,
King Lear|KING LEAR|She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass,
King Lear|KING LEAR|If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why, then she lives.
King Lear|KENT|Is this the promised end
King Lear|EDGAR|Or image of that horror?
King Lear|ALBANY|Fall, and cease!
King Lear|KING LEAR|This feather stirs, she lives! if it be so,
King Lear|KING LEAR|It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
King Lear|KING LEAR|That ever I have felt.
King Lear|KENT|[Kneeling]  O my good master!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Prithee, away.
King Lear|EDGAR|'Tis noble Kent, your friend.
King Lear|KING LEAR|A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!
King Lear|KING LEAR|I might have saved her, now she's gone for ever!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!
King Lear|KING LEAR|What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
King Lear|KING LEAR|I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.
King Lear|Captain|'Tis true, my lords, he did.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Did I not, fellow?
King Lear|KING LEAR|I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion
King Lear|KING LEAR|I would have made them skip: I am old now,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?
King Lear|KING LEAR|Mine eyes are not o' the best: I'll tell you straight.
King Lear|KENT|If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,
King Lear|KENT|One of them we behold.
King Lear|KING LEAR|This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
King Lear|KENT|The same,
King Lear|KENT|Your servant Kent: Where is your servant Caius?
King Lear|KING LEAR|He's a good fellow, I can tell you that,
King Lear|KING LEAR|He'll strike, and quickly too: he's dead and rotten.
King Lear|KENT|No, my good lord, I am the very man,--
King Lear|KING LEAR|I'll see that straight.
King Lear|KENT|That, from your first of difference and decay,
King Lear|KENT|Have follow'd your sad steps.
King Lear|KING LEAR|You are welcome hither.
King Lear|KENT|Nor no man else: all's cheerless, dark, and deadly.
King Lear|KENT|Your eldest daughters have fordone them selves,
King Lear|KENT|And desperately are dead.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Ay, so I think.
King Lear|ALBANY|He knows not what he says: and vain it is
King Lear|ALBANY|That we present us to him.
King Lear|EDGAR|Very bootless.
King Lear|EDGAR|Enter a Captain
King Lear|Captain|Edmund is dead, my lord.
King Lear|ALBANY|That's but a trifle here.
King Lear|ALBANY|You lords and noble friends, know our intent.
King Lear|ALBANY|What comfort to this great decay may come
King Lear|ALBANY|Shall be applied: for us we will resign,
King Lear|ALBANY|During the life of this old majesty,
King Lear|ALBANY|To him our absolute power:
King Lear|ALBANY|To EDGAR and KENT
King Lear|ALBANY|you, to your rights:
King Lear|ALBANY|With boot, and such addition as your honours
King Lear|ALBANY|Have more than merited. All friends shall taste
King Lear|ALBANY|The wages of their virtue, and all foes
King Lear|ALBANY|The cup of their deservings. O, see, see!
King Lear|KING LEAR|And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
King Lear|KING LEAR|And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Never, never, never, never, never!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.
King Lear|KING LEAR|Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,
King Lear|KING LEAR|Look there, look there!
King Lear|KING LEAR|Dies
King Lear|EDGAR|He faints! My lord, my lord!
King Lear|KENT|Break, heart, I prithee, break!
King Lear|EDGAR|Look up, my lord.
King Lear|KENT|Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much
King Lear|KENT|That would upon the rack of this tough world
King Lear|KENT|Stretch him out longer.
King Lear|EDGAR|He is gone, indeed.
King Lear|KENT|The wonder is, he hath endured so long:
King Lear|KENT|He but usurp'd his life.
King Lear|ALBANY|Bear them from hence. Our present business
King Lear|ALBANY|Is general woe.
King Lear|ALBANY|To KENT and EDGAR
King Lear|ALBANY|Friends of my soul, you twain
King Lear|ALBANY|Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain.
King Lear|KENT|I have a journey, sir, shortly to go,
King Lear|KENT|My master calls me, I must not say no.
King Lear|ALBANY|The weight of this sad time we must obey,
King Lear|ALBANY|Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
King Lear|ALBANY|The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
King Lear|ALBANY|Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
King Lear|ALBANY|Exeunt, with a dead march
Loves Labours Lost|ALBANY|ACT I
Loves Labours Lost|ALBANY|SCENE I. The king of Navarre's park.
Loves Labours Lost|ALBANY|Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE and DUMAIN
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Live register'd upon our brazen tombs
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And then grace us in the disgrace of death,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The endeavor of this present breath may buy
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And make us heirs of all eternity.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That war against your own affections
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And the huge army of the world's desires,--
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Navarre shall be the wonder of the world,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Our court shall be a little Academe,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Still and contemplative in living art.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Have sworn for three years' term to live with me
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That are recorded in this schedule here:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Your oaths are pass'd, and now subscribe your names,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That his own hand may strike his honour down
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That violates the smallest branch herein:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|I am resolved, 'tis but a three years' fast:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|My loving lord, Dumain is mortified:
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|The grosser manner of these world's delights
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves:
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|With all these living in philosophy.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I can but say their protestation over,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That is, to live and study here three years.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But there are other strict observances,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As, not to see a woman in that term,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Which I hope well is not enrolled there,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And one day in a week to touch no food
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And but one meal on every day beside,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The which I hope is not enrolled there,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And then, to sleep but three hours in the night,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And not be seen to wink of all the day--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|When I was wont to think no harm all night
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And make a dark night too of half the day--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Which I hope well is not enrolled there:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Let me say no, my liege, an if you please:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I only swore to study with your grace
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And stay here in your court for three years' space.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What is the end of study? let me know.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Why, that to know, which else we should not know.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Come on, then, I will swear to study so,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To know the thing I am forbid to know:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As thus,--to study where I well may dine,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|When I to feast expressly am forbid,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or study where to meet some mistress fine,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|When mistresses from common sense are hid,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Study to break it and not break my troth.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|If study's gain be thus and this be so,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Study knows that which yet it doth not know:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|These be the stops that hinder study quite
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And train our intellects to vain delight.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As, painfully to pore upon a book
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To seek the light of truth, while truth the while
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Study me how to please the eye indeed
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By fixing it upon a fairer eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And give him light that it was blinded by.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Study is like the heaven's glorious sun
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Small have continual plodders ever won
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Save base authority from others' books
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That give a name to every fixed star
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Have no more profit of their shining nights
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Too much to know is to know nought but fame,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And every godfather can give a name.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How well he's read, to reason against reading!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|How follows that?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Fit in his place and time.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|In reason nothing.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Something then in rhyme.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That bites the first-born infants of the spring.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Well, say I am, why should proud summer boast
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Before the birds have any cause to sing?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Why should I joy in any abortive birth?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But like of each thing that in season grows.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|So you, to study now it is too late,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Well, sit you out: go home, Biron: adieu.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|No, my good lord, I have sworn to stay with you:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And though I have for barbarism spoke more
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Than for that angel knowledge you can say,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Yet confident I'll keep what I have swore
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And bide the penance of each three years' day.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Give me the paper, let me read the same,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|[Reads]  'Item, That no woman shall come within a
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|mile of my court:' Hath this been proclaimed?
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Four days ago.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Let's see the penalty.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Reads
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|'On pain of losing her tongue.' Who devised this penalty?
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Marry, that did I.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Sweet lord, and why?
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|To fright them hence with that dread penalty.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A dangerous law against gentility!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Reads
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|'Item, If any man be seen to talk with a woman
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|within the term of three years, he shall endure such
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise.'
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This article, my liege, yourself must break,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For well you know here comes in embassy
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The French king's daughter with yourself to speak--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A maid of grace and complete majesty--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|About surrender up of Aquitaine
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To her decrepit, sick and bedrid father:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Therefore this article is made in vain,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or vainly comes the admired princess hither.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|So study evermore is overshot:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|While it doth study to have what it would
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|It doth forget to do the thing it should,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|We must of force dispense with this decree,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|She must lie here on mere necessity.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Necessity will make us all forsworn
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Three thousand times within this three years' space,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For every man with his affects is born,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Not by might master'd but by special grace:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|If I break faith, this word shall speak for me,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I am forsworn on 'mere necessity.'
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|So to the laws at large I write my name:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Subscribes
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And he that breaks them in the least degree
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Stands in attainder of eternal shame:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Suggestions are to other as to me,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But I believe, although I seem so loath,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I am the last that will last keep his oath.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But is there no quick recreation granted?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|With a refined traveller of Spain,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That hath a mint of phrases in his brain,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|One whom the music of his own vain tongue
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Doth ravish like enchanting harmony,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A man of complements, whom right and wrong
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Have chose as umpire of their mutiny:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|This child of fancy, that Armado hight,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|For interim to our studies shall relate
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|In high-born words the worth of many a knight
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How you delight, my lords, I know not, I,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But, I protest, I love to hear him lie
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And I will use him for my minstrelsy.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Armado is a most illustrious wight,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Costard the swain and he shall be our sport,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|And so to study, three years is but short.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|Which is the duke's own person?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This, fellow: what wouldst?
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|grace's tharborough: but I would see his own person
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|in flesh and blood.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This is he.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|Signior Arme--Arme--commends you. There's villany
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|abroad: this letter will tell you more.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A letter from the magnificent Armado.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To hear? or forbear laughing?
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately, or to
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|forbear both.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|climb in the merriness.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|In what manner?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|In manner and form following, sir, all those three:
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|her upon the form, and taken following her into the
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|park, which, put together, is in manner and form
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|manner of a man to speak to a woman: for the form,--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|in some form.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For the following, sir?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|As it shall follow in my correction: and God defend
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|the right!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Will you hear this letter with attention?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As we would hear an oracle.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|and body's fostering patron.'
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Not a word of Costard yet.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'So it is,'--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|telling true, but so.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Peace!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Be to me and every man that dares not fight!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|No words!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|air, and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|walk. The time when. About the sixth hour, when
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|to that nourishment which is called supper: so much
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|for the time when. Now for the ground which, which,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I mean, I walked upon: it is y-cleped thy park. Then
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|for the place where, where, I mean, I did encounter
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|but to the place where, it standeth north-north-east
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|and by east from the west corner of thy curious-
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,'--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Me?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'that unlettered small-knowing soul,'--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Me?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'that shallow vassal,'--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Still me?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'which, as I remember, hight Costard,'--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O, me!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|established proclaimed edict and continent canon,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|which with,--O, with--but with this I passion to say
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|wherewith,--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|With a wench.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'with a child of our grandmother Eve, a
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|female, or, for thy more sweet understanding, a
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|woman. Him I, as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|have sent to thee, to receive the meed of
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Dull, a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|estimation.'
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|'Me, an't shall please you, I am Anthony Dull.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]  'For Jaquenetta,--so is the weaker vessel
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|called which I apprehended with the aforesaid
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|swain,--I keep her as a vessel of the law's fury,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|and heart-burning heat of duty.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This is not so well as I looked for, but the best
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|that ever I heard.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|you to this?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Sir, I confess the wench.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Did you hear the proclamation?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I do confess much of the hearing it but little of
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|the marking of it.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment, to be taken
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|with a wench.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damsel.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Well, it was proclaimed 'damsel.'
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|This was no damsel, neither, sir, she was a virgin.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|It is so varied, too, for it was proclaimed 'virgin.'
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|This maid will not serve your turn, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|This maid will serve my turn, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|a week with bran and water.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And Don Armado shall be your keeper.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|My Lord Biron, see him deliver'd o'er:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And go we, lords, to put in practise that
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Which each to other hath so strongly sworn.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Exeunt FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I'll lay my head to any good man's hat,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Sirrah, come on.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I suffer for the truth, sir, for true it is, I was
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|girl, and therefore welcome the sour cup of
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|till then, sit thee down, sorrow!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exeunt
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|SCENE II. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|grows melancholy?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|No, no, O Lord, sir, no.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|tender juvenal?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Why tough senior? why tough senior?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|appertaining to thy young days, which we may
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|nominate tender.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|old time, which we may name tough.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON ADRIANO DE
Loves Labours Lost|ARMADO|Pretty and apt.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|I apt, and my saying pretty?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Thou pretty, because little.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And therefore apt, because quick.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Speak you this in my praise, master?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|In thy condign praise.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|I will praise an eel with the same praise.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|What, that an eel is ingenious?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|That an eel is quick.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I do say thou art quick in answers: thou heatest my blood.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|I am answered, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I love not to be crossed.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|[Aside]  He speaks the mere contrary, crosses love not him.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I have promised to study three years with the duke.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|You may do it in an hour, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Impossible.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|How many is one thrice told?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I am ill at reckoning, it fitteth the spirit of a tapster.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I confess both: they are both the varnish of a
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|complete man.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Then, I am sure, you know how much the gross sum of
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|deuce-ace amounts to.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|It doth amount to one more than two.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Which the base vulgar do call three.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|True.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink: and how
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three,' and
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|study three years in two words, the dancing horse
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|will tell you.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|A most fine figure!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|To prove you a cipher.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|of affection would deliver me from the reprobate
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|courtesy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|outswear Cupid. Comfort, me, boy: what great men
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|have been in love?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Hercules, master.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|more, and, sweet my child, let them be men of good
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|repute and carriage.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his back
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|like a porter: and he was in love.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|O well-knit Samson! strong-jointed Samson! I do
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|carrying gates. I am in love too. Who was Samson's
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|love, my dear Moth?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A woman, master.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Of what complexion?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Tell me precisely of what complexion.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Of the sea-water green, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Is that one of the four complexions?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|As I have read, sir, and the best of them too.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Green indeed is the colour of lovers, but to have a
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|for it. He surely affected her for her wit.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|It was so, sir, for she had a green wit.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|My love is most immaculate white and red.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|such colours.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Define, define, well-educated infant.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|My father's wit and my mother's tongue, assist me!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sweet invocation of a child, most pretty and
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|pathetical!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|If she be made of white and red,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Her faults will ne'er be known,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|For blushing cheeks by faults are bred
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|And fears by pale white shown:
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Then if she fear, or be to blame,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|By this you shall not know,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|For still her cheeks possess the same
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Which native she doth owe.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|white and red.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|The world was very guilty of such a ballad some
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|three ages since: but I think now 'tis not to be
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|found, or, if it were, it would neither serve for
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|the writing nor the tune.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|example my digression by some mighty precedent.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Boy, I do love that country girl that I took in the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|park with the rational hind Costard: she deserves well.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|[Aside]  To be whipped, and yet a better love than
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|my master.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sing, boy, my spirit grows heavy in love.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|And that's great marvel, loving a light wench.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I say, sing.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Forbear till this company be past.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|Sir, the duke's pleasure is, that you keep Costard
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|safe: and you must suffer him to take no delight
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|nor no penance, but a' must fast three days a week.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|For this damsel, I must keep her at the park: she
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|is allowed for the day-woman. Fare you well.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I do betray myself with blushing. Maid!
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Man?
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I will visit thee at the lodge.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|That's hereby.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I know where it is situate.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Lord, how wise you are!
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I will tell thee wonders.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|With that face?
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I love thee.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|So I heard you say.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And so, farewell.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Fair weather after you!
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|Come, Jaquenetta, away!
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|Exeunt DULL and JAQUENETTA
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|be pardoned.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Well, sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it on a
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|full stomach.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Thou shalt be heavily punished.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|are but lightly rewarded.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Take away this villain, shut him up.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Come, you transgressing slave, away!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Let me not be pent up, sir: I will fast, being loose.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|No, sir, that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|that I have seen, some shall see.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|What shall some see?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|words, and therefore I will say nothing: I thank
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|God I have as little patience as another man, and
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|therefore I can be quiet.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exeunt MOTH and COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I do affect the very ground, which is base, where
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|how can that be true love which is falsely
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|attempted? Love is a familiar, Love is a devil:
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|tempted, and he had an excellent strength, yet was
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The first and second cause will not serve my turn,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|the passado he respects not, the duello he regards
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|not: his disgrace is to be called boy, but his
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust rapier!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|be still, drum! for your manager is in love, yea,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|ACT II
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|SCENE I. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and other Attendants
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Consider who the king your father sends,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To parley with the sole inheritor
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Of all perfections that a man may owe,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Matchless Navarre, the plea of no less weight
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Be now as prodigal of all dear grace
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|As Nature was in making graces dear
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|When she did starve the general world beside
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And prodigally gave them all to you.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I am less proud to hear you tell my worth
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Than you much willing to be counted wise
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|In spending your wit in the praise of mine.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|You are not ignorant, all-telling fame
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Till painful study shall outwear three years,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|No woman may approach his silent court:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Before we enter his forbidden gates,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To know his pleasure, and in that behalf,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Bold of your worthiness, we single you
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|As our best-moving fair solicitor.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Tell him, the daughter of the King of France,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|On serious business, craving quick dispatch,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Importunes personal conference with his grace:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Haste, signify so much, while we attend,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Proud of employment, willingly I go.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|All pride is willing pride, and yours is so.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Exit BOYET
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Who are the votaries, my loving lords,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke?
Loves Labours Lost|First Lord|Lord Longaville is one.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Know you the man?
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|I know him, madam: at a marriage-feast,
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|In Normandy, saw I this Longaville:
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd,
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will,
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|It should none spare that come within his power.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Some merry mocking lord, belike, is't so?
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|They say so most that most his humours know.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Who are the rest?
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Of all that virtue love for virtue loved:
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|And shape to win grace though he had no wit.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|I saw him at the Duke Alencon's once,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|And much too little of that good I saw
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Is my report to his great worthiness.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Another of these students at that time
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Was there with him, if I have heard a truth.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Biron they call him, but a merrier man,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Within the limit of becoming mirth,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|I never spent an hour's talk withal:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|His eye begets occasion for his wit,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|For every object that the one doth catch
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Delivers in such apt and gracious words
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That aged ears play truant at his tales
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And younger hearings are quite ravished,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|God bless my ladies! are they all in love,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|That every one her own hath garnished
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|With such bedecking ornaments of praise?
Loves Labours Lost|First Lord|Here comes Boyet.
Loves Labours Lost|First Lord|Re-enter BOYET
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Now, what admittance, lord?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Navarre had notice of your fair approach,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And he and his competitors in oath
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|He rather means to lodge you in the field,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Like one that comes here to besiege his court,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Than seek a dispensation for his oath,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To let you enter his unpeopled house.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Here comes Navarre.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Enter FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN, BIRON, and Attendants
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|'Fair' I give you back again, and 'welcome' I have
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I will be welcome, then: conduct me thither.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Hear me, dear lady, I have sworn an oath.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forsworn.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Not for the world, fair madam, by my will.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Why, will shall break it, will and nothing else.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And sin to break it.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And suddenly resolve me in my suit.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|You will the sooner, that I were away,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|For you'll prove perjured if you make me stay.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I know you did.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|How needless was it then to ask the question!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|You must not be so quick.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|'Tis 'long of you that spur me with such questions.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Not till it leave the rider in the mire.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What time o' day?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|The hour that fools should ask.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Now fair befall your mask!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Fair fall the face it covers!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And send you many lovers!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Amen, so you be none.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nay, then will I be gone.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Madam, your father here doth intimate
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Being but the one half of an entire sum
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Disbursed by my father in his wars.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But say that he or we, as neither have,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Received that sum, yet there remains unpaid
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|One part of Aquitaine is bound to us,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Although not valued to the money's worth.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|If then the king your father will restore
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But that one half which is unsatisfied,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|We will give up our right in Aquitaine,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And hold fair friendship with his majesty.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But that, it seems, he little purposeth,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|For here he doth demand to have repaid
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A hundred thousand crowns, and not demands,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To have his title live in Aquitaine,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Which we much rather had depart withal
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And have the money by our father lent
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Than Aquitaine so gelded as it is.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Dear Princess, were not his requests so far
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|From reason's yielding, your fair self should make
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And go well satisfied to France again.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|You do the king my father too much wrong
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And wrong the reputation of your name,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|In so unseeming to confess receipt
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I do protest I never heard of it,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And if you prove it, I'll repay it back
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Or yield up Aquitaine.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|We arrest your word.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Boyet, you can produce acquittances
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|For such a sum from special officers
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Of Charles his father.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Satisfy me so.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|So please your grace, the packet is not come
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Where that and other specialties are bound:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|It shall suffice me: at which interview
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|All liberal reason I will yield unto.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Meantime receive such welcome at my hand
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|As honour without breach of honour may
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Make tender of to thy true worthiness:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|You may not come, fair princess, in my gates,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But here without you shall be so received
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|As you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Though so denied fair harbour in my house.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To-morrow shall we visit you again.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Thy own wish wish I thee in every place!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Pray you, do my commendations, I would be glad to see it.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I would you heard it groan.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Is the fool sick?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Sick at the heart.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Alack, let it blood.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Would that do it good?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|My physic says 'ay.'
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Will you prick't with your eye?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|No point, with my knife.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Now, God save thy life!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And yours from long living!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I cannot stay thanksgiving.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Retiring
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Sir, I pray you, a word: what lady is that same?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The heir of Alencon, Katharine her name.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|I beseech you a word: what is she in the white?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Perchance light in the light. I desire her name.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|She hath but one for herself, to desire that were a shame.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Pray you, sir, whose daughter?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Her mother's, I have heard.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|God's blessing on your beard!
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Good sir, be not offended.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|She is an heir of Falconbridge.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Nay, my choler is ended.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|She is a most sweet lady.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Not unlike, sir, that may be.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Exit LONGAVILLE
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What's her name in the cap?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Rosaline, by good hap.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Is she wedded or no?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To her will, sir, or so.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|You are welcome, sir: adieu.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Exit BIRON
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord:
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Not a word with him but a jest.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And every jest but a word.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|It was well done of you to take him at his word.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Two hot sheeps, marry.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And wherefore not ships?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|So you grant pasture for me.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Offering to kiss her
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Not so, gentle beast:
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|My lips are no common, though several they be.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Belonging to whom?
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|To my fortunes and me.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Good wits will be jangling, but, gentles, agree:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|This civil war of wits were much better used
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|On Navarre and his book-men, for here 'tis abused.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|If my observation, which very seldom lies,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|With what?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|With that which we lovers entitle affected.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Your reason?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Why, all his behaviors did make their retire
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|His heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|All senses to that sense did make their repair,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To feel only looking on fairest of fair:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glass'd,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|His face's own margent did quote such amazes
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Come to our pavilion: Boyet is disposed.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|But to speak that in words which his eye hath
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|disclosed.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I only have made a mouth of his eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|By adding a tongue which I know will not lie.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Thou art an old love-monger and speakest skilfully.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Do you hear, my mad wenches?
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|No.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|What then, do you see?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Ay, our way to be gone.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|You are too hard for me.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Exeunt
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|ACT III
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|SCENE I. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Warble, child, make passionate my sense of hearing.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Concolinel.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Singing
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years, take this key,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Master, will you win your love with a French brawl?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|How meanest thou? brawling in French?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|swallowed love with singing love, sometime through
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|love, with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|your eyes, with your arms crossed on your thin-belly
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|doublet like a rabbit on a spit, or your hands in
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|your pocket like a man after the old painting, and
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|These are complements, these are humours, these
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|these, and make them men of note--do you note
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|me?--that most are affected to these.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|How hast thou purchased this experience?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|By my penny of observation.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|But O,--but O,--
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|'The hobby-horse is forgot.'
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Callest thou my love 'hobby-horse'?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|No, master, the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Almost I had.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Negligent student! learn her by heart.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|By heart and in heart, boy.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|What wilt thou prove?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A man, if I live, and this, by, in, and without, upon
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|the instant: by heart you love her, because your
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|heart cannot come by her, in heart you love her,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|because your heart is in love with her, and out of
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|heart you love her, being out of heart that you
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|cannot enjoy her.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I am all these three.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|And three times as much more, and yet nothing at
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|all.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Fetch hither the swain: he must carry me a letter.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A message well sympathized, a horse to be ambassador
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|for an ass.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Ha, ha! what sayest thou?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|for he is very slow-gaited. But I go.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The way is but short: away!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|As swift as lead, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The meaning, pretty ingenious?
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Minime, honest master, or rather, master, no.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I say lead is slow.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|You are too swift, sir, to say so:
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sweet smoke of rhetoric!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|He reputes me a cannon, and the bullet, that's he:
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I shoot thee at the swain.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Thump then and I flee.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|A most acute juvenal, voluble and free of grace!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face:
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|My herald is return'd.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Re-enter MOTH with COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy, begin.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|No enigma, no riddle, no l'envoy, no salve in the
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|l'envoy, no l'envoy, no salve, sir, but a plantain!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|By virtue, thou enforcest laughter, thy silly
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|thought my spleen, the heaving of my lungs provokes
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|me to ridiculous smiling. O, pardon me, my stars!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|the word l'envoy for a salve?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I will example it:
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Were still at odds, being but three.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|There's the moral. Now the l'envoy.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|I will add the l'envoy. Say the moral again.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Were still at odds, being but three.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Until the goose came out of door,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|And stay'd the odds by adding four.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|my l'envoy.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Were still at odds, being but three.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Until the goose came out of door,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Staying the odds by adding four.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A good l'envoy, ending in the goose: would you
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|desire more?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose:
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Let me see, a fat l'envoy, ay, that's a fat goose.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|By saying that a costard was broken in a shin.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Then call'd you for the l'envoy.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|True, and I for a plantain: thus came your
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|argument in,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|And he ended the market.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|But tell me, how was there a costard broken in a shin?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|I will tell you sensibly.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l'envoy:
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I Costard, running out, that was safely within,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|We will talk no more of this matter.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Till there be more matter in the shin.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O, marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|some goose, in this.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|enfreedoming thy person, thou wert immured,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|restrained, captivated, bound.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|True, true, and now you will be my purgation and let me loose.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance, and,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|bear this significant
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Giving a letter
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|to the country maid Jaquenetta:
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|there is remuneration, for the best ward of mine
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exit MOTH
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|farthings--remuneration.--'What's the price of this
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|inkle?'--'One penny.'--'No, I'll give you a
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|remuneration:' why, it carries it. Remuneration!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|never buy and sell out of this word.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Enter BIRON
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|buy for a remuneration?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What is a remuneration?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I thank your worship: God be wi' you!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Stay, slave, I must employ thee:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|When would you have it done, sir?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This afternoon.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Well, I will do it, sir: fare you well.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Thou knowest not what it is.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I shall know, sir, when I have done it.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Why, villain, thou must know first.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I will come to your worship to-morrow morning.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|It must be done this afternoon.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Hark, slave, it is but this:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The princess comes to hunt here in the park,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And in her train there is a gentle lady,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And Rosaline they call her: ask for her,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And to her white hand see thou do commend
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon, go.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Giving him a shilling
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|a'leven-pence farthing better: most sweet gardon! I
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|will do it sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A very beadle to a humorous sigh,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A critic, nay, a night-watch constable,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A domineering pedant o'er the boy,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Than whom no mortal so magnificent!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Sole imperator and great general
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Of trotting 'paritors:--O my little heart:--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And I to be a corporal of his field,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A woman, that is like a German clock,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And never going aright, being a watch,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But being watch'd that it may still go right!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And, among three, to love the worst of all,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A wightly wanton with a velvet brow,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To pray for her! Go to, it is a plague
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That Cupid will impose for my neglect
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Of his almighty dreadful little might.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue and groan:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Some men must love my lady and some Joan.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|ACT IV
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|SCENE I. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester, BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Was that the king, that spurred his horse so hard
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Against the steep uprising of the hill?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I know not, but I think it was not he.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Whoe'er a' was, a' show'd a mounting mind.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Well, lords, to-day we shall have our dispatch:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|On Saturday we will return to France.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|That we must stand and play the murderer in?
Loves Labours Lost|Forester|Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice,
Loves Labours Lost|Forester|A stand where you may make the fairest shoot.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot.
Loves Labours Lost|Forester|Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|What, what? first praise me and again say no?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|O short-lived pride! Not fair? alack for woe!
Loves Labours Lost|Forester|Yes, madam, fair.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Nay, never paint me now:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Here, good my glass, take this for telling true:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Fair payment for foul words is more than due.
Loves Labours Lost|Forester|Nothing but fair is that which you inherit.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|See see, my beauty will be saved by merit!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|O heresy in fair, fit for these days!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And shooting well is then accounted ill.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Thus will I save my credit in the shoot:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Not wounding, pity would not let me do't,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If wounding, then it was to show my skill,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|That more for praise than purpose meant to kill.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And out of question so it is sometimes,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Glory grows guilty of detested crimes,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|We bend to that the working of the heart,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|As I for praise alone now seek to spill
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The poor deer's blood, that my heart means no ill.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Only for praise sake, when they strive to be
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Lords o'er their lords?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Only for praise: and praise we may afford
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To any lady that subdues a lord.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Here comes a member of the commonwealth.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Enter COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Which is the greatest lady, the highest?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The thickest and the tallest.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|The thickest and the tallest! it is so, truth is truth.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Are not you the chief woman? you are the thickest here.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|What's your will, sir? what's your will?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I have a letter from Monsieur Biron to one Lady Rosaline.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|O, thy letter, thy letter! he's a good friend of mine:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Break up this capon.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I am bound to serve.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|This letter is mistook, it importeth none here,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|It is writ to Jaquenetta.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|We will read it, I swear.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Reads
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|true, that thou art beauteous, truth itself, that
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Zenelophon, and he it was that might rightly say,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Veni, vidi, vici, which to annothanize in the
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|vulgar,--O base and obscure vulgar!--videlicet, He
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|came, saw, and overcame: he came, one, saw two,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|overcame, three. Who came? the king: why did he
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|come? to see: why did he see? to overcome: to
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|whom came he? to the beggar: what saw he? the
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|beggar: who overcame he? the beggar. The
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|conclusion is victory: on whose side? the king's.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The captive is enriched: on whose side? the
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|beggar's. The catastrophe is a nuptial: on whose
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|side? the king's: no, on both in one, or one in
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|both. I am the king, for so stands the comparison:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|thou the beggar, for so witnesseth thy lowliness.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Shall I command thy love? I may: shall I enforce
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|thy love? I could: shall I entreat thy love? I
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|will. What shalt thou exchange for rags? robes,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|for tittles? titles, for thyself? me. Thus,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|expecting thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|my eyes on thy picture. and my heart on thy every
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|part. Thine, in the dearest design of industry,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Submissive fall his princely feet before,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And he from forage will incline to play:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|But if thou strive, poor soul, what art thou then?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Food for his rage, repasture for his den.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|What vane? what weathercock? did you ever hear better?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I am much deceived but I remember the style.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To the prince and his bookmates.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Thou fellow, a word:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Who gave thee this letter?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I told you, my lord.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To whom shouldst thou give it?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|From my lord to my lady.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|From which lord to which lady?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|From my lord Biron, a good master of mine,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|To a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To ROSALINE
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Here, sweet, put up this: 'twill be thine another day.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Exeunt PRINCESS and train
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Who is the suitor? who is the suitor?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Shall I teach you to know?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Ay, my continent of beauty.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Why, she that bears the bow.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Finely put off!
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|My lady goes to kill horns, but, if thou marry,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Finely put on!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Well, then, I am the shooter.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And who is your deer?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Finely put on, indeed!
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|at the brow.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Shall I come upon thee with an old saying, that was
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|a man when King Pepin of France was a little boy, as
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|touching the hit it?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|woman when Queen Guinover of Britain was a little
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|wench, as touching the hit it.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Thou canst not hit it, my good man.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|An I cannot, another can.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Exeunt ROSALINE and KATHARINE
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|By my troth, most pleasant: how both did fit it!
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Come, come, you talk greasily, your lips grow foul.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|She's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Exeunt BOYET and MARIA
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|vulgar wit!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|were, so fit.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Armado o' th' one side,--O, a most dainty man!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|will swear!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Sola, sola!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Shout within
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exit COSTARD, running
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|SCENE II. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Very reverend sport, truly, and done in the testimony
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|of a good conscience.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood, ripe
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|the soil, the land, the earth.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|'Twas not a haud credo, 'twas a pricket.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|explication, facere, as it were, replication, or
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|insert again my haud credo for a deer.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|I said the deer was not a haud credo, twas a pricket.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Twice-sod simplicity, his coctus!
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|in a book, he hath not eat paper, as it were, he
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|replenished, he is only an animal, only sensible in
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|the duller parts:
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|And such barren plants are set before us, that we
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|thankful should be,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|do fructify in us more than he.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school:
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|But omne bene, say I, being of an old father's mind,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|weeks old as yet?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Dictynna, goodman Dull, Dictynna, goodman Dull.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|What is Dictynna?
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|And raught not to five weeks when he came to
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|five-score.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|The allusion holds in the exchange.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|'Tis true indeed, the collusion holds in the exchange.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|in the exchange.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange, for
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|that, 'twas a pricket that the princess killed.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|on the death of the deer? And, to humour the
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge, so it shall
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|please you to abrogate scurrility.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|pleasing pricket,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Some say a sore, but not a sore, till now made
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|sore with shooting.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|from thicket,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Or pricket sore, or else sorel, the people fall a-hooting.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|one sorel.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|A rare talent!
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|[Aside]  If a talent be a claw, look how he claws
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|him with a talent.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|This is a gift that I have, simple, simple, a
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|thankful for it.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may my
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|parishioners, for their sons are well tutored by
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|you, and their daughters profit very greatly under
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|you: you are a good member of the commonwealth.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|want no instruction, if their daughters be capable,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|loquitur, a soul feminine saluteth us.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|God give you good morrow, master Parson.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Master Parson, quasi pers-on. An if one should be
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|pierced, which is the one?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|tuft of earth, fire enough for a flint, pearl enough
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|for a swine: 'tis pretty, it is well.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Good master Parson, be so good as read me this
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Ruminat,--and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Venetia, Venetia,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Chi non ti vede non ti pretia.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! who understandeth thee
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|as Horace says in his--What, my soul, verses?
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Ay, sir, and very learned.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse, lege, domine.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|[Reads]
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd!
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove:
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|osiers bow'd.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Where all those pleasures live that art would
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|comprehend:
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire:
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Which not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|only numbers ratified, but, for the elegancy,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|was this directed to you?
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the strange
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|queen's lords.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I will overglance the superscript: 'To the
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Rosaline.' I will look again on the intellect of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|the letter, for the nomination of the party writing
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|to the person written unto: 'Your ladyship's in all
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|desired employment, BIRON.' Sir Nathaniel, this
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Biron is one of the votaries with the king, and here
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|progression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|sweet, deliver this paper into the royal hand of the
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|king: it may concern much. Stay not thy
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|compliment, I forgive thy duty, adieu.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Have with thee, my girl.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|religiously, and, as a certain father saith,--
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Sir tell me not of the father, I do fear colourable
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|colours. But to return to the verses: did they
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|please you, Sir Nathaniel?
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Marvellous well for the pen.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|of mine, where, if, before repast, it shall please
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto, where I
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|will prove those verses to be very unlearned,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention: I
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|beseech your society.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|And thank you too, for society, saith the text, is
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|the happiness of life.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|To DULL
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Sir, I do invite you too, you shall not
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|their game, and we will to our recreation.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Exeunt
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|SCENE III. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Enter BIRON, with a paper
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The king he is hunting the deer, I am coursing
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|myself: they have pitched a toil, I am toiling in
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|a pitch,--pitch that defiles: defile! a foul
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|word. Well, set thee down, sorrow! for so they say
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Ajax: it kills sheep, it kills me, I a sheep:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|well proved again o' my side! I will not love: if
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I do, hang me, i' faith, I will not. O, but her
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|eye,--by this light, but for her eye, I would not
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|love her, yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|and to be melancholy, and here is part of my rhyme,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|and here my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool sent
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|fool, sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|a pin, if the other three were in. Here comes one
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|with a paper: God give him grace to groan!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Stands aside
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter FERDINAND, with a paper
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Ay me!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|[Aside]  Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|left pap. In faith, secrets!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Reads]
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To those fresh morning drops upon the rose,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Through the transparent bosom of the deep,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|As doth thy face through tears of mine give light,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|No drop but as a coach doth carry thee,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Do but behold the tears that swell in me,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And they thy glory through my grief will show:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But do not love thyself, then thou wilt keep
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|My tears for glasses, and still make me weep.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Steps aside
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Ay me, I am forsworn!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|One drunkard loves another of the name.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Am I the first that have been perjured so?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I could put thee in comfort. Not by two that I know:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The shape of Love's Tyburn that hangs up simplicity.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|O sweet Maria, empress of my love!
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Disfigure not his slop.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|This same shall go.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Reads
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|A woman I forswore, but I will prove,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Exhalest this vapour-vow, in thee it is:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|If broken then, it is no fault of mine:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|To lose an oath to win a paradise?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|By whom shall I send this?--Company! stay.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Steps aside
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|All hid, all hid, an old infant play.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter DUMAIN, with a paper
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Dumain transform'd! four woodcocks in a dish!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|O most divine Kate!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O most profane coxcomb!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By earth, she is not, corporal, there you lie.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|An amber-colour'd raven was well noted.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|As upright as the cedar.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Stoop, I say,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Her shoulder is with child.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|As fair as day.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Ay, as some days, but then no sun must shine.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|O that I had my wish!
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|And I had mine!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And I mine too, good Lord!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Amen, so I had mine: is not that a good word?
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|I would forget her, but a fever she
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Reigns in my blood and will remember'd be.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A fever in your blood! why, then incision
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Would let her out in saucers: sweet misprision!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|[Reads]
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|On a day--alack the day!--
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Love, whose month is ever May,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Spied a blossom passing fair
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Playing in the wanton air:
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Through the velvet leaves the wind,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|All unseen, can passage find,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|That the lover, sick to death,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Wish himself the heaven's breath.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Air, would I might triumph so!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|But, alack, my hand is sworn
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Youth so apt to pluck a sweet!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Do not call it sin in me,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|That I am forsworn for thee,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Thou for whom Jove would swear
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Juno but an Ethiope were,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|And deny himself for Jove,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Turning mortal for thy love.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|This will I send, and something else more plain,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|That shall express my true love's fasting pain.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|O, would the king, Biron, and Longaville,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|For none offend where all alike do dote.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|[Advancing]  Dumain, thy love is far from charity.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|To be o'erheard and taken napping so.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|[Advancing]  Come, sir, you blush, as his your case is such,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|You chide at him, offending twice as much,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|You do not love Maria, Longaville
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Did never sonnet for her sake compile,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|His loving bosom to keep down his heart.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I have been closely shrouded in this bush
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And mark'd you both and for you both did blush:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Ay me! says one, O Jove! the other cries,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|One, her hairs were gold, crystal the other's eyes:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To LONGAVILLE
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|You would for paradise break faith, and troth,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To DUMAIN
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What will Biron say when that he shall hear
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Faith so infringed, which such zeal did swear?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How will he scorn! how will he spend his wit!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How will he triumph, leap and laugh at it!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|For all the wealth that ever I did see,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I would not have him know so much by me.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Advancing
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Ah, good my liege, I pray thee, pardon me!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Good heart, what grace hast thou, thus to reprove
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|These worms for loving, that art most in love?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Your eyes do make no coaches, in your tears
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|There is no certain princess that appears,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|You'll not be perjured, 'tis a hateful thing,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But are you not ashamed? nay, are you not,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|You found his mote, the king your mote did see,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But I a beam do find in each of three.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, what a scene of foolery have I seen,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O me, with what strict patience have I sat,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To see a king transformed to a gnat!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To see great Hercules whipping a gig,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And profound Solomon to tune a jig,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And critic Timon laugh at idle toys!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Where lies thy grief, O, tell me, good Dumain?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And where my liege's? all about the breast:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A caudle, ho!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Too bitter is thy jest.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Are we betray'd thus to thy over-view?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Not you to me, but I betray'd by you:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I, that am honest, I, that hold it sin
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To break the vow I am engaged in,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I am betray'd, by keeping company
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|With men like men of inconstancy.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or groan for love? or spend a minute's time
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|In pruning me? When shall you hear that I
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A leg, a limb?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Soft! whither away so fast?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A true man or a thief that gallops so?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I post from love: good lover, let me go.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|God bless the king!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What present hast thou there?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Some certain treason.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What makes treason here?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Nay, it makes nothing, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|If it mar nothing neither,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The treason and you go in peace away together.
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|I beseech your grace, let this letter be read:
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Our parson misdoubts it, 'twas treason, he said.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Biron, read it over.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Giving him the paper
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Where hadst thou it?
Loves Labours Lost|JAQUENETTA|Of Costard.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Where hadst thou it?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|BIRON tears the letter
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How now! what is in you? why dost thou tear it?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A toy, my liege, a toy: your grace needs not fear it.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear it.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|It is Biron's writing, and here is his name.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Gathering up the pieces
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|[To COSTARD]  Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|born to do me shame.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That you three fools lack'd me fool to make up the mess:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|He, he, and you, and you, my liege, and I,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Now the number is even.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|True, true, we are four.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Will these turtles be gone?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Hence, sirs, away!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As true we are as flesh and blood can be:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Young blood doth not obey an old decree:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|We cannot cross the cause why we were born,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What, did these rent lines show some love of thine?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Did they, quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That, like a rude and savage man of Inde,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|At the first opening of the gorgeous east,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What peremptory eagle-sighted eye
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That is not blinded by her majesty?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|She an attending star, scarce seen a light.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, but for my love, day would turn to night!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Where several worthies make one dignity,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To things of sale a seller's praise belongs,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|She passes praise, then praise too short doth blot.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Is ebony like her? O wood divine!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A wife of such wood were felicity.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, who can give an oath? where is a book?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|If that she learn not of her eye to look:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|No face is fair that is not full so black.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The hue of dungeons and the suit of night,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, if in black my lady's brows be deck'd,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|It mourns that painting and usurping hair
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Should ravish doters with a false aspect,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And therefore is she born to make black fair.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Her favour turns the fashion of the days,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For native blood is counted painting now,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Paints itself black, to imitate her brow.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|To look like her are chimney-sweepers black.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|And since her time are colliers counted bright.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Your mistresses dare never come in rain,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For fear their colours should be wash'd away.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|'Twere good, yours did, for, sir, to tell you plain,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|No devil will fright thee then so much as she.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Look, here's thy love: my foot and her face see.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, if the streets were paved with thine eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Her feet were much too dainty for such tread!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|O, vile! then, as she goes, what upward lies
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|The street should see as she walk'd overhead.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But what of this? are we not all in love?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworn.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Then leave this chat, and, good Biron, now prove
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Ay, marry, there, some flattery for this evil.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|O, some authority how to proceed,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Some salve for perjury.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|'Tis more than need.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Have at you, then, affection's men at arms.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Consider what you first did swear unto,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To fast, to study, and to see no woman,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too young,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And abstinence engenders maladies.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And where that you have vow'd to study, lords,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|In that each of you have forsworn his book,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Can you still dream and pore and thereon look?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For when would you, my lord, or you, or you,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Have found the ground of study's excellence
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Without the beauty of a woman's face?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|From women's eyes this doctrine I derive,  They are the ground, the books, the academes From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Why, universal plodding poisons up
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The nimble spirits in the arteries,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As motion and long-during action tires
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Now, for not looking on a woman's face,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|You have in that forsworn the use of eyes
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And study too, the causer of your vow,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For where is any author in the world
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Learning is but an adjunct to ourself
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And where we are our learning likewise is:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Do we not likewise see our learning there?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, we have made a vow to study, lords,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And in that vow we have forsworn our books.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|In leaden contemplation have found out
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Other slow arts entirely keep the brain,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And therefore, finding barren practisers,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Lives not alone immured in the brain,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|But, with the motion of all elements,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Courses as swift as thought in every power,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And gives to every power a double power,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Above their functions and their offices.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|It adds a precious seeing to the eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For valour, is not Love a Hercules,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Subtle as Sphinx, as sweet and musical
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Never durst poet touch a pen to write
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, then his lines would ravish savage ears
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|They sparkle still the right Promethean fire,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|They are the books, the arts, the academes,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That show, contain and nourish all the world:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Else none at all in ought proves excellent.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Then fools you were these women to forswear,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or women's sake, by whom we men are men,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|It is religion to be thus forsworn,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For charity itself fulfills the law,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And who can sever love from charity?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Advance your standards, and upon them, lords,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advised,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|In conflict that you get the sun of them.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Now to plain-dealing, lay these glozes by:
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And win them too: therefore let us devise
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Some entertainment for them in their tents.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|First, from the park let us conduct them thither,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Then homeward every man attach the hand
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Of his fair mistress: in the afternoon
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|We will with some strange pastime solace them,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Such as the shortness of the time can shape,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For revels, dances, masks and merry hours
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Away, away! no time shall be omitted
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That will betime, and may by us be fitted.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And justice always whirls in equal measure:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|If so, our copper buys no better treasure.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Exeunt
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|ACT V
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|SCENE I. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Satis quod sufficit.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|out heresy. I did converse this quondam day with
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|a companion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi-
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|A most singular and choice epithet.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Draws out his table-book
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|than the staple of his argument. I abhor such
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|point-devise companions, such rackers of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|say doubt, det, when he should pronounce debt,--d,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|half, hauf, neighbour vocatur nebor, neigh
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|abbreviated ne. This is abhominable,--which he
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Laus Deo, bene intelligo.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Bon, bon, fort bon, Priscian! a little scratch'd,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|'twill serve.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Videsne quis venit?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Video, et gaudeo.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Chirrah!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|To MOTH
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Quare chirrah, not sirrah?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Men of peace, well encountered.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Most military sir, salutation.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|[Aside to COSTARD]  They have been at a great feast
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|of languages, and stolen the scraps.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|for thou art not so long by the head as
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Peace! the peal begins.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|[To HOLOFERNES]  Monsieur, are you not lettered?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Yes, yes, he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|b, spelt backward, with the horn on his head?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Ba, pueritia, with a horn added.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Quis, quis, thou consonant?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them, or
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|the fifth, if I.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I will repeat them,--a, e, i,--
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|The sheep: the other two concludes it,--o, u.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|touch, a quick venue of wit! snip, snap, quick and
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|home! it rejoiceth my intellect: true wit!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Offered by a child to an old man, which is wit-old.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|What is the figure? what is the figure?
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Horns.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Thou disputest like an infant: go, whip thy gig.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|your infamy circum circa,--a gig of a cuckold's horn.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|have it to buy gingerbread: hold, there is the very
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|bastard, what a joyful father wouldst thou make me!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Go to, thou hast it ad dunghill, at the fingers'
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|ends, as they say.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|O, I smell false Latin, dunghill for unguem.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|charge-house on the top of the mountain?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Or mons, the hill.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I do, sans question.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sir, it is the king's most sweet pleasure and
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|affection to congratulate the princess at her
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|rude multitude call the afternoon.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|liable, congruent and measurable for the afternoon:
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|the word is well culled, chose, sweet and apt, I do
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|assure you, sir, I do assure.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sir, the king is a noble gentleman, and my familiar,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I do assure ye, very good friend: for what is
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|inward between us, let it pass. I do beseech thee,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|remember thy courtesy, I beseech thee, apparel thy
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|head: and among other important and most serious
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|designs, and of great import indeed, too, but let
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|that pass: for I must tell thee, it will please his
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|with my excrement, with my mustachio, but, sweet
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|fable: some certain special honours it pleaseth his
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|greatness to impart to Armado, a soldier, a man of
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|travel, that hath seen the world, but let that pass.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The very all of all is,--but, sweet heart, I do
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|implore secrecy,--that the king would have me
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|present the princess, sweet chuck, with some
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|antique, or firework. Now, understanding that the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|curate and your sweet self are good at such
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth, as it
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|were, I have acquainted you withal, to the end to
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|crave your assistance.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Sir, as concerning some entertainment of time, some
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|show in the posterior of this day, to be rendered by
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|our assistants, at the king's command, and this most
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|the princess, I say none so fit as to present the
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Nine Worthies.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|Where will you find men worthy enough to present them?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Joshua, yourself, myself and this gallant gentleman,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Judas Maccabaeus, this swain, because of his great
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great, the
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|page, Hercules,--
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Pardon, sir, error: he is not quantity enough for
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|that Worthy's thumb: he is not so big as the end of his club.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Shall I have audience? he shall present Hercules in
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|minority: his enter and exit shall be strangling a
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|snake, and I will have an apology for that purpose.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|An excellent device! so, if any of the audience
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|hiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules! now thou
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|crushest the snake!' that is the way to make an
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|For the rest of the Worthies?--
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I will play three myself.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Thrice-worthy gentleman!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Shall I tell you a thing?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|We attend.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|We will have, if this fadge not, an antique. I
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|beseech you, follow.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Via, goodman Dull! thou hast spoken no word all this while.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|Nor understood none neither, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Allons! we will employ thee.
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|I'll make one in a dance, or so, or I will play
Loves Labours Lost|DULL|On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away!
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Exeunt
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|SCENE II. The same.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE, and MARIA
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If fairings come thus plentifully in:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|A lady wall'd about with diamonds!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Look you what I have from the loving king.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Madame, came nothing else along with that?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That was the way to make his godhead wax,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|For he hath been five thousand years a boy.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|You'll ne'er be friends with him, a' kill'd your sister.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|And so she died: had she been light, like you,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|She might ha' been a grandam ere she died:
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|And so may you, for a light heart lives long.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|A light condition in a beauty dark.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|We need more light to find your meaning out.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Therefore I'll darkly end the argument.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Look what you do, you do it still i' the dark.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|So do not you, for you are a light wench.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Great reason, for 'past cure is still past care.'
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Well bandied both, a set of wit well play'd.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But Rosaline, you have a favour too:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Who sent it? and what is it?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|I would you knew:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|An if my face were but as fair as yours,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|My favour were as great, be witness this.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Nay, I have verses too, I thank Biron:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|The numbers true, and, were the numbering too,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|I were the fairest goddess on the ground:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|I am compared to twenty thousand fairs.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Any thing like?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Much in the letters, nothing in the praise.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Beauteous as ink, a good conclusion.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Fair as a text B in a copy-book.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|'Ware pencils, ho! let me not die your debtor,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|My red dominical, my golden letter:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|O, that your face were not so full of O's!
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumain?
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Madam, this glove.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Did he not send you twain?
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Yes, madam, and moreover
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Some thousand verses of a faithful lover,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|A huge translation of hypocrisy,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|This and these pearls to me sent Longaville:
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|The letter is too long by half a mile.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The chain were longer and the letter short?
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Ay, or I would these hands might never part.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|We are wise girls to mock our lovers so.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|They are worse fools to purchase mocking so.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That same Biron I'll torture ere I go:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|O that I knew he were but in by the week!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|How I would make him fawn and beg and seek
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And wait the season and observe the times
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And shape his service wholly to my hests
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And make him proud to make me proud that jests!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That he should be my fool and I his fate.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|The blood of youth burns not with such excess
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|As gravity's revolt to wantonness.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Folly in fools bears not so strong a note
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote,
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Since all the power thereof it doth apply
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Enter BOYET
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|O, I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her grace?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Thy news Boyet?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Prepare, madam, prepare!
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Against your peace: Love doth approach disguised,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Armed in arguments, you'll be surprised:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Muster your wits, stand in your own defence,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|That charge their breath against us? say, scout, say.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Under the cool shade of a sycamore
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|When, lo! to interrupt my purposed rest,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Toward that shade I might behold addrest
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The king and his companions: warily
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I stole into a neighbour thicket by,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And overheard what you shall overhear,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|That, by and by, disguised they will be here.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Their herald is a pretty knavish page,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Action and accent did they teach him there,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|'Thus must thou speak,' and 'thus thy body bear:'
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And ever and anon they made a doubt
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Presence majestical would put him out,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|'For,' quoth the king, 'an angel shalt thou see,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.'
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The boy replied, 'An angel is not evil,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I should have fear'd her had she been a devil.'
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|With that, all laugh'd and clapp'd him on the shoulder,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Making the bold wag by their praises bolder:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|One rubb'd his elbow thus, and fleer'd and swore
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|A better speech was never spoke before,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Another, with his finger and his thumb,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Cried, 'Via! we will do't, come what will come,'
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The third he caper'd, and cried, 'All goes well,'
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The fourth turn'd on the toe, and down he fell.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|With that, they all did tumble on the ground,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|With such a zealous laughter, so profound,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|That in this spleen ridiculous appears,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To cheque their folly, passion's solemn tears.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But what, but what, come they to visit us?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|They do, they do: and are apparell'd thus.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Their purpose is to parle, to court and dance,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And every one his love-feat will advance
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Unto his several mistress, which they'll know
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|By favours several which they did bestow.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And will they so? the gallants shall be task'd,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|For, ladies, we shall every one be mask'd,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And not a man of them shall have the grace,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Despite of suit, to see a lady's face.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And then the king will court thee for his dear,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|So shall Biron take me for Rosaline.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And change your favours too, so shall your loves
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Woo contrary, deceived by these removes.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Come on, then, wear the favours most in sight.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|But in this changing what is your intent?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The effect of my intent is to cross theirs:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|They do it but in mocking merriment,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And mock for mock is only my intent.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Their several counsels they unbosom shall
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Upon the next occasion that we meet,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|With visages displayed, to talk and greet.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|But shall we dance, if they desire to't?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|No, to the death, we will not move a foot,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And quite divorce his memory from his part.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Therefore I do it, and I make no doubt
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To make theirs ours and ours none but our own:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|So shall we stay, mocking intended game,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Trumpets sound within
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The trumpet sounds: be mask'd, the maskers come.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The Ladies mask
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Enter Blackamoors with music, MOTH, FERDINAND,  BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in Russian habits, and masked
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|All hail, the richest beauties on the earth!--
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Beauties no richer than rich taffeta.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|A holy parcel of the fairest dames.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|The Ladies turn their backs to him
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|That ever turn'd their--backs--to mortal views!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|[Aside to MOTH]  Their eyes, villain, their eyes!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views!--Out--
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|True, out indeed.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Not to behold--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|[Aside to MOTH]  Once to behold, rogue.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|--with your sun-beamed eyes--
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|They will not answer to that epithet,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|They do not mark me, and that brings me out.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Exit MOTH
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|What would these strangers? know their minds, Boyet:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|If they do speak our language, 'tis our will:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That some plain man recount their purposes
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Know what they would.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|What would you with the princess?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|What would they, say they?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Why, that they have, and bid them so be gone.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|She says, you have it, and you may be gone.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Say to her, we have measured many miles
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To tread a measure with her on this grass.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|They say, that they have measured many a mile
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To tread a measure with you on this grass.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|It is not so. Ask them how many inches
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Is in one mile: if they have measured many,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|The measure then of one is easily told.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|If to come hither you have measured miles,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And many miles, the princess bids you tell
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|How many inches doth fill up one mile.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Tell her, we measure them by weary steps.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|She hears herself.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|How many weary steps,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Of many weary miles you have o'ergone,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Are number'd in the travel of one mile?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|We number nothing that we spend for you:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Our duty is so rich, so infinite,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That we may do it still without accompt.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That we, like savages, may worship it.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|My face is but a moon, and clouded too.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Thou bid'st me beg: this begging is not strange.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Music plays
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Not yet! no dance! Thus change I like the moon.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|You took the moon at full, but now she's changed.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The music plays, vouchsafe some motion to it.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Our ears vouchsafe it.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|But your legs should do it.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Since you are strangers and come here by chance,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|We'll not be nice: take hands. We will not dance.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Why take we hands, then?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Only to part friends:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Curtsy, sweet hearts, and so the measure ends.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|More measure of this measure, be not nice.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|We can afford no more at such a price.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Prize you yourselves: what buys your company?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Your absence only.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That can never be.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Then cannot we be bought: and so, adieu,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Twice to your visor, and half once to you.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|In private, then.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I am best pleased with that.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|They converse apart
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Honey, and milk, and sugar, there is three.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nay then, two treys, and if you grow so nice,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|There's half-a-dozen sweets.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Seventh sweet, adieu:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|One word in secret.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Let it not be sweet.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Thou grievest my gall.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Gall! bitter.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Therefore meet.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|They converse apart
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Name it.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Fair lady,--
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Say you so? Fair lord,--
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Take that for your fair lady.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Please it you,
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|As much in private, and I'll bid adieu.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|They converse apart
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|What, was your vizard made without a tongue?
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|I know the reason, lady, why you ask.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|O for your reason! quickly, sir, I long.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|You have a double tongue within your mask,
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|And would afford my speechless vizard half.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Veal, quoth the Dutchman. Is not 'veal' a calf?
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|A calf, fair lady!
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|No, a fair lord calf.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Let's part the word.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|No, I'll not be your half
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Take all, and wean it, it may prove an ox.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Look, how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Then die a calf, before your horns do grow.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|One word in private with you, ere I die.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Bleat softly then, the butcher hears you cry.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|They converse apart
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|As is the razor's edge invisible,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Above the sense of sense, so sensible
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Seemeth their conference, their conceits have wings
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Not one word more, my maids, break off, break off.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Farewell, mad wenches, you have simple wits.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovits.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Exeunt FERDINAND, Lords, and Blackamoors
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puff'd out.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Well-liking wits they have, gross, gross, fat, fat.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Or ever, but in vizards, show their faces?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|This pert Biron was out of countenance quite.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|O, they were all in lamentable cases!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|The king was weeping-ripe for a good word.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Biron did swear himself out of all suit.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Dumain was at my service, and his sword:
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|No point, quoth I, my servant straight was mute.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Lord Longaville said, I came o'er his heart,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|And trow you what he called me?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Qualm, perhaps.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Yes, in good faith.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Go, sickness as thou art!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|But will you hear? the king is my love sworn.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And quick Biron hath plighted faith to me.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|And Longaville was for my service born.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|Dumain is mine, as sure as bark on tree.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Immediately they will again be here
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|In their own shapes, for it can never be
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|They will digest this harsh indignity.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Will they return?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|They will, they will, God knows,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows:
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Therefore change favours, and, when they repair,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|How blow? how blow? speak to be understood.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If they return in their own shapes to woo?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Let's, mock them still, as well known as disguised:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Let us complain to them what fools were here,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Disguised like Muscovites, in shapeless gear,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And wonder what they were and to what end
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And their rough carriage so ridiculous,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Should be presented at our tent to us.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Whip to our tents, as roes run o'er land.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Exeunt PRINCESS, ROSALINE, KATHARINE, and MARIA
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Re-enter FERDINAND, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in their proper habits
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Fair sir, God save you! Where's the princess?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Gone to her tent. Please it your majesty
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Command me any service to her thither?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That she vouchsafe me audience for one word.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|I will, and so will she, I know, my lord.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And utters it again when God doth please:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|He is wit's pedler, and retails his wares
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Have not the grace to grace it with such show.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A' can carve too, and lisp: why, this is he
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|In honourable terms: nay, he can sing
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A mean most meanly, and in ushering
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Mend him who can: the ladies call him sweet,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This is the flower that smiles on every one,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To show his teeth as white as whale's bone,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And consciences, that will not die in debt,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That put Armado's page out of his part!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|See where it comes! Behavior, what wert thou
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Till this madman show'd thee? and what art thou now?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Re-enter the PRINCESS, ushered by BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Construe my speeches better, if you may.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Then wish me better, I will give you leave.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|We came to visit you, and purpose now
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To lead you to our court, vouchsafe it then.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|This field shall hold me, and so hold your vow:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Nor God, nor I, delights in perjured men.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Rebuke me not for that which you provoke:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The virtue of your eye must break my oath.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|You nickname virtue, vice you should have spoke,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|For virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|As the unsullied lily, I protest,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|A world of torments though I should endure,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I would not yield to be your house's guest,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|So much I hate a breaking cause to be
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|O, you have lived in desolation here,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Not so, my lord, it is not so, I swear,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|We have had pastimes here and pleasant game:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|A mess of Russians left us but of late.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How, madam! Russians!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Ay, in truth, my lord,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|My lady, to the manner of the days,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|In courtesy gives undeserving praise.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|We four indeed confronted were with four
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And talk'd apace, and in that hour, my lord,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|They did not bless us with one happy word.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|I dare not call them fools, but this I think,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This jest is dry to me. Fair gentle sweet,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Your wit makes wise things foolish: when we greet,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|With eyes best seeing, heaven's fiery eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By light we lose light: your capacity
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Is of that nature that to your huge store
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye,--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I am a fool, and full of poverty.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|But that you take what doth to you belong,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, I am yours, and all that I possess!
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|All the fool mine?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I cannot give you less.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Which of the vizards was it that you wore?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Where? when? what vizard? why demand you this?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|There, then, that vizard, that superfluous case
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That hid the worse and show'd the better face.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|We are descried, they'll mock us now downright.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Let us confess and turn it to a jest.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Amazed, my lord? why looks your highness sad?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Help, hold his brows! he'll swoon! Why look you pale?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Can any face of brass hold longer out?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|lady, dart thy skill at me,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And I will wish thee never more to dance,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nor never more in Russian habit wait.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|O, never will I trust to speeches penn'd,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nor never come in vizard to my friend,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Figures pedantical, these summer-flies
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I do forswear them, and I here protest,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By this white glove,--how white the hand, God knows!--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|In russet yeas and honest kersey noes:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Sans sans, I pray you.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Yet I have a trick
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Of the old rage: bear with me, I am sick,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Write, 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|They are infected, in their hearts it lies,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|These lords are visited, you are not free,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For the Lord's tokens on you do I see.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|No, they are free that gave these tokens to us.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Our states are forfeit: seek not to undo us.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|It is not so, for how can this be true,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That you stand forfeit, being those that sue?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Peace! for I will not have to do with you.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Nor shall not, if I do as I intend.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Speak for yourselves, my wit is at an end.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Some fair excuse.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The fairest is confession.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Were not you here but even now disguised?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Madam, I was.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And were you well advised?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I was, fair madam.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|When you then were here,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|What did you whisper in your lady's ear?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That more than all the world I did respect her.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|When she shall challenge this, you will reject her.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Upon mine honour, no.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Peace, peace! forbear:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Despise me, when I break this oath of mine.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I will: and therefore keep it. Rosaline,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|What did the Russian whisper in your ear?
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|As precious eyesight, and did value me
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Above this world, adding thereto moreover
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That he would wed me, or else die my lover.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|God give thee joy of him! the noble lord
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Most honourably doth unhold his word.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I never swore this lady such an oath.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|By heaven, you did, and to confirm it plain,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|You gave me this: but take it, sir, again.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|My faith and this the princess I did give:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And Lord Biron, I thank him, is my dear.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|What, will you have me, or your pearl again?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Neither of either, I remit both twain.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I see the trick on't: here was a consent,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Knowing aforehand of our merriment,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To dash it like a Christmas comedy:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To make my lady laugh when she's disposed,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Told our intents before, which once disclosed,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The ladies did change favours: and then we,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Following the signs, woo'd but the sign of she.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Now, to our perjury to add more terror,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|We are again forsworn, in will and error.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Much upon this it is: and might not you
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To BOYET
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Do not you know my lady's foot by the squier,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And laugh upon the apple of her eye?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And stand between her back, sir, and the fire,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Holding a trencher, jesting merrily?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|You put our page out: go, you are allow'd,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|You leer upon me, do you? there's an eye
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Wounds like a leaden sword.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Full merrily
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Lo, he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter COSTARD
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair fray.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O Lord, sir, they would know
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What, are there but three?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|No, sir, but it is vara fine,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|For every one pursents three.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And three times thrice is nine.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Not so, sir, under correction, sir, I hope it is not so.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir we know
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|what we know:
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Is not nine.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|by reckoning, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|How much is it?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Art thou one of the Worthies?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Great: for mine own part, I know not the degree of
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Go, bid them prepare.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|We will turn it finely off, sir, we will take
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|some care.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|We are shame-proof, my lord: and tis some policy
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To have one show worse than the king's and his company.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I say they shall not come.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|That sport best pleases that doth least know how:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Where zeal strives to content, and the contents
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Dies in the zeal of that which it presents:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Their form confounded makes most form in mirth,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|When great things labouring perish in their birth.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A right description of our sport, my lord.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|sweet breath as will utter a brace of words.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Converses apart with FERDINAND, and delivers him a paper
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Doth this man serve God?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Why ask you?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|He speaks not like a man of God's making.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch, for,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|fantastical, too, too vain, too too vain: but we
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Exit
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|presents Hector of Troy, the swain, Pompey the
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Great, the parish curate, Alexander, Armado's page,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Hercules, the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|these four Worthies in their first show thrive,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|These four will change habits, and present the other five.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|There is five in the first show.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|You are deceived, 'tis not so.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|and the boy:--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Enter COSTARD, for Pompey
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I Pompey am,--
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|You lie, you are not he.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I Pompey am,--
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|With libbard's head on knee.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Well said, old mocker: I must needs be friends
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|with thee.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big--
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|The Great.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|It is, 'Great,' sir:--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Pompey surnamed the Great,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|my foe to sweat:
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|And travelling along this coast, I here am come by chance,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|If your ladyship would say, 'Thanks, Pompey,' I had done.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Great thanks, great Pompey.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|'Tis not so much worth, but I hope I was perfect: I
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|made a little fault in 'Great.'
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Enter SIR NATHANIEL, for Alexander
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|When in the world I lived, I was the world's
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|commander,
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|By east, west, north, and south, I spread my
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|conquering might:
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander,--
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Your nose says, no, you are not for it stands too right.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Your nose smells 'no' in this, most tender-smelling knight.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The conqueror is dismay'd. Proceed, good Alexander.
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|When in the world I lived, I was the world's
Loves Labours Lost|SIR NATHANIEL|commander,--
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Most true, 'tis right, you were so, Alisander.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Pompey the Great,--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Your servant, and Costard.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|[To SIR NATHANIEL]  O, sir, you have overthrown
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Alisander the conqueror! You will be scraped out of
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|and afeard to speak! run away for shame, Alisander.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|SIR NATHANIEL retires
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|There, an't shall please you, a foolish mild man, an
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|bowler: but, for Alisander,--alas, you see how
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|'tis,--a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Enter HOLOFERNES, for Judas, and MOTH, for Hercules
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Great Hercules is presented by this imp,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed canis,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Quoniam he seemeth in minority,
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Ergo I come with this apology.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|MOTH retires
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Judas I am,--
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|A Judas!
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Not Iscariot, sir.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Judas I am, ycliped Maccabaeus.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Judas Maccabaeus clipt is plain Judas.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A kissing traitor. How art thou proved Judas?
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Judas I am,--
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|The more shame for you, Judas.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|What mean you, sir?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|To make Judas hang himself.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|Begin, sir, you are my elder.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Well followed: Judas was hanged on an elder.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|I will not be put out of countenance.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Because thou hast no face.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|What is this?
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|A cittern-head.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|The head of a bodkin.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A Death's face in a ring.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|The pommel of Caesar's falchion.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|The carved-bone face on a flask.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Ay, and in a brooch of lead.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And now forward, for we have put thee in countenance.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|You have put me out of countenance.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|False, we have given thee faces.
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|But you have out-faced them all.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|An thou wert a lion, we would do so.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|For the latter end of his name.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For the ass to the Jude, give it him:--Jud-as, away!
Loves Labours Lost|HOLOFERNES|This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|HOLOFERNES retires
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, for Hector
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in arms.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|But is this Hector?
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|His leg is too big for Hector's.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|More calf, certain.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|No, he is best endued in the small.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|This cannot be Hector.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|He's a god or a painter, for he makes faces.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Gave Hector a gift,--
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|A gilt nutmeg.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A lemon.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|Stuck with cloves.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|No, cloven.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Peace!--
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|A man so breathed, that certain he would fight, yea
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|From morn till night, out of his pavilion.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I am that flower,--
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|That mint.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|That columbine.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against Hector.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Ay, and Hector's a greyhound.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The sweet war-man is dead and rotten, sweet chucks,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|he was a man. But I will forward with my device.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|To the PRINCESS
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Speak, brave Hector: we are much delighted.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I do adore thy sweet grace's slipper.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|[Aside to DUMAIN]  Loves her by the foot,--
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|[Aside to BOYET]  He may not by the yard.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,--
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|The party is gone, fellow Hector, she is gone, she
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|is two months on her way.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|What meanest thou?
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|wench is cast away: she's quick, the child brags in
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|her belly already: tis yours.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? thou shalt
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|die.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|quick by him and hanged for Pompey that is dead by
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|him.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Most rare Pompey!
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Renowned Pompey!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Greater than great, great, great, great Pompey!
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Pompey the Huge!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Hector trembles.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! stir them
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|on! stir them on!
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Hector will challenge him.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Ay, if a' have no man's blood in's belly than will
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|sup a flea.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|By the north pole, I do challenge thee.
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man:
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I'll slash, I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you,
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|let me borrow my arms again.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Room for the incensed Worthies!
Loves Labours Lost|COSTARD|I'll do it in my shirt.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Most resolute Pompey!
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat? What mean
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|you? You will lose your reputation.
Loves Labours Lost|MOTH|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me, I will not combat
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|in my shirt.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|You may not deny it: Pompey hath made the challenge.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sweet bloods, I both may and will.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What reason have you for't?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt, I go
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|woolward for penance.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|a dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that a' wears next
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|his heart for a favour.
Loves Labours Lost|BOYET|Enter MERCADE
Loves Labours Lost|MERCADE|God save you, madam!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Welcome, Mercade,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But that thou interrupt'st our merriment.
Loves Labours Lost|MERCADE|I am sorry, madam, for the news I bring
Loves Labours Lost|MERCADE|Is heavy in my tongue. The king your father--
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Dead, for my life!
Loves Labours Lost|MERCADE|Even so, my tale is told.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Worthies, away! the scene begins to cloud.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Exeunt Worthies
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|How fares your majesty?
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Boyet, prepare, I will away tonight.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Madam, not so, I do beseech you, stay.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|For all your fair endeavors, and entreat,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|The liberal opposition of our spirits,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If over-boldly we have borne ourselves
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|In the converse of breath: your gentleness
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Was guilty of it. Farewell worthy lord!
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|For my great suit so easily obtain'd.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The extreme parts of time extremely forms
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|All causes to the purpose of his speed,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And often at his very loose decides
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|That which long process could not arbitrate:
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And though the mourning brow of progeny
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Forbid the smiling courtesy of love
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The holy suit which fain it would convince,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Yet, since love's argument was first on foot,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|From what it purposed, since, to wail friends lost
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Is not by much so wholesome-profitable
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|As to rejoice at friends but newly found.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I understand you not: my griefs are double.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And by these badges understand the king.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|For your fair sakes have we neglected time,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Play'd foul play with our oaths: your beauty, ladies,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Hath much deform'd us, fashioning our humours
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Even to the opposed end of our intents:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And what in us hath seem'd ridiculous,--
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|As love is full of unbefitting strains,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To every varied object in his glance:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Which parti-coated presence of loose love
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Our love being yours, the error that love makes
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|By being once false for ever to be true
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To those that make us both,--fair ladies, you:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|We have received your letters full of love,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Your favours, the ambassadors of love,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And, in our maiden council, rated them
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|At courtship, pleasant jest and courtesy,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|As bombast and as lining to the time:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But more devout than this in our respects
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Have we not been, and therefore met your loves
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|In their own fashion, like a merriment.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|Our letters, madam, show'd much more than jest.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|So did our looks.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|We did not quote them so.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Now, at the latest minute of the hour,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Grant us your loves.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|A time, methinks, too short
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To make a world-without-end bargain in.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Full of dear guiltiness, and therefore this:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If for my love, as there is no such cause,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|You will do aught, this shall you do for me:
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Your oath I will not trust, but go with speed
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|To some forlorn and naked hermitage,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Remote from all the pleasures of the world,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|There stay until the twelve celestial signs
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Have brought about the annual reckoning.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If this austere insociable life
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Change not your offer made in heat of blood,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|But that it bear this trial and last love,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Then, at the expiration of the year,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|I will be thine, and till that instant shut
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|My woeful self up in a mourning house,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Raining the tears of lamentation
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|For the remembrance of my father's death.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|If this thou do deny, let our hands part,
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Neither entitled in the other's heart.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|If this, or more than this, I would deny,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|To flatter up these powers of mine with rest,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|The sudden hand of death close up mine eye!
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|But what to me, my love? but what to me? A wife?
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|A beard, fair health, and honesty,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|With three-fold love I wish you all these three.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|O, shall I say, I thank you, gentle wife?
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Not so, my lord, a twelvemonth and a day
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say:
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Come when the king doth to my lady come,
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then.
Loves Labours Lost|KATHARINE|Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|What says Maria?
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|At the twelvemonth's end
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend.
Loves Labours Lost|LONGAVILLE|I'll stay with patience, but the time is long.
Loves Labours Lost|MARIA|The liker you, few taller are so young.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Studies my lady? mistress, look on me,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|What humble suit attends thy answer there:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Impose some service on me for thy love.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Biron,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Before I saw you, and the world's large tongue
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Full of comparisons and wounding flouts,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Which you on all estates will execute
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|That lie within the mercy of your wit.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And therewithal to win me, if you please,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Without the which I am not to be won,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Visit the speechless sick and still converse
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|With groaning wretches, and your task shall be,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|With all the fierce endeavor of your wit
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|To enforce the pained impotent to smile.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|It cannot be, it is impossible:
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Whose influence is begot of that loose grace
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools:
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And I will have you and that fault withal,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|But if they will not, throw away that spirit,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|And I shall find you empty of that fault,
Loves Labours Lost|ROSALINE|Right joyful of your reformation.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|A twelvemonth! well, befall what will befall,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|[To FERDINAND]  Ay, sweet my lord, and so I take my leave.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|No, madam, we will bring you on your way.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Our wooing doth not end like an old play,
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Might well have made our sport a comedy.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|And then 'twill end.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|That's too long for a play.
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|Re-enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Loves Labours Lost|BIRON|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Sweet majesty, vouchsafe me,--
Loves Labours Lost|PRINCESS|Was not that Hector?
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|The worthy knight of Troy.
Loves Labours Lost|DUMAIN|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|a votary, I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|plough for her sweet love three years. But, most
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|esteemed greatness, will you hear the dialogue that
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|the two learned men have compiled in praise of the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|owl and the cuckoo? It should have followed in the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|end of our show.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|Call them forth quickly, we will do so.
Loves Labours Lost|FERDINAND|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Holla! approach.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Re-enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTARD, and others
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|the one maintained by the owl, the other by the
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|cuckoo. Ver, begin.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|THE SONG
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|SPRING.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|When daisies pied and violets blue
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And lady-smocks all silver-white
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Do paint the meadows with delight,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Mocks married men, for thus sings he, 	Cuckoo,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Unpleasing to a married ear!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|When shepherds pipe on oaten straws
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And maidens bleach their summer smocks
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Mocks married men, for thus sings he, 	Cuckoo,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Unpleasing to a married ear!
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|WINTER.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|When icicles hang by the wall
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And Tom bears logs into the hall
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And milk comes frozen home in pail,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Then nightly sings the staring owl, 	Tu-whit,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Tu-who, a merry note,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|When all aloud the wind doth blow
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And coughing drowns the parson's saw
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And birds sit brooding in the snow
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Then nightly sings the staring owl, 	Tu-whit,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Tu-who, a merry note,
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|DON
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Apollo. You that way: we this way.
Loves Labours Lost|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Exeunt
macbeth|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|ACT I
macbeth|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|SCENE I. A desert place.
macbeth|ADRIANO DE ARMADO|Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
macbeth|First Witch|When shall we three meet again
macbeth|First Witch|In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
macbeth|Second Witch|When the hurlyburly's done,
macbeth|Second Witch|When the battle's lost and won.
macbeth|Third Witch|That will be ere the set of sun.
macbeth|First Witch|Where the place?
macbeth|Second Witch|Upon the heath.
macbeth|Third Witch|There to meet with Macbeth.
macbeth|First Witch|I come, Graymalkin!
macbeth|Second Witch|Paddock calls.
macbeth|Third Witch|Anon.
macbeth|ALL|Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
macbeth|ALL|Hover through the fog and filthy air.
macbeth|ALL|Exeunt
macbeth|ALL|SCENE II. A camp near Forres.
macbeth|ALL|Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant
macbeth|DUNCAN|What bloody man is that? He can report,
macbeth|DUNCAN|As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
macbeth|DUNCAN|The newest state.
macbeth|MALCOLM|This is the sergeant
macbeth|MALCOLM|Who like a good and hardy soldier fought
macbeth|MALCOLM|'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
macbeth|MALCOLM|Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
macbeth|MALCOLM|As thou didst leave it.
macbeth|Sergeant|Doubtful it stood,
macbeth|Sergeant|As two spent swimmers, that do cling together
macbeth|Sergeant|And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--
macbeth|Sergeant|Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
macbeth|Sergeant|The multiplying villanies of nature
macbeth|Sergeant|Do swarm upon him--from the western isles
macbeth|Sergeant|Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied,
macbeth|Sergeant|And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
macbeth|Sergeant|Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
macbeth|Sergeant|For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
macbeth|Sergeant|Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
macbeth|Sergeant|Which smoked with bloody execution,
macbeth|Sergeant|Like valour's minion carved out his passage
macbeth|Sergeant|Till he faced the slave,
macbeth|Sergeant|Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
macbeth|Sergeant|Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
macbeth|Sergeant|And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
macbeth|DUNCAN|O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!
macbeth|Sergeant|As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
macbeth|Sergeant|Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,
macbeth|Sergeant|So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
macbeth|Sergeant|Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:
macbeth|Sergeant|No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
macbeth|Sergeant|Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
macbeth|Sergeant|But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,
macbeth|Sergeant|With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
macbeth|Sergeant|Began a fresh assault.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Dismay'd not this
macbeth|DUNCAN|Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?
macbeth|Sergeant|Yes,
macbeth|Sergeant|As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
macbeth|Sergeant|If I say sooth, I must report they were
macbeth|Sergeant|As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they
macbeth|Sergeant|Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:
macbeth|Sergeant|Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
macbeth|Sergeant|Or memorise another Golgotha,
macbeth|Sergeant|I cannot tell.
macbeth|Sergeant|But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
macbeth|DUNCAN|So well thy words become thee as thy wounds,
macbeth|DUNCAN|They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Exit Sergeant, attended
macbeth|DUNCAN|Who comes here?
macbeth|DUNCAN|Enter ROSS
macbeth|MALCOLM|The worthy thane of Ross.
macbeth|LENNOX|What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look
macbeth|LENNOX|That seems to speak things strange.
macbeth|ROSS|God save the king!
macbeth|DUNCAN|Whence camest thou, worthy thane?
macbeth|ROSS|From Fife, great king,
macbeth|ROSS|Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
macbeth|ROSS|And fan our people cold. Norway himself,
macbeth|ROSS|With terrible numbers,
macbeth|ROSS|Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
macbeth|ROSS|The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict,
macbeth|ROSS|Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
macbeth|ROSS|Confronted him with self-comparisons,
macbeth|ROSS|Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.
macbeth|ROSS|Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,
macbeth|ROSS|The victory fell on us.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Great happiness!
macbeth|ROSS|That now
macbeth|ROSS|Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
macbeth|ROSS|Nor would we deign him burial of his men
macbeth|ROSS|Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
macbeth|ROSS|Ten thousand dollars to our general use.
macbeth|DUNCAN|No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive
macbeth|DUNCAN|Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,
macbeth|DUNCAN|And with his former title greet Macbeth.
macbeth|ROSS|I'll see it done.
macbeth|DUNCAN|What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Exeunt
macbeth|DUNCAN|SCENE III. A heath near Forres.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Thunder. Enter the three Witches
macbeth|First Witch|Where hast thou been, sister?
macbeth|Second Witch|Killing swine.
macbeth|Third Witch|Sister, where thou?
macbeth|First Witch|A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
macbeth|First Witch|And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--
macbeth|First Witch|'Give me,' quoth I:
macbeth|First Witch|'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
macbeth|First Witch|Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
macbeth|First Witch|But in a sieve I'll thither sail,
macbeth|First Witch|And, like a rat without a tail,
macbeth|First Witch|I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
macbeth|Second Witch|I'll give thee a wind.
macbeth|First Witch|Thou'rt kind.
macbeth|Third Witch|And I another.
macbeth|First Witch|I myself have all the other,
macbeth|First Witch|And the very ports they blow,
macbeth|First Witch|All the quarters that they know
macbeth|First Witch|I' the shipman's card.
macbeth|First Witch|I will drain him dry as hay:
macbeth|First Witch|Sleep shall neither night nor day
macbeth|First Witch|Hang upon his pent-house lid,
macbeth|First Witch|He shall live a man forbid:
macbeth|First Witch|Weary se'nnights nine times nine
macbeth|First Witch|Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
macbeth|First Witch|Though his bark cannot be lost,
macbeth|First Witch|Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
macbeth|First Witch|Look what I have.
macbeth|Second Witch|Show me, show me.
macbeth|First Witch|Here I have a pilot's thumb,
macbeth|First Witch|Wreck'd as homeward he did come.
macbeth|First Witch|Drum within
macbeth|Third Witch|A drum, a drum!
macbeth|Third Witch|Macbeth doth come.
macbeth|ALL|The weird sisters, hand in hand,
macbeth|ALL|Posters of the sea and land,
macbeth|ALL|Thus do go about, about:
macbeth|ALL|Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
macbeth|ALL|And thrice again, to make up nine.
macbeth|ALL|Peace! the charm's wound up.
macbeth|ALL|Enter MACBETH and BANQUO
macbeth|MACBETH|So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
macbeth|BANQUO|How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
macbeth|BANQUO|So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
macbeth|BANQUO|That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
macbeth|BANQUO|And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
macbeth|BANQUO|That man may question? You seem to understand me,
macbeth|BANQUO|By each at once her chappy finger laying
macbeth|BANQUO|Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
macbeth|BANQUO|And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
macbeth|BANQUO|That you are so.
macbeth|MACBETH|Speak, if you can: what are you?
macbeth|First Witch|All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
macbeth|Second Witch|All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
macbeth|Third Witch|All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
macbeth|BANQUO|Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear
macbeth|BANQUO|Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
macbeth|BANQUO|Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
macbeth|BANQUO|Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
macbeth|BANQUO|You greet with present grace and great prediction
macbeth|BANQUO|Of noble having and of royal hope,
macbeth|BANQUO|That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
macbeth|BANQUO|If you can look into the seeds of time,
macbeth|BANQUO|And say which grain will grow and which will not,
macbeth|BANQUO|Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
macbeth|BANQUO|Your favours nor your hate.
macbeth|First Witch|Hail!
macbeth|Second Witch|Hail!
macbeth|Third Witch|Hail!
macbeth|First Witch|Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
macbeth|Second Witch|Not so happy, yet much happier.
macbeth|Third Witch|Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
macbeth|Third Witch|So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
macbeth|First Witch|Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!
macbeth|MACBETH|Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
macbeth|MACBETH|By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis,
macbeth|MACBETH|But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,
macbeth|MACBETH|A prosperous gentleman, and to be king
macbeth|MACBETH|Stands not within the prospect of belief,
macbeth|MACBETH|No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
macbeth|MACBETH|You owe this strange intelligence? or why
macbeth|MACBETH|Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
macbeth|MACBETH|With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.
macbeth|MACBETH|Witches vanish
macbeth|BANQUO|The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
macbeth|BANQUO|And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?
macbeth|MACBETH|Into the air, and what seem'd corporal melted
macbeth|MACBETH|As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
macbeth|BANQUO|Were such things here as we do speak about?
macbeth|BANQUO|Or have we eaten on the insane root
macbeth|BANQUO|That takes the reason prisoner?
macbeth|MACBETH|Your children shall be kings.
macbeth|BANQUO|You shall be king.
macbeth|MACBETH|And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?
macbeth|BANQUO|To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?
macbeth|BANQUO|Enter ROSS and ANGUS
macbeth|ROSS|The king hath happily received, Macbeth,
macbeth|ROSS|The news of thy success, and when he reads
macbeth|ROSS|Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,
macbeth|ROSS|His wonders and his praises do contend
macbeth|ROSS|Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,
macbeth|ROSS|In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,
macbeth|ROSS|He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,
macbeth|ROSS|Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
macbeth|ROSS|Strange images of death. As thick as hail
macbeth|ROSS|Came post with post, and every one did bear
macbeth|ROSS|Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,
macbeth|ROSS|And pour'd them down before him.
macbeth|ANGUS|We are sent
macbeth|ANGUS|To give thee from our royal master thanks,
macbeth|ANGUS|Only to herald thee into his sight,
macbeth|ANGUS|Not pay thee.
macbeth|ROSS|And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
macbeth|ROSS|He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:
macbeth|ROSS|In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!
macbeth|ROSS|For it is thine.
macbeth|BANQUO|What, can the devil speak true?
macbeth|MACBETH|The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me
macbeth|MACBETH|In borrow'd robes?
macbeth|ANGUS|Who was the thane lives yet,
macbeth|ANGUS|But under heavy judgment bears that life
macbeth|ANGUS|Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
macbeth|ANGUS|With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
macbeth|ANGUS|With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
macbeth|ANGUS|He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not,
macbeth|ANGUS|But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,
macbeth|ANGUS|Have overthrown him.
macbeth|MACBETH|[Aside]  Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!
macbeth|MACBETH|The greatest is behind.
macbeth|MACBETH|To ROSS and ANGUS
macbeth|MACBETH|Thanks for your pains.
macbeth|MACBETH|To BANQUO
macbeth|MACBETH|Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
macbeth|MACBETH|When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
macbeth|MACBETH|Promised no less to them?
macbeth|BANQUO|That trusted home
macbeth|BANQUO|Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
macbeth|BANQUO|Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:
macbeth|BANQUO|And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
macbeth|BANQUO|The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
macbeth|BANQUO|Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
macbeth|BANQUO|In deepest consequence.
macbeth|BANQUO|Cousins, a word, I pray you.
macbeth|MACBETH|[Aside]	Two truths are told,
macbeth|MACBETH|As happy prologues to the swelling act
macbeth|MACBETH|Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.
macbeth|MACBETH|Aside
macbeth|MACBETH|Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
macbeth|MACBETH|Why hath it given me earnest of success,
macbeth|MACBETH|Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
macbeth|MACBETH|If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
macbeth|MACBETH|Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
macbeth|MACBETH|And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
macbeth|MACBETH|Against the use of nature? Present fears
macbeth|MACBETH|Are less than horrible imaginings:
macbeth|MACBETH|My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
macbeth|MACBETH|Shakes so my single state of man that function
macbeth|MACBETH|Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
macbeth|MACBETH|But what is not.
macbeth|BANQUO|Look, how our partner's rapt.
macbeth|MACBETH|[Aside]  If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
macbeth|MACBETH|Without my stir.
macbeth|BANQUO|New horrors come upon him,
macbeth|BANQUO|Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould
macbeth|BANQUO|But with the aid of use.
macbeth|MACBETH|[Aside]                Come what come may,
macbeth|MACBETH|Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
macbeth|BANQUO|Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
macbeth|MACBETH|Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought
macbeth|MACBETH|With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains
macbeth|MACBETH|Are register'd where every day I turn
macbeth|MACBETH|The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.
macbeth|MACBETH|Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,
macbeth|MACBETH|The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak
macbeth|MACBETH|Our free hearts each to other.
macbeth|BANQUO|Very gladly.
macbeth|MACBETH|Till then, enough. Come, friends.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.
macbeth|MACBETH|Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants
macbeth|DUNCAN|Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
macbeth|DUNCAN|Those in commission yet return'd?
macbeth|MALCOLM|My liege,
macbeth|MALCOLM|They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
macbeth|MALCOLM|With one that saw him die: who did report
macbeth|MALCOLM|That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Implored your highness' pardon and set forth
macbeth|MALCOLM|A deep repentance: nothing in his life
macbeth|MALCOLM|Became him like the leaving it, he died
macbeth|MALCOLM|As one that had been studied in his death
macbeth|MALCOLM|To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
macbeth|MALCOLM|As 'twere a careless trifle.
macbeth|DUNCAN|There's no art
macbeth|DUNCAN|To find the mind's construction in the face:
macbeth|DUNCAN|He was a gentleman on whom I built
macbeth|DUNCAN|An absolute trust.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS
macbeth|DUNCAN|O worthiest cousin!
macbeth|DUNCAN|The sin of my ingratitude even now
macbeth|DUNCAN|Was heavy on me: thou art so far before
macbeth|DUNCAN|That swiftest wing of recompense is slow
macbeth|DUNCAN|To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,
macbeth|DUNCAN|That the proportion both of thanks and payment
macbeth|DUNCAN|Might have been mine! only I have left to say,
macbeth|DUNCAN|More is thy due than more than all can pay.
macbeth|MACBETH|The service and the loyalty I owe,
macbeth|MACBETH|In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part
macbeth|MACBETH|Is to receive our duties, and our duties
macbeth|MACBETH|Are to your throne and state children and servants,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which do but what they should, by doing every thing
macbeth|MACBETH|Safe toward your love and honour.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Welcome hither:
macbeth|DUNCAN|I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
macbeth|DUNCAN|To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,
macbeth|DUNCAN|That hast no less deserved, nor must be known
macbeth|DUNCAN|No less to have done so, let me enfold thee
macbeth|DUNCAN|And hold thee to my heart.
macbeth|BANQUO|There if I grow,
macbeth|BANQUO|The harvest is your own.
macbeth|DUNCAN|My plenteous joys,
macbeth|DUNCAN|Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
macbeth|DUNCAN|In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
macbeth|DUNCAN|And you whose places are the nearest, know
macbeth|DUNCAN|We will establish our estate upon
macbeth|DUNCAN|Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
macbeth|DUNCAN|The Prince of Cumberland, which honour must
macbeth|DUNCAN|Not unaccompanied invest him only,
macbeth|DUNCAN|But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
macbeth|DUNCAN|On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,
macbeth|DUNCAN|And bind us further to you.
macbeth|MACBETH|The rest is labour, which is not used for you:
macbeth|MACBETH|I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful
macbeth|MACBETH|The hearing of my wife with your approach,
macbeth|MACBETH|So humbly take my leave.
macbeth|DUNCAN|My worthy Cawdor!
macbeth|MACBETH|[Aside]  The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step
macbeth|MACBETH|On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
macbeth|MACBETH|For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires,
macbeth|MACBETH|Let not light see my black and deep desires:
macbeth|MACBETH|The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit
macbeth|DUNCAN|True, worthy Banquo, he is full so valiant,
macbeth|DUNCAN|And in his commendations I am fed,
macbeth|DUNCAN|It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,
macbeth|DUNCAN|Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:
macbeth|DUNCAN|It is a peerless kinsman.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Flourish. Exeunt
macbeth|DUNCAN|SCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|'They met me in the day of success: and I have
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|learned by the perfectest report, they have more in
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|to question them further, they made themselves air,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor,' by which title,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|to thy heart, and farewell.'
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Art not without ambition, but without
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That wouldst thou holily, wouldst not play false,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And that which rather thou dost fear to do
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And chastise with the valour of my tongue
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|All that impedes thee from the golden round,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To have thee crown'd withal.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Enter a Messenger
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What is your tidings?
macbeth|Messenger|The king comes here to-night.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Thou'rt mad to say it:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Would have inform'd for preparation.
macbeth|Messenger|So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:
macbeth|Messenger|One of my fellows had the speed of him,
macbeth|Messenger|Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more
macbeth|Messenger|Than would make up his message.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Give him tending,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|He brings great news.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Exit Messenger
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The raven himself is hoarse
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That no compunctious visitings of nature
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Wherever in your sightless substances
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To cry 'Hold, hold!'
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Enter MACBETH
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Thy letters have transported me beyond
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|This ignorant present, and I feel now
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The future in the instant.
macbeth|MACBETH|My dearest love,
macbeth|MACBETH|Duncan comes here to-night.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And when goes hence?
macbeth|MACBETH|To-morrow, as he purposes.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|O, never
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Shall sun that morrow see!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|But be the serpent under't. He that's coming
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Must be provided for: and you shall put
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|This night's great business into my dispatch,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Which shall to all our nights and days to come
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
macbeth|MACBETH|We will speak further.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Only look up clear,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To alter favour ever is to fear:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Leave all the rest to me.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|SCENE VI. Before Macbeth's castle.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM,  DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants
macbeth|DUNCAN|This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air
macbeth|DUNCAN|Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
macbeth|DUNCAN|Unto our gentle senses.
macbeth|BANQUO|This guest of summer,
macbeth|BANQUO|The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
macbeth|BANQUO|By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath
macbeth|BANQUO|Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
macbeth|BANQUO|Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
macbeth|BANQUO|Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:
macbeth|BANQUO|Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,
macbeth|BANQUO|The air is delicate.
macbeth|BANQUO|Enter LADY MACBETH
macbeth|DUNCAN|See, see, our honour'd hostess!
macbeth|DUNCAN|The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
macbeth|DUNCAN|Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
macbeth|DUNCAN|How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,
macbeth|DUNCAN|And thank us for your trouble.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|All our service
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|In every point twice done and then done double
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Were poor and single business to contend
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And the late dignities heap'd up to them,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|We rest your hermits.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Where's the thane of Cawdor?
macbeth|DUNCAN|We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose
macbeth|DUNCAN|To be his purveyor: but he rides well,
macbeth|DUNCAN|And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him
macbeth|DUNCAN|To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
macbeth|DUNCAN|We are your guest to-night.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Your servants ever
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Still to return your own.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Give me your hand,
macbeth|DUNCAN|Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,
macbeth|DUNCAN|And shall continue our graces towards him.
macbeth|DUNCAN|By your leave, hostess.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Exeunt
macbeth|DUNCAN|SCENE VII. Macbeth's castle.
macbeth|DUNCAN|Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers  Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH
macbeth|MACBETH|If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
macbeth|MACBETH|It were done quickly: if the assassination
macbeth|MACBETH|Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
macbeth|MACBETH|With his surcease success, that but this blow
macbeth|MACBETH|Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
macbeth|MACBETH|But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
macbeth|MACBETH|We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
macbeth|MACBETH|We still have judgment here, that we but teach
macbeth|MACBETH|Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
macbeth|MACBETH|To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
macbeth|MACBETH|Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
macbeth|MACBETH|To our own lips. He's here in double trust,
macbeth|MACBETH|First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
macbeth|MACBETH|Strong both against the deed, then, as his host,
macbeth|MACBETH|Who should against his murderer shut the door,
macbeth|MACBETH|Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
macbeth|MACBETH|Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
macbeth|MACBETH|So clear in his great office, that his virtues
macbeth|MACBETH|Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
macbeth|MACBETH|The deep damnation of his taking-off,
macbeth|MACBETH|And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
macbeth|MACBETH|Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
macbeth|MACBETH|Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
macbeth|MACBETH|Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
macbeth|MACBETH|That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
macbeth|MACBETH|To prick the sides of my intent, but only
macbeth|MACBETH|Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
macbeth|MACBETH|And falls on the other.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter LADY MACBETH
macbeth|MACBETH|How now! what news?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?
macbeth|MACBETH|Hath he ask'd for me?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Know you not he has?
macbeth|MACBETH|We will proceed no further in this business:
macbeth|MACBETH|He hath honour'd me of late, and I have bought
macbeth|MACBETH|Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
macbeth|MACBETH|Not cast aside so soon.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Was the hope drunk
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|At what it did so freely? From this time
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To be the same in thine own act and valour
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And live a coward in thine own esteem,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Like the poor cat i' the adage?
macbeth|MACBETH|Prithee, peace:
macbeth|MACBETH|I dare do all that may become a man,
macbeth|MACBETH|Who dares do more is none.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What beast was't, then,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That made you break this enterprise to me?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|When you durst do it, then you were a man,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And, to be more than what you were, you would
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|They have made themselves, and that their fitness now
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|I would, while it was smiling in my face,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Have done to this.
macbeth|MACBETH|If we should fail?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|We fail!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Will I with wine and wassail so convince
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That memory, the warder of the brain,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Their drenched natures lie as in a death,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What cannot you and I perform upon
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Of our great quell?
macbeth|MACBETH|Bring forth men-children only,
macbeth|MACBETH|For thy undaunted mettle should compose
macbeth|MACBETH|Nothing but males. Will it not be received,
macbeth|MACBETH|When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two
macbeth|MACBETH|Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,
macbeth|MACBETH|That they have done't?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Who dares receive it other,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Upon his death?
macbeth|MACBETH|I am settled, and bend up
macbeth|MACBETH|Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
macbeth|MACBETH|Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
macbeth|MACBETH|False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|MACBETH|ACT II
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him
macbeth|BANQUO|How goes the night, boy?
macbeth|FLEANCE|The moon is down, I have not heard the clock.
macbeth|BANQUO|And she goes down at twelve.
macbeth|FLEANCE|I take't, 'tis later, sir.
macbeth|BANQUO|Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven,
macbeth|BANQUO|Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.
macbeth|BANQUO|A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
macbeth|BANQUO|And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,
macbeth|BANQUO|Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
macbeth|BANQUO|Gives way to in repose!
macbeth|BANQUO|Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch
macbeth|BANQUO|Give me my sword.
macbeth|BANQUO|Who's there?
macbeth|MACBETH|A friend.
macbeth|BANQUO|What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:
macbeth|BANQUO|He hath been in unusual pleasure, and
macbeth|BANQUO|Sent forth great largess to your offices.
macbeth|BANQUO|This diamond he greets your wife withal,
macbeth|BANQUO|By the name of most kind hostess, and shut up
macbeth|BANQUO|In measureless content.
macbeth|MACBETH|Being unprepared,
macbeth|MACBETH|Our will became the servant to defect,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which else should free have wrought.
macbeth|BANQUO|All's well.
macbeth|BANQUO|I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:
macbeth|BANQUO|To you they have show'd some truth.
macbeth|MACBETH|I think not of them:
macbeth|MACBETH|Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
macbeth|MACBETH|We would spend it in some words upon that business,
macbeth|MACBETH|If you would grant the time.
macbeth|BANQUO|At your kind'st leisure.
macbeth|MACBETH|If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,
macbeth|MACBETH|It shall make honour for you.
macbeth|BANQUO|So I lose none
macbeth|BANQUO|In seeking to augment it, but still keep
macbeth|BANQUO|My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,
macbeth|BANQUO|I shall be counsell'd.
macbeth|MACBETH|Good repose the while!
macbeth|BANQUO|Thanks, sir: the like to you!
macbeth|BANQUO|Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE
macbeth|MACBETH|Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
macbeth|MACBETH|She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit Servant
macbeth|MACBETH|Is this a dagger which I see before me,
macbeth|MACBETH|The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
macbeth|MACBETH|I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
macbeth|MACBETH|Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
macbeth|MACBETH|To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
macbeth|MACBETH|A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
macbeth|MACBETH|Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
macbeth|MACBETH|I see thee yet, in form as palpable
macbeth|MACBETH|As this which now I draw.
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going,
macbeth|MACBETH|And such an instrument I was to use.
macbeth|MACBETH|Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
macbeth|MACBETH|Or else worth all the rest, I see thee still,
macbeth|MACBETH|And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
macbeth|MACBETH|It is the bloody business which informs
macbeth|MACBETH|Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
macbeth|MACBETH|Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
macbeth|MACBETH|The curtain'd sleep, witchcraft celebrates
macbeth|MACBETH|Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
macbeth|MACBETH|Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
macbeth|MACBETH|Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
macbeth|MACBETH|With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
macbeth|MACBETH|Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
macbeth|MACBETH|Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
macbeth|MACBETH|Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
macbeth|MACBETH|And take the present horror from the time,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
macbeth|MACBETH|Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
macbeth|MACBETH|A bell rings
macbeth|MACBETH|I go, and it is done, the bell invites me.
macbeth|MACBETH|Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
macbeth|MACBETH|That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE II. The same.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter LADY MACBETH
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Hark! Peace!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|their possets,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That death and nature do contend about them,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Whether they live or die.
macbeth|MACBETH|[Within]  Who's there? what, ho!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|My father as he slept, I had done't.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Enter MACBETH
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|My husband!
macbeth|MACBETH|I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Did not you speak?
macbeth|MACBETH|When?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Now.
macbeth|MACBETH|As I descended?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Ay.
macbeth|MACBETH|Hark!
macbeth|MACBETH|Who lies i' the second chamber?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Donalbain.
macbeth|MACBETH|This is a sorry sight.
macbeth|MACBETH|Looking on his hands
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
macbeth|MACBETH|There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried
macbeth|MACBETH|'Murder!'
macbeth|MACBETH|That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:
macbeth|MACBETH|But they did say their prayers, and address'd them
macbeth|MACBETH|Again to sleep.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|There are two lodged together.
macbeth|MACBETH|One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other,
macbeth|MACBETH|As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
macbeth|MACBETH|Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'
macbeth|MACBETH|When they did say 'God bless us!'
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Consider it not so deeply.
macbeth|MACBETH|But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?
macbeth|MACBETH|I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'
macbeth|MACBETH|Stuck in my throat.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|These deeds must not be thought
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|After these ways, so, it will make us mad.
macbeth|MACBETH|Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
macbeth|MACBETH|Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
macbeth|MACBETH|Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
macbeth|MACBETH|The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
macbeth|MACBETH|Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
macbeth|MACBETH|Chief nourisher in life's feast,--
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What do you mean?
macbeth|MACBETH|Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
macbeth|MACBETH|'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor
macbeth|MACBETH|Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.'
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You do unbend your noble strength, to think
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|They must lie there: go carry them, and smear
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The sleepy grooms with blood.
macbeth|MACBETH|I'll go no more:
macbeth|MACBETH|I am afraid to think what I have done,
macbeth|MACBETH|Look on't again I dare not.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Infirm of purpose!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|For it must seem their guilt.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Exit. Knocking within
macbeth|MACBETH|Whence is that knocking?
macbeth|MACBETH|How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
macbeth|MACBETH|What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
macbeth|MACBETH|Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
macbeth|MACBETH|Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
macbeth|MACBETH|The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
macbeth|MACBETH|Making the green one red.
macbeth|MACBETH|Re-enter LADY MACBETH
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|My hands are of your colour, but I shame
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To wear a heart so white.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Knocking within
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|I hear a knocking
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|At the south entry: retire we to our chamber,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|A little water clears us of this deed:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|How easy is it, then! Your constancy
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Hath left you unattended.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Knocking within
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Hark! more knocking.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|So poorly in your thoughts.
macbeth|MACBETH|To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.
macbeth|MACBETH|Knocking within
macbeth|MACBETH|Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE III. The same.
macbeth|MACBETH|Knocking within. Enter a Porter
macbeth|Porter|Here's a knocking indeed! If a
macbeth|Porter|man were porter of hell-gate, he should have
macbeth|Porter|old turning the key.
macbeth|Porter|Knocking within
macbeth|Porter|Knock,
macbeth|Porter|knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of
macbeth|Porter|Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged
macbeth|Porter|himself on the expectation of plenty: come in
macbeth|Porter|time, have napkins enow about you, here
macbeth|Porter|you'll sweat for't.
macbeth|Porter|Knocking within
macbeth|Porter|Knock,
macbeth|Porter|knock! Who's there, in the other devil's
macbeth|Porter|name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could
macbeth|Porter|swear in both the scales against either scale,
macbeth|Porter|who committed treason enough for God's sake,
macbeth|Porter|yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come
macbeth|Porter|in, equivocator.
macbeth|Porter|Knocking within
macbeth|Porter|Knock,
macbeth|Porter|knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an
macbeth|Porter|English tailor come hither, for stealing out of
macbeth|Porter|a French hose: come in, tailor, here you may
macbeth|Porter|roast your goose.
macbeth|Porter|Knocking within
macbeth|Porter|Knock,
macbeth|Porter|knock, never at quiet! What are you? But
macbeth|Porter|this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter
macbeth|Porter|it no further: I had thought to have let in
macbeth|Porter|some of all professions that go the primrose
macbeth|Porter|way to the everlasting bonfire.
macbeth|Porter|Knocking within
macbeth|Porter|Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.
macbeth|Porter|Opens the gate
macbeth|Porter|Enter MACDUFF and LENNOX
macbeth|MACDUFF|Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,
macbeth|MACDUFF|That you do lie so late?
macbeth|Porter|'Faith sir, we were carousing till the
macbeth|Porter|second cock: and drink, sir, is a great
macbeth|Porter|provoker of three things.
macbeth|MACDUFF|What three things does drink especially provoke?
macbeth|Porter|Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and
macbeth|Porter|urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes,
macbeth|Porter|it provokes the desire, but it takes
macbeth|Porter|away the performance: therefore, much drink
macbeth|Porter|may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
macbeth|Porter|it makes him, and it mars him, it sets
macbeth|Porter|him on, and it takes him off, it persuades him,
macbeth|Porter|and disheartens him, makes him stand to, and
macbeth|Porter|not stand to, in conclusion, equivocates him
macbeth|Porter|in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
macbeth|Porter|That it did, sir, i' the very throat on
macbeth|Porter|me: but I requited him for his lie, and, I
macbeth|Porter|think, being too strong for him, though he took
macbeth|Porter|up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast
macbeth|Porter|him.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Is thy master stirring?
macbeth|MACDUFF|Enter MACBETH
macbeth|MACDUFF|Our knocking has awaked him, here he comes.
macbeth|LENNOX|Good morrow, noble sir.
macbeth|MACBETH|Good morrow, both.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Is the king stirring, worthy thane?
macbeth|MACBETH|Not yet.
macbeth|MACDUFF|He did command me to call timely on him:
macbeth|MACDUFF|I have almost slipp'd the hour.
macbeth|MACBETH|I'll bring you to him.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I know this is a joyful trouble to you,
macbeth|MACDUFF|But yet 'tis one.
macbeth|MACBETH|The labour we delight in physics pain.
macbeth|MACBETH|This is the door.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I'll make so bold to call,
macbeth|MACDUFF|For 'tis my limited service.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Exit
macbeth|LENNOX|Goes the king hence to-day?
macbeth|MACBETH|He does: he did appoint so.
macbeth|LENNOX|The night has been unruly: where we lay,
macbeth|LENNOX|Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,
macbeth|LENNOX|Lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death,
macbeth|LENNOX|And prophesying with accents terrible
macbeth|LENNOX|Of dire combustion and confused events
macbeth|LENNOX|New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird
macbeth|LENNOX|Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth
macbeth|LENNOX|Was feverous and did shake.
macbeth|MACBETH|'Twas a rough night.
macbeth|LENNOX|My young remembrance cannot parallel
macbeth|LENNOX|A fellow to it.
macbeth|LENNOX|Re-enter MACDUFF
macbeth|MACDUFF|O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart
macbeth|MACDUFF|Cannot conceive nor name thee!
macbeth|LENNOX|What's the matter.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
macbeth|MACDUFF|Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
macbeth|MACDUFF|The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
macbeth|MACDUFF|The life o' the building!
macbeth|MACBETH|What is 't you say? the life?
macbeth|LENNOX|Mean you his majesty?
macbeth|MACDUFF|Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
macbeth|MACDUFF|With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak,
macbeth|MACDUFF|See, and then speak yourselves.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Exeunt MACBETH and LENNOX
macbeth|MACDUFF|Awake, awake!
macbeth|MACDUFF|Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason!
macbeth|MACDUFF|Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!
macbeth|MACDUFF|Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And look on death itself! up, up, and see
macbeth|MACDUFF|The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo!
macbeth|MACDUFF|As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,
macbeth|MACDUFF|To countenance this horror! Ring the bell.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Bell rings
macbeth|MACDUFF|Enter LADY MACBETH
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What's the business,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!
macbeth|MACDUFF|O gentle lady,
macbeth|MACDUFF|'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:
macbeth|MACDUFF|The repetition, in a woman's ear,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Would murder as it fell.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Enter BANQUO
macbeth|MACDUFF|O Banquo, Banquo,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Our royal master 's murder'd!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Woe, alas!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What, in our house?
macbeth|BANQUO|Too cruel any where.
macbeth|BANQUO|Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,
macbeth|BANQUO|And say it is not so.
macbeth|BANQUO|Re-enter MACBETH and LENNOX, with ROSS
macbeth|MACBETH|Had I but died an hour before this chance,
macbeth|MACBETH|I had lived a blessed time, for, from this instant,
macbeth|MACBETH|There 's nothing serious in mortality:
macbeth|MACBETH|All is but toys: renown and grace is dead,
macbeth|MACBETH|The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
macbeth|MACBETH|Is left this vault to brag of.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN
macbeth|DONALBAIN|What is amiss?
macbeth|MACBETH|You are, and do not know't:
macbeth|MACBETH|The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
macbeth|MACBETH|Is stopp'd, the very source of it is stopp'd.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Your royal father 's murder'd.
macbeth|MALCOLM|O, by whom?
macbeth|LENNOX|Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't:
macbeth|LENNOX|Their hands and faces were an badged with blood,
macbeth|LENNOX|So were their daggers, which unwiped we found
macbeth|LENNOX|Upon their pillows:
macbeth|LENNOX|They stared, and were distracted, no man's life
macbeth|LENNOX|Was to be trusted with them.
macbeth|MACBETH|O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
macbeth|MACBETH|That I did kill them.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Wherefore did you so?
macbeth|MACBETH|Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,
macbeth|MACBETH|Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:
macbeth|MACBETH|The expedition my violent love
macbeth|MACBETH|Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,
macbeth|MACBETH|His silver skin laced with his golden blood,
macbeth|MACBETH|And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature
macbeth|MACBETH|For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,
macbeth|MACBETH|Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers
macbeth|MACBETH|Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,
macbeth|MACBETH|That had a heart to love, and in that heart
macbeth|MACBETH|Courage to make 's love kno wn?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Help me hence, ho!
macbeth|MACDUFF|Look to the lady.
macbeth|MALCOLM|[Aside to DONALBAIN]  Why do we hold our tongues,
macbeth|MALCOLM|That most may claim this argument for ours?
macbeth|DONALBAIN|[Aside to MALCOLM]  What should be spoken here,
macbeth|DONALBAIN|where our fate,
macbeth|DONALBAIN|Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?
macbeth|DONALBAIN|Let 's away,
macbeth|DONALBAIN|Our tears are not yet brew'd.
macbeth|MALCOLM|[Aside to DONALBAIN]        Nor our strong sorrow
macbeth|MALCOLM|Upon the foot of motion.
macbeth|BANQUO|Look to the lady:
macbeth|BANQUO|LADY MACBETH is carried out
macbeth|BANQUO|And when we have our naked frailties hid,
macbeth|BANQUO|That suffer in exposure, let us meet,
macbeth|BANQUO|And question this most bloody piece of work,
macbeth|BANQUO|To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:
macbeth|BANQUO|In the great hand of God I stand, and thence
macbeth|BANQUO|Against the undivulged pretence I fight
macbeth|BANQUO|Of treasonous malice.
macbeth|MACDUFF|And so do I.
macbeth|ALL|So all.
macbeth|MACBETH|Let's briefly put on manly readiness,
macbeth|MACBETH|And meet i' the hall together.
macbeth|ALL|Well contented.
macbeth|ALL|Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.
macbeth|MALCOLM|What will you do? Let's not consort with them:
macbeth|MALCOLM|To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
macbeth|MALCOLM|Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.
macbeth|DONALBAIN|To Ireland, I, our separated fortune
macbeth|DONALBAIN|Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,
macbeth|DONALBAIN|There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
macbeth|DONALBAIN|The nearer bloody.
macbeth|MALCOLM|This murderous shaft that's shot
macbeth|MALCOLM|Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way
macbeth|MALCOLM|Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse,
macbeth|MALCOLM|And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
macbeth|MALCOLM|But shift away: there's warrant in that theft
macbeth|MALCOLM|Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Exeunt
macbeth|MALCOLM|SCENE IV. Outside Macbeth's castle.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Enter ROSS and an old Man
macbeth|Old Man|Threescore and ten I can remember well:
macbeth|Old Man|Within the volume of which time I have seen
macbeth|Old Man|Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
macbeth|Old Man|Hath trifled former knowings.
macbeth|ROSS|Ah, good father,
macbeth|ROSS|Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act,
macbeth|ROSS|Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day,
macbeth|ROSS|And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:
macbeth|ROSS|Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,
macbeth|ROSS|That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
macbeth|ROSS|When living light should kiss it?
macbeth|Old Man|'Tis unnatural,
macbeth|Old Man|Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last,
macbeth|Old Man|A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
macbeth|Old Man|Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
macbeth|ROSS|And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--
macbeth|ROSS|Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
macbeth|ROSS|Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,
macbeth|ROSS|Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make
macbeth|ROSS|War with mankind.
macbeth|Old Man|'Tis said they eat each other.
macbeth|ROSS|They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes
macbeth|ROSS|That look'd upon't. Here comes the good Macduff.
macbeth|ROSS|Enter MACDUFF
macbeth|ROSS|How goes the world, sir, now?
macbeth|MACDUFF|Why, see you not?
macbeth|ROSS|Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?
macbeth|MACDUFF|Those that Macbeth hath slain.
macbeth|ROSS|Alas, the day!
macbeth|ROSS|What good could they pretend?
macbeth|MACDUFF|They were suborn'd:
macbeth|MACDUFF|Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them
macbeth|MACDUFF|Suspicion of the deed.
macbeth|ROSS|'Gainst nature still!
macbeth|ROSS|Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
macbeth|ROSS|Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like
macbeth|ROSS|The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
macbeth|MACDUFF|He is already named, and gone to Scone
macbeth|MACDUFF|To be invested.
macbeth|ROSS|Where is Duncan's body?
macbeth|MACDUFF|Carried to Colmekill,
macbeth|MACDUFF|The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And guardian of their bones.
macbeth|ROSS|Will you to Scone?
macbeth|MACDUFF|No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
macbeth|ROSS|Well, I will thither.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!
macbeth|MACDUFF|Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
macbeth|ROSS|Farewell, father.
macbeth|Old Man|God's benison go with you, and with those
macbeth|Old Man|That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!
macbeth|Old Man|Exeunt
macbeth|Old Man|ACT III
macbeth|Old Man|SCENE I. Forres. The palace.
macbeth|Old Man|Enter BANQUO
macbeth|BANQUO|Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
macbeth|BANQUO|As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
macbeth|BANQUO|Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said
macbeth|BANQUO|It should not stand in thy posterity,
macbeth|BANQUO|But that myself should be the root and father
macbeth|BANQUO|Of many kings. If there come truth from them--
macbeth|BANQUO|As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine--
macbeth|BANQUO|Why, by the verities on thee made good,
macbeth|BANQUO|May they not be my oracles as well,
macbeth|BANQUO|And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.
macbeth|BANQUO|Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY  MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lords, Ladies, and Attendants
macbeth|MACBETH|Here's our chief guest.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|If he had been forgotten,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|It had been as a gap in our great feast,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And all-thing unbecoming.
macbeth|MACBETH|To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,
macbeth|MACBETH|And I'll request your presence.
macbeth|BANQUO|Let your highness
macbeth|BANQUO|Command upon me, to the which my duties
macbeth|BANQUO|Are with a most indissoluble tie
macbeth|BANQUO|For ever knit.
macbeth|MACBETH|Ride you this afternoon?
macbeth|BANQUO|Ay, my good lord.
macbeth|MACBETH|We should have else desired your good advice,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,
macbeth|MACBETH|In this day's council, but we'll take to-morrow.
macbeth|MACBETH|Is't far you ride?
macbeth|BANQUO|As far, my lord, as will fill up the time
macbeth|BANQUO|'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,
macbeth|BANQUO|I must become a borrower of the night
macbeth|BANQUO|For a dark hour or twain.
macbeth|MACBETH|Fail not our feast.
macbeth|BANQUO|My lord, I will not.
macbeth|MACBETH|We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd
macbeth|MACBETH|In England and in Ireland, not confessing
macbeth|MACBETH|Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers
macbeth|MACBETH|With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,
macbeth|MACBETH|When therewithal we shall have cause of state
macbeth|MACBETH|Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,
macbeth|MACBETH|Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?
macbeth|BANQUO|Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's.
macbeth|MACBETH|I wish your horses swift and sure of foot,
macbeth|MACBETH|And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit BANQUO
macbeth|MACBETH|Let every man be master of his time
macbeth|MACBETH|Till seven at night: to make society
macbeth|MACBETH|The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself
macbeth|MACBETH|Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you!
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt all but MACBETH, and an attendant
macbeth|MACBETH|Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men
macbeth|MACBETH|Our pleasure?
macbeth|ATTENDANT|They are, my lord, without the palace gate.
macbeth|MACBETH|Bring them before us.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit Attendant
macbeth|MACBETH|To be thus is nothing,
macbeth|MACBETH|But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo
macbeth|MACBETH|Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
macbeth|MACBETH|Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares,
macbeth|MACBETH|And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
macbeth|MACBETH|He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
macbeth|MACBETH|To act in safety. There is none but he
macbeth|MACBETH|Whose being I do fear: and, under him,
macbeth|MACBETH|My Genius is rebuked, as, it is said,
macbeth|MACBETH|Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters
macbeth|MACBETH|When first they put the name of king upon me,
macbeth|MACBETH|And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like
macbeth|MACBETH|They hail'd him father to a line of kings:
macbeth|MACBETH|Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
macbeth|MACBETH|And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
macbeth|MACBETH|Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
macbeth|MACBETH|No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,
macbeth|MACBETH|For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind,
macbeth|MACBETH|For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd,
macbeth|MACBETH|Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
macbeth|MACBETH|Only for them, and mine eternal jewel
macbeth|MACBETH|Given to the common enemy of man,
macbeth|MACBETH|To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
macbeth|MACBETH|Rather than so, come fate into the list.
macbeth|MACBETH|And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!
macbeth|MACBETH|Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers
macbeth|MACBETH|Now go to the door, and stay there till we call.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit Attendant
macbeth|MACBETH|Was it not yesterday we spoke together?
macbeth|First Murderer|It was, so please your highness.
macbeth|MACBETH|Well then, now
macbeth|MACBETH|Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know
macbeth|MACBETH|That it was he in the times past which held you
macbeth|MACBETH|So under fortune, which you thought had been
macbeth|MACBETH|Our innocent self: this I made good to you
macbeth|MACBETH|In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you,
macbeth|MACBETH|How you were borne in hand, how cross'd,
macbeth|MACBETH|the instruments,
macbeth|MACBETH|Who wrought with them, and all things else that might
macbeth|MACBETH|To half a soul and to a notion crazed
macbeth|MACBETH|Say 'Thus did Banquo.'
macbeth|First Murderer|You made it known to us.
macbeth|MACBETH|I did so, and went further, which is now
macbeth|MACBETH|Our point of second meeting. Do you find
macbeth|MACBETH|Your patience so predominant in your nature
macbeth|MACBETH|That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd
macbeth|MACBETH|To pray for this good man and for his issue,
macbeth|MACBETH|Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave
macbeth|MACBETH|And beggar'd yours for ever?
macbeth|First Murderer|We are men, my liege.
macbeth|MACBETH|Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men,
macbeth|MACBETH|As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
macbeth|MACBETH|Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept
macbeth|MACBETH|All by the name of dogs: the valued file
macbeth|MACBETH|Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
macbeth|MACBETH|The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
macbeth|MACBETH|According to the gift which bounteous nature
macbeth|MACBETH|Hath in him closed, whereby he does receive
macbeth|MACBETH|Particular addition. from the bill
macbeth|MACBETH|That writes them all alike: and so of men.
macbeth|MACBETH|Now, if you have a station in the file,
macbeth|MACBETH|Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't,
macbeth|MACBETH|And I will put that business in your bosoms,
macbeth|MACBETH|Whose execution takes your enemy off,
macbeth|MACBETH|Grapples you to the heart and love of us,
macbeth|MACBETH|Who wear our health but sickly in his life,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which in his death were perfect.
macbeth|Second Murderer|I am one, my liege,
macbeth|Second Murderer|Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
macbeth|Second Murderer|Have so incensed that I am reckless what
macbeth|Second Murderer|I do to spite the world.
macbeth|First Murderer|And I another
macbeth|First Murderer|So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
macbeth|First Murderer|That I would set my lie on any chance,
macbeth|First Murderer|To mend it, or be rid on't.
macbeth|MACBETH|Both of you
macbeth|MACBETH|Know Banquo was your enemy.
macbeth|Both Murderers|True, my lord.
macbeth|MACBETH|So is he mine, and in such bloody distance,
macbeth|MACBETH|That every minute of his being thrusts
macbeth|MACBETH|Against my near'st of life: and though I could
macbeth|MACBETH|With barefaced power sweep him from my sight
macbeth|MACBETH|And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,
macbeth|MACBETH|For certain friends that are both his and mine,
macbeth|MACBETH|Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall
macbeth|MACBETH|Who I myself struck down, and thence it is,
macbeth|MACBETH|That I to your assistance do make love,
macbeth|MACBETH|Masking the business from the common eye
macbeth|MACBETH|For sundry weighty reasons.
macbeth|Second Murderer|We shall, my lord,
macbeth|Second Murderer|Perform what you command us.
macbeth|First Murderer|Though our lives--
macbeth|MACBETH|Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most
macbeth|MACBETH|I will advise you where to plant yourselves,
macbeth|MACBETH|Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,
macbeth|MACBETH|The moment on't, for't must be done to-night,
macbeth|MACBETH|And something from the palace, always thought
macbeth|MACBETH|That I require a clearness: and with him--
macbeth|MACBETH|To leave no rubs nor botches in the work--
macbeth|MACBETH|Fleance his son, that keeps him company,
macbeth|MACBETH|Whose absence is no less material to me
macbeth|MACBETH|Than is his father's, must embrace the fate
macbeth|MACBETH|Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:
macbeth|MACBETH|I'll come to you anon.
macbeth|Both Murderers|We are resolved, my lord.
macbeth|MACBETH|I'll call upon you straight: abide within.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt Murderers
macbeth|MACBETH|It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,
macbeth|MACBETH|If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE II. The palace.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Is Banquo gone from court?
macbeth|Servant|Ay, madam, but returns again to-night.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Say to the king, I would attend his leisure
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|For a few words.
macbeth|Servant|Madam, I will.
macbeth|Servant|Exit
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Nought's had, all's spent,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Where our desire is got without content:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Enter MACBETH
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|With them they think on? Things without all remedy
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Should be without regard: what's done is done.
macbeth|MACBETH|We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:
macbeth|MACBETH|She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice
macbeth|MACBETH|Remains in danger of her former tooth.
macbeth|MACBETH|But let the frame of things disjoint, both the
macbeth|MACBETH|worlds suffer,
macbeth|MACBETH|Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep
macbeth|MACBETH|In the affliction of these terrible dreams
macbeth|MACBETH|That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,
macbeth|MACBETH|Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
macbeth|MACBETH|Than on the torture of the mind to lie
macbeth|MACBETH|In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave,
macbeth|MACBETH|After life's fitful fever he sleeps well,
macbeth|MACBETH|Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
macbeth|MACBETH|Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
macbeth|MACBETH|Can touch him further.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Come on,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
macbeth|MACBETH|So shall I, love, and so, I pray, be you:
macbeth|MACBETH|Let your remembrance apply to Banquo,
macbeth|MACBETH|Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:
macbeth|MACBETH|Unsafe the while, that we
macbeth|MACBETH|Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,
macbeth|MACBETH|And make our faces vizards to our hearts,
macbeth|MACBETH|Disguising what they are.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You must leave this.
macbeth|MACBETH|O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|But in them nature's copy's not eterne.
macbeth|MACBETH|There's comfort yet, they are assailable,
macbeth|MACBETH|Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown
macbeth|MACBETH|His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons
macbeth|MACBETH|The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
macbeth|MACBETH|Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
macbeth|MACBETH|A deed of dreadful note.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What's to be done?
macbeth|MACBETH|Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
macbeth|MACBETH|Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,
macbeth|MACBETH|Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
macbeth|MACBETH|And with thy bloody and invisible hand
macbeth|MACBETH|Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
macbeth|MACBETH|Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crow
macbeth|MACBETH|Makes wing to the rooky wood:
macbeth|MACBETH|Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
macbeth|MACBETH|While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
macbeth|MACBETH|Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
macbeth|MACBETH|So, prithee, go with me.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE III. A park near the palace.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter three Murderers
macbeth|First Murderer|But who did bid thee join with us?
macbeth|Third Murderer|Macbeth.
macbeth|Second Murderer|He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers
macbeth|Second Murderer|Our offices and what we have to do
macbeth|Second Murderer|To the direction just.
macbeth|First Murderer|Then stand with us.
macbeth|First Murderer|The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
macbeth|First Murderer|Now spurs the lated traveller apace
macbeth|First Murderer|To gain the timely inn, and near approaches
macbeth|First Murderer|The subject of our watch.
macbeth|Third Murderer|Hark! I hear horses.
macbeth|BANQUO|[Within]  Give us a light there, ho!
macbeth|Second Murderer|Then 'tis he: the rest
macbeth|Second Murderer|That are within the note of expectation
macbeth|Second Murderer|Already are i' the court.
macbeth|First Murderer|His horses go about.
macbeth|Third Murderer|Almost a mile: but he does usually,
macbeth|Third Murderer|So all men do, from hence to the palace gate
macbeth|Third Murderer|Make it their walk.
macbeth|Second Murderer|A light, a light!
macbeth|Second Murderer|Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch
macbeth|Third Murderer|'Tis he.
macbeth|First Murderer|Stand to't.
macbeth|BANQUO|It will be rain to-night.
macbeth|First Murderer|Let it come down.
macbeth|First Murderer|They set upon BANQUO
macbeth|BANQUO|O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
macbeth|BANQUO|Thou mayst revenge. O slave!
macbeth|BANQUO|Dies. FLEANCE escapes
macbeth|Third Murderer|Who did strike out the light?
macbeth|First Murderer|Wast not the way?
macbeth|Third Murderer|There's but one down, the son is fled.
macbeth|Second Murderer|We have lost
macbeth|Second Murderer|Best half of our affair.
macbeth|First Murderer|Well, let's away, and say how much is done.
macbeth|First Murderer|Exeunt
macbeth|First Murderer|SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace.
macbeth|First Murderer|A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants
macbeth|MACBETH|You know your own degrees, sit down: at first
macbeth|MACBETH|And last the hearty welcome.
macbeth|Lords|Thanks to your majesty.
macbeth|MACBETH|Ourself will mingle with society,
macbeth|MACBETH|And play the humble host.
macbeth|MACBETH|Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time
macbeth|MACBETH|We will require her welcome.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|For my heart speaks they are welcome.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|First Murderer appears at the door
macbeth|MACBETH|See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks.
macbeth|MACBETH|Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst:
macbeth|MACBETH|Be large in mirth, anon we'll drink a measure
macbeth|MACBETH|The table round.
macbeth|MACBETH|Approaching the door
macbeth|MACBETH|There's blood on thy face.
macbeth|First Murderer|'Tis Banquo's then.
macbeth|MACBETH|'Tis better thee without than he within.
macbeth|MACBETH|Is he dispatch'd?
macbeth|First Murderer|My lord, his throat is cut, that I did for him.
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good
macbeth|MACBETH|That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou art the nonpareil.
macbeth|First Murderer|Most royal sir,
macbeth|First Murderer|Fleance is 'scaped.
macbeth|MACBETH|Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,
macbeth|MACBETH|Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
macbeth|MACBETH|As broad and general as the casing air:
macbeth|MACBETH|But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
macbeth|MACBETH|To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?
macbeth|First Murderer|Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
macbeth|First Murderer|With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
macbeth|First Murderer|The least a death to nature.
macbeth|MACBETH|Thanks for that:
macbeth|MACBETH|There the grown serpent lies, the worm that's fled
macbeth|MACBETH|Hath nature that in time will venom breed,
macbeth|MACBETH|No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow
macbeth|MACBETH|We'll hear, ourselves, again.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit Murderer
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|My royal lord,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Meeting were bare without it.
macbeth|MACBETH|Sweet remembrancer!
macbeth|MACBETH|Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
macbeth|MACBETH|And health on both!
macbeth|LENNOX|May't please your highness sit.
macbeth|LENNOX|The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place
macbeth|MACBETH|Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,
macbeth|MACBETH|Were the graced person of our Banquo present,
macbeth|MACBETH|Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
macbeth|MACBETH|Than pity for mischance!
macbeth|ROSS|His absence, sir,
macbeth|ROSS|Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness
macbeth|ROSS|To grace us with your royal company.
macbeth|MACBETH|The table's full.
macbeth|LENNOX|Here is a place reserved, sir.
macbeth|MACBETH|Where?
macbeth|LENNOX|Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness?
macbeth|MACBETH|Which of you have done this?
macbeth|Lords|What, my good lord?
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou canst not say I did it: never shake
macbeth|MACBETH|Thy gory locks at me.
macbeth|ROSS|Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The fit is momentary, upon a thought
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|He will again be well: if much you note him,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You shall offend him and extend his passion:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?
macbeth|MACBETH|Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that
macbeth|MACBETH|Which might appal the devil.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|O proper stuff!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|This is the very painting of your fear:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Impostors to true fear, would well become
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|A woman's story at a winter's fire,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Why do you make such faces? When all's done,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You look but on a stool.
macbeth|MACBETH|Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!
macbeth|MACBETH|how say you?
macbeth|MACBETH|Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.
macbeth|MACBETH|If charnel-houses and our graves must send
macbeth|MACBETH|Those that we bury back, our monuments
macbeth|MACBETH|Shall be the maws of kites.
macbeth|MACBETH|GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What, quite unmann'd in folly?
macbeth|MACBETH|If I stand here, I saw him.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Fie, for shame!
macbeth|MACBETH|Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
macbeth|MACBETH|Ere human statute purged the gentle weal,
macbeth|MACBETH|Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd
macbeth|MACBETH|Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,
macbeth|MACBETH|That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
macbeth|MACBETH|And there an end, but now they rise again,
macbeth|MACBETH|With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
macbeth|MACBETH|And push us from our stools: this is more strange
macbeth|MACBETH|Than such a murder is.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|My worthy lord,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Your noble friends do lack you.
macbeth|MACBETH|I do forget.
macbeth|MACBETH|Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,
macbeth|MACBETH|I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing
macbeth|MACBETH|To those that know me. Come, love and health to all,
macbeth|MACBETH|Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine, fill full.
macbeth|MACBETH|I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,
macbeth|MACBETH|And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss,
macbeth|MACBETH|Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,
macbeth|MACBETH|And all to all.
macbeth|Lords|Our duties, and the pledge.
macbeth|Lords|Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO
macbeth|MACBETH|Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
macbeth|MACBETH|Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold,
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
macbeth|MACBETH|Which thou dost glare with!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Think of this, good peers,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
macbeth|MACBETH|What man dare, I dare:
macbeth|MACBETH|Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
macbeth|MACBETH|The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,
macbeth|MACBETH|Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
macbeth|MACBETH|Shall never tremble: or be alive again,
macbeth|MACBETH|And dare me to the desert with thy sword,
macbeth|MACBETH|If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
macbeth|MACBETH|The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
macbeth|MACBETH|Unreal mockery, hence!
macbeth|MACBETH|GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes
macbeth|MACBETH|Why, so: being gone,
macbeth|MACBETH|I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|With most admired disorder.
macbeth|MACBETH|Can such things be,
macbeth|MACBETH|And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
macbeth|MACBETH|Without our special wonder? You make me strange
macbeth|MACBETH|Even to the disposition that I owe,
macbeth|MACBETH|When now I think you can behold such sights,
macbeth|MACBETH|And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
macbeth|MACBETH|When mine is blanched with fear.
macbeth|ROSS|What sights, my lord?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|I pray you, speak not, he grows worse and worse,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Question enrages him. At once, good night:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Stand not upon the order of your going,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|But go at once.
macbeth|LENNOX|Good night, and better health
macbeth|LENNOX|Attend his majesty!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|A kind good night to all!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH
macbeth|MACBETH|It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood:
macbeth|MACBETH|Stones have been known to move and trees to speak,
macbeth|MACBETH|Augurs and understood relations have
macbeth|MACBETH|By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
macbeth|MACBETH|The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Almost at odds with morning, which is which.
macbeth|MACBETH|How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person
macbeth|MACBETH|At our great bidding?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Did you send to him, sir?
macbeth|MACBETH|I hear it by the way, but I will send:
macbeth|MACBETH|There's not a one of them but in his house
macbeth|MACBETH|I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow,
macbeth|MACBETH|And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:
macbeth|MACBETH|More shall they speak, for now I am bent to know,
macbeth|MACBETH|By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,
macbeth|MACBETH|All causes shall give way: I am in blood
macbeth|MACBETH|Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
macbeth|MACBETH|Returning were as tedious as go o'er:
macbeth|MACBETH|Strange things I have in head, that will to hand,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
macbeth|MACBETH|Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse
macbeth|MACBETH|Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:
macbeth|MACBETH|We are yet but young in deed.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE V. A Heath.
macbeth|MACBETH|Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE
macbeth|First Witch|Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.
macbeth|HECATE|Have I not reason, beldams as you are,
macbeth|HECATE|Saucy and overbold? How did you dare
macbeth|HECATE|To trade and traffic with Macbeth
macbeth|HECATE|In riddles and affairs of death,
macbeth|HECATE|And I, the mistress of your charms,
macbeth|HECATE|The close contriver of all harms,
macbeth|HECATE|Was never call'd to bear my part,
macbeth|HECATE|Or show the glory of our art?
macbeth|HECATE|And, which is worse, all you have done
macbeth|HECATE|Hath been but for a wayward son,
macbeth|HECATE|Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,
macbeth|HECATE|Loves for his own ends, not for you.
macbeth|HECATE|But make amends now: get you gone,
macbeth|HECATE|And at the pit of Acheron
macbeth|HECATE|Meet me i' the morning: thither he
macbeth|HECATE|Will come to know his destiny:
macbeth|HECATE|Your vessels and your spells provide,
macbeth|HECATE|Your charms and every thing beside.
macbeth|HECATE|I am for the air, this night I'll spend
macbeth|HECATE|Unto a dismal and a fatal end:
macbeth|HECATE|Great business must be wrought ere noon:
macbeth|HECATE|Upon the corner of the moon
macbeth|HECATE|There hangs a vaporous drop profound,
macbeth|HECATE|I'll catch it ere it come to ground:
macbeth|HECATE|And that distill'd by magic sleights
macbeth|HECATE|Shall raise such artificial sprites
macbeth|HECATE|As by the strength of their illusion
macbeth|HECATE|Shall draw him on to his confusion:
macbeth|HECATE|He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
macbeth|HECATE|He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
macbeth|HECATE|And you all know, security
macbeth|HECATE|Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
macbeth|HECATE|Music and a song within: 'Come away, come away,'  and c
macbeth|HECATE|Hark! I am call'd, my little spirit, see,
macbeth|HECATE|Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.
macbeth|HECATE|Exit
macbeth|First Witch|Come, let's make haste, she'll soon be back again.
macbeth|First Witch|Exeunt
macbeth|First Witch|SCENE VI. Forres. The palace.
macbeth|First Witch|Enter LENNOX and another Lord
macbeth|LENNOX|My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,
macbeth|LENNOX|Which can interpret further: only, I say,
macbeth|LENNOX|Things have been strangely borne. The
macbeth|LENNOX|gracious Duncan
macbeth|LENNOX|Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:
macbeth|LENNOX|And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late,
macbeth|LENNOX|Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,
macbeth|LENNOX|For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.
macbeth|LENNOX|Who cannot want the thought how monstrous
macbeth|LENNOX|It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain
macbeth|LENNOX|To kill their gracious father? damned fact!
macbeth|LENNOX|How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight
macbeth|LENNOX|In pious rage the two delinquents tear,
macbeth|LENNOX|That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?
macbeth|LENNOX|Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too,
macbeth|LENNOX|For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive
macbeth|LENNOX|To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,
macbeth|LENNOX|He has borne all things well: and I do think
macbeth|LENNOX|That had he Duncan's sons under his key--
macbeth|LENNOX|As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they
macbeth|LENNOX|should find
macbeth|LENNOX|What 'twere to kill a father, so should Fleance.
macbeth|LENNOX|But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd
macbeth|LENNOX|His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear
macbeth|LENNOX|Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell
macbeth|LENNOX|Where he bestows himself?
macbeth|Lord|The son of Duncan,
macbeth|Lord|From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth
macbeth|Lord|Lives in the English court, and is received
macbeth|Lord|Of the most pious Edward with such grace
macbeth|Lord|That the malevolence of fortune nothing
macbeth|Lord|Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff
macbeth|Lord|Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid
macbeth|Lord|To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:
macbeth|Lord|That, by the help of these--with Him above
macbeth|Lord|To ratify the work--we may again
macbeth|Lord|Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,
macbeth|Lord|Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,
macbeth|Lord|Do faithful homage and receive free honours:
macbeth|Lord|All which we pine for now: and this report
macbeth|Lord|Hath so exasperate the king that he
macbeth|Lord|Prepares for some attempt of war.
macbeth|LENNOX|Sent he to Macduff?
macbeth|Lord|He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,'
macbeth|Lord|The cloudy messenger turns me his back,
macbeth|Lord|And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time
macbeth|Lord|That clogs me with this answer.'
macbeth|LENNOX|And that well might
macbeth|LENNOX|Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance
macbeth|LENNOX|His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel
macbeth|LENNOX|Fly to the court of England and unfold
macbeth|LENNOX|His message ere he come, that a swift blessing
macbeth|LENNOX|May soon return to this our suffering country
macbeth|LENNOX|Under a hand accursed!
macbeth|Lord|I'll send my prayers with him.
macbeth|Lord|Exeunt
macbeth|Lord|ACT IV
macbeth|Lord|SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.
macbeth|Lord|Thunder. Enter the three Witches
macbeth|First Witch|Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
macbeth|Second Witch|Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
macbeth|Third Witch|Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.
macbeth|First Witch|Round about the cauldron go,
macbeth|First Witch|In the poison'd entrails throw.
macbeth|First Witch|Toad, that under cold stone
macbeth|First Witch|Days and nights has thirty-one
macbeth|First Witch|Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
macbeth|First Witch|Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
macbeth|ALL|Double, double toil and trouble,
macbeth|ALL|Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
macbeth|Second Witch|Fillet of a fenny snake,
macbeth|Second Witch|In the cauldron boil and bake,
macbeth|Second Witch|Eye of newt and toe of frog,
macbeth|Second Witch|Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
macbeth|Second Witch|Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
macbeth|Second Witch|Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
macbeth|Second Witch|For a charm of powerful trouble,
macbeth|Second Witch|Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
macbeth|ALL|Double, double toil and trouble,
macbeth|ALL|Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
macbeth|Third Witch|Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
macbeth|Third Witch|Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
macbeth|Third Witch|Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
macbeth|Third Witch|Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
macbeth|Third Witch|Liver of blaspheming Jew,
macbeth|Third Witch|Gall of goat, and slips of yew
macbeth|Third Witch|Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
macbeth|Third Witch|Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
macbeth|Third Witch|Finger of birth-strangled babe
macbeth|Third Witch|Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
macbeth|Third Witch|Make the gruel thick and slab:
macbeth|Third Witch|Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
macbeth|Third Witch|For the ingredients of our cauldron.
macbeth|ALL|Double, double toil and trouble,
macbeth|ALL|Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
macbeth|Second Witch|Cool it with a baboon's blood,
macbeth|Second Witch|Then the charm is firm and good.
macbeth|Second Witch|Enter HECATE to the other three Witches
macbeth|HECATE|O well done! I commend your pains,
macbeth|HECATE|And every one shall share i' the gains,
macbeth|HECATE|And now about the cauldron sing,
macbeth|HECATE|Live elves and fairies in a ring,
macbeth|HECATE|Enchanting all that you put in.
macbeth|HECATE|Music and a song: 'Black spirits,'  and c
macbeth|HECATE|HECATE retires
macbeth|Second Witch|By the pricking of my thumbs,
macbeth|Second Witch|Something wicked this way comes.
macbeth|Second Witch|Open, locks,
macbeth|Second Witch|Whoever knocks!
macbeth|Second Witch|Enter MACBETH
macbeth|MACBETH|How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
macbeth|MACBETH|What is't you do?
macbeth|ALL|A deed without a name.
macbeth|MACBETH|I conjure you, by that which you profess,
macbeth|MACBETH|Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:
macbeth|MACBETH|Though you untie the winds and let them fight
macbeth|MACBETH|Against the churches, though the yesty waves
macbeth|MACBETH|Confound and swallow navigation up,
macbeth|MACBETH|Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down,
macbeth|MACBETH|Though castles topple on their warders' heads,
macbeth|MACBETH|Though palaces and pyramids do slope
macbeth|MACBETH|Their heads to their foundations, though the treasure
macbeth|MACBETH|Of nature's germens tumble all together,
macbeth|MACBETH|Even till destruction sicken, answer me
macbeth|MACBETH|To what I ask you.
macbeth|First Witch|Speak.
macbeth|Second Witch|Demand.
macbeth|Third Witch|We'll answer.
macbeth|First Witch|Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,
macbeth|First Witch|Or from our masters?
macbeth|MACBETH|Call 'em, let me see 'em.
macbeth|First Witch|Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten
macbeth|First Witch|Her nine farrow, grease that's sweaten
macbeth|First Witch|From the murderer's gibbet throw
macbeth|First Witch|Into the flame.
macbeth|ALL|Come, high or low,
macbeth|ALL|Thyself and office deftly show!
macbeth|ALL|Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head
macbeth|MACBETH|Tell me, thou unknown power,--
macbeth|First Witch|He knows thy thought:
macbeth|First Witch|Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
macbeth|First Apparition|Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff,
macbeth|First Apparition|Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.
macbeth|First Apparition|Descends
macbeth|MACBETH|Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks,
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one
macbeth|MACBETH|word more,--
macbeth|First Witch|He will not be commanded: here's another,
macbeth|First Witch|More potent than the first.
macbeth|First Witch|Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child
macbeth|Second Apparition|Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
macbeth|MACBETH|Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.
macbeth|Second Apparition|Be bloody, bold, and resolute, laugh to scorn
macbeth|Second Apparition|The power of man, for none of woman born
macbeth|Second Apparition|Shall harm Macbeth.
macbeth|Second Apparition|Descends
macbeth|MACBETH|Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?
macbeth|MACBETH|But yet I'll make assurance double sure,
macbeth|MACBETH|And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live,
macbeth|MACBETH|That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
macbeth|MACBETH|And sleep in spite of thunder.
macbeth|MACBETH|Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand
macbeth|MACBETH|What is this
macbeth|MACBETH|That rises like the issue of a king,
macbeth|MACBETH|And wears upon his baby-brow the round
macbeth|MACBETH|And top of sovereignty?
macbeth|ALL|Listen, but speak not to't.
macbeth|Third Apparition|Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
macbeth|Third Apparition|Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:
macbeth|Third Apparition|Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
macbeth|Third Apparition|Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
macbeth|Third Apparition|Shall come against him.
macbeth|Third Apparition|Descends
macbeth|MACBETH|That will never be
macbeth|MACBETH|Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
macbeth|MACBETH|Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!
macbeth|MACBETH|Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood
macbeth|MACBETH|Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth
macbeth|MACBETH|Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath
macbeth|MACBETH|To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart
macbeth|MACBETH|Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art
macbeth|MACBETH|Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever
macbeth|MACBETH|Reign in this kingdom?
macbeth|ALL|Seek to know no more.
macbeth|MACBETH|I will be satisfied: deny me this,
macbeth|MACBETH|And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.
macbeth|MACBETH|Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?
macbeth|MACBETH|Hautboys
macbeth|First Witch|Show!
macbeth|Second Witch|Show!
macbeth|Third Witch|Show!
macbeth|ALL|Show his eyes, and grieve his heart,
macbeth|ALL|Come like shadows, so depart!
macbeth|ALL|A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in his hand, GHOST OF BANQUO following
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!
macbeth|MACBETH|Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.
macbeth|MACBETH|A third is like the former. Filthy hags!
macbeth|MACBETH|Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!
macbeth|MACBETH|What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
macbeth|MACBETH|Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:
macbeth|MACBETH|And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
macbeth|MACBETH|Which shows me many more, and some I see
macbeth|MACBETH|That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:
macbeth|MACBETH|Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true,
macbeth|MACBETH|For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,
macbeth|MACBETH|And points at them for his.
macbeth|MACBETH|Apparitions vanish
macbeth|MACBETH|What, is this so?
macbeth|First Witch|Ay, sir, all this is so: but why
macbeth|First Witch|Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
macbeth|First Witch|Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,
macbeth|First Witch|And show the best of our delights:
macbeth|First Witch|I'll charm the air to give a sound,
macbeth|First Witch|While you perform your antic round:
macbeth|First Witch|That this great king may kindly say,
macbeth|First Witch|Our duties did his welcome pay.
macbeth|First Witch|Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with HECATE
macbeth|MACBETH|Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour
macbeth|MACBETH|Stand aye accursed in the calendar!
macbeth|MACBETH|Come in, without there!
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter LENNOX
macbeth|LENNOX|What's your grace's will?
macbeth|MACBETH|Saw you the weird sisters?
macbeth|LENNOX|No, my lord.
macbeth|MACBETH|Came they not by you?
macbeth|LENNOX|No, indeed, my lord.
macbeth|MACBETH|Infected be the air whereon they ride,
macbeth|MACBETH|And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear
macbeth|MACBETH|The galloping of horse: who was't came by?
macbeth|LENNOX|'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word
macbeth|LENNOX|Macduff is fled to England.
macbeth|MACBETH|Fled to England!
macbeth|LENNOX|Ay, my good lord.
macbeth|MACBETH|Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits:
macbeth|MACBETH|The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
macbeth|MACBETH|Unless the deed go with it, from this moment
macbeth|MACBETH|The very firstlings of my heart shall be
macbeth|MACBETH|The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
macbeth|MACBETH|To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:
macbeth|MACBETH|The castle of Macduff I will surprise,
macbeth|MACBETH|Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o' the sword
macbeth|MACBETH|His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
macbeth|MACBETH|That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool,
macbeth|MACBETH|This deed I'll do before this purpose cool.
macbeth|MACBETH|But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen?
macbeth|MACBETH|Come, bring me where they are.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE II. Fife. Macduff's castle.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter LADY MACDUFF, her Son, and ROSS
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|What had he done, to make him fly the land?
macbeth|ROSS|You must have patience, madam.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|He had none:
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Our fears do make us traitors.
macbeth|ROSS|You know not
macbeth|ROSS|Whether it was his wisdom or his fear.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|His mansion and his titles in a place
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|From whence himself does fly? He loves us not,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|All is the fear and nothing is the love,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|As little is the wisdom, where the flight
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|So runs against all reason.
macbeth|ROSS|My dearest coz,
macbeth|ROSS|I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,
macbeth|ROSS|He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
macbeth|ROSS|The fits o' the season. I dare not speak
macbeth|ROSS|much further,
macbeth|ROSS|But cruel are the times, when we are traitors
macbeth|ROSS|And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour
macbeth|ROSS|From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
macbeth|ROSS|But float upon a wild and violent sea
macbeth|ROSS|Each way and move. I take my leave of you:
macbeth|ROSS|Shall not be long but I'll be here again:
macbeth|ROSS|Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
macbeth|ROSS|To what they were before. My pretty cousin,
macbeth|ROSS|Blessing upon you!
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless.
macbeth|ROSS|I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,
macbeth|ROSS|It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:
macbeth|ROSS|I take my leave at once.
macbeth|ROSS|Exit
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Sirrah, your father's dead,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|And what will you do now? How will you live?
macbeth|Son|As birds do, mother.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|What, with worms and flies?
macbeth|Son|With what I get, I mean, and so do they.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|The pitfall nor the gin.
macbeth|Son|Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for.
macbeth|Son|My father is not dead, for all your saying.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Yes, he is dead, how wilt thou do for a father?
macbeth|Son|Nay, how will you do for a husband?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.
macbeth|Son|Then you'll buy 'em to sell again.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Thou speak'st with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|With wit enough for thee.
macbeth|Son|Was my father a traitor, mother?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Ay, that he was.
macbeth|Son|What is a traitor?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Why, one that swears and lies.
macbeth|Son|And be all traitors that do so?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.
macbeth|Son|And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Every one.
macbeth|Son|Who must hang them?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Why,  the honest men.
macbeth|Son|Then the liars and swearers are fools,
macbeth|Son|for there are liars and swearers enow to beat
macbeth|Son|the honest men and hang up them.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Now, God help thee, poor monkey!
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|But how wilt thou do for a father?
macbeth|Son|If he were dead, you'ld weep for
macbeth|Son|him: if you would not, it were a good sign
macbeth|Son|that I should quickly have a new father.
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Poor prattler, how thou talk'st!
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Enter a Messenger
macbeth|Messenger|Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known,
macbeth|Messenger|Though in your state of honour I am perfect.
macbeth|Messenger|I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:
macbeth|Messenger|If you will take a homely man's advice,
macbeth|Messenger|Be not found here, hence, with your little ones.
macbeth|Messenger|To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage,
macbeth|Messenger|To do worse to you were fell cruelty,
macbeth|Messenger|Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you!
macbeth|Messenger|I dare abide no longer.
macbeth|Messenger|Exit
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Whither should I fly?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|I have done no harm. But I remember now
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Is often laudable, to do good sometime
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Do I put up that womanly defence,
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|To say I have done no harm?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Enter Murderers
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|What are these faces?
macbeth|First Murderer|Where is your husband?
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|I hope, in no place so unsanctified
macbeth|LADY MACDUFF|Where such as thou mayst find him.
macbeth|First Murderer|He's a traitor.
macbeth|Son|Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!
macbeth|First Murderer|What, you egg!
macbeth|First Murderer|Stabbing him
macbeth|First Murderer|Young fry of treachery!
macbeth|Son|He has kill'd me, mother:
macbeth|Son|Run away, I pray you!
macbeth|Son|Dies
macbeth|Son|Exit LADY MACDUFF, crying 'Murder!' Exeunt Murderers, following her
macbeth|Son|SCENE III. England. Before the King's palace.
macbeth|Son|Enter MALCOLM and MACDUFF
macbeth|MALCOLM|Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there
macbeth|MALCOLM|Weep our sad bosoms empty.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Let us rather
macbeth|MACDUFF|Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men
macbeth|MACDUFF|Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn
macbeth|MACDUFF|New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
macbeth|MACDUFF|Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds
macbeth|MACDUFF|As if it felt with Scotland and yell'd out
macbeth|MACDUFF|Like syllable of dolour.
macbeth|MALCOLM|What I believe I'll wail,
macbeth|MALCOLM|What know believe, and what I can redress,
macbeth|MALCOLM|As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
macbeth|MALCOLM|What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.
macbeth|MALCOLM|This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Was once thought honest: you have loved him well.
macbeth|MALCOLM|He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young,
macbeth|MALCOLM|but something
macbeth|MALCOLM|You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom
macbeth|MALCOLM|To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb
macbeth|MALCOLM|To appease an angry god.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I am not treacherous.
macbeth|MALCOLM|But Macbeth is.
macbeth|MALCOLM|A good and virtuous nature may recoil
macbeth|MALCOLM|In an imperial charge. But I shall crave
macbeth|MALCOLM|your pardon,
macbeth|MALCOLM|That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose:
macbeth|MALCOLM|Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Yet grace must still look so.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I have lost my hopes.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Why in that rawness left you wife and child,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Without leave-taking? I pray you,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,
macbeth|MALCOLM|But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Whatever I shall think.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Bleed, bleed, poor country!
macbeth|MACDUFF|Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,
macbeth|MACDUFF|For goodness dare not cheque thee: wear thou
macbeth|MACDUFF|thy wrongs,
macbeth|MACDUFF|The title is affeer'd! Fare thee well, lord:
macbeth|MACDUFF|I would not be the villain that thou think'st
macbeth|MACDUFF|For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And the rich East to boot.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Be not offended:
macbeth|MALCOLM|I speak not as in absolute fear of you.
macbeth|MALCOLM|I think our country sinks beneath the yoke,
macbeth|MALCOLM|It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
macbeth|MALCOLM|Is added to her wounds: I think withal
macbeth|MALCOLM|There would be hands uplifted in my right,
macbeth|MALCOLM|And here from gracious England have I offer
macbeth|MALCOLM|Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,
macbeth|MALCOLM|When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
macbeth|MALCOLM|Shall have more vices than it had before,
macbeth|MALCOLM|More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,
macbeth|MALCOLM|By him that shall succeed.
macbeth|MACDUFF|What should he be?
macbeth|MALCOLM|It is myself I mean: in whom I know
macbeth|MALCOLM|All the particulars of vice so grafted
macbeth|MALCOLM|That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth
macbeth|MALCOLM|Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
macbeth|MALCOLM|Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
macbeth|MALCOLM|With my confineless harms.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Not in the legions
macbeth|MACDUFF|Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd
macbeth|MACDUFF|In evils to top Macbeth.
macbeth|MALCOLM|I grant him bloody,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
macbeth|MALCOLM|That has a name: but there's no bottom, none,
macbeth|MALCOLM|In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up
macbeth|MALCOLM|The cistern of my lust, and my desire
macbeth|MALCOLM|All continent impediments would o'erbear
macbeth|MALCOLM|That did oppose my will: better Macbeth
macbeth|MALCOLM|Than such an one to reign.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Boundless intemperance
macbeth|MACDUFF|In nature is a tyranny, it hath been
macbeth|MACDUFF|The untimely emptying of the happy throne
macbeth|MACDUFF|And fall of many kings. But fear not yet
macbeth|MACDUFF|To take upon you what is yours: you may
macbeth|MACDUFF|Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.
macbeth|MACDUFF|We have willing dames enough: there cannot be
macbeth|MACDUFF|That vulture in you, to devour so many
macbeth|MACDUFF|As will to greatness dedicate themselves,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Finding it so inclined.
macbeth|MALCOLM|With this there grows
macbeth|MALCOLM|In my most ill-composed affection such
macbeth|MALCOLM|A stanchless avarice that, were I king,
macbeth|MALCOLM|I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Desire his jewels and this other's house:
macbeth|MALCOLM|And my more-having would be as a sauce
macbeth|MALCOLM|To make me hunger more, that I should forge
macbeth|MALCOLM|Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Destroying them for wealth.
macbeth|MACDUFF|This avarice
macbeth|MACDUFF|Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root
macbeth|MACDUFF|Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been
macbeth|MACDUFF|The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Of your mere own: all these are portable,
macbeth|MACDUFF|With other graces weigh'd.
macbeth|MALCOLM|But I have none: the king-becoming graces,
macbeth|MALCOLM|As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
macbeth|MALCOLM|I have no relish of them, but abound
macbeth|MALCOLM|In the division of each several crime,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should
macbeth|MALCOLM|Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Uproar the universal peace, confound
macbeth|MALCOLM|All unity on earth.
macbeth|MACDUFF|O Scotland, Scotland!
macbeth|MALCOLM|If such a one be fit to govern, speak:
macbeth|MALCOLM|I am as I have spoken.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Fit to govern!
macbeth|MACDUFF|No, not to live. O nation miserable,
macbeth|MACDUFF|With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,
macbeth|MACDUFF|When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Since that the truest issue of thy throne
macbeth|MACDUFF|By his own interdiction stands accursed,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father
macbeth|MACDUFF|Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Oftener upon her knees than on her feet,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Died every day she lived. Fare thee well!
macbeth|MACDUFF|These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself
macbeth|MACDUFF|Have banish'd me from Scotland. O my breast,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Thy hope ends here!
macbeth|MALCOLM|Macduff, this noble passion,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Child of integrity, hath from my soul
macbeth|MALCOLM|Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts
macbeth|MALCOLM|To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth
macbeth|MALCOLM|By many of these trains hath sought to win me
macbeth|MALCOLM|Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me
macbeth|MALCOLM|From over-credulous haste: but God above
macbeth|MALCOLM|Deal between thee and me! for even now
macbeth|MALCOLM|I put myself to thy direction, and
macbeth|MALCOLM|Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure
macbeth|MALCOLM|The taints and blames I laid upon myself,
macbeth|MALCOLM|For strangers to my nature. I am yet
macbeth|MALCOLM|Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,
macbeth|MALCOLM|At no time broke my faith, would not betray
macbeth|MALCOLM|The devil to his fellow and delight
macbeth|MALCOLM|No less in truth than life: my first false speaking
macbeth|MALCOLM|Was this upon myself: what I am truly,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Is thine and my poor country's to command:
macbeth|MALCOLM|Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Already at a point, was setting forth.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Now we'll together, and the chance of goodness
macbeth|MALCOLM|Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?
macbeth|MACDUFF|Such welcome and unwelcome things at once
macbeth|MACDUFF|'Tis hard to reconcile.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Enter a Doctor
macbeth|MALCOLM|Well, more anon.--Comes the king forth, I pray you?
macbeth|Doctor|Ay, sir, there are a crew of wretched souls
macbeth|Doctor|That stay his cure: their malady convinces
macbeth|Doctor|The great assay of art, but at his touch--
macbeth|Doctor|Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand--
macbeth|Doctor|They presently amend.
macbeth|MALCOLM|I thank you, doctor.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Exit Doctor
macbeth|MACDUFF|What's the disease he means?
macbeth|MALCOLM|'Tis call'd the evil:
macbeth|MALCOLM|A most miraculous work in this good king,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Which often, since my here-remain in England,
macbeth|MALCOLM|I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people,
macbeth|MALCOLM|All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,
macbeth|MALCOLM|The mere despair of surgery, he cures,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis spoken,
macbeth|MALCOLM|To the succeeding royalty he leaves
macbeth|MALCOLM|The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,
macbeth|MALCOLM|He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,
macbeth|MALCOLM|And sundry blessings hang about his throne,
macbeth|MALCOLM|That speak him full of grace.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Enter ROSS
macbeth|MACDUFF|See, who comes here?
macbeth|MALCOLM|My countryman, but yet I know him not.
macbeth|MACDUFF|My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither.
macbeth|MALCOLM|I know him now. Good God, betimes remove
macbeth|MALCOLM|The means that makes us strangers!
macbeth|ROSS|Sir, amen.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Stands Scotland where it did?
macbeth|ROSS|Alas, poor country!
macbeth|ROSS|Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot
macbeth|ROSS|Be call'd our mother, but our grave, where nothing,
macbeth|ROSS|But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile,
macbeth|ROSS|Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air
macbeth|ROSS|Are made, not mark'd, where violent sorrow seems
macbeth|ROSS|A modern ecstasy, the dead man's knell
macbeth|ROSS|Is there scarce ask'd for who, and good men's lives
macbeth|ROSS|Expire before the flowers in their caps,
macbeth|ROSS|Dying or ere they sicken.
macbeth|MACDUFF|O, relation
macbeth|MACDUFF|Too nice, and yet too true!
macbeth|MALCOLM|What's the newest grief?
macbeth|ROSS|That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker:
macbeth|ROSS|Each minute teems a new one.
macbeth|MACDUFF|How does my wife?
macbeth|ROSS|Why, well.
macbeth|MACDUFF|And all my children?
macbeth|ROSS|Well too.
macbeth|MACDUFF|The tyrant has not batter'd at their peace?
macbeth|ROSS|No, they were well at peace when I did leave 'em.
macbeth|MACDUFF|But not a niggard of your speech: how goes't?
macbeth|ROSS|When I came hither to transport the tidings,
macbeth|ROSS|Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour
macbeth|ROSS|Of many worthy fellows that were out,
macbeth|ROSS|Which was to my belief witness'd the rather,
macbeth|ROSS|For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot:
macbeth|ROSS|Now is the time of help, your eye in Scotland
macbeth|ROSS|Would create soldiers, make our women fight,
macbeth|ROSS|To doff their dire distresses.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Be't their comfort
macbeth|MALCOLM|We are coming thither: gracious England hath
macbeth|MALCOLM|Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men,
macbeth|MALCOLM|An older and a better soldier none
macbeth|MALCOLM|That Christendom gives out.
macbeth|ROSS|Would I could answer
macbeth|ROSS|This comfort with the like! But I have words
macbeth|ROSS|That would be howl'd out in the desert air,
macbeth|ROSS|Where hearing should not latch them.
macbeth|MACDUFF|What concern they?
macbeth|MACDUFF|The general cause? or is it a fee-grief
macbeth|MACDUFF|Due to some single breast?
macbeth|ROSS|No mind that's honest
macbeth|ROSS|But in it shares some woe, though the main part
macbeth|ROSS|Pertains to you alone.
macbeth|MACDUFF|If it be mine,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it.
macbeth|ROSS|Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,
macbeth|ROSS|Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
macbeth|ROSS|That ever yet they heard.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Hum! I guess at it.
macbeth|ROSS|Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes
macbeth|ROSS|Savagely slaughter'd: to relate the manner,
macbeth|ROSS|Were, on the quarry of these murder'd deer,
macbeth|ROSS|To add the death of you.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Merciful heaven!
macbeth|MALCOLM|What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
macbeth|MALCOLM|Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
macbeth|MACDUFF|My children too?
macbeth|ROSS|Wife, children, servants, all
macbeth|ROSS|That could be found.
macbeth|MACDUFF|And I must be from thence!
macbeth|MACDUFF|My wife kill'd too?
macbeth|ROSS|I have said.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Be comforted:
macbeth|MALCOLM|Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,
macbeth|MALCOLM|To cure this deadly grief.
macbeth|MACDUFF|He has no children. All my pretty ones?
macbeth|MACDUFF|Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
macbeth|MACDUFF|What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
macbeth|MACDUFF|At one fell swoop?
macbeth|MALCOLM|Dispute it like a man.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I shall do so,
macbeth|MACDUFF|But I must also feel it as a man:
macbeth|MACDUFF|I cannot but remember such things were,
macbeth|MACDUFF|That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,
macbeth|MACDUFF|They were all struck for thee! naught that I am,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Not for their own demerits, but for mine,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now!
macbeth|MALCOLM|Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief
macbeth|MALCOLM|Convert to anger, blunt not the heart, enrage it.
macbeth|MACDUFF|O, I could play the woman with mine eyes
macbeth|MACDUFF|And braggart with my tongue! But, gentle heavens,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Cut short all intermission, front to front
macbeth|MACDUFF|Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Within my sword's length set him, if he 'scape,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Heaven forgive him too!
macbeth|MALCOLM|This tune goes manly.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Come, go we to the king, our power is ready,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Our lack is nothing but our leave, Macbeth
macbeth|MALCOLM|Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
macbeth|MALCOLM|Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may:
macbeth|MALCOLM|The night is long that never finds the day.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Exeunt
macbeth|MALCOLM|ACT V
macbeth|MALCOLM|SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman
macbeth|Doctor|I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive
macbeth|Doctor|no truth in your report. When was it she last walked?
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen
macbeth|Gentlewoman|her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon
macbeth|Gentlewoman|her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it,
macbeth|Gentlewoman|write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again
macbeth|Gentlewoman|return to bed, yet all this while in a most fast sleep.
macbeth|Doctor|A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once
macbeth|Doctor|the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of
macbeth|Doctor|watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her
macbeth|Doctor|walking and other actual performances, what, at any
macbeth|Doctor|time, have you heard her say?
macbeth|Gentlewoman|That, sir, which I will not report after her.
macbeth|Doctor|You may to me: and 'tis most meet you should.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Neither to you nor any one, having no witness to
macbeth|Gentlewoman|confirm my speech.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise,
macbeth|Gentlewoman|and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her, stand close.
macbeth|Doctor|How came she by that light?
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Why, it stood by her: she has light by her
macbeth|Gentlewoman|continually, 'tis her command.
macbeth|Doctor|You see, her eyes are open.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Ay, but their sense is shut.
macbeth|Doctor|What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus
macbeth|Gentlewoman|washing her hands: I have known her continue in
macbeth|Gentlewoman|this a quarter of an hour.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Yet here's a spot.
macbeth|Doctor|Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from
macbeth|Doctor|her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|to have had so much blood in him.
macbeth|Doctor|Do you mark that?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|this starting.
macbeth|Doctor|Go to, go to, you have known what you should not.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of
macbeth|Gentlewoman|that: heaven knows what she has known.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Here's the smell of the blood still: all the
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|hand. Oh, oh, oh!
macbeth|Doctor|What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the
macbeth|Gentlewoman|dignity of the whole body.
macbeth|Doctor|Well, well, well,--
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Pray God it be, sir.
macbeth|Doctor|This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known
macbeth|Doctor|those which have walked in their sleep who have died
macbeth|Doctor|holily in their beds.
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Wash your hands, put on your nightgown, look not so
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried, he
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|cannot come out on's grave.
macbeth|Doctor|Even so?
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!
macbeth|LADY MACBETH|Exit
macbeth|Doctor|Will she go now to bed?
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Directly.
macbeth|Doctor|Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
macbeth|Doctor|Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
macbeth|Doctor|To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:
macbeth|Doctor|More needs she the divine than the physician.
macbeth|Doctor|God, God forgive us all! Look after her,
macbeth|Doctor|Remove from her the means of all annoyance,
macbeth|Doctor|And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:
macbeth|Doctor|My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight.
macbeth|Doctor|I think, but dare not speak.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Good night, good doctor.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Exeunt
macbeth|Gentlewoman|SCENE II. The country near Dunsinane.
macbeth|Gentlewoman|Drum and colours. Enter MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, and Soldiers
macbeth|MENTEITH|The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,
macbeth|MENTEITH|His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:
macbeth|MENTEITH|Revenges burn in them, for their dear causes
macbeth|MENTEITH|Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
macbeth|MENTEITH|Excite the mortified man.
macbeth|ANGUS|Near Birnam wood
macbeth|ANGUS|Shall we well meet them, that way are they coming.
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?
macbeth|LENNOX|For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file
macbeth|LENNOX|Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,
macbeth|LENNOX|And many unrough youths that even now
macbeth|LENNOX|Protest their first of manhood.
macbeth|MENTEITH|What does the tyrant?
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Some say he's mad, others that lesser hate him
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,
macbeth|CAITHNESS|He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Within the belt of rule.
macbeth|ANGUS|Now does he feel
macbeth|ANGUS|His secret murders sticking on his hands,
macbeth|ANGUS|Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach,
macbeth|ANGUS|Those he commands move only in command,
macbeth|ANGUS|Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
macbeth|ANGUS|Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
macbeth|ANGUS|Upon a dwarfish thief.
macbeth|MENTEITH|Who then shall blame
macbeth|MENTEITH|His pester'd senses to recoil and start,
macbeth|MENTEITH|When all that is within him does condemn
macbeth|MENTEITH|Itself for being there?
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Well, march we on,
macbeth|CAITHNESS|To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,
macbeth|CAITHNESS|And with him pour we in our country's purge
macbeth|CAITHNESS|Each drop of us.
macbeth|LENNOX|Or so much as it needs,
macbeth|LENNOX|To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.
macbeth|LENNOX|Make we our march towards Birnam.
macbeth|LENNOX|Exeunt, marching
macbeth|LENNOX|SCENE III. Dunsinane. A room in the castle.
macbeth|LENNOX|Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants
macbeth|MACBETH|Bring me no more reports, let them fly all:
macbeth|MACBETH|Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
macbeth|MACBETH|I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
macbeth|MACBETH|Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
macbeth|MACBETH|All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
macbeth|MACBETH|'Fear not, Macbeth, no man that's born of woman
macbeth|MACBETH|Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,
macbeth|MACBETH|false thanes,
macbeth|MACBETH|And mingle with the English epicures:
macbeth|MACBETH|The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
macbeth|MACBETH|Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter a Servant
macbeth|MACBETH|The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
macbeth|MACBETH|Where got'st thou that goose look?
macbeth|Servant|There is ten thousand--
macbeth|MACBETH|Geese, villain!
macbeth|Servant|Soldiers, sir.
macbeth|MACBETH|Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?
macbeth|MACBETH|Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine
macbeth|MACBETH|Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?
macbeth|Servant|The English force, so please you.
macbeth|MACBETH|Take thy face hence.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit Servant
macbeth|MACBETH|Seyton!--I am sick at heart,
macbeth|MACBETH|When I behold--Seyton, I say!--This push
macbeth|MACBETH|Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.
macbeth|MACBETH|I have lived long enough: my way of life
macbeth|MACBETH|Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,
macbeth|MACBETH|And that which should accompany old age,
macbeth|MACBETH|As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
macbeth|MACBETH|I must not look to have, but, in their stead,
macbeth|MACBETH|Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
macbeth|MACBETH|Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter SEYTON
macbeth|SEYTON|What is your gracious pleasure?
macbeth|MACBETH|What news more?
macbeth|SEYTON|All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.
macbeth|MACBETH|I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.
macbeth|MACBETH|Give me my armour.
macbeth|SEYTON|'Tis not needed yet.
macbeth|MACBETH|I'll put it on.
macbeth|MACBETH|Send out more horses, skirr the country round,
macbeth|MACBETH|Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.
macbeth|MACBETH|How does your patient, doctor?
macbeth|Doctor|Not so sick, my lord,
macbeth|Doctor|As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,
macbeth|Doctor|That keep her from her rest.
macbeth|MACBETH|Cure her of that.
macbeth|MACBETH|Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
macbeth|MACBETH|Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
macbeth|MACBETH|Raze out the written troubles of the brain
macbeth|MACBETH|And with some sweet oblivious antidote
macbeth|MACBETH|Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
macbeth|MACBETH|Which weighs upon the heart?
macbeth|Doctor|Therein the patient
macbeth|Doctor|Must minister to himself.
macbeth|MACBETH|Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.
macbeth|MACBETH|Come, put mine armour on, give me my staff.
macbeth|MACBETH|Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
macbeth|MACBETH|Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast
macbeth|MACBETH|The water of my land, find her disease,
macbeth|MACBETH|And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
macbeth|MACBETH|I would applaud thee to the very echo,
macbeth|MACBETH|That should applaud again.--Pull't off, I say.--
macbeth|MACBETH|What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,
macbeth|MACBETH|Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?
macbeth|Doctor|Ay, my good lord, your royal preparation
macbeth|Doctor|Makes us hear something.
macbeth|MACBETH|Bring it after me.
macbeth|MACBETH|I will not be afraid of death and bane,
macbeth|MACBETH|Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.
macbeth|Doctor|[Aside]  Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,
macbeth|Doctor|Profit again should hardly draw me here.
macbeth|Doctor|Exeunt
macbeth|Doctor|SCENE IV. Country near Birnam wood.
macbeth|Doctor|Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG  SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching
macbeth|MALCOLM|Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
macbeth|MALCOLM|That chambers will be safe.
macbeth|MENTEITH|We doubt it nothing.
macbeth|SIWARD|What wood is this before us?
macbeth|MENTEITH|The wood of Birnam.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Let every soldier hew him down a bough
macbeth|MALCOLM|And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow
macbeth|MALCOLM|The numbers of our host and make discovery
macbeth|MALCOLM|Err in report of us.
macbeth|Soldiers|It shall be done.
macbeth|SIWARD|We learn no other but the confident tyrant
macbeth|SIWARD|Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
macbeth|SIWARD|Our setting down before 't.
macbeth|MALCOLM|'Tis his main hope:
macbeth|MALCOLM|For where there is advantage to be given,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Both more and less have given him the revolt,
macbeth|MALCOLM|And none serve with him but constrained things
macbeth|MALCOLM|Whose hearts are absent too.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Let our just censures
macbeth|MACDUFF|Attend the true event, and put we on
macbeth|MACDUFF|Industrious soldiership.
macbeth|SIWARD|The time approaches
macbeth|SIWARD|That will with due decision make us know
macbeth|SIWARD|What we shall say we have and what we owe.
macbeth|SIWARD|Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
macbeth|SIWARD|But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:
macbeth|SIWARD|Towards which advance the war.
macbeth|SIWARD|Exeunt, marching
macbeth|SIWARD|SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.
macbeth|SIWARD|Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours
macbeth|MACBETH|Hang out our banners on the outward walls,
macbeth|MACBETH|The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength
macbeth|MACBETH|Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie
macbeth|MACBETH|Till famine and the ague eat them up:
macbeth|MACBETH|Were they not forced with those that should be ours,
macbeth|MACBETH|We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
macbeth|MACBETH|And beat them backward home.
macbeth|MACBETH|A cry of women within
macbeth|MACBETH|What is that noise?
macbeth|SEYTON|It is the cry of women, my good lord.
macbeth|SEYTON|Exit
macbeth|MACBETH|I have almost forgot the taste of fears,
macbeth|MACBETH|The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
macbeth|MACBETH|To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
macbeth|MACBETH|Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
macbeth|MACBETH|As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors,
macbeth|MACBETH|Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
macbeth|MACBETH|Cannot once start me.
macbeth|MACBETH|Re-enter SEYTON
macbeth|MACBETH|Wherefore was that cry?
macbeth|SEYTON|The queen, my lord, is dead.
macbeth|MACBETH|She should have died hereafter,
macbeth|MACBETH|There would have been a time for such a word.
macbeth|MACBETH|To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
macbeth|MACBETH|Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
macbeth|MACBETH|To the last syllable of recorded time,
macbeth|MACBETH|And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
macbeth|MACBETH|The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
macbeth|MACBETH|Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
macbeth|MACBETH|That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
macbeth|MACBETH|And then is heard no more: it is a tale
macbeth|MACBETH|Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
macbeth|MACBETH|Signifying nothing.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter a Messenger
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou comest to use thy tongue, thy story quickly.
macbeth|Messenger|Gracious my lord,
macbeth|Messenger|I should report that which I say I saw,
macbeth|Messenger|But know not how to do it.
macbeth|MACBETH|Well, say, sir.
macbeth|Messenger|As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
macbeth|Messenger|I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
macbeth|Messenger|The wood began to move.
macbeth|MACBETH|Liar and slave!
macbeth|Messenger|Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:
macbeth|Messenger|Within this three mile may you see it coming,
macbeth|Messenger|I say, a moving grove.
macbeth|MACBETH|If thou speak'st false,
macbeth|MACBETH|Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
macbeth|MACBETH|Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
macbeth|MACBETH|I care not if thou dost for me as much.
macbeth|MACBETH|I pull in resolution, and begin
macbeth|MACBETH|To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
macbeth|MACBETH|That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood
macbeth|MACBETH|Do come to Dunsinane:'  and now a wood
macbeth|MACBETH|Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!
macbeth|MACBETH|If this which he avouches does appear,
macbeth|MACBETH|There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
macbeth|MACBETH|I gin to be aweary of the sun,
macbeth|MACBETH|And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
macbeth|MACBETH|Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
macbeth|MACBETH|At least we'll die with harness on our back.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt
macbeth|MACBETH|SCENE VI. Dunsinane. Before the castle.
macbeth|MACBETH|Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, and their Army, with boughs
macbeth|MALCOLM|Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down.
macbeth|MALCOLM|And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we
macbeth|MALCOLM|Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,
macbeth|MALCOLM|According to our order.
macbeth|SIWARD|Fare you well.
macbeth|SIWARD|Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,
macbeth|SIWARD|Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Make all our trumpets speak, give them all breath,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Exeunt
macbeth|MACDUFF|SCENE VII. Another part of the field.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Alarums. Enter MACBETH
macbeth|MACBETH|They have tied me to a stake, I cannot fly,
macbeth|MACBETH|But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What's he
macbeth|MACBETH|That was not born of woman? Such a one
macbeth|MACBETH|Am I to fear, or none.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter YOUNG SIWARD
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|What is thy name?
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou'lt be afraid to hear it.
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|No, though thou call'st thyself a hotter name
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|Than any is in hell.
macbeth|MACBETH|My name's Macbeth.
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|The devil himself could not pronounce a title
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|More hateful to mine ear.
macbeth|MACBETH|No, nor more fearful.
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|Thou liest, abhorred tyrant, with my sword
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|I'll prove the lie thou speak'st.
macbeth|YOUNG SIWARD|They fight and YOUNG SIWARD is slain
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou wast born of woman
macbeth|MACBETH|But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
macbeth|MACBETH|Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.
macbeth|MACBETH|Exit
macbeth|MACBETH|Alarums. Enter MACDUFF
macbeth|MACDUFF|That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!
macbeth|MACDUFF|If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine,
macbeth|MACDUFF|My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
macbeth|MACDUFF|Are hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge
macbeth|MACDUFF|I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be,
macbeth|MACDUFF|By this great clatter, one of greatest note
macbeth|MACDUFF|Seems bruited. Let me find him, fortune!
macbeth|MACDUFF|And more I beg not.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Exit. Alarums
macbeth|MACDUFF|Enter MALCOLM and SIWARD
macbeth|SIWARD|This way, my lord, the castle's gently render'd:
macbeth|SIWARD|The tyrant's people on both sides do fight,
macbeth|SIWARD|The noble thanes do bravely in the war,
macbeth|SIWARD|The day almost itself professes yours,
macbeth|SIWARD|And little is to do.
macbeth|MALCOLM|We have met with foes
macbeth|MALCOLM|That strike beside us.
macbeth|SIWARD|Enter, sir, the castle.
macbeth|SIWARD|Exeunt. Alarums
macbeth|SIWARD|SCENE VIII. Another part of the field.
macbeth|SIWARD|Enter MACBETH
macbeth|MACBETH|Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
macbeth|MACBETH|On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes
macbeth|MACBETH|Do better upon them.
macbeth|MACBETH|Enter MACDUFF
macbeth|MACDUFF|Turn, hell-hound, turn!
macbeth|MACBETH|Of all men else I have avoided thee:
macbeth|MACBETH|But get thee back, my soul is too much charged
macbeth|MACBETH|With blood of thine already.
macbeth|MACDUFF|I have no words:
macbeth|MACDUFF|My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
macbeth|MACDUFF|Than terms can give thee out!
macbeth|MACDUFF|They fight
macbeth|MACBETH|Thou losest labour:
macbeth|MACBETH|As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
macbeth|MACBETH|With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
macbeth|MACBETH|Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests,
macbeth|MACBETH|I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
macbeth|MACBETH|To one of woman born.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Despair thy charm,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And let the angel whom thou still hast served
macbeth|MACDUFF|Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb
macbeth|MACDUFF|Untimely ripp'd.
macbeth|MACBETH|Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
macbeth|MACBETH|For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
macbeth|MACBETH|And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
macbeth|MACBETH|That palter with us in a double sense,
macbeth|MACBETH|That keep the word of promise to our ear,
macbeth|MACBETH|And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.
macbeth|MACDUFF|Then yield thee, coward,
macbeth|MACDUFF|And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
macbeth|MACDUFF|We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Painted on a pole, and underwrit,
macbeth|MACDUFF|'Here may you see the tyrant.'
macbeth|MACBETH|I will not yield,
macbeth|MACBETH|To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
macbeth|MACBETH|And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
macbeth|MACBETH|Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
macbeth|MACBETH|And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
macbeth|MACBETH|Yet I will try the last. Before my body
macbeth|MACBETH|I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
macbeth|MACBETH|And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
macbeth|MACBETH|Exeunt, fighting. Alarums
macbeth|MACBETH|Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS, the other Thanes, and Soldiers
macbeth|MALCOLM|I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.
macbeth|SIWARD|Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,
macbeth|SIWARD|So great a day as this is cheaply bought.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Macduff is missing, and your noble son.
macbeth|ROSS|Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:
macbeth|ROSS|He only lived but till he was a man,
macbeth|ROSS|The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
macbeth|ROSS|In the unshrinking station where he fought,
macbeth|ROSS|But like a man he died.
macbeth|SIWARD|Then he is dead?
macbeth|ROSS|Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow
macbeth|ROSS|Must not be measured by his worth, for then
macbeth|ROSS|It hath no end.
macbeth|SIWARD|Had he his hurts before?
macbeth|ROSS|Ay, on the front.
macbeth|SIWARD|Why then, God's soldier be he!
macbeth|SIWARD|Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
macbeth|SIWARD|I would not wish them to a fairer death:
macbeth|SIWARD|And so, his knell is knoll'd.
macbeth|MALCOLM|He's worth more sorrow,
macbeth|MALCOLM|And that I'll spend for him.
macbeth|SIWARD|He's worth no more
macbeth|SIWARD|They say he parted well, and paid his score:
macbeth|SIWARD|And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.
macbeth|SIWARD|Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head
macbeth|MACDUFF|Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
macbeth|MACDUFF|The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:
macbeth|MACDUFF|I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,
macbeth|MACDUFF|That speak my salutation in their minds,
macbeth|MACDUFF|Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
macbeth|MACDUFF|Hail, King of Scotland!
macbeth|ALL|Hail, King of Scotland!
macbeth|ALL|Flourish
macbeth|MALCOLM|We shall not spend a large expense of time
macbeth|MALCOLM|Before we reckon with your several loves,
macbeth|MALCOLM|And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
macbeth|MALCOLM|In such an honour named. What's more to do,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Which would be planted newly with the time,
macbeth|MALCOLM|As calling home our exiled friends abroad
macbeth|MALCOLM|That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Producing forth the cruel ministers
macbeth|MALCOLM|Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
macbeth|MALCOLM|Took off her life, this, and what needful else
macbeth|MALCOLM|That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
macbeth|MALCOLM|We will perform in measure, time and place:
macbeth|MALCOLM|So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
macbeth|MALCOLM|Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.
macbeth|MALCOLM|Flourish. Exeunt
Measure for measure|MALCOLM|ACT I
Measure for measure|MALCOLM|SCENE I. An apartment in the DUKE'S palace.
Measure for measure|MALCOLM|Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, ESCALUS, Lords and Attendants
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Escalus.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|My lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of government the properties to unfold,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Since I am put to know that your own science
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|My strength can give you: then no more remains,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But that to your sufficiency as your Worth is able,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And let them work. The nature of our people,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Our city's institutions, and the terms
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For common justice, you're as pregnant in
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As art and practise hath enriched any
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That we remember. There is our commission,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I say, bid come before us Angelo.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit an Attendant
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What figure of us think you he will bear?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For you must know, we have with special soul
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Elected him our absence to supply,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And given his deputation all the organs
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of our own power: what think you of it?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|If any in Vienna be of worth
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|To undergo such ample grace and honour,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|It is Lord Angelo.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Look where he comes.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter ANGELO
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Always obedient to your grace's will,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I come to know your pleasure.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Angelo,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|There is a kind of character in thy life,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That to the observer doth thy history
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Are not thine own so proper as to waste
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Not light them for themselves, for if our virtues
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The smallest scruple of her excellence
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Herself the glory of a creditor,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To one that can my part in him advertise,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Hold therefore, Angelo:--
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In our remove be thou at full ourself,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Mortality and mercy in Vienna
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Though first in question, is thy secondary.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Take thy commission.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Now, good my lord,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Let there be some more test made of my metal,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Before so noble and so great a figure
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Be stamp'd upon it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|No more evasion:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Proceeded to you, therefore take your honours.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Our haste from hence is of so quick condition
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As time and our concernings shall importune,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|How it goes with us, and do look to know
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What doth befall you here. So, fare you well,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To the hopeful execution do I leave you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of your commissions.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Yet give leave, my lord,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That we may bring you something on the way.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|My haste may not admit it,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|With any scruple, your scope is as mine own
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|So to enforce or qualify the laws
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I'll privily away. I love the people,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But do not like to stage me to their eyes:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Through it do well, I do not relish well
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Their loud applause and Aves vehement,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|The heavens give safety to your purposes!
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Lead forth and bring you back in happiness!
Measure for measure|DUKE|I thank you. Fare you well.
Measure for measure|DUKE|Exit
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|To have free speech with you, and it concerns me
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|To look into the bottom of my place:
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|A power I have, but of what strength and nature
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I am not yet instructed.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And we may soon our satisfaction have
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Touching that point.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I'll wait upon your honour.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exeunt
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|SCENE II. A Street.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen
Measure for measure|LUCIO|If the duke with the other dukes come not to
Measure for measure|LUCIO|composition with the King of Hungary, why then all
Measure for measure|LUCIO|the dukes fall upon the king.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|Hungary's!
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|Amen.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that
Measure for measure|LUCIO|went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped
Measure for measure|LUCIO|one out of the table.
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|'Thou shalt not steal'?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Ay, that he razed.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|all the rest from their functions: they put forth
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|well that prays for peace.
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|I never heard any soldier dislike it.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I believe thee, for I think thou never wast where
Measure for measure|LUCIO|grace was said.
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|No? a dozen times at least.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|What, in metre?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|In any proportion or in any language.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|I think, or in any religion.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all
Measure for measure|LUCIO|controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a
Measure for measure|LUCIO|wicked villain, despite of all grace.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I grant, as there may between the lists and the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|velvet. Thou art the list.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet, thou'rt
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|feelingly now?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I think thou dost, and, indeed, with most painful
Measure for measure|LUCIO|feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own
Measure for measure|LUCIO|confession, learn to begin thy health, but, whilst I
Measure for measure|LUCIO|live, forget to drink after thee.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|I think I have done myself wrong, have I not?
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Behold, behold. where Madam Mitigation comes! I
Measure for measure|LUCIO|have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to--
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|To what, I pray?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Judge.
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|To three thousand dolours a year.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|Ay, and more.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|A French crown more.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|Thou art always figuring diseases in me, but thou
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|art full of error, I am sound.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Nay, not as one would say, healthy, but so sound as
Measure for measure|LUCIO|things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|impiety has made a feast of thee.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Enter MISTRESS OVERDONE
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Well, well, there's one yonder arrested and carried
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|to prison was worth five thousand of you all.
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|Who's that, I pray thee?
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior Claudio.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|Claudio to prison? 'tis not so.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw him arrested, saw
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|him carried away, and, which is more, within these
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|three days his head to be chopped off.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Art thou sure of this?
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|I am too sure of it: and it is for getting Madam
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Julietta with child.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two
Measure for measure|LUCIO|hours since, and he was ever precise in
Measure for measure|LUCIO|promise-keeping.
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|Besides, you know, it draws something near to the
Measure for measure|Second Gentleman|speech we had to such a purpose.
Measure for measure|First Gentleman|But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Away! let's go learn the truth of it.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Exeunt LUCIO and Gentlemen
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|with the gallows and what with poverty, I am
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|custom-shrunk.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Enter POMPEY
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|How now! what's the news with you?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Yonder man is carried to prison.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Well, what has he done?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|A woman.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|But what's his offence?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|What, is there a maid with child by him?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have
Measure for measure|POMPEY|not heard of the proclamation, have you?
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|What proclamation, man?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|And what shall become of those in the city?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|but that a wise burgher put in for them.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|pulled down?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|To the ground, mistress.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth!
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|What shall become of me?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Come, fear you not: good counsellors lack no
Measure for measure|POMPEY|clients: though you change your place, you need not
Measure for measure|POMPEY|change your trade, I'll be your tapster still.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Courage! there will be pity taken on you: you that
Measure for measure|POMPEY|have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you
Measure for measure|POMPEY|will be considered.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to
Measure for measure|POMPEY|prison, and there's Madam Juliet.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Exeunt
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Enter Provost, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and Officers
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Bear me to prison, where I am committed.
Measure for measure|Provost|I do it not in evil disposition,
Measure for measure|Provost|But from Lord Angelo by special charge.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Thus can the demigod Authority
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Make us pay down for our offence by weight
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|The words of heaven, on whom it will, it will,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|On whom it will not, so, yet still 'tis just.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Re-enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|As surfeit is the father of much fast,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|So every scope by the immoderate use
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would
Measure for measure|LUCIO|send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say
Measure for measure|LUCIO|the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom
Measure for measure|LUCIO|as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy
Measure for measure|LUCIO|offence, Claudio?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|What but to speak of would offend again.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|What, is't murder?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|No.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Lechery?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Call it so.
Measure for measure|Provost|Away, sir! you must go.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|A hundred, if they'll do you any good.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Is lechery so look'd after?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I got possession of Julietta's bed:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|You know the lady, she is fast my wife,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Save that we do the denunciation lack
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Of outward order: this we came not to,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Only for propagation of a dower
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Remaining in the coffer of her friends,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|From whom we thought it meet to hide our love
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Till time had made them for us. But it chances
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|The stealth of our most mutual entertainment
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|With character too gross is writ on Juliet.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|With child, perhaps?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Unhappily, even so.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|And the new deputy now for the duke--
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Or whether that the body public be
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|A horse whereon the governor doth ride,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Who, newly in the seat, that it may know
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|He can command, lets it straight feel the spur,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Whether the tyranny be in his place,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Or in his emmence that fills it up,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I stagger in:--but this new governor
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|And none of them been worn, and, for a name,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on
Measure for measure|LUCIO|thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to
Measure for measure|LUCIO|him.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I have done so, but he's not to be found.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|This day my sister should the cloister enter
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|And there receive her approbation:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Acquaint her with the danger of my state:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|To the strict deputy, bid herself assay him:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I have great hope in that, for in her youth
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|There is a prone and speechless dialect,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Such as move men, beside, she hath prosperous art
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|When she will play with reason and discourse,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|And well she can persuade.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I pray she may, as well for the encouragement of the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|like, which else would stand under grievous
Measure for measure|LUCIO|imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I
Measure for measure|LUCIO|would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a
Measure for measure|LUCIO|game of tick-tack. I'll to her.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I thank you, good friend Lucio.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Within two hours.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Come, officer, away!
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Exeunt
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|SCENE III. A monastery.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Enter DUKE VINCENTIO and FRIAR THOMAS
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|No, holy father, throw away that thought,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of burning youth.
Measure for measure|FRIAR THOMAS|May your grace speak of it?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|My holy sir, none better knows than you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|How I have ever loved the life removed
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A man of stricture and firm abstinence,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And he supposes me travell'd to Poland,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You will demand of me why I do this?
Measure for measure|FRIAR THOMAS|Gladly, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We have strict statutes and most biting laws.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Which for this nineteen years we have let slip,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Only to stick it in their children's sight
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For terror, not to use, in time the rod
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Becomes more mock'd than fear'd, so our decrees,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And liberty plucks justice by the nose,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Goes all decorum.
Measure for measure|FRIAR THOMAS|It rested in your grace
Measure for measure|FRIAR THOMAS|To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased:
Measure for measure|FRIAR THOMAS|And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd
Measure for measure|FRIAR THOMAS|Than in Lord Angelo.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I do fear, too dreadful:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|When evil deeds have their permissive pass
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I have on Angelo imposed the office,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And yet my nature never in the fight
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To do in slander. And to behold his sway,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Supply me with the habit and instruct me
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|How I may formally in person bear me
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Like a true friar. More reasons for this action
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|At our more leisure shall I render you,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That his blood flows, or that his appetite
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|SCENE IV. A nunnery.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And have you nuns no farther privileges?
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|Are not these large enough?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Yes, truly, I speak not as desiring more,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But rather wishing a more strict restraint
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Within]  Ho! Peace be in this place!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Who's that which calls?
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|Turn you the key, and know his business of him,
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|You may, I may not, you are yet unsworn.
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|But in the presence of the prioress:
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|Then, if you speak, you must not show your face,
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|Or, if you show your face, you must not speak.
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|He calls again, I pray you, answer him.
Measure for measure|FRANCISCA|Exit
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Enter LUCIO
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me
Measure for measure|LUCIO|As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|A novice of this place and the fair sister
Measure for measure|LUCIO|To her unhappy brother Claudio?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The rather for I now must make you know
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I am that Isabella and his sister.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Not to be weary with you, he's in prison.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Woe me! for what?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|For that which, if myself might be his judge,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|He should receive his punishment in thanks:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|He hath got his friend with child.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Sir, make me not your story.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|It is true.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I would not--though 'tis my familiar sin
Measure for measure|LUCIO|With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Tongue far from heart--play with all virgins so:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|And to be talk'd with in sincerity,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|As with a saint.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Your brother and his lover have embraced:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
Measure for measure|LUCIO|That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
Measure for measure|LUCIO|To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Some one with child by him? My cousin Juliet?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Is she your cousin?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Adoptedly, as school-maids change their names
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|By vain though apt affection.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|She it is.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, let him marry her.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|This is the point.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|The duke is very strangely gone from hence,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|In hand and hope of action: but we do learn
Measure for measure|LUCIO|By those that know the very nerves of state,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|His givings-out were of an infinite distance
Measure for measure|LUCIO|From his true-meant design. Upon his place,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|And with full line of his authority,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Governs Lord Angelo, a man whose blood
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Is very snow-broth, one who never feels
Measure for measure|LUCIO|The wanton stings and motions of the sense,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
Measure for measure|LUCIO|With profits of the mind, study and fast.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|He--to give fear to use and liberty,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Which have for long run by the hideous law,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|As mice by lions--hath pick'd out an act,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Under whose heavy sense your brother's life
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|And follows close the rigour of the statute,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|To make him an example. All hope is gone,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer
Measure for measure|LUCIO|To soften Angelo: and that's my pith of business
Measure for measure|LUCIO|'Twixt you and your poor brother.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Doth he so seek his life?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Has censured him
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Already, and, as I hear, the provost hath
Measure for measure|LUCIO|A warrant for his execution.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Alas! what poor ability's in me
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To do him good?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Assay the power you have.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|My power? Alas, I doubt--
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Our doubts are traitors
Measure for measure|LUCIO|And make us lose the good we oft might win
Measure for measure|LUCIO|By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Men give like gods, but when they weep and kneel,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|All their petitions are as freely theirs
Measure for measure|LUCIO|As they themselves would owe them.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I'll see what I can do.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|But speedily.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I will about it straight,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|No longer staying but to give the mother
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Commend me to my brother: soon at night
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I'll send him certain word of my success.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I take my leave of you.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Good sir, adieu.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Exeunt
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|ACT II
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|SCENE I. A hall In ANGELO's house.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants, behind
Measure for measure|ANGELO|We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Their perch and not their terror.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Ay, but yet
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Whom I would save, had a most noble father!
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Let but your honour know,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|That, in the working of your own affections,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Had time cohered with place or place with wishing,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Or that the resolute acting of your blood
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Whether you had not sometime in your life
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Err'd in this point which now you censure him,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|And pull'd the law upon you.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Another thing to fall. I not deny,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That justice seizes: what know the laws
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Because we see it, but what we do not see
Measure for measure|ANGELO|We tread upon, and never think of it.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|You may not so extenuate his offence
Measure for measure|ANGELO|For I have had such faults, but rather tell me,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|When I, that censure him, do so offend,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Be it as your wisdom will.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Where is the provost?
Measure for measure|Provost|Here, if it like your honour.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|See that Claudio
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Be executed by nine to-morrow morning:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Exit Provost
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|[Aside]  Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|And some condemned for a fault alone.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Enter ELBOW, and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Come, bring them away: if these be good people in
Measure for measure|ELBOW|a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in
Measure for measure|ELBOW|common houses, I know no law: bring them away.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|How now, sir! What's your name? and what's the matter?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's
Measure for measure|ELBOW|constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon
Measure for measure|ELBOW|justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good
Measure for measure|ELBOW|honour two notorious benefactors.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Benefactors? Well, what benefactors are they? are
Measure for measure|ANGELO|they not malefactors?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|If it? please your honour, I know not well what they
Measure for measure|ELBOW|are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure
Measure for measure|ELBOW|of, and void of all profanation in the world that
Measure for measure|ELBOW|good Christians ought to have.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|This comes off well, here's a wise officer.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your
Measure for measure|ANGELO|name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|He cannot, sir, he's out at elbow.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|What are you, sir?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|He, sir! a tapster, sir, parcel-bawd, one that
Measure for measure|ELBOW|serves a bad woman, whose house, sir, was, as they
Measure for measure|ELBOW|say, plucked down in the suburbs, and now she
Measure for measure|ELBOW|professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|How know you that?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,--
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|How? thy wife?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Ay, sir, whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Dost thou detest her therefore?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as
Measure for measure|ELBOW|she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house,
Measure for measure|ELBOW|it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|How dost thou know that, constable?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Marry, sir, by my wife, who, if she had been a woman
Measure for measure|ELBOW|cardinally given, might have been accused in
Measure for measure|ELBOW|fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|By the woman's means?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she
Measure for measure|ELBOW|spit in his face, so she defied him.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable
Measure for measure|ELBOW|man, prove it.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Do you hear how he misplaces?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Sir, she came in great with child, and longing,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|saving your honour's reverence, for stewed prunes,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very
Measure for measure|POMPEY|distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a
Measure for measure|POMPEY|dish of some three-pence, your honours have seen
Measure for measure|POMPEY|such dishes, they are not China dishes, but very
Measure for measure|POMPEY|good dishes,--
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Go to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|No, indeed, sir, not of a pin, you are therein in
Measure for measure|POMPEY|the right: but to the point. As I say, this
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and
Measure for measure|POMPEY|being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for
Measure for measure|POMPEY|prunes, and having but two in the dish, as I said,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the
Measure for measure|POMPEY|rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very
Measure for measure|POMPEY|honestly, for, as you know, Master Froth, I could
Measure for measure|POMPEY|not give you three-pence again.
Measure for measure|FROTH|No, indeed.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Very well: you being then, if you be remembered,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes,--
Measure for measure|FROTH|Ay, so I did indeed.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Why, very well, I telling you then, if you be
Measure for measure|POMPEY|remembered, that such a one and such a one were past
Measure for measure|POMPEY|cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very
Measure for measure|POMPEY|good diet, as I told you,--
Measure for measure|FROTH|All this is true.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Why, very well, then,--
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. What
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|was done to Elbow's wife, that he hath cause to
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|complain of? Come me to what was done to her.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|No, sir, nor I mean it not.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's
Measure for measure|POMPEY|leave. And, I beseech you, look into Master Froth
Measure for measure|POMPEY|here, sir, a man of four-score pound a year, whose
Measure for measure|POMPEY|father died at Hallowmas: was't not at Hallowmas,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Master Froth?
Measure for measure|FROTH|All-hallond eve.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Why, very well, I hope here be truths. He, sir,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir, 'twas in
Measure for measure|POMPEY|the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight
Measure for measure|POMPEY|to sit, have you not?
Measure for measure|FROTH|I have so, because it is an open room and good for winter.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Why, very well, then, I hope here be truths.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|This will last out a night in Russia,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And leave you to the hearing of the cause,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exit ANGELO
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Now, sir, come on: what was done to Elbow's wife, once more?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Once, sir? there was nothing done to her once.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I beseech your honour, ask me.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Well, sir, what did this gentleman to her?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's face.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Good Master Froth, look upon his honour, 'tis for a
Measure for measure|POMPEY|good purpose. Doth your honour mark his face?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Ay, sir, very well.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Nay, I beseech you, mark it well.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Well, I do so.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Doth your honour see any harm in his face?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Why, no.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst
Measure for measure|POMPEY|thing about him. Good, then, if his face be the
Measure for measure|POMPEY|worst thing about him, how could Master Froth do the
Measure for measure|POMPEY|constable's wife any harm? I would know that of
Measure for measure|POMPEY|your honour.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|He's in the right. Constable, what say you to it?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|First, an it like you, the house is a respected
Measure for measure|ELBOW|house, next, this is a respected fellow, and his
Measure for measure|ELBOW|mistress is a respected woman.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected
Measure for measure|POMPEY|person than any of us all.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Varlet, thou liest, thou liest, wicked varlet! the
Measure for measure|ELBOW|time has yet to come that she was ever respected
Measure for measure|ELBOW|with man, woman, or child.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Sir, she was respected with him before he married with her.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity? Is
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|this true?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married
Measure for measure|ELBOW|to her! If ever I was respected with her, or she
Measure for measure|ELBOW|with me, let not your worship think me the poor
Measure for measure|ELBOW|duke's officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or
Measure for measure|ELBOW|I'll have mine action of battery on thee.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|action of slander too.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is't
Measure for measure|ELBOW|your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|continue in his courses till thou knowest what they
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|are.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Marry, I thank your worship for it. Thou seest, thou
Measure for measure|ELBOW|wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art
Measure for measure|ELBOW|to continue now, thou varlet, thou art to continue.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Where were you born, friend?
Measure for measure|FROTH|Here in Vienna, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Are you of fourscore pounds a year?
Measure for measure|FROTH|Yes, an't please you, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|So. What trade are you of, sir?
Measure for measure|POMPHEY|Tapster, a poor widow's tapster.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Your mistress' name?
Measure for measure|POMPHEY|Mistress Overdone.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Hath she had any more than one husband?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Nine, sir, Overdone by the last.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Nine! Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Froth, I would not have you acquainted with
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|tapsters: they will draw you, Master Froth, and you
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|more of you.
Measure for measure|FROTH|I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never
Measure for measure|FROTH|come into any room in a tap-house, but I am drawn
Measure for measure|FROTH|in.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Well, no more of it, Master Froth: farewell.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exit FROTH
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What's your
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|name, Master tapster?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Pompey.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|What else?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Bum, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|How would you live, Pompey? by being a bawd? What
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|do you think of the trade, Pompey? is it a lawful trade?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|If the law would allow it, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|But the law will not allow it, Pompey, nor it shall
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|not be allowed in Vienna.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the
Measure for measure|POMPEY|youth of the city?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|No, Pompey.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to't then.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|If your worship will take order for the drabs and
Measure for measure|POMPEY|the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|There are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you:
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|it is but heading and hanging.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|If you head and hang all that offend that way but
Measure for measure|POMPEY|for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a
Measure for measure|POMPEY|commission for more heads: if this law hold in
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it
Measure for measure|POMPEY|after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this
Measure for measure|POMPEY|come to pass, say Pompey told you so.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Thank you, good Pompey, and, in requital of your
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Caesar to you, in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|have you whipt: so, for this time, Pompey, fare you well.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I thank your worship for your good counsel:
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Aside
Measure for measure|POMPEY|but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall
Measure for measure|POMPEY|better determine.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Whip me? No, no, let carman whip his jade:
Measure for measure|POMPEY|The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Exit
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Come hither to me, Master Elbow, come hither, Master
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Seven year and a half, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I thought, by your readiness in the office, you had
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|continued in it some time. You say, seven years together?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|And a half, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do you
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|wrong to put you so oft upon 't: are there not men
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|in your ward sufficient to serve it?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they
Measure for measure|ELBOW|are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them, I
Measure for measure|ELBOW|do it for some piece of money, and go through with
Measure for measure|ELBOW|all.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|the most sufficient of your parish.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|To your worship's house, sir?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|To my house. Fare you well.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exit ELBOW
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|What's o'clock, think you?
Measure for measure|Justice|Eleven, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I pray you home to dinner with me.
Measure for measure|Justice|I humbly thank you.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|It grieves me for the death of Claudio,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|But there's no remedy.
Measure for measure|Justice|Lord Angelo is severe.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|It is but needful:
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Pardon is still the nurse of second woe:
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|But yet,--poor Claudio! There is no remedy.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Come, sir.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exeunt
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|SCENE II. Another room in the same.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Enter Provost and a Servant
Measure for measure|Servant|He's hearing of a cause, he will come straight
Measure for measure|Servant|I'll tell him of you.
Measure for measure|Provost|Pray you, do.
Measure for measure|Provost|Exit Servant
Measure for measure|Provost|I'll know
Measure for measure|Provost|His pleasure, may be he will relent. Alas,
Measure for measure|Provost|He hath but as offended in a dream!
Measure for measure|Provost|All sects, all ages smack of this vice, and he
Measure for measure|Provost|To die for't!
Measure for measure|Provost|Enter ANGELO
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Now, what's the matter. Provost?
Measure for measure|Provost|Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Why dost thou ask again?
Measure for measure|Provost|Lest I might be too rash:
Measure for measure|Provost|Under your good correction, I have seen,
Measure for measure|Provost|When, after execution, judgment hath
Measure for measure|Provost|Repented o'er his doom.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Go to, let that be mine:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Do you your office, or give up your place,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And you shall well be spared.
Measure for measure|Provost|I crave your honour's pardon.
Measure for measure|Provost|What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?
Measure for measure|Provost|She's very near her hour.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Dispose of her
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To some more fitter place, and that with speed.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Re-enter Servant
Measure for measure|Servant|Here is the sister of the man condemn'd
Measure for measure|Servant|Desires access to you.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Hath he a sister?
Measure for measure|Provost|Ay, my good lord, a very virtuous maid,
Measure for measure|Provost|And to be shortly of a sisterhood,
Measure for measure|Provost|If not already.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Well, let her be admitted.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Exit Servant
Measure for measure|ANGELO|See you the fornicatress be removed:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Let have needful, but not lavish, means,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|There shall be order for't.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO
Measure for measure|Provost|God save your honour!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Stay a little while.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To ISABELLA
Measure for measure|ANGELO|You're welcome: what's your will?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I am a woeful suitor to your honour,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Please but your honour hear me.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Well, what's your suit?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|There is a vice that most I do abhor,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And most desire should meet the blow of justice,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For which I would not plead, but that I must,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For which I must not plead, but that I am
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|At war 'twixt will and will not.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Well, the matter?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I have a brother is condemn'd to die:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I do beseech you, let it be his fault,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And not my brother.
Measure for measure|Provost|[Aside]  Heaven give thee moving graces!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Mine were the very cipher of a function,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And let go by the actor.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O just but severe law!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour!
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]  Give't not o'er so: to him
Measure for measure|LUCIO|again, entreat him,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|You are too cold, if you should need a pin,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|You could not with more tame a tongue desire it:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|To him, I say!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Must he needs die?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Maiden, no remedy.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Yes, I do think that you might pardon him,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I will not do't.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But can you, if you would?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Look, what I will not, that I cannot do.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But might you do't, and do the world no wrong,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|A s mine is to him?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|He's sentenced, 'tis too late.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]  You are too cold.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Too late? why, no, I, that do speak a word.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|May call it back again. Well, believe this,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Become them with one half so good a grace
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As mercy does.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If he had been as you and you as he,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|You would have slipt like him, but he, like you,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Would not have been so stern.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Pray you, be gone.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I would to heaven I had your potency,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And you were Isabel! should it then be thus?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|No, I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And what a prisoner.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Ay, touch him, there's the vein.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Your brother is a forfeit of the law,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And you but waste your words.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Alas, alas!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And He that might the vantage best have took
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Found out the remedy. How would you be,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If He, which is the top of judgment, should
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But judge you as you are? O, think on that,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Like man new made.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Be you content, fair maid,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|It is the law, not I condemn your brother:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|With less respect than we do minister
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Who is it that hath died for this offence?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|There's many have committed it.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]           Ay, well said.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Those many had not dared to do that evil,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|If the first that did the edict infringe
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Takes note of what is done, and, like a prophet,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Either new, or by remissness new-conceived,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Are now to have no successive degrees,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|But, ere they live, to end.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Yet show some pity.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I show it most of all when I show justice,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|For then I pity those I do not know,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Lives not to act another. Be satisfied,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Your brother dies to-morrow, be content.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And he, that suffer's. O, it is excellent
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To use it like a giant.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]   That's well said.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Could great men thunder
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For every pelting, petty officer
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Would use his heaven for thunder,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Drest in a little brief authority,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As make the angels weep, who, with our spleens,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]  O, to him, to him, wench! he
Measure for measure|LUCIO|will relent,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|He's coming, I perceive 't.
Measure for measure|Provost|[Aside]  Pray heaven she win him!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|We cannot weigh our brother with ourself:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Great men may jest with saints, 'tis wit in them,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But in the less foul profanation.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Thou'rt i' the right, girl, more o, that.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]  Art avised o' that? more on 't.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Why do you put these sayings upon me?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Because authority, though it err like others,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That's like my brother's fault: if it confess
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|A natural guiltiness such as is his,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Against my brother's life.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|[Aside]                  She speaks, and 'tis
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Gentle my lord, turn back.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|How! bribe me?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]  You had marr'd all else.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As fancy values them, but with true prayers
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That shall be up at heaven and enter there
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To nothing temporal.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Well, come to me to-morrow.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|[Aside to ISABELLA]  Go to, 'tis well, away!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Heaven keep your honour safe!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|[Aside]	Amen:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|For I am that way going to temptation,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Where prayers cross.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|At what hour to-morrow
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Shall I attend your lordship?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|At any time 'fore noon.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|'Save your honour!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Exeunt ISABELLA, LUCIO, and Provost
Measure for measure|ANGELO|From thee, even from thy virtue!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Ha!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That, lying by the violet in the sun,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That modesty may more betray our sense
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Dost thou desire her foully for those things
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That make her good? O, let her brother live!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Thieves for their robbery have authority
Measure for measure|ANGELO|When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That I desire to hear her speak again,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Is that temptation that doth goad us on
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|With all her double vigour, art and nature,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Once stir my temper, but this virtuous maid
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Subdues me quite. Even till now,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Exit
Measure for measure|ANGELO|SCENE III. A room in a prison.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.
Measure for measure|Provost|I am the provost. What's your will, good friar?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Bound by my charity and my blest order,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Here in the prison. Do me the common right
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To let me see them and to make me know
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To them accordingly.
Measure for measure|Provost|I would do more than that, if more were needful.
Measure for measure|Provost|Enter JULIET
Measure for measure|Provost|Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
Measure for measure|Provost|Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
Measure for measure|Provost|Hath blister'd her report: she is with child,
Measure for measure|Provost|And he that got it, sentenced, a young man
Measure for measure|Provost|More fit to do another such offence
Measure for measure|Provost|Than die for this.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|When must he die?
Measure for measure|Provost|As I do think, to-morrow.
Measure for measure|Provost|I have provided for you: stay awhile,
Measure for measure|Provost|To JULIET
Measure for measure|Provost|And you shall be conducted.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
Measure for measure|JULIET|I do, and bear the shame most patiently.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And try your penitence, if it be sound,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Or hollowly put on.
Measure for measure|JULIET|I'll gladly learn.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Love you the man that wrong'd you?
Measure for measure|JULIET|Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|So then it seems your most offenceful act
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Was mutually committed?
Measure for measure|JULIET|Mutually.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
Measure for measure|JULIET|I do confess it, and repent it, father.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But as we stand in fear,--
Measure for measure|JULIET|I do repent me, as it is an evil,
Measure for measure|JULIET|And take the shame with joy.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|There rest.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And I am going with instruction to him.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Grace go with you, Benedicite!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit
Measure for measure|JULIET|Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,
Measure for measure|JULIET|That respites me a life, whose very comfort
Measure for measure|JULIET|Is still a dying horror!
Measure for measure|Provost|'Tis pity of him.
Measure for measure|Provost|Exeunt
Measure for measure|Provost|SCENE IV. A room in ANGELO's house.
Measure for measure|Provost|Enter ANGELO
Measure for measure|ANGELO|When I would pray and think, I think and pray
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|As if I did but only chew his name,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And in my heart the strong and swelling evil
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Of my conception. The state, whereon I studied
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Is like a good thing, being often read,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Grown fear'd and tedious, yea, my gravity,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Wherein--let no man hear me--I take pride,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Could I with boot change for an idle plume,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Let's write good angel on the devil's horn:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|'Tis not the devil's crest.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Enter a Servant
Measure for measure|ANGELO|How now! who's there?
Measure for measure|Servant|One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Teach her the way.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Exit Servant
Measure for measure|ANGELO|O heavens!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Making both it unable for itself,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And dispossessing all my other parts
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Of necessary fitness?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Come all to help him, and so stop the air
Measure for measure|ANGELO|By which he should revive: and even so
Measure for measure|ANGELO|The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Must needs appear offence.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Enter ISABELLA
Measure for measure|ANGELO|How now, fair maid?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I am come to know your pleasure.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That you might know it, would much better please me
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Even so. Heaven keep your honour!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Yet may he live awhile, and, it may be,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|As long as you or I yet he must die.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Under your sentence?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Yea.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That his soul sicken not.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
Measure for measure|ANGELO|A man already made, as to remit
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image
Measure for measure|ANGELO|In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Falsely to take away a life true made
Measure for measure|ANGELO|As to put metal in restrained means
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To make a false one.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Which had you rather, that the most just law
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Now took your brother's life, or, to redeem him,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
Measure for measure|ANGELO|As she that he hath stain'd?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Sir, believe this,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I had rather give my body than my soul.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I talk not of your soul: our compell'd sins
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Stand more for number than for accompt.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|How say you?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Nay, I'll not warrant that, for I can speak
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Against the thing I say. Answer to this:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I, now the voice of the recorded law,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Might there not be a charity in sin
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To save this brother's life?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Please you to do't,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I'll take it as a peril to my soul,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|It is no sin at all, but charity.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Pleased you to do't at peril of your soul,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Were equal poise of sin and charity.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That I do beg his life, if it be sin,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To have it added to the faults of mine,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And nothing of your answer.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Nay, but hear me.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Or seem so craftily, and that's not good.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But graciously to know I am no better.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
Measure for measure|ANGELO|When it doth tax itself, as these black masks
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Than beauty could, display'd. But mark me,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To be received plain, I'll speak more gross:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Your brother is to die.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|So.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And his offence is so, as it appears,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Accountant to the law upon that pain.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|True.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Admit no other way to save his life,--
Measure for measure|ANGELO|As I subscribe not that, nor any other,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|But in the loss of question,--that you, his sister,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Finding yourself desired of such a person,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Could fetch your brother from the manacles
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Of the all-building law, and that there were
Measure for measure|ANGELO|No earthly mean to save him, but that either
Measure for measure|ANGELO|You must lay down the treasures of your body
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To this supposed, or else to let him suffer,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|What would you do?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As much for my poor brother as myself:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That is, were I under the terms of death,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And strip myself to death, as to a bed
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld yield
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|My body up to shame.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Then must your brother die.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And 'twere the cheaper way:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Better it were a brother died at once,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Should die for ever.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Were not you then as cruel as the sentence
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That you have slander'd so?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ignomy in ransom and free pardon
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Are of two houses: lawful mercy
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And rather proved the sliding of your brother
Measure for measure|ANGELO|A merriment than a vice.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, pardon me, my lord, it oft falls out,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I something do excuse the thing I hate,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For his advantage that I dearly love.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|We are all frail.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Else let my brother die,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If not a feodary, but only he
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Owe and succeed thy weakness.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Nay, women are frail too.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Women! Help Heaven! men their creation mar
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For we are soft as our complexions are,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And credulous to false prints.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I think it well:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And from this testimony of your own sex,--
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Than faults may shake our frames,--let me be bold,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I do arrest your words. Be that you are,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That is, a woman, if you be more, you're none,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|If you be one, as you are well express'd
Measure for measure|ANGELO|By all external warrants, show it now,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|By putting on the destined livery.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Let me entreat you speak the former language.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Plainly conceive, I love you.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|My brother did love Juliet,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And you tell me that he shall die for it.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I know your virtue hath a licence in't,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Which seems a little fouler than it is,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To pluck on others.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Believe me, on mine honour,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|My words express my purpose.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ha! little honour to be much believed,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I will proclaim thee, Angelo, look for't:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Sign me a present pardon for my brother,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|What man thou art.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Who will believe thee, Isabel?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Will so your accusation overweigh,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That you shall stifle in your own report
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And smell of calumny. I have begun,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And now I give my sensual race the rein:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That banish what they sue for, redeem thy brother
Measure for measure|ANGELO|By yielding up thy body to my will,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Or else he must not only die the death,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Or, by the affection that now guides me most,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Exit
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Either of condemnation or approof,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Bidding the law make court'sy to their will:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That, had he twenty heads to tender down
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Before his sister should her body stoop
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To such abhorr'd pollution.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|More than our brother is our chastity.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Exit
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|ACT III
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|SCENE I. A room in the prison.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before, CLAUDIO, and Provost
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|The miserable have no other medicine
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|But only hope:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I've hope to live, and am prepared to die.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Be absolute for death, either death or life
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Servile to all the skyey influences,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For all the accommodations that thou bear'st
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And that thou oft provokest, yet grossly fear'st
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The mere effusion of thy proper loins,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Dreaming on both, for all thy blessed youth
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of palsied eld, and when thou art old and rich,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That bears the name of life? Yet in this life
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That makes these odds all even.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I humbly thank you.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|[Within]  What, ho! Peace here, grace and good company!
Measure for measure|Provost|Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Most holy sir, I thank you.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Enter ISABELLA
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|My business is a word or two with Claudio.
Measure for measure|Provost|And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your sister.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Provost, a word with you.
Measure for measure|Provost|As many as you please.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt DUKE VINCENTIO and Provost
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Now, sister, what's the comfort?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Why,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As all comforts are, most good, most good indeed.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Intends you for his swift ambassador,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Where you shall be an everlasting leiger:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Therefore your best appointment make with speed,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To-morrow you set on.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Is there no remedy?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|None, but such remedy as, to save a head,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To cleave a heart in twain.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|But is there any?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Yes, brother, you may live:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|There is a devilish mercy in the judge,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If you'll implore it, that will free your life,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But fetter you till death.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Perpetual durance?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ay, just, perpetual durance, a restraint,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Though all the world's vastidity you had,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To a determined scope.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|But in what nature?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In such a one as, you consenting to't,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And leave you naked.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Let me know the point.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, I do fear thee, Claudio, and I quake,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And six or seven winters more respect
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The sense of death is most in apprehension,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As when a giant dies.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Why give you me this shame?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Think you I can a resolution fetch
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|From flowery tenderness? If I must die,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|I will encounter darkness as a bride,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|And hug it in mine arms.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|There spake my brother, there my father's grave
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Thou art too noble to conserve a life
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Whose settled visage and deliberate word
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|His filth within being cast, he would appear
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|A pond as deep as hell.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|The prenzie Angelo!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The damned'st body to invest and cover
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If I would yield him my virginity,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Thou mightst be freed.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|O heavens! it cannot be.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|So to offend him still. This night's the time
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That I should do what I abhor to name,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Or else thou diest to-morrow.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Thou shalt not do't.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, were it but my life,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I'ld throw it down for your deliverance
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As frankly as a pin.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Thanks, dear Isabel.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Yes. Has he affections in him,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|That thus can make him bite the law by the nose,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Or of the deadly seven, it is the least.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Which is the least?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|If it were damnable, he being so wise,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Why would he for the momentary trick
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|What says my brother?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Death is a fearful thing.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And shamed life a hateful.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Ay, but to die, and go we know not where,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|To lie in cold obstruction and to rot,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|This sensible warm motion to become
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|A kneaded clod, and the delighted spirit
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|And blown with restless violence round about
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|The pendent world, or to be worse than worst
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Of those that lawless and incertain thought
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|The weariest and most loathed worldly life
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Can lay on nature is a paradise
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|To what we fear of death.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Alas, alas!
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Sweet sister, let me live:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|What sin you do to save a brother's life,
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Nature dispenses with the deed so far
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|That it becomes a virtue.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O you beast!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Is't not a kind of incest, to take life
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For such a warped slip of wilderness
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Die, perish! Might but my bending down
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|No word to save thee.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Nay, hear me, Isabel.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, fie, fie, fie!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|'Tis best thou diest quickly.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|O hear me, Isabella!
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Re-enter DUKE VINCENTIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|What is your will?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|would require is likewise your own benefit.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I have no superfluous leisure, my stay must be
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|stolen out of other affairs, but I will attend you awhile.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Walks apart
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Son, I have overheard what hath passed between you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|corrupt her, only he hath made an essay of her
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|of natures: she, having the truth of honour in her,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|hath made him that gracious denial which he is most
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|glad to receive. I am confessor to Angelo, and I
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|know this to be true, therefore prepare yourself to
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|death: do not satisfy your resolution with hopes
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|that are fallible: tomorrow you must die, go to
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|your knees and make ready.
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|with life that I will sue to be rid of it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Hold you there: farewell.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit CLAUDIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Provost, a word with you!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Re-enter Provost
Measure for measure|Provost|What's your will, father
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|awhile with the maid: my mind promises with my
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|habit no loss shall touch her by my company.
Measure for measure|Provost|In good time.
Measure for measure|Provost|Exit Provost. ISABELLA comes forward
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|brief in goodness, but grace, being the soul of
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|fair. The assault that Angelo hath made to you,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|fortune hath conveyed to my understanding, and, but
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|that frailty hath examples for his falling, I should
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|wonder at Angelo. How will you do to content this
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|substitute, and to save your brother?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I am now going to resolve him: I had rather my
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|brother die by the law than my son should be
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|unlawfully born. But, O, how much is the good duke
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|deceived in Angelo! If ever he return and I can
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|discover his government.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That shall not be much amiss: Yet, as the matter
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|now stands, he will avoid your accusation, he made
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|trial of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|advisings: to the love I have in doing good a
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|remedy presents itself. I do make myself believe
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|lady a merited benefit, redeem your brother from
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|the angry law, do no stain to your own gracious
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|person, and much please the absent duke, if
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|this business.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Frederick the great soldier who miscarried at sea?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|She should this Angelo have married, was affianced
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|which time of the contract and limit of the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|having in that perished vessel the dowry of his
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|sister. But mark how heavily this befell to the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|kind and natural, with him, the portion and sinew of
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|her fortune, her marriage-dowry, with both, her
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Can this be so? did Angelo so leave her?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|with his comfort, swallowed his vows whole,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|pretending in her discoveries of dishonour: in few,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|wears for his sake, and he, a marble to her tears,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|is washed with them, but relents not.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|from the world! What corruption in this life, that
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|it will let this man live! But how out of this can she avail?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It is a rupture that you may easily heal: and the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|you from dishonour in doing it.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Show me how, good father.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|in all reason should have quenched her love, hath,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|like an impediment in the current, made it more
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo, answer his
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|requiring with a plausible obedience, agree with
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|his demands to the point, only refer yourself to
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|this advantage, first, that your stay with him may
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|not be long, that the time may have all shadow and
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This being granted in course,--and now follows
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|all,--we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|your appointment, go in your place, if the encounter
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What think you of it?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The image of it gives me content already, and I
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|to Angelo: if for this night he entreat you to his
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|presently to Saint Luke's: there, at the moated
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|grange, resides this dejected Mariana. At that
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|place call upon me, and dispatch with Angelo, that
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|it may be quickly.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Exeunt severally
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|SCENE II. The street before the prison.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Enter, on one side, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before, on the other, ELBOW, and Officers with POMPEY
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will
Measure for measure|ELBOW|needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we
Measure for measure|ELBOW|shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O heavens! what stuff is here
Measure for measure|POMPEY|'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the
Measure for measure|POMPEY|merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by
Measure for measure|POMPEY|order of law a furred gown to keep him warm, and
Measure for measure|POMPEY|furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that
Measure for measure|POMPEY|craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And you, good brother father. What offence hath
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|this man made you, sir?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we
Measure for measure|ELBOW|take him to be a thief too, sir, for we have found
Measure for measure|ELBOW|upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have
Measure for measure|ELBOW|sent to the deputy.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The evil that thou causest to be done,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That is thy means to live. Do thou but think
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|From such a filthy vice: say to thyself,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|From their abominable and beastly touches
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Canst thou believe thy living is a life,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir, but yet,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|sir, I would prove--
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Correction and instruction must both work
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Ere this rude beast will profit.
Measure for measure|ELBOW|He must before the deputy, sir, he has given him
Measure for measure|ELBOW|warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if
Measure for measure|ELBOW|he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were
Measure for measure|ELBOW|as good go a mile on his errand.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That we were all, as some would seem to be,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|From our faults, as faults from seeming, free!
Measure for measure|ELBOW|His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I spy comfort, I cry bail. Here's a gentleman and a
Measure for measure|POMPEY|friend of mine.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Enter LUCIO
Measure for measure|LUCIO|How now, noble Pompey! What, at the wheels of
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Caesar? art thou led in triumph? What, is there
Measure for measure|LUCIO|none of Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be
Measure for measure|LUCIO|had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and
Measure for measure|LUCIO|extracting it clutch'd? What reply, ha? What
Measure for measure|LUCIO|sayest thou to this tune, matter and method? Is't
Measure for measure|LUCIO|not drowned i' the last rain, ha? What sayest
Measure for measure|LUCIO|thou, Trot? Is the world as it was, man? Which is
Measure for measure|LUCIO|the way? Is it sad, and few words? or how? The
Measure for measure|LUCIO|trick of it?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Still thus, and thus, still worse!
Measure for measure|LUCIO|How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress? Procures she
Measure for measure|LUCIO|still, ha?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she
Measure for measure|POMPEY|is herself in the tub.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Why, 'tis good, it is the right of it, it must be
Measure for measure|LUCIO|so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|an unshunned consequence, it must be so. Art going
Measure for measure|LUCIO|to prison, Pompey?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Yes, faith, sir.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell: go, say I
Measure for measure|LUCIO|sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or how?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|For being a bawd, for being a bawd.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he
Measure for measure|LUCIO|doubtless, and of antiquity too, bawd-born.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey, you
Measure for measure|LUCIO|will keep the house.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|No, indeed, will I not, Pompey, it is not the wear.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage: If
Measure for measure|LUCIO|you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|more. Adieu, trusty Pompey. 'Bless you, friar.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And you.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Come your ways, sir, come.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|You will not bail me, then, sir?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|what news?
Measure for measure|ELBOW|Come your ways, sir, come.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Go to kennel, Pompey, go.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Exeunt ELBOW, POMPEY and Officers
Measure for measure|LUCIO|What news, friar, of the duke?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I know none. Can you tell me of any?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia, other
Measure for measure|LUCIO|some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I know not where, but wheresoever, I wish him well.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from
Measure for measure|LUCIO|the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born
Measure for measure|LUCIO|to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence, he
Measure for measure|LUCIO|puts transgression to 't.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He does well in 't.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
Measure for measure|LUCIO|him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp
Measure for measure|LUCIO|it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put
Measure for measure|LUCIO|down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and
Measure for measure|LUCIO|woman after this downright way of creation: is it
Measure for measure|LUCIO|true, think you?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|How should he be made, then?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Some report a sea-maid spawned him, some, that he
Measure for measure|LUCIO|was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is
Measure for measure|LUCIO|certain that when he makes water his urine is
Measure for measure|LUCIO|congealed ice, that I know to be true: and he is a
Measure for measure|LUCIO|motion generative, that's infallible.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a
Measure for measure|LUCIO|man! Would the duke that is absent have done this?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a
Measure for measure|LUCIO|hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing
Measure for measure|LUCIO|a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he
Measure for measure|LUCIO|knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I never heard the absent duke much detected for
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|women, he was not inclined that way.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|O, sir, you are deceived.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'Tis not possible.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty, and
Measure for measure|LUCIO|his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|that let me inform you.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You do him wrong, surely.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|duke: and I believe I know the cause of his
Measure for measure|LUCIO|withdrawing.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What, I prithee, might be the cause?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|No, pardon, 'tis a secret must be locked within the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|teeth and the lips: but this I can let you
Measure for measure|LUCIO|understand, the greater file of the subject held the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|duke to be wise.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Wise! why, no question but he was.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|the very stream of his life and the business he hath
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Therefore you speak unskilfully: or if your
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Sir, I know him, and I love him.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|dearer love.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Come, sir, I know what I know.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I can hardly believe that, since you know not what
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|you speak. But, if ever the duke return, as our
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|prayers are he may, let me desire you to make your
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|upon you, and, I pray you, your name?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Sir, my name is Lucio, well known to the duke.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|report you.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I fear you not.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O, you hope the duke will return no more, or you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|can do you little harm, you'll forswear this again.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived in me,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Claudio die to-morrow or no?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Why should he die, sir?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish. I would
Measure for measure|LUCIO|the duke we talk of were returned again: the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with
Measure for measure|LUCIO|continency, sparrows must not build in his
Measure for measure|LUCIO|house-eaves, because they are lecherous. The duke
Measure for measure|LUCIO|yet would have dark deeds darkly answered, he would
Measure for measure|LUCIO|never bring them to light: would he were returned!
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Marry, this Claudio is condemned for untrussing.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Farewell, good friar: I prithee, pray for me. The
Measure for measure|LUCIO|duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Fridays. He's not past it yet, and I say to thee,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown
Measure for measure|LUCIO|bread and garlic: say that I said so. Farewell.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Exit
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|No might nor greatness in mortality
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Can censure 'scape, back-wounding calumny
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But who comes here?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter ESCALUS, Provost, and Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Go, away with her to prison!
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Good my lord, be good to me, your honour is accounted
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|a merciful man, good my lord.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|the same kind! This would make mercy swear and play
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|the tyrant.
Measure for measure|Provost|A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it please
Measure for measure|Provost|your honour.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|My lord, this is one Lucio's information against me.
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|Mistress Kate Keepdown was with child by him in the
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|duke's time, he promised her marriage: his child
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|is a year and a quarter old, come Philip and Jacob:
Measure for measure|MISTRESS OVERDONE|I have kept it myself, and see how he goes about to abuse me!
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|no more words.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exeunt Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|with divines, and have all charitable preparation.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|so with him.
Measure for measure|Provost|So please you, this friar hath been with him, and
Measure for measure|Provost|advised him for the entertainment of death.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Good even, good father.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Bliss and goodness on you!
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Of whence are you?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Not of this country, though my chance is now
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To use it for my time: I am a brother
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of gracious order, late come from the See
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In special business from his holiness.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|What news abroad i' the world?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|None, but that there is so great a fever on
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|novelty is only in request, and it is as dangerous
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|truth enough alive to make societies secure, but
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|security enough to make fellowships accurst: much
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|news is old enough, yet it is every day's news. I
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|pray you, sir, of what disposition was the duke?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|One that, above all other strifes, contended
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|especially to know himself.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What pleasure was he given to?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|any thing which professed to make him rejoice: a
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|and let me desire to know how you find Claudio
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|prepared. I am made to understand that you have
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|lent him visitation.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He professes to have received no sinister measure
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|to the determination of justice: yet had he framed
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|deceiving promises of life, which I by my good
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|leisure have discredited to him, and now is he
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|resolved to die.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|You have paid the heavens your function, and the
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|shore of my modesty: but my brother justice have I
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|he is indeed Justice.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|If his own life answer the straitness of his
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|proceeding, it shall become him well, wherein if he
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Peace be with you!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt ESCALUS and Provost
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He who the sword of heaven will bear
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Should be as holy as severe,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Pattern in himself to know,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Grace to stand, and virtue go,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|More nor less to others paying
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Than by self-offences weighing.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Shame to him whose cruel striking
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Kills for faults of his own liking!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Twice treble shame on Angelo,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To weed my vice and let his grow!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O, what may man within him hide,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Though angel on the outward side!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|How may likeness made in crimes,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Making practise on the times,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To draw with idle spiders' strings
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Most ponderous and substantial things!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Craft against vice I must apply:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|With Angelo to-night shall lie
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|His old betrothed but despised,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|So disguise shall, by the disguised,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Pay with falsehood false exacting,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And perform an old contracting.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|ACT IV
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|SCENE I. The moated grange at ST. LUKE's.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter MARIANA and a Boy
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Boy sings
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Take, O, take those lips away,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That so sweetly were forsworn,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And those eyes, the break of day,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Lights that do mislead the morn:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But my kisses bring again, bring again,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Exit Boy
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I cry you mercy, sir, and well could wish
Measure for measure|MARIANA|You had not found me here so musical:
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'Tis good, though music oft hath such a charm
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|for me here to-day? much upon this time have
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I promised here to meet.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|You have not been inquired after:
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I have sat here all day.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Enter ISABELLA
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I do constantly believe you. The time is come even
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I am always bound to you.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Exit
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Very well met, and well come.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What is the news from this good deputy?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|He hath a garden circummured with brick,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That makes his opening with this bigger key:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|This other doth command a little door
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Which from the vineyard to the garden leads,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|There have I made my promise
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Upon the heavy middle of the night
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To call upon him.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|With whispering and most guilty diligence,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In action all of precept, he did show me
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The way twice o'er.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Are there no other tokens
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Between you 'greed concerning her observance?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|No, none, but only a repair i' the dark,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And that I have possess'd him my most stay
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Can be but brief, for I have made him know
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I have a servant comes with me along,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I come about my brother.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'Tis well borne up.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I have not yet made known to Mariana
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Re-enter MARIANA
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I pray you, be acquainted with this maid,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|She comes to do you good.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I do desire the like.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Who hath a story ready for your ear.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I shall attend your leisure: but make haste,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The vaporous night approaches.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Will't please you walk aside?
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Run with these false and most contrarious quests
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Make thee the father of their idle dreams
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And rack thee in their fancies.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Welcome, how agreed?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If you advise it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It is not my consent,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But my entreaty too.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Little have you to say
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|'Remember now my brother.'
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Fear me not.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He is your husband on a pre-contract:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sith that the justice of your title to him
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|SCENE II. A room in the prison.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter Provost and POMPEY
Measure for measure|Provost|Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's head?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can, but if he be a
Measure for measure|POMPEY|married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never
Measure for measure|POMPEY|cut off a woman's head.
Measure for measure|Provost|Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a
Measure for measure|Provost|direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio
Measure for measure|Provost|and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common
Measure for measure|Provost|executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
Measure for measure|Provost|you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
Measure for measure|Provost|redeem you from your gyves, if not, you shall have
Measure for measure|Provost|your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance
Measure for measure|Provost|with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a
Measure for measure|Provost|notorious bawd.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I
Measure for measure|POMPEY|would be glad to receive some instruction from my
Measure for measure|POMPEY|fellow partner.
Measure for measure|Provost|What, ho! Abhorson! Where's Abhorson, there?
Measure for measure|Provost|Enter ABHORSON
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Do you call, sir?
Measure for measure|Provost|Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you to-morrow in
Measure for measure|Provost|your execution. If you think it meet, compound with
Measure for measure|Provost|him by the year, and let him abide here with you, if
Measure for measure|Provost|not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He
Measure for measure|Provost|cannot plead his estimation with you, he hath been a bawd.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery.
Measure for measure|Provost|Go to, sir, you weigh equally, a feather will turn
Measure for measure|Provost|the scale.
Measure for measure|Provost|Exit
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for surely, sir, a
Measure for measure|POMPEY|good favour you have, but that you have a hanging
Measure for measure|POMPEY|look,--do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Ay, sir, a mystery
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery, and
Measure for measure|POMPEY|your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:
Measure for measure|POMPEY|but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I
Measure for measure|POMPEY|should be hanged, I cannot imagine.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Sir, it is a mystery.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Proof?
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Every true man's apparel fits your thief: if it be
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|too little for your thief, your true man thinks it
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|big enough, if it be too big for your thief, your
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|thief thinks it little enough: so every true man's
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|apparel fits your thief.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Re-enter Provost
Measure for measure|Provost|Are you agreed?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Sir, I will serve him, for I do find your hangman is
Measure for measure|POMPEY|a more penitent trade than your bawd, he doth
Measure for measure|POMPEY|oftener ask forgiveness.
Measure for measure|Provost|You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe
Measure for measure|Provost|to-morrow four o'clock.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Come on, bawd, I will instruct thee in my trade, follow.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have
Measure for measure|POMPEY|occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find
Measure for measure|POMPEY|me yare, for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you
Measure for measure|POMPEY|a good turn.
Measure for measure|Provost|Call hither Barnardine and Claudio:
Measure for measure|Provost|Exeunt POMPEY and ABHORSON
Measure for measure|Provost|The one has my pity, not a jot the other,
Measure for measure|Provost|Being a murderer, though he were my brother.
Measure for measure|Provost|Enter CLAUDIO
Measure for measure|Provost|Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death:
Measure for measure|Provost|'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow
Measure for measure|Provost|Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones:
Measure for measure|CLAUDIO|He will not wake.
Measure for measure|Provost|Who can do good on him?
Measure for measure|Provost|Well, go, prepare yourself.
Measure for measure|Provost|Knocking within
Measure for measure|Provost|But, hark, what noise?
Measure for measure|Provost|Heaven give your spirits comfort!
Measure for measure|Provost|Exit CLAUDIO
Measure for measure|Provost|By and by.
Measure for measure|Provost|I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
Measure for measure|Provost|For the most gentle Claudio.
Measure for measure|Provost|Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
Measure for measure|Provost|Welcome father.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The best and wholesomest spirts of the night
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Envelope you, good Provost! Who call'd here of late?
Measure for measure|Provost|None, since the curfew rung.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Not Isabel?
Measure for measure|Provost|No.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|They will, then, ere't be long.
Measure for measure|Provost|What comfort is for Claudio?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|There's some in hope.
Measure for measure|Provost|It is a bitter deputy.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Not so, not so, his life is parallel'd
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Even with the stroke and line of his great justice:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He doth with holy abstinence subdue
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That in himself which he spurs on his power
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To qualify in others: were he meal'd with that
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But this being so, he's just.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Knocking within
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Now are they come.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit Provost
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This is a gentle provost: seldom when
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The steeled gaoler is the friend of men.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Knocking within
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|How now! what noise? That spirit's possessed with haste
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Re-enter Provost
Measure for measure|Provost|There he must stay until the officer
Measure for measure|Provost|Arise to let him in: he is call'd up.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But he must die to-morrow?
Measure for measure|Provost|None, sir, none.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As near the dawning, provost, as it is,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You shall hear more ere morning.
Measure for measure|Provost|Happily
Measure for measure|Provost|You something know, yet I believe there comes
Measure for measure|Provost|No countermand, no such example have we:
Measure for measure|Provost|Besides, upon the very siege of justice
Measure for measure|Provost|Lord Angelo hath to the public ear
Measure for measure|Provost|Profess'd the contrary.
Measure for measure|Provost|Enter a Messenger
Measure for measure|Provost|This is his lordship's man.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And here comes Claudio's pardon.
Measure for measure|Messenger|[Giving a paper]
Measure for measure|Messenger|My lord hath sent you this note, and by me this
Measure for measure|Messenger|further charge, that you swerve not from the
Measure for measure|Messenger|smallest article of it, neither in time, matter, or
Measure for measure|Messenger|other circumstance. Good morrow, for, as I take it,
Measure for measure|Messenger|it is almost day.
Measure for measure|Provost|I shall obey him.
Measure for measure|Provost|Exit Messenger
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|[Aside]  This is his pardon, purchased by such sin
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For which the pardoner himself is in.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Hence hath offence his quick celerity,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|When it is born in high authority:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That for the fault's love is the offender friended.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Now, sir, what news?
Measure for measure|Provost|I told you. Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss
Measure for measure|Provost|in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted
Measure for measure|Provost|putting-on, methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Pray you, let's hear.
Measure for measure|Provost|[Reads]
Measure for measure|Provost|'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let
Measure for measure|Provost|Claudio be executed by four of the clock, and in the
Measure for measure|Provost|afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction,
Measure for measure|Provost|let me have Claudio's head sent me by five. Let
Measure for measure|Provost|this be duly performed, with a thought that more
Measure for measure|Provost|depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail
Measure for measure|Provost|not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.'
Measure for measure|Provost|What say you to this, sir?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|afternoon?
Measure for measure|Provost|A Bohemian born, but here nursed un and bred, one
Measure for measure|Provost|that is a prisoner nine years old.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|How came it that the absent duke had not either
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|delivered him to his liberty or executed him? I
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|have heard it was ever his manner to do so.
Measure for measure|Provost|His friends still wrought reprieves for him: and,
Measure for measure|Provost|indeed, his fact, till now in the government of Lord
Measure for measure|Provost|Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It is now apparent?
Measure for measure|Provost|Most manifest, and not denied by himself.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|seems he to be touched?
Measure for measure|Provost|A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but
Measure for measure|Provost|as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and fearless
Measure for measure|Provost|of what's past, present, or to come, insensible of
Measure for measure|Provost|mortality, and desperately mortal.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He wants advice.
Measure for measure|Provost|He will hear none: he hath evermore had the liberty
Measure for measure|Provost|of the prison, give him leave to escape hence, he
Measure for measure|Provost|would not: drunk many times a day, if not many days
Measure for measure|Provost|entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if
Measure for measure|Provost|to carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming
Measure for measure|Provost|warrant for it: it hath not moved him at all.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|More of him anon. There is written in your brow,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|truly, my ancient skill beguiles me, but, in the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|boldness of my cunning, I will lay myself in hazard.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|sentenced him. To make you understand this in a
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|manifested effect, I crave but four days' respite,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|for the which you are to do me both a present and a
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|dangerous courtesy.
Measure for measure|Provost|Pray, sir, in what?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In the delaying death.
Measure for measure|Provost|A lack, how may I do it, having the hour limited,
Measure for measure|Provost|and an express command, under penalty, to deliver
Measure for measure|Provost|his head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case
Measure for measure|Provost|as Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|instructions may be your guide. Let this Barnardine
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|be this morning executed, and his head born to Angelo.
Measure for measure|Provost|Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O, death's a great disguiser, and you may add to it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Shave the head, and tie the beard, and say it was
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|death: you know the course is common. If any thing
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|against it with my life.
Measure for measure|Provost|Pardon me, good father, it is against my oath.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Were you sworn to the duke, or to the deputy?
Measure for measure|Provost|To him, and to his substitutes.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You will think you have made no offence, if the duke
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|avouch the justice of your dealing?
Measure for measure|Provost|But what likelihood is in that?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|duke: you know the character, I doubt not, and the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|signet is not strange to you.
Measure for measure|Provost|I know them both.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The contents of this is the return of the duke: you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|shall anon over-read it at your pleasure, where you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|shall find, within these two days he will be here.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This is a thing that Angelo knows not, for he this
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|very day receives letters of strange tenor,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|perchance of the duke's death, perchance entering
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|into some monastery, but, by chance, nothing of what
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|is writ. Look, the unfolding star calls up the
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement how these
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|things should be: all difficulties are but easy
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|when they are known. Call your executioner, and off
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|with Barnardine's head: I will give him a present
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|are amazed, but this shall absolutely resolve you.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Come away, it is almost clear dawn.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|SCENE III. Another room in the same.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter POMPEY
Measure for measure|POMPEY|I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house
Measure for measure|POMPEY|of profession: one would think it were Mistress
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old
Measure for measure|POMPEY|customers. First, here's young Master Rash, he's in
Measure for measure|POMPEY|for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|ninescore and seventeen pounds, of which he made
Measure for measure|POMPEY|five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not
Measure for measure|POMPEY|much in request, for the old women were all dead.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of
Measure for measure|POMPEY|peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a
Measure for measure|POMPEY|beggar. Then have we here young Dizy, and young
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Master Deep-vow, and Master Copperspur, and Master
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Starve-lackey the rapier and dagger man, and young
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Drop-heir that killed lusty Pudding, and Master
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the
Measure for measure|POMPEY|great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Pots, and, I think, forty more, all great doers in
Measure for measure|POMPEY|our trade, and are now 'for the Lord's sake.'
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Enter ABHORSON
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Master Barnardine!
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|What, ho, Barnardine!
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|[Within]  A pox o' your throats! Who makes that
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|noise there? What are you?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Your friends, sir, the hangman. You must be so
Measure for measure|POMPEY|good, sir, to rise and be put to death.
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|[Within]  Away, you rogue, away! I am sleepy.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
Measure for measure|POMPEY|executed, and sleep afterwards.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Go in to him, and fetch him out.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|He is coming, sir, he is coming, I hear his straw rustle.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Very ready, sir.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|Enter BARNARDINE
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|How now, Abhorson? what's the news with you?
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|prayers, for, look you, the warrant's come.
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|You rogue, I have been drinking all night, I am not
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|fitted for 't.
Measure for measure|POMPEY|O, the better, sir, for he that drinks all night,
Measure for measure|POMPEY|and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the
Measure for measure|POMPEY|sounder all the next day.
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Look you, sir, here comes your ghostly father: do
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|we jest now, think you?
Measure for measure|ABHORSON|Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|you are to depart, I am come to advise you, comfort
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|you and pray with you.
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|Friar, not I	I have been drinking hard all night,
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|and I will have more time to prepare me, or they
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|shall beat out my brains with billets: I will not
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|consent to die this day, that's certain.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Look forward on the journey you shall go.
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|I swear I will not die to-day for any man's
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|persuasion.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But hear you.
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|Not a word: if you have any thing to say to me,
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|come to my ward, for thence will not I to-day.
Measure for measure|BARNARDINE|Exit
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|After him, fellows, bring him to the block.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt ABHORSON and POMPEY
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Re-enter Provost
Measure for measure|Provost|Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A creature unprepared, unmeet for death,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And to transport him in the mind he is
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Were damnable.
Measure for measure|Provost|Here in the prison, father,
Measure for measure|Provost|There died this morning of a cruel fever
Measure for measure|Provost|One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,
Measure for measure|Provost|A man of Claudio's years, his beard and head
Measure for measure|Provost|Just of his colour. What if we do omit
Measure for measure|Provost|This reprobate till he were well inclined,
Measure for measure|Provost|And satisfy the deputy with the visage
Measure for measure|Provost|Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Dispatch it presently, the hour draws on
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And sent according to command, whiles I
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die.
Measure for measure|Provost|This shall be done, good father, presently.
Measure for measure|Provost|But Barnardine must die this afternoon:
Measure for measure|Provost|And how shall we continue Claudio,
Measure for measure|Provost|To save me from the danger that might come
Measure for measure|Provost|If he were known alive?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Let this be done.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To the under generation, you shall find
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Your safety manifested.
Measure for measure|Provost|I am your free dependant.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit Provost
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Now will I write letters to Angelo,--
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The provost, he shall bear them, whose contents
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Shall witness to him I am near at home,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And that, by great injunctions, I am bound
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To enter publicly: him I'll desire
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To meet me at the consecrated fount
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A league below the city, and from thence,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|By cold gradation and well-balanced form,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We shall proceed with Angelo.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Re-enter Provost
Measure for measure|Provost|Here is the head, I'll carry it myself.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Convenient is it. Make a swift return,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For I would commune with you of such things
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That want no ear but yours.
Measure for measure|Provost|I'll make all speed.
Measure for measure|Provost|Exit
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|[Within]  Peace, ho, be here!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|If yet her brother's pardon be come hither:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But I will keep her ignorant of her good,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To make her heavenly comforts of despair,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|When it is least expected.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter ISABELLA
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Ho, by your leave!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The better, given me by so holy a man.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He hath released him, Isabel, from the world:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|His head is off and sent to Angelo.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Nay, but it is not so.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In your close patience.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You shall not be admitted to his sight.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Unhappy Claudio! wretched Isabel!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Injurious world! most damned Angelo!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Forbear it therefore, give your cause to heaven.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Mark what I say, which you shall find
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|By every syllable a faithful verity:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The duke comes home to-morrow, nay, dry your eyes,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|One of our convent, and his confessor,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Gives me this instance: already he hath carried
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Notice to Escalus and Angelo,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In that good path that I would wish it go,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And general honour.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I am directed by you.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This letter, then, to Friar Peter give,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Say, by this token, I desire his company
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|At Mariana's house to-night. Her cause and yours
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Before the duke, and to the head of Angelo
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I am combined by a sacred vow
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Command these fretting waters from your eyes
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|With a light heart, trust not my holy order,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|If I pervert your course. Who's here?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter LUCIO
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Good even. Friar, where's the provost?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Not within, sir.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see
Measure for measure|LUCIO|thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain
Measure for measure|LUCIO|to dine and sup with water and bran, I dare not for
Measure for measure|LUCIO|my head fill my belly, one fruitful meal would set
Measure for measure|LUCIO|me to 't. But they say the duke will be here
Measure for measure|LUCIO|to-morrow. By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been
Measure for measure|LUCIO|at home, he had lived.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Exit ISABELLA
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sir, the duke is marvellous little beholding to your
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|reports, but the best is, he lives not in them.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Friar, thou knowest not the duke so well as I do:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|he's a better woodman than thou takest him for.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Nay, tarry, I'll go along with thee
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You have told me too many of him already, sir, if
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|they be true, if not true, none were enough.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I was once before him for getting a wench with child.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Did you such a thing?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Yes, marry, did I	but I was fain to forswear it,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you well.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of
Measure for measure|LUCIO|it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr, I shall stick.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Exeunt
Measure for measure|LUCIO|SCENE IV. A room in ANGELO's house.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions
Measure for measure|ANGELO|show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be
Measure for measure|ANGELO|not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and
Measure for measure|ANGELO|redeliver our authorities there
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I guess not.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his
Measure for measure|ANGELO|entering, that if any crave redress of injustice,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|they should exhibit their petitions in the street?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|complaints, and to deliver us from devices
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|against us.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes
Measure for measure|ANGELO|i' the morn, I'll call you at your house: give
Measure for measure|ANGELO|notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet
Measure for measure|ANGELO|him.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I shall, sir. Fare you well.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Good night.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Exit ESCALUS
Measure for measure|ANGELO|This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And by an eminent body that enforced
Measure for measure|ANGELO|The law against it! But that her tender shame
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|For my authority bears of a credent bulk,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That no particular scandal once can touch
Measure for measure|ANGELO|But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|By so receiving a dishonour'd life
Measure for measure|ANGELO|With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|A lack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Exit
Measure for measure|ANGELO|SCENE V. Fields without the town.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Enter DUKE VINCENTIO in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|These letters at fit time deliver me
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Giving letters
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The provost knows our purpose and our plot.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And hold you ever to our special drift,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Though sometimes you do blench from this to that,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And tell him where I stay: give the like notice
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But send me Flavius first.
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|It shall be speeded well.
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Exit
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Enter VARRIUS
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I thank thee, Varrius, thou hast made good haste:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|SCENE VI. Street near the city gate.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To speak so indirectly I am loath:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I would say the truth, but to accuse him so,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That is your part: yet I am advised to do it,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|He says, to veil full purpose.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Be ruled by him.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|He speak against me on the adverse side,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I should not think it strange, for 'tis a physic
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That's bitter to sweet end.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I would Friar Peter--
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, peace! the friar is come.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Enter FRIAR PETER
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|The generous and gravest citizens
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Have hent the gates, and very near upon
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away!
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Exeunt
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|ACT V
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|SCENE I. The city gate.
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their  stand. Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, VARRIUS, Lords,  ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, Provost, Officers, and Citizens, at several doors
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|My very worthy cousin, fairly met!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Happy return be to your royal grace!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Many and hearty thankings to you both.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We have made inquiry of you, and we hear
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Such goodness of your justice, that our soul
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Forerunning more requital.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|You make my bonds still greater.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O, your desert speaks loud, and I should wrong it,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|When it deserves, with characters of brass,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And let the subject see, to make them know
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That outward courtesies would fain proclaim
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You must walk by us on our other hand,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And good supporters are you.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|FRIAR PETER and ISABELLA come forward
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Justice, O royal duke! Vail your regard
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said, a maid!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|By throwing it on any other object
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Till you have heard me in my true complaint
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Relate your wrongs, in what? by whom? be brief.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Reveal yourself to him.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O worthy duke,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|You bid me seek redemption of the devil:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Hear me yourself, for that which I must speak
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Must either punish me, not being believed,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|She hath been a suitor to me for her brother
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Cut off by course of justice,--
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|By course of justice!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And she will speak most bitterly and strange.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That Angelo's forsworn, is it not strange?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That Angelo's a murderer, is 't not strange?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|An hypocrite, a virgin-violator,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Is it not strange and strange?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Nay, it is ten times strange.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|It is not truer he is Angelo
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Than this is all as true as it is strange:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To the end of reckoning.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Away with her! Poor soul,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|She speaks this in the infirmity of sense.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believest
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|There is another comfort than this world,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That thou neglect me not, with that opinion
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That I am touch'd with madness! Make not impossible
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That which but seems unlike: 'tis not impossible
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As Angelo, even so may Angelo,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Be an arch-villain, believe it, royal prince:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|If he be less, he's nothing, but he's more,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Had I more name for badness.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|By mine honesty,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|If she be mad,--as I believe no other,--
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Such a dependency of thing on thing,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As e'er I heard in madness.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O gracious duke,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For inequality, but let your reason serve
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To make the truth appear where it seems hid,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And hide the false seems true.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Many that are not mad
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Have, sure, more lack of reason. What would you say?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I am the sister of one Claudio,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Condemn'd upon the act of fornication
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To lose his head, condemn'd by Angelo:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I, in probation of a sisterhood,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Was sent to by my brother, one Lucio
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As then the messenger,--
Measure for measure|LUCIO|That's I, an't like your grace:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I came to her from Claudio, and desired her
Measure for measure|LUCIO|To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo
Measure for measure|LUCIO|For her poor brother's pardon.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That's he indeed.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You were not bid to speak.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|No, my good lord,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Nor wish'd to hold my peace.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I wish you now, then,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Pray you, take note of it: and when you have
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A business for yourself, pray heaven you then
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Be perfect.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I warrant your honour.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The warrants for yourself, take heed to't.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|This gentleman told somewhat of my tale,--
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Right.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It may be right, but you are i' the wrong
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To speak before your time. Proceed.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I went
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To this pernicious caitiff deputy,--
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That's somewhat madly spoken.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Pardon it,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|The phrase is to the matter.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Mended again. The matter, proceed.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In brief, to set the needless process by,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|How he refell'd me, and how I replied,--
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For this was of much length,--the vile conclusion
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I now begin with grief and shame to utter:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|He would not, but by gift of my chaste body
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|To his concupiscible intemperate lust,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Release my brother, and, after much debatement,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And I did yield to him: but the next morn betimes,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For my poor brother's head.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This is most likely!
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, that it were as like as it is true!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|By heaven, fond wretch, thou knowist not what thou speak'st,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In hateful practise. First, his integrity
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That with such vehemency he should pursue
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Faults proper to himself: if he had so offended,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And not have cut him off. Some one hath set you on:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Confess the truth, and say by whose advice
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thou camest here to complain.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And is this all?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Then, O you blessed ministers above,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Keep me in patience, and with ripen'd time
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As I, thus wrong'd, hence unbelieved go!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I know you'ld fain be gone. An officer!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To prison with her! Shall we thus permit
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|On him so near us? This needs must be a practise.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Who knew of Your intent and coming hither?
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|My lord, I know him, 'tis a meddling friar,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord
Measure for measure|LUCIO|For certain words he spake against your grace
Measure for measure|LUCIO|In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Words against me? this is a good friar, belike!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And to set on this wretched woman here
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Against our substitute! Let this friar be found.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|A very scurvy fellow.
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Blessed be your royal grace!
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Most wrongfully accused your substitute,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Who is as free from touch or soil with her
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|As she from one ungot.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We did believe no less.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|I know him for a man divine and holy,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|As he's reported by this gentleman,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|And, on my trust, a man that never yet
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|My lord, most villanously, believe it.
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Well, he in time may come to clear himself,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|But at this instant he is sick my lord,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Being come to knowledge that there was complaint
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Is true and false, and what he with his oath
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|And all probation will make up full clear,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Whensoever he's convented. First, for this woman.
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|To justify this worthy nobleman,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|So vulgarly and personally accused,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Till she herself confess it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Good friar, let's hear it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|ISABELLA is carried off guarded, and MARIANA comes forward
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In this I'll be impartial, be you judge
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|First, let her show her face, and after speak.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Pardon, my lord, I will not show my face
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Until my husband bid me.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What, are you married?
Measure for measure|MARIANA|No, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Are you a maid?
Measure for measure|MARIANA|No, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|A widow, then?
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Neither, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|My lord, she may be a punk, for many of them are
Measure for measure|LUCIO|neither maid, widow, nor wife.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To prattle for himself.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Well, my lord.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|My lord, I do confess I ne'er was married,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|And I confess besides I am no maid:
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I have known my husband, yet my husband
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Knows not that ever he knew me.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|He was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too!
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Well, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|This is no witness for Lord Angelo.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Now I come to't my lord
Measure for measure|MARIANA|She that accuses him of fornication,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|And charges him my lord, with such a time
Measure for measure|MARIANA|When I'll depose I had him in mine arms
Measure for measure|MARIANA|With all the effect of love.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Charges she more than me?
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Not that I know.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|No? you say your husband.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|My husband bids me, now I will unmask.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Unveiling
Measure for measure|MARIANA|This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Was fast belock'd in thine, this is the body
Measure for measure|MARIANA|That took away the match from Isabel,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|And did supply thee at thy garden-house
Measure for measure|MARIANA|In her imagined person.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Know you this woman?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Carnally, she says.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sirrah, no more!
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Enough, my lord.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|My lord, I must confess I know this woman:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And five years since there was some speech of marriage
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Betwixt myself and her, which was broke off,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Partly for that her promised proportions
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Came short of composition, but in chief
Measure for measure|ANGELO|For that her reputation was disvalued
Measure for measure|ANGELO|In levity: since which time of five years
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Upon my faith and honour.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Noble prince,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I am affianced this man's wife as strongly
Measure for measure|MARIANA|As words could make up vows: and, my good lord,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house
Measure for measure|MARIANA|He knew me as a wife. As this is true,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Let me in safety raise me from my knees
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Or else for ever be confixed here,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|A marble monument!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I did but smile till now:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice
Measure for measure|ANGELO|My patience here is touch'd. I do perceive
Measure for measure|ANGELO|These poor informal women are no more
Measure for measure|ANGELO|But instruments of some more mightier member
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That sets them on: let me have way, my lord,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To find this practise out.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Ay, with my heart
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And punish them to your height of pleasure.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Though they would swear down each particular saint,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Were testimonies against his worth and credit
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That's seal'd in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sit with my cousin, lend him your kind pains
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|There is another friar that set them on,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Let him be sent for.
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Would he were here, my lord! for he indeed
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Hath set the women on to this complaint:
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|Your provost knows the place where he abides
Measure for measure|FRIAR PETER|And he may fetch him.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Go do it instantly.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit Provost
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Do with your injuries as seems you best,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|In any chastisement: I for a while will leave you,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But stir not you till you have well determined
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Upon these slanderers.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|My lord, we'll do it throughly.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exit DUKE
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|'Cucullus non facit monachum:' honest in nothing
Measure for measure|LUCIO|but in his clothes, and one that hath spoke most
Measure for measure|LUCIO|villanous speeches of the duke.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|notable fellow.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|As any in Vienna, on my word.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Call that same Isabel here once again, I would speak with her.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Exit an Attendant
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question, you
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|shall see how I'll handle her.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Not better than he, by her own report.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Say you?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|she'll be ashamed.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I will go darkly to work with her.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|That's the way, for women are light at midnight.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Re-enter Officers with ISABELLA, and Provost with the DUKE VINCENTIO in his friar's habit
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Come on, mistress: here's a gentlewoman denies all
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|that you have said.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of, here with
Measure for measure|LUCIO|the provost.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|In very good time: speak not you to him till we
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|call upon you.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Mum.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'Tis false.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|How! know you where you are?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Respect to your great place! and let the devil
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|The duke's in us, and we will hear you speak:
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Look you speak justly.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Good night to your redress! Is the duke gone?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Then is your cause gone too. The duke's unjust,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And put your trial in the villain's mouth
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Which here you come to accuse.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|This is the rascal, this is he I spoke of.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Why, thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|And in the witness of his proper ear,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|To call him villain? and then to glance from him
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|To the duke himself, to tax him with injustice?
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Take him hence, to the rack with him! We'll touse you
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|What 'unjust'!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Be not so hot, the duke
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Dare rack his own: his subject am I not,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Nor here provincial. My business in this state
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Made me a looker on here in Vienna,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Till it o'er-run the stew, laws for all faults,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As much in mock as mark.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Slander to the state! Away with him to prison!
Measure for measure|ANGELO|What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Is this the man that you did tell us of?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|'Tis he, my lord. Come hither, goodman baldpate:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|do you know me?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|O, did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Most notedly, sir.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Do you so, sir? And was the duke a fleshmonger, a
Measure for measure|LUCIO|fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of him, and
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|much more, much worse.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|nose for thy speeches?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I protest I love the duke as I love myself.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Hark, how the villain would close now, after his
Measure for measure|ANGELO|treasonable abuses!
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away with
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|him to prison! Where is the provost? Away with him
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|to prison! lay bolts enough upon him: let him
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|speak no more. Away with those giglots too, and
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|with the other confederate companion!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|[To Provost]  Stay, sir, stay awhile.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Come, sir, come, sir, come, sir, foh, sir! Why, you
Measure for measure|LUCIO|bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must
Measure for measure|LUCIO|you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you!
Measure for measure|LUCIO|show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Will't not off?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Pulls off the friar's hood, and discovers DUKE VINCENTIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|First, provost, let me bail these gentle three.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To LUCIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sneak not away, sir, for the friar and you
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Must have a word anon. Lay hold on him.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|This may prove worse than hanging.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|[To ESCALUS]  What you have spoke I pardon: sit you down:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We'll borrow place of him.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To ANGELO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sir, by your leave.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That yet can do thee office? If thou hast,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Rely upon it till my tale be heard,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And hold no longer out.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|O my dread lord,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I should be guiltier than my guiltiness,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|To think I can be undiscernible,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|When I perceive your grace, like power divine,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|No longer session hold upon my shame,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|But let my trial be mine own confession:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Immediate sentence then and sequent death
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Is all the grace I beg.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Come hither, Mariana.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Say, wast thou e'er contracted to this woman?
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I was, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Go take her hence, and marry her instantly.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Do you the office, friar, which consummate,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Return him here again. Go with him, provost.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER and Provost
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Than at the strangeness of it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Come hither, Isabel.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Your friar is now your prince: as I was then
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Advertising and holy to your business,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Not changing heart with habit, I am still
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Attorney'd at your service.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|O, give me pardon,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Your unknown sovereignty!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You are pardon'd, Isabel:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And now, dear maid, be you as free to us.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And you may marvel why I obscured myself,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Labouring to save his life, and would not rather
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It was the swift celerity of his death,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Which I did think with slower foot came on,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That brain'd my purpose. But, peace be with him!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That life is better life, past fearing death,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|So happy is your brother.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|I do, my lord.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Re-enter ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER, and Provost
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For this new-married man approaching here,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Your well defended honour, you must pardon
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Being criminal, in double violation
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,--
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The very mercy of the law cries out
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Most audible, even from his proper tongue,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We do condemn thee to the very block
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with like haste.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Away with him!
Measure for measure|MARIANA|O my most gracious lord,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I hope you will not mock me with a husband.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|It is your husband mock'd you with a husband.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I thought your marriage fit, else imputation,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For that he knew you, might reproach your life
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And choke your good to come, for his possessions,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Although by confiscation they are ours,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We do instate and widow you withal,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To buy you a better husband.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|O my dear lord,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I crave no other, nor no better man.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Never crave him, we are definitive.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Gentle my liege,--
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Kneeling
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You do but lose your labour.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Away with him to death!
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To LUCIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Now, sir, to you.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Lend me your knees, and all my life to come
Measure for measure|MARIANA|I'll lend you all my life to do you service.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Against all sense you do importune her:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And take her hence in horror.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Isabel,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Hold up your hands, say nothing, I'll speak all.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
Measure for measure|MARIANA|And, for the most, become much more the better
Measure for measure|MARIANA|For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He dies for Claudio's death.
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Most bounteous sir,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Kneeling
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Look, if it please you, on this man condemn'd,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|As if my brother lived: I partly think
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|A due sincerity govern'd his deeds,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Till he did look on me: since it is so,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Let him not die. My brother had but justice,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|In that he did the thing for which he died:
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|For Angelo,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|His act did not o'ertake his bad intent,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|And must be buried but as an intent
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects,
Measure for measure|ISABELLA|Intents but merely thoughts.
Measure for measure|MARIANA|Merely, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Your suit's unprofitable, stand up, I say.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I have bethought me of another fault.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|At an unusual hour?
Measure for measure|Provost|It was commanded so.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Had you a special warrant for the deed?
Measure for measure|Provost|No, my good lord, it was by private message.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For which I do discharge you of your office:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Give up your keys.
Measure for measure|Provost|Pardon me, noble lord:
Measure for measure|Provost|I thought it was a fault, but knew it not,
Measure for measure|Provost|Yet did repent me, after more advice,
Measure for measure|Provost|For testimony whereof, one in the prison,
Measure for measure|Provost|That should by private order else have died,
Measure for measure|Provost|I have reserved alive.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What's he?
Measure for measure|Provost|His name is Barnardine.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I would thou hadst done so by Claudio.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Go fetch him hither, let me look upon him.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit Provost
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|I am sorry, one so learned and so wise
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd,
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood.
Measure for measure|ESCALUS|And lack of temper'd judgment afterward.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|I am sorry that such sorrow I procure:
Measure for measure|ANGELO|And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
Measure for measure|ANGELO|That I crave death more willingly than mercy,
Measure for measure|ANGELO|'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.
Measure for measure|ANGELO|Re-enter Provost, with BARNARDINE, CLAUDIO muffled, and JULIET
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Which is that Barnardine?
Measure for measure|Provost|This, my lord.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|There was a friar told me of this man.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That apprehends no further than this world,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And squarest thy life according. Thou'rt condemn'd:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And pray thee take this mercy to provide
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|For better times to come. Friar, advise him,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I leave him to your hand. What muffled fellow's that?
Measure for measure|Provost|This is another prisoner that I saved.
Measure for measure|Provost|Who should have died when Claudio lost his head,
Measure for measure|Provost|As like almost to Claudio as himself.
Measure for measure|Provost|Unmuffles CLAUDIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|[To ISABELLA]  If he be like your brother, for his sake
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Is he pardon'd, and, for your lovely sake,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Give me your hand and say you will be mine.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|He is my brother too: but fitter time for that.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Methinks I see a quickening in his eye.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Look that you love your wife, her worth worth yours.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I find an apt remission in myself,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|To LUCIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|One all of luxury, an ass, a madman,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Wherein have I so deserved of you,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|That you extol me thus?
Measure for measure|LUCIO|'Faith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the
Measure for measure|LUCIO|trick. If you will hang me for it, you may, but I
Measure for measure|LUCIO|had rather it would please you I might be whipt.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Whipt first, sir, and hanged after.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Proclaim it, provost, round about the city.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|As I have heard him swear himself there's one
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Whom he begot with child, let her appear,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Let him be whipt and hang'd.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Your highness said even now, I made you a duke:
Measure for measure|LUCIO|good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thy slanders I forgive, and therewithal
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Remit thy other forfeits. Take him to prison,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|And see our pleasure herein executed.
Measure for measure|LUCIO|Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
Measure for measure|LUCIO|whipping, and hanging.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Slandering a prince deserves it.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exit Officers with LUCIO
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Joy to you, Mariana! Love her, Angelo:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I have confess'd her and I know her virtue.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|There's more behind that is more gratulate.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Thanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|We shill employ thee in a worthier place.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The head of Ragozine for Claudio's:
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|The offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|I have a motion much imports your good,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Whereto if you'll a willing ear incline,
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|So, bring us to our palace, where we'll show
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know.
Measure for measure|DUKE VINCENTIO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|DUKE VINCENTIO|ACT I
Merchant of Venice|DUKE VINCENTIO|SCENE I. Venice. A street.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE VINCENTIO|Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|It wearies me, you say it wearies you,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I am to learn,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|That I have much ado to know myself.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Your mind is tossing on the ocean,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|There, where your argosies with portly sail,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|The better part of my affections would
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|And every object that might make me fear
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Would make me sad.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|My wind cooling my broth
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Would blow me to an ague, when I thought
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|What harm a wind too great at sea might do.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|But I should think of shallows and of flats,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|To kiss her burial. Should I go to church
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And see the holy edifice of stone,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Which touching but my gentle vessel's side,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Would scatter all her spices on the stream,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And, in a word, but even now worth this,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|To think on this, and shall I lack the thought
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|But tell not me, I know, Antonio
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Is sad to think upon his merchandise.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Nor to one place, nor is my whole estate
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Upon the fortune of this present year:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Why, then you are in love.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Fie, fie!
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And other of such vinegar aspect
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO, and GRATIANO
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|We leave you now with better company.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|If worthier friends had not prevented me.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Your worth is very dear in my regard.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I take it, your own business calls on you
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And you embrace the occasion to depart.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Good morrow, my good lords.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|We'll make our leisures to attend on yours.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Exeunt Salarino and Salanio
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I will not fail you.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|You look not well, Signior Antonio,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|You have too much respect upon the world:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|They lose it that do buy it with much care:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Believe me, you are marvellously changed.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|A stage where every man must play a part,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And mine a sad one.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Let me play the fool:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And let my liver rather heat with wine
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|There are a sort of men whose visages
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And do a wilful stillness entertain,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|O my Antonio, I do know of these
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That therefore only are reputed wise
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|For saying nothing, when, I am very sure,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I'll tell thee more of this another time:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|But fish not, with this melancholy bait,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I'll end my exhortation after dinner.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I must be one of these same dumb wise men,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|For Gratiano never lets me speak.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Well, keep me company but two years moe,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Is that any thing now?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|have them, they are not worth the search.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Well, tell me now what lady is the same
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|That you to-day promised to tell me of?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|How much I have disabled mine estate,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|By something showing a more swelling port
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Than my faint means would grant continuance:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Nor do I now make moan to be abridged
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|From such a noble rate, but my chief care
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Is to come fairly off from the great debts
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Wherein my time something too prodigal
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I owe the most, in money and in love,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And from your love I have a warranty
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To unburden all my plots and purposes
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|How to get clear of all the debts I owe.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Within the eye of honour, be assured,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|My purse, my person, my extremest means,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The self-same way with more advised watch,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Because what follows is pure innocence.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That which I owe is lost, but if you please
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To shoot another arrow that self way
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|As I will watch the aim, or to find both
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Or bring your latter hazard back again
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|You know me well, and herein spend but time
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To wind about my love with circumstance,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|In making question of my uttermost
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Than if you had made waste of all I have:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Then do but say to me what I should do
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|That in your knowledge may by me be done,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|In Belmont is a lady richly left,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I did receive fair speechless messages:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|For the four winds blow in from every coast
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And many Jasons come in quest of her.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|O my Antonio, had I but the means
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To hold a rival place with one of them,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I have a mind presages me such thrift,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That I should questionless be fortunate!
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Neither have I money nor commodity
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To raise a present sum: therefore go forth,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Try what my credit can in Venice do:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Where money is, and I no question make
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To have it of my trust or for my sake.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|SCENE II: Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Enter PORTIA and NERISSA
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|this great world.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|with too much as they that starve with nothing. It
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|competency lives longer.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Good sentences and well pronounced.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|They would be better, if well followed.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If to do were as easy as to know what were good to
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|do, chapels had been churches and poor men's
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|follows his own instructions: I can easier teach
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|warmth is there in your affection towards any of
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|these princely suitors that are already come?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I pray thee, over-name them, and as thou namest
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|them, I will describe them, and, according to my
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|description, level at my affection.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|First, there is the Neapolitan prince.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|talk of his horse, and he makes it a great
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|appropriation to his own good parts, that he can
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|mother played false with a smith.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Then there is the County Palatine.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|philosopher when he grows old, being so full of
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|than to either of these. God defend me from these
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|two!
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|he! why, he hath a horse better than the
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|the Count Palatine, he is every man in no man, if a
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|shall never requite him.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|of England?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You know I say nothing to him, for he understands
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|nor Italian, and you will come into the court and
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|behavior every where.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|swore he would pay him again when he was able: I
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|under for another.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|make shift to go without him.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|If he should offer to choose, and choose the right
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|casket, you should refuse to perform your father's
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|will, if you should refuse to accept him.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|for if the devil be within and that temptation
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|without, I know he will choose it. I will do any
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|thing, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|You need not fear, lady, the having any of these
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|lords: they have acquainted me with their
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|determinations, which is, indeed, to return to their
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|you may be won by some other sort than your father's
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|imposition depending on the caskets.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|are so reasonable, for there is not one among them
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|them a fair departure.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Yes, yes, it was Bassanio, as I think, he was so called.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|thy praise.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter a Serving-man
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How now! what news?
Merchant of Venice|Servant|The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take
Merchant of Venice|Servant|their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a
Merchant of Venice|Servant|fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the
Merchant of Venice|Servant|prince his master will be here to-night.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|be glad of his approach: if he have the condition
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nerissa. Sirrah, go before.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Whiles we shut the gates
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|SCENE III. Venice. A public place.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Three thousand ducats, well.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Ay, sir, for three months.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|For three months, well.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Antonio shall become bound, well.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|know your answer?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Your answer to that.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Antonio is a good man.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Oh, no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|good man is to have you understand me that he is
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition: he
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Indies, I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|winds and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|sufficient. Three thousand ducats, I think I may
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|take his bond.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Be assured you may.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I will be assured I may, and, that I may be assured,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If it please you to dine with us.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Enter ANTONIO
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|This is Signior Antonio.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|[Aside]  How like a fawning publican he looks!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I hate him for he is a Christian,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|But more for that in low simplicity
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|He lends out money gratis and brings down
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|If I can catch him once upon the hip,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Even there where merchants most do congregate,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|If I forgive him!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Shylock, do you hear?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I am debating of my present store,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And, by the near guess of my memory,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I cannot instantly raise up the gross
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Will furnish me. But soft! how many months
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Do you desire?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To ANTONIO
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Rest you fair, good signior,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Your worship was the last man in our mouths.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Shylock, although I neither lend nor borrow
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|By taking nor by giving of excess,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I'll break a custom. Is he yet possess'd
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|How much ye would?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And for three months.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I had forgot, three months, you told me so.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Well then, your bond, and let me see, but hear you,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Upon advantage.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I do never use it.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|This Jacob from our holy Abram was,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The third possessor, ay, he was the third--
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And what of him? did he take interest?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|No, not take interest, not, as you would say,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|When Laban and himself were compromised
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|In the end of autumn turned to the rams,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And, when the work of generation was
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Between these woolly breeders in the act,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And, in the doing of the deed of kind,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Who then conceiving did in eaning time
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|A thing not in his power to bring to pass,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Was this inserted to make interest good?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I cannot tell, I make it breed as fast:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|But note me, signior.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Mark you this, Bassanio,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|An evil soul producing holy witness
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Three thousand ducats, 'tis a good round sum.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Three months from twelve, then, let me see, the rate--
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|In the Rialto you have rated me
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|About my moneys and my usances:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And all for use of that which is mine own.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Well then, it now appears you need my help:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Go to, then, you come to me, and you say
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You, that did void your rheum upon my beard
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Over your threshold: moneys is your suit
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What should I say to you? Should I not say
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|'Hath a dog money? is it possible
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You spurn'd me such a day, another time
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You call'd me dog, and for these courtesies
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I'll lend you thus much moneys'?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I am as like to call thee so again,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|As to thy friends, for when did friendship take
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|A breed for barren metal of his friend?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|But lend it rather to thine enemy,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Exact the penalty.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why, look you, how you storm!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I would be friends with you and have your love,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Supply your present wants and take no doit
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|This is kind I offer.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|This were kindness.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|This kindness will I show.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Go with me to a notary, seal me there
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Your single bond, and, in a merry sport,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|If you repay me not on such a day,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|In such a place, such sum or sums as are
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Be nominated for an equal pound
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|In what part of your body pleaseth me.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And say there is much kindness in the Jew.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|You shall not seal to such a bond for me:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I'll rather dwell in my necessity.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Why, fear not, man, I will not forfeit it:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Within these two months, that's a month before
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|This bond expires, I do expect return
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|If he should break his day, what should I gain
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|By the exaction of the forfeiture?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To buy his favour, I extend this friendship:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|If he will take it, so, if not, adieu,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Then meet me forthwith at the notary's,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Give him direction for this merry bond,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|See to my house, left in the fearful guard
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Of an unthrifty knave, and presently
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I will be with you.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Hie thee, gentle Jew.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Exit Shylock
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Come on: in this there can be no dismay,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|My ships come home a month before the day.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|ACT II
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|SCENE I. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF MOROCCO  and his train, PORTIA, NERISSA, and others attending
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Mislike me not for my complexion,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|And let us make incision for your love,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Hath fear'd the valiant: by my love I swear
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|The best-regarded virgins of our clime
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Have loved it too: I would not change this hue,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In terms of choice I am not solely led
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|By nice direction of a maiden's eyes,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Besides, the lottery of my destiny
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Bars me the right of voluntary choosing:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But if my father had not scanted me
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|His wife who wins me by that means I told you,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|As any comer I have look'd on yet
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For my affection.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Even for that I thank you:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Therefore, I pray you, lead me to the caskets
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To try my fortune. By this scimitar
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Which is the better man, the greater throw
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|So is Alcides beaten by his page,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|And so may I, blind fortune leading me,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|And die with grieving.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You must take your chance,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And either not attempt to choose at all
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Never to speak to lady afterward
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In way of marriage: therefore be advised.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|First, forward to the temple: after dinner
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Your hazard shall be made.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Good fortune then!
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Cornets, and exeunt
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|SCENE II. Venice. A street.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Enter LAUNCELOT
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away. My
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|conscience says 'No, take heed,' honest Launcelot,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Launcelot Gobbo, do not run, scorn running with thy
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|pack: 'Via!' says the fiend, 'away!' says the
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|fiend, 'for the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,'
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|man's son,' or rather an honest woman's son, for,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|indeed, my father did something smack, something
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|grow to, he had a kind of taste, well, my conscience
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well,' ' Fiend,'
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|say I, 'you counsel well:' to be ruled by my
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil, and, to
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|incarnal, and, in my conscience, my conscience is
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|friendly counsel: I will run, fiend, my heels are
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|at your command, I will run.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Enter Old GOBBO, with a basket
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Master young man, you, I pray you, which is the way
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|to master Jew's?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|[Aside]  O heavens, this is my true-begotten father!
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|knows me not: I will try confusions with him.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Master young gentleman, I pray you, which is the way
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|to master Jew's?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|at the next turning of all, on your left, marry, at
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|down indirectly to the Jew's house.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|you tell me whether one Launcelot,
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Talk you of young Master Launcelot?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Aside
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Mark me now, now will I raise the waters. Talk you
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|of young Master Launcelot?
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|No master, sir, but a poor man's son: his father,
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|though I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|and, God be thanked, well to live.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Well, let his father be what a' will, we talk of
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|young Master Launcelot.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Your worship's friend and Launcelot, sir.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|talk you of young Master Launcelot?
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Launcelot, father, for the young gentleman,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|according to Fates and Destinies and such odd
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|learning, is indeed deceased, or, as you would say
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|in plain terms, gone to heaven.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Marry, God forbid! the boy was the very staff of my
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|age, my very prop.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a staff or
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|a prop? Do you know me, father?
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman:
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|but, I pray you, tell me, is my boy, God rest his
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|soul, alive or dead?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Do you not know me, father?
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Alack, sir, I am sand-blind, I know you not.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|your son: give me your blessing: truth will come
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|to light, murder cannot be hid long, a man's son
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|may, but at the length truth will out.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Launcelot, my boy.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it, but
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|give me your blessing: I am Launcelot, your boy
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|that was, your son that is, your child that shall
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|be.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|I cannot think you are my son.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|I know not what I shall think of that: but I am
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|wife is my mother.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be sworn, if thou
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh and blood.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|It should seem, then, that Dobbin's tail grows
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|than I have of my face when I last saw him.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and thy
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|master agree? I have brought him a present. How
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|'gree you now?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Well, well: but, for mine own part, as I have set
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|have run some ground. My master's a very Jew: give
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|him a present! give him a halter: I am famished in
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|his service, you may tell every finger I have with
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|my ribs. Father, I am glad you are come: give me
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|your present to one Master Bassanio, who, indeed,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|gives rare new liveries: if I serve not him, I
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|will run as far as God has any ground. O rare
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|fortune! here comes the man: to him, father, for I
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|am a Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Enter BASSANIO, with LEONARDO and other followers
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|You may do so, but let it be so hasted that supper
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|these letters delivered, put the liveries to making,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Exit a Servant
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|To him, father.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|God bless your worship!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Gramercy! wouldst thou aught with me?
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|Here's my son, sir, a poor boy,--
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew's man, that
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|would, sir, as my father shall specify--
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve--
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Indeed, the short and the long is, I serve the Jew,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|and have a desire, as my father shall specify--
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|His master and he, saving your worship's reverence,
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|are scarce cater-cousins--
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|done me wrong, doth cause me, as my father, being, I
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|hope, an old man, shall frutify unto you--
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|your worship, and my suit is--
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|In very brief, the suit is impertinent to myself, as
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|your worship shall know by this honest old man, and,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|though I say it, though old man, yet poor man, my father.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|One speak for both. What would you?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Serve you, sir.
Merchant of Venice|GOBBO|That is the very defect of the matter, sir.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I know thee well, thou hast obtain'd thy suit:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And hath preferr'd thee, if it be preferment
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To leave a rich Jew's service, to become
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The follower of so poor a gentleman.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|The old proverb is very well parted between my
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|God, sir, and he hath enough.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy son.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Take leave of thy old master and inquire
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|My lodging out. Give him a livery
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|More guarded than his fellows': see it done.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Father, in. I cannot get a service, no, I have
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|ne'er a tongue in my head. Well, if any man in
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|upon a book, I shall have good fortune. Go to,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|here's a simple line of life: here's a small trifle
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|of wives: alas, fifteen wives is nothing! eleven
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|man: and then to 'scape drowning thrice, and to be
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune be a
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|woman, she's a good wench for this gear. Father,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|come, I'll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Exeunt Launcelot and Old Gobbo
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Return in haste, for I do feast to-night
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go.
Merchant of Venice|LEONARDO|My best endeavours shall be done herein.
Merchant of Venice|LEONARDO|Enter GRATIANO
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Where is your master?
Merchant of Venice|LEONARDO|Yonder, sir, he walks.
Merchant of Venice|LEONARDO|Exit
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Signior Bassanio!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Gratiano!
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I have a suit to you.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|You have obtain'd it.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|You must not deny me: I must go with you to Belmont.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Parts that become thee happily enough
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And in such eyes as ours appear not faults,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|But where thou art not known, why, there they show
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To allay with some cold drops of modesty
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I be misconstrued in the place I go to,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And lose my hopes.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Signior Bassanio, hear me:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|If I do not put on a sober habit,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Talk with respect and swear but now and then,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Thus with my hat, and sigh and say 'amen,'
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Use all the observance of civility,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Like one well studied in a sad ostent
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|To please his grandam, never trust me more.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Well, we shall see your bearing.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|By what we do to-night.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|No, that were pity:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I would entreat you rather to put on
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That purpose merriment. But fare you well:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I have some business.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|But we will visit you at supper-time.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|SCENE III. The same. A room in SHYLOCK'S house.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Give him this letter, do it secretly,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And so farewell: I would not have my father
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|See me in talk with thee.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue. Most beautiful
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|pagan, most sweet Jew! if a Christian did not play
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|the knave and get thee, I am much deceived. But,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|adieu: these foolish drops do something drown my
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|manly spirit: adieu.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Farewell, good Launcelot.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Exit Launcelot
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|To be ashamed to be my father's child!
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|But though I am a daughter to his blood,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Become a Christian and thy loving wife.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Exit
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|SCENE IV. The same. A street.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Enter GRATIANO, LORENZO, SALARINO, and SALANIO
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Disguise us at my lodging and return,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|All in an hour.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|We have not made good preparation.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|And better in my mind not undertook.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|To furnish us.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Friend Launcelot, what's the news?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|An it shall please you to break up
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|this, it shall seem to signify.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And whiter than the paper it writ on
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Is the fair hand that writ.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Love-news, in faith.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|By your leave, sir.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Whither goest thou?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Marry, sir, to bid my old master the
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I will not fail her, speak it privately.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Go, gentlemen,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Exit Launcelot
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I am provided of a torch-bearer.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|And so will I.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Meet me and Gratiano
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|'Tis good we do so.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Exeunt SALARINO and SALANIO
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Was not that letter from fair Jessica?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|How I shall take her from her father's house,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|What page's suit she hath in readiness.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And never dare misfortune cross her foot,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Unless she do it under this excuse,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|That she is issue to a faithless Jew.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Come, go with me, peruse this as thou goest:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Fair Jessica shall be my torch-beare r.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|SCENE V. The same. Before SHYLOCK'S house.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|As thou hast done with me:--What, Jessica!--
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out,--
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why, Jessica, I say!
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Why, Jessica!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Your worship was wont to tell me that
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|I could do nothing without bidding.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Enter Jessica
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Call you? what is your will?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I am not bid for love, they flatter me:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Look to my house. I am right loath to go:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|For I did dream of money-bags to-night.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|your reproach.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|So do I his.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|An they have conspired together, I will not say you
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|shall see a masque, but if you do, then it was not
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning,
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|year, in the afternoon.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Lock up my doors, and when you hear the drum
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Clamber not you up to the casements then,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Nor thrust your head into the public street
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Say I will come.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|window, for all this, There will come a Christian
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|boy, will be worth a Jewess' eye.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Exit
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|His words were 'Farewell mistress,' nothing else.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|More than the wild-cat: drones hive not with me,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Therefore I part with him, and part with him
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To one that would have him help to waste
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Perhaps I will return immediately:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Do as I bid you, shut doors after you:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Fast bind, fast find,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Exit
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Farewell, and if my fortune be not crost,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I have a father, you a daughter, lost.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Exit
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|SCENE VI. The same.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Enter GRATIANO and SALARINO, masqued
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Desired us to make stand.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|His hour is almost past.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|For lovers ever run before the clock.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|To keep obliged faith unforfeited!
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That ever holds: who riseth from a feast
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|With that keen appetite that he sits down?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Where is the horse that doth untread again
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|His tedious measures with the unbated fire
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That he did pace them first? All things that are,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|How like a younker or a prodigal
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|How like the prodigal doth she return,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Here comes Lorenzo: more of this hereafter.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Enter LORENZO
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I'll watch as long for you then. Approach,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Here dwells my father Jew. Ho! who's within?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter JESSICA, above, in boy's clothes
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Lorenzo, and thy love.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|For who love I so much? And now who knows
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Here, catch this casket, it is worth the pains.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|For I am much ashamed of my exchange:
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|But love is blind and lovers cannot see
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|The pretty follies that themselves commit,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|To see me thus transformed to a boy.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Descend, for you must be my torchbearer.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|What, must I hold a candle to my shames?
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|They in themselves, good-sooth, are too too light.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And I should be obscured.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|So are you, sweet,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But come at once,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|For the close night doth play the runaway,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|With some more ducats, and be with you straight.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Exit above
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Beshrew me but I love her heartily,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And true she is, as she hath proved herself,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter JESSICA, below
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|What, art thou come? On, gentlemen, away!
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Our masquing mates by this time for us stay.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Exit with Jessica and Salarino
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter ANTONIO
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Who's there?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Signior Antonio!
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|No masque to-night: the wind is come about,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Bassanio presently will go aboard:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I have sent twenty out to seek for you.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I am glad on't: I desire no more delight
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Than to be under sail and gone to-night.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|SCENE VII. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Flourish of cornets. Enter PORTIA, with the PRINCE OF MOROCCO, and their trains
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Go draw aside the curtains and discover
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The several caskets to this noble prince.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Now make your choice.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire,'
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|The second, silver, which this promise carries,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves,'
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|How shall I know if I do choose the right?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The one of them contains my picture, prince:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If you choose that, then I am yours withal.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Some god direct my judgment! Let me see,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|I will survey the inscriptions back again.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|What says this leaden casket?
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Must give: for what? for lead? hazard for lead?
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|This casket threatens. Men that hazard all
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Do it in hope of fair advantages:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|What says the silver with her virgin hue?
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|And weigh thy value with an even hand:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Thou dost deserve enough, and yet enough
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|May not extend so far as to the lady:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|And yet to be afeard of my deserving
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Were but a weak disabling of myself.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|As much as I deserve! Why, that's the lady:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|In graces and in qualities of breeding,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|But more than these, in love I do deserve.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|What if I stray'd no further, but chose here?
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Let's see once more this saying graved in gold
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Why, that's the lady, all the world desires her,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|From the four corners of the earth they come,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Of wide Arabia are as thoroughfares now
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|For princes to come view fair Portia:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To stop the foreign spirits, but they come,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|One of these three contains her heavenly picture.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To think so base a thought: it were too gross
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Or shall I think in silver she's immured,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Was set in worse than gold. They have in England
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|A coin that bears the figure of an angel
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|But here an angel in a golden bed
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Lies all within. Deliver me the key:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|There, take it, prince, and if my form lie there,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Then I am yours.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He unlocks the golden casket
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|O hell! what have we here?
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Reads
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|All that glitters is not gold,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Often have you heard that told:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Many a man his life hath sold
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|But my outside to behold:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Had you been as wise as bold,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Fare you well, your suit is cold.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Cold, indeed, and labour lost:
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.
Merchant of Venice|MOROCCO|Exit with his train. Flourish of cornets
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Let all of his complexion choose me so.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|SCENE VIII. Venice. A street.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter SALARINO and SALANIO
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|With him is Gratiano gone along,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|He came too late, the ship was under sail:
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|But there the duke was given to understand
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|That in a gondola were seen together
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Besides, Antonio certified the duke
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|They were not with Bassanio in his ship.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|I never heard a passion so confused,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|So strange, outrageous, and so variable,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Let good Antonio look he keep his day,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Or he shall pay for this.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Marry, well remember'd.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|The French and English, there miscarried
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|A vessel of our country richly fraught:
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|I thought upon Antonio when he told me,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And wish'd in silence that it were not his.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|You were best to tell Antonio what you hear,
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Bassanio told him he would make some speed
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|But stay the very riping of the time,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Let it not enter in your mind of love:
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|To courtship and such fair ostents of love
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|As shall conveniently become you there:'
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And even there, his eye being big with tears,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|And with affection wondrous sensible
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|I think he only loves the world for him.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|I pray thee, let us go and find him out
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|And quicken his embraced heaviness
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|With some delight or other.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Do we so.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|SCENE IX. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Enter NERISSA with a Servitor
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Quick, quick, I pray thee, draw the curtain straight:
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|And comes to his election presently.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF ARRAGON, PORTIA, and their trains
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If you choose that wherein I am contain'd,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You must be gone from hence immediately.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|First, never to unfold to any one
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Which casket 'twas I chose, next, if I fail
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Of the right casket, never in my life
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|To woo a maid in way of marriage: Lastly,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|If I do fail in fortune of my choice,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Immediately to leave you and be gone.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To these injunctions every one doth swear
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That comes to hazard for my worthless self.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|And so have I address'd me. Fortune now
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|To my heart's hope! Gold, silver, and base lead.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|You shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|What says the golden chest? ha! let me see:
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|What many men desire! that 'many' may be meant
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|By the fool multitude, that choose by show,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Even in the force and road of casualty.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|I will not choose what many men desire,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Because I will not jump with common spirits
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Tell me once more what title thou dost bear:
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves:'
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|And well said too, for who shall go about
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|To cozen fortune and be honourable
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|To wear an undeserved dignity.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|O, that estates, degrees and offices
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|How many then should cover that stand bare!
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|How many be commanded that command!
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|How much low peasantry would then be glean'd
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|From the true seed of honour! and how much honour
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to my choice:
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|And instantly unlock my fortunes here.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|He opens the silver casket
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Too long a pause for that which you find there.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|How much unlike art thou to Portia!
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To offend, and judge, are distinct offices
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And of opposed natures.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|What is here?
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Reads
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|The fire seven times tried this:
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Seven times tried that judgment is,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|That did never choose amiss.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Some there be that shadows kiss,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Such have but a shadow's bliss:
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|There be fools alive, I wis,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Silver'd o'er, and so was this.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Take what wife you will to bed,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|I will ever be your head:
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|So be gone: you are sped.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Still more fool I shall appear
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|By the time I linger here
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|With one fool's head I came to woo,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|But I go away with two.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Patiently to bear my wroth.
Merchant of Venice|ARRAGON|Exeunt Arragon and train
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|The ancient saying is no heresy,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter a Servant
Merchant of Venice|Servant|Where is my lady?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Here: what would my lord?
Merchant of Venice|Servant|Madam, there is alighted at your gate
Merchant of Venice|Servant|A young Venetian, one that comes before
Merchant of Venice|Servant|To signify the approaching of his lord,
Merchant of Venice|Servant|From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,
Merchant of Venice|Servant|To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,
Merchant of Venice|Servant|Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen
Merchant of Venice|Servant|So likely an ambassador of love:
Merchant of Venice|Servant|A day in April never came so sweet,
Merchant of Venice|Servant|To show how costly summer was at hand,
Merchant of Venice|Servant|As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Come, come, Nerissa, for I long to see
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|ACT III
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|SCENE I. Venice. A street.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Enter SALANIO and SALARINO
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Now, what news on the Rialto?
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas,
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|the Goodwins, I think they call the place, a very
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Report be an honest woman of her word.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|wept for the death of a third husband. But it is
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|to keep his name company!--
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Come, the full stop.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|lost a ship.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|I would it might prove the end of his losses.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Enter SHYLOCK
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|daughter's flight.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|that made the wings she flew withal.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|fledged, and then it is the complexion of them all
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|to leave the dam.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|She is damned for it.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|My own flesh and blood to rebel!
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|There is more difference between thy flesh and hers
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|than between jet and ivory, more between your bloods
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|than there is between red wine and rhenish. But
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|loss at sea or no?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Rialto, a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|the mart, let him look to his bond: he was wont to
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|call me usurer, let him look to his bond: he was
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy, let him
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|look to his bond.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|his flesh: what's that good for?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|enemies, and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|will better the instruction.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Enter a Servant
Merchant of Venice|Servant|Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and
Merchant of Venice|Servant|desires to speak with you both.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|We have been up and down to seek him.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Enter TUBAL
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.
Merchant of Venice|SALANIO|Exeunt SALANIO, SALARINO, and Servant
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|found my daughter?
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|never fell upon our nation till now, I never felt it
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|till now: two thousand ducats in that, and other
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|find the thief, and no satisfaction, no revenge:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|shoulders, no sighs but of my breathing, no tears
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|but of my shedding.
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|heard in Genoa,--
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|ha, ha! where? in Genoa?
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|night fourscore ducats.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|fourscore ducats!
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I am very glad of it: I'll plague him, I'll torture
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|him: I am glad of it.
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|One of them showed me a ring that he had of your
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|daughter for a monkey.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|turquoise, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
Merchant of Venice|TUBAL|But Antonio is certainly undone.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|me an officer, bespeak him a fortnight before. I
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|will have the heart of him, if he forfeit, for, were
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|he out of Venice, I can make what merchandise I
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|will. Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|go, good Tubal, at our synagogue, Tubal.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|SCENE II. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Enter BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO, NERISSA, and Attendants
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Before you hazard, for, in choosing wrong,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|There's something tells me, but it is not love,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I would not lose you, and you know yourself,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Hate counsels not in such a quality.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But lest you should not understand me well,--
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I would detain you here some month or two
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Before you venture for me. I could teach you
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How to choose right, but I am then forsworn,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|So will I never be: so may you miss me,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|They have o'erlook'd me and divided me,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Mine own, I would say, but if mine, then yours,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And so all yours. O, these naughty times
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Put bars between the owners and their rights!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I speak too long, but 'tis to peize the time,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To eke it and to draw it out in length,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To stay you from election.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Let me choose
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|For as I am, I live upon the rack.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|What treason there is mingled with your love.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|None but that ugly treason of mistrust,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|There may as well be amity and life
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Where men enforced do speak anything.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Well then, confess and live.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|'Confess' and 'love'
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Had been the very sum of my confession:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|O happy torment, when my torturer
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Doth teach me answers for deliverance!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|But let me to my fortune and the caskets.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If you do love me, you will find me out.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Let music sound while he doth make his choice,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Fading in music: that the comparison
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And watery death-bed for him. He may win,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And what is music then? Then music is
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To a new-crowned monarch: such it is
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With no less presence, but with much more love,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Than young Alcides, when he did redeem
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With bleared visages, come forth to view
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Music, whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|SONG.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Tell me where is fancy bred,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Or in the heart, or in the head?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How begot, how nourished?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Reply, reply.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It is engender'd in the eyes,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With gazing fed, and fancy dies
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In the cradle where it lies.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Let us all ring fancy's knell
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell.
Merchant of Venice|ALL|Ding, dong, bell.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|So may the outward shows be least themselves:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The world is still deceived with ornament.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|What damned error, but some sober brow
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|There is no vice so simple but assumes
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And these assume but valour's excrement
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To render them redoubted! Look on beauty,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Making them lightest that wear most of it:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|So are those crisped snaky golden locks
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Upon supposed fairness, often known
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To be the dowry of a second head,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To a most dangerous sea, the beauteous scarf
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Veiling an Indian beauty, in a word,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The seeming truth which cunning times put on
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And here choose I, joy be the consequence!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|[Aside]  How all the other passions fleet to air,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Be moderate, allay thy ecstasy,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In measure rein thy joy, scant this excess.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For fear I surfeit.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|What find I here?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Opening the leaden casket
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi-god
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Seem they in motion? Here are sever'd lips,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The painter plays the spider and hath woven
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Faster than gnats in cobwebs, but her eyes,--
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|How could he see to do them? having made one,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Methinks it should have power to steal both his
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|In underprizing it, so far this shadow
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The continent and summary of my fortune.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Reads
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|You that choose not by the view,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Chance as fair and choose as true!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Since this fortune falls to you,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Be content and seek no new,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If you be well pleased with this
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And hold your fortune for your bliss,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Turn you where your lady is
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And claim her with a loving kiss.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I come by note, to give and to receive.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Like one of two contending in a prize,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Hearing applause and universal shout,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Whether these pearls of praise be his or no,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|As doubtful whether what I see be true,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Such as I am: though for myself alone
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I would not be ambitious in my wish,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To wish myself much better, yet, for you
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I would be trebled twenty times myself,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That only to stand high in your account,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I might in virtue, beauties, livings, friends,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Exceed account, but the full sum of me
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Happy in this, she is not yet so old
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But she may learn, happier than this,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|She is not bred so dull but she can learn,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Commits itself to yours to be directed,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Myself and what is mine to you and yours
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Is now converted: but now I was the lord
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Queen o'er myself: and even now, but now,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|This house, these servants and this same myself
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which when you part from, lose, or give away,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Let it presage the ruin of your love
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And be my vantage to exclaim on you.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And there is such confusion in my powers,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|As after some oration fairly spoke
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|By a beloved prince, there doth appear
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Among the buzzing pleased multitude,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Where every something, being blent together,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Express'd and not express'd. But when this ring
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead!
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|My lord and lady, it is now our time,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|To cry, good joy: good joy, my lord and lady!
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I wish you all the joy that you can wish,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|For I am sure you can wish none from me:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And when your honours mean to solemnize
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Even at that time I may be married too.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I thank your lordship, you have got me one.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|You loved, I loved for intermission.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Your fortune stood upon the casket there,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And so did mine too, as the matter falls,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|For wooing here until I sweat again,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And sweating until my very roof was dry
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|With oaths of love, at last, if promise last,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I got a promise of this fair one here
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|To have her love, provided that your fortune
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Achieved her mistress.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Is this true, Nerissa?
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Yes, faith, my lord.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|What, and stake down?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|No, we shall ne'er win at that sport, and stake down.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|and my old Venetian friend Salerio?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Enter LORENZO, JESSICA, and SALERIO, a Messenger from Venice
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If that the youth of my new interest here
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I bid my very friends and countrymen,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Sweet Portia, welcome.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|So do I, my lord:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|They are entirely welcome.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|My purpose was not to have seen you here,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But meeting with Salerio by the way,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|He did entreat me, past all saying nay,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|To come with him along.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|I did, my lord,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Commends him to you.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Gives Bassanio a letter
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Ere I ope his letter,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Will show you his estate.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Nerissa, cheer yon stranger, bid her welcome.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I know he will be glad of our success,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Some dear friend dead, else nothing in the world
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Could turn so much the constitution
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With leave, Bassanio: I am half yourself,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And I must freely have the half of anything
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That this same paper brings you.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|O sweet Portia,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|When I did first impart my love to you,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I freely told you, all the wealth I had
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And then I told you true: and yet, dear lady,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Rating myself at nothing, you shall see
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|How much I was a braggart. When I told you
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|My state was nothing, I should then have told you
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That I was worse than nothing, for, indeed,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I have engaged myself to a dear friend,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The paper as the body of my friend,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And every word in it a gaping wound,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|From Lisbon, Barbary and India?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Of merchant-marring rocks?
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Not one, my lord.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Besides, it should appear, that if he had
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|The present money to discharge the Jew,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|He would not take it. Never did I know
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|A creature, that did bear the shape of man,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|So keen and greedy to confound a man:
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|He plies the duke at morning and at night,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|And doth impeach the freedom of the state,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|The duke himself, and the magnificoes
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|But none can drive him from the envious plea
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Of forfeiture, of justice and his bond.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|When I was with him I have heard him swear
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|That he would rather have Antonio's flesh
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Than twenty times the value of the sum
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|That he did owe him: and I know, my lord,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|If law, authority and power deny not,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|It will go hard with poor Antonio.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|In doing courtesies, and one in whom
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The ancient Roman honour more appears
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Than any that draws breath in Italy.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|What sum owes he the Jew?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|For me three thousand ducats.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|What, no more?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Double six thousand, and then treble that,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Before a friend of this description
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|First go with me to church and call me wife,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And then away to Venice to your friend,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For never shall you lie by Portia's side
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To pay the petty debt twenty times over:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|When it is paid, bring your true friend along.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|My maid Nerissa and myself meantime
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For you shall hence upon your wedding-day:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But let me hear the letter of your friend.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|[Reads]  Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit, and since
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|in paying it, it is impossible I should live, all
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|debts are cleared between you and I, if I might but
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|see you at my death. Notwithstanding, use your
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|pleasure: if your love do not persuade you to come,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|let not my letter.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Since I have your good leave to go away,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I will make haste: but, till I come again,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|SCENE III. Venice. A street.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Enter SHYLOCK, SALARINO, ANTONIO, and Gaoler
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Gaoler, look to him: tell not me of mercy,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|This is the fool that lent out money gratis:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Gaoler, look to him.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Hear me yet, good Shylock.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I'll have my bond, speak not against my bond:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To come abroad with him at his request.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I pray thee, hear me speak.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I'll have my bond, I will not hear thee speak:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I'll have my bond, and therefore speak no more.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To Christian intercessors. Follow not,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Exit
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|It is the most impenetrable cur
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|That ever kept with men.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Let him alone:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|He seeks my life, his reason well I know:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Many that have at times made moan to me,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Therefore he hates me.
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|I am sure the duke
Merchant of Venice|SALARINO|Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|The duke cannot deny the course of law:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|For the commodity that strangers have
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|With us in Venice, if it be denied,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Will much impeach the justice of his state,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Since that the trade and profit of the city
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|These griefs and losses have so bated me,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To-morrow to my bloody creditor.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|SCENE IV. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Enter PORTIA, NERISSA, LORENZO, JESSICA, and BALTHASAR
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|You have a noble and a true conceit
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Of godlike amity, which appears most strongly
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But if you  knew to whom you show this honour,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|How true a gentleman you send relief,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I know you would be prouder of the work
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Than customary bounty can enforce you.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I never did repent for doing good,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nor shall not now: for in companions
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That do converse and waste the time together,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Whose souls do bear an equal yoke Of love,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|There must be needs a like proportion
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of lineaments, of manners and of spirit,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which makes me think that this Antonio,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Being the bosom lover of my lord,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How little is the cost I have bestow'd
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In purchasing the semblance of my soul
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|From out the state of hellish misery!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|This comes too near the praising of myself,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Therefore no more of it: hear other things.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The husbandry and manage of my house
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Until my lord's return: for mine own part,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To live in prayer and contemplation,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Only attended by Nerissa here,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Until her husband and my lord's return:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|There is a monastery two miles off,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And there will we abide. I do desire you
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Not to deny this imposition,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The which my love and some necessity
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Now lays upon you.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Madam, with all my heart,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I shall obey you in all fair commands.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|My people do already know my mind,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And will acknowledge you and Jessica
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And so farewell, till we shall meet again.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I wish your ladyship all heart's content.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To wish it back on you: fare you well Jessica.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Now, Balthasar,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|As I have ever found thee honest-true,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And use thou all the endeavour of a man
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In speed to Padua: see thou render this
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Into my cousin's hand, Doctor Bellario,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Unto the tranect, to the common ferry
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But get thee gone: I shall be there before thee.
Merchant of Venice|BALTHASAR|Madam, I go with all convenient speed.
Merchant of Venice|BALTHASAR|Exit
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Come on, Nerissa, I have work in hand
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Before they think of us.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Shall they see us?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That they shall think we are accomplished
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|When we are both accoutred like young men,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And speak between the change of man and boy
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How honourable ladies sought my love,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which I denying, they fell sick and died,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I could not do withal, then I'll repent,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And wish for all that, that I had not killed them,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That men shall swear I have discontinued school
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which I will practise.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Why, shall we turn to men?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Fie, what a question's that,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|When I am in my coach, which stays for us
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|At the park gate, and therefore haste away,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For we must measure twenty miles to-day.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|SCENE V. The same. A garden.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Yes, truly, for, look you, the sins of the father
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter:
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|hope neither.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And what hope is that, I pray thee?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|not, that you are not the Jew's daughter.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|mother: thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|fall into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|gone both ways.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I shall be saved by my husband, he hath made me a
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Christian.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|enow before, e'en as many as could well live, one by
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|another. This making Christians will raise the
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|price of hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Enter LORENZO
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say: here he comes.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, if
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|you thus get my wife into corners.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot and I
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|are out. He tells me flatly, there is no mercy for
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|me in heaven, because I am a Jew's daughter: and he
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|says, you are no good member of the commonwealth,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|for in converting Jews to Christians, you raise the
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|price of pork.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|you can the getting up of the negro's belly: the
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|It is much that the Moor should be more than reason:
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|but if she be less than an honest woman, she is
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|indeed more than I took her for.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|How every fool can play upon the word! I think the
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|and discourse grow commendable in none only but
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|parrots. Go in, sirrah, bid them prepare for dinner.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|That is done, sir, they have all stomachs.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|them prepare dinner.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|That is done too, sir, only 'cover' is the word.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Will you cover then, sir?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Not so, sir, neither, I know my duty.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|tree, understand a plain man in his plain meaning:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|go to thy fellows, bid them cover the table, serve
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|For the table, sir, it shall be served in, for the
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|meat, sir, it shall be covered, for your coming in
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|conceits shall govern.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Exit
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|The fool hath planted in his memory
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|An army of good words, and I do know
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|A many fools, that stand in better place,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Past all expressing. It is very meet
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|The Lord Bassanio live an upright life,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|For, having such a blessing in his lady,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|He finds the joys of heaven here on earth,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And if on earth he do not mean it, then
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|In reason he should never come to heaven
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And on the wager lay two earthly women,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And Portia one, there must be something else
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Hath not her fellow.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Even such a husband
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Nay, but ask my opinion too of that.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I will anon: first, let us go to dinner.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|'	Then, howso'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|I shall digest it.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Well, I'll set you forth.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|ACT IV
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|SCENE I. Venice. A court of justice.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Enter the DUKE, the Magnificoes, ANTONIO, BASSANIO, GRATIANO, SALERIO, and others
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|What, is Antonio here?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Ready, so please your grace.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|uncapable of pity, void and empty
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|From any dram of mercy.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I have heard
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|His rigorous course, but since he stands obdurate
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And that no lawful means can carry me
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|The very tyranny and rage of his.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Go one, and call the Jew into the court.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|Enter SHYLOCK
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Make room, and let him stand before our face.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|To the last hour of act, and then 'tis thought
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Than is thy strange apparent cruelty,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|And where thou now exact'st the penalty,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Forgive a moiety of the principal,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|That have of late so huddled on his back,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Enow to press a royal merchant down
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|And pluck commiseration of his state
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|To offices of tender courtesy.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To have the due and forfeit of my bond:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|If you deny it, let the danger light
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Upon your charter and your city's freedom.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|A weight of carrion flesh than to receive
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|But, say, it is my humour: is it answer'd?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What if my house be troubled with a rat
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To have it baned? What, are you answer'd yet?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Some men there are love not a gaping pig,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Some, that are mad if they behold a cat,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Cannot contain their urine: for affection,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|As there is no firm reason to be render'd,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why he cannot abide a gaping pig,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why he, a harmless necessary cat,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why he, a woollen bagpipe, but of force
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Must yield to such inevitable shame
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|As to offend, himself being offended,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|So can I give no reason, nor I will not,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I bear Antonio, that I follow thus
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To excuse the current of thy cruelty.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Do all men kill the things they do not love?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Hates any man the thing he would not kill?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Every offence is not a hate at first.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I pray you, think you question with the Jew:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|You may as well go stand upon the beach
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And bid the main flood bate his usual height,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|You may as well use question with the wolf
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|You may as well forbid the mountain pines
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To wag their high tops and to make no noise,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|You may as well do anything most hard,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|As seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Make no more offers, use no farther means,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|But with all brief and plain conveniency
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|For thy three thousand ducats here is six.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What judgment shall I dread, doing
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Were in six parts and every part a ducat,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I would not draw them, I would have my bond.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You have among you many a purchased slave,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You use in abject and in slavish parts,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Because you bought them: shall I say to you,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Be made as soft as yours and let their palates
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Be season'd with such viands? You will answer
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Is dearly bought, 'tis mine and I will have it.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|If you deny me, fie upon your law!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|There is no force in the decrees of Venice.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I stand for judgment: answer, shall I have it?
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Upon my power I may dismiss this court,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Whom I have sent for to determine this,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Come here to-day.
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|My lord, here stays without
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|A messenger with letters from the doctor,
Merchant of Venice|SALERIO|New come from Padua.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Bring us the letter, call the messenger.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones and all,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Than to live still and write mine epitaph.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Came you from Padua, from Bellario?
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|From both, my lord. Bellario greets your grace.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Presenting a letter
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Thou makest thy knife keen, but no metal can,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And for thy life let justice be accused.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Thou almost makest me waver in my faith
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That souls of animals infuse themselves
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Infused itself in thee, for thy desires
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|This letter from Bellario doth commend
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|A young and learned doctor to our court.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Where is he?
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|He attendeth here hard by,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|With all my heart. Some three or four of you
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Go give him courteous conduct to this place.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|[Reads]
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|Your grace shall understand that at the receipt of
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|your letter I am very sick: but in the instant that
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|your messenger came, in loving visitation was with
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|me a young doctor of Rome, his name is Balthasar. I
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|acquainted him with the cause in controversy between
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|the Jew and Antonio the merchant: we turned o'er
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|many books together: he is furnished with my
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|opinion, which, bettered with his own learning, the
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|greatness whereof I cannot enough commend, comes
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|with him, at my importunity, to fill up your grace's
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|request in my stead. I beseech you, let his lack of
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|estimation, for I never knew so young a body with so
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|old a head. I leave him to your gracious
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his
Merchant of Venice|Clerk|commendation.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|And here, I take it, is the doctor come.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Enter PORTIA, dressed like a doctor of laws
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I did, my lord.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|You are welcome: take your place.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Are you acquainted with the difference
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|That holds this present question in the court?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Is your name Shylock?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Shylock is my name.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of a strange nature is the suit you follow,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Yet in such rule that the Venetian law
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You stand within his danger, do you not?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Ay, so he says.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Do you confess the bond?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I do.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Then must the Jew be merciful.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|On what compulsion must I? tell me that.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The throned monarch better than his crown,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The attribute to awe and majesty,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It is an attribute to God himself,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And earthly power doth then show likest God's
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That, in the course of justice, none of us
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To mitigate the justice of thy plea,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|The penalty and forfeit of my bond.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Is he not able to discharge the money?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Yes, here I tender it for him in the court,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If this will not suffice, it must appear
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Wrest once the law to your authority:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To do a great right, do a little wrong,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It must not be, there is no power in Venice
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Can alter a decree established:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|'Twill be recorded for a precedent,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And many an error by the same example
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I pray you, let me look upon the bond.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|No, not for Venice.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Why, this bond is forfeit,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Take thrice thy money, bid me tear the bond.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|When it is paid according to the tenor.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|It doth appear you are a worthy judge,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You know the law, your exposition
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Hath been most sound: I charge you by the law,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Proceed to judgment: by my soul I swear
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|There is no power in the tongue of man
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|To alter me: I stay here on my bond.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Most heartily I do beseech the court
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To give the judgment.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Why then, thus it is:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You must prepare your bosom for his knife.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|O noble judge! O excellent young man!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For the intent and purpose of the law
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Hath full relation to the penalty,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which here appeareth due upon the bond.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|How much more elder art thou than thy looks!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Therefore lay bare your bosom.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Ay, his breast:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It is so. Are there balance here to weigh
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The flesh?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I have them ready.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Is it so nominated in the bond?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It is not so express'd: but what of that?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|'Twere good you do so much for charity.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I cannot find it, 'tis not in the bond.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You, merchant, have you any thing to say?
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Than is her custom: it is still her use
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|An age of poverty, from which lingering penance
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Of such misery doth she cut me off.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Commend me to your honourable wife:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Tell her the process of Antonio's end,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And he repents not that he pays your debt,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I'll pay it presently with all my heart.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Antonio, I am married to a wife
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which is as dear to me as life itself,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|But life itself, my wife, and all the world,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Here to this devil, to deliver you.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If she were by, to hear you make the offer.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I would she were in heaven, so she could
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|'Tis well you offer it behind her back,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|The wish would make else an unquiet house.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Would any of the stock of Barrabas
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Had been her husband rather than a Christian!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Aside
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The court awards it, and the law doth give it.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Most rightful judge!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The law allows it, and the court awards it.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Tarry a little, there is something else.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Unto the state of Venice.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Is that the law?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thyself shalt see the act:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For, as thou urgest justice, be assured
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|O learned judge! Mark, Jew: a learned judge!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I take this offer, then, pay the bond thrice
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And let the Christian go.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Here is the money.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Soft!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The Jew shall have all justice, soft! no haste:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He shall have nothing but the penalty.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|As makes it light or heavy in the substance,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Or the division of the twentieth part
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But in the estimation of a hair,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Give me my principal, and let me go.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I have it ready for thee, here it is.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He hath refused it in the open court:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He shall have merely justice and his bond.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Shall I not have barely my principal?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Why, then the devil give him good of it!
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I'll stay no longer question.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Tarry, Jew:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The law hath yet another hold on you.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It is enacted in the laws of Venice,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If it be proved against an alien
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That by direct or indirect attempts
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He seek the life of any citizen,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Shall seize one half his goods, the other half
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Comes to the privy coffer of the state,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And the offender's life lies in the mercy
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In which predicament, I say, thou stand'st,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For it appears, by manifest proceeding,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That indirectly and directly too
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Thou hast contrived against the very life
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of the defendant, and thou hast incurr'd
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The danger formerly by me rehearsed.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Thou hast not left the value of a cord,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it:
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|The other half comes to the general state,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that:
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|You take my house when you do take the prop
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|That doth sustain my house, you take my life
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|When you do take the means whereby I live.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|What mercy can you render him, Antonio?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|A halter gratis, nothing else, for God's sake.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|So please my lord the duke and all the court
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|To quit the fine for one half of his goods,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I am content, so he will let me have
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|The other half in use, to render it,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Upon his death, unto the gentleman
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|That lately stole his daughter:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Two things provided more, that, for this favour,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|He presently become a Christian,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|The other, that he do record a gift,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|He shall do this, or else I do recant
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|The pardon that I late pronounced here.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I am content.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I pray you, give me leave to go from hence,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|I am not well: send the deed after me,
Merchant of Venice|SHYLOCK|And I will sign it.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Get thee gone, but do it.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|In christening shalt thou have two god-fathers:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|To bring thee to the gallows, not the font.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Exit SHYLOCK
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I humbly do desire your grace of pardon:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I must away this night toward Padua,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And it is meet I presently set forth.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Antonio, gratify this gentleman,
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|For, in my mind, you are much bound to him.
Merchant of Venice|DUKE|Exeunt Duke and his train
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Of grievous penalties, in lieu whereof,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|And stand indebted, over and above,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|In love and service to you evermore.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He is well paid that is well satisfied,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And I, delivering you, am satisfied
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And therein do account myself well paid:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|My mind was never yet more mercenary.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I pray you, know me when we meet again:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I wish you well, and so I take my leave.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Not as a fee: grant me two things, I pray you,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Not to deny me, and to pardon me.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You press me far, and therefore I will yield.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To ANTONIO
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Give me your gloves, I'll wear them for your sake,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To BASSANIO
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And, for your love, I'll take this ring from you:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Do not draw back your hand, I'll take no more,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And you in love shall not deny me this.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|This ring, good sir, alas, it is a trifle!
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I will not shame myself to give you this.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I will have nothing else but only this,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And now methinks I have a mind to it.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|There's more depends on this than on the value.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And find it out by proclamation:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I see, sir, you are liberal in offers
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You taught me first to beg, and now methinks
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And when she put it on, she made me vow
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|An if your wife be not a mad-woman,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And know how well I have deserved the ring,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|She would not hold out enemy for ever,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Exeunt Portia and Nerissa
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring:
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Let his deservings and my love withal
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Be valued against your wife's commandment.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Unto Antonio's house: away! make haste.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Exit Gratiano
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Come, you and I will thither presently,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And in the morning early will we both
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|SCENE II. The same. A street.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Enter PORTIA and NERISSA
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And let him sign it: we'll away to-night
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And be a day before our husbands home:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter GRATIANO
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Your company at dinner.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That cannot be:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|His ring I do accept most thankfully:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That will I do.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Sir, I would speak with you.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Aside to PORTIA
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|[Aside to NERISSA]  Thou mayst, I warrant.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|We shall have old swearing
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That they did give the rings away to men,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Aloud
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Exeunt
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|ACT V
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|SCENE I. Belmont. Avenue to PORTIA'S house.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Enter LORENZO and JESSICA
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And they did make no noise, in such a night
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Where Cressid lay that night.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|In such a night
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And saw the lion's shadow ere himself
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And ran dismay'd away.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|In such a night
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|To come again to Carthage.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|In such a night
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|That did renew old AEson.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|In such a night
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And with an unthrift love did run from Venice
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|As far as Belmont.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|In such a night
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Stealing her soul with many vows of faith
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|And ne'er a true one.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|In such a night
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Slander her love, and he forgave it her.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I would out-night you, did no body come,
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|But, hark, I hear the footing of a man.
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|Enter STEPHANO
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Who comes so fast in silence of the night?
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|A friend.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|A friend! what friend? your name, I pray you, friend?
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|Stephano is my name, and I bring word
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|My mistress will before the break of day
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|Be here at Belmont, she doth stray about
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|For happy wedlock hours.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Who comes with her?
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|None but a holy hermit and her maid.
Merchant of Venice|STEPHANO|I pray you, is my master yet return'd?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|He is not, nor we have not heard from him.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And ceremoniously let us prepare
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Some welcome for the mistress of the house.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter LAUNCELOT
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Who calls?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Sola! did you see Master Lorenzo?
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Master Lorenzo, sola, sola!
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Leave hollaing, man: here.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Sola! where? where?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Here.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Tell him there's a post come from my master, with
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|his horn full of good news: my master will be here
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|ere morning.
Merchant of Venice|LAUNCELOT|Exit
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And yet no matter: why should we go in?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Within the house, your mistress is at hand,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And bring your music forth into the air.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Exit Stephano
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But in his motion like an angel sings,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Such harmony is in immortal souls,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter Musicians
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn!
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And draw her home with music.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Music
Merchant of Venice|JESSICA|I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|The reason is, your spirits are attentive:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|For do but note a wild and wanton herd,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Which is the hot condition of their blood,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Or any air of music touch their ears,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But music for the time doth change his nature.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|The man that hath no music in himself,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|The motions of his spirit are dull as night
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|And his affections dark as Erebus:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Enter PORTIA and NERISSA
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That light we see is burning in my hall.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How far that little candle throws his beams!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|When the moon shone, we did not see the candle.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|So doth the greater glory dim the less:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A substitute shines brightly as a king
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Unto the king be by, and then his state
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Into the main of waters. Music! hark!
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|It is your music, madam, of the house.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nothing is good, I see, without respect:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|When neither is attended, and I think
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|When every goose is cackling, would be thought
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|No better a musician than the wren.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How many things by season season'd are
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To their right praise and true perfection!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And would not be awaked.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Music ceases
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|That is the voice,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Or I am much deceived, of Portia.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|By the bad voice.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Dear lady, welcome home.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|We have been praying for our husbands' healths,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Are they return'd?
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Madam, they are not yet,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|But there is come a messenger before,
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|To signify their coming.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Go in, Nerissa,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Give order to my servants that they take
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|No note at all of our being absent hence,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nor you, Lorenzo, Jessica, nor you.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A tucket sounds
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Your husband is at hand, I hear his trumpet:
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|We are no tell-tales, madam, fear you not.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|This night methinks is but the daylight sick,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It looks a little paler: 'tis a day,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Such as the day is when the sun is hid.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter BASSANIO, ANTONIO, GRATIANO, and their followers
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|We should hold day with the Antipodes,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If you would walk in absence of the sun.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Let me give light, but let me not be light,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And never be Bassanio so for me:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|But God sort all! You are welcome home, my lord.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|This is the man, this is Antonio,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|To whom I am so infinitely bound.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You should in all sense be much bound to him.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For, as I hear, he was much bound for you.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|No more than I am well acquitted of.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Sir, you are very welcome to our house:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It must appear in other ways than words,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|[To NERISSA]  By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A quarrel, ho, already! what's the matter?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That she did give me, whose posy was
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|For all the world like cutler's poetry
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Upon  a knife, 'Love me, and leave me not.'
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|What talk you of the posy or the value?
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|You swore to me, when I did give it you,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|That you would wear it till your hour of death
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|And that it should lie with you in your grave:
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|You should have been respective and have kept it.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|He will, an if he live to be a man.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Ay, if a woman live to be a man.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|No higher than thyself, the judge's clerk,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|I could not for my heart deny it him.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You were to blame, I must be plain with you,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I gave my love a ring and made him swear
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Never to part with it, and here he stands,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|[Aside]  Why, I were best to cut my left hand off
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And swear I lost the ring defending it.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Deserved it too, and then the boy, his clerk,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|And neither man nor master would take aught
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|But the two rings.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|What ring gave you my lord?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Not that, I hope, which you received of me.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If I could add a lie unto a fault,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I would deny it, but you see my finger
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Hath not the ring upon it, it is gone.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Even so void is your false heart of truth.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Until I see the ring.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Nor I in yours
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Till I again see mine.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Sweet Portia,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If you did know to whom I gave the ring,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|If you did know for whom I gave the ring
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And would conceive for what I gave the ring
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And how unwillingly I left the ring,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|When nought would be accepted but the ring,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|You would abate the strength of your displeasure.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If you had known the virtue of the ring,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Or your own honour to contain the ring,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You would not then have parted with the ring.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|What man is there so much unreasonable,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If you had pleased to have defended it
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|To urge the thing held as a ceremony?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nerissa teaches me what to believe:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I'll die for't but some woman had the ring.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|No woman had it, but a civil doctor,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And begg'd the ring, the which I did deny him
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And suffer'd him to go displeased away,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Even he that did uphold the very life
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I was enforced to send it after him,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I was beset with shame and courtesy,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|My honour would not let ingratitude
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|For, by these blessed candles of the night,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Had you been there, I think you would have begg'd
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And that which you did swear to keep for me,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I will become as liberal as you,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I'll not deny him any thing I have,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|No, not my body nor my husband's bed:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Lie not a night from home, watch me like Argus:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|If you do not, if I be left alone,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|And I his clerk, therefore be well advised
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|How you do leave me to mine own protection.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Well, do you so, let not me take him, then,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Sir, grieve not you, you are welcome notwithstanding.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|And, in the hearing of these many friends,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Wherein I see myself--
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Mark you but that!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In both my eyes he doubly sees himself,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|In each eye, one: swear by your double self,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And there's an oath of credit.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Nay, but hear me:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|I never more will break an oath with thee.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I once did lend my body for his wealth,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Will never more break faith advisedly.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Then you shall be his surety. Give him this
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And bid him keep it better than the other.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Here, Lord Bassanio, swear to keep this ring.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|For, by this ring, the doctor lay with me.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|In lieu of this last night did lie with me.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Why, this is like the mending of highways
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|In summer, where the ways are fair enough:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Here is a letter, read it at your leisure,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It comes from Padua, from Bellario:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Shall witness I set forth as soon as you
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And even but now return'd, I have not yet
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And I have better news in store for you
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Than you expect: unseal this letter soon,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|There you shall find three of your argosies
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Are richly come to harbour suddenly:
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|You shall not know by what strange accident
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|I chanced on this letter.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|I am dumb.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Were you the doctor and I knew you not?
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Unless he live until he be a man.
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|Sweet doctor, you shall be my bed-fellow:
Merchant of Venice|BASSANIO|When I am absent, then lie with my wife.
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Sweet lady, you have given me life and living,
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|For here I read for certain that my ships
Merchant of Venice|ANTONIO|Are safely come to road.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|How now, Lorenzo!
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|There do I give to you and Jessica,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,
Merchant of Venice|NERISSA|After his death, of all he dies possess'd of.
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way
Merchant of Venice|LORENZO|Of starved people.
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|It is almost morning,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And yet I am sure you are not satisfied
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|Of these events at full. Let us go in,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And charge us there upon inter'gatories,
Merchant of Venice|PORTIA|And we will answer all things faithfully.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Let it be so: the first inter'gatory
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Whether till the next night she had rather stay,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|But were the day come, I should wish it dark,
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
Merchant of Venice|GRATIANO|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|GRATIANO|ACT I
Merry Wives of Windsor|GRATIANO|SCENE I. Windsor. Before PAGE's house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|GRATIANO|Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Sir Hugh, persuade me not, I will make a Star-
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|'Coram.'
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalourum.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, and 'Rato-lorum' too, and a gentleman born,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|master parson, who writes himself 'Armigero,' in any
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, 'Armigero.'
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Ay, that I do, and have done any time these three
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|hundred years.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|All his successors gone before him hath done't, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|all his ancestors that come after him may: they may
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|give the dozen white luces in their coat.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|It is an old coat.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|The dozen white louses do become an old coat well,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|it agrees well, passant, it is a familiar beast to
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|man, and signifies love.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|The luce is the fresh fish, the salt fish is an old coat.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I may quarter, coz.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|You may, by marrying.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Not a whit.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Yes, py'r lady, if he has a quarter of your coat,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|there is but three skirts for yourself, in my
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|benevolence to make atonements and compremises
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|between you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|The council shall bear it, it is a riot.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is not meet the council hear a riot, there is no
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|riot, take your vizaments in that.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|should end it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is petter that friends is the sword, and end it:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|and there is also another device in my prain, which
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|peradventure prings goot discretions with it: there
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master Thomas
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Page, which is pretty virginity.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|small like a woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|you will desire, and seven hundred pounds of moneys,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|death's-bed--Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|--give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I know the young gentlewoman, she has good gifts.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|despise one that is false, or as I despise one that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there, and, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|peat the door for Master Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Knocks
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|What, hoa! Got pless your house here!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|[Within]  Who's there?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Enter PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and Justice
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Shallow, and here young Master Slender, that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|peradventures shall tell you another tale, if
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|matters grow to your likings.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I am glad to see your worships well.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Master Page, I am glad to see you: much good do it
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|your good heart! I wished your venison better, it
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page?--and I
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|thank you always with my heart, la! with my heart.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Sir, I thank you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Sir, I thank you, by yea and no, I do.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|was outrun on Cotsall.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|It could not be judged, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|You'll not confess, you'll not confess.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|'tis a good dog.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|A cur, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog: can there be
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|more said? he is good and fair. Is Sir John
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Falstaff here?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Sir, he is within, and I would I could do a good
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|office between you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|He hath wronged me, Master Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Sir, he doth in some sort confess it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|so, Master Page? He hath wronged me, indeed he
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Here comes Sir John.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Enter FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|broke open my lodge.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|But not kissed your keeper's daughter?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I will answer it straight, I have done all this.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|That is now answered.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|The council shall know this.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|you'll be laughed at.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Pauca verba, Sir John, goot worts.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|head: what matter have you against me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Nym, and Pistol.
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|You Banbury cheese!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, it is no matter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|How now, Mephostophilus!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, it is no matter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice! that's my humour.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|three umpires in this matter, as I understand, that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|is, Master Page, fidelicet Master Page, and there is
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|myself, fidelicet myself, and the three party is,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|We three, to hear it and end it between them.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|book, and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|as great discreetly as we can.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Pistol!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|He hears with ears.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, 'He
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|hears with ear'? why, it is affectations.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|never come in mine own great chamber again else, of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|shovel-boards, that cost me two shilling and two
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|pence apiece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Is this true, Pistol?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|No, it is false, if it is a pick-purse.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and Master mine,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Word of denial in thy labras here!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|By these gloves, then, 'twas he.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|Be avised, sir, and pass good humours: I will say
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|humour on me, that is the very note of it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|By this hat, then, he in the red face had it, for
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|though I cannot remember what I did when you made me
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|What say you, Scarlet and John?
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|himself out of his five sentences.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|so conclusions passed the careires.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, you spake in Latin then too, but 'tis no
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen, you hear it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter ANNE PAGE, with wine, MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE, following
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Nay, daughter, carry the wine in, we'll drink within.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Exit ANNE PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|How now, Mistress Ford!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|by your leave, good mistress.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Kisses her
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|we shall drink down all unkindness.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Songs and Sonnets here.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Enter SIMPLE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|about you, have you?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|afore Michaelmas?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Come, coz, come, coz, we stay for you. A word with
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|you, coz, marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|here. Do you understand me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable, if it be so,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I shall do that that is reason.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Nay, but understand me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|So I do, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|you, pardon me, he's a justice of peace in his
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|country, simple though I stand here.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|But that is not the question: the question is
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|concerning your marriage.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Ay, there's the point, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Marry, is it, the very point of it, to Mistress Anne Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|reasonable demands.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|know that of your mouth or of your lips, for divers
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|good will to the maid?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|would do reason.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|possitable, if you can carry her your desires
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|towards her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I will do a greater thing than that, upon your
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|request, cousin, in any reason.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I will marry her, sir, at your request: but if there
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|married and have more occasion to know one another,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|but if you say, 'Marry her,' I will marry her, that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is a fery discretion answer, save the fall is in
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|meaning, 'resolutely:' his meaning is good.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Ay, I think my cousin meant well.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Here comes fair Mistress Anne.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Re-enter ANNE PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|The dinner is on the table, my father desires your
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|worships' company.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Will't please your worship to come in, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily, I am very well.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|The dinner attends you, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|cousin Shallow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Exit SIMPLE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|live like a poor gentleman born.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|I may not go in without your worship: they will not
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|sit till you come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I' faith, I'll eat nothing, I thank you as much as
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|though I did.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|I pray you, sir, walk in.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|my shin th' other day with playing at sword and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|dagger with a master of fence, three veneys for a
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|dish of stewed prunes, and, by my troth, I cannot
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|I think there are, sir, I heard them talked of.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I love the sport well but I shall as soon quarrel at
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|the bear loose, are you not?
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Ay, indeed, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|the chain, but, I warrant you, the women have so
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|indeed, cannot abide 'em, they are very ill-favored
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|rough things.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Re-enter PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Come, gentle Master Slender, come, we stay for you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Nay, pray you, lead the way.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Come on, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Not I, sir, pray you, keep on.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|SCENE II. The same.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|his wringer.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Well, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter, for it
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|and require her to solicit your master's desires to
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|make an end of my dinner, there's pippins and cheese to come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|SCENE III. A room in the Garter Inn.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mine host of the Garter!
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|followers.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Discard, bully Hercules, cashier: let them wag, trot, trot.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I sit at ten pounds a week.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar, and Pheezar. I
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|will entertain Bardolph, he shall draw, he shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|tap: said I well, bully Hector?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Do so, good mine host.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|I have spoke, let him follow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|To BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word, follow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|an old cloak makes a new jerkin, a withered
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|serving-man a fresh tapster. Go, adieu.
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Exit BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox: his
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|thefts were too open, his filching was like an
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|unskilful singer, he kept not time.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! a fico
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|for the phrase!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Why, then, let kibes ensue.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|There is no remedy, I must cony-catch, I must shift.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Young ravens must have food.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Which of you know Ford of this town?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|I ken the wight: he is of substance good.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Two yards, and more.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|yards about, but I am now about no waste, I am about
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|wife: I spy entertainment in her, she discourses,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|can construe the action of her familiar style, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the hardest voice of her behavior, to be Englished
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|He hath studied her will, and translated her will,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|out of honesty into English.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|The anchor is deep: will that humour pass?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|husband's purse: he hath a legion of angels.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|As many devils entertain, and 'To her, boy,' say I.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|The humour rises, it is good: humour me the angels.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I have writ me here a letter to her: and here
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|eyes too, examined my parts with most judicious
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|oeillades, sometimes the beam of her view gilded my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|foot, sometimes my portly belly.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Then did the sun on dunghill shine.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|I thank thee for that humour.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|another letter to her: she bears the purse too, she
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|be cheater to them both, and they shall be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|exchequers to me, they shall be my East and West
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|this letter to Mistress Page, and thou this to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|I will run no base humour: here, take the
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|humour-letter: I will keep the havior of reputation.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|[To ROBIN]  Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Trudge, plod away o' the hoof, seek shelter, pack!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Falstaff will learn the humour of the age,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|French thrift, you rogues, myself and skirted page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exeunt FALSTAFF and ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and fullam holds,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|And high and low beguiles the rich and poor:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Base Phrygian Turk!
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|I have operations which be humours of revenge.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Wilt thou revenge?
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|By welkin and her star!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|With wit or steel?
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|With both the humours, I:
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|And I to Ford shall eke unfold
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|How Falstaff, varlet vile,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|His dove will prove, his gold will hold,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|And his soft couch defile.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|deal with poison, I will possess him with
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous:
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|that is my true humour.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Thou art the Mars of malecontents: I second thee, troop on.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|SCENE IV. A room in DOCTOR CAIUS' house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|body in the house, here will be an old abusing of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|God's patience and the king's English.
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|I'll go watch.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Go, and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Exit RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|that he is given to prayer, he is something peevish
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|that way: but nobody but has his fault, but let
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Ay, for fault of a better.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And Master Slender's your master?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Ay, forsooth.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Does he not wear a great round beard, like a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|glover's paring-knife?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|A softly-sprighted man, is he not?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|as any is between this and his head, he hath fought
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|with a warrener.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|How say you? O, I should remember him: does he not
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Yes, indeed, does he.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish--
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Re-enter RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|Out, alas! here comes my master.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|go into this closet: he will not stay long.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Shuts SIMPLE in the closet
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Go, John, go inquire for my master, I doubt
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|he be not well, that he comes not home.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Singing
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And down, down, adown-a,  and c.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Enter DOCTOR CAIUS
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Vat is you sing? I do not like des toys. Pray you,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|go and vetch me in my closet un boitier vert, a box,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|a green-a box: do intend vat I speak? a green-a box.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Ay, forsooth, I'll fetch it you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Aside
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|the young man, he would have been horn-mad.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|m'en vais a la cour--la grande affaire.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Is it this, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Oui, mette le au mon pocket: depeche, quickly. Vere
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|is dat knave Rugby?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|What, John Rugby! John!
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|Here, sir!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to the court.
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's me!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Qu'ai-j'oublie! dere is some simples in my closet,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Ay me, he'll find the young man here, and be mad!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Pulling SIMPLE out
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Rugby, my rapier!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Good master, be content.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Wherefore shall I be content-a?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|The young man is an honest man.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|no honest man dat shall come in my closet.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Vell.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Ay, forsooth, to desire her to--
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Peace, I pray you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Peace-a your tongue. Speak-a your tale.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|master in the way of marriage.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er put my
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|finger in the fire, and need not.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some paper.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Tarry you a little-a while.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Writes
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|[Aside to SIMPLE]  I am glad he is so quiet: if he
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|master,--I may call him my master, look you, for I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|keep his house, and I wash, wring, brew, bake,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|all myself,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|[Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY]  'Tis a great charge to
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|come under one body's hand.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|[Aside to SIMPLE]  Are you avised o' that? you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|shall find it a great charge: and to be up early
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|and down late, but notwithstanding,--to tell you in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|your ear, I would have no words of it,--my master
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,--that's
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|neither here nor there.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|You jack'nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh, by
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|park, and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|to meddle or make. You may be gone, it is not good
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|stones, by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|at his dog:
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Exit SIMPLE
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Alas, he speaks but for his friend.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|It is no matter-a ver dat: do not you tell-a me
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|dat I shall have Anne Page for myself? By gar, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|vill kill de Jack priest, and I have appointed mine
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|host of de Jarteer to measure our weapon. By gar, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|will myself have Anne Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Rugby, come to the court with me. By gar, if I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|door. Follow my heels, Rugby.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Exeunt DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|knows more of Anne's mind than I do, nor can do more
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|than I do with her, I thank heaven.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|[Within]  Who's within there? ho!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Who's there, I trow! Come near the house, I pray you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Enter FENTON
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|How now, good woman? how dost thou?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|The better that it pleases your good worship to ask.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|gentle, and one that is your friend, I can tell you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|that by the way, I praise heaven for it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? shall I not lose my suit?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Troth, sir, all is in his hands above: but
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|notwithstanding, Master Fenton, I'll be sworn on a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|book, she loves you. Have not your worship a wart
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|above your eye?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Yes, marry, have I, what of that?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Well, thereby hangs a tale: good faith, it is such
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|another Nan, but, I detest, an honest maid as ever
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|broke bread: we had an hour's talk of that wart. I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|shall never laugh but in that maid's company! But
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|indeed she is given too much to allicholy and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|musing: but for you--well, go to.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold, there's money
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|for thee, let me have thy voice in my behalf: if
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|thou seest her before me, commend me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Will I? i'faith, that we will, and I will tell your
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|worship more of the wart the next time we have
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|confidence, and of other wooers.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Well, farewell, I am in great haste now.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Farewell to your worship.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Exit FENTON
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|upon't! what have I forgot?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|ACT II
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|SCENE I. Before PAGE'S house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Let me see.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Reads
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|'Ask me no reason why I love you, for though
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|am I, go to then, there's sympathy: you are merry,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|so am I, ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|love sack, and so do I, would you desire better
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|that I love thee. I will not say, pity me, 'tis
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me. By me,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Thine own true knight,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|By day or night,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Or any kind of light,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|With all his might
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|For thee to fight,    JOHN FALSTAFF'
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|age to show himself a young gallant! What an
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|picked--with the devil's name!--out of my
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|should I say to him? I was then frugal of my
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|mirth: Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|in the parliament for the putting down of men. How
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|as sure as his guts are made of puddings.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter MISTRESS FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Mistress Page! trust me, I was going to your house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|ill.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Nay, I'll ne'er believe that, I have to show to the contrary.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Faith, but you do, in my mind.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Well, I do then, yet I say I could show you to the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|What's the matter, woman?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|could come to such honour!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Hang the trifle, woman! take the honour. What is
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|it? dispense with trifles, what is it?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I could be knighted.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|What? thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|will hack, and so thou shouldst not alter the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|article of thy gentry.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|We burn daylight: here, read, read, perceive how I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|men's liking: and yet he would not swear, praised
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|women's modesty, and gave such orderly and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|would have sworn his disposition would have gone to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|the truth of his words, but they do no more adhere
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|on him? I think the best way were to entertain him
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Ford differs! To thy great comfort in this mystery
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|letter: but let thine inherit first, for, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|protest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|different names--sure, more,--and these are of the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|second edition: he will print them, out of doubt,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|for he cares not what he puts into the press, when
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|he would put us two. I had rather be a giantess,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Why, this is the very same, the very hand, the very
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|words. What doth he think of us?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Nay, I know not: it makes me almost ready to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|myself like one that I am not acquainted withal,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|for, sure, unless he know some strain in me, that I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|above deck.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|So will I	if he come under my hatches, I'll never
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|to sea again. Let's be revenged on him: let's
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|appoint him a meeting, give him a show of comfort in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|his suit and lead him on with a fine-baited delay,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|that my husband saw this letter! it would give
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|eternal food to his jealousy.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Why, look where he comes, and my good man too: he's
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|and that I hope is an unmeasurable distance.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|You are the happier woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Let's consult together against this greasy knight.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Come hither.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|They retire
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Well, I hope it be not so.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Sir John affects thy wife.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Why, sir, my wife is not young.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Both young and old, one with another, Ford,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Love my wife!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|O, odious is the name!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|What name, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|The horn, I say. Farewell.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Away, Sir Corporal Nym!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Believe it, Page, he speaks sense.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|[Aside]  I will be patient, I will find out this.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|[To PAGE]  And this is true, I like not the humour
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|should have borne the humoured letter to her, but I
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|He loves your wife, there's the short and the long.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|My name is Corporal Nym, I speak and I avouch, 'tis
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|and there's the humour of it. Adieu.
Merry Wives of Windsor|NYM|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|'The humour of it,' quoth a'! here's a fellow
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|frights English out of his wits.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I will seek out Falstaff.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|If I do find it: well.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|o' the town commended him for a true man.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|'Twas a good sensible fellow: well.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|How now, Meg!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|MISTRESS PAGE and MISTRESS FORD come forward
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Whither go you, George? Hark you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I melancholy! I am not melancholy. Get you home, go.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. Now,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|will you go, Mistress Page?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Have with you. You'll come to dinner, George.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Aside to MISTRESS FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Look who comes yonder: she shall be our messenger
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|to this paltry knight.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|[Aside to MISTRESS PAGE]  Trust me, I thought on her:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|she'll fit it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|You are come to see my daughter Anne?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Ay, forsooth, and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Go in with us and see: we have an hour's talk with
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|How now, Master Ford!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|You heard what this knave told me, did you not?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Yes: and you heard what the other told me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Do you think there is truth in them?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Hang 'em, slaves! I do not think the knight would
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|offer it: but these that accuse him in his intent
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|very rogues, now they be out of service.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Were they his men?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Marry, were they.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|the Garter?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|towards my wife, I would turn her loose to him, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|lie on my head.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|turn them together. A man may be too confident: I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|would have nothing lie on my head: I cannot be thus satisfied.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|there is either liquor in his pate or money in his
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|purse when he looks so merrily.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Enter Host
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|How now, mine host!
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|How now, bully-rook! thou'rt a gentleman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Cavaleiro-justice, I say!
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Enter SHALLOW
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|I follow, mine host, I follow. Good even and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|twenty, good Master Page! Master Page, will you go
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|with us? we have sport in hand.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Tell him, cavaleiro-justice, tell him, bully-rook.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Good mine host o' the Garter, a word with you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Drawing him aside
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|What sayest thou, my bully-rook?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|[To PAGE]  Will you go with us to behold it? My
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Hark, I will tell you what our sport shall be.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|They converse apart
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Hast thou no suit against my knight, my
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|guest-cavaleire?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|None, I protest: but I'll give you a pottle of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|burnt sack to give me recourse to him and tell him
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|my name is Brook, only for a jest.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|My hand, bully, thou shalt have egress and regress,
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|--said I well?--and thy name shall be Brook. It is
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|a merry knight. Will you go, An-heires?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Have with you, mine host.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|his rapier.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Tut, sir, I could have told you more. In these times
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|I know not what: 'tis the heart, Master Page, 'tis
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|here, 'tis here. I have seen the time, with my long
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Here, boys, here, here! shall we wag?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Have with you. I would rather hear them scold than fight.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Exeunt Host, SHALLOW, and PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Though Page be a secure fool, an stands so firmly
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|opinion so easily: she was in his company at Page's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|house, and what they made there, I know not. Well,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I will look further into't: and I have a disguise
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|to sound Falstaff. If I find her honest, I lose not
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|my labour, if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|SCENE II. A room in the Garter Inn.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I will not lend thee a penny.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Why, then the world's mine oyster.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Which I with sword will open.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|lay my countenance to pawn, I have grated upon my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|good friends for three reprieves for you and your
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|coach-fellow Nym, or else you had looked through
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|good soldiers and tall fellows, and when Mistress
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|mine honour thou hadst it not.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou I'll
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go. A short knife
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and a throng! To your manor of Pickt-hatch! Go.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue! you
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|terms of my honour precise: I, I, I myself
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|shuffle, to hedge and to lurch, and yet you, rogue,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|honour! You will not do it, you!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|I do relent: what would thou more of man?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Enter ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Let her approach.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Give your worship good morrow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Good morrow, good wife.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Not so, an't please your worship.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Good maid, then.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|I'll be sworn,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|As my mother was, the first hour I was born.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I do believe the swearer. What with me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe thee
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the hearing.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--I pray, come a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with master
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Doctor Caius,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Your worship says very true: I pray your worship,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|come a little nearer this ways.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I warrant thee, nobody hears, mine own people, mine
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|own people.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Are they so? God bless them and make them his servants!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Well, Mistress Ford, what of her?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord Lord! your
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you and all
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|of us, I pray!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mistress Ford, come, Mistress Ford,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Marry, this is the short and the long of it, you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I warrant
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|after gift, smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold, and in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|such alligant terms, and in such wine and sugar of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|the best and the fairest, that would have won any
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|woman's heart, and, I warrant you, they could never
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|get an eye-wink of her: I had myself twenty angels
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|given me this morning, but I defy all angels, in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|any such sort, as they say, but in the way of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|honesty: and, I warrant you, they could never get
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|them all: and yet there has been earls, nay, which
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|is more, pensioners, but, I warrant you, all is one with her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|But what says she to me? be brief, my good
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|she-Mercury.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Marry, she hath received your letter, for the which
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|she thanks you a thousand times, and she gives you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|to notify that her husband will be absence from his
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|house between ten and eleven.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Ten and eleven?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Ay, forsooth, and then you may come and see the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|woman leads an ill life with him: he's a very
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|jealousy man: she leads a very frampold life with
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|him, good heart.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her, I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|not fail her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Why, you say well. But I have another messenger to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|your worship. Mistress Page hath her hearty
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|commendations to you too: and let me tell you in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|your ear, she's as fartuous a civil modest wife, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|one, I tell you, that will not miss you morning nor
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|other: and she bade me tell your worship that her
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|husband is seldom from home, but she hopes there
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|will come a time. I never knew a woman so dote upon
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|a man: surely I think you have charms, la, yes, in truth.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Not I, I assure thee: setting the attractions of my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|good parts aside I have no other charms.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Blessing on your heart for't!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife and
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|That were a jest indeed! they have not so little
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! but
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Mistress Page would desire you to send her your
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|little page, of all loves: her husband has a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|marvellous infection to the little page, and truly
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Windsor leads a better life than she does: do what
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|she will: and truly she deserves it, for if there
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|send her your page, no remedy.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Why, I will.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Nay, but do so, then: and, look you, he may come and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|go between you both, and in any case have a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|the boy never need to understand any thing, for
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|'tis not good that children should know any
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|as they say, and know the world.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|my purse, I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along with
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|this woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY and ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|This news distracts me!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|This punk is one of Cupid's carriers:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Clap on more sails, pursue, up with your fights:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy ways, I'll make
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|more of thy old body than I have done. Will they
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|thank thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done, so it be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|fairly done, no matter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Sir John, there's one Master Brook below would fain
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|speak with you, and be acquainted with you, and hath
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|sent your worship a morning's draught of sack.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Brook is his name?
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Ay, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Call him in.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exit BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|have I encompassed you? go to, via!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Re-enter BARDOLPH, with FORD disguised
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Bless you, sir!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|And you, sir! Would you speak with me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I make bold to press with so little preparation upon
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|You're welcome. What's your will? Give us leave, drawer.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exit BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Sir, I am a gentleman that have spent much, my name is Brook.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|for I must let you understand I think myself in
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|better plight for a lender than you are: the which
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|intrusion, for they say, if money go before, all
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|ways do lie open.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|if you will help to bear it, Sir John, take all, or
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|half, for easing me of the carriage.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Sir, I know not how I may deserve to be your porter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I will tell you, sir, if you will give me the hearing.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Speak, good Master Brook: I shall be glad to be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|your servant.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Sir, I hear you are a scholar,--I will be brief
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|with you,--and you have been a man long known to me,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|though I had never so good means, as desire, to make
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|turn another into the register of your own, that I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Very well, sir, proceed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|There is a gentlewoman in this town, her husband's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|name is Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Well, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I have long loved her, and, I protest to you,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|bestowed much on her, followed her with a doting
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|observance, engrossed opportunities to meet her,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|give me sight of her, not only bought many presents
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|to give her, but have given largely to many to know
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|what she would have given, briefly, I have pursued
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|her as love hath pursued me, which hath been on the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|merited, either in my mind or, in my means, meed,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I am sure, I have received none, unless experience
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|rate, and that hath taught me to say this:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|'Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.'
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Never.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Have you importuned her to such a purpose?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Never.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Of what quality was your love, then?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Like a fair house built on another man's ground, so
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|where I erected it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|To what purpose have you unfolded this to me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|When I have told you that, I have told you all.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Some say, that though she appear honest to me, yet in
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|there is shrewd construction made of her. Now, Sir
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|John, here is the heart of my purpose: you are a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|place and person, generally allowed for your many
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|war-like, court-like, and learned preparations.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|O, sir!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Believe it, for you know it. There is money, spend
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|it, spend it, spend more, spend all I have, only
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Ford's wife: use your art of wooing, win her to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|consent to you: if any man may, you may as soon as
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|any.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Would it apply well to the vehemency of your
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|affection, that I should win what you would enjoy?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|the excellency of her honour, that the folly of my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|soul dares not present itself: she is too bright to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|be looked against. Now, could I could come to her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|with any detection in my hand, my desires had
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|instance and argument to commend themselves: I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|could drive her then from the ward of her purity,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|her reputation, her marriage-vow, and a thousand
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|other her defences, which now are too too strongly
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|embattled against me. What say you to't, Sir John?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Master Brook, I will first make bold with your
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|money, next, give me your hand, and last, as I am a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|gentleman, you shall, if you will, enjoy Ford's wife.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|O good sir!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I say you shall.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Want no money, Sir John, you shall want none.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook, you shall want
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|own appointment, even as you came in to me, her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|shall be with her between ten and eleven, for at
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|that time the jealous rascally knave her husband
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|will be forth. Come you to me at night, you shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|know how I speed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I am blest in your acquaintance. Do you know Ford,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave! I know him not:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|yet I wrong him to call him poor, they say the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money, for the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|which his wife seems to me well-favored. I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and there's my harvest-home.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|if you saw him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|stare him out of his wits, I will awe him with my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|cudgel: it shall hang like a meteor o'er the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|cuckold's horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|lie with his wife. Come to me soon at night.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|cuckold. Come to me soon at night.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him, the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|hour is fixed, the match is made. Would any man
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|have thought this? See the hell of having a false
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|ransacked, my reputation gnawn at, and I shall not
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|well, Lucifer, well, Barbason, well, yet they are
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|devils' additions, the names of fiends: but
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|will trust his wife, he will not be jealous. I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|gelding, than my wife with herself, then she plots,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|then she ruminates, then she devises, and what they
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|think in their hearts they may effect, they will
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|break their hearts but they will effect. God be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|SCENE III. A field near Windsor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Jack Rugby!
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|Sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Vat is de clock, Jack?
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come, he
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|He is wise, sir, he knew your worship would kill
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|him, if he came.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Take your rapier, Jack, I vill tell you how I vill kill him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|Alas, sir, I cannot fence.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Villany, take your rapier.
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|Forbear, here's company.
Merry Wives of Windsor|RUGBY|Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Bless thee, bully doctor!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Save you, Master Doctor Caius!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Now, good master doctor!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Give you good morrow, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there, to
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|he dead, bully stale? is he dead?
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld, he
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|is not show his face.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|souls, and you a curer of bodies, if you should
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|fight, you go against the hair of your professions.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Is it not true, Master Page?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|fighter, though now a man of peace.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|make one. Though we are justices and doctors and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|youth in us, we are the sons of women, Master Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|'Tis true, Master Shallow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|the peace: you have showed yourself a wise
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Mock-vater! vat is dat?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|vill cut his ears.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|That is, he will make thee amends.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|for, by gar, me vill have it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Me tank you for dat.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|through the town to Frogmore.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Aside to them
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Sir Hugh is there, is he?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|He is there: see what humour he is in, and I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|We will do it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Adieu, good master doctor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, me vill kill de priest, for he speak for a
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|jack-an-ape to Anne Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|water on thy choler: go about the fields with me
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting, and thou
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Page. Said I well?
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, 'tis good, vell said.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Let us wag, then.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|ACT III
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|SCENE I. A field near Frogmore.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|and friend Simple by your name, which way have you
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|way, old Windsor way, and every way but the town
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|way.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I most fehemently desire you you will also look that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|way.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|I will, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|his urinals about his knave's costard when I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Sings
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|To shallow rivers, to whose falls
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Melodious birds sings madrigals,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|There will we make our peds of roses,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|And a thousand fragrant posies.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|To shallow--
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Sings
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Melodious birds sing madrigals--
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|When as I sat in Pabylon--
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|And a thousand vagram posies.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|To shallow  and c.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Re-enter SIMPLE
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|He's welcome.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Sings
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|To shallow rivers, to whose falls-
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|the stile, this way.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Pray you, give me my gown, or else keep it in your arms.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|from his book, and it is wonderful.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|[Aside]  Ah, sweet Anne Page!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|'Save you, good Sir Hugh!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|'Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|What, the sword and the word! do you study them
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|both, master parson?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|And youthful still! in your doublet and hose this
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|raw rheumatic day!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|There is reasons and causes for it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|We are come to you to do a good office, master parson.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Fery well: what is it?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|having received wrong by some person, is at most
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|saw.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|I have lived fourscore years and upward, I never
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|wide of his own respect.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|What is he?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I think you know him, Master Doctor Caius, the
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|renowned French physician.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Why?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|--and he is a knave besides, a cowardly knave as you
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|would desires to be acquainted withal.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|[Aside]  O sweet Anne Page!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|here comes Doctor Caius.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Enter Host, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|So do you, good master doctor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|their limbs whole and hack our English.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Vherefore vill you not meet-a me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS]  Pray you, use your patience:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|in good time.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|[Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS]  Pray you let us not be
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|laughing-stocks to other men's humours, I desire you
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Aloud
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I will knog your urinals about your knave's cockscomb
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|for missing your meetings and appointments.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Diable! Jack Rugby,--mine host de Jarteer,--have I
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|not stay for him to kill him? have I not, at de place
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|I did appoint?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|As I am a Christians soul now, look you, this is the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|place appointed: I'll be judgement by mine host of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|the Garter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh,
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|soul-curer and body-curer!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Ay, dat is very good, excellent.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Peace, I say! hear mine host of the Garter. Am I
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|lose my doctor? no, he gives me the potions and the
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Hugh? no, he gives me the proverbs and the
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial, so. Give me
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|thy hand, celestial, so. Boys of art, I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|deceived you both, I have directed you to wrong
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|places: your hearts are mighty, your skins are
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace,
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|follow, follow, follow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Trust me, a mad host. Follow, gentlemen, follow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|[Aside]  O sweet Anne Page!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and Host
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Ha, do I perceive dat? have you make-a de sot of
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|us, ha, ha?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|This is well, he has made us his vlouting-stog. I
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|desire you that we may be friends, and let us knog
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|our prains together to be revenge on this same
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|scall, scurvy cogging companion, the host of the Garter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|where is Anne Page, by gar, he deceive me too.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you, follow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|SCENE II. A street.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Nay, keep your way, little gallant, you were wont to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|than follow him like a dwarf.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|O, you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Ay, and as idle as she may hang together, for want
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|of company. I think, if your husbands were dead,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|you two would marry.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Be sure of that,--two other husbands.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Where had you this pretty weather-cock?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|husband had him of. What do you call your knight's
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|name, sirrah?
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|Sir John Falstaff.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Sir John Falstaff!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|He, he, I can never hit on's name. There is such a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|league between my good man and he! Is your wife at
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|home indeed?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Indeed she is.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|thinking? Sure, they sleep, he hath no use of them.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|score. He pieces out his wife's inclination, he
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|and our revolted wives share damnation together.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Well, I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|wilful Actaeon, and to these violent proceedings all
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|my neighbours shall cry aim.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Clock heard
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|rather praised for this than mocked, for it is as
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|there: I will go.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, Host, SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Well met, Master Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Trust me, a good knot: I have good cheer at home,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|and I pray you all go with me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|I must excuse myself, Master Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|And so must I, sir: we have appointed to dine with
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Mistress Anne, and I would not break with her for
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|more money than I'll speak of.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I hope I have your good will, father Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|You have, Master Slender, I stand wholly for you:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|but my wife, master doctor, is for you altogether.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Ay, be-gar, and de maid is love-a me: my nursh-a
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Quickly tell me so mush.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|carry't, he will carry't, 'tis in his buttons, he
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|will carry't.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|of no having: he kept company with the wild prince
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|and Poins, he is of too high a region, he knows too
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|with the finger of my substance: if he take her,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|let him take her simply, the wealth I have waits on
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|my consent, and my consent goes not that way.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|sport, I will show you a monster. Master doctor,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|you shall go, so shall you, Master Page, and you, Sir Hugh.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|at Master Page's.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Exeunt SHALLOW, and SLENDER
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Go home, John Rugby, I come anon.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Exit RUGBY
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Falstaff, and drink canary with him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|[Aside]  I think I shall drink in pipe wine first
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|with him, I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles?
Merry Wives of Windsor|All|Have with you to see this monster.
Merry Wives of Windsor|All|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|All|SCENE III. A room in FORD'S house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|All|Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What, John! What, Robert!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Quickly, quickly! is the buck-basket--
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I warrant. What, Robin, I say!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Enter Servants with a basket
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Come, come, come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Here, set it down.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Give your men the charge, we must be brief.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|or staggering take this basket on your shoulders:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|You will do it?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I ha' told them over and over, they lack no
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|direction. Be gone, and come when you are called.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Exeunt Servants
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Here comes little Robin.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you?
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door,
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|Mistress Ford, and requests your company.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us?
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|being here and hath threatened to put me into
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|everlasting liberty if I tell you of it, for he
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|swears he'll turn me away.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|and hose. I'll go hide me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Exit ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Mistress Page, remember you your cue.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I warrant thee, if I do not act it, hiss me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|this gross watery pumpion, we'll teach him to know
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|turtles from jays.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Enter FALSTAFF
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|me die, for I have lived long enough: this is the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|period of my ambition: O this blessed hour!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|O sweet Sir John!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|thy husband were dead: I'll speak it before the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|best lord, I would make thee my lady.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Let the court of France show me such another. I see
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Venetian admittance.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|A plain kerchief, Sir John: my brows become nothing
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|else, nor that well neither.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|By the Lord, thou art a traitor to say so: thou
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|wouldst make an absolute courtier, and the firm
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. I see
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|what thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|thy friend. Come, thou canst not hide it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Believe me, there is no such thing in me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|What made me love thee? let that persuade thee
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|many of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|in simple time, I cannot: but I love thee, none
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|but thee, and thou deservest it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Do not betray me, sir. I fear you love Mistress Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|of a lime-kiln.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Well, heaven knows how I love you, and you shall one
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|day find it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Keep in that mind, I'll deserve it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Nay, I must tell you, so you do, or else I could not
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|be in that mind.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|[Within]  Mistress Ford, Mistress Ford! here's
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing and
Merry Wives of Windsor|ROBIN|looking wildly, and would needs speak with you presently.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Pray you, do so: she's a very tattling woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|FALSTAFF hides himself
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Re-enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What's the matter? how now!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You're shamed,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|you're overthrown, you're undone for ever!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What's the matter, good Mistress Page?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What cause of suspicion?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|What cause of suspicion! Out pon you! how am I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|mistook in you!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Why, alas, what's the matter?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|he says is here now in the house by your consent, to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|take an ill advantage of his assence: you are undone.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|'Tis not so, I hope.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|here! but 'tis most certain your husband's coming,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|one. I come before to tell you. If you know
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|yourself clear, why, I am glad of it, but if you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|have a friend here convey, convey him out. Be not
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|amazed, call all your senses to you, defend your
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What shall I do? There is a gentleman my dear
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|friend, and I fear not mine own shame so much as his
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|peril: I had rather than a thousand pound he were
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|out of the house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|For shame! never stand 'you had rather' and 'you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|had rather:' your husband's here at hand, bethink
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|you of some conveyance: in the house you cannot
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|hide him. O, how have you deceived me! Look, here
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|is a basket: if he be of any reasonable stature, he
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|may creep in here, and throw foul linen upon him, as
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|if it were going to bucking: or--it is whiting-time
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|--send him by your two men to Datchet-mead.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|[Coming forward]  Let me see't, let me see't, O, let
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|me see't! I'll in, I'll in. Follow your friend's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|counsel. I'll in.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|What, Sir John Falstaff! Are these your letters, knight?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I love thee. Help me away. Let me creep in here.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I'll never--
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Gets into the basket, they cover him with foul linen
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Help to cover your master, boy. Call your men,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Mistress Ford. You dissembling knight!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What, John! Robert! John!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Exit ROBIN
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Re-enter Servants
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Go take up these clothes here quickly. Where's the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! Carry them to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|the laundress in Datchet-meat, quickly, come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Pray you, come near: if I suspect without cause,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|why then make sport at me, then let me be your jest,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I deserve it. How now! whither bear you this?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Servant|To the laundress, forsooth.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Why, what have you to do whither they bear it? You
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|were best meddle with buck-washing.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Buck, buck, buck! Ay, buck, I warrant you, buck,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|and of the season too, it shall appear.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Exeunt Servants with the basket
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Gentlemen, I have dreamed to-night, I'll tell you my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|dream. Here, here, here be my keys: ascend my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|chambers, search, seek, find out: I'll warrant
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|we'll unkennel the fox. Let me stop this way first.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Locking the door
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|So, now uncape.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Good Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall see
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|sport anon: follow me, gentlemen.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, 'tis no the fashion of France, it is not
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|jealous in France.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Nay, follow him, gentlemen, see the issue of his search.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Exeunt PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Is there not a double excellency in this?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I know not which pleases me better, that my husband
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|is deceived, or Sir John.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|What a taking was he in when your husband asked who
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|was in the basket!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I am half afraid he will have need of washing, so
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|throwing him into the water will do him a benefit.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|strain were in the same distress.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I think my husband hath some special suspicion of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Falstaff's being here, for I never saw him so gross
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|in his jealousy till now.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I will lay a plot to try that, and we will yet have
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|more tricks with Falstaff: his dissolute disease will
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|scarce obey this medicine.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|water, and give him another hope, to betray him to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|another punishment?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|We will do it: let him be sent for to-morrow,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|eight o'clock, to have amends.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Re-enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I cannot find him: may be the knave bragged of that
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|he could not compass.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|[Aside to MISTRESS FORD]  Heard you that?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|You use me well, Master Ford, do you?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Ay, I do so.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Heaven make you better than your thoughts!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Amen!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|You do yourself mighty wrong, Master Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Ay, ay, I must bear it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|If there be any pody in the house, and in the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment!
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, nor I too: there is no bodies.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Fie, fie, Master Ford! are you not ashamed? What
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|spirit, what devil suggests this imagination? I
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|would not ha' your distemper in this kind for the
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|wealth of Windsor Castle.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|'Tis my fault, Master Page: I suffer for it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|You suffer for a pad conscience: your wife is as
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|honest a 'omans as I will desires among five
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|thousand, and five hundred too.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Well, I promised you a dinner. Come, come, walk in
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|the Park: I pray you, pardon me, I will hereafter
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|make known to you why I have done this. Come,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|wife, come, Mistress Page. I pray you, pardon me,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|pray heartily, pardon me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Let's go in, gentlemen, but, trust me, we'll mock
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|him. I do invite you to-morrow morning to my house
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|to breakfast: after, we'll a-birding together, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Any thing.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|If there is one, I shall make two in the company.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|If dere be one or two, I shall make-a the turd.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Pray you, go, Master Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I pray you now, remembrance tomorrow on the lousy
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|knave, mine host.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Dat is good, by gar, with all my heart!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|A lousy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|SCENE IV. A room in PAGE'S house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|I see I cannot get thy father's love,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Alas, how then?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Why, thou must be thyself.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|He doth object I am too great of birth--,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|I seek to heal it only by his wealth:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Besides these, other bars he lays before me,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|My riots past, my wild societies,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And tells me 'tis a thing impossible
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|I should love thee but as a property.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|May be he tells you true.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And 'tis the very riches of thyself
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|That now I aim at.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Gentle Master Fenton,
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Yet seek my father's love, still seek it, sir:
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|If opportunity and humblest suit
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Cannot attain it, why, then,--hark you hither!
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|They converse apart
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|speak for himself.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't: 'slid, 'tis but
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|venturing.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Be not dismayed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|No, she shall not dismay me: I care not for that,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|but that I am afeard.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Hark ye, Master Slender would speak a word with you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|I come to him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Aside
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|This is my father's choice.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|She's coming, to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I had a father, Mistress Anne, my uncle can tell you
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|good jests of him. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Anne the jest, how my father stole two geese out of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|a pen, good uncle.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, that I do, as well as I love any woman in
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Gloucestershire.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|degree of a squire.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Marry, I thank you for it, I thank you for that good
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|comfort. She calls you, coz: I'll leave you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Now, Master Slender,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Now, good Mistress Anne,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|What is your will?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|My will! 'od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Truly, for mine own part, I would little or nothing
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|with you. Your father and my uncle hath made
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|motions: if it be my luck, so, if not, happy man be
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|his dole! They can tell you how things go better
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|than I can: you may ask your father, here he comes.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Enter PAGE and MISTRESS PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Nay, Master Page, be not impatient.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Good Master Fenton, come not to my child.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|She is no match for you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Sir, will you hear me?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|No, good Master Fenton.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Come, Master Shallow, come, son Slender, in.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Speak to Mistress Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|In such a righteous fashion as I do,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|I must advance the colours of my love
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And not retire: let me have your good will.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I mean it not, I seek you a better husband.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|That's my master, master doctor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|And bowl'd to death with turnips!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I will not be your friend nor enemy:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|My daughter will I question how she loves you,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And as I find her, so am I affected.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Till then farewell, sir: she must needs go in,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Her father will be angry.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Farewell, gentle mistress: farewell, Nan.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ANNE PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|This is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|away your child on a fool, and a physician? Look on
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Master Fenton:' this is my doing.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|I thank thee, and I pray thee, once to-night
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Give my sweet Nan this ring: there's for thy pains.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Now heaven send thee good fortune!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Exit FENTON
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|A kind heart he hath: a woman would run through
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|would my master had Mistress Anne, or I would
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Master Slender had her, or, in sooth, I would Master
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Fenton had her, I will do what I can for them all
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|three, for so I have promised, and I'll be as good
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|as my word, but speciously for Master Fenton. Well,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|SCENE V. A room in the Garter Inn.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Bardolph, I say,--
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Here, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Go fetch me a quart of sack, put a toast in't.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exit BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|slighted me into the river with as little remorse as
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|fifteen i' the litter: and you may know by my size
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking, if the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|shallow,--a death that I abhor, for the water swells
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|a man, and what a thing should I have been when I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Re-enter BARDOLPH with sack
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Let me pour in some sack to the Thames water, for my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|pills to cool the reins. Call her in.
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Come in, woman!
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|By your leave, I cry you mercy: give your worship
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|good morrow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Take away these chalices. Go brew me a pottle of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|sack finely.
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|With eggs, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Simple of itself, I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exit BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|How now!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mistress Ford! I have had ford enough, I was thrown
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|into the ford, I have my belly full of ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|she does so take on with her men, they mistook their erection.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|a-birding, she desires you once more to come to her
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|between eight and nine: I must carry her word
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|quickly: she'll make you amends, I warrant you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Well, I will visit her: tell her so, and bid her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|think what a man is: let her consider his frailty,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and then judge of my merit.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|I will tell her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Eight and nine, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Well, be gone: I will not miss her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Peace be with you, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I marvel I hear not of Master Brook, he sent me word
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|to stay within: I like his money well. O, here he comes.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Bless you, sir!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Now, master Brook, you come to know what hath passed
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|between me and Ford's wife?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|house the hour she appointed me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|And sped you, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Very ill-favoredly, Master Brook.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|How so, sir? Did she change her determination?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|No, Master Brook, but the peaking Cornuto her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|provoked and instigated by his distemper, and,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|What, while you were there?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|While I was there.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|And did he search for you, and could not find you?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|approach, and, in her invention and Ford's wife's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|A buck-basket!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|And how long lay you there?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Datchet-lane: they took me on their shoulders, met
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the jealous knave their master in the door, who
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|asked them once or twice what they had in their
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|would have searched it, but fate, ordaining he
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on went he
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|of three several deaths, first, an intolerable
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|fright, to be detected with a jealous rotten
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|bell-wether, next, to be compassed, like a good
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|point, heel to head, and then, to be stopped in,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|that fretted in their own grease: think of that,--a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|man of my kidney,--think of that,--that am as subject
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|to heat as butter, a man of continual dissolution
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and thaw: it was a miracle to scape suffocation.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|And in the height of this bath, when I was more than
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|in that surge, like a horse-shoe, think of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|that,--hissing hot,--think of that, Master Brook.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|In good sadness, I am sorry that for my sake you
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|have sufferd all this. My suit then is desperate,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|you'll undertake her no more?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|husband is this morning gone a-birding: I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|received from her another embassy of meeting, 'twixt
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|'Tis past eight already, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Is it? I will then address me to my appointment.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Come to me at your convenient leisure, and you shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|know how I speed, and the conclusion shall be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|crowned with your enjoying her. Adieu. You shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|have her, Master Brook, Master Brook, you shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|cuckold Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|sleep? Master Ford awake! awake, Master Ford!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|there's a hole made in your best coat, Master Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|This 'tis to be married! this 'tis to have linen
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|what I am: I will now take the lecher, he is at my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|house, he cannot 'scape me, 'tis impossible he
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|should, he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|guides him should aid him, I will search
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|if I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|with me: I'll be horn-mad.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|ACT IV
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|SCENE I. A street.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I'll be with her by and by, I'll but bring my young
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|man here to school. Look, where his master comes,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|'tis a playing-day, I see.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|No, Master Slender is let the boys leave to play.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Blessing of his heart!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|questions in his accidence.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Come hither, William, hold up your head, come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Come on, sirrah, hold up your head, answer your
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|master, be not afraid.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|William, how many numbers is in nouns?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Two.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Truly, I thought there had been one number more,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|because they say, ''Od's nouns.'
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Pulcher.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|What is 'lapis,' William?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|A stone.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|And what is 'a stone,' William?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|A pebble.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your prain.
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Lapis.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|That is a good William. What is he, William, that
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|does lend articles?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Nominativo, hig, hag, hog, pray you, mark:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Accusativo, hinc.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I pray you, have your remembrance, child,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|accusative, hung, hang, hog.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|case, William?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|O,--vocativo, O.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Remember, William, focative is caret.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And that's a good root.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|'Oman, forbear.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Peace!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|What is your genitive case plural, William?
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Genitive case!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Ay.
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Genitive,--horum, harum, horum.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|her, child, if she be a whore.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|For shame, 'oman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|You do ill to teach the child such words: he
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie upon you!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I would desires.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Prithee, hold thy peace.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns.
Merry Wives of Windsor|WILLIAM PAGE|Forsooth, I have forgot.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,'
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|preeches. Go your ways, and play, go.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|He is a better scholar than I thought he was.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Adieu, good Sir Hugh.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exit SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|SCENE II. A room in FORD'S house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and I profess requital to a hair's breadth, not
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|only, Mistress Ford, in the simple
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|office of love, but in all the accoutrement,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|complement and ceremony of it. But are you
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|sure of your husband now?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|He's a-birding, sweet Sir John.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|[Within]  What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Step into the chamber, Sir John.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Exit FALSTAFF
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Enter MISTRESS PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|How now, sweetheart! who's at home besides yourself?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Why, none but mine own people.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Indeed!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|No, certainly.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Aside to her
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Speak louder.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Why?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|he so takes on yonder with my husband, so rails
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|against all married mankind, so curses all Eve's
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|daughters, of what complexion soever, and so buffets
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|himself on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|tameness, civility and patience, to this his
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|distemper he is in now: I am glad the fat knight is not here.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Why, does he talk of him?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Of none but him, and swears he was carried out, the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|last time he searched for him, in a basket, protests
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|to my husband he is now here, and hath drawn him and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|the rest of their company from their sport, to make
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|another experiment of his suspicion: but I am glad
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|the knight is not here, now he shall see his own foolery.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|How near is he, Mistress Page?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Hard by, at street end, he will be here anon.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I am undone! The knight is here.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Why then you are utterly shamed, and he's but a dead
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|man. What a woman are you!--Away with him, away
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|with him! better shame than murder.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Which way should be go? how should I bestow him?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Shall I put him into the basket again?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Re-enter FALSTAFF
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|No, I'll come no more i' the basket. May I not go
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|out ere he come?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Alas, three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|with pistols, that none shall issue out, otherwise
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|you might slip away ere he came. But what make you here?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|What shall I do? I'll creep up into the chimney.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|There they always use to discharge their
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|birding-pieces. Creep into the kiln-hole.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Where is it?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|He will seek there, on my word. Neither press,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but he hath an
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|abstract for the remembrance of such places, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|goes to them by his note: there is no hiding you in the house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I'll go out then.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|If you go out in your own semblance, you die, Sir
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|John. Unless you go out disguised--
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|How might we disguise him?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Alas the day, I know not! There is no woman's gown
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|a muffler and a kerchief, and so escape.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Good hearts, devise something: any extremity rather
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|than a mischief.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|My maid's aunt, the fat woman of Brentford, has a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|gown above.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|On my word, it will serve him, she's as big as he
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|is: and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|too. Run up, Sir John.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Go, go, sweet Sir John: Mistress Page and I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|look some linen for your head.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Quick, quick! we'll come dress you straight: put
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|on the gown the while.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exit FALSTAFF
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I would my husband would meet him in this shape: he
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|cannot abide the old woman of Brentford, he swears
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|she's a witch, forbade her my house and hath
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|threatened to beat her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel, and the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|devil guide his cudgel afterwards!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|But is my husband coming?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Ah, in good sadness, is he, and talks of the basket
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|too, howsoever he hath had intelligence.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|We'll try that, for I'll appoint my men to carry the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|basket again, to meet him at the door with it, as
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|they did last time.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Nay, but he'll be here presently: let's go dress him
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|like the witch of Brentford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|basket. Go up, I'll bring linen for him straight.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot misuse him enough.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Wives may be merry, and yet honest too:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|We do not act that often jest and laugh,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the draff.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Re-enter MISTRESS FORD with two Servants
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|your master is hard at door, if he bid you set it
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|First Servant|Come, come, take it up.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Second Servant|Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.
Merry Wives of Windsor|First Servant|I hope not, I had as lief bear so much lead.
Merry Wives of Windsor|First Servant|Enter FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|pack, a conspiracy against me: now shall the devil
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Why, this passes, Master Ford, you are not to go
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|loose any longer, you must be pinioned.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|So say I too, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Re-enter MISTRESS FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Come hither, Mistress Ford, Mistress Ford the honest
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|without cause, mistress, do I?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|any dishonesty.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Well said, brazen-face! hold it out. Come forth, sirrah!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Pulling clothes out of the basket
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|This passes!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Are you not ashamed? let the clothes alone.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I shall find you anon.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|'Tis unreasonable! Will you take up your wife's
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|clothes? Come away.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Empty the basket, I say!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Why, man, why?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|out of my house yesterday in this basket: why may
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|not he be there again? In my house I am sure he is:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|my intelligence is true, my jealousy is reasonable.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Pluck me out all the linen.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Here's no man.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford, this
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|wrongs you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|imaginations of your own heart: this is jealousies.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Well, he's not here I seek for.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Help to search my house this one time. If I find
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity, let
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|me for ever be your table-sport, let them say of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|me, 'As jealous as Ford, Chat searched a hollow
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|walnut for his wife's leman.' Satisfy me once more,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|once more search with me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What, ho, Mistress Page! come you and the old woman
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|down, my husband will come into the chamber.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Old woman! what old woman's that?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Nay, it is my maid's aunt of Brentford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|she? We are simple men, we do not know what's
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|brought to pass under the profession of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|you hag, you, come down, I say!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|not strike the old woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Re-enter FALSTAFF in woman's clothes, and MISTRESS PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Come, Mother Prat, come, give me your hand.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I'll prat her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Beating him
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|polecat, you runyon! out, out! I'll conjure you,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I'll fortune-tell you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Exit FALSTAFF
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Are you not ashamed? I think you have killed the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|poor woman.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Nay, he will do it. 'Tis a goodly credit for you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Hang her, witch!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|By the yea and no, I think the 'oman is a witch
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|indeed: I like not when a 'oman has a great peard,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I spy a great peard under his muffler.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you, follow,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|see but the issue of my jealousy: if I cry out thus
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|upon no trail, never trust me when I open again.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Let's obey his humour a little further: come,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|gentlemen.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Exeunt FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Trust me, he beat him most pitifully.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Nay, by the mass, that he did not, he beat him most
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|unpitifully, methought.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|altar, it hath done meritorious service.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|What think you? may we, with the warrant of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|womanhood and the witness of a good conscience,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|pursue him with any further revenge?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|way of waste, attempt us again.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Yes, by all means, if it be but to scrape the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|figures out of your husband's brains. If they can
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|the ministers.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed: and
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|methinks there would be no period to the jest,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|should he not be publicly shamed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Come, to the forge with it then, shape it: I would
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|not have things cool.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|SCENE III. A room in the Garter Inn.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter Host and BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow at
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|court, and they are going to meet him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|not of him in the court. Let me speak with the
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|gentlemen: they speak English?
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Ay, sir, I'll call them to you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|They shall have my horses, but I'll make them pay,
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|I'll sauce them: they have had my house a week at
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|command, I have turned away my other guests: they
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|must come off, I'll sauce them. Come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|SCENE IV. A room in FORD'S house.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I did look upon.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|And did he send you both these letters at an instant?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Within a quarter of an hour.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I rather will suspect the sun with cold
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|In him that was of late an heretic,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|As firm as faith.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|'Tis well, 'tis well, no more:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Be not as extreme in submission
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|As in offence.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|But let our plot go forward: let our wives
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Yet once again, to make us public sport,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|There is no better way than that they spoke of.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|How? to send him word they'll meet him in the park
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|at midnight? Fie, fie! he'll never come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|You say he has been thrown in the rivers and has
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|been grievously peaten as an old 'oman: methinks
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|there should be terrors in him that he should not
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|come, methinks his flesh is punished, he shall have
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|no desires.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|So think I too.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Devise but how you'll use him when he comes,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|And let us two devise to bring him thither.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|In a most hideous and dreadful manner:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|The superstitious idle-headed eld
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Received and did deliver to our age
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Why, yet there want not many that do fear
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|But what of this?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Marry, this is our device,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|And in this shape when you have brought him thither,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|What shall be done with him? what is your plot?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|That likewise have we thought upon, and thus:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Nan Page my daughter and my little son
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And three or four more of their growth we'll dress
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Like urchins, ouphes and fairies, green and white,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And rattles in their hands: upon a sudden,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|As Falstaff, she and I, are newly met,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|With some diffused song: upon their sight,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|We two in great amazedness will fly:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Then let them all encircle him about
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|In their so sacred paths he dares to tread
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|In shape profane.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|And till he tell the truth,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|And burn him with their tapers.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|The truth being known,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|We'll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And mock him home to Windsor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|The children must
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Be practised well to this, or they'll ne'er do't.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|I will teach the children their behaviors, and I
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|knight with my taber.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|That will be excellent. I'll go and buy them vizards.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Finely attired in a robe of white.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|That silk will I go buy.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Aside
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|And in that time
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|And marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Nay I'll to him again in name of Brook
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|He'll tell me all his purpose: sure, he'll come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Fear not you that. Go get us properties
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And tricking for our fairies.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and fery
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|honest knaveries.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Exeunt PAGE, FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Go, Mistress Ford,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Send quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exit MISTRESS FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I'll to the doctor: he hath my good will,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And he my husband best of all affects.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|The doctor is well money'd, and his friends
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|SCENE V. A room in the Garter Inn.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter Host and SIMPLE
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|What wouldst thou have, boor? what: thick-skin?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|speak, breathe, discuss, brief, short, quick, snap.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|from Master Slender.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|There's his chamber, his house, his castle, his
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|standing-bed and truckle-bed, 'tis painted about
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|knock and call, hell speak like an Anthropophaginian
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|unto thee: knock, I say.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|down, I come to speak with her, indeed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be robbed: I'll
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|call. Bully knight! bully Sir John! speak from
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|thy lungs military: art thou there? it is thine
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|host, thine Ephesian, calls.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|[Above]  How now, mine host!
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|thy fat woman. Let her descend, bully, let her
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|descend, my chambers are honourable: fie! privacy?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|fie!
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Enter FALSTAFF
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|me,  but she's gone.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Brentford?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Ay, marry, was it, mussel-shell: what would you with her?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|My master, sir, Master Slender, sent to her, seeing
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|her go through the streets, to know, sir, whether
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a chain, had the
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|chain or no.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I spake with the old woman about it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|And what says she, I pray, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Marry, she says that the very same man that
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|I would I could have spoken with the woman herself,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|I had other things to have spoken with her too from
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|What are they? let us know.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Ay, come, quick.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|I may not conceal them, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Conceal them, or thou diest.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Page, to know if it were my master's fortune to
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|have her or no.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|'Tis, 'tis his fortune.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|What, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|To have her, or no. Go, say the woman told me so.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|May I be bold to say so, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Ay, sir, like who more bold.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|with these tidings.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIMPLE|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|there a wise woman with thee?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Ay, that there was, mine host, one that hath taught
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|me more wit than ever I learned before in my life,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid for
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|my learning.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage!
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Where be my horses? speak well of them, varletto.
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|Run away with the cozeners, for so soon as I came
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|them, in a slough of mire, and set spurs and away,
Merry Wives of Windsor|BARDOLPH|like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|They are gone but to meet the duke, villain: do not
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|say they be fled, Germans are honest men.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Enter SIR HUGH EVANS
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Where is mine host?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|What is the matter, sir?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Have a care of your entertainments: there is a
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|friend of mine come to town tells me there is three
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|money. I tell you for good will, look you: you
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|are wise and full of gibes and vlouting-stocks, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Enter DOCTOR CAIUS
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Vere is mine host de Jarteer?
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Here, master doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|I cannot tell vat is dat: but it is tell-a me dat
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|you make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany: by
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|my trot, dere is no duke dat the court is know to
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|come. I tell you for good vill: adieu.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain! I am undone!
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Exeunt Host and BARDOLPH
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I would all the world might be cozened, for I have
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|been cozened and beaten too. If it should come to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the ear of the court, how I have been transformed
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and how my transformation hath been washed and
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|cudgelled, they would melt me out of my fat drop by
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|drop and liquor fishermen's boots with me, I warrant
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|they would whip me with their fine wits till I were
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|as crest-fallen as a dried pear. I never prospered
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|since I forswore myself at primero. Well, if my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Now, whence come you?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|From the two parties, forsooth.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|The devil take one party and his dam the other! and
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|so they shall be both bestowed. I have suffered more
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|for their sakes, more than the villanous inconstancy
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|of man's disposition is able to bear.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And have not they suffered? Yes, I warrant,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|speciously one of them, Mistress Ford, good heart,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|white spot about her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Brentford: but that my admirable dexterity of wit,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|my counterfeiting the action of an old woman,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber: you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|shall hear how things go, and, I warrant, to your
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. Good
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|hearts, what ado here is to bring you together!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well, that
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|you are so crossed.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Come up into my chamber.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|SCENE VI. Another room in the Garter Inn.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter FENTON and Host
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Master Fenton, talk not to me, my mind is heavy: I
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|will give over all.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|A hundred pound in gold more than your loss.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|I will hear you, Master Fenton, and I will at the
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|least keep your counsel.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|From time to time I have acquainted you
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Who mutually hath answer'd my affection,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|So far forth as herself might be her chooser,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Even to my wish: I have a letter from her
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Of such contents as you will wonder at,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|The mirth whereof so larded with my matter,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|That neither singly can be manifested,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Without the show of both, fat Falstaff
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Hath a great scene: the image of the jest
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|The purpose why, is here: in which disguise,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|While other jests are something rank on foot,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Her father hath commanded her to slip
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Away with Slender and with him at Eton
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Immediately to marry: she hath consented: Now, sir,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Her mother, ever strong against that match
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|That he shall likewise shuffle her away,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|While other sports are tasking of their minds,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And at the deanery, where a priest attends,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|She seemingly obedient likewise hath
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Made promise to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Her father means she shall be all in white,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And in that habit, when Slender sees his time
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|To take her by the hand and bid her go,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|She shall go with him: her mother hath intended,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|The better to denote her to the doctor,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|The maid hath given consent to go with him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Both, my good host, to go along with me:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And here it rests, that you'll procure the vicar
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|To stay for me at church 'twixt twelve and one,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And, in the lawful name of marrying,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|To give our hearts united ceremony.
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Well, husband your device, I'll to the vicar:
Merry Wives of Windsor|Host|Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|So shall I evermore be bound to thee,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Besides, I'll make a present recompense.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|ACT V
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|SCENE I. A room in the Garter Inn.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Prithee, no more prattling, go. I'll hold. This is
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the third time, I hope good luck lies in odd
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|numbers. Away I go. They say there is divinity in
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|I'll provide you a chain, and I'll do what I can to
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|get you a pair of horns.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Away, I say, time wears: hold up your head, and mince.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exit MISTRESS QUICKLY
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|will be known to-night, or never. Be you in the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Park about midnight, at Herne's oak, and you shall
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|see wonders.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|you had appointed?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|old man: but I came from her, Master Brook, like a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|you: he beat me grievously, in the shape of a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|woman, for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|not Goliath with a weaver's beam, because I know
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|also life is a shuttle. I am in haste, go along
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|with me: I'll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|plucked geese, played truant and whipped top, I knew
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. Follow
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|me: I'll tell you strange things of this knave
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged, and I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|SCENE II. Windsor Park.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Come, come, we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|my daughter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Ay, forsooth, I have spoke with her and we have a
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|white, and cry 'mum,' she cries 'budget,' and by
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|that we know one another.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|That's good too: but what needs either your 'mum'
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|or her 'budget?' the white will decipher her well
Merry Wives of Windsor|SHALLOW|enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|The night is dark, light and spirits will become it
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Let's away, follow me.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|SCENE III. A street leading to the Park.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|see your time, take her by the band, away with her
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|into the Park: we two must go together.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|I know vat I have to do. Adieu.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Fare you well, sir.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Exit DOCTOR CAIUS
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|my daughter: but 'tis no matter, better a little
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|chiding than a great deal of heart-break.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Welsh devil Hugh?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|with obscured lights, which, at the very instant of
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|display to the night.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|That cannot choose but amaze him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|If he be not amazed, he will be mocked, if he be
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|amazed, he will every way be mocked.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|We'll betray him finely.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Against such lewdsters and their lechery
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Those that betray them do no treachery.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|SCENE IV. Windsor Park.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Trib, trib, fairies, come, and remember your parts:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|be pold, I pray you, follow me into the pit, and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|when I give the watch-'ords, do as I pid you:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|come, come, trib, trib.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Exeunt
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|SCENE V. Another part of the Park.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Enter FALSTAFF disguised as Herne
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|The Windsor bell hath struck twelve, the minute
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa, love
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|set on thy horns. O powerful love! that, in some
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|respects, makes a beast a man, in some other, a man
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|a beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|of Leda. O omnipotent Love! how near the god drew
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the form of a beast. O Jove, a beastly fault! And
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|then another fault in the semblance of a fowl, think
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|on 't, Jove, a foul fault! When gods have hot
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Windsor stag, and the fattest, I think, i' the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|doe?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Sir John! art thou there, my deer? my male deer?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|potatoes, let it thunder to the tune of Green
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes, let
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience, he makes
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Noise within
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Alas, what noise?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Heaven forgive our sins
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|What should this be?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Away, away!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|They run off
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|oil that's in me should set hell on fire, he would
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|never else cross me thus.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as before, PISTOL,  as Hobgoblin, MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and others, as Fairies, with tapers
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|You moonshine revellers and shades of night,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Attend your office and your quality.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Elves, list your names, silence, you airy toys.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept,
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry:
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|They are fairies, he that speaks to them shall die:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Lies down upon his face
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Where's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Raise up the organs of her fantasy,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Sleep she as sound as careless infancy:
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|But those as sleep and think not on their sins,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides and shins.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|About, about,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|That it may stand till the perpetual doom,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Worthy the owner, and the owner it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|The several chairs of order look you scour
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|With juice of balm and every precious flower:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|The expressure that it bears, green let it be,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|More fertile-fresh than all the field to see,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Let sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Away, disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Our dance of custom round about the oak
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Pray you, lock hand in hand, yourselves in order set
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|To guide our measure round about the tree.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|But, stay, I smell a man of middle-earth.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|transform me to a piece of cheese!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|With trial-fire touch me his finger-end:
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|If he be chaste, the flame will back descend
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And turn him to no pain, but if he start,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PISTOL|A trial, come.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Come, will this wood take fire?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|They burn him with their tapers
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Oh, Oh, Oh!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|About him, fairies, sing a scornful rhyme,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|SONG.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Fie on sinful fantasy!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Fie on lust and luxury!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Lust is but a bloody fire,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Kindled with unchaste desire,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Fed in heart, whose flames aspire
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Pinch him, fairies, mutually,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Pinch him for his villany,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|During this song they pinch FALSTAFF. DOCTOR CAIUS  comes one way, and steals away a boy in green,  SLENDER another way, and takes off a boy in white,  and FENTON comes and steals away ANN PAGE.  A noise of hunting is heard within. All the  Fairies run away. FALSTAFF pulls off his buck's head, and rises
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS QUICKLY|Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, and MISTRESS FORD
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Nay, do not fly, I think we have watch'd you now
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|See you these, husband? do not these fair yokes
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Become the forest better than the town?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave, here are his
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|horns, Master Brook: and, Master Brook, he hath
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|paid to Master Brook, his horses are arrested for
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|it, Master Brook.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|Sir John, we have had ill luck, we could never meet.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|I will never take you for my love again, but I will
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS FORD|always count you my deer.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Ay, and an ox too: both the proofs are extant.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|And these are not fairies? I was three or four
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|times in the thought they were not fairies: and yet
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|received belief, in despite of the teeth of all
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|rhyme and reason, that they were fairies. See now
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent, when 'tis upon
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|ill employment!
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|desires, and fairies will not pinse you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Well said, fairy Hugh.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|And leave your jealousies too, I pray you.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|I will never mistrust my wife again till thou art
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|able to woo her in good English.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? shall I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|have a coxcomb of frize? 'Tis time I were choked
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|with a piece of toasted cheese.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|Seese is not good to give putter, your belly is all putter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|'Seese' and 'putter'! have I lived to stand at the
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|through the realm.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Why Sir John, do you think, though we would have the
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|and have given ourselves without scruple to hell,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|that ever the devil could have made you our delight?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|What, a hodge-pudding? a bag of flax?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|A puffed man?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Old, cold, withered and of intolerable entrails?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|And one that is as slanderous as Satan?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|And as poor as Job?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|And as wicked as his wife?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|And given to fornications, and to taverns and sack
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and
Merry Wives of Windsor|SIR HUGH EVANS|swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|Well, I am your theme: you have the start of me, I
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|am dejected, I am not able to answer the Welsh
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|flannel, ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me: use
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|me as you will.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Marry, sir, we'll bring you to Windsor, to one
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|whom you should have been a pander: over and above
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|that you have suffered, I think to repay that money
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|will be a biting affliction.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|to-night at my house, where I will desire thee to
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Master Slender hath married her daughter.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|[Aside]  Doctors doubt that: if Anne Page be my
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius' wife.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter SLENDER
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Whoa ho! ho, father Page!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Son, how now! how now, son! have you dispatched?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucestershire
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|know on't, would I were hanged, la, else.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Of what, son?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page,
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not been
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|should have swinged me. If I did not think it had
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|been Anne Page, would I might never stir!--and 'tis
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|a postmaster's boy.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Upon my life, then, you took the wrong.
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, for
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|him.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|you should know my daughter by her garments?
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|I went to her in white, and cried 'mum,' and she
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|cried 'budget,' as Anne and I had appointed, and yet
Merry Wives of Windsor|SLENDER|it was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|turned my daughter into green, and, indeed, she is
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Enter DOCTOR CAIUS
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened: I ha'
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|married un garcon, a boy, un paysan, by gar, a boy,
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Why, did you take her in green?
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor.
Merry Wives of Windsor|DOCTOR CAIUS|Exit
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne?
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|My heart misgives me: here comes Master Fenton.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|How now, Master Fenton!
Merry Wives of Windsor|ANNE PAGE|Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Now, mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender?
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Why went you not with master doctor, maid?
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|You do amaze her: hear the truth of it.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|You would have married her most shamefully,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Where there was no proportion held in love.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|The offence is holy that she hath committed,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|And this deceit loses the name of craft,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Of disobedience, or unduteous title,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Since therein she doth evitate and shun
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|A thousand irreligious cursed hours,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FENTON|Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Stand not amazed, here is no remedy:
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|In love the heavens themselves do guide the state,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced.
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy!
Merry Wives of Windsor|PAGE|What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FALSTAFF|When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased.
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Heaven give you many, many merry days!
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Good husband, let us every one go home,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire,
Merry Wives of Windsor|MISTRESS PAGE|Sir John and all.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Let it be so. Sir John,
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.
Merry Wives of Windsor|FORD|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|FORD|ACT I
A Midsummer nights dream|FORD|SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.
A Midsummer nights dream|FORD|Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Draws on apace, four happy days bring in
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Like to a step-dame or a dowager
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Long withering out a young man revenue.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Four days will quickly steep themselves in night,
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Four nights will quickly dream away the time,
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|And then the moon, like to a silver bow
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Of our solemnities.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Go, Philostrate,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Turn melancholy forth to funerals,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The pale companion is not for our pomp.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Exit PHILOSTRATE
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And won thy love, doing thee injuries,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|But I will wed thee in another key,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Full of vexation come I, with complaint
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Against my child, my daughter Hermia.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|This man hath my consent to marry her.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|And interchanged love-tokens with my child:
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|With feigning voice verses of feigning love,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|And stolen the impression of her fantasy
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Be it so she, will not here before your grace
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Consent to marry with Demetrius,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|As she is mine, I may dispose of her:
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Which shall be either to this gentleman
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Or to her death, according to our law
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Immediately provided in that case.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To you your father should be as a god,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To whom you are but as a form in wax
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|By him imprinted and within his power
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To leave the figure or disfigure it.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|So is Lysander.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|In himself he is,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The other must be held the worthier.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I would my father look'd but with my eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I do entreat your grace to pardon me.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I know not by what power I am made bold,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Nor how it may concern my modesty,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|In such a presence here to plead my thoughts,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|But I beseech your grace that I may know
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|The worst that may befall me in this case,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Either to die the death or to abjure
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For ever the society of men.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|You can endure the livery of a nun,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To live a barren sister all your life,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To undergo such maiden pilgrimage,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Ere I will my virgin patent up
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|My soul consents not to give sovereignty.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Take time to pause, and, by the nest new moon--
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For everlasting bond of fellowship--
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Upon that day either prepare to die
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For disobedience to your father's will,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Or on Diana's altar to protest
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For aye austerity and single life.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Thy crazed title to my certain right.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|You have her father's love, Demetrius,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|And what is mine my love shall render him.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|And she is mine, and all my right of her
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|I do estate unto Demetrius.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I am, my lord, as well derived as he,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|As well possess'd, my love is more than his,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|If not with vantage, as Demetrius',
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And, which is more than all these boasts can be,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Why should not I then prosecute my right?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And won her soul, and she, sweet lady, dotes,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Upon this spotted and inconstant man.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I must confess that I have heard so much,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|But, being over-full of self-affairs,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And come, Egeus, you shall go with me,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I have some private schooling for you both.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To fit your fancies to your father's will,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Or else the law of Athens yields you up--
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Which by no means we may extenuate--
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To death, or to a vow of single life.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Demetrius and Egeus, go along:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I must employ you in some business
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Against our nuptial and confer with you
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|With duty and desire we follow you.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Exeunt all but LYSANDER and HERMIA
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Belike for want of rain, which I could well
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Could ever hear by tale or history,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|The course of true love never did run smooth,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|But, either it was different in blood,--
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Or else misgraffed in respect of years,--
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|O spite! too old to be engaged to young.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,--
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|O hell! to choose love by another's eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Making it momentany as a sound,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|So quick bright things come to confusion.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|It stands as an edict in destiny:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Then let us teach our trial patience,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Because it is a customary cross,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I have a widow aunt, a dowager
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Of great revenue, and she hath no child:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|From Athens is her house remote seven leagues,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And she respects me as her only son.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And to that place the sharp Athenian law
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And in the wood, a league without the town,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Where I did meet thee once with Helena,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|To do observance to a morn of May,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|There will I stay for thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|My good Lysander!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|By his best arrow with the golden head,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|By the simplicity of Venus' doves,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|When the false Troyan under sail was seen,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|By all the vows that ever men have broke,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|In number more than ever women spoke,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|In that same place thou hast appointed me,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Enter HELENA
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|God speed fair Helena! whither away?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Your eyes are lode-stars, and your tongue's sweet air
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O, teach me how you look, and with what art
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I give him curses, yet he gives me love.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O that my prayers could such affection move!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|The more I hate, the more he follows me.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|The more I love, the more he hateth me.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Take comfort: he no more shall see my face,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lysander and myself will fly this place.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Before the time I did Lysander see,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Her silver visage in the watery glass,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And in the wood, where often you and I
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|There my Lysander and myself shall meet,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|To seek new friends and stranger companies.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I will, my Hermia.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Exit HERMIA
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Helena, adieu:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|How happy some o'er other some can be!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|He will not know what all but he do know:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|So I, admiring of his qualities:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Love can transpose to form and dignity:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And therefore is Love said to be a child,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|So the boy Love is perjured every where:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Pursue her, and for this intelligence
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To have his sight thither and back again.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Is all our company here?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|You were best to call them generally, man by man,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|according to the scrip.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|wedding-day at night.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|to a point.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|That will ask some tears in the true performing of
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|it: if I do it, let the audience look to their
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|eyes, I will move storms, I will condole in some
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|tear a cat in, to make all split.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|The raging rocks
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|And shivering shocks
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Shall break the locks
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Of prison gates,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|And Phibbus' car
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Shall shine from far
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|And make and mar
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|The foolish Fates.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein, a lover is
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|more condoling.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Here, Peter Quince.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Flute, you must take Thisby on you.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|What is Thisby? a wandering knight?
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Nay, faith, let me not play a woman, I have a beard coming.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|you may speak as small as you will.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Thisne,' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|and lady dear!'
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|No, no, you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Well, proceed.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Robin Starveling, the tailor.
A Midsummer nights dream|STARVELING|Here, Peter Quince.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Tom Snout, the tinker.
A Midsummer nights dream|SNOUT|Here, Peter Quince.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Snug, the joiner, you, the lion's part: and, I
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|hope, here is a play fitted.
A Midsummer nights dream|SNUG|Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it
A Midsummer nights dream|SNUG|be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|do any man's heart good to hear me, I will roar,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|let him roar again.'
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|An you should do it too terribly, you would fright
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek,
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|and that were enough to hang us all.
A Midsummer nights dream|ALL|That would hang us, every mother's son.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|ladies out of their wits, they would have no more
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|voice so that I will roar you as gently as any
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|sucking dove, I will roar you an 'twere any
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|nightingale.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|sweet-faced man, a proper man, as one shall see in a
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|summer's day, a most lovely gentleman-like man:
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|to play it in?
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Why, what you will.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I will discharge it in either your straw-colour
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|perfect yellow.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night,
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|town, by moonlight, there will we rehearse, for if
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|company, and our devices known. In the meantime I
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|will draw a bill of properties, such as our play
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|wants. I pray you, fail me not.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|We will meet, and there we may rehearse most
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|obscenely and courageously. Take pains, be perfect: adieu.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|At the duke's oak we meet.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Enough, hold or cut bow-strings.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|ACT II
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|SCENE I. A wood near Athens.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Enter, from opposite sides, a Fairy, and PUCK
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|How now, spirit! whither wander you?
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Over hill, over dale,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Thorough bush, thorough brier,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Over park, over pale,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Thorough flood, thorough fire,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|I do wander everywhere,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Swifter than the moon's sphere,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|And I serve the fairy queen,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|To dew her orbs upon the green.
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|In their gold coats spots you see,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Those be rubies, fairy favours,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|In those freckles live their savours:
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|I must go seek some dewdrops here
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Farewell, thou lob of spirits, I'll be gone:
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Our queen and all our elves come here anon.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|The king doth keep his revels here to-night:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Take heed the queen come not within his sight,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Because that she as her attendant hath
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|She never had so sweet a changeling,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And jealous Oberon would have the child
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|But she perforce withholds the loved boy,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And now they never meet in grove or green,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|But, they do square, that all their elves for fear
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|That frights the maidens of the villagery,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|And bootless make the breathless housewife churn,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|And sometime make the drink to bear no barm,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Are not you he?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Thou speak'st aright,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I am that merry wanderer of the night.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I jest to Oberon and make him smile
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|In very likeness of a roasted crab,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|A merrier hour was never wasted there.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Enter, from one side, OBERON, with his train, from the other, TITANIA, with hers
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|I have forsworn his bed and company.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Then I must be thy lady: but I know
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|When thou hast stolen away from fairy land,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And in the shape of Corin sat all day,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Playing on pipes of corn and versing love
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Come from the farthest Steppe of India?
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To Theseus must be wedded, and you come
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To give their bed joy and prosperity.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|From Perigenia, whom he ravished?
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With Ariadne and Antiopa?
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|These are the forgeries of jealousy:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And never, since the middle summer's spring,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|By paved fountain or by rushy brook,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Or in the beached margent of the sea,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Contagious fogs, which falling in the land
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Have every pelting river made so proud
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|That they have overborne their continents:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And crows are fatted with the murrion flock,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And the quaint mazes in the wanton green
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|For lack of tread are undistinguishable:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The human mortals want their winter here,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|No night is now with hymn or carol blest:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|That rheumatic diseases do abound:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And thorough this distemperature we see
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The childing autumn, angry winter, change
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|By their increase, now knows not which is which:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And this same progeny of evils comes
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|From our debate, from our dissension,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|We are their parents and original.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Do you amend it then, it lies in you:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I do but beg a little changeling boy,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|To be my henchman.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Set your heart at rest:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The fairy land buys not the child of me.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|His mother was a votaress of my order:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Marking the embarked traders on the flood,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Would imitate, and sail upon the land,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To fetch me trifles, and return again,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|But she, being mortal, of that boy did die,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And for her sake do I rear up her boy,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And for her sake I will not part with him.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|How long within this wood intend you stay?
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|If you will patiently dance in our round
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And see our moonlight revels, go with us,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Exit TITANIA with her train
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Till I torment thee for this injury.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Since once I sat upon a promontory,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|That the rude sea grew civil at her song
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|To hear the sea-maid's music.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I remember.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|At a fair vestal throned by the west,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And the imperial votaress passed on,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|It fell upon a little western flower,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Fetch me that flower, the herb I shew'd thee once:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Will make or man or woman madly dote
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Upon the next live creature that it sees.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Fetch me this herb, and be thou here again
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Ere the leviathan can swim a league.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I'll put a girdle round about the earth
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|In forty minutes.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Having once this juice,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|The next thing then she waking looks upon,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|She shall pursue it with the soul of love:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And ere I take this charm from off her sight,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|As I can take it with another herb,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I'll make her render up her page to me.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But who comes here? I am invisible,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And I will overhear their conference.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA, following him
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And here am I, and wode within this wood,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And I shall have no power to follow you.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And even for that do I love you the more.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Neglect me, lose me, only give me leave,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|What worser place can I beg in your love,--
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And yet a place of high respect with me,--
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Than to be used as you use your dog?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|For I am sick when I do look on thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And I am sick when I look not on you.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|You do impeach your modesty too much,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|To leave the city and commit yourself
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Into the hands of one that loves you not,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|To trust the opportunity of night
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And the ill counsel of a desert place
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|With the rich worth of your virginity.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Your virtue is my privilege: for that
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|It is not night when I do see your face,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Therefore I think I am not in the night,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|For you in my respect are all the world:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Then how can it be said I am alone,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|When all the world is here to look on me?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|The dove pursues the griffin, the mild hind
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Makes speed to catch the tiger, bootless speed,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I will not stay thy questions, let me go:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Or, if thou follow me, do not believe
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|We cannot fight for love, as men may do,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|We should be wood and were not made to woo.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Exit DEMETRIUS
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To die upon the hand I love so well.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Re-enter PUCK
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Ay, there it is.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I pray thee, give it me.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And make her full of hateful fantasies.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|A sweet Athenian lady is in love
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But do it when the next thing he espies
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|May be the lady: thou shalt know the man
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|By the Athenian garments he hath on.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Effect it with some care, that he may prove
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|More fond on her than she upon her love:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|SCENE II. Another part of the wood.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Enter TITANIA, with her train
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Come, now a roundel and a fairy song,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Then, for the third part of a minute, hence,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To make my small elves coats, and some keep back
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Then to your offices and let me rest.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The Fairies sing
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|You spotted snakes with double tongue,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Come not near our fairy queen.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Philomel, with melody
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Sing in our sweet lullaby,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Never harm,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Nor spell nor charm,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Come our lovely lady nigh,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|So, good night, with lullaby.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Weaving spiders, come not here,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Beetles black, approach not near,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Worm nor snail, do no offence.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Philomel, with melody,  and c.
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Hence, away! now all is well:
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|One aloof stand sentinel.
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps
A Midsummer nights dream|Fairy|Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|What thou seest when thou dost wake,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Do it for thy true-love take,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Love and languish for his sake:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|In thy eye that shall appear
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|When thou wakest, it is thy dear:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Wake when some vile thing is near.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And tarry for the comfort of the day.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|For I upon this bank will rest my head.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|One turf shall serve as pillow for us both,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Nay, good Lysander, for my sake, my dear,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|So that but one heart we can make of it,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Two bosoms interchained with an oath,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|So then two bosoms and a single troth.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Then by your side no bed-room me deny,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lysander riddles very prettily:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lie further off, in human modesty,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Such separation as may well be said
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|So far be distant, and, good night, sweet friend:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And then end life when I end loyalty!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|They sleep
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Enter PUCK
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Through the forest have I gone.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|But Athenian found I none,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|On whose eyes I might approve
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|This flower's force in stirring love.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Night and silence.--Who is here?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Weeds of Athens he doth wear:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|This is he, my master said,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Despised the Athenian maid,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|On the dank and dirty ground.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Pretty soul! she durst not lie
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|All the power this charm doth owe.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|When thou wakest, let love forbid
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|So awake when I am gone,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|For I must now to Oberon.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|No, no, I am as ugly as a bear,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|For beasts that meet me run away for fear:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Therefore no marvel though Demetrius
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Do, as a monster fly my presence thus.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|What wicked and dissembling glass of mine
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But who is here? Lysander! on the ground!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Dead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Lysander if you live, good sir, awake.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|[Awaking]  And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Is that vile name to perish on my sword!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Do not say so, Lysander, say not so
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Content with Hermia! No, I do repent
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Not Hermia but Helena I love:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Who will not change a raven for a dove?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|The will of man is by his reason sway'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And reason says you are the worthier maid.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Things growing are not ripe until their season
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And touching now the point of human skill,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Reason becomes the marshal to my will
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Love's stories written in love's richest book.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|That I did never, no, nor never can,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But you must flout my insufficiency?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|In such disdainful manner me to woo.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But fare you well: perforce I must confess
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I thought you lord of more true gentleness.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O, that a lady, of one man refused.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Should of another therefore be abused!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And never mayst thou come Lysander near!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|For as a surfeit of the sweetest things
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Or as tie heresies that men do leave
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Are hated most of those they did deceive,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Of all be hated, but the most of me!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And, all my powers, address your love and might
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|To honour Helen and to be her knight!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|[Awaking]  Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Methought a serpent eat my heart away,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And you sat smiling at his cruel pray.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|No? then I well perceive you all not nigh
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Either death or you I'll find immediately.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|ACT III
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|SCENE I. The wood. TITANIA lying asleep.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Are we all met?
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Pat, pat, and here's a marvellous convenient place
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house, and we
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Peter Quince,--
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|What sayest thou, bully Bottom?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|draw a sword to kill himself, which the ladies
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|cannot abide. How answer you that?
A Midsummer nights dream|SNOUT|By'r lakin, a parlous fear.
A Midsummer nights dream|STARVELING|I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Pyramus is not killed indeed, and, for the more
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|out of fear.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Well, we will have such a prologue, and it shall be
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|written in eight and six.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|No, make it two more, let it be written in eight and eight.
A Midsummer nights dream|SNOUT|Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?
A Midsummer nights dream|STARVELING|I fear it, I promise you.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|most dreadful thing, for there is not a more fearful
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|wild-fowl than your lion living, and we ought to
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|look to 't.
A Midsummer nights dream|SNOUT|Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|must speak through, saying thus, or to the same
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|were pity of my life: no I am no such thing, I am a
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|man as other men are,' and there indeed let him name
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things,
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber, for,
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.
A Midsummer nights dream|SNOUT|Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac, find
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|out moonshine, find out moonshine.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Yes, it doth shine that night.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Why, then may you leave a casement of the great
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|may shine in at the casement.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Ay, or else one must come in with a bush of thorns
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|another thing: we must have a wall in the great
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|chamber, for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|talk through the chink of a wall.
A Midsummer nights dream|SNOUT|You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Some man or other must present Wall: and let him
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|about him, to signify wall, and let him hold his
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|and Thisby whisper.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit  down,
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|every mother's son, and rehearse your parts.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|speech, enter into that brake: and so every one
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|according to his cue.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Enter PUCK behind
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Odours, odours.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|--odours savours sweet:
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|And by and by I will to thee appear.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Must I speak now?
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Ay, marry, must you, for you must understand he goes
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|yet, that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|is past, it is, 'never tire.'
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|never tire.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|masters! fly, masters! Help!
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Exeunt QUINCE, SNUG, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|make me afeard.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Re-enter SNOUT
A Midsummer nights dream|SNOUT|O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|you?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Exit SNOUT
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Re-enter QUINCE
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|translated.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|from this place, do what they can: I will walk up
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I am not afraid.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Sings
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|The ousel cock so black of hue,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|With orange-tawny bill,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|The throstle with his note so true,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|The wren with little quill,--
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|[Awaking]  What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|[Sings]
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|The finch, the sparrow and the lark,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|The plain-song cuckoo gray,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Whose note full many a man doth mark,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|And dares not answer nay,--
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|'cuckoo' never so?
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|love keep little company together now-a-days, the
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|more the pity that some honest neighbours will not
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Out of this wood do not desire to go:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|I am a spirit of no common rate,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The summer still doth tend upon my state,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And I do love thee: therefore, go with me,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And I will purge thy mortal grossness so
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED
A Midsummer nights dream|PEASEBLOSSOM|Ready.
A Midsummer nights dream|COBWEB|And I.
A Midsummer nights dream|MOTH|And I.
A Midsummer nights dream|MUSTARDSEED|And I.
A Midsummer nights dream|ALL|Where shall we go?
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Be kind and courteous to this gentleman,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To have my love to bed and to arise,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And pluck the wings from Painted butterflies
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
A Midsummer nights dream|PEASEBLOSSOM|Hail, mortal!
A Midsummer nights dream|COBWEB|Hail!
A Midsummer nights dream|MOTH|Hail!
A Midsummer nights dream|MUSTARDSEED|Hail!
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I cry your worship's mercy, heartily: I beseech your
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|worship's name.
A Midsummer nights dream|COBWEB|Cobweb.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Cobweb: if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|you. Your name, honest gentleman?
A Midsummer nights dream|PEASEBLOSSOM|Peaseblossom.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, sir?
A Midsummer nights dream|MUSTARDSEED|Mustardseed.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well:
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|that same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now. I
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|desire your more acquaintance, good Master
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Mustardseed.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Come, wait upon him, lead him to my bower.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The moon methinks looks with a watery eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Lamenting some enforced chastity.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|SCENE II. Another part of the wood.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Enter OBERON
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I wonder if Titania be awaked,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Then, what it was that next came in her eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Which she must dote on in extremity.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Enter PUCK
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Here comes my messenger.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|How now, mad spirit!
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|What night-rule now about this haunted grove?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|My mistress with a monster is in love.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Near to her close and consecrated bower,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Were met together to rehearse a play
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|When I did him at this advantage take,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|An ass's nole I fixed on his head:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Rising and cawing at the gun's report,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|So, at his sight, away his fellows fly,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|thus strong,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Made senseless things begin to do them wrong,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|things catch.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I led them on in this distracted fear,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|When in that moment, so it came to pass,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|This falls out better than I could devise.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And the Athenian woman by his side:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Stand close: this is the same Athenian.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|This is the woman, but not this the man.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And kill me too.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|The sun was not so true unto the day
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|As he to me: would he have stolen away
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|This whole earth may be bored and that the moon
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|May through the centre creep and so displease
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Her brother's noontide with Antipodes.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|So should the murder'd look, and so should I,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|What's this to my Lysander? where is he?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Henceforth be never number'd among men!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|O, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|An adder did it, for with doubler tongue
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|You spend your passion on a misprised mood:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I am not guilty of Lysander's blood,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|An if I could, what should I get therefore?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|A privilege never to see me more.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And from thy hated presence part I so:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|See me no more, whether he be dead or no.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|There is no following her in this fierce vein:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Here therefore for a while I will remain.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Which now in some slight measure it will pay,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|If for his tender here I make some stay.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Lies down and sleeps
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|A million fail, confounding oath on oath.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|About the wood go swifter than the wind,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And Helena of Athens look thou find:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|By some illusion see thou bring her here:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I go, I go, look how I go,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Flower of this purple dye,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Hit with Cupid's archery,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Sink in apple of his eye.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|When his love he doth espy,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Let her shine as gloriously
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|As the Venus of the sky.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|When thou wakest, if she be by,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Beg of her for remedy.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Re-enter PUCK
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Captain of our fairy band,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Helena is here at hand,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And the youth, mistook by me,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Pleading for a lover's fee.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Shall we their fond pageant see?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Stand aside: the noise they make
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Will cause Demetrius to awake.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Then will two at once woo one,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That must needs be sport alone,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And those things do best please me
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That befal preposterously.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Enter LYSANDER and HELENA
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Scorn and derision never come in tears:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Look, when I vow, I weep, and vows so born,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|In their nativity all truth appears.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|How can these things in me seem scorn to you,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You do advance your cunning more and more.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I had no judgment when to her I swore.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|[Awaking]  O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To set against me for your merriment:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|If you we re civil and knew courtesy,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You would not do me thus much injury.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But you must join in souls to mock me too?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|If you were men, as men you are in show,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You would not use a gentle lady so,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You both are rivals, and love Hermia,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And now both rivals, to mock Helena:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|With your derision! none of noble sort
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Would so offend a virgin, and extort
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|You are unkind, Demetrius, be not so,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|For you love Hermia, this you know I know:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And here, with all good will, with all my heart,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|In Hermia's love I yield you up my part,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And yours of Helena to me bequeath,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Whom I do love and will do till my death.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Never did mockers waste more idle breath.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Lysander, keep thy Hermia, I will none:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And now to Helen is it home return'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|There to remain.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Helen, it is not so.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Lest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Look, where thy love comes, yonder is thy dear.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Re-enter HERMIA
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|The ear more quick of apprehension makes,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|It pays the hearing double recompense.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|What love could press Lysander from my side?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Lysander's love, that would not let him bide,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Fair Helena, who more engilds the night
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Why seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|You speak not as you think: it cannot be.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Lo, she is one of this confederacy!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Have you conspired, have you with these contrived
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To bait me with this foul derision?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|When we have chid the hasty-footed time
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|For parting us,--O, is it all forgot?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Have with our needles created both one flower,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Had been incorporate. So we grow together,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But yet an union in partition,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Two lovely berries moulded on one stem,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Due but to one and crowned with one crest.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And will you rent our ancient love asunder,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To join with men in scorning your poor friend?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Though I alone do feel the injury.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I am amazed at your passionate words.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To follow me and praise my eyes and face?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And made your other love, Demetrius,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Deny your love, so rich within his soul,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And tender me, forsooth, affection,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But by your setting on, by your consent?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|What thought I be not so in grace as you,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|So hung upon with love, so fortunate,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But miserable most, to love unloved?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|This you should pity rather than despise.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERNIA|I understand not what you mean by this.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Make mouths upon me when I turn my back,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Wink each at other, hold the sweet jest up:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|If you have any pity, grace, or manners,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You would not make me such an argument.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Which death or absence soon shall remedy.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Stay, gentle Helena, hear my excuse:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O excellent!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Sweet, do not scorn her so.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|If she cannot entreat, I can compel.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Helen, I love thee, by my life, I do:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I swear by that which I will lose for thee,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|To prove him false that says I love thee not.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I say I love thee more than he can do.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Quick, come!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lysander, whereto tends all this?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Away, you Ethiope!
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|No, no, he'll [        ]
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Seem to break loose, take on as you would follow,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Why are you grown so rude? what change is this?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Sweet love,--
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Do you not jest?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Yes, sooth, and so do you.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|I would I had your bond, for I perceive
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|A weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|What, can you do me greater harm than hate?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Since night you loved me, yet since night you left
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|me:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Why, then you left me--O, the gods forbid!--
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|In earnest, shall I say?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Ay, by my life,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And never did desire to see thee more.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Be certain, nothing truer, 'tis no jest
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|That I do hate thee and love Helena.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|You thief of love! what, have you come by night
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And stolen my love's heart from him?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Fine, i'faith!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Now I perceive that she hath made compare
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Between our statures, she hath urged her height,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And with her personage, her tall personage,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|And are you grown so high in his esteem,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|How low am I? I am not yet so low
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Let her not hurt me: I was never curst,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I have no gift at all in shrewishness,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I am a right maid for my cowardice:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Because she is something lower than myself,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|That I can match her.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lower! hark, again.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I evermore did love you, Hermia,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Save that, in love unto Demetrius,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I told him of your stealth unto this wood.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|He follow'd you, for love I follow'd him,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And now, so you will let me quiet go,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|To Athens will I bear my folly back
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And follow you no further: let me go:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|You see how simple and how fond I am.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|A foolish heart, that I leave here behind.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|What, with Lysander?
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|With Demetrius.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Be not afraid, she shall not harm thee, Helena.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|She was a vixen when she went to school,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And though she be but little, she is fierce.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Let me come to her.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Get you gone, you dwarf,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|You bead, you acorn.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|You are too officious
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|In her behalf that scorns your services.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Let her alone: speak not of Helena,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Take not her part, for, if thou dost intend
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Never so little show of love to her,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Thou shalt aby it.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Now she holds me not,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Exeunt LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Nay, go not back.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|I will not trust you, I,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Nor longer stay in your curst company.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|My legs are longer though, to run away.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I am amazed, and know not what to say.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Did not you tell me I should know the man
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|By the Athenian garment be had on?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And so far blameless proves my enterprise,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And so far am I glad it so did sort
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|As this their jangling I esteem a sport.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|The starry welkin cover thou anon
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With drooping fog as black as Acheron,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And lead these testy rivals so astray
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|As one come not within another's way.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And sometime rail thou like Demetrius,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And from each other look thou lead them thus,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|To take from thence all error with his might,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|When they next wake, all this derision
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With league whose date till death shall never end.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And then I will her charmed eye release
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That in crossways and floods have burial,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Already to their wormy beds are gone,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|For fear lest day should look their shames upon,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|They willfully themselves exile from light
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But we are spirits of another sort:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I with the morning's love have oft made sport,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And, like a forester, the groves may tread,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But, notwithstanding, haste, make no delay:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|We may effect this business yet ere day.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Up and down, up and down,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I will lead them up and down:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I am fear'd in field and town:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Goblin, lead them up and down.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Here comes one.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Re-enter LYSANDER
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Here, villain, drawn and ready. Where art thou?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I will be with thee straight.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Follow me, then,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|To plainer ground.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exit LYSANDER, as following the voice
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Re-enter DEMETRIUS
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Lysander! speak again:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And wilt not come? Come, recreant, come, thou child,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That draws a sword on thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Yea, art thou there?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Re-enter LYSANDER
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|He goes before me and still dares me on:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|When I come where he calls, then he is gone.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And here will rest me.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Lies down
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Come, thou gentle day!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Sleeps
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Re-enter PUCK and DEMETRIUS
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Abide me, if thou darest, for well I wot
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And darest not stand, nor look me in the face.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Where art thou now?
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Come hither: I am here.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Nay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|If ever I thy face by daylight see:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|To measure out my length on this cold bed.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|By day's approach look to be visited.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Lies down and sleeps
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Re-enter HELENA
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|O weary night, O long and tedious night,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Abate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|That I may back to Athens by daylight,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|From these that my poor company detest:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Steal me awhile from mine own company.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Lies down and sleeps
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Yet but three? Come one more,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Two of both kinds make up four.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Here she comes, curst and sad:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Cupid is a knavish lad,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Thus to make poor females mad.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Re-enter HERMIA
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Never so weary, never so in woe,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|I can no further crawl, no further go,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|My legs can keep no pace with my desires.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Here will I rest me till the break of day.
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Lies down and sleeps
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|On the ground
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Sleep sound:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I'll apply
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|To your eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Gentle lover, remedy.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Squeezing the juice on LYSANDER's eyes
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|When thou wakest,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Thou takest
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|True delight
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|In the sight
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Of thy former lady's eye:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And the country proverb known,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That every man should take his own,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|In your waking shall be shown:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Jack shall have Jill,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Nought shall go ill,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|ACT IV
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|SCENE I. The same. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|lying asleep.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Enter TITANIA and BOTTOM, PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH,  MUSTARDSEED, and other Fairies attending, OBERON behind unseen
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Where's Peaseblossom?
A Midsummer nights dream|PEASEBLOSSOM|Ready.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Where's Mounsieur Cobweb?
A Midsummer nights dream|COBWEB|Ready.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|humble-bee on the top of a thistle, and, good
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|yourself too much in the action, mounsieur, and,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I would be loath to have you overflown with a
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?
A Midsummer nights dream|MUSTARDSEED|Ready.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Give me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|leave your courtesy, good mounsieur.
A Midsummer nights dream|MUSTARDSEED|What's your Will?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur, for
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face, and I
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I must scratch.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|What, wilt thou hear some music,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|my sweet love?
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|the tongs and the bones.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Fairies, begone, and be all ways away.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Exeunt fairies
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Gently entwist, the female ivy so
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|They sleep
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Enter PUCK
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|[Advancing]  Welcome, good Robin.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|See'st thou this sweet sight?
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Her dotage now I do begin to pity:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I did upbraid her and fall out with her,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|For she his hairy temples then had rounded
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|When I had at my pleasure taunted her
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|I then did ask of her her changeling child,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|To bear him to my bower in fairy land.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And now I have the boy, I will undo
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|This hateful imperfection of her eyes:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|From off the head of this Athenian swain,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|That, he awaking when the other do,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|May all to Athens back again repair
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And think no more of this night's accidents
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|But first I will release the fairy queen.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Be as thou wast wont to be,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|See as thou wast wont to see:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Hath such force and blessed power.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|There lies your love.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|How came these things to pass?
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Titania, music call, and strike more dead
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Than common sleep of all these five the sense.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep!
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Music, still
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Now, when thou wakest, with thine
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|own fool's eyes peep.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Now thou and I are new in amity,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And will to-morrow midnight solemnly
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And bless it to all fair prosperity:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Fairy king, attend, and mark:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I do hear the morning lark.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Then, my queen, in silence sad,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Trip we after the night's shade:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|We the globe can compass soon,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Swifter than the wandering moon.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Come, my lord, and in our flight
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Tell me how it came this night
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|That I sleeping here was found
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|With these mortals on the ground.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Horns winded within
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Go, one of you, find out the forester,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For now our observation is perform'd,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And since we have the vaward of the day,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Uncouple in the western valley, let them go:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Exit an Attendant
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And mark the musical confusion
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Of hounds and echo in conjunction.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves,
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|The skies, the fountains, every region near
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|With ears that sweep away the morning dew,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Each under each. A cry more tuneable
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Judge when you hear. But, soft! what nymphs are these?
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|My lord, this is my daughter here asleep,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|And this, Lysander, this Demetrius is,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|This Helena, old Nedar's Helena:
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|I wonder of their being here together.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|No doubt they rose up early to observe
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The rite of May, and hearing our intent,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Came here in grace our solemnity.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|But speak, Egeus, is not this the day
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|That Hermia should give answer of her choice?
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|It is, my lord.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Horns and shout within. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA wake and start up
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Pardon, my lord.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I pray you all, stand up.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I know you two are rival enemies:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|How comes this gentle concord in the world,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|That hatred is so far from jealousy,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|My lord, I shall reply amazedly,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I cannot truly say how I came here,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|But, as I think,--for truly would I speak,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And now do I bethink me, so it is,--
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|I came with Hermia hither: our intent
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Without the peril of the Athenian law.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Enough, enough, my lord, you have enough:
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|I beg the law, the law, upon his head.
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|They would have stolen away, they would, Demetrius,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Thereby to have defeated you and me,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|You of your wife and me of my consent,
A Midsummer nights dream|EGEUS|Of my consent that she should be your wife.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Of this their purpose hither to this wood,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And I in fury hither follow'd them,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Fair Helena in fancy following me.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,--
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|But by some power it is,--my love to Hermia,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Melted as the snow, seems to me now
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|As the remembrance of an idle gaud
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Which in my childhood I did dote upon,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|The object and the pleasure of mine eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Is only Helena. To her, my lord,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia:
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|But, as in health, come to my natural taste,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And will for evermore be true to it.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Of this discourse we more will hear anon.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Egeus, I will overbear your will,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For in the temple by and by with us
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|These couples shall eternally be knit:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And, for the morning now is something worn,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Away with us to Athens, three and three,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Come, Hippolyta.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Exeunt THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|These things seem small and undistinguishable,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Methinks I see these things with parted eye,
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|When every thing seems double.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|So methinks:
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|Mine own, and not mine own.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Are you sure
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|That we are awake? It seems to me
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|The duke was here, and bid us follow him?
A Midsummer nights dream|HERMIA|Yea, and my father.
A Midsummer nights dream|HELENA|And Hippolyta.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And he did bid us follow to the temple.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Why, then, we are awake: let's follow him
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And by the way let us recount our dreams.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|[Awaking]  When my cue comes, call me, and I will
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|because it hath no bottom, and I will sing it in the
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|latter end of a play, before the duke:
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|sing it at her death.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Have you sent to Bottom's house ? is he come home yet?
A Midsummer nights dream|STARVELING|He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is
A Midsummer nights dream|STARVELING|transported.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|not forward, doth it?
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|It is not possible: you have not a man in all
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|man in Athens.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Yea and the best person too, and he is a very
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|paramour for a sweet voice.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|a thing of naught.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Enter SNUG
A Midsummer nights dream|SNUG|Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and
A Midsummer nights dream|SNUG|there is two or three lords and ladies more married:
A Midsummer nights dream|SNUG|if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made
A Midsummer nights dream|SNUG|men.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|day during his life, he could not have 'scaped
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged,
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Pyramus, or nothing.
A Midsummer nights dream|FLUTE|Enter BOTTOM
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Where are these lads? where are these hearts?
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|what, for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.
A Midsummer nights dream|QUINCE|Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|pumps, meet presently at the palace, every man look
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|o'er his part, for the short and the long is, our
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|clean linen, and let not him that plays the lion
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath, and I
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|comedy. No more words: away! go, away!
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|ACT V
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|'Tis strange my Theseus, that these
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|lovers speak of.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|More strange than true: I never may believe
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|More than cool reason ever comprehends.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The lunatic, the lover and the poet
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Are of imagination all compact:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And as imagination bodies forth
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|A local habitation and a name.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Such tricks hath strong imagination,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|That if it would but apprehend some joy,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|It comprehends some bringer of that joy,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Or in the night, imagining some fear,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|But all the story of the night told over,
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|And all their minds transfigured so together,
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|More witnesseth than fancy's images
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|And grows to something of great constancy,
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|But, howsoever, strange and admirable.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Enter LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HERMIA, and HELENA
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Accompany your hearts!
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|More than to us
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed!
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To wear away this long age of three hours
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Between our after-supper and bed-time?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Where is our usual manager of mirth?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|What revels are in hand? Is there no play,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Call Philostrate.
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Here, mighty Theseus.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|What masque? what music? How shall we beguile
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The lazy time, if not with some delight?
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|There is a brief how many sports are ripe:
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Make choice of which your highness will see first.
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Giving a paper
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|[Reads]  'The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|We'll none of that: that have I told my love,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|In glory of my kinsman Hercules.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Reads
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|'The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|That is an old device, and it was play'd
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Reads
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|'The thrice three Muses mourning for the death
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Of Learning, late deceased in beggary.'
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|That is some satire, keen and critical,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Reads
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth.'
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|How shall we find the concord of this discord?
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Which is as brief as I have known a play,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Which makes it tedious, for in all the play
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|There is not one word apt, one player fitted:
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|And tragical, my noble lord, it is,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|For Pyramus therein doth kill himself.
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Made mine eyes water, but more merry tears
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|The passion of loud laughter never shed.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|What are they that do play it?
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Which never labour'd in their minds till now,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|With this same play, against your nuptial.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And we will hear it.
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|No, my noble lord,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|It is not for you: I have heard it over,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|And it is nothing, nothing in the world,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Unless you can find sport in their intents,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain,
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|To do you service.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I will hear that play,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|For never anything can be amiss,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|When simpleness and duty tender it.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Go, bring them in: and take your places, ladies.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Exit PHILOSTRATE
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|And duty in his service perishing.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|He says they can do nothing in this kind.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Takes it in might, not merit.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|To greet me with premeditated welcomes,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Make periods in the midst of sentences,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Throttle their practised accent in their fears
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|And in the modesty of fearful duty
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I read as much as from the rattling tongue
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|In least speak most, to my capacity.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Re-enter PHILOSTRATE
A Midsummer nights dream|PHILOSTRATE|So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Let him approach.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Flourish of trumpets
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Enter QUINCE for the Prologue
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|If we offend, it is with our good will.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|That you should think, we come not to offend,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|But with good will. To show our simple skill,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|That is the true beginning of our end.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Consider then we come but in despite.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|We do not come as minding to contest you,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Our true intent is. All for your delight
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|We are not here. That you should here repent you,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|The actors are at hand and by their show
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|You shall know all that you are like to know.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|This fellow doth not stand upon points.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt, he knows
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|enough to speak, but to speak true.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|on a recorder, a sound, but not in government.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|His speech, was like a tangled chain, nothing
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, and Lion
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|This man is Pyramus, if you would know,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|This beauteous lady Thisby is certain.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|To whisper. At the which let no man wonder.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Presenteth Moonshine, for, if you will know,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Did scare away, or rather did affright,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|At large discourse, while here they do remain.
A Midsummer nights dream|Prologue|Exeunt Prologue, Thisbe, Lion, and Moonshine
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I wonder if the lion be to speak.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do.
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|In this same interlude it doth befall
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|That I, one Snout by name, present a wall,
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|And such a wall, as I would have you think,
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|That had in it a crannied hole or chink,
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|Did whisper often very secretly.
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|That I am that same wall, the truth is so:
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|discourse, my lord.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Enter Pyramus
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O night, which ever art when day is not!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O night, O night! alack, alack, alack,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|That stand'st between her father's ground and mine!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Wall holds up his fingers
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|But what see I? No Thisby do I see.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me'
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Enter Thisbe
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|For parting my fair Pyramus and me!
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|I see a voice: now will I to the chink,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|My love thou art, my love I think.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover's grace,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|And, like Limander, am I trusty still.
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|'Tide life, 'tide death, I come without delay.
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so,
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
A Midsummer nights dream|Wall|Exit
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|without warning.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|are no worse, if imagination amend them.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|If we imagine no worse of them than they of
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Enter Lion and Moonshine
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|May now perchance both quake and tremble here,
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|A lion-fell, nor else no lion's dam,
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|For, if I should as lion come in strife
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|Into this place, 'twere pity on my life.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|A very gentle beast, of a good conscience.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|This lion is a very fox for his valour.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|True, and a goose for his discretion.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Not so, my lord, for his valour cannot carry his
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|discretion, and the fox carries the goose.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|for the goose carries not the fox. It is well:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.
A Midsummer nights dream|Moonshine|This lanthorn doth the horned moon present,--
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|He should have worn the horns on his head.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|He is no crescent, and his horns are
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|invisible within the circumference.
A Midsummer nights dream|Moonshine|This lanthorn doth the horned moon present,
A Midsummer nights dream|Moonshine|Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|man i' the moon?
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|He dares not come there for the candle, for, you
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|see, it is already in snuff.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|It appears, by his small light of discretion, that
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|he is in the wane, but yet, in courtesy, in all
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|reason, we must stay the time.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Proceed, Moon.
A Midsummer nights dream|Moonshine|All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the
A Midsummer nights dream|Moonshine|lanthorn is the moon, I, the man in the moon, this
A Midsummer nights dream|Moonshine|thorn-bush, my thorn-bush, and this dog, my dog.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Why, all these should be in the lanthorn, for all
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|these are in the moon. But, silence! here comes Thisbe.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Enter Thisbe
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|This is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|[Roaring]  Oh--
A Midsummer nights dream|Lion|Thisbe runs off
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Well roared, Lion.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Well run, Thisbe.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|good grace.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|The Lion shakes Thisbe's mantle, and exit
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Well moused, Lion.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|And so the lion vanished.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And then came Pyramus.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Enter Pyramus
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|I trust to take of truest Thisby sight.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|But stay, O spite!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|But mark, poor knight,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|What dreadful dole is here!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Eyes, do you see?
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|How can it be?
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O dainty duck! O dear!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Thy mantle good,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|What, stain'd with blood!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Approach, ye Furies fell!
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O Fates, come, come,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Cut thread and thrum,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|go near to make a man look sad.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Which is--no, no--which was the fairest dame
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|with cheer.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Come, tears, confound,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Out, sword, and wound
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|The pap of Pyramus,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Ay, that left pap,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Where heart doth hop:
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Stabs himself
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Now am I dead,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Now am I fled,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|My soul is in the sky:
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Tongue, lose thy light,
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Moon take thy flight:
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Exit Moonshine
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Now die, die, die, die, die.
A Midsummer nights dream|Pyramus|Dies
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|No die, but an ace, for him, for he is but one.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|Less than an ace, man, for he is dead, he is nothing.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|prove an ass.
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|back and finds her lover?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|She will find him by starlight. Here she comes, and
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|her passion ends the play.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Re-enter Thisbe
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Methinks she should not use a long one for such a
A Midsummer nights dream|HIPPOLYTA|Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Thisbe, is the better, he for a man, God warrant us,
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|she for a woman, God bless us.
A Midsummer nights dream|LYSANDER|She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|And thus she means, videlicet:--
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Asleep, my love?
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|What, dead, my dove?
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|O Pyramus, arise!
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Dead, dead? A tomb
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Must cover thy sweet eyes.
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|These My lips,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|This cherry nose,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|These yellow cowslip cheeks,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Are gone, are gone:
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Lovers, make moan:
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|His eyes were green as leeks.
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|O Sisters Three,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Come, come to me,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|With hands as pale as milk,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Lay them in gore,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Since you have shore
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|With shears his thread of silk.
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Tongue, not a word:
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Come, trusty sword,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Come, blade, my breast imbrue:
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Stabs herself
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|And, farewell, friends,
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Thus Thisby ends:
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Adieu, adieu, adieu.
A Midsummer nights dream|Thisbe|Dies
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.
A Midsummer nights dream|DEMETRIUS|Ay, and Wall too.
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|[Starting up]  No assure you, the wall is down that
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two
A Midsummer nights dream|BOTTOM|of our company?
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|No epilogue, I pray you, for your play needs no
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|excuse. Never excuse, for when the players are all
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|tragedy: and so it is, truly, and very notably
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|epilogue alone.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|A dance
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Lovers, to bed, 'tis almost fairy time.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|As much as we this night have overwatch'd.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|A fortnight hold we this solemnity,
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|In nightly revels and new jollity.
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Exeunt
A Midsummer nights dream|THESEUS|Enter PUCK
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Now the hungry lion roars,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And the wolf behowls the moon,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|All with weary task fordone.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Now the wasted brands do glow,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Puts the wretch that lies in woe
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|In remembrance of a shroud.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Now it is the time of night
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That the graves all gaping wide,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Every one lets forth his sprite,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|In the church-way paths to glide:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And we fairies, that do run
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|By the triple Hecate's team,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|From the presence of the sun,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Following darkness like a dream,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Now are frolic: not a mouse
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|I am sent with broom before,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|To sweep the dust behind the door.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Enter OBERON and TITANIA with their train
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Through the house give gathering light,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|By the dead and drowsy fire:
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Every elf and fairy sprite
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Hop as light as bird from brier,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And this ditty, after me,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Sing, and dance it trippingly.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|First, rehearse your song by rote
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|To each word a warbling note:
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Will we sing, and bless this place.
A Midsummer nights dream|TITANIA|Song and dance
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Now, until the break of day,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Through this house each fairy stray.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|To the best bride-bed will we,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Which by us shall blessed be,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And the issue there create
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Ever shall be fortunate.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|So shall all the couples three
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Ever true in loving be,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And the blots of Nature's hand
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Shall not in their issue stand,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Nor mark prodigious, such as are
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Despised in nativity,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Shall upon their children be.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|With this field-dew consecrate,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Every fairy take his gait,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And each several chamber bless,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Through this palace, with sweet peace,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|And the owner of it blest
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Ever shall in safety rest.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Trip away, make no stay,
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Meet me all by break of day.
A Midsummer nights dream|OBERON|Exeunt OBERON, TITANIA, and train
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|If we shadows have offended,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Think but this, and all is mended,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|That you have but slumber'd here
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|While these visions did appear.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And this weak and idle theme,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|No more yielding but a dream,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Gentles, do not reprehend:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|if you pardon, we will mend:
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And, as I am an honest Puck,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|If we have unearned luck
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|We will make amends ere long,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Else the Puck a liar call,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|So, good night unto you all.
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|Give me your hands, if we be friends,
A Midsummer nights dream|PUCK|And Robin shall restore amends.
Much Ado about nothing|PUCK|ACT I
Much Ado about nothing|PUCK|SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.
Much Ado about nothing|PUCK|Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|comes this night to Messina.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|when I left him.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|But few of any sort, and none of name.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|tell you how.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|glad of it.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|I have already delivered him letters, and there
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|appears much joy in him, even so much that joy could
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|not show itself modest enough without a badge of
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|bitterness.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Did he break out into tears?
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|In great measure.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|truer than those that are so washed. How much
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|wars or no?
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|I know none of that name, lady: there was none such
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|in the army of any sort.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|What is he that you ask for, niece?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|O, he's returned, and as pleasant as ever he was.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Cupid at the flight, and my uncle's fool, reading
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|He hath done good service, lady, in these wars.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|he is a very valiant trencherman, he hath an
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|excellent stomach.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|And a good soldier too, lady.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|A lord to a lord, a man to a man, stuffed with all
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|honourable virtues.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|It is so, indeed, he is no less than a stuffed man:
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|between them.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|now is the whole man governed with one: so that if
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|bear it for a difference between himself and his
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|horse, for it is all the wealth that he hath left,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|Is't possible?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|the fashion of his hat, it ever changes with the
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|next block.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|you, who is his companion? Is there no young
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|thousand pound ere a' be cured.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|I will hold friends with you, lady.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Do, good friend.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|You will never run mad, niece.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, not till a hot January.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|Don Pedro is approached.
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|cost, and you encounter it.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|remain, but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|and happiness takes his leave.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|is your daughter.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Her mother hath many times told me so.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Signior Benedick, no, for then were you a child.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|herself. Be happy, lady, for you are like an
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|honourable father.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|like him as she is.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Benedick: nobody marks you.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|in her presence.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|heart, for, truly, I love none.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|A dear happiness to women: they would else have
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|swear he loves me.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|scratched face.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|a face as yours were.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|name, I have done.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|the least a month, and he heartily prays some
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|hypocrite, but prays from his heart.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To DON JOHN
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|the prince your brother, I owe you all duty.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|you.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Please it your grace lead on?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Your hand, Leonato, we will go together.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I noted her not, but I looked on her.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Is she not a modest young lady?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|my simple true judgment, or would you have me speak
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|No, I pray thee speak in sober judgment.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|for a great praise: only this commendation I can
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|afford her, that were she other than she is, she
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|were unhandsome, and being no other but as she is, I
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|do not like her.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|truly how thou likest her.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Can the world buy such a jewel?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you, to go in the song?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|looked on.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|matter: there's her cousin, an she were not
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|as the first of May doth the last of December. But I
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|contrary, if Hero would be my wife.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Go to, i' faith, an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Re-enter DON PEDRO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|What secret hath held you here, that you followed
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|not to Leonato's?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I would your grace would constrain me to tell.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I charge thee on thy allegiance.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|man, I would have you think so, but, on my
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|in love. With who? now that is your grace's part.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Mark how short his answer is,--With Hero, Leonato's
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|short daughter.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If this were so, so were it uttered.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|so.'
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|should be otherwise.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Amen, if you love her, for the lady is very well worthy.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|By my troth, I speak my thought.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|That I love her, I feel.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|That she is worthy, I know.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|That I neither feel how she should be loved nor
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|of beauty.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And never could maintain his part but in the force
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|of his will.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|That a woman conceived me, I thank her, that she
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|brought me up, I likewise give her most humble
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|right to trust none, and the fine is, for the which
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|with love than I will get again with drinking, pick
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|blind Cupid.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|wilt prove a notable argument.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|at me, and he that hits me, let him be clapped on
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the shoulder, and called Adam.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|doth bear the yoke.'
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|and in such great letters as they write 'Here is
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I look for an earthquake too, then.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Well, you temporize with the hours. In the
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|not fail him at supper, for indeed he hath made
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|great preparation.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I have almost matter enough in me for such an
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|embassage, and so I commit you--
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|To the tuition of God: From my house, if I had it,--
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you flout old ends any further, examine your
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|conscience: and so I leave you.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|My liege, your highness now may do me good.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Hath Leonato any son, my lord?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|No child but Hero, she's his only heir.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Dost thou affect her, Claudio?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O, my lord,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|When you went onward on this ended action,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Than to drive liking to the name of love:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Thou wilt be like a lover presently
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And tire the hearer with a book of words.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And I will break with her and with her father,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|How sweetly you do minister to love,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|That know love's grief by his complexion!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I would have salved it with a longer treatise.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|The fairest grant is the necessity.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And I will fit thee with the remedy.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I know we shall have revelling to-night:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I will assume thy part in some disguise
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And take her hearing prisoner with the force
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And strong encounter of my amorous tale:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Then after to her father will I break,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|In practise let us put it presently.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|SCENE II. A room in LEONATO's house.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|hath he provided this music?
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Are they good?
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|As the event stamps them: but they have a good
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|cover, they show well outward. The prince and Count
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|this night in a dance: and if he found her
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|accordant, he meant to take the present time by the
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|top and instantly break with you of it.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|A good sharp fellow: I will send for him, and
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|question him yourself.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|No, no, we will hold it as a dream till it appear
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|that she may be the better prepared for an answer,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Enter Attendants
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|mercy, friend, go you with me, and I will use your
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|SCENE III. The same.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Enter DON JOHN and CONRADE
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|of measure sad?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|There is no measure in the occasion that breeds,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|therefore the sadness is without limit.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|You should hear reason.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|If not a present remedy, at least a patient
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|sufferance.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|claw no man in his humour.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Yea, but you must not make the full show of this
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|till you may do it without controlment. You have of
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|late stood out against your brother, and he hath
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|ta'en you newly into his grace, where it is
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|impossible you should take true root but by the
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|that you frame the season for your own harvest.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|his grace, and it better fits my blood to be
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog, therefore I
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|mouth, I would bite, if I had my liberty, I would do
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|seek not to alter me.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Can you make no use of your discontent?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I make all use of it, for I use it only.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Who comes here?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Enter BORACHIO
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|What news, Borachio?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|What is he for a fool that betroths himself to
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|unquietness?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Marry, it is your brother's right hand.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Who? the most exquisite Claudio?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Even he.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|he?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|arras, and there heard it agreed upon that the
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|prince should woo Hero for himself, and having
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|To the death, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|We'll wait upon your lordship.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|ACT II
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|SCENE I. A hall in LEONATO'S house.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Was not Count John here at supper?
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|I saw him not.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|him but I am heart-burned an hour after.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|He is of a very melancholy disposition.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|He were an excellent man that were made just in the
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|midway between him and Benedick: the one is too
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|like an image and says nothing, and the other too
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Benedick's face,--
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|in the world, if a' could get her good-will.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|In faith, she's too curst.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|sending that way, for it is said, 'God sends a curst
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|cow short horns,' but to a cow too curst he sends none.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Just, if he send me no husband, for the which
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|beard is less than a man: and he that is more than
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|apes into hell.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Well, then, go you into hell?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, but to the gate, and there will the devil meet
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|heaven, here's no place for you maids:' so deliver
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|there live we as merry as the day is long.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|[To HERO]  Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|by your father.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Yes, faith, it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|me.'
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Not till God make men of some other metal than
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|not wooed in good time: if the prince be too
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|important, tell him there is measure in every thing
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|fantastical, the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|measure, full of state and ancientry, and then comes
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I have a good eye, uncle, I can see a church by daylight.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|All put on their masks
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR, DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Lady, will you walk about with your friend?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|I am yours for the walk, and especially when I walk away.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|With me in your company?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|I may say so, when I please.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And when please you to say so?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|When I like your favour, for God defend the lute
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|should be like the case!
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|My visor is Philemon's roof, within the house is Jove.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Why, then, your visor should be thatched.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Speak low, if you speak love.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Drawing her aside
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Well, I would you did like me.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|So would not I, for your own sake, for I have many
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|ill-qualities.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Which is one?
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|I say my prayers aloud.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|God match me with a good dancer!
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Amen.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|done! Answer, clerk.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|No more words: the clerk is answered.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|I know you well enough, you are Signior Antonio.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|At a word, I am not.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|I know you by the waggling of your head.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|To tell you true, I counterfeit him.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|are he, you are he.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|At a word, I am not.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|end.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Will you not tell me who told you so?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|No, you shall pardon me.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Nor will you not tell me who you are?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Not now.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Signior Benedick that said so.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|What's he?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I am sure you know him well enough.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Not I, believe me.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Did he never make you laugh?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I pray you, what is he?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|none but libertines delight in him, and the
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|for he both pleases men and angers them, and then
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|the fleet: I would he had boarded me.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|strikes him into melancholy, and then there's a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|supper that night.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Music
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|We must follow the leaders.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|In every good thing.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|the next turning.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Dance. Then exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO, and CLAUDIO
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|withdrawn her father to break with him about it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|The ladies follow her and but one visor remains.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Are not you Signior Benedick?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|You know me well, I am he.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|he is enamoured on Hero, I pray you, dissuade him
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|do the part of an honest man in it.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|How know you he loves her?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I heard him swear his affection.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|So did I too, and he swore he would marry her to-night.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Come, let us to the banquet.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Exeunt DON JOHN and BORACHIO
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|'Tis certain so, the prince wooes for himself.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Friendship is constant in all other things
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Save in the office and affairs of love:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Let every eye negotiate for itself
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And trust no agent, for beauty is a witch
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|This is an accident of hourly proof,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Re-enter BENEDICK
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Count Claudio?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Yea, the same.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Come, will you go with me?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Whither?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Even to the next willow, about your own business,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I wish him joy of her.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|have served you thus?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I pray you, leave me.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If it will not be, I'll leave you.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|am apt to do myself wrong, I am not so reputed: it
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|that puts the world into her person and so gives me
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Re-enter DON PEDRO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Now, signior, where's the count? did you see him?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|warren: I told him, and I think I told him true,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|that your grace had got the good will of this young
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|lady, and I offered him my company to a willow-tree,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|To be whipped! What's his fault?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|overjoyed with finding a birds' nest, shows it his
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|companion, and he steals it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|transgression is in the stealer.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|and the garland too, for the garland he might have
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds' nest.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|the owner.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you say honestly.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|gentleman that danced with her told her she is much
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|wronged by you.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|an oak but with one green leaf on it would have
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|answered her, my very visor began to assume life and
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|duller than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|there were no living near her, she would infect to
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the north star. I would not marry her, though she
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|some scholar would conjure her, for certainly, while
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|sanctuary, and people sin upon purpose, because they
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|would go thither, so, indeed, all disquiet, horror
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|and perturbation follows her.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Look, here she comes.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Will your grace command me any service to the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|rather than hold three words' conference with this
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|harpy. You have no employment for me?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|None, but to desire your good company.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|endure my Lady Tongue.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Come, lady, come, you have lost the heart of
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Signior Benedick.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I gave
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|him use for it, a double heart for his single one:
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|should prove the mother of fools. I have brought
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Not sad, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|How then? sick?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Neither, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|well, but civil count, civil as an orange, and
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|something of that jealous complexion.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|and his good will obtained: name the day of
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|marriage, and God give thee joy!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|fortunes: his grace hath made the match, and an
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|grace say Amen to it.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Speak, count, 'tis your cue.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|you and dote upon the exchange.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Speak, cousin, or, if you cannot, stop his mouth
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|with a kiss, and let not him speak neither.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Yea, my lord, I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|ear that he is in her heart.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And so she doth, cousin.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|world but I, and I am sunburnt, I may sit in a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I would rather have one of your father's getting.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Will you have me, lady?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, my lord, unless I might have another for
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|working-days: your grace is too costly to wear
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|becomes you, for, out of question, you were born in
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|a merry hour.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, sure, my lord, my mother cried, but then there
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|was a star danced, and under that was I born.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Cousins, God give you joy!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I cry you mercy, uncle. By your grace's pardon.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|There's little of the melancholy element in her, my
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|not ever sad then, for I have heard my daughter say,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|herself with laughing.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|She were an excellent wife for Benedict.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|they would talk themselves mad.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|County Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|have all his rites.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|seven-night, and a time too brief, too, to have all
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|things answer my mind.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Hercules' labours, which is, to bring Signior
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|affection the one with the other. I would fain have
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|you three will but minister such assistance as I
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|shall give you direction.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|nights' watchings.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And I, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And you too, gentle Hero?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|cousin to a good husband.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I know. Thus far can I praise him, he is of a noble
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|shall fall in love with Benedick, and I, with your
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Cupid is no longer an archer: hi s glory shall be
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|and I will tell you my drift.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|SCENE II. The same.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|It is so, the Count Claudio shall marry the
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|daughter of Leonato.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Yea, my lord, but I can cross it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Not honestly, my lord, but so covertly that no
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|dishonesty shall appear in me.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Show me briefly how.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|I think I told your lordship a year since, how much
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|gentlewoman to Hero.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I remember.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|the prince your brother, spare not to tell him that
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|What proof shall I make of that?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|other issue?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Go, then, find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|that Hero loves me, intend a kind of zeal both to the
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|offer them instances, which shall bear no less
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Claudio, and bring them to see this the very night
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|assurance and all the preparation overthrown.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|thy fee is a thousand ducats.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|shall not shame me.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I will presently go learn their day of marriage.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|SCENE III. LEONATO'S orchard.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Enter BENEDICK
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Boy!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter Boy
Much Ado about nothing|Boy|Signior?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|to me in the orchard.
Much Ado about nothing|Boy|I am here already, sir.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I know that, but I would have thee hence, and here again.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exit Boy
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|another man is a fool when he dedicates his
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|such shallow follies in others, become the argument
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|is Claudio. I have known when there was no music
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|with him but the drum and the fife, and now had he
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|good armour, and now will he lie ten nights awake,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|and a soldier, and now is he turned orthography, his
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|these eyes? I cannot tell, I think not: I will not
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster, but
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|is fair, yet I am well, another is wise, yet I am
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|well, another virtuous, yet I am well, but till all
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain, wise,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|or I'll none, virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|fair, or I'll   never look on her, mild, or come not
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|near me, noble, or not I for an angel, of good
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Withdraws
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Come, shall we hear this music?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|See you where Benedick hath hid himself?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O, very well, my lord: the music ended,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Enter BALTHASAR with Music
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|To slander music any more than once.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|It is the witness still of excellency
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|To put a strange face on his own perfection.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Because you talk of wooing, I will sing,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Since many a wooer doth commence his suit
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Yet will he swear he loves.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Now, pray thee, come,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Do it in notes.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Note this before my notes,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Air
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|all's done.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|The Song
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Men were deceivers ever,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|One foot in sea and one on shore,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|To one thing constant never:
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Then sigh not so, but let them go,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|And be you blithe and bonny,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Converting all your sounds of woe
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Of dumps so dull and heavy,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|The fraud of men was ever so,
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Since summer first was leafy:
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|Then sigh not so,  and c.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|By my troth, a good song.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|And an ill singer, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Ha, no, no, faith, thou singest well enough for a shift.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|night-raven, come what plague could have come after
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|get us some excellent music, for to-morrow night we
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.
Much Ado about nothing|BALTHASAR|The best I can, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Do so: farewell.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Exit BALTHASAR
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Signior Benedick?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O, ay: stalk on. stalk on, the fowl sits. I did
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|never think that lady would have loved any man.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|No, nor I neither, but most wonderful that she
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|of it but that she loves him with an enraged
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|affection: it is past the infinite of thought.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|May be she doth but counterfeit.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Faith, like enough.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|passion came so near the life of passion as she
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|discovers it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Why, what effects of passion shows she?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Bait the hook well, this fish will bite.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|my daughter tell you how.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|She did, indeed.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would have I
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|thought her spirit had been invincible against all
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|assaults of affection.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I would have sworn it had, my lord, especially
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|against Benedick.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I should think this a gull, but that the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|sure, hide himself in such reverence.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|No, and swears she never will: that's her torment.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says: 'Shall
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|with scorn, write to him that I love him?'
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|This says she now when she is beginning to write to
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|him, for she'll be up twenty times a night, and
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|pretty jest your daughter told us of.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|That.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|railed at herself, that she should be so immodest
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|to write to one that she knew would flout her, 'I
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit, for I
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|should flout him, if he writ to me, yea, though I
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|love him, I should.'
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses, 'O
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|She doth indeed, my daughter says so: and the
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|to herself: it is very true.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|It were good that Benedick knew of it by some
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|other, if she will not discover it.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|To what end? He would make but a sport of it and
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|torment the poor lady worse.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She's an
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|excellent sweet lady, and, out of all suspicion,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|she is virtuous.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And she is exceeding wise.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|In every thing but in loving Benedick.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|cause, being her uncle and her guardian.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|have daffed all other respects and made her half
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|what a' will say.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Were it good, think you?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Hero thinks surely she will die, for she says she
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|her, rather than she will bate one breath of her
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|accustomed crossness.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|She doth well: if she should make tender of her
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it, for the
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|He is a very proper man.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|He hath indeed a good outward happiness.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Before God! and, in my mind, very wise.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And I take him to be valiant.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|quarrels you may say he is wise, for either he
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|them with a most Christian-like fear.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|quarrel with fear and trembling.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And so will he do, for the man doth fear God,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|he will make. Well I am sorry for your niece. Shall
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|good counsel.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Nay, that's impossible: she may wear her heart out first.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|let it cool the while. I love Benedick well, and I
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|how much he is unworthy so good a lady.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|trust my expectation.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Let there be the same net spread for her, and that
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|scene that I would see, which will be merely a
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Exeunt DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|[Coming forward]  This can be no trick: the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the love come from her, they say too that she will
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|rather die than give any sign of affection. I did
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|are they that hear their detractions and can put
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|them to mending. They say the lady is fair, 'tis a
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|truth, I can bear them witness, and virtuous, 'tis
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|so, I cannot reprove it, and wise, but for loving
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|me, by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|no great argument of her folly, for I will be
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|horribly in love with her. I may chance have some
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|because I have railed so long against marriage: but
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|her.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter BEATRICE
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|not have come.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|You take pleasure then in the message?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|signior: fare you well.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|to dinner,' there's a double meaning in that 'I took
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|not take pity of her, I am a villain, if I do not
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|ACT III
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|SCENE I. LEONATO'S garden.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Proposing with the prince and Claudio:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Is all of her, say that thou overheard'st us,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|To listen our purpose.  This is thy office,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|As we do trace this alley up and down,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Our talk must only be of Benedick.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|When I do name him, let it be thy part
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|To praise him more than ever man did merit:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|My talk to thee must be how Benedick
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|That only wounds by hearsay.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Enter BEATRICE, behind
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Now begin,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Close by the ground, to hear our conference.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|And greedily devour the treacherous bait:
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|So angle we for Beatrice, who even now
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Fear you not my part of the dialogue.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Approaching the bower
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|I know her spirits are as coy and wild
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|As haggerds of the rock.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|But are you sure
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|So says the prince and my new-trothed lord.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|They did entreat me to acquaint her of it,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|To wish him wrestle with affection,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And never to let Beatrice know of it.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Deserve as full as fortunate a bed
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|O god of love! I know he doth deserve
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|As much as may be yielded to a man:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|But Nature never framed a woman's heart
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Misprising what they look on, and her wit
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Values itself so highly that to her
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Nor take no shape nor project of affection,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|She is so self-endeared.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Sure, I think so,
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|And therefore certainly it were not good
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|She would swear the gentleman should be her sister,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Made a foul blot, if tall, a lance ill-headed,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|If low, an agate very vilely cut,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|If silent, why, a block moved with none.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|So turns she every man the wrong side out
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And never gives to truth and virtue that
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|No, not to be so odd and from all fashions
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|She would mock me into air, O, she would laugh me
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Out of myself, press me to death with wit.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|It were a better death than die with mocks,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Which is as bad as die with tickling.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|No, rather I will go to Benedick
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And counsel him to fight against his passion.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|To stain my cousin with: one doth not know
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|How much an ill word may empoison liking.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|She cannot be so much without true judgment--
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Having so swift and excellent a wit
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|As she is prized to have--as to refuse
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|He is the only man of Italy.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Always excepted my dear Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Goes foremost in report through Italy.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|His excellence did earn it, ere he had it.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|When are you married, madam?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Exeunt HERO and URSULA
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|[Coming forward]
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No glory lives behind the back of such.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|And, Benedick, love on, I will requite thee,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|To bind our loves up in a holy band,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|For others say thou dost deserve, and I
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Believe it better than reportingly.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|SCENE II. A room in LEONATO'S house
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and LEONATO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|then go I toward Arragon.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|vouchsafe me.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|of your marriage as to show a child his new coat
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|with Benedick for his company, for, from the crown
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|him, he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|tongue speaks.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Gallants, I am not as I have been.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|So say I	methinks you are sadder.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I hope he be in love.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|he wants money.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I have the toothache.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Draw it.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Hang it!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|What! sigh for the toothache?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Where is but a humour or a worm.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Well, every one can master a grief but he that has
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|it.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Yet say I, he is in love.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|a fancy that he hath to strange disguises, as, to be
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|shape of two countries at once, as, a German from
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If he be not in love with some woman, there is no
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|mornings, what should that bode?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Hath any man seen him at the barber's?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|stuffed tennis-balls.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|out by that?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|The greatest note of it is his melancholy.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And when was he wont to wash his face?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|what they say of him.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Nay, but his jesting spirit, which is now crept into
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|a lute-string and now governed by stops.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|conclude he is in love.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Nay, but I know who loves him.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Yes, and his ill conditions, and, in despite of
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|all, dies for him.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|She shall be buried with her face upwards.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|or nine wise words to speak to you, which these
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|hobby-horses must not hear.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|played their parts with Beatrice, and then the two
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|bears will not bite one another when they meet.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Enter DON JOHN
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|My lord and brother, God save you!
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Good den, brother.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|If your leisure served, I would speak with you.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|In private?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear, for
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|what I would speak of concerns him.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|What's the matter?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|[To CLAUDIO]  Means your lordship to be married
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|to-morrow?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|You know he does.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I know not that, when he knows what I know.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|You may think I love you not: let that appear
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|your ensuing marriage,--surely suit ill spent and
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|labour ill bestowed.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Why, what's the matter?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I came hither to tell you, and, circumstances
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|shortened, for she has been too long a talking of,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|the lady is disloyal.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Who, Hero?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Even she, Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Disloyal?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|The word is too good to paint out her wickedness, I
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|could say she were worse: think you of a worse
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|see her chamber-window entered, even the night
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|before her wedding-day: if you love her then,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|to-morrow wed her, but it would better fit your honour
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|to change your mind.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|May this be so?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I will not think it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|If you dare not trust that you see, confess not
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|that you know: if you will follow me, I will show
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|you enough, and when you have seen more and heard
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|more, proceed accordingly.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|wed, there will I shame her.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|with thee to disgrace her.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I will disparage her no farther till you are my
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|witnesses: bear it coldly but till midnight, and
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|let the issue show itself.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|O day untowardly turned!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O mischief strangely thwarting!
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|O plague right well prevented! so will you say when
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|you have seen the sequel.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|SCENE III. A street.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Enter DOGBERRY and VERGES with the Watch
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Are you good men and true?
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|salvation, body and soul.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|they should have any allegiance in them, being
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|chosen for the prince's watch.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|First, who think you the most desertless man to be
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|constable?
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole, for they can
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|write and read.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature.
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|Both which, master constable,--
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|no boast of it, and for your writing and reading,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|let that appear when there is no need of such
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|vanity. You are thought here to be the most
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|senseless and fit man for the constable of the
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|watch, therefore bear you the lantern. This is your
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men, you are
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|How if a' will not stand?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go, and
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|presently call the rest of the watch together and
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|thank God you are rid of a knave.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|of the prince's subjects.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|True, and they are to meddle with none but the
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|the streets, for, for the watch to babble and to
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|We will rather sleep than talk: we know what
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|belongs to a watch.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|offend: only, have a care that your bills be not
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|stolen. Well, you are to call at all the
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|How if they will not?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|they make you not then the better answer, you may
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|say they are not the men you took them for.
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|Well, sir.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|of your office, to be no true man, and, for such
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|why the more is for your honesty.
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|hands on him?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Truly, by your office, you may, but I think they
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|You have been always called a merciful man, partner.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|a man who hath any honesty in him.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|to the nurse and bid her still it.
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|her with crying, for the ewe that will not hear her
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|'Tis very true.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|This is the end of the charge:--you, constable, are
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|to present the prince's own person: if you meet the
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|prince in the night, you may stay him.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|the prince be willing, for, indeed, the watch ought
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|to offend no man, and it is an offence to stay a
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|man against his will.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|By'r lady, I think it be so.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|fellows' counsels and your own, and good night.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Come, neighbour.
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|about Signior Leonato's door, for the wedding being
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|What Conrade!
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|[Aside]  Peace! stir not.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Conrade, I say!
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Here, man, I am at thy elbow.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Mass, and my elbow itched, I thought there would a
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|scab follow.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|with thy tale.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|it drizzles rain, and I will, like a true drunkard,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|utter all to thee.
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|[Aside]  Some treason, masters: yet stand close.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Is it possible that any villany should be so dear?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|villany should be so rich, for when rich villains
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|price they will.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|I wonder at it.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|nothing to a man.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Yes, it is apparel.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|I mean, the fashion.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Yes, the fashion is the fashion.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|is?
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|[Aside]  I know that Deformed, a' has been a vile
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|thief this seven year, a' goes up and down like a
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|gentleman: I remember his name.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Didst thou not hear somebody?
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|No, 'twas the vane on the house.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|priests in the old church-window, sometime like the
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|All this I see, and I see that the fashion wears
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|out more apparel than the man. But art not thou
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress'
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|night,--I tell this tale vilely:--I should first
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|planted and placed and possessed by my master Don
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|And thought they Margaret was Hero?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Two of them did, the prince and Claudio, but the
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|devil my master knew she was Margaret, and partly
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|by my villany, which did confirm any slander that
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged, swore
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|at the temple, and there, before the whole
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|and send her home again without a husband.
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|Call up the right master constable. We have here
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|ever was known in the commonwealth.
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|And one Deformed is one of them: I know him, a'
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|wears a lock.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Masters, masters,--
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Masters,--
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|up of these men's bills.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|SCENE IV. HERO's apartment.
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|her to rise.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|I will, lady.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And bid her come hither.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Well.
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Troth, I think your other rabato were better.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|By my troth, 's not so good, and I warrant your
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|cousin will say so.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|none but this.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|were a thought browner, and your gown's a most rare
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|gown that they praise so.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|O, that exceeds, they say.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect of
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|yours: cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves,
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel:
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|but for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|fashion, yours is worth ten on 't.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|exceeding heavy.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Fie upon thee! art not ashamed?
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|honourable without marriage? I think you would have
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|and the right wife, otherwise 'tis light, and not
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else, here she comes.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Enter BEATRICE
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Good morrow, coz.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Good morrow, sweet Hero.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I am out of all other tune, methinks.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Clap's into 'Light o' love,' that goes without a
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|lack no barns.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|'Tis almost five o'clock, cousin, tis time you were
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho!
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|For the letter that begins them all, H.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Well, and you be not turned Turk, there's no more
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|sailing by the star.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|What means the fool, trow?
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Nothing I, but God send every one their heart's desire!
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|These gloves the count sent me, they are an
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|excellent perfume.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I am stuffed, cousin, I cannot smell.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|A maid, and stuffed! there's goodly catching of cold.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|O, God help me! God help me! how long have you
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|professed apprehension?
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|cap. By my troth, I am sick.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus,
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|There thou prickest her with a thistle.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some moral in
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|this Benedictus.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning, I
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think,
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|are in love or that you will be in love or that you
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|now is he become a man: he swore he would never
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|his meat without grudging: and how you may be
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|converted I know not, but methinks you look with
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|your eyes as other women do.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Not a false gallop.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Re-enter URSULA
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|town, are come to fetch you to church.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|SCENE V. Another room in LEONATO'S house.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Enter LEONATO, with DOGBERRY and VERGES
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|What would you with me, honest neighbour?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|that decerns you nearly.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Brief, I pray you, for you see it is a busy time with me.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Marry, this it is, sir.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Yes, in truth it is, sir.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|What is it, my good friends?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|blunt as, God help, I would desire they were, but,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|that is an old man and no honester than I.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Neighbours, you are tedious.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|poor duke's officers, but truly, for mine own part,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|All thy tediousness on me, ah?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis, for
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|man in the city, and though I be but a poor man, I
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|am glad to hear it.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|And so am I.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I would fain know what you have to say.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Marry, sir, our watch to-night, excepting your
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|knaves as any in Messina.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|A good old man, sir, he will be talking: as they
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man, an two men
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|soul, i' faith, sir, by my troth he is, as ever
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|broke bread, but God is to be worshipped, all men
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|are not alike, alas, good neighbour!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Gifts that God gives.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I must leave you.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|have them this morning examined before your worship.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Take their examination yourself and bring it me: I
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|It shall be suffigance.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Enter a Messenger
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|her husband.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I'll wait upon them: I am ready.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|are now to examination these men.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|And we must do it wisely.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|We will spare for no wit, I warrant you, here's
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|get the learned writer to set down our
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|excommunication and meet me at the gaol.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|ACT IV
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|SCENE I. A church.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, and Attendants
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Come, Friar Francis, be brief, only to the plain
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|form of marriage, and you shall recount their
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|particular duties afterwards.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|No.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Lady, you come hither to be married to this count.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|I do.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|If either of you know any inward impediment why you
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|should not be conjoined, charge you, on your souls,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|to utter it.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Know you any, Hero?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|None, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Know you any, count?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I dare make his answer, none.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|do, not knowing what they do!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|laughing, as, ah, ha, he!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Will you with free and unconstrained soul
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Give me this maid, your daughter?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|As freely, son, as God did give her me.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And what have I to give you back, whose worth
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Nothing, unless you render her again.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|There, Leonato, take her back again:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Give not this rotten orange to your friend,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Behold how like a maid she blushes here!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O, what authority and show of truth
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Comes not that blood as modest evidence
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|All you that see her, that she were a maid,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|By these exterior shows? But she is none:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|She knows the heat of a luxurious bed,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|What do you mean, my lord?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Not to be married,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And made defeat of her virginity,--
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I know what you would say: if I have known her,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|You will say she did embrace me as a husband,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|No, Leonato,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I never tempted her with word too large,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|But, as a brother to his sister, show'd
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Bashful sincerity and comely love.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And seem'd I ever otherwise to you?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|But you are more intemperate in your blood
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|That rage in savage sensuality.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Sweet prince, why speak not you?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|What should I speak?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|To link my dear friend to a common stale.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|This looks not like a nuptial.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|True! O God!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Leonato, stand I here?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Is this the prince? is this the prince's brother?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Is this face Hero's? are our eyes our own?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|All this is so: but what of this, my lord?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Let me but move one question to your daughter,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And, by that fatherly and kindly power
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|O, God defend me! how am I beset!
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|What kind of catechising call you this?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|To make you answer truly to your name.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|With any just reproach?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Marry, that can Hero,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|What man was he talk'd with you yesternight
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I am sorry you must hear: upon mine honour,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Myself, my brother and this grieved count
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Confess'd the vile encounters they have had
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|A thousand times in secret.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Fie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Not to be spoke of,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|There is not chastity enough in language
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If half thy outward graces had been placed
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Thou pure impiety and impious purity!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And never shall it more be gracious.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|HERO swoons
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down?
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Smother her spirits up.
Much Ado about nothing|DON JOHN|Exeunt DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, and CLAUDIO
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|How doth the lady?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Dead, I think. Help, uncle!
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Death is the fairest cover for her shame
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That may be wish'd for.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|How now, cousin Hero!
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Have comfort, lady.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Dost thou look up?
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Yea, wherefore should she not?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|The story that is printed in her blood?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Do not live, Hero, do not ope thine eyes:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O, one too much by thee! Why had I one?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Why had I not with charitable hand
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I might have said 'No part of it is mine,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|This shame derives itself from unknown loins'?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And mine that I was proud on, mine so much
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That I myself was to myself not mine,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Valuing of her,--why, she, O, she is fallen
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Hath drops too few to wash her clean again
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And salt too little which may season give
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To her foul-tainted flesh!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Sir, sir, be patient.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|For my part, I am so attired in wonder,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I know not what to say.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|O, on my soul, my cousin is belied!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, truly not, although, until last night,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Wash'd it with tears? Hence from her! let her die.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Hear me a little,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|For I have only been silent so long
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And given way unto this course of fortune.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|...
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|By noting of the lady I have mark'd
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|A thousand blushing apparitions
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|To burn the errors that these princes hold
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Trust not my reading nor my observations,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Which with experimental seal doth warrant
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|The tenor of my book, trust not my age,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|My reverence, calling, nor divinity,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Under some biting error.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Friar, it cannot be.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Is that she will not add to her damnation
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|A sin of perjury, she not denies it:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That which appears in proper nakedness?
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Lady, what man is he you are accused of?
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|They know that do accuse me, I know none:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|If I know more of any man alive
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Prove you that any man with me conversed
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Maintain'd the change of words with any creature,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|There is some strange misprision in the princes.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Two of them have the very bent of honour,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And if their wisdoms be misled in this,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|The practise of it lives in John the bastard,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I know not. If they speak but truth of her,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|These hands shall tear her, if they wrong her honour,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|The proudest of them shall well hear of it.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Nor age so eat up my invention,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Ability in means and choice of friends,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To quit me of them throughly.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Pause awhile,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And let my counsel sway you in this case.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Your daughter here the princes left for dead:
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And publish it that she is dead indeed,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Maintain a mourning ostentation
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And on your family's old monument
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|That appertain unto a burial.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|What shall become of this? what will this do?
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Change slander to remorse, that is some good:
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|But not for that dream I on this strange course,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|But on this travail look for greater birth.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|She dying, as it must so be maintain'd,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Upon the instant that she was accused,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Shall be lamented, pitied and excused
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Of every hearer: for it so falls out
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|That what we have we prize not to the worth
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Why, then we rack the value, then we find
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|The virtue that possession would not show us
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|When he shall hear she died upon his words,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Into his study of imagination,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And every lovely organ of her life
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|More moving-delicate and full of life,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Into the eye and prospect of his soul,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Than when she lived indeed, then shall he mourn,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|If ever love had interest in his liver,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And wish he had not so accused her,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|No, though he thought his accusation true.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Let this be so, and doubt not but success
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Will fashion the event in better shape
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Than I can lay it down in likelihood.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|But if all aim but this be levell'd false,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|The supposition of the lady's death
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Will quench the wonder of her infamy:
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|As best befits her wounded reputation,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|In some reclusive and religious life,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And though you know my inwardness and love
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Is very much unto the prince and Claudio,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|As secretly and justly as your soul
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Should with your body.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Being that I flow in grief,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|The smallest twine may lead me.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|'Tis well consented: presently away,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Exeunt all but BENEDICK and BEATRICE
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Yea, and I will weep a while longer.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I will not desire that.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|You have no reason, I do it freely.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Is there any way to show such friendship?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|A very even way, but no such friend.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|May a man do it?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|It is a man's office, but not yours.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|not that strange?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|As strange as the thing I know not. It were as
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|you: but believe me not, and yet I lie not, I
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Do not swear, and eat it.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I will swear by it that you love me, and I will make
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|him eat it that says I love not you.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Will you not eat your word?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I love thee.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Why, then, God forgive me!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|What offence, sweet Beatrice?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|protest I loved you.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And do it with all thy heart.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I love you with so much of my heart that none is
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|left to protest.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Come, bid me do any thing for thee.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Kill Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Ha! not for the wide world.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|you: nay, I pray you, let me go.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Beatrice,--
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|In faith, I will go.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|We'll be friends first.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Is Claudio thine enemy?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Is he not approved in the height a villain, that
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|come to take hands, and then, with public
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|--O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|in the market-place.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Hear me, Beatrice,--
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Nay, but, Beatrice,--
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Beat--
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|a goodly count, Count Comfect, a sweet gallant,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|had any friend would be a man for my sake! But
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enough, I am engaged, I will challenge him. I will
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|SCENE II. A prison.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and Sexton, in gowns, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Is our whole dissembly appeared?
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|Which be the malefactors?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Marry, that am I and my partner.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Nay, that's certain, we have the exhibition to examine.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|But which are the offenders that are to be
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|examined? let them come before master constable.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|name, friend?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Borachio.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah?
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|you serve God?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Yea, sir, we hope.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Write down, that they hope they serve God: and
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|write God first, for God defend but God should go
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|before such villains! Masters, it is proved already
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|that you are little better than false knaves, and it
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|you for yourselves?
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Marry, sir, we say we are none.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you: but I
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah, a
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|word in your ear: sir, I say to you, it is thought
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|you are false knaves.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Sir, I say to you we are none.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Well, stand aside. 'Fore God, they are both in a
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|tale. Have you writ down, that they are none?
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|Master constable, you go not the way to examine:
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|you must call forth the watch that are their accusers.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|name, accuse these men.
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince's
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|brother, was a villain.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Master constable,--
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|I promise thee.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|What heard you him say else?
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of
Much Ado about nothing|Second Watchman|Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Flat burglary as ever was committed.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Yea, by mass, that it is.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|What else, fellow?
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to
Much Ado about nothing|First Watchman|disgrace Hero before the whole assembly. and not marry her.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|redemption for this.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|What else?
Much Ado about nothing|Watchman|This is all.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|And this is more, masters, than you can deny.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away,
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|Master constable, let these men be bound, and
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|brought to Leonato's: I will go before and show
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|him their examination.
Much Ado about nothing|Sexton|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Come, let them be opinioned.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Let them be in the hands--
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Off, coxcomb!
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Thou naughty varlet!
Much Ado about nothing|CONRADE|Away! you are an ass, you are an ass.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|suspect my years? O that he were here to write me
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|ass, though it be not written down, yet forget not
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|and, which is more, a householder, and, which is
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Messina, and one that knows the law, go to, and a
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|rich fellow enough, go to, and a fellow that hath
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|I had been writ down an ass!
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|ACT V
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Against yourself.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Which falls into mine ears as profitless
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|As water in a sieve: give not me counsel,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Nor let no comforter delight mine ear
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Bring me a father that so loved his child,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And bid him speak of patience,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And let it answer every strain for strain,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|As thus for thus and such a grief for such,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|With candle-wasters, bring him yet to me,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And I of him will gather patience.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|But there is no such man: for, brother, men
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Which they themselves not feel, but, tasting it,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Their counsel turns to passion, which before
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Charm ache with air and agony with words:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|No, no, 'tis all men's office to speak patience
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To be so moral when he shall endure
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Therein do men from children nothing differ.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|For there was never yet philosopher
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That could endure the toothache patiently,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|However they have writ the style of gods
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And made a push at chance and sufferance.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Make those that do offend you suffer too.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|There thou speak'st reason: nay, I will do so.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|My soul doth tell me Hero is belied,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And that shall Claudio know, so shall the prince
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And all of them that thus dishonour her.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Good den, good den.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Good day to both of you.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Hear you. my lords,--
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|We have some haste, Leonato.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Are you so hasty now? well, all is one.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|If he could right himself with quarreling,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Some of us would lie low.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Who wrongs him?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Marry, thou dost wrong me, thou dissembler, thou:--
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I fear thee not.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Marry, beshrew my hand,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If it should give your age such cause of fear:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|As under privilege of age to brag
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|What I have done being young, or what would do
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That I am forced to lay my reverence by
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Do challenge thee to trial of a man.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I say thou hast belied mine innocent child,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And she lies buried with her ancestors,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|My villany?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Thine, Claudio, thine, I say.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|You say not right, old man.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|My lord, my lord,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Despite his nice fence and his active practise,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Away! I will not have to do with you.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|But that's no matter, let him kill one first,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Win me and wear me, let him answer me.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Come, follow me, boy, come, sir boy, come, follow me:
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Brother,--
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|That dare as well answer a man indeed
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Brother Antony,--
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,--
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Go anticly, show outward hideousness,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst,
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|And this is all.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|But, brother Antony,--
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Come, 'tis no matter:
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Do not you meddle, let me deal in this.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|My heart is sorry for your daughter's death:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|But what was true and very full of proof.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|My lord, my lord,--
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I will not hear you.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|No? Come, brother, away! I will be heard.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|And shall, or some of us will smart for it.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|See, see, here comes the man we went to seek.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Enter BENEDICK
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Now, signior, what news?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Good day, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|almost a fray.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|We had like to have had our two noses snapped off
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|with two old men without teeth.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|to seek you both.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|We have been up and down to seek thee, for we are
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Never any did so, though very many have been beside
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|minstrels, draw, to pleasure us.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|sick, or angry?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|broke cross.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|By this light, he changes more and more: I think
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|he be angry indeed.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Shall I speak a word in your ear?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|God bless me from a challenge!
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|[Aside to CLAUDIO]  You are a villain, I jest not:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I will make it good how you dare, with what you
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|hear from you.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|What, a feast, a feast?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I' faith, I thank him, he hath bid me to a calf's
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|head and a capon, the which if I do not carve most
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|a woodcock too?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Sir, your wit ambles well, it goes easily.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: 'True,'
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|said she, 'a fine little one.' 'No,' said I, 'a
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|great wit:' 'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.'
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'it
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'the gentleman
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|is wise:' 'Certain,' said she, 'a wise gentleman.'
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|'Nay,' said I, 'he hath the tongues:' 'That I
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|believe,' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|there's a double tongue, there's two tongues.' Thus
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|wast the properest man in Italy.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|For the which she wept heartily and said she cared
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|not.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|the old man's daughter told us all.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|All, all, and, moreover, God saw him when he was
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|hid in the garden.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|the sensible Benedick's head?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Yea, and text underneath, 'Here dwells Benedick the
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|married man'?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you: I must discontinue your company: your brother
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|then, peace be with him.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exit
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|He is in earnest.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|In most profound earnest, and, I'll warrant you, for
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|the love of Beatrice.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And hath challenged thee.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Most sincerely.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|He is then a giant to an ape, but then is an ape a
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|doctor to such a man.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled?
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|How now? two of my brother's men bound! Borachio
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|one!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Hearken after their offence, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Officers, what offence have these men done?
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Marry, sir, they have committed false report,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|moreover, they have spoken untruths, secondarily,
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|they are slanders, sixth and lastly, they have
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|belied a lady, thirdly, they have verified unjust
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|things, and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|First, I ask thee what they have done, thirdly, I
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|ask thee what's their offence, sixth and lastly, why
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|they are committed, and, to conclude, what you lay
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|to their charge.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|my troth, there's one meaning well suited.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|bound to your answer? this learned constable is
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|too cunning to be understood: what's your offence?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|could not discover, these shallow fools have brought
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|to light: who in the night overheard me confessing
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|to this man how Don John your brother incensed me
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|garments, how you disgraced her, when you should
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|marry her: my villany they have upon record, which
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|I had rather seal with my death than repeat over
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|master's false accusation, and, briefly, I desire
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|nothing but the reward of a villain.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|But did my brother set thee on to this?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|He is composed and framed of treachery:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And fled he is upon this villany.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|In the rare semblance that I loved it first.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|and place shall serve, that I am an ass.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Sexton too.
Much Ado about nothing|VERGES|Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That, when I note another man like him,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I may avoid him: which of these is he?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|If you would know your wronger, look on me.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Mine innocent child?
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Yea, even I alone.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|No, not so, villain, thou beliest thyself:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Here stand a pair of honourable men,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|A third is fled, that had a hand in it.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Record it with your high and worthy deeds:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I know not how to pray your patience,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Impose me to what penance your invention
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|But in mistaking.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|By my soul, nor I:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And yet, to satisfy this good old man,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|I would bend under any heavy weight
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|That he'll enjoin me to.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I cannot bid you bid my daughter live,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That were impossible: but, I pray you both,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Possess the people in Messina here
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|How innocent she died, and if your love
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Can labour ought in sad invention,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To-morrow morning come you to my house,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And since you could not be my son-in-law,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Almost the copy of my child that's dead,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And she alone is heir to both of us:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Give her the right you should have given her cousin,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And so dies my revenge.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|O noble sir,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I do embrace your offer, and dispose
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|For henceforth of poor Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To-morrow then I will expect your coming,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To-night I take my leave. This naughty man
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Hired to it by your brother.
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|No, by my soul, she was not,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|But always hath been just and virtuous
Much Ado about nothing|BORACHIO|In any thing that I do know by her.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|name, the which he hath used so long and never paid
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Your worship speaks like a most thankful and
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|reverend youth, and I praise God for you.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|There's for thy pains.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|God save the foundation!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|I leave an arrant knave with your worship, which I
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|example of others. God keep your worship! I wish
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|your worship well, God restore you to health! I
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|humbly give you leave to depart, and if a merry
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.
Much Ado about nothing|DOGBERRY|Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|We will not fail.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|To-night I'll mourn with Hero.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|[To the Watch]  Bring you these fellows on. We'll
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|talk with Margaret,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Exeunt, severally
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|SCENE II. LEONATO'S garden.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Enter BENEDICK and MARGARET, meeting
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|shall come over it, for, in most comely truth, thou
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|deservest it.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|To have no man come over me! why, shall I always
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|keep below stairs?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth, it catches.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit,
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|but hurt not.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|A most manly wit, Margaret, it will not hurt a
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|thee the bucklers.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Give us the swords, we have bucklers of our own.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|pikes with a vice, and they are dangerous weapons for maids.
Much Ado about nothing|MARGARET|Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And therefore will come.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exit MARGARET
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Sings
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|The god of love,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|That sits above,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And knows me, and knows me,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|How pitiful I deserve,--
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I mean in singing, but in loving, Leander the good
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried: I can find
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|rhyme, for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme, for,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme, very ominous
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter BEATRICE
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|O, stay but till then!
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|'Then' is spoken, fare you well now: and yet, ere
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I go, let me go with that I came, which is, with
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Only foul words, and thereupon I will kiss thee.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|foul breath, and foul breath is noisome, therefore I
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|will depart unkissed.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge, and either
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|For them all together, which maintained so politic
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|a state of evil that they will not admit any good
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|part to intermingle with them. But for which of my
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|good parts did you first suffer love for me?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|indeed, for I love thee against my will.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|In spite of your heart, I think, alas, poor heart!
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|yours, for I will never love that which my friend hates.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|It appears not in this confession: there's not one
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|wise man among twenty that will praise himself.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|no longer in monument than the bell rings and the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|widow weeps.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|And how long is that, think you?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Very ill.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And how do you?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Very ill too.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|you too, for here comes one in haste.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter URSULA
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|abused, and Don John is the author of all, who is
Much Ado about nothing|URSULA|fed and gone. Will you come presently?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Will you go hear this news, signior?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|buried in thy eyes, and moreover I will go with
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|thee to thy uncle's.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|SCENE III. A church.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and three or four with tapers
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Is this the monument of Leonato?
Much Ado about nothing|Lord|It is, my lord.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|[Reading out of a scroll]
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Done to death by slanderous tongues
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Was the Hero that here lies:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Gives her fame which never dies.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|So the life that died with shame
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Lives in death with glorious fame.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Hang thou there upon the tomb,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Praising her when I am dumb.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|SONG.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Pardon, goddess of the night,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Those that slew thy virgin knight,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|For the which, with songs of woe,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Round about her tomb they go.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Midnight, assist our moan,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Help us to sigh and groan,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Heavily, heavily:
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Graves, yawn and yield your dead,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Till death be uttered,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Heavily, heavily.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Now, unto thy bones good night!
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Yearly will I do this rite.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Good morrow, masters, put your torches out:
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|The wolves have prey'd, and look, the gentle day,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Good morrow, masters: each his several way.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|And then to Leonato's we will go.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Than this for whom we render'd up this woe.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Exeunt
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|SCENE IV. A room in LEONATO'S house.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE, MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Did I not tell you she was innocent?
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Upon the error that you heard debated:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|But Margaret was in some fault for this,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Although against her will, as it appears
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|In the true course of all the question.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And so am I, being else by faith enforced
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And when I send for you, come hither mask'd.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Exeunt Ladies
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|The prince and Claudio promised by this hour
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To visit me. You know your office, brother:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|You must be father to your brother's daughter
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|And give her to young Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|Which I will do with confirm'd countenance.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|To do what, signior?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|To bind me, or undo me, one of them.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|That eye my daughter lent her: 'tis most true.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And I do with an eye of love requite her.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|The sight whereof I think you had from me,
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|But, for my will, my will is your good will
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'd
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|In the state of honourable marriage:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|My heart is with your liking.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And my help.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Here comes the prince and Claudio.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or three others
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Good morrow to this fair assembly.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Good morrow, prince, good morrow, Claudio:
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|We here attend you. Are you yet determined
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|To-day to marry with my brother's daughter?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Call her forth, brother, here's the friar ready.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Exit ANTONIO
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|That you have such a February face,
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Tush, fear not, man, we'll tip thy horns with gold
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|As once Europa did at lusty Jove,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|When he would play the noble beast in love.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|And got a calf in that same noble feat
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Which is the lady I must seize upon?
Much Ado about nothing|ANTONIO|This same is she, and I do give you her.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Why, then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|No, that you shall not, till you take her hand
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Before this friar and swear to marry her.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Give me your hand: before this holy friar,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I am your husband, if you like of me.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And when I lived, I was your other wife:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Unmasking
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And when you loved, you were my other husband.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Another Hero!
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Nothing certainer:
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And surely as I live, I am a maid.
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|The former Hero! Hero that is dead!
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|All this amazement can I qualify:
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|When after that the holy rites are ended,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death:
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|Meantime let wonder seem familiar,
Much Ado about nothing|FRIAR FRANCIS|And to the chapel let us presently.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|[Unmasking]  I answer to that name. What is your will?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Do not you love me?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Why, no, no more than reason.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Have been deceived, they swore you did.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Do not you love me?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Troth, no, no more than reason.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|Are much deceived, for they did swear you did.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|They swore that you were almost sick for me.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|And I'll be sworn upon't that he loves her,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|For here's a paper written in his hand,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|Fashion'd to Beatrice.
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|And here's another
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket,
Much Ado about nothing|HERO|Containing her affection unto Benedick.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Come, I will have thee, but, by this light, I take
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|thee for pity.
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|I would not deny you, but, by this good day, I yield
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life,
Much Ado about nothing|BEATRICE|for I was told you were in a consumption.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Peace! I will stop your mouth.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Kissing her
Much Ado about nothing|DON PEDRO|How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I'll tell thee what, prince, a college of
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|thou think I  care for a satire or an epigram? No:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|purpose that the world can say against it, and
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|therefore never flout at me for what I have said
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|against it, for man is a giddy thing, and this is my
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin.
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|life, to make thee a double-dealer, which, out of
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look
Much Ado about nothing|CLAUDIO|exceedingly narrowly to thee.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|and our wives' heels.
Much Ado about nothing|LEONATO|We'll have dancing afterward.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|First, of my word, therefore play, music. Prince,
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|thou art sad, get thee a wife, get thee a wife:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Enter a Messenger
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,
Much Ado about nothing|Messenger|And brought with armed men back to Messina.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Think not on him till to-morrow:
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|I'll devise thee brave punishments for him.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Strike up, pipers.
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Dance
Much Ado about nothing|BENEDICK|Exeunt
Othello|BENEDICK|ACT I
Othello|BENEDICK|SCENE I. Venice. A street.
Othello|BENEDICK|Enter RODERIGO and IAGO
Othello|RODERIGO|Tush! never tell me, I take it much unkindly
Othello|RODERIGO|That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
Othello|RODERIGO|As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.
Othello|IAGO|'Sblood, but you will not hear me:
Othello|IAGO|If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.
Othello|RODERIGO|Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.
Othello|IAGO|Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,
Othello|IAGO|In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
Othello|IAGO|Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,
Othello|IAGO|I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:
Othello|IAGO|But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,
Othello|IAGO|Evades them, with a bombast circumstance
Othello|IAGO|Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war,
Othello|IAGO|And, in conclusion,
Othello|IAGO|Nonsuits my mediators, for, 'Certes,' says he,
Othello|IAGO|'I have already chose my officer.'
Othello|IAGO|And what was he?
Othello|IAGO|Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
Othello|IAGO|One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
Othello|IAGO|A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife,
Othello|IAGO|That never set a squadron in the field,
Othello|IAGO|Nor the division of a battle knows
Othello|IAGO|More than a spinster, unless the bookish theoric,
Othello|IAGO|Wherein the toged consuls can propose
Othello|IAGO|As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,
Othello|IAGO|Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:
Othello|IAGO|And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
Othello|IAGO|At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
Othello|IAGO|Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd
Othello|IAGO|By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,
Othello|IAGO|He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
Othello|IAGO|And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.
Othello|RODERIGO|By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.
Othello|IAGO|Why, there's no remedy, 'tis the curse of service,
Othello|IAGO|Preferment goes by letter and affection,
Othello|IAGO|And not by old gradation, where each second
Othello|IAGO|Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,
Othello|IAGO|Whether I in any just term am affined
Othello|IAGO|To love the Moor.
Othello|RODERIGO|I would not follow him then.
Othello|IAGO|O, sir, content you,
Othello|IAGO|I follow him to serve my turn upon him:
Othello|IAGO|We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Othello|IAGO|Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark
Othello|IAGO|Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,
Othello|IAGO|That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Othello|IAGO|Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
Othello|IAGO|For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:
Othello|IAGO|Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are
Othello|IAGO|Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,
Othello|IAGO|Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,
Othello|IAGO|And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,
Othello|IAGO|Do well thrive by them and when they have lined
Othello|IAGO|their coats
Othello|IAGO|Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul,
Othello|IAGO|And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,
Othello|IAGO|It is as sure as you are Roderigo,
Othello|IAGO|Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:
Othello|IAGO|In following him, I follow but myself,
Othello|IAGO|Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
Othello|IAGO|But seeming so, for my peculiar end:
Othello|IAGO|For when my outward action doth demonstrate
Othello|IAGO|The native act and figure of my heart
Othello|IAGO|In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
Othello|IAGO|But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
Othello|IAGO|For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
Othello|RODERIGO|What a full fortune does the thicklips owe
Othello|RODERIGO|If he can carry't thus!
Othello|IAGO|Call up her father,
Othello|IAGO|Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,
Othello|IAGO|Proclaim him in the streets, incense her kinsmen,
Othello|IAGO|And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,
Othello|IAGO|Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,
Othello|IAGO|Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,
Othello|IAGO|As it may lose some colour.
Othello|RODERIGO|Here is her father's house, I'll call aloud.
Othello|IAGO|Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell
Othello|IAGO|As when, by night and negligence, the fire
Othello|IAGO|Is spied in populous cities.
Othello|RODERIGO|What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!
Othello|IAGO|Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!
Othello|IAGO|Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
Othello|IAGO|Thieves! thieves!
Othello|IAGO|BRABANTIO appears above, at a window
Othello|BRABANTIO|What is the reason of this terrible summons?
Othello|BRABANTIO|What is the matter there?
Othello|RODERIGO|Signior, is all your family within?
Othello|IAGO|Are your doors lock'd?
Othello|BRABANTIO|Why, wherefore ask you this?
Othello|IAGO|'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd, for shame, put on
Othello|IAGO|your gown,
Othello|IAGO|Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul,
Othello|IAGO|Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Othello|IAGO|Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise,
Othello|IAGO|Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Othello|IAGO|Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:
Othello|IAGO|Arise, I say.
Othello|BRABANTIO|What, have you lost your wits?
Othello|RODERIGO|Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?
Othello|BRABANTIO|Not I	what are you?
Othello|RODERIGO|My name is Roderigo.
Othello|BRABANTIO|The worser welcome:
Othello|BRABANTIO|I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:
Othello|BRABANTIO|In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
Othello|BRABANTIO|My daughter is not for thee, and now, in madness,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Being full of supper and distempering draughts,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come
Othello|BRABANTIO|To start my quiet.
Othello|RODERIGO|Sir, sir, sir,--
Othello|BRABANTIO|But thou must needs be sure
Othello|BRABANTIO|My spirit and my place have in them power
Othello|BRABANTIO|To make this bitter to thee.
Othello|RODERIGO|Patience, good sir.
Othello|BRABANTIO|What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice,
Othello|BRABANTIO|My house is not a grange.
Othello|RODERIGO|Most grave Brabantio,
Othello|RODERIGO|In simple and pure soul I come to you.
Othello|IAGO|'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not
Othello|IAGO|serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to
Othello|IAGO|do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll
Othello|IAGO|have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse,
Othello|IAGO|you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have
Othello|IAGO|coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.
Othello|BRABANTIO|What profane wretch art thou?
Othello|IAGO|I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
Othello|IAGO|and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Thou art a villain.
Othello|IAGO|You are--a senator.
Othello|BRABANTIO|This thou shalt answer, I know thee, Roderigo.
Othello|RODERIGO|Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,
Othello|RODERIGO|If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,
Othello|RODERIGO|As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,
Othello|RODERIGO|At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,
Othello|RODERIGO|Transported, with no worse nor better guard
Othello|RODERIGO|But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
Othello|RODERIGO|To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--
Othello|RODERIGO|If this be known to you and your allowance,
Othello|RODERIGO|We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs,
Othello|RODERIGO|But if you know not this, my manners tell me
Othello|RODERIGO|We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe
Othello|RODERIGO|That, from the sense of all civility,
Othello|RODERIGO|I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:
Othello|RODERIGO|Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
Othello|RODERIGO|I say again, hath made a gross revolt,
Othello|RODERIGO|Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
Othello|RODERIGO|In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
Othello|RODERIGO|Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:
Othello|RODERIGO|If she be in her chamber or your house,
Othello|RODERIGO|Let loose on me the justice of the state
Othello|RODERIGO|For thus deluding you.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Strike on the tinder, ho!
Othello|BRABANTIO|Give me a taper! call up all my people!
Othello|BRABANTIO|This accident is not unlike my dream:
Othello|BRABANTIO|Belief of it oppresses me already.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Light, I say! light!
Othello|BRABANTIO|Exit above
Othello|IAGO|Farewell, for I must leave you:
Othello|IAGO|It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,
Othello|IAGO|To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--
Othello|IAGO|Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,
Othello|IAGO|However this may gall him with some cheque,
Othello|IAGO|Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd
Othello|IAGO|With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,
Othello|IAGO|Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,
Othello|IAGO|Another of his fathom they have none,
Othello|IAGO|To lead their business: in which regard,
Othello|IAGO|Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.
Othello|IAGO|Yet, for necessity of present life,
Othello|IAGO|I must show out a flag and sign of love,
Othello|IAGO|Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,
Othello|IAGO|Lead to the Sagittary the raised search,
Othello|IAGO|And there will I be with him. So, farewell.
Othello|IAGO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches
Othello|BRABANTIO|It is too true an evil: gone she is,
Othello|BRABANTIO|And what's to come of my despised time
Othello|BRABANTIO|Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!
Othello|BRABANTIO|With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!
Othello|BRABANTIO|How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me
Othello|BRABANTIO|Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:
Othello|BRABANTIO|Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?
Othello|RODERIGO|Truly, I think they are.
Othello|BRABANTIO|O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!
Othello|BRABANTIO|Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds
Othello|BRABANTIO|By what you see them act. Is there not charms
Othello|BRABANTIO|By which the property of youth and maidhood
Othello|BRABANTIO|May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Of some such thing?
Othello|RODERIGO|Yes, sir, I have indeed.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!
Othello|BRABANTIO|Some one way, some another. Do you know
Othello|BRABANTIO|Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?
Othello|RODERIGO|I think I can discover him, if you please,
Othello|RODERIGO|To get good guard and go along with me.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call,
Othello|BRABANTIO|I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!
Othello|BRABANTIO|And raise some special officers of night.
Othello|BRABANTIO|On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Exeunt
Othello|BRABANTIO|SCENE II. Another street.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches
Othello|IAGO|Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Othello|IAGO|Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
Othello|IAGO|To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity
Othello|IAGO|Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times
Othello|IAGO|I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis better as it is.
Othello|IAGO|Nay, but he prated,
Othello|IAGO|And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
Othello|IAGO|Against your honour
Othello|IAGO|That, with the little godliness I have,
Othello|IAGO|I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,
Othello|IAGO|Are you fast married? Be assured of this,
Othello|IAGO|That the magnifico is much beloved,
Othello|IAGO|And hath in his effect a voice potential
Othello|IAGO|As double as the duke's: he will divorce you,
Othello|IAGO|Or put upon you what restraint and grievance
Othello|IAGO|The law, with all his might to enforce it on,
Othello|IAGO|Will give him cable.
Othello|OTHELLO|Let him do his spite:
Othello|OTHELLO|My services which I have done the signiory
Othello|OTHELLO|Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--
Othello|OTHELLO|Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,
Othello|OTHELLO|I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being
Othello|OTHELLO|From men of royal siege, and my demerits
Othello|OTHELLO|May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
Othello|OTHELLO|As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,
Othello|OTHELLO|But that I love the gentle Desdemona,
Othello|OTHELLO|I would not my unhoused free condition
Othello|OTHELLO|Put into circumscription and confine
Othello|OTHELLO|For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?
Othello|IAGO|Those are the raised father and his friends:
Othello|IAGO|You were best go in.
Othello|OTHELLO|Not I	I must be found:
Othello|OTHELLO|My parts, my title and my perfect soul
Othello|OTHELLO|Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?
Othello|IAGO|By Janus, I think no.
Othello|IAGO|Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches
Othello|OTHELLO|The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.
Othello|OTHELLO|The goodness of the night upon you, friends!
Othello|OTHELLO|What is the news?
Othello|CASSIO|The duke does greet you, general,
Othello|CASSIO|And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,
Othello|CASSIO|Even on the instant.
Othello|OTHELLO|What is the matter, think you?
Othello|CASSIO|Something from Cyprus as I may divine:
Othello|CASSIO|It is a business of some heat: the galleys
Othello|CASSIO|Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
Othello|CASSIO|This very night at one another's heels,
Othello|CASSIO|And many of the consuls, raised and met,
Othello|CASSIO|Are at the duke's already: you have been
Othello|CASSIO|hotly call'd for,
Othello|CASSIO|When, being not at your lodging to be found,
Othello|CASSIO|The senate hath sent about three several guests
Othello|CASSIO|To search you out.
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis well I am found by you.
Othello|OTHELLO|I will but spend a word here in the house,
Othello|OTHELLO|And go with you.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit
Othello|CASSIO|Ancient, what makes he here?
Othello|IAGO|'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:
Othello|IAGO|If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.
Othello|CASSIO|I do not understand.
Othello|IAGO|He's married.
Othello|CASSIO|To who?
Othello|CASSIO|Re-enter OTHELLO
Othello|IAGO|Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?
Othello|OTHELLO|Have with you.
Othello|CASSIO|Here comes another troop to seek for you.
Othello|IAGO|It is Brabantio. General, be advised,
Othello|IAGO|He comes to bad intent.
Othello|IAGO|Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with torches and weapons
Othello|OTHELLO|Holla! stand there!
Othello|RODERIGO|Signior, it is the Moor.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Down with him, thief!
Othello|BRABANTIO|They draw on both sides
Othello|IAGO|You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.
Othello|OTHELLO|Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Othello|OTHELLO|Good signior, you shall more command with years
Othello|OTHELLO|Than with your weapons.
Othello|BRABANTIO|O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?
Othello|BRABANTIO|Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her,
Othello|BRABANTIO|For I'll refer me to all things of sense,
Othello|BRABANTIO|If she in chains of magic were not bound,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,
Othello|BRABANTIO|So opposite to marriage that she shunned
Othello|BRABANTIO|The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Would ever have, to incur a general mock,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Othello|BRABANTIO|Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense
Othello|BRABANTIO|That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
Othello|BRABANTIO|That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on,
Othello|BRABANTIO|'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.
Othello|BRABANTIO|I therefore apprehend and do attach thee
Othello|BRABANTIO|For an abuser of the world, a practiser
Othello|BRABANTIO|Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Subdue him at his peril.
Othello|OTHELLO|Hold your hands,
Othello|OTHELLO|Both you of my inclining, and the rest:
Othello|OTHELLO|Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Othello|OTHELLO|Without a prompter. Where will you that I go
Othello|OTHELLO|To answer this your charge?
Othello|BRABANTIO|To prison, till fit time
Othello|BRABANTIO|Of law and course of direct session
Othello|BRABANTIO|Call thee to answer.
Othello|OTHELLO|What if I do obey?
Othello|OTHELLO|How may the duke be therewith satisfied,
Othello|OTHELLO|Whose messengers are here about my side,
Othello|OTHELLO|Upon some present business of the state
Othello|OTHELLO|To bring me to him?
Othello|First Officer|'Tis true, most worthy signior,
Othello|First Officer|The duke's in council and your noble self,
Othello|First Officer|I am sure, is sent for.
Othello|BRABANTIO|How! the duke in council!
Othello|BRABANTIO|In this time of the night! Bring him away:
Othello|BRABANTIO|Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Or any of my brothers of the state,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own,
Othello|BRABANTIO|For if such actions may have passage free,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Exeunt
Othello|BRABANTIO|SCENE III. A council-chamber.
Othello|BRABANTIO|The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table, Officers attending
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|There is no composition in these news
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|That gives them credit.
Othello|First Senator|Indeed, they are disproportion'd,
Othello|First Senator|My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|And mine, a hundred and forty.
Othello|Second Senator|And mine, two hundred:
Othello|Second Senator|But though they jump not on a just account,--
Othello|Second Senator|As in these cases, where the aim reports,
Othello|Second Senator|'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm
Othello|Second Senator|A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Nay, it is possible enough to judgment:
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|I do not so secure me in the error,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|But the main article I do approve
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|In fearful sense.
Othello|Sailor|[Within]  What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!
Othello|First Officer|A messenger from the galleys.
Othello|First Officer|Enter a Sailor
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Now, what's the business?
Othello|Sailor|The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes,
Othello|Sailor|So was I bid report here to the state
Othello|Sailor|By Signior Angelo.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|How say you by this change?
Othello|First Senator|This cannot be,
Othello|First Senator|By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,
Othello|First Senator|To keep us in false gaze. When we consider
Othello|First Senator|The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,
Othello|First Senator|And let ourselves again but understand,
Othello|First Senator|That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,
Othello|First Senator|So may he with more facile question bear it,
Othello|First Senator|For that it stands not in such warlike brace,
Othello|First Senator|But altogether lacks the abilities
Othello|First Senator|That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,
Othello|First Senator|We must not think the Turk is so unskilful
Othello|First Senator|To leave that latest which concerns him first,
Othello|First Senator|Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,
Othello|First Senator|To wake and wage a danger profitless.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.
Othello|First Officer|Here is more news.
Othello|First Officer|Enter a Messenger
Othello|Messenger|The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,
Othello|Messenger|Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes,
Othello|Messenger|Have there injointed them with an after fleet.
Othello|First Senator|Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?
Othello|Messenger|Of thirty sail: and now they do restem
Othello|Messenger|Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance
Othello|Messenger|Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,
Othello|Messenger|Your trusty and most valiant servitor,
Othello|Messenger|With his free duty recommends you thus,
Othello|Messenger|And prays you to believe him.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?
Othello|First Senator|He's now in Florence.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Write from us to him, post-post-haste dispatch.
Othello|First Senator|Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.
Othello|First Senator|Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Against the general enemy Ottoman.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|To BRABANTIO
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|I did not see you, welcome, gentle signior,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|We lack'd your counsel and your help tonight.
Othello|BRABANTIO|So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Neither my place nor aught I heard of business
Othello|BRABANTIO|Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care
Othello|BRABANTIO|Take hold on me, for my particular grief
Othello|BRABANTIO|Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature
Othello|BRABANTIO|That it engluts and swallows other sorrows
Othello|BRABANTIO|And it is still itself.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Why, what's the matter?
Othello|BRABANTIO|My daughter! O, my daughter!
Othello|Senator|Dead?
Othello|BRABANTIO|Ay, to me,
Othello|BRABANTIO|She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted
Othello|BRABANTIO|By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks,
Othello|BRABANTIO|For nature so preposterously to err,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Sans witchcraft could not.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|And you of her, the bloody book of law
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|After your own sense, yea, though our proper son
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Stood in your action.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Humbly I thank your grace.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Your special mandate for the state-affairs
Othello|BRABANTIO|Hath hither brought.
Othello|Senator|We are very sorry for't.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|[To OTHELLO]  What, in your own part, can you say to this?
Othello|BRABANTIO|Nothing, but this is so.
Othello|OTHELLO|Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
Othello|OTHELLO|My very noble and approved good masters,
Othello|OTHELLO|That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
Othello|OTHELLO|It is most true, true, I have married her:
Othello|OTHELLO|The very head and front of my offending
Othello|OTHELLO|Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,
Othello|OTHELLO|And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:
Othello|OTHELLO|For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Othello|OTHELLO|Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
Othello|OTHELLO|Their dearest action in the tented field,
Othello|OTHELLO|And little of this great world can I speak,
Othello|OTHELLO|More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
Othello|OTHELLO|And therefore little shall I grace my cause
Othello|OTHELLO|In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
Othello|OTHELLO|I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
Othello|OTHELLO|Of my whole course of love, what drugs, what charms,
Othello|OTHELLO|What conjuration and what mighty magic,
Othello|OTHELLO|For such proceeding I am charged withal,
Othello|OTHELLO|I won his daughter.
Othello|BRABANTIO|A maiden never bold,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion
Othello|BRABANTIO|Blush'd at herself, and she, in spite of nature,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Of years, of country, credit, every thing,
Othello|BRABANTIO|To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!
Othello|BRABANTIO|It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect
Othello|BRABANTIO|That will confess perfection so could err
Othello|BRABANTIO|Against all rules of nature, and must be driven
Othello|BRABANTIO|To find out practises of cunning hell,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Why this should be. I therefore vouch again
Othello|BRABANTIO|That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Or with some dram conjured to this effect,
Othello|BRABANTIO|He wrought upon her.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|To vouch this, is no proof,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Without more wider and more overt test
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Of modern seeming do prefer against him.
Othello|First Senator|But, Othello, speak:
Othello|First Senator|Did you by indirect and forced courses
Othello|First Senator|Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?
Othello|First Senator|Or came it by request and such fair question
Othello|First Senator|As soul to soul affordeth?
Othello|OTHELLO|I do beseech you,
Othello|OTHELLO|Send for the lady to the Sagittary,
Othello|OTHELLO|And let her speak of me before her father:
Othello|OTHELLO|If you do find me foul in her report,
Othello|OTHELLO|The trust, the office I do hold of you,
Othello|OTHELLO|Not only take away, but let your sentence
Othello|OTHELLO|Even fall upon my life.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Fetch Desdemona hither.
Othello|OTHELLO|Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exeunt IAGO and Attendants
Othello|OTHELLO|And, till she come, as truly as to heaven
Othello|OTHELLO|I do confess the vices of my blood,
Othello|OTHELLO|So justly to your grave ears I'll present
Othello|OTHELLO|How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,
Othello|OTHELLO|And she in mine.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Say it, Othello.
Othello|OTHELLO|Her father loved me, oft invited me,
Othello|OTHELLO|Still question'd me the story of my life,
Othello|OTHELLO|From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
Othello|OTHELLO|That I have passed.
Othello|OTHELLO|I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
Othello|OTHELLO|To the very moment that he bade me tell it,
Othello|OTHELLO|Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Othello|OTHELLO|Of moving accidents by flood and field
Othello|OTHELLO|Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Othello|OTHELLO|Of being taken by the insolent foe
Othello|OTHELLO|And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
Othello|OTHELLO|And portance in my travels' history:
Othello|OTHELLO|Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Othello|OTHELLO|Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven
Othello|OTHELLO|It was my hint to speak,--such was the process,
Othello|OTHELLO|And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
Othello|OTHELLO|The Anthropophagi and men whose heads
Othello|OTHELLO|Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Othello|OTHELLO|Would Desdemona seriously incline:
Othello|OTHELLO|But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:
Othello|OTHELLO|Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
Othello|OTHELLO|She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear
Othello|OTHELLO|Devour up my discourse: which I observing,
Othello|OTHELLO|Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
Othello|OTHELLO|To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
Othello|OTHELLO|That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Othello|OTHELLO|Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
Othello|OTHELLO|But not intentively: I did consent,
Othello|OTHELLO|And often did beguile her of her tears,
Othello|OTHELLO|When I did speak of some distressful stroke
Othello|OTHELLO|That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
Othello|OTHELLO|She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
Othello|OTHELLO|She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
Othello|OTHELLO|'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
Othello|OTHELLO|She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
Othello|OTHELLO|That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,
Othello|OTHELLO|And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
Othello|OTHELLO|I should but teach him how to tell my story.
Othello|OTHELLO|And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
Othello|OTHELLO|She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
Othello|OTHELLO|And I loved her that she did pity them.
Othello|OTHELLO|This only is the witchcraft I have used:
Othello|OTHELLO|Here comes the lady, let her witness it.
Othello|OTHELLO|Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|I think this tale would win my daughter too.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Good Brabantio,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Take up this mangled matter at the best:
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Men do their broken weapons rather use
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Than their bare hands.
Othello|BRABANTIO|I pray you, hear her speak:
Othello|BRABANTIO|If she confess that she was half the wooer,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Destruction on my head, if my bad blame
Othello|BRABANTIO|Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress:
Othello|BRABANTIO|Do you perceive in all this noble company
Othello|BRABANTIO|Where most you owe obedience?
Othello|DESDEMONA|My noble father,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I do perceive here a divided duty:
Othello|DESDEMONA|To you I am bound for life and education,
Othello|DESDEMONA|My life and education both do learn me
Othello|DESDEMONA|How to respect you, you are the lord of duty,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And so much duty as my mother show'd
Othello|DESDEMONA|To you, preferring you before her father,
Othello|DESDEMONA|So much I challenge that I may profess
Othello|DESDEMONA|Due to the Moor my lord.
Othello|BRABANTIO|God be wi' you! I have done.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs:
Othello|BRABANTIO|I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Come hither, Moor:
Othello|BRABANTIO|I here do give thee that with all my heart
Othello|BRABANTIO|Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart
Othello|BRABANTIO|I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,
Othello|BRABANTIO|I am glad at soul I have no other child:
Othello|BRABANTIO|For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
Othello|BRABANTIO|To hang clogs on them. I have done, my lord.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Into your favour.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Patience her injury a mockery makes.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
Othello|BRABANTIO|So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile,
Othello|BRABANTIO|We lose it not, so long as we can smile.
Othello|BRABANTIO|He bears the sentence well that nothing bears
Othello|BRABANTIO|But the free comfort which from thence he hears,
Othello|BRABANTIO|But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
Othello|BRABANTIO|That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
Othello|BRABANTIO|These sentences, to sugar, or to gall,
Othello|BRABANTIO|Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:
Othello|BRABANTIO|But words are words, I never yet did hear
Othello|BRABANTIO|That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.
Othello|BRABANTIO|I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|known to you, and though we have there a substitute
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|voice on you: you must therefore be content to
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|more stubborn and boisterous expedition.
Othello|OTHELLO|The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Othello|OTHELLO|Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
Othello|OTHELLO|My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnise
Othello|OTHELLO|A natural and prompt alacrity
Othello|OTHELLO|I find in hardness, and do undertake
Othello|OTHELLO|These present wars against the Ottomites.
Othello|OTHELLO|Most humbly therefore bending to your state,
Othello|OTHELLO|I crave fit disposition for my wife.
Othello|OTHELLO|Due reference of place and exhibition,
Othello|OTHELLO|With such accommodation and besort
Othello|OTHELLO|As levels with her breeding.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|If you please,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Be't at her father's.
Othello|BRABANTIO|I'll not have it so.
Othello|OTHELLO|Nor I.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Nor I, I would not there reside,
Othello|DESDEMONA|To put my father in impatient thoughts
Othello|DESDEMONA|By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,
Othello|DESDEMONA|To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And let me find a charter in your voice,
Othello|DESDEMONA|To assist my simpleness.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|What would You, Desdemona?
Othello|DESDEMONA|That I did love the Moor to live with him,
Othello|DESDEMONA|My downright violence and storm of fortunes
Othello|DESDEMONA|May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued
Othello|DESDEMONA|Even to the very quality of my lord:
Othello|DESDEMONA|I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And to his honour and his valiant parts
Othello|DESDEMONA|Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
Othello|DESDEMONA|So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
Othello|DESDEMONA|A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
Othello|DESDEMONA|The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And I a heavy interim shall support
Othello|DESDEMONA|By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
Othello|OTHELLO|Let her have your voices.
Othello|OTHELLO|Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,
Othello|OTHELLO|To please the palate of my appetite,
Othello|OTHELLO|Nor to comply with heat--the young affects
Othello|OTHELLO|In me defunct--and proper satisfaction.
Othello|OTHELLO|But to be free and bounteous to her mind:
Othello|OTHELLO|And heaven defend your good souls, that you think
Othello|OTHELLO|I will your serious and great business scant
Othello|OTHELLO|For she is with me: no, when light-wing'd toys
Othello|OTHELLO|Of feather'd Cupid seal with wanton dullness
Othello|OTHELLO|My speculative and officed instruments,
Othello|OTHELLO|That my disports corrupt and taint my business,
Othello|OTHELLO|Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,
Othello|OTHELLO|And all indign and base adversities
Othello|OTHELLO|Make head against my estimation!
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Be it as you shall privately determine,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|And speed must answer it.
Othello|First Senator|You must away to-night.
Othello|OTHELLO|With all my heart.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Othello, leave some officer behind,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|And he shall our commission bring to you,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|With such things else of quality and respect
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|As doth import you.
Othello|OTHELLO|So please your grace, my ancient,
Othello|OTHELLO|A man he is of honest and trust:
Othello|OTHELLO|To his conveyance I assign my wife,
Othello|OTHELLO|With what else needful your good grace shall think
Othello|OTHELLO|To be sent after me.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Let it be so.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Good night to every one.
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|To BRABANTIO
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|And, noble signior,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
Othello|DUKE OF VENICE|Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.
Othello|First Senator|Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
Othello|BRABANTIO|She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Othello|BRABANTIO|Exeunt DUKE OF VENICE, Senators, Officers,  and c
Othello|OTHELLO|My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,
Othello|OTHELLO|My Desdemona must I leave to thee:
Othello|OTHELLO|I prithee, let thy wife attend on her:
Othello|OTHELLO|And bring them after in the best advantage.
Othello|OTHELLO|Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour
Othello|OTHELLO|Of love, of worldly matters and direction,
Othello|OTHELLO|To spend with thee: we must obey the time.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA
Othello|RODERIGO|Iago,--
Othello|IAGO|What say'st thou, noble heart?
Othello|RODERIGO|What will I do, thinkest thou?
Othello|IAGO|Why, go to bed, and sleep.
Othello|RODERIGO|I will incontinently drown myself.
Othello|IAGO|If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,
Othello|IAGO|thou silly gentleman!
Othello|RODERIGO|It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and
Othello|RODERIGO|then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
Othello|IAGO|O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four
Othello|IAGO|times seven years, and since I could distinguish
Othello|IAGO|betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man
Othello|IAGO|that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I
Othello|IAGO|would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I
Othello|IAGO|would change my humanity with a baboon.
Othello|RODERIGO|What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so
Othello|RODERIGO|fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it.
Othello|IAGO|Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus
Othello|IAGO|or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
Othello|IAGO|our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
Othello|IAGO|nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
Othello|IAGO|thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
Othello|IAGO|distract it with many, either to have it sterile
Othello|IAGO|with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
Othello|IAGO|power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
Othello|IAGO|wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
Othello|IAGO|scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
Othello|IAGO|blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
Othello|IAGO|to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
Othello|IAGO|reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
Othello|IAGO|stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
Othello|IAGO|you call love to be a sect or scion.
Othello|RODERIGO|It cannot be.
Othello|IAGO|It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of
Othello|IAGO|the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown
Othello|IAGO|cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy
Othello|IAGO|friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with
Othello|IAGO|cables of perdurable toughness, I could never
Othello|IAGO|better stead thee than now. Put money in thy
Othello|IAGO|purse, follow thou the wars, defeat thy favour with
Othello|IAGO|an usurped beard, I say, put money in thy purse. It
Othello|IAGO|cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her
Othello|IAGO|love to the Moor,-- put money in thy purse,--nor he
Othello|IAGO|his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou
Othello|IAGO|shalt see an answerable sequestration:--put but
Othello|IAGO|money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in
Othello|IAGO|their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food
Othello|IAGO|that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be
Othello|IAGO|to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must
Othello|IAGO|change for youth: when she is sated with his body,
Othello|IAGO|she will find the error of her choice: she must
Othello|IAGO|have change, she must: therefore put money in thy
Othello|IAGO|purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a
Othello|IAGO|more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money
Othello|IAGO|thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt
Othello|IAGO|an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not
Othello|IAGO|too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou
Othello|IAGO|shalt enjoy her, therefore make money. A pox of
Othello|IAGO|drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek
Othello|IAGO|thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than
Othello|IAGO|to be drowned and go without her.
Othello|RODERIGO|Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on
Othello|RODERIGO|the issue?
Othello|IAGO|Thou art sure of me:--go, make money:--I have told
Othello|IAGO|thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I
Othello|IAGO|hate the Moor: my cause is hearted, thine hath no
Othello|IAGO|less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge
Othello|IAGO|against him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost
Othello|IAGO|thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many
Othello|IAGO|events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
Othello|IAGO|Traverse! go, provide thy money. We will have more
Othello|IAGO|of this to-morrow. Adieu.
Othello|RODERIGO|Where shall we meet i' the morning?
Othello|IAGO|At my lodging.
Othello|RODERIGO|I'll be with thee betimes.
Othello|IAGO|Go to, farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?
Othello|RODERIGO|What say you?
Othello|IAGO|No more of drowning, do you hear?
Othello|RODERIGO|I am changed: I'll go sell all my land.
Othello|RODERIGO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:
Othello|IAGO|For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,
Othello|IAGO|If I would time expend with such a snipe.
Othello|IAGO|But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:
Othello|IAGO|And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets
Othello|IAGO|He has done my office: I know not if't be true,
Othello|IAGO|But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
Othello|IAGO|Will do as if for surety. He holds me well,
Othello|IAGO|The better shall my purpose work on him.
Othello|IAGO|Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:
Othello|IAGO|To get his place and to plume up my will
Othello|IAGO|In double knavery--How, how? Let's see:--
Othello|IAGO|After some time, to abuse Othello's ear
Othello|IAGO|That he is too familiar with his wife.
Othello|IAGO|He hath a person and a smooth dispose
Othello|IAGO|To be suspected, framed to make women false.
Othello|IAGO|The Moor is of a free and open nature,
Othello|IAGO|That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
Othello|IAGO|And will as tenderly be led by the nose
Othello|IAGO|As asses are.
Othello|IAGO|I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night
Othello|IAGO|Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Othello|IAGO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|ACT II
Othello|IAGO|SCENE I. A Sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near the quay.
Othello|IAGO|Enter MONTANO and two Gentlemen
Othello|MONTANO|What from the cape can you discern at sea?
Othello|First Gentleman|Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood,
Othello|First Gentleman|I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,
Othello|First Gentleman|Descry a sail.
Othello|MONTANO|Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land,
Othello|MONTANO|A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:
Othello|MONTANO|If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,
Othello|MONTANO|What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Othello|MONTANO|Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?
Othello|Second Gentleman|A segregation of the Turkish fleet:
Othello|Second Gentleman|For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
Othello|Second Gentleman|The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds,
Othello|Second Gentleman|The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,
Othello|Second Gentleman|seems to cast water on the burning bear,
Othello|Second Gentleman|And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:
Othello|Second Gentleman|I never did like molestation view
Othello|Second Gentleman|On the enchafed flood.
Othello|MONTANO|If that the Turkish fleet
Othello|MONTANO|Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:
Othello|MONTANO|It is impossible they bear it out.
Othello|MONTANO|Enter a third Gentleman
Othello|Third Gentleman|News, lads! our wars are done.
Othello|Third Gentleman|The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks,
Othello|Third Gentleman|That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice
Othello|Third Gentleman|Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance
Othello|Third Gentleman|On most part of their fleet.
Othello|MONTANO|How! is this true?
Othello|Third Gentleman|The ship is here put in,
Othello|Third Gentleman|A Veronesa, Michael Cassio,
Othello|Third Gentleman|Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Othello|Third Gentleman|Is come on shore: the Moor himself at sea,
Othello|Third Gentleman|And is in full commission here for Cyprus.
Othello|MONTANO|I am glad on't, 'tis a worthy governor.
Othello|Third Gentleman|But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort
Othello|Third Gentleman|Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,
Othello|Third Gentleman|And prays the Moor be safe, for they were parted
Othello|Third Gentleman|With foul and violent tempest.
Othello|MONTANO|Pray heavens he be,
Othello|MONTANO|For I have served him, and the man commands
Othello|MONTANO|Like a full soldier. Let's to the seaside, ho!
Othello|MONTANO|As well to see the vessel that's come in
Othello|MONTANO|As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,
Othello|MONTANO|Even till we make the main and the aerial blue
Othello|MONTANO|An indistinct regard.
Othello|Third Gentleman|Come, let's do so:
Othello|Third Gentleman|For every minute is expectancy
Othello|Third Gentleman|Of more arrivance.
Othello|Third Gentleman|Enter CASSIO
Othello|CASSIO|Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,
Othello|CASSIO|That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens
Othello|CASSIO|Give him defence against the elements,
Othello|CASSIO|For I have lost us him on a dangerous sea.
Othello|MONTANO|Is he well shipp'd?
Othello|CASSIO|His bark is stoutly timber'd, his pilot
Othello|CASSIO|Of very expert and approved allowance,
Othello|CASSIO|Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,
Othello|CASSIO|Stand in bold cure.
Othello|CASSIO|A cry within 'A sail, a sail, a sail!'
Othello|CASSIO|Enter a fourth Gentleman
Othello|CASSIO|What noise?
Othello|Fourth Gentleman|The town is empty, on the brow o' the sea
Othello|Fourth Gentleman|Stand ranks of people, and they cry 'A sail!'
Othello|CASSIO|My hopes do shape him for the governor.
Othello|CASSIO|Guns heard
Othello|Second Gentlemen|They do discharge their shot of courtesy:
Othello|Second Gentlemen|Our friends at least.
Othello|CASSIO|I pray you, sir, go forth,
Othello|CASSIO|And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived.
Othello|Second Gentleman|I shall.
Othello|Second Gentleman|Exit
Othello|MONTANO|But, good lieutenant, is your general wived?
Othello|CASSIO|Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid
Othello|CASSIO|That paragons description and wild fame,
Othello|CASSIO|One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,
Othello|CASSIO|And in the essential vesture of creation
Othello|CASSIO|Does tire the ingener.
Othello|CASSIO|Re-enter second Gentleman
Othello|CASSIO|How now! who has put in?
Othello|Second Gentleman|'Tis one Iago, ancient to the general.
Othello|CASSIO|Has had most favourable and happy speed:
Othello|CASSIO|Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,
Othello|CASSIO|The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands--
Othello|CASSIO|Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,--
Othello|CASSIO|As having sense of beauty, do omit
Othello|CASSIO|Their mortal natures, letting go safely by
Othello|CASSIO|The divine Desdemona.
Othello|MONTANO|What is she?
Othello|CASSIO|She that I spake of, our great captain's captain,
Othello|CASSIO|Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,
Othello|CASSIO|Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
Othello|CASSIO|A se'nnight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,
Othello|CASSIO|And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,
Othello|CASSIO|That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,
Othello|CASSIO|Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,
Othello|CASSIO|Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits
Othello|CASSIO|And bring all Cyprus comfort!
Othello|CASSIO|Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Attendants
Othello|CASSIO|O, behold,
Othello|CASSIO|The riches of the ship is come on shore!
Othello|CASSIO|Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees.
Othello|CASSIO|Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,
Othello|CASSIO|Before, behind thee, and on every hand,
Othello|CASSIO|Enwheel thee round!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I thank you, valiant Cassio.
Othello|DESDEMONA|What tidings can you tell me of my lord?
Othello|CASSIO|He is not yet arrived: nor know I aught
Othello|CASSIO|But that he's well and will be shortly here.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O, but I fear--How lost you company?
Othello|CASSIO|The great contention of the sea and skies
Othello|CASSIO|Parted our fellowship--But, hark! a sail.
Othello|CASSIO|Within 'A sail, a sail!' Guns heard
Othello|Second Gentleman|They give their greeting to the citadel,
Othello|Second Gentleman|This likewise is a friend.
Othello|CASSIO|See for the news.
Othello|CASSIO|Exit Gentleman
Othello|CASSIO|Good ancient, you are welcome.
Othello|CASSIO|To EMILIA
Othello|CASSIO|Welcome, mistress.
Othello|CASSIO|Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
Othello|CASSIO|That I extend my manners, 'tis my breeding
Othello|CASSIO|That gives me this bold show of courtesy.
Othello|CASSIO|Kissing her
Othello|IAGO|Sir, would she give you so much of her lips
Othello|IAGO|As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,
Othello|IAGO|You'll have enough.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas, she has no speech.
Othello|IAGO|In faith, too much,
Othello|IAGO|I find it still, when I have list to sleep:
Othello|IAGO|Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
Othello|IAGO|She puts her tongue a little in her heart,
Othello|IAGO|And chides with thinking.
Othello|EMILIA|You have little cause to say so.
Othello|IAGO|Come on, come on, you are pictures out of doors,
Othello|IAGO|Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,
Othello|IAGO|Saints m your injuries, devils being offended,
Othello|IAGO|Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O, fie upon thee, slanderer!
Othello|IAGO|Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk:
Othello|IAGO|You rise to play and go to bed to work.
Othello|EMILIA|You shall not write my praise.
Othello|IAGO|No, let me not.
Othello|DESDEMONA|What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst
Othello|DESDEMONA|praise me?
Othello|IAGO|O gentle lady, do not put me to't,
Othello|IAGO|For I am nothing, if not critical.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Come on assay. There's one gone to the harbour?
Othello|IAGO|Ay, madam.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I am not merry, but I do beguile
Othello|DESDEMONA|The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Come, how wouldst thou praise me?
Othello|IAGO|I am about it, but indeed my invention
Othello|IAGO|Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize,
Othello|IAGO|It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours,
Othello|IAGO|And thus she is deliver'd.
Othello|IAGO|If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
Othello|IAGO|The one's for use, the other useth it.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Well praised! How if she be black and witty?
Othello|IAGO|If she be black, and thereto have a wit,
Othello|IAGO|She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Worse and worse.
Othello|EMILIA|How if fair and foolish?
Othello|IAGO|She never yet was foolish that was fair,
Othello|IAGO|For even her folly help'd her to an heir.
Othello|DESDEMONA|These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i'
Othello|DESDEMONA|the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for
Othello|DESDEMONA|her that's foul and foolish?
Othello|IAGO|There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,
Othello|IAGO|But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst best.
Othello|DESDEMONA|But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving
Othello|DESDEMONA|woman indeed, one that, in the authority of her
Othello|DESDEMONA|merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself?
Othello|IAGO|She that was ever fair and never proud,
Othello|IAGO|Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,
Othello|IAGO|Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,
Othello|IAGO|Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,'
Othello|IAGO|She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,
Othello|IAGO|Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,
Othello|IAGO|She that in wisdom never was so frail
Othello|IAGO|To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail,
Othello|IAGO|She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,
Othello|IAGO|See suitors following and not look behind,
Othello|IAGO|She was a wight, if ever such wight were,--
Othello|DESDEMONA|To do what?
Othello|IAGO|To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn
Othello|DESDEMONA|of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband. How say
Othello|DESDEMONA|you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberal
Othello|DESDEMONA|counsellor?
Othello|CASSIO|He speaks home, madam: You may relish him more in
Othello|CASSIO|the soldier than in the scholar.
Othello|IAGO|[Aside]  He takes her by the palm: ay, well said,
Othello|IAGO|whisper: with as little a web as this will I
Othello|IAGO|ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon
Othello|IAGO|her, do, I will gyve thee in thine own courtship.
Othello|IAGO|You say true, 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as
Othello|IAGO|these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had
Othello|IAGO|been better you had not kissed your three fingers so
Othello|IAGO|oft, which now again you are most apt to play the
Othello|IAGO|sir in. Very good, well kissed! an excellent
Othello|IAGO|courtesy! 'tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers
Othello|IAGO|to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!
Othello|IAGO|Trumpet within
Othello|IAGO|The Moor! I know his trumpet.
Othello|CASSIO|'Tis truly so.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Let's meet him and receive him.
Othello|CASSIO|Lo, where he comes!
Othello|CASSIO|Enter OTHELLO and Attendants
Othello|OTHELLO|O my fair warrior!
Othello|DESDEMONA|My dear Othello!
Othello|OTHELLO|It gives me wonder great as my content
Othello|OTHELLO|To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!
Othello|OTHELLO|If after every tempest come such calms,
Othello|OTHELLO|May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
Othello|OTHELLO|And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas
Othello|OTHELLO|Olympus-high and duck again as low
Othello|OTHELLO|As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die,
Othello|OTHELLO|'Twere now to be most happy, for, I fear,
Othello|OTHELLO|My soul hath her content so absolute
Othello|OTHELLO|That not another comfort like to this
Othello|OTHELLO|Succeeds in unknown fate.
Othello|DESDEMONA|The heavens forbid
Othello|DESDEMONA|But that our loves and comforts should increase,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Even as our days do grow!
Othello|OTHELLO|Amen to that, sweet powers!
Othello|OTHELLO|I cannot speak enough of this content,
Othello|OTHELLO|It stops me here, it is too much of joy:
Othello|OTHELLO|And this, and this, the greatest discords be
Othello|OTHELLO|Kissing her
Othello|OTHELLO|That e'er our hearts shall make!
Othello|IAGO|[Aside]  O, you are well tuned now!
Othello|IAGO|But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
Othello|IAGO|As honest as I am.
Othello|OTHELLO|Come, let us to the castle.
Othello|OTHELLO|News, friends, our wars are done, the Turks
Othello|OTHELLO|are drown'd.
Othello|OTHELLO|How does my old acquaintance of this isle?
Othello|OTHELLO|Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus,
Othello|OTHELLO|I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,
Othello|OTHELLO|I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
Othello|OTHELLO|In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,
Othello|OTHELLO|Go to the bay and disembark my coffers:
Othello|OTHELLO|Bring thou the master to the citadel,
Othello|OTHELLO|He is a good one, and his worthiness
Othello|OTHELLO|Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona,
Othello|OTHELLO|Once more, well met at Cyprus.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants
Othello|IAGO|Do thou meet me presently at the harbour. Come
Othello|IAGO|hither. If thou be'st valiant,-- as, they say, base
Othello|IAGO|men being in love have then a nobility in their
Othello|IAGO|natures more than is native to them--list me. The
Othello|IAGO|lieutenant tonight watches on the court of
Othello|IAGO|guard:--first, I must tell thee this--Desdemona is
Othello|IAGO|directly in love with him.
Othello|RODERIGO|With him! why, 'tis not possible.
Othello|IAGO|Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed.
Othello|IAGO|Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor,
Othello|IAGO|but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies:
Othello|IAGO|and will she love him still for prating? let not
Othello|IAGO|thy discreet heart think it. Her eye must be fed,
Othello|IAGO|and what delight shall she have to look on the
Othello|IAGO|devil? When the blood is made dull with the act of
Othello|IAGO|sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to
Othello|IAGO|give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour,
Othello|IAGO|sympathy in years, manners and beauties, all which
Othello|IAGO|the Moor is defective in: now, for want of these
Othello|IAGO|required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will
Othello|IAGO|find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge,
Othello|IAGO|disrelish and abhor the Moor, very nature will
Othello|IAGO|instruct her in it and compel her to some second
Othello|IAGO|choice. Now, sir, this granted,--as it is a most
Othello|IAGO|pregnant and unforced position--who stands so
Othello|IAGO|eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio
Othello|IAGO|does? a knave very voluble, no further
Othello|IAGO|conscionable than in putting on the mere form of
Othello|IAGO|civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing
Othello|IAGO|of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why,
Othello|IAGO|none, why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a
Othello|IAGO|finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and
Othello|IAGO|counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never
Othello|IAGO|present itself, a devilish knave. Besides, the
Othello|IAGO|knave is handsome, young, and hath all those
Othello|IAGO|requisites in him that folly and green minds look
Othello|IAGO|after: a pestilent complete knave, and the woman
Othello|IAGO|hath found him already.
Othello|RODERIGO|I cannot believe that in her, she's full of
Othello|RODERIGO|most blessed condition.
Othello|IAGO|Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made of
Othello|IAGO|grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never
Othello|IAGO|have loved the Moor. Blessed pudding! Didst thou
Othello|IAGO|not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? didst
Othello|IAGO|not mark that?
Othello|RODERIGO|Yes, that I did, but that was but courtesy.
Othello|IAGO|Lechery, by this hand, an index and obscure prologue
Othello|IAGO|to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met
Othello|IAGO|so near with their lips that their breaths embraced
Othello|IAGO|together. Villanous thoughts, Roderigo! when these
Othello|IAGO|mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes
Othello|IAGO|the master and main exercise, the incorporate
Othello|IAGO|conclusion, Pish! But, sir, be you ruled by me: I
Othello|IAGO|have brought you from Venice. Watch you to-night,
Othello|IAGO|for the command, I'll lay't upon you. Cassio knows
Othello|IAGO|you not. I'll not be far from you: do you find
Othello|IAGO|some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking
Othello|IAGO|too loud, or tainting his discipline, or from what
Othello|IAGO|other course you please, which the time shall more
Othello|IAGO|favourably minister.
Othello|RODERIGO|Well.
Othello|IAGO|Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply
Othello|IAGO|may strike at you: provoke him, that he may, for
Othello|IAGO|even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to
Othello|IAGO|mutiny, whose qualification shall come into no true
Othello|IAGO|taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. So
Othello|IAGO|shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by
Othello|IAGO|the means I shall then have to prefer them, and the
Othello|IAGO|impediment most profitably removed, without the
Othello|IAGO|which there were no expectation of our prosperity.
Othello|RODERIGO|I will do this, if I can bring it to any
Othello|RODERIGO|opportunity.
Othello|IAGO|I warrant thee. Meet me by and by at the citadel:
Othello|IAGO|I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Farewell.
Othello|RODERIGO|Adieu.
Othello|RODERIGO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it,
Othello|IAGO|That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:
Othello|IAGO|The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,
Othello|IAGO|Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,
Othello|IAGO|And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona
Othello|IAGO|A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too,
Othello|IAGO|Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure
Othello|IAGO|I stand accountant for as great a sin,
Othello|IAGO|But partly led to diet my revenge,
Othello|IAGO|For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
Othello|IAGO|Hath leap'd into my seat, the thought whereof
Othello|IAGO|Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards,
Othello|IAGO|And nothing can or shall content my soul
Othello|IAGO|Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,
Othello|IAGO|Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
Othello|IAGO|At least into a jealousy so strong
Othello|IAGO|That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,
Othello|IAGO|If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash
Othello|IAGO|For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,
Othello|IAGO|I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,
Othello|IAGO|Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb--
Othello|IAGO|For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too--
Othello|IAGO|Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me.
Othello|IAGO|For making him egregiously an ass
Othello|IAGO|And practising upon his peace and quiet
Othello|IAGO|Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:
Othello|IAGO|Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used.
Othello|IAGO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|SCENE II. A street.
Othello|IAGO|Enter a Herald with a proclamation, People following
Othello|Herald|It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant
Othello|Herald|general, that, upon certain tidings now arrived,
Othello|Herald|importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet,
Othello|Herald|every man put himself into triumph, some to dance,
Othello|Herald|some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and
Othello|Herald|revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these
Othello|Herald|beneficial news, it is the celebration of his
Othello|Herald|nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be
Othello|Herald|proclaimed. All offices are open, and there is full
Othello|Herald|liberty of feasting from this present hour of five
Othello|Herald|till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the
Othello|Herald|isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!
Othello|Herald|Exeunt
Othello|Herald|SCENE III. A hall in the castle.
Othello|Herald|Enter OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and Attendants
Othello|OTHELLO|Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night:
Othello|OTHELLO|Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,
Othello|OTHELLO|Not to outsport discretion.
Othello|CASSIO|Iago hath direction what to do,
Othello|CASSIO|But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye
Othello|CASSIO|Will I look to't.
Othello|OTHELLO|Iago is most honest.
Othello|OTHELLO|Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest
Othello|OTHELLO|Let me have speech with you.
Othello|OTHELLO|To DESDEMONA
Othello|OTHELLO|Come, my dear love,
Othello|OTHELLO|The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue,
Othello|OTHELLO|That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you.
Othello|OTHELLO|Good night.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants
Othello|OTHELLO|Enter IAGO
Othello|CASSIO|Welcome, Iago, we must to the watch.
Othello|IAGO|Not this hour, lieutenant, 'tis not yet ten o' the
Othello|IAGO|clock. Our general cast us thus early for the love
Othello|IAGO|of his Desdemona, who let us not therefore blame:
Othello|IAGO|he hath not yet made wanton the night with her, and
Othello|IAGO|she is sport for Jove.
Othello|CASSIO|She's a most exquisite lady.
Othello|IAGO|And, I'll warrant her, fun of game.
Othello|CASSIO|Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature.
Othello|IAGO|What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of
Othello|IAGO|provocation.
Othello|CASSIO|An inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest.
Othello|IAGO|And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?
Othello|CASSIO|She is indeed perfection.
Othello|IAGO|Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I
Othello|IAGO|have a stoup of wine, and here without are a brace
Othello|IAGO|of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to
Othello|IAGO|the health of black Othello.
Othello|CASSIO|Not to-night, good Iago: I have very poor and
Othello|CASSIO|unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish
Othello|CASSIO|courtesy would invent some other custom of
Othello|CASSIO|entertainment.
Othello|IAGO|O, they are our friends, but one cup: I'll drink for
Othello|IAGO|you.
Othello|CASSIO|I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was
Othello|CASSIO|craftily qualified too, and, behold, what innovation
Othello|CASSIO|it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity,
Othello|CASSIO|and dare not task my weakness with any more.
Othello|IAGO|What, man! 'tis a night of revels: the gallants
Othello|IAGO|desire it.
Othello|CASSIO|Where are they?
Othello|IAGO|Here at the door, I pray you, call them in.
Othello|CASSIO|I'll do't, but it dislikes me.
Othello|CASSIO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|If I can fasten but one cup upon him,
Othello|IAGO|With that which he hath drunk to-night already,
Othello|IAGO|He'll be as full of quarrel and offence
Othello|IAGO|As my young mistress' dog. Now, my sick fool Roderigo,
Othello|IAGO|Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out,
Othello|IAGO|To Desdemona hath to-night caroused
Othello|IAGO|Potations pottle-deep, and he's to watch:
Othello|IAGO|Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,
Othello|IAGO|That hold their honours in a wary distance,
Othello|IAGO|The very elements of this warlike isle,
Othello|IAGO|Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups,
Othello|IAGO|And they watch too. Now, 'mongst this flock of drunkards,
Othello|IAGO|Am I to put our Cassio in some action
Othello|IAGO|That may offend the isle.--But here they come:
Othello|IAGO|If consequence do but approve my dream,
Othello|IAGO|My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
Othello|IAGO|Re-enter CASSIO, with him MONTANO and Gentlemen, servants following with wine
Othello|CASSIO|'Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.
Othello|MONTANO|Good faith, a little one, not past a pint, as I am
Othello|MONTANO|a soldier.
Othello|IAGO|Some wine, ho!
Othello|IAGO|Sings
Othello|IAGO|And let me the canakin clink, clink,
Othello|IAGO|And let me the canakin clink
Othello|IAGO|A soldier's a man,
Othello|IAGO|A life's but a span,
Othello|IAGO|Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Othello|IAGO|Some wine, boys!
Othello|CASSIO|'Fore God, an excellent song.
Othello|IAGO|I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are
Othello|IAGO|most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and
Othello|IAGO|your swag-bellied Hollander--Drink, ho!--are nothing
Othello|IAGO|to your English.
Othello|CASSIO|Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking?
Othello|IAGO|Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead
Othello|IAGO|drunk, he sweats not to overthrow your Almain, he
Othello|IAGO|gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle
Othello|IAGO|can be filled.
Othello|CASSIO|To the health of our general!
Othello|MONTANO|I am for it, lieutenant, and I'll do you justice.
Othello|IAGO|O sweet England!
Othello|IAGO|King Stephen was a worthy peer,
Othello|IAGO|His breeches cost him but a crown,
Othello|IAGO|He held them sixpence all too dear,
Othello|IAGO|With that he call'd the tailor lown.
Othello|IAGO|He was a wight of high renown,
Othello|IAGO|And thou art but of low degree:
Othello|IAGO|'Tis pride that pulls the country down,
Othello|IAGO|Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Othello|IAGO|Some wine, ho!
Othello|CASSIO|Why, this is a more exquisite song than the other.
Othello|IAGO|Will you hear't again?
Othello|CASSIO|No, for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that
Othello|CASSIO|does those things. Well, God's above all, and there
Othello|CASSIO|be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.
Othello|IAGO|It's true, good lieutenant.
Othello|CASSIO|For mine own part,--no offence to the general, nor
Othello|CASSIO|any man of quality,--I hope to be saved.
Othello|IAGO|And so do I too, lieutenant.
Othello|CASSIO|Ay, but, by your leave, not before me, the
Othello|CASSIO|lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient. Let's
Othello|CASSIO|have no more of this, let's to our affairs.--Forgive
Othello|CASSIO|us our sins!--Gentlemen, let's look to our business.
Othello|CASSIO|Do not think, gentlemen. I am drunk: this is my
Othello|CASSIO|ancient, this is my right hand, and this is my left:
Othello|CASSIO|I am not drunk now, I can stand well enough, and
Othello|CASSIO|speak well enough.
Othello|All|Excellent well.
Othello|CASSIO|Why, very well then, you must not think then that I am drunk.
Othello|CASSIO|Exit
Othello|MONTANO|To the platform, masters, come, let's set the watch.
Othello|IAGO|You see this fellow that is gone before,
Othello|IAGO|He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar
Othello|IAGO|And give direction: and do but see his vice,
Othello|IAGO|'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,
Othello|IAGO|The one as long as the other: 'tis pity of him.
Othello|IAGO|I fear the trust Othello puts him in.
Othello|IAGO|On some odd time of his infirmity,
Othello|IAGO|Will shake this island.
Othello|MONTANO|But is he often thus?
Othello|IAGO|'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:
Othello|IAGO|He'll watch the horologe a double set,
Othello|IAGO|If drink rock not his cradle.
Othello|MONTANO|It were well
Othello|MONTANO|The general were put in mind of it.
Othello|MONTANO|Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature
Othello|MONTANO|Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,
Othello|MONTANO|And looks not on his evils: is not this true?
Othello|MONTANO|Enter RODERIGO
Othello|IAGO|[Aside to him]  How now, Roderigo!
Othello|IAGO|I pray you, after the lieutenant, go.
Othello|IAGO|Exit RODERIGO
Othello|MONTANO|And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor
Othello|MONTANO|Should hazard such a place as his own second
Othello|MONTANO|With one of an ingraft infirmity:
Othello|MONTANO|It were an honest action to say
Othello|MONTANO|So to the Moor.
Othello|IAGO|Not I, for this fair island:
Othello|IAGO|I do love Cassio well, and would do much
Othello|IAGO|To cure him of this evil--But, hark! what noise?
Othello|IAGO|Cry within: 'Help! help!'
Othello|IAGO|Re-enter CASSIO, driving in RODERIGO
Othello|CASSIO|You rogue! you rascal!
Othello|MONTANO|What's the matter, lieutenant?
Othello|CASSIO|A knave teach me my duty!
Othello|CASSIO|I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle.
Othello|RODERIGO|Beat me!
Othello|CASSIO|Dost thou prate, rogue?
Othello|CASSIO|Striking RODERIGO
Othello|MONTANO|Nay, good lieutenant,
Othello|MONTANO|Staying him
Othello|MONTANO|I pray you, sir, hold your hand.
Othello|CASSIO|Let me go, sir,
Othello|CASSIO|Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard.
Othello|MONTANO|Come, come,
Othello|MONTANO|you're drunk.
Othello|CASSIO|Drunk!
Othello|CASSIO|They fight
Othello|IAGO|[Aside to RODERIGO]  Away, I say, go out, and cry a mutiny.
Othello|IAGO|Exit RODERIGO
Othello|IAGO|Nay, good lieutenant,--alas, gentlemen,--
Othello|IAGO|Help, ho!--Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,--sir,
Othello|IAGO|Help, masters!--Here's a goodly watch indeed!
Othello|IAGO|Bell rings
Othello|IAGO|Who's that which rings the bell?--Diablo, ho!
Othello|IAGO|The town will rise: God's will, lieutenant, hold!
Othello|IAGO|You will be shamed for ever.
Othello|IAGO|Re-enter OTHELLO and Attendants
Othello|OTHELLO|What is the matter here?
Othello|MONTANO|'Zounds, I bleed still, I am hurt to the death.
Othello|MONTANO|Faints
Othello|OTHELLO|Hold, for your lives!
Othello|IAGO|Hold, ho! Lieutenant,--sir--Montano,--gentlemen,--
Othello|IAGO|Have you forgot all sense of place and duty?
Othello|IAGO|Hold! the general speaks to you, hold, hold, for shame!
Othello|OTHELLO|Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this?
Othello|OTHELLO|Are we turn'd Turks, and to ourselves do that
Othello|OTHELLO|Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?
Othello|OTHELLO|For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:
Othello|OTHELLO|He that stirs next to carve for his own rage
Othello|OTHELLO|Holds his soul light, he dies upon his motion.
Othello|OTHELLO|Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle
Othello|OTHELLO|From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?
Othello|OTHELLO|Honest Iago, that look'st dead with grieving,
Othello|OTHELLO|Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee.
Othello|IAGO|I do not know: friends all but now, even now,
Othello|IAGO|In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom
Othello|IAGO|Devesting them for bed, and then, but now--
Othello|IAGO|As if some planet had unwitted men--
Othello|IAGO|Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,
Othello|IAGO|In opposition bloody. I cannot speak
Othello|IAGO|Any beginning to this peevish odds,
Othello|IAGO|And would in action glorious I had lost
Othello|IAGO|Those legs that brought me to a part of it!
Othello|OTHELLO|How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?
Othello|CASSIO|I pray you, pardon me, I cannot speak.
Othello|OTHELLO|Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil,
Othello|OTHELLO|The gravity and stillness of your youth
Othello|OTHELLO|The world hath noted, and your name is great
Othello|OTHELLO|In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,
Othello|OTHELLO|That you unlace your reputation thus
Othello|OTHELLO|And spend your rich opinion for the name
Othello|OTHELLO|Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.
Othello|MONTANO|Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger:
Othello|MONTANO|Your officer, Iago, can inform you,--
Othello|MONTANO|While I spare speech, which something now
Othello|MONTANO|offends me,--
Othello|MONTANO|Of all that I do know: nor know I aught
Othello|MONTANO|By me that's said or done amiss this night,
Othello|MONTANO|Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,
Othello|MONTANO|And to defend ourselves it be a sin
Othello|MONTANO|When violence assails us.
Othello|OTHELLO|Now, by heaven,
Othello|OTHELLO|My blood begins my safer guides to rule,
Othello|OTHELLO|And passion, having my best judgment collied,
Othello|OTHELLO|Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,
Othello|OTHELLO|Or do but lift this arm, the best of you
Othello|OTHELLO|Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know
Othello|OTHELLO|How this foul rout began, who set it on,
Othello|OTHELLO|And he that is approved in this offence,
Othello|OTHELLO|Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth,
Othello|OTHELLO|Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,
Othello|OTHELLO|Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,
Othello|OTHELLO|To manage private and domestic quarrel,
Othello|OTHELLO|In night, and on the court and guard of safety!
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began't?
Othello|MONTANO|If partially affined, or leagued in office,
Othello|MONTANO|Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,
Othello|MONTANO|Thou art no soldier.
Othello|IAGO|Touch me not so near:
Othello|IAGO|I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth
Othello|IAGO|Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio,
Othello|IAGO|Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth
Othello|IAGO|Shall nothing wrong him. Thus it is, general.
Othello|IAGO|Montano and myself being in speech,
Othello|IAGO|There comes a fellow crying out for help:
Othello|IAGO|And Cassio following him with determined sword,
Othello|IAGO|To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman
Othello|IAGO|Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:
Othello|IAGO|Myself the crying fellow did pursue,
Othello|IAGO|Lest by his clamour--as it so fell out--
Othello|IAGO|The town might fall in fright: he, swift of foot,
Othello|IAGO|Outran my purpose, and I return'd the rather
Othello|IAGO|For that I heard the clink and fall of swords,
Othello|IAGO|And Cassio high in oath, which till to-night
Othello|IAGO|I ne'er might say before. When I came back--
Othello|IAGO|For this was brief--I found them close together,
Othello|IAGO|At blow and thrust, even as again they were
Othello|IAGO|When you yourself did part them.
Othello|IAGO|More of this matter cannot I report:
Othello|IAGO|But men are men, the best sometimes forget:
Othello|IAGO|Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,
Othello|IAGO|As men in rage strike those that wish them best,
Othello|IAGO|Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received
Othello|IAGO|From him that fled some strange indignity,
Othello|IAGO|Which patience could not pass.
Othello|OTHELLO|I know, Iago,
Othello|OTHELLO|Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,
Othello|OTHELLO|Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee
Othello|OTHELLO|But never more be officer of mine.
Othello|OTHELLO|Re-enter DESDEMONA, attended
Othello|OTHELLO|Look, if my gentle love be not raised up!
Othello|OTHELLO|I'll make thee an example.
Othello|DESDEMONA|What's the matter?
Othello|OTHELLO|All's well now, sweeting, come away to bed.
Othello|OTHELLO|Sir, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon:
Othello|OTHELLO|Lead him off.
Othello|OTHELLO|To MONTANO, who is led off
Othello|OTHELLO|Iago, look with care about the town,
Othello|OTHELLO|And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.
Othello|OTHELLO|Come, Desdemona: 'tis the soldiers' life
Othello|OTHELLO|To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exeunt all but IAGO and CASSIO
Othello|IAGO|What, are you hurt, lieutenant?
Othello|CASSIO|Ay, past all surgery.
Othello|IAGO|Marry, heaven forbid!
Othello|CASSIO|Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost
Othello|CASSIO|my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of
Othello|CASSIO|myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,
Othello|CASSIO|Iago, my reputation!
Othello|IAGO|As I am an honest man, I thought you had received
Othello|IAGO|some bodily wound, there is more sense in that than
Othello|IAGO|in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false
Othello|IAGO|imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without
Othello|IAGO|deserving: you have lost no reputation at all,
Othello|IAGO|unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man!
Othello|IAGO|there are ways to recover the general again: you
Othello|IAGO|are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in
Othello|IAGO|policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his
Othello|IAGO|offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue
Othello|IAGO|to him again, and he's yours.
Othello|CASSIO|I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so
Othello|CASSIO|good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so
Othello|CASSIO|indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot?
Othello|CASSIO|and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse
Othello|CASSIO|fustian with one's own shadow? O thou invisible
Othello|CASSIO|spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,
Othello|CASSIO|let us call thee devil!
Othello|IAGO|What was he that you followed with your sword? What
Othello|IAGO|had he done to you?
Othello|CASSIO|I know not.
Othello|IAGO|Is't possible?
Othello|CASSIO|I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly,
Othello|CASSIO|a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men
Othello|CASSIO|should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away
Othello|CASSIO|their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance
Othello|CASSIO|revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Othello|IAGO|Why, but you are now well enough: how came you thus
Othello|IAGO|recovered?
Othello|CASSIO|It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place
Othello|CASSIO|to the devil wrath, one unperfectness shows me
Othello|CASSIO|another, to make me frankly despise myself.
Othello|IAGO|Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time,
Othello|IAGO|the place, and the condition of this country
Othello|IAGO|stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen,
Othello|IAGO|but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.
Othello|CASSIO|I will ask him for my place again, he shall tell me
Othello|CASSIO|I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra,
Othello|CASSIO|such an answer would stop them all. To be now a
Othello|CASSIO|sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
Othello|CASSIO|beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is
Othello|CASSIO|unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Othello|IAGO|Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature,
Othello|IAGO|if it be well used: exclaim no more against it.
Othello|IAGO|And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.
Othello|CASSIO|I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!
Othello|IAGO|You or any man living may be drunk! at a time, man.
Othello|IAGO|I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife
Othello|IAGO|is now the general: may say so in this respect, for
Othello|IAGO|that he hath devoted and given up himself to the
Othello|IAGO|contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and
Othello|IAGO|graces: confess yourself freely to her, importune
Othello|IAGO|her help to put you in your place again: she is of
Othello|IAGO|so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,
Othello|IAGO|she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more
Othello|IAGO|than she is requested: this broken joint between
Othello|IAGO|you and her husband entreat her to splinter, and, my
Othello|IAGO|fortunes against any lay worth naming, this
Othello|IAGO|crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before.
Othello|CASSIO|You advise me well.
Othello|IAGO|I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.
Othello|CASSIO|I think it freely, and betimes in the morning I will
Othello|CASSIO|beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me:
Othello|CASSIO|I am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here.
Othello|IAGO|You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant, I
Othello|IAGO|must to the watch.
Othello|IAGO|CASSIO: Good night, honest Iago.
Othello|IAGO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|And what's he then that says I play the villain?
Othello|IAGO|When this advice is free I give and honest,
Othello|IAGO|Probal to thinking and indeed the course
Othello|IAGO|To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy
Othello|IAGO|The inclining Desdemona to subdue
Othello|IAGO|In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful
Othello|IAGO|As the free elements. And then for her
Othello|IAGO|To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,
Othello|IAGO|All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,
Othello|IAGO|His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,
Othello|IAGO|That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
Othello|IAGO|Even as her appetite shall play the god
Othello|IAGO|With his weak function. How am I then a villain
Othello|IAGO|To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,
Othello|IAGO|Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!
Othello|IAGO|When devils will the blackest sins put on,
Othello|IAGO|They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
Othello|IAGO|As I do now: for whiles this honest fool
Othello|IAGO|Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes
Othello|IAGO|And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
Othello|IAGO|I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,
Othello|IAGO|That she repeals him for her body's lust,
Othello|IAGO|And by how much she strives to do him good,
Othello|IAGO|She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
Othello|IAGO|So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
Othello|IAGO|And out of her own goodness make the net
Othello|IAGO|That shall enmesh them all.
Othello|IAGO|Re-enter RODERIGO
Othello|IAGO|How now, Roderigo!
Othello|RODERIGO|I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that
Othello|RODERIGO|hunts, but one that fills up the cry. My money is
Othello|RODERIGO|almost spent, I have been to-night exceedingly well
Othello|RODERIGO|cudgelled, and I think the issue will be, I shall
Othello|RODERIGO|have so much experience for my pains, and so, with
Othello|RODERIGO|no money at all and a little more wit, return again to Venice.
Othello|IAGO|How poor are they that have not patience!
Othello|IAGO|What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello|IAGO|Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft,
Othello|IAGO|And wit depends on dilatory time.
Othello|IAGO|Does't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee.
Othello|IAGO|And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd Cassio:
Othello|IAGO|Though other things grow fair against the sun,
Othello|IAGO|Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe:
Othello|IAGO|Content thyself awhile. By the mass, 'tis morning,
Othello|IAGO|Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Othello|IAGO|Retire thee, go where thou art billeted:
Othello|IAGO|Away, I say, thou shalt know more hereafter:
Othello|IAGO|Nay, get thee gone.
Othello|IAGO|Exit RODERIGO
Othello|IAGO|Two things are to be done:
Othello|IAGO|My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress,
Othello|IAGO|I'll set her on,
Othello|IAGO|Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,
Othello|IAGO|And bring him jump when he may Cassio find
Othello|IAGO|Soliciting his wife: ay, that's the way
Othello|IAGO|Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Othello|IAGO|Exit
Othello|IAGO|ACT III
Othello|IAGO|SCENE I. Before the castle.
Othello|IAGO|Enter CASSIO and some Musicians
Othello|CASSIO|Masters, play here, I will content your pains,
Othello|CASSIO|Something that's brief, and bid 'Good morrow, general.'
Othello|CASSIO|Music
Othello|CASSIO|Enter Clown
Othello|Clown|Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,
Othello|Clown|that they speak i' the nose thus?
Othello|First Musician|How, sir, how!
Othello|Clown|Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?
Othello|First Musician|Ay, marry, are they, sir.
Othello|Clown|O, thereby hangs a tail.
Othello|First Musician|Whereby hangs a tale, sir?
Othello|Clown|Marry. sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know.
Othello|Clown|But, masters, here's money for you: and the general
Othello|Clown|so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's
Othello|Clown|sake, to make no more noise with it.
Othello|First Musician|Well, sir, we will not.
Othello|Clown|If you have any music that may not be heard, to't
Othello|Clown|again: but, as they say to hear music the general
Othello|Clown|does not greatly care.
Othello|First Musician|We have none such, sir.
Othello|Clown|Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:
Othello|Clown|go, vanish into air, away!
Othello|Clown|Exeunt Musicians
Othello|CASSIO|Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
Othello|Clown|No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
Othello|CASSIO|Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece
Othello|CASSIO|of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends
Othello|CASSIO|the general's wife be stirring, tell her there's
Othello|CASSIO|one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech:
Othello|CASSIO|wilt thou do this?
Othello|Clown|She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I
Othello|Clown|shall seem to notify unto her.
Othello|CASSIO|Do, good my friend.
Othello|CASSIO|Exit Clown
Othello|CASSIO|Enter IAGO
Othello|CASSIO|In happy time, Iago.
Othello|IAGO|You have not been a-bed, then?
Othello|CASSIO|Why, no, the day had broke
Othello|CASSIO|Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,
Othello|CASSIO|To send in to your wife: my suit to her
Othello|CASSIO|Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona
Othello|CASSIO|Procure me some access.
Othello|IAGO|I'll send her to you presently,
Othello|IAGO|And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor
Othello|IAGO|Out of the way, that your converse and business
Othello|IAGO|May be more free.
Othello|CASSIO|I humbly thank you for't.
Othello|CASSIO|Exit IAGO
Othello|CASSIO|I never knew
Othello|CASSIO|A Florentine more kind and honest.
Othello|CASSIO|Enter EMILIA
Othello|EMILIA|Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry
Othello|EMILIA|For your displeasure, but all will sure be well.
Othello|EMILIA|The general and his wife are talking of it,
Othello|EMILIA|And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,
Othello|EMILIA|That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,
Othello|EMILIA|And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom
Othello|EMILIA|He might not but refuse you, but he protests he loves you
Othello|EMILIA|And needs no other suitor but his likings
Othello|EMILIA|To take the safest occasion by the front
Othello|EMILIA|To bring you in again.
Othello|CASSIO|Yet, I beseech you,
Othello|CASSIO|If you think fit, or that it may be done,
Othello|CASSIO|Give me advantage of some brief discourse
Othello|CASSIO|With Desdemona alone.
Othello|EMILIA|Pray you, come in,
Othello|EMILIA|I will bestow you where you shall have time
Othello|EMILIA|To speak your bosom freely.
Othello|CASSIO|I am much bound to you.
Othello|CASSIO|Exeunt
Othello|CASSIO|SCENE II. A room in the castle.
Othello|CASSIO|Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen
Othello|OTHELLO|These letters give, Iago, to the pilot,
Othello|OTHELLO|And by him do my duties to the senate:
Othello|OTHELLO|That done, I will be walking on the works,
Othello|OTHELLO|Repair there to me.
Othello|IAGO|Well, my good lord, I'll do't.
Othello|OTHELLO|This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see't?
Othello|Gentleman|We'll wait upon your lordship.
Othello|Gentleman|Exeunt
Othello|Gentleman|SCENE III. The garden of the castle.
Othello|Gentleman|Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and EMILIA
Othello|DESDEMONA|Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
Othello|DESDEMONA|All my abilities in thy behalf.
Othello|EMILIA|Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband,
Othello|EMILIA|As if the case were his.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
Othello|DESDEMONA|But I will have my lord and you again
Othello|DESDEMONA|As friendly as you were.
Othello|CASSIO|Bounteous madam,
Othello|CASSIO|Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
Othello|CASSIO|He's never any thing but your true servant.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I know't, I thank you. You do love my lord:
Othello|DESDEMONA|You have known him long, and be you well assured
Othello|DESDEMONA|He shall in strangeness stand no further off
Othello|DESDEMONA|Than in a polite distance.
Othello|CASSIO|Ay, but, lady,
Othello|CASSIO|That policy may either last so long,
Othello|CASSIO|Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,
Othello|CASSIO|Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
Othello|CASSIO|That, I being absent and my place supplied,
Othello|CASSIO|My general will forget my love and service.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Do not doubt that, before Emilia here
Othello|DESDEMONA|I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,
Othello|DESDEMONA|If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
Othello|DESDEMONA|To the last article: my lord shall never rest,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience,
Othello|DESDEMONA|His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I'll intermingle every thing he does
Othello|DESDEMONA|With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio,
Othello|DESDEMONA|For thy solicitor shall rather die
Othello|DESDEMONA|Than give thy cause away.
Othello|EMILIA|Madam, here comes my lord.
Othello|CASSIO|Madam, I'll take my leave.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, stay, and hear me speak.
Othello|CASSIO|Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,
Othello|CASSIO|Unfit for mine own purposes.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Well, do your discretion.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Exit CASSIO
Othello|DESDEMONA|Enter OTHELLO and IAGO
Othello|IAGO|Ha! I like not that.
Othello|OTHELLO|What dost thou say?
Othello|IAGO|Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.
Othello|OTHELLO|Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
Othello|IAGO|Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,
Othello|IAGO|That he would steal away so guilty-like,
Othello|IAGO|Seeing you coming.
Othello|OTHELLO|I do believe 'twas he.
Othello|DESDEMONA|How now, my lord!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I have been talking with a suitor here,
Othello|DESDEMONA|A man that languishes in your displeasure.
Othello|OTHELLO|Who is't you mean?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,
Othello|DESDEMONA|If I have any grace or power to move you,
Othello|DESDEMONA|His present reconciliation take,
Othello|DESDEMONA|For if he be not one that truly loves you,
Othello|DESDEMONA|That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I have no judgment in an honest face:
Othello|DESDEMONA|I prithee, call him back.
Othello|OTHELLO|Went he hence now?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Ay, sooth, so humbled
Othello|DESDEMONA|That he hath left part of his grief with me,
Othello|DESDEMONA|To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.
Othello|OTHELLO|Not now, sweet Desdemona, some other time.
Othello|DESDEMONA|But shall't be shortly?
Othello|OTHELLO|The sooner, sweet, for you.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Shall't be to-night at supper?
Othello|OTHELLO|No, not to-night.
Othello|DESDEMONA|To-morrow dinner, then?
Othello|OTHELLO|I shall not dine at home,
Othello|OTHELLO|I meet the captains at the citadel.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, then, to-morrow night, or Tuesday morn,
Othello|DESDEMONA|On Tuesday noon, or night, on Wednesday morn:
Othello|DESDEMONA|I prithee, name the time, but let it not
Othello|DESDEMONA|Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And yet his trespass, in our common reason--
Othello|DESDEMONA|Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
Othello|DESDEMONA|Out of their best--is not almost a fault
Othello|DESDEMONA|To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
Othello|DESDEMONA|What you would ask me, that I should deny,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,
Othello|DESDEMONA|That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,
Othello|DESDEMONA|When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Hath ta'en your part, to have so much to do
Othello|DESDEMONA|To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--
Othello|OTHELLO|Prithee, no more: let him come when he will,
Othello|OTHELLO|I will deny thee nothing.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, this is not a boon,
Othello|DESDEMONA|'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
Othello|DESDEMONA|To your own person: nay, when I have a suit
Othello|DESDEMONA|Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
Othello|DESDEMONA|It shall be full of poise and difficult weight
Othello|DESDEMONA|And fearful to be granted.
Othello|OTHELLO|I will deny thee nothing:
Othello|OTHELLO|Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
Othello|OTHELLO|To leave me but a little to myself.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Whate'er you be, I am obedient.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA
Othello|OTHELLO|Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
Othello|OTHELLO|But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Othello|OTHELLO|Chaos is come again.
Othello|IAGO|My noble lord--
Othello|OTHELLO|What dost thou say, Iago?
Othello|IAGO|Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,
Othello|IAGO|Know of your love?
Othello|OTHELLO|He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?
Othello|IAGO|But for a satisfaction of my thought,
Othello|IAGO|No further harm.
Othello|OTHELLO|Why of thy thought, Iago?
Othello|IAGO|I did not think he had been acquainted with her.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, yes, and went between us very oft.
Othello|IAGO|Indeed!
Othello|OTHELLO|Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?
Othello|OTHELLO|Is he not honest?
Othello|IAGO|Honest, my lord!
Othello|OTHELLO|Honest! ay, honest.
Othello|IAGO|My lord, for aught I know.
Othello|OTHELLO|What dost thou think?
Othello|IAGO|Think, my lord!
Othello|OTHELLO|Think, my lord!
Othello|OTHELLO|By heaven, he echoes me,
Othello|OTHELLO|As if there were some monster in his thought
Othello|OTHELLO|Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:
Othello|OTHELLO|I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,
Othello|OTHELLO|When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?
Othello|OTHELLO|And when I told thee he was of my counsel
Othello|OTHELLO|In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'
Othello|OTHELLO|And didst contract and purse thy brow together,
Othello|OTHELLO|As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
Othello|OTHELLO|Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,
Othello|OTHELLO|Show me thy thought.
Othello|IAGO|My lord, you know I love you.
Othello|OTHELLO|I think thou dost,
Othello|OTHELLO|And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,
Othello|OTHELLO|And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,
Othello|OTHELLO|Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:
Othello|OTHELLO|For such things in a false disloyal knave
Othello|OTHELLO|Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just
Othello|OTHELLO|They are close delations, working from the heart
Othello|OTHELLO|That passion cannot rule.
Othello|IAGO|For Michael Cassio,
Othello|IAGO|I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.
Othello|OTHELLO|I think so too.
Othello|IAGO|Men should be what they seem,
Othello|IAGO|Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
Othello|OTHELLO|Certain, men should be what they seem.
Othello|IAGO|Why, then, I think Cassio's an honest man.
Othello|OTHELLO|Nay, yet there's more in this:
Othello|OTHELLO|I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,
Othello|OTHELLO|As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
Othello|OTHELLO|The worst of words.
Othello|IAGO|Good my lord, pardon me:
Othello|IAGO|Though I am bound to every act of duty,
Othello|IAGO|I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
Othello|IAGO|Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false,
Othello|IAGO|As where's that palace whereinto foul things
Othello|IAGO|Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,
Othello|IAGO|But some uncleanly apprehensions
Othello|IAGO|Keep leets and law-days and in session sit
Othello|IAGO|With meditations lawful?
Othello|OTHELLO|Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
Othello|OTHELLO|If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear
Othello|OTHELLO|A stranger to thy thoughts.
Othello|IAGO|I do beseech you--
Othello|IAGO|Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,
Othello|IAGO|As, I confess, it is my nature's plague
Othello|IAGO|To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Othello|IAGO|Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,
Othello|IAGO|From one that so imperfectly conceits,
Othello|IAGO|Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
Othello|IAGO|Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
Othello|IAGO|It were not for your quiet nor your good,
Othello|IAGO|Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,
Othello|IAGO|To let you know my thoughts.
Othello|OTHELLO|What dost thou mean?
Othello|IAGO|Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Othello|IAGO|Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Othello|IAGO|Who steals my purse steals trash, 'tis something, nothing,
Othello|IAGO|'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
Othello|IAGO|But he that filches from me my good name
Othello|IAGO|Robs me of that which not enriches him
Othello|IAGO|And makes me poor indeed.
Othello|OTHELLO|By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.
Othello|IAGO|You cannot, if my heart were in your hand,
Othello|IAGO|Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.
Othello|OTHELLO|Ha!
Othello|IAGO|O, beware, my lord, of jealousy,
Othello|IAGO|It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
Othello|IAGO|The meat it feeds on, that cuckold lives in bliss
Othello|IAGO|Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger,
Othello|IAGO|But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Othello|IAGO|Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
Othello|OTHELLO|O misery!
Othello|IAGO|Poor and content is rich and rich enough,
Othello|IAGO|But riches fineless is as poor as winter
Othello|IAGO|To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Othello|IAGO|Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
Othello|IAGO|From jealousy!
Othello|OTHELLO|Why, why is this?
Othello|OTHELLO|Think'st thou I'ld make a lie of jealousy,
Othello|OTHELLO|To follow still the changes of the moon
Othello|OTHELLO|With fresh suspicions? No, to be once in doubt
Othello|OTHELLO|Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,
Othello|OTHELLO|When I shall turn the business of my soul
Othello|OTHELLO|To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,
Othello|OTHELLO|Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous
Othello|OTHELLO|To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Othello|OTHELLO|Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well,
Othello|OTHELLO|Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:
Othello|OTHELLO|Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
Othello|OTHELLO|The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt,
Othello|OTHELLO|For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago,
Othello|OTHELLO|I'll see before I doubt, when I doubt, prove,
Othello|OTHELLO|And on the proof, there is no more but this,--
Othello|OTHELLO|Away at once with love or jealousy!
Othello|IAGO|I am glad of it, for now I shall have reason
Othello|IAGO|To show the love and duty that I bear you
Othello|IAGO|With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,
Othello|IAGO|Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
Othello|IAGO|Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio,
Othello|IAGO|Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:
Othello|IAGO|I would not have your free and noble nature,
Othello|IAGO|Out of self-bounty, be abused, look to't:
Othello|IAGO|I know our country disposition well,
Othello|IAGO|In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
Othello|IAGO|They dare not show their husbands, their best conscience
Othello|IAGO|Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.
Othello|OTHELLO|Dost thou say so?
Othello|IAGO|She did deceive her father, marrying you,
Othello|IAGO|And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,
Othello|IAGO|She loved them most.
Othello|OTHELLO|And so she did.
Othello|IAGO|Why, go to then,
Othello|IAGO|She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,
Othello|IAGO|To seal her father's eyes up close as oak-
Othello|IAGO|He thought 'twas witchcraft--but I am much to blame,
Othello|IAGO|I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
Othello|IAGO|For too much loving you.
Othello|OTHELLO|I am bound to thee for ever.
Othello|IAGO|I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.
Othello|OTHELLO|Not a jot, not a jot.
Othello|IAGO|I' faith, I fear it has.
Othello|IAGO|I hope you will consider what is spoke
Othello|IAGO|Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved:
Othello|IAGO|I am to pray you not to strain my speech
Othello|IAGO|To grosser issues nor to larger reach
Othello|IAGO|Than to suspicion.
Othello|OTHELLO|I will not.
Othello|IAGO|Should you do so, my lord,
Othello|IAGO|My speech should fall into such vile success
Othello|IAGO|As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend--
Othello|IAGO|My lord, I see you're moved.
Othello|OTHELLO|No, not much moved:
Othello|OTHELLO|I do not think but Desdemona's honest.
Othello|IAGO|Long live she so! and long live you to think so!
Othello|OTHELLO|And yet, how nature erring from itself,--
Othello|IAGO|Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--
Othello|IAGO|Not to affect many proposed matches
Othello|IAGO|Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,
Othello|IAGO|Whereto we see in all things nature tends--
Othello|IAGO|Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,
Othello|IAGO|Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.
Othello|IAGO|But pardon me, I do not in position
Othello|IAGO|Distinctly speak of her, though I may fear
Othello|IAGO|Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,
Othello|IAGO|May fall to match you with her country forms
Othello|IAGO|And happily repent.
Othello|OTHELLO|Farewell, farewell:
Othello|OTHELLO|If more thou dost perceive, let me know more,
Othello|OTHELLO|Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:
Othello|IAGO|[Going]  My lord, I take my leave.
Othello|OTHELLO|Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless
Othello|OTHELLO|Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.
Othello|IAGO|[Returning]  My lord, I would I might entreat
Othello|IAGO|your honour
Othello|IAGO|To scan this thing no further, leave it to time:
Othello|IAGO|Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,
Othello|IAGO|For sure, he fills it up with great ability,
Othello|IAGO|Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,
Othello|IAGO|You shall by that perceive him and his means:
Othello|IAGO|Note, if your lady strain his entertainment
Othello|IAGO|With any strong or vehement importunity,
Othello|IAGO|Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,
Othello|IAGO|Let me be thought too busy in my fears--
Othello|IAGO|As worthy cause I have to fear I am--
Othello|IAGO|And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.
Othello|OTHELLO|Fear not my government.
Othello|IAGO|I once more take my leave.
Othello|IAGO|Exit
Othello|OTHELLO|This fellow's of exceeding honesty,
Othello|OTHELLO|And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,
Othello|OTHELLO|Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,
Othello|OTHELLO|Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,
Othello|OTHELLO|I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
Othello|OTHELLO|To pray at fortune. Haply, for I am black
Othello|OTHELLO|And have not those soft parts of conversation
Othello|OTHELLO|That chamberers have, or for I am declined
Othello|OTHELLO|Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--
Othello|OTHELLO|She's gone. I am abused, and my relief
Othello|OTHELLO|Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
Othello|OTHELLO|That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
Othello|OTHELLO|And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
Othello|OTHELLO|And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
Othello|OTHELLO|Than keep a corner in the thing I love
Othello|OTHELLO|For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones,
Othello|OTHELLO|Prerogatived are they less than the base,
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:
Othello|OTHELLO|Even then this forked plague is fated to us
Othello|OTHELLO|When we do quicken. Desdemona comes:
Othello|OTHELLO|Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA
Othello|OTHELLO|If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!
Othello|OTHELLO|I'll not believe't.
Othello|DESDEMONA|How now, my dear Othello!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Your dinner, and the generous islanders
Othello|DESDEMONA|By you invited, do attend your presence.
Othello|OTHELLO|I am to blame.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why do you speak so faintly?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Are you not well?
Othello|OTHELLO|I have a pain upon my forehead here.
Othello|DESDEMONA|'Faith, that's with watching, 'twill away again:
Othello|DESDEMONA|Let me but bind it hard, within this hour
Othello|DESDEMONA|It will be well.
Othello|OTHELLO|Your napkin is too little:
Othello|OTHELLO|He puts the handkerchief from him, and it drops
Othello|OTHELLO|Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I am very sorry that you are not well.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA
Othello|EMILIA|I am glad I have found this napkin:
Othello|EMILIA|This was her first remembrance from the Moor:
Othello|EMILIA|My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Othello|EMILIA|Woo'd me to steal it, but she so loves the token,
Othello|EMILIA|For he conjured her she should ever keep it,
Othello|EMILIA|That she reserves it evermore about her
Othello|EMILIA|To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
Othello|EMILIA|And give't Iago: what he will do with it
Othello|EMILIA|Heaven knows, not I,
Othello|EMILIA|I nothing but to please his fantasy.
Othello|EMILIA|Re-enter Iago
Othello|IAGO|How now! what do you here alone?
Othello|EMILIA|Do not you chide, I have a thing for you.
Othello|IAGO|A thing for me? it is a common thing--
Othello|EMILIA|Ha!
Othello|IAGO|To have a foolish wife.
Othello|EMILIA|O, is that all? What will you give me now
Othello|EMILIA|For the same handkerchief?
Othello|IAGO|What handkerchief?
Othello|EMILIA|What handkerchief?
Othello|EMILIA|Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona,
Othello|EMILIA|That which so often you did bid me steal.
Othello|IAGO|Hast stol'n it from her?
Othello|EMILIA|No, 'faith, she let it drop by negligence.
Othello|EMILIA|And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.
Othello|EMILIA|Look, here it is.
Othello|IAGO|A good wench, give it me.
Othello|EMILIA|What will you do with 't, that you have been
Othello|EMILIA|so earnest
Othello|EMILIA|To have me filch it?
Othello|IAGO|[Snatching it]  Why, what's that to you?
Othello|EMILIA|If it be not for some purpose of import,
Othello|EMILIA|Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad
Othello|EMILIA|When she shall lack it.
Othello|IAGO|Be not acknown on 't, I have use for it.
Othello|IAGO|Go, leave me.
Othello|IAGO|Exit EMILIA
Othello|IAGO|I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,
Othello|IAGO|And let him find it. Trifles light as air
Othello|IAGO|Are to the jealous confirmations strong
Othello|IAGO|As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.
Othello|IAGO|The Moor already changes with my poison:
Othello|IAGO|Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
Othello|IAGO|Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
Othello|IAGO|But with a little act upon the blood.
Othello|IAGO|Burn like the mines of Sulphur. I did say so:
Othello|IAGO|Look, where he comes!
Othello|IAGO|Re-enter OTHELLO
Othello|IAGO|Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Othello|IAGO|Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Othello|IAGO|Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Othello|IAGO|Which thou owedst yesterday.
Othello|OTHELLO|Ha! ha! false to me?
Othello|IAGO|Why, how now, general! no more of that.
Othello|OTHELLO|Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:
Othello|OTHELLO|I swear 'tis better to be much abused
Othello|OTHELLO|Than but to know't a little.
Othello|IAGO|How now, my lord!
Othello|OTHELLO|What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?
Othello|OTHELLO|I saw't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:
Othello|OTHELLO|I slept the next night well, was free and merry,
Othello|OTHELLO|I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:
Othello|OTHELLO|He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Othello|OTHELLO|Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Othello|IAGO|I am sorry to hear this.
Othello|OTHELLO|I had been happy, if the general camp,
Othello|OTHELLO|Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,
Othello|OTHELLO|So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever
Othello|OTHELLO|Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Othello|OTHELLO|Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
Othello|OTHELLO|That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Othello|OTHELLO|Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
Othello|OTHELLO|The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
Othello|OTHELLO|The royal banner, and all quality,
Othello|OTHELLO|Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
Othello|OTHELLO|And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
Othello|OTHELLO|The immortal Jove's dead clamours counterfeit,
Othello|OTHELLO|Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!
Othello|IAGO|Is't possible, my lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
Othello|OTHELLO|Be sure of it, give me the ocular proof:
Othello|OTHELLO|Or by the worth of man's eternal soul,
Othello|OTHELLO|Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Othello|OTHELLO|Than answer my waked wrath!
Othello|IAGO|Is't come to this?
Othello|OTHELLO|Make me to see't, or, at the least, so prove it,
Othello|OTHELLO|That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
Othello|OTHELLO|To hang a doubt on, or woe upon thy life!
Othello|IAGO|My noble lord,--
Othello|OTHELLO|If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Othello|OTHELLO|Never pray more, abandon all remorse,
Othello|OTHELLO|On horror's head horrors accumulate,
Othello|OTHELLO|Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed,
Othello|OTHELLO|For nothing canst thou to damnation add
Othello|OTHELLO|Greater than that.
Othello|IAGO|O grace! O heaven forgive me!
Othello|IAGO|Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?
Othello|IAGO|God be wi' you, take mine office. O wretched fool.
Othello|IAGO|That livest to make thine honesty a vice!
Othello|IAGO|O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
Othello|IAGO|To be direct and honest is not safe.
Othello|IAGO|I thank you for this profit, and from hence
Othello|IAGO|I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.
Othello|OTHELLO|Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.
Othello|IAGO|I should be wise, for honesty's a fool
Othello|IAGO|And loses that it works for.
Othello|OTHELLO|By the world,
Othello|OTHELLO|I think my wife be honest and think she is not,
Othello|OTHELLO|I think that thou art just and think thou art not.
Othello|OTHELLO|I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh
Othello|OTHELLO|As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black
Othello|OTHELLO|As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,
Othello|OTHELLO|Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
Othello|OTHELLO|I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!
Othello|IAGO|I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:
Othello|IAGO|I do repent me that I put it to you.
Othello|IAGO|You would be satisfied?
Othello|OTHELLO|Would! nay, I will.
Othello|IAGO|And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?
Othello|IAGO|Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on--
Othello|IAGO|Behold her topp'd?
Othello|OTHELLO|Death and damnation! O!
Othello|IAGO|It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
Othello|IAGO|To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,
Othello|IAGO|If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
Othello|IAGO|More than their own! What then? how then?
Othello|IAGO|What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?
Othello|IAGO|It is impossible you should see this,
Othello|IAGO|Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
Othello|IAGO|As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
Othello|IAGO|As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,
Othello|IAGO|If imputation and strong circumstances,
Othello|IAGO|Which lead directly to the door of truth,
Othello|IAGO|Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.
Othello|OTHELLO|Give me a living reason she's disloyal.
Othello|IAGO|I do not like the office:
Othello|IAGO|But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,
Othello|IAGO|Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,
Othello|IAGO|I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately,
Othello|IAGO|And, being troubled with a raging tooth,
Othello|IAGO|I could not sleep.
Othello|IAGO|There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
Othello|IAGO|That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:
Othello|IAGO|One of this kind is Cassio:
Othello|IAGO|In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,
Othello|IAGO|Let us be wary, let us hide our loves,'
Othello|IAGO|And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,
Othello|IAGO|Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,
Othello|IAGO|As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots
Othello|IAGO|That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg
Othello|IAGO|Over my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd, and then
Othello|IAGO|Cried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'
Othello|OTHELLO|O monstrous! monstrous!
Othello|IAGO|Nay, this was but his dream.
Othello|OTHELLO|But this denoted a foregone conclusion:
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.
Othello|IAGO|And this may help to thicken other proofs
Othello|IAGO|That do demonstrate thinly.
Othello|OTHELLO|I'll tear her all to pieces.
Othello|IAGO|Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done,
Othello|IAGO|She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
Othello|IAGO|Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
Othello|IAGO|Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?
Othello|OTHELLO|I gave her such a one, 'twas my first gift.
Othello|IAGO|I know not that, but such a handkerchief--
Othello|IAGO|I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day
Othello|IAGO|See Cassio wipe his beard with.
Othello|OTHELLO|If it be that--
Othello|IAGO|If it be that, or any that was hers,
Othello|IAGO|It speaks against her with the other proofs.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!
Othello|OTHELLO|One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.
Othello|OTHELLO|Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago,
Othello|OTHELLO|All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis gone.
Othello|OTHELLO|Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
Othello|OTHELLO|Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
Othello|OTHELLO|To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
Othello|OTHELLO|For 'tis of aspics' tongues!
Othello|IAGO|Yet be content.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, blood, blood, blood!
Othello|IAGO|Patience, I say, your mind perhaps may change.
Othello|OTHELLO|Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic sea,
Othello|OTHELLO|Whose icy current and compulsive course
Othello|OTHELLO|Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
Othello|OTHELLO|To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
Othello|OTHELLO|Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
Othello|OTHELLO|Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Othello|OTHELLO|Till that a capable and wide revenge
Othello|OTHELLO|Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,
Othello|OTHELLO|Kneels
Othello|OTHELLO|In the due reverence of a sacred vow
Othello|OTHELLO|I here engage my words.
Othello|IAGO|Do not rise yet.
Othello|IAGO|Kneels
Othello|IAGO|Witness, you ever-burning lights above,
Othello|IAGO|You elements that clip us round about,
Othello|IAGO|Witness that here Iago doth give up
Othello|IAGO|The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
Othello|IAGO|To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,
Othello|IAGO|And to obey shall be in me remorse,
Othello|IAGO|What bloody business ever.
Othello|IAGO|They rise
Othello|OTHELLO|I greet thy love,
Othello|OTHELLO|Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
Othello|OTHELLO|And will upon the instant put thee to't:
Othello|OTHELLO|Within these three days let me hear thee say
Othello|OTHELLO|That Cassio's not alive.
Othello|IAGO|My friend is dead, 'tis done at your request:
Othello|IAGO|But let her live.
Othello|OTHELLO|Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!
Othello|OTHELLO|Come, go with me apart, I will withdraw,
Othello|OTHELLO|To furnish me with some swift means of death
Othello|OTHELLO|For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.
Othello|IAGO|I am your own for ever.
Othello|IAGO|Exeunt
Othello|IAGO|SCENE IV. Before the castle.
Othello|IAGO|Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown
Othello|DESDEMONA|Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?
Othello|Clown|I dare not say he lies any where.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, man?
Othello|Clown|He's a soldier, and for one to say a soldier lies,
Othello|Clown|is stabbing.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Go to: where lodges he?
Othello|Clown|To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where I lie.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Can any thing be made of this?
Othello|Clown|I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a
Othello|Clown|lodging and say he lies here or he lies there, were
Othello|Clown|to lie in mine own throat.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Can you inquire him out, and be edified by report?
Othello|Clown|I will catechise the world for him, that is, make
Othello|Clown|questions, and by them answer.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him I have
Othello|DESDEMONA|moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well.
Othello|Clown|To do this is within the compass of man's wit: and
Othello|Clown|therefore I will attempt the doing it.
Othello|Clown|Exit
Othello|DESDEMONA|Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?
Othello|EMILIA|I know not, madam.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse
Othello|DESDEMONA|Full of crusadoes: and, but my noble Moor
Othello|DESDEMONA|Is true of mind and made of no such baseness
Othello|DESDEMONA|As jealous creatures are, it were enough
Othello|DESDEMONA|To put him to ill thinking.
Othello|EMILIA|Is he not jealous?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Who, he? I think the sun where he was born
Othello|DESDEMONA|Drew all such humours from him.
Othello|EMILIA|Look, where he comes.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I will not leave him now till Cassio
Othello|DESDEMONA|Be call'd to him.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Enter OTHELLO
Othello|DESDEMONA|How is't with you, my lord
Othello|OTHELLO|Well, my good lady.
Othello|OTHELLO|Aside
Othello|OTHELLO|O, hardness to dissemble!--
Othello|OTHELLO|How do you, Desdemona?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Well, my good lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|Give me your hand: this hand is moist, my lady.
Othello|DESDEMONA|It yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow.
Othello|OTHELLO|This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart:
Othello|OTHELLO|Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires
Othello|OTHELLO|A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,
Othello|OTHELLO|Much castigation, exercise devout,
Othello|OTHELLO|For here's a young and sweating devil here,
Othello|OTHELLO|That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,
Othello|OTHELLO|A frank one.
Othello|DESDEMONA|You may, indeed, say so,
Othello|DESDEMONA|For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.
Othello|OTHELLO|A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands,
Othello|OTHELLO|But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.
Othello|OTHELLO|What promise, chuck?
Othello|DESDEMONA|I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.
Othello|OTHELLO|I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me,
Othello|OTHELLO|Lend me thy handkerchief.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Here, my lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|That which I gave you.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I have it not about me.
Othello|OTHELLO|Not?
Othello|DESDEMONA|No, indeed, my lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|That is a fault.
Othello|OTHELLO|That handkerchief
Othello|OTHELLO|Did an Egyptian to my mother give,
Othello|OTHELLO|She was a charmer, and could almost read
Othello|OTHELLO|The thoughts of people: she told her, while
Othello|OTHELLO|she kept it,
Othello|OTHELLO|'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father
Othello|OTHELLO|Entirely to her love, but if she lost it
Othello|OTHELLO|Or made gift of it, my father's eye
Othello|OTHELLO|Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt
Othello|OTHELLO|After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me,
Othello|OTHELLO|And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,
Othello|OTHELLO|To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't,
Othello|OTHELLO|Make it a darling like your precious eye,
Othello|OTHELLO|To lose't or give't away were such perdition
Othello|OTHELLO|As nothing else could match.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Is't possible?
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it:
Othello|OTHELLO|A sibyl, that had number'd in the world
Othello|OTHELLO|The sun to course two hundred compasses,
Othello|OTHELLO|In her prophetic fury sew'd the work,
Othello|OTHELLO|The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk,
Othello|OTHELLO|And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful
Othello|OTHELLO|Conserved of maidens' hearts.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Indeed! is't true?
Othello|OTHELLO|Most veritable, therefore look to't well.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Then would to God that I had never seen't!
Othello|OTHELLO|Ha! wherefore?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why do you speak so startingly and rash?
Othello|OTHELLO|Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out
Othello|OTHELLO|o' the way?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Heaven bless us!
Othello|OTHELLO|Say you?
Othello|DESDEMONA|It is not lost, but what an if it were?
Othello|OTHELLO|How!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I say, it is not lost.
Othello|OTHELLO|Fetch't, let me see't.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.
Othello|DESDEMONA|This is a trick to put me from my suit:
Othello|DESDEMONA|Pray you, let Cassio be received again.
Othello|OTHELLO|Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Come, come,
Othello|DESDEMONA|You'll never meet a more sufficient man.
Othello|OTHELLO|The handkerchief!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I pray, talk me of Cassio.
Othello|OTHELLO|The handkerchief!
Othello|DESDEMONA|A man that all his time
Othello|DESDEMONA|Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Shared dangers with you,--
Othello|OTHELLO|The handkerchief!
Othello|DESDEMONA|In sooth, you are to blame.
Othello|OTHELLO|Away!
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit
Othello|EMILIA|Is not this man jealous?
Othello|DESDEMONA|I ne'er saw this before.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief:
Othello|DESDEMONA|I am most unhappy in the loss of it.
Othello|EMILIA|'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
Othello|EMILIA|They are all but stomachs, and we all but food,
Othello|EMILIA|To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
Othello|EMILIA|They belch us. Look you, Cassio and my husband!
Othello|EMILIA|Enter CASSIO and IAGO
Othello|IAGO|There is no other way, 'tis she must do't:
Othello|IAGO|And, lo, the happiness! go, and importune her.
Othello|DESDEMONA|How now, good Cassio! what's the news with you?
Othello|CASSIO|Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you
Othello|CASSIO|That by your virtuous means I may again
Othello|CASSIO|Exist, and be a member of his love
Othello|CASSIO|Whom I with all the office of my heart
Othello|CASSIO|Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd.
Othello|CASSIO|If my offence be of such mortal kind
Othello|CASSIO|That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,
Othello|CASSIO|Nor purposed merit in futurity,
Othello|CASSIO|Can ransom me into his love again,
Othello|CASSIO|But to know so must be my benefit,
Othello|CASSIO|So shall I clothe me in a forced content,
Othello|CASSIO|And shut myself up in some other course,
Othello|CASSIO|To fortune's alms.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!
Othello|DESDEMONA|My advocation is not now in tune,
Othello|DESDEMONA|My lord is not my lord, nor should I know him,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Were he in favour as in humour alter'd.
Othello|DESDEMONA|So help me every spirit sanctified,
Othello|DESDEMONA|As I have spoken for you all my best
Othello|DESDEMONA|And stood within the blank of his displeasure
Othello|DESDEMONA|For my free speech! you must awhile be patient:
Othello|DESDEMONA|What I can do I will, and more I will
Othello|DESDEMONA|Than for myself I dare: let that suffice you.
Othello|IAGO|Is my lord angry?
Othello|EMILIA|He went hence but now,
Othello|EMILIA|And certainly in strange unquietness.
Othello|IAGO|Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon,
Othello|IAGO|When it hath blown his ranks into the air,
Othello|IAGO|And, like the devil, from his very arm
Othello|IAGO|Puff'd his own brother:--and can he be angry?
Othello|IAGO|Something of moment then: I will go meet him:
Othello|IAGO|There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I prithee, do so.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Exit IAGO
Othello|DESDEMONA|Something, sure, of state,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practise
Othello|DESDEMONA|Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Hath puddled his clear spirit: and in such cases
Othello|DESDEMONA|Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so,
Othello|DESDEMONA|For let our finger ache, and it indues
Othello|DESDEMONA|Our other healthful members even to that sense
Othello|DESDEMONA|Of pain: nay, we must think men are not gods,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Nor of them look for such observances
Othello|DESDEMONA|As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Arraigning his unkindness with my soul,
Othello|DESDEMONA|But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And he's indicted falsely.
Othello|EMILIA|Pray heaven it be state-matters, as you think,
Othello|EMILIA|And no conception nor no jealous toy
Othello|EMILIA|Concerning you.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas the day! I never gave him cause.
Othello|EMILIA|But jealous souls will not be answer'd so,
Othello|EMILIA|They are not ever jealous for the cause,
Othello|EMILIA|But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster
Othello|EMILIA|Begot upon itself, born on itself.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!
Othello|EMILIA|Lady, amen.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I will go seek him. Cassio, walk hereabout:
Othello|DESDEMONA|If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit
Othello|DESDEMONA|And seek to effect it to my uttermost.
Othello|CASSIO|I humbly thank your ladyship.
Othello|CASSIO|Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA
Othello|CASSIO|Enter BIANCA
Othello|BIANCA|Save you, friend Cassio!
Othello|CASSIO|What make you from home?
Othello|CASSIO|How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?
Othello|CASSIO|I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.
Othello|BIANCA|And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.
Othello|BIANCA|What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?
Othello|BIANCA|Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,
Othello|BIANCA|More tedious than the dial eight score times?
Othello|BIANCA|O weary reckoning!
Othello|CASSIO|Pardon me, Bianca:
Othello|CASSIO|I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd:
Othello|CASSIO|But I shall, in a more continuate time,
Othello|CASSIO|Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,
Othello|CASSIO|Giving her DESDEMONA's handkerchief
Othello|CASSIO|Take me this work out.
Othello|BIANCA|O Cassio, whence came this?
Othello|BIANCA|This is some token from a newer friend:
Othello|BIANCA|To the felt absence now I feel a cause:
Othello|BIANCA|Is't come to this? Well, well.
Othello|CASSIO|Go to, woman!
Othello|CASSIO|Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,
Othello|CASSIO|From whence you have them. You are jealous now
Othello|CASSIO|That this is from some mistress, some remembrance:
Othello|CASSIO|No, in good troth, Bianca.
Othello|BIANCA|Why, whose is it?
Othello|CASSIO|I know not, sweet: I found it in my chamber.
Othello|CASSIO|I like the work well: ere it be demanded--
Othello|CASSIO|As like enough it will--I'ld have it copied:
Othello|CASSIO|Take it, and do't, and leave me for this time.
Othello|BIANCA|Leave you! wherefore?
Othello|CASSIO|I do attend here on the general,
Othello|CASSIO|And think it no addition, nor my wish,
Othello|CASSIO|To have him see me woman'd.
Othello|BIANCA|Why, I pray you?
Othello|CASSIO|Not that I love you not.
Othello|BIANCA|But that you do not love me.
Othello|BIANCA|I pray you, bring me on the way a little,
Othello|BIANCA|And say if I shall see you soon at night.
Othello|CASSIO|'Tis but a little way that I can bring you,
Othello|CASSIO|For I attend here: but I'll see you soon.
Othello|BIANCA|'Tis very good, I must be circumstanced.
Othello|BIANCA|Exeunt
Othello|BIANCA|ACT IV
Othello|BIANCA|SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the castle.
Othello|BIANCA|Enter OTHELLO and IAGO
Othello|IAGO|Will you think so?
Othello|OTHELLO|Think so, Iago!
Othello|IAGO|What,
Othello|IAGO|To kiss in private?
Othello|OTHELLO|An unauthorized kiss.
Othello|IAGO|Or to be naked with her friend in bed
Othello|IAGO|An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
Othello|OTHELLO|Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!
Othello|OTHELLO|It is hypocrisy against the devil:
Othello|OTHELLO|They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,
Othello|OTHELLO|The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.
Othello|IAGO|So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:
Othello|IAGO|But if I give my wife a handkerchief,--
Othello|OTHELLO|What then?
Othello|IAGO|Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord, and, being hers,
Othello|IAGO|She may, I think, bestow't on any man.
Othello|OTHELLO|She is protectress of her honour too:
Othello|OTHELLO|May she give that?
Othello|IAGO|Her honour is an essence that's not seen,
Othello|IAGO|They have it very oft that have it not:
Othello|IAGO|But, for the handkerchief,--
Othello|OTHELLO|By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.
Othello|OTHELLO|Thou said'st, it comes o'er my memory,
Othello|OTHELLO|As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
Othello|OTHELLO|Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.
Othello|IAGO|Ay, what of that?
Othello|OTHELLO|That's not so good now.
Othello|IAGO|What,
Othello|IAGO|If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?
Othello|IAGO|Or heard him say,--as knaves be such abroad,
Othello|IAGO|Who having, by their own importunate suit,
Othello|IAGO|Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
Othello|IAGO|Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose
Othello|IAGO|But they must blab--
Othello|OTHELLO|Hath he said any thing?
Othello|IAGO|He hath, my lord, but be you well assured,
Othello|IAGO|No more than he'll unswear.
Othello|OTHELLO|What hath he said?
Othello|IAGO|'Faith, that he did--I know not what he did.
Othello|OTHELLO|What? what?
Othello|IAGO|Lie--
Othello|OTHELLO|With her?
Othello|IAGO|With her, on her, what you will.
Othello|OTHELLO|Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when
Othello|OTHELLO|they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome.
Othello|OTHELLO|--Handkerchief--confessions--handkerchief!--To
Othello|OTHELLO|confess, and be hanged for his labour,--first, to be
Othello|OTHELLO|hanged, and then to confess.--I tremble at it.
Othello|OTHELLO|Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing
Othello|OTHELLO|passion without some instruction. It is not words
Othello|OTHELLO|that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips.
Othello|OTHELLO|--Is't possible?--Confess--handkerchief!--O devil!--
Othello|OTHELLO|Falls in a trance
Othello|IAGO|Work on,
Othello|IAGO|My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
Othello|IAGO|And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
Othello|IAGO|All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!
Othello|IAGO|My lord, I say! Othello!
Othello|IAGO|Enter CASSIO
Othello|IAGO|How now, Cassio!
Othello|CASSIO|What's the matter?
Othello|IAGO|My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:
Othello|IAGO|This is his second fit, he had one yesterday.
Othello|CASSIO|Rub him about the temples.
Othello|IAGO|No, forbear,
Othello|IAGO|The lethargy must have his quiet course:
Othello|IAGO|If not, he foams at mouth and by and by
Othello|IAGO|Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:
Othello|IAGO|Do you withdraw yourself a little while,
Othello|IAGO|He will recover straight: when he is gone,
Othello|IAGO|I would on great occasion speak with you.
Othello|IAGO|Exit CASSIO
Othello|IAGO|How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?
Othello|OTHELLO|Dost thou mock me?
Othello|IAGO|I mock you! no, by heaven.
Othello|IAGO|Would you would bear your fortune like a man!
Othello|OTHELLO|A horned man's a monster and a beast.
Othello|IAGO|There's many a beast then in a populous city,
Othello|IAGO|And many a civil monster.
Othello|OTHELLO|Did he confess it?
Othello|IAGO|Good sir, be a man,
Othello|IAGO|Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked
Othello|IAGO|May draw with you: there's millions now alive
Othello|IAGO|That nightly lie in those unproper beds
Othello|IAGO|Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.
Othello|IAGO|O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,
Othello|IAGO|To lip a wanton in a secure couch,
Othello|IAGO|And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know,
Othello|IAGO|And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, thou art wise, 'tis certain.
Othello|IAGO|Stand you awhile apart,
Othello|IAGO|Confine yourself but in a patient list.
Othello|IAGO|Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--
Othello|IAGO|A passion most unsuiting such a man--
Othello|IAGO|Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
Othello|IAGO|And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,
Othello|IAGO|Bade him anon return and here speak with me,
Othello|IAGO|The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,
Othello|IAGO|And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,
Othello|IAGO|That dwell in every region of his face,
Othello|IAGO|For I will make him tell the tale anew,
Othello|IAGO|Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
Othello|IAGO|He hath, and is again to cope your wife:
Othello|IAGO|I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience,
Othello|IAGO|Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,
Othello|IAGO|And nothing of a man.
Othello|OTHELLO|Dost thou hear, Iago?
Othello|OTHELLO|I will be found most cunning in my patience,
Othello|OTHELLO|But--dost thou hear?--most bloody.
Othello|IAGO|That's not amiss,
Othello|IAGO|But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?
Othello|IAGO|OTHELLO retires
Othello|IAGO|Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
Othello|IAGO|A housewife that by selling her desires
Othello|IAGO|Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature
Othello|IAGO|That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague
Othello|IAGO|To beguile many and be beguiled by one:
Othello|IAGO|He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
Othello|IAGO|From the excess of laughter. Here he comes:
Othello|IAGO|Re-enter CASSIO
Othello|IAGO|As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad,
Othello|IAGO|And his unbookish jealousy must construe
Othello|IAGO|Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behavior,
Othello|IAGO|Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?
Othello|CASSIO|The worser that you give me the addition
Othello|CASSIO|Whose want even kills me.
Othello|IAGO|Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't.
Othello|IAGO|Speaking lower
Othello|IAGO|Now, if this suit lay in Bianco's power,
Othello|IAGO|How quickly should you speed!
Othello|CASSIO|Alas, poor caitiff!
Othello|OTHELLO|Look, how he laughs already!
Othello|IAGO|I never knew woman love man so.
Othello|CASSIO|Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.
Othello|OTHELLO|Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out.
Othello|IAGO|Do you hear, Cassio?
Othello|OTHELLO|Now he importunes him
Othello|OTHELLO|To tell it o'er: go to, well said, well said.
Othello|IAGO|She gives it out that you shall marry hey:
Othello|IAGO|Do you intend it?
Othello|CASSIO|Ha, ha, ha!
Othello|OTHELLO|Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?
Othello|CASSIO|I marry her! what? a customer! Prithee, bear some
Othello|CASSIO|charity to my wit: do not think it so unwholesome.
Othello|CASSIO|Ha, ha, ha!
Othello|OTHELLO|So, so, so, so: they laugh that win.
Othello|IAGO|'Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.
Othello|CASSIO|Prithee, say true.
Othello|IAGO|I am a very villain else.
Othello|OTHELLO|Have you scored me? Well.
Othello|CASSIO|This is the monkey's own giving out: she is
Othello|CASSIO|persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and
Othello|CASSIO|flattery, not out of my promise.
Othello|OTHELLO|Iago beckons me, now he begins the story.
Othello|CASSIO|She was here even now, she haunts me in every place.
Othello|CASSIO|I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with
Othello|CASSIO|certain Venetians, and thither comes the bauble,
Othello|CASSIO|and, by this hand, she falls me thus about my neck--
Othello|OTHELLO|Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were: his gesture
Othello|OTHELLO|imports it.
Othello|CASSIO|So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me, so hales,
Othello|CASSIO|and pulls me: ha, ha, ha!
Othello|OTHELLO|Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber. O,
Othello|OTHELLO|I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I shall
Othello|OTHELLO|throw it to.
Othello|CASSIO|Well, I must leave her company.
Othello|IAGO|Before me! look, where she comes.
Othello|CASSIO|'Tis such another fitchew! marry a perfumed one.
Othello|CASSIO|Enter BIANCA
Othello|CASSIO|What do you mean by this haunting of me?
Othello|BIANCA|Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you
Othello|BIANCA|mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?
Othello|BIANCA|I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the
Othello|BIANCA|work?--A likely piece of work, that you should find
Othello|BIANCA|it in your chamber, and not know who left it there!
Othello|BIANCA|This is some minx's token, and I must take out the
Othello|BIANCA|work? There, give it your hobby-horse: wheresoever
Othello|BIANCA|you had it, I'll take out no work on't.
Othello|CASSIO|How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now!
Othello|OTHELLO|By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!
Othello|BIANCA|An you'll come to supper to-night, you may, an you
Othello|BIANCA|will not, come when you are next prepared for.
Othello|BIANCA|Exit
Othello|IAGO|After her, after her.
Othello|CASSIO|'Faith, I must, she'll rail in the street else.
Othello|IAGO|Will you sup there?
Othello|CASSIO|'Faith, I intend so.
Othello|IAGO|Well, I may chance to see you, for I would very fain
Othello|IAGO|speak with you.
Othello|CASSIO|Prithee, come, will you?
Othello|IAGO|Go to, say no more.
Othello|IAGO|Exit CASSIO
Othello|OTHELLO|[Advancing]  How shall I murder him, Iago?
Othello|IAGO|Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
Othello|OTHELLO|O Iago!
Othello|IAGO|And did you see the handkerchief?
Othello|OTHELLO|Was that mine?
Othello|IAGO|Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the
Othello|IAGO|foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he
Othello|IAGO|hath given it his whore.
Othello|OTHELLO|I would have him nine years a-killing.
Othello|OTHELLO|A fine woman! a fair woman! a sweet woman!
Othello|IAGO|Nay, you must forget that.
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night,
Othello|OTHELLO|for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned to
Othello|OTHELLO|stone, I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the
Othello|OTHELLO|world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by
Othello|OTHELLO|an emperor's side and command him tasks.
Othello|IAGO|Nay, that's not your way.
Othello|OTHELLO|Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate
Othello|OTHELLO|with her needle: an admirable musician: O! she
Othello|OTHELLO|will sing the savageness out of a bear: of so high
Othello|OTHELLO|and plenteous wit and invention:--
Othello|IAGO|She's the worse for all this.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so
Othello|OTHELLO|gentle a condition!
Othello|IAGO|Ay, too gentle.
Othello|OTHELLO|Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago!
Othello|OTHELLO|O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
Othello|IAGO|If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her
Othello|IAGO|patent to offend, for, if it touch not you, it comes
Othello|IAGO|near nobody.
Othello|OTHELLO|I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!
Othello|IAGO|O, 'tis foul in her.
Othello|OTHELLO|With mine officer!
Othello|IAGO|That's fouler.
Othello|OTHELLO|Get me some poison, Iago, this night: I'll not
Othello|OTHELLO|expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty
Othello|OTHELLO|unprovide my mind again: this night, Iago.
Othello|IAGO|Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even
Othello|IAGO|the bed she hath contaminated.
Othello|OTHELLO|Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.
Othello|IAGO|And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you
Othello|IAGO|shall hear more by midnight.
Othello|OTHELLO|Excellent good.
Othello|OTHELLO|A trumpet within
Othello|OTHELLO|What trumpet is that same?
Othello|IAGO|Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico
Othello|IAGO|Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him.
Othello|IAGO|Enter LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants
Othello|LODOVICO|Save you, worthy general!
Othello|OTHELLO|With all my heart, sir.
Othello|LODOVICO|The duke and senators of Venice greet you.
Othello|LODOVICO|Gives him a letter
Othello|OTHELLO|I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.
Othello|OTHELLO|Opens the letter, and reads
Othello|DESDEMONA|And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?
Othello|IAGO|I am very glad to see you, signior
Othello|IAGO|Welcome to Cyprus.
Othello|LODOVICO|I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?
Othello|IAGO|Lives, sir.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord
Othello|DESDEMONA|An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.
Othello|OTHELLO|Are you sure of that?
Othello|DESDEMONA|My lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|[Reads]  'This fail you not to do, as you will--'
Othello|LODOVICO|He did not call, he's busy in the paper.
Othello|LODOVICO|Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?
Othello|DESDEMONA|A most unhappy one: I would do much
Othello|DESDEMONA|To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.
Othello|OTHELLO|Fire and brimstone!
Othello|DESDEMONA|My lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|Are you wise?
Othello|DESDEMONA|What, is he angry?
Othello|LODOVICO|May be the letter moved him,
Othello|LODOVICO|For, as I think, they do command him home,
Othello|LODOVICO|Deputing Cassio in his government.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Trust me, I am glad on't.
Othello|OTHELLO|Indeed!
Othello|DESDEMONA|My lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|I am glad to see you mad.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, sweet Othello,--
Othello|OTHELLO|[Striking her]  Devil!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I have not deserved this.
Othello|LODOVICO|My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Othello|LODOVICO|Though I should swear I saw't: 'tis very much:
Othello|LODOVICO|Make her amends, she weeps.
Othello|OTHELLO|O devil, devil!
Othello|OTHELLO|If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Othello|OTHELLO|Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Othello|OTHELLO|Out of my sight!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I will not stay to offend you.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Going
Othello|LODOVICO|Truly, an obedient lady:
Othello|LODOVICO|I do beseech your lordship, call her back.
Othello|OTHELLO|Mistress!
Othello|DESDEMONA|My lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|What would you with her, sir?
Othello|LODOVICO|Who, I, my lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay, you did wish that I would make her turn:
Othello|OTHELLO|Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
Othello|OTHELLO|And turn again, and she can weep, sir, weep,
Othello|OTHELLO|And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,
Othello|OTHELLO|Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.
Othello|OTHELLO|Concerning this, sir,--O  well-painted passion!--
Othello|OTHELLO|I am commanded home. Get you away,
Othello|OTHELLO|I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,
Othello|OTHELLO|And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt!
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit DESDEMONA
Othello|OTHELLO|Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight,
Othello|OTHELLO|I do entreat that we may sup together:
Othello|OTHELLO|You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.--Goats and monkeys!
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit
Othello|LODOVICO|Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
Othello|LODOVICO|Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
Othello|LODOVICO|Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
Othello|LODOVICO|The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,
Othello|LODOVICO|Could neither graze nor pierce?
Othello|IAGO|He is much changed.
Othello|LODOVICO|Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?
Othello|IAGO|He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure
Othello|IAGO|What he might be: if what he might he is not,
Othello|IAGO|I would to heaven he were!
Othello|LODOVICO|What, strike his wife!
Othello|IAGO|'Faith, that was not so well, yet would I knew
Othello|IAGO|That stroke would prove the worst!
Othello|LODOVICO|Is it his use?
Othello|LODOVICO|Or did the letters work upon his blood,
Othello|LODOVICO|And new-create this fault?
Othello|IAGO|Alas, alas!
Othello|IAGO|It is not honesty in me to speak
Othello|IAGO|What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,
Othello|IAGO|And his own courses will denote him so
Othello|IAGO|That I may save my speech: do but go after,
Othello|IAGO|And mark how he continues.
Othello|LODOVICO|I am sorry that I am deceived in him.
Othello|LODOVICO|Exeunt
Othello|LODOVICO|SCENE II. A room in the castle.
Othello|LODOVICO|Enter OTHELLO and EMILIA
Othello|OTHELLO|You have seen nothing then?
Othello|EMILIA|Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.
Othello|OTHELLO|Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.
Othello|EMILIA|But then I saw no harm, and then I heard
Othello|EMILIA|Each syllable that breath made up between them.
Othello|OTHELLO|What, did they never whisper?
Othello|EMILIA|Never, my lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|Nor send you out o' the way?
Othello|EMILIA|Never.
Othello|OTHELLO|To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?
Othello|EMILIA|Never, my lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|That's strange.
Othello|EMILIA|I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
Othello|EMILIA|Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,
Othello|EMILIA|Remove your thought, it doth abuse your bosom.
Othello|EMILIA|If any wretch have put this in your head,
Othello|EMILIA|Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!
Othello|EMILIA|For, if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
Othello|EMILIA|There's no man happy, the purest of their wives
Othello|EMILIA|Is foul as slander.
Othello|OTHELLO|Bid her come hither: go.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit EMILIA
Othello|OTHELLO|She says enough, yet she's a simple bawd
Othello|OTHELLO|That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
Othello|OTHELLO|A closet lock and key of villanous secrets
Othello|OTHELLO|And yet she'll kneel and pray, I have seen her do't.
Othello|OTHELLO|Enter DESDEMONA with EMILIA
Othello|DESDEMONA|My lord, what is your will?
Othello|OTHELLO|Pray, chuck, come hither.
Othello|DESDEMONA|What is your pleasure?
Othello|OTHELLO|Let me see your eyes,
Othello|OTHELLO|Look in my face.
Othello|DESDEMONA|What horrible fancy's this?
Othello|OTHELLO|[To EMILIA]  Some of your function, mistress,
Othello|OTHELLO|Leave procreants alone and shut the door,
Othello|OTHELLO|Cough, or cry 'hem,' if any body come:
Othello|OTHELLO|Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit EMILIA
Othello|DESDEMONA|Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?
Othello|DESDEMONA|I understand a fury in your words.
Othello|DESDEMONA|But not the words.
Othello|OTHELLO|Why, what art thou?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Your wife, my lord, your true
Othello|DESDEMONA|And loyal wife.
Othello|OTHELLO|Come, swear it, damn thyself
Othello|OTHELLO|Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves
Othello|OTHELLO|Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double damn'd:
Othello|OTHELLO|Swear thou art honest.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Heaven doth truly know it.
Othello|OTHELLO|Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
Othello|DESDEMONA|To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?
Othello|OTHELLO|O Desdemona! away! away! away!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?
Othello|DESDEMONA|If haply you my father do suspect
Othello|DESDEMONA|An instrument of this your calling back,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Why, I have lost him too.
Othello|OTHELLO|Had it pleased heaven
Othello|OTHELLO|To try me with affliction, had they rain'd
Othello|OTHELLO|All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head.
Othello|OTHELLO|Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,
Othello|OTHELLO|Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,
Othello|OTHELLO|I should have found in some place of my soul
Othello|OTHELLO|A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me
Othello|OTHELLO|A fixed figure for the time of scorn
Othello|OTHELLO|To point his slow unmoving finger at!
Othello|OTHELLO|Yet could I bear that too, well, very well:
Othello|OTHELLO|But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,
Othello|OTHELLO|Where either I must live, or bear no life,
Othello|OTHELLO|The fountain from the which my current runs,
Othello|OTHELLO|Or else dries up, to be discarded thence!
Othello|OTHELLO|Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
Othello|OTHELLO|To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,
Othello|OTHELLO|Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,--
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay, there, look grim as hell!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,
Othello|OTHELLO|That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,
Othello|OTHELLO|Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
Othello|OTHELLO|That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst
Othello|OTHELLO|ne'er been born!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
Othello|OTHELLO|Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
Othello|OTHELLO|Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed!
Othello|OTHELLO|Committed! O thou public commoner!
Othello|OTHELLO|I should make very forges of my cheeks,
Othello|OTHELLO|That would to cinders burn up modesty,
Othello|OTHELLO|Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!
Othello|OTHELLO|Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,
Othello|OTHELLO|The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
Othello|OTHELLO|Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,
Othello|OTHELLO|And will not hear it. What committed!
Othello|OTHELLO|Impudent strumpet!
Othello|DESDEMONA|By heaven, you do me wrong.
Othello|OTHELLO|Are you not a strumpet?
Othello|DESDEMONA|No, as I am a Christian:
Othello|DESDEMONA|If to preserve this vessel for my lord
Othello|DESDEMONA|From any other foul unlawful touch
Othello|DESDEMONA|Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.
Othello|OTHELLO|What, not a whore?
Othello|DESDEMONA|No, as I shall be saved.
Othello|OTHELLO|Is't possible?
Othello|DESDEMONA|O, heaven forgive us!
Othello|OTHELLO|I cry you mercy, then:
Othello|OTHELLO|I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
Othello|OTHELLO|That married with Othello.
Othello|OTHELLO|Raising his voice
Othello|OTHELLO|You, mistress,
Othello|OTHELLO|That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
Othello|OTHELLO|And keep the gate of hell!
Othello|OTHELLO|Re-enter EMILIA
Othello|OTHELLO|You, you, ay, you!
Othello|OTHELLO|We have done our course, there's money for your pains:
Othello|OTHELLO|I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit
Othello|EMILIA|Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
Othello|EMILIA|How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?
Othello|DESDEMONA|'Faith, half asleep.
Othello|EMILIA|Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?
Othello|DESDEMONA|With who?
Othello|EMILIA|Why, with my lord, madam.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Who is thy lord?
Othello|EMILIA|He that is yours, sweet lady.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I cannot weep, nor answer have I none,
Othello|DESDEMONA|But what should go by water. Prithee, tonight
Othello|DESDEMONA|Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And call thy husband hither.
Othello|EMILIA|Here's a change indeed!
Othello|EMILIA|Exit
Othello|DESDEMONA|'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.
Othello|DESDEMONA|How have I been behaved, that he might stick
Othello|DESDEMONA|The small'st opinion on my least misuse?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Re-enter EMILIA with IAGO
Othello|IAGO|What is your pleasure, madam?
Othello|IAGO|How is't with you?
Othello|DESDEMONA|I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes
Othello|DESDEMONA|Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
Othello|DESDEMONA|He might have chid me so, for, in good faith,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I am a child to chiding.
Othello|IAGO|What's the matter, lady?
Othello|EMILIA|Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her.
Othello|EMILIA|Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
Othello|EMILIA|As true hearts cannot bear.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Am I that name, Iago?
Othello|IAGO|What name, fair lady?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Such as she says my lord did say I was.
Othello|EMILIA|He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink
Othello|EMILIA|Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.
Othello|IAGO|Why did he so?
Othello|DESDEMONA|I do not know, I am sure I am none such.
Othello|IAGO|Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!
Othello|EMILIA|Hath she forsook so many noble matches,
Othello|EMILIA|Her father and her country and her friends,
Othello|EMILIA|To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?
Othello|DESDEMONA|It is my wretched fortune.
Othello|IAGO|Beshrew him for't!
Othello|IAGO|How comes this trick upon him?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Nay, heaven doth know.
Othello|EMILIA|I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,
Othello|EMILIA|Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Othello|EMILIA|Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Othello|EMILIA|Have not devised this slander, I'll be hang'd else.
Othello|IAGO|Fie, there is no such man, it is impossible.
Othello|DESDEMONA|If any such there be, heaven pardon him!
Othello|EMILIA|A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!
Othello|EMILIA|Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?
Othello|EMILIA|What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?
Othello|EMILIA|The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,
Othello|EMILIA|Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
Othello|EMILIA|O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,
Othello|EMILIA|And put in every honest hand a whip
Othello|EMILIA|To lash the rascals naked through the world
Othello|EMILIA|Even from the east to the west!
Othello|IAGO|Speak within door.
Othello|EMILIA|O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was
Othello|EMILIA|That turn'd your wit the seamy side without,
Othello|EMILIA|And made you to suspect me with the Moor.
Othello|IAGO|You are a fool, go to.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O good Iago,
Othello|DESDEMONA|What shall I do to win my lord again?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Good friend, go to him, for, by this light of heaven,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:
Othello|DESDEMONA|If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Delighted them in any other form,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Or that I do not yet, and ever did.
Othello|DESDEMONA|And ever will--though he do shake me off
Othello|DESDEMONA|To beggarly divorcement--love him dearly,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And his unkindness may defeat my life,
Othello|DESDEMONA|But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore:'
Othello|DESDEMONA|It does abhor me now I speak the word,
Othello|DESDEMONA|To do the act that might the addition earn
Othello|DESDEMONA|Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.
Othello|IAGO|I pray you, be content, 'tis but his humour:
Othello|IAGO|The business of the state does him offence,
Othello|IAGO|And he does chide with you.
Othello|DESDEMONA|If 'twere no other--
Othello|IAGO|'Tis but so, I warrant.
Othello|IAGO|Trumpets within
Othello|IAGO|Hark, how these instruments summon to supper!
Othello|IAGO|The messengers of Venice stay the meat,
Othello|IAGO|Go in, and weep not, all things shall be well.
Othello|IAGO|Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA
Othello|IAGO|Enter RODERIGO
Othello|IAGO|How now, Roderigo!
Othello|RODERIGO|I do not find that thou dealest justly with me.
Othello|IAGO|What in the contrary?
Othello|RODERIGO|Every day thou daffest me with some device, Iago,
Othello|RODERIGO|and rather, as it seems to me now, keepest from me
Othello|RODERIGO|all conveniency than suppliest me with the least
Othello|RODERIGO|advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure
Othello|RODERIGO|it, nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what
Othello|RODERIGO|already I have foolishly suffered.
Othello|IAGO|Will you hear me, Roderigo?
Othello|RODERIGO|'Faith, I have heard too much, for your words and
Othello|RODERIGO|performances are no kin together.
Othello|IAGO|You charge me most unjustly.
Othello|RODERIGO|With nought but truth. I have wasted myself out of
Othello|RODERIGO|my means. The jewels you have had from me to
Othello|RODERIGO|deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a
Othello|RODERIGO|votarist: you have told me she hath received them
Othello|RODERIGO|and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden
Othello|RODERIGO|respect and acquaintance, but I find none.
Othello|IAGO|Well, go to, very well.
Othello|RODERIGO|Very well! go to! I cannot go to, man, nor 'tis
Othello|RODERIGO|not very well: nay, I think it is scurvy, and begin
Othello|RODERIGO|to find myself fobbed in it.
Othello|IAGO|Very well.
Othello|RODERIGO|I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself
Othello|RODERIGO|known to Desdemona: if she will return me my
Othello|RODERIGO|jewels, I will give over my suit and repent my
Othello|RODERIGO|unlawful solicitation, if not, assure yourself I
Othello|RODERIGO|will seek satisfaction of you.
Othello|IAGO|You have said now.
Othello|RODERIGO|Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing.
Othello|IAGO|Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even from
Othello|IAGO|this instant to build on thee a better opinion than
Othello|IAGO|ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo: thou hast
Othello|IAGO|taken against me a most just exception, but yet, I
Othello|IAGO|protest, I have dealt most directly in thy affair.
Othello|RODERIGO|It hath not appeared.
Othello|IAGO|I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your
Othello|IAGO|suspicion is not without wit and judgment. But,
Othello|IAGO|Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I
Othello|IAGO|have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean
Othello|IAGO|purpose, courage and valour, this night show it: if
Othello|IAGO|thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona,
Othello|IAGO|take me from this world with treachery and devise
Othello|IAGO|engines for my life.
Othello|RODERIGO|Well, what is it? is it within reason and compass?
Othello|IAGO|Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice
Othello|IAGO|to depute Cassio in Othello's place.
Othello|RODERIGO|Is that true? why, then Othello and Desdemona
Othello|RODERIGO|return again to Venice.
Othello|IAGO|O, no, he goes into Mauritania and takes away with
Othello|IAGO|him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be
Othello|IAGO|lingered here by some accident: wherein none can be
Othello|IAGO|so determinate as the removing of Cassio.
Othello|RODERIGO|How do you mean, removing of him?
Othello|IAGO|Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's place,
Othello|IAGO|knocking out his brains.
Othello|RODERIGO|And that you would have me to do?
Othello|IAGO|Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right.
Othello|IAGO|He sups to-night with a harlotry, and thither will I
Othello|IAGO|go to him: he knows not yet of his horrorable
Othello|IAGO|fortune. If you will watch his going thence, which
Othello|IAGO|I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one,
Othello|IAGO|you may take him at your pleasure: I will be near
Othello|IAGO|to second your attempt, and he shall fall between
Othello|IAGO|us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with
Othello|IAGO|me, I will show you such a necessity in his death
Othello|IAGO|that you shall think yourself bound to put it on
Othello|IAGO|him. It is now high suppertime, and the night grows
Othello|IAGO|to waste: about it.
Othello|RODERIGO|I will hear further reason for this.
Othello|IAGO|And you shall be satisfied.
Othello|IAGO|Exeunt
Othello|IAGO|SCENE III. Another room In the castle.
Othello|IAGO|Enter OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA and Attendants
Othello|LODOVICO|I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, pardon me: 'twill do me good to walk.
Othello|LODOVICO|Madam, good night, I humbly thank your ladyship.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Your honour is most welcome.
Othello|OTHELLO|Will you walk, sir?
Othello|OTHELLO|O,--Desdemona,--
Othello|DESDEMONA|My lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|Get you to bed on the instant, I will be returned
Othello|OTHELLO|forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I will, my lord.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Exeunt OTHELLO, LODOVICO, and Attendants
Othello|EMILIA|How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did.
Othello|DESDEMONA|He says he will return incontinent:
Othello|DESDEMONA|He hath commanded me to go to bed,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And bade me to dismiss you.
Othello|EMILIA|Dismiss me!
Othello|DESDEMONA|It was his bidding: therefore, good Emilia,.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu:
Othello|DESDEMONA|We must not now displease him.
Othello|EMILIA|I would you had never seen him!
Othello|DESDEMONA|So would not I	my love doth so approve him,
Othello|DESDEMONA|That even his stubbornness, his cheques, his frowns--
Othello|DESDEMONA|Prithee, unpin me,--have grace and favour in them.
Othello|EMILIA|I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.
Othello|DESDEMONA|All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!
Othello|DESDEMONA|If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me
Othello|DESDEMONA|In one of those same sheets.
Othello|EMILIA|Come, come you talk.
Othello|DESDEMONA|My mother had a maid call'd Barbara:
Othello|DESDEMONA|She was in love, and he she loved proved mad
Othello|DESDEMONA|And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow,'
Othello|DESDEMONA|An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And she died singing it: that song to-night
Othello|DESDEMONA|Will not go from my mind, I have much to do,
Othello|DESDEMONA|But to go hang my head all at one side,
Othello|DESDEMONA|And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch.
Othello|EMILIA|Shall I go fetch your night-gown?
Othello|DESDEMONA|No, unpin me here.
Othello|DESDEMONA|This Lodovico is a proper man.
Othello|EMILIA|A very handsome man.
Othello|DESDEMONA|He speaks well.
Othello|EMILIA|I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot
Othello|EMILIA|to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.
Othello|DESDEMONA|[Singing]  The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Sing all a green willow:
Othello|DESDEMONA|Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Sing willow, willow, willow:
Othello|DESDEMONA|The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Sing willow, willow, willow,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Lay by these:--
Othello|DESDEMONA|Singing
Othello|DESDEMONA|Sing willow, willow, willow,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Prithee, hie thee, he'll come anon:--
Othello|DESDEMONA|Singing
Othello|DESDEMONA|Sing all a green willow must be my garland.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Let nobody blame him, his scorn I approve,-
Othello|DESDEMONA|Nay, that's not next.--Hark! who is't that knocks?
Othello|EMILIA|It's the wind.
Othello|DESDEMONA|[Singing]  I call'd my love false love, but what
Othello|DESDEMONA|said he then?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Sing willow, willow, willow:
Othello|DESDEMONA|If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men!
Othello|DESDEMONA|So, get thee gone, good night Ate eyes do itch,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Doth that bode weeping?
Othello|EMILIA|'Tis neither here nor there.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Dost thou in conscience think,--tell me, Emilia,--
Othello|DESDEMONA|That there be women do abuse their husbands
Othello|DESDEMONA|In such gross kind?
Othello|EMILIA|There be some such, no question.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
Othello|EMILIA|Why, would not you?
Othello|DESDEMONA|No, by this heavenly light!
Othello|EMILIA|Nor I neither by this heavenly light,
Othello|EMILIA|I might do't as well i' the dark.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
Othello|EMILIA|The world's a huge thing: it is a great price.
Othello|EMILIA|For a small vice.
Othello|DESDEMONA|In troth, I think thou wouldst not.
Othello|EMILIA|In troth, I think I should, and undo't when I had
Othello|EMILIA|done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a
Othello|EMILIA|joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for
Othello|EMILIA|gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty
Othello|EMILIA|exhibition, but for the whole world,--why, who would
Othello|EMILIA|not make her husband a cuckold to make him a
Othello|EMILIA|monarch? I should venture purgatory for't.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong
Othello|DESDEMONA|For the whole world.
Othello|EMILIA|Why the wrong is but a wrong i' the world: and
Othello|EMILIA|having the world for your labour, tis a wrong in your
Othello|EMILIA|own world, and you might quickly make it right.
Othello|DESDEMONA|I do not think there is any such woman.
Othello|EMILIA|Yes, a dozen, and as many to the vantage as would
Othello|EMILIA|store the world they played for.
Othello|EMILIA|But I do think it is their husbands' faults
Othello|EMILIA|If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,
Othello|EMILIA|And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
Othello|EMILIA|Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Othello|EMILIA|Throwing restraint upon us, or say they strike us,
Othello|EMILIA|Or scant our former having in despite,
Othello|EMILIA|Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
Othello|EMILIA|Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
Othello|EMILIA|Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell
Othello|EMILIA|And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
Othello|EMILIA|As husbands have. What is it that they do
Othello|EMILIA|When they change us for others? Is it sport?
Othello|EMILIA|I think it is: and doth affection breed it?
Othello|EMILIA|I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?
Othello|EMILIA|It is so too: and have not we affections,
Othello|EMILIA|Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Othello|EMILIA|Then let them use us well: else let them know,
Othello|EMILIA|The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Exeunt
Othello|DESDEMONA|ACT V
Othello|DESDEMONA|SCENE I. Cyprus. A street.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Enter IAGO and RODERIGO
Othello|IAGO|Here, stand behind this bulk, straight will he come:
Othello|IAGO|Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home:
Othello|IAGO|Quick, quick, fear nothing, I'll be at thy elbow:
Othello|IAGO|It makes us, or it mars us, think on that,
Othello|IAGO|And fix most firm thy resolution.
Othello|RODERIGO|Be near at hand, I may miscarry in't.
Othello|IAGO|Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.
Othello|IAGO|Retires
Othello|RODERIGO|I have no great devotion to the deed,
Othello|RODERIGO|And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:
Othello|RODERIGO|'Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies.
Othello|IAGO|I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,
Othello|IAGO|And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,
Othello|IAGO|Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
Othello|IAGO|Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo,
Othello|IAGO|He calls me to a restitution large
Othello|IAGO|Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,
Othello|IAGO|As gifts to Desdemona,
Othello|IAGO|It must not be: if Cassio do remain,
Othello|IAGO|He hath a daily beauty in his life
Othello|IAGO|That makes me ugly, and, besides, the Moor
Othello|IAGO|May unfold me to him, there stand I in much peril:
Othello|IAGO|No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming.
Othello|IAGO|Enter CASSIO
Othello|RODERIGO|I know his gait, 'tis he.--Villain, thou diest!
Othello|RODERIGO|Makes a pass at CASSIO
Othello|CASSIO|That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
Othello|CASSIO|But that my coat is better than thou know'st
Othello|CASSIO|I will make proof of thine.
Othello|CASSIO|Draws, and wounds RODERIGO
Othello|RODERIGO|O, I am slain!
Othello|RODERIGO|IAGO from behind wounds CASSIO in the leg, and exit
Othello|CASSIO|I am maim'd for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!
Othello|CASSIO|Falls
Othello|CASSIO|Enter OTHELLO
Othello|OTHELLO|The voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word.
Othello|RODERIGO|O, villain that I am!
Othello|OTHELLO|It is even so.
Othello|CASSIO|O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis he:--O brave Iago, honest and just,
Othello|OTHELLO|That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!
Othello|OTHELLO|Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
Othello|OTHELLO|And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.
Othello|OTHELLO|Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted,
Othello|OTHELLO|Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.
Othello|OTHELLO|Exit
Othello|OTHELLO|Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO
Othello|CASSIO|What, ho! no watch? no passage? murder! murder!
Othello|GRATIANO|'Tis some mischance, the cry is very direful.
Othello|CASSIO|O, help!
Othello|LODOVICO|Hark!
Othello|RODERIGO|O wretched villain!
Othello|LODOVICO|Two or three groan: it is a heavy night:
Othello|LODOVICO|These may be counterfeits: let's think't unsafe
Othello|LODOVICO|To come in to the cry without more help.
Othello|RODERIGO|Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death.
Othello|LODOVICO|Hark!
Othello|LODOVICO|Re-enter IAGO, with a light
Othello|GRATIANO|Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.
Othello|IAGO|Who's there? whose noise is this that ones on murder?
Othello|LODOVICO|We do not know.
Othello|IAGO|Did not you hear a cry?
Othello|CASSIO|Here, here! for heaven's sake, help me!
Othello|IAGO|What's the matter?
Othello|GRATIANO|This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.
Othello|LODOVICO|The same indeed, a very valiant fellow.
Othello|IAGO|What are you here that cry so grievously?
Othello|CASSIO|Iago? O, I am spoil'd, undone by villains!
Othello|CASSIO|Give me some help.
Othello|IAGO|O me, lieutenant! what villains have done this?
Othello|CASSIO|I think that one of them is hereabout,
Othello|CASSIO|And cannot make away.
Othello|IAGO|O treacherous villains!
Othello|IAGO|What are you there? come in, and give some help.
Othello|IAGO|To LODOVICO and GRATIANO
Othello|RODERIGO|O, help me here!
Othello|CASSIO|That's one of them.
Othello|IAGO|O murderous slave! O villain!
Othello|IAGO|Stabs RODERIGO
Othello|RODERIGO|O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!
Othello|IAGO|Kill men i' the dark!--Where be these bloody thieves?--
Othello|IAGO|How silent is this town!--Ho! murder! murder!--
Othello|IAGO|What may you be? are you of good or evil?
Othello|LODOVICO|As you shall prove us, praise us.
Othello|IAGO|Signior Lodovico?
Othello|LODOVICO|He, sir.
Othello|IAGO|I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains.
Othello|GRATIANO|Cassio!
Othello|IAGO|How is't, brother!
Othello|CASSIO|My leg is cut in two.
Othello|IAGO|Marry, heaven forbid!
Othello|IAGO|Light, gentlemen, I'll bind it with my shirt.
Othello|IAGO|Enter BIANCA
Othello|BIANCA|What is the matter, ho? who is't that cried?
Othello|IAGO|Who is't that cried!
Othello|BIANCA|O my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio,
Othello|BIANCA|Cassio, Cassio!
Othello|IAGO|O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
Othello|IAGO|Who they should be that have thus many led you?
Othello|CASSIO|No.
Othello|GRATIANO|I am to find you thus: I have been to seek you.
Othello|IAGO|Lend me a garter. So. O, for a chair,
Othello|IAGO|To bear him easily hence!
Othello|BIANCA|Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
Othello|IAGO|Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
Othello|IAGO|To be a party in this injury.
Othello|IAGO|Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come,
Othello|IAGO|Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?
Othello|IAGO|Alas my friend and my dear countryman
Othello|IAGO|Roderigo! no:--yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo.
Othello|GRATIANO|What, of Venice?
Othello|IAGO|Even he, sir, did you know him?
Othello|GRATIANO|Know him! ay.
Othello|IAGO|Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon,
Othello|IAGO|These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,
Othello|IAGO|That so neglected you.
Othello|GRATIANO|I am glad to see you.
Othello|IAGO|How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!
Othello|GRATIANO|Roderigo!
Othello|IAGO|He, he 'tis he.
Othello|IAGO|A chair brought in
Othello|IAGO|O, that's well said, the chair!
Othello|GRATIANO|Some good man bear him carefully from hence,
Othello|GRATIANO|I'll fetch the general's surgeon.
Othello|GRATIANO|To BIANCA
Othello|GRATIANO|For you, mistress,
Othello|GRATIANO|Save you your labour. He that lies slain
Othello|GRATIANO|here, Cassio,
Othello|GRATIANO|Was my dear friend: what malice was between you?
Othello|CASSIO|None in the world, nor do I know the man.
Othello|IAGO|[To BIANCA]  What, look you pale? O, bear him out
Othello|IAGO|o' the air.
Othello|IAGO|CASSIO and RODERIGO are borne off
Othello|IAGO|Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?
Othello|IAGO|Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
Othello|IAGO|Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
Othello|IAGO|Behold her well, I pray you, look upon her:
Othello|IAGO|Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak,
Othello|IAGO|Though tongues were out of use.
Othello|IAGO|Enter EMILIA
Othello|EMILIA|'Las, what's the matter? what's the matter, husband?
Othello|IAGO|Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
Othello|IAGO|By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped:
Othello|IAGO|He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead.
Othello|EMILIA|Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!
Othello|IAGO|This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
Othello|IAGO|Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night.
Othello|IAGO|To BIANCA
Othello|IAGO|What, do you shake at that?
Othello|BIANCA|He supp'd at my house, but I therefore shake not.
Othello|IAGO|O, did he so? I charge you, go with me.
Othello|EMILIA|Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!
Othello|BIANCA|I am no strumpet, but of life as honest
Othello|BIANCA|As you that thus abuse me.
Othello|EMILIA|As I! foh! fie upon thee!
Othello|IAGO|Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dress'd.
Othello|IAGO|Come, mistress, you must tell's another tale.
Othello|IAGO|Emilia run you to the citadel,
Othello|IAGO|And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd.
Othello|IAGO|Will you go on? I pray.
Othello|IAGO|Aside
Othello|IAGO|This is the night
Othello|IAGO|That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
Othello|IAGO|Exeunt
Othello|IAGO|SCENE II. A bedchamber in the castle: DESDEMONA in bed asleep,
Othello|IAGO|a light burning.
Othello|IAGO|Enter OTHELLO
Othello|OTHELLO|It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--
Othello|OTHELLO|Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--
Othello|OTHELLO|It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood,
Othello|OTHELLO|Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
Othello|OTHELLO|And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Othello|OTHELLO|Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Othello|OTHELLO|Put out the light, and then put out the light:
Othello|OTHELLO|If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
Othello|OTHELLO|I can again thy former light restore,
Othello|OTHELLO|Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,
Othello|OTHELLO|Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
Othello|OTHELLO|I know not where is that Promethean heat
Othello|OTHELLO|That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose,
Othello|OTHELLO|I cannot give it vital growth again.
Othello|OTHELLO|It must needs wither: I'll smell it on the tree.
Othello|OTHELLO|Kissing her
Othello|OTHELLO|Ah balmy breath, that dost almost persuade
Othello|OTHELLO|Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.
Othello|OTHELLO|Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,
Othello|OTHELLO|And love thee after. One more, and this the last:
Othello|OTHELLO|So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,
Othello|OTHELLO|But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly,
Othello|OTHELLO|It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Who's there? Othello?
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay. Desdemona.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Will you come to bed, my lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Ay, my lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|If you bethink yourself of any crime
Othello|OTHELLO|Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,
Othello|OTHELLO|Solicit for it straight.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas, my lord, what do you mean by that?
Othello|OTHELLO|Well, do it, and be brief, I will walk by:
Othello|OTHELLO|I would not kill thy unprepared spirit,
Othello|OTHELLO|No, heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Talk you of killing?
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay, I do.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Then heaven
Othello|DESDEMONA|Have mercy on me!
Othello|OTHELLO|Amen, with all my heart!
Othello|DESDEMONA|If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.
Othello|OTHELLO|Hum!
Othello|DESDEMONA|And yet I fear you, for you are fatal then
Othello|DESDEMONA|When your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear.
Othello|OTHELLO|Think on thy sins.
Othello|DESDEMONA|They are loves I bear to you.
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay, and for that thou diest.
Othello|DESDEMONA|That death's unnatural that kills for loving.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:
Othello|DESDEMONA|These are portents, but yet I hope, I hope,
Othello|DESDEMONA|They do not point on me.
Othello|OTHELLO|Peace, and be still!
Othello|DESDEMONA|I will so. What's the matter?
Othello|OTHELLO|That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee
Othello|OTHELLO|Thou gavest to Cassio.
Othello|DESDEMONA|No, by my life and soul!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Send for the man, and ask him.
Othello|OTHELLO|Sweet soul, take heed,
Othello|OTHELLO|Take heed of perjury, thou art on thy deathbed.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Ay, but not yet to die.
Othello|OTHELLO|Yes, presently:
Othello|OTHELLO|Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin,
Othello|OTHELLO|For to deny each article with oath
Othello|OTHELLO|Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
Othello|OTHELLO|That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Then Lord have mercy on me!
Othello|OTHELLO|I say, amen.
Othello|DESDEMONA|And have you mercy too! I never did
Othello|DESDEMONA|Offend you in my life, never loved Cassio
Othello|DESDEMONA|But with such general warranty of heaven
Othello|DESDEMONA|As I might love: I never gave him token.
Othello|OTHELLO|By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in's hand.
Othello|OTHELLO|O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart,
Othello|OTHELLO|And makest me call what I intend to do
Othello|OTHELLO|A murder, which I thought a sacrifice:
Othello|OTHELLO|I saw the handkerchief.
Othello|DESDEMONA|He found it then,
Othello|DESDEMONA|I never gave it him: send for him hither,
Othello|DESDEMONA|Let him confess a truth.
Othello|OTHELLO|He hath confess'd.
Othello|DESDEMONA|What, my lord?
Othello|OTHELLO|That he hath used thee.
Othello|DESDEMONA|How? unlawfully?
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay.
Othello|DESDEMONA|He will not say so.
Othello|OTHELLO|No, his mouth is stopp'd,
Othello|OTHELLO|Honest Iago hath ta'en order for't.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O! my fear interprets: what, is he dead?
Othello|OTHELLO|Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
Othello|OTHELLO|Had stomach for them all.
Othello|DESDEMONA|Alas! he is betray'd and I undone.
Othello|OTHELLO|Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him to my face?
Othello|DESDEMONA|O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!
Othello|OTHELLO|Down, strumpet!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!
Othello|OTHELLO|Nay, if you strive--
Othello|DESDEMONA|But half an hour!
Othello|OTHELLO|Being done, there is no pause.
Othello|DESDEMONA|But while I say one prayer!
Othello|OTHELLO|It is too late.
Othello|OTHELLO|He stifles her
Othello|EMILIA|[Within]  My lord , my lord! what, ho! my lord, my lord!
Othello|OTHELLO|What noise is this? Not dead? not yet quite dead?
Othello|OTHELLO|I that am cruel am yet merciful,
Othello|OTHELLO|I would not have thee linger in thy pain: So, so.
Othello|EMILIA|[Within]  What, ho! my lord, my lord!
Othello|OTHELLO|Who's there?
Othello|EMILIA|[Within]  O, good my lord, I would speak a word with you!
Othello|OTHELLO|Yes: 'tis Emilia. By and by. She's dead.
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death.--
Othello|OTHELLO|The noise was here. Ha! no more moving?
Othello|OTHELLO|Still as the grave. Shall she come in? were't good?--
Othello|OTHELLO|I think she stirs again:--no. What's best to do?
Othello|OTHELLO|If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife:
Othello|OTHELLO|My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.
Othello|OTHELLO|O insupportable! O heavy hour!
Othello|OTHELLO|Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
Othello|OTHELLO|Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe
Othello|OTHELLO|Should yawn at alteration.
Othello|EMILIA|[Within]  I do beseech you
Othello|EMILIA|That I may speak with you, O, good my lord!
Othello|OTHELLO|I had forgot thee: O, come in, Emilia,
Othello|OTHELLO|Soft, by and by. Let me the curtains draw.
Othello|OTHELLO|Where art thou?
Othello|OTHELLO|Unlocks the door
Othello|OTHELLO|Enter EMILIA
Othello|OTHELLO|What's the matter with thee now?
Othello|EMILIA|O, my good lord, yonder's foul murders done!
Othello|OTHELLO|What, now?
Othello|EMILIA|But now, my lord.
Othello|OTHELLO|It is the very error of the moon,
Othello|OTHELLO|She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,
Othello|OTHELLO|And makes men mad.
Othello|EMILIA|Cassio, my lord, hath kill'd a young Venetian
Othello|EMILIA|Call'd Roderigo.
Othello|OTHELLO|Roderigo kill'd!
Othello|OTHELLO|And Cassio kill'd!
Othello|EMILIA|No, Cassio is not kill'd.
Othello|OTHELLO|Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune,
Othello|OTHELLO|And sweet revenge grows harsh.
Othello|DESDEMONA|O, falsely, falsely murder'd!
Othello|EMILIA|Alas, what cry is that?
Othello|OTHELLO|That! what?
Othello|EMILIA|Out, and alas! that was my lady's voice.
Othello|EMILIA|Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again!
Othello|EMILIA|Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!
Othello|DESDEMONA|A guiltless death I die.
Othello|EMILIA|O, who hath done this deed?
Othello|DESDEMONA|Nobody, I myself. Farewell
Othello|DESDEMONA|Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!
Othello|DESDEMONA|Dies
Othello|OTHELLO|Why, how should she be murder'd?
Othello|EMILIA|Alas, who knows?
Othello|OTHELLO|You heard her say herself, it was not I.
Othello|EMILIA|She said so: I must needs report the truth.
Othello|OTHELLO|She's, like a liar, gone to burning hell:
Othello|OTHELLO|'Twas I that kill'd her.
Othello|EMILIA|O, the more angel she,
Othello|EMILIA|And you the blacker devil!
Othello|OTHELLO|She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore.
Othello|EMILIA|Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil.
Othello|OTHELLO|She was false as water.
Othello|EMILIA|Thou art rash as fire, to say
Othello|EMILIA|That she was false: O, she was heavenly true!
Othello|OTHELLO|Cassio did top her, ask thy husband else.
Othello|OTHELLO|O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell,
Othello|OTHELLO|But that I did proceed upon just grounds
Othello|OTHELLO|To this extremity. Thy husband knew it all.
Othello|EMILIA|My husband!
Othello|OTHELLO|Thy husband.
Othello|EMILIA|That she was false to wedlock?
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay, with Cassio. Nay, had she been true,
Othello|OTHELLO|If heaven would make me such another world
Othello|OTHELLO|Of one entire and Perfect chrysolite,
Othello|OTHELLO|I'ld not have sold her for it.
Othello|EMILIA|My husband!
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay, 'twas he that told me first:
Othello|OTHELLO|An honest man he is, and hates the slime
Othello|OTHELLO|That sticks on filthy deeds.
Othello|EMILIA|My husband!
Othello|OTHELLO|What needs this iteration, woman? I say thy husband.
Othello|EMILIA|O mistress, villany hath made mocks with love,
Othello|EMILIA|My husband say that she was false!
Othello|OTHELLO|He, woman,
Othello|OTHELLO|I say thy husband: dost understand the word?
Othello|OTHELLO|My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago.
Othello|EMILIA|If he say so, may his pernicious soul
Othello|EMILIA|Rot half a grain a day! he lies to the heart:
Othello|EMILIA|She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.
Othello|OTHELLO|Ha!
Othello|EMILIA|Do thy worst:
Othello|EMILIA|This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven
Othello|EMILIA|Than thou wast worthy her.
Othello|OTHELLO|Peace, you were best.
Othello|EMILIA|Thou hast not half that power to do me harm
Othello|EMILIA|As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!
Othello|EMILIA|As ignorant as dirt! thou hast done a deed--
Othello|EMILIA|I care not for thy sword, I'll make thee known,
Othello|EMILIA|Though I lost twenty lives.--Help! help, ho! help!
Othello|EMILIA|The Moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! murder!
Othello|EMILIA|Enter MONTANO, GRATIANO, IAGO, and others
Othello|MONTANO|What is the matter? How now, general!
Othello|EMILIA|O, are you come, Iago? you have done well,
Othello|EMILIA|That men must lay their murders on your neck.
Othello|GRATIANO|What is the matter?
Othello|EMILIA|Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man:
Othello|EMILIA|He says thou told'st him that his wife was false:
Othello|EMILIA|I know thou didst not, thou'rt not such a villain:
Othello|EMILIA|Speak, for my heart is full.
Othello|IAGO|I told him what I thought, and told no more
Othello|IAGO|Than what he found himself was apt and true.
Othello|EMILIA|But did you ever tell him she was false?
Othello|IAGO|I did.
Othello|EMILIA|You told a lie, an odious, damned lie,
Othello|EMILIA|Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
Othello|EMILIA|She false with Cassio!--did you say with Cassio?
Othello|IAGO|With Cassio, mistress. Go to, charm your tongue.
Othello|EMILIA|I will not charm my tongue, I am bound to speak:
Othello|EMILIA|My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed,--
Othello|All|O heavens forfend!
Othello|EMILIA|And your reports have set the murder on.
Othello|OTHELLO|Nay, stare not, masters: it is true, indeed.
Othello|GRATIANO|'Tis a strange truth.
Othello|MONTANO|O monstrous act!
Othello|EMILIA|Villany, villany, villany!
Othello|EMILIA|I think upon't, I think: I smell't: O villany!--
Othello|EMILIA|I thought so then:--I'll kill myself for grief:--
Othello|EMILIA|O villany, villany!
Othello|IAGO|What, are you mad? I charge you, get you home.
Othello|EMILIA|Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak:
Othello|EMILIA|'Tis proper I obey him, but not now.
Othello|EMILIA|Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home.
Othello|OTHELLO|O! O! O!
Othello|OTHELLO|He falls on the bed
Othello|EMILIA|Nay, lay thee down and roar,
Othello|EMILIA|For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent
Othello|EMILIA|That e'er did lift up eye.
Othello|OTHELLO|[Rising]  O, she was foul!
Othello|OTHELLO|I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your niece,
Othello|OTHELLO|Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd:
Othello|OTHELLO|I know this act shows horrible and grim.
Othello|GRATIANO|Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead:
Othello|GRATIANO|Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Othello|GRATIANO|Shore his old thread in twain: did he live now,
Othello|GRATIANO|This sight would make him do a desperate turn,
Othello|GRATIANO|Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
Othello|GRATIANO|And fall to reprobation.
Othello|OTHELLO|'Tis pitiful, but yet Iago knows
Othello|OTHELLO|That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
Othello|OTHELLO|A thousand times committed, Cassio confess'd it:
Othello|OTHELLO|And she did gratify his amorous works
Othello|OTHELLO|With that recognizance and pledge of love
Othello|OTHELLO|Which I first gave her, I saw it in his hand:
Othello|OTHELLO|It was a handkerchief, an antique token
Othello|OTHELLO|My father gave my mother.
Othello|EMILIA|O heaven! O heavenly powers!
Othello|IAGO|Come, hold your peace.
Othello|EMILIA|'Twill out, 'twill out: I peace!
Othello|EMILIA|No, I will speak as liberal as the north:
Othello|EMILIA|Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
Othello|EMILIA|All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
Othello|IAGO|Be wise, and get you home.
Othello|EMILIA|I will not.
Othello|EMILIA|IAGO offers to stab EMILIA
Othello|GRATIANO|Fie!
Othello|GRATIANO|Your sword upon a woman?
Othello|EMILIA|O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of
Othello|EMILIA|I found by fortune and did give my husband,
Othello|EMILIA|For often, with a solemn earnestness,
Othello|EMILIA|More than indeed belong'd to such a trifle,
Othello|EMILIA|He begg'd of me to steal it.
Othello|IAGO|Villanous whore!
Othello|EMILIA|She give it Cassio! no, alas! I found it,
Othello|EMILIA|And I did give't my husband.
Othello|IAGO|Filth, thou liest!
Othello|EMILIA|By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.
Othello|EMILIA|O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool
Othello|EMILIA|Do with so good a woman?
Othello|OTHELLO|Are there no stones in heaven
Othello|OTHELLO|But what serve for the thunder?--Precious villain!
Othello|OTHELLO|He runs at IAGO  IAGO, from behind, stabs EMILIA, and exit
Othello|GRATIANO|The woman falls, sure, he hath kill'd his wife.
Othello|EMILIA|Ay, ay: O, lay me by my mistress' side.
Othello|GRATIANO|He's gone, but his wife's kill'd.
Othello|MONTANO|'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,
Othello|MONTANO|Which I have here recover'd from the Moor:
Othello|MONTANO|Come, guard the door without, let him not pass,
Othello|MONTANO|But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,
Othello|MONTANO|For 'tis a damned slave.
Othello|MONTANO|Exeunt MONTANO and GRATIANO
Othello|OTHELLO|I am not valiant neither,
Othello|OTHELLO|But ever puny whipster gets my sword:
Othello|OTHELLO|But why should honour outlive honesty?
Othello|OTHELLO|Let it go all.
Othello|EMILIA|What did thy song bode, lady?
Othello|EMILIA|Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan.
Othello|EMILIA|And die in music.
Othello|EMILIA|Singing
Othello|EMILIA|Willow, willow, willow,--
Othello|EMILIA|Moor, she was chaste, she loved thee, cruel Moor,
Othello|EMILIA|So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true,
Othello|EMILIA|So speaking as I think, I die, I die.
Othello|EMILIA|Dies
Othello|OTHELLO|I have another weapon in this chamber,
Othello|OTHELLO|It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper:--
Othello|OTHELLO|O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth.
Othello|GRATIANO|[Within]  If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear:
Othello|GRATIANO|Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.
Othello|OTHELLO|Look in upon me then and speak with me,
Othello|OTHELLO|Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.
Othello|OTHELLO|Re-enter GRATIANO
Othello|GRATIANO|What is the matter?
Othello|OTHELLO|Behold, I have a weapon,
Othello|OTHELLO|A better never did itself sustain
Othello|OTHELLO|Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day,
Othello|OTHELLO|That, with this little arm and this good sword,
Othello|OTHELLO|I have made my way through more impediments
Othello|OTHELLO|Than twenty times your stop: but, O vain boast!
Othello|OTHELLO|Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now.
Othello|OTHELLO|Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd,
Othello|OTHELLO|Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
Othello|OTHELLO|And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
Othello|OTHELLO|Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear,
Othello|OTHELLO|Man but a rush against Othello's breast,
Othello|OTHELLO|And he retires. Where should Othello go?
Othello|OTHELLO|Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench!
Othello|OTHELLO|Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,
Othello|OTHELLO|This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
Othello|OTHELLO|And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!
Othello|OTHELLO|Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave!
Othello|OTHELLO|Whip me, ye devils,
Othello|OTHELLO|From the possession of this heavenly sight!
Othello|OTHELLO|Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!
Othello|OTHELLO|Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
Othello|OTHELLO|O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead!
Othello|OTHELLO|Oh! Oh! Oh!
Othello|OTHELLO|Enter LODOVICO. MONTANO, CASSIO carried in a chair, and Officers with IAGO, prisoner
Othello|LODOVICO|Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?
Othello|OTHELLO|That's he that was Othello: here I am.
Othello|LODOVICO|Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.
Othello|OTHELLO|I look down towards his feet, but that's a fable.
Othello|OTHELLO|If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee.
Othello|OTHELLO|Wounds IAGO
Othello|LODOVICO|Wrench his sword from him.
Othello|IAGO|I bleed, sir, but not kill'd.
Othello|OTHELLO|I am not sorry neither: I'ld have thee live,
Othello|OTHELLO|For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.
Othello|LODOVICO|O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,
Othello|LODOVICO|Fall'n in the practise of a damned slave,
Othello|LODOVICO|What shall be said to thee?
Othello|OTHELLO|Why, any thing:
Othello|OTHELLO|An honourable murderer, if you will,
Othello|OTHELLO|For nought I did in hate, but all in honour.
Othello|LODOVICO|This wretch hath part confess'd his villany:
Othello|LODOVICO|Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?
Othello|OTHELLO|Ay.
Othello|CASSIO|Dear general, I never gave you cause.
Othello|OTHELLO|I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.
Othello|OTHELLO|Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil
Othello|OTHELLO|Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?
Othello|IAGO|Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:
Othello|IAGO|From this time forth I never will speak word.
Othello|LODOVICO|What, not to pray?
Othello|GRATIANO|Torments will ope your lips.
Othello|OTHELLO|Well, thou dost best.
Othello|LODOVICO|Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,
Othello|LODOVICO|Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter
Othello|LODOVICO|Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo,
Othello|LODOVICO|And here another: the one of them imports
Othello|LODOVICO|The death of Cassio to be undertook
Othello|LODOVICO|By Roderigo.
Othello|OTHELLO|O villain!
Othello|CASSIO|Most heathenish and most gross!
Othello|LODOVICO|Now here's another discontented paper,
Othello|LODOVICO|Found in his pocket too, and this, it seems,
Othello|LODOVICO|Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain,
Othello|LODOVICO|But that belike Iago in the interim
Othello|LODOVICO|Came in and satisfied him.
Othello|OTHELLO|O the pernicious caitiff!
Othello|OTHELLO|How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
Othello|OTHELLO|That was my wife's?
Othello|CASSIO|I found it in my chamber:
Othello|CASSIO|And he himself confess'd but even now
Othello|CASSIO|That there he dropp'd it for a special purpose
Othello|CASSIO|Which wrought to his desire.
Othello|OTHELLO|O fool! fool! fool!
Othello|CASSIO|There is besides in Roderigo's letter,
Othello|CASSIO|How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Othello|CASSIO|Brave me upon the watch, whereon it came
Othello|CASSIO|That I was cast: and even but now he spake,
Othello|CASSIO|After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,
Othello|CASSIO|Iago set him on.
Othello|LODOVICO|You must forsake this room, and go with us:
Othello|LODOVICO|Your power and your command is taken off,
Othello|LODOVICO|And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,
Othello|LODOVICO|If there be any cunning cruelty
Othello|LODOVICO|That can torment him much and hold him long,
Othello|LODOVICO|It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,
Othello|LODOVICO|Till that the nature of your fault be known
Othello|LODOVICO|To the Venetian state. Come, bring him away.
Othello|OTHELLO|Soft you, a word or two before you go.
Othello|OTHELLO|I have done the state some service, and they know't.
Othello|OTHELLO|No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
Othello|OTHELLO|When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Othello|OTHELLO|Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,
Othello|OTHELLO|Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Othello|OTHELLO|Of one that loved not wisely but too well,
Othello|OTHELLO|Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Othello|OTHELLO|Perplex'd in the extreme, of one whose hand,
Othello|OTHELLO|Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Othello|OTHELLO|Richer than all his tribe, of one whose subdued eyes,
Othello|OTHELLO|Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Othello|OTHELLO|Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Othello|OTHELLO|Their medicinal gum. Set you down this,
Othello|OTHELLO|And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Othello|OTHELLO|Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Othello|OTHELLO|Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
Othello|OTHELLO|I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
Othello|OTHELLO|And smote him, thus.
Othello|OTHELLO|Stabs himself
Othello|LODOVICO|O bloody period!
Othello|GRATIANO|All that's spoke is marr'd.
Othello|OTHELLO|I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this,
Othello|OTHELLO|Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
Othello|OTHELLO|Falls on the bed, and dies
Othello|CASSIO|This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon,
Othello|CASSIO|For he was great of heart.
Othello|LODOVICO|[To IAGO]  O Spartan dog,
Othello|LODOVICO|More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Othello|LODOVICO|Look on the tragic loading of this bed,
Othello|LODOVICO|This is thy work: the object poisons sight,
Othello|LODOVICO|Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,
Othello|LODOVICO|And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
Othello|LODOVICO|For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,
Othello|LODOVICO|Remains the censure of this hellish villain,
Othello|LODOVICO|The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!
Othello|LODOVICO|Myself will straight aboard: and to the state
Othello|LODOVICO|This heavy act with heavy heart relate.
Othello|LODOVICO|Exeunt
Pericles|LODOVICO|ACT I
Pericles|LODOVICO|PROLOGUE
Pericles|LODOVICO|Enter GOWER
Pericles|LODOVICO|Before the palace of Antioch
Pericles|LODOVICO|To sing a song that old was sung,
Pericles|LODOVICO|From ashes ancient Gower is come,
Pericles|LODOVICO|Assuming man's infirmities,
Pericles|LODOVICO|To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
Pericles|LODOVICO|It hath been sung at festivals,
Pericles|LODOVICO|On ember-eves and holy-ales,
Pericles|LODOVICO|And lords and ladies in their lives
Pericles|LODOVICO|Have read it for restoratives:
Pericles|LODOVICO|The purchase is to make men glorious,
Pericles|LODOVICO|Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.
Pericles|LODOVICO|If you, born in these latter times,
Pericles|LODOVICO|When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes.
Pericles|LODOVICO|And that to hear an old man sing
Pericles|LODOVICO|May to your wishes pleasure bring
Pericles|LODOVICO|I life would wish, and that I might
Pericles|LODOVICO|Waste it for you, like taper-light.
Pericles|LODOVICO|This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great
Pericles|LODOVICO|Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat:
Pericles|LODOVICO|The fairest in all Syria,
Pericles|LODOVICO|I tell you what mine authors say:
Pericles|LODOVICO|This king unto him took a fere,
Pericles|LODOVICO|Who died and left a female heir,
Pericles|LODOVICO|So buxom, blithe, and full of face,
Pericles|LODOVICO|As heaven had lent her all his grace,
Pericles|LODOVICO|With whom the father liking took,
Pericles|LODOVICO|And her to incest did provoke:
Pericles|LODOVICO|Bad child, worse father! to entice his own
Pericles|LODOVICO|To evil should be done by none:
Pericles|LODOVICO|But custom what they did begin
Pericles|LODOVICO|Was with long use account no sin.
Pericles|LODOVICO|The beauty of this sinful dame
Pericles|LODOVICO|Made many princes thither frame,
Pericles|LODOVICO|To seek her as a bed-fellow,
Pericles|LODOVICO|In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:
Pericles|LODOVICO|Which to prevent he made a law,
Pericles|LODOVICO|To keep her still, and men in awe,
Pericles|LODOVICO|That whoso ask'd her for his wife,
Pericles|LODOVICO|His riddle told not, lost his life:
Pericles|LODOVICO|So for her many a wight did die,
Pericles|LODOVICO|As yon grim looks do testify.
Pericles|LODOVICO|What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye
Pericles|LODOVICO|I give, my cause who best can justify.
Pericles|LODOVICO|Exit
Pericles|LODOVICO|SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace.
Pericles|LODOVICO|Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|The danger of the task you undertake.
Pericles|PERICLES|I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul
Pericles|PERICLES|Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,
Pericles|PERICLES|Think death no hazard in this enterprise.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|For the embracements even of Jove himself,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|The senate-house of planets all did sit,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|To knit in her their best perfections.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Music. Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS
Pericles|PERICLES|See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring,
Pericles|PERICLES|Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
Pericles|PERICLES|Of every virtue gives renown to men!
Pericles|PERICLES|Her face the book of praises, where is read
Pericles|PERICLES|Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence
Pericles|PERICLES|Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath
Pericles|PERICLES|Could never be her mild companion.
Pericles|PERICLES|You gods that made me man, and sway in love,
Pericles|PERICLES|That have inflamed desire in my breast
Pericles|PERICLES|To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,
Pericles|PERICLES|Or die in the adventure, be my helps,
Pericles|PERICLES|As I am son and servant to your will,
Pericles|PERICLES|To compass such a boundless happiness!
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Prince Pericles,--
Pericles|PERICLES|That would be son to great Antiochus.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|For death-like dragons here affright thee hard:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Her countless glory, which desert must gain,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|And which, without desert, because thine eye
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Drawn by report, adventurous by desire,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|That without covering, save yon field of stars,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|For going on death's net, whom none resist.
Pericles|PERICLES|Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught
Pericles|PERICLES|My frail mortality to know itself,
Pericles|PERICLES|And by those fearful objects to prepare
Pericles|PERICLES|This body, like to them, to what I must,
Pericles|PERICLES|For death remember'd should be like a mirror,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.
Pericles|PERICLES|I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do
Pericles|PERICLES|Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe,
Pericles|PERICLES|Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did,
Pericles|PERICLES|So I bequeath a happy peace to you
Pericles|PERICLES|And all good men, as every prince should do,
Pericles|PERICLES|My riches to the earth from whence they came,
Pericles|PERICLES|But my unspotted fire of love to you.
Pericles|PERICLES|To the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS
Pericles|PERICLES|Thus ready for the way of life or death,
Pericles|PERICLES|I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Scorning advice, read the conclusion then:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed.
Pericles|Daughter|Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!
Pericles|Daughter|Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness!
Pericles|PERICLES|Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,
Pericles|PERICLES|Nor ask advice of any other thought
Pericles|PERICLES|But faithfulness and courage.
Pericles|PERICLES|He reads the riddle
Pericles|PERICLES|I am no viper, yet I feed
Pericles|PERICLES|On mother's flesh which did me breed.
Pericles|PERICLES|I sought a husband, in which labour
Pericles|PERICLES|I found that kindness in a father:
Pericles|PERICLES|He's father, son, and husband mild,
Pericles|PERICLES|I mother, wife, and yet his child.
Pericles|PERICLES|How they may be, and yet in two,
Pericles|PERICLES|As you will live, resolve it you.
Pericles|PERICLES|Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers
Pericles|PERICLES|That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts,
Pericles|PERICLES|Why cloud they not their sights perpetually,
Pericles|PERICLES|If this be true, which makes me pale to read it?
Pericles|PERICLES|Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,
Pericles|PERICLES|Takes hold of the hand of the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS
Pericles|PERICLES|Were not this glorious casket stored with ill:
Pericles|PERICLES|But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt
Pericles|PERICLES|For he's no man on whom perfections wait
Pericles|PERICLES|That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate.
Pericles|PERICLES|You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music,
Pericles|PERICLES|Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken:
Pericles|PERICLES|But being play'd upon before your time,
Pericles|PERICLES|Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime.
Pericles|PERICLES|Good sooth, I care not for you.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|For that's an article within our law,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Either expound now, or receive your sentence.
Pericles|PERICLES|Great king,
Pericles|PERICLES|Few love to hear the sins they love to act,
Pericles|PERICLES|'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it.
Pericles|PERICLES|Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
Pericles|PERICLES|He's more secure to keep it shut than shown:
Pericles|PERICLES|For vice repeated is like the wandering wind.
Pericles|PERICLES|Blows dust in other's eyes, to spread itself,
Pericles|PERICLES|And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
Pericles|PERICLES|The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear:
Pericles|PERICLES|To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts
Pericles|PERICLES|Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd
Pericles|PERICLES|By man's oppression, and the poor worm doth die for't.
Pericles|PERICLES|Kings are earth's gods, in vice their law's
Pericles|PERICLES|their will,
Pericles|PERICLES|And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?
Pericles|PERICLES|It is enough you know, and it is fit,
Pericles|PERICLES|What being more known grows worse, to smother it.
Pericles|PERICLES|All love the womb that their first being bred,
Pericles|PERICLES|Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|[Aside]  Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|the meaning:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|But I will gloze with him.--Young prince of Tyre,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Though by the tenor of our strict edict,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Your exposition misinterpreting,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|We might proceed to cancel of your days,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Forty days longer we do respite you,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|If by which time our secret be undone,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|And until then your entertain shall be
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|As doth befit our honour and your worth.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Exeunt all but PERICLES
Pericles|PERICLES|How courtesy would seem to cover sin,
Pericles|PERICLES|When what is done is like an hypocrite,
Pericles|PERICLES|The which is good in nothing but in sight!
Pericles|PERICLES|If it be true that I interpret false,
Pericles|PERICLES|Then were it certain you were not so bad
Pericles|PERICLES|As with foul incest to abuse your soul,
Pericles|PERICLES|Where now you're both a father and a son,
Pericles|PERICLES|By your untimely claspings with your child,
Pericles|PERICLES|Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father,
Pericles|PERICLES|And she an eater of her mother's flesh,
Pericles|PERICLES|By the defiling of her parent's bed,
Pericles|PERICLES|And both like serpents are, who though they feed
Pericles|PERICLES|On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.
Pericles|PERICLES|Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men
Pericles|PERICLES|Blush not in actions blacker than the night,
Pericles|PERICLES|Will shun no course to keep them from the light.
Pericles|PERICLES|One sin, I know, another doth provoke,
Pericles|PERICLES|Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke:
Pericles|PERICLES|Poison and treason are the hands of sin,
Pericles|PERICLES|Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame:
Pericles|PERICLES|Then, lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear,
Pericles|PERICLES|By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exit
Pericles|PERICLES|Re-enter ANTIOCHUS
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|He hath found the meaning, for which we mean
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|To have his head.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|In such a loathed manner,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|And therefore instantly this prince must die:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|For by his fall my honour must keep high.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Who attends us there?
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Enter THALIARD
Pericles|THALIARD|Doth your highness call?
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Thaliard,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Her private actions to your secrecy,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|And for your faithfulness we will advance you.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|It fits thee not to ask the reason why,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Because we bid it. Say, is it done?
Pericles|THALIARD|My lord,
Pericles|THALIARD|'Tis done.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Enough.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Enter a Messenger
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste.
Pericles|Messenger|My lord, prince Pericles is fled.
Pericles|Messenger|Exit
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|As thou
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|From a well-experienced archer hits the mark
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.'
Pericles|THALIARD|My lord,
Pericles|THALIARD|If I can get him within my pistol's length,
Pericles|THALIARD|I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Thaliard, adieu!
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Exit THALIARD
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Till Pericles be dead,
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|My heart can lend no succor to my head.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Exit
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|SCENE II. Tyre. A room in the palace.
Pericles|ANTIOCHUS|Enter PERICLES
Pericles|PERICLES|[To Lords without]  Let none disturb us.--Why should
Pericles|PERICLES|this change of thoughts,
Pericles|PERICLES|The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,
Pericles|PERICLES|Be my so used a guest as not an hour,
Pericles|PERICLES|In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night,
Pericles|PERICLES|The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?
Pericles|PERICLES|Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,
Pericles|PERICLES|And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch,
Pericles|PERICLES|Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here:
Pericles|PERICLES|Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,
Pericles|PERICLES|Nor yet the other's distance comfort me.
Pericles|PERICLES|Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,
Pericles|PERICLES|That have their first conception by mis-dread,
Pericles|PERICLES|Have after-nourishment and life by care,
Pericles|PERICLES|And what was first but fear what might be done,
Pericles|PERICLES|Grows elder now and cares it be not done.
Pericles|PERICLES|And so with me: the great Antiochus,
Pericles|PERICLES|'Gainst whom I am too little to contend,
Pericles|PERICLES|Since he's so great can make his will his act,
Pericles|PERICLES|Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence,
Pericles|PERICLES|Nor boots it me to say I honour him.
Pericles|PERICLES|If he suspect I may dishonour him:
Pericles|PERICLES|And what may make him blush in being known,
Pericles|PERICLES|He'll stop the course by which it might be known,
Pericles|PERICLES|With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land,
Pericles|PERICLES|And with the ostent of war will look so huge,
Pericles|PERICLES|Amazement shall drive courage from the state,
Pericles|PERICLES|Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist,
Pericles|PERICLES|And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence:
Pericles|PERICLES|Which care of them, not pity of myself,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who am no more but as the tops of trees,
Pericles|PERICLES|Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,
Pericles|PERICLES|Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,
Pericles|PERICLES|And punish that before that he would punish.
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter HELICANUS, with other Lords
Pericles|First Lord|Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!
Pericles|Second Lord|And keep your mind, till you return to us,
Pericles|Second Lord|Peaceful and comfortable!
Pericles|HELICANUS|Peace, peace, and give experience tongue.
Pericles|HELICANUS|They do abuse the king that flatter him:
Pericles|HELICANUS|For flattery is the bellows blows up sin,
Pericles|HELICANUS|The thing which is flatter'd, but a spark,
Pericles|HELICANUS|To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.
Pericles|HELICANUS|When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace,
Pericles|HELICANUS|He flatters you, makes war upon your life.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please,
Pericles|HELICANUS|I cannot be much lower than my knees.
Pericles|PERICLES|All leave us else, but let your cares o'erlook
Pericles|PERICLES|What shipping and what lading's in our haven,
Pericles|PERICLES|And then return to us.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt Lords
Pericles|PERICLES|Helicanus, thou
Pericles|PERICLES|Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?
Pericles|HELICANUS|An angry brow, dread lord.
Pericles|PERICLES|If there be such a dart in princes' frowns,
Pericles|PERICLES|How durst thy tongue move anger to our face?
Pericles|HELICANUS|How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
Pericles|HELICANUS|They have their nourishment?
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou know'st I have power
Pericles|PERICLES|To take thy life from thee.
Pericles|HELICANUS|[Kneeling]
Pericles|HELICANUS|I have ground the axe myself,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Do you but strike the blow.
Pericles|PERICLES|Rise, prithee, rise.
Pericles|PERICLES|Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
Pericles|PERICLES|I thank thee for it, and heaven forbid
Pericles|PERICLES|That kings should let their ears hear their
Pericles|PERICLES|faults hid!
Pericles|PERICLES|Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant,
Pericles|PERICLES|What wouldst thou have me do?
Pericles|HELICANUS|To bear with patience
Pericles|HELICANUS|Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself.
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,
Pericles|PERICLES|That minister'st a potion unto me
Pericles|PERICLES|That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.
Pericles|PERICLES|Attend me, then: I went to Antioch,
Pericles|PERICLES|Where as thou know'st, against the face of death,
Pericles|PERICLES|I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty.
Pericles|PERICLES|From whence an issue I might propagate,
Pericles|PERICLES|Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects.
Pericles|PERICLES|Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder,
Pericles|PERICLES|The rest--hark in thine ear--as black as incest:
Pericles|PERICLES|Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father
Pericles|PERICLES|Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou
Pericles|PERICLES|know'st this,
Pericles|PERICLES|'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
Pericles|PERICLES|Such fear so grew in me, I hither fled,
Pericles|PERICLES|Under the covering of a careful night,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who seem'd my good protector, and, being here,
Pericles|PERICLES|Bethought me what was past, what might succeed.
Pericles|PERICLES|I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears
Pericles|PERICLES|Decrease not, but grow faster than the years:
Pericles|PERICLES|And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,
Pericles|PERICLES|That I should open to the listening air
Pericles|PERICLES|How many worthy princes' bloods were shed,
Pericles|PERICLES|To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,
Pericles|PERICLES|To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms,
Pericles|PERICLES|And make pretence of wrong that I have done him:
Pericles|PERICLES|When all, for mine, if I may call offence,
Pericles|PERICLES|Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence:
Pericles|PERICLES|Which love to all, of which thyself art one,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who now reprovest me for it,--
Pericles|HELICANUS|Alas, sir!
Pericles|PERICLES|Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,
Pericles|PERICLES|Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts
Pericles|PERICLES|How I might stop this tempest ere it came,
Pericles|PERICLES|And finding little comfort to relieve them,
Pericles|PERICLES|I thought it princely charity to grieve them.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,
Pericles|HELICANUS|And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Who either by public war or private treason
Pericles|HELICANUS|Will take away your life.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Till that his rage and anger be forgot,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Your rule direct to any, if to me.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be.
Pericles|PERICLES|I do not doubt thy faith,
Pericles|PERICLES|But should he wrong my liberties in my absence?
Pericles|HELICANUS|We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth,
Pericles|HELICANUS|From whence we had our being and our birth.
Pericles|PERICLES|Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus
Pericles|PERICLES|Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee,
Pericles|PERICLES|And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.
Pericles|PERICLES|The care I had and have of subjects' good
Pericles|PERICLES|On thee I lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it.
Pericles|PERICLES|I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:
Pericles|PERICLES|Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:
Pericles|PERICLES|But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe,
Pericles|PERICLES|That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince,
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt
Pericles|PERICLES|SCENE III. Tyre. An ante-chamber in the palace.
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter THALIARD
Pericles|THALIARD|So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I
Pericles|THALIARD|kill King Pericles, and if I do it not, I am sure to
Pericles|THALIARD|be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive
Pericles|THALIARD|he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that,
Pericles|THALIARD|being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired
Pericles|THALIARD|he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he
Pericles|THALIARD|had some reason for't, for if a king bid a man be a
Pericles|THALIARD|villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to
Pericles|THALIARD|be one! Hush! here come the lords of Tyre.
Pericles|THALIARD|Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other Lords of Tyre
Pericles|HELICANUS|You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Further to question me of your king's departure:
Pericles|HELICANUS|His seal'd commission, left in trust with me,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel.
Pericles|THALIARD|[Aside]  How! the king gone!
Pericles|HELICANUS|If further yet you will be satisfied,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,
Pericles|HELICANUS|He would depart, I'll give some light unto you.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Being at Antioch--
Pericles|THALIARD|[Aside]          What from Antioch?
Pericles|HELICANUS|Royal Antiochus--on what cause I know not--
Pericles|HELICANUS|Took some displeasure at him, at least he judged so:
Pericles|HELICANUS|And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd,
Pericles|HELICANUS|To show his sorrow, he'ld correct himself,
Pericles|HELICANUS|So puts himself unto the shipman's toil,
Pericles|HELICANUS|With whom each minute threatens life or death.
Pericles|THALIARD|[Aside]  Well, I perceive
Pericles|THALIARD|I shall not be hang'd now, although I would,
Pericles|THALIARD|But since he's gone, the king's seas must please:
Pericles|THALIARD|He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea.
Pericles|THALIARD|I'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!
Pericles|HELICANUS|Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome.
Pericles|THALIARD|From him I come
Pericles|THALIARD|With message unto princely Pericles,
Pericles|THALIARD|But since my landing I have understood
Pericles|THALIARD|Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,
Pericles|THALIARD|My message must return from whence it came.
Pericles|HELICANUS|We have no reason to desire it,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Commended to our master, not to us:
Pericles|HELICANUS|Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,
Pericles|HELICANUS|As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Exeunt
Pericles|HELICANUS|SCENE IV. Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Enter CLEON, the governor of Tarsus, with DIONYZA, and others
Pericles|CLEON|My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,
Pericles|CLEON|And by relating tales of others' griefs,
Pericles|CLEON|See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?
Pericles|DIONYZA|That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it,
Pericles|DIONYZA|For who digs hills because they do aspire
Pericles|DIONYZA|Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
Pericles|DIONYZA|O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,
Pericles|DIONYZA|But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.
Pericles|CLEON|O Dionyza,
Pericles|CLEON|Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,
Pericles|CLEON|Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?
Pericles|CLEON|Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep
Pericles|CLEON|Our woes into the air, our eyes do weep,
Pericles|CLEON|Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder,
Pericles|CLEON|That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want,
Pericles|CLEON|They may awake their helps to comfort them.
Pericles|CLEON|I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years,
Pericles|CLEON|And wanting breath to speak help me with tears.
Pericles|DIONYZA|I'll do my best, sir.
Pericles|CLEON|This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government,
Pericles|CLEON|A city on whom plenty held full hand,
Pericles|CLEON|For riches strew'd herself even in the streets,
Pericles|CLEON|Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds,
Pericles|CLEON|And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at,
Pericles|CLEON|Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd,
Pericles|CLEON|Like one another's glass to trim them by:
Pericles|CLEON|Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,
Pericles|CLEON|And not so much to feed on as delight,
Pericles|CLEON|All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,
Pericles|CLEON|The name of help grew odious to repeat.
Pericles|DIONYZA|O, 'tis too true.
Pericles|CLEON|But see what heaven can do! By this our change,
Pericles|CLEON|These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air,
Pericles|CLEON|Were all too little to content and please,
Pericles|CLEON|Although they gave their creatures in abundance,
Pericles|CLEON|As houses are defiled for want of use,
Pericles|CLEON|They are now starved for want of exercise:
Pericles|CLEON|Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,
Pericles|CLEON|Must have inventions to delight the taste,
Pericles|CLEON|Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it:
Pericles|CLEON|Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes,
Pericles|CLEON|Thought nought too curious, are ready now
Pericles|CLEON|To eat those little darlings whom they loved.
Pericles|CLEON|So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife
Pericles|CLEON|Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life:
Pericles|CLEON|Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping,
Pericles|CLEON|Here many sink, yet those which see them fall
Pericles|CLEON|Have scarce strength left to give them burial.
Pericles|CLEON|Is not this true?
Pericles|DIONYZA|Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.
Pericles|CLEON|O, let those cities that of plenty's cup
Pericles|CLEON|And her prosperities so largely taste,
Pericles|CLEON|With their superfluous riots, hear these tears!
Pericles|CLEON|The misery of Tarsus may be theirs.
Pericles|CLEON|Enter a Lord
Pericles|Lord|Where's the lord governor?
Pericles|CLEON|Here.
Pericles|CLEON|Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste,
Pericles|CLEON|For comfort is too far for us to expect.
Pericles|Lord|We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,
Pericles|Lord|A portly sail of ships make hitherward.
Pericles|CLEON|I thought as much.
Pericles|CLEON|One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
Pericles|CLEON|That may succeed as his inheritor,
Pericles|CLEON|And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,
Pericles|CLEON|Taking advantage of our misery,
Pericles|CLEON|Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,
Pericles|CLEON|To beat us down, the which are down already,
Pericles|CLEON|And make a conquest of unhappy me,
Pericles|CLEON|Whereas no glory's got to overcome.
Pericles|Lord|That's the least fear, for, by the semblance
Pericles|Lord|Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace,
Pericles|Lord|And come to us as favourers, not as foes.
Pericles|CLEON|Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat:
Pericles|CLEON|Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
Pericles|CLEON|But bring they what they will and what they can,
Pericles|CLEON|What need we fear?
Pericles|CLEON|The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there.
Pericles|CLEON|Go tell their general we attend him here,
Pericles|CLEON|To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,
Pericles|CLEON|And what he craves.
Pericles|Lord|I go, my lord.
Pericles|Lord|Exit
Pericles|CLEON|Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist,
Pericles|CLEON|If wars, we are unable to resist.
Pericles|CLEON|Enter PERICLES with Attendants
Pericles|PERICLES|Lord governor, for so we hear you are,
Pericles|PERICLES|Let not our ships and number of our men
Pericles|PERICLES|Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes.
Pericles|PERICLES|We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,
Pericles|PERICLES|And seen the desolation of your streets:
Pericles|PERICLES|Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,
Pericles|PERICLES|But to relieve them of their heavy load,
Pericles|PERICLES|And these our ships, you happily may think
Pericles|PERICLES|Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within
Pericles|PERICLES|With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,
Pericles|PERICLES|Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,
Pericles|PERICLES|And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.
Pericles|All|The gods of Greece protect you!
Pericles|All|And we'll pray for you.
Pericles|PERICLES|Arise, I pray you, rise:
Pericles|PERICLES|We do not look for reverence, but to love,
Pericles|PERICLES|And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men.
Pericles|CLEON|The which when any shall not gratify,
Pericles|CLEON|Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,
Pericles|CLEON|Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,
Pericles|CLEON|The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!
Pericles|CLEON|Till when,--the which I hope shall ne'er be seen,--
Pericles|CLEON|Your grace is welcome to our town and us.
Pericles|PERICLES|Which welcome we'll accept, feast here awhile,
Pericles|PERICLES|Until our stars that frown lend us a smile.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt
Pericles|PERICLES|ACT II
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter GOWER
Pericles|GOWER|Here have you seen a mighty king
Pericles|GOWER|His child, I wis, to incest bring,
Pericles|GOWER|A better prince and benign lord,
Pericles|GOWER|That will prove awful both in deed and word.
Pericles|GOWER|Be quiet then as men should be,
Pericles|GOWER|Till he hath pass'd necessity.
Pericles|GOWER|I'll show you those in troubles reign,
Pericles|GOWER|Losing a mite, a mountain gain.
Pericles|GOWER|The good in conversation,
Pericles|GOWER|To whom I give my benison,
Pericles|GOWER|Is still at Tarsus, where each man
Pericles|GOWER|Thinks all is writ he speken can,
Pericles|GOWER|And, to remember what he does,
Pericles|GOWER|Build his statue to make him glorious:
Pericles|GOWER|But tidings to the contrary
Pericles|GOWER|Are brought your eyes, what need speak I?
Pericles|GOWER|DUMB SHOW.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter at one door PERICLES talking with CLEON, all  the train with them. Enter at another door a  Gentleman, with a letter to PERICLES, PERICLES  shows the letter to CLEON, gives the Messenger a  reward, and knights him. Exit PERICLES at one door, and CLEON at another
Pericles|GOWER|Good Helicane, that stay'd at home,
Pericles|GOWER|Not to eat honey like a drone
Pericles|GOWER|From others' labours, for though he strive
Pericles|GOWER|To killen bad, keep good alive,
Pericles|GOWER|And to fulfil his prince' desire,
Pericles|GOWER|Sends word of all that haps in Tyre:
Pericles|GOWER|How Thaliard came full bent with sin
Pericles|GOWER|And had intent to murder him,
Pericles|GOWER|And that in Tarsus was not best
Pericles|GOWER|Longer for him to make his rest.
Pericles|GOWER|He, doing so, put forth to seas,
Pericles|GOWER|Where when men been, there's seldom ease,
Pericles|GOWER|For now the wind begins to blow,
Pericles|GOWER|Thunder above and deeps below
Pericles|GOWER|Make such unquiet, that the ship
Pericles|GOWER|Should house him safe is wreck'd and split,
Pericles|GOWER|And he, good prince, having all lost,
Pericles|GOWER|By waves from coast to coast is tost:
Pericles|GOWER|All perishen of man, of pelf,
Pericles|GOWER|Ne aught escapen but himself,
Pericles|GOWER|Till fortune, tired with doing bad,
Pericles|GOWER|Threw him ashore, to give him glad:
Pericles|GOWER|And here he comes. What shall be next,
Pericles|GOWER|Pardon old Gower,--this longs the text.
Pericles|GOWER|Exit
Pericles|GOWER|SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter PERICLES, wet
Pericles|PERICLES|Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
Pericles|PERICLES|Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man
Pericles|PERICLES|Is but a substance that must yield to you,
Pericles|PERICLES|And I, as fits my nature, do obey you:
Pericles|PERICLES|Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,
Pericles|PERICLES|Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath
Pericles|PERICLES|Nothing to think on but ensuing death:
Pericles|PERICLES|Let it suffice the greatness of your powers
Pericles|PERICLES|To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes,
Pericles|PERICLES|And having thrown him from your watery grave,
Pericles|PERICLES|Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave.
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter three FISHERMEN
Pericles|First Fisherman|What, ho, Pilch!
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Ha, come and bring away the nets!
Pericles|First Fisherman|What, Patch-breech, I say!
Pericles|Third Fisherman|What say you, master?
Pericles|First Fisherman|Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll
Pericles|First Fisherman|fetch thee with a wanion.
Pericles|Third Fisherman|Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that
Pericles|Third Fisherman|were cast away before us even now.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what
Pericles|First Fisherman|pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when,
Pericles|First Fisherman|well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.
Pericles|Third Fisherman|Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the
Pericles|Third Fisherman|porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say
Pericles|Third Fisherman|they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them,
Pericles|Third Fisherman|they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I
Pericles|Third Fisherman|marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Why, as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the
Pericles|First Fisherman|little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
Pericles|First Fisherman|nothing so fitly as to a whale, a' plays and
Pericles|First Fisherman|tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
Pericles|First Fisherman|last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales
Pericles|First Fisherman|have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping
Pericles|First Fisherman|till they've swallowed the whole parish, church,
Pericles|First Fisherman|steeple, bells, and all.
Pericles|PERICLES|[Aside]  A pretty moral.
Pericles|Third Fisherman|But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have
Pericles|Third Fisherman|been that day in the belfry.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Why, man?
Pericles|Third Fisherman|Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I
Pericles|Third Fisherman|had been in his belly, I would have kept such a
Pericles|Third Fisherman|jangling of the bells, that he should never have
Pericles|Third Fisherman|left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and
Pericles|Third Fisherman|parish up again. But if the good King Simonides
Pericles|Third Fisherman|were of my mind,--
Pericles|PERICLES|[Aside]  Simonides!
Pericles|Third Fisherman|We would purge the land of these drones, that rob
Pericles|Third Fisherman|the bee of her honey.
Pericles|PERICLES|[Aside]  How from the finny subject of the sea
Pericles|PERICLES|These fishers tell the infirmities of men,
Pericles|PERICLES|And from their watery empire recollect
Pericles|PERICLES|All that may men approve or men detect!
Pericles|PERICLES|Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day
Pericles|Second Fisherman|fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody
Pericles|Second Fisherman|look after it.
Pericles|PERICLES|May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our
Pericles|Second Fisherman|way!
Pericles|PERICLES|A man whom both the waters and the wind,
Pericles|PERICLES|In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball
Pericles|PERICLES|For them to play upon, entreats you pity him:
Pericles|PERICLES|He asks of you, that never used to beg.
Pericles|First Fisherman|No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our
Pericles|First Fisherman|country Greece gets more with begging than we can do
Pericles|First Fisherman|with working.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Canst thou catch any fishes, then?
Pericles|PERICLES|I never practised it.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure, for here's nothing
Pericles|Second Fisherman|to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for't.
Pericles|PERICLES|What I have been I have forgot to know,
Pericles|PERICLES|But what I am, want teaches me to think on:
Pericles|PERICLES|A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill,
Pericles|PERICLES|And have no more of life than may suffice
Pericles|PERICLES|To give my tongue that heat to ask your help,
Pericles|PERICLES|Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,
Pericles|PERICLES|For that I am a man, pray see me buried.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here,
Pericles|First Fisherman|come, put it on, keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a
Pericles|First Fisherman|handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and
Pericles|First Fisherman|we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for
Pericles|First Fisherman|fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks,
Pericles|First Fisherman|and thou shalt be welcome.
Pericles|PERICLES|I thank you, sir.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Hark you, my friend, you said you could not beg.
Pericles|PERICLES|I did but crave.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I
Pericles|Second Fisherman|shall 'scape whipping.
Pericles|PERICLES|Why, are all your beggars whipped, then?
Pericles|Second Fisherman|O, not all, my friend, not all, for if all your
Pericles|Second Fisherman|beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office
Pericles|Second Fisherman|than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the
Pericles|Second Fisherman|net.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Exit with Third Fisherman
Pericles|PERICLES|[Aside]  How well this honest mirth becomes their labour!
Pericles|First Fisherman|Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?
Pericles|PERICLES|Not well.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and
Pericles|First Fisherman|our king the good Simonides.
Pericles|PERICLES|The good King Simonides, do you call him.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Ay, sir, and he deserves so to be called for his
Pericles|First Fisherman|peaceable reign and good government.
Pericles|PERICLES|He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects
Pericles|PERICLES|the name of good by his government. How far is his
Pericles|PERICLES|court distant from this shore?
Pericles|First Fisherman|Marry, sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell
Pericles|First Fisherman|you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her
Pericles|First Fisherman|birth-day, and there are princes and knights come
Pericles|First Fisherman|from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love.
Pericles|PERICLES|Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish
Pericles|PERICLES|to make one there.
Pericles|First Fisherman|O, sir, things must be as they may, and what a man
Pericles|First Fisherman|cannot get, he may lawfully deal for--his wife's soul.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing up a net
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net,
Pericles|Second Fisherman|like a poor man's right in the law, 'twill hardly
Pericles|Second Fisherman|come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and
Pericles|Second Fisherman|'tis turned to a rusty armour.
Pericles|PERICLES|An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it.
Pericles|PERICLES|Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses,
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself,
Pericles|PERICLES|And though it was mine own, part of my heritage,
Pericles|PERICLES|Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
Pericles|PERICLES|With this strict charge, even as he left his life,
Pericles|PERICLES|'Keep it, my Pericles, it hath been a shield
Pericles|PERICLES|Twixt me and death,'--and pointed to this brace,--
Pericles|PERICLES|'For that it saved me, keep it, in like necessity--
Pericles|PERICLES|The which the gods protect thee from!--may
Pericles|PERICLES|defend thee.'
Pericles|PERICLES|It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it,
Pericles|PERICLES|Till the rough seas, that spare not any man,
Pericles|PERICLES|Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again:
Pericles|PERICLES|I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill,
Pericles|PERICLES|Since I have here my father's gift in's will.
Pericles|First Fisherman|What mean you, sir?
Pericles|PERICLES|To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,
Pericles|PERICLES|For it was sometime target to a king,
Pericles|PERICLES|I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,
Pericles|PERICLES|And for his sake I wish the having of it,
Pericles|PERICLES|And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court,
Pericles|PERICLES|Where with it I may appear a gentleman,
Pericles|PERICLES|And if that ever my low fortune's better,
Pericles|PERICLES|I'll pay your bounties, till then rest your debtor.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?
Pericles|PERICLES|I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms.
Pericles|First Fisherman|Why, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee good on't!
Pericles|Second Fisherman|Ay, but hark you, my friend, 'twas we that made up
Pericles|Second Fisherman|this garment through the rough seams of the waters:
Pericles|Second Fisherman|there are certain condolements, certain vails. I
Pericles|Second Fisherman|hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from
Pericles|Second Fisherman|whence you had it.
Pericles|PERICLES|Believe 't, I will.
Pericles|PERICLES|By your furtherance I am clothed in steel,
Pericles|PERICLES|And, spite of all the rapture of the sea,
Pericles|PERICLES|This jewel holds his building on my arm:
Pericles|PERICLES|Unto thy value I will mount myself
Pericles|PERICLES|Upon a courser, whose delightful steps
Pericles|PERICLES|Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
Pericles|PERICLES|Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided
Pericles|PERICLES|Of a pair of bases.
Pericles|Second Fisherman|We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to
Pericles|Second Fisherman|make thee a pair, and I'll bring thee to the court myself.
Pericles|PERICLES|Then honour be but a goal to my will,
Pericles|PERICLES|This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt
Pericles|PERICLES|SCENE II. The same. A public way or platform leading to the
Pericles|PERICLES|lists. A pavilion by the side of it for the
Pericles|PERICLES|reception of King, Princess, Lords,  and c.
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, and Attendants
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?
Pericles|First Lord|They are, my liege,
Pericles|First Lord|And stay your coming to present themselves.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Return them, we are ready, and our daughter,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat
Pericles|SIMONIDES|For men to see, and seeing wonder at.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Exit a Lord
Pericles|THAISA|It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express
Pericles|THAISA|My commendations great, whose merit's less.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|It's fit it should be so, for princes are
Pericles|SIMONIDES|A model which heaven makes like to itself:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|So princes their renowns if not respected.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain
Pericles|SIMONIDES|The labour of each knight in his device.
Pericles|THAISA|Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform.
Pericles|THAISA|Enter a Knight, he passes over, and his Squire presents his shield to the Princess
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Who is the first that doth prefer himself?
Pericles|THAISA|A knight of Sparta, my renowned father,
Pericles|THAISA|And the device he bears upon his shield
Pericles|THAISA|Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun
Pericles|THAISA|The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.'
Pericles|SIMONIDES|He loves you well that holds his life of you.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|The Second Knight passes over
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Who is the second that presents himself?
Pericles|THAISA|A prince of Macedon, my royal father,
Pericles|THAISA|And the device he bears upon his shield
Pericles|THAISA|Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady,
Pericles|THAISA|The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.'
Pericles|THAISA|The Third Knight passes over
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And what's the third?
Pericles|THAISA|The third of Antioch,
Pericles|THAISA|And his device, a wreath of chivalry,
Pericles|THAISA|The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.'
Pericles|THAISA|The Fourth Knight passes over
Pericles|SIMONIDES|What is the fourth?
Pericles|THAISA|A burning torch that's turned upside down,
Pericles|THAISA|The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.'
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Which can as well inflame as it can kill.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|The Fifth Knight passes over
Pericles|THAISA|The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,
Pericles|THAISA|Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried,
Pericles|THAISA|The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.'
Pericles|THAISA|The Sixth Knight, PERICLES, passes over
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And what's
Pericles|SIMONIDES|The sixth and last, the which the knight himself
Pericles|SIMONIDES|With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd?
Pericles|THAISA|He seems to be a stranger, but his present is
Pericles|THAISA|A wither'd branch, that's only green at top,
Pericles|THAISA|The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.'
Pericles|SIMONIDES|A pretty moral,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|From the dejected state wherein he is,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.
Pericles|First Lord|He had need mean better than his outward show
Pericles|First Lord|Can any way speak in his just commend,
Pericles|First Lord|For by his rusty outside he appears
Pericles|First Lord|To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.
Pericles|Second Lord|He well may be a stranger, for he comes
Pericles|Second Lord|To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished.
Pericles|Third Lord|And on set purpose let his armour rust
Pericles|Third Lord|Until this day, to scour it in the dust.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
Pericles|SIMONIDES|The outward habit by the inward man.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Into the gallery.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Exeunt
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Great shouts within and all cry 'The mean knight!'
Pericles|SIMONIDES|SCENE III. The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, Attendants, and Knights, from tilting
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Knights,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To say you're welcome were superfluous.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To place upon the volume of your deeds,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|As in a title-page, your worth in arms,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Since every worth in show commends itself.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|You are princes and my guests.
Pericles|THAISA|But you, my knight and guest,
Pericles|THAISA|To whom this wreath of victory I give,
Pericles|THAISA|And crown you king of this day's happiness.
Pericles|PERICLES|'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Call it by what you will, the day is yours,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And here, I hope, is none that envies it.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To make some good, but others to exceed,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o'
Pericles|SIMONIDES|the feast,--
Pericles|SIMONIDES|For, daughter, so you are,--here take your place:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace.
Pericles|KNIGHTS|We are honour'd much by good Simonides.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Your presence glads our days: honour we love,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|For who hates honour hates the gods above.
Pericles|Marshal|Sir, yonder is your place.
Pericles|PERICLES|Some other is more fit.
Pericles|First Knight|Contend not, sir, for we are gentlemen
Pericles|First Knight|That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
Pericles|First Knight|Envy the great nor do the low despise.
Pericles|PERICLES|You are right courteous knights.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Sit, sir, sit.
Pericles|PERICLES|By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,
Pericles|PERICLES|These cates resist me, she but thought upon.
Pericles|THAISA|By Juno, that is queen of marriage,
Pericles|THAISA|All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury.
Pericles|THAISA|Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|He's but a country gentleman,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Has done no more than other knights have done,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Has broken a staff or so, so let it pass.
Pericles|THAISA|To me he seems like diamond to glass.
Pericles|PERICLES|Yon king's to me like to my father's picture,
Pericles|PERICLES|Which tells me in that glory once he was,
Pericles|PERICLES|Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne,
Pericles|PERICLES|And he the sun, for them to reverence,
Pericles|PERICLES|None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights,
Pericles|PERICLES|Did vail their crowns to his supremacy:
Pericles|PERICLES|Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night,
Pericles|PERICLES|The which hath fire in darkness, none in light:
Pericles|PERICLES|Whereby I see that Time's the king of men,
Pericles|PERICLES|He's both their parent, and he is their grave,
Pericles|PERICLES|And gives them what he will, not what they crave.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|What, are you merry, knights?
Pericles|Knights|Who can be other in this royal presence?
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,--
Pericles|SIMONIDES|As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips,--
Pericles|SIMONIDES|We drink this health to you.
Pericles|KNIGHTS|We thank your grace.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Yet pause awhile:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Yon knight doth sit too melancholy,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|As if the entertainment in our court
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Had not a show might countervail his worth.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Note it not you, Thaisa?
Pericles|THAISA|What is it
Pericles|THAISA|To me, my father?
Pericles|SIMONIDES|O, attend, my daughter:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Princes in this should live like gods above,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Who freely give to every one that comes
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To honour them:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And princes not doin g so are like to gnats,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Therefore to make his entrance more sweet,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him.
Pericles|THAISA|Alas, my father, it befits not me
Pericles|THAISA|Unto a stranger knight to be so bold:
Pericles|THAISA|He may my proffer take for an offence,
Pericles|THAISA|Since men take women's gifts for impudence.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|How!
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else.
Pericles|THAISA|[Aside]  Now, by the gods, he could not please me better.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Of whence he is, his name and parentage.
Pericles|THAISA|The king my father, sir, has drunk to you.
Pericles|PERICLES|I thank him.
Pericles|THAISA|Wishing it so much blood unto your life.
Pericles|PERICLES|I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely.
Pericles|THAISA|And further he desires to know of you,
Pericles|THAISA|Of whence you are, your name and parentage.
Pericles|PERICLES|A gentleman of Tyre, my name, Pericles,
Pericles|PERICLES|My education been in arts and arms,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who, looking for adventures in the world,
Pericles|PERICLES|Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men,
Pericles|PERICLES|And after shipwreck driven upon this shore.
Pericles|THAISA|He thanks your grace, names himself Pericles,
Pericles|THAISA|A gentleman of Tyre,
Pericles|THAISA|Who only by misfortune of the seas
Pericles|THAISA|Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And will awake him from his melancholy.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Even in your armours, as you are address'd,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Will very well become a soldier's dance.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|I will not have excuse, with saying this
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Since they love men in arms as well as beds.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|The Knights dance
Pericles|SIMONIDES|So, this was well ask'd,'twas so well perform'd.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Come, sir,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Here is a lady that wants breathing too:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And I have heard, you knights of Tyre
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Are excellent in making ladies trip,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And that their measures are as excellent.
Pericles|PERICLES|In those that practise them they are, my lord.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|O, that's as much as you would be denied
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Of your fair courtesy.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|The Knights and Ladies dance
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Unclasp, unclasp:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Thanks, gentlemen, to all, all have done well.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To PERICLES
Pericles|SIMONIDES|But you the best. Pages and lights, to conduct
Pericles|SIMONIDES|These knights unto their several lodgings!
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To PERICLES
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Yours, sir,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|We have given order to be next our own.
Pericles|PERICLES|I am at your grace's pleasure.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Princes, it is too late to talk of love,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And that's the mark I know you level at:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Therefore each one betake him to his rest,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To-morrow all for speeding do their best.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Exeunt
Pericles|SIMONIDES|SCENE IV. Tyre. A room in the Governor's house.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES
Pericles|HELICANUS|No, Escanes, know this of me,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Antiochus from incest lived not free:
Pericles|HELICANUS|For which, the most high gods not minding longer
Pericles|HELICANUS|To withhold the vengeance that they had in store,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Due to this heinous capital offence,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Even in the height and pride of all his glory,
Pericles|HELICANUS|When he was seated in a chariot
Pericles|HELICANUS|Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him,
Pericles|HELICANUS|A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up
Pericles|HELICANUS|Their bodies, even to loathing, for they so stunk,
Pericles|HELICANUS|That all those eyes adored them ere their fall
Pericles|HELICANUS|Scorn now their hand should give them burial.
Pericles|ESCANES|'Twas very strange.
Pericles|HELICANUS|And yet but justice, for though
Pericles|HELICANUS|This king were great, his greatness was no guard
Pericles|HELICANUS|To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward.
Pericles|ESCANES|'Tis very true.
Pericles|ESCANES|Enter two or three Lords
Pericles|First Lord|See, not a man in private conference
Pericles|First Lord|Or council has respect with him but he.
Pericles|Second Lord|It shall no longer grieve without reproof.
Pericles|Third Lord|And cursed be he that will not second it.
Pericles|First Lord|Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word.
Pericles|HELICANUS|With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords.
Pericles|First Lord|Know that our griefs are risen to the top,
Pericles|First Lord|And now at length they overflow their banks.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Your griefs! for what? wrong not your prince you love.
Pericles|First Lord|Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane,
Pericles|First Lord|But if the prince do live, let us salute him,
Pericles|First Lord|Or know what ground's made happy by his breath.
Pericles|First Lord|If in the world he live, we'll seek him out,
Pericles|First Lord|If in his grave he rest, we'll find him there,
Pericles|First Lord|And be resolved he lives to govern us,
Pericles|First Lord|Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral,
Pericles|First Lord|And leave us to our free election.
Pericles|Second Lord|Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure:
Pericles|Second Lord|And knowing this kingdom is without a head,--
Pericles|Second Lord|Like goodly buildings left without a roof
Pericles|Second Lord|Soon fall to ruin,--your noble self,
Pericles|Second Lord|That best know how to rule and how to reign,
Pericles|Second Lord|We thus submit unto,--our sovereign.
Pericles|All|Live, noble Helicane!
Pericles|HELICANUS|For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages:
Pericles|HELICANUS|If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Take I your wish, I leap into the seas,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease.
Pericles|HELICANUS|A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you to
Pericles|HELICANUS|Forbear the absence of your king:
Pericles|HELICANUS|If in which time expired, he not return,
Pericles|HELICANUS|I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.
Pericles|HELICANUS|But if I cannot win you to this love,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Go search like nobles, like noble subjects,
Pericles|HELICANUS|And in your search spend your adventurous worth,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Whom if you find, and win unto return,
Pericles|HELICANUS|You shall like diamonds sit about his crown.
Pericles|First Lord|To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield,
Pericles|First Lord|And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,
Pericles|First Lord|We with our travels will endeavour us.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands:
Pericles|HELICANUS|When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Exeunt
Pericles|HELICANUS|SCENE V. Pentapolis. A room in the palace.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter, at one door: the Knights meet him
Pericles|First Knight|Good morrow to the good Simonides.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake
Pericles|SIMONIDES|A married life.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Her reason to herself is only known,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Which yet from her by no means can I get.
Pericles|Second Knight|May we not get access to her, my lord?
Pericles|SIMONIDES|'Faith, by no means, she has so strictly tied
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And on her virgin honour will not break it.
Pericles|Third Knight|Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves.
Pericles|Third Knight|Exeunt Knights
Pericles|SIMONIDES|So,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|They are well dispatch'd, now to my daughter's letter:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Or never more to view nor day nor light.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|'Tis well, mistress, your choice agrees with mine,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Not minding whether I dislike or no!
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Well, I do commend her choice,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And will no longer have it be delay'd.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Enter PERICLES
Pericles|PERICLES|All fortune to the good Simonides!
Pericles|SIMONIDES|To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you
Pericles|SIMONIDES|For your sweet music this last night: I do
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Protest my ears were never better fed
Pericles|SIMONIDES|With such delightful pleasing harmony.
Pericles|PERICLES|It is your grace's pleasure to commend,
Pericles|PERICLES|Not my desert.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Sir, you are music's master.
Pericles|PERICLES|The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Let me ask you one thing:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|What do you think of my daughter, sir?
Pericles|PERICLES|A most virtuous princess.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And she is fair too, is she not?
Pericles|PERICLES|As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Ay, so well, that you must be her master,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it.
Pericles|PERICLES|I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|She thinks not so, peruse this writing else.
Pericles|PERICLES|[Aside]  What's here?
Pericles|PERICLES|A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!
Pericles|PERICLES|'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life.
Pericles|PERICLES|O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,
Pericles|PERICLES|A stranger and distressed gentleman,
Pericles|PERICLES|That never aim'd so high to love your daughter,
Pericles|PERICLES|But bent all offices to honour her.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art
Pericles|SIMONIDES|A villain.
Pericles|PERICLES|By the gods, I have not:
Pericles|PERICLES|Never did thought of mine levy offence,
Pericles|PERICLES|Nor never did my actions yet commence
Pericles|PERICLES|A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Traitor, thou liest.
Pericles|PERICLES|Traitor!
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Ay, traitor.
Pericles|PERICLES|Even in his throat--unless it be the king--
Pericles|PERICLES|That calls me traitor, I return the lie.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|[Aside]  Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage.
Pericles|PERICLES|My actions are as noble as my thoughts,
Pericles|PERICLES|That never relish'd of a base descent.
Pericles|PERICLES|I came unto your court for honour's cause,
Pericles|PERICLES|And not to be a rebel to her state,
Pericles|PERICLES|And he that otherwise accounts of me,
Pericles|PERICLES|This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|No?
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Enter THAISA
Pericles|PERICLES|Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,
Pericles|PERICLES|Resolve your angry father, if my tongue
Pericles|PERICLES|Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe
Pericles|PERICLES|To any syllable that made love to you.
Pericles|THAISA|Why, sir, say if you had,
Pericles|THAISA|Who takes offence at that would make me glad?
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Aside
Pericles|SIMONIDES|I am glad on't with all my heart.--
Pericles|SIMONIDES|I'll tame you, I'll bring you in subjection.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Will you, not having my consent,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Bestow your love and your affections
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Upon a stranger?
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Aside
Pericles|SIMONIDES|who, for aught I know,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|May be, nor can I think the contrary,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|As great in blood as I myself.--
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Therefore hear you, mistress, either frame
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Man and wife:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--
Pericles|SIMONIDES|What, are you both pleased?
Pericles|THAISA|Yes, if you love me, sir.
Pericles|PERICLES|Even as my life, or blood that fosters it.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|What, are you both agreed?
Pericles|BOTH|Yes, if it please your majesty.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed,
Pericles|SIMONIDES|And then with what haste you can get you to bed.
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Exeunt
Pericles|SIMONIDES|ACT III
Pericles|SIMONIDES|Enter GOWER
Pericles|GOWER|Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout,
Pericles|GOWER|No din but snores the house about,
Pericles|GOWER|Made louder by the o'er-fed breast
Pericles|GOWER|Of this most pompous marriage-feast.
Pericles|GOWER|The cat, with eyne of burning coal,
Pericles|GOWER|Now crouches fore the mouse's hole,
Pericles|GOWER|And crickets sing at the oven's mouth,
Pericles|GOWER|E'er the blither for their drouth.
Pericles|GOWER|Hymen hath brought the bride to bed.
Pericles|GOWER|Where, by the loss of maidenhead,
Pericles|GOWER|A babe is moulded. Be attent,
Pericles|GOWER|And time that is so briefly spent
Pericles|GOWER|With your fine fancies quaintly eche:
Pericles|GOWER|What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech.
Pericles|GOWER|DUMB SHOW.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter, PERICLES and SIMONIDES at one door, with  Attendants, a Messenger meets them, kneels, and  gives PERICLES a letter: PERICLES shows it  SIMONIDES, the Lords kneel to him. Then enter  THAISA with child, with LYCHORIDA a nurse. The  KING shows her the letter, she rejoices: she and  PERICLES takes leave of her father, and depart with  LYCHORIDA and their Attendants. Then exeunt SIMONIDES and the rest
Pericles|GOWER|By many a dern and painful perch
Pericles|GOWER|Of Pericles the careful search,
Pericles|GOWER|By the four opposing coigns
Pericles|GOWER|Which the world together joins,
Pericles|GOWER|Is made with all due diligence
Pericles|GOWER|That horse and sail and high expense
Pericles|GOWER|Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,
Pericles|GOWER|Fame answering the most strange inquire,
Pericles|GOWER|To the court of King Simonides
Pericles|GOWER|Are letters brought, the tenor these:
Pericles|GOWER|Antiochus and his daughter dead,
Pericles|GOWER|The men of Tyrus on the head
Pericles|GOWER|Of Helicanus would set on
Pericles|GOWER|The crown of Tyre, but he will none:
Pericles|GOWER|The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress,
Pericles|GOWER|Says to 'em, if King Pericles
Pericles|GOWER|Come not home in twice six moons,
Pericles|GOWER|He, obedient to their dooms,
Pericles|GOWER|Will take the crown. The sum of this,
Pericles|GOWER|Brought hither to Pentapolis,
Pericles|GOWER|Y-ravished the regions round,
Pericles|GOWER|And every one with claps can sound,
Pericles|GOWER|'Our heir-apparent is a king!
Pericles|GOWER|Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?'
Pericles|GOWER|Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:
Pericles|GOWER|His queen with child makes her desire--
Pericles|GOWER|Which who shall cross?--along to go:
Pericles|GOWER|Omit we all their dole and woe:
Pericles|GOWER|Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,
Pericles|GOWER|And so to sea. Their vessel shakes
Pericles|GOWER|On Neptune's billow, half the flood
Pericles|GOWER|Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood
Pericles|GOWER|Varies again, the grisly north
Pericles|GOWER|Disgorges such a tempest forth,
Pericles|GOWER|That, as a duck for life that dives,
Pericles|GOWER|So up and down the poor ship drives:
Pericles|GOWER|The lady shrieks, and well-a-near
Pericles|GOWER|Does fall in travail with her fear:
Pericles|GOWER|And what ensues in this fell storm
Pericles|GOWER|Shall for itself itself perform.
Pericles|GOWER|I nill relate, action may
Pericles|GOWER|Conveniently the rest convey,
Pericles|GOWER|Which might not what by me is told.
Pericles|GOWER|In your imagination hold
Pericles|GOWER|This stage the ship, upon whose deck
Pericles|GOWER|The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.
Pericles|GOWER|Exit
Pericles|GOWER|SCENE I:
Pericles|GOWER|Enter PERICLES, on shipboard
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,
Pericles|PERICLES|Which wash both heaven and hell, and thou, that hast
Pericles|PERICLES|Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,
Pericles|PERICLES|Having call'd them from the deep! O, still
Pericles|PERICLES|Thy deafening, dreadful thunders, gently quench
Pericles|PERICLES|Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,
Pericles|PERICLES|How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously,
Pericles|PERICLES|Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle
Pericles|PERICLES|Is as a whisper in the ears of death,
Pericles|PERICLES|Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O
Pericles|PERICLES|Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle
Pericles|PERICLES|To those that cry by night, convey thy deity
Pericles|PERICLES|Aboard our dancing boat, make swift the pangs
Pericles|PERICLES|Of my queen's travails!
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter LYCHORIDA, with an Infant
Pericles|PERICLES|Now, Lychorida!
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Here is a thing too young for such a place,
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Am like to do: take in your arms this piece
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Of your dead queen.
Pericles|PERICLES|How, how, Lychorida!
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Patience, good sir, do not assist the storm.
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Here's all that is left living of your queen,
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|A little daughter: for the sake of it,
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Be manly, and take comfort.
Pericles|PERICLES|O you gods!
Pericles|PERICLES|Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,
Pericles|PERICLES|And snatch them straight away? We here below
Pericles|PERICLES|Recall not what we give, and therein may
Pericles|PERICLES|Use honour with you.
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Patience, good sir,
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Even for this charge.
Pericles|PERICLES|Now, mild may be thy life!
Pericles|PERICLES|For a more blustrous birth had never babe:
Pericles|PERICLES|Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world
Pericles|PERICLES|That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows!
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou hast as chiding a nativity
Pericles|PERICLES|As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,
Pericles|PERICLES|To herald thee from the womb: even at the first
Pericles|PERICLES|Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit,
Pericles|PERICLES|With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods
Pericles|PERICLES|Throw their best eyes upon't!
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter two Sailors
Pericles|First Sailor|What courage, sir? God save you!
Pericles|PERICLES|Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw,
Pericles|PERICLES|It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love
Pericles|PERICLES|Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer,
Pericles|PERICLES|I would it would be quiet.
Pericles|First Sailor|Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou?
Pericles|First Sailor|Blow, and split thyself.
Pericles|Second Sailor|But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss
Pericles|Second Sailor|the moon, I care not.
Pericles|First Sailor|Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high,
Pericles|First Sailor|the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be
Pericles|First Sailor|cleared of the dead.
Pericles|PERICLES|That's your superstition.
Pericles|First Sailor|Pardon us, sir, with us at sea it hath been still
Pericles|First Sailor|observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore
Pericles|First Sailor|briefly yield her, for she must overboard straight.
Pericles|PERICLES|As you think meet. Most wretched queen!
Pericles|LYCHORIDA|Here she lies, sir.
Pericles|PERICLES|A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear,
Pericles|PERICLES|No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements
Pericles|PERICLES|Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time
Pericles|PERICLES|To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight
Pericles|PERICLES|Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze,
Pericles|PERICLES|Where, for a monument upon thy bones,
Pericles|PERICLES|And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale
Pericles|PERICLES|And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,
Pericles|PERICLES|Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida,
Pericles|PERICLES|Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,
Pericles|PERICLES|My casket and my jewels, and bid Nicander
Pericles|PERICLES|Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe
Pericles|PERICLES|Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say
Pericles|PERICLES|A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exit LYCHORIDA
Pericles|Second Sailor|Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked
Pericles|Second Sailor|and bitumed ready.
Pericles|PERICLES|I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?
Pericles|Second Sailor|We are near Tarsus.
Pericles|PERICLES|Thither, gentle mariner.
Pericles|PERICLES|Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it?
Pericles|Second Sailor|By break of day, if the wind cease.
Pericles|PERICLES|O, make for Tarsus!
Pericles|PERICLES|There will I visit Cleon, for the babe
Pericles|PERICLES|Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it
Pericles|PERICLES|At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:
Pericles|PERICLES|I'll bring the body presently.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt
Pericles|PERICLES|SCENE II. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter CERIMON, with a Servant, and some Persons who have been shipwrecked
Pericles|CERIMON|Philemon, ho!
Pericles|CERIMON|Enter PHILEMON
Pericles|PHILEMON|Doth my lord call?
Pericles|CERIMON|Get fire and meat for these poor men:
Pericles|CERIMON|'T has been a turbulent and stormy night.
Pericles|Servant|I have been in many, but such a night as this,
Pericles|Servant|Till now, I ne'er endured.
Pericles|CERIMON|Your master will be dead ere you return,
Pericles|CERIMON|There's nothing can be minister'd to nature
Pericles|CERIMON|That can recover him.
Pericles|CERIMON|To PHILEMON
Pericles|CERIMON|Give this to the 'pothecary,
Pericles|CERIMON|And tell me how it works.
Pericles|CERIMON|Exeunt all but CERIMON
Pericles|CERIMON|Enter two Gentlemen
Pericles|First Gentleman|Good morrow.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Good morrow to your lordship.
Pericles|CERIMON|Gentlemen,
Pericles|CERIMON|Why do you stir so early?
Pericles|First Gentleman|Sir,
Pericles|First Gentleman|Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,
Pericles|First Gentleman|Shook as the earth did quake,
Pericles|First Gentleman|The very principals did seem to rend,
Pericles|First Gentleman|And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear
Pericles|First Gentleman|Made me to quit the house.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|That is the cause we trouble you so early,
Pericles|Second Gentleman|'Tis not our husbandry.
Pericles|CERIMON|O, you say well.
Pericles|First Gentleman|But I much marvel that your lordship, having
Pericles|First Gentleman|Rich tire about you, should at these early hours
Pericles|First Gentleman|Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
Pericles|First Gentleman|'Tis most strange,
Pericles|First Gentleman|Nature should be so conversant with pain,
Pericles|First Gentleman|Being thereto not compell'd.
Pericles|CERIMON|I hold it ever,
Pericles|CERIMON|Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
Pericles|CERIMON|Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs
Pericles|CERIMON|May the two latter darken and expend,
Pericles|CERIMON|But immortality attends the former.
Pericles|CERIMON|Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever
Pericles|CERIMON|Have studied physic, through which secret art,
Pericles|CERIMON|By turning o'er authorities, I have,
Pericles|CERIMON|Together with my practise, made familiar
Pericles|CERIMON|To me and to my aid the blest infusions
Pericles|CERIMON|That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones,
Pericles|CERIMON|And I can speak of the disturbances
Pericles|CERIMON|That nature works, and of her cures, which doth give me
Pericles|CERIMON|A more content in course of true delight
Pericles|CERIMON|Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,
Pericles|CERIMON|Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,
Pericles|CERIMON|To please the fool and death.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Your charity, and hundreds call themselves
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Your creatures, who by you have been restored:
Pericles|Second Gentleman|And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Enter two or three Servants with a chest
Pericles|First Servant|So, lift there.
Pericles|CERIMON|What is that?
Pericles|First Servant|Sir, even now
Pericles|First Servant|Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest:
Pericles|First Servant|'Tis of some wreck.
Pericles|CERIMON|Set 't down, let's look upon't.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|'Tis like a coffin, sir.
Pericles|CERIMON|Whate'er it be,
Pericles|CERIMON|'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight:
Pericles|CERIMON|If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold,
Pericles|CERIMON|'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|'Tis so, my lord.
Pericles|CERIMON|How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed!
Pericles|CERIMON|Did the sea cast it up?
Pericles|First Servant|I never saw so huge a billow, sir,
Pericles|First Servant|As toss'd it upon shore.
Pericles|CERIMON|Wrench it open,
Pericles|CERIMON|Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|A delicate odour.
Pericles|CERIMON|As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it.
Pericles|CERIMON|O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse!
Pericles|First Gentleman|Most strange!
Pericles|CERIMON|Shrouded in cloth of state, balm'd and entreasured
Pericles|CERIMON|With full bags of spices! A passport too!
Pericles|CERIMON|Apollo, perfect me in the characters!
Pericles|CERIMON|Reads from a scroll
Pericles|CERIMON|'Here I give to understand,
Pericles|CERIMON|If e'er this coffin drive a-land,
Pericles|CERIMON|I, King Pericles, have lost
Pericles|CERIMON|This queen, worth all our mundane cost.
Pericles|CERIMON|Who finds her, give her burying,
Pericles|CERIMON|She was the daughter of a king:
Pericles|CERIMON|Besides this treasure for a fee,
Pericles|CERIMON|The gods requite his charity!'
Pericles|CERIMON|If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart
Pericles|CERIMON|That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight.
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Most likely, sir.
Pericles|CERIMON|Nay, certainly to-night,
Pericles|CERIMON|For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough
Pericles|CERIMON|That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within:
Pericles|CERIMON|Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.
Pericles|CERIMON|Exit a Servant
Pericles|CERIMON|Death may usurp on nature many hours,
Pericles|CERIMON|And yet the fire of life kindle again
Pericles|CERIMON|The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian
Pericles|CERIMON|That had nine hours lien dead,
Pericles|CERIMON|Who was by good appliance recovered.
Pericles|CERIMON|Re-enter a Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire
Pericles|CERIMON|Well said, well said, the fire and cloths.
Pericles|CERIMON|The rough and woeful music that we have,
Pericles|CERIMON|Cause it to sound, beseech you.
Pericles|CERIMON|The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block!
Pericles|CERIMON|The music there!--I pray you, give her air.
Pericles|CERIMON|Gentlemen.
Pericles|CERIMON|This queen will live: nature awakes, a warmth
Pericles|CERIMON|Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced
Pericles|CERIMON|Above five hours: see how she gins to blow
Pericles|CERIMON|Into life's flower again!
Pericles|First Gentleman|The heavens,
Pericles|First Gentleman|Through you, increase our wonder and set up
Pericles|First Gentleman|Your fame forever.
Pericles|CERIMON|She is alive, behold,
Pericles|CERIMON|Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels
Pericles|CERIMON|Which Pericles hath lost,
Pericles|CERIMON|Begin to part their fringes of bright gold,
Pericles|CERIMON|The diamonds of a most praised water
Pericles|CERIMON|Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live,
Pericles|CERIMON|And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,
Pericles|CERIMON|Rare as you seem to be.
Pericles|CERIMON|She moves
Pericles|THAISA|O dear Diana,
Pericles|THAISA|Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this?
Pericles|Second Gentleman|Is not this strange?
Pericles|First Gentleman|Most rare.
Pericles|CERIMON|Hush, my gentle neighbours!
Pericles|CERIMON|Lend me your hands, to the next chamber bear her.
Pericles|CERIMON|Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to,
Pericles|CERIMON|For her relapse is mortal. Come, come,
Pericles|CERIMON|And AEsculapius guide us!
Pericles|CERIMON|Exeunt, carrying her away
Pericles|CERIMON|SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.
Pericles|CERIMON|Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with MARINA in her arms
Pericles|PERICLES|Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone,
Pericles|PERICLES|My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands
Pericles|PERICLES|In a litigious peace. You, and your lady,
Pericles|PERICLES|Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods
Pericles|PERICLES|Make up the rest upon you!
Pericles|CLEON|Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,
Pericles|CLEON|Yet glance full wanderingly on us.
Pericles|DIONYZA|O your sweet queen!
Pericles|DIONYZA|That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither,
Pericles|DIONYZA|To have bless'd mine eyes with her!
Pericles|PERICLES|We cannot but obey
Pericles|PERICLES|The powers above us. Could I rage and roar
Pericles|PERICLES|As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end
Pericles|PERICLES|Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom,
Pericles|PERICLES|For she was born at sea, I have named so, here
Pericles|PERICLES|I charge your charity withal, leaving her
Pericles|PERICLES|The infant of your care, beseeching you
Pericles|PERICLES|To give her princely training, that she may be
Pericles|PERICLES|Manner'd as she is born.
Pericles|CLEON|Fear not, my lord, but think
Pericles|CLEON|Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,
Pericles|CLEON|For which the people's prayers still fall upon you,
Pericles|CLEON|Must in your child be thought on. If neglection
Pericles|CLEON|Should therein make me vile, the common body,
Pericles|CLEON|By you relieved, would force me to my duty:
Pericles|CLEON|But if to that my nature need a spur,
Pericles|CLEON|The gods revenge it upon me and mine,
Pericles|CLEON|To the end of generation!
Pericles|PERICLES|I believe you,
Pericles|PERICLES|Your honour and your goodness teach me to't,
Pericles|PERICLES|Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,
Pericles|PERICLES|By bright Diana, whom we honour, all
Pericles|PERICLES|Unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain,
Pericles|PERICLES|Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave.
Pericles|PERICLES|Good madam, make me blessed in your care
Pericles|PERICLES|In bringing up my child.
Pericles|DIONYZA|I have one myself,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Who shall not be more dear to my respect
Pericles|DIONYZA|Than yours, my lord.
Pericles|PERICLES|Madam, my thanks and prayers.
Pericles|CLEON|We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore,
Pericles|CLEON|Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and
Pericles|CLEON|The gentlest winds of heaven.
Pericles|PERICLES|I will embrace
Pericles|PERICLES|Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears,
Pericles|PERICLES|Lychorida, no tears:
Pericles|PERICLES|Look to your little mistress, on whose grace
Pericles|PERICLES|You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt
Pericles|PERICLES|SCENE IV. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter CERIMON and THAISA
Pericles|CERIMON|Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,
Pericles|CERIMON|Lay with you in your coffer: which are now
Pericles|CERIMON|At your command. Know you the character?
Pericles|THAISA|It is my lord's.
Pericles|THAISA|That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,
Pericles|THAISA|Even on my eaning time, but whether there
Pericles|THAISA|Deliver'd, by the holy gods,
Pericles|THAISA|I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,
Pericles|THAISA|My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,
Pericles|THAISA|A vestal livery will I take me to,
Pericles|THAISA|And never more have joy.
Pericles|CERIMON|Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,
Pericles|CERIMON|Diana's temple is not distant far,
Pericles|CERIMON|Where you may abide till your date expire.
Pericles|CERIMON|Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine
Pericles|CERIMON|Shall there attend you.
Pericles|THAISA|My recompense is thanks, that's all,
Pericles|THAISA|Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.
Pericles|THAISA|Exeunt
Pericles|THAISA|ACT IV
Pericles|THAISA|Enter GOWER
Pericles|GOWER|Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,
Pericles|GOWER|Welcomed and settled to his own desire.
Pericles|GOWER|His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,
Pericles|GOWER|Unto Diana there a votaress.
Pericles|GOWER|Now to Marina bend your mind,
Pericles|GOWER|Whom our fast-growing scene must find
Pericles|GOWER|At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd
Pericles|GOWER|In music, letters, who hath gain'd
Pericles|GOWER|Of education all the grace,
Pericles|GOWER|Which makes her both the heart and place
Pericles|GOWER|Of general wonder. But, alack,
Pericles|GOWER|That monster envy, oft the wrack
Pericles|GOWER|Of earned praise, Marina's life
Pericles|GOWER|Seeks to take off by treason's knife.
Pericles|GOWER|And in this kind hath our Cleon
Pericles|GOWER|One daughter, and a wench full grown,
Pericles|GOWER|Even ripe for marriage-rite, this maid
Pericles|GOWER|Hight Philoten: and it is said
Pericles|GOWER|For certain in our story, she
Pericles|GOWER|Would ever with Marina be:
Pericles|GOWER|Be't when she weaved the sleided silk
Pericles|GOWER|With fingers long, small, white as milk,
Pericles|GOWER|Or when she would with sharp needle wound
Pericles|GOWER|The cambric, which she made more sound
Pericles|GOWER|By hurting it, or when to the lute
Pericles|GOWER|She sung, and made the night-bird mute,
Pericles|GOWER|That still records with moan, or when
Pericles|GOWER|She would with rich and constant pen
Pericles|GOWER|Vail to her mistress Dian, still
Pericles|GOWER|This Philoten contends in skill
Pericles|GOWER|With absolute Marina: so
Pericles|GOWER|With the dove of Paphos might the crow
Pericles|GOWER|Vie feathers white. Marina gets
Pericles|GOWER|All praises, which are paid as debts,
Pericles|GOWER|And not as given. This so darks
Pericles|GOWER|In Philoten all graceful marks,
Pericles|GOWER|That Cleon's wife, with envy rare,
Pericles|GOWER|A present murderer does prepare
Pericles|GOWER|For good Marina, that her daughter
Pericles|GOWER|Might stand peerless by this slaughter.
Pericles|GOWER|The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,
Pericles|GOWER|Lychorida, our nurse, is dead:
Pericles|GOWER|And cursed Dionyza hath
Pericles|GOWER|The pregnant instrument of wrath
Pericles|GOWER|Prest for this blow. The unborn event
Pericles|GOWER|I do commend to your content:
Pericles|GOWER|Only I carry winged time
Pericles|GOWER|Post on the lame feet of my rhyme,
Pericles|GOWER|Which never could I so convey,
Pericles|GOWER|Unless your thoughts went on my way.
Pericles|GOWER|Dionyza does appear,
Pericles|GOWER|With Leonine, a murderer.
Pericles|GOWER|Exit
Pericles|GOWER|SCENE I. Tarsus. An open place near the sea-shore.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE
Pericles|DIONYZA|Thy oath remember, thou hast sworn to do't:
Pericles|DIONYZA|'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,
Pericles|DIONYZA|To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Inflame too nicely, nor let pity, which
Pericles|DIONYZA|Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be
Pericles|DIONYZA|A soldier to thy purpose.
Pericles|LEONINE|I will do't, but yet she is a goodly creature.
Pericles|DIONYZA|The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here
Pericles|DIONYZA|she comes weeping for her only mistress' death.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Thou art resolved?
Pericles|LEONINE|I am resolved.
Pericles|LEONINE|Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers
Pericles|MARINA|No, I will rob Tellus of her weed,
Pericles|MARINA|To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues,
Pericles|MARINA|The purple violets, and marigolds,
Pericles|MARINA|Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,
Pericles|MARINA|While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid,
Pericles|MARINA|Born in a tempest, when my mother died,
Pericles|MARINA|This world to me is like a lasting storm,
Pericles|MARINA|Whirring me from my friends.
Pericles|DIONYZA|How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?
Pericles|DIONYZA|How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not
Pericles|DIONYZA|Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have
Pericles|DIONYZA|A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed
Pericles|DIONYZA|With this unprofitable woe!
Pericles|DIONYZA|Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Walk with Leonine, the air is quick there,
Pericles|DIONYZA|And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.
Pericles|MARINA|No, I pray you,
Pericles|MARINA|I'll not bereave you of your servant.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Come, come,
Pericles|DIONYZA|I love the king your father, and yourself,
Pericles|DIONYZA|With more than foreign heart. We every day
Pericles|DIONYZA|Expect him here: when he shall come and find
Pericles|DIONYZA|Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,
Pericles|DIONYZA|He will repent the breadth of his great voyage,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken
Pericles|DIONYZA|No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Walk, and be cheerful once again, reserve
Pericles|DIONYZA|That excellent complexion, which did steal
Pericles|DIONYZA|The eyes of young and old. Care not for me
Pericles|DIONYZA|I can go home alone.
Pericles|MARINA|Well, I will go,
Pericles|MARINA|But yet I have no desire to it.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Come, come, I know 'tis good for you.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least:
Pericles|DIONYZA|Remember what I have said.
Pericles|LEONINE|I warrant you, madam.
Pericles|DIONYZA|I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while:
Pericles|DIONYZA|Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood:
Pericles|DIONYZA|What! I must have a care of you.
Pericles|MARINA|My thanks, sweet madam.
Pericles|MARINA|Exit DIONYZA
Pericles|MARINA|Is this wind westerly that blows?
Pericles|LEONINE|South-west.
Pericles|MARINA|When I was born, the wind was north.
Pericles|LEONINE|Was't so?
Pericles|MARINA|My father, as nurse said, did never fear,
Pericles|MARINA|But cried 'Good seaman!' to the sailors, galling
Pericles|MARINA|His kingly hands, haling ropes,
Pericles|MARINA|And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea
Pericles|MARINA|That almost burst the deck.
Pericles|LEONINE|When was this?
Pericles|MARINA|When I was born:
Pericles|MARINA|Never was waves nor wind more violent,
Pericles|MARINA|And from the ladder-tackle washes off
Pericles|MARINA|A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, 'wilt out?'
Pericles|MARINA|And with a dropping industry they skip
Pericles|MARINA|From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and
Pericles|MARINA|The master calls, and trebles their confusion.
Pericles|LEONINE|Come, say your prayers.
Pericles|MARINA|What mean you?
Pericles|LEONINE|If you require a little space for prayer,
Pericles|LEONINE|I grant it: pray, but be not tedious,
Pericles|LEONINE|For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn
Pericles|LEONINE|To do my work with haste.
Pericles|MARINA|Why will you kill me?
Pericles|LEONINE|To satisfy my lady.
Pericles|MARINA|Why would she have me kill'd?
Pericles|MARINA|Now, as I can remember, by my troth,
Pericles|MARINA|I never did her hurt in all my life:
Pericles|MARINA|I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
Pericles|MARINA|To any living creature: believe me, la,
Pericles|MARINA|I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
Pericles|MARINA|I trod upon a worm against my will,
Pericles|MARINA|But I wept for it. How have I offended,
Pericles|MARINA|Wherein my death might yield her any profit,
Pericles|MARINA|Or my life imply her any danger?
Pericles|LEONINE|My commission
Pericles|LEONINE|Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.
Pericles|MARINA|You will not do't for all the world, I hope.
Pericles|MARINA|You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow
Pericles|MARINA|You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,
Pericles|MARINA|When you caught hurt in parting two that fought:
Pericles|MARINA|Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now:
Pericles|MARINA|Your lady seeks my life, come you between,
Pericles|MARINA|And save poor me, the weaker.
Pericles|LEONINE|I am sworn,
Pericles|LEONINE|And will dispatch.
Pericles|LEONINE|He seizes her
Pericles|LEONINE|Enter Pirates
Pericles|First Pirate|Hold, villain!
Pericles|First Pirate|LEONINE runs away
Pericles|Second Pirate|A prize! a prize!
Pericles|Third Pirate|Half-part, mates, half-part.
Pericles|Third Pirate|Come, let's have her aboard suddenly.
Pericles|Third Pirate|Exeunt Pirates with MARINA
Pericles|Third Pirate|Re-enter LEONINE
Pericles|LEONINE|These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes,
Pericles|LEONINE|And they have seized Marina. Let her go:
Pericles|LEONINE|There's no hope she will return. I'll swear
Pericles|LEONINE|she's dead,
Pericles|LEONINE|And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further:
Pericles|LEONINE|Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,
Pericles|LEONINE|Not carry her aboard. If she remain,
Pericles|LEONINE|Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain.
Pericles|LEONINE|Exit
Pericles|LEONINE|SCENE II. Mytilene. A room in a brothel.
Pericles|LEONINE|Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT
Pericles|Pandar|Boult!
Pericles|BOULT|Sir?
Pericles|Pandar|Search the market narrowly, Mytilene is full of
Pericles|Pandar|gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being
Pericles|Pandar|too wenchless.
Pericles|Bawd|We were never so much out of creatures. We have but
Pericles|Bawd|poor three, and they can do no more than they can
Pericles|Bawd|do, and they with continual action are even as good as rotten.
Pericles|Pandar|Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for
Pericles|Pandar|them. If there be not a conscience to be used in
Pericles|Pandar|every trade, we shall never prosper.
Pericles|Bawd|Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor
Pericles|Bawd|bastards,--as, I think, I have brought up some eleven--
Pericles|BOULT|Ay, to eleven, and brought them down again. But
Pericles|BOULT|shall I search the market?
Pericles|Bawd|What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind
Pericles|Bawd|will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.
Pericles|Pandar|Thou sayest true, they're too unwholesome, o'
Pericles|Pandar|conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that
Pericles|Pandar|lay with the little baggage.
Pericles|BOULT|Ay, she quickly pooped him, she made him roast-meat
Pericles|BOULT|for worms. But I'll go search the market.
Pericles|BOULT|Exit
Pericles|Pandar|Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a
Pericles|Pandar|proportion to live quietly, and so give over.
Pericles|Bawd|Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get
Pericles|Bawd|when we are old?
Pericles|Pandar|O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor
Pericles|Pandar|the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore,
Pericles|Pandar|if in our youths we could pick up some pretty
Pericles|Pandar|estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.
Pericles|Pandar|Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods
Pericles|Pandar|will be strong with us for giving over.
Pericles|Bawd|Come, other sorts offend as well as we.
Pericles|Pandar|As well as we! ay, and better too, we offend worse.
Pericles|Pandar|Neither is our profession any trade, it's no
Pericles|Pandar|calling. But here comes Boult.
Pericles|Pandar|Re-enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA
Pericles|BOULT|[To MARINA]  Come your ways. My masters, you say
Pericles|BOULT|she's a virgin?
Pericles|First Pirate|O, sir, we doubt it not.
Pericles|BOULT|Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see:
Pericles|BOULT|if you like her, so, if not, I have lost my earnest.
Pericles|Bawd|Boult, has she any qualities?
Pericles|BOULT|She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent
Pericles|BOULT|good clothes: there's no further necessity of
Pericles|BOULT|qualities can make her be refused.
Pericles|Bawd|What's her price, Boult?
Pericles|BOULT|I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.
Pericles|Pandar|Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your
Pericles|Pandar|money presently. Wife, take her in, instruct her
Pericles|Pandar|what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her
Pericles|Pandar|entertainment.
Pericles|Pandar|Exeunt Pandar and Pirates
Pericles|Bawd|Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her
Pericles|Bawd|hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her
Pericles|Bawd|virginity, and cry 'He that will give most shall
Pericles|Bawd|have her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap
Pericles|Bawd|thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done
Pericles|Bawd|as I command you.
Pericles|BOULT|Performance shall follow.
Pericles|BOULT|Exit
Pericles|MARINA|Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!
Pericles|MARINA|He should have struck, not spoke, or that these pirates,
Pericles|MARINA|Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me
Pericles|MARINA|For to seek my mother!
Pericles|Bawd|Why lament you, pretty one?
Pericles|MARINA|That I am pretty.
Pericles|Bawd|Come, the gods have done their part in you.
Pericles|MARINA|I accuse them not.
Pericles|Bawd|You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.
Pericles|MARINA|The more my fault
Pericles|MARINA|To scape his hands where I was like to die.
Pericles|Bawd|Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.
Pericles|MARINA|No.
Pericles|Bawd|Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all
Pericles|Bawd|fashions: you shall fare well, you shall have the
Pericles|Bawd|difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears?
Pericles|MARINA|Are you a woman?
Pericles|Bawd|What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?
Pericles|MARINA|An honest woman, or not a woman.
Pericles|Bawd|Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have
Pericles|Bawd|something to do with you. Come, you're a young
Pericles|Bawd|foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have
Pericles|Bawd|you.
Pericles|MARINA|The gods defend me!
Pericles|Bawd|If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men
Pericles|Bawd|must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir
Pericles|Bawd|you up. Boult's returned.
Pericles|Bawd|Re-enter BOULT
Pericles|Bawd|Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?
Pericles|BOULT|I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs,
Pericles|BOULT|I have drawn her picture with my voice.
Pericles|Bawd|And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the
Pericles|Bawd|inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort?
Pericles|BOULT|'Faith, they listened to me as they would have
Pericles|BOULT|hearkened to their father's testament. There was a
Pericles|BOULT|Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to
Pericles|BOULT|her very description.
Pericles|Bawd|We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on.
Pericles|BOULT|To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the
Pericles|BOULT|French knight that cowers i' the hams?
Pericles|Bawd|Who, Monsieur Veroles?
Pericles|BOULT|Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the
Pericles|BOULT|proclamation, but he made a groan at it, and swore
Pericles|BOULT|he would see her to-morrow.
Pericles|Bawd|Well, well, as for him, he brought his disease
Pericles|Bawd|hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will
Pericles|Bawd|come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the
Pericles|Bawd|sun.
Pericles|BOULT|Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we
Pericles|BOULT|should lodge them with this sign.
Pericles|Bawd|[To MARINA]  Pray you, come hither awhile. You
Pericles|Bawd|have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must
Pericles|Bawd|seem to do that fearfully which you commit
Pericles|Bawd|willingly, despise profit where you have most gain.
Pericles|Bawd|To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your
Pericles|Bawd|lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good
Pericles|Bawd|opinion, and that opinion a mere profit.
Pericles|MARINA|I understand you not.
Pericles|BOULT|O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these
Pericles|BOULT|blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise.
Pericles|Bawd|Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must, for your
Pericles|Bawd|bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go
Pericles|Bawd|with warrant.
Pericles|BOULT|'Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress, if
Pericles|BOULT|I have bargained for the joint,--
Pericles|Bawd|Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.
Pericles|BOULT|I may so.
Pericles|Bawd|Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the
Pericles|Bawd|manner of your garments well.
Pericles|BOULT|Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.
Pericles|Bawd|Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a
Pericles|Bawd|sojourner we have, you'll lose nothing by custom.
Pericles|Bawd|When nature flamed this piece, she meant thee a good
Pericles|Bawd|turn, therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou
Pericles|Bawd|hast the harvest out of thine own report.
Pericles|BOULT|I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake
Pericles|BOULT|the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up
Pericles|BOULT|the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night.
Pericles|Bawd|Come your ways, follow me.
Pericles|MARINA|If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
Pericles|MARINA|Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
Pericles|MARINA|Diana, aid my purpose!
Pericles|Bawd|What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us?
Pericles|Bawd|Exeunt
Pericles|Bawd|SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.
Pericles|Bawd|Enter CLEON and DIONYZA
Pericles|DIONYZA|Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
Pericles|CLEON|O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter
Pericles|CLEON|The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon!
Pericles|DIONYZA|I think
Pericles|DIONYZA|You'll turn a child again.
Pericles|CLEON|Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,
Pericles|CLEON|I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady,
Pericles|CLEON|Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess
Pericles|CLEON|To equal any single crown o' the earth
Pericles|CLEON|I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine!
Pericles|CLEON|Whom thou hast poison'd too:
Pericles|CLEON|If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness
Pericles|CLEON|Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say
Pericles|CLEON|When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
Pericles|DIONYZA|That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,
Pericles|DIONYZA|To foster it, nor ever to preserve.
Pericles|DIONYZA|She died at night, I'll say so. Who can cross it?
Pericles|DIONYZA|Unless you play the pious innocent,
Pericles|DIONYZA|And for an honest attribute cry out
Pericles|DIONYZA|'She died by foul play.'
Pericles|CLEON|O, go to. Well, well,
Pericles|CLEON|Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods
Pericles|CLEON|Do like this worst.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Be one of those that think
Pericles|DIONYZA|The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence,
Pericles|DIONYZA|And open this to Pericles. I do shame
Pericles|DIONYZA|To think of what a noble strain you are,
Pericles|DIONYZA|And of how coward a spirit.
Pericles|CLEON|To such proceeding
Pericles|CLEON|Who ever but his approbation added,
Pericles|CLEON|Though not his prime consent, he did not flow
Pericles|CLEON|From honourable sources.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Be it so, then:
Pericles|DIONYZA|Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.
Pericles|DIONYZA|She did disdain my child, and stood between
Pericles|DIONYZA|Her and her fortunes: none would look on her,
Pericles|DIONYZA|But cast their gazes on Marina's face,
Pericles|DIONYZA|Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin
Pericles|DIONYZA|Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through,
Pericles|DIONYZA|And though you call my course unnatural,
Pericles|DIONYZA|You not your child well loving, yet I find
Pericles|DIONYZA|It greets me as an enterprise of kindness
Pericles|DIONYZA|Perform'd to your sole daughter.
Pericles|CLEON|Heavens forgive it!
Pericles|DIONYZA|And as for Pericles,
Pericles|DIONYZA|What should he say? We wept after her hearse,
Pericles|DIONYZA|And yet we mourn: her monument
Pericles|DIONYZA|Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs
Pericles|DIONYZA|In glittering golden characters express
Pericles|DIONYZA|A general praise to her, and care in us
Pericles|DIONYZA|At whose expense 'tis done.
Pericles|CLEON|Thou art like the harpy,
Pericles|CLEON|Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face,
Pericles|CLEON|Seize with thine eagle's talons.
Pericles|DIONYZA|You are like one that superstitiously
Pericles|DIONYZA|Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies:
Pericles|DIONYZA|But yet I know you'll do as I advise.
Pericles|DIONYZA|Exeunt
Pericles|DIONYZA|SCENE IV:
Pericles|DIONYZA|Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA at Tarsus
Pericles|GOWER|Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short,
Pericles|GOWER|Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't,
Pericles|GOWER|Making, to take your imagination,
Pericles|GOWER|From bourn to bourn, region to region.
Pericles|GOWER|By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime
Pericles|GOWER|To use one language in each several clime
Pericles|GOWER|Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you
Pericles|GOWER|To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you,
Pericles|GOWER|The stages of our story. Pericles
Pericles|GOWER|Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,
Pericles|GOWER|Attended on by many a lord and knight.
Pericles|GOWER|To see his daughter, all his life's delight.
Pericles|GOWER|Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late
Pericles|GOWER|Advanced in time to great and high estate,
Pericles|GOWER|Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind,
Pericles|GOWER|Old Helicanus goes along behind.
Pericles|GOWER|Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
Pericles|GOWER|This king to Tarsus,--think his pilot thought,
Pericles|GOWER|So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,--
Pericles|GOWER|To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.
Pericles|GOWER|Like motes and shadows see them move awhile,
Pericles|GOWER|Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.
Pericles|GOWER|DUMB SHOW.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter PERICLES, at one door, with all his train,  CLEON and DIONYZA, at the other. CLEON shows  PERICLES the tomb, whereat PERICLES makes  lamentation, puts on sackcloth, and in a mighty passion departs. Then exeunt CLEON and DIONYZA
Pericles|GOWER|See how belief may suffer by foul show!
Pericles|GOWER|This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe,
Pericles|GOWER|And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,
Pericles|GOWER|With sighs shot through, and biggest tears
Pericles|GOWER|o'ershower'd,
Pericles|GOWER|Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears
Pericles|GOWER|Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:
Pericles|GOWER|He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears
Pericles|GOWER|A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,
Pericles|GOWER|And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit.
Pericles|GOWER|The epitaph is for Marina writ
Pericles|GOWER|By wicked Dionyza.
Pericles|GOWER|Reads the inscription on MARINA's monument
Pericles|GOWER|'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here,
Pericles|GOWER|Who wither'd in her spring of year.
Pericles|GOWER|She was of Tyrus the king's daughter,
Pericles|GOWER|On whom foul death hath made this slaughter,
Pericles|GOWER|Marina was she call'd, and at her birth,
Pericles|GOWER|Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth:
Pericles|GOWER|Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd,
Pericles|GOWER|Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd:
Pericles|GOWER|Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,
Pericles|GOWER|Make raging battery upon shores of flint.'
Pericles|GOWER|No visor does become black villany
Pericles|GOWER|So well as soft and tender flattery.
Pericles|GOWER|Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead,
Pericles|GOWER|And bear his courses to be ordered
Pericles|GOWER|By Lady Fortune, while our scene must play
Pericles|GOWER|His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day
Pericles|GOWER|In her unholy service. Patience, then,
Pericles|GOWER|And think you now are all in Mytilene.
Pericles|GOWER|Exit
Pericles|GOWER|SCENE V. Mytilene. A street before the brothel.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen
Pericles|First Gentleman|Did you ever hear the like?
Pericles|Second Gentleman|No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she
Pericles|Second Gentleman|being once gone.
Pericles|First Gentleman|But to have divinity preached there! did you ever
Pericles|First Gentleman|dream of such a thing?
Pericles|Second Gentleman|No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses:
Pericles|Second Gentleman|shall's go hear the vestals sing?
Pericles|First Gentleman|I'll do any thing now that is virtuous, but I
Pericles|First Gentleman|am out of the road of rutting for ever.
Pericles|First Gentleman|Exeunt
Pericles|First Gentleman|SCENE VI. The same. A room in the brothel.
Pericles|First Gentleman|Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT
Pericles|Pandar|Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she
Pericles|Pandar|had ne'er come here.
Pericles|Bawd|Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god
Pericles|Bawd|Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must
Pericles|Bawd|either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she
Pericles|Bawd|should do for clients her fitment, and do me the
Pericles|Bawd|kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks,
Pericles|Bawd|her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her
Pericles|Bawd|knees, that she would make a puritan of the devil,
Pericles|Bawd|if he should cheapen a kiss of her.
Pericles|BOULT|'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us
Pericles|BOULT|of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.
Pericles|Pandar|Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!
Pericles|Bawd|'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the
Pericles|Bawd|way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised.
Pericles|BOULT|We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish
Pericles|BOULT|baggage would but give way to customers.
Pericles|BOULT|Enter LYSIMACHUS
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|How now! How a dozen of virginities?
Pericles|Bawd|Now, the gods to-bless your honour!
Pericles|BOULT|I am glad to see your honour in good health.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|You may so, 'tis the better for you that your
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|resorters stand upon sound legs. How now!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|withal, and defy the surgeon?
Pericles|Bawd|We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never
Pericles|Bawd|came her like in Mytilene.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say.
Pericles|Bawd|Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Well, call forth, call forth.
Pericles|BOULT|For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall
Pericles|BOULT|see a rose, and she were a rose indeed, if she had but--
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|What, prithee?
Pericles|BOULT|O, sir, I can be modest.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|gives a good report to a number to be chaste.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Exit BOULT
Pericles|Bawd|Here comes that which grows to the stalk, never
Pericles|Bawd|plucked yet, I can assure you.
Pericles|Bawd|Re-enter BOULT with MARINA
Pericles|Bawd|Is she not a fair creature?
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Well, there's for you: leave us.
Pericles|Bawd|I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and
Pericles|Bawd|I'll have done presently.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I beseech you, do.
Pericles|Bawd|[To MARINA]  First, I would have you note, this is
Pericles|Bawd|an honourable man.
Pericles|MARINA|I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.
Pericles|Bawd|Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man
Pericles|Bawd|whom I am bound to.
Pericles|MARINA|If he govern the country, you are bound to him
Pericles|MARINA|indeed, but how honourable he is in that, I know not.
Pericles|Bawd|Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will
Pericles|Bawd|you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold.
Pericles|MARINA|What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Ha' you done?
Pericles|Bawd|My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some
Pericles|Bawd|pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will
Pericles|Bawd|leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways.
Pericles|Bawd|Exeunt Bawd, Pandar, and BOULT
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?
Pericles|MARINA|What trade, sir?
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend.
Pericles|MARINA|I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|How long have you been of this profession?
Pericles|MARINA|E'er since I can remember.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|five or at seven?
Pericles|MARINA|Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|creature of sale.
Pericles|MARINA|Do you know this house to be a place of such resort,
Pericles|MARINA|and will come into 't? I hear say you are of
Pericles|MARINA|honourable parts, and are the governor of this place.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?
Pericles|MARINA|Who is my principal?
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Why, your herb-woman, she that sets seeds and roots
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place:
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|come, come.
Pericles|MARINA|If you were born to honour, show it now,
Pericles|MARINA|If put upon you, make the judgment good
Pericles|MARINA|That thought you worthy of it.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|How's this? how's this? Some more, be sage.
Pericles|MARINA|For me,
Pericles|MARINA|That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune
Pericles|MARINA|Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came,
Pericles|MARINA|Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,
Pericles|MARINA|O, that the gods
Pericles|MARINA|Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
Pericles|MARINA|Though they did change me to the meanest bird
Pericles|MARINA|That flies i' the purer air!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I did not think
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Thou couldst have spoke so well, ne'er dream'd thou couldst.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here's gold for thee:
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Persever in that clear way thou goest,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|And the gods strengthen thee!
Pericles|MARINA|The good gods preserve you!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|For me, be you thoughten
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|That I came with no ill intent, for to me
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|The very doors and windows savour vilely.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Hold, here's more gold for thee.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|A curse upon him, die he like a thief,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Re-enter BOULT
Pericles|BOULT|I beseech your honour, one piece for me.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Exit
Pericles|BOULT|How's this? We must take another course with you.
Pericles|BOULT|If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a
Pericles|BOULT|breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope,
Pericles|BOULT|shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like
Pericles|BOULT|a spaniel. Come your ways.
Pericles|MARINA|Whither would you have me?
Pericles|BOULT|I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common
Pericles|BOULT|hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll
Pericles|BOULT|have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say.
Pericles|BOULT|Re-enter Bawd
Pericles|Bawd|How now! what's the matter?
Pericles|BOULT|Worse and worse, mistress, she has here spoken holy
Pericles|BOULT|words to the Lord Lysimachus.
Pericles|Bawd|O abominable!
Pericles|BOULT|She makes our profession as it were to stink afore
Pericles|BOULT|the face of the gods.
Pericles|Bawd|Marry, hang her up for ever!
Pericles|BOULT|The nobleman would have dealt with her like a
Pericles|BOULT|nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a
Pericles|BOULT|snowball, saying his prayers too.
Pericles|Bawd|Boult, take her away, use her at thy pleasure:
Pericles|Bawd|crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable.
Pericles|BOULT|An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she
Pericles|BOULT|is, she shall be ploughed.
Pericles|MARINA|Hark, hark, you gods!
Pericles|Bawd|She conjures: away with her! Would she had never
Pericles|Bawd|come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born
Pericles|Bawd|to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind?
Pericles|Bawd|Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays!
Pericles|Bawd|Exit
Pericles|BOULT|Come, mistress, come your ways with me.
Pericles|MARINA|Whither wilt thou have me?
Pericles|BOULT|To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.
Pericles|MARINA|Prithee, tell me one thing first.
Pericles|BOULT|Come now, your one thing.
Pericles|MARINA|What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?
Pericles|BOULT|Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress.
Pericles|MARINA|Neither of these are so bad as thou art,
Pericles|MARINA|Since they do better thee in their command.
Pericles|MARINA|Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend
Pericles|MARINA|Of hell would not in reputation change:
Pericles|MARINA|Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every
Pericles|MARINA|Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib,
Pericles|MARINA|To the choleric fisting of every rogue
Pericles|MARINA|Thy ear is liable, thy food is such
Pericles|MARINA|As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.
Pericles|BOULT|What would you have me do? go to the wars, would
Pericles|BOULT|you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss
Pericles|BOULT|of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to
Pericles|BOULT|buy him a wooden one?
Pericles|MARINA|Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty
Pericles|MARINA|OLD receptacles, or common shores, of filth,
Pericles|MARINA|Serve by indenture to the common hangman:
Pericles|MARINA|Any of these ways are yet better than this,
Pericles|MARINA|For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,
Pericles|MARINA|Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods
Pericles|MARINA|Would safely deliver me from this place!
Pericles|MARINA|Here, here's gold for thee.
Pericles|MARINA|If that thy master would gain by thee,
Pericles|MARINA|Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
Pericles|MARINA|With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast:
Pericles|MARINA|And I will undertake all these to teach.
Pericles|MARINA|I doubt not but this populous city will
Pericles|MARINA|Yield many scholars.
Pericles|BOULT|But can you teach all this you speak of?
Pericles|MARINA|Prove that I cannot, take me home again,
Pericles|MARINA|And prostitute me to the basest groom
Pericles|MARINA|That doth frequent your house.
Pericles|BOULT|Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can
Pericles|BOULT|place thee, I will.
Pericles|MARINA|But amongst honest women.
Pericles|BOULT|'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them.
Pericles|BOULT|But since my master and mistress have bought you,
Pericles|BOULT|there's no going but by their consent: therefore I
Pericles|BOULT|will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I
Pericles|BOULT|doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough.
Pericles|BOULT|Come, I'll do for thee what I can, come your ways.
Pericles|BOULT|Exeunt
Pericles|BOULT|ACT V
Pericles|BOULT|Enter GOWER
Pericles|GOWER|Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances
Pericles|GOWER|Into an honest house, our story says.
Pericles|GOWER|She sings like one immortal, and she dances
Pericles|GOWER|As goddess-like to her admired lays,
Pericles|GOWER|Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her needle composes
Pericles|GOWER|Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
Pericles|GOWER|That even her art sisters the natural roses,
Pericles|GOWER|Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:
Pericles|GOWER|That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
Pericles|GOWER|Who pour their bounty on her, and her gain
Pericles|GOWER|She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place,
Pericles|GOWER|And to her father turn our thoughts again,
Pericles|GOWER|Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost,
Pericles|GOWER|Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived
Pericles|GOWER|Here where his daughter dwells, and on this coast
Pericles|GOWER|Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived
Pericles|GOWER|God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence
Pericles|GOWER|Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
Pericles|GOWER|His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense,
Pericles|GOWER|And to him in his barge with fervor hies.
Pericles|GOWER|In your supposing once more put your sight
Pericles|GOWER|Of heavy Pericles, think this his bark:
Pericles|GOWER|Where what is done in action, more, if might,
Pericles|GOWER|Shall be discover'd, please you, sit and hark.
Pericles|GOWER|Exit
Pericles|GOWER|SCENE I. On board PERICLES' ship, off Mytilene. A close
Pericles|GOWER|pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it, PERICLES
Pericles|GOWER|within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying
Pericles|GOWER|beside the Tyrian vessel.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge, to them HELICANUS
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|[To the Sailor of Mytilene]  Where is lord Helicanus?
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|he can resolve you.
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|O, here he is.
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|And in it is Lysimachus the governor,
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?
Pericles|HELICANUS|That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|Enter two or three Gentlemen
Pericles|First Gentleman|Doth your lordship call?
Pericles|HELICANUS|Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard,
Pericles|HELICANUS|I pray ye, greet them fairly.
Pericles|HELICANUS|The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go on board the barge
Pericles|HELICANUS|Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and Lords, with the Gentlemen and the two Sailors
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|Sir,
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|This is the man that can, in aught you would,
Pericles|Tyrian Sailor|Resolve you.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!
Pericles|HELICANUS|And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,
Pericles|HELICANUS|And die as I would do.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|You wish me well.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I made to it, to know of whence you are.
Pericles|HELICANUS|First, what is your place?
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I am the governor of this place you lie before.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Sir,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king,
Pericles|HELICANUS|A man who for this three months hath not spoken
Pericles|HELICANUS|To any one, nor taken sustenance
Pericles|HELICANUS|But to prorogue his grief.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Upon what ground is his distemperature?
Pericles|HELICANUS|'Twould be too tedious to repeat,
Pericles|HELICANUS|But the main grief springs from the loss
Pericles|HELICANUS|Of a beloved daughter and a wife.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|May we not see him?
Pericles|HELICANUS|You may,
Pericles|HELICANUS|But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Yet let me obtain my wish.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Behold him.
Pericles|HELICANUS|PERICLES discovered
Pericles|HELICANUS|This was a goodly person,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Till the disaster that, one mortal night,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Drove him to this.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Hail, royal sir!
Pericles|HELICANUS|It is in vain, he will not speak to you.
Pericles|First Lord|Sir,
Pericles|First Lord|We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,
Pericles|First Lord|Would win some words of him.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|'Tis well bethought.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|She questionless with her sweet harmony
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|And other chosen attractions, would allure,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|And make a battery through his deafen'd parts,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Which now are midway stopp'd:
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|She is all happy as the fairest of all,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|And, with her fellow maids is now upon
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|The leafy shelter that abuts against
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|The island's side.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of LYSIMACHUS
Pericles|HELICANUS|Sure, all's effectless, yet nothing we'll omit
Pericles|HELICANUS|That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness
Pericles|HELICANUS|We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you
Pericles|HELICANUS|That for our gold we may provision have,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Wherein we are not destitute for want,
Pericles|HELICANUS|But weary for the staleness.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|O, sir, a courtesy
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Which if we should deny, the most just gods
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|For every graff would send a caterpillar,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|And so afflict our province. Yet once more
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Let me entreat to know at large the cause
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Of your king's sorrow.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Sit, sir, I will recount it to you:
Pericles|HELICANUS|But, see, I am prevented.
Pericles|HELICANUS|Re-enter, from the barge, Lord, with MARINA, and a young Lady
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|O, here is
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Is't not a goodly presence?
Pericles|HELICANUS|She's a gallant lady.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|She's such a one, that, were I well assured
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Expect even here, where is a kingly patient:
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|If that thy prosperous and artificial feat
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|As thy desires can wish.
Pericles|MARINA|Sir, I will use
Pericles|MARINA|My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided
Pericles|MARINA|That none but I and my companion maid
Pericles|MARINA|Be suffer'd to come near him.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Come, let us leave her,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|And the gods make her prosperous!
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|MARINA sings
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Mark'd he your music?
Pericles|MARINA|No, nor look'd on us.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|See, she will speak to him.
Pericles|MARINA|Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear.
Pericles|PERICLES|Hum, ha!
Pericles|MARINA|I am a maid,
Pericles|MARINA|My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,
Pericles|MARINA|But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks,
Pericles|MARINA|My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief
Pericles|MARINA|Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd.
Pericles|MARINA|Though wayward fortune did malign my state,
Pericles|MARINA|My derivation was from ancestors
Pericles|MARINA|Who stood equivalent with mighty kings:
Pericles|MARINA|But time hath rooted out my parentage,
Pericles|MARINA|And to the world and awkward casualties
Pericles|MARINA|Bound me in servitude.
Pericles|MARINA|Aside
Pericles|MARINA|I will desist,
Pericles|MARINA|But there is something glows upon my cheek,
Pericles|MARINA|And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.'
Pericles|PERICLES|My fortunes--parentage--good parentage--
Pericles|PERICLES|To equal mine!--was it not thus? what say you?
Pericles|MARINA|I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,
Pericles|MARINA|You would not do me violence.
Pericles|PERICLES|I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.
Pericles|PERICLES|You are like something that--What country-woman?
Pericles|PERICLES|Here of these shores?
Pericles|MARINA|No, nor of any shores:
Pericles|MARINA|Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
Pericles|MARINA|No other than I appear.
Pericles|PERICLES|I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.
Pericles|PERICLES|My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one
Pericles|PERICLES|My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows,
Pericles|PERICLES|Her stature to an inch, as wand-like straight,
Pericles|PERICLES|As silver-voiced, her eyes as jewel-like
Pericles|PERICLES|And cased as richly, in pace another Juno,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry,
Pericles|PERICLES|The more she gives them speech. Where do you live?
Pericles|MARINA|Where I am but a stranger: from the deck
Pericles|MARINA|You may discern the place.
Pericles|PERICLES|Where were you bred?
Pericles|PERICLES|And how achieved you these endowments, which
Pericles|PERICLES|You make more rich to owe?
Pericles|MARINA|If I should tell my history, it would seem
Pericles|MARINA|Like lies disdain'd in the reporting.
Pericles|PERICLES|Prithee, speak:
Pericles|PERICLES|Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st
Pericles|PERICLES|Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace
Pericles|PERICLES|For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will
Pericles|PERICLES|believe thee,
Pericles|PERICLES|And make my senses credit thy relation
Pericles|PERICLES|To points that seem impossible, for thou look'st
Pericles|PERICLES|Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?
Pericles|PERICLES|Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back--
Pericles|PERICLES|Which was when I perceived thee--that thou camest
Pericles|PERICLES|From good descending?
Pericles|MARINA|So indeed I did.
Pericles|PERICLES|Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury,
Pericles|PERICLES|And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,
Pericles|PERICLES|If both were open'd.
Pericles|MARINA|Some such thing
Pericles|MARINA|I said, and said no more but what my thoughts
Pericles|MARINA|Did warrant me was likely.
Pericles|PERICLES|Tell thy story,
Pericles|PERICLES|If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part
Pericles|PERICLES|Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I
Pericles|PERICLES|Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look
Pericles|PERICLES|Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Pericles|PERICLES|Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?
Pericles|PERICLES|How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?
Pericles|PERICLES|Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me.
Pericles|MARINA|My name is Marina.
Pericles|PERICLES|O, I am mock'd,
Pericles|PERICLES|And thou by some incensed god sent hither
Pericles|PERICLES|To make the world to laugh at me.
Pericles|MARINA|Patience, good sir,
Pericles|MARINA|Or here I'll cease.
Pericles|PERICLES|Nay, I'll be patient.
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me,
Pericles|PERICLES|To call thyself Marina.
Pericles|MARINA|The name
Pericles|MARINA|Was given me by one that had some power,
Pericles|MARINA|My father, and a king.
Pericles|PERICLES|How! a king's daughter?
Pericles|PERICLES|And call'd Marina?
Pericles|MARINA|You said you would believe me,
Pericles|MARINA|But, not to be a troubler of your peace,
Pericles|MARINA|I will end here.
Pericles|PERICLES|But are you flesh and blood?
Pericles|PERICLES|Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?
Pericles|PERICLES|Motion! Well, speak on. Where were you born?
Pericles|PERICLES|And wherefore call'd Marina?
Pericles|MARINA|Call'd Marina
Pericles|MARINA|For I was born at sea.
Pericles|PERICLES|At sea! what mother?
Pericles|MARINA|My mother was the daughter of a king,
Pericles|MARINA|Who died the minute I was born,
Pericles|MARINA|As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft
Pericles|MARINA|Deliver'd weeping.
Pericles|PERICLES|O, stop there a little!
Pericles|PERICLES|Aside
Pericles|PERICLES|This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Pericles|PERICLES|Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be:
Pericles|PERICLES|My daughter's buried. Well: where were you bred?
Pericles|PERICLES|I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,
Pericles|PERICLES|And never interrupt you.
Pericles|MARINA|You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er.
Pericles|PERICLES|I will believe you by the syllable
Pericles|PERICLES|Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:
Pericles|PERICLES|How came you in these parts? where were you bred?
Pericles|MARINA|The king my father did in Tarsus leave me,
Pericles|MARINA|Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
Pericles|MARINA|Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd
Pericles|MARINA|A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't,
Pericles|MARINA|A crew of pirates came and rescued me,
Pericles|MARINA|Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,
Pericles|MARINA|Whither will you have me? Why do you weep?
Pericles|MARINA|It may be,
Pericles|MARINA|You think me an impostor: no, good faith,
Pericles|MARINA|I am the daughter to King Pericles,
Pericles|MARINA|If good King Pericles be.
Pericles|PERICLES|Ho, Helicanus!
Pericles|HELICANUS|Calls my lord?
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,
Pericles|PERICLES|Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst,
Pericles|PERICLES|What this maid is, or what is like to be,
Pericles|PERICLES|That thus hath made me weep?
Pericles|HELICANUS|I know not, but
Pericles|HELICANUS|Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene
Pericles|HELICANUS|Speaks nobly of her.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|She would never tell
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Her parentage, being demanded that,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|She would sit still and weep.
Pericles|PERICLES|O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir,
Pericles|PERICLES|Give me a gash, put me to present pain,
Pericles|PERICLES|Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
Pericles|PERICLES|O'erbear the shores of my mortality,
Pericles|PERICLES|And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget,
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,
Pericles|PERICLES|And found at sea again! O Helicanus,
Pericles|PERICLES|Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud
Pericles|PERICLES|As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.
Pericles|PERICLES|What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,
Pericles|PERICLES|For truth can never be confirm'd enough,
Pericles|PERICLES|Though doubts did ever sleep.
Pericles|MARINA|First, sir, I pray,
Pericles|MARINA|What is your title?
Pericles|PERICLES|I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now
Pericles|PERICLES|My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said
Pericles|PERICLES|Thou hast been godlike perfect,
Pericles|PERICLES|The heir of kingdoms and another like
Pericles|PERICLES|To Pericles thy father.
Pericles|MARINA|Is it no more to be your daughter than
Pericles|MARINA|To say my mother's name was Thaisa?
Pericles|MARINA|Thaisa was my mother, who did end
Pericles|MARINA|The minute I began.
Pericles|PERICLES|Now, blessing on thee! rise, thou art my child.
Pericles|PERICLES|Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus,
Pericles|PERICLES|She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
Pericles|PERICLES|By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all,
Pericles|PERICLES|When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
Pericles|PERICLES|She is thy very princess. Who is this?
Pericles|HELICANUS|Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
Pericles|HELICANUS|Did come to see you.
Pericles|PERICLES|I embrace you.
Pericles|PERICLES|Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding.
Pericles|PERICLES|O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music?
Pericles|PERICLES|Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him
Pericles|PERICLES|O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,
Pericles|PERICLES|How sure you are my daughter. But, what music?
Pericles|HELICANUS|My lord, I hear none.
Pericles|PERICLES|None!
Pericles|PERICLES|The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|It is not good to cross him, give him way.
Pericles|PERICLES|Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|My lord, I hear.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Music
Pericles|PERICLES|Most heavenly music!
Pericles|PERICLES|It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber
Pericles|PERICLES|Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest.
Pericles|PERICLES|Sleeps
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|A pillow for his head:
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|If this but answer to my just belief,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I'll well remember you.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Exeunt all but PERICLES
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision
Pericles|DIANA|My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither,
Pericles|DIANA|And do upon mine altar sacrifice.
Pericles|DIANA|There, when my maiden priests are met together,
Pericles|DIANA|Before the people all,
Pericles|DIANA|Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:
Pericles|DIANA|To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call
Pericles|DIANA|And give them repetition to the life.
Pericles|DIANA|Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe,
Pericles|DIANA|Do it, and happy, by my silver bow!
Pericles|DIANA|Awake, and tell thy dream.
Pericles|DIANA|Disappears
Pericles|PERICLES|Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
Pericles|PERICLES|I will obey thee. Helicanus!
Pericles|PERICLES|Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA
Pericles|HELICANUS|Sir?
Pericles|PERICLES|My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike
Pericles|PERICLES|The inhospitable Cleon, but I am
Pericles|PERICLES|For other service first: toward Ephesus
Pericles|PERICLES|Turn our blown sails, eftsoons I'll tell thee why.
Pericles|PERICLES|To LYSIMACHUS
Pericles|PERICLES|Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
Pericles|PERICLES|And give you gold for such provision
Pericles|PERICLES|As our intents will need?
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Sir,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|With all my heart, and, when you come ashore,
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|I have another suit.
Pericles|PERICLES|You shall prevail,
Pericles|PERICLES|Were it to woo my daughter, for it seems
Pericles|PERICLES|You have been noble towards her.
Pericles|LYSIMACHUS|Sir, lend me your arm.
Pericles|PERICLES|Come, my Marina.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt
Pericles|PERICLES|SCENE II:
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter GOWER, before the temple of DIANA at Ephesus
Pericles|GOWER|Now our sands are almost run,
Pericles|GOWER|More a little, and then dumb.
Pericles|GOWER|This, my last boon, give me,
Pericles|GOWER|For such kindness must relieve me,
Pericles|GOWER|That you aptly will suppose
Pericles|GOWER|What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
Pericles|GOWER|What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
Pericles|GOWER|The regent made in Mytilene
Pericles|GOWER|To greet the king. So he thrived,
Pericles|GOWER|That he is promised to be wived
Pericles|GOWER|To fair Marina, but in no wise
Pericles|GOWER|Till he had done his sacrifice,
Pericles|GOWER|As Dian bade: whereto being bound,
Pericles|GOWER|The interim, pray you, all confound.
Pericles|GOWER|In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,
Pericles|GOWER|And wishes fall out as they're will'd.
Pericles|GOWER|At Ephesus, the temple see,
Pericles|GOWER|Our king and all his company.
Pericles|GOWER|That he can hither come so soon,
Pericles|GOWER|Is by your fancy's thankful doom.
Pericles|GOWER|Exit
Pericles|GOWER|SCENE III. The temple of Diana at Ephesus, THAISA standing
Pericles|GOWER|near the altar, as high priestess, a number of
Pericles|GOWER|Virgins on each side, CERIMON and other Inhabitants
Pericles|GOWER|of Ephesus attending.
Pericles|GOWER|Enter PERICLES, with his train, LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady
Pericles|PERICLES|Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,
Pericles|PERICLES|I here confess myself the king of Tyre,
Pericles|PERICLES|Who, frighted from my country, did wed
Pericles|PERICLES|At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.
Pericles|PERICLES|At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
Pericles|PERICLES|A maid-child call'd Marina, who, O goddess,
Pericles|PERICLES|Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus
Pericles|PERICLES|Was nursed with Cleon, who at fourteen years
Pericles|PERICLES|He sought to murder: but her better stars
Pericles|PERICLES|Brought her to Mytilene, 'gainst whose shore
Pericles|PERICLES|Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
Pericles|PERICLES|Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
Pericles|PERICLES|Made known herself my daughter.
Pericles|THAISA|Voice and favour!
Pericles|THAISA|You are, you are--O royal Pericles!
Pericles|THAISA|Faints
Pericles|PERICLES|What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!
Pericles|CERIMON|Noble sir,
Pericles|CERIMON|If you have told Diana's altar true,
Pericles|CERIMON|This is your wife.
Pericles|PERICLES|Reverend appearer, no,
Pericles|PERICLES|I threw her overboard with these very arms.
Pericles|CERIMON|Upon this coast, I warrant you.
Pericles|PERICLES|'Tis most certain.
Pericles|CERIMON|Look to the lady, O, she's but o'erjoy'd.
Pericles|CERIMON|Early in blustering morn this lady was
Pericles|CERIMON|Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,
Pericles|CERIMON|Found there rich jewels, recover'd her, and placed her
Pericles|CERIMON|Here in Diana's temple.
Pericles|PERICLES|May we see them?
Pericles|CERIMON|Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,
Pericles|CERIMON|Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered.
Pericles|THAISA|O, let me look!
Pericles|THAISA|If he be none of mine, my sanctity
Pericles|THAISA|Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
Pericles|THAISA|But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Pericles|THAISA|Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,
Pericles|THAISA|Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,
Pericles|THAISA|A birth, and death?
Pericles|PERICLES|The voice of dead Thaisa!
Pericles|THAISA|That Thaisa am I, supposed dead
Pericles|THAISA|And drown'd.
Pericles|PERICLES|Immortal Dian!
Pericles|THAISA|Now I know you better.
Pericles|THAISA|When we with tears parted Pentapolis,
Pericles|THAISA|The king my father gave you such a ring.
Pericles|THAISA|Shows a ring
Pericles|PERICLES|This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness
Pericles|PERICLES|Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,
Pericles|PERICLES|That on the touching of her lips I may
Pericles|PERICLES|Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried
Pericles|PERICLES|A second time within these arms.
Pericles|MARINA|My heart
Pericles|MARINA|Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.
Pericles|MARINA|Kneels to THAISA
Pericles|PERICLES|Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa,
Pericles|PERICLES|Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina
Pericles|PERICLES|For she was yielded there.
Pericles|THAISA|Blest, and mine own!
Pericles|HELICANUS|Hail, madam, and my queen!
Pericles|THAISA|I know you not.
Pericles|PERICLES|You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,
Pericles|PERICLES|I left behind an ancient substitute:
Pericles|PERICLES|Can you remember what I call'd the man?
Pericles|PERICLES|I have named him oft.
Pericles|THAISA|'Twas Helicanus then.
Pericles|PERICLES|Still confirmation:
Pericles|PERICLES|Embrace him, dear Thaisa, this is he.
Pericles|PERICLES|Now do I long to hear how you were found,
Pericles|PERICLES|How possibly preserved, and who to thank,
Pericles|PERICLES|Besides the gods, for this great miracle.
Pericles|THAISA|Lord Cerimon, my lord, this man,
Pericles|THAISA|Through whom the gods have shown their power, that can
Pericles|THAISA|From first to last resolve you.
Pericles|PERICLES|Reverend sir,
Pericles|PERICLES|The gods can have no mortal officer
Pericles|PERICLES|More like a god than you. Will you deliver
Pericles|PERICLES|How this dead queen re-lives?
Pericles|CERIMON|I will, my lord.
Pericles|CERIMON|Beseech you, first go with me to my house,
Pericles|CERIMON|Where shall be shown you all was found with her,
Pericles|CERIMON|How she came placed here in the temple,
Pericles|CERIMON|No needful thing omitted.
Pericles|PERICLES|Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I
Pericles|PERICLES|Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,
Pericles|PERICLES|This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,
Pericles|PERICLES|Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,
Pericles|PERICLES|This ornament
Pericles|PERICLES|Makes me look dismal will I clip to form,
Pericles|PERICLES|And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd,
Pericles|PERICLES|To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.
Pericles|THAISA|Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,
Pericles|THAISA|My father's dead.
Pericles|PERICLES|Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
Pericles|PERICLES|We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
Pericles|PERICLES|Will in that kingdom spend our following days:
Pericles|PERICLES|Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Pericles|PERICLES|Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
Pericles|PERICLES|To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way.
Pericles|PERICLES|Exeunt
Pericles|PERICLES|Enter GOWER
Pericles|GOWER|In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
Pericles|GOWER|Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:
Pericles|GOWER|In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,
Pericles|GOWER|Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen,
Pericles|GOWER|Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,
Pericles|GOWER|Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last:
Pericles|GOWER|In Helicanus may you well descry
Pericles|GOWER|A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:
Pericles|GOWER|In reverend Cerimon there well appears
Pericles|GOWER|The worth that learned charity aye wears:
Pericles|GOWER|For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Pericles|GOWER|Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name
Pericles|GOWER|Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
Pericles|GOWER|That him and his they in his palace burn,
Pericles|GOWER|The gods for murder seemed so content
Pericles|GOWER|To punish them, although not done, but meant.
Pericles|GOWER|So, on your patience evermore attending,
Pericles|GOWER|New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.
Pericles|GOWER|Exit
Richard II|GOWER|ACT I
Richard II|GOWER|SCENE I. London. KING RICHARD II's palace.
Richard II|GOWER|Enter KING RICHARD II, JOHN OF GAUNT, with other Nobles and Attendants
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Here to make good the boisterous late appeal,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which then our leisure would not let us hear,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|I have, my liege.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|If he appeal the duke on ancient malice,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Or worthily, as a good subject should,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|On some known ground of treachery in him?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|As near as I could sift him on that argument,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|On some apparent danger seen in him
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Aim'd at your highness, no inveterate malice.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Then call them to our presence, face to face,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The accuser and the accused freely speak:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and THOMAS MOWBRAY
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Many years of happy days befal
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Each day still better other's happiness,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Add an immortal title to your crown!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We thank you both: yet one but flatters us,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As well appeareth by the cause you come,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Namely to appeal each other of high treason.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|First, heaven be the record to my speech!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|In the devotion of a subject's love,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Tendering the precious safety of my prince,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And free from other misbegotten hate,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Come I appellant to this princely presence.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And mark my greeting well, for what I speak
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My body shall make good upon this earth,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Thou art a traitor and a miscreant,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Too good to be so and too bad to live,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Once more, the more to aggravate the note,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|'Tis not the trial of a woman's war,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The blood is hot that must be cool'd for this:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Yet can I not of such tame patience boast
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|As to be hush'd and nought at all to say:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|From giving reins and spurs to my free speech,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Which else would post until it had return'd
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|These terms of treason doubled down his throat.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Setting aside his high blood's royalty,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And let him be no kinsman to my liege,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|I do defy him, and I spit at him,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Call him a slanderous coward and a villain:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Which to maintain I would allow him odds,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And meet him, were I tied to run afoot
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Or any other ground inhabitable,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Where ever Englishman durst set his foot.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Mean time let this defend my loyalty,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Pale trembling coward, there I throw my gage,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Disclaiming here the kindred of the king,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And lay aside my high blood's royalty,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|If guilty dread have left thee so much strength
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As to take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|By that and all the rites of knighthood else,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|I take it up, and by that sword I swear
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|I'll answer thee in any fair degree,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Or chivalrous design of knightly trial:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And when I mount, alive may I not light,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|If I be traitor or unjustly fight!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|It must be great that can inherit us
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So much as of a thought of ill in him.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Like a false traitor and injurious villain.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Besides I say and will in battle prove,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That ever was survey'd by English eye,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That all the treasons for these eighteen years
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Complotted and contrived in this land
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Further I say and further will maintain
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Upon his bad life to make all this good,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And consequently, like a traitor coward,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To me for justice and rough chastisement,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And, by the glorious worth of my descent,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How high a pitch his resolution soars!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thomas of Norfolk, what say'st thou to this?
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|O, let my sovereign turn away his face
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And bid his ears a little while be deaf,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Till I have told this slander of his blood,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|How God and good men hate so foul a liar.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As he is but my father's brother's son,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Now, by my sceptre's awe, I make a vow,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The unstooping firmness of my upright soul:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|He is our subject, Mowbray, so art thou:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Free speech and fearless I to thee allow.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Disbursed I duly to his highness' soldiers,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The other part reserved I by consent,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|For that my sovereign liege was in my debt
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Upon remainder of a dear account,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Since last I went to France to fetch his queen:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Now swallow down that lie. For Gloucester's death,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|I slew him not, but to my own disgrace
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Neglected my sworn duty in that case.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|For you, my noble Lord of Lancaster,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The honourable father to my foe
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Once did I lay an ambush for your life,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|But ere I last received the sacrament
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|I did confess it, and exactly begg'd
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Your grace's pardon, and I hope I had it.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|This is my fault: as for the rest appeall'd,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|It issues from the rancour of a villain,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|A recreant and most degenerate traitor
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Which in myself I boldly will defend,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And interchangeably hurl down my gage
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Upon this overweening traitor's foot,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|To prove myself a loyal gentleman
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|In haste whereof, most heartily I pray
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Your highness to assign our trial day.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Let's purge this choler without letting blood:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This we prescribe, though no physician,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Deep malice makes too deep incision,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Good uncle, let this end where it begun,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|To be a make-peace shall become my age:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And, Norfolk, throw down his.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|When, Harry, when?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Obedience bids I should not bid again.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Norfolk, throw down, we bid, there is no boot.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|My life thou shalt command, but not my shame:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The one my duty owes, but my fair name,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Despite of death that lives upon my grave,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Which breathed this poison.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Rage must be withstood:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Give me his gage: lions make leopards tame.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The purest treasure mortal times afford
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Is spotless reputation: that away,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Mine honour is my life, both grow in one:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Take honour from me, and my life is done:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|In that I live and for that will I die.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Cousin, throw up your gage, do you begin.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|O, God defend my soul from such deep sin!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father's sight?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Before this out-dared dastard? Ere my tongue
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The slavish motive of recanting fear,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exit JOHN OF GAUNT
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We were not born to sue, but to command,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which since we cannot do to make you friends,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Be ready, as your lives shall answer it,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The swelling difference of your settled hate:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Since we can not atone you, we shall see
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Justice design the victor's chivalry.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Lord marshal, command our officers at arms
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Be ready to direct these home alarms.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Exeunt
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|SCENE II. The DUKE OF LANCASTER'S palace.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter JOHN OF GAUNT with DUCHESS
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Alas, the part I had in Woodstock's blood
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Doth more solicit me than your exclaims,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|To stir against the butchers of his life!
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But since correction lieth in those hands
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Which made the fault that we cannot correct,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?
Richard II|DUCHESS|Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?
Richard II|DUCHESS|Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Or seven fair branches springing from one root:
Richard II|DUCHESS|Some of those seven are dried by nature's course,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Some of those branches by the Destinies cut,
Richard II|DUCHESS|But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,
Richard II|DUCHESS|One vial full of Edward's sacred blood,
Richard II|DUCHESS|One flourishing branch of his most royal root,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all faded,
Richard II|DUCHESS|By envy's hand and murder's bloody axe.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! that bed, that womb,
Richard II|DUCHESS|That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee
Richard II|DUCHESS|Made him a man, and though thou livest and breathest,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Yet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent
Richard II|DUCHESS|In some large measure to thy father's death,
Richard II|DUCHESS|In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Who was the model of thy father's life.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair:
Richard II|DUCHESS|In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee:
Richard II|DUCHESS|That which in mean men we intitle patience
Richard II|DUCHESS|Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
Richard II|DUCHESS|What shall I say? to safeguard thine own life,
Richard II|DUCHESS|The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|God's is the quarrel, for God's substitute,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|His deputy anointed in His sight,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Hath caused his death: the which if wrongfully,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|An angry arm against His minister.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Where then, alas, may I complain myself?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|To God, the widow's champion and defence.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Why, then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold
Richard II|DUCHESS|Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight:
Richard II|DUCHESS|O, sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear,
Richard II|DUCHESS|That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast!
Richard II|DUCHESS|Or, if misfortune miss the first career,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,
Richard II|DUCHESS|They may break his foaming courser's back,
Richard II|DUCHESS|And throw the rider headlong in the lists,
Richard II|DUCHESS|A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford!
Richard II|DUCHESS|Farewell, old Gaunt: thy sometimes brother's wife
Richard II|DUCHESS|With her companion grief must end her life.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Sister, farewell, I must to Coventry:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|As much good stay with thee as go with me!
Richard II|DUCHESS|Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:
Richard II|DUCHESS|I take my leave before I have begun,
Richard II|DUCHESS|For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Lo, this is all:--nay, yet depart not so,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Though this be all, do not so quickly go,
Richard II|DUCHESS|I shall remember more. Bid him--ah, what?--
Richard II|DUCHESS|With all good speed at Plashy visit me.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Alack, and what shall good old York there see
Richard II|DUCHESS|But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls,
Richard II|DUCHESS|Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones?
Richard II|DUCHESS|And what hear there for welcome but my groans?
Richard II|DUCHESS|Therefore commend me, let him not come there,
Richard II|DUCHESS|To seek out sorrow that dwells every where.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die:
Richard II|DUCHESS|The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Exeunt
Richard II|DUCHESS|SCENE III. The lists at Coventry.
Richard II|DUCHESS|Enter the Lord Marshal and the DUKE OF AUMERLE
Richard II|Lord Marshal|My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Yea, at all points, and longs to enter in.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|For nothing but his majesty's approach.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|The trumpets sound, and KING RICHARD enters with  his nobles, JOHN OF GAUNT, BUSHY, BAGOT, GREEN, and  others. When they are set, enter THOMAS MOWBRAY in arms, defendant, with a Herald
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Marshal, demand of yonder champion
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The cause of his arrival here in arms:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Ask him his name and orderly proceed
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To swear him in the justice of his cause.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|In God's name and the king's, say who thou art
Richard II|Lord Marshal|And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Against what man thou comest, and what thy quarrel:
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|As so defend thee heaven and thy valour!
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Who hither come engaged by my oath--
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Which God defend a knight should violate!--
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Both to defend my loyalty and truth
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|To God, my king and my succeeding issue,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And, by the grace of God and this mine arm,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|To prove him, in defending of myself,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|A traitor to my God, my king, and me:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The trumpets sound. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, appellant, in armour, with a Herald
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Both who he is and why he cometh hither
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thus plated in habiliments of war,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And formally, according to our law,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Depose him in the justice of his cause.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|What is thy name? and wherefore comest thou hither,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Before King Richard in his royal lists?
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Against whom comest thou? and what's thy quarrel?
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Am I, who ready here do stand in arms,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To prove, by God's grace and my body's valour,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|In lists, on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That he is a traitor, foul and dangerous,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To God of heaven, King Richard and to me,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!
Richard II|Lord Marshal|On pain of death, no person be so bold
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Except the marshal and such officers
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Appointed to direct these fair designs.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Lord marshal, let me kiss my sovereign's hand,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And bow my knee before his majesty:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|For Mowbray and myself are like two men
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That vow a long and weary pilgrimage,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Then let us take a ceremonious leave
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And loving farewell of our several friends.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|The appellant in all duty greets your highness,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We will descend and fold him in our arms.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So be thy fortune in this royal fight!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Farewell, my blood, which if to-day thou shed,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|O let no noble eye profane a tear
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|For me, if I be gored with Mowbray's spear:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As confident as is the falcon's flight
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My loving lord, I take my leave of you,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Not sick, although I have to do with death,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|O thou, the earthly author of my blood,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To reach at victory above my head,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And with thy blessings steel my lance's point,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Even in the lusty havior of his son.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|God in thy good cause make thee prosperous!
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Be swift like lightning in the execution,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And let thy blows, doubly redoubled,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Fall like amazing thunder on the casque
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Of thy adverse pernicious enemy:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive!
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|However God or fortune cast my lot,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|There lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|A loyal, just and upright gentleman:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Never did captive with a freer heart
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|More than my dancing soul doth celebrate
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|This feast of battle with mine adversary.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Most mighty liege, and my companion peers,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Take from my mouth the wish of happy years:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|As gentle and as jocund as to jest
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Go I to fight: truth hath a quiet breast.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Farewell, my lord: securely I espy
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Virtue with valour couched in thine eye.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Order the trial, marshal, and begin.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Receive thy lance, and God defend the right!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.
Richard II|First Herald|Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,
Richard II|First Herald|Stands here for God, his sovereign and himself,
Richard II|First Herald|On pain to be found false and recreant,
Richard II|First Herald|To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,
Richard II|First Herald|A traitor to his God, his king and him,
Richard II|First Herald|And dares him to set forward to the fight.
Richard II|Second Herald|Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,
Richard II|Second Herald|On pain to be found false and recreant,
Richard II|Second Herald|Both to defend himself and to approve
Richard II|Second Herald|Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,
Richard II|Second Herald|To God, his sovereign and to him disloyal,
Richard II|Second Herald|Courageously and with a free desire
Richard II|Second Herald|Attending but the signal to begin.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Sound, trumpets, and set forward, combatants.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|A charge sounded
Richard II|Lord Marshal|Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And both return back to their chairs again:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Withdraw with us: and let the trumpets sound
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|While we return these dukes what we decree.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A long flourish
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Draw near,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And list what with our council we have done.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With that dear blood which it hath fostered,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Of civil wounds plough'd up with neighbours' sword,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And for we think the eagle-winged pride
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With rival-hating envy, set on you
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To wake our peace, which in our country's cradle
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which so roused up with boisterous untuned drums,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With harsh resounding trumpets' dreadful bray,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And make us wade even in our kindred's blood,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Therefore, we banish you our territories:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shall not regreet our fair dominions,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But tread the stranger paths of banishment.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Your will be done: this must my comfort be,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Sun that warms you here shall shine on me,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And those his golden beams to you here lent
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Shall point on me and gild my banishment.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The sly slow hours shall not determinate
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The dateless limit of thy dear exile,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The hopeless word of 'never to return'
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|A dearer merit, not so deep a maim
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|As to be cast forth in the common air,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Have I deserved at your highness' hands.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|The language I have learn'd these forty years,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|My native English, now I must forego:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Or like a cunning instrument cased up,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Or, being open, put into his hands
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|That knows no touch to tune the harmony:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And dull unfeeling barren ignorance
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Is made my gaoler to attend on me.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Too far in years to be a pupil now:
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|What is thy sentence then but speechless death,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|It boots thee not to be compassionate:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|After our sentence plaining comes too late.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Then thus I turn me from my country's light,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Return again, and take an oath with thee.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Swear by the duty that you owe to God--
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Our part therein we banish with yourselves--
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To keep the oath that we administer:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|You never shall, so help you truth and God!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Embrace each other's love in banishment,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nor never look upon each other's face,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This louring tempest of your home-bred hate,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nor never by advised purpose meet
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To plot, contrive, or complot any ill
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I swear.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And I, to keep all this.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:--
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|By this time, had the king permitted us,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|One of our souls had wander'd in the air.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As now our flesh is banish'd from this land:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The clogging burthen of a guilty soul.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|No, Bolingbroke: if ever I were traitor,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|My name be blotted from the book of life,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And I from heaven banish'd as from hence!
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|And all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray,
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Save back to England, all the world's my way.
Richard II|THOMAS MOWBRAY|Exit
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Hath from the number of his banish'd years
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Pluck'd four away.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Six frozen winter spent,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Return with welcome home from banishment.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|How long a time lies in one little word!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|End in a word: such is the breath of kings.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|I thank my liege, that in regard of me
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|He shortens four years of my son's exile:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But little vantage shall I reap thereby,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|For, ere the six years that he hath to spend
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Can change their moons and bring their times about
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Shall be extinct with age and endless night,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|My inch of taper will be burnt and done,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And blindfold death not let me see my son.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Why uncle, thou hast many years to live.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But not a minute, king, that thou canst give:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Thy word is current with him for my death,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thy son is banish'd upon good advice,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|You urged me as a judge, but I had rather
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|You would have bid me argue like a father.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|O, had it been a stranger, not my child,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|A partial slander sought I to avoid,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|I was too strict to make mine own away,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Against my will to do myself this wrong.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Cousin, farewell, and, uncle, bid him so:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Six years we banish him, and he shall go.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II and train
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|From where you do remain let paper show.
Richard II|Lord Marshal|My lord, no leave take I, for I will ride,
Richard II|Lord Marshal|As far as land will let me, by your side.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I have too few to take my leave of you,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|When the tongue's office should be prodigal
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Joy absent, grief is present for that time.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|What is six winters? they are quickly gone.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To men in joy, but grief makes one hour ten.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My heart will sigh when I miscall it so,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The sullen passage of thy weary steps
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The precious jewel of thy home return.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Will but remember me what a deal of world
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I wander from the jewels that I love.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To foreign passages, and in the end,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But that I was a journeyman to grief?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|All places that the eye of heaven visits
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Teach thy necessity to reason thus,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|There is no virtue like necessity.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Think not the king did banish thee,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But thou the king. Woe doth the heavier sit,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And not the king exiled thee, or suppose
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Devouring pestilence hangs in our air
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And thou art flying to a fresher clime:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Suppose the singing birds musicians,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Than a delightful measure or a dance,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|O, who can hold a fire in his hand
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|By bare imagination of a feast?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Or wallow naked in December snow
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|O, no! the apprehension of the good
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Then, England's ground, farewell, sweet soil, adieu,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Though banish'd, yet a trueborn Englishman.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exeunt
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|SCENE IV. The court.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter KING RICHARD II, with BAGOT and GREEN at one door, and the DUKE OF AUMERLE at another
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We did observe. Cousin Aumerle,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How far brought you high Hereford on his way?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|I brought high Hereford, if you call him so,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|But to the next highway, and there I left him.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And say, what store of parting tears were shed?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Faith, none for me, except the north-east wind,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Which then blew bitterly against our faces,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What said our cousin when you parted with him?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|'Farewell:'
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|And, for my heart disdained that my tongue
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Should so profane the word, that taught me craft
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|To counterfeit oppression of such grief
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Marry, would the word 'farewell' have lengthen'd hours
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|And added years to his short banishment,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|He should have had a volume of farewells,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|But since it would not, he had none of me.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|He is our cousin, cousin, but 'tis doubt,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|When time shall call him home from banishment,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Observed his courtship to the common people,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How he did seem to dive into their hearts
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With humble and familiar courtesy,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What reverence he did throw away on slaves,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And patient underbearing of his fortune,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As 'twere to banish their affects with him.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A brace of draymen bid God speed him well
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And had the tribute of his supple knee,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends,'
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As were our England in reversion his,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And he our subjects' next degree in hope.
Richard II|GREEN|Well, he is gone, and with him go these thoughts.
Richard II|GREEN|Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,
Richard II|GREEN|Expedient manage must be made, my liege,
Richard II|GREEN|Ere further leisure yield them further means
Richard II|GREEN|For their advantage and your highness' loss.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We will ourself in person to this war:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And, for our coffers, with too great a court
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We are inforced to farm our royal realm,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The revenue whereof shall furnish us
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For our affairs in hand: if that come short,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And send them after to supply our wants,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For we will make for Ireland presently.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter BUSHY
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Bushy, what news?
Richard II|BUSHY|Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord,
Richard II|BUSHY|Suddenly taken, and hath sent post haste
Richard II|BUSHY|To entreat your majesty to visit him.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Where lies he?
Richard II|BUSHY|At Ely House.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Now put it, God, in the physician's mind
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To help him to his grave immediately!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The lining of his coffers shall make coats
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Pray God we may make haste, and come too late!
Richard II|All|Amen.
Richard II|All|Exeunt
Richard II|All|ACT II
Richard II|All|SCENE I. Ely House.
Richard II|All|Enter JOHN OF GAUNT sick, with the DUKE OF YORK, and c
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Will the king come, that I may breathe my last
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|O, but they say the tongues of dying men
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Enforce attention like deep harmony:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|He that no more must say is listen'd more
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The setting sun, and music at the close,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Writ in remembrance more than things long past:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|No, it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The open ear of youth doth always listen,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Whose manners still our tardy apish nation
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Limps after in base imitation.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity--
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|So it be new, there's no respect how vile--
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Then all too late comes counsel to be heard,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Direct not him whose way himself will choose:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And thus expiring do foretell of him:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|For violent fires soon burn out themselves,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This other Eden, demi-paradise,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This fortress built by Nature for herself
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Against infection and the hand of war,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This happy breed of men, this little world,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Against the envy of less happier lands,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|For Christian service and true chivalry,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Dear for her reputation through the world,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|How happy then were my ensuing death!
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Enter KING RICHARD II and QUEEN, DUKE OF AUMERLE,  BUSHY, GREEN, BAGOT, LORD ROSS, and LORD WILLOUGHBY
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The king is come: deal mildly with his youth,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|For young hot colts being raged do rage the more.
Richard II|QUEEN|How fares our noble uncle, Lancaster?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What comfort, man? how is't with aged Gaunt?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|O how that name befits my composition!
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|For sleeping England long time have I watch'd,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The pleasure that some fathers feed upon,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Is my strict fast, I mean, my children's looks,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Can sick men play so nicely with their names?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|No, misery makes sport to mock itself:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Should dying men flatter with those that live?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|No, no, men living flatter those that die.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou flatterest me.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|O, no! thou diest, though I the sicker be.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Now He that made me knows I see thee ill,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Wherein thou liest in reputation sick,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Commit'st thy anointed body to the cure
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Of those physicians that first wounded thee:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Whose compass is no bigger than thy head,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And yet, incaged in so small a verge,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Which art possess'd now to depose thyself.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|It were a shame to let this land by lease,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|But for thy world enjoying but this land,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Is it not more than shame to shame it so?
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Landlord of England art thou now, not king:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Thy state of law is bondslave to the law, And thou--
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A lunatic lean-witted fool,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Presuming on an ague's privilege,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Darest with thy frozen admonition
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With fury from his native residence.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Now, by my seat's right royal majesty,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|For that I was his father Edward's son,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|That blood already, like the pelican,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|May be a precedent and witness good
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Join with the present sickness that I have,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|And thy unkindness be like crooked age,
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|To crop at once a too long wither'd flower.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|These words hereafter thy tormentors be!
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Love they to live that love and honour have.
Richard II|JOHN OF GAUNT|Exit, borne off by his Attendants
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And let them die that age and sullens have,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For both hast thou, and both become the grave.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To wayward sickliness and age in him:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|As Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so his,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As theirs, so mine, and all be as it is.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter NORTHUMBERLAND
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What says he?
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Nay, nothing, all is said
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|His tongue is now a stringless instrument,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Words, life and all, old Lancaster hath spent.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So much for that. Now for our Irish wars:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which live like venom where no venom else
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But only they have privilege to live.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And for these great affairs do ask some charge,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Towards our assistance we do seize to us
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The plate, corn, revenues and moveables,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|How long shall I be patient? ah, how long
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I am the last of noble Edward's sons,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|In war was never lion raged more fierce,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Than was that young and princely gentleman.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But when he frown'd, it was against the French
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And not against his friends, his noble hand
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Did will what he did spend and spent not that
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Which his triumphant father's hand had won,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But bloody with the enemies of his kin.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Or else he never would compare between.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Why, uncle, what's the matter?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|O my liege,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Pardon me, if you please, if n ot, I, pleased
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Not to be pardon'd, am content withal.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Did not the one deserve to have an heir?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Is not his heir a well-deserving son?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|His charters and his customary rights,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Be not thyself, for how art thou a king
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But by fair sequence and succession?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Now, afore God--God forbid I say true!--
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Call in the letters patent that he hath
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|By his attorneys-general to sue
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|His livery, and deny his offer'd homage,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And prick my tender patience, to those thoughts
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Which honour and allegiance cannot think.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Think what you will, we seize into our hands
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|His plate, his goods, his money and his lands.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I'll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But by bad courses may be understood
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|That their events can never fall out good.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Exit
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Bid him repair to us to Ely House
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To see this business. To-morrow next
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We will for Ireland, and 'tis time, I trow:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And we create, in absence of ourself,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Our uncle York lord governor of England,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For he is just and always loved us well.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Be merry, for our time of stay is short
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II, QUEEN, DUKE OF AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, and BAGOT
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|And living too, for now his son is duke.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Barely in title, not in revenue.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Richly in both, if justice had her right.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|My heart is great, but it must break with silence,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Nay, speak thy mind, and let him ne'er speak more
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|If it be so, out with it boldly, man,
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|No good at all that I can do for him,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|Unless you call it good to pity him,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Now, afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|In him, a royal prince, and many moe
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Of noble blood in this declining land.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The king is not himself, but basely led
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|By flatterers, and what they will inform,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That will the king severely prosecute
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|And quite lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fined
Richard II|LORD ROSS|For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|And daily new exactions are devised,
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what:
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|But what, o' God's name, doth become of this?
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Wars have not wasted it, for warr'd he hath not,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|But basely yielded upon compromise
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|More hath he spent in peace than they in wars.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|He hath not money for these Irish wars,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|His burthenous taxations notwithstanding,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|But by the robbing of the banish'd duke.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|His noble kinsman: most degenerate king!
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And yet we strike not, but securely perish.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|We see the very wreck that we must suffer,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|And unavoided is the danger now,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|For suffering so the causes of our wreck.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Not so, even through the hollow eyes of death
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|I spy life peering, but I dare not say
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|How near the tidings of our comfort is.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|Be confident to speak, Northumberland:
Richard II|LORD ROSS|We three are but thyself, and, speaking so,
Richard II|LORD ROSS|Thy words are but as thoughts, therefore, be bold.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|In Brittany, received intelligence
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton and Francis Quoint,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Bretagne
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Are making hither with all due expedience
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And shortly mean to touch our northern shore:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The first departing of the king for Ireland.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Imp out our drooping country's broken wing,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And make high majesty look like itself,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|But if you faint, as fearing to do so,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Stay and be secret, and myself will go.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Hold out my horse, and I will first be there.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Exeunt
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|SCENE II. The palace.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Enter QUEEN, BUSHY, and BAGOT
Richard II|BUSHY|Madam, your majesty is too much sad:
Richard II|BUSHY|You promised, when you parted with the king,
Richard II|BUSHY|To lay aside life-harming heaviness
Richard II|BUSHY|And entertain a cheerful disposition.
Richard II|QUEEN|To please the king I did, to please myself
Richard II|QUEEN|I cannot do it, yet I know no cause
Richard II|QUEEN|Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,
Richard II|QUEEN|Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
Richard II|QUEEN|As my sweet Richard: yet again, methinks,
Richard II|QUEEN|Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb,
Richard II|QUEEN|Is coming towards me, and my inward soul
Richard II|QUEEN|With nothing trembles: at some thing it grieves,
Richard II|QUEEN|More than with parting from my lord the king.
Richard II|BUSHY|Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Richard II|BUSHY|Which shows like grief itself, but is not so,
Richard II|BUSHY|For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Richard II|BUSHY|Divides one thing entire to many objects,
Richard II|BUSHY|Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon
Richard II|BUSHY|Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry
Richard II|BUSHY|Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty,
Richard II|BUSHY|Looking awry upon your lord's departure,
Richard II|BUSHY|Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail,
Richard II|BUSHY|Which, look'd on as it is, is nought but shadows
Richard II|BUSHY|Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious queen,
Richard II|BUSHY|More than your lord's departure weep not: more's not seen,
Richard II|BUSHY|Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye,
Richard II|BUSHY|Which for things true weeps things imaginary.
Richard II|QUEEN|It may be so, but yet my inward soul
Richard II|QUEEN|Persuades me it is otherwise: howe'er it be,
Richard II|QUEEN|I cannot but be sad, so heavy sad
Richard II|QUEEN|As, though on thinking on no thought I think,
Richard II|QUEEN|Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.
Richard II|BUSHY|'Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.
Richard II|QUEEN|'Tis nothing less: conceit is still derived
Richard II|QUEEN|From some forefather grief, mine is not so,
Richard II|QUEEN|For nothing had begot my something grief,
Richard II|QUEEN|Or something hath the nothing that I grieve:
Richard II|QUEEN|'Tis in reversion that I do possess,
Richard II|QUEEN|But what it is, that is not yet known, what
Richard II|QUEEN|I cannot name, 'tis nameless woe, I wot.
Richard II|QUEEN|Enter GREEN
Richard II|GREEN|God save your majesty! and well met, gentlemen:
Richard II|GREEN|I hope the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland.
Richard II|QUEEN|Why hopest thou so? 'tis better hope he is,
Richard II|QUEEN|For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:
Richard II|QUEEN|Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd?
Richard II|GREEN|That he, our hope, might have retired his power,
Richard II|GREEN|And driven into despair an enemy's hope,
Richard II|GREEN|Who strongly hath set footing in this land:
Richard II|GREEN|The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself,
Richard II|GREEN|And with uplifted arms is safe arrived
Richard II|GREEN|At Ravenspurgh.
Richard II|QUEEN|Now God in heaven forbid!
Richard II|GREEN|Ah, madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,
Richard II|GREEN|The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,
Richard II|GREEN|The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,
Richard II|GREEN|With all their powerful friends, are fled to him.
Richard II|BUSHY|Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland
Richard II|BUSHY|And all the rest revolted faction traitors?
Richard II|GREEN|We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester
Richard II|GREEN|Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship,
Richard II|GREEN|And all the household servants fled with him
Richard II|GREEN|To Bolingbroke.
Richard II|QUEEN|So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,
Richard II|QUEEN|And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir:
Richard II|QUEEN|Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,
Richard II|QUEEN|And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,
Richard II|QUEEN|Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd.
Richard II|BUSHY|Despair not, madam.
Richard II|QUEEN|Who shall hinder me?
Richard II|QUEEN|I will despair, and be at enmity
Richard II|QUEEN|With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,
Richard II|QUEEN|A parasite, a keeper back of death,
Richard II|QUEEN|Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,
Richard II|QUEEN|Which false hope lingers in extremity.
Richard II|QUEEN|Enter DUKE OF YORK
Richard II|GREEN|Here comes the Duke of York.
Richard II|QUEEN|With signs of war about his aged neck:
Richard II|QUEEN|O, full of careful business are his looks!
Richard II|QUEEN|Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Your husband, he is gone to save far off,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Whilst others come to make him lose at home:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Here am I left to underprop his land,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Enter a Servant
Richard II|Servant|My lord, your son was gone before I came.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Hold, take my ring.
Richard II|Servant|My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
Richard II|Servant|To-day, as I came by, I called there,
Richard II|Servant|But I shall grieve you to report the rest.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|What is't, knave?
Richard II|Servant|An hour before I came, the duchess died.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|God for his mercy! what a tide of woes
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I know not what to do: I would to God,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|So my untruth had not provoked him to it,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The king had cut off my head with my brother's.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|How shall we do for money for these wars?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Come, sister,--cousin, I would say--pray, pardon me.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And bring away the armour that is there.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Exit Servant
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Gentlemen, will you go muster men?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|If I know how or which way to order these affairs
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Thus thrust disorderly into my hands,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And duty bids defend, the other again
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Dispose of you.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Gentlemen, go, muster up your men,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And meet me presently at Berkeley.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I should to Plashy too,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But time will not permit: all is uneven,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And every thing is left at six and seven.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Exeunt DUKE OF YORK and QUEEN
Richard II|BUSHY|The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,
Richard II|BUSHY|But none returns. For us to levy power
Richard II|BUSHY|Proportionable to the enemy
Richard II|BUSHY|Is all unpossible.
Richard II|GREEN|Besides, our nearness to the king in love
Richard II|GREEN|Is near the hate of those love not the king.
Richard II|BAGOT|And that's the wavering commons: for their love
Richard II|BAGOT|Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them
Richard II|BAGOT|By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
Richard II|BUSHY|Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd.
Richard II|BAGOT|If judgement lie in them, then so do we,
Richard II|BAGOT|Because we ever have been near the king.
Richard II|GREEN|Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle:
Richard II|GREEN|The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.
Richard II|BUSHY|Thither will I with you, for little office
Richard II|BUSHY|The hateful commons will perform for us,
Richard II|BUSHY|Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.
Richard II|BUSHY|Will you go along with us?
Richard II|BAGOT|No, I will to Ireland to his majesty.
Richard II|BAGOT|Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain,
Richard II|BAGOT|We three here art that ne'er shall meet again.
Richard II|BUSHY|That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke.
Richard II|GREEN|Alas, poor duke! the task he undertakes
Richard II|GREEN|Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry:
Richard II|GREEN|Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
Richard II|GREEN|Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever.
Richard II|BUSHY|Well, we may meet again.
Richard II|BAGOT|I fear me, never.
Richard II|BAGOT|Exeunt
Richard II|BAGOT|SCENE III. Wilds in Gloucestershire.
Richard II|BAGOT|Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and NORTHUMBERLAND, with Forces
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Believe me, noble lord,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|These high wild hills and rough uneven ways
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|But I bethink me what a weary way
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Which, I protest, hath very much beguiled
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The tediousness and process of my travel:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The present benefit which I possess,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And hope to joy is little less in joy
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Than hope enjoy'd: by this the weary lords
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Shall make their way seem short, as mine hath done
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|By sight of what I have, your noble company.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Of much less value is my company
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Than your good words. But who comes here?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter HENRY PERCY
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|It is my son, young Harry Percy,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Harry, how fares your uncle?
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|I had thought, my lord, to have learn'd his health of you.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Why, is he not with the queen?
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|No, my good Lord, he hath forsook the court,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Broken his staff of office and dispersed
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|The household of the king.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|What was his reason?
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|He was not so resolved when last we spake together.
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor.
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|And sent me over by Berkeley, to discover
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|What power the Duke of York had levied there,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|No, my good lord, for that is not forgot
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Which ne'er I did remember: to my knowledge,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|I never in my life did look on him.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Then learn to know him now, this is the duke.
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|My gracious lord, I tender you my service,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Such as it is, being tender, raw and young:
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Which elder days shall ripen and confirm
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|To more approved service and desert.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I thank thee, gentle Percy, and be sure
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I count myself in nothing else so happy
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As in a soul remembering my good friends,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And, as my fortune ripens with thy love,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|It shall be still thy true love's recompense:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|How far is it to Berkeley? and what stir
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Keeps good old York there with his men of war?
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have heard,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|None else of name and noble estimate.
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Enter LORD ROSS and LORD WILLOUGHBY
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|A banish'd traitor: all my treasury
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Shall be your love and labour's recompense.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|And far surmounts our labour to attain it.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter LORD BERKELEY
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess.
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My lord, my answer is--to Lancaster,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And I am come to seek that name in England,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And I must find that title in your tongue,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Before I make reply to aught you say.
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|Mistake me not, my lord, 'tis not my meaning
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|To raze one title of your honour out:
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|From the most gracious regent of this land,
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|To take advantage of the absent time
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|And fright our native peace with self-born arms.
Richard II|LORD BERKELEY|Enter DUKE OF YORK attended
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I shall not need transport my words by you,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Here comes his grace in person. My noble uncle!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Kneels
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Whose duty is deceiveable and false.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My gracious uncle--
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Tut, tut!
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I am no traitor's uncle, and that word 'grace.'
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But then more 'why?' why have they dared to march
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Frighting her pale-faced villages with war
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And ostentation of despised arms?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Comest thou because the anointed king is hence?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And in my loyal bosom lies his power.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Were I but now the lord of such hot youth
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|From forth the ranks of many thousand French,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|O, then how quickly should this arm of mine.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And minister correction to thy fault!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|On what condition stands it and wherein?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Even in condition of the worst degree,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|In gross rebellion and detested treason:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Before the expiration of thy time,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|In braving arms against thy sovereign.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But as I come, I come for Lancaster.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|You are my father, for methinks in you
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I see old Gaunt alive, O, then, my father,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|A wandering vagabond, my rights and royalties
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|If that my cousin king be King of England,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Had you first died, and he been thus trod down,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I am denied to sue my livery here,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And yet my letters-patents give me leave:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And these and all are all amiss employ'd.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What would you have me do? I am a subject,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And therefore, personally I lay my claim
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To my inheritance of free descent.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The noble duke hath been too much abused.
Richard II|LORD ROSS|It stands your grace upon to do him right.
Richard II|LORD WILLOUGHBY|Base men by his endowments are made great.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|My lords of England, let me tell you this:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And laboured all I could to do him right,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But in this kind to come, in braving arms,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Be his own carver and cut out his way,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To find out right with wrong, it may not be,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And you that do abet him in this kind
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Cherish rebellion and are rebels all.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The noble duke hath sworn his coming is
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|But for his own, and for the right of that
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|We all have strongly sworn to give him aid,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath!
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Well, well, I see the issue of these arms:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Because my power is weak and all ill left:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But if I could, by Him that gave me life,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I would attach you all and make you stoop
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Unto the sovereign mercy of the king,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But since I cannot, be it known to you
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I do remain as neuter. So, fare you well,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Unless you please to enter in the castle
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And there repose you for this night.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|An offer, uncle, that we will accept:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But we must win your grace to go with us
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To Bristol castle, which they say is held
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|By Bushy, Bagot and their complices,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|It may be I will go with you: but yet I'll pause,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|For I am loath to break our country's laws.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Things past redress are now with me past care.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Exeunt
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|SCENE IV. A camp in Wales.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a Welsh Captain
Richard II|Captain|My lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days,
Richard II|Captain|And hardly kept our countrymen together,
Richard II|Captain|And yet we hear no tidings from the king,
Richard II|Captain|Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell.
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman:
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
Richard II|Captain|'Tis thought the king is dead, we will not stay.
Richard II|Captain|The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd
Richard II|Captain|And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven,
Richard II|Captain|The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth
Richard II|Captain|And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change,
Richard II|Captain|Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,
Richard II|Captain|The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
Richard II|Captain|The other to enjoy by rage and war:
Richard II|Captain|These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
Richard II|Captain|Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled,
Richard II|Captain|As well assured Richard their king is dead.
Richard II|Captain|Exit
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|I see thy glory like a shooting star
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest:
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|And crossly to thy good all fortune goes.
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Exit
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|ACT III
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|SCENE I. Bristol. Before the castle.
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK,  NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD ROSS, HENRY PERCY, LORD WILLOUGHBY, with BUSHY and GREEN, prisoners
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Bring forth these men.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls--
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Since presently your souls must part your bodies--
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With too much urging your pernicious lives,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|For 'twere no charity, yet, to wash your blood
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|From off my hands, here in the view of men
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I will unfold some causes of your deaths.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|You have misled a prince, a royal king,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|By you unhappied and disfigured clean:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|You have in manner with your sinful hours
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Broke the possession of a royal bed
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Near to the king in blood, and near in love
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Till you did make him misinterpret me,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|From my own windows torn my household coat,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Save men's opinions and my living blood,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To show the world I am a gentleman.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|This and much more, much more than twice all this,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To execution and the hand of death.
Richard II|BUSHY|More welcome is the stroke of death to me
Richard II|BUSHY|Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.
Richard II|GREEN|My comfort is that heaven will take our souls
Richard II|GREEN|And plague injustice with the pains of hell.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND and others, with the prisoners
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Uncle, you say the queen is at your house,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Tell her I send to her my kind commends,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Take special care my greetings be deliver'd.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|With letters of your love to her at large.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To fight with Glendower and his complices:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Awhile to work, and after holiday.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exeunt
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|SCENE II. The coast of Wales. A castle in view.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Drums, flourish and colours. Enter KING RICHARD II, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, and Soldiers
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Barkloughly castle call they this at hand?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|After your late tossing on the breaking seas?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To stand upon my kingdom once again.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As a long-parted mother with her child
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And do thee favours with my royal hands.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which with usurping steps do trample thee:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This earth shall have a feeling and these stones
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|The means that heaven yields must be embraced,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And not neglected, else, if heaven would,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|The proffer'd means of succor and redress.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|He means, my lord, that we are too remiss,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Grows strong and great in substance and in power.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That when the searching eye of heaven is hid,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Behind the globe, that lights the lower world,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|In murders and in outrage, boldly here,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But when from under this terrestrial ball
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And darts his light through every guilty hole,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Then murders, treasons and detested sins,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Who all this while hath revell'd in the night
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whilst we were wandering with the antipodes,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shall see us rising in our throne, the east,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Not able to endure the sight of day,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Can wash the balm off from an anointed king,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The breath of worldly men cannot depose
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The deputy elected by the Lord:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A glorious angel: then, if angels fight,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter EARL OF SALISBURY
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Welcome, my lord	how far off lies your power?
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord,
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Than this weak arm: discomfort guides my tongue
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth:
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|O, call back yesterday, bid time return,
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men!
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|To-day, to-day, unhappy day, too late,
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state:
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead.
Richard II|EARL OF SALISBURY|Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Comfort, my liege, why looks your grace so pale?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But now the blood of twenty thousand men
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Did triumph in my face, and they are fled,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And, till so much blood thither come again,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Have I not reason to look pale and dead?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|All souls that will be safe fly from my side,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For time hath set a blot upon my pride.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Comfort, my liege, remember who you are.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I had forgot myself, am I not king?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Is not the king's name twenty thousand names?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Ye favourites of a king: are we not high?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|High be our thoughts: I know my uncle York
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter SIR STEPHEN SCROOP
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|More health and happiness betide my liege
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Mine ear is open and my heart prepared,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Say, is my kingdom lost? why, 'twas my care
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And what loss is it to be rid of care?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Greater he shall not be, if he serve God,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We'll serve Him too and be his fellow so:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Revolt our subjects? that we cannot mend,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|They break their faith to God as well as us:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The worst is death, and death will have his day.
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|To bear the tidings of calamity.
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|So high above his limits swells the rage
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Against thy majesty, boys, with women's voices,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Strive to speak big and clap their female joints
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|The very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Of double-fatal yew against thy state,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Against thy seat: both young and old rebel,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|And all goes worse than I have power to tell.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? where is Bagot?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What is become of Bushy? where is Green?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That they have let the dangerous enemy
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Measure our confines with such peaceful steps?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke.
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Would they make peace? terrible hell make war
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Upon their spotted souls for this offence!
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Sweet love, I see, changing his property,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate:
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Again uncurse their souls, their peace is made
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|With heads, and not with hands, those whom you curse
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Where is the duke my father with his power?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|No matter where, of comfort no man speak:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And nothing can we call our own but death
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And that small model of the barren earth
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And tell sad stories of the death of kings,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Comes at the last and with a little pin
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With solemn reverence: throw away respect,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For you have but mistook me all this while:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I live with bread like you, feel want,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How can you say to me, I am a king?
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|But presently prevent the ways to wail.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And so your follies fight against yourself.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Fear and be slain, no worse can come to fight:
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And fight and die is death destroying death,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|My father hath a power, inquire of him
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|And learn to make a body of a limb.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To change blows with thee for our day of doom.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This ague fit of fear is over-blown,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|An easy task it is to win our own.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Men judge by the complexion of the sky
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|The state and inclination of the day:
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|So may you by my dull and heavy eye,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|I play the torturer, by small and small
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|And all your northern castles yielded up,
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|And all your southern gentlemen in arms
Richard II|SIR STEPHEN SCROOP|Upon his party.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thou hast said enough.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To DUKE OF AUMERLE
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Of that sweet way I was in to despair!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What say you now? what comfort have we now?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That bids me be of comfort any more.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That power I have, discharge, and let them go
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For I have none: let no man speak again
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To alter this, for counsel is but vain.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|My liege, one word.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|He does me double wrong
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Discharge my followers: let them hence away,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Exeunt
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|SCENE III. Wales. Before Flint castle.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter, with drum and colours, HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, Attendants, and forces
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|So that by this intelligence we learn
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With some few private friends upon this coast.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The news is very fair and good, my lord:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To say 'King Richard:' alack the heavy day
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|When such a sacred king should hide his head.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Your grace mistakes, only to be brief
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Left I his title out.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The time hath been,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Would you have been so brief with him, he would
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Have been so brief with you, to shorten you,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|For taking so the head, your whole head's length.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Take not, good cousin, further than you should.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Against their will. But who comes here?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter HENRY PERCY
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Welcome, Harry: what, will not this castle yield?
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|The castle royally is mann'd, my lord,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Against thy entrance.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Royally!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Why, it contains no king?
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Yes, my good lord,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|It doth contain a king, King Richard lies
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Within the limits of yon lime and stone:
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Of holy reverence, who, I cannot learn.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Noble lords,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Henry Bolingbroke
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And sends allegiance and true faith of heart
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To his most royal person, hither come
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Provided that my banishment repeal'd
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And lands restored again be freely granted:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|If not, I'll use the advantage of my power
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The which, how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My stooping duty tenderly shall show.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Go, signify as much, while here we march
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Upon the grassy carpet of this plain.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Let's march without the noise of threatening drum,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That from this castle's tatter'd battlements
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Our fair appointments may be well perused.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Methinks King Richard and myself should meet
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With no less terror than the elements
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Of fire and water, when their thundering shock
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My waters, on the earth, and not on him.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|March on, and mark King Richard how he looks.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Parle without, and answer within. Then a flourish.  Enter on the walls, KING RICHARD II, the BISHOP OF  CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, SIR STEPHEN SCROOP, and EARL OF SALISBURY
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As doth the blushing discontented sun
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|From out the fiery portal of the east,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|When he perceives the envious clouds are bent
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To dim his glory and to stain the track
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Of his bright passage to the occident.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|That any harm should stain so fair a show!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We are amazed, and thus long have we stood
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To NORTHUMBERLAND
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Because we thought ourself thy lawful king:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And if we be, how dare thy joints forget
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To pay their awful duty to our presence?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|If we be not, show us the hand of God
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That hath dismissed us from our stewardship,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For well we know, no hand of blood and bone
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And though you think that all, as you have done,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Have torn their souls by turning them from us,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And we are barren and bereft of friends,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Yet know, my master, God omnipotent,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Armies of pestilence, and they shall strike
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Your children yet unborn and unbegot,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That lift your vassal hands against my head
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And threat the glory of my precious crown.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Tell Bolingbroke--for yond methinks he stands--
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That every stride he makes upon my land
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Is dangerous treason: he is come to open
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The purple testament of bleeding war,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shall ill become the flower of England's face,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To scarlet indignation and bedew
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The king of heaven forbid our lord the king
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Should so with civil and uncivil arms
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Be rush'd upon! Thy thrice noble cousin
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Harry Bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And by the honourable tomb he swears,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And by the royalties of both your bloods,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Currents that spring from one most gracious head,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And by the worth and honour of himself,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Comprising all that may be sworn or said,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|His coming hither hath no further scope
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Than for his lineal royalties and to beg
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Enfranchisement immediate on his kn ees:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Which on thy royal party granted once,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|His glittering arms he will commend to rust,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|To faithful service of your majesty.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|This swears he, as he is a prince, is just,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And, as I am a gentleman, I credit him.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Northumberland, say thus the king returns:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|His noble cousin is right welcome hither,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And all the number of his fair demands
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With all the gracious utterance thou hast
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To DUKE OF AUMERLE
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To look so poorly and to speak so fair?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shall we call back Northumberland, and send
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Defiance to the traitor, and so die?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|No, good my lord, let's fight with gentle words
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of mine,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That laid the sentence of dread banishment
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|On yon proud man, should take it off again
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With words of sooth! O that I were as great
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As is my grief, or lesser than my name!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Or that I could forget what I have been,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Or not remember what I must be now!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What must the king do now? must he submit?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The king shall do it: must he be deposed?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The king shall be contented: must he lose
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My subjects for a pair of carved saints
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And my large kingdom for a little grave,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A little little grave, an obscure grave,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Or I'll be buried in the king's highway,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|May hourly trample on their sovereign's head,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For on my heart they tread now whilst I live,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And buried once, why not upon my head?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We'll make foul weather with despised tears,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And make a dearth in this revolting land.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And make some pretty match with shedding tears?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As thus, to drop them still upon one place,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Within the earth, and, therein laid,--there lies
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|My lord, in the base court he doth attend
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|To speak with you, may it please you to come down.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Down, down I come, like glistering Phaethon,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To come at traitors' calls and do them grace.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|In the base court? Come down? Down, court!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|down, king!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For night-owls shriek where mounting larks
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|should sing.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Exeunt from above
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What says his majesty?
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Sorrow and grief of heart
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Yet he is come.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Enter KING RICHARD and his attendants below
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Stand all apart,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And show fair duty to his majesty.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|He kneels down
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My gracious lord,--
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To make the base earth proud with kissing it:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Me rather had my heart might feel your love
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Up, cousin, up, your heart is up, I know,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thus high at least, although your knee be low.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As my true service shall deserve your love.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That know the strong'st and surest way to get.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Tears show their love, but want their remedies.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Though you are old enough to be my heir.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What you will have, I'll give, and willing too,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For do we must what force will have us do.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Yea, my good lord.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Then I must not say no.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Flourish. Exeunt
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|SCENE IV. LANGLEY. The DUKE OF YORK's garden.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter the QUEEN and two Ladies
Richard II|QUEEN|What sport shall we devise here in this garden,
Richard II|QUEEN|To drive away the heavy thought of care?
Richard II|Lady|Madam, we'll play at bowls.
Richard II|QUEEN|'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,
Richard II|QUEEN|And that my fortune rubs against the bias.
Richard II|Lady|Madam, we'll dance.
Richard II|QUEEN|My legs can keep no measure in delight,
Richard II|QUEEN|When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:
Richard II|QUEEN|Therefore, no dancing, girl, some other sport.
Richard II|Lady|Madam, we'll tell tales.
Richard II|QUEEN|Of sorrow or of joy?
Richard II|Lady|Of either, madam.
Richard II|QUEEN|Of neither, girl:
Richard II|QUEEN|For of joy, being altogether wanting,
Richard II|QUEEN|It doth remember me the more of sorrow,
Richard II|QUEEN|Or if of grief, being altogether had,
Richard II|QUEEN|It adds more sorrow to my want of joy:
Richard II|QUEEN|For what I have I need not to repeat,
Richard II|QUEEN|And what I want it boots not to complain.
Richard II|Lady|Madam, I'll sing.
Richard II|QUEEN|'Tis well that thou hast cause
Richard II|QUEEN|But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep.
Richard II|Lady|I could weep, madam, would it do you good.
Richard II|QUEEN|And I could sing, would weeping do me good,
Richard II|QUEEN|And never borrow any tear of thee.
Richard II|QUEEN|Enter a Gardener, and two Servants
Richard II|QUEEN|But stay, here come the gardeners:
Richard II|QUEEN|Let's step into the shadow of these trees.
Richard II|QUEEN|My wretchedness unto a row of pins,
Richard II|QUEEN|They'll talk of state, for every one doth so
Richard II|QUEEN|Against a change, woe is forerun with woe.
Richard II|QUEEN|QUEEN and Ladies retire
Richard II|Gardener|Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,
Richard II|Gardener|Which, like unruly children, make their sire
Richard II|Gardener|Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:
Richard II|Gardener|Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
Richard II|Gardener|Go thou, and like an executioner,
Richard II|Gardener|Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,
Richard II|Gardener|That look too lofty in our commonwealth:
Richard II|Gardener|All must be even in our government.
Richard II|Gardener|You thus employ'd, I will go root away
Richard II|Gardener|The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
Richard II|Gardener|The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.
Richard II|Servant|Why should we in the compass of a pale
Richard II|Servant|Keep law and form and due proportion,
Richard II|Servant|Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,
Richard II|Servant|When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
Richard II|Servant|Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
Richard II|Servant|Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,
Richard II|Servant|Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs
Richard II|Servant|Swarming with caterpillars?
Richard II|Gardener|Hold thy peace:
Richard II|Gardener|He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring
Richard II|Gardener|Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:
Richard II|Gardener|The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,
Richard II|Gardener|That seem'd in eating him to hold him up,
Richard II|Gardener|Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke,
Richard II|Gardener|I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.
Richard II|Servant|What, are they dead?
Richard II|Gardener|They are, and Bolingbroke
Richard II|Gardener|Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it
Richard II|Gardener|That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land
Richard II|Gardener|As we this garden! We at time of year
Richard II|Gardener|Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,
Richard II|Gardener|Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,
Richard II|Gardener|With too much riches it confound itself:
Richard II|Gardener|Had he done so to great and growing men,
Richard II|Gardener|They might have lived to bear and he to taste
Richard II|Gardener|Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches
Richard II|Gardener|We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:
Richard II|Gardener|Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,
Richard II|Gardener|Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.
Richard II|Servant|What, think you then the king shall be deposed?
Richard II|Gardener|Depress'd he is already, and deposed
Richard II|Gardener|'Tis doubt he will be: letters came last night
Richard II|Gardener|To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's,
Richard II|Gardener|That tell black tidings.
Richard II|QUEEN|O, I am press'd to death through want of speaking!
Richard II|QUEEN|Coming forward
Richard II|QUEEN|Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden,
Richard II|QUEEN|How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?
Richard II|QUEEN|What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee
Richard II|QUEEN|To make a second fall of cursed man?
Richard II|QUEEN|Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?
Richard II|QUEEN|Darest thou, thou little better thing than earth,
Richard II|QUEEN|Divine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how,
Richard II|QUEEN|Camest thou by this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch.
Richard II|Gardener|Pardon me, madam: little joy have I
Richard II|Gardener|To breathe this news, yet what I say is true.
Richard II|Gardener|King Richard, he is in the mighty hold
Richard II|Gardener|Of Bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weigh'd:
Richard II|Gardener|In your lord's scale is nothing but himself,
Richard II|Gardener|And some few vanities that make him light,
Richard II|Gardener|But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,
Richard II|Gardener|Besides himself, are all the English peers,
Richard II|Gardener|And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.
Richard II|Gardener|Post you to London, and you will find it so,
Richard II|Gardener|I speak no more than every one doth know.
Richard II|QUEEN|Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot,
Richard II|QUEEN|Doth not thy embassage belong to me,
Richard II|QUEEN|And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st
Richard II|QUEEN|To serve me last, that I may longest keep
Richard II|QUEEN|Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go,
Richard II|QUEEN|To meet at London London's king in woe.
Richard II|QUEEN|What, was I born to this, that my sad look
Richard II|QUEEN|Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?
Richard II|QUEEN|Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,
Richard II|QUEEN|Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.
Richard II|QUEEN|Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies
Richard II|GARDENER|Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse,
Richard II|GARDENER|I would my skill were subject to thy curse.
Richard II|GARDENER|Here did she fall a tear, here in this place
Richard II|GARDENER|I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:
Richard II|GARDENER|Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,
Richard II|GARDENER|In the remembrance of a weeping queen.
Richard II|GARDENER|Exeunt
Richard II|GARDENER|ACT IV
Richard II|GARDENER|SCENE I. Westminster Hall.
Richard II|GARDENER|Enter, as to the Parliament, HENRY BOLINGBROKE,  DUKE OF AUMERLE, NORTHUMBERLAND, HENRY PERCY, LORD  FITZWATER, DUKE OF SURREY, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE,  the Abbot Of Westminster, and another Lord, Herald, Officers, and BAGOT
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Call forth Bagot.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Who wrought it with the king, and who perform'd
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The bloody office of his timeless end.
Richard II|BAGOT|Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.
Richard II|BAGOT|My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue
Richard II|BAGOT|Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd.
Richard II|BAGOT|In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted,
Richard II|BAGOT|I heard you say, 'Is not my arm of length,
Richard II|BAGOT|That reacheth from the restful English court
Richard II|BAGOT|As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'
Richard II|BAGOT|Amongst much other talk, that very time,
Richard II|BAGOT|I heard you say that you had rather refuse
Richard II|BAGOT|The offer of an hundred thousand crowns
Richard II|BAGOT|Than Bolingbroke's return to England,
Richard II|BAGOT|Adding withal how blest this land would be
Richard II|BAGOT|In this your cousin's death.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Princes and noble lords,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|What answer shall I make to this base man?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|On equal terms to give him chastisement?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|With the attainder of his slanderous lips.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|There is my gage, the manual seal of death,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|And will maintain what thou hast said is false
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|In thy heart-blood, though being all too base
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|To stain the temper of my knightly sword.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Bagot, forbear, thou shalt not take it up.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Excepting one, I would he were the best
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|In all this presence that hath moved me so.
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|If that thy valour stand on sympathy,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine:
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death.
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|Where it was forged, with my rapier's point.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|Now by my soul, I would it were this hour.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this.
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Aumerle, thou liest, his honour is as true
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|In this appeal as thou art all unjust,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|To prove it on thee to the extremest point
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Of mortal breathing: seize it, if thou darest.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|An if I do not, may my hands rot off
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|And never brandish more revengeful steel
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Over the glittering helmet of my foe!
Richard II|Lord|I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle,
Richard II|Lord|And spur thee on with full as many lies
Richard II|Lord|As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear
Richard II|Lord|From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn,
Richard II|Lord|Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all:
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|I have a thousand spirits in one breast,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|To answer twenty thousand such as you.
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|The very time Aumerle and you did talk.
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|'Tis very true: you were in presence then,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|And you can witness with me this is true.
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|Surrey, thou liest.
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|Dishonourable boy!
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword,
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|That it shall render vengeance and revenge
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|In earth as quiet as thy father's skull:
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn,
Richard II|DUKE OF SURREY|Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|To tie thee to my strong correction.
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|As I intend to thrive in this new world,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal:
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|To execute the noble duke at Calais.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Some honest Christian trust me with a gage
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|If he may be repeal'd, to try his honour.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|These differences shall all rest under gage
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And, though mine enemy, restored again
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To all his lands and signories: when he's return'd,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|That honourable day shall ne'er be seen.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens:
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And toil'd with works of war, retired himself
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|To Italy, and there at Venice gave
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|His body to that pleasant country's earth,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Under whose colours he had fought so long.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead?
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|As surely as I live, my lord.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Your differences shall all rest under gage
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Till we assign you to your days of trial.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter DUKE OF YORK, attended
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|From plume-pluck'd Richard, who with willing soul
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To the possession of thy royal hand:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Ascend his throne, descending now from him,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And long live Henry, fourth of that name!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Marry. God forbid!
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Worst in this royal presence may I speak,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Would God that any in this noble presence
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Were enough noble to be upright judge
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|What subject can give sentence on his king?
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Although apparent guilt be seen in them,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And shall the figure of God's majesty,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|His captain, steward, deputy-elect,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Be judged by subject and inferior breath,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|That in a Christian climate souls refined
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Stirr'd up by God, thus boldly for his king:
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king:
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And if you crown him, let me prophesy:
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|The blood of English shall manure the ground,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And future ages groan for this foul act,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|O, if you raise this house against this house,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|It will the woefullest division prove
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|That ever fell upon this cursed earth.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Well have you argued, sir, and, for your pains,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Of capital treason we arrest you here.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|To keep him safely till his day of trial.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Fetch hither Richard, that in common view
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|He may surrender, so we shall proceed
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Without suspicion.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I will be his conduct.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Exit
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Lords, you that here are under our arrest,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Procure your sureties for your days of answer.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Little are we beholding to your love,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And little look'd for at your helping hands.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Re-enter DUKE OF YORK, with KING RICHARD II, and Officers bearing the regalia
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Alack, why am I sent for to a king,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Before I have shook off the regal thoughts
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To this submission. Yet I well remember
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The favours of these men: were they not mine?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Found truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand, none.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|God save the king! Will no man say amen?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|God save the king! although I be not he,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To do what service am I sent for hither?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To do that office of thine own good will
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Which tired majesty did make thee offer,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The resignation of thy state and crown
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To Henry Bolingbroke.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Here cousin:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|On this side my hand, and on that side yours.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Now is this golden crown like a deep well
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That owes two buckets, filling one another,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The emptier ever dancing in the air,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The other down, unseen and full of water:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That bucket down and full of tears am I,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I thought you had been willing to resign.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|You may my glories and my state depose,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But not my griefs, still am I king of those.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Part of your cares you give me with your crown.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My care is loss of care, by old care done,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Your care is gain of care, by new care won:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The cares I give I have, though given away,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Are you contented to resign the crown?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Ay, no, no, ay, for I must nothing be,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Therefore no no, for I resign to thee.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Now mark me, how I will undo myself,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I give this heavy weight from off my head
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The pride of kingly sway from out my heart,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With mine own hands I give away my crown,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With mine own breath release all duty's rites:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|All pomp and majesty I do forswear,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My manors, rents, revenues I forego,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|God keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|God save King Harry, unking'd Richard says,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And send him many years of sunshine days!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What more remains?
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|No more, but that you read
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|These accusations and these grievous crimes
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Committed by your person and your followers
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Against the state and profit of this land,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That, by confessing them, the souls of men
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|May deem that you are worthily deposed.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Must I do so? and must I ravel out
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My weaved-up folly? Gentle Northumberland,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|If thy offences were upon record,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|There shouldst thou find one heinous article,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Containing the deposing of a king
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nay, all of you that stand and look upon,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Showing an outward pity, yet you Pilates
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And water cannot wash away your sin.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|My lord, dispatch, read o'er these articles.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And yet salt water blinds them not so much
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But they can see a sort of traitors here.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I find myself a traitor with the rest,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For I have given here my soul's consent
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To undeck the pompous body of a king,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|My lord,--
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nor no man's lord, I have no name, no title,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|No, not that name was given me at the font,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But 'tis usurp'd: alack the heavy day,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That I have worn so many winters out,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And know not now what name to call myself!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To melt myself away in water-drops!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Good king, great king, and yet not greatly good,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|An if my word be sterling yet in England,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Let it command a mirror hither straight,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That it may show me what a face I have,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Since it is bankrupt of his majesty.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exit an attendant
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Fiend, thou torment'st me ere I come to hell!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The commons will not then be satisfied.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|When I do see the very book indeed
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Re-enter Attendant, with a glass
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Give me the glass, and therein will I read.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|No deeper wrinkles yet? hath sorrow struck
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So many blows upon this face of mine,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Like to my followers in prosperity,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That every day under his household roof
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Did keep ten thousand men? was this the face
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That, like the sun, did make beholders wink?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Was this the face that faced so many follies,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A brittle glory shineth in this face:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As brittle as the glory is the face,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Dashes the glass against the ground
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The shadow or your face.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Say that again.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The shadow of my sorrow! ha! let's see:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|'Tis very true, my grief lies all within,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And these external manners of laments
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That swells with silence in the tortured soul,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For thy great bounty, that not only givest
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Me cause to wail but teachest me the way
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And then be gone and trouble you no more.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shall I obtain it?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Name it, fair cousin.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|'Fair cousin'? I am greater than a king:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For when I was a king, my flatterers
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Were then but subjects, being now a subject,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I have a king here to my flatterer.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Being so great, I have no need to beg.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Yet ask.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And shall I have?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|You shall.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Then give me leave to go.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Whither?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whither you will, so I were from your sights.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Go, some of you convey him to the Tower.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|O, good! convey? conveyers are you all,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Exeunt KING RICHARD II, some Lords, and a Guard
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|On Wednesday next we solemnly set down
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exeunt all except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, the Abbot of Westminster, and DUKE OF AUMERLE
Richard II|Abbot|A woeful pageant have we here beheld.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|The woe's to come, the children yet unborn.
Richard II|BISHOP OF CARLISLE|Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|You holy clergymen, is there no plot
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?
Richard II|Abbot|My lord,
Richard II|Abbot|Before I freely speak my mind herein,
Richard II|Abbot|You shall not only take the sacrament
Richard II|Abbot|To bury mine intents, but also to effect
Richard II|Abbot|Whatever I shall happen to devise.
Richard II|Abbot|I see your brows are full of discontent,
Richard II|Abbot|Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears:
Richard II|Abbot|Come home with me to supper, and I'll lay
Richard II|Abbot|A plot shall show us all a merry day.
Richard II|Abbot|Exeunt
Richard II|Abbot|ACT V
Richard II|Abbot|SCENE I. London. A street leading to the Tower.
Richard II|Abbot|Enter QUEEN and Ladies
Richard II|QUEEN|This way the king will come, this is the way
Richard II|QUEEN|To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower,
Richard II|QUEEN|To whose flint bosom my condemned lord
Richard II|QUEEN|Is doom'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke:
Richard II|QUEEN|Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth
Richard II|QUEEN|Have any resting for her true king's queen.
Richard II|QUEEN|Enter KING RICHARD II and Guard
Richard II|QUEEN|But soft, but see, or rather do not see,
Richard II|QUEEN|My fair rose wither: yet look up, behold,
Richard II|QUEEN|That you in pity may dissolve to dew,
Richard II|QUEEN|And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.
Richard II|QUEEN|Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand,
Richard II|QUEEN|Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,
Richard II|QUEEN|And not King Richard, thou most beauteous inn,
Richard II|QUEEN|Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodged in thee,
Richard II|QUEEN|When triumph is become an alehouse guest?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To think our former state a happy dream,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|From which awaked, the truth of what we are
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To grim Necessity, and he and I
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And cloister thee in some religious house:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which our profane hours here have stricken down.
Richard II|QUEEN|What, is my Richard both in shape and mind
Richard II|QUEEN|Transform'd and weaken'd? hath Bolingbroke deposed
Richard II|QUEEN|Thine intellect? hath he been in thy heart?
Richard II|QUEEN|The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw,
Richard II|QUEEN|And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage
Richard II|QUEEN|To be o'erpower'd, and wilt thou, pupil-like,
Richard II|QUEEN|Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod,
Richard II|QUEEN|And fawn on rage with base humility,
Richard II|QUEEN|Which art a lion and a king of beasts?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A king of beasts, indeed, if aught but beasts,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I had been still a happy king of men.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Think I am dead and that even here thou takest,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As from my death-bed, thy last living leave.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With good old folks and let them tell thee tales
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Of woeful ages long ago betid,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And ere thou bid good night, to quit their griefs,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Tell thou the lamentable tale of me
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And send the hearers weeping to their beds:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For why, the senseless brands will sympathize
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The heavy accent of thy moving tongue
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And in compassion weep the fire out,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For the deposing of a rightful king.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter NORTHUMBERLAND and others
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|And, madam, there is order ta'en for you,
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|With all swift speed you must away to France.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The time shall not be many hours of age
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|More than it is ere foul sin gathering head
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Shalt break into corruption: thou shalt think,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Though he divide the realm and give thee half,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|It is too little, helping him to all,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And he shall think that thou, which know'st the way
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Being ne'er so little urged, another way
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The love of wicked men converts to fear,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To worthy danger and deserved death.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|Take leave and part, for you must part forthwith.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A twofold marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And then betwixt me and my married wife.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And yet not so, for with a kiss 'twas made.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Part us, Northumberland, I toward the north,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My wife to France: from whence, set forth in pomp,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|She came adorned hither like sweet May,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day.
Richard II|QUEEN|And must we be divided? must we part?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.
Richard II|QUEEN|Banish us both and send the king with me.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|That were some love but little policy.
Richard II|QUEEN|Then whither he goes, thither let me go.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So two, together weeping, make one woe.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Better far off than near, be ne'er the near.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Go, count thy way with sighs, I mine with groans.
Richard II|QUEEN|So longest way shall have the longest moans.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And piece the way out with a heavy heart.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.
Richard II|QUEEN|Give me mine own again, 'twere no good part
Richard II|QUEEN|To take on me to keep and kill thy heart.
Richard II|QUEEN|So, now I have mine own again, be gone,
Richard II|QUEEN|That I might strive to kill it with a groan.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|We make woe wanton with this fond delay:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Once more, adieu, the rest let sorrow say.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Exeunt
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|SCENE II. The DUKE OF YORK's palace.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter DUKE OF YORK and DUCHESS OF YORK
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|My lord, you told me you would tell the rest,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|When weeping made you break the story off,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|of our two cousins coming into London.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Where did I leave?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|At that sad stop, my lord,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|With slow but stately pace kept on his course,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Bolingbroke!'
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|You would have thought the very windows spake,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|So many greedy looks of young and old
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Through casements darted their desiring eyes
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Upon his visage, and that all the walls
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|With painted imagery had said at once
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!'
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen:'
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|As in a theatre, the eyes of men,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Did scowl on gentle Richard, no man cried 'God save him!'
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But dust was thrown upon his sacred head:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|His face still combating with tears and smiles,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The badges of his grief and patience,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But heaven hath a hand in these events,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Whose state and honour I for aye allow.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Here comes my son Aumerle.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Aumerle that was,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|But that is lost for being Richard's friend,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And, madam, you must call him Rutland now:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I am in parliament pledge for his truth
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And lasting fealty to the new-made king.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Welcome, my son: who are the violets now
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|That strew the green lap of the new come spring?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|God knows I had as lief be none as one.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|For aught I know, my lord, they do.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|You will be there, I know.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|If God prevent not, I purpose so.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|My lord, 'tis nothing.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|No matter, then, who see it,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I will be satisfied, let me see the writing.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|I do beseech your grace to pardon me:
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|It is a matter of small consequence,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Which for some reasons I would not have seen.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I fear, I fear,--
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|What should you fear?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|'Tis nothing but some bond, that he is enter'd into
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Bound to himself! what doth he with a bond
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Boy, let me see the writing.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|I do beseech you, pardon me, I may not show it.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I will be satisfied, let me see it, I say.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|He plucks it out of his bosom and reads it
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Treason! foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|What is the matter, my lord?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Ho! who is within there?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Enter a Servant
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Saddle my horse.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|God for his mercy, what treachery is here!
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Why, what is it, my lord?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Give me my boots, I say, saddle my horse.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Now, by mine honour, by my life, by my troth,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I will appeach the villain.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|What is the matter?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Peace, foolish woman.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Good mother, be content, it is no more
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Than my poor life must answer.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thy life answer!
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Bring me my boots: I will unto the king.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Re-enter Servant with boots
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Strike him, Aumerle. Poor boy, thou art amazed.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Hence, villain! never more come in my sight.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Give me my boots, I say.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Why, York, what wilt thou do?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Have we more sons? or are we like to have?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And rob me of a happy mother's name?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Is he not like thee? is he not thine own?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Thou fond mad woman,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And interchangeably set down their hands,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|To kill the king at Oxford.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|He shall be none,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|We'll keep him here: then what is that to him?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Away, fond woman! were he twenty times my son,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I would appeach him.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Hadst thou groan'd for him
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|As I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|But now I know thy mind, thou dost suspect
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|That I have been disloyal to thy bed,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And that he is a bastard, not thy son:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|He is as like thee as a man may be,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Not like to me, or any of my kin,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And yet I love him.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Make way, unruly woman!
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Exit
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|After, Aumerle! mount thee upon his horse,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Spur post, and get before him to the king,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|I'll not be long behind, though I be old,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|I doubt not but to ride as fast as York:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And never will I rise up from the ground
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee. Away, be gone!
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Exeunt
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|SCENE III. A royal palace.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, HENRY PERCY, and other Lords
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|'Tis full three months since I did see him last,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|If any plague hang over us, 'tis he.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I would to God, my lords, he might be found:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Inquire at London, 'mongst the taverns there,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With unrestrained loose companions,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And beat our watch, and rob our passengers,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Takes on the point of honour to support
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|So dissolute a crew.
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|My lord, some two days since I saw the prince,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And what said the gallant?
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|His answer was, he would unto the stews,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|And from the common'st creature pluck a glove,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|And wear it as a favour, and with that
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|As dissolute as desperate, yet through both
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|May happily bring forth. But who comes here?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Where is the king?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What means our cousin, that he stares and looks
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|So wildly?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|God save your grace! I do beseech your majesty,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|To have some conference with your grace alone.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exeunt HENRY PERCY and Lords
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What is the matter with our cousin now?
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|For ever may my knees grow to the earth,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Intended or committed was this fault?
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To win thy after-love I pardon thee.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Then give me leave that I may turn the key,
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|That no man enter till my tale be done.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Have thy desire.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|[Within]  My liege, beware, look to thyself,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Villain, I'll make thee safe.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Drawing
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Stay thy revengeful hand, thou hast no cause to fear.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|[Within]  Open the door, secure, foolhardy king:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Shall I for love speak treason to thy face?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Open the door, or I will break it open.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Enter DUKE OF YORK
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What is the matter, uncle? speak,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Recover breath, tell us how near is danger,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That we may arm us to encounter it.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The treason that my haste forbids me show.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Remember, as thou read'st, thy promise pass'd:
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|I do repent me, read not my name there
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|My heart is not confederate with my hand.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|I tore it from the traitor's bosom, king,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Fear, and not love, begets his penitence:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|O heinous, strong and bold conspiracy!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|O loyal father of a treacherous son!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|From when this stream through muddy passages
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Hath held his current and defiled himself!
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Thy overflow of good converts to bad,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Or my shamed life in his dishonour lies:
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Thou kill'st me in his life, giving him breath,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|The traitor lives, the true man's put to death.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|[Within]  What ho, my liege! for God's sake,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|let me in.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|A woman, and thy aunt, great king, 'tis I.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Speak with me, pity me, open the door.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|A beggar begs that never begg'd before.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Our scene is alter'd from a serious thing,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And now changed to 'The Beggar and the King.'
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|My dangerous cousin, let your mother in:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I know she is come to pray for your foul sin.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound,
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|This let alone will all the rest confound.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Enter DUCHESS OF YORK
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|O king, believe not this hard-hearted man!
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Love loving not itself none other can.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Kneels
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Rise up, good aunt.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Not yet, I thee beseech:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|For ever will I walk upon my knees,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And never see day that the happy sees,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Till thou give joy, until thou bid me joy,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy.
Richard II|DUKE OF AUMERLE|Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Against them both my true joints bended be.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou grant any grace!
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Pleads he in earnest? look upon his face,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|He prays but faintly and would be denied,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|We pray with heart and soul and all beside:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|His weary joints would gladly rise, I know,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|His prayers are full of false hypocrisy,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Our prayers do out-pray his, then let them have
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|That mercy which true prayer ought to have.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Good aunt, stand up.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Nay, do not say, 'stand up,'
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Say, 'pardon' first, and afterwards 'stand up.'
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|And if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|'Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|I never long'd to hear a word till now,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Say 'pardon,' king, let pity teach thee how:
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|The word is short, but not so short as sweet,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|No word like 'pardon' for kings' mouths so meet.
Richard II|DUKE OF YORK|Speak it in French, king, say, 'pardonne moi.'
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|That set'st the word itself against the word!
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|The chopping French we do not understand.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thine eye begins to speak, set thy tongue there,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Pity may move thee 'pardon' to rehearse.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Good aunt, stand up.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|I do not sue to stand,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Yet am I sick for fear: speak it again,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain,
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|But makes one pardon strong.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With all my heart
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I pardon him.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|A god on earth thou art.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With all the rest of that consorted crew,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Good uncle, help to order several powers
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|They shall not live within this world, I swear,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But I will have them, if I once know where.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Uncle, farewell: and, cousin too, adieu:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Come, my old son: I pray God make thee new.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Exeunt
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|SCENE IV. The same.
Richard II|DUCHESS OF YORK|Enter EXTON and Servant
Richard II|EXTON|Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,
Richard II|EXTON|'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'
Richard II|EXTON|Was it not so?
Richard II|Servant|These were his very words.
Richard II|EXTON|'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice,
Richard II|EXTON|And urged it twice together, did he not?
Richard II|Servant|He did.
Richard II|EXTON|And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me,
Richard II|EXTON|And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man'
Richard II|EXTON|That would divorce this terror from my heart,'
Richard II|EXTON|Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go:
Richard II|EXTON|I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe.
Richard II|EXTON|Exeunt
Richard II|EXTON|SCENE V. Pomfret castle.
Richard II|EXTON|Enter KING RICHARD
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I have been studying how I may compare
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This prison where I live unto the world:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And for because the world is populous
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And here is not a creature but myself,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I cannot do it, yet I'll hammer it out.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My brain I'll prove the female to my soul,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My soul the father, and these two beget
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|A generation of still-breeding thoughts,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And these same thoughts people this little world,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|In humours like the people of this world,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For no thought is contented. The better sort,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With scruples and do set the word itself
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Against the word:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then again,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|'It is as hard to come as for a camel
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Unlikely wonders, how these vain weak nails
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|May tear a passage through the flinty ribs
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That they are not the first of fortune's slaves,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nor shall not be the last, like silly beggars
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That many have and others must sit there,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And in this thought they find a kind of ease,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Bearing their own misfortunes on the back
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Of such as have before endured the like.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thus play I in one person many people,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And none contented: sometimes am I king,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And so I am: then crushing penury
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Persuades me I was better when a king,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Then am I king'd again: and by and by
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Nor I nor any man that but man is
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|With being nothing. Music do I hear?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Music
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|When time is broke and no proportion kept!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So is it in the music of men's lives.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And here have I the daintiness of ear
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|To cheque time broke in a disorder'd string,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|But for the concord of my state and time
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|I wasted time, and now doth time waste me,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For now hath time made me his numbering clock:
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Show minutes, times, and hours: but my time
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' the clock.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This music mads me, let it sound no more,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For though it have holp madmen to their wits,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|In me it seems it will make wise men mad.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|For 'tis a sign of love, and love to Richard
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter a Groom of the Stable
Richard II|Groom|Hail, royal prince!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Thanks, noble peer,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|What art thou? and how comest thou hither,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Where no man never comes but that sad dog
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That brings me food to make misfortune live?
Richard II|Groom|I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,
Richard II|Groom|When thou wert king, who, travelling towards York,
Richard II|Groom|With much ado at length have gotten leave
Richard II|Groom|To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.
Richard II|Groom|O, how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld
Richard II|Groom|In London streets, that coronation-day,
Richard II|Groom|When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,
Richard II|Groom|That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,
Richard II|Groom|That horse that I so carefully have dress'd!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How went he under him?
Richard II|Groom|So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Of that proud man that did usurp his back?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Forgiveness, horse! why do I rail on thee,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Since thou, created to be awed by man,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|And yet I bear a burthen like an ass,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Spurr'd, gall'd and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Enter Keeper, with a dish
Richard II|Keeper|Fellow, give place, here is no longer stay.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away.
Richard II|Groom|What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.
Richard II|Groom|Exit
Richard II|Keeper|My lord, will't please you to fall to?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do.
Richard II|Keeper|My lord, I dare not: Sir Pierce of Exton, who
Richard II|Keeper|lately came from the king, commands the contrary.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Beats the keeper
Richard II|Keeper|Help, help, help!
Richard II|Keeper|Enter EXTON and Servants, armed
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|How now! what means death in this rude assault?
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Snatching an axe from a Servant and killing him
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Go thou, and fill another room in hell.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|He kills another. Then Exton strikes him down
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high,
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.
Richard II|KING RICHARD II|Dies
Richard II|EXTON|As full of valour as of royal blood:
Richard II|EXTON|Both have I spill'd, O would the deed were good!
Richard II|EXTON|For now the devil, that told me I did well,
Richard II|EXTON|Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.
Richard II|EXTON|This dead king to the living king I'll bear
Richard II|EXTON|Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.
Richard II|EXTON|Exeunt
Richard II|EXTON|SCENE VI. Windsor castle.
Richard II|EXTON|Flourish. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK, with other Lords, and Attendants
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Is that the rebels have consumed with fire
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter NORTHUMBERLAND
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Welcome, my lord	what is the news?
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The next news is, I have to London sent
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent:
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|The manner of their taking may appear
Richard II|NORTHUMBERLAND|At large discoursed in this paper here.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter LORD FITZWATER
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|Two of the dangerous consorted traitors
Richard II|LORD FITZWATER|That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter HENRY PERCY, and the BISHOP OF CARLISLE
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|With clog of conscience and sour melancholy
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Hath yielded up his body to the grave,
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|But here is Carlisle living, to abide
Richard II|HENRY PERCY|Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Carlisle, this is your doom:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter EXTON, with persons bearing a coffin
Richard II|EXTON|Great king, within this coffin I present
Richard II|EXTON|Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies
Richard II|EXTON|The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,
Richard II|EXTON|Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exton, I thank thee not, for thou hast wrought
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|A deed of slander with thy fatal hand
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Upon my head and all this famous land.
Richard II|EXTON|From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|They love not poison that do poison need,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|But neither my good word nor princely favour:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|With Cain go wander through shades of night,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And never show thy head by day nor light.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Come, mourn with me for that I do lament,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|And put on sullen black incontinent:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|To wash this blood off from my guilty hand:
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|March sadly after, grace my mournings here,
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|In weeping after this untimely bier.
Richard II|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Exeunt
Richard III|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|ACT I
Richard III|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|SCENE I. London. A street.
Richard III|HENRY BOLINGBROKE|Enter GLOUCESTER, solus
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Now is the winter of our discontent
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To strut before a wanton ambling nymph,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And that so lamely and unfashionable
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Have no delight to pass away the time,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And descant on mine own deformity:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I am determined to prove a villain
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To set my brother Clarence and the king
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|In deadly hate the one against the other:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And if King Edward be as true and just
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Clarence comes.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Brother, good day, what means this armed guard
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That waits upon your grace?
Richard III|CLARENCE|His majesty
Richard III|CLARENCE|Tendering my person's safety, hath appointed
Richard III|CLARENCE|This conduct to convey me to the Tower.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Upon what cause?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Because my name is George.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He should, for that, commit your godfathers:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|O, belike his majesty hath some intent
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That you shall be new-christen'd in the Tower.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But what's the matter, Clarence?  may I know?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Yea, Richard, when I know, for I protest
Richard III|CLARENCE|As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
Richard III|CLARENCE|He hearkens after prophecies and dreams,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And from the cross-row plucks the letter G.
Richard III|CLARENCE|And says a wizard told him that by G
Richard III|CLARENCE|His issue disinherited should be,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And, for my name of George begins with G,
Richard III|CLARENCE|It follows in his thought that I am he.
Richard III|CLARENCE|These, as I learn, and such like toys as these
Richard III|CLARENCE|Have moved his highness to commit me now.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, 'tis she
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That tempers him to this extremity.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Was it not she and that good man of worship,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Anthony Woodville, her brother there,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|From whence this present day he is deliver'd?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe.
Richard III|CLARENCE|By heaven, I think there's no man is secure
Richard III|CLARENCE|But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds
Richard III|CLARENCE|That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Heard ye not what an humble suppliant
Richard III|CLARENCE|Lord hastings was to her for his delivery?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Humbly complaining to her deity
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Got my lord chamberlain his liberty.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I'll tell you what, I think it is our way,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If we will keep in favour with the king,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To be her men and wear her livery:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The jealous o'erworn widow and herself,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Are mighty gossips in this monarchy.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I beseech your graces both to pardon me,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|His majesty hath straitly given in charge
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|That no man shall have private conference,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Of what degree soever, with his brother.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Even so, an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|You may partake of any thing we say:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|We speak no treason, man: we say the king
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And that the queen's kindred are made gentle-folks:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How say you sir? Can you deny all this?
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|With this, my lord, myself have nought to do.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Naught to do with mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He that doth naught with her, excepting one,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Were best he do it secretly, alone.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|What one, my lord?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me?
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Forbear your conference with the noble duke.
Richard III|CLARENCE|We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|We are the queen's abjects, and must obey.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Brother, farewell: I will unto the king,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And whatsoever you will employ me in,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Were it to call King Edward's widow sister,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I will perform it to enfranchise you.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Touches me deeper than you can imagine.
Richard III|CLARENCE|I know it pleaseth neither of us well.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Well, your imprisonment shall not be long,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Meantime, have patience.
Richard III|CLARENCE|I must perforce. Farewell.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Exeunt CLARENCE, BRAKENBURY, and Guard
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If heaven will take the present at our hands.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But who comes here? the new-deliver'd Hastings?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter HASTINGS
Richard III|HASTINGS|Good time of day unto my gracious lord!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As much unto my good lord chamberlain!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Well are you welcome to the open air.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment?
Richard III|HASTINGS|With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:
Richard III|HASTINGS|But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks
Richard III|HASTINGS|That were the cause of my imprisonment.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|No doubt, no doubt, and so shall Clarence too,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For they that were your enemies are his,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And have prevail'd as much on him as you.
Richard III|HASTINGS|More pity that the eagle should be mew'd,
Richard III|HASTINGS|While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What news abroad?
Richard III|HASTINGS|No news so bad abroad as this at home,
Richard III|HASTINGS|The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And his physicians fear him mightily.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|O, he hath kept an evil diet long,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And overmuch consumed his royal person:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|'Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What, is he in his bed?
Richard III|HASTINGS|He is.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Go you before, and I will follow you.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exit HASTINGS
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He cannot live, I hope, and must not die
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And, if I fall not in my deep intent,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Clarence hath not another day to live:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And leave the world for me to bustle in!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What though I kill'd her husband and her father?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The readiest way to make the wench amends
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Is to become her husband and her father:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The which will I, not all so much for love
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As for another secret close intent,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By marrying her which I must reach unto.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But yet I run before my horse to market:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Clarence still breathes, Edward still lives and reigns:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|When they are gone, then must I count my gains.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|SCENE II. The same. Another street.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter the corpse of KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen with halberds to guard it, LADY ANNE being the mourner
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Set down, set down your honourable load,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Richard III|LADY ANNE|The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|To hear the lamentations of Poor Anne,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Stabb'd by the selfsame hand that made these wounds!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|More direful hap betide that hated wretch,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|That makes us wretched by the death of thee,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|If ever he have child, abortive be it,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
Richard III|LADY ANNE|May fright the hopeful mother at the view,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And that be heir to his unhappiness!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|If ever he have wife, let her he made
Richard III|LADY ANNE|A miserable by the death of him
Richard III|LADY ANNE|As I am made by my poor lord and thee!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Taken from Paul's to be interred there,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And still, as you are weary of the weight,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Enter GLOUCESTER
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|What black magician conjures up this fiend,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|To stop devoted charitable deeds?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Villains, set down the corse, or, by Saint Paul,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.
Richard III|Gentleman|My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Unmanner'd dog! stand thou, when I command:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Advance thy halbert higher than my breast,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|His soul thou canst not have, therefore be gone.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Foul devil, for God's sake, hence, and trouble us not,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood
Richard III|LADY ANNE|From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Provokes this deluge most unnatural.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|O earth, which this blood drink'st revenge his death!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Either heaven with lightning strike the
Richard III|LADY ANNE|murderer dead,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:
Richard III|LADY ANNE|No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|More wonderful, when angels are so angry.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By circumstance, but to acquit myself.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|For these known evils, but to give me leave,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Some patient leisure to excuse myself.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make
Richard III|LADY ANNE|No excuse current, but to hang thyself.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By such despair, I should accuse myself.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Say that I slew them not?
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Why, then they are not dead:
Richard III|LADY ANNE|But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I did not kill your husband.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Why, then he is alive.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nay, he is dead, and slain by Edward's hand.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Didst thou not kill this king?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I grant ye.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For he was fitter for that place than earth.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And thou unfit for any place but hell.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Some dungeon.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your bed-chamber.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I'll rest betide the chamber where thou liest!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So will it, madam till I lie with you.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I hope so.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To leave this keen encounter of our wits,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And fall somewhat into a slower method,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As blameful as the executioner?
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your beauty was the cause of that effect,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To undertake the death of all the world,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|You should not blemish it, if I stood by:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As all the world is cheered by the sun,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So I by that, it is my day, my life.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Curse not thyself, fair creature thou art both.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I would I were, to be revenged on thee.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|It is a quarrel most unnatural,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To be revenged on him that loveth you.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|To be revenged on him that slew my husband.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Did it to help thee to a better husband.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|His better doth not breathe upon the earth.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He lives that loves thee better than he could.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Name him.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Plantagenet.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Why, that was he.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The selfsame name, but one of better nature.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Where is he?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Here.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|She spitteth at him
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Why dost thou spit at me?
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Never came poison from so sweet a place.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I would they were, that I might die at once,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For now they kill me with a living death.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|These eyes that never shed remorseful tear,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|No, when my father York and Edward wept,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Told the sad story of my father's death,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Like trees bedash'd with rain: in that sad time
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I never sued to friend nor enemy,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But now thy beauty is proposed my fee,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|She looks scornfully at him
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And humbly beg the death upon my knee.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He lays his breast open: she offers at it with his sword
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nay, do not pause, for I did kill King Henry,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nay, now dispatch, 'twas I that stabb'd young Edward,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Here she lets fall the sword
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Take up the sword again, or take up me.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I will not be the executioner.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I have already.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Tush, that was in thy rage:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Speak it again, and, even with the word,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I would I knew thy heart.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|'Tis figured in my tongue.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I fear me both are false.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Then never man was true.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Well, well, put up your sword.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Say, then, my peace is made.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|That shall you know hereafter.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But shall I live in hope?
Richard III|LADY ANNE|All men, I hope, live so.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Vouchsafe to wear this ring.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|To take is not to give.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Look, how this ring encompasseth finger.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And if thy poor devoted suppliant may
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|What is it?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That it would please thee leave these sad designs
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To him that hath more cause to be a mourner,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And presently repair to Crosby Place,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Where, after I have solemnly interr'd
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|At Chertsey monastery this noble king,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And wet his grave with my repentant tears,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I will with all expedient duty see you:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For divers unknown reasons. I beseech you,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Grant me this boon.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|With all my heart, and much it joys me too,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|To see you are become so penitent.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Bid me farewell.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|'Tis more than you deserve,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|But since you teach me how to flatter you,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Imagine I have said farewell already.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Exeunt LADY ANNE, TRESSEL, and BERKELEY
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Sirs, take up the corse.
Richard III|GENTLEMEN|Towards Chertsey, noble lord?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|No, to White-Friars, there attend my coining.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Was ever woman in this humour won?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I'll have her, but I will not keep her long.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To take her in her heart's extremest hate,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The bleeding witness of her hatred by,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Having God, her conscience, and these bars
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|against me,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And I nothing to back my suit at all,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Ha!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Framed in the prodigality of nature,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The spacious world cannot again afford
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And will she yet debase her eyes on me,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And made her widow to a woful bed?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I do mistake my person all this while:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Myself to be a marvellous proper man.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And entertain some score or two of tailors,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To study fashions to adorn my body:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Since I am crept in favour with myself,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Will maintain it with some little cost.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And then return lamenting to my love.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That I may see my shadow as I pass.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|SCENE III. The palace.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, RIVERS, and GREY
Richard III|RIVERS|Have patience, madam: there's no doubt his majesty
Richard III|RIVERS|Will soon recover his accustom'd health.
Richard III|GREY|In that you brook it in, it makes him worse:
Richard III|GREY|Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good comfort,
Richard III|GREY|And cheer his grace with quick and merry words.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If he were dead, what would betide of me?
Richard III|RIVERS|No other harm but loss of such a lord.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
Richard III|GREY|The heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son,
Richard III|GREY|To be your comforter when he is gone.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Oh, he is young and his minority
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|A man that loves not me, nor none of you.
Richard III|RIVERS|Is it concluded that he shall be protector?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|It is determined, not concluded yet:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But so it must be, if the king miscarry.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Enter BUCKINGHAM and DERBY
Richard III|GREY|Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Good time of day unto your royal grace!
Richard III|DERBY|God make your majesty joyful as you have been!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To your good prayers will scarcely say amen.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she's your wife,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
Richard III|DERBY|I do beseech you, either not believe
Richard III|DERBY|The envious slanders of her false accusers,
Richard III|DERBY|Or, if she be accused in true report,
Richard III|DERBY|Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds
Richard III|DERBY|From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
Richard III|RIVERS|Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?
Richard III|DERBY|But now the Duke of Buckingham and I
Richard III|DERBY|Are come from visiting his majesty.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|What likelihood of his amendment, lords?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Madam, good hope, his grace speaks cheerfully.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|God grant him health! Did you confer with him?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And sent to warn them to his royal presence.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Would all were well! but that will never be
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I fear our happiness is at the highest.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and DORSET
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Who are they that complain unto the king,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I must be held a rancorous enemy.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But thus his simple truth must be abused
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?
Richard III|RIVERS|To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A plague upon you all! His royal person,--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Whom God preserve better than you would wish!--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The king, of his own royal disposition,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And not provoked by any suitor else,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Which in your outward actions shows itself
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Makes him to send, that thereby he may gather
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Since every Jack became a gentleman
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|There's many a gentle person made a Jack.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Come, come, we know your meaning, brother
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Gloucester,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|You envy my advancement and my friends':
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|God grant we never may have need of you!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your brother is imprison'd by your means,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Myself disgraced, and the nobility
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Held in contempt, whilst many fair promotions
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Are daily given to ennoble those
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|By Him that raised me to this careful height
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I never did incense his majesty
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|An earnest advocate to plead for him.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My lord, you do me shameful injury,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|You may deny that you were not the cause
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.
Richard III|RIVERS|She may, my lord, for--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|She may do more, sir, than denying that:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|She may help you to many fair preferments,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And then deny her aiding hand therein,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And lay those honours on your high deserts.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she--
Richard III|RIVERS|What, marry, may she?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What, marry, may she! marry with a king,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I wis your grandam had a worser match.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|With those gross taunts I often have endured.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I had rather be a country servant-maid
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Than a great queen, with this condition,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To be thus taunted, scorn'd, and baited at:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Small joy have I in being England's queen.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And lessen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy honour, state and seat is due to me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What! threat you me with telling of the king?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I will avouch in presence of the king:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|'Tis time to speak, my pains are quite forgot.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Out, devil! I remember them too well:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I was a pack-horse in his great affairs,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A liberal rewarder of his friends:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To royalize his blood I spilt mine own.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Yea, and much better blood than his or thine.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|In all which time you and your husband Grey
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Were factious for the house of Lancaster,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Let me put in your minds, if you forget,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What you have been ere now, and what you are,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Withal, what I have been, and what I am.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A murderous villain, and so still thou art.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Which God revenge!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To fight on Edward's party for the crown,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I am too childish-foolish for this world.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.
Richard III|RIVERS|My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days
Richard III|RIVERS|Which here you urge to prove us enemies,
Richard III|RIVERS|We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king:
Richard III|RIVERS|So should we you, if you should be our king.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|As little joy, my lord, as you suppose
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|You should enjoy, were you this country's king,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|As little joy may you suppose in me.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A little joy enjoys the queen thereof,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For I am she, and altogether joyless.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I can no longer hold me patient.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Advancing
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Which of you trembles not that looks on me?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O gentle villain, do not turn away!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|But repetition of what thou hast marr'd,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That will I make before I let thee go.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Wert thou not banished on pain of death?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I was, but I do find more pain in banishment
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Than death can yield me here by my abode.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A husband and a son thou owest to me,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And thou a kingdom, all of you allegiance:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The curse my noble father laid on thee,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|His curses, then from bitterness of soul
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|So just is God, to right the innocent.
Richard III|HASTINGS|O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!
Richard III|RIVERS|Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.
Richard III|DORSET|No man but prophesied revenge for it.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|What were you snarling all before I came,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Ready to catch each other by the throat,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And turn you all your hatred now on me?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Could all but answer for that peevish brat?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|If not by war, by surfeit die your king,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|As ours by murder, to make him a king!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Die in his youth by like untimely violence!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And see another, as I see thee now,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Long die thy happy days before thy death,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That none of you may live your natural age,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|But by some unlook'd accident cut off!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|If heaven have any grievous plague in store
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And then hurl down their indignation
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|The slave of nature and the son of hell!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou rag of honour! thou detested--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Margaret.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Richard!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Ha!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I call thee not.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Why, so I did, but look'd for no reply.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O, let me make the period to my curse!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.'
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|The time will come when thou shalt wish for me
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad.
Richard III|HASTINGS|False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.
Richard III|RIVERS|Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|To serve me well, you all should do me duty,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!
Richard III|DORSET|Dispute not with her, she is lunatic.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O, that your young nobility could judge
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.
Richard III|DORSET|It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And turns the sun to shade, alas! alas!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Witness my son, now in the shade of death,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Hath in eternal darkness folded up.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|As it was won with blood, lost be it so!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Have done! for shame, if not for charity.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Urge neither charity nor shame to me:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Uncharitably with me have you dealt,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|My charity is outrage, life my shame
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Have done, have done.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O princely Buckingham I'll kiss thy hand,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|In sign of league and amity with thee:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Nor thou within the compass of my curse.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Nor no one here, for curses never pass
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The lips of those that breathe them in the air.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Look, when he fawns, he bites, and when he bites,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|His venom tooth will rankle to the death:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Have not to do with him, beware of him,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And all their ministers attend on him.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O, but remember this another day,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Live each of you the subjects to his hate,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And he to yours, and all of you to God's!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Exit
Richard III|HASTINGS|My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.
Richard III|RIVERS|And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|She hath had too much wrong, and I repent
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My part thereof that I have done to her.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I never did her any, to my knowledge.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But you have all the vantage of her wrong.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I was too hot to do somebody good,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That is too cold in thinking of it now.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|God pardon them that are the cause of it!
Richard III|RIVERS|A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
Richard III|RIVERS|To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So do I ever:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Aside
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|being well-advised.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter CATESBY
Richard III|CATESBY|Madam, his majesty doth call for you,
Richard III|CATESBY|And for your grace, and you, my noble lords.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?
Richard III|RIVERS|Madam, we will attend your grace.
Richard III|RIVERS|Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I do beweep to many simple gulls
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And say it is the queen and her allies
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That stir the king against the duke my brother.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Now, they believe it, and withal whet me
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And thus I clothe my naked villany
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter two Murderers
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But, soft! here come my executioners.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Are you now going to dispatch this deed?
Richard III|First Murderer|We are, my lord, and come to have the warrant
Richard III|First Murderer|That we may be admitted where he is.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Well thought upon, I have it here about me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Gives the warrant
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|May move your hearts to pity if you mark him.
Richard III|First Murderer|Tush!
Richard III|First Murderer|Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate,
Richard III|First Murderer|Talkers are no good doers: be assured
Richard III|First Murderer|We come to use our hands and not our tongues.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I like you, lads, about your business straight,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Go, go, dispatch.
Richard III|First Murderer|We will, my noble lord.
Richard III|First Murderer|Exeunt
Richard III|First Murderer|SCENE IV. London. The Tower.
Richard III|First Murderer|Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Why looks your grace so heavily today?
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, I have pass'd a miserable night,
Richard III|CLARENCE|So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
Richard III|CLARENCE|That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
Richard III|CLARENCE|I would not spend another such a night,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,
Richard III|CLARENCE|So full of dismal terror was the time!
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And, in my company, my brother Gloucester,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Who from my cabin tempted me to walk
Richard III|CLARENCE|Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And cited up a thousand fearful times,
Richard III|CLARENCE|During the wars of York and Lancaster
Richard III|CLARENCE|That had befall'n us. As we paced along
Richard III|CLARENCE|Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Methought that Gloucester stumbled, and, in falling,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Into the tumbling billows of the main.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!
Richard III|CLARENCE|What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
Richard III|CLARENCE|What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Richard III|CLARENCE|Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
Richard III|CLARENCE|All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea:
Richard III|CLARENCE|Some lay in dead men's skulls, and, in those holes
Richard III|CLARENCE|Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,
Richard III|CLARENCE|As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Had you such leisure in the time of death
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Methought I had, and often did I strive
Richard III|CLARENCE|To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood
Richard III|CLARENCE|Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth
Richard III|CLARENCE|To seek the empty, vast and wandering air,
Richard III|CLARENCE|But smother'd it within my panting bulk,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Awaked you not with this sore agony?
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life,
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, then began the tempest to my soul,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood,
Richard III|CLARENCE|With that grim ferryman which poets write of,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
Richard III|CLARENCE|The first that there did greet my stranger soul,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury
Richard III|CLARENCE|Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'
Richard III|CLARENCE|And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by
Richard III|CLARENCE|A shadow like an angel, with bright hair
Richard III|CLARENCE|Dabbled in blood, and he squeak'd out aloud,
Richard III|CLARENCE|'Clarence is come, false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,
Richard III|CLARENCE|That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!'
Richard III|CLARENCE|With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends
Richard III|CLARENCE|Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears
Richard III|CLARENCE|Such hideous cries, that with the very noise
Richard III|CLARENCE|I trembling waked, and for a season after
Richard III|CLARENCE|Could not believe but that I was in hell,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Such terrible impression made the dream.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it.
Richard III|CLARENCE|O Brakenbury, I have done those things,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Which now bear evidence against my soul,
Richard III|CLARENCE|For Edward's sake, and see how he requites me!
Richard III|CLARENCE|O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,
Richard III|CLARENCE|But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Yet execute thy wrath in me alone,
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!
Richard III|CLARENCE|I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me,
Richard III|CLARENCE|My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|CLARENCE sleeps
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Princes have but their tides for their glories,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|An outward honour for an inward toil,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|And, for unfelt imagination,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|They often feel a world of restless cares:
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|So that, betwixt their tides and low names,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|There's nothing differs but the outward fame.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Enter the two Murderers
Richard III|First Murderer|Ho! who's here?
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|In God's name what are you, and how came you hither?
Richard III|First Murderer|I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Yea, are you so brief?
Richard III|Second Murderer|O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show
Richard III|Second Murderer|him our commission, talk no more.
Richard III|Second Murderer|BRAKENBURY reads it
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I am, in this, commanded to deliver
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I will not reason what is meant hereby,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I'll to the king, and signify to him
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
Richard III|First Murderer|Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well.
Richard III|First Murderer|Exit BRAKENBURY
Richard III|Second Murderer|What, shall we stab him as he sleeps?
Richard III|First Murderer|No, then he will say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes.
Richard III|Second Murderer|When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never wake till
Richard III|Second Murderer|the judgment-day.
Richard III|First Murderer|Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping.
Richard III|Second Murderer|The urging of that word 'judgment' hath bred a kind
Richard III|Second Murderer|of remorse in me.
Richard III|First Murderer|What, art thou afraid?
Richard III|Second Murderer|Not to kill him, having a warrant for it, but to be
Richard III|Second Murderer|damned for killing him, from which no warrant can defend us.
Richard III|First Murderer|I thought thou hadst been resolute.
Richard III|Second Murderer|So I am, to let him live.
Richard III|First Murderer|Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so.
Richard III|Second Murderer|I pray thee, stay a while: I hope my holy humour
Richard III|Second Murderer|will change, 'twas wont to hold me but while one
Richard III|Second Murderer|would tell twenty.
Richard III|First Murderer|How dost thou feel thyself now?
Richard III|Second Murderer|'Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet
Richard III|Second Murderer|within me.
Richard III|First Murderer|Remember our reward, when the deed is done.
Richard III|Second Murderer|'Zounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward.
Richard III|First Murderer|Where is thy conscience now?
Richard III|Second Murderer|In the Duke of Gloucester's purse.
Richard III|First Murderer|So when he opens his purse to give us our reward,
Richard III|First Murderer|thy conscience flies out.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Let it go, there's few or none will entertain it.
Richard III|First Murderer|How if it come to thee again?
Richard III|Second Murderer|I'll not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it
Richard III|Second Murderer|makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but it
Richard III|Second Murderer|accuseth him, he cannot swear, but it cheques him,
Richard III|Second Murderer|he cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it
Richard III|Second Murderer|detects him: 'tis a blushing shamefast spirit that
Richard III|Second Murderer|mutinies in a man's bosom, it fills one full of
Richard III|Second Murderer|obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold
Richard III|Second Murderer|that I found, it beggars any man that keeps it: it
Richard III|Second Murderer|is turned out of all towns and cities for a
Richard III|Second Murderer|dangerous thing, and every man that means to live
Richard III|Second Murderer|well endeavours to trust to himself and to live
Richard III|Second Murderer|without it.
Richard III|First Murderer|'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me
Richard III|First Murderer|not to kill the duke.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Take the devil in thy mind, and relieve him not: he
Richard III|Second Murderer|would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.
Richard III|First Murderer|Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me,
Richard III|First Murderer|I warrant thee.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Spoke like a tail fellow that respects his
Richard III|Second Murderer|reputation. Come, shall we to this gear?
Richard III|First Murderer|Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy
Richard III|First Murderer|sword, and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt
Richard III|First Murderer|in the next room.
Richard III|Second Murderer|O excellent devise! make a sop of him.
Richard III|First Murderer|Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?
Richard III|Second Murderer|No, first let's reason with him.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine.
Richard III|Second murderer|You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.
Richard III|CLARENCE|In God's name, what art thou?
Richard III|Second Murderer|A man, as you are.
Richard III|CLARENCE|But not, as I am, royal.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Nor you, as we are, loyal.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.
Richard III|Second Murderer|My voice is now the king's, my looks mine own.
Richard III|CLARENCE|How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!
Richard III|CLARENCE|Your eyes do menace me: why look you pale?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?
Richard III|Both|To, to, to--
Richard III|CLARENCE|To murder me?
Richard III|Both|Ay, ay.
Richard III|CLARENCE|You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?
Richard III|First Murderer|Offended us you have not, but the king.
Richard III|CLARENCE|I shall be reconciled to him again.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Never, my lord, therefore prepare to die.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Are you call'd forth from out a world of men
Richard III|CLARENCE|To slay the innocent? What is my offence?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Where are the evidence that do accuse me?
Richard III|CLARENCE|What lawful quest have given their verdict up
Richard III|CLARENCE|Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
Richard III|CLARENCE|The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Before I be convict by course of law,
Richard III|CLARENCE|To threaten me with death is most unlawful.
Richard III|CLARENCE|I charge you, as you hope to have redemption
Richard III|CLARENCE|By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,
Richard III|CLARENCE|That you depart and lay no hands on me
Richard III|CLARENCE|The deed you undertake is damnable.
Richard III|First Murderer|What we will do, we do upon command.
Richard III|Second Murderer|And he that hath commanded is the king.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings
Richard III|CLARENCE|Hath in the tables of his law commanded
Richard III|CLARENCE|That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Take heed, for he holds vengeance in his hands,
Richard III|CLARENCE|To hurl upon their heads that break his law.
Richard III|Second Murderer|And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,
Richard III|Second Murderer|For false forswearing and for murder too:
Richard III|Second Murderer|Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,
Richard III|Second Murderer|To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster.
Richard III|First Murderer|And, like a traitor to the name of God,
Richard III|First Murderer|Didst break that vow, and with thy treacherous blade
Richard III|First Murderer|Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.
Richard III|First Murderer|How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,
Richard III|First Murderer|When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?
Richard III|CLARENCE|For Edward, for my brother, for his sake: Why, sirs,
Richard III|CLARENCE|He sends ye not to murder me for this
Richard III|CLARENCE|For in this sin he is as deep as I.
Richard III|CLARENCE|If God will be revenged for this deed.
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, know you yet, he doth it publicly,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm,
Richard III|CLARENCE|He needs no indirect nor lawless course
Richard III|CLARENCE|To cut off those that have offended him.
Richard III|First Murderer|Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,
Richard III|First Murderer|When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,
Richard III|First Murderer|That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?
Richard III|CLARENCE|My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.
Richard III|First Murderer|Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,
Richard III|First Murderer|Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me,
Richard III|CLARENCE|I am his brother, and I love him well.
Richard III|CLARENCE|If you be hired for meed, go back again,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Who shall reward you better for my life
Richard III|CLARENCE|Than Edward will for tidings of my death.
Richard III|Second Murderer|You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you.
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:
Richard III|CLARENCE|Go you to him from me.
Richard III|Both|Ay, so we will.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Tell him, when that our princely father York
Richard III|CLARENCE|Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And charged us from his soul to love each other,
Richard III|CLARENCE|He little thought of this divided friendship:
Richard III|CLARENCE|Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.
Richard III|First Murderer|Ay, millstones, as be lesson'd us to weep.
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, do not slander him, for he is kind.
Richard III|First Murderer|Right,
Richard III|First Murderer|As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself:
Richard III|First Murderer|'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.
Richard III|CLARENCE|It cannot be, for when I parted with him,
Richard III|CLARENCE|He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,
Richard III|CLARENCE|That he would labour my delivery.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee
Richard III|Second Murderer|From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.
Richard III|First Murderer|Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,
Richard III|CLARENCE|To counsel me to make my peace with God,
Richard III|CLARENCE|And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,
Richard III|CLARENCE|That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on
Richard III|CLARENCE|To do this deed will hate you for the deed.
Richard III|Second Murderer|What shall we do?
Richard III|CLARENCE|Relent, and save your souls.
Richard III|First Murderer|Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.
Richard III|CLARENCE|Which of you, if you were a prince's son,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Being pent from liberty, as I am now,
Richard III|CLARENCE|if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Would not entreat for life?
Richard III|CLARENCE|My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:
Richard III|CLARENCE|O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
Richard III|CLARENCE|Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
Richard III|CLARENCE|As you would beg, were you in my distress
Richard III|CLARENCE|A begging prince what beggar pities not?
Richard III|Second Murderer|Look behind you, my lord.
Richard III|First Murderer|Take that, and that: if all this will not do,
Richard III|First Murderer|Stabs him
Richard III|First Murderer|I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.
Richard III|First Murderer|Exit, with the body
Richard III|Second Murderer|A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!
Richard III|Second Murderer|How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands
Richard III|Second Murderer|Of this most grievous guilty murder done!
Richard III|Second Murderer|Re-enter First Murderer
Richard III|First Murderer|How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not?
Richard III|First Murderer|By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!
Richard III|Second Murderer|I would he knew that I had saved his brother!
Richard III|Second Murderer|Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say,
Richard III|Second Murderer|For I repent me that the duke is slain.
Richard III|Second Murderer|Exit
Richard III|First Murderer|So do not I: go, coward as thou art.
Richard III|First Murderer|Now must I hide his body in some hole,
Richard III|First Murderer|Until the duke take order for his burial:
Richard III|First Murderer|And when I have my meed, I must away,
Richard III|First Murderer|For this will out, and here I must not stay.
Richard III|First Murderer|ACT II
Richard III|First Murderer|SCENE I. London. The palace.
Richard III|First Murderer|Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV sick, QUEEN  ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM, GREY, and others
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Why, so: now have I done a good day's work:
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|You peers, continue this united league:
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|I every day expect an embassage
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|From my Redeemer to redeem me hence,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.
Richard III|RIVERS|By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:
Richard III|RIVERS|And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.
Richard III|HASTINGS|So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Take heed you dally not before your king,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Lest he that is the supreme King of kings
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Either of you to be the other's end.
Richard III|HASTINGS|So prosper I, as I swear perfect love!
Richard III|RIVERS|And I, as I love Hastings with my heart!
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Nor your son Dorset, Buckingham, nor you,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|You have been factious one against the other,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|And what you do, do it unfeignedly.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Here, Hastings, I will never more remember
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine!
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Dorset, embrace him, Hastings, love lord marquess.
Richard III|DORSET|This interchange of love, I here protest,
Richard III|DORSET|Upon my part shall be unviolable.
Richard III|HASTINGS|And so swear I, my lord
Richard III|HASTINGS|They embrace
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|With thy embracements to my wife's allies,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|And make me happy in your unity.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|On you or yours,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To the Queen
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|but with all duteous love
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|With hate in those where I expect most love!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|When I have most need to employ a friend,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And most assured that he is a friend
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Be he unto me! this do I beg of God,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|When I am cold in zeal to yours.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|To make the perfect period of this peace.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And, in good time, here comes the noble duke.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Enter GLOUCESTER
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And, princely peers, a happy time of day!
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Brother, we done deeds of charity,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Made peace enmity, fair love of hate,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A blessed labour, my most sovereign liege:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Amongst this princely heap, if any here,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Hold me a foe,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If I unwittingly, or in my rage,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Have aught committed that is hardly borne
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|By any in this presence, I desire
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To reconcile me to his friendly peace:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|'Tis death to me to be at enmity,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I hate it, and desire all good men's love.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which I will purchase with my duteous service,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If ever any grudge were lodged between us,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of you, Lord Rivers, and, Lord Grey, of you,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That without desert have frown'd on me,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen, indeed, of all.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I do not know that Englishman alive
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|With whom my soul is any jot at odds
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|More than the infant that is born to-night
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I thank my God for my humility.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|A holy day shall this be kept hereafter:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I would to God all strifes were well compounded.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To take our brother Clarence to your grace.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Why, madam, have I offer'd love for this
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To be so bouted in this royal presence?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Who knows not that the noble duke is dead?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|They all start
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|You do him injury to scorn his corse.
Richard III|RIVERS|Who knows not he is dead! who knows he is?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|All seeing heaven, what a world is this!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?
Richard III|DORSET|Ay, my good lord, and no one in this presence
Richard III|DORSET|But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But he, poor soul, by your first order died,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And that a winged Mercury did bear:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That came too lag to see him buried.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And yet go current from suspicion!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter DERBY
Richard III|DORSET|A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.
Richard III|DORSET|I will not rise, unless your highness grant.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st.
Richard III|DORSET|The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life,
Richard III|DORSET|Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman
Richard III|DORSET|Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Have a tongue to doom my brother's death,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|And shall the same give pardon to a slave?
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|My brother slew no man, his fault was thought,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|And yet his punishment was cruel death.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Who told me, when we both lay in the field
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Even in his own garments, and gave himself,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Had so much grace to put it in my mind.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|But when your carters or your waiting-vassals
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|The precious image of our dear Redeemer,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|And I unjustly too, must grant it you
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|But for my brother not a man would speak,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Have been beholding to him in his life,
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Yet none of you would once plead for his life.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|O God, I fear thy justice will take hold
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Oh, poor Clarence!
Richard III|KING EDWARD IV|Exeunt some with KING EDWARD IV and QUEEN MARGARET
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|This is the fruit of rashness! Mark'd you not
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How that the guilty kindred of the queen
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|O, they did urge it still unto the king!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|God will revenge it. But come, let us in,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To comfort Edward with our company.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|We wait upon your grace.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|SCENE II. The palace.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE
Richard III|Boy|Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|No, boy.
Richard III|Boy|Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,
Richard III|Boy|And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'
Richard III|Girl|Why do you look on us, and shake your head,
Richard III|Girl|And call us wretches, orphans, castaways
Richard III|Girl|If that our noble father be alive?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|My pretty cousins, you mistake me much,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I do lament the sickness of the king.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|As loath to lose him, not your father's death,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost.
Richard III|Boy|Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.
Richard III|Boy|The king my uncle is to blame for this:
Richard III|Boy|God will revenge it, whom I will importune
Richard III|Boy|With daily prayers all to that effect.
Richard III|Girl|And so will I.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Peace, children, peace! the king doth love you well:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Incapable and shallow innocents,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|You cannot guess who caused your father's death.
Richard III|Boy|Grandam, we can, for my good uncle Gloucester
Richard III|Boy|Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,
Richard III|Boy|Devised impeachments to imprison him :
Richard III|Boy|And when my uncle told me so, he wept,
Richard III|Boy|And hugg'd me in his arm, and kindly kiss'd my cheek,
Richard III|Boy|Bade me rely on him as on my father,
Richard III|Boy|And he would love me dearly as his child.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|He is my son, yea, and therein my shame,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.
Richard III|Boy|Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Ay, boy.
Richard III|Boy|I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?
Richard III|Boy|Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her ears, RIVERS, and DORSET after her
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To chide my fortune, and torment myself?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I'll join with black despair against my soul,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And to myself become an enemy.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|What means this scene of rude impatience?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To make an act of tragic violence:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Why grow the branches now the root is wither'd?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If you will live, lament, if die, be brief,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Or, like obedient subjects, follow him
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|As I had title in thy noble husband!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I have bewept a worthy husband's death,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And lived by looking on his images:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|But now two mirrors of his princely semblance
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And I for comfort have but one false glass,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Which grieves me when I see my shame in him.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thou art a widow, yet thou art a mother,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And hast the comfort of thy children left thee:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|But death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Edward and Clarence. O, what cause have I,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thine being but a moiety of my grief,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!
Richard III|Boy|Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death,
Richard III|Boy|How can we aid you with our kindred tears?
Richard III|Girl|Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd,
Richard III|Girl|Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Give me no help in lamentation,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I am not barren to bring forth complaints
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That I, being govern'd by the watery moon,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!
Richard III|Children|Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|What stay had I but Edward? and he's gone.
Richard III|Children|What stay had we but Clarence? and he's gone.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|What stays had I but they? and they are gone.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Was never widow had so dear a loss!
Richard III|Children|Were never orphans had so dear a loss!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Was never mother had so dear a loss!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Alas, I am the mother of these moans!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|She for an Edward weeps, and so do I,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|These babes for Clarence weep and so do I,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I for an Edward weep, so do not they:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Alas, you three, on me, threefold distress'd,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And I will pamper it with lamentations.
Richard III|DORSET|Comfort, dear mother: God is much displeased
Richard III|DORSET|That you take with unthankfulness, his doing:
Richard III|DORSET|In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful,
Richard III|DORSET|With dull unwilligness to repay a debt
Richard III|DORSET|Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent,
Richard III|DORSET|Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,
Richard III|DORSET|For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
Richard III|RIVERS|Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,
Richard III|RIVERS|Of the young prince your son: send straight for him
Richard III|RIVERS|Let him be crown'd, in him your comfort lives:
Richard III|RIVERS|Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,
Richard III|RIVERS|And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.
Richard III|RIVERS|Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, and RATCLIFF
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To wail the dimming of our shining star,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But none can cure their harms by wailing them.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I crave your blessing.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|God bless thee, and put meekness in thy mind,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  Amen, and make me die a good old man!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I marvel why her grace did leave it out.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Now cheer each other in each other's love
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Though we have spent our harvest of this king,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|We are to reap the harvest of his son.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But lately splinter'd, knit, and join'd together,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Hither to London, to be crown'd our king.
Richard III|RIVERS|Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Which would be so much the more dangerous
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Where every horse bears his commanding rein,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And may direct his course as please himself,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|In my opinion, ought to be prevented.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I hope the king made peace with all of us
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And the compact is firm and true in me.
Richard III|RIVERS|And so in me, and so, I think, in all:
Richard III|RIVERS|Yet, since it is but green, it should be put
Richard III|RIVERS|To no apparent likelihood of breach,
Richard III|RIVERS|Which haply by much company might be urged:
Richard III|RIVERS|Therefore I say with noble Buckingham,
Richard III|RIVERS|That it is meet so few should fetch the prince.
Richard III|HASTINGS|And so say I.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Then be it so, and go we to determine
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Madam, and you, my mother, will you go
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To give your censures in this weighty business?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|With all our harts.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM and GLOUCESTER
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My lord, whoever journeys to the Prince,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For God's sake, let not us two be behind,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For, by the way, I'll sort occasion,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|As index to the story we late talk'd of,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To part the queen's proud kindred from the king.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My other self, my counsel's consistory,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My oracle, my prophet! My dear cousin,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I, like a child, will go by thy direction.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|SCENE III. London. A street.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter two Citizens meeting
Richard III|First Citizen|Neighbour, well met: whither away so fast?
Richard III|Second Citizen|I promise you, I scarcely know myself:
Richard III|Second Citizen|Hear you the news abroad?
Richard III|First Citizen|Ay, that the king is dead.
Richard III|Second Citizen|Bad news, by'r lady, seldom comes the better:
Richard III|Second Citizen|I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world.
Richard III|Second Citizen|Enter another Citizen
Richard III|Third Citizen|Neighbours, God speed!
Richard III|First Citizen|Give you good morrow, sir.
Richard III|Third Citizen|Doth this news hold of good King Edward's death?
Richard III|Second Citizen|Ay, sir, it is too true, God help the while!
Richard III|Third Citizen|Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.
Richard III|First Citizen|No, no, by God's good grace his son shall reign.
Richard III|Third Citizen|Woe to the land that's govern'd by a child!
Richard III|Second Citizen|In him there is a hope of government,
Richard III|Second Citizen|That in his nonage council under him,
Richard III|Second Citizen|And in his full and ripen'd years himself,
Richard III|Second Citizen|No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.
Richard III|First Citizen|So stood the state when Henry the Sixth
Richard III|First Citizen|Was crown'd in Paris but at nine months old.
Richard III|Third Citizen|Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot,
Richard III|Third Citizen|For then this land was famously enrich'd
Richard III|Third Citizen|With politic grave counsel, then the king
Richard III|Third Citizen|Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace.
Richard III|First Citizen|Why, so hath this, both by the father and mother.
Richard III|Third Citizen|Better it were they all came by the father,
Richard III|Third Citizen|Or by the father there were none at all,
Richard III|Third Citizen|For emulation now, who shall be nearest,
Richard III|Third Citizen|Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.
Richard III|Third Citizen|O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester!
Richard III|Third Citizen|And the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud:
Richard III|Third Citizen|And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
Richard III|Third Citizen|This sickly land might solace as before.
Richard III|First Citizen|Come, come, we fear the worst, all shall be well.
Richard III|Third Citizen|When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks,
Richard III|Third Citizen|When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand,
Richard III|Third Citizen|When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Richard III|Third Citizen|Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.
Richard III|Third Citizen|All may be well, but, if God sort it so,
Richard III|Third Citizen|'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.
Richard III|Second Citizen|Truly, the souls of men are full of dread:
Richard III|Second Citizen|Ye cannot reason almost with a man
Richard III|Second Citizen|That looks not heavily and full of fear.
Richard III|Third Citizen|Before the times of change, still is it so:
Richard III|Third Citizen|By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust
Richard III|Third Citizen|Ensuing dangers, as by proof, we see
Richard III|Third Citizen|The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
Richard III|Third Citizen|But leave it all to God. whither away?
Richard III|Second Citizen|Marry, we were sent for to the justices.
Richard III|Third Citizen|And so was I: I'll bear you company.
Richard III|Third Citizen|Exeunt
Richard III|Third Citizen|SCENE IV. London. The palace.
Richard III|Third Citizen|Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, young YORK, QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton,
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|To-morrow, or next day, they will be here.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I long with all my heart to see the prince:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But I hear, no, they say my son of York
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Hath almost overta'en him in his growth.
Richard III|YORK|Ay, mother, but I would not have it so.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.
Richard III|YORK|Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,
Richard III|YORK|My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow
Richard III|YORK|More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle
Richard III|YORK|Gloucester,
Richard III|YORK|'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'
Richard III|YORK|And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Richard III|YORK|Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|In him that did object the same to thee,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|So long a-growing and so leisurely,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I hope he is, but yet let mothers doubt.
Richard III|YORK|Now, by my troth, if I had been remember'd,
Richard III|YORK|I could have given my uncle's grace a flout,
Richard III|YORK|To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it.
Richard III|YORK|Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast
Richard III|YORK|That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old
Richard III|YORK|'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
Richard III|YORK|Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?
Richard III|YORK|Grandam, his nurse.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born.
Richard III|YORK|If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Good madam, be not angry with the child.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Pitchers have ears.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Enter a Messenger
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Here comes a messenger. What news?
Richard III|Messenger|Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|How fares the prince?
Richard III|Messenger|Well, madam, and in health.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|What is thy news then?
Richard III|Messenger|Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,
Richard III|Messenger|With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Who hath committed them?
Richard III|Messenger|The mighty dukes
Richard III|Messenger|Gloucester and Buckingham.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|For what offence?
Richard III|Messenger|The sum of all I can, I have disclosed,
Richard III|Messenger|Why or for what these nobles were committed
Richard III|Messenger|Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Ay me, I see the downfall of our house!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Insulting tyranny begins to jet
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Upon the innocent and aweless throne:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I see, as in a map, the end of all.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|How many of you have mine eyes beheld!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|My husband lost his life to get the crown,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And often up and down my sons were toss'd,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|For me to joy and weep their gain and loss:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And being seated, and domestic broils
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Make war upon themselves, blood against blood,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Self against self: O, preposterous
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Or let me die, to look on death no more!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Come, come, my boy, we will to sanctuary.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Madam, farewell.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I'll go along with you.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|You have no cause.
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|My gracious lady, go,
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|And thither bear your treasure and your goods.
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|For my part, I'll resign unto your grace
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|The seal I keep: and so betide to me
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|As well I tender you and all of yours!
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary.
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|Exeunt
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|ACT III
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|SCENE I. London. A street.
Richard III|ARCHBISHOP OF YORK|The trumpets sound. Enter the young PRINCE EDWARD, GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, CARDINAL, CATESBY, and others
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The weary way hath made you melancholy.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|No, uncle, but our crosses on the way
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|I want more uncles here to welcome me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nor more can you distinguish of a man
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Than of his outward show, which, God he knows,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Those uncles which you want were dangerous,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your grace attended to their sugar'd words,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But look'd not on the poison of their hearts :
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|God keep you from them, and from such false friends!
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|God keep me from false friends! but they were none.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter the Lord Mayor and his train
Richard III|Lord Mayor|God bless your grace with health and happy days!
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|I thank you, good my lord, and thank you all.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|I thought my mother, and my brother York,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Would long ere this have met us on the way
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|To tell us whether they will come or no!
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Enter HASTINGS
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother come?
Richard III|HASTINGS|On what occasion, God he knows, not I,
Richard III|HASTINGS|The queen your mother, and your brother York,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince
Richard III|HASTINGS|Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,
Richard III|HASTINGS|But by his mother was perforce withheld.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Fie, what an indirect and peevish course
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Unto his princely brother presently?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.
Richard III|CARDINAL|My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory
Richard III|CARDINAL|Can from his mother win the Duke of York,
Richard III|CARDINAL|Anon expect him here, but if she be obdurate
Richard III|CARDINAL|To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid
Richard III|CARDINAL|We should infringe the holy privilege
Richard III|CARDINAL|Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land
Richard III|CARDINAL|Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|You are too senseless--obstinate, my lord,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Too ceremonious and traditional
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|You break not sanctuary in seizing him.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The benefit thereof is always granted
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To those whose dealings have deserved the place,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And those who have the wit to claim the place:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Then, taking him from thence that is not there,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|You break no privilege nor charter there.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Oft have I heard of sanctuary men,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But sanctuary children ne'er till now.
Richard III|CARDINAL|My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once.
Richard III|CARDINAL|Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?
Richard III|HASTINGS|I go, my lord.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Exeunt CARDINAL and HASTINGS
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Where it seems best unto your royal self.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If I may counsel you, some day or two
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For your best health and recreation.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|I do not like the Tower, of any place.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|He did, my gracious lord, begin that place,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Is it upon record, or else reported
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Successively from age to age, he built it?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Upon record, my gracious lord.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|But say, my lord, it were not register'd,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Even to the general all-ending day.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  So wise so young, they say, do never
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|live long.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|What say you, uncle?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I say, without characters, fame lives long.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Aside
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I moralize two meanings in one word.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|That Julius Caesar was a famous man,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|With what his valour did enrich his wit,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|His wit set down to make his valour live
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Death makes no conquest of this conqueror,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,--
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|What, my gracious lord?
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|An if I live until I be a man,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|I'll win our ancient right in France again,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|[Aside]  Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Richard of York! how fares our loving brother?
Richard III|YORK|Well, my dread lord, so must I call you now.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Too late he died that might have kept that title,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Which by his death hath lost much majesty.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?
Richard III|YORK|I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,
Richard III|YORK|You said that idle weeds are fast in growth
Richard III|YORK|The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He hath, my lord.
Richard III|YORK|And therefore is he idle?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.
Richard III|YORK|Then is he more beholding to you than I.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He may command me as my sovereign,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But you have power in me as in a kinsman.
Richard III|YORK|I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|A beggar, brother?
Richard III|YORK|Of my kind uncle, that I know will give,
Richard III|YORK|And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin.
Richard III|YORK|A greater gift! O, that's the sword to it.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|A gentle cousin, were it light enough.
Richard III|YORK|O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts,
Richard III|YORK|In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|It is too heavy for your grace to wear.
Richard III|YORK|I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What, would you have my weapon, little lord?
Richard III|YORK|I would, that I might thank you as you call me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How?
Richard III|YORK|Little.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.
Richard III|YORK|You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:
Richard III|YORK|Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me,
Richard III|YORK|Because that I am little, like an ape,
Richard III|YORK|He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|He prettily and aptly taunts himself:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|So cunning and so young is wonderful.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My lord, will't please you pass along?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Will to your mother, to entreat of her
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.
Richard III|YORK|What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|My lord protector needs will have it so.
Richard III|YORK|I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Why, what should you fear?
Richard III|YORK|Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:
Richard III|YORK|My grandam told me he was murdered there.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|I fear no uncles dead.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nor none that live, I hope.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|An if they live, I hope I need not fear.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|But come, my lord, and with a heavy heart,
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower.
Richard III|PRINCE EDWARD|A Sennet. Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM and CATESBY
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Think you, my lord, this little prating York
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Was not incensed by his subtle mother
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|No doubt, no doubt, O, 'tis a parlous boy,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|As closely to conceal what we impart:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|What think'st thou? is it not an easy matter
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For the instalment of this noble duke
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|In the seat royal of this famous isle?
Richard III|CATESBY|He for his father's sake so loves the prince,
Richard III|CATESBY|That he will not be won to aught against him.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|What think'st thou, then, of Stanley? what will he?
Richard III|CATESBY|He will do all in all as Hastings doth.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Well, then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And, as it were far off sound thou Lord Hastings,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|How doth he stand affected to our purpose,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To sit about the coronation.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|If thou dost find him tractable to us,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Be thou so too, and so break off your talk,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And give us notice of his inclination:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For we to-morrow hold divided councils,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And bid my friend, for joy of this good news,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Give mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly.
Richard III|CATESBY|My good lords both, with all the heed I may.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?
Richard III|CATESBY|You shall, my lord.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exit CATESBY
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Chop off his head, man, somewhat we will do:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The earldom of Hereford, and the moveables
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Whereof the king my brother stood possess'd.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I'll claim that promise at your grace's hands.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And look to have it yielded with all willingness.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|We may digest our complots in some form.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|SCENE II. Before Lord Hastings' house.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter a Messenger
Richard III|Messenger|What, ho! my lord!
Richard III|HASTINGS|[Within]  Who knocks at the door?
Richard III|Messenger|A messenger from the Lord Stanley.
Richard III|Messenger|Enter HASTINGS
Richard III|HASTINGS|What is't o'clock?
Richard III|Messenger|Upon the stroke of four.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights?
Richard III|Messenger|So it should seem by that I have to say.
Richard III|Messenger|First, he commends him to your noble lordship.
Richard III|HASTINGS|And then?
Richard III|Messenger|And then he sends you word
Richard III|Messenger|He dreamt to-night the boar had razed his helm:
Richard III|Messenger|Besides, he says there are two councils held,
Richard III|Messenger|And that may be determined at the one
Richard III|Messenger|which may make you and him to rue at the other.
Richard III|Messenger|Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure,
Richard III|Messenger|If presently you will take horse with him,
Richard III|Messenger|And with all speed post with him toward the north,
Richard III|Messenger|To shun the danger that his soul divines.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Bid him not fear the separated councils
Richard III|HASTINGS|His honour and myself are at the one,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And at the other is my servant Catesby
Richard III|HASTINGS|Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us
Richard III|HASTINGS|Whereof I shall not have intelligence.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Tell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:
Richard III|HASTINGS|And for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond
Richard III|HASTINGS|To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers
Richard III|HASTINGS|To fly the boar before the boar pursues,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Were to incense the boar to follow us
Richard III|HASTINGS|And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Go, bid thy master rise and come to me
Richard III|HASTINGS|And we will both together to the Tower,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.
Richard III|Messenger|My gracious lord, I'll tell him what you say.
Richard III|Messenger|Exit
Richard III|Messenger|Enter CATESBY
Richard III|CATESBY|Many good morrows to my noble lord!
Richard III|HASTINGS|Good morrow, Catesby, you are early stirring
Richard III|HASTINGS|What news, what news, in this our tottering state?
Richard III|CATESBY|It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord,
Richard III|CATESBY|And I believe twill never stand upright
Richard III|CATESBY|Tim Richard wear the garland of the realm.
Richard III|HASTINGS|How! wear the garland! dost thou mean the crown?
Richard III|CATESBY|Ay, my good lord.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
Richard III|HASTINGS|Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced.
Richard III|HASTINGS|But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?
Richard III|CATESBY|Ay, on my life, and hopes to find forward
Richard III|CATESBY|Upon his party for the gain thereof:
Richard III|CATESBY|And thereupon he sends you this good news,
Richard III|CATESBY|That this same very day your enemies,
Richard III|CATESBY|The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Because they have been still mine enemies:
Richard III|HASTINGS|But, that I'll give my voice on Richard's side,
Richard III|HASTINGS|To bar my master's heirs in true descent,
Richard III|HASTINGS|God knows I will not do it, to the death.
Richard III|CATESBY|God keep your lordship in that gracious mind!
Richard III|HASTINGS|But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence,
Richard III|HASTINGS|That they who brought me in my master's hate
Richard III|HASTINGS|I live to look upon their tragedy.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I tell thee, Catesby--
Richard III|CATESBY|What, my lord?
Richard III|HASTINGS|Ere a fortnight make me elder,
Richard III|HASTINGS|I'll send some packing that yet think not on it.
Richard III|CATESBY|'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
Richard III|CATESBY|When men are unprepared and look not for it.
Richard III|HASTINGS|O monstrous, monstrous! and so falls it out
Richard III|HASTINGS|With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: and so 'twill do
Richard III|HASTINGS|With some men else, who think themselves as safe
Richard III|HASTINGS|As thou and I, who, as thou know'st, are dear
Richard III|HASTINGS|To princely Richard and to Buckingham.
Richard III|CATESBY|The princes both make high account of you,
Richard III|CATESBY|Aside
Richard III|CATESBY|For they account his head upon the bridge.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I know they do, and I have well deserved it.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Enter STANLEY
Richard III|HASTINGS|Come on, come on, where is your boar-spear, man?
Richard III|HASTINGS|Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?
Richard III|STANLEY|My lord, good morrow, good morrow, Catesby:
Richard III|STANLEY|You may jest on, but, by the holy rood,
Richard III|STANLEY|I do not like these several councils, I.
Richard III|HASTINGS|My lord,
Richard III|HASTINGS|I hold my life as dear as you do yours,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And never in my life, I do protest,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Was it more precious to me than 'tis now:
Richard III|HASTINGS|Think you, but that I know our state secure,
Richard III|HASTINGS|I would be so triumphant as I am?
Richard III|STANLEY|The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,
Richard III|STANLEY|Were jocund, and supposed their state was sure,
Richard III|STANLEY|And they indeed had no cause to mistrust,
Richard III|STANLEY|But yet, you see how soon the day o'ercast.
Richard III|STANLEY|This sudden stag of rancour I misdoubt:
Richard III|STANLEY|Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward!
Richard III|STANLEY|What, shall we toward the Tower? the day is spent.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Come, come, have with you. Wot you what, my lord?
Richard III|HASTINGS|To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|They, for their truth, might better wear their heads
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Than some that have accused them wear their hats.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|But come, my lord, let us away.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Enter a Pursuivant
Richard III|HASTINGS|Go on before, I'll talk with this good fellow.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Exeunt STANLEY and CATESBY
Richard III|HASTINGS|How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?
Richard III|Pursuivant|The better that your lordship please to ask.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I tell thee, man, 'tis better with me now
Richard III|HASTINGS|Than when I met thee last where now we meet:
Richard III|HASTINGS|Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,
Richard III|HASTINGS|By the suggestion of the queen's allies,
Richard III|HASTINGS|But now, I tell thee--keep it to thyself--
Richard III|HASTINGS|This day those enemies are put to death,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And I in better state than e'er I was.
Richard III|Pursuivant|God hold it, to your honour's good content!
Richard III|HASTINGS|Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Throws him his purse
Richard III|Pursuivant|God save your lordship!
Richard III|Pursuivant|Exit
Richard III|Pursuivant|Enter a Priest
Richard III|Priest|Well met, my lord, I am glad to see your honour.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I am in your debt for your last exercise,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
Richard III|HASTINGS|He whispers in his ear
Richard III|HASTINGS|Enter BUCKINGHAM
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Good faith, and when I met this holy man,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Those men you talk of came into my mind.
Richard III|HASTINGS|What, go you toward the Tower?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I do, my lord, but long I shall not stay
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I shall return before your lordship thence.
Richard III|HASTINGS|'Tis like enough, for I stay dinner there.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|[Aside]  And supper too, although thou know'st it not.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Come, will you go?
Richard III|HASTINGS|I'll wait upon your lordship.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Exeunt
Richard III|HASTINGS|SCENE III. Pomfret Castle.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Enter RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN to death
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Come, bring forth the prisoners.
Richard III|RIVERS|Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:
Richard III|RIVERS|To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
Richard III|RIVERS|For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
Richard III|GREY|God keep the prince from all the pack of you!
Richard III|GREY|A knot you are of damned blood-suckers!
Richard III|VAUGHAN|You live that shall cry woe for this after.
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Dispatch, the limit of your lives is out.
Richard III|RIVERS|O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
Richard III|RIVERS|Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
Richard III|RIVERS|Within the guilty closure of thy walls
Richard III|RIVERS|Richard the second here was hack'd to death,
Richard III|RIVERS|And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
Richard III|RIVERS|We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.
Richard III|GREY|Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,
Richard III|GREY|For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.
Richard III|RIVERS|Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,
Richard III|RIVERS|Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God
Richard III|RIVERS|To hear her prayers for them, as now for us
Richard III|RIVERS|And for my sister and her princely sons,
Richard III|RIVERS|Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,
Richard III|RIVERS|Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Make haste, the hour of death is expiate.
Richard III|RIVERS|Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:
Richard III|RIVERS|And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.
Richard III|RIVERS|Exeunt
Richard III|RIVERS|SCENE IV. The Tower of London.
Richard III|RIVERS|Enter BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP OF  ELY, RATCLIFF, LOVEL, with others, and take their seats at a table
Richard III|HASTINGS|My lords, at once: the cause why we are met
Richard III|HASTINGS|Is, to determine of the coronation.
Richard III|HASTINGS|In God's name, speak: when is the royal day?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Are all things fitting for that royal time?
Richard III|DERBY|It is, and wants but nomination.
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Who knows the lord protector's mind herein?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Who is most inward with the royal duke?
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Who, I, my lord I we know each other's faces,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Than I of yours,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Nor I no more of his, than you of mine.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I thank his grace, I know he loves me well,
Richard III|HASTINGS|But, for his purpose in the coronation.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd
Richard III|HASTINGS|His gracious pleasure any way therein:
Richard III|HASTINGS|But you, my noble lords, may name the time,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Enter GLOUCESTER
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|Now in good time, here comes the duke himself.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I have been long a sleeper, but, I hope,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My absence doth neglect no great designs,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which by my presence might have been concluded.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Had not you come upon your cue, my lord
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,--
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I mean, your voice,--for crowning of the king.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|His lordship knows me well, and loves me well.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I thank your grace.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My lord of Ely!
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|My lord?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|When I was last in Holborn,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I saw good strawberries in your garden there
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I do beseech you send for some of them.
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|Exit
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Drawing him aside
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And finds the testy gentleman so hot,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As he will lose his head ere give consent
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|His master's son, as worshipful as he terms it,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exit GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM following
Richard III|DERBY|We have not yet set down this day of triumph.
Richard III|DERBY|To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden,
Richard III|DERBY|For I myself am not so well provided
Richard III|DERBY|As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.
Richard III|DERBY|Re-enter BISHOP OF ELY
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|Where is my lord protector? I have sent for these
Richard III|BISHOP OF ELY|strawberries.
Richard III|HASTINGS|His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day,
Richard III|HASTINGS|There's some conceit or other likes him well,
Richard III|HASTINGS|When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.
Richard III|HASTINGS|I think there's never a man in Christendom
Richard III|HASTINGS|That can less hide his love or hate than he,
Richard III|HASTINGS|For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
Richard III|DERBY|What of his heart perceive you in his face
Richard III|DERBY|By any likelihood he show'd to-day?
Richard III|HASTINGS|Marry, that with no man here he is offended,
Richard III|HASTINGS|For, were he, he had shown it in his looks.
Richard III|DERBY|I pray God he be not, I say.
Richard III|DERBY|Re-enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I pray you all, tell me what they deserve
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That do conspire my death with devilish plots
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail'd
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Upon my body with their hellish charms?
Richard III|HASTINGS|The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Makes me most forward in this noble presence
Richard III|HASTINGS|To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be
Richard III|HASTINGS|I say, my lord, they have deserved death.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Then be your eyes the witness of this ill:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|See how I am bewitch'd, behold mine arm
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.
Richard III|HASTINGS|If they have done this thing, my gracious lord--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If I thou protector of this damned strumpet--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Tellest thou me of 'ifs'?  Thou art a traitor:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I will not dine until I see the same.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The rest, that love me, rise and follow me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt all but HASTINGS, RATCLIFF, and LOVEL
Richard III|HASTINGS|Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me,
Richard III|HASTINGS|For I, too fond, might have prevented this.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm,
Richard III|HASTINGS|But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly:
Richard III|HASTINGS|Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And startled, when he look'd upon the Tower,
Richard III|HASTINGS|As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house.
Richard III|HASTINGS|O, now I want the priest that spake to me:
Richard III|HASTINGS|I now repent I told the pursuivant
Richard III|HASTINGS|As 'twere triumphing at mine enemies,
Richard III|HASTINGS|How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd,
Richard III|HASTINGS|And I myself secure in grace and favour.
Richard III|HASTINGS|O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse
Richard III|HASTINGS|Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head!
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Dispatch, my lord, the duke would be at dinner:
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Make a short shrift, he longs to see your head.
Richard III|HASTINGS|O momentary grace of mortal men,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
Richard III|HASTINGS|Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Richard III|HASTINGS|Ready, with every nod, to tumble down
Richard III|HASTINGS|Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
Richard III|LOVEL|Come, come, dispatch, 'tis bootless to exclaim.
Richard III|HASTINGS|O bloody Richard! miserable England!
Richard III|HASTINGS|I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee
Richard III|HASTINGS|That ever wretched age hath look'd upon.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Come, lead me to the block, bear him my head.
Richard III|HASTINGS|They smile at me that shortly shall be dead.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Exeunt
Richard III|HASTINGS|SCENE V. The Tower-walls.
Richard III|HASTINGS|Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Murder thy breath in the middle of a word,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And then begin again, and stop again,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Speak and look back, and pry on every side,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Are at my service, like enforced smiles,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And both are ready in their offices,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|At any time, to grace my stratagems.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But what, is Catesby gone?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He is, and, see, he brings the mayor along.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter the Lord Mayor and CATESBY
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Lord mayor,--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Look to the drawbridge there!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Hark! a drum.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Catesby, o'erlook the walls.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Lord mayor, the reason we have sent--
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Look back, defend thee, here are enemies.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|God and our innocency defend and guard us!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS' head
Richard III|LOVEL|Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,
Richard III|LOVEL|The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So dear I loved the man, that I must weep.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I took him for the plainest harmless creature
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That breathed upon this earth a Christian,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Made him my book wherein my soul recorded
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The history of all her secret thoughts:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That, his apparent open guilt omitted,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|He lived from all attainder of suspect.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|That ever lived.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Would you imagine, or almost believe,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Were't not that, by great preservation,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This day had plotted, in the council-house
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?
Richard III|Lord Mayor|What, had he so?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What, think You we are Turks or infidels?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Or that we would, against the form of law,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Proceed thus rashly to the villain's death,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But that the extreme peril of the case,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The peace of England and our persons' safety,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enforced us to this execution?
Richard III|Lord Mayor|Now, fair befall you! he deserved his death,
Richard III|Lord Mayor|And you my good lords, both have well proceeded,
Richard III|Lord Mayor|To warn false traitors from the like attempts.
Richard III|Lord Mayor|I never look'd for better at his hands,
Richard III|Lord Mayor|After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Yet had not we determined he should die,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Until your lordship came to see his death,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which now the loving haste of these our friends,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Because, my lord, we would have had you heard
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The traitor speak, and timorously confess
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The manner and the purpose of his treason,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That you might well have signified the same
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Unto the citizens, who haply may
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Misconstrue us in him and wail his death.
Richard III|Lord Mayor|But, my good lord, your grace's word shall serve,
Richard III|Lord Mayor|As well as I had seen and heard him speak
Richard III|Lord Mayor|And doubt you not, right noble princes both,
Richard III|Lord Mayor|But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens
Richard III|Lord Mayor|With all your just proceedings in this cause.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And to that end we wish'd your lord-ship here,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To avoid the carping censures of the world.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But since you come too late of our intents,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Yet witness what you hear we did intend:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exit Lord Mayor
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Only for saying he would make his son
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Heir to the crown, meaning indeed his house,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which, by the sign thereof was termed so.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Moreover, urge his hateful luxury
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And bestial appetite in change of lust,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Without control, listed to make his prey.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Tell them, when that my mother went with child
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My princely father then had wars in France
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And, by just computation of the time,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Found that the issue was not his begot,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which well appeared in his lineaments,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Being nothing like the noble duke my father:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Because you know, my lord, my mother lives.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|As if the golden fee for which I plead
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's Castle,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Where you shall find me well accompanied
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I go: and towards three or four o'clock
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exit BUCKINGHAM
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To CATESBY
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Go thou to Friar Penker, bid them both
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Now will I in, to take some privy order,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And to give notice, that no manner of person
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|At any time have recourse unto the princes.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exit
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|SCENE VI. The same.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand
Richard III|Scrivener|This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
Richard III|Scrivener|Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,
Richard III|Scrivener|That it may be this day read over in Paul's.
Richard III|Scrivener|And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
Richard III|Scrivener|Eleven hours I spent to write it over,
Richard III|Scrivener|For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me,
Richard III|Scrivener|The precedent was full as long a-doing:
Richard III|Scrivener|And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
Richard III|Scrivener|Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty
Richard III|Scrivener|Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,
Richard III|Scrivener|That seeth not this palpable device?
Richard III|Scrivener|Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?
Richard III|Scrivener|Bad is the world, and all will come to nought,
Richard III|Scrivener|When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.
Richard III|Scrivener|Exit
Richard III|Scrivener|SCENE VII. Baynard's Castle.
Richard III|Scrivener|Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, at several doors
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How now, my lord, what say the citizens?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The citizens are mum and speak not a word.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I did, with his contract with Lady Lucy,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And his contract by deputy in France,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The insatiate greediness of his desires,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And his enforcement of the city wives,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|His tyranny for trifles, his own bastardy,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|As being got, your father then in France,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|His resemblance, being not like the duke,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Withal I did infer your lineaments,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Being the right idea of your father,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Both in your form and nobleness of mind,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your bounty, virtue, fair humility:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And when mine oratory grew to an end
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I bid them that did love their country's good
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Ah! and did they so?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|No, so God help me, they spake not a word,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Which when I saw, I reprehended them,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|His answer was, the people were not wont
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To be spoke to but by the recorder.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Then he was urged to tell my tale again,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|'Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd,'
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But nothing spake in warrant from himself.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|When he had done, some followers of mine own,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|At the lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And some ten voices cried 'God save King Richard!'
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And thus I took the vantage of those few,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|'Thanks, gentle citizens and friends,' quoth I,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|'This general applause and loving shout
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard:'
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And even here brake off, and came away.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|What tongueless blocks were they! would not they speak?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|No, by my troth, my lord.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Will not the mayor then and his brethren come?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The mayor is here at hand: intend some fear,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And stand betwixt two churchmen, good my lord,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For on that ground I'll build a holy descant:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And be not easily won to our request:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I go, and if you plead as well for them
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As I can say nay to thee for myself,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|No doubt well bring it to a happy issue.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Go, go, up to the leads, the lord mayor knocks.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exit GLOUCESTER
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Enter the Lord Mayor and Citizens
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Welcome my lord, I dance attendance here,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I think the duke will not be spoke withal.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Enter CATESBY
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Here comes his servant: how now, Catesby,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|What says he?
Richard III|CATESBY|My lord: he doth entreat your grace,
Richard III|CATESBY|To visit him to-morrow or next day:
Richard III|CATESBY|He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
Richard III|CATESBY|Divinely bent to meditation,
Richard III|CATESBY|And no worldly suit would he be moved,
Richard III|CATESBY|To draw him from his holy exercise.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Return, good Catesby, to thy lord again,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Tell him, myself, the mayor and citizens,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|In deep designs and matters of great moment,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|No less importing than our general good,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Are come to have some conference with his grace.
Richard III|CATESBY|I'll tell him what you say, my lord.
Richard III|CATESBY|Exit
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But on his knees at meditation,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But meditating with two deep divines,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But praying, to enrich his watchful soul:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Happy were England, would this gracious prince
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Take on himself the sovereignty thereof:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But, sure, I fear, we shall ne'er win him to it.
Richard III|Lord Mayor|Marry, God forbid his grace should say us nay!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I fear he will.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Re-enter CATESBY
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|How now, Catesby, what says your lord?
Richard III|CATESBY|My lord,
Richard III|CATESBY|He wonders to what end you have assembled
Richard III|CATESBY|Such troops of citizens to speak with him,
Richard III|CATESBY|His grace not being warn'd thereof before:
Richard III|CATESBY|My lord, he fears you mean no good to him.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Sorry I am my noble cousin should
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Suspect me, that I mean no good to him:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|By heaven, I come in perfect love to him,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And so once more return and tell his grace.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exit CATESBY
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|When holy and devout religious men
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|So sweet is zealous contemplation.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Enter GLOUCESTER aloft, between two Bishops. CATESBY returns
Richard III|Lord Mayor|See, where he stands between two clergymen!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To stay him from the fall of vanity:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|True ornaments to know a holy man.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Lend favourable ears to our request,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And pardon us the interruption
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|My lord, there needs no such apology:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I rather do beseech you pardon me,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Who, earnest in the service of my God,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Neglect the visitation of my friends.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But, leaving this, what is your grace's pleasure?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And all good men of this ungovern'd isle.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I do suspect I have done some offence
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|That seems disgracious in the city's eyes,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|You have, my lord: would it might please your grace,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|At our entreaties, to amend that fault!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Then know, it is your fault that you resign
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The supreme seat, the throne majestical,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The scepter'd office of your ancestors,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your state of fortune and your due of birth,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The lineal glory of your royal house,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To the corruption of a blemished stock:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Which here we waken to our country's good,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This noble isle doth want her proper limbs,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Her face defaced with scars of infamy,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Which to recure, we heartily solicit
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your gracious self to take on you the charge
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And kingly government of this your land,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Not as protector, steward, substitute,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Or lowly factor for another's gain,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But as successively from blood to blood,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your right of birth, your empery, your own.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For this, consorted with the citizens,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your very worshipful and loving friends,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And by their vehement instigation,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|In this just suit come I to move your grace.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I know not whether to depart in silence,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Or bitterly to speak in your reproof.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Best fitteth my degree or your condition
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If not to answer, you might haply think
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which fondly you would here impose on me,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So season'd with your faithful love to me.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Then, on the other side, I cheque'd my friends.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Definitively thus I answer you.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your love deserves my thanks, but my desert
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Unmeritable shuns your high request.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|First if all obstacles were cut away,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And that my path were even to the crown,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As my ripe revenue and due by birth
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|So mighty and so many my defects,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|As I had rather hide me from my greatness,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Than in my greatness covet to be hid,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And in the vapour of my glory smother'd.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But, God be thank'd, there's no need of me,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And much I need to help you, if need were,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Will well become the seat of majesty,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|On him I lay what you would lay on me,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|The right and fortune of his happy stars,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Which God defend that I should wring from him!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My lord, this argues conscience in your grace,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|All circumstances well considered.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|You say that Edward is your brother's son:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|So say we too, but not by Edward's wife,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For first he was contract to Lady Lucy--
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your mother lives a witness to that vow--
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And afterward by substitute betroth'd
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To Bona, sister to the King of France.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|These both put by a poor petitioner,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|A care-crazed mother of a many children,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|A beauty-waning and distressed widow,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Even in the afternoon of her best days,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To base declension and loathed bigamy
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|By her, in his unlawful bed, he got
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This Edward, whom our manners term the prince.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|More bitterly could I expostulate,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Save that, for reverence to some alive,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I give a sparing limit to my tongue.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Then, good my lord, take to your royal self
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This proffer'd benefit of dignity,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|If non to bless us and the land withal,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|From the corruption of abusing times,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Unto a lineal true-derived course.
Richard III|Lord Mayor|Do, good my lord, your citizens entreat you.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffer'd love.
Richard III|CATESBY|O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Alas, why would you heap these cares on me?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I am unfit for state and majesty,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I do beseech you, take it not amiss,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I cannot nor I will not yield to you.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|If you refuse it,--as, in love and zeal,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Loath to depose the child, Your brother's son,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|As well we know your tenderness of heart
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Which we have noted in you to your kin,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And egally indeed to all estates,--
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Yet whether you accept our suit or no,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your brother's son shall never reign our king,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|But we will plant some other in the throne,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To the disgrace and downfall of your house:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And in this resolution here we leave you.--
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Come, citizens: 'zounds! I'll entreat no more.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exit BUCKINGHAM with the Citizens
Richard III|CATESBY|Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit.
Richard III|ANOTHER|Do, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Would you enforce me to a world of care?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Well, call them again. I am not made of stone,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But penetrable to your. kind entreats,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Albeit against my conscience and my soul.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Re-enter BUCKINGHAM and the rest
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Since you will buckle fortune on my back,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|To bear her burthen, whether I will or no,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|I must have patience to endure the load:
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Attend the sequel of your imposition,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|From all the impure blots and stains thereof,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|For God he knows, and you may partly see,
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|How far I am from the desire thereof.
Richard III|Lord Mayor|God bless your grace! we see it, and will say it.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|In saying so, you shall but say the truth.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Then I salute you with this kingly title:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Long live Richard, England's royal king!
Richard III|Citizens|Amen.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To-morrow will it please you to be crown'd?
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Even when you please, since you will have it so.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To-morrow, then, we will attend your grace:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And so most joyfully we take our leave.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Come, let us to our holy task again.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Farewell, good cousin, farewell, gentle friends.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Exeunt
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|ACT IV
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|SCENE I. Before the Tower.
Richard III|GLOUCESTER|Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF  YORK, and DORSET, on the other, ANNE, Duchess of  Gloucester, leading Lady Margaret Plantagenet, CLARENCE's young Daughter
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Who m eets us here?  my niece Plantagenet
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|On pure heart's love to greet the tender princes.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Daughter, well met.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|God give your graces both
Richard III|LADY ANNE|A happy and a joyful time of day!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|As much to you, good sister! Whither away?
Richard III|LADY ANNE|No farther than the Tower, and, as I guess,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Upon the like devotion as yourselves,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|To gratulate the gentle princes there.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Kind sister, thanks: we'll enter all together.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Enter BRAKENBURY
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And, in good time, here the lieutenant comes.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|How doth the prince, and my young son of York?
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Right well, dear madam. By your patience,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I may not suffer you to visit them,
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|The king hath straitly charged the contrary.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The king! why, who's that?
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The Lord protect him from that kingly title!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I am their mother, who should keep me from them?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I am their fathers mother, I will see them.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother:
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Then bring me to their sights, I'll bear thy blame
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And take thy office from thee, on my peril.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|No, madam, no, I may not leave it so:
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Exit
Richard III|BRAKENBURY|Enter LORD STANLEY
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|And I'll salute your grace of York as mother,
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|And reverend looker on, of two fair queens.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|To LADY ANNE
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|There to be crowned Richard's royal queen.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|With this dead-killing news!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!
Richard III|DORSET|Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your grace?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Death and destruction dog thee at the heels,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Thy mother's name is ominous to children.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Lest thou increase the number of the dead,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted queen.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Take all the swift advantage of the hours,
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|You shall have letters from me to my son
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|To meet you on the way, and welcome you.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|O ill-dispersing wind of misery!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|O my accursed womb, the bed of death!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Whose unavoided eye is murderous.
Richard III|LORD STANLEY|Come, madam, come, I in all haste was sent.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And I in all unwillingness will go.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|I would to God that the inclusive verge
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Of golden metal that must round my brow
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Anointed let me be with deadly venom,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And die, ere men can say, God save the queen!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|No! why?  When he that is my husband now
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Which issued from my other angel husband
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, ' accursed,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|For making me, so young, so old a widow!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And be thy wife--if any be so mad--
Richard III|LADY ANNE|As miserable by the life of thee
Richard III|LADY ANNE|As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Even in so short a space, my woman's heart
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Grossly grew captive to his honey words
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And proved the subject of my own soul's curse,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|For never yet one hour in his bed
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|But have been waked by his timorous dreams.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick,
Richard III|LADY ANNE|And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining.
Richard III|LADY ANNE|No more than from my soul I mourn for yours.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!
Richard III|LADY ANNE|Adieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave of it!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|[To DORSET]
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|To LADY ANNE
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Go thou to Richard, and good angels guard thee!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|To QUEEN ELIZABETH
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And each hour's joy wrecked with a week of teen.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Whom envy hath immured within your walls!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|For tender princes, use my babies well!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Exeunt
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|SCENE II. London. The palace.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Sennet. Enter KING RICHARD III, in pomp, crowned, BUCKINGHAM, CATESBY, a page, and others
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Stand all apart Cousin of Buckingham!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My gracious sovereign?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Give me thy hand.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Here he ascendeth his throne
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Thus high, by thy advice
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And thy assistance, is King Richard seated,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|But shall we wear these honours for a day?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Still live they and for ever may they last!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To try if thou be current gold indeed
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Young Edward lives: think now what I would say.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Say on, my loving lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Why, so you are, my thrice renowned liege.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ha! am I king? 'tis so: but Edward lives.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|True, noble prince.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|O bitter consequence,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|That Edward still should live! 'True, noble prince!'
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Cousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And I would have it suddenly perform'd.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What sayest thou? speak suddenly, be brief.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Your grace may do your pleasure.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Before I positively herein:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I will resolve your grace immediately.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exit
Richard III|CATESBY|[Aside to a stander by]
Richard III|CATESBY|The king is angry: see, he bites the lip.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I will converse with iron-witted fools
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And unrespective boys: none are for me
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|That look into me with considerate eyes:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Boy!
Richard III|Page|My lord?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?
Richard III|Page|My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,
Richard III|Page|Whose humble means match not his haughty mind:
Richard III|Page|Gold were as good as twenty orators,
Richard III|Page|And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What is his name?
Richard III|Page|His name, my lord, is Tyrrel.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I partly know the man: go, call him hither.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exit Page
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The deep-revolving witty Buckingham
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Hath he so long held out with me untired,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And stops he now for breath?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter STANLEY
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|How now! what news with you?
Richard III|STANLEY|My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset's fled
Richard III|STANLEY|To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea
Richard III|STANLEY|Where he abides.
Richard III|STANLEY|Stands apart
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Catesby!
Richard III|CATESBY|My lord?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Rumour it abroad
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I will take order for her keeping close.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Look, how thou dream'st! I say again, give out
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|That Anne my wife is sick and like to die:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|About it, for it stands me much upon,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exit CATESBY
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I must be married to my brother's daughter,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Murder her brothers, and then marry her!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Uncertain way of gain! But I am in
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Re-enter Page, with TYRREL
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Is thy name Tyrrel?
Richard III|TYRREL|James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Art thou, indeed?
Richard III|TYRREL|Prove me, my gracious sovereign.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?
Richard III|TYRREL|Ay, my lord,
Richard III|TYRREL|But I had rather kill two enemies.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Are they that I would have thee deal upon:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower.
Richard III|TYRREL|Let me have open means to come to them,
Richard III|TYRREL|And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Whispers
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|There is no more but so: say it is done,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And I will love thee, and prefer thee too.
Richard III|TYRREL|'Tis done, my gracious lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?
Richard III|TYRREL|Ye shall, my Lord.
Richard III|TYRREL|Exit
Richard III|TYRREL|Re-enter BUCKINGHAM
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My Lord, I have consider'd in my mind
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The late demand that you did sound me in.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I hear that news, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Stanley, he is your wife's son well, look to it.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The earldom of Hereford and the moveables
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|The which you promised I should possess.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Stanley, look to your wife, if she convey
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|What says your highness to my just demand?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|As I remember, Henry the Sixth
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|When Richmond was a little peevish boy.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A king, perhaps, perhaps,--
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My lord!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|How chance the prophet could not at that time
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My lord, your promise for the earldom,--
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Because a bard of Ireland told me once
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I should not live long after I saw Richmond.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|My Lord!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ay, what's o'clock?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I am thus bold to put your grace in mind
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Of what you promised me.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Well, but what's o'clock?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Upon the stroke of ten.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Well, let it strike.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Why let it strike?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I am not in the giving vein to-day.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Why, then resolve me whether you will or no.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Tut, tut,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Thou troublest me, am not in the vein.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Is it even so? rewards he my true service
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|With such deep contempt made I him king for this?
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exit
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|SCENE III. The same.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Enter TYRREL
Richard III|TYRREL|The tyrannous and bloody deed is done.
Richard III|TYRREL|The most arch of piteous massacre
Richard III|TYRREL|That ever yet this land was guilty of.
Richard III|TYRREL|Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn
Richard III|TYRREL|To do this ruthless piece of butchery,
Richard III|TYRREL|Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs,
Richard III|TYRREL|Melting with tenderness and kind compassion
Richard III|TYRREL|Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories.
Richard III|TYRREL|'Lo, thus' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:'
Richard III|TYRREL|'Thus, thus,' quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another
Richard III|TYRREL|Within their innocent alabaster arms:
Richard III|TYRREL|Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
Richard III|TYRREL|Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.
Richard III|TYRREL|A book of prayers on their pillow lay,
Richard III|TYRREL|Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind,
Richard III|TYRREL|But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd
Richard III|TYRREL|Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered
Richard III|TYRREL|The most replenished sweet work of nature,
Richard III|TYRREL|That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'
Richard III|TYRREL|Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse,
Richard III|TYRREL|They could not speak, and so I left them both,
Richard III|TYRREL|To bring this tidings to the bloody king.
Richard III|TYRREL|And here he comes.
Richard III|TYRREL|Enter KING RICHARD III
Richard III|TYRREL|All hail, my sovereign liege!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?
Richard III|TYRREL|If to have done the thing you gave in charge
Richard III|TYRREL|Beget your happiness, be happy then,
Richard III|TYRREL|For it is done, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|But didst thou see them dead?
Richard III|TYRREL|I did, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And buried, gentle Tyrrel?
Richard III|TYRREL|The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them,
Richard III|TYRREL|But how or in what place I do not know.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And thou shalt tell the process of their death.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And be inheritor of thy desire.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Farewell till soon.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exit TYRREL
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The son of Clarence have I pent up close,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter CATESBY
Richard III|CATESBY|My lord!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?
Richard III|CATESBY|Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond,
Richard III|CATESBY|And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,
Richard III|CATESBY|Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Come, I have heard that fearful commenting
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Is leaden servitor to dull delay,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Then fiery expedition be my wing,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|We must be brief when traitors brave the field.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exeunt
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|SCENE IV. Before the palace.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter QUEEN MARGARET
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|So, now prosperity begins to mellow
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|To watch the waning of mine adversaries.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A dire induction am I witness to,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And will to France, hoping the consequence
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If yet your gentle souls fly in the air
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And be not fix'd in doom perpetual,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Hover about me with your airy wings
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And hear your mother's lamentation!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Hover about her, say, that right for right
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|So many miseries have crazed my voice,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Brief abstract and record of tedious days,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Sitting down
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Sitting down by her
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|If ancient sorrow be most reverend,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Give mine the benefit of seniory,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And let my woes frown on the upper hand.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|If sorrow can admit society,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Sitting down with them
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I had a Harry, till a Richard kill'd him:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill him.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill'd him.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That foul defacer of God's handiwork,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|O upright, just, and true-disposing God,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Preys on the issue of his mother's body,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|God witness with me, I have wept for thine.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Bear with me, I am hungry for revenge,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And now I cloy me with beholding it.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Young York he is but boot, because both they
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Match not the high perfection of my loss:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And the beholders of this tragic play,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Only reserved their factor, to buy souls
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And send them thither: but at hand, at hand,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Ensues his piteous and unpitied end:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|To have him suddenly convey'd away.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I prey,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|That I may live to say, The dog is dead!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|O, thou didst prophesy the time would come
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That I should wish for thee to help me curse
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That bottled spider, that foul bunch-back'd toad!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|The presentation of but what I was,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|The flattering index of a direful pageant,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|One heaved a-high, to be hurl'd down below,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A mother only mock'd with two sweet babes,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A sign of dignity, a garish flag,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|To be the aim of every dangerous shot,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Where is thy husband now? where be thy brothers?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Where are thy children? wherein dost thou, joy?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Who sues to thee and cries 'God save the queen'?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Where be the bending peers that flatter'd thee?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Where be the thronging troops that follow'd thee?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Decline all this, and see what now thou art:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For happy wife, a most distressed widow,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For joyful mother, one that wails the name,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For queen, a very caitiff crown'd with care,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For one being sued to, one that humbly sues,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For one that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For one being fear'd of all, now fearing one,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|For one commanding all, obey'd of none.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And left thee but a very prey to time,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Having no more but thought of what thou wert,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|To torture thee the more, being what thou art.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Now thy proud neck bears half my burthen'd yoke,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|From which even here I slip my weary neck,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And leave the burthen of it all on thee.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Farewell, York's wife, and queen of sad mischance:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|These English woes will make me smile in France.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|O thou well skill'd in curses, stay awhile,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And teach me how to curse mine enemies!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Compare dead happiness with living woe,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|And he that slew them fouler than he is:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My words are dull, O, quicken them with thine!
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Thy woes will make them sharp, and pierce like mine.
Richard III|QUEEN MARGARET|Exit
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Why should calamity be full of words?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Windy attorneys to their client woes,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Let them have scope: though what they do impart
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Help not all, yet do they ease the heart.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|If so, then be not tongue-tied: go with me.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And in the breath of bitter words let's smother
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|My damned son, which thy two sweet sons smother'd.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I hear his drum: be copious in exclaims.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Enter KING RICHARD III, marching, with drums and trumpets
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Who intercepts my expedition?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|O, she that might have intercepted thee,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|By strangling thee in her accursed womb
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Where should be graven, if that right were right,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And the dire death of my two sons and brothers?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And little Ned Plantagenet, his son?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Where is kind Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Rail on the Lord's enointed: strike, I say!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Flourish. Alarums
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Either be patient, and entreat me fair,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Or with the clamorous report of war
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Thus will I drown your exclamations.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Art thou my son?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Then patiently hear my impatience.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Madam, I have a touch of your condition,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Which cannot brook the accent of reproof.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|O, let me speak!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Do then: but I'll not hear.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I will be mild and gentle in my speech.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And brief, good mother, for I am in haste.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Art thou so hasty? I have stay'd for thee,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|God knows, in anguish, pain and agony.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And came I not at last to comfort you?
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|No, by the holy rood, thou know'st it well,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|A grievous burthen was thy birth to me,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Thy age confirm'd, proud, subdued, bloody,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|treacherous,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred:
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|What comfortable hour canst thou name,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|That ever graced me in thy company?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call'd
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|your grace
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To breakfast once forth of my company.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|If I be so disgracious in your sight,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Let me march on, and not offend your grace.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Strike the drum.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|I prithee, hear me speak.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|You speak too bitterly.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Hear me a word,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|For I shall never speak to thee again.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|So.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Either thou wilt die, by God's just ordinance,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And never look upon thy face again.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Which, in the day of battle, tire thee more
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st!
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|My prayers on the adverse party fight,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And there the little souls of Edward's children
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Whisper the spirits of thine enemies
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|And promise them success and victory.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end,
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.
Richard III|DUCHESS OF YORK|Exit
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Abides in me, I say amen to all.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Stay, madam, I must speak a word with you.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I have no more sons of the royal blood
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And therefore level not to hit their lives.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And must she die for this? O, let her live,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Slander myself as false to Edward's bed,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Throw over her the veil of infamy:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|So she may live unscarr'd of bleeding slaughter,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I will confess she was not Edward's daughter.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To save her life, I'll say she is not so.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Her life is only safest in her birth.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And only in that safety died her brothers.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|No, to their lives bad friends were contrary.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|All unavoided is the doom of destiny.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|True, when avoided grace makes destiny:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My babes were destined to a fairer death,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Cousins, indeed, and by their uncle cozen'd
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To revel in the entrails of my lambs.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And I, in such a desperate bay of death,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And dangerous success of bloody wars,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|As I intend more good to you and yours,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Than ever you or yours were by me wrong'd!
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|What good is cover'd with the face of heaven,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To be discover'd, that can do me good?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The advancement of your children, gentle lady.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|No, to the dignity and height of honour
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The high imperial type of this earth's glory.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Flatter my sorrows with report of it,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Canst thou demise to any child of mine?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Even all I have, yea, and myself and all,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Will I withal endow a child of thine,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|So in the Lethe of thy angry soul
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Which thou supposest I have done to thee.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Be brief, lest that be process of thy kindness
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Last longer telling than thy kindness' date.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What do you think?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|So from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And from my heart's love I do thank thee for it.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And mean to make her queen of England.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Even he that makes her queen who should be else?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|What, thou?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I, even I: what think you of it, madam?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|How canst thou woo her?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|That would I learn of you,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|As one that are best acquainted with her humour.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And wilt thou learn of me?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Madam, with all my heart.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|A pair of bleeding-hearts, thereon engrave
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Edward and York, then haply she will weep:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Therefore present to her--as sometime Margaret
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Did to thy father, steep'd in Rutland's blood,--
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|A handkerchief, which, say to her, did drain
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The purple sap from her sweet brother's body
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If this inducement force her not to love,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Send her a story of thy noble acts,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Tell her thou madest away her uncle Clarence,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Her uncle Rivers, yea, and, for her sake,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Madest quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Come, come, you mock me, this is not the way
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To win our daughter.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|There is no other way
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And not be Richard that hath done all this.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Say that I did all this for love of her.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Look, what is done cannot be now amended:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Which after hours give leisure to repent.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|If I did take the kingdom from your sons,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To make amends, Ill give it to your daughter.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|If I have kill'd the issue of your womb,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To quicken your increase, I will beget
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A grandam's name is little less in love
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Than is the doting title of a mother,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|They are as children but one step below,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Even of your mettle, of your very blood,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Of an one pain, save for a night of groans
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Your children were vexation to your youth,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|But mine shall be a comfort to your age.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The loss you have is but a son being king,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And by that loss your daughter is made queen.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I cannot make you what amends I would,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Therefore accept such kindness as I can.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|This fair alliance quickly shall call home
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To high promotions and great dignity:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Again shall you be mother to a king,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And all the ruins of distressful times
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Repair'd with double riches of content.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What! we have many goodly days to see:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Advantaging their loan with interest
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Of ten times double gain of happiness.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Go, then my mother, to thy daughter go
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Make bold her bashful years with your experience,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Of golden sovereignty, acquaint the princess
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And when this arm of mine hath chastised
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The petty rebel, dull-brain'd Buckingham,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Bound with triumphant garlands will I come
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To whom I will retail my conquest won,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And she shall be sole victress, Caesar's Caesar.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|What were I best to say? her father's brother
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Would be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Or, he that slew her brothers and her uncles?
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Under what title shall I woo for thee,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That God, the law, my honour and her love,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Which she shall purchase with still lasting war.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Say that the king, which may command, entreats.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That at her hands which the king's King forbids.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|To wail the tide, as her mother doth.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Say, I will love her everlastingly.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But how long shall that title 'ever' last?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But how long fairly shall her sweet lie last?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|So long as heaven and nature lengthens it.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|So long as hell and Richard likes of it.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Be eloquent in my behalf to her.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Then in plain terms tell her my loving tale.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|O no, my reasons are too deep and dead,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Harp not on that string, madam, that is past.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Profaned, dishonour'd, and the third usurp'd.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I swear--
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|By nothing, for this is no oath:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The garter, blemish'd, pawn'd his knightly virtue,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The crown, usurp'd, disgraced his kingly glory.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|if something thou wilt swear to be believed,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Now, by the world--
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|'Tis full of thy foul wrongs.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|My father's death--
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Thy life hath that dishonour'd.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Then, by myself--
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Thyself thyself misusest.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Why then, by God--
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|God's wrong is most of all.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The unity the king thy brother made
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Had not been broken, nor my brother slain:
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The imperial metal, circling now thy brow,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Had graced the tender temples of my child,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And both the princes had been breathing here,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Which now, two tender playfellows to dust,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|What canst thou swear by now?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The time to come.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|For I myself have many tears to wash
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Hereafter time, for time past wrong'd by thee.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The children live, whose parents thou hast
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|slaughter'd,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Ungovern'd youth, to wail it in their age,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|The parents live, whose children thou hast butcher'd,
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Old wither'd plants, to wail it with their age.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Swear not by time to come, for that thou hast
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Misused ere used, by time misused o'erpast.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|As I intend to prosper and repent,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|So thrive I in my dangerous attempt
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Of hostile arms! myself myself confound!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Day, yield me not thy light, nor, night, thy rest!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Be opposite all planets of good luck
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To my proceedings, if, with pure heart's love,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|In her consists my happiness and thine,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Without her, follows to this land and me,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To thee, herself, and many a Christian soul,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Death, desolation, ruin and decay:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|It cannot be avoided but by this,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|It will not be avoided but by this.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Therefore, good mother,--I must can you so--
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Be the attorney of my love to her:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Plead what I will be, not what I have been,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Not my deserts, but what I will deserve:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Urge the necessity and state of times,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And be not peevish-fond in great designs.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Shall I forget myself to be myself?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ay, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|But thou didst kill my children.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|But in your daughter's womb I bury them:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Where in that nest of spicery they shall breed
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And be a happy mother by the deed.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|I go. Write to me very shortly.
Richard III|QUEEN ELIZABETH|And you shall understand from me her mind.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Bear her my true love's kiss, and so, farewell.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exit QUEEN ELIZABETH
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter RATCLIFF, CATESBY following
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|How now! what news?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|My gracious sovereign, on the western coast
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Rideth a puissant navy, to the shore
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends,
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Unarm'd, and unresolved to beat them back:
Richard III|RATCLIFF|'Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral,
Richard III|RATCLIFF|And there they hull, expecting but the aid
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ratcliff, thyself, or Catesby, where is he?
Richard III|CATESBY|Here, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Fly to the duke:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To RATCLIFF
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Post thou to Salisbury
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|When thou comest thither--
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To CATESBY
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Dull, unmindful villain,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Why stand'st thou still, and go'st not to the duke?
Richard III|CATESBY|First, mighty sovereign, let me know your mind,
Richard III|CATESBY|What from your grace I shall deliver to him.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|O, true, good Catesby: bid him levy straight
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The greatest strength and power he can make,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And meet me presently at Salisbury.
Richard III|CATESBY|I go.
Richard III|CATESBY|Exit
Richard III|RATCLIFF|What is't your highness' pleasure I shall do at
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Salisbury?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Your highness told me I should post before.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|My mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter STANLEY
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|How now, what news with you?
Richard III|STANLEY|None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing,
Richard III|STANLEY|Nor none so bad, but it may well be told.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Why dost thou run so many mile about,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|When thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Once more, what news?
Richard III|STANLEY|Richmond is on the seas.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|There let him sink, and be the seas on him!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|White-liver'd runagate, what doth he there?
Richard III|STANLEY|I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?
Richard III|STANLEY|Stirr'd up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,
Richard III|STANLEY|He makes for England, there to claim the crown.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What heir of York is there alive but we?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And who is England's king but great York's heir?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Then, tell me, what doth he upon the sea?
Richard III|STANLEY|Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Unless for that he comes to be your liege,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Thou wilt revolt, and fly to him, I fear.
Richard III|STANLEY|No, mighty liege, therefore mistrust me not.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Where are thy tenants and thy followers?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Are they not now upon the western shore.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships!
Richard III|STANLEY|No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|When they should serve their sovereign in the west?
Richard III|STANLEY|They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:
Richard III|STANLEY|Please it your majesty to give me leave,
Richard III|STANLEY|I'll muster up my friends, and meet your grace
Richard III|STANLEY|Where and what time your majesty shall please.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ay, ay. thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I will not trust you, sir.
Richard III|STANLEY|Most mighty sovereign,
Richard III|STANLEY|You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:
Richard III|STANLEY|I never was nor never will be false.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Well,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Go muster men, but, hear you, leave behind
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Your son, George Stanley: look your faith be firm.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Or else his head's assurance is but frail.
Richard III|STANLEY|So deal with him as I prove true to you.
Richard III|STANLEY|Exit
Richard III|STANLEY|Enter a Messenger
Richard III|Messenger|My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,
Richard III|Messenger|As I by friends am well advertised,
Richard III|Messenger|Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate
Richard III|Messenger|Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,
Richard III|Messenger|With many more confederates, are in arms.
Richard III|Messenger|Enter another Messenger
Richard III|Second Messenger|My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms,
Richard III|Second Messenger|And every hour more competitors
Richard III|Second Messenger|Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.
Richard III|Second Messenger|Enter another Messenger
Richard III|Third Messenger|My lord, the army of the Duke of Buckingham--
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|He striketh him
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Take that, until thou bring me better news.
Richard III|Third Messenger|The news I have to tell your majesty
Richard III|Third Messenger|Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,
Richard III|Third Messenger|Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd,
Richard III|Third Messenger|And he himself wander'd away alone,
Richard III|Third Messenger|No man knows whither.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I cry thee mercy:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Reward to him that brings the traitor in?
Richard III|Third Messenger|Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.
Richard III|Third Messenger|Enter another Messenger
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset,
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|'Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace,
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest:
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|If they were his assistants, yea or no,
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|Who answer'd him, they came from Buckingham.
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|Upon his party: he, mistrusting them,
Richard III|Fourth Messenger|Hoisted sail and made away for Brittany.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|March on, march on, since we are up in arms,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|If not to fight with foreign enemies,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Re-enter CATESBY
Richard III|CATESBY|My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken,
Richard III|CATESBY|That is the best news: that the Earl of Richmond
Richard III|CATESBY|Is with a mighty power landed at Milford,
Richard III|CATESBY|Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A royal battle might be won and lost
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Some one take order Buckingham be brought
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To Salisbury, the rest march on with me.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Flourish. Exeunt
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|SCENE V. Lord Derby's house.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter DERBY and SIR CHRISTOPHER URSWICK
Richard III|DERBY|Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:
Richard III|DERBY|That in the sty of this most bloody boar
Richard III|DERBY|My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold:
Richard III|DERBY|If I revolt, off goes young George's head,
Richard III|DERBY|The fear of that withholds my present aid.
Richard III|DERBY|But, tell me, where is princely Richmond now?
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|At Pembroke, or at Harford-west, in Wales.
Richard III|DERBY|What men of name resort to him?
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier,
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley,
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|And Rice ap Thomas with a valiant crew,
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|And many more of noble fame and worth:
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|And towards London they do bend their course,
Richard III|CHRISTOPHER|If by the way they be not fought withal.
Richard III|DERBY|Return unto thy lord, commend me to him:
Richard III|DERBY|Tell him the queen hath heartily consented
Richard III|DERBY|He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter.
Richard III|DERBY|These letters will resolve him of my mind. Farewell.
Richard III|DERBY|Exeunt
Richard III|DERBY|ACT V
Richard III|DERBY|SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place.
Richard III|DERBY|Enter the Sheriff, and BUCKINGHAM, with halberds, led to execution
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Will not King Richard let me speak with him?
Richard III|Sheriff|No, my good lord, therefore be patient.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Hastings, and Edward's children, Rivers, Grey,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Vaughan, and all that have miscarried
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|By underhand corrupted foul injustice,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|If that your moody discontented souls
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Do through the clouds behold this present hour,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Even for revenge mock my destruction!
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not?
Richard III|Sheriff|It is, my lord.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This is the day that, in King Edward's time,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|I wish't might fall on me, when I was found
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|False to his children or his wife's allies
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|By the false faith of him I trusted most,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Is the determined respite of my wrongs:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|That high All-Seer that I dallied with
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|'When he,' quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame,
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Exeunt
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|SCENE II. The camp near Tamworth.
Richard III|BUCKINGHAM|Enter RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, and others, with drum and colours
Richard III|RICHMOND|Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Thus far into the bowels of the land
Richard III|RICHMOND|Have we march'd on without impediment,
Richard III|RICHMOND|And here receive we from our father Stanley
Richard III|RICHMOND|Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.
Richard III|RICHMOND|The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
Richard III|RICHMOND|That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
Richard III|RICHMOND|In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine
Richard III|RICHMOND|Lies now even in the centre of this isle,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn
Richard III|RICHMOND|From Tamworth thither is but one day's march.
Richard III|RICHMOND|In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends,
Richard III|RICHMOND|To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
Richard III|RICHMOND|By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
Richard III|OXFORD|Every man's conscience is a thousand swords,
Richard III|OXFORD|To fight against that bloody homicide.
Richard III|HERBERT|I doubt not but his friends will fly to us.
Richard III|BLUNT|He hath no friends but who are friends for fear.
Richard III|BLUNT|Which in his greatest need will shrink from him.
Richard III|RICHMOND|All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:
Richard III|RICHMOND|True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Exeunt
Richard III|RICHMOND|SCENE III. Bosworth Field.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Enter KING RICHARD III in arms, with NORFOLK, SURREY, and others
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?
Richard III|SURREY|My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|My Lord of Norfolk,--
Richard III|NORFOLK|Here, most gracious liege.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Norfolk, we must have knocks, ha! must we not?
Richard III|NORFOLK|We must both give and take, my gracious lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Up with my tent there! here will I lie tonight,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|But where to-morrow?  Well, all's one for that.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Who hath descried the number of the foe?
Richard III|NORFOLK|Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Why, our battalion trebles that account:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Which they upon the adverse party want.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Up with my tent there! Valiant gentlemen,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Let us survey the vantage of the field
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Call for some men of sound direction
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Let's want no discipline, make no delay,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exeunt
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter, on the other side of the field, RICHMOND,  Sir William Brandon, OXFORD, and others. Some of the Soldiers pitch RICHMOND's tent
Richard III|RICHMOND|The weary sun hath made a golden set,
Richard III|RICHMOND|And by the bright track of his fiery car,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Gives signal, of a goodly day to-morrow.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Give me some ink and paper in my tent
Richard III|RICHMOND|I'll draw the form and model of our battle,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Limit each leader to his several charge,
Richard III|RICHMOND|And part in just proportion our small strength.
Richard III|RICHMOND|My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon,
Richard III|RICHMOND|And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.
Richard III|RICHMOND|The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Good Captain Blunt, bear my good night to him
Richard III|RICHMOND|And by the second hour in the morning
Richard III|RICHMOND|Desire the earl to see me in my tent:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Yet one thing more, good Blunt, before thou go'st,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Where is Lord Stanley quarter'd, dost thou know?
Richard III|BLUNT|Unless I have mista'en his colours much,
Richard III|BLUNT|Which well I am assured I have not done,
Richard III|BLUNT|His regiment lies half a mile at least
Richard III|BLUNT|South from the mighty power of the king.
Richard III|RICHMOND|If without peril it be possible,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him,
Richard III|RICHMOND|And give him from me this most needful scroll.
Richard III|BLUNT|Upon my life, my lord, I'll under-take it,
Richard III|BLUNT|And so, God give you quiet rest to-night!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Good night, good Captain Blunt. Come gentlemen,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Let us consult upon to-morrow's business
Richard III|RICHMOND|In to our tent, the air is raw and cold.
Richard III|RICHMOND|They withdraw into the tent
Richard III|RICHMOND|Enter, to his tent, KING RICHARD III, NORFOLK, RATCLIFF, CATESBY, and others
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What is't o'clock?
Richard III|CATESBY|It's supper-time, my lord,
Richard III|CATESBY|It's nine o'clock.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I will not sup to-night.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Give me some ink and paper.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What, is my beaver easier than it was?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And all my armour laid into my tent?
Richard III|CATESBY|If is, my liege, and all things are in readiness.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels.
Richard III|NORFOLK|I go, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk.
Richard III|NORFOLK|I warrant you, my lord.
Richard III|NORFOLK|Exit
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Catesby!
Richard III|CATESBY|My lord?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Send out a pursuivant at arms
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To Stanley's regiment, bid him bring his power
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Before sunrising, lest his son George fall
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Into the blind cave of eternal night.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exit CATESBY
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ratcliff!
Richard III|RATCLIFF|My lord?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|It is, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Bid my guard watch, leave me.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ratcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And help to arm me. Leave me, I say.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exeunt RATCLIFF and the other Attendants
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter DERBY to RICHMOND in his tent, Lords and others attending
Richard III|DERBY|Fortune and victory sit on thy helm!
Richard III|RICHMOND|All comfort that the dark night can afford
Richard III|RICHMOND|Be to thy person, noble father-in-law!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Tell me, how fares our loving mother?
Richard III|DERBY|I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother
Richard III|DERBY|Who prays continually for Richmond's good:
Richard III|DERBY|So much for that. The silent hours steal on,
Richard III|DERBY|And flaky darkness breaks within the east.
Richard III|DERBY|In brief,--for so the season bids us be,--
Richard III|DERBY|Prepare thy battle early in the morning,
Richard III|DERBY|And put thy fortune to the arbitrement
Richard III|DERBY|Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war.
Richard III|DERBY|I, as I may--that which I would I cannot,--
Richard III|DERBY|With best advantage will deceive the time,
Richard III|DERBY|And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms:
Richard III|DERBY|But on thy side I may not be too forward
Richard III|DERBY|Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,
Richard III|DERBY|Be executed in his father's sight.
Richard III|DERBY|Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time
Richard III|DERBY|Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love
Richard III|DERBY|And ample interchange of sweet discourse,
Richard III|DERBY|Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon:
Richard III|DERBY|God give us leisure for these rites of love!
Richard III|DERBY|Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Good lords, conduct him to his regiment:
Richard III|RICHMOND|I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow,
Richard III|RICHMOND|When I should mount with wings of victory:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Exeunt all but RICHMOND
Richard III|RICHMOND|O Thou, whose captain I account myself,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Look on my forces with a gracious eye,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,
Richard III|RICHMOND|That they may crush down with a heavy fall
Richard III|RICHMOND|The usurping helmets of our adversaries!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Make us thy ministers of chastisement,
Richard III|RICHMOND|That we may praise thee in the victory!
Richard III|RICHMOND|To thee I do commend my watchful soul,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Sleeps
Richard III|RICHMOND|Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, son to King Henry VI
Richard III|RICHMOND|Ghost
Richard III|of Prince Edward|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|of Prince Edward|Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
Richard III|of Prince Edward|Think, how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth
Richard III|of Prince Edward|At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!
Richard III|of Prince Edward|To RICHMOND
Richard III|of Prince Edward|Be cheerful, Richmond, for the wronged souls
Richard III|of Prince Edward|Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf
Richard III|of Prince Edward|King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee.
Richard III|of Prince Edward|Enter the Ghost of King Henry VI
Richard III|of Prince Edward|Ghost
Richard III|of King Henry VI|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|of King Henry VI|When I was mortal, my anointed body
Richard III|of King Henry VI|By thee was punched full of deadly holes
Richard III|of King Henry VI|Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die!
Richard III|of King Henry VI|Harry the Sixth bids thee despair, and die!
Richard III|of King Henry VI|To RICHMOND
Richard III|of King Henry VI|Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror!
Richard III|of King Henry VI|Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king,
Richard III|of King Henry VI|Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish!
Richard III|of King Henry VI|Enter the Ghost of CLARENCE
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|I, that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine,
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death!
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|To-morrow in the battle think on me,
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!--
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|To RICHMOND
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!
Richard III|Ghost of CLARENCE|Enter the Ghosts of RIVERS, GRAY, and VAUGHAN
Richard III|Ghost of RIVERS|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|Ghost of RIVERS|Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow,
Richard III|Ghost of RIVERS|Rivers. that died at Pomfret! despair, and die!
Richard III|Ghost of GREY|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|Ghost of GREY|Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!
Richard III|Ghost of VAUGHAN|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|Ghost of VAUGHAN|Think upon Vaughan, and, with guilty fear,
Richard III|Ghost of VAUGHAN|Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!
Richard III|All|[To RICHMOND]
Richard III|All|Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom
Richard III|All|Will conquer him! awake, and win the day!
Richard III|All|Enter the Ghost of HASTINGS
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|And in a bloody battle end thy days!
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die!
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|To RICHMOND
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake!
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake!
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes
Richard III|Ghost of HASTINGS|Ghosts
Richard III|of young Princes|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|of young Princes|Dream on thy cousins smother'd in the Tower:
Richard III|of young Princes|Let us be led within thy bosom, Richard,
Richard III|of young Princes|And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death!
Richard III|of young Princes|Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair and die!
Richard III|of young Princes|To RICHMOND
Richard III|of young Princes|Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy,
Richard III|of young Princes|Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy!
Richard III|of young Princes|Live, and beget a happy race of kings!
Richard III|of young Princes|Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish.
Richard III|of young Princes|Enter the Ghost of LADY ANNE
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|That never slept a quiet hour with thee,
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|Now fills thy sleep with perturbations
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|To-morrow in the battle think on me,
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|To RICHMOND
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|Dream of success and happy victory!
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee.
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|Enter the Ghost of BUCKINGHAM
Richard III|Ghost of LADY ANNE|Ghost
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|[To KING RICHARD III]
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|The last was I that helped thee to the crown,
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|The last was I that felt thy tyranny:
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|O, in the battle think on Buckingham,
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|And die in terror of thy guiltiness!
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|Fainting, despair, despairing, yield thy breath!
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|To RICHMOND
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid:
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd:
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|God and good angel fight on Richmond's side,
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|And Richard falls in height of all his pride.
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|The Ghosts vanish
Richard III|of BUCKINGHAM|KING RICHARD III starts out of his dream
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What do I fear?  myself?  there's none else by:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Richard loves Richard, that is, I am I.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Is there a murderer here?  No. Yes, I am:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Then fly. What, from myself?   Great reason why:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Alack. I love myself. Wherefore?  for any good
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|That I myself have done unto myself?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|O, no! alas, I rather hate myself
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|For hateful deeds committed by myself!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And every tongue brings in a several tale,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|All several sins, all used in each degree,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Find in myself no pity to myself?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Came to my tent, and every one did threat
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter RATCLIFF
Richard III|RATCLIFF|My lord!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|'Zounds! who is there?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Ratcliff, my lord, 'tis I. The early village-cock
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Hath twice done salutation to the morn,
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|O Ratcliff, I have dream'd a fearful dream!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|No doubt, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,--
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|It is not yet near day. Come, go with me,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Under our tents I'll play the eaves-dropper,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To see if any mean to shrink from me.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exeunt
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter the Lords to RICHMOND, sitting in his tent
Richard III|LORDS|Good morrow, Richmond!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,
Richard III|RICHMOND|That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here.
Richard III|LORDS|How have you slept, my lord?
Richard III|RICHMOND|The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams
Richard III|RICHMOND|That ever enter'd in a drowsy head,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Have I since your departure had, my lords.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Methought their souls, whose bodies Richard murder'd,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Came to my tent, and cried on victory:
Richard III|RICHMOND|I promise you, my soul is very jocund
Richard III|RICHMOND|In the remembrance of so fair a dream.
Richard III|RICHMOND|How far into the morning is it, lords?
Richard III|LORDS|Upon the stroke of four.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Why, then 'tis time to arm and give direction.
Richard III|RICHMOND|His oration to his soldiers
Richard III|RICHMOND|More than I have said, loving countrymen,
Richard III|RICHMOND|The leisure and enforcement of the time
Richard III|RICHMOND|Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,
Richard III|RICHMOND|God and our good cause fight upon our side,
Richard III|RICHMOND|The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Like high-rear'd bulwarks, stand before our faces,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Richard except, those whom we fight against
Richard III|RICHMOND|Had rather have us win than him they follow:
Richard III|RICHMOND|For what is he they follow?  truly, gentlemen,
Richard III|RICHMOND|A bloody tyrant and a homicide,
Richard III|RICHMOND|One raised in blood, and one in blood establish'd,
Richard III|RICHMOND|One that made means to come by what he hath,
Richard III|RICHMOND|And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Abase foul stone, made precious by the foil
Richard III|RICHMOND|Of England's chair, where he is falsely set,
Richard III|RICHMOND|One that hath ever been God's enemy:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Then, if you fight against God's enemy,
Richard III|RICHMOND|God will in justice ward you as his soldiers,
Richard III|RICHMOND|If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,
Richard III|RICHMOND|You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain,
Richard III|RICHMOND|If you do fight against your country's foes,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire,
Richard III|RICHMOND|If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors,
Richard III|RICHMOND|If you do free your children from the sword,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Your children's children quit it in your age.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Then, in the name of God and all these rights,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.
Richard III|RICHMOND|For me, the ransom of my bold attempt
Richard III|RICHMOND|Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face,
Richard III|RICHMOND|But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt
Richard III|RICHMOND|The least of you shall share his part thereof.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully,
Richard III|RICHMOND|God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Exeunt
Richard III|RICHMOND|Re-enter KING RICHARD, RATCLIFF, Attendants and Forces
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|That he was never trained up in arms.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|He smiled and said 'The better for our purpose.'
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|He was in the right, and so indeed it is.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Clock striketh
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ten the clock there. Give me a calendar.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Who saw the sun to-day?
Richard III|RATCLIFF|Not I, my lord.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Then he disdains to shine, for by the book
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|He should have braved the east an hour ago
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A black day will it be to somebody. Ratcliff!
Richard III|RATCLIFF|My lord?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The sun will not be seen to-day,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|More than to Richmond?  for the selfsame heaven
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter NORFOLK
Richard III|NORFOLK|Arm, arm, my lord, the foe vaunts in the field.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Come, bustle, bustle, caparison my horse.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And thus my battle shall be ordered:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Consisting equally of horse and foot,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Our archers shall be placed in the midst
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Shall have the leading of this foot and horse.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|They thus directed, we will follow
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|In the main battle, whose puissance on either side
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|This, and Saint George to boot! What think'st thou, Norfolk?
Richard III|NORFOLK|A good direction, warlike sovereign.
Richard III|NORFOLK|This found I on my tent this morning.
Richard III|NORFOLK|He sheweth him a paper
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|[Reads]
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|'Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.'
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A thing devised by the enemy.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Go, gentleman, every man unto his charge
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|His oration to his Army
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What shall I say more than I have inferr'd?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Remember whom you are to cope withal,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|You having lands, and blest with beauteous wives,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|They would restrain the one, distain the other.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A milk-sop, one that never in his life
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Lash hence these overweening rags of France,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And not these bastard Bretons, whom our fathers
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And in record, left them the heirs of shame.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Shall these enjoy our lands?  lie with our wives?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Ravish our daughters?
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Drum afar off
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Hark! I hear their drum.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yoemen!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Enter a Messenger
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?
Richard III|Messenger|My lord, he doth deny to come.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Off with his son George's head!
Richard III|NORFOLK|My lord, the enemy is past the marsh
Richard III|NORFOLK|After the battle let George Stanley die.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Advance our standards, set upon our foes
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Upon them! victory sits on our helms.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exeunt
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|SCENE IV. Another part of the field.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Alarum: excursions. Enter NORFOLK and forces fighting, to him CATESBY
Richard III|CATESBY|Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!
Richard III|CATESBY|The king enacts more wonders than a man,
Richard III|CATESBY|Daring an opposite to every danger:
Richard III|CATESBY|His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
Richard III|CATESBY|Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
Richard III|CATESBY|Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!
Richard III|CATESBY|Alarums. Enter KING RICHARD III
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Richard III|CATESBY|Withdraw, my lord, I'll help you to a horse.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|And I will stand the hazard of the die:
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|I think there be six Richmonds in the field,
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Exeunt
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|SCENE V. Another part of the field.
Richard III|KING RICHARD III|Alarum. Enter KING RICHARD III and RICHMOND, they  fight. KING RICHARD III is slain. Retreat and  flourish. Re-enter RICHMOND, DERBY bearing the crown, with divers other Lords
Richard III|RICHMOND|God and your arms be praised, victorious friends,
Richard III|RICHMOND|The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.
Richard III|DERBY|Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.
Richard III|DERBY|Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty
Richard III|DERBY|From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
Richard III|DERBY|Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:
Richard III|DERBY|Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!
Richard III|RICHMOND|But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?
Richard III|DERBY|He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town,
Richard III|DERBY|Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
Richard III|RICHMOND|What men of name are slain on either side?
Richard III|DERBY|John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,
Richard III|DERBY|Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
Richard III|RICHMOND|That in submission will return to us:
Richard III|RICHMOND|And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,
Richard III|RICHMOND|We will unite the white rose and the red:
Richard III|RICHMOND|Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,
Richard III|RICHMOND|That long have frown'd upon their enmity!
Richard III|RICHMOND|What traitor hears me, and says not amen?
Richard III|RICHMOND|England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself,
Richard III|RICHMOND|The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,
Richard III|RICHMOND|The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,
Richard III|RICHMOND|The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:
Richard III|RICHMOND|All this divided York and Lancaster,
Richard III|RICHMOND|Divided in their dire division,
Richard III|RICHMOND|O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,
Richard III|RICHMOND|The true succeeders of each royal house,
Richard III|RICHMOND|By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!
Richard III|RICHMOND|And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.
Richard III|RICHMOND|Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,
Richard III|RICHMOND|With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,
Richard III|RICHMOND|That would reduce these bloody days again,
Richard III|RICHMOND|And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Let them not live to taste this land's increase
Richard III|RICHMOND|That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:
Richard III|RICHMOND|That she may long live here, God say amen!
Richard III|RICHMOND|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|ACT I
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|PROLOGUE
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|Two households, both alike in dignity,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|The which if you with patient ears attend,
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|SCENE I. Verona. A public place.
Romeo and Juliet|RICHMOND|Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|No, for then we should be colliers.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|I strike quickly, being moved.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand:
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|to the wall.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|True, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|to the wall.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|maids, and cut off their heads.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|The heads of the maids?
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads,
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|take it in what sense thou wilt.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|They must take it in sense that feel it.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|'Tis well thou art not fish, if thou hadst, thou
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|two of the house of the Montagues.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|How! turn thy back and run?
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Fear me not.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|No, marry, I fear thee!
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Let us take the law of our sides, let them begin.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|they list.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them,
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR
Romeo and Juliet|ABRAHAM|Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|I do bite my thumb, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|ABRAHAM|Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|[Aside to GREGORY]  Is the law of our side, if I say
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|ay?
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|No.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|bite my thumb, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|Do you quarrel, sir?
Romeo and Juliet|ABRAHAM|Quarrel sir! no, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.
Romeo and Juliet|ABRAHAM|No better.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Well, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|GREGORY|Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Yes, better, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|ABRAHAM|You lie.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|They fight
Romeo and Juliet|SAMPSON|Enter BENVOLIO
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Part, fools!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Put up your swords, you know not what you do.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Beats down their swords
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Enter TYBALT
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Or manage it to part these men with me.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Have at thee, coward!
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|They fight
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray, then enter Citizens, with clubs
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY MONTAGUE|Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY MONTAGUE|Enter PRINCE, with Attendants
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And made Verona's ancient citizens
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|If ever you disturb our streets again,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|For this time, all the rest depart away:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|You Capulet, shall go along with me:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|To know our further pleasure in this case,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Here were the servants of your adversary,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|I drew to part them: in the instant came
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|He swung about his head and cut the winds,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Came more and more and fought on part and part,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Till the prince came, who parted either part.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY MONTAGUE|O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY MONTAGUE|Right glad I am he was not at this fray.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Where, underneath the grove of sycamore
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|That westward rooteth from the city's side,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|So early walking did I see your son:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Towards him I made, but he was ware of me
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And stole into the covert of the wood:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|I, measuring his affections by my own,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|That most are busied when they're most alone,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Pursued my humour not pursuing his,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Many a morning hath he there been seen,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Should in the furthest east begin to draw
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Away from the light steals home my heavy son,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|And private in his chamber pens himself,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|And makes himself an artificial night:
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Black and portentous must this humour prove,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|My noble uncle, do you know the cause?
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|I neither know it nor can learn of him.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Have you importuned him by any means?
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Both by myself and many other friends:
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|But he, his own affections' counsellor,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Is to himself--I will not say how true--
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|But to himself so secret and so close,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|So far from sounding and discovery,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|We would as willingly give cure as know.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|See, where he comes: so please you, step aside,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Good-morrow, cousin.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is the day so young?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|But new struck nine.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ay me! sad hours seem long.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Was that my father that went hence so fast?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|In love?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Out--
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Of love?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Out of her favour, where I am in love.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O any thing, of nothing first create!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|sick health!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Dost thou not laugh?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|No, coz, I rather weep.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Good heart, at what?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|At thy good heart's oppression.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Why, such is love's transgression.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What is it else? a madness most discreet,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Farewell, my coz.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Soft! I will go along,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Tut, I have lost myself, I am not here,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This is not Romeo, he's some other where.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Tell me in sadness, who is that you love.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What, shall I groan and tell thee?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Groan! why, no.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|But sadly tell me who.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With Cupid's arrow, she hath Dian's wit,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That when she dies with beauty dies her store.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For beauty starved with her severity
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To merit bliss by making me despair:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Do I live dead that live to tell it now.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, teach me how I should forget to think.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|By giving liberty unto thine eyes,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Examine other beauties.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|'Tis the way
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To call hers exquisite, in question more:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Being black put us in mind they hide the fair,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|He that is strucken blind cannot forget
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Show me a mistress that is passing fair,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What doth her beauty serve, but as a note
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|SCENE II. A street.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But Montague is bound as well as I,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|In penalty alike, and 'tis not hard, I think,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For men so old as we to keep the peace.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Of honourable reckoning are you both,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But saying o'er what I have said before:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|My child is yet a stranger in the world,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And too soon marr'd are those so early made.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|She is the hopeful lady of my earth:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|My will to her consent is but a part,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|An she agree, within her scope of choice
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Lies my consent and fair according voice.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|This night I hold an old accustom'd feast,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Whereto I have invited many a guest,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Such as I love, and you, among the store,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|At my poor house look to behold this night
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|When well-apparell'd April on the heel
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Of limping winter treads, even such delight
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Among fresh female buds shall you this night
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Inherit at my house, hear all, all see,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And like her most whose merit most shall be:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Which on more view, of many mine being one
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|May stand in number, though in reckoning none,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Come, go with me.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|To Servant, giving a paper
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Go, sirrah, trudge about
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Through fair Verona, find those persons out
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Whose names are written there, and to them say,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exeunt CAPULET and PARIS
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Find them out whose names are written here! It is
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|his pencil, and the painter with his nets, but I am
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|sent to find those persons whose names are here
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|writ, and can never find what names the writing
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|One desperate grief cures with another's languish:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And the rank poison of the old will die.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|For what, I pray thee?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For your broken shin.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Why, Romeo, art thou mad?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Shut up in prison, kept without my food,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow.
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|pray, can you read any thing you see?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ay, if I know the letters and the language.
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Ye say honestly: rest you merry!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Stay, fellow, I can read.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Reads
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|County Anselme and his beauteous sisters, the lady
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|widow of Vitravio, Signior Placentio and his lovely
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|nieces, Mercutio and his brother Valentine, mine
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters, my fair niece
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Rosaline, Livia, Signior Valentio and his cousin
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|assembly: whither should they come?
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Up.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Whither?
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|To supper, to our house.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Whose house?
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|My master's.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|great rich Capulet, and if you be not of the house
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Rest you merry!
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|At this same ancient feast of Capulet's
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|With all the admired beauties of Verona:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Go thither, and, with unattainted eye,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Compare her face with some that I shall show,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|When the devout religion of mine eye
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And these, who often drown'd could never die,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Herself poised with herself in either eye:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Your lady's love against some other maid
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|That I will show you shining at this feast,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Enter JULIET
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|How now! who calls?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Your mother.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Madam, I am here.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What is your will?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|She's not fourteen.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|She is not fourteen. How long is it now
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To Lammas-tide?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|A fortnight and odd days.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Were of an age: well, Susan is with God,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|She was too good for me: but, as I said,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|That shall she, marry, I remember it well.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Of all the days of the year, upon that day:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|My lord and you were then at Mantua:--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To bid me trudge:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And since that time it is eleven years,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|For then she could stand alone, nay, by the rood,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|She could have run and waddled all about,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|For even the day before, she broke her brow:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And then my husband--God be with his soul!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|A' was a merry man--took up the child:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To see, now, how a jest shall come about!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Enough of this, I pray thee, hold thy peace.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|A parlous knock, and it cried bitterly:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|An I might live to see thee married once,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I have my wish.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|How stands your disposition to be married?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It is an honour that I dream not of.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|An honour! were not I thine only nurse,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Well, think of marriage now, younger than you,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Are made already mothers: by my count,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|I was your mother much upon these years
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|A man, young lady! lady, such a man
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Verona's summer hath not such a flower.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Nay, he's a flower, in faith, a very flower.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|What say you? can you love the gentleman?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|This night you shall behold him at our feast,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|And find delight writ there with beauty's pen,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Examine every married lineament,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|And see how one another lends content
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Find written in the margent of his eyes.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|To beautify him, only lacks a cover:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|For fair without the fair within to hide:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That in gold clasps locks in the golden story,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|So shall you share all that he doth possess,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|By having him, making yourself no less.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|No less! nay, bigger, women grow by men.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I'll look to like, if looking liking move:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter a Servant
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|hence to wait, I beseech you, follow straight.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|We follow thee.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Exit Servant
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Juliet, the county stays.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|SCENE IV. A street.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Or shall we on without a apology?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|The date is out of such prolixity:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|After the prompter, for our entrance:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|But let them measure us by what they will,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Being but heavy, I will bear the light.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|You are a lover, borrow Cupid's wings,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And soar with them above a common bound.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Under love's heavy burden do I sink.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And, to sink in it, should you burden love,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Too great oppression for a tender thing.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|If love be rough with you, be rough with love,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Give me a case to put my visage in:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|A visor for a visor! what care I
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Come, knock and enter, and no sooner in,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|But every man betake him to his legs.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A torch for me: let wantons light of heart
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Nay, that's not so.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|I mean, sir, in delay
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And we mean well in going to this mask,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But 'tis no wit to go.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Why, may one ask?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I dream'd a dream to-night.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And so did I.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Well, what was yours?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|That dreamers often lie.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Drawn with a team of little atomies
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|The traces of the smallest spider's web,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Not so big as a round little worm
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And in this state she gallops night by night
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And then dreams he of smelling out a suit,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Then dreams, he of another benefice:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Of healths five-fathom deep, and then anon
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|That plats the manes of horses in the night,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Making them women of good carriage:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|This is she--
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou talk'st of nothing.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|True, I talk of dreams,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Which are the children of an idle brain,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Which is as thin of substance as the air
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Supper is done, and we shall come too late.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With this night's revels and expire the term
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Of a despised life closed in my breast
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Strike, drum.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|Away with the joint-stools, remove the
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|me a piece of marchpane, and, as thou lovest me, let
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|Antony, and Potpan!
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|Ay, boy, ready.
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|You are looked for and called for, asked for and
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|sought for, in the great chamber.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys, be
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house, meeting the Guests and Maskers
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|She, I'll swear, hath corns, am I come near ye now?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|That I have worn a visor and could tell
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Music plays, and they dance
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|More light, you knaves, and turn the tables up,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For you and I are past our dancing days:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|How long is't now since last yourself and I
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Were in a mask?
Romeo and Juliet|Second Capulet|By'r lady, thirty years.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Come pentecost as quickly as it will,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Some five and twenty years, and then we mask'd.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Capulet|'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir,
Romeo and Juliet|Second Capulet|His son is thirty.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Will you tell me that?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|His son was but a ward two years ago.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|[To a Servingman]  What lady is that, which doth
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|enrich the hand
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Of yonder knight?
Romeo and Juliet|Servant|I know not, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|A villain that is hither come in spite,
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|To scorn at our solemnity this night.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Young Romeo is it?
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|'Tis he, that villain Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|He bears him like a portly gentleman,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I would not for the wealth of all the town
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Here in my house do him disparagement:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|It is my will, the which if thou respect,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|It fits, when such a villain is a guest:
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|I'll not endure him.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|He shall be endured:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Am I the master here, or you? go to.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Go to, go to,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Well said, my hearts! You are a princox, go:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|[To JULIET]  If I profane with my unworthiest hand
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which mannerly devotion shows in this,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Give me my sin again.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|You kiss by the book.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Madam, your mother craves a word with you.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What is her mother?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Marry, bachelor,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Her mother is the lady of the house,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Shall have the chinks.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is she a Capulet?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Away, begone, the sport is at the best.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ay, so I fear, the more is my unrest.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I thank you, honest gentlemen, good night.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I'll to my rest.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|The son and heir of old Tiberio.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What's he that now is going out of door?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What's he that follows there, that would not dance?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I know not.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Go ask his name: if he be married.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|The only son of your great enemy.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My only love sprung from my only hate!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That I must love a loathed enemy.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|What's this? what's this?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|A rhyme I learn'd even now
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Of one I danced withal.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|One calls within 'Juliet.'
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Anon, anon!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Come, let's away, the strangers all are gone.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|ACT II
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|PROLOGUE
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Enter Chorus
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|And young affection gapes to be his heir,
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|Alike betwitched by the charm of looks,
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|But to his foe supposed he must complain,
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|Being held a foe, he may not have access
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear,
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|And she as much in love, her means much less
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|To meet her new-beloved any where:
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|But passion lends them power, time means, to meet
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|SCENE I. A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard.
Romeo and Juliet|Chorus|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Romeo! my cousin Romeo!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|He is wise,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Call, good Mercutio.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Nay, I'll conjure too.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove,'
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|That in thy likeness thou appear to us!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Till she had laid it and conjured it down,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|That were some spite: my invocation
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Is fair and honest, and in his mistres s' name
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|I conjure only but to raise up him.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|To be consorted with the humorous night:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Blind is his love and best befits the dark.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Romeo, that she were, O, that she were
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Come, shall we go?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Go, then, for 'tis in vain
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|To seek him here that means not to be found.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|JULIET appears above at a window
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Who is already sick and pale with grief,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Be not her maid, since she is envious,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Her vestal livery is but sick and green
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And none but fools do wear it, cast it off.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It is my lady, O, it is my love!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, that she knew she were!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Her eye discourses, I will answer it.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Having some business, do entreat her eyes
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As daylight doth a lamp, her eyes in heaven
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Would through the airy region stream so bright
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That I might touch that cheek!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ay me!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|She speaks:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As is a winged messenger of heaven
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|[Aside]  Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|'Tis but thy name that is my enemy,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What's in a name? that which we call a rose
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By any other name would smell as sweet,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And for that name which is no part of thee
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Take all myself.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I take thee at thy word:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So stumblest on my counsel?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|By a name
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I know not how to tell thee who I am:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Because it is an enemy to thee,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Had I it written, I would tear the word.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And the place death, considering who thou art,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For stony limits cannot hold love out,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And what love can do that dares love attempt,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And I am proof against their enmity.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I would not for the world they saw thee here.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And but thou love me, let them find me here:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My life were better ended by their hate,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By whose direction found'st thou out this place?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|By love, who first did prompt me to inquire,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I am no pilot, yet, wert thou as far
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I would adventure for such merchandise.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thou mayst prove false, at lovers' perjuries
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So thou wilt woo, but else, not for the world.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I should have been more strange, I must confess,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And not impute this yielding to light love,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What shall I swear by?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Do not swear at all,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which is the god of my idolatry,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And I'll believe thee.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|If my heart's dear love--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I have no joy of this contract to-night:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come to thy heart as that within my breast!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And yet I would it were to give again.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But to be frank, and give it thee again.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And yet I wish but for the thing I have:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My love as deep, the more I give to thee,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|The more I have, for both are infinite.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Nurse calls within
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I hear some noise within, dear love, adieu!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Stay but a little, I will come again.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exit, above
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Being in night, all this is but a dream,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Re-enter JULIET, above
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If that thy bent of love be honourable,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And follow thee my lord throughout the world.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|[Within]  Madam!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I do beseech thee--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|[Within]  Madam!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By and by, I come:--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To-morrow will I send.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|So thrive my soul--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|A thousand times good night!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exit, above
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|their books,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Retiring
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Re-enter JULIET, above
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To lure this tassel-gentle back again!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|With repetition of my Romeo's name.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It is my soul that calls upon my name:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Like softest music to attending ears!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Romeo!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My dear?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|At what o'clock to-morrow
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Shall I send to thee?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|At the hour of nine.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I have forgot why I did call thee back.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Let me stand here till thou remember it.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Remembering how I love thy company.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Forgetting any other home but this.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|'Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So loving-jealous of his liberty.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I would I were thy bird.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Sweet, so would I:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Good night, good night! parting is such
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|sweet sorrow,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exit above
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|What is her burying grave that is her womb,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And from her womb children of divers kind
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Many for many virtues excellent,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|None but for some and yet all different.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But to the earth some special good doth give,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Within the infant rind of this small flower
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Poison hath residence and medicine power:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Two such opposed kings encamp them still
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And where the worser is predominant,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Good morrow, father.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Benedicite!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Young son, it argues a distemper'd head
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And where care lodges, sleep will never lie,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou art up-roused by some distemperature,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That last is true, the sweeter rest was mine.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I have been feasting with mine enemy,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That's by me wounded: both our remedies
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Within thy help and holy physic lies:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My intercession likewise steads my foe.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And all combined, save what thou must combine
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|By holy marriage: when and where and how
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I'll tell thee as we pass, but this I pray,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That thou consent to marry us to-day.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|How much salt water thrown away in waste,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To season love, that of it doth not taste!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And bad'st me bury love.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Not in a grave,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To lay one in, another out to have.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I pray thee, chide not, she whom I love now
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doth grace for grace and love for love allow,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The other did not so.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|O, she knew well
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But come, young waverer, come, go with me,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In one respect I'll thy assistant be,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For this alliance may so happy prove,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To turn your households' rancour to pure love.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, let us hence, I stand on sudden haste.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|SCENE IV. A street.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Where the devil should this Romeo be?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Came he not home to-night?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Not to his father's, I spoke with his man.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Hath sent a letter to his father's house.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|A challenge, on my life.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Romeo will answer it.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Any man that can write may answer a letter.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|dares, being dared.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead, stabbed with a
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|white wench's black eye, shot through the ear with a
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|love-song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|encounter Tybalt?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Why, what is Tybalt?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|proportion, rests me his minim rest, one, two, and
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|button, a duellist, a duellist, a gentleman of the
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|very first house, of the first and second cause:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|hai!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|The what?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|fantasticoes, these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|bones, their bones!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|kitchen-wench, marry, she had a better love to
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|be-rhyme her, Dido a dowdy, Cleopatra a gipsy,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Helen and Hero hildings and harlots, Thisbe a grey
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|fairly last night.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|The ship, sir, the slip, can you not conceive?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great, and in
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|That's as much as to say, such a case as yours
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|constrains a man to bow in the hams.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Meaning, to court'sy.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Thou hast most kindly hit it.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A most courteous exposition.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Pink for flower.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Right.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Why, then is my pump well flowered.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O single-soled jest, solely singular for the
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|singleness.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Come between us, good Benvolio, my wits faint.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Switch and spurs, switch and spurs, or I'll cry a match.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|was I with you there for the goose?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|not there for the goose.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Nay, good goose, bite not.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting, it is a most
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|sharp sauce.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|inch narrow to an ell broad!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I stretch it out for that word 'broad,' which added
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo, now art
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|for this drivelling love is like a great natural,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Stop there, stop there.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|O, thou art deceived, I would have made it short:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|for I was come to the whole depth of my tale, and
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Here's goodly gear!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter Nurse and PETER
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|A sail, a sail!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Two, two, a shirt and a smock.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Peter!
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Anon!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|My fan, Peter.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Good Peter, to hide her face, for her fan's the
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|fairer face.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|God ye good morrow, gentlemen.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Is it good den?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|dial is now upon the prick of noon.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Out upon you! what a man are you!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|mar.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|By my troth, it is well said, 'for himself to mar,'
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|may find the young Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I can tell you, but young Romeo will be older when
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|you have found him than he was when you sought him:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|You say well.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|wisely, wisely.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|you.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|She will indite him to some supper.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What hast thou found?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|No hare, sir, unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Sings
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|An old hare hoar,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And an old hare hoar,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Is very good meat in lent
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|But a hare that is hoar
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Is too much for a score,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|When it hoars ere it be spent.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|to dinner, thither.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I will follow you.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Farewell, ancient lady, farewell,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Singing
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|'lady, lady, lady.'
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|and will speak more in a minute than he will stand
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|to in a month.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Jacks, and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills, I am
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|I saw no man use you a pleasure, if I had, my weapon
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|good quarrel, and the law on my side.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|out, what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|is young, and, therefore, if you should deal double
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|protest unto thee--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Bid her devise
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Some means to come to shrift this afternoon,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|No truly sir, not a penny.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Go to, I say you shall.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Within this hour my man shall be with thee
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Which to the high top-gallant of my joy
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Must be my convoy in the secret night.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Farewell, be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Farewell, commend me to thy mistress.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What say'st thou, my dear nurse?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Two may keep counsel, putting one away?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|lay knife aboard, but she, good soul, had as lief
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|man, but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not
Romeo and Juliet|NURSE|rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ay, nurse, what of that? both with an R.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name, R is for
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|the--No, I know it begins with some other
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|to hear it.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Commend me to thy lady.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ay, a thousand times.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exit Romeo
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Peter!
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Anon!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Enter JULIET
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|In half an hour she promised to return.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Driving back shadows over louring hills:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|She would be as swift in motion as a ball,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And his to me:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But old folks, many feign as they were dead,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O God, she comes!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter Nurse and PETER
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O honey nurse, what news?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Peter, stay at the gate.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exit PETER
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By playing it to me with so sour a face.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Nay, come, I pray thee, speak, good, good nurse, speak.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Do you not see that I am out of breath?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To say to me that thou art out of breath?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Well, you have made a simple choice, you know not
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he, though his
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|all men's, and for a hand, and a foot, and a body,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|though they be not to be talked on, yet they are
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|ways, wench, serve God. What, have you dined at home?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|No, no: but all this did I know before.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What says he of our marriage? what of that?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Beshrew your heart for sending me about,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To catch my death with jaunting up and down!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where is my mother! why, she is within,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where is your mother?'
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O God's lady dear!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Is this the poultice for my aching bones?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Henceforward do your messages yourself.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I have.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|There stays a husband to make you a wife:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Hie you to church, I must another way,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To fetch a ladder, by the which your love
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I am the drudge and toil in your delight,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|But you shall bear the burden soon at night.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Go, I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|That after hours with sorrow chide us not!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Then love-devouring death do what he dare,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It is enough I may but call her mine.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|These violent delights have violent ends
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Therefore love moderately, long love doth so,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter JULIET
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|A lover may bestride the gossamer
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|That idles in the wanton summer air,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And yet not fall, so light is vanity.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Good even to my ghostly confessor.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As much to him, else is his thanks too much.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Receive in either by this dear encounter.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|They are but beggars that can count their worth,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But my true love is grown to such excess
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Come, come with me, and we will make short work,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Till holy church incorporate two in one.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|ACT III
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|SCENE I. A public place.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Thou art like one of those fellows that when he
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|upon the table and says 'God send me no need of
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Am I like such a fellow?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|soon moody to be moved.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And what to?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Nay, an there were two such, we should have none
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|man for coughing in the street, because he hath
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|his new doublet before Easter? with another, for
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|wilt tutor me from quarrelling!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|The fee-simple! O simple!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|By my head, here come the Capulets.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|By my heel, I care not.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Enter TYBALT and others
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Follow me close, for I will speak to them.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And but one word with one of us? couple it with
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|something, make it a word and a blow.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|will give me occasion.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Could you not take some occasion without giving?
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,--
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|discords: here's my fiddlestick, here's that shall
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|make you dance. 'Zounds, consort!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|We talk here in the public haunt of men:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Either withdraw unto some private place,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And reason coldly of your grievances,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Or else depart, here all eyes gaze on us.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|No better term than this,--thou art a villain.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To such a greeting: villain am I none,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Therefore farewell, I see thou know'st me not.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|That thou hast done me, therefore turn and draw.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I do protest, I never injured thee,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But love thee better than thou canst devise,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As dearly as my own,--be satisfied.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Alla stoccata carries it away.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Draws
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|What wouldst thou have with me?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and as you
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|ears ere it be out.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|I am for you.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Drawing
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Come, sir, your passado.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|They fight
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Draw, Benvolio, beat down their weapons.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|I am hurt.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Is he gone, and hath nothing?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|What, art thou hurt?
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch, marry, 'tis enough.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Exit Page
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|church-door, but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|was hurt under your arm.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I thought all for the best.
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|And soundly too: your houses!
Romeo and Juliet|MERCUTIO|Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This gentleman, the prince's near ally,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In my behalf, my reputation stain'd
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hour
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Re-enter BENVOLIO
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This day's black fate on more days doth depend,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This but begins the woe, others must end.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Away to heaven, respective lenity,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Re-enter TYBALT
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio's soul
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is but a little way above our heads,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Staying for thine to keep him company:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Romeo and Juliet|TYBALT|Shalt with him hence.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This shall determine that.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|They fight, TYBALT falls
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Romeo, away, be gone!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, I am fortune's fool!
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Why dost thou stay?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Exit ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Enter Citizens,  and c
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio?
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|There lies that Tybalt.
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|Up, sir, go with me,
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|I charge thee in the princes name, obey.
Romeo and Juliet|First Citizen|Enter Prince, attended, MONTAGUE, CAPULET, their Wives, and others
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Where are the vile beginners of this fray?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|O noble prince, I can discover all
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|O cousin, cousin!
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Your high displeasure: all this uttered
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Cold death aside, and with the other sends
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|his tongue,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|His agile arm beats down their fatal points,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And 'twixt them rushes, underneath whose arm
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|But by and by comes back to Romeo,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.
Romeo and Juliet|BENVOLIO|This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|He is a kinsman to the Montague,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Affection makes him false, he speaks not true:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|And all those twenty could but kill one life.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|His fault concludes but what the law should end,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|The life of Tybalt.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And for that offence
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Immediately we do exile him hence:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|That you shall all repent the loss of mine:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|I will be deaf to pleading and excuses,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Bear hence this body and attend our will:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Enter JULIET
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As Phaethon would whip you to the west,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And bring in cloudy night immediately.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By their own beauties, or, if love be blind,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And learn me how to lose a winning match,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|With thy black mantle, till strange love, grown bold,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Think true love acted simple modesty.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Give me my Romeo, and, when he shall die,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Take him and cut him out in little stars,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And he will make the face of heaven so fine
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That all the world will be in love with night
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As is the night before some festival
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To an impatient child that hath new robes
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter Nurse, with cords
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That Romeo bid thee fetch?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ay, ay, the cords.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Throws them down
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|We are undone, lady, we are undone!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Can heaven be so envious?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Romeo can,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I am not I, if there be such an I,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If he be slain, say 'I', or if not, no:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,--
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|All in gore-blood, I swounded at the sight.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Vile earth, to earth resign, end motion here,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|That ever I should live to see thee dead!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What storm is this that blows so contrary?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For who is living, if those two are gone?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|It did, it did, alas the day, it did!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Despised substance of divinest show!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|A damned saint, an honourable villain!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Was ever book containing such vile matter
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|In such a gorgeous palace!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|There's no trust,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|No faith, no honesty in men, all perjured,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Shame come to Romeo!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Blister'd be thy tongue
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For such a wish! he was not born to shame:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Sole monarch of the universal earth.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, what a beast was I to chide at him!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|All this is comfort, wherefore weep I then?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That murder'd me: I would forget it fain,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But, O, it presses to my memory,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished,'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Was woe enough, if it had ended there:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which modern lamentations might have moved?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|In that word's death, no words can that woe sound.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Both you and I, for Romeo is exiled:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|He made you for a highway to my bed,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come, cords, come, nurse, I'll to my wedding-bed,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To comfort you: I wot well where he is.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I'll to him, he is hid at Laurence' cell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, find him! give this ring to my true knight,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And bid him come to take his last farewell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|SCENE III. Friar Laurence's cell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Romeo, come forth, come forth, thou fearful man:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And thou art wedded to calamity.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That I yet know not?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Too familiar
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Is my dear son with such sour company:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Not body's death, but body's banishment.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death,'
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For exile hath more terror in his look,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hence from Verona art thou banished:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|There is no world without Verona walls,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And world's exile is death: then banished,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind prince,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And turn'd that black word death to banishment:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Live here in heaven and may look on her,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But Romeo may not: more validity,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|More honourable state, more courtship lives
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Who even in pure and vestal modesty,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But Romeo may not, he is banished:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|They are free men, but I am banished.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O friar, the damned use that word in hell,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To mangle me with that word 'banished'?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|O, then I see that madmen have no ears.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doting like me and like me banished,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Knocking within
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Arise, one knocks, good Romeo, hide thyself.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Not I, unless the breath of heartsick groans,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Knocking
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Knocking
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Run to my study. By and by! God's will,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|What simpleness is this! I come, I come!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Knocking
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|[Within]  Let me come in, and you shall know
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|my errand,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I come from Lady Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Welcome, then.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O, he is even in my mistress' case,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Just in her case! O woful sympathy!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Stand up, stand up, stand, and you be a man:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Why should you fall into so deep an O?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Nurse!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doth she not think me an old murderer,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With blood removed but little from her own?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Where is she? and how doth she? and what says
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And now falls on her bed, and then starts up,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And Tybalt calls, and then on Romeo cries,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And then down falls again.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As if that name,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Shot from the deadly level of a gun,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Did murder her, as that name's cursed hand
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In what vile part of this anatomy
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The hateful mansion.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Drawing his sword
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hold thy desperate hand:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I thought thy disposition better temper'd.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And stay thy lady too that lives in thee,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|By doing damned hate upon thyself?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And usest none in that true use indeed
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Digressing from the valour of a man,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Misshapen in the conduct of them both,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Is set afire by thine own ignorance,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But thou slew'st Tybalt, there are thou happy too:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And turns it to exile, there art thou happy:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Happiness courts thee in her best array,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For then thou canst not pass to Mantua,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And bid her hasten all the house to bed,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Romeo is coming.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|How well my comfort is revived by this!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Go hence, good night, and here stands all your state:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Either be gone before the watch be set,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Or by the break of day disguised from hence:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Sojourn in Mantua, I'll find out your man,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And he shall signify from time to time
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Every good hap to you that chances here:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Give me thy hand, 'tis late: farewell, good night.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|SCENE IV. A room in Capulet's house.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|That we have had no time to move our daughter:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And so did I:--Well, we were born to die.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I promise you, but for your company,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I would have been a-bed an hour ago.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|These times of woe afford no time to woo.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|I will, and know her mind early to-morrow,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|In all respects by me, nay, more, I doubt it not.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But, soft! what day is this?
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Monday, my lord,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|She shall be married to this noble earl.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Will you be ready? do you like this haste?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|It may be thought we held him carelessly,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Being our kinsman, if we revel much:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Afore me! it is so very very late,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|That we may call it early by and by.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Good night.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the window
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And light thee on thy way to Mantua:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Therefore stay yet, thou need'st not to be gone.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I have more care to stay than will to go:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|How is't, my soul? let's talk, it is not day.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Some say the lark makes sweet division,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|This doth not so, for she divideth us:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, now I would they had changed voices too!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, now be gone, more light and light it grows.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter Nurse, to the chamber
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Madam!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Nurse?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Your lady mother is coming to your chamber:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|The day is broke, be wary, look about.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Then, window, let day in, and let life out.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|He goeth down
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For in a minute there are many days:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, by this count I shall be much in years
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ere I again behold my Romeo!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Farewell!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I will omit no opportunity
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I doubt it not, and all these woes shall serve
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For sweet discourses in our time to come.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But send him back.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|[Within]         Ho, daughter! are you up?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is she not down so late, or up so early?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter LADY CAPULET
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Why, how now, Juliet!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Madam, I am not well.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Which you weep for.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Feeling so the loss,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What villain madam?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That same villain, Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|[Aside]  Villain and he be many miles asunder.--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That is, because the traitor murderer lives.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Madam, if you could find out but a man
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To bear a poison, I would temper it,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To hear him named, and cannot come to him.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Upon his body that slaughter'd him!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And joy comes well in such a needy time:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What are they, I beseech your ladyship?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Madam, in happy time, what day is that?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|The gallant, young and noble gentleman,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|He shall not make me there a joyful bride.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I wonder at this haste, that I must wed
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I will not marry yet, and, when I do, I swear,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Here comes your father, tell him so yourself,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|And see how he will take it at your hands.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Enter CAPULET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But for the sunset of my brother's son
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|It rains downright.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Evermore showering? In one little body
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Do ebb and flow with tears, the bark thy body is,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Sailing in this salt flood, the winds, thy sighs,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Without a sudden calm, will overset
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Have you deliver'd to her our decree?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Ay, sir, but she will none, she gives you thanks.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|I would the fool were married to her grave!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Not proud, you have, but thankful, that you have:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Proud can I never be of what I hate,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not,'
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|You tallow-face!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Fie, fie! what, are you mad?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Good father, I beseech you on my knees,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Hear me with patience but to speak a word.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Or never after look me in the face:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Speak not, reply not, do not answer me,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|That God had lent us but this only child,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But now I see this one is one too much,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And that we have a curse in having her:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Out on her, hilding!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|God in heaven bless her!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Good prudence, smatter with your gossips, go.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I speak no treason.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|O, God ye god-den.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|May not one speak?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Peace, you mumbling fool!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For here we need it not.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|You are too hot.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|God's bread! it makes me mad:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Alone, in company, still my care hath been
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|To have her match'd: and having now provided
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|A gentleman of noble parentage,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And then to have a wretched puling fool,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I am too young, I pray you, pardon me.'
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|But, as you will not wed, I'll pardon you:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Graze where you will you shall not house with me:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Thursday is near, lay hand on heart, advise:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|the streets,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Trust to't, bethink you, I'll not be forsworn.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That sees into the bottom of my grief?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O God!--O nurse, how shall this be prevented?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|How shall that faith return again to earth,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Unless that husband send it me from heaven
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Upon so soft a subject as myself!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Some comfort, nurse.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Faith, here it is.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Romeo is banish'd, and all the world to nothing,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I think it best you married with the county.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O, he's a lovely gentleman!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I think you are happy in this second match,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|For it excels your first: or if it did not,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Your first is dead, or 'twere as good he were,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|As living here and you no use of him.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Speakest thou from thy heart?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|And from my soul too,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Or else beshrew them both.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Amen!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|What?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Go in: and tell my lady I am gone,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To make confession and to be absolved.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Marry, I will, and this is wisely done.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which she hath praised him with above compare
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So many thousand times? Go, counsellor,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If all else fail, myself have power to die.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|ACT IV
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|SCENE I. Friar Laurence's cell.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|My father Capulet will have it so,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|You say you do not know the lady's mind:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Uneven is the course, I like it not.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|And therefore have I little talk'd of love,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|That she doth give her sorrow so much sway,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|To stop the inundation of her tears,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Which, too much minded by herself alone,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|May be put from her by society:
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Now do you know the reason of this haste.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|[Aside]  I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter JULIET
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Happily met, my lady and my wife!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What must be shall be.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|That's a certain text.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Come you to make confession to this father?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To answer that, I should confess to you.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Do not deny to him that you love me.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I will confess to you that I love him.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If I do so, it will be of more price,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|The tears have got small victory by that,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For it was bad enough before their spite.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That is no slander, sir, which is a truth,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And what I spake, I spake it to my face.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|It may be so, for it is not mine own.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Are you at leisure, holy father, now,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or shall I come to you at evening mass?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|My lord, we must entreat the time alone.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|God shield I should disturb devotion!
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye:
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Till then, adieu, and keep this holy kiss.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|It strains me past the compass of my wits:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|On Thursday next be married to this county.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Do thou but call my resolution wise,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And with this knife I'll help it presently.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Shall be the label to another deed,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Turn to another, this shall slay them both:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Give me some present counsel, or, behold,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which the commission of thy years and art
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Could to no issue of true honour bring.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Be not so long to speak, I long to die,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Which craves as desperate an execution.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|As that is desperate which we would prevent.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|A thing like death to chide away this shame,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|That copest with death himself to scape from it:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|From off the battlements of yonder tower,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where serpents are, chain me with roaring bears,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or bid me go into a new-made grave
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And hide me with a dead man in his shroud,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And I will do it without fear or doubt,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hold, then, go home, be merry, give consent
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And this distilled liquor drink thou off,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|When presently through all thy veins shall run
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Like death, when he shuts up the day of life,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Each part, deprived of supple government,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Then, as the manner of our country is,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And hither shall he come: and he and I
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Will watch thy waking, and that very night
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And this shall free thee from this present shame,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Abate thy valour in the acting it.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hold, get you gone, be strong and prosperous
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Farewell, dear father!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|SCENE II. Hall in Capulet's house.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter CAPULET, LADY  CAPULET, Nurse, and two Servingmen
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|So many guests invite as here are writ.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exit First Servant
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|You shall have none ill, sir, for I'll try if they
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|can lick their fingers.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|How canst thou try them so?
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|fingers goes not with me.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Go, be gone.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exit Second Servant
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|We shall be much unfurnished for this time.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ay, forsooth.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Well, he may chance to do some good on her:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|See where she comes from shrift with merry look.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Enter JULIET
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Of disobedient opposition
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Send for the county, go tell him of this:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And gave him what becomed love I might,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Not step o'er the bounds of modesty.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Why, I am glad on't, this is well: stand up:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|This is as't should be. Let me see the county,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Our whole city is much bound to him.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To help me sort such needful ornaments
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|No, not till Thursday, there is time enough.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exeunt JULIET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|LADY  CAPULET|We shall be short in our provision:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY  CAPULET|'Tis now near night.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Tush, I will stir about,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I'll not to bed to-night, let me alone,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|To County Paris, to prepare him up
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|SCENE III. Juliet's chamber.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Enter JULIET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I pray thee, leave me to my self to-night,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For I have need of many orisons
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To move the heavens to smile upon my state,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Which, well thou know'st, is cross, and full of sin.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter LADY CAPULET
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|What, are you busy, ho? need you my help?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|No, madam, we have cull'd such necessaries
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So please you, let me now be left alone,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And let the nurse this night sit up with you,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For, I am sure, you have your hands full all,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|In this so sudden business.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Good night:
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Get thee to bed, and rest, for thou hast need.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That almost freezes up the heat of life:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I'll call them back again to comfort me:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Nurse! What should she do here?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come, vial.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What if this mixture do not work at all?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Laying down her dagger
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What if it be a poison, which the friar
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Because he married me before to Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|For he hath still been tried a holy man.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I wake before the time that Romeo
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Or, if I live, is it not very like,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|The horrible conceit of death and night,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Together with the terror of the place,--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Of all my buried ancestors are packed:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Lies festering in his shroud, where, as they say,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|At some hours in the night spirits resort,--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Environed with all these hideous fears?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And madly play with my forefather's joints?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|She falls upon her bed, within the curtains
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Enter CAPULET
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Spare not for the cost.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Go, you cot-quean, go,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Get you to bed, faith, You'll be sick to-morrow
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|For this night's watching.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|But I will watch you from such watching now.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|A jealous hood, a jealous hood!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs, and baskets
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Now, fellow,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|What's there?
Romeo and Juliet|First Servant|Things for the cook, sir, but I know not what.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Make haste, make haste.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exit First Servant
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Sirrah, fetch drier logs:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|And never trouble Peter for the matter.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Servant|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Mass, and well said, a merry whoreson, ha!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|The county will be here with music straight,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For so he said he would: I hear him near.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Music within
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Re-enter Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Make haste, the bridegroom he is come already:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Make haste, I say.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|SCENE V. Juliet's chamber.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Enter Nurse
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Sleep for a week, for the next night, I warrant,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|The County Paris hath set up his rest,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|That you shall rest but little. God forgive me,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Ay, let the county take you in your bed,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Undraws the curtains
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|I must needs wake you, Lady! lady! lady!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Enter LADY CAPULET
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|What noise is here?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O lamentable day!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|What is the matter?
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Look, look! O heavy day!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|O me, O me! My child, my only life,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Help, help! Call help.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Enter CAPULET
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|For shame, bring Juliet forth, her lord is come.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|She's dead, deceased, she's dead, alack the day!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Life and these lips have long been separated:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O lamentable day!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|O woful time!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Ready to go, but never to return.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|O son! the night before thy wedding-day
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And leave him all, life, living, all is Death's.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|And doth it give me such a sight as this?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Most miserable hour that e'er time saw
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|But one thing to rejoice and solace in,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Most lamentable day, most woful day,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Never was seen so black a day as this:
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|O woful day, O woful day!
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|O love! O life! not life, but love in death!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|To murder, murder our solemnity?
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|O child! O child! my soul, and not my child!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And with my child my joys are buried.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In these confusions. Heaven and yourself
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Had part in this fair maid, now heaven hath all,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And all the better is it for the maid:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Your part in her you could not keep from death,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The most you sought was her promotion,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|O, in this love, you love your child so ill,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|That you run mad, seeing that she is well:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|She's not well married that lives married long,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But she's best married that dies married young.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|On this fair corse, and, as the custom is,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|In all her best array bear her to church:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For though fond nature bids us an lament,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|All things that we ordained festival,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Turn from their office to black funeral,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Our instruments to melancholy bells,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And all things change them to the contrary.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Sir, go you in, and, madam, go with him,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And go, Sir Paris, every one prepare
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To follow this fair corse unto her grave:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The heavens do lour upon you for some ill,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Move them no more by crossing their high will.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Exeunt CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, PARIS, and FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up,
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.
Romeo and Juliet|Nurse|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|Enter PETER
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, Heart's
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.'
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|Why 'Heart's ease?'
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump,
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|to comfort me.
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|Not a dump we, 'tis no time to play now.
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|You will not, then?
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|No.
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|I will then give it you soundly.
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|What will you give us?
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|No money, on my faith, but the gleek,
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|I will give you the minstrel.
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|Then I will give you the serving-creature.
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you,
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|I'll fa you, do you note me?
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|An you re us and fa us, you note us.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|me like men:
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|'When griping grief the heart doth wound,
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|And doleful dumps the mind oppress,
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Then music with her silver sound'--
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|sound'? What say you, Simon Catling?
Romeo and Juliet|Musician|Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck?
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|I say 'silver sound,' because musicians sound for silver.
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?
Romeo and Juliet|Third Musician|Faith, I know not what to say.
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|O, I cry you mercy, you are the singer: I will say
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,'
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|because musicians have no gold for sounding:
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|'Then music with her silver sound
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|With speedy help doth lend redress.'
Romeo and Juliet|PETER|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|First Musician|What a pestilent knave is this same!
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here, tarry for the
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|mourners, and stay dinner.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|ACT V
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|SCENE I. Mantua. A street.
Romeo and Juliet|Second Musician|Enter ROMEO
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|to think!--
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That I revived, and was an emperor.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter BALTHASAR, booted
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|How doth my lady? Is my father well?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|How fares my Juliet? that I ask again,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For nothing can be ill, if she be well.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|And her immortal part with angels lives.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|And presently took post to tell it you:
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Since you did leave it for my office, sir.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And hire post-horses, I will hence to-night.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|I do beseech you, sir, have patience:
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Some misadventure.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Tush, thou art deceived:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|No, my good lord.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|No matter: get thee gone,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And hire those horses, I'll be with thee straight.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Exit BALTHASAR
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I do remember an apothecary,--
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Culling of simples, meagre were his looks,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Of ill-shaped fishes, and about his shelves
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A beggarly account of empty boxes,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Noting this penury, to myself I said
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|'An if a man did need a poison now,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, this same thought did but forerun my need,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And this same needy man must sell it me.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As I remember, this should be the house.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What, ho! apothecary!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter Apothecary
Romeo and Juliet|Apothecary|Who calls so loud?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As will disperse itself through all the veins
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That the life-weary taker may fall dead
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|As violently as hasty powder fired
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.
Romeo and Juliet|Apothecary|Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law
Romeo and Juliet|Apothecary|Is death to any he that utters them.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The world is not thy friend nor the world's law,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The world affords no law to make thee rich,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
Romeo and Juliet|Apothecary|My poverty, but not my will, consents.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
Romeo and Juliet|Apothecary|Put this in any liquid thing you will,
Romeo and Juliet|Apothecary|And drink it off, and, if you had the strength
Romeo and Juliet|Apothecary|Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Doing more murders in this loathsome world,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Exeunt
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|SCENE II. Friar Laurence's cell.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter FRIAR JOHN
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Enter FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|This same should be the voice of Friar John.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Going to find a bare-foot brother out
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|One of our order, to associate me,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Here in this city visiting the sick,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|And finding him, the searchers of the town,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Suspecting that we both were in a house
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Where the infectious pestilence did reign,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|I could not send it,--here it is again,--
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|So fearful were they of infection.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The letter was not nice but full of charge
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Of dear import, and the neglecting it
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|May do much danger. Friar John, go hence,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Unto my cell.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Brother, I'll go and bring it thee.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR JOHN|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Now must I to the monument alone,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Within three hours will fair Juliet wake:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|She will beshrew me much that Romeo
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hath had no notice of these accidents,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But I will write again to Mantua,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And keep her at my cell till Romeo come,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|SCENE III. A churchyard, in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|As signal that thou hear'st something approach.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|[Aside]  I am almost afraid to stand alone
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|Here in the churchyard, yet I will adventure.
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|Retires
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones,--
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|The Page whistles
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|The boy gives warning something doth approach.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Retires
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch, mattock,  and c
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hold, take this letter, early in the morning
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And do not interrupt me in my course.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Why I descend into this bed of death,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is partly to behold my lady's face,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A precious ring, a ring that I must use
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In what I further shall intend to do,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The time and my intents are savage-wild,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|More fierce and more inexorable far
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|[Aside]  For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Retires
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Opens the tomb
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|This is that banish'd haughty Montague,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|It is supposed, the fair creature died,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|And here is come to do some villanous shame
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Comes forward
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Can vengeance be pursued further than death?
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Obey, and go with me, for thou must die.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I must indeed, and therefore came I hither.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Put not another sin upon my head,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|By urging me to fury: O, be gone!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For I come hither arm'd against myself:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Stay not, be gone, live, and hereafter say,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A madman's mercy bade thee run away.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|I do defy thy conjurations,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|And apprehend thee for a felon here.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|They fight
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|Exit
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|O, I am slain!
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Falls
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|If thou be merciful,
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet|PARIS|Dies
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|What said my man, when my betossed soul
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Did not attend him as we rode? I think
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Said he not so? or did I dream it so?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Laying PARIS in the tomb
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|How oft when men are at the point of death
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Have they been merry! which their keepers call
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A lightning before death: O, how may I
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou art not conquer'd, beauty's ensign yet
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O, what more favour can I do to thee,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|That unsubstantial death is amorous,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And never from this palace of dim night
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Depart again: here, here will I remain
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|With worms that are thy chamber-maids, O, here
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Will I set up my everlasting rest,
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Here's to my love!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Drinks
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|O true apothecary!
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Dies
Romeo and Juliet|ROMEO|Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|It burneth in the Capel's monument.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|It doth so, holy sir, and there's my master,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|One that you love.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Who is it?
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|How long hath he been there?
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|Full half an hour.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Go with me to the vault.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|I dare not, sir
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|My master knows not but I am gone hence,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|And fearfully did menace me with death,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|If I did stay to look on his intents.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Stay, then, I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|I dreamt my master and another fought,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|And that my master slew him.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Romeo!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Advances
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The stony entrance of this sepulchre?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|What mean these masterless and gory swords
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Enters the tomb
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The lady stirs.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|JULIET wakes
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O comfortable friar! where is my lord?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|I do remember well where I should be,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Noise within
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|A greater power than we can contradict
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Stay not to question, for the watch is coming,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Come, go, good Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Noise again
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I dare no longer stay.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Exit FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To help me after? I will kiss thy lips,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|To make die with a restorative.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Kisses him
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Thy lips are warm.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|[Within]  Lead, boy: which way?
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Snatching ROMEO's dagger
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|This is thy sheath,
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Stabs herself
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|there rust, and let me die.
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies
Romeo and Juliet|JULIET|Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|This is the place, there, where the torch doth burn.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|The ground is bloody, search about the churchyard:
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain,
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Who here hath lain these two days buried.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Raise up the Montagues: some others search:
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|We see the ground whereon these woes do lie,
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|But the true ground of all these piteous woes
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|We cannot without circumstance descry.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Re-enter some of the Watch, with BALTHASAR
Romeo and Juliet|Second Watchman|Here's Romeo's man, we found him in the churchyard.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Re-enter others of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo and Juliet|Third Watchman|Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:
Romeo and Juliet|Third Watchman|We took this mattock and this spade from him,
Romeo and Juliet|Third Watchman|As he was coming from this churchyard side.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|A great suspicion: stay the friar too.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Enter the PRINCE and Attendants
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|What misadventure is so early up,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|That calls our person from our morning's rest?
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|The people in the street cry Romeo,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Some Juliet, and some Paris, and all run,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|With open outcry toward our monument.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|What fear is this which startles in our ears?
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain,
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before,
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Warm and new kill'd.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man,
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|With instruments upon them, fit to open
Romeo and Juliet|First Watchman|These dead men's tombs.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Is empty on the back of Montague,--
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|O me! this sight of death is as a bell,
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
Romeo and Juliet|LADY CAPULET|Enter MONTAGUE and others
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Come, Montague, for thou art early up,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|To see thy son and heir more early down.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|What further woe conspires against mine age?
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Look, and thou shalt see.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|O thou untaught! what manners is in this?
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|To press before thy father to a grave?
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Till we can clear these ambiguities,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And know their spring, their head, their
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|true descent,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And then will I be general of your woes,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And let mischance be slave to patience.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I am the greatest, able to do least,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Yet most suspected, as the time and place
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Doth make against me of this direful murder,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Myself condemned and myself excused.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Then say at once what thou dost know in this.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|I married them, and their stol'n marriage-day
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To County Paris: then comes she to me,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To rid her from this second marriage,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|A sleeping potion, which so took effect
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|As I intended, for it wrought on her
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|That he should hither come as this dire night,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Being the time the potion's force should cease.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Return'd my letter back. Then all alone
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|At the prefixed hour of her waking,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Came I to take her from her kindred's vault,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But when I came, some minute ere the time
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Of her awaking, here untimely lay
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|She wakes, and I entreated her come forth,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And bear this work of heaven with patience:
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|All this I know, and to the marriage
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
Romeo and Juliet|FRIAR LAURENCE|Unto the rigour of severest law.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|We still have known thee for a holy man.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|I brought my master news of Juliet's death,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|And then in post he came from Mantua
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|To this same place, to this same monument.
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|This letter he early bid me give his father,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
Romeo and Juliet|BALTHASAR|I departed not and left him there.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Give me the letter, I will look on it.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Sirrah, what made your master in this place?
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave,
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb,
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|And by and by my master drew on him,
Romeo and Juliet|PAGE|And then I ran away to call the watch.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|This letter doth make good the friar's words,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|And I for winking at your discords too
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|O brother Montague, give me thy hand:
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Can I demand.
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|But I can give thee more:
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|That while Verona by that name is known,
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|There shall no figure at such rate be set
Romeo and Juliet|MONTAGUE|As that of true and faithful Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie,
Romeo and Juliet|CAPULET|Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things,
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|For never was a story of more woe
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet|PRINCE|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|PRINCE|SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a heath.
Taming of the Shrew|PRINCE|Enter Hostess and SLY
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|I'll pheeze you, in faith.
Taming of the Shrew|Hostess|A pair of stocks, you rogue!
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no rogues, look in
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|the chronicles, we came in with Richard Conqueror.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Therefore paucas pallabris, let the world slide: sessa!
Taming of the Shrew|Hostess|You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|No, not a denier. Go by, Jeronimy: go to thy cold
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|bed, and warm thee.
Taming of the Shrew|Hostess|I know my remedy, I must go fetch the
Taming of the Shrew|Hostess|third--borough.
Taming of the Shrew|Hostess|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|by law: I'll not budge an inch, boy: let him come,
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|and kindly.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Falls asleep
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Horns winded. Enter a Lord from hunting, with his train
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And couple Clowder with the deep--mouth'd brach.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord,
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|He cried upon it at the merest loss
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent:
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|I would esteem him worth a dozen such.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|But sup them well and look unto them all:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|To-morrow I intend to hunt again.
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|I will, my lord.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|What's here? one dead, or drunk? See, doth he breathe?
Taming of the Shrew|Second Huntsman|He breathes, my lord. Were he not warm'd with ale,
Taming of the Shrew|Second Huntsman|This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies!
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|What think you, if he were convey'd to bed,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Wrapp'd in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|A most delicious banquet by his bed,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Would not the beggar then forget himself?
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.
Taming of the Shrew|Second Huntsman|It would seem strange unto him when he waked.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Then take him up and manage well the jest:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Carry him gently to my fairest chamber
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And hang it round with all my wanton pictures:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Procure me music ready when he wakes,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And if he chance to speak, be ready straight
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And with a low submissive reverence
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Say 'What is it your honour will command?'
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Let one attend him with a silver basin
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Full of rose-water and bestrew'd with flowers,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And say 'Will't please your lordship cool your hands?'
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Some one be ready with a costly suit
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And ask him what apparel he will wear,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Another tell him of his hounds and horse,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And that his lady mourns at his disease:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Persuade him that he hath been lunatic,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And when he says he is, say that he dreams,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|For he is nothing but a mighty lord.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|This do and do it kindly, gentle sirs:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|It will be pastime passing excellent,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|If it be husbanded with modesty.
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|My lord, I warrant you we will play our part,
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|As he shall think by our true diligence
Taming of the Shrew|First Huntsman|He is no less than what we say he is.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Take him up gently and to bed with him,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And each one to his office when he wakes.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Some bear out SLY. A trumpet sounds
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Sirrah, go see what trumpet 'tis that sounds:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Exit Servingman
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Belike, some noble gentleman that means,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Travelling some journey, to repose him here.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Re-enter Servingman
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|How now! who is it?
Taming of the Shrew|Servant|An't please your honour, players
Taming of the Shrew|Servant|That offer service to your lordship.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Bid them come near.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Enter Players
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Now, fellows, you are welcome.
Taming of the Shrew|Players|We thank your honour.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Do you intend to stay with me tonight?
Taming of the Shrew|A Player|So please your lordship to accept our duty.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|With all my heart. This fellow I remember,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Since once he play'd a farmer's eldest son:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|I have forgot your name, but, sure, that part
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd.
Taming of the Shrew|A Player|I think 'twas Soto that your honour means.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|'Tis very true: thou didst it excellent.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Well, you are come to me in a happy time,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|The rather for I have some sport in hand
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Wherein your cunning can assist me much.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|There is a lord will hear you play to-night:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|But I am doubtful of your modesties,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Lest over-eyeing of his odd behavior,--
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|For yet his honour never heard a play--
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|You break into some merry passion
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And so offend him, for I tell you, sirs,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|If you should smile he grows impatient.
Taming of the Shrew|A Player|Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves,
Taming of the Shrew|A Player|Were he the veriest antic in the world.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And give them friendly welcome every one:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Let them want nothing that my house affords.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Exit one with the Players
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew my page,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And see him dress'd in all suits like a lady:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|That done, conduct him to the drunkard's chamber,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And call him 'madam,' do him obeisance.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Tell him from me, as he will win my love,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|He bear himself with honourable action,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Such as he hath observed in noble ladies
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Unto their lords, by them accomplished:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Such duty to the drunkard let him do
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And say 'What is't your honour will command,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Wherein your lady and your humble wife
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|May show her duty and make known her love?'
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And with declining head into his bosom,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Bid him shed tears, as being overjoy'd
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|To see her noble lord restored to health,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Who for this seven years hath esteem'd him
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|No better than a poor and loathsome beggar:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And if the boy have not a woman's gift
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|To rain a shower of commanded tears,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|An onion will do well for such a shift,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Which in a napkin being close convey'd
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|See this dispatch'd with all the haste thou canst:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Anon I'll give thee more instructions.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Exit a Servingman
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|I know the boy will well usurp the grace,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Voice, gait and action of a gentlewoman:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|I long to hear him call the drunkard husband,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And how my men will stay themselves from laughter
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|When they do homage to this simple peasant.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|I'll in to counsel them, haply my presence
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|May well abate the over-merry spleen
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Which otherwise would grow into extremes.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|SCENE II. A bedchamber in the Lord's house.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Enter aloft SLY, with Attendants, some with apparel, others with basin and ewer and appurtenances, and Lord
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|For God's sake, a pot of small ale.
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|Will't please your honour taste of these conserves?
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|What raiment will your honour wear to-day?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|I am Christophero Sly, call not me 'honour' nor
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|'lordship:' I ne'er drank sack in my life, and if
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|you give me any conserves, give me conserves of
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|beef: ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|than legs, nor no more shoes than feet, nay,
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|toes look through the over-leather.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|O, that a mighty man of such descent,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Of such possessions and so high esteem,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Should be infused with so foul a spirit!
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Sly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, by birth a
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|lyingest knave in Christendom. What! I am not
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|bestraught: here's--
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|O, this it is that makes your lady mourn!
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|O, this is it that makes your servants droop!
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Look how thy servants do attend on thee,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Each in his office ready at thy beck.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo plays,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Music
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And twenty caged nightingales do sing:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Or wilt thou sleep? we'll have thee to a couch
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Say thou wilt walk, we will bestrew the ground:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Or wilt thou ride? thy horses shall be trapp'd,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Above the morning lark or wilt thou hunt?
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|Say thou wilt course, thy greyhounds are as swift
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|Adonis painted by a running brook,
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|Even as the waving sedges play with wind.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|We'll show thee Io as she was a maid,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|And how she was beguiled and surprised,
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|As lively painted as the deed was done.
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord:
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Than any woman in this waning age.
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|And till the tears that she hath shed for thee
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|Like envious floods o'er-run her lovely face,
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|She was the fairest creature in the world,
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|And yet she is inferior to none.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Am I a lord? and have I such a lady?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Or do I dream? or have I dream'd till now?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak,
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|I smell sweet savours and I feel soft things:
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Upon my life, I am a lord indeed
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|And not a tinker nor Christophero Sly.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Well, bring our lady hither to our sight,
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|And once again, a pot o' the smallest ale.
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|Will't please your mightiness to wash your hands?
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|O, how we joy to see your wit restored!
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|O, that once more you knew but what you are!
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|These fifteen years you have been in a dream,
Taming of the Shrew|Second Servant|Or when you waked, so waked as if you slept.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|These fifteen years! by my fay, a goodly nap.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|But did I never speak of all that time?
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|O, yes, my lord, but very idle words:
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door,
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|And rail upon the hostess of the house,
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|And say you would present her at the leet,
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts:
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Ay, the woman's maid of the house.
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|Nor no such men as you have reckon'd up,
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|As Stephen Sly and did John Naps of Greece
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|And twenty more such names and men as these
Taming of the Shrew|Third Servant|Which never were nor no man ever saw.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Now Lord be thanked for my good amends!
Taming of the Shrew|ALL|Amen.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|I thank thee: thou shalt not lose by it.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Enter the Page as a lady, with attendants
Taming of the Shrew|Page|How fares my noble lord?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Marry, I fare well for here is cheer enough.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Where is my wife?
Taming of the Shrew|Page|Here, noble lord: what is thy will with her?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Are you my wife and will not call me husband?
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|My men should call me 'lord:' I am your goodman.
Taming of the Shrew|Page|My husband and my lord, my lord and husband,
Taming of the Shrew|Page|I am your wife in all obedience.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|I know it well. What must I call her?
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|Madam.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Al'ce madam, or Joan madam?
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|'Madam,' and nothing else: so lords
Taming of the Shrew|Lord|call ladies.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Madam wife, they say that I have dream'd
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|And slept above some fifteen year or more.
Taming of the Shrew|Page|Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,
Taming of the Shrew|Page|Being all this time abandon'd from your bed.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|'Tis much. Servants, leave me and her alone.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Madam, undress you and come now to bed.
Taming of the Shrew|Page|Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you
Taming of the Shrew|Page|To pardon me yet for a night or two,
Taming of the Shrew|Page|Or, if not so, until the sun be set:
Taming of the Shrew|Page|For your physicians have expressly charged,
Taming of the Shrew|Page|In peril to incur your former malady,
Taming of the Shrew|Page|That I should yet absent me from your bed:
Taming of the Shrew|Page|I hope this reason stands for my excuse.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Ay, it stands so that I may hardly
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|tarry so long. But I would be loath to fall into
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|my dreams again: I will therefore tarry in
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|despite of the flesh and the blood.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Enter a Messenger
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|Your honour's players, heating your amendment,
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|Are come to play a pleasant comedy,
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|For so your doctors hold it very meet,
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood,
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Taming of the Shrew|Messenger|Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Marry, I will, let them play it. Is not a
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|comondy a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?
Taming of the Shrew|Page|No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|What, household stuff?
Taming of the Shrew|Page|It is a kind of history.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Well, well see't. Come, madam wife, sit by my side
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Flourish
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|ACT I
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|SCENE I. Padua. A public place.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tranio, since for the great desire I had
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|The pleasant garden of great Italy,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And by my father's love and leave am arm'd
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|With his good will and thy good company,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|My trusty servant, well approved in all,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Here let us breathe and haply institute
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Pisa renown'd for grave citizens
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Gave me my being and my father first,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|A merchant of great traffic through the world,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Vincetino come of Bentivolii.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Vincetino's son brought up in Florence
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|It shall become to serve all hopes conceived,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Virtue and that part of philosophy
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Will I apply that treats of happiness
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|By virtue specially to be achieved.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tell me thy mind, for I have Pisa left
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And am to Padua come, as he that leaves
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Mi perdonato, gentle master mine,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I am in all affected as yourself,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Glad that you thus continue your resolve
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Only, good master, while we do admire
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|This virtue and this moral discipline,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Let's be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Or so devote to Aristotle's cheques
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Balk logic with acquaintance that you have
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And practise rhetoric in your common talk,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Music and poesy use to quicken you,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|The mathematics and the metaphysics,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|We could at once put us in readiness,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And take a lodging fit to entertain
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|But stay a while: what company is this?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Master, some show to welcome us to town.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Enter BAPTISTA, KATHARINA, BIANCA, GREMIO, and HORTENSIO. LUCENTIO and TRANIO stand by
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|For how I firmly am resolved you know,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|That is, not bestow my youngest daughter
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Before I have a husband for the elder:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|If either of you both love Katharina,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Because I know you well and love you well,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|[Aside]  To cart her rather: she's too rough for me.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|There, There, Hortensio, will you any wife?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I pray you, sir, is it your will
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To make a stale of me amongst these mates?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Mates, maid! how mean you that? no mates for you,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Unless you were of gentler, milder mould.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I wis it is not half way to her heart,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|But if it were, doubt not her care should be
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And paint your face and use you like a fool.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIA|From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And me too, good Lord!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Hush, master! here's some good pastime toward:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|But in the other's silence do I see
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Maid's mild behavior and sobriety.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Peace, Tranio!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Well said, master, mum! and gaze your fill.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Gentlemen, that I may soon make good
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|What I have said, Bianca, get you in:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|A pretty peat! it is best
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Put finger in the eye, an she knew why.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Sister, content you in my discontent.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|My books and instruments shall be my company,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|On them to took and practise by myself.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Hark, Tranio! thou may'st hear Minerva speak.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Sorry am I that our good will effects
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Bianca's grief.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Why will you mew her up,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And make her bear the penance of her tongue?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Gentlemen, content ye, I am resolved:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Go in, Bianca:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exit BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And for I know she taketh most delight
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|In music, instruments and poetry,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Or Signior Gremio, you, know any such,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Prefer them hither, for to cunning men
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I will be very kind, and liberal
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|To mine own children in good bringing up:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And so farewell. Katharina, you may stay,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|For I have more to commune with Bianca.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not? What,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|shall I be appointed hours, as though, belike, I
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|knew not what to take and what to leave, ha?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|You may go to the devil's dam: your gifts are so
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|good, here's none will hold you. Their love is not
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|together, and fast it fairly out: our cakes dough on
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|both sides. Farewell: yet for the love I bear my
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|wish him to her father.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|So will I, Signior Gremio: but a word, I pray.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|that we may yet again have access to our fair
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|mistress and be happy rivals in Bianco's love, to
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|labour and effect one thing specially.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|What's that, I pray?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|A husband! a devil.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I say, a husband.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I say, a devil. Thinkest thou, Hortensio, though
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|to be married to hell?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Tush, Gremio, though it pass your patience and mine
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|to endure her loud alarums, why, man, there be good
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|fellows in the world, an a man could light on them,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|would take her with all faults, and money enough.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I cannot tell, but I had as lief take her dowry with
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|this condition, to be whipped at the high cross
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|every morning.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|apples. But come, since this bar in law makes us
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|friends, it shall be so far forth friendly
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|maintained all by helping Baptista's eldest daughter
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|to a husband we set his youngest free for a husband,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|and then have to't a fresh. Sweet Bianca! Happy man
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|How say you, Signior Gremio?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I am agreed, and would I had given him the best
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|thoroughly woo her, wed her and bed her and rid the
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|house of her! Come on.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Exeunt GREMIO and HORTENSIO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That love should of a sudden take such hold?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|O Tranio, till I found it to be true,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I never thought it possible or likely,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|But see, while idly I stood looking on,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I found the effect of love in idleness:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And now in plainness do confess to thee,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|That art to me as secret and as dear
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|As Anna to the queen of Carthage was,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|If I achieve not this young modest girl.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Master, it is no time to chide you now,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Affection is not rated from the heart:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|If love have touch'd you, nought remains but so,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Redime te captum quam queas minimo.'
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Gramercies, lad, go forward, this contents:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Master, you look'd so longly on the maid,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Such as the daughter of Agenor had,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|That made great Jove to humble him to her hand.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Saw you no more? mark'd you not how her sister
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Began to scold and raise up such a storm
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And with her breath she did perfume the air:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Nay, then, 'tis time to stir him from his trance.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Her eldest sister is so curst and shrewd
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That till the father rid his hands of her,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Master, your love must live a maid at home,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And therefore has he closely mew'd her up,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he!
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|But art thou not advised, he took some care
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Ay, marry, am I, sir, and now 'tis plotted.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I have it, Tranio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Master, for my hand,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Both our inventions meet and jump in one.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tell me thine first.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|You will be schoolmaster
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And undertake the teaching of the maid:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That's your device.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|It is: may it be done?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Not possible, for who shall bear your part,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And be in Padua here Vincentio's son,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Visit his countrymen and banquet them?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Basta, content thee, for I have it full.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|We have not yet been seen in any house,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Nor can we lie distinguish'd by our faces
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|For man or master, then it follows thus,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Keep house and port and servants as I should:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I will some other be, some Florentine,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|'Tis hatch'd and shall be so: Tranio, at once
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Uncase thee, take my colour'd hat and cloak:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|When Biondello comes, he waits on thee,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|So had you need.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And I am tied to be obedient,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|For so your father charged me at our parting,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Be serviceable to my son,' quoth he,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Although I think 'twas in another sense,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I am content to be Lucentio,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Because so well I love Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Here comes the rogue.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Sirrah, where have you been?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Where have I been! Nay, how now! where are you?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your clothes? Or
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|you stolen his? or both? pray, what's the news?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Sirrah, come hither: 'tis no time to jest,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And therefore frame your manners to the time.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Puts my apparel and my countenance on,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And I for my escape have put on his,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|For in a quarrel since I came ashore
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I kill'd a man and fear I was descried:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|While I make way from hence to save my life:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|You understand me?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I, sir! ne'er a whit.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tranio is changed into Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|The better for him: would I were so too!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|But, sirrah, not for my sake, but your master's, I advise
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|When I am alone, why, then I am Tranio,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|But in all places else your master Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Tranio, let's go: one thing more rests, that
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|thyself execute, to make one among these wooers: if
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|thou ask me why, sufficeth, my reasons are both good
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|and weighty.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|The presenters above speak
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|My lord, you nod, you do not mind the play.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely:
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|comes there any more of it?
Taming of the Shrew|Page|My lord, 'tis but begun.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady:
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|would 'twere done!
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|They sit and mark
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|SCENE II. Padua. Before HORTENSIO'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|SLY|Enter PETRUCHIO and his man GRUMIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Verona, for a while I take my leave,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To see my friends in Padua, but of all
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|My best beloved and approved friend,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Hortensio, and I trow this is his house.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Knock, sir! whom should I knock? is there man has
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|rebused your worship?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Knock you here, sir! why, sir, what am I, sir, that
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I should knock you here, sir?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Villain, I say, knock me at this gate
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|you first,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|And then I know after who comes by the worst.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Will it not be?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I'll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|He wrings him by the ears
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Help, masters, help! my master is mad.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter HORTENSIO
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|How now! what's the matter? My old friend Grumio!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|and my good friend Petruchio! How do you all at Verona?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato,' may I say.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|'Alla nostra casa ben venuto, molto honorato signor
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|mio Petruchio.' Rise, Grumio, rise: we will compound
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|this quarrel.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|if this be not a lawful case for me to leave his
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|service, look you, sir, he bid me knock him and rap
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|him soundly, sir: well, was it fit for a servant to
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|use his master so, being perhaps, for aught I see,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|two and thirty, a pip out? Whom would to God I had
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|well knock'd at first, Then had not Grumio come by the worst.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A senseless villain! Good Hortensio,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I bade the rascal knock upon your gate
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And could not get him for my heart to do it.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Knock at the gate! O heavens! Spake you not these
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|words plain, 'Sirrah, knock me here, rap me here,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|knock me well, and knock me soundly'? And come you
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|now with, 'knocking at the gate'?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Petruchio, patience, I am Grumio's pledge:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Such wind as scatters young men through the world,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To seek their fortunes farther than at home
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where small experience grows. But in a few,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Antonio, my father, is deceased,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And I have thrust myself into this maze,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Haply to wive and thrive as best I may:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And so am come abroad to see the world.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour'd wife?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Thou'ldst thank me but a little for my counsel:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And very rich: but thou'rt too much my friend,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And I'll not wish thee to her.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Few words suffice, and therefore, if thou know
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As old as Sibyl and as curst and shrewd
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As are the swelling Adriatic seas:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I come to wive it wealthily in Padua,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|mind is: Why give him gold enough and marry him to
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|a puppet or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne'er
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|as two and fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|so money comes withal.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I will continue that I broach'd in jest.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|With wealth enough and young and beauteous,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Her only fault, and that is faults enough,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Is that she is intolerable curst
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|That, were my state far worser than it is,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Hortensio, peace! thou know'st not gold's effect:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Tell me her father's name and 'tis enough,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For I will board her, though she chide as loud
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Her father is Baptista Minola,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|An affable and courteous gentleman:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Her name is Katharina Minola,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I know her father, though I know not her,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And he knew my deceased father well.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And therefore let me be thus bold with you
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To give you over at this first encounter,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Unless you will accompany me thither.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour lasts.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|O' my word, an she knew him as well as I do, she
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|would think scolding would do little good upon him:
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|she may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so:
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|why, that's nothing, an he begin once, he'll rail in
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|his rope-tricks. I'll tell you what sir, an she
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|her face and so disfigure her with it that she
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|You know him not, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Tarry, Petruchio, I must go with thee,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|For in Baptista's keep my treasure is:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|He hath the jewel of my life in hold,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|His youngest daughter, beautiful Binaca,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And her withholds from me and other more,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Suitors to her and rivals in my love,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Supposing it a thing impossible,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|For those defects I have before rehearsed,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|That ever Katharina will be woo'd,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Therefore this order hath Baptista ta'en,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|That none shall have access unto Bianca
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Till Katharina the curst have got a husband.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Katharina the curst!
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|A title for a maid of all titles the worst.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And offer me disguised in sober robes
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To old Baptista as a schoolmaster
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|That so I may, by this device, at least
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Have leave and leisure to make love to her
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And unsuspected court her by herself.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Here's no knavery! See, to beguile the old folks,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|how the young folks lay their heads together!
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Enter GREMIO, and LUCENTIO disguised
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Master, master, look about you: who goes there, ha?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Peace, Grumio! it is the rival of my love.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Petruchio, stand by a while.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|A proper stripling and an amorous!
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|O, very well, I have perused the note.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Hark you, sir: I'll have them very fairly bound:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|All books of love, see that at any hand,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And see you read no other lectures to her:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|You understand me: over and beside
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Signior Baptista's liberality,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And let me have them very well perfumed
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|For she is sweeter than perfume itself
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|To whom they go to. What will you read to her?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|As for my patron, stand you so assured,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|As firmly as yourself were still in place:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|O this learning, what a thing it is!
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|O this woodcock, what an ass it is!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Peace, sirrah!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Grumio, mum! God save you, Signior Gremio.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I promised to inquire carefully
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And by good fortune I have lighted well
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|On this young man, for learning and behavior
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Fit for her turn, well read in poetry
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|'Tis well, and I have met a gentleman
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Hath promised me to help me to another,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|A fine musician to instruct our mistress,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|So shall I no whit be behind in duty
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Beloved of me, and that my deeds shall prove.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|And that his bags shall prove.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Listen to me, and if you speak me fair,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I'll tell you news indifferent good for either.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Upon agreement from us to his liking,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Will undertake to woo curst Katharina,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|So said, so done, is well.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I know she is an irksome brawling scold:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|No, say'st me so, friend? What countryman?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Born in Verona, old Antonio's son:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|My father dead, my fortune lives for me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And I do hope good days and long to see.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|O sir, such a life, with such a wife, were strange!
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|But if you have a stomach, to't i' God's name:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|You shall have me assisting you in all.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|But will you woo this wild-cat?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Will I live?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Will he woo her? ay, or I'll hang her.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why came I hither but to that intent?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Have I not in my time heard lions roar?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Have I not heard the sea puff'd up with winds
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Have I not in a pitched battle heard
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That gives not half so great a blow to hear
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|For he fears none.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Hortensio, hark:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|This gentleman is happily arrived,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|My mind presumes, for his own good and ours.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I promised we would be contributors
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And bear his charging of wooing, whatsoe'er.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And so we will, provided that he win her.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I would I were as sure of a good dinner.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Enter TRANIO brave, and BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|He that has the two fair daughters: is't he you mean?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Even he, Biondello.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Hark you, sir, you mean not her to--
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Perhaps, him and her, sir: what have you to do?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let's away.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Well begun, Tranio.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Sir, a word ere you go,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And if I be, sir, is it any offence?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|No, if without more words you will get you hence.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|For me as for you?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|But so is not she.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|For what reason, I beseech you?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|For this reason, if you'll know,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|That she's the choice love of Signior Gremio.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Softly, my masters! if you be gentlemen,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Do me this right, hear me with patience.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Baptista is a noble gentleman,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To whom my father is not all unknown,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And were his daughter fairer than she is,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|She may more suitors have and me for one.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Then well one more may fair Bianca have:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And so she shall, Lucentio shall make one,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|What! this gentleman will out-talk us all.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Sir, give him head: I know he'll prove a jade.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Hortensio, to what end are all these words?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|The one as famous for a scolding tongue
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|As is the other for beauteous modesty.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sir, sir, the first's for me, let her go by.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And let it be more than Alcides' twelve.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sir, understand you this of me in sooth:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|The younges t daughter whom you hearken for
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Her father keeps from all access of suitors,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And will not promise her to any man
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Until the elder sister first be wed:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|The younger then is free and not before.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|If it be so, sir, that you are the man
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Must stead us all and me amongst the rest,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And if you break the ice and do this feat,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Achieve the elder, set the younger free
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|For our access, whose hap shall be to have her
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Sir, you say well and well you do conceive,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And since you do profess to be a suitor,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To whom we all rest generally beholding.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And quaff carouses to our mistress' health,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And do as adversaries do in law,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|The motion's good indeed and be it so,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|ACT II
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|SCENE I. Padua. A room in BAPTISTA'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Enter KATHARINA and BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|To make a bondmaid and a slave of me,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|That I disdain: but for these other gawds,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Or what you will command me will I do,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|So well I know my duty to my elders.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Believe me, sister, of all the men alive
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|I never yet beheld that special face
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Which I could fancy more than any other.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|If you affect him, sister, here I swear
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|I'll plead for you myself, but you shall have
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|him.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|O then, belike, you fancy riches more:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|You will have Gremio to keep you fair.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Is it for him you do envy me so?
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Nay then you jest, and now I well perceive
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|You have but jested with me all this while:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|If that be jest, then all the rest was so.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Strikes her
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Enter BAPTISTA
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Why, how now, dame! whence grows this insolence?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Go ply thy needle, meddle not with her.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|For shame, thou helding of a devilish spirit,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|When did she cross thee with a bitter word?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Flies after BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exit BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|She is your treasure, she must have a husband,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And for your love to her lead apes in hell.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Till I can find occasion of revenge.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|But who comes here?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Enter GREMIO, LUCENTIO in the habit of a mean man,  PETRUCHIO, with HORTENSIO as a musician, and TRANIO, with BIONDELLO bearing a lute and books
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Good morrow, neighbour Gremio.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|God save you, gentlemen!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I have a daughter, sir, called Katharina.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|You are too blunt: go to it orderly.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You wrong me, Signior Gremio: give me leave.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That, hearing of her beauty and her wit,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Her affability and bashful modesty,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Her wondrous qualities and mild behavior,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Am bold to show myself a forward guest
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Within your house, to make mine eye the witness
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Of that report which I so oft have heard.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, for an entrance to my entertainment,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I do present you with a man of mine,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Presenting HORTENSIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Cunning in music and the mathematics,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To instruct her fully in those sciences,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Whereof I know she is not ignorant:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Accept of him, or else you do me wrong:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|His name is Licio, born in Mantua.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|You're welcome, sir, and he, for your good sake.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|But for my daughter Katharina, this I know,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|She is not for your turn, the more my grief.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I see you do not mean to part with her,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Or else you like not of my company.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Mistake me not, I speak but as I find.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Whence are you, sir? what may I call your name?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Petruchio is my name, Antonio's son,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A man well known throughout all Italy.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I know him well: you are welcome for his sake.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Let us, that are poor petitioners, speak too:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Baccare! you are marvellous forward.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O, pardon me, Signior Gremio, I would fain be doing.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I doubt it not, sir, but you will curse your
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|wooing. Neighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|that have been more kindly beholding to you than
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|any, freely give unto you this young scholar,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Presenting LUCENTIO
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|that hath been long studying at Rheims, as cunning
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|in Greek, Latin, and other languages, as the other
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|in music and mathematics: his name is Cambio, pray,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|accept his service.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Welcome, good Cambio.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|To TRANIO
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|may I be so bold to know the cause of your coming?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That, being a stranger in this city here,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|In the preferment of the eldest sister.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|This liberty is all that I request,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That, upon knowledge of my parentage,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And free access and favour as the rest:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And, toward the education of your daughters,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I here bestow a simple instrument,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And this small packet of Greek and Latin books:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|If you accept them, then their worth is great.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Lucentio is your name, of whence, I pray?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Of Pisa, sir, son to Vincentio.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|A mighty man of Pisa, by report
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I know him well: you are very welcome, sir,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Take you the lute, and you the set of books,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|You shall go see your pupils presently.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Holla, within!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Enter a Servant
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|To my daughters, and tell them both,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|These are their tutors: bid them use them well.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exit Servant, with LUCENTIO and HORTENSIO, BIONDELLO following
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|We will go walk a little in the orchard,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And so I pray you all to think yourselves.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And every day I cannot come to woo.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You knew my father well, and in him me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Which I have better'd rather than decreased:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What dowry shall I have with her to wife?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|After my death the one half of my lands,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And in possession twenty thousand crowns.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, for that dowry, I'll assure her of
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|In all my lands and leases whatsoever:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That covenants may be kept on either hand.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|That is, her love, for that is all in all.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I am as peremptory as she proud-minded,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And where two raging fires meet together
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|So I to her and so she yields to me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For I am rough and woo not like a babe.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That shake not, though they blow perpetually.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Re-enter HORTENSIO, with his head broke
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|How now, my friend! why dost thou look so pale?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|What, will my daughter prove a good musician?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I think she'll sooner prove a soldier
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Why, no, for she hath broke the lute to me.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|'Frets, call you these?' quoth she, 'I'll fume
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|with them:'
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And, with that word, she struck me on the head,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And through the instrument my pate made way,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And there I stood amazed for a while,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|As on a pillory, looking through the lute,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|While she did call me rascal fiddler
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|As had she studied to misuse me so.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I love her ten times more than e'er I did:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O, how I long to have some chat with her!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Well, go with me and be not so discomfited:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Proceed in practise with my younger daughter,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|She's apt to learn and thankful for good turns.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I pray you do.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt all but PETRUCHIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I will attend her here,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And woo her with some spirit when she comes.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She sings as sweetly as a nightingale:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As morning roses newly wash'd with dew:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Then I'll commend her volubility,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And say she uttereth piercing eloquence:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As though she bid me stay by her a week:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|When I shall ask the banns and when be married.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But here she comes, and now, Petruchio, speak.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter KATHARINA
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Good morrow, Kate, for that's your name, I hear.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|They call me Katharina that do talk of me.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You lie, in faith, for you are call'd plain Kate,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Take this of me, Kate of my consolation,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Moved! in good time: let him that moved you hither
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Remove you hence: I knew you at the first
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|You were a moveable.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, what's a moveable?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|A join'd-stool.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Women are made to bear, and so are you.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|No such jade as you, if me you mean.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Alas! good Kate, I will not burden thee,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For, knowing thee to be but young and light--
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Too light for such a swain as you to catch,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And yet as heavy as my weight should be.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Should be! should--buzz!
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Well ta'en, and like a buzzard.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O slow-wing'd turtle! shall a buzzard take thee?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, come, you wasp, i' faith, you are too angry.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|My remedy is then, to pluck it out.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Who knows not where a wasp does
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|wear his sting? In his tail.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|In his tongue.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Whose tongue?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Good Kate, I am a gentleman.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That I'll try.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|She strikes him
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|So may you lose your arms:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|If you strike me, you are no gentleman,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And if no gentleman, why then no arms.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books!
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|What is your crest? a coxcomb?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|No cock of mine, you crow too like a craven.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, come, Kate, come, you must not look so sour.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|It is my fashion, when I see a crab.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, here's no crab, and therefore look not sour.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|There is, there is.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Then show it me.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Had I a glass, I would.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, you mean my face?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Well aim'd of such a young one.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Yet you are wither'd.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Tis with cares.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I care not.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, hear you, Kate: in sooth you scape not so.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I chafe you, if I tarry: let me go.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|No, not a whit: I find you passing gentle.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And now I find report a very liar,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|With gentle conference, soft and affable.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Is straight and slender and as brown in hue
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As hazel nuts and sweeter than the kernels.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O, let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Did ever Dian so become a grove
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful!
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Where did you study all this goodly speech?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It is extempore, from my mother-wit.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|A witty mother! witless else her son.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Am I not wise?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Yes, keep you warm.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharina, in thy bed:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And therefore, setting all this chat aside,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That you shall be my wife, your dowry 'greed on,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, Will you, nill you, I will marry you.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thou must be married to no man but me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For I am he am born to tame you Kate,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Conformable as other household Kates.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Here comes your father: never make denial,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I must and will have Katharina to my wife.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Re-enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and TRANIO
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|How but well, sir? how but well?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It were impossible I should speed amiss.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Why, how now, daughter Katharina! in your dumps?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Call you me daughter? now, I promise you
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|You have show'd a tender fatherly regard,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To wish me wed to one half lunatic,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|A mad-cup ruffian and a swearing Jack,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|If she be curst, it is for policy,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For she's not froward, but modest as the dove,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She is not hot, but temperate as the morn,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And Roman Lucrece for her chastity:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Hark, Petruchio, she says she'll see thee
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|hang'd first.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Is this your speeding? nay, then, good night our part!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Be patient, gentlemen, I choose her for myself:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That she shall still be curst in company.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|How much she loves me: O, the kindest Kate!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She hung about my neck, and kiss on kiss
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That in a twink she won me to her love.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O, you are novices! 'tis a world to see,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|How tame, when men and women are alone,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Give me thy hand, Kate: I will unto Venice,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I will be sure my Katharina shall be fine.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I know not what to say: but give me your hands,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|God send you joy, Petruchio! 'tis a match.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Amen, say we: we will be witnesses.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I will to Venice, Sunday comes apace:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|We will have rings and things and fine array,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And kiss me, Kate, we will be married o'Sunday.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA severally
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And venture madly on a desperate mart.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|The gain I seek is, quiet in the match.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|But now, Baptists, to your younger daughter:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Now is the day we long have looked for:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And I am one that love Bianca more
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Than words can witness, or your thoughts can guess.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Graybeard, thy love doth freeze.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|But thine doth fry.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Skipper, stand back: 'tis age that nourisheth.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Content you, gentlemen: I will compound this strife:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|That can assure my daughter greatest dower
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Shall have my Bianca's love.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Say, Signior Gremio, What can you assure her?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|First, as you know, my house within the city
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Is richly furnished with plate and gold,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Valance of Venice gold in needlework,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Pewter and brass and all things that belong
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|To house or housekeeping: then, at my farm
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Sixscore fat oxen standing in my stalls,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And all things answerable to this portion.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Myself am struck in years, I must confess,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And if I die to-morrow, this is hers,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|If whilst I live she will be only mine.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That 'only' came well in. Sir, list to me:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I am my father's heir and only son:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|If I may have your daughter to my wife,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I'll leave her houses three or four as good,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Within rich Pisa walls, as any one
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Old Signior Gremio has in Padua,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Besides two thousand ducats by the year
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|What, have I pinch'd you, Signior Gremio?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Two thousand ducats by the year of land!
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|My land amounts not to so much in all:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|That she shall have, besides an argosy
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|That now is lying in Marseilles' road.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|What, have I choked you with an argosy?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Than three great argosies, besides two galliases,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And twelve tight galleys: these I will assure her,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Nay, I have offer'd all, I have no more,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And she can have no more than all I have:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|If you like me, she shall have me and mine.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Why, then the maid is mine from all the world,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|By your firm promise: Gremio is out-vied.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I must confess your offer is the best,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And, let your father make her the assurance,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|She is your own, else, you must pardon me,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|if you should die before him, where's her dower?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That's but a cavil: he is old, I young.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And may not young men die, as well as old?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Well, gentlemen,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I am thus resolved: on Sunday next you know
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|My daughter Katharina is to be married:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Now, on the Sunday following, shall Bianca
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Be bride to you, if you this assurance,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|If not, Signior Gremio:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And so, I take my leave, and thank you both.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Adieu, good neighbour.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Exit BAPTISTA
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Now I fear thee not:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|To give thee all, and in his waning age
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Set foot under thy table: tut, a toy!
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Yet I have faced it with a card of ten.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Tis in my head to do my master good:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I see no reason but supposed Lucentio
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Must get a father, call'd 'supposed Vincentio,'
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And that's a wonder: fathers commonly
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Do get their children, but in this case of wooing,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|ACT III
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|SCENE I. Padua. BAPTISTA'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Enter LUCENTIO, HORTENSIO, and BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Fiddler, forbear, you grow too forward, sir:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Her sister Katharina welcomed you withal?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|But, wrangling pedant, this is
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|The patroness of heavenly harmony:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Then give me leave to have prerogative,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And when in music we have spent an hour,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Preposterous ass, that never read so far
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|To know the cause why music was ordain'd!
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Was it not to refresh the mind of man
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|After his studies or his usual pain?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Then give me leave to read philosophy,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And while I pause, serve in your harmony.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|To strive for that which resteth in my choice:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|I am no breeching scholar in the schools,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|But learn my lessons as I please myself.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Take you your instrument, play you the whiles,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|His lecture will be done ere you have tuned.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|That will be never: tune your instrument.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Where left we last?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Here, madam:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|'Hic ibat Simois, hic est Sigeia tellus,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis.'
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Construe them.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|'Hic ibat,' as I told you before, 'Simois,' I am
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Lucentio, 'hic est,' son unto Vincentio of Pisa,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|'Sigeia tellus,' disguised thus to get your love,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|'Hic steterat,' and that Lucentio that comes
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|a-wooing, 'Priami,' is my man Tranio, 'regia,'
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|bearing my port, 'celsa senis,' that we might
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|beguile the old pantaloon.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Madam, my instrument's in tune.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Let's hear. O fie! the treble jars.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Now let me see if I can construe it: 'Hic ibat
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Simois,' I know you not, 'hic est Sigeia tellus,' I
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|trust you not, 'Hic steterat Priami,' take heed
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|he hear us not, 'regia,' presume not, 'celsa senis,'
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|despair not.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Madam, 'tis now in tune.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|All but the base.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|The base is right, 'tis the base knave that jars.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Aside
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|How fiery and forward our pedant is!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Mistrust it not: for, sure, AEacides
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Was Ajax, call'd so from his grandfather.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|I must believe my master, else, I promise you,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|I should be arguing still upon that doubt:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|But let it rest. Now, Licio, to you:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Good masters, take it not unkindly, pray,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|That I have been thus pleasant with you both.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|You may go walk, and give me leave a while:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|My lessons make no music in three parts.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Are you so formal, sir? well, I must wait,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Aside
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And watch withal, for, but I be deceived,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Our fine musician groweth amorous.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Madam, before you touch the instrument,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To learn the order of my fingering,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I must begin with rudiments of art,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|More pleasant, pithy and effectual,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Than hath been taught by any of my trade:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And there it is in writing, fairly drawn.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Why, I am past my gamut long ago.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|[Reads]  ''Gamut' I am, the ground of all accord,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|'A re,' to Plead Hortensio's passion,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|'B mi,' Bianca, take him for thy lord,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|'C fa ut,' that loves with all affection:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|'D sol re,' one clef, two notes have I:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|'E la mi,' show pity, or I die.'
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Call you this gamut? tut, I like it not:
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Old fashions please me best, I am not so nice,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|To change true rules for old inventions.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Enter a Servant
Taming of the Shrew|Servant|Mistress, your father prays you leave your books
Taming of the Shrew|Servant|And help to dress your sister's chamber up:
Taming of the Shrew|Servant|You know to-morrow is the wedding-day.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Farewell, sweet masters both, I must be gone.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Exeunt BIANCA and Servant
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|But I have cause to pry into this pedant:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Methinks he looks as though he were in love:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Seize thee that list: if once I find thee ranging,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|SCENE II. Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, TRANIO, KATHARINA, BIANCA, LUCENTIO, and others, attendants
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|[To TRANIO]  Signior Lucentio, this is the
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|'pointed day.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|That Katharina and Petruchio should be married,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|What will be said? what mockery will it be,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|To want the bridegroom when the priest attends
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|No shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forced
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To give my hand opposed against my heart
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And, to be noted for a merry man,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Make feasts, invite friends, and proclaim the banns,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Now must the world point at poor Katharina,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And say, 'Lo, there is mad Petruchio's wife,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|If it would please him come and marry her!'
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Patience, good Katharina, and Baptista too.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Whatever fortune stays him from his word:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Would Katharina had never seen him though!
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Exit weeping, followed by BIANCA and others
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Go, girl, I cannot blame thee now to weep,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|For such an injury would vex a very saint,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Master, master! news, old news, and such news as
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|you never heard of!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Is it new and old too? how may that be?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Why, is it not news, to hear of Petruchio's coming?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Is he come?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Why, no, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|What then?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|He is coming.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|When will he be here?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|When he stands where I am and sees you there.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|But say, what to thine old news?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned, a pair
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|another laced, an old rusty sword ta'en out of the
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|town-armory, with a broken hilt, and chapeless,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|with two broken points: his horse hipped with an
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|besides, possessed with the glanders and like to mose
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|in the chine, troubled with the lampass, infected
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the fives,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|near-legged before and with, a half-chequed bit
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|and a head-stall of sheeps leather which, being
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|often burst and now repaired with knots, one girth
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|six time pieced and a woman's crupper of velure,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|which hath two letters for her name fairly set down
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Who comes with him?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|like the horse, with a linen stock on one leg and a
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|and blue list, an old hat and 'the humour of forty
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|fancies' pricked in't for a feather: a monster, a
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|footboy or a gentleman's lackey.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-apparell'd.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Why, sir, he comes not.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Didst thou not say he comes?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Who? that Petruchio came?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Ay, that Petruchio came.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|No, sir, I say his horse comes, with him on his back.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Why, that's all one.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Nay, by Saint Jamy,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I hold you a penny,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|A horse and a man
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Is more than one,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|And yet not many.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Enter PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, where be these gallants? who's at home?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|You are welcome, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And yet I come not well.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And yet you halt not.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Not so well apparell'd
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|As I wish you were.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Were it better, I should rush in thus.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But where is Kate? where is my lovely bride?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And wherefore gaze this goodly company,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As if they saw some wondrous monument,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Some comet or unusual prodigy?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|First were we sad, fearing you would not come,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|An eye-sore to our solemn festival!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And tells us, what occasion of import
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And sent you hither so unlike yourself?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Though in some part enforced to digress,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Which, at more leisure, I will so excuse
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As you shall well be satisfied withal.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But where is Kate? I stay too long from her:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|See not your bride in these unreverent robes:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Go to my chamber, Put on clothes of mine.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Not I, believe me: thus I'll visit her.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|But thus, I trust, you will not marry her.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Good sooth, even thus, therefore ha' done with words:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To me she's married, not unto my clothes:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Could I repair what she will wear in me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As I can change these poor accoutrements,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Twere well for Kate and better for myself.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But what a fool am I to chat with you,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|When I should bid good morrow to my bride,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And seal the title with a lovely kiss!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|He hath some meaning in his mad attire:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|We will persuade him, be it possible,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To put on better ere he go to church.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I'll after him, and see the event of this.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exeunt BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and attendants
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|But to her love concerneth us to add
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Her father's liking: which to bring to pass,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|As I before unparted to your worship,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I am to get a man,--whate'er he be,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|It skills not much. we'll fit him to our turn,--
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And make assurance here in Padua
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Of greater sums than I have promised.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And marry sweet Bianca with consent.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Were it not that my fellow-school-master
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|'Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Which once perform'd, let all the world say no,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That by degrees we mean to look into,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And watch our vantage in this business:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|The narrow-prying father, Minola,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|The quaint musician, amorous Licio,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|All for my master's sake, Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Re-enter GREMIO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Signior Gremio, came you from the church?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|As willingly as e'er I came from school.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|A bridegroom say you? 'tis a groom indeed,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Curster than she? why, 'tis impossible.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Why he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him!
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Should ask, if Katharina should be his wife,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|'Ay, by gogs-wouns,' quoth he, and swore so loud,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|That, all-amazed, the priest let fall the book,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And, as he stoop'd again to take it up,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|That down fell priest and book and book and priest:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|'Now take them up,' quoth he, 'if any list.'
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|What said the wench when he rose again?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Trembled and shook, for why, he stamp'd and swore,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|As if the vicar meant to cozen him.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|But after many ceremonies done,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|He calls for wine: 'A health!' quoth he, as if
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|He had been aboard, carousing to his mates
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|After a storm, quaff'd off the muscadel
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And threw the sops all in the sexton's face,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Having no other reason
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|But that his beard grew thin and hungerly
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|This done, he took the bride about the neck
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|That at the parting all the church did echo:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And I seeing this came thence for very shame,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|And after me, I know, the rout is coming.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Such a mad marriage never was before:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Music
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Re-enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, BIANCA, BAPTISTA, HORTENSIO, GRUMIO, and Train
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I know you think to dine with me to-day,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And have prepared great store of wedding cheer,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But so it is, my haste doth call me hence,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And therefore here I mean to take my leave.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Is't possible you will away to-night?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I must away to-day, before night come:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Make it no wonder, if you knew my business,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You would entreat me rather go than stay.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, honest company, I thank you all,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That have beheld me give away myself
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To this most patient, sweet and virtuous wife:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Dine with my father, drink a health to me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For I must hence, and farewell to you all.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It may not be.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Let me entreat you.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It cannot be.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Let me entreat you.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I am content.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Are you content to stay?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I am content you shall entreat me stay,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Now, if you love me, stay.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Grumio, my horse.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Ay, sir, they be ready: the oats have eaten the horses.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Nay, then,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|No, nor to-morrow, not till I please myself.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|The door is open, sir, there lies your way,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|You may be jogging whiles your boots are green,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That take it on you at the first so roundly.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O Kate, content thee, prithee, be not angry.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I will be angry: what hast thou to do?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Father, be quiet, he shall stay my leisure.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.
Taming of the Shrew|KATARINA|Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner:
Taming of the Shrew|KATARINA|I see a woman may be made a fool,
Taming of the Shrew|KATARINA|If she had not a spirit to resist.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Obey the bride, you that attend on her,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go to the feast, revel and domineer,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I will be master of what is mine own:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She is my goods, my chattels, she is my house,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|My household stuff, my field, my barn,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And here she stands, touch her whoever dare,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I'll bring mine action on the proudest he
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|thee, Kate:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I'll buckler thee against a million.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, and GRUMIO
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Of all mad matches never was the like.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|That, being mad herself, she's madly mated.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Neighbours and friends, though bride and
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|bridegroom wants
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|For to supply the places at the table,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And let Bianca take her sister's room.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|She shall, Lucentio. Come, gentlemen, let's go.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|ACT IV
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|SCENE I. PETRUCHIO'S country house.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Enter GRUMIO
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|man so rayed? was ever man so weary? I am sent
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|before to make a fire, and they are coming after to
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|warm them. Now, were not I a little pot and soon
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth, my
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in my
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|belly, ere I should come by a fire to thaw me: but
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself, for,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|considering the weather, a taller man than I will
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|take cold. Holla, ho! Curtis.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Enter CURTIS
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Who is that calls so coldly?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|A piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou mayst slide
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|but my head and my neck. A fire good Curtis.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|O, ay, Curtis, ay: and therefore fire, fire, cast
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|on no water.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|She was, good Curtis, before this frost: but, thou
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|knowest, winter tames man, woman and beast, for it
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|hath tamed my old master and my new mistress and
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|myself, fellow Curtis.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Am I but three inches? why, thy horn is a foot, and
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|so long am I at the least. But wilt thou make a
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|fire, or shall I complain on thee to our mistress,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|whose hand, she being now at hand, thou shalt soon
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office?
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|I prithee, good Grumio, tell me, how goes the world?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine, and
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|therefore fire: do thy duty, and have thy duty, for
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|my master and mistress are almost frozen to death.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|There's fire ready, and therefore, good Grumio, the news.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Why, 'Jack, boy! ho! boy!' and as much news as
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|will thaw.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Come, you are so full of cony-catching!
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Why, therefore fire, for I have caught extreme cold.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Where's the cook? is supper ready, the house
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|serving-men in their new fustian, their white
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Be the jacks fair within, the jills fair without,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|the carpets laid, and every thing in order?
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|All ready, and therefore, I pray thee, news.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|First, know, my horse is tired, my master and
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|mistress fallen out.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|How?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Out of their saddles into the dirt, and thereby
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|hangs a tale.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Let's ha't, good Grumio.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Lend thine ear.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Here.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|There.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Strikes him
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale: and this
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|listening. Now I begin: Imprimis, we came down a
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress,--
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Both of one horse?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|What's that to thee?
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Why, a horse.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crossed me,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|under her horse, thou shouldst have heard in how
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|with the horse upon her, how he beat me because
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|to pluck him off me, how he swore, how she prayed,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|that never prayed before, how I cried, how the
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|horses ran away, how her bridle was burst, how I
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|lost my crupper, with many things of worthy memory,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|which now shall die in oblivion and thou return
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|unexperienced to thy grave.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|By this reckoning he is more shrew than she.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Ay, and that thou and the proudest of you all shall
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|find when he comes home. But what talk I of this?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Walter, Sugarsop and the rest: let their heads be
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|garters of an indifferent knit: let them curtsy
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|with their left legs and not presume to touch a hair
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|of my master's horse-tail till they kiss their
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|hands. Are they all ready?
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|They are.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Call them forth.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Do you hear, ho? you must meet my master to
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|countenance my mistress.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Why, she hath a face of her own.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Who knows not that?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Thou, it seems, that calls for company to
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|countenance her.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|I call them forth to credit her.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Enter four or five Serving-men
Taming of the Shrew|NATHANIEL|Welcome home, Grumio!
Taming of the Shrew|PHILIP|How now, Grumio!
Taming of the Shrew|JOSEPH|What, Grumio!
Taming of the Shrew|NICHOLAS|Fellow Grumio!
Taming of the Shrew|NATHANIEL|How now, old lad?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Welcome, you,--how now, you,-- what, you,--fellow,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|you,--and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|companions, is all ready, and all things neat?
Taming of the Shrew|NATHANIEL|All things is ready. How near is our master?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|E'en at hand, alighted by this, and therefore be
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|not--Cock's passion, silence! I hear my master.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Enter PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where be these knaves? What, no man at door
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|ALL SERVING-MEN	Here, here, sir, here, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where is the foolish knave I sent before?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Here, sir, as foolish as I was before.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You peasant swain! you whoreson malt-horse drudge!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Did I not bid thee meet me in the park,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|There was no link to colour Peter's hat,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing:
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go, rascals, go, and fetch my supper in.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt Servants
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Singing
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where is the life that late I led--
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where are those--Sit down, Kate, and welcome.--
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sound, sound, sound, sound!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Re-enter Servants with supper
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, when, I say? Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Off with my boots, you rogues! you villains, when?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sings
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It was the friar of orders grey,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As he forth walked on his way:--
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Out, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Take that, and mend the plucking off the other.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Strikes him
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Be merry, Kate. Some water, here, what, ho!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|One, Kate, that you must kiss, and be acquainted with.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where are my slippers? Shall I have some water?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter one with water
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You whoreson villain! will you let it fall?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Strikes him
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Patience, I pray you, 'twas a fault unwilling.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A whoreson beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, Kate, sit down, I know you have a stomach.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Will you give thanks, sweet Kate, or else shall I?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What's this? mutton?
Taming of the Shrew|First Servant|Ay.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Who brought it?
Taming of the Shrew|PETER|I.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Tis burnt, and so is all the meat.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And serve it thus to me that love it not?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Theretake it to you, trenchers, cups, and all,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Throws the meat,  and c. about the stage
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You heedless joltheads and unmanner'd slaves!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, do you grumble? I'll be with you straight.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|The meat was well, if you were so contented.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And I expressly am forbid to touch it,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For it engenders choler, planteth anger,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And better 'twere that both of us did fast,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Be patient, to-morrow 't shall be mended,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, for this night, we'll fast for company:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Re-enter Servants severally
Taming of the Shrew|NATHANIEL|Peter, didst ever see the like?
Taming of the Shrew|PETER|He kills her in her own humour.
Taming of the Shrew|PETER|Re-enter CURTIS
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Where is he?
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her,
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak,
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|And sits as one new-risen from a dream.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Away, away! for he is coming hither.
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|CURTIS|Re-enter PETRUCHIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thus have I politicly begun my reign,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And 'tis my hope to end successfully.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|My falcon now is sharp and passing empty,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For then she never looks upon her lure.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Another way I have to man my haggard,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To make her come and know her keeper's call,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That bate and beat and will not be obedient.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As with the meat, some undeserved fault
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I'll find about the making of the bed,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|This way the coverlet, another way the sheets:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Ay, and amid this hurly I intend
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|That all is done in reverend care of her,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And in conclusion she shall watch all night:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And with the clamour keep her still awake.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Now let him speak: 'tis charity to show.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|SCENE II. Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter TRANIO and HORTENSIO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Is't possible, friend Licio, that Mistress Bianca
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Stand by and mark the manner of his teaching.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Enter BIANCA and LUCENTIO
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Now, mistress, profit you in what you read?
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|What, master, read you? first resolve me that.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I read that I profess, the Art to Love.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Quick proceeders, marry! Now, tell me, I pray,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|You that durst swear at your mistress Bianca
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Loved none in the world so well as Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|O despiteful love! unconstant womankind!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Mistake no more: I am not Licio,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Nor a musician, as I seem to be,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|But one that scorn to live in this disguise,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|For such a one as leaves a gentleman,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And makes a god of such a cullion:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Know, sir, that I am call'd Hortensio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Signior Hortensio, I have often heard
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Of your entire affection to Bianca,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I will with you, if you be so contented,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|See, how they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Never to woo her no more, but do forswear her,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|As one unworthy all the former favours
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|That I have fondly flatter'd her withal.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And here I take the unfeigned oath,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Never to marry with her though she would entreat:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Fie on her! see, how beastly she doth court him!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|For me, that I may surely keep mine oath,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I will be married to a wealthy widow,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And so farewell, Signior Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Shall win my love: and so I take my leave,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|In resolution as I swore before.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|As 'longeth to a lover's blessed case!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And have forsworn you with Hortensio.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Tranio, you jest: but have you both forsworn me?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Mistress, we have.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Then we are rid of Licio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That shall be wood and wedded in a day.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|God give him joy!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Ay, and he'll tame her.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|He says so, Tranio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Faith, he is gone unto the taming-school.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|The taming-school! what, is there such a place?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|O master, master, I have watch'd so long
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|That I am dog-weary: but at last I spied
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|An ancient angel coming down the hill,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Will serve the turn.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|What is he, Biondello?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Master, a mercatante, or a pedant,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I know not what, but format in apparel,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|In gait and countenance surely like a father.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And what of him, Tranio?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|If he be credulous and trust my tale,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And give assurance to Baptista Minola,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|As if he were the right Vincentio
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Take in your love, and then let me alone.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Enter a Pedant
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|God save you, sir!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And you, sir! you are welcome.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Sir, at the farthest for a week or two:
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|But then up farther, and as for as Rome,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|What countryman, I pray?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Of Mantua.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Of Mantua, sir? marry, God forbid!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And come to Padua, careless of your life?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Tis death for any one in Mantua
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Your ships are stay'd at Venice, and the duke,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Tis, marvel, but that you are but newly come,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|You might have heard it else proclaim'd about.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Alas! sir, it is worse for me than so,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|For I have bills for money by exchange
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|From Florence and must here deliver them.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Well, sir, to do you courtesy,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|This will I do, and this I will advise you:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Pisa renowned for grave citizens.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Among them know you one Vincentio?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|I know him not, but I have heard of him,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|A merchant of incomparable wealth.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|He is my father, sir, and, sooth to say,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|[Aside]  As much as an apple doth an oyster,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|and all one.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To save your life in this extremity,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|This favour will I do you for his sake,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And think it not the worst of an your fortunes
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|That you are like to Sir Vincentio.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|His name and credit shall you undertake,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|And in my house you shall be friendly lodged:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Look that you take upon you as you should,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|You understand me, sir: so shall you stay
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Till you have done your business in the city:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|O sir, I do, and will repute you ever
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|The patron of my life and liberty.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Then go with me to make the matter good.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|This, by the way, I let you understand,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|my father is here look'd for every day,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To pass assurance of a dower in marriage
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|In all these circumstances I'll instruct you:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|SCENE III. A room in PETRUCHIO'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Enter KATHARINA and GRUMIO
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|No, no, forsooth, I dare not for my life.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|The more my wrong, the more his spite appears:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|What, did he marry me to famish me?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Beggars, that come unto my father's door,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Upon entreaty have a present aims,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|If not, elsewhere they meet with charity:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|But I, who never knew how to entreat,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Nor never needed that I should entreat,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|With oath kept waking and with brawling fed:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And that which spites me more than all these wants,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|He does it under name of perfect love,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|'Twere deadly sickness or else present death.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I prithee go and get me some repast,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I care not what, so it be wholesome food.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|What say you to a neat's foot?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|'Tis passing good: I prithee let me have it.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I fear it is too choleric a meat.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I like it well: good Grumio, fetch it me.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I cannot tell, I fear 'tis choleric.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|A dish that I do love to feed upon.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Why then, the beef, and let the mustard rest.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Nay then, I will not: you shall have the mustard,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Or else you get no beef of Grumio.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Then both, or one, or any thing thou wilt.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Why then, the mustard without the beef.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Beats him
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That feed'st me with the very name of meat:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That triumph thus upon my misery!
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Go, get thee gone, I say.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Enter PETRUCHIO and HORTENSIO with meat
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Mistress, what cheer?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Faith, as cold as can be.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Here love, thou see'st how diligent I am
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, not a word? Nay, then thou lovest it not,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Here, take away this dish.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I pray you, let it stand.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|The poorest service is repaid with thanks,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I thank you, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Signior Petruchio, fie! you are to blame.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Come, mistress Kate, I'll bear you company.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|[Aside]  Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Much good do it unto thy gentle heart!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Kate, eat apace: and now, my honey love,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Will we return unto thy father's house
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And revel it as bravely as the best,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|With amber bracelets, beads and all this knavery.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter Tailor
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Lay forth the gown.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter Haberdasher
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What news with you, sir?
Taming of the Shrew|Haberdasher|Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, this was moulded on a porringer,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A velvet dish: fie, fie! 'tis lewd and filthy:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Away with it! come, let me have a bigger.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I'll have no bigger: this doth fit the time,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And gentlewomen wear such caps as these
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|When you are gentle, you shall have one too,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And not till then.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|[Aside]  That will not be in haste.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And speak I will, I am no child, no babe:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Your betters have endured me say my mind,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Or else my heart concealing it will break,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And rather than it shall, I will be free
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, thou say'st true, it is a paltry cap,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I love thee well, in that thou likest it not.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Love me or love me not, I like the cap,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And it I will have, or I will have none.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Exit Haberdasher
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thy gown? why, ay: come, tailor, let us see't.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, up and down, carved like an apple-tart?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Like to a censer in a barber's shop:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, what, i' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|[Aside]  I see she's like to have neither cap nor gown.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|You bid me make it orderly and well,
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|According to the fashion and the time.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Marry, and did, but if you be remember'd,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I did not bid you mar it to the time.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go, hop me over every kennel home,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For you shall hop without my custom, sir:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I'll none of it: hence! make your best of it.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I never saw a better-fashion'd gown,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, true, he means to make a puppet of thee.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|She says your worship means to make
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|a puppet of her.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|thou thimble,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou livest!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|Your worship is deceived, the gown is made
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|Just as my master had direction:
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|Grumio gave order how it should be done.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I gave him no order, I gave him the stuff.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|But how did you desire it should be made?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Marry, sir, with needle and thread.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|But did you not request to have it cut?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Thou hast faced many things.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|I have.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Face not me: thou hast braved many men, brave not
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|me, I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|thee, I bid thy master cut out the gown, but I did
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Read it.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|The note lies in's throat, if he say I said so.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|[Reads]  'Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown:'
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|of brown thread: I said a gown.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Proceed.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|[Reads]  'With a small compassed cape:'
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I confess the cape.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|[Reads]  'With a trunk sleeve:'
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I confess two sleeves.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|[Reads]  'The sleeves curiously cut.'
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Ay, there's the villany.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Error i' the bill, sir, error i' the bill.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|sewed up again, and that I'll prove upon thee,
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|This is true that I say: an I had thee
Taming of the Shrew|Tailor|in place where, thou shouldst know it.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|I am for thee straight: take thou the
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|You are i' the right, sir: 'tis for my mistress.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go, take it up unto thy master's use.
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Villain, not for thy life: take up my mistress'
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|gown for thy master's use!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use!
Taming of the Shrew|GRUMIO|O, fie, fie, fie!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|[Aside]  Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go take it hence, be gone, and say no more.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Take no unkindness of his hasty words:
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Away! I say, commend me to thy master.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Exit Tailor
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Well, come, my Kate, we will unto your father's
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Even in these honest mean habiliments:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What is the jay more precious than the lark,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Because his fathers are more beautiful?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Or is the adder better than the eel,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Because his painted skin contents the eye?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O, no, good Kate, neither art thou the worse
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For this poor furniture and mean array.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|if thou account'st it shame. lay it on me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To feast and sport us at thy father's house.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go, call my men, and let us straight to him,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And bring our horses unto Long-lane end,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|There will we mount, and thither walk on foot
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Let's see, I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And well we may come there by dinner-time.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It shall be seven ere I go to horse:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Look, what I speak, or do, or think to do,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You are still crossing it. Sirs, let't alone:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I will not go to-day, and ere I do,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It shall be what o'clock I say it is.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|[Aside]  Why, so this gallant will command the sun.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|SCENE IV. Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Enter TRANIO, and the Pedant dressed like VINCENTIO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Sir, this is the house: please it you that I call?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Ay, what else? and but I be deceived
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Signior Baptista may remember me,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Near twenty years ago, in Genoa,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Tis well, and hold your own, in any case,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|With such austerity as 'longeth to a father.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|I warrant you.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|But, sir, here comes your boy,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|'Twere good he were school'd.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Now do your duty throughly, I advise you:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Tut, fear not me.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I told him that your father was at Venice,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|And that you look'd for him this day in Padua.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Thou'rt a tall fellow: hold thee that to drink.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Here comes Baptista: set your countenance, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Enter BAPTISTA and LUCENTIO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Signior Baptista, you are happily met.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|To the Pedant
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I pray you stand good father to me now,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Give me Bianca for my patrimony.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Soft son!
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Of love between your daughter and himself:
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|And, for the good report I hear of you
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|And for the love he beareth to your daughter
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|And she to him, to stay him not too long,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|I am content, in a good father's care,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|To have him match'd, and if you please to like
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|No worse than I, upon some agreement
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Me shall you find ready and willing
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|With one consent to have her so bestow'd,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|For curious I cannot be with you,
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Sir, pardon me in what I have to say:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Your plainness and your shortness please me well.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Right true it is, your son Lucentio here
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Doth love my daughter and she loveth him,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Or both dissemble deeply their affections:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And therefore, if you say no more than this,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|That like a father you will deal with him
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|The match is made, and all is done:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Your son shall have my daughter with consent.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|We be affied and such assurance ta'en
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|As shall with either part's agreement stand?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Not in my house, Lucentio, for, you know,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants:
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Besides, old Gremio is hearkening still,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And happily we might be interrupted.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Then at my lodging, an it like you:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|There doth my father lie, and there, this night,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|We'll pass the business privately and well.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Send for your daughter by your servant here:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|The worst is this, that, at so slender warning,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|It likes me well. Biondello, hie you home,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And bid Bianca make her ready straight,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And, if you will, tell what hath happened,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Lucentio's father is arrived in Padua,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I pray the gods she may with all my heart!
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Exit BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Welcome! one mess is like to be your cheer:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Come, sir, we will better it in Pisa.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I follow you.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exeunt TRANIO, Pedant, and BAPTISTA
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Re-enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Cambio!
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|What sayest thou, Biondello?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Biondello, what of that?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Faith, nothing, but has left me here behind, to
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I pray thee, moralize them.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Then thus. Baptista is safe, talking with the
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|deceiving father of a deceitful son.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And what of him?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And then?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|The old priest of Saint Luke's church is at your
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|command at all hours.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And what of all this?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I cannot tell, expect they are busied about a
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|counterfeit assurance: take you assurance of her,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|'cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum:' to the
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|church, take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|honest witnesses: If this be not that you look for,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I have no more to say, But bid Bianca farewell for
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|ever and a day.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Hearest thou, Biondello?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|stuff a rabbit, and so may you, sir: and so, adieu,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|sir. My master hath appointed me to go to Saint
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|you come with your appendix.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I may, and will, if she be so contented:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|She will be pleased, then wherefore should I doubt?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|SCENE V. A public road.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO, and Servants
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come on, i' God's name, once more toward our father's.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Or ere I journey to your father's house.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go on, and fetch our horses back again.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Evermore cross'd and cross'd, nothing but cross'd!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Say as he says, or we shall never go.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|An if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I say it is the moon.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I know it is the moon.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|But sun it is not, when you say it is not,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And the moon changes even as your mind.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|What you will have it named, even that it is,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And so it shall be so for Katharina.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Petruchio, go thy ways, the field is won.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And not unluckily against the bias.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But, soft! company is coming here.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter VINCENTIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To VINCENTIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Good morrow, gentle mistress: where away?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Such war of white and red within her cheeks!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As those two eyes become that heavenly face?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|A' will make the man mad, to make a woman of him.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Whither away, or where is thy abode?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Happy the parents of so fair a child,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Happier the man, whom favourable stars
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That have been so bedazzled with the sun
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That everything I look on seemeth green:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Now I perceive thou art a reverend father,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Do, good old grandsire, and withal make known
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Which way thou travellest: if along with us,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|We shall be joyful of thy company.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|That with your strange encounter much amazed me,
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|My name is call'd Vincentio, my dwelling Pisa,
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|And bound I am to Padua, there to visit
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|A son of mine, which long I have not seen.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What is his name?
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Lucentio, gentle sir.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Happily we met, the happier for thy son.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And now by law, as well as reverend age,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I may entitle thee my loving father:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nor be grieved: she is of good esteem,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Her dowery wealthy, and of worthy birth,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Beside, so qualified as may beseem
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|The spouse of any noble gentleman.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Let me embrace with old Vincentio,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And wander we to see thy honest son,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|But is it true? or else is it your pleasure,
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Upon the company you overtake?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I do assure thee, father, so it is.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, go along, and see the truth hereof,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt all but HORTENSIO
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Have to my widow! and if she be froward,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|ACT V
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|SCENE I. Padua. Before LUCENTIO'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|GREMIO discovered. Enter behind BIONDELLO, LUCENTIO, and BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I fly, Biondello: but they may chance to need thee
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|at home, therefore leave us.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Nay, faith, I'll see the church o' your back, and
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|then come back to my master's as soon as I can.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Exeunt LUCENTIO, BIANCA, and BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|I marvel Cambio comes not all this while.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, VINCENTIO, GRUMIO, with Attendants
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sir, here's the door, this is Lucentio's house:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|My father's bears more toward the market-place,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|You shall not choose but drink before you go:
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|I think I shall command your welcome here,
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|And, by all likelihood, some cheer is toward.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Knocks
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|They're busy within, you were best knock louder.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Pedant looks out of the window
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|What's he that knocks as he would beat down the gate?
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|He's within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two, to
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|make merry withal?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Keep your hundred pounds to yourself: he shall
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|need none, so long as I live.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, I told you your son was well beloved in Padua.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Do you hear, sir? To leave frivolous circumstances,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I pray you, tell Signior Lucentio that his father is
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|come from Pisa, and is here at the door to speak with him.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Thou liest: his father is come from Padua and here
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|looking out at the window.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Art thou his father?
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Ay, sir, so his mother says, if I may believe her.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|[To VINCENTIO]  Why, how now, gentleman! why, this
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Lay hands on the villain: I believe a' means to
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|cozen somebody in this city under my countenance.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Re-enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I have seen them in the church together: God send
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|'em good shipping! But who is here? mine old
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|master Vincentio! now we are undone and brought to nothing.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|[Seeing BIONDELLO]
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Come hither, crack-hemp.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Hope I may choose, sir.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Come hither, you rogue. What, have you forgot me?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Forgot you! no, sir: I could not forget you, for I
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|never saw you before in all my life.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|What, you notorious villain, didst thou never see
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|thy master's father, Vincentio?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|What, my old worshipful old master? yes, marry, sir:
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|see where he looks out of the window.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Is't so, indeed.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Beats BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Help, help, help! here's a madman will murder me.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Help, son! help, Signior Baptista!
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Exit from above
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the end of
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|this controversy.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|They retire
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Re-enter Pedant below, TRANIO, BAPTISTA, and Servants
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Sir, what are you that offer to beat my servant?
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|What am I, sir! nay, what are you, sir? O immortal
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|gods! O fine villain! A silken doublet! a velvet
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|hose! a scarlet cloak! and a copatain hat! O, I
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|am undone! I am undone! while I play the good
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|the university.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|How now! what's the matter?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|What, is the man lunatic?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|habit, but your words show you a madman. Why, sir,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|what 'cerns it you if I wear pearl and gold? I
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|thank my good father, I am able to maintain it.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Thy father! O villain! he is a sailmaker in Bergamo.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray, what do
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|you think is his name?
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|His name! as if I knew not his name: I have brought
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|him up ever since he was three years old, and his
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|name is Tranio.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Away, away, mad ass! his name is Lucentio and he is
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|mine only son, and heir to the lands of me, Signior Vincentio.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Lucentio! O, he hath murdered his master! Lay hold
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|on him, I charge you, in the duke's name. O, my
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|son, my son! Tell me, thou villain, where is my son Lucentio?
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Call forth an officer.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Enter one with an Officer
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Carry this mad knave to the gaol. Father Baptista,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|I charge you see that he be forthcoming.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Carry me to the gaol!
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Stay, officer: he shall not go to prison.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Talk not, Signior Gremio: I say he shall go to prison.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|cony-catched in this business: I dare swear this
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|is the right Vincentio.
Taming of the Shrew|Pedant|Swear, if thou darest.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Nay, I dare not swear it.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Away with the dotard! to the gaol with him!
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Thus strangers may be hailed and abused: O
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|monstrous villain!
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Re-enter BIONDELLO, with LUCENTIO and BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|O! we are spoiled and--yonder he is: deny him,
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|forswear him, or else we are all undone.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|[Kneeling]  Pardon, sweet father.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Lives my sweet son?
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Exeunt BIONDELLO, TRANIO, and Pedant, as fast as may be
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Pardon, dear father.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|How hast thou offended?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Where is Lucentio?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Here's Lucentio,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Right son to the right Vincentio,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|While counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Here's packing, with a witness to deceive us all!
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Where is that damned villain Tranio,
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|That faced and braved me in this matter so?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Cambio is changed into Lucentio.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Love wrought these miracles. Bianca's love
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Made me exchange my state with Tranio,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|While he did bear my countenance in the town,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And happily I have arrived at the last
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Unto the wished haven of my bliss.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|What Tranio did, myself enforced him to,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|I'll slit the villain's nose, that would have sent
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|me to the gaol.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|But do you hear, sir? have you married my daughter
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|without asking my good will?
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Fear not, Baptista, we will content you, go to: but
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|I will in, to be revenged for this villany.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|And I, to sound the depth of this knavery.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Look not pale, Bianca, thy father will not frown.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest,
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast.
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Husband, let's follow, to see the end of this ado.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|First kiss me, Kate, and we will.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|What, in the midst of the street?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What, art thou ashamed of me?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|No, sir, God forbid, but ashamed to kiss.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, then let's home again. Come, sirrah, let's away.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Nay, I will give thee a kiss: now pray thee, love, stay.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Better once than never, for never too late.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|SCENE II. Padua. LUCENTIO'S house.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Enter BAPTISTA, VINCENTIO, GREMIO, the Pedant,  LUCENTIO, BIANCA, PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO,  and Widow, TRANIO, BIONDELLO, and GRUMIO the Serving-men with Tranio bringing in a banquet
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|At last, though long, our jarring notes agree:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And time it is, when raging war is done,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|To smile at scapes and perils overblown.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|While I with self-same kindness welcome thine.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Brother Petruchio, sister Katharina,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Feast with the best, and welcome to my house:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|My banquet is to close our stomachs up,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|For now we sit to chat as well as eat.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Padua affords nothing but what is kind.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|For both our sakes, I would that word were true.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Then never trust me, if I be afeard.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|You are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I mean, Hortensio is afeard of you.
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Roundly replied.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Mistress, how mean you that?
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Thus I conceive by him.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|My widow says, thus she conceives her tale.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good widow.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|'He that is giddy thinks the world turns round:'
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I pray you, tell me what you meant by that.
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe:
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|And now you know my meaning,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|A very mean meaning.
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Right, I mean you.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And I am mean indeed, respecting you.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To her, Kate!
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To her, widow!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|That's my office.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Spoke like an officer, ha' to thee, lad!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Drinks to HORTENSIO
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Believe me, sir, they butt together well.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Head, and butt! an hasty-witted body
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Would say your head and butt were head and horn.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|Ay, mistress bride, hath that awaken'd you?
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Ay, but not frighted me, therefore I'll sleep again.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, that you shall not: since you have begun,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Have at you for a bitter jest or two!
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush,
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|And then pursue me as you draw your bow.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|You are welcome all.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Exeunt BIANCA, KATHARINA, and Widow
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|This bird you aim'd at, though you hit her not,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|O, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound,
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|Which runs himself and catches for his master.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A good swift simile, but something currish.
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself:
Taming of the Shrew|TRANIO|'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|O ho, Petruchio! Tranio hits you now.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Confess, confess, hath he not hit you here?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A' has a little gall'd me, I confess,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, as the jest did glance away from me,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Well, I say no: and therefore for assurance
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Let's each one send unto his wife,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And he whose wife is most obedient
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To come at first when he doth send for her,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Shall win the wager which we will propose.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Content. What is the wager?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Twenty crowns.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Twenty crowns!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|But twenty times so much upon my wife.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|A hundred then.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Content.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|A match! 'tis done.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Who shall begin?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|That will I.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|I go.
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Exit
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Son, I'll be your half, Bianca comes.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I'll have no halves, I'll bear it all myself.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Re-enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|How now! what news?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|Sir, my mistress sends you word
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|That she is busy and she cannot come.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|How! she is busy and she cannot come!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Is that an answer?
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Ay, and a kind one too:
Taming of the Shrew|GREMIO|Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I hope better.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|To come to me forthwith.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Exit BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|O, ho! entreat her!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, then she must needs come.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I am afraid, sir,
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Do what you can, yours will not be entreated.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Re-enter BIONDELLO
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Now, where's my wife?
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|She says you have some goodly jest in hand:
Taming of the Shrew|BIONDELLO|She will not come: she bids you come to her.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Worse and worse, she will not come! O vile,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Intolerable, not to be endured!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Say, I command her to come to me.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exit GRUMIO
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|I know her answer.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What?
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|She will not.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Now, by my holidame, here comes Katharina!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Re-enter KATARINA
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|What is your will, sir, that you send for me?
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Where is your sister, and Hortensio's wife?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|They sit conferring by the parlor fire.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Go fetch them hither: if they deny to come.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exit KATHARINA
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|And so it is: I wonder what it bodes.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Marry, peace it bodes, and love and quiet life,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And awful rule and right supremacy,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy?
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Now, fair befal thee, good Petruchio!
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|The wager thou hast won, and I will add
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|Another dowry to another daughter,
Taming of the Shrew|BAPTISTA|For she is changed, as she had never been.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Nay, I will win my wager better yet
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And show more sign of her obedience,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Her new-built virtue and obedience.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|See where she comes and brings your froward wives
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Re-enter KATHARINA, with BIANCA and Widow
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Katharina, that cap of yours becomes you not:
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Off with that bauble, throw it under-foot.
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh,
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Till I be brought to such a silly pass!
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|Fie! what a foolish duty call you this?
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|I would your duty were as foolish too:
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Hath cost me an hundred crowns since supper-time.
Taming of the Shrew|BIANCA|The more fool you, for laying on my duty.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Katharina, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|Come, come, you're mocking: we will have no telling.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come on, I say, and first begin with her.
Taming of the Shrew|Widow|She shall not.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|I say she shall: and first begin with her.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And in no sense is meet or amiable.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And for thy maintenance commits his body
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To painful labour both by sea and land,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And craves no other tribute at thy hands
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|But love, fair looks and true obedience,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Too little payment for so great a debt.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Such duty as the subject owes the prince
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Even such a woman oweth to her husband,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And not obedient to his honest will,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|What is she but a foul contending rebel
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|I am ashamed that women are so simple
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Should well agree with our external parts?
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Come, come, you froward and unable worms!
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|My heart as great, my reason haply more,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|To bandy word for word and frown for frown,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|But now I see our lances are but straws,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|And place your hands below your husband's foot:
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|In token of which duty, if he please,
Taming of the Shrew|KATHARINA|My hand is ready, may it do him ease.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Well, go thy ways, old lad, for thou shalt ha't.
Taming of the Shrew|VINCENTIO|'Tis a good hearing when children are toward.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|But a harsh hearing when women are froward.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Come, Kate, we'll to bed.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|We three are married, but you two are sped.
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|To LUCENTIO
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white,
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|And, being a winner, God give you good night!
Taming of the Shrew|PETRUCHIO|Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA
Taming of the Shrew|HORTENSIO|Now, go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrew.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.
Taming of the Shrew|LUCENTIO|Exeunt
The Tempest|LUCENTIO|ACT I
The Tempest|LUCENTIO|SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise
The Tempest|LUCENTIO|of thunder and lightning heard.
The Tempest|LUCENTIO|Enter a Master and a Boatswain
The Tempest|Master|Boatswain!
The Tempest|Boatswain|Here, master: what cheer?
The Tempest|Master|Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
The Tempest|Master|or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
The Tempest|Master|Exit
The Tempest|Master|Enter Mariners
The Tempest|Boatswain|Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
The Tempest|Boatswain|yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the
The Tempest|Boatswain|master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
The Tempest|Boatswain|if room enough!
The Tempest|Boatswain|Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others
The Tempest|ALONSO|Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?
The Tempest|ALONSO|Play the men.
The Tempest|Boatswain|I pray now, keep below.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Where is the master, boatswain?
The Tempest|Boatswain|Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your
The Tempest|Boatswain|cabins: you do assist the storm.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Nay, good, be patient.
The Tempest|Boatswain|When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
The Tempest|Boatswain|for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
The Tempest|Boatswain|None that I more love than myself. You are a
The Tempest|Boatswain|counsellor, if you can command these elements to
The Tempest|Boatswain|silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
The Tempest|Boatswain|not hand a rope more, use your authority: if you
The Tempest|Boatswain|cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
The Tempest|Boatswain|yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
The Tempest|Boatswain|the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
The Tempest|Boatswain|of our way, I say.
The Tempest|Boatswain|Exit
The Tempest|GONZALO|I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
The Tempest|GONZALO|hath no drowning mark upon him, his complexion is
The Tempest|GONZALO|perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
The Tempest|GONZALO|hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
The Tempest|GONZALO|for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
The Tempest|GONZALO|born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Exeunt
The Tempest|GONZALO|Re-enter Boatswain
The Tempest|Boatswain|Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
The Tempest|Boatswain|her to try with main-course.
The Tempest|Boatswain|A cry within
The Tempest|Boatswain|A plague upon this howling! they are louder than
The Tempest|Boatswain|the weather or our office.
The Tempest|Boatswain|Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO
The Tempest|Boatswain|Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er
The Tempest|Boatswain|and drown? Have you a mind to sink?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|incharitable dog!
The Tempest|Boatswain|Work you then.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!
The Tempest|ANTONIO|We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
The Tempest|GONZALO|I'll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were
The Tempest|GONZALO|no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
The Tempest|GONZALO|unstanched wench.
The Tempest|Boatswain|Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to
The Tempest|Boatswain|sea again, lay her off.
The Tempest|Boatswain|Enter Mariners wet
The Tempest|Mariners|All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!
The Tempest|Boatswain|What, must our mouths be cold?
The Tempest|GONZALO|The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,
The Tempest|GONZALO|For our case is as theirs.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I'm out of patience.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
The Tempest|ANTONIO|This wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie drowning
The Tempest|ANTONIO|The washing of ten tides!
The Tempest|GONZALO|He'll be hang'd yet,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Though every drop of water swear against it
The Tempest|GONZALO|And gape at widest to glut him.
The Tempest|GONZALO|A confused noise within:   'Mercy on us!'--  'We split, we split!'--'Farewell, my wife and  children!'-- 'Farewell, brother!'--'We split, we split, we split!'
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Let's all sink with the king.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Let's take leave of him.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN
The Tempest|GONZALO|Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
The Tempest|GONZALO|acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any
The Tempest|GONZALO|thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain
The Tempest|GONZALO|die a dry death.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Exeunt
The Tempest|GONZALO|SCENE II. The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA
The Tempest|MIRANDA|If by your art, my dearest father, you have
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
The Tempest|MIRANDA|With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Had I been any god of power, I would
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
The Tempest|MIRANDA|It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
The Tempest|MIRANDA|The fraughting souls within her.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Be collected:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
The Tempest|PROSPERO|There's no harm done.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|O, woe the day!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|No harm.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I have done nothing but in care of thee,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And thy no greater father.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|More to know
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Did never meddle with my thoughts.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|'Tis time
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And pluck my magic garment from me. So:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Lays down his mantle
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes, have comfort.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The very virtue of compassion in thee,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I have with such provision in mine art
The Tempest|PROSPERO|So safely ordered that there is no soul--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|No, not so much perdition as an hair
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Betid to any creature in the vessel
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For thou must now know farther.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|You have often
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And left me to a bootless inquisition,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The hour's now come,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The very minute bids thee ope thine ear,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A time before we came unto this cell?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Out three years old.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Certainly, sir, I can.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|By what? by any other house or person?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of any thing the image tell me that
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hath kept with thy remembrance.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|'Tis far off
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And rather like a dream than an assurance
The Tempest|MIRANDA|That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Four or five women once that tended me?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In the dark backward and abysm of time?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|How thou camest here thou mayst.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|But that I do not.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A prince of power.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Sir, are not you my father?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
The Tempest|PROSPERO|She said thou wast my daughter, and thy father
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Was Duke of Milan, and thou his only heir
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And princess no worse issued.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|O the heavens!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|What foul play had we, that we came from thence?
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Or blessed was't we did?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Both, both, my girl:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But blessedly holp hither.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|O, my heart bleeds
The Tempest|MIRANDA|To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of all the world I loved and to him put
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The manage of my state, as at that time
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Through all the signories it was the first
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In dignity, and for the liberal arts
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Without a parallel, those being all my study,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The government I cast upon my brother
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And to my state grew stranger, being transported
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Dost thou attend me?
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Sir, most heedfully.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Being once perfected how to grant suits,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|How to deny them, who to advance and who
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To trash for over-topping, new created
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Or else new form'd 'em, having both the key
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To what tune pleased his ear, that now he was
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|O, good sir, I do.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I pray thee, mark me.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To closeness and the bettering of my mind
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With that which, but by being so retired,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Awaked an evil nature, and my trust,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Like a good parent, did beget of him
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A falsehood in its contrary as great
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As my trust was, which had indeed no limit,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Not only with what my revenue yielded,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But what my power might else exact, like one
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Who having into truth, by telling of it,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Made such a sinner of his memory,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To credit his own lie, he did believe
The Tempest|PROSPERO|He was indeed the duke, out o' the substitution
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And executing the outward face of royalty,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Dost thou hear?
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To have no screen between this part he play'd
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And him he play'd it for, he needs will be
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
The Tempest|PROSPERO|He thinks me now incapable, confederates--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Subject his coronet to his crown and bend
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To most ignoble stooping.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|O the heavens!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Mark his condition and the event, then tell me
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If this might be a brother.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I should sin
The Tempest|MIRANDA|To think but nobly of my grandmother:
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Good wombs have borne bad sons.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Now the condition.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The King of Naples, being an enemy
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Should presently extirpate me and mine
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With all the honours on my brother: whereon,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A treacherous army levied, one midnight
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fated to the purpose did Antonio open
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Me and thy crying self.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Alack, for pity!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I, not remembering how I cried out then,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint
The Tempest|MIRANDA|That wrings mine eyes to't.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hear a little further
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And then I'll bring thee to the present business
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which now's upon's, without the which this story
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Were most impertinent.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Wherefore did they not
The Tempest|MIRANDA|That hour destroy us?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Well demanded, wench:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A mark so bloody on the business, but
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Bore us some leagues to sea, where they prepared
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Nor tackle, sail, nor mast, the very rats
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Did us but loving wrong.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Alack, what trouble
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Was I then to you!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|O, a cherubim
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Under my burthen groan'd, which raised in me
The Tempest|PROSPERO|An undergoing stomach, to bear up
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Against what should ensue.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|How came we ashore?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|By Providence divine.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Some food we had and some fresh water that
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Out of his charity, being then appointed
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Master of this design, did give us, with
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which since have steaded much, so, of his gentleness,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me
The Tempest|PROSPERO|From mine own library with volumes that
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I prize above my dukedom.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Would I might
The Tempest|MIRANDA|But ever see that man!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Now I arise:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Resumes his mantle
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Here in this island we arrived, and here
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Than other princesses can that have more time
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason
The Tempest|MIRANDA|For raising this sea-storm?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Know thus far forth.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Brought to this shore, and by my prescience
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I find my zenith doth depend upon
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A most auspicious star, whose influence
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou art inclined to sleep, 'tis a good dulness,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|MIRANDA sleeps
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Approach, my Ariel, come.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter ARIEL
The Tempest|ARIEL|All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
The Tempest|ARIEL|To answer thy best pleasure, be't to fly,
The Tempest|ARIEL|To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
The Tempest|ARIEL|On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task
The Tempest|ARIEL|Ariel and all his quality.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hast thou, spirit,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?
The Tempest|ARIEL|To every article.
The Tempest|ARIEL|I boarded the king's ship, now on the beak,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
The Tempest|ARIEL|I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,
The Tempest|ARIEL|And burn in many places, on the topmast,
The Tempest|ARIEL|The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors
The Tempest|ARIEL|O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary
The Tempest|ARIEL|And sight-outrunning were not, the fire and cracks
The Tempest|ARIEL|Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
The Tempest|ARIEL|Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Yea, his dread trident shake.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My brave spirit!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Would not infect his reason?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Not a soul
The Tempest|ARIEL|But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
The Tempest|ARIEL|Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
The Tempest|ARIEL|Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
The Tempest|ARIEL|With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
The Tempest|ARIEL|Was the first man that leap'd, cried, 'Hell is empty
The Tempest|ARIEL|And all the devils are here.'
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Why that's my spirit!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But was not this nigh shore?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Close by, my master.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But are they, Ariel, safe?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Not a hair perish'd,
The Tempest|ARIEL|On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
The Tempest|ARIEL|But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
The Tempest|ARIEL|In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.
The Tempest|ARIEL|The king's son have I landed by himself,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
The Tempest|ARIEL|In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
The Tempest|ARIEL|His arms in this sad knot.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of the king's ship
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The mariners say how thou hast disposed
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And all the rest o' the fleet.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Safely in harbour
The Tempest|ARIEL|Is the king's ship, in the deep nook, where once
The Tempest|ARIEL|Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
The Tempest|ARIEL|From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:
The Tempest|ARIEL|The mariners all under hatches stow'd,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,
The Tempest|ARIEL|I have left asleep, and for the rest o' the fleet
The Tempest|ARIEL|Which I dispersed, they all have met again
The Tempest|ARIEL|And are upon the Mediterranean flote,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Bound sadly home for Naples,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd
The Tempest|ARIEL|And his great person perish.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Ariel, thy charge
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|What is the time o' the day?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Past the mid season.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Must by us both be spent most preciously.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Which is not yet perform'd me.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|How now? moody?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|What is't thou canst demand?
The Tempest|ARIEL|My liberty.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Before the time be out? no more!
The Tempest|ARIEL|I prithee,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Remember I have done thee worthy service,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
The Tempest|ARIEL|Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
The Tempest|ARIEL|To bate me a full year.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Dost thou forget
The Tempest|PROSPERO|From what a torment I did free thee?
The Tempest|ARIEL|No.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of the salt deep,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To run upon the sharp wind of the north,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To do me business in the veins o' the earth
The Tempest|PROSPERO|When it is baked with frost.
The Tempest|ARIEL|I do not, sir.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?
The Tempest|ARIEL|No, sir.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou hast. Where was she born? speak, tell me.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Sir, in Argier.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|O, was she so? I must
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Once in a month recount what thou hast been,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To enter human hearing, from Argier,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did
The Tempest|PROSPERO|They would not take her life. Is not this true?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Ay, sir.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|By help of her more potent ministers
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And in her most unmitigable rage,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Into a cloven pine, within which rift
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A dozen years, within which space she died
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Save for the son that she did litter here,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A human shape.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Yes, Caliban her son.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Dull thing, I say so, he, that Caliban
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
The Tempest|PROSPERO|What torment I did find thee in, thy groans
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of ever angry bears: it was a torment
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Could not again undo: it was mine art,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The pine and let thee out.
The Tempest|ARIEL|I thank thee, master.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Pardon, master,
The Tempest|ARIEL|I will be correspondent to command
The Tempest|ARIEL|And do my spiriting gently.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Do so, and after two days
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I will discharge thee.
The Tempest|ARIEL|That's my noble master!
The Tempest|ARIEL|What shall I do? say what, what shall I do?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To no sight but thine and mine, invisible
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To every eyeball else. Go take this shape
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exit ARIEL
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well, Awake!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|The strangeness of your story put
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Heaviness in me.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Shake it off. Come on,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Yields us kind answer.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|'Tis a villain, sir,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I do not love to look on.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But, as 'tis,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fetch in our wood and serves in offices
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou earth, thou! speak.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|[Within]  There's wood enough within.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come, thou tortoise! when?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hark in thine ear.
The Tempest|ARIEL|My lord it shall be done.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Exit
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter CALIBAN
The Tempest|CALIBAN|As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
The Tempest|CALIBAN|With raven's feather from unwholesome fen
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And blister you all o'er!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up, urchins
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|All exercise on thee, thou shalt be pinch'd
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Than bees that made 'em.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I must eat my dinner.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Water with berries in't, and teach me how
The Tempest|CALIBAN|To name the bigger light, and how the less,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Cursed be I that did so! All the charms
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|For I am all the subjects that you have,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me
The Tempest|CALIBAN|In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The Tempest|CALIBAN|The rest o' the island.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou most lying slave,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The honour of my child.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|O ho, O ho! would't had been done!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thou didst prevent me, I had peopled else
The Tempest|CALIBAN|This isle with Calibans.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Abhorred slave,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
The Tempest|PROSPERO|One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
The Tempest|PROSPERO|good natures
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Could not abide to be with, therefore wast thou
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Deservedly confined into this rock,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Who hadst deserved more than a prison.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|You taught me language, and my profit on't
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
The Tempest|CALIBAN|For learning me your language!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hag-seed, hence!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fetch us in fuel, and be quick, thou'rt best,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
The Tempest|PROSPERO|What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|No, pray thee.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Aside
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I must obey: his art is of such power,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|and make a vassal of him.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|So, slave, hence!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exit CALIBAN
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing, FERDINAND following
The Tempest|PROSPERO|ARIEL'S song.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come unto these yellow sands,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And then take hands:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Courtsied when you have and kiss'd
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The wild waves whist,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Foot it featly here and there,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hark, hark!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Burthen [dispersedly, within
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The watch-dogs bark!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Burthen Bow-wow
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hark, hark! I hear
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The strain of strutting chanticleer
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth?
The Tempest|FERDINAND|It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|This music crept by me upon the waters,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Allaying both their fury and my passion
The Tempest|FERDINAND|With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|No, it begins again.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|ARIEL sings
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Full fathom five thy father lies,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Of his bones are coral made,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Those are pearls that were his eyes:
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Nothing of him that doth fade
The Tempest|FERDINAND|But doth suffer a sea-change
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Into something rich and strange.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Burthen Ding-dong
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The ditty does remember my drown'd father.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|This is no mortal business, nor no sound
The Tempest|FERDINAND|That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The fringed curtains of thine eye advance
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And say what thou seest yond.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|What is't? a spirit?
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|No, wench, it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Was in the wreck, and, but he's something stain'd
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And strays about to find 'em.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I might call him
The Tempest|MIRANDA|A thing divine, for nothing natural
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I ever saw so noble.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside] It goes on, I see,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Within two days for this.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Most sure, the goddess
The Tempest|FERDINAND|On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
The Tempest|FERDINAND|May know if you remain upon this island,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And that you will some good instruction give
The Tempest|FERDINAND|How I may bear me here: my prime request,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|If you be maid or no?
The Tempest|MIRANDA|No wonder, sir,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|But certainly a maid.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|My language! heavens!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I am the best of them that speak this speech,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Were I but where 'tis spoken.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|How? the best?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?
The Tempest|FERDINAND|A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
The Tempest|FERDINAND|To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The king my father wreck'd.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Alack, for mercy!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Yes, faith, and all his lords, the Duke of Milan
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And his brave son being twain.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside]	The Duke of Milan
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And his more braver daughter could control thee,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight
The Tempest|PROSPERO|They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I'll set thee free for this.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To FERDINAND
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A word, good sir,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Why speaks my father so ungently? This
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first
The Tempest|MIRANDA|That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father
The Tempest|MIRANDA|To be inclined my way!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|O, if a virgin,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The queen of Naples.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Soft, sir! one word more.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Aside
The Tempest|PROSPERO|They are both in either's powers, but this swift business
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Make the prize light.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To FERDINAND
The Tempest|PROSPERO|One word more, I charge thee
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The name thou owest not, and hast put thyself
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Upon this island as a spy, to win it
The Tempest|PROSPERO|From me, the lord on't.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|No, as I am a man.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
The Tempest|MIRANDA|If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Good things will strive to dwell with't.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Follow me.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Speak not you for him, he's a traitor. Come,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall be
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|No,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I will resist such entertainment till
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Mine enemy has more power.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Draws, and is charmed from moving
The Tempest|MIRANDA|O dear father,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Make not too rash a trial of him, for
The Tempest|MIRANDA|He's gentle and not fearful.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|What? I say,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For I can here disarm thee with this stick
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And make thy weapon drop.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Beseech you, father.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hence! hang not on my garments.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Sir, have pity,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I'll be his surety.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Silence! one word more
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|An advocate for an imposter! hush!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To the most of men this is a Caliban
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And they to him are angels.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|My affections
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Are then most humble, I have no ambition
The Tempest|MIRANDA|To see a goodlier man.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come on, obey:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thy nerves are in their infancy again
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And have no vigour in them.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|So they are,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Might I but through my prison once a day
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Let liberty make use of, space enough
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Have I in such a prison.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside]                It works.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To FERDINAND
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come on.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To FERDINAND
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Follow me.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To ARIEL
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hark what thou else shalt do me.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Be of comfort,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|My father's of a better nature, sir,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Which now came from him.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou shalt be free
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As mountain winds: but then exactly do
The Tempest|PROSPERO|All points of my command.
The Tempest|ARIEL|To the syllable.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come, follow. Speak not for him.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exeunt
The Tempest|PROSPERO|ACT II
The Tempest|PROSPERO|SCENE I. Another part of the island.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others
The Tempest|GONZALO|Beseech you, sir, be merry, you have cause,
The Tempest|GONZALO|So have we all, of joy, for our escape
The Tempest|GONZALO|Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
The Tempest|GONZALO|Is common, every day some sailor's wife,
The Tempest|GONZALO|The masters of some merchant and the merchant
The Tempest|GONZALO|Have just our theme of woe, but for the miracle,
The Tempest|GONZALO|I mean our preservation, few in millions
The Tempest|GONZALO|Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
The Tempest|GONZALO|Our sorrow with our comfort.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Prithee, peace.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|He receives comfort like cold porridge.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|The visitor will not give him o'er so.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Look he's winding up the watch of his wit,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|by and by it will strike.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Sir,--
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|One: tell.
The Tempest|GONZALO|When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Comes to the entertainer--
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|A dollar.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Dolour comes to him, indeed: you
The Tempest|GONZALO|have spoken truer than you purposed.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Therefore, my lord,--
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!
The Tempest|ALONSO|I prithee, spare.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Well, I have done: but yet,--
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|He will be talking.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Which, of he or Adrian, for a good
The Tempest|ANTONIO|wager, first begins to crow?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|The old cock.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|The cockerel.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Done. The wager?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|A laughter.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|A match!
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Though this island seem to be desert,--
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Ha, ha, ha! So, you're paid.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,--
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Yet,--
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Yet,--
The Tempest|ANTONIO|He could not miss't.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate
The Tempest|ADRIAN|temperance.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Temperance was a delicate wench.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Ay, and a subtle, as he most learnedly delivered.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|As if it had lungs and rotten ones.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Here is everything advantageous to life.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|True, save means to live.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Of that there's none, or little.
The Tempest|GONZALO|How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
The Tempest|ANTONIO|The ground indeed is tawny.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|With an eye of green in't.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|He misses not much.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|No, he doth but mistake the truth totally.
The Tempest|GONZALO|But the rarity of it is,--which is indeed almost
The Tempest|GONZALO|beyond credit,--
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|As many vouched rarities are.
The Tempest|GONZALO|That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in
The Tempest|GONZALO|the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and
The Tempest|GONZALO|glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with
The Tempest|GONZALO|salt water.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not
The Tempest|ANTONIO|say he lies?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report
The Tempest|GONZALO|Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we
The Tempest|GONZALO|put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of
The Tempest|GONZALO|the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to
The Tempest|ADRIAN|their queen.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Not since widow Dido's time.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Widow! a pox o' that! How came that widow in?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|widow Dido!
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|how you take it!
The Tempest|ADRIAN|'Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that:
The Tempest|ADRIAN|she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.
The Tempest|GONZALO|This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Carthage?
The Tempest|GONZALO|I assure you, Carthage.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|His word is more than the miraculous harp, he hath
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|raised the wall and houses too.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|What impossible matter will he make easy next?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I think he will carry this island home in his pocket
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|and give it his son for an apple.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring
The Tempest|ANTONIO|forth more islands.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Ay.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Why, in good time.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now
The Tempest|GONZALO|as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage
The Tempest|GONZALO|of your daughter, who is now queen.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And the rarest that e'er came there.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I
The Tempest|GONZALO|wore it? I mean, in a sort.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|That sort was well fished for.
The Tempest|GONZALO|When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?
The Tempest|ALONSO|You cram these words into mine ears against
The Tempest|ALONSO|The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
The Tempest|ALONSO|Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,
The Tempest|ALONSO|My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
The Tempest|ALONSO|Who is so far from Italy removed
The Tempest|ALONSO|I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
The Tempest|ALONSO|Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
The Tempest|ALONSO|Hath made his meal on thee?
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|Sir, he may live:
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|I saw him beat the surges under him,
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|And ride upon their backs, he trod the water,
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|The surge most swoln that met him, his bold head
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|He came alive to land.
The Tempest|ALONSO|No, no, he's gone.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|But rather lose her to an African,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Where she at least is banish'd from your eye,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Prithee, peace.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|By all of us, and the fair soul herself
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|son,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|More widows in them of this business' making
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Than we bring men to comfort them:
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|The fault's your own.
The Tempest|ALONSO|So is the dear'st o' the loss.
The Tempest|GONZALO|My lord Sebastian,
The Tempest|GONZALO|The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
The Tempest|GONZALO|And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,
The Tempest|GONZALO|When you should bring the plaster.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Very well.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And most chirurgeonly.
The Tempest|GONZALO|It is foul weather in us all, good sir,
The Tempest|GONZALO|When you are cloudy.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Foul weather?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Very foul.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--
The Tempest|ANTONIO|He'ld sow't with nettle-seed.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Or docks, or mallows.
The Tempest|GONZALO|And were the king on't, what would I do?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|'Scape being drunk for want of wine.
The Tempest|GONZALO|I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
The Tempest|GONZALO|Execute all things, for no kind of traffic
The Tempest|GONZALO|Would I admit, no name of magistrate,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Letters should not be known, riches, poverty,
The Tempest|GONZALO|And use of service, none, contract, succession,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none,
The Tempest|GONZALO|No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil,
The Tempest|GONZALO|No occupation, all men idle, all,
The Tempest|GONZALO|And women too, but innocent and pure,
The Tempest|GONZALO|No sovereignty,--
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Yet he would be king on't.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
The Tempest|ANTONIO|beginning.
The Tempest|GONZALO|All things in common nature should produce
The Tempest|GONZALO|Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Would I not have, but nature should bring forth,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,
The Tempest|GONZALO|To feed my innocent people.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|No marrying 'mong his subjects?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|None, man, all idle: whores and knaves.
The Tempest|GONZALO|I would with such perfection govern, sir,
The Tempest|GONZALO|To excel the golden age.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|God save his majesty!
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Long live Gonzalo!
The Tempest|GONZALO|And,--do you mark me, sir?
The Tempest|ALONSO|Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.
The Tempest|GONZALO|I do well believe your highness, and
The Tempest|GONZALO|did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,
The Tempest|GONZALO|who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that
The Tempest|GONZALO|they always use to laugh at nothing.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|'Twas you we laughed at.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing
The Tempest|GONZALO|to you: so you may continue and laugh at
The Tempest|GONZALO|nothing still.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|What a blow was there given!
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|An it had not fallen flat-long.
The Tempest|GONZALO|You are gentlemen of brave metal, you would lift
The Tempest|GONZALO|the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue
The Tempest|GONZALO|in it five weeks without changing.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|We would so, and then go a bat-fowling.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Nay, good my lord, be not angry.
The Tempest|GONZALO|No, I warrant you, I will not adventure
The Tempest|GONZALO|my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh
The Tempest|GONZALO|me asleep, for I am very heavy?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Go sleep, and hear us.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO
The Tempest|ALONSO|What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
The Tempest|ALONSO|Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find
The Tempest|ALONSO|They are inclined to do so.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Please you, sir,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|It seldom visits sorrow, when it doth,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|It is a comforter.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|We two, my lord,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Will guard your person while you take your rest,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And watch your safety.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Thank you. Wondrous heavy.
The Tempest|ALONSO|ALONSO sleeps. Exit ARIEL
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|What a strange drowsiness possesses them!
The Tempest|ANTONIO|It is the quality o' the climate.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Why
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Myself disposed to sleep.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Nor I, my spirits are nimble.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|They fell together all, as by consent,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?--No more:--
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And yet me thinks I see it in thy face,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and
The Tempest|ANTONIO|My strong imagination sees a crown
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Dropping upon thy head.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|What, art thou waking?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Do you not hear me speak?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I do, and surely
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|This is a strange repose, to be asleep
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|With eyes wide open, standing, speaking, moving,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|And yet so fast asleep.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Noble Sebastian,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather, wink'st
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Whiles thou art waking.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Thou dost snore distinctly,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|There's meaning in thy snores.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|I am more serious than my custom: you
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Must be so too, if heed me, which to do
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Trebles thee o'er.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Well, I am standing water.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|I'll teach you how to flow.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Do so: to ebb
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Hereditary sloth instructs me.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|O,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|If you but knew how you the purpose cherish
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Most often do so near the bottom run
The Tempest|ANTONIO|By their own fear or sloth.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Prithee, say on:
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|A matter from thee, and a birth indeed
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Which throes thee much to yield.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Thus, sir:
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Who shall be of as little memory
The Tempest|ANTONIO|When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuade,--
The Tempest|ANTONIO|For he's a spirit of persuasion, only
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Professes to persuade,--the king his son's alive,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And he that sleeps here swims.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I have no hope
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|That he's undrown'd.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|O, out of that 'no hope'
The Tempest|ANTONIO|What great hope have you! no hope that way is
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Another way so high a hope that even
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me
The Tempest|ANTONIO|That Ferdinand is drown'd?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|He's gone.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Then, tell me,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Who's the next heir of Naples?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Claribel.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|She that is queen of Tunis, she that dwells
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Ten leagues beyond man's life, she that from Naples
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Can have no note, unless the sun were post--
The Tempest|ANTONIO|The man i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Be rough and razorable, she that--from whom?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And by that destiny to perform an act
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
The Tempest|ANTONIO|In yours and my discharge.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|What stuff is this! how say you?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|So is she heir of Naples, 'twixt which regions
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|There is some space.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|A space whose every cubit
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death
The Tempest|ANTONIO|That now hath seized them, why, they were no worse
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples
The Tempest|ANTONIO|As well as he that sleeps, lords that can prate
The Tempest|ANTONIO|As amply and unnecessarily
The Tempest|ANTONIO|As this Gonzalo, I myself could make
The Tempest|ANTONIO|A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
The Tempest|ANTONIO|The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
The Tempest|ANTONIO|For your advancement! Do you understand me?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Methinks I do.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And how does your content
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Tender your own good fortune?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I remember
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|You did supplant your brother Prospero.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|True:
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And look how well my garments sit upon me,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Much feater than before: my brother's servants
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Were then my fellows, now they are my men.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|But, for your conscience?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Ay, sir, where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
The Tempest|ANTONIO|This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|No better than the earth he lies upon,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|If he were that which now he's like, that's dead,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Can lay to bed for ever, whiles you, doing thus,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|To the perpetual wink for aye might put
The Tempest|ANTONIO|This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|They'll tell the clock to any business that
The Tempest|ANTONIO|We say befits the hour.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Thy case, dear friend,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Shall be my precedent, as thou got'st Milan,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|And I the king shall love thee.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Draw together,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And when I rear my hand, do you the like,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|To fall it on Gonzalo.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|O, but one word.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|They talk apart
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Re-enter ARIEL, invisible
The Tempest|ARIEL|My master through his art foresees the danger
The Tempest|ARIEL|That you, his friend, are in, and sends me forth--
The Tempest|ARIEL|For else his project dies--to keep them living.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Sings in GONZALO's ear
The Tempest|ARIEL|While you here do snoring lie,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Open-eyed conspiracy
The Tempest|ARIEL|His time doth take.
The Tempest|ARIEL|If of life you keep a care,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Shake off slumber, and beware:
The Tempest|ARIEL|Awake, awake!
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Then let us both be sudden.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Now, good angels
The Tempest|GONZALO|Preserve the king.
The Tempest|GONZALO|They wake
The Tempest|ALONSO|Why, how now? ho, awake! Why are you drawn?
The Tempest|ALONSO|Wherefore this ghastly looking?
The Tempest|GONZALO|What's the matter?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Whiles we stood here securing your repose,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Like bulls, or rather lions: did't not wake you?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|It struck mine ear most terribly.
The Tempest|ALONSO|I heard nothing.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Of a whole herd of lions.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Heard you this, Gonzalo?
The Tempest|GONZALO|Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,
The Tempest|GONZALO|And that a strange one too, which did awake me:
The Tempest|GONZALO|I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd,
The Tempest|GONZALO|I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise,
The Tempest|GONZALO|That's verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Or that we quit this place, let's draw our weapons.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Lead off this ground, and let's make further search
The Tempest|ALONSO|For my poor son.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Heavens keep him from these beasts!
The Tempest|GONZALO|For he is, sure, i' the island.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Lead away.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:
The Tempest|ARIEL|So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Exeunt
The Tempest|ARIEL|SCENE II. Another part of the island.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of thunder heard
The Tempest|CALIBAN|All the infections that the sun sucks up
The Tempest|CALIBAN|From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
The Tempest|CALIBAN|By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Out of my way, unless he bid 'em, but
The Tempest|CALIBAN|For every trifle are they set upon me,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Their pricks at my footfall, sometime am I
The Tempest|CALIBAN|All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Do hiss me into madness.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Enter TRINCULO
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Lo, now, lo!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
The Tempest|CALIBAN|For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Perchance he will not mind me.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off
The Tempest|TRINCULO|any weather at all, and another storm brewing,
The Tempest|TRINCULO|I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black
The Tempest|TRINCULO|cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul
The Tempest|TRINCULO|bombard that would shed his liquor. If it
The Tempest|TRINCULO|should thunder as it did before, I know not
The Tempest|TRINCULO|where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot
The Tempest|TRINCULO|choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we
The Tempest|TRINCULO|here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
The Tempest|TRINCULO|he smells like a fish, a very ancient and fish-
The Tempest|TRINCULO|like smell, a kind of not of the newest Poor-
The Tempest|TRINCULO|John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
The Tempest|TRINCULO|as once I was, and had but this fish painted,
The Tempest|TRINCULO|not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
The Tempest|TRINCULO|of silver: there would this monster make a
The Tempest|TRINCULO|man, any strange beast there makes a man:
The Tempest|TRINCULO|when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
The Tempest|TRINCULO|beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like
The Tempest|TRINCULO|arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose
The Tempest|TRINCULO|my opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish,
The Tempest|TRINCULO|but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a
The Tempest|TRINCULO|thunderbolt.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Thunder
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to
The Tempest|TRINCULO|creep under his gaberdine, there is no other
The Tempest|TRINCULO|shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with
The Tempest|TRINCULO|strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the
The Tempest|TRINCULO|dregs of the storm be past.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand
The Tempest|STEPHANO|I shall no more to sea, to sea,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Here shall I die ashore--
The Tempest|STEPHANO|This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
The Tempest|STEPHANO|funeral: well, here's my comfort.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Drinks
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Sings
The Tempest|STEPHANO|The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|The gunner and his mate
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|But none of us cared for Kate,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|For she had a tongue with a tang,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Drinks
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Do not torment me: Oh!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put
The Tempest|STEPHANO|tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I
The Tempest|STEPHANO|have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your
The Tempest|STEPHANO|four legs, for it hath been said, As proper a man as
The Tempest|STEPHANO|ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and it shall be said so again while Stephano
The Tempest|STEPHANO|breathes at's nostrils.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|The spirit torments me, Oh!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who
The Tempest|STEPHANO|hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil
The Tempest|STEPHANO|should he learn our language? I will give him some
The Tempest|STEPHANO|relief, if it be but for that. if I can recover him
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a
The Tempest|STEPHANO|present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Do not torment me, prithee, I'll bring my wood home faster.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|He's in his fit now and does not talk after the
The Tempest|STEPHANO|wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have
The Tempest|STEPHANO|never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his
The Tempest|STEPHANO|fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will
The Tempest|STEPHANO|not take too much for him, he shall pay for him that
The Tempest|STEPHANO|hath him, and that soundly.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thou dost me yet but little hurt, thou wilt anon, I
The Tempest|CALIBAN|know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Come on your ways, open your mouth, here is that
The Tempest|STEPHANO|which will give language to you, cat: open your
The Tempest|STEPHANO|mouth, this will shake your shaking, I can tell you,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend:
The Tempest|STEPHANO|open your chaps again.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|I should know that voice: it should be--but he is
The Tempest|TRINCULO|drowned, and these are devils: O defend me!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|His forward voice now is to speak well of his
The Tempest|STEPHANO|friend, his backward voice is to utter foul speeches
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will
The Tempest|STEPHANO|recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I
The Tempest|STEPHANO|will pour some in thy other mouth.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Stephano!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is
The Tempest|STEPHANO|a devil, and no monster: I will leave him, I have no
The Tempest|STEPHANO|long spoon.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and
The Tempest|TRINCULO|speak to me: for I am Trinculo--be not afeard--thy
The Tempest|TRINCULO|good friend Trinculo.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee
The Tempest|STEPHANO|by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How
The Tempest|STEPHANO|camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can
The Tempest|STEPHANO|he vent Trinculos?
The Tempest|TRINCULO|I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But
The Tempest|TRINCULO|art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art
The Tempest|TRINCULO|not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me
The Tempest|TRINCULO|under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of
The Tempest|TRINCULO|the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Prithee, do not turn me about, my stomach is not constant.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|[Aside]  These be fine things, an if they be
The Tempest|CALIBAN|not sprites.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I will kneel to him.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I
The Tempest|STEPHANO|escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors
The Tempest|STEPHANO|heaved o'erboard, by this bottle, which I made of
The Tempest|STEPHANO|the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was
The Tempest|STEPHANO|cast ashore.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|for the liquor is not earthly.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Here, swear then how thou escapedst.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Swum ashore. man, like a duck: I can swim like a
The Tempest|TRINCULO|duck, I'll be sworn.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a
The Tempest|STEPHANO|duck, thou art made like a goose.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|O Stephano. hast any more of this?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the
The Tempest|STEPHANO|sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|how does thine ague?
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i'
The Tempest|STEPHANO|the moon when time was.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee:
The Tempest|CALIBAN|My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Come, swear to that, kiss the book: I will furnish
The Tempest|STEPHANO|it anon with new contents swear.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!
The Tempest|TRINCULO|I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'
The Tempest|TRINCULO|the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well
The Tempest|TRINCULO|drawn, monster, in good sooth!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|By this light, a most perfidious and drunken
The Tempest|TRINCULO|monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll kiss thy foot, I'll swear myself thy subject.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Come on then, down, and swear.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
The Tempest|TRINCULO|monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my
The Tempest|TRINCULO|heart to beat him,--
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Come, kiss.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll show thee the best springs, I'll pluck thee berries,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thou wondrous man.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Poor drunkard!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how
The Tempest|CALIBAN|To snare the nimble marmoset, I'll bring thee
The Tempest|CALIBAN|To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|I prithee now, lead the way without any more
The Tempest|STEPHANO|talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company
The Tempest|STEPHANO|else being drowned, we will inherit here: here,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and by again.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|[Sings drunkenly]
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Farewell master, farewell, farewell!
The Tempest|TRINCULO|A howling monster: a drunken monster!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|No more dams I'll make for fish
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Nor fetch in firing
The Tempest|CALIBAN|At requiring,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish
The Tempest|CALIBAN|'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Has a new master: get a new man.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|hey-day, freedom!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|O brave monster! Lead the way.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Exeunt
The Tempest|STEPHANO|ACT III
The Tempest|STEPHANO|SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S Cell.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log
The Tempest|FERDINAND|There be some sports are painful, and their labour
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Are nobly undergone and most poor matters
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Point to rich ends. This my mean task
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Would be as heavy to me as odious, but
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And he's composed of harshness. I must remove
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Had never like executor. I forget:
The Tempest|FERDINAND|But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Most busy lest, when I do it.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Enter MIRANDA, and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Alas, now, pray you,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Work not so hard: I would the lightning had
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Is hard at study, pray now, rest yourself,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|He's safe for these three hours.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|O most dear mistress,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The sun will set before I shall discharge
The Tempest|FERDINAND|What I must strive to do.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|If you'll sit down,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I'll carry it to the pile.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|No, precious creature,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Than you should such dishonour undergo,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|While I sit lazy by.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|It would become me
The Tempest|MIRANDA|As well as it does you: and I should do it
The Tempest|MIRANDA|With much more ease, for my good will is to it,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And yours it is against.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Poor worm, thou art infected!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|This visitation shows it.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|You look wearily.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|No, noble mistress,'tis fresh morning with me
The Tempest|FERDINAND|When you are by at night. I do beseech you--
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers--
The Tempest|FERDINAND|What is your name?
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Miranda.--O my father,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I have broke your hest to say so!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Admired Miranda!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Indeed the top of admiration! worth
The Tempest|FERDINAND|What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I have eyed with best regard and many a time
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Have I liked several women, never any
The Tempest|FERDINAND|With so fun soul, but some defect in her
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|So perfect and so peerless, are created
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Of every creature's best!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I do not know
The Tempest|MIRANDA|One of my sex, no woman's face remember,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Save, from my glass, mine own, nor have I seen
The Tempest|MIRANDA|More that I may call men than you, good friend,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And my dear father: how features are abroad,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I am skilless of, but, by my modesty,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Any companion in the world but you,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Nor can imagination form a shape,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Something too wildly and my father's precepts
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I therein do forget.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I am in my condition
The Tempest|FERDINAND|A prince, Miranda, I do think, a king,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I would, not so!--and would no more endure
The Tempest|FERDINAND|This wooden slavery than to suffer
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The very instant that I saw you, did
The Tempest|FERDINAND|My heart fly to your service, there resides,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|To make me slave to it, and for your sake
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Am I this patient log--man.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Do you love me?
The Tempest|FERDINAND|O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And crown what I profess with kind event
The Tempest|FERDINAND|If I speak true! if hollowly, invert
The Tempest|FERDINAND|What best is boded me to mischief! I
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Beyond all limit of what else i' the world
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Do love, prize, honour you.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I am a fool
The Tempest|MIRANDA|To weep at what I am glad of.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fair encounter
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
The Tempest|PROSPERO|On that which breeds between 'em!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Wherefore weep you?
The Tempest|MIRANDA|At mine unworthiness that dare not offer
The Tempest|MIRANDA|What I desire to give, and much less take
The Tempest|MIRANDA|What I shall die to want. But this is trifling,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|I am your wife, if you will marry me,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
The Tempest|MIRANDA|You may deny me, but I'll be your servant,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Whether you will or no.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|My mistress, dearest,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|And I thus humble ever.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|My husband, then?
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Ay, with a heart as willing
The Tempest|FERDINAND|As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And mine, with my heart in't, and now farewell
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Till half an hour hence.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|A thousand thousand!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally
The Tempest|PROSPERO|So glad of this as they I cannot be,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Who are surprised withal, but my rejoicing
The Tempest|PROSPERO|At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For yet ere supper-time must I perform
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Much business appertaining.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exit
The Tempest|PROSPERO|SCENE II. Another part of the island.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Tell not me, when the butt is out, we will drink
The Tempest|STEPHANO|water, not a drop before: therefore bear up, and
The Tempest|STEPHANO|board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
The Tempest|TRINCULO|say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
The Tempest|TRINCULO|of them, if th' other two be brained like us, the
The Tempest|TRINCULO|state totters.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes
The Tempest|STEPHANO|are almost set in thy head.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Where should they be set else? he were a brave
The Tempest|TRINCULO|monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:
The Tempest|STEPHANO|for my part, the sea cannot drown me, I swam, ere I
The Tempest|STEPHANO|could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|monster, or my standard.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Your lieutenant, if you list, he's no standard.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Nor go neither, but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
The Tempest|TRINCULO|nothing neither.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a
The Tempest|STEPHANO|good moon-calf.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll not serve him, he's not valiant.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to
The Tempest|TRINCULO|justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,
The Tempest|TRINCULO|was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much
The Tempest|TRINCULO|sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,
The Tempest|TRINCULO|being but half a fish and half a monster?
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?
The Tempest|TRINCULO|'Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you
The Tempest|STEPHANO|prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's
The Tempest|STEPHANO|my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to
The Tempest|CALIBAN|hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Marry, will I	kneel and repeat it, I will stand,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and so shall Trinculo.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Enter ARIEL, invisible
The Tempest|CALIBAN|As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a
The Tempest|CALIBAN|sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Thou liest.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my
The Tempest|CALIBAN|valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by
The Tempest|STEPHANO|this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Why, I said nothing.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I say, by sorcery he got this isle,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|From me he got it. if thy greatness will
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|But this thing dare not,--
The Tempest|STEPHANO|That's most certain.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|How now shall this be compassed?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Canst thou bring me to the party?
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Thou liest, thou canst not.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
The Tempest|CALIBAN|He shall drink nought but brine, for I'll not show him
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Where the quick freshes are.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Trinculo, run into no further danger:
The Tempest|STEPHANO|interrupt the monster one word further, and,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors
The Tempest|STEPHANO|and make a stock-fish of thee.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther
The Tempest|TRINCULO|off.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Didst thou not say he lied?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Thou liest.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Do I so? take thou that.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Beats TRINCULO
The Tempest|STEPHANO|As you like this, give me the lie another time.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|I did not give the lie. Out o' your
The Tempest|TRINCULO|wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!
The Tempest|TRINCULO|this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on
The Tempest|TRINCULO|your monster, and the devil take your fingers!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Ha, ha, ha!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther
The Tempest|STEPHANO|off.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Beat him enough: after a little time
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I'll beat him too.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Stand farther. Come, proceed.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Having first seized his books, or with a log
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember
The Tempest|CALIBAN|First to possess his books, for without them
The Tempest|CALIBAN|He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
The Tempest|CALIBAN|One spirit to command: they all do hate him
The Tempest|CALIBAN|As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And that most deeply to consider is
The Tempest|CALIBAN|The beauty of his daughter, he himself
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|But only Sycorax my dam and she,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
The Tempest|CALIBAN|As great'st does least.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Is it so brave a lass?
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And bring thee forth brave brood.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I
The Tempest|STEPHANO|will be king and queen--save our graces!--and
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou
The Tempest|STEPHANO|like the plot, Trinculo?
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Excellent.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee, but,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Within this half hour will he be asleep:
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Wilt thou destroy him then?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Ay, on mine honour.
The Tempest|ARIEL|This will I tell my master.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thou makest me merry, I am full of pleasure:
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
The Tempest|CALIBAN|You taught me but while-ere?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any
The Tempest|STEPHANO|reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Sings
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Flout 'em and scout 'em
The Tempest|STEPHANO|And scout 'em and flout 'em
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Thought is free.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|That's not the tune.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe
The Tempest|STEPHANO|What is this same?
The Tempest|TRINCULO|This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture
The Tempest|TRINCULO|of Nobody.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:
The Tempest|STEPHANO|if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|O, forgive me my sins!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Art thou afeard?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|No, monster, not I.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
The Tempest|CALIBAN|That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|The clouds methought would open and show riches
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I cried to dream again.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall
The Tempest|STEPHANO|have my music for nothing.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|When Prospero is destroyed.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|That shall be by and by: I remember the story.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|The sound is going away, let's follow it, and
The Tempest|TRINCULO|after do our work.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Lead, monster, we'll follow. I would I could see
The Tempest|STEPHANO|this tabourer, he lays it on.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Exeunt
The Tempest|TRINCULO|SCENE III. Another part of the island.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others
The Tempest|GONZALO|By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir,
The Tempest|GONZALO|My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed
The Tempest|GONZALO|Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,
The Tempest|GONZALO|I needs must rest me.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
The Tempest|ALONSO|Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
The Tempest|ALONSO|To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
The Tempest|ALONSO|No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd
The Tempest|ALONSO|Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
The Tempest|ALONSO|Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|[Aside to SEBASTIAN]  I am right glad that he's so
The Tempest|ANTONIO|out of hope.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
The Tempest|ANTONIO|That you resolved to effect.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|[Aside to ANTONIO]  The next advantage
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Will we take throughly.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|[Aside to SEBASTIAN]  Let it be to-night,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
The Tempest|ANTONIO|As when they are fresh.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|[Aside to ANTONIO]  I say, to-night: no more.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Solemn and strange music
The Tempest|ALONSO|What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
The Tempest|GONZALO|Marvellous sweet music!
The Tempest|GONZALO|Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several  strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet,  they dance about it with gentle actions of  salutation, and, inviting the King,  and c. to eat, they depart
The Tempest|ALONSO|Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|A living drollery. Now I will believe
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|At this hour reigning there.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|I'll believe both,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And what does else want credit, come to me,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did
The Tempest|ANTONIO|lie,
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Though fools at home condemn 'em.
The Tempest|GONZALO|If in Naples
The Tempest|GONZALO|I should report this now, would they believe me?
The Tempest|GONZALO|If I should say, I saw such islanders--
The Tempest|GONZALO|For, certes, these are people of the island--
The Tempest|GONZALO|Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
The Tempest|GONZALO|Our human generation you shall find
The Tempest|GONZALO|Many, nay, almost any.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside]              Honest lord,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou hast said well, for some of you there present
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Are worse than devils.
The Tempest|ALONSO|I cannot too much muse
The Tempest|ALONSO|Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing,
The Tempest|ALONSO|Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
The Tempest|ALONSO|Of excellent dumb discourse.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside]	Praise in departing.
The Tempest|FRANCISCO|They vanish'd strangely.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|No matter, since
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|They have left their viands behind, for we have stomachs.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Will't please you taste of what is here?
The Tempest|ALONSO|Not I.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Who would believe that there were mountaineers
The Tempest|GONZALO|Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
The Tempest|GONZALO|Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men
The Tempest|GONZALO|Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find
The Tempest|GONZALO|Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
The Tempest|GONZALO|Good warrant of.
The Tempest|ALONSO|I will stand to and feed,
The Tempest|ALONSO|Although my last: no matter, since I feel
The Tempest|ALONSO|The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
The Tempest|ALONSO|Stand to and do as we.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a  harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes
The Tempest|ARIEL|You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
The Tempest|ARIEL|That hath to instrument this lower world
The Tempest|ARIEL|And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea
The Tempest|ARIEL|Hath caused to belch up you, and on this island
The Tempest|ARIEL|Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongst men
The Tempest|ARIEL|Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad,
The Tempest|ARIEL|And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
The Tempest|ARIEL|Their proper selves.
The Tempest|ARIEL|ALONSO, SEBASTIAN  and c. draw their swords
The Tempest|ARIEL|You fools! I and my fellows
The Tempest|ARIEL|Are ministers of Fate: the elements,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
The Tempest|ARIEL|Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
The Tempest|ARIEL|Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
The Tempest|ARIEL|One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers
The Tempest|ARIEL|Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
The Tempest|ARIEL|And will not be uplifted. But remember--
The Tempest|ARIEL|For that's my business to you--that you three
The Tempest|ARIEL|From Milan did supplant good Prospero,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The Tempest|ARIEL|The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
The Tempest|ARIEL|Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
The Tempest|ARIEL|They have bereft, and do pronounce by me:
The Tempest|ARIEL|Lingering perdition, worse than any death
The Tempest|ARIEL|Can be at once, shall step by step attend
The Tempest|ARIEL|You and your ways, whose wraths to guard you from--
The Tempest|ARIEL|Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
The Tempest|ARIEL|Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow
The Tempest|ARIEL|And a clear life ensuing.
The Tempest|ARIEL|He vanishes in thunder, then, to soft music  enter the Shapes again, and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Perform'd, my Ariel, a grace it had, devouring:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And observation strange, my meaner ministers
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And these mine enemies are all knit up
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In their distractions, they now are in my power,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And his and mine loved darling.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exit above
The Tempest|GONZALO|I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you
The Tempest|GONZALO|In this strange stare?
The Tempest|ALONSO|O, it is monstrous, monstrous:
The Tempest|ALONSO|Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
The Tempest|ALONSO|The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
The Tempest|ALONSO|That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
The Tempest|ALONSO|The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and
The Tempest|ALONSO|I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
The Tempest|ALONSO|And with him there lie mudded.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Exit
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|But one fiend at a time,
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|I'll fight their legions o'er.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|I'll be thy second.
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Exeunt SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO
The Tempest|GONZALO|All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Like poison given to work a great time after,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
The Tempest|GONZALO|That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
The Tempest|GONZALO|And hinder them from what this ecstasy
The Tempest|GONZALO|May now provoke them to.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Follow, I pray you.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Exeunt
The Tempest|ADRIAN|ACT IV
The Tempest|ADRIAN|SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.
The Tempest|ADRIAN|Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If I have too austerely punish'd you,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Your compensation makes amends, for I
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Have given you here a third of mine own life,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Or that for which I live, who once again
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Were but my trials of thy love and thou
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And make it halt behind her.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I do believe it
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Against an oracle.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Worthily purchased take my daughter: but
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
The Tempest|PROSPERO|All sanctimonious ceremonies may
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With full and holy rite be minister'd,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To make this contract grow: but barren hate,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|As I hope
The Tempest|FERDINAND|For quiet days, fair issue and long life,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Our worser genius can, shall never melt
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Mine honour into lust, to take away
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The edge of that day's celebration
The Tempest|FERDINAND|When I shall think: or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Or Night kept chain'd below.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fairly spoke.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Sit then and talk with her, she is thine own.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter ARIEL
The Tempest|ARIEL|What would my potent master? here I am.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Did worthily perform, and I must use you
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Incite them to quick motion, for I must
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And they expect it from me.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Presently?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Ay, with a twink.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Before you can say 'come' and 'go,'
The Tempest|ARIEL|And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,'
The Tempest|ARIEL|Each one, tripping on his toe,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Will be here with mop and mow.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Do you love me, master? no?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Dearly my delicate Ariel. Do not approach
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Till thou dost hear me call.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Well, I conceive.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Exit
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Look thou be true, do not give dalliance
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Or else, good night your vow!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I warrant you sir,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|The white cold virgin snow upon my heart
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Abates the ardour of my liver.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Well.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|No tongue! all eyes! be silent.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Soft music
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter IRIS
The Tempest|IRIS|Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
The Tempest|IRIS|Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease,
The Tempest|IRIS|Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
The Tempest|IRIS|And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep,
The Tempest|IRIS|Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
The Tempest|IRIS|Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
The Tempest|IRIS|To make cold nymphs chaste crowns, and thy broom -groves,
The Tempest|IRIS|Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
The Tempest|IRIS|Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard,
The Tempest|IRIS|And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
The Tempest|IRIS|Where thou thyself dost air,--the queen o' the sky,
The Tempest|IRIS|Whose watery arch and messenger am I,
The Tempest|IRIS|Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,
The Tempest|IRIS|Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
The Tempest|IRIS|To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain:
The Tempest|IRIS|Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.
The Tempest|IRIS|Enter CERES
The Tempest|CERES|Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er
The Tempest|CERES|Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter,
The Tempest|CERES|Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
The Tempest|CERES|Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,
The Tempest|CERES|And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
The Tempest|CERES|My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down,
The Tempest|CERES|Rich scarf to my proud earth, why hath thy queen
The Tempest|CERES|Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?
The Tempest|IRIS|A contract of true love to celebrate,
The Tempest|IRIS|And some donation freely to estate
The Tempest|IRIS|On the blest lovers.
The Tempest|CERES|Tell me, heavenly bow,
The Tempest|CERES|If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
The Tempest|CERES|Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The Tempest|CERES|The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
The Tempest|CERES|Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
The Tempest|CERES|I have forsworn.
The Tempest|IRIS|Of her society
The Tempest|IRIS|Be not afraid: I met her deity
The Tempest|IRIS|Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son
The Tempest|IRIS|Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done
The Tempest|IRIS|Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
The Tempest|IRIS|Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid
The Tempest|IRIS|Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but vain,
The Tempest|IRIS|Mars's hot minion is returned again,
The Tempest|IRIS|Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
The Tempest|IRIS|Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows
The Tempest|IRIS|And be a boy right out.
The Tempest|CERES|High'st queen of state,
The Tempest|CERES|Great Juno, comes, I know her by her gait.
The Tempest|CERES|Enter JUNO
The Tempest|JUNO|How does my bounteous sister? Go with me
The Tempest|JUNO|To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be
The Tempest|JUNO|And honour'd in their issue.
The Tempest|JUNO|They sing:
The Tempest|JUNO|Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
The Tempest|JUNO|Long continuance, and increasing,
The Tempest|JUNO|Hourly joys be still upon you!
The Tempest|JUNO|Juno sings her blessings upon you.
The Tempest|CERES|Earth's increase, foison plenty,
The Tempest|CERES|Barns and garners never empty,
The Tempest|CERES|Vines and clustering bunches growing,
The Tempest|CERES|Plants with goodly burthen bowing,
The Tempest|CERES|Spring come to you at the farthest
The Tempest|CERES|In the very end of harvest!
The Tempest|CERES|Scarcity and want shall shun you,
The Tempest|CERES|Ceres' blessing so is on you.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|This is a most majestic vision, and
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Harmoniously charmingly. May I be bold
The Tempest|FERDINAND|To think these spirits?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Spirits, which by mine art
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I have from their confines call'd to enact
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My present fancies.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Let me live here ever,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|So rare a wonder'd father and a wife
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Makes this place Paradise.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employment
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Sweet, now, silence!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Juno and Ceres whisper seriously,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Or else our spell is marr'd.
The Tempest|IRIS|You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks,
The Tempest|IRIS|With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,
The Tempest|IRIS|Leave your crisp channels and on this green land
The Tempest|IRIS|Answer your summons, Juno does command:
The Tempest|IRIS|Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
The Tempest|IRIS|A contract of true love, be not too late.
The Tempest|IRIS|Enter certain Nymphs
The Tempest|IRIS|You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
The Tempest|IRIS|Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
The Tempest|IRIS|Make holiday, your rye-straw hats put on
The Tempest|IRIS|And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
The Tempest|IRIS|In country footing.
The Tempest|IRIS|Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they  join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance,  towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts  suddenly, and speaks, after which, to a  strange, hollow, and confused noise, they heavily vanish
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside]  I had forgot that foul conspiracy
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of the beast Caliban and his confederates
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Against my life: the minute of their plot
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Is almost come.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To the Spirits
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Well done! avoid, no more!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|This is strange: your father's in some passion
The Tempest|FERDINAND|That works him strongly.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Never till this day
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As I foretold you, were all spirits and
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Are melted into air, into thin air:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As dreams are made on, and our little life
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Bear with my weakness, my, brain is troubled:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|If you be pleased, retire into my cell
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To still my beating mind.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|We wish your peace.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Exeunt
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter ARIEL
The Tempest|ARIEL|Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Spirit,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|We must prepare to meet with Caliban.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,
The Tempest|ARIEL|I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd
The Tempest|ARIEL|Lest I might anger thee.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?
The Tempest|ARIEL|I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking,
The Tempest|ARIEL|So fun of valour that they smote the air
The Tempest|ARIEL|For breathing in their faces, beat the ground
The Tempest|ARIEL|For kissing of their feet, yet always bending
The Tempest|ARIEL|Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour,
The Tempest|ARIEL|At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
The Tempest|ARIEL|their ears,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
The Tempest|ARIEL|As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears
The Tempest|ARIEL|That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through
The Tempest|ARIEL|Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them
The Tempest|ARIEL|I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,
The Tempest|ARIEL|There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
The Tempest|ARIEL|O'erstunk their feet.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|This was well done, my bird.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For stale to catch these thieves.
The Tempest|ARIEL|I go, I go.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Exit
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Nurture can never stick, on whom my pains,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And as with age his body uglier grows,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Even to roaring.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel,  and c
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come, hang them on this line.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Monster, your fairy, which you say is
The Tempest|STEPHANO|a harmless fairy, has done little better than
The Tempest|STEPHANO|played the Jack with us.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Monster, I do smell all horse-piss, at
The Tempest|TRINCULO|which my nose is in great indignation.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take
The Tempest|STEPHANO|a displeasure against you, look you,--
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Thou wert but a lost monster.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Good my lord, give me thy favour still.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|All's hush'd as midnight yet.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,--
The Tempest|STEPHANO|There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|monster, but an infinite loss.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your
The Tempest|TRINCULO|harmless fairy, monster.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears
The Tempest|STEPHANO|for my labour.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Prithee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Do that good mischief which may make this island
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|For aye thy foot-licker.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look
The Tempest|TRINCULO|what a wardrobe here is for thee!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Let it alone, thou fool, it is but trash.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|O king Stephano!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Put off that gown, Trinculo, by this hand, I'll have
The Tempest|STEPHANO|that gown.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Thy grace shall have it.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|The dropsy drown this fool I what do you mean
The Tempest|CALIBAN|To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And do the murder first: if he awake,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Make us strange stuff.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line,
The Tempest|STEPHANO|is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under
The Tempest|STEPHANO|the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your
The Tempest|STEPHANO|hair and prove a bald jerkin.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|I thank thee for that jest, here's a garment for't:
The Tempest|STEPHANO|wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this
The Tempest|STEPHANO|country. 'Steal by line and level' is an excellent
The Tempest|STEPHANO|pass of pate, there's another garment for't.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and
The Tempest|TRINCULO|away with the rest.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
The Tempest|CALIBAN|With foreheads villanous low.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this
The Tempest|STEPHANO|away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you
The Tempest|STEPHANO|out of my kingdom: go to, carry this.
The Tempest|TRINCULO|And this.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Ay, and this.
The Tempest|STEPHANO|A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits,  in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about, PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hey, Mountain, hey!
The Tempest|ARIEL|Silver I there it goes, Silver!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, are driven out
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Than pard or cat o' mountain.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Hark, they roar!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Follow, and do me service.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exeunt
The Tempest|PROSPERO|ACT V
The Tempest|PROSPERO|SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Now does my project gather to a head:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and time
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?
The Tempest|ARIEL|On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord,
The Tempest|ARIEL|You said our work should cease.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I did say so,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|How fares the king and's followers?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Confined together
The Tempest|ARIEL|In the same fashion as you gave in charge,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Just as you left them, all prisoners, sir,
The Tempest|ARIEL|In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell,
The Tempest|ARIEL|They cannot budge till your release. The king,
The Tempest|ARIEL|His brother and yours, abide all three distracted
The Tempest|ARIEL|And the remainder mourning over them,
The Tempest|ARIEL|Brimful of sorrow and dismay, but chiefly
The Tempest|ARIEL|Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo,'
The Tempest|ARIEL|His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops
The Tempest|ARIEL|From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em
The Tempest|ARIEL|That if you now beheld them, your affections
The Tempest|ARIEL|Would become tender.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Dost thou think so, spirit?
The Tempest|ARIEL|Mine would, sir, were I human.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And mine shall.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Do I take part: the rarer action is
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And they shall be themselves.
The Tempest|ARIEL|I'll fetch them, sir.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Exit
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And ye that on the sands with printless foot
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
The Tempest|PROSPERO|When he comes back, you demi-puppets that
The Tempest|PROSPERO|By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To hear the solemn curfew, by whose aid,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With his own bolt, the strong-based promontory
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The pine and cedar: graves at my command
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth
The Tempest|PROSPERO|By my so potent art. But this rough magic
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I here abjure, and, when I have required
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To work mine end upon their senses that
The Tempest|PROSPERO|This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And deeper than did ever plummet sound
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I'll drown my book.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Solemn music
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a  frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO,  SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner,  attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO   they all  enter the circle which PROSPERO had made,  and there stand charmed, which PROSPERO observing, speaks:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A solemn air and the best comforter
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For you are spell-stopp'd.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And as the morning steals upon the night,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My true preserver, and a loyal sir
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To him you follow'st! I will pay thy graces
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Begins to swell, and the approaching tide
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Will shortly fill the reasonable shore
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That yet looks on me, or would know me Ariel,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I will discase me, and myself present
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou shalt ere long be free.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|ARIEL sings and helps to attire him
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Where the bee sucks. there suck I:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In a cowslip's bell I lie,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|There I couch when owls do cry.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|On the bat's back I do fly
The Tempest|PROSPERO|After summer merrily.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Merrily, merrily shall I live now
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Under the hatches, the master and the boatswain
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Being awake, enforce them to this place,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And presently, I prithee.
The Tempest|ARIEL|I drink the air before me, and return
The Tempest|ARIEL|Or ere your pulse twice beat.
The Tempest|ARIEL|Exit
The Tempest|GONZALO|All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
The Tempest|GONZALO|Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
The Tempest|GONZALO|Out of this fearful country!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Behold, sir king,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For more assurance that a living prince
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And to thee and thy company I bid
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A hearty welcome.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Whether thou best he or no,
The Tempest|ALONSO|Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
The Tempest|ALONSO|As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse
The Tempest|ALONSO|Beats as of flesh and blood, and, since I saw thee,
The Tempest|ALONSO|The affliction of my mind amends, with which,
The Tempest|ALONSO|I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,
The Tempest|ALONSO|An if this be at all, a most strange story.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat
The Tempest|ALONSO|Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero
The Tempest|ALONSO|Be living and be here?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|First, noble friend,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Be measured or confined.
The Tempest|GONZALO|Whether this be
The Tempest|GONZALO|Or be not, I'll not swear.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|You do yet taste
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And justify you traitors: at this time
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I will tell no tales.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|[Aside]  The devil speaks in him.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|No.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thy rankest fault, all of them, and require
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Thou must restore.
The Tempest|ALONSO|If thou be'st Prospero,
The Tempest|ALONSO|Give us particulars of thy preservation,
The Tempest|ALONSO|How thou hast met us here, who three hours since
The Tempest|ALONSO|Were wreck'd upon this shore, where I have lost--
The Tempest|ALONSO|How sharp the point of this remembrance is!--
The Tempest|ALONSO|My dear son Ferdinand.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I am woe for't, sir.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Irreparable is the loss, and patience
The Tempest|ALONSO|Says it is past her cure.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I rather think
The Tempest|PROSPERO|You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For the like loss I have her sovereign aid
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And rest myself content.
The Tempest|ALONSO|You the like loss!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As great to me as late, and, supportable
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Than you may call to comfort you, for I
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Have lost my daughter.
The Tempest|ALONSO|A daughter?
The Tempest|ALONSO|O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,
The Tempest|ALONSO|The king and queen there! that they were, I wish
The Tempest|ALONSO|Myself were mudded in that oozy bed
The Tempest|ALONSO|Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In this last tempest. I perceive these lords
The Tempest|PROSPERO|At this encounter do so much admire
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That they devour their reason and scarce think
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Been justled from your senses, know for certain
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That I am Prospero and that very duke
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To be the lord on't. No more yet of this,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Not a relation for a breakfast nor
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|This cell's my court: here have I few attendants
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My dukedom since you have given me again,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I will requite you with as good a thing,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As much as me my dukedom.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Sweet lord, you play me false.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|No, my dear'st love,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I would not for the world.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|And I would call it, fair play.
The Tempest|ALONSO|If this prove
The Tempest|ALONSO|A vision of the Island, one dear son
The Tempest|ALONSO|Shall I twice lose.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|A most high miracle!
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Though the seas threaten, they are merciful,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I have cursed them without cause.
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Kneels
The Tempest|ALONSO|Now all the blessings
The Tempest|ALONSO|Of a glad father compass thee about!
The Tempest|ALONSO|Arise, and say how thou camest here.
The Tempest|MIRANDA|O, wonder!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|How many goodly creatures are there here!
The Tempest|MIRANDA|How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
The Tempest|MIRANDA|That has such people in't!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|'Tis new to thee.
The Tempest|ALONSO|What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?
The Tempest|ALONSO|Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
The Tempest|ALONSO|Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,
The Tempest|ALONSO|And brought us thus together?
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Sir, she is mortal,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|But by immortal Providence she's mine:
The Tempest|FERDINAND|I chose her when I could not ask my father
The Tempest|FERDINAND|For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Of whom so often I have heard renown,
The Tempest|FERDINAND|But never saw before, of whom I have
The Tempest|FERDINAND|Received a second life, and second father
The Tempest|FERDINAND|This lady makes him to me.
The Tempest|ALONSO|I am hers:
The Tempest|ALONSO|But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
The Tempest|ALONSO|Must ask my child forgiveness!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|There, sir, stop:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Let us not burthen our remembrance with
The Tempest|PROSPERO|A heaviness that's gone.
The Tempest|GONZALO|I have inly wept,
The Tempest|GONZALO|Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you god,
The Tempest|GONZALO|And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
The Tempest|GONZALO|For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
The Tempest|GONZALO|Which brought us hither.
The Tempest|ALONSO|I say, Amen, Gonzalo!
The Tempest|GONZALO|Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
The Tempest|GONZALO|Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
The Tempest|GONZALO|Beyond a common joy, and set it down
The Tempest|GONZALO|With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
The Tempest|GONZALO|Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,
The Tempest|GONZALO|And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
The Tempest|GONZALO|Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
The Tempest|GONZALO|In a poor isle and all of us ourselves
The Tempest|GONZALO|When no man was his own.
The Tempest|ALONSO|[To FERDINAND and MIRANDA]  Give me your hands:
The Tempest|ALONSO|Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
The Tempest|ALONSO|That doth not wish you joy!
The Tempest|GONZALO|Be it so! Amen!
The Tempest|GONZALO|Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following
The Tempest|GONZALO|O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:
The Tempest|GONZALO|I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
The Tempest|GONZALO|This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
The Tempest|GONZALO|That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?
The Tempest|GONZALO|Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?
The Tempest|Boatswain|The best news is, that we have safely found
The Tempest|Boatswain|Our king and company, the next, our ship--
The Tempest|Boatswain|Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split--
The Tempest|Boatswain|Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
The Tempest|Boatswain|We first put out to sea.
The Tempest|ARIEL|[Aside to PROSPERO]  Sir, all this service
The Tempest|ARIEL|Have I done since I went.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside to ARIEL]  My tricksy spirit!
The Tempest|ALONSO|These are not natural events, they strengthen
The Tempest|ALONSO|From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?
The Tempest|Boatswain|If I did think, sir, I were well awake,
The Tempest|Boatswain|I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,
The Tempest|Boatswain|And--how we know not--all clapp'd under hatches,
The Tempest|Boatswain|Where but even now with strange and several noises
The Tempest|Boatswain|Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
The Tempest|Boatswain|And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
The Tempest|Boatswain|We were awaked, straightway, at liberty,
The Tempest|Boatswain|Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
The Tempest|Boatswain|Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master
The Tempest|Boatswain|Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,
The Tempest|Boatswain|Even in a dream, were we divided from them
The Tempest|Boatswain|And were brought moping hither.
The Tempest|ARIEL|[Aside to PROSPERO]          Was't well done?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|[Aside to ARIEL]  Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.
The Tempest|ALONSO|This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod
The Tempest|ALONSO|And there is in this business more than nature
The Tempest|ALONSO|Was ever conduct of: some oracle
The Tempest|ALONSO|Must rectify our knowledge.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Sir, my liege,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Do not infest your mind with beating on
The Tempest|PROSPERO|The strangeness of this business, at pick'd leisure
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which to you shall seem probable, of every
The Tempest|PROSPERO|These happen'd accidents, till when, be cheerful
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And think of each thing well.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Aside to ARIEL
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Come hither, spirit:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Set Caliban and his companions free,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Untie the spell.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exit ARIEL
The Tempest|PROSPERO|How fares my gracious sir?
The Tempest|PROSPERO|There are yet missing of your company
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Some few odd lads that you remember not.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel
The Tempest|STEPHANO|Every man shift for all the rest, and
The Tempest|STEPHANO|let no man take care for himself, for all is
The Tempest|STEPHANO|but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!
The Tempest|TRINCULO|If these be true spies which I wear in my head,
The Tempest|TRINCULO|here's a goodly sight.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
The Tempest|CALIBAN|How fine my master is! I am afraid
The Tempest|CALIBAN|He will chastise me.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Ha, ha!
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|What things are these, my lord Antonio?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Will money buy 'em?
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Very like, one of them
The Tempest|ANTONIO|Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|His mother was a witch, and one so strong
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And deal in her command without her power.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|These three have robb'd me, and this demi-devil--
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To take my life. Two of these fellows you
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Must know and own, this thing of darkness!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Acknowledge mine.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|I shall be pinch'd to death.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|He is drunk now: where had he wine?
The Tempest|ALONSO|And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they
The Tempest|ALONSO|Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?
The Tempest|ALONSO|How camest thou in this pickle?
The Tempest|TRINCULO|I have been in such a pickle since I
The Tempest|TRINCULO|saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of
The Tempest|TRINCULO|my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Why, how now, Stephano!
The Tempest|STEPHANO|O, touch me not, I am not Stephano, but a cramp.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?
The Tempest|STEPHANO|I should have been a sore one then.
The Tempest|ALONSO|This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.
The Tempest|ALONSO|Pointing to Caliban
The Tempest|PROSPERO|He is as disproportion'd in his manners
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Take with you your companions, as you look
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Ay, that I will, and I'll be wise hereafter
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
The Tempest|CALIBAN|Was I, to take this drunkard for a god
The Tempest|CALIBAN|And worship this dull fool!
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Go to, away!
The Tempest|ALONSO|Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Or stole it, rather.
The Tempest|SEBASTIAN|Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Sir, I invite your highness and your train
The Tempest|PROSPERO|To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
The Tempest|PROSPERO|For this one night, which, part of it, I'll waste
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Go quick away, the story of my life
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And the particular accidents gone by
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Since I came to this isle: and in the morn
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Where I have hope to see the nuptial
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Of these our dear-beloved solemnized,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And thence retire me to my Milan, where
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Every third thought shall be my grave.
The Tempest|ALONSO|I long
The Tempest|ALONSO|To hear the story of your life, which must
The Tempest|ALONSO|Take the ear strangely.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I'll deliver all,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And sail so expeditious that shall catch
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Your royal fleet far off.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Aside to ARIEL
The Tempest|PROSPERO|My Ariel, chick,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|That is thy charge: then to the elements
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Exeunt
The Tempest|PROSPERO|EPILOGUE
The Tempest|PROSPERO|SPOKEN BY PROSPERO
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And what strength I have's mine own,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|I must be here confined by you,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Since I have my dukedom got
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
The Tempest|PROSPERO|In this bare island by your spell,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|But release me from my bands
The Tempest|PROSPERO|With the help of your good hands:
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Gentle breath of yours my sails
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Must fill, or else my project fails,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which was to please. Now I want
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|And my ending is despair,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Unless I be relieved by prayer,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Which pierces so that it assaults
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Mercy itself and frees all faults.
The Tempest|PROSPERO|As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
The Tempest|PROSPERO|Let your indulgence set me free.
Timon of Athens|PROSPERO|ACT I
Timon of Athens|PROSPERO|SCENE I. Athens. A hall in Timon's house.
Timon of Athens|PROSPERO|Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and others, at several doors
Timon of Athens|Poet|Good day, sir.
Timon of Athens|Painter|I am glad you're well.
Timon of Athens|Poet|I have not seen you long: how goes the world?
Timon of Athens|Painter|It wears, sir, as it grows.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Ay, that's well known:
Timon of Athens|Poet|But what particular rarity? what strange,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Which manifold record not matches? See,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power
Timon of Athens|Poet|Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant.
Timon of Athens|Painter|I know them both, th' other's a jeweller.
Timon of Athens|Merchant|O, 'tis a worthy lord.
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|Nay, that's most fix'd.
Timon of Athens|Merchant|A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
Timon of Athens|Merchant|To an untirable and continuate goodness:
Timon of Athens|Merchant|He passes.
Timon of Athens|Merchant|Jeweller:	I have a jewel here--
Timon of Athens|Merchant|O, pray, let's see't: for the Lord Timon, sir?
Timon of Athens|Merchant|Jeweller:	If he will touch the estimate: but, for that--
Timon of Athens|Poet|[Reciting to himself]  'When we for recompense have
Timon of Athens|Poet|praised the vile,
Timon of Athens|Poet|It stains the glory in that happy verse
Timon of Athens|Poet|Which aptly sings the good.'
Timon of Athens|Merchant|'Tis a good form.
Timon of Athens|Merchant|Looking at the jewel
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|And rich: here is a water, look ye.
Timon of Athens|Painter|You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication
Timon of Athens|Painter|To the great lord.
Timon of Athens|Poet|A thing slipp'd idly from me.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes
Timon of Athens|Poet|From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i' the flint
Timon of Athens|Poet|Shows not till it be struck, our gentle flame
Timon of Athens|Poet|Provokes itself and like the current flies
Timon of Athens|Poet|Each bound it chafes. What have you there?
Timon of Athens|Painter|A picture, sir. When comes your book forth?
Timon of Athens|Poet|Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Let's see your piece.
Timon of Athens|Painter|'Tis a good piece.
Timon of Athens|Poet|So 'tis: this comes off well and excellent.
Timon of Athens|Painter|Indifferent.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Admirable: how this grace
Timon of Athens|Poet|Speaks his own standing! what a mental power
Timon of Athens|Poet|This eye shoots forth! how big imagination
Timon of Athens|Poet|Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture
Timon of Athens|Poet|One might interpret.
Timon of Athens|Painter|It is a pretty mocking of the life.
Timon of Athens|Painter|Here is a touch, is't good?
Timon of Athens|Poet|I will say of it,
Timon of Athens|Poet|It tutors nature: artificial strife
Timon of Athens|Poet|Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Enter certain Senators, and pass over
Timon of Athens|Painter|How this lord is follow'd!
Timon of Athens|Poet|The senators of Athens: happy man!
Timon of Athens|Painter|Look, more!
Timon of Athens|Poet|You see this confluence, this great flood
Timon of Athens|Poet|of visitors.
Timon of Athens|Poet|I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug
Timon of Athens|Poet|With amplest entertainment: my free drift
Timon of Athens|Poet|Halts not particularly, but moves itself
Timon of Athens|Poet|In a wide sea of wax: no levell'd malice
Timon of Athens|Poet|Infects one comma in the course I hold,
Timon of Athens|Poet|But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Leaving no tract behind.
Timon of Athens|Painter|How shall I understand you?
Timon of Athens|Poet|I will unbolt to you.
Timon of Athens|Poet|You see how all conditions, how all minds,
Timon of Athens|Poet|As well of glib and slippery creatures as
Timon of Athens|Poet|Of grave and austere quality, tender down
Timon of Athens|Poet|Their services to Lord Timon: his large fortune
Timon of Athens|Poet|Upon his good and gracious nature hanging
Timon of Athens|Poet|Subdues and properties to his love and tendance
Timon of Athens|Poet|All sorts of hearts, yea, from the glass-faced flatterer
Timon of Athens|Poet|To Apemantus, that few things loves better
Timon of Athens|Poet|Than to abhor himself: even he drops down
Timon of Athens|Poet|The knee before him, and returns in peace
Timon of Athens|Poet|Most rich in Timon's nod.
Timon of Athens|Painter|I saw them speak together.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Sir, I have upon a high and pleasant hill
Timon of Athens|Poet|Feign'd Fortune to be throned: the base o' the mount
Timon of Athens|Poet|Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures,
Timon of Athens|Poet|That labour on the bosom of this sphere
Timon of Athens|Poet|To propagate their states: amongst them all,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd,
Timon of Athens|Poet|One do I personate of Lord Timon's frame,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Whose present grace to present slaves and servants
Timon of Athens|Poet|Translates his rivals.
Timon of Athens|Painter|'Tis conceived to scope.
Timon of Athens|Painter|This throne, this Fortune, and this hill, methinks,
Timon of Athens|Painter|With one man beckon'd from the rest below,
Timon of Athens|Painter|Bowing his head against the sleepy mount
Timon of Athens|Painter|To climb his happiness, would be well express'd
Timon of Athens|Painter|In our condition.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Nay, sir, but hear me on.
Timon of Athens|Poet|All those which were his fellows but of late,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Some better than his value, on the moment
Timon of Athens|Poet|Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him
Timon of Athens|Poet|Drink the free air.
Timon of Athens|Painter|Ay, marry, what of these?
Timon of Athens|Poet|When Fortune in her shift and change of mood
Timon of Athens|Poet|Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants
Timon of Athens|Poet|Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top
Timon of Athens|Poet|Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Not one accompanying his declining foot.
Timon of Athens|Painter|'Tis common:
Timon of Athens|Painter|A thousand moral paintings I can show
Timon of Athens|Painter|That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
Timon of Athens|Painter|More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well
Timon of Athens|Painter|To show Lord Timon that mean eyes have seen
Timon of Athens|Painter|The foot above the head.
Timon of Athens|Painter|Trumpets sound. Enter TIMON, addressing himself  courteously to every suitor, a Messenger from  VENTIDIUS talking with him, LUCILIUS and other servants following
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Imprison'd is he, say you?
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Ay, my good lord: five talents is his debt,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|His means most short, his creditors most strait:
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Your honourable letter he desires
Timon of Athens|Messenger|To those have shut him up, which failing,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Periods his comfort.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Noble Ventidius! Well,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I am not of that feather to shake off
Timon of Athens|TIMON|My friend when he must need me. I do know him
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A gentleman that well deserves a help:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Which he shall have: I'll pay the debt,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|and free him.
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Your lordship ever binds him.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Commend me to him: I will send his ransom,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And being enfranchised, bid him come to me.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But to support him after. Fare you well.
Timon of Athens|Messenger|All happiness to your honour!
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Exit
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Enter an old Athenian
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Lord Timon, hear me speak.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Freely, good father.
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Thou hast a servant named Lucilius.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I have so: what of him?
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Most noble Timon, call the man before thee.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Attends he here, or no? Lucilius!
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Here, at your lordship's service.
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|By night frequents my house. I am a man
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|That from my first have been inclined to thrift,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|And my estate deserves an heir more raised
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Than one which holds a trencher.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Well, what further?
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|One only daughter have I, no kin else,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|On whom I may confer what I have got:
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a bride,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|And I have bred her at my dearest cost
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|In qualities of the best. This man of thine
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Join with me to forbid him her resort,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Myself have spoke in vain.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The man is honest.
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Therefore he will be, Timon:
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|His honesty rewards him in itself,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|It must not bear my daughter.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Does she love him?
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|She is young and apt:
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Our own precedent passions do instruct us
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|What levity's in youth.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|[To LUCILIUS]           Love you the maid?
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it.
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|If in her marriage my consent be missing,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|I call the gods to witness, I will choose
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|And dispossess her all.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How shall she be endow'd,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|if she be mated with an equal husband?
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Three talents on the present, in future, all.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|This gentleman of mine hath served me long:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To build his fortune I will strain a little,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For 'tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What you bestow, in him I'll counterpoise,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And make him weigh with her.
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Most noble lord,
Timon of Athens|Old Athenian|Pawn me to this your honour, she is his.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|My hand to thee, mine honour on my promise.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Humbly I thank your lordship: never may
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|The state or fortune fall into my keeping,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Which is not owed to you!
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Exeunt LUCILIUS and Old Athenian
Timon of Athens|Poet|Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I thank you, you shall hear from me anon:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Go not away. What have you there, my friend?
Timon of Athens|Painter|A piece of painting, which I do beseech
Timon of Athens|Painter|Your lordship to accept.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Painting is welcome.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The painting is almost the natural man,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|or since dishonour traffics with man's nature,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|He is but outside: these pencill'd figures are
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Even such as they give out. I like your work,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And you shall find I like it: wait attendance
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Till you hear further from me.
Timon of Athens|Painter|The gods preserve ye!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Well fare you, gentleman: give me your hand,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|We must needs dine together. Sir, your jewel
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hath suffer'd under praise.
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|What, my lord! dispraise?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A more satiety of commendations.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If I should pay you for't as 'tis extoll'd,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|It would unclew me quite.
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|My lord, 'tis rated
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|As those which sell would give: but you well know,
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|Things of like value differing in the owners
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|Are prized by their masters: believe't, dear lord,
Timon of Athens|Jeweller|You mend the jewel by the wearing it.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Well mock'd.
Timon of Athens|Merchant|No, my good lord, he speaks the common tongue,
Timon of Athens|Merchant|Which all men speak with him.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Look, who comes here: will you be chid?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter APEMANTUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Jeweller: We'll bear, with your lordship.
Timon of Athens|Merchant|He'll spare none.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Good morrow to thee, gentle Apemantus!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Till I be gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|When thou art Timon's dog, and these knaves honest.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Why dost thou call them knaves? thou know'st them not.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Are they not Athenians?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Yes.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Then I repent not.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Jeweller: You know me, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou know'st I do: I call'd thee by thy name.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou art proud, Apemantus.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Of nothing so much as that I am not like Timon.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whither art going?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To knock out an honest Athenian's brains.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That's a deed thou'lt die for.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Right, if doing nothing be death by the law.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How likest thou this picture, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|The best, for the innocence.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Wrought he not well that painted it?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|He wrought better that made the painter, and yet
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|he's but a filthy piece of work.
Timon of Athens|Painter|You're a dog.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thy mother's of my generation: what's she, if I be a dog?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Wilt dine with me, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|No, I eat not lords.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|An thou shouldst, thou 'ldst anger ladies.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|O, they eat lords, so they come by great bellies.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That's a lascivious apprehension.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|So thou apprehendest it: take it for thy labour.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How dost thou like this jewel, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Not so well as plain-dealing, which will not cost a
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|man a doit.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What dost thou think 'tis worth?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Not worth my thinking. How now, poet!
Timon of Athens|Poet|How now, philosopher!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou liest.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Art not one?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Yes.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Then I lie not.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Art not a poet?
Timon of Athens|Poet|Yes.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Then thou liest: look in thy last work, where thou
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|hast feigned him a worthy fellow.
Timon of Athens|Poet|That's not feigned, he is so.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Yes, he is worthy of thee, and to pay thee for thy
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|labour: he that loves to be flattered is worthy o'
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|the flatterer. Heavens, that I were a lord!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What wouldst do then, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|E'en as Apemantus does now, hate a lord with my heart.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What, thyself?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Ay.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Wherefore?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That I had no angry wit to be a lord.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Art not thou a merchant?
Timon of Athens|Merchant|Ay, Apemantus.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not!
Timon of Athens|Merchant|If traffic do it, the gods do it.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Traffic's thy god, and thy god confound thee!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Trumpet sounds. Enter a Messenger
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What trumpet's that?
Timon of Athens|Messenger|'Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|All of companionship.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Pray, entertain them, give them guide to us.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exeunt some Attendants
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You must needs dine with me: go not you hence
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Till I have thank'd you: when dinner's done,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Show me this piece. I am joyful of your sights.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter ALCIBIADES, with the rest
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Most welcome, sir!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|So, so, there!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Aches contract and starve your supple joints!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That there should be small love 'mongst these
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|sweet knaves,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|And all this courtesy! The strain of man's bred out
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Into baboon and monkey.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Most hungerly on your sight.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Right welcome, sir!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ere we depart, we'll share a bounteous time
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In different pleasures. Pray you, let us in.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exeunt all except APEMANTUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter two Lords
Timon of Athens|First Lord|What time o' day is't, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Time to be honest.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|That time serves still.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|The more accursed thou, that still omitt'st it.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Thou art going to Lord Timon's feast?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Ay, to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Fare thee well, fare thee well.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Why, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Shouldst have kept one to thyself, for I mean to
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|give thee none.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Hang thyself!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|No, I will do nothing at thy bidding: make thy
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|requests to thy friend.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Away, unpeaceable dog, or I'll spurn thee hence!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I will fly, like a dog, the heels o' the ass.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|First Lord|He's opposite to humanity. Come, shall we in,
Timon of Athens|First Lord|And taste Lord Timon's bounty? he outgoes
Timon of Athens|First Lord|The very heart of kindness.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|He pours it out, Plutus, the god of gold,
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Is but his steward: no meed, but he repays
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Sevenfold above itself, no gift to him,
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|But breeds the giver a return exceeding
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|All use of quittance.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|The noblest mind he carries
Timon of Athens|First Lord|That ever govern'd man.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Long may he live in fortunes! Shall we in?
Timon of Athens|First Lord|I'll keep you company.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|First Lord|SCENE II. A banqueting-room in Timon's house.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet  served in, FLAVIUS and others attending, then enter  TIMON, ALCIBIADES, Lords, Senators, and VENTIDIUS.  Then comes, dropping, after all, APEMANTUS, discontentedly, like himself
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|Most honour'd Timon,
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|It hath pleased the gods to remember my father's age,
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|And call him to long peace.
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|He is gone happy, and has left me rich:
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|To your free heart, I do return those talents,
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|Doubled with thanks and service, from whose help
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|I derived liberty.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|O, by no means,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Honest Ventidius, you mistake my love:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I gave it freely ever, and there's none
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Can truly say he gives, if he receives:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If our betters play at that game, we must not dare
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To imitate them, faults that are rich are fair.
Timon of Athens|VENTIDIUS|A noble spirit!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Nay, my lords,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|They all stand ceremoniously looking on TIMON
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ceremony was but devised at first
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Pray, sit, more welcome are ye to my fortunes
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Than my fortunes to me.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|They sit
Timon of Athens|First Lord|My lord, we always have confess'd it.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Ho, ho, confess'd it! hang'd it, have you not?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|O, Apemantus, you are welcome.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|No,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|You shall not make me welcome:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I come to have thee thrust me out of doors.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Fie, thou'rt a churl, ye've got a humour there
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Does not become a man: 'tis much to blame.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|They say, my lords, 'ira furor brevis est,' but yond
Timon of Athens|TIMON|man is ever angry. Go, let him have a table by
Timon of Athens|TIMON|himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is
Timon of Athens|TIMON|he fit for't, indeed.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon: I come to
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|observe, I give thee warning on't.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I take no heed of thee, thou'rt an Athenian,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|therefore welcome: I myself would have no power,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|prithee, let my meat make thee silent.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I scorn thy meat, 'twould choke me, for I should
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|ne'er flatter thee. O you gods, what a number of
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|and all the madness is, he cheers them up too.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I wonder men dare trust themselves with men:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Methinks they should invite them without knives,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|There's much example for't, the fellow that sits
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|next him now, parts bread with him, pledges the
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|breath of him in a divided draught, is the readiest
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|man to kill him: 't has been proved. If I were a
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|huge man, I should fear to drink at meals,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|My lord, in heart, and let the health go round.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Let it flow this way, my good lord.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Flow this way! A brave fellow! he keeps his tides
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|well. Those healths will make thee and thy state
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|look ill, Timon. Here's that which is too weak to
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|This and my food are equals, there's no odds:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Apemantus' grace.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Immortal gods, I crave no pelf,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I pray for no man but myself:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Grant I may never prove so fond,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To trust man on his oath or bond,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Or a harlot, for her weeping,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Or a dog, that seems a-sleeping:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Or a keeper with my freedom,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Or my friends, if I should need 'em.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Amen. So fall to't:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Rich men sin, and I eat root.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Eats and drinks
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Much good dich thy good heart, Apemantus!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Captain Alcibiades, your heart's in the field now.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|My heart is ever at your service, my lord.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a
Timon of Athens|TIMON|dinner of friends.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|So the were bleeding-new, my lord, there's no meat
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|like 'em: I could wish my best friend at such a feast.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Would all those fatterers were thine enemies then,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|that then thou mightst kill 'em and bid me to 'em!
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Might we but have that happiness, my lord, that you
Timon of Athens|First Lord|would once use our hearts, whereby we might express
Timon of Athens|First Lord|some part of our zeals, we should think ourselves
Timon of Athens|First Lord|for ever perfect.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|O, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods
Timon of Athens|TIMON|themselves have provided that I shall have much help
Timon of Athens|TIMON|from you: how had you been my friends else? why
Timon of Athens|TIMON|have you that charitable title from thousands, did
Timon of Athens|TIMON|not you chiefly belong to my heart? I have told
Timon of Athens|TIMON|more of you to myself than you can with modesty
Timon of Athens|TIMON|speak in your own behalf, and thus far I confirm
Timon of Athens|TIMON|you. O you gods, think I, what need we have any
Timon of Athens|TIMON|friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? they
Timon of Athens|TIMON|were the most needless creatures living, should we
Timon of Athens|TIMON|ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble
Timon of Athens|TIMON|sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their
Timon of Athens|TIMON|sounds to themselves. Why, I have often wished
Timon of Athens|TIMON|myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We
Timon of Athens|TIMON|are born to do benefits: and what better or
Timon of Athens|TIMON|properer can we can our own than the riches of our
Timon of Athens|TIMON|friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have
Timon of Athens|TIMON|so many, like brothers, commanding one another's
Timon of Athens|TIMON|fortunes! O joy, e'en made away ere 't can be born!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks: to
Timon of Athens|TIMON|forget their faults, I drink to you.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou weepest to make them drink, Timon.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Joy had the like conception in our eyes
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|And at that instant like a babe sprung up.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Ho, ho! I laugh to think that babe a bastard.
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|I promise you, my lord, you moved me much.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Much!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Tucket, within
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What means that trump?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter a Servant
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How now?
Timon of Athens|Servant|Please you, my lord, there are certain
Timon of Athens|Servant|ladies most desirous of admittance.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ladies! what are their wills?
Timon of Athens|Servant|There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, which
Timon of Athens|Servant|bears that office, to signify their pleasures.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I pray, let them be admitted.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter Cupid
Timon of Athens|Cupid|Hail to thee, worthy Timon, and to all
Timon of Athens|Cupid|That of his bounties taste! The five best senses
Timon of Athens|Cupid|Acknowledge thee their patron, and come freely
Timon of Athens|Cupid|To gratulate thy plenteous bosom: th' ear,
Timon of Athens|Cupid|Taste, touch and smell, pleased from thy tale rise,
Timon of Athens|Cupid|They only now come but to feast thine eyes.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|They're welcome all, let 'em have kind admittance:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Music, make their welcome!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit Cupid
Timon of Athens|First Lord|You see, my lord, how ample you're beloved.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Music. Re-enter Cupid with a mask of Ladies  as Amazons, with lutes in their hands, dancing and playing
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|They dance! they are mad women.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Like madness is the glory of this life.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|And spend our flatteries, to drink those men
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Upon whose age we void it up again,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|With poisonous spite and envy.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Who lives that's not depraved or depraves?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Who dies, that bears not one spurn to their graves
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Of their friends' gift?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I should fear those that dance before me now
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Would one day stamp upon me: 't has been done,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|The Lords rise from table, with much adoring of  TIMON, and to show their loves, each singles out an  Amazon, and all dance, men with women, a lofty strain or two to the hautboys, and cease
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You have done our pleasures much grace, fair ladies,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Set a fair fashion on our entertainment,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Which was not half so beautiful and kind,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You have added worth unto 't and lustre,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And entertain'd me with mine own device,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I am to thank you for 't.
Timon of Athens|First Lady|My lord, you take us even at the best.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|'Faith, for the worst is filthy, and would not hold
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|taking, I doubt me.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Please you to dispose yourselves.
Timon of Athens|All Ladies|Most thankfully, my lord.
Timon of Athens|All Ladies|Exeunt Cupid and Ladies
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Flavius.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|My lord?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The little casket bring me hither.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Yes, my lord. More jewels yet!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|There is no crossing him in 's humour,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Aside
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Else I should tell him,--well, i' faith I should,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|When all's spent, he 'ld be cross'd then, an he could.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Where be our men?
Timon of Athens|Servant|Here, my lord, in readiness.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Our horses!
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Re-enter FLAVIUS, with the casket
Timon of Athens|TIMON|O my friends,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I have one word to say to you: look you, my good lord,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I must entreat you, honour me so much
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As to advance this jewel, accept it and wear it,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Kind my lord.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|I am so far already in your gifts,--
Timon of Athens|All|So are we all.
Timon of Athens|All|Enter a Servant
Timon of Athens|Servant|My lord, there are certain nobles of the senate
Timon of Athens|Servant|Newly alighted, and come to visit you.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|They are fairly welcome.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I beseech your honour,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Vouchsafe me a word, it does concern you near.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Near! why then, another time I'll hear thee:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I prithee, let's be provided to show them
Timon of Athens|TIMON|entertainment.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|[Aside]  I scarce know how.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Enter a Second Servant
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|May it please your honour, Lord Lucius,
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|Out of his free love, hath presented to you
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|Four milk-white horses, trapp'd in silver.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I shall accept them fairly, let the presents
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be worthily entertain'd.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter a third Servant
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How now! what news?
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|Please you, my lord, that honourable
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|gentleman, Lord Lucullus, entreats your company
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|to-morrow to hunt with him, and has sent your honour
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|two brace of greyhounds.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll hunt with him, and let them be received,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Not without fair reward.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|[Aside]                What will this come to?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|He commands us to provide, and give great gifts,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And all out of an empty coffer:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Nor will he know his purse, or yield me this,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To show him what a beggar his heart is,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Being of no power to make his wishes good:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|His promises fly so beyond his state
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For every word: he is so kind that he now
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Pays interest for 't, his land's put to their books.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Well, would I were gently put out of office
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Before I were forced out!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Happier is he that has no friend to feed
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Than such that do e'en enemies exceed.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I bleed inwardly for my lord.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You do yourselves
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Here, my lord, a trifle of our love.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|With more than common thanks I will receive it.
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|O, he's the very soul of bounty!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And now I remember, my lord, you gave
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Good words the other day of a bay courser
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I rode on: it is yours, because you liked it.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|O, I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, in that.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You may take my word, my lord, I know, no man
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Can justly praise but what he does affect:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I weigh my friend's affection with mine own,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll tell you true. I'll call to you.
Timon of Athens|All Lords|O, none so welcome.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I take all and your several visitations
Timon of Athens|TIMON|So kind to heart, 'tis not enough to give,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Methinks, I could deal kingdoms to my friends,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And ne'er be weary. Alcibiades,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|It comes in charity to thee: for all thy living
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Is 'mongst the dead, and all the lands thou hast
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lie in a pitch'd field.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Ay, defiled land, my lord.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|We are so virtuously bound--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And so
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Am I to you.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|So infinitely endear'd--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|All to you. Lights, more lights!
Timon of Athens|First Lord|The best of happiness,
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Honour and fortunes, keep with you, Lord Timon!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ready for his friends.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exeunt all but APEMANTUS and TIMON
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|What a coil's here!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Serving of becks and jutting-out of bums!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That are given for 'em. Friendship's full of dregs:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Methinks, false hearts should never have sound legs,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen, I would be
Timon of Athens|TIMON|good to thee.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|No, I'll nothing: for if I should be bribed too,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|there would be none left to rail upon thee, and then
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|thou wouldst sin the faster. Thou givest so long,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Timon, I fear me thou wilt give away thyself in
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|paper shortly: what need these feasts, pomps and
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|vain-glories?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, I am
Timon of Athens|TIMON|sworn not to give regard to you. Farewell, and come
Timon of Athens|TIMON|with better music.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|So:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou wilt not hear me now, thou shalt not then:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|O, that men's ears should be
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|ACT II
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|SCENE I. A Senator's house.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Enter Senator, with papers in his hand
Timon of Athens|Senator|And late, five thousand: to Varro and to Isidore
Timon of Athens|Senator|He owes nine thousand, besides my former sum,
Timon of Athens|Senator|Which makes it five and twenty. Still in motion
Timon of Athens|Senator|Of raging waste? It cannot hold, it will not.
Timon of Athens|Senator|If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog,
Timon of Athens|Senator|And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold.
Timon of Athens|Senator|If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more
Timon of Athens|Senator|Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon,
Timon of Athens|Senator|Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me, straight,
Timon of Athens|Senator|And able horses. No porter at his gate,
Timon of Athens|Senator|But rather one that smiles and still invites
Timon of Athens|Senator|All that pass by. It cannot hold: no reason
Timon of Athens|Senator|Can found his state in safety. Caphis, ho!
Timon of Athens|Senator|Caphis, I say!
Timon of Athens|Senator|Enter CAPHIS
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Here, sir, what is your pleasure?
Timon of Athens|Senator|Get on your cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon,
Timon of Athens|Senator|Importune him for my moneys, be not ceased
Timon of Athens|Senator|With slight denial, nor then silenced when--
Timon of Athens|Senator|'Commend me to your master'--and the cap
Timon of Athens|Senator|Plays in the right hand, thus: but tell him,
Timon of Athens|Senator|My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn
Timon of Athens|Senator|Out of mine own, his days and times are past
Timon of Athens|Senator|And my reliances on his fracted dates
Timon of Athens|Senator|Have smit my credit: I love and honour him,
Timon of Athens|Senator|But must not break my back to heal his finger,
Timon of Athens|Senator|Immediate are my needs, and my relief
Timon of Athens|Senator|Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words,
Timon of Athens|Senator|But find supply immediate. Get you gone:
Timon of Athens|Senator|Put on a most importunate aspect,
Timon of Athens|Senator|A visage of demand, for, I do fear,
Timon of Athens|Senator|When every feather sticks in his own wing,
Timon of Athens|Senator|Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,
Timon of Athens|Senator|Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|I go, sir.
Timon of Athens|Senator|'I go, sir!'--Take the bonds along with you,
Timon of Athens|Senator|And have the dates in contempt.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|I will, sir.
Timon of Athens|Senator|Go.
Timon of Athens|Senator|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|Senator|SCENE II. The same. A hall in Timon's house.
Timon of Athens|Senator|Enter FLAVIUS, with many bills in his hand
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|No care, no stop! so senseless of expense,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That he will neither know how to maintain it,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Nor cease his flow of riot: takes no account
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|How things go from him, nor resumes no care
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Of what is to continue: never mind
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|What shall be done? he will not hear, till feel:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Fie, fie, fie, fie!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Enter CAPHIS, and the Servants of Isidore and Varro
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Good even, Varro: what,
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|You come for money?
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Varro's Servant	Is't not your business too?
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|It is: and yours too, Isidore?
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Isidore's Servant	It is so.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Would we were all discharged!
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Varro's Servant	I fear it.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Here comes the lord.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Enter TIMON, ALCIBIADES, and Lords,  and c
Timon of Athens|TIMON|So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|My Alcibiades. With me? what is your will?
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|My lord, here is a note of certain dues.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Dues! Whence are you?
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Of Athens here, my lord.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Go to my steward.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Please it your lordship, he hath put me off
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|To the succession of new days this month:
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|My master is awaked by great occasion
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|To call upon his own, and humbly prays you
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|That with your other noble parts you'll suit
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|In giving him his right.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Mine honest friend,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I prithee, but repair to me next morning.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Nay, good my lord,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Contain thyself, good friend.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Varro's Servant	One Varro's servant, my good lord,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Isidore's Servant	From Isidore,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|He humbly prays your speedy payment.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|If you did know, my lord, my master's wants--
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Varro's Servant	'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks And past.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Isidore's Servant	         Your steward puts me off, my lord,
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|And I am sent expressly to your lordship.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Give me breath.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll wait upon you instantly.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exeunt ALCIBIADES and Lords
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To FLAVIUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Come hither: pray you,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With clamourous demands of date-broke bonds,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And the detention of long-since-due debts,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Against my honour?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Please you, gentlemen,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The time is unagreeable to this business:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Your importunacy cease till after dinner,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That I may make his lordship understand
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Wherefore you are not paid.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Do so, my friends. See them well entertain'd.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Pray, draw near.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Enter APEMANTUS and Fool
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Apemantus:
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|let's ha' some sport with 'em.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Varro's Servant	Hang him, he'll abuse us.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Isidore's Servant	A plague upon him, dog!
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Varro's Servant	How dost, fool?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Dost dialogue with thy shadow?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Varro's Servant	I speak not to thee.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|No,'tis to thyself.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To the Fool
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Come away.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Isidore's Servant	There's the fool hangs on your back already.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|No, thou stand'st single, thou'rt not on him yet.
Timon of Athens|CAPHIS|Where's the fool now?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|He last asked the question. Poor rogues, and
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|usurers' men! bawds between gold and want!
Timon of Athens|All Servants|What are we, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Asses.
Timon of Athens|All Servants|Why?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That you ask me what you are, and do not know
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool.
Timon of Athens|Fool|How do you, gentlemen?
Timon of Athens|All Servants|Gramercies, good fool: how does your mistress?
Timon of Athens|Fool|She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens
Timon of Athens|Fool|as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Good! gramercy.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Enter Page
Timon of Athens|Fool|Look you, here comes my mistress' page.
Timon of Athens|Page|[To the Fool]  Why, how now, captain! what do you
Timon of Athens|Page|in this wise company? How dost thou, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might answer
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|thee profitably.
Timon of Athens|Page|Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of
Timon of Athens|Page|these letters: I know not which is which.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Canst not read?
Timon of Athens|Page|No.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|There will little learning die then, that day thou
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|art hanged. This is to Lord Timon, this to
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Alcibiades. Go, thou wast born a bastard, and thou't
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|die a bawd.
Timon of Athens|Page|Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a
Timon of Athens|Page|dog's death. Answer not, I am gone.
Timon of Athens|Page|Exit
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|E'en so thou outrunnest grace. Fool, I will go with
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|you to Lord Timon's.
Timon of Athens|Fool|Will you leave me there?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?
Timon of Athens|All Servants|Ay, would they served us!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.
Timon of Athens|Fool|Are you three usurers' men?
Timon of Athens|All Servants|Ay, fool.
Timon of Athens|Fool|I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my
Timon of Athens|Fool|mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come
Timon of Athens|Fool|to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and
Timon of Athens|Fool|go away merry, but they enter my mistress' house
Timon of Athens|Fool|merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?
Timon of Athens|Fool|Varro's Servant	I could render one.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|and a knave, which not-withstanding, thou shalt be
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|no less esteemed.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Varro's Servant	What is a whoremaster, fool?
Timon of Athens|Fool|A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.
Timon of Athens|Fool|'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord,
Timon of Athens|Fool|sometime like a lawyer, sometime like a philosopher,
Timon of Athens|Fool|with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is
Timon of Athens|Fool|very often like a knight, and, generally, in all
Timon of Athens|Fool|shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
Timon of Athens|Fool|to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
Timon of Athens|Fool|Varro's Servant	Thou art not altogether a fool.
Timon of Athens|Fool|Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as
Timon of Athens|Fool|I have, so much wit thou lackest.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That answer might have become Apemantus.
Timon of Athens|All Servants|Aside, aside, here comes Lord Timon.
Timon of Athens|All Servants|Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Come with me, fool, come.
Timon of Athens|Fool|I do not always follow lover, elder brother and
Timon of Athens|Fool|woman, sometime the philosopher.
Timon of Athens|Fool|Exeunt APEMANTUS and Fool
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Exeunt Servants
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You make me marvel: wherefore ere this time
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Had you not fully laid my state before me,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That I might so have rated my expense,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As I had leave of means?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|You would not hear me,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|At many leisures I proposed.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Go to:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Perchance some single vantages you took.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|When my indispos ition put you back:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And that unaptness made your minister,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thus to excuse yourself.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|O my good lord,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|At many times I brought in my accounts,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Laid them before you, you would throw them off,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And say, you found them in mine honesty.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|When, for some trifling present, you have bid me
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Return so much, I have shook my head and wept,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To hold your hand more close: I did endure
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Not seldom, nor no slight cheques, when I have
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Though you hear now, too late--yet now's a time--
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The greatest of your having lacks a half
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To pay your present debts.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let all my land be sold.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|'Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And what remains will hardly stop the mouth
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Of present dues: the future comes apace:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|What shall defend the interim? and at length
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|How goes our reckoning?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To Lacedaemon did my land extend.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|O my good lord, the world is but a word:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Were it all yours to give it in a breath,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|How quickly were it gone!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You tell me true.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Call me before the exactest auditors
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And set me on the proof. So the gods bless me,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|When all our offices have been oppress'd
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|With drunken spilth of wine, when every room
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I have retired me to a wasteful cock,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And set mine eyes at flow.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Prithee, no more.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|This night englutted! Who is not Timon's?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Lord Timon's?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The breath is gone whereof this praise is made:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Feast-won, fast-lost, one cloud of winter showers,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|These flies are couch'd.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Come, sermon me no further:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If I would broach the vessels of my love,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And try the argument of hearts by borrowing,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As I can bid thee speak.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Assurance bless your thoughts!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And, in some sort, these wants of mine are crown'd,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That I account them blessings, for by these
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Mistake my fortunes, I am wealthy in my friends.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Within there! Flaminius! Servilius!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter FLAMINIUS, SERVILIUS, and other Servants
Timon of Athens|Servants|My lord? my lord?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I will dispatch you severally, you to Lord Lucius,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour
Timon of Athens|TIMON|to-day: you, to Sempronius: commend me to their
Timon of Athens|TIMON|loves, and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have
Timon of Athens|TIMON|found time to use 'em toward a supply of money: let
Timon of Athens|TIMON|the request be fifty talents.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|As you have said, my lord.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|[Aside]  Lord Lucius and Lucullus? hum!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Go you, sir, to the senators--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Deserved this hearing--bid 'em send o' the instant
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A thousand talents to me.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I have been bold--
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For that I knew it the most general way--
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To them to use your signet and your name,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|But they do shake their heads, and I am here
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|No richer in return.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Is't true? can't be?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|They answer, in a joint and corporate voice,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Do what they would, are sorry--you are honourable,--
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|But yet they could have wish'd--they know not--
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Something hath been amiss--a noble nature
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|May catch a wrench--would all were well--'tis pity,--
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And so, intending other serious matters,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|After distasteful looks and these hard fractions,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|They froze me into silence.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You gods, reward them!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And nature, as it grows again toward earth,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To a Servant
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Go to Ventidius.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To FLAVIUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Prithee, be not sad,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou art true and honest, ingeniously I speak.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|No blame belongs to thee.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To Servant
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ventidius lately
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Buried his father, by whose death he's stepp'd
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Into a great estate: when he was poor,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Imprison'd and in scarcity of friends,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Bid him suppose some good necessity
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With those five talents.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit Servant
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To FLAVIUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That had, give't these fellows
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak, or think,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I would I could not think it: that thought is
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|bounty's foe,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Being free itself, it thinks all others so.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|ACT III
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|SCENE I. A room in Lucullus' house.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|FLAMINIUS waiting. Enter a Servant to him
Timon of Athens|Servant|I have told my lord of you, he is coming down to you.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|I thank you, sir.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Enter LUCULLUS
Timon of Athens|Servant|Here's my lord.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|[Aside]  One of Lord Timon's men? a gift, I
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|warrant. Why, this hits right, I dreamt of a silver
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|basin and ewer to-night. Flaminius, honest
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Flaminius, you are very respectively welcome, sir.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Fill me some wine.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Exit Servants
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|And how does that honourable, complete, free-hearted
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|gentleman of Athens, thy very bountiful good lord
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|and master?
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|His health is well sir.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|I am right glad that his health is well, sir: and
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|what hast thou there under thy cloak, pretty Flaminius?
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|'Faith, nothing but an empty box, sir, which, in my
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|lord's behalf, I come to entreat your honour to
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|supply, who, having great and instant occasion to
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|use fifty talents, hath sent to your lordship to
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|furnish him, nothing doubting your present
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|assistance therein.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|La, la, la, la! 'nothing doubting,' says he? Alas,
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|good lord! a noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|keep so good a house. Many a time and often I ha'
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|dined with him, and told him on't, and come again to
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|supper to him, of purpose to have him spend less,
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|and yet he would embrace no counsel, take no warning
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|by my coming. Every man has his fault, and honesty
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|is his: I ha' told him on't, but I could ne'er get
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|him from't.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Re-enter Servant, with wine
Timon of Athens|Servant|Please your lordship, here is the wine.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Flaminius, I have noted thee always wise. Here's to thee.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Your lordship speaks your pleasure.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|spirit--give thee thy due--and one that knows what
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|belongs to reason, and canst use the time well, if
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|the time use thee well: good parts in thee.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|To Servant
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Get you gone, sirrah.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Exit Servant
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Draw nearer, honest Flaminius. Thy lord's a
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|bountiful gentleman: but thou art wise, and thou
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|knowest well enough, although thou comest to me,
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|that this is no time to lend money, especially upon
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|bare friendship, without security. Here's three
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|solidares for thee: good boy, wink at me, and say
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|thou sawest me not. Fare thee well.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Is't possible the world should so much differ,
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|And we alive that lived? Fly, damned baseness,
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|To him that worships thee!
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Throwing the money back
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Ha! now I see thou art a fool, and fit for thy master.
Timon of Athens|LUCULLUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|May these add to the number that may scald thee!
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Let moulten coin be thy damnation,
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|I feel master's passion! this slave,
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him:
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment,
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|When he is turn'd to poison?
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|O, may diseases only work upon't!
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|And, when he's sick to death, let not that part of nature
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Which my lord paid for, be of any power
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|To expel sickness, but prolong his hour!
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|SCENE II. A public place.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Enter LUCILIUS, with three Strangers
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Who, the Lord Timon? he is my very good friend, and
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|an honourable gentleman.
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|We know him for no less, though we are but strangers
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|to him. But I can tell you one thing, my lord, and
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|which I hear from common rumours: now Lord Timon's
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|happy hours are done and past, and his estate
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|shrinks from him.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Fie, no, do not believe it, he cannot want for money.
Timon of Athens|Second Stranger|But believe you this, my lord, that, not long ago,
Timon of Athens|Second Stranger|one of his men was with the Lord Lucullus to borrow
Timon of Athens|Second Stranger|so many talents, nay, urged extremely for't and
Timon of Athens|Second Stranger|showed what necessity belonged to't, and yet was denied.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|How!
Timon of Athens|Second Stranger|I tell you, denied, my lord.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|What a strange case was that! now, before the gods,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|I am ashamed on't. Denied that honourable man!
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|there was very little honour showed in't. For my own
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|part, I must needs confess, I have received some
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|small kindnesses from him, as money, plate, jewels
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|and such-like trifles, nothing comparing to his,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|yet, had he mistook him and sent to me, I should
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|ne'er have denied his occasion so many talents.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Enter SERVILIUS
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|See, by good hap, yonder's my lord,
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|I have sweat to see his honour. My honoured lord,--
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|To LUCIUS
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Servilius! you are kindly met, sir. Fare thee well:
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|commend me to thy honourable virtuous lord, my very
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|exquisite friend.
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|May it please your honour, my lord hath sent--
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Ha! what has he sent? I am so much endeared to
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|that lord, he's ever sending: how shall I thank
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|him, thinkest thou? And what has he sent now?
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|Has only sent his present occasion now, my lord,
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|requesting your lordship to supply his instant use
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|with so many talents.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|I know his lordship is but merry with me,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|He cannot want fifty five hundred talents.
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|But in the mean time he wants less, my lord.
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|If his occasion were not virtuous,
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|I should not urge it half so faithfully.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Dost thou speak seriously, Servilius?
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|Upon my soul,'tis true, sir.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|against such a good time, when I might ha' shown
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|myself honourable! how unluckily it happened, that I
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|should purchase the day before for a little part,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|and undo a great deal of honoured! Servilius, now,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|before the gods, I am not able to do,--the more
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|beast, I say:--I was sending to use Lord Timon
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|myself, these gentlemen can witness! but I would
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|not, for the wealth of Athens, I had done't now.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Commend me bountifully to his good lordship, and I
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|because I have no power to be kind: and tell him
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|this from me, I count it one of my greatest
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|afflictions, say, that I cannot pleasure such an
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|honourable gentleman. Good Servilius, will you
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|befriend me so far, as to use mine own words to him?
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|Yes, sir, I shall.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|I'll look you out a good turn, Servilius.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Exit SERVILIUS
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|True as you said, Timon is shrunk indeed,
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|And he that's once denied will hardly speed.
Timon of Athens|LUCILIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Do you observe this, Hostilius?
Timon of Athens|Second Stranger|Ay, too well.
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Why, this is the world's soul, and just of the
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|same piece
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Is every flatterer's spirit. Who can call him
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|His friend that dips in the same dish? for, in
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|My knowing, Timon has been this lord's father,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|And kept his credit with his purse,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Supported his estate, nay, Timon's money
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Has paid his men their wages: he ne'er drinks,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|But Timon's silver treads upon his lip,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|And yet--O, see the monstrousness of man
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!--
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|He does deny him, in respect of his,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|What charitable men afford to beggars.
Timon of Athens|Third Stranger|Religion groans at it.
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|For mine own part,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|I never tasted Timon in my life,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Nor came any of his bounties over me,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|To mark me for his friend, yet, I protest,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|For his right noble mind, illustrious virtue
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|And honourable carriage,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Had his necessity made use of me,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|I would have put my wealth into donation,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|And the best half should have return'd to him,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|So much I love his heart: but, I perceive,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Men must learn now with pity to dispense,
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|For policy sits above conscience.
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|SCENE III. A room in Sempronius' house.
Timon of Athens|First Stranger|Enter SEMPRONIUS, and a Servant of TIMON's
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Must he needs trouble me in 't,--hum!--'bove
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|all others?
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|He might have tried Lord Lucius or Lucullus,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|And now Ventidius is wealthy too,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Whom he redeem'd from prison: all these
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Owe their estates unto him.
Timon of Athens|Servant|My lord,
Timon of Athens|Servant|They have all been touch'd and found base metal, for
Timon of Athens|Servant|They have au denied him.
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|How! have they denied him?
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Has Ventidius and Lucullus denied him?
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|And does he send to me? Three? hum!
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|It shows but little love or judgment in him:
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Must I be his last refuge! His friends, like
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|physicians,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Thrive, give him over: must I take the cure upon me?
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Has much disgraced me in't, I'm angry at him,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|That might have known my place: I see no sense for't,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|But his occasion might have woo'd me first,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|For, in my conscience, I was the first man
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|That e'er received gift from him:
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|And does he think so backwardly of me now,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|That I'll requite its last? No:
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|So it may prove an argument of laughter
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|To the rest, and 'mongst lords I be thought a fool.
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|I'ld rather than the worth of thrice the sum,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Had sent to me first, but for my mind's sake,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|I'd such a courage to do him good. But now return,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|And with their faint reply this answer join,
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin.
Timon of Athens|SEMPRONIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|Servant|Excellent! Your lordship's a goodly villain. The
Timon of Athens|Servant|devil knew not what he did when he made man
Timon of Athens|Servant|politic, he crossed himself by 't: and I cannot
Timon of Athens|Servant|think but, in the end, the villainies of man will
Timon of Athens|Servant|set him clear. How fairly this lord strives to
Timon of Athens|Servant|appear foul! takes virtuous copies to be wicked,
Timon of Athens|Servant|like those that under hot ardent zeal would set
Timon of Athens|Servant|whole realms on fire: Of such a nature is his
Timon of Athens|Servant|politic love.
Timon of Athens|Servant|This was my lord's best hope, now all are fled,
Timon of Athens|Servant|Save only the gods: now his friends are dead,
Timon of Athens|Servant|Doors, that were ne'er acquainted with their wards
Timon of Athens|Servant|Many a bounteous year must be employ'd
Timon of Athens|Servant|Now to guard sure their master.
Timon of Athens|Servant|And this is all a liberal course allows,
Timon of Athens|Servant|Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house.
Timon of Athens|Servant|Exit
Timon of Athens|Servant|SCENE IV. The same. A hall in Timon's house.
Timon of Athens|Servant|Enter two Servants of Varro, and the Servant of  LUCIUS, meeting TITUS, HORTENSIUS, and other Servants of TIMON's creditors, waiting his coming out
Timon of Athens|Servant|Varro's
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Well met, good morrow, Titus and Hortensius.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|The like to you kind Varro.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Lucius!
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|What, do we meet together?
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Lucilius' Servant	Ay, and I think
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|One business does command us all, for mine Is money.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|So is theirs and ours.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Enter PHILOTUS
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Lucilius' Servant	And Sir Philotus too!
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Good day at once.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Lucilius' Servant	                  Welcome, good brother.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|What do you think the hour?
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Labouring for nine.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Lucilius' Servant	So much?
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Is not my lord seen yet?
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Lucilius' Servant	Not yet.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|I wonder on't, he was wont to shine at seven.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Lucilius' Servant	Ay, but the days are wax'd shorter with him:
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|You must consider that a prodigal course
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Is like the sun's, but not, like his, recoverable.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|I fear 'tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse,
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|That is one may reach deep enough, and yet
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|Find little.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|I am of your fear for that.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|I'll show you how to observe a strange event.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Your lord sends now for money.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Most true, he does.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|And he wears jewels now of Timon's gift,
Timon of Athens|TITUS|For which I wait for money.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|It is against my heart.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Lucilius' Servant	Mark, how strange it shows,
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Timon in this should pay more than he owes:
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|And e'en as if your lord should wear rich jewels,
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|And send for money for 'em.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|I'm weary of this charge, the gods can witness:
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|I know my lord hath spent of Timon's wealth,
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Varro's
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Yes, mine's three thousand crowns: what's yours?
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Lucilius' Servant	Five thousand mine.
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Varro's
Timon of Athens|First Servant|'Tis much deep: and it should seem by the sun,
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Your master's confidence was above mine,
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Else, surely, his had equall'd.
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Enter FLAMINIUS.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|One of Lord Timon's men.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Lucilius' Servant	Flaminius! Sir, a word: pray, is my lord ready to
Timon of Athens|TITUS|come forth?
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|No, indeed, he is not.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|We attend his lordship, pray, signify so much.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|I need not tell him that, he knows you are too diligent.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Enter FLAVIUS in a cloak, muffled
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Lucilius' Servant	Ha! is not that his steward muffled so?
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|He goes away in a cloud: call him, call him.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Do you hear, sir?
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Varro's
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|By your leave, sir,--
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|What do ye ask of me, my friend?
Timon of Athens|TITUS|We wait for certain money here, sir.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Ay,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|If money were as certain as your waiting,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|'Twere sure enough.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|When your false masters eat of my lord's meat?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And take down the interest into their
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|gluttonous maws.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Let me pass quietly:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Believe 't, my lord and I have made an end,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I have no more to reckon, he to spend.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Lucilius' Servant	Ay, but this answer will not serve.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|If 'twill not serve,'tis not so base as you,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For you serve knaves.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Varro's
Timon of Athens|First Servant|How! what does his cashiered worship mutter?
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Varro's
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|No matter what, he's poor, and that's revenge
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|enough. Who can speak broader than he that has no
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|house to put his head in? such may rail against
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|great buildings.
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|Enter SERVILIUS
Timon of Athens|TITUS|O, here's Servilius, now we shall know some answer.
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|If I might beseech you, gentlemen, to repair some
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|other hour, I should derive much from't, for,
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|take't of my soul, my lord leans wondrously to
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|discontent: his comfortable temper has forsook him,
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|he's much out of health, and keeps his chamber.
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|Lucilius' Servant: Many do keep their chambers are not sick:
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|And, if it be so far beyond his health,
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts,
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|And make a clear way to the gods.
Timon of Athens|SERVILIUS|Good gods!
Timon of Athens|TITUS|We cannot take this for answer, sir.
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|[Within]  Servilius, help! My lord! my lord!
Timon of Athens|FLAMINIUS|Enter TIMON, in a rage, FLAMINIUS following
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What, are my doors opposed against my passage?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Have I been ever free, and must my house
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be my retentive enemy, my gaol?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The place which I have feasted, does it now,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Like all mankind, show me an iron heart?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lucilius' Servant	Put in now, Titus.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|My lord, here is my bill.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Lucilius' Servant	Here's mine.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|And mine, my lord.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Both
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Varro's Servants	And ours, my lord.
Timon of Athens|PHILOTUS|All our bills.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Knock me down with 'em: cleave me to the girdle.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lucilius' Servant	Alas, my lord,-
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Cut my heart in sums.
Timon of Athens|TITUS|Mine, fifty talents.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Tell out my blood.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lucilius' Servant	Five thousand crowns, my lord.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Five thousand drops pays that.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What yours?--and yours?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Varro's
Timon of Athens|First Servant|My lord,--
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Varro's
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|My lord,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|'Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|at their money: these debts may well be called
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em.
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|HORTENSIUS|Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|They have e'en put my breath from me, the slaves.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Creditors? devils!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|My dear lord,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What if it should be so?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|My lord,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll have it so. My steward!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Here, my lord.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|All, sirrah, all:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll once more feast the rascals.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|O my lord,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|You only speak from your distracted soul,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|There is not so much left, to furnish out
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|A moderate table.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be't not in thy care, go,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of knaves once more, my cook and I'll provide.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|TIMON|SCENE V. The same. The senate-house. The Senate sitting.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|My lord, you have my voice to it, the fault's
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Bloody, 'tis necessary he should die:
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Most true, the law shall bruise him.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Enter ALCIBIADES, with Attendants
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Honour, health, and compassion to the senate!
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Now, captain?
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I am an humble suitor to your virtues,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|For pity is the virtue of the law,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Hath stepp'd into the law, which is past depth
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|To those that, without heed, do plunge into 't.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|He is a man, setting his fate aside,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Of comely virtues:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice--
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|An honour in him which buys out his fault--
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|But with a noble fury and fair spirit,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Seeing his reputation touch'd to death,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|He did oppose his foe:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And with such sober and unnoted passion
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|As if he had but proved an argument.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|You undergo too strict a paradox,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Your words have took such pains as if they labour'd
Timon of Athens|First Senator|To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Upon the head of valour, which indeed
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Is valour misbegot and came into the world
Timon of Athens|First Senator|When sects and factions were newly born:
Timon of Athens|First Senator|He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer
Timon of Athens|First Senator|The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs
Timon of Athens|First Senator|His outsides, to wear them like his raiment,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|carelessly,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|To bring it into danger.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|If wrongs be evils and enforce us kill,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|My lord,--
Timon of Athens|First Senator|You cannot make gross sins look clear:
Timon of Athens|First Senator|To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|My lords, then, under favour, pardon me,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|If I speak like a captain.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Why do fond men expose themselves to battle,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And not endure all threats? sleep upon't,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And let the foes quietly cut their throats,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Without repugnancy? If there be
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Such valour in the bearing, what make we
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Abroad? why then, women are more valiant
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|That stay at home, if bearing carry it,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And the ass more captain than the lion, the felon
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Loaden with irons wiser than the judge,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|If wisdom be in suffering. O my lords,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|As you are great, be pitifully good:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood?
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|To be in anger is impiety,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|But who is man that is not angry?
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Weigh but the crime with this.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|You breathe in vain.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|In vain! his service done
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|At Lacedaemon and Byzantium
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Were a sufficient briber for his life.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|What's that?
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I say, my lords, he has done fair service,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And slain in fight many of your enemies:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|How full of valour did he bear himself
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|In the last conflict, and made plenteous wounds!
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|He has made too much plenty with 'em,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|He's a sworn rioter: he has a sin that often
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner:
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|If there were no foes, that were enough
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|To overcome him: in that beastly fury
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|He has been known to commit outrages,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And cherish factions: 'tis inferr'd to us,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|His days are foul and his drink dangerous.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|He dies.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Hard fate! he might have died in war.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|My lords, if not for any parts in him--
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Though his right arm might purchase his own time
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And be in debt to none--yet, more to move you,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Take my deserts to his, and join 'em both:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And, for I know your reverend ages love
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Security, I'll pawn my victories, all
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|My honours to you, upon his good returns.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|If by this crime he owes the law his life,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Why, let the war receive 't in valiant gore
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|For law is strict, and war is nothing more.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|We are for law: he dies, urge it no more,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|On height of our displeasure: friend or brother,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|He forfeits his own blood that spills another.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Must it be so? it must not be. My lords,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I do beseech you, know me.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|How!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Call me to your remembrances.
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|What!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I cannot think but your age has forgot me,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|It could not else be, I should prove so base,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|To sue, and be denied such common grace:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|My wounds ache at you.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Do you dare our anger?
Timon of Athens|First Senator|'Tis in few words, but spacious in effect,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|We banish thee for ever.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Banish me!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Banish your dotage, banish usury,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|That makes the senate ugly.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|If, after two days' shine, Athens contain thee,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Attend our weightier judgment. And, not to swell
Timon of Athens|First Senator|our spirit,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|He shall be executed presently.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Exeunt Senators
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Now the gods keep you old enough, that you may live
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Only in bone, that none may look on you!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I'm worse than mad: I have kept back their foes,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|While they have told their money and let out
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Their coin upon large interest, I myself
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Rich only in large hurts. All those for this?
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Is this the balsam that the usuring senate
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Pours into captains' wounds? Banishment!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|It comes not ill, I hate not to be banish'd,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|That I may strike at Athens. I'll cheer up
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|My discontented troops, and lay for hearts.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|'Tis honour with most lands to be at odds,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Exit
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|SCENE VI. The same. A banqueting-room in Timon's house.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Music. Tables set out: Servants attending.  Enter divers Lords, Senators and others, at several doors
Timon of Athens|First Lord|The good time of day to you, sir.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|I also wish it to you. I think this honourable lord
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|did but try us this other day.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Upon that were my thoughts tiring, when we
Timon of Athens|First Lord|encountered: I hope it is not so low with him as
Timon of Athens|First Lord|he made it seem in the trial of his several friends.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|It should not be, by the persuasion of his new feasting.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|I should think so: he hath sent me an earnest
Timon of Athens|First Lord|inviting, which many my near occasions did urge me
Timon of Athens|First Lord|to put off, but he hath conjured me beyond them, and
Timon of Athens|First Lord|I must needs appear.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|In like manner was I in debt to my importunate
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|business, but he would not hear my excuse. I am
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|sorry, when he sent to borrow of me, that my
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|provision was out.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|I am sick of that grief too, as I understand how all
Timon of Athens|First Lord|things go.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Every man here's so. What would he have borrowed of
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|you?
Timon of Athens|First Lord|A thousand pieces.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|A thousand pieces!
Timon of Athens|First Lord|What of you?
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|He sent to me, sir,--Here he comes.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Enter TIMON and Attendants
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With all my heart, gentlemen both, and how fare you?
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Ever at the best, hearing well of your lordship.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|The swallow follows not summer more willing than we
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|your lordship.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|[Aside]  Nor more willingly leaves winter, such
Timon of Athens|TIMON|summer-birds are men. Gentlemen, our dinner will not
Timon of Athens|TIMON|recompense this long stay: feast your ears with the
Timon of Athens|TIMON|music awhile, if they will fare so harshly o' the
Timon of Athens|TIMON|trumpet's sound, we shall to 't presently.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship
Timon of Athens|First Lord|that I returned you an empty messenger.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|O, sir, let it not trouble you.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|My noble lord,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ah, my good friend, what cheer?
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|My most honourable lord, I am e'en sick of shame,
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|that, when your lordship this other day sent to me,
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|I was so unfortunate a beggar.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Think not on 't, sir.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|If you had sent but two hours before,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let it not cumber your better remembrance.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The banquet brought in
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Come, bring in all together.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|All covered dishes!
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Royal cheer, I warrant you.
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|Doubt not that, if money and the season can yield
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|it.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|How do you? What's the news?
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|Alcibiades is banished: hear you of it?
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Alcibiades banished!
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|'Tis so, be sure of it.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|How! how!
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|I pray you, upon what?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|My worthy friends, will you draw near?
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|I'll tell you more anon. Here's a noble feast toward.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|This is the old man still.
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|Will 't hold? will 't hold?
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|It does: but time will--and so--
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|I do conceive.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to
Timon of Athens|TIMON|the lip of his mistress: your diet shall be in all
Timon of Athens|TIMON|places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let
Timon of Athens|TIMON|the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with
Timon of Athens|TIMON|thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves
Timon of Athens|TIMON|praised: but reserve still to give, lest your
Timon of Athens|TIMON|deities be despised. Lend to each man enough, that
Timon of Athens|TIMON|one need not lend to another, for, were your
Timon of Athens|TIMON|godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake the
Timon of Athens|TIMON|gods. Make the meat be beloved more than the man
Timon of Athens|TIMON|that gives it. Let no assembly of twenty be without
Timon of Athens|TIMON|a score of villains: if there sit twelve women at
Timon of Athens|TIMON|the table, let a dozen of them be--as they are. The
Timon of Athens|TIMON|rest of your fees, O gods--the senators of Athens,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|together with the common lag of people--what is
Timon of Athens|TIMON|amiss in them, you gods, make suitable for
Timon of Athens|TIMON|destruction. For these my present friends, as they
Timon of Athens|TIMON|are to me nothing, so in nothing bless them, and to
Timon of Athens|TIMON|nothing are they welcome.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Uncover, dogs, and lap.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The dishes are uncovered and seen to be full of warm water
Timon of Athens|Some Speak|What does his lordship mean?
Timon of Athens|Some Others|I know not.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|May you a better feast never behold,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You knot of mouth-friends I smoke and lukewarm water
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Is your perfection. This is Timon's last,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Who, stuck and spangled with your flatteries,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Washes it off, and sprinkles in your faces
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Your reeking villany.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Throwing the water in their faces
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Live loathed and long,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of man and beast the infinite malady
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Crust you quite o'er! What, dost thou go?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Soft! take thy physic first--thou too--and thou,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Stay, I will lend thee money, borrow none.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Throws the dishes at them, and drives them out
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What, all in motion? Henceforth be no feast,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whereat a villain's not a welcome guest.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Burn, house! sink, Athens! henceforth hated be
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of Timon man and all humanity!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Re-enter the Lords, Senators,  and c
Timon of Athens|First Lord|How now, my lords!
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Know you the quality of Lord Timon's fury?
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|Push! did you see my cap?
Timon of Athens|Fourth Lord|I have lost my gown.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|He's but a mad lord, and nought but humour sways him.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|He gave me a jewel th' other day, and now he has
Timon of Athens|First Lord|beat it out of my hat: did you see my jewel?
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|Did you see my cap?
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Here 'tis.
Timon of Athens|Fourth Lord|Here lies my gown.
Timon of Athens|First Lord|Let's make no stay.
Timon of Athens|Second Lord|Lord Timon's mad.
Timon of Athens|Third Lord|I feel 't upon my bones.
Timon of Athens|Fourth Lord|One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones.
Timon of Athens|Fourth Lord|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|Fourth Lord|ACT IV
Timon of Athens|Fourth Lord|SCENE I. Without the walls of Athens.
Timon of Athens|Fourth Lord|Enter TIMON
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Obedience fail in children! slaves and fools,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And minister in their steads! to general filths
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Convert o' the instant, green virginity,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Do 't in your parents' eyes! bankrupts, hold fast,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Rather than render back, out with your knives,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And cut your trusters' throats! bound servants, steal!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's bed,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thy mistress is o' the brothel! Son of sixteen,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With it beat out his brains! Piety, and fear,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Degrees, observances, customs, and laws,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Decline to your confounding contraries,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And let confusion live! Plagues, incident to men,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Your potent and infectious fevers heap
Timon of Athens|TIMON|On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As lamely as their manners. Lust and liberty
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Sow all the Athenian bosoms, and their crop
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|at their society, as their friendship, may
Timon of Athens|TIMON|merely poison! Nothing I'll bear from thee,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But nakedness, thou detestable town!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Timon will to the woods, where he shall find
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The gods confound--hear me, you good gods all--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The Athenians both within and out that wall!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To the whole race of mankind, high and low! Amen.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit
Timon of Athens|TIMON|SCENE II. Athens. A room in Timon's house.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter FLAVIUS, with two or three Servants
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Hear you, master steward, where's our master?
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Are we undone? cast off? nothing remaining?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Let me be recorded by the righteous gods,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I am as poor as you.
Timon of Athens|First Servant|Such a house broke!
Timon of Athens|First Servant|So noble a master fall'n! All gone! and not
Timon of Athens|First Servant|One friend to take his fortune by the arm,
Timon of Athens|First Servant|And go along with him!
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|As we do turn our backs
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|From our companion thrown into his grave,
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|So his familiars to his buried fortunes
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|Like empty purses pick'd, and his poor self,
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|A dedicated beggar to the air,
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty,
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|Walks, like contempt, alone. More of our fellows.
Timon of Athens|Second Servant|Enter other Servants
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|All broken implements of a ruin'd house.
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery,
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|That see I by our faces, we are fellows still,
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|Serving alike in sorrow: leak'd is our bark,
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck,
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|Hearing the surges threat: we must all part
Timon of Athens|Third Servant|Into this sea of air.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Good fellows all,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Let's yet be fellows, let's shake our heads, and say,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortunes,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|'We have seen better days.' Let each take some,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Servants embrace, and part several ways
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Since riches point to misery and contempt?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Who would be so mock'd with glory? or to live
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|But in a dream of friendship?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To have his pomp and all what state compounds
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|But only painted, like his varnish'd friends?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|When man's worst sin is, he does too much good!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Who, then, dares to be half so kind again?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|My dearest lord, bless'd, to be most accursed,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunes
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Of monstrous friends, nor has he with him to
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Supply his life, or that which can command it.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I'll follow and inquire him out:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I'll ever serve his mind with my best will,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Whilst I have gold, I'll be his steward still.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Exit
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|SCENE III. Woods and cave, near the seashore.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Enter TIMON, from the cave
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Rotten humidity, below thy sister's orb
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Infect the air! Twinn'd brothers of one womb,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Whose procreation, residence, and birth,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Scarce is dividant, touch them with several fortunes,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The greater scorns the lesser: not nature,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|But by contempt of nature.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Raise me this beggar, and deny 't that lord,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The senator shall bear contempt hereditary,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The beggar native honour.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|It is the pasture lards the rother's sides,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|In purity of manhood stand upright,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And say 'This man's a flatterer?' if one be,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|So are they all, for every grise of fortune
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Is smooth'd by that below: the learned pate
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|There's nothing level in our cursed natures,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|But direct villany. Therefore, be abhorr'd
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Destruction fang mankind! Earth, yield me roots!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Digging
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|With thy most operant poison! What is here?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I am no idle votarist: roots, you clear heavens!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Will lug your priests and servants from your sides,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|This yellow slave
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And give them title, knee and approbation
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|With senators on the bench: this is it
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That makes the wappen'd widow wed again,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To the April day again. Come, damned earth,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Thou common whore of mankind, that put'st odds
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Among the route of nations, I will make thee
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Do thy right nature.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|March afar off
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Ha! a drum ? Thou'rt quick,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|But yet I'll bury thee: thou'lt go, strong thief,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Nay, stay thou out for earnest.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Keeping some gold
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Enter ALCIBIADES, with drum and fife, in warlike manner, PHRYNIA and TIMANDRA
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|What art thou there? speak.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For showing me again the eyes of man!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|What is thy name? Is man so hateful to thee,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|That art thyself a man?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That I might love thee something.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I know thee well,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I know thee too, and more than that I know thee,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I not desire to know. Follow thy drum,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Religious canons, civil laws are cruel,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hath in her more destruction than thy sword,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For all her cherubim look.
Timon of Athens|PHRYNIA|Thy lips rot off!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I will not kiss thee, then the rot returns
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To thine own lips again.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|How came the noble Timon to this change?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As the moon does, by wanting light to give:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But then renew I could not, like the moon,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|There were no suns to borrow of.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Noble Timon,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|What friendship may I do thee?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|None, but to
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Maintain my opinion.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|What is it, Timon?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Promise me friendship, but perform none: if thou
Timon of Athens|TIMON|wilt not promise, the gods plague thee, for thou art
Timon of Athens|TIMON|a man! if thou dost perform, confound thee, for
Timon of Athens|TIMON|thou art a man!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I have heard in some sort of thy miseries.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou saw'st them, when I had prosperity.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I see them now, then was a blessed time.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots.
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|Is this the Athenian minion, whom the world
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|Voiced so regardfully?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Art thou Timandra?
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|Yes.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be a whore still: they love thee not that use thee,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Give them diseases, leaving with thee their lust.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Make use of thy salt hours: season the slaves
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For tubs and baths, bring down rose-cheeked youth
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To the tub-fast and the diet.
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|Hang thee, monster!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Pardon him, sweet Timandra, for his wits
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Are drown'd and lost in his calamities.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I have but little gold of late, brave Timon,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|The want whereof doth daily make revolt
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|In my penurious band: I have heard, and grieved,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Forgetting thy great deeds, when neighbour states,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|But for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I prithee, beat thy drum, and get thee gone.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I am thy friend, and pity thee, dear Timon.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I had rather be alone.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Why, fare thee well:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Here is some gold for thee.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Keep it, I cannot eat it.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|When I have laid proud Athens on a heap,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Warr'st thou 'gainst Athens?
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Ay, Timon, and have cause.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The gods confound them all in thy conquest,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And thee after, when thou hast conquer'd!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Why me, Timon?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That, by killing of villains,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou wast born to conquer my country.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Put up thy gold: go on,--here's gold,--go on,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be as a planetary plague, when Jove
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In the sick air: let not thy sword skip one:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Pity not honour'd age for his white beard,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|He is an usurer: strike me the counterfeit matron,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|It is her habit only that is honest,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Herself's a bawd: let not the virgin's cheek
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Make soft thy trenchant sword, for those milk-paps,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Are not within the leaf of pity writ,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But set them down horrible traitors: spare not the babe,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Think it a bastard, whom the oracle
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hath doubtfully pronounced thy throat shall cut,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And mince it sans remorse: swear against objects,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whose proof, nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Shall pierce a jot. There's gold to pay soldiers:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Make large confusion, and, thy fury spent,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Confounded be thyself! Speak not, be gone.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Hast thou gold yet? I'll take the gold thou
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|givest me,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Not all thy counsel.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Dost thou, or dost thou not, heaven's curse
Timon of Athens|TIMON|upon thee!
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|Give us some gold, good Timon: hast thou more?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enough to make a whore forswear her trade,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And to make whores, a bawd. Hold up, you sluts,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Your aprons mountant: you are not oathable,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Although, I know, you 'll swear, terribly swear
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The immortal gods that hear you,--spare your oaths,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll trust to your conditions: be whores still,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let your close fire predominate his smoke,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And be no turncoats: yet may your pains, six months,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be quite contrary: and thatch your poor thin roofs
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With burthens of the dead,--some that were hang'd,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|No matter:--wear them, betray with them: whore still,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Paint till a horse may mire upon your face,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A pox of wrinkles!
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|Well, more gold: what then?
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|Believe't, that we'll do any thing for gold.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Consumptions sow
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In hollow bones of man, strike their sharp shins,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That he may never more false title plead,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Nor sound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flamen,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That scolds against the quality of flesh,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And not believes himself: down with the nose,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Down with it flat, take the bridge quite away
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of him that, his particular to foresee,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Smells from the general weal: make curl'd-pate
Timon of Athens|TIMON|ruffians bald,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Derive some pain from you: plague all,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That your activity may defeat and quell
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The source of all erection. There's more gold:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Do you damn others, and let this damn you,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And ditches grave you all!
Timon of Athens|TIMANDRA|More counsel with more money, bounteous Timon.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|More whore, more mischief first, I have given you earnest.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Strike up the drum towards Athens! Farewell, Timon:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If I hope well, I'll never see thee more.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|I never did thee harm.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Yes, thou spokest well of me.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Call'st thou that harm?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Men daily find it. Get thee away, and take
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thy beagles with thee.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|We but offend him. Strike!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Drum beats. Exeunt ALCIBIADES, PHRYNIA, and TIMANDRA
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That nature, being sick of man's unkindness,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Should yet be hungry! Common mother, thou,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Digging
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whose womb unmeasurable, and infinite breast,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Teems, and feeds all, whose self-same mettle,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is puff'd,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Engenders the black toad and adder blue,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Yield him, who all thy human sons doth hate,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let it no more bring out ingrateful man!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hath to the marbled mansion all above
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Never presented!--O, a root,--dear thanks!--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That from it all consideration slips!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter APEMANTUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|More man? plague, plague!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I was directed hither: men report
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou dost affect my manners, and dost use them.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|'Tis, then, because thou dost not keep a dog,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whom I would imitate: consumption catch thee!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|This is in thee a nature but infected,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|This slave-like habit? and these looks of care?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Hug their diseased perfumes, and have forgot
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|By putting on the cunning of a carper.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|And let his very breath, whom thou'lt observe,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Blow off thy cap, praise his most vicious strain,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|And call it excellent: thou wast told thus,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To knaves and all approachers: 'tis most just
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That thou turn rascal, hadst thou wealth again,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Rascals should have 't. Do not assume my likeness.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Were I like thee, I'ld throw away myself.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|A madman so long, now a fool. What, think'st
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Will put thy shirt on warm? will these moss'd trees,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|And skip where thou point'st out? will the
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|cold brook,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Whose naked natures live in an the spite
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To the conflicting elements exposed,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Answer mere nature, bid them flatter thee,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|O, thou shalt find--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A fool of thee: depart.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I love thee better now than e'er I did.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I hate thee worse.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Why?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou flatter'st misery.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I flatter not, but say thou art a caitiff.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Why dost thou seek me out?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To vex thee.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Always a villain's office or a fool's.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Dost please thyself in't?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Ay.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What! a knave too?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|To castigate thy pride, 'twere well: but thou
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Dost it enforcedly, thou'ldst courtier be again,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Outlives encertain pomp, is crown'd before:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|The one is filling still, never complete,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|The other, at high wish: best state, contentless,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Hath a distracted and most wretched being,
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Worse than the worst, content.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Not by his breath that is more miserable.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm
Timon of Athens|TIMON|With favour never clasp'd, but bred a dog.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The sweet degrees that this brief world affords
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To such as may the passive drugs of it
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In general riot, melted down thy youth
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In different beds of lust, and never learn'd
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The icy precepts of respect, but follow'd
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The sugar'd game before thee. But myself,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Who had the world as my confectionary,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men
Timon of Athens|TIMON|At duty, more than I could frame employment,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That numberless upon me stuck as leaves
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Do on the oak, hive with one winter's brush
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Fell from their boughs and left me open, bare
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For every storm that blows: I, to bear this,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That never knew but better, is some burden:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hath made thee hard in't. Why shouldst thou hate men?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|They never flatter'd thee: what hast thou given?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If thou wilt curse, thy father, that poor rag,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Must be thy subject, who in spite put stuff
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To some she beggar and compounded thee
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Poor rogue hereditary. Hence, be gone!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Art thou proud yet?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ay, that I am not thee.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I, that I was
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|No prodigal.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I, that I am one now:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Were all the wealth I have shut up in thee,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'ld give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That the whole life of Athens were in this!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thus would I eat it.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Eating a root
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Here, I will mend thy feast.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Offering him a root
Timon of Athens|TIMON|First mend my company, take away thyself.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|So I shall mend mine own, by the lack of thine.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|'Tis not well mended so, it is but botch'd,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|if not, I would it were.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|What wouldst thou have to Athens?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Tell them there I have gold, look, so I have.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Here is no use for gold.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The best and truest,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Where liest o' nights, Timon?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Under that's above me.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Where feed'st thou o' days, Apemantus?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Where my stomach finds meat, or, rather, where I eat
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|it.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Would poison were obedient and knew my mind!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Where wouldst thou send it?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To sauce thy dishes.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|extremity of both ends: when thou wast in thy gilt
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|curiosity, in thy rags thou knowest none, but art
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|despised for the contrary. There's a medlar for
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|thee, eat it.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|On what I hate I feed not.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Dost hate a medlar?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ay, though it look like thee.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou shouldst
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|have loved thyself better now. What man didst thou
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Who, without those means thou talkest of, didst thou
Timon of Athens|TIMON|ever know beloved?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Myself.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I understand thee, thou hadst some means to keep a
Timon of Athens|TIMON|dog.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|What things in the world canst thou nearest compare
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|to thy flatterers?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Women nearest, but men, men are the things
Timon of Athens|TIMON|themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Apemantus, if it lay in thy power?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of
Timon of Athens|TIMON|men, and remain a beast with the beasts?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Ay, Timon.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t'
Timon of Athens|TIMON|attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would
Timon of Athens|TIMON|beguile thee, if thou wert the lamb, the fox would
Timon of Athens|TIMON|eat three: if thou wert the fox, the lion would
Timon of Athens|TIMON|suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by
Timon of Athens|TIMON|the ass: if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would
Timon of Athens|TIMON|torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a
Timon of Athens|TIMON|breakfast to the wolf: if thou wert the wolf, thy
Timon of Athens|TIMON|greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst
Timon of Athens|TIMON|hazard thy life for thy dinner: wert thou the
Timon of Athens|TIMON|unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and
Timon of Athens|TIMON|make thine own self the conquest of thy fury: wert
Timon of Athens|TIMON|thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by the horse:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by the
Timon of Athens|TIMON|leopard: wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to
Timon of Athens|TIMON|the lion and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on
Timon of Athens|TIMON|thy life: all thy safety were remotion and thy
Timon of Athens|TIMON|defence absence. What beast couldst thou be, that
Timon of Athens|TIMON|were not subject to a beast? and what a beast art
Timon of Athens|TIMON|thou already, that seest not thy loss in
Timon of Athens|TIMON|transformation!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|mightst have hit upon it here: the commonwealth of
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Athens is become a forest of beasts.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the city?
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Yonder comes a poet and a painter: the plague of
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|company light upon thee! I will fear to catch it
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|and give way: when I know not what else to do, I'll
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|see thee again.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be
Timon of Athens|TIMON|welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|A plague on thee! thou art too bad to curse.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|All villains that do stand by thee are pure.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|There is no leprosy but what thou speak'st.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If I name thee.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|I would my tongue could rot them off!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Away, thou issue of a mangy dog!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Choler does kill me that thou art alive,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I swound to see thee.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Would thou wouldst burst!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Away,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou tedious rogue! I am sorry I shall lose
Timon of Athens|TIMON|A stone by thee.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Throws a stone at him
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Beast!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Slave!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Toad!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Rogue, rogue, rogue!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I am sick of this false world, and will love nought
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But even the mere necessities upon 't.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lie where the light foam the sea may beat
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thy grave-stone daily: make thine epitaph,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That death in me at others' lives may laugh.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To the gold
Timon of Athens|TIMON|O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce
Timon of Athens|TIMON|'Twixt natural son and sire! thou bright defiler
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of Hymen's purest bed! thou valiant Mars!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou ever young, fresh, loved and delicate wooer,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That lies on Dian's lap! thou visible god,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That solder'st close impossibilities,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And makest them kiss! that speak'st with
Timon of Athens|TIMON|every tongue,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Think, thy slave man rebels, and by thy virtue
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Set them into confounding odds, that beasts
Timon of Athens|TIMON|May have the world in empire!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Would 'twere so!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|But not till I am dead. I'll say thou'st gold:
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Thou wilt be throng'd to shortly.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Throng'd to!
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Ay.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thy back, I prithee.
Timon of Athens|APEMANTUS|Live, and love thy misery.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Long live so, and so die.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit APEMANTUS
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I am quit.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Moe things like men! Eat, Timon, and abhor them.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter Banditti
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|Where should he have this gold? It is some poor
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|fragment, some slender sort of his remainder: the
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|mere want of gold, and the falling-from of his
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|friends, drove him into this melancholy.
Timon of Athens|Second Bandit|It is noised he hath a mass of treasure.
Timon of Athens|Third Bandit|Let us make the assay upon him: if he care not
Timon of Athens|Third Bandit|for't, he will supply us easily, if he covetously
Timon of Athens|Third Bandit|reserve it, how shall's get it?
Timon of Athens|Second Bandit|True, for he bears it not about him, 'tis hid.
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|Is not this he?
Timon of Athens|Banditti|Where?
Timon of Athens|Second Bandit|'Tis his description.
Timon of Athens|Third Bandit|He, I know him.
Timon of Athens|Banditti|Save thee, Timon.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Now, thieves?
Timon of Athens|Banditti|Soldiers, not thieves.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Both too, and women's sons.
Timon of Athens|Banditti|We are not thieves, but men that much do want.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Your greatest want is, you want much of meat.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Within this mile break forth a hundred springs,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lays her full mess before you. Want! why want?
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|We cannot live on grass, on berries, water,
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|As beasts and birds and fishes.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds, and fishes,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You must eat men. Yet thanks I must you con
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In holier shapes: for there is boundless theft
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In limited professions. Rascal thieves,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And so 'scape hanging: trust not the physician,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|His antidotes are poison, and he slays
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Moe than you rob: take wealth and lives together,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Do villany, do, since you protest to do't,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And her pale fire she snatches from the sun:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
Timon of Athens|TIMON|From general excrement: each thing's a thief:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Have uncheque'd theft. Love not yourselves: away,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Rob one another. There's more gold. Cut throats:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Break open shops, nothing can you steal,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But thieves do lose it: steal no less for this
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I give you, and gold confound you howsoe'er! Amen.
Timon of Athens|Third Bandit|Has almost charmed me from my profession, by
Timon of Athens|Third Bandit|persuading me to it.
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|'Tis in the malice of mankind that he thus advises
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|us, not to have us thrive in our mystery.
Timon of Athens|Second Bandit|I'll believe him as an enemy, and give over my trade.
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|Let us first see peace in Athens: there is no time
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|so miserable but a man may be true.
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|Exeunt Banditti
Timon of Athens|First Bandit|Enter FLAVIUS
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|O you gods!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Full of decay and failing? O monument
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|What an alteration of honour
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Has desperate want made!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|What viler thing upon the earth than friends
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|How rarely does it meet with this time's guise,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|When man was wish'd to love his enemies!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Grant I may ever love, and rather woo
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Those that would mischief me than those that do!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Has caught me in his eye: I will present
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|My honest grief unto him, and, as my lord,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Still serve him with my life. My dearest master!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Away! what art thou?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Have you forgot me, sir?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Then, if thou grant'st thou'rt a man, I have forgot thee.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|An honest poor servant of yours.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Then I know thee not:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I never had honest man about me, I, all
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|The gods are witness,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For his undone lord than mine eyes for you.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What, dost thou weep? Come nearer. Then I
Timon of Athens|TIMON|love thee,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Flinty mankind, whose eyes do never give
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|I beg of you to know me, good my lord,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To accept my grief and whilst this poor wealth lasts
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To entertain me as your steward still.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Had I a steward
Timon of Athens|TIMON|So true, so just, and now so comfortable?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|It almost turns my dangerous nature mild.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let me behold thy face. Surely, this man
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Was born of woman.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Forgive my general and exceptless rashness,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You perpetual-sober gods! I do proclaim
Timon of Athens|TIMON|One honest man--mistake me not--but one,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|No more, I pray,--and he's a steward.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|How fain would I have hated all mankind!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And thou redeem'st thyself: but all, save thee,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I fell with curses.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Methinks thou art more honest now than wise,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For, by oppressing and betraying me,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou mightst have sooner got another service:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For many so arrive at second masters,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Upon their first lord's neck. But tell me true--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For I must ever doubt, though ne'er so sure--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Expecting in return twenty for one?
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|No, my most worthy master, in whose breast
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|You should have fear'd false times when you did feast:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Suspect still comes where an estate is least.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Duty and zeal to your unmatched mind,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Care of your food and living, and, believe it,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|My most honour'd lord,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For any benefit that points to me,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Either in hope or present, I'ld exchange
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For this one wish, that you had power and wealth
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|To requite me, by making rich yourself.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Look thee, 'tis so! Thou singly honest man,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Here, take: the gods out of my misery
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich and happy,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But thus condition'd: thou shalt build from men,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hate all, curse all, show charity to none,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ere thou relieve the beggar, give to dogs
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What thou deny'st to men, let prisons swallow 'em,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Debts wither 'em to nothing, be men like
Timon of Athens|TIMON|blasted woods,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And may diseases lick up their false bloods!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And so farewell and thrive.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|O, let me stay,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|And comfort you, my master.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If thou hatest curses,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Stay not, fly, whilst thou art blest and free:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ne'er see thou man, and let me ne'er see thee.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Exit FLAVIUS. TIMON retires to his cave
Timon of Athens|TIMON|ACT V
Timon of Athens|TIMON|SCENE I. The woods. Before Timon's cave.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter Poet and Painter, TIMON watching them from his cave
Timon of Athens|Painter|As I took note of the place, it cannot be far where
Timon of Athens|Painter|he abides.
Timon of Athens|Poet|What's to be thought of him? does the rumour hold
Timon of Athens|Poet|for true, that he's so full of gold?
Timon of Athens|Painter|Certain: Alcibiades reports it, Phrynia and
Timon of Athens|Painter|Timandra had gold of him: he likewise enriched poor
Timon of Athens|Painter|straggling soldiers with great quantity: 'tis said
Timon of Athens|Painter|he gave unto his steward a mighty sum.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends.
Timon of Athens|Painter|Nothing else: you shall see him a palm in Athens
Timon of Athens|Painter|again, and flourish with the highest. Therefore
Timon of Athens|Painter|'tis not amiss we tender our loves to him, in this
Timon of Athens|Painter|supposed distress of his: it will show honestly in
Timon of Athens|Painter|us, and is very likely to load our purposes with
Timon of Athens|Painter|what they travail for, if it be a just true report
Timon of Athens|Painter|that goes of his having.
Timon of Athens|Poet|What have you now to present unto him?
Timon of Athens|Painter|Nothing at this time but my visitation: only I will
Timon of Athens|Painter|promise him an excellent piece.
Timon of Athens|Poet|I must serve him so too, tell him of an intent
Timon of Athens|Poet|that's coming toward him.
Timon of Athens|Painter|Good as the best. Promising is the very air o' the
Timon of Athens|Painter|time: it opens the eyes of expectation:
Timon of Athens|Painter|performance is ever the duller for his act, and,
Timon of Athens|Painter|but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the
Timon of Athens|Painter|deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is
Timon of Athens|Painter|most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind
Timon of Athens|Painter|of will or testament which argues a great sickness
Timon of Athens|Painter|in his judgment that makes it.
Timon of Athens|Painter|TIMON comes from his cave, behind
Timon of Athens|TIMON|[Aside]  Excellent workman! thou canst not paint a
Timon of Athens|TIMON|man so bad as is thyself.
Timon of Athens|Poet|I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for
Timon of Athens|Poet|him: it must be a personating of himself, a satire
Timon of Athens|Poet|against the softness of prosperity, with a discovery
Timon of Athens|Poet|of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|[Aside]  Must thou needs stand for a villain in
Timon of Athens|TIMON|thine own work? wilt thou whip thine own faults in
Timon of Athens|TIMON|other men? Do so, I have gold for thee.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Nay, let's seek him:
Timon of Athens|Poet|Then do we sin against our own estate,
Timon of Athens|Poet|When we may profit meet, and come too late.
Timon of Athens|Painter|True,
Timon of Athens|Painter|When the day serves, before black-corner'd night,
Timon of Athens|Painter|Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light. Come.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|[Aside]  I'll meet you at the turn. What a
Timon of Athens|TIMON|god's gold,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Than where swine feed!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|'Tis thou that rigg'st the bark and plough'st the foam,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Settlest admired reverence in a slave:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To thee be worship! and thy saints for aye
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be crown'd with plagues that thee alone obey!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Fit I meet them.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Coming forward
Timon of Athens|Poet|Hail, worthy Timon!
Timon of Athens|Painter|Our late noble master!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Have I once lived to see two honest men?
Timon of Athens|Poet|Sir,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Having often of your open bounty tasted,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Hearing you were retired, your friends fall'n off,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Whose thankless natures--O abhorred spirits!--
Timon of Athens|Poet|Not all the whips of heaven are large enough:
Timon of Athens|Poet|What! to you,
Timon of Athens|Poet|Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence
Timon of Athens|Poet|To their whole being! I am rapt and cannot cover
Timon of Athens|Poet|The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude
Timon of Athens|Poet|With any size of words.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let it go naked, men may see't the better:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You that are honest, by being what you are,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Make them best seen and known.
Timon of Athens|Painter|He and myself
Timon of Athens|Painter|Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts,
Timon of Athens|Painter|And sweetly felt it.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ay, you are honest men.
Timon of Athens|Painter|We are hither come to offer you our service.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Most honest men! Why, how shall I requite you?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? no.
Timon of Athens|Both|What we can do, we'll do, to do you service.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ye're honest men: ye've heard that I have gold,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I am sure you have: speak truth, ye're honest men.
Timon of Athens|Painter|So it is said, my noble lord, but therefore
Timon of Athens|Painter|Came not my friend nor I.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Good honest men! Thou draw'st a counterfeit
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Best in all Athens: thou'rt, indeed, the best,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou counterfeit'st most lively.
Timon of Athens|Painter|So, so, my lord.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|E'en so, sir, as I say. And, for thy fiction,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That thou art even natural in thine art.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But, for all this, my honest-natured friends,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I must needs say you have a little fault:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Marry, 'tis not monstrous in you, neither wish I
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You take much pains to mend.
Timon of Athens|Both|Beseech your honour
Timon of Athens|Both|To make it known to us.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You'll take it ill.
Timon of Athens|Both|Most thankfully, my lord.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Will you, indeed?
Timon of Athens|Both|Doubt it not, worthy lord.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|There's never a one of you but trusts a knave,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That mightily deceives you.
Timon of Athens|Both|Do we, my lord?
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Ay, and you hear him cog, see him dissemble,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Keep in your bosom: yet remain assured
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That he's a made-up villain.
Timon of Athens|Painter|I know none such, my lord.
Timon of Athens|Poet|Nor I.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Look you, I love you well, I'll give you gold,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Rid me these villains from your companies:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Confound them by some course, and come to me,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll give you gold enough.
Timon of Athens|Both|Name them, my lord, let's know them.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You that way and you this, but two in company,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Each man apart, all single and alone,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Yet an arch-villain keeps him company.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If where thou art two villains shall not be,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Come not near him. If thou wouldst not reside
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But where one villain is, then him abandon.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Hence, pack! there's gold, you came for gold, ye slaves:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To Painter
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You have work'd for me, there's payment for you: hence!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To Poet
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You are an alchemist, make gold of that.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Out, rascal dogs!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Beats them out, and then retires to his cave
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Enter FLAVIUS and two Senators
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|It is in vain that you would speak with Timon,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|For he is set so only to himself
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|That nothing but himself which looks like man
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Is friendly with him.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Bring us to his cave:
Timon of Athens|First Senator|It is our part and promise to the Athenians
Timon of Athens|First Senator|To speak with Timon.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|At all times alike
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Men are not still the same: 'twas time and griefs
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|That framed him thus: time, with his fairer hand,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Offering the fortunes of his former days,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|The former man may make him. Bring us to him,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And chance it as it may.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Here is his cave.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Peace and content be here! Lord Timon! Timon!
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Look out, and speak to friends: the Athenians,
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|By two of their most reverend senate, greet thee:
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Speak to them, noble Timon.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|TIMON comes from his cave
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Thou sun, that comfort'st, burn! Speak, and
Timon of Athens|TIMON|be hang'd:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|For each true word, a blister! and each false
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be as cauterizing to the root o' the tongue,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Consuming it with speaking!
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Worthy Timon,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I thank them, and would send them back the plague,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Could I but catch it for them.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|O, forget
Timon of Athens|First Senator|What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|The senators with one consent of love
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Entreat thee back to Athens, who have thought
Timon of Athens|First Senator|On special dignities, which vacant lie
Timon of Athens|First Senator|For thy best use and wearing.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|They confess
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Toward thee forgetfulness too general, gross:
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Which now the public body, which doth seldom
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Play the recanter, feeling in itself
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Of its own fail, restraining aid to Timon,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And send forth us, to make their sorrow'd render,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Together with a recompense more fruitful
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Than their offence can weigh down by the dram,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|As shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And write in thee the figures of their love,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Ever to read them thine.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|You witch me in it,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Surprise me to the very brink of tears:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Therefore, so please thee to return with us
Timon of Athens|First Senator|And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take
Timon of Athens|First Senator|The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Allow'd with absolute power and thy good name
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Live with authority: so soon we shall drive back
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up
Timon of Athens|First Senator|His country's peace.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And shakes his threatening sword
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Against the walls of Athens.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Therefore, Timon,--
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Well, sir, I will, therefore, I will, sir, thus:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|If Alcibiades kill my countrymen,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Let Alcibiades know this of Timon,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That Timon cares not. But if be sack fair Athens,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And take our goodly aged men by the beards,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Giving our holy virgins to the stain
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In pity of our aged and our youth,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I cannot choose but tell him, that I care not,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And let him take't at worst, for their knives care not,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|While you have throats to answer: for myself,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|There's not a whittle in the unruly camp
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But I do prize it at my love before
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The reverend'st throat in Athens. So I leave you
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To the protection of the prosperous gods,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As thieves to keepers.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Stay not, all's in vain.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Why, I was writing of my epitaph,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|it will be seen to-morrow: my long sickness
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Of health and living now begins to mend,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And nothing brings me all things. Go, live still,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Be Alcibiades your plague, you his,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And last so long enough!
Timon of Athens|First Senator|We speak in vain.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|But yet I love my country, and am not
Timon of Athens|TIMON|One that rejoices in the common wreck,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|As common bruit doth put it.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|That's well spoke.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Commend me to my loving countrymen,--
Timon of Athens|First Senator|These words become your lips as they pass
Timon of Athens|First Senator|thorough them.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And enter in our ears like great triumphers
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|In their applauding gates.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Commend me to them,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And tell them that, to ease them of their griefs,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Their pangs of love, with other incident throes
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain
Timon of Athens|TIMON|In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|I like this well, he will return again.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|I have a tree, which grows here in my close,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|That mine own use invites me to cut down,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And shortly must I fell it: tell my friends,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree
Timon of Athens|TIMON|From high to low throughout, that whoso please
Timon of Athens|TIMON|To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And hang himself. I pray you, do my greeting.
Timon of Athens|FLAVIUS|Trouble him no further, thus you still shall find him.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Come not to me again: but say to Athens,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Upon the beached verge of the salt flood,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Who once a day with his embossed froth
Timon of Athens|TIMON|The turbulent surge shall cover: thither come,
Timon of Athens|TIMON|And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Lips, let sour words go by and language end:
Timon of Athens|TIMON|What is amiss plague and infection mend!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Graves only be men's works and death their gain!
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.
Timon of Athens|TIMON|Retires to his cave
Timon of Athens|First Senator|His discontents are unremoveably
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Coupled to nature.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Our hope in him is dead: let us return,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And strain what other means is left unto us
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|In our dear peril.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|It requires swift foot.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|First Senator|SCENE II. Before the walls of Athens.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Enter two Senators and a Messenger
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Thou hast painfully discover'd: are his files
Timon of Athens|First Senator|As full as thy report?
Timon of Athens|Messenger|have spoke the least:
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Besides, his expedition promises
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Present approach.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|We stand much hazard, if they bring not Timon.
Timon of Athens|Messenger|I met a courier, one mine ancient friend,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Whom, though in general part we were opposed,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|Yet our old love made a particular force,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|And made us speak like friends: this man was riding
Timon of Athens|Messenger|From Alcibiades to Timon's cave,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|With letters of entreaty, which imported
Timon of Athens|Messenger|His fellowship i' the cause against your city,
Timon of Athens|Messenger|In part for his sake moved.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Here come our brothers.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Enter the Senators from TIMON
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect.
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|The enemies' drum is heard, and fearful scouring
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|Doth choke the air with dust: in, and prepare:
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|Ours is the fall, I fear, our foes the snare.
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|Exeunt
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|SCENE III. The woods. Timon's cave, and a rude tomb seen.
Timon of Athens|Third Senator|Enter a Soldier, seeking TIMON
Timon of Athens|Soldier|By all description this should be the place.
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Who's here? speak, ho! No answer! What is this?
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Timon is dead, who hath outstretch'd his span:
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Some beast rear'd this, there does not live a man.
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Dead, sure, and this his grave. What's on this tomb
Timon of Athens|Soldier|I cannot read, the character I'll take with wax:
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Our captain hath in every figure skill,
Timon of Athens|Soldier|An aged interpreter, though young in days:
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Before proud Athens he's set down by this,
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Whose fall the mark of his ambition is.
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Exit
Timon of Athens|Soldier|SCENE IV. Before the walls of Athens.
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Trumpets sound. Enter ALCIBIADES with his powers
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Sound to this coward and lascivious town
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Our terrible approach.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|A parley sounded
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Enter Senators on the walls
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Till now you have gone on and fill'd the time
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|With all licentious measure, making your wills
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|The scope of justice, till now myself and such
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|As slept within the shadow of your power
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Hav e wander'd with our traversed arms and breathed
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Our sufferance vainly: now the time is flush,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|When crouching marrow in the bearer strong
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Cries of itself 'No more:' now breathless wrong
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And pursy insolence shall break his wind
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|With fear and horrid flight.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Noble and young,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|We sent to thee, to give thy rages balm,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|To wipe out our ingratitude with loves
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Above their quantity.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|So did we woo
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Transformed Timon to our city's love
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|By humble message and by promised means:
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|We were not all unkind, nor all deserve
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|The common stroke of war.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|These walls of ours
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Were not erected by their hands from whom
Timon of Athens|First Senator|You have received your griefs, nor are they such
Timon of Athens|First Senator|That these great towers, trophies and schools
Timon of Athens|First Senator|should fall
Timon of Athens|First Senator|For private faults in them.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Nor are they living
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Who were the motives that you first went out,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Shame that they wanted cunning, in excess
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Into our city with thy banners spread:
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|By decimation, and a tithed death--
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|If thy revenges hunger for that food
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Which nature loathes--take thou the destined tenth,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And by the hazard of the spotted die
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Let die the spotted.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|All have not offended,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|For those that were, it is not square to take
Timon of Athens|First Senator|On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage:
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall
Timon of Athens|First Senator|With those that have offended: like a shepherd,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Approach the fold and cull the infected forth,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|But kill not all together.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|What thou wilt,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Than hew to't with thy sword.
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Set but thy foot
Timon of Athens|First Senator|Against our rampired gates, and they shall ope,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before,
Timon of Athens|First Senator|To say thou'lt enter friendly.
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Throw thy glove,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Or any token of thine honour else,
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|And not as our confusion, all thy powers
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Shall make their harbour in our town, till we
Timon of Athens|Second Senator|Have seal'd thy full desire.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Then there's my glove,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Descend, and open your uncharged ports:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Those enemies of Timon's and mine own
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Fall and no more: and, to atone your fears
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|With my more noble meaning, not a man
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|But shall be render'd to your public laws
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|At heaviest answer.
Timon of Athens|Both|'Tis most nobly spoken.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Descend, and keep your words.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|The Senators descend, and open the gates
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Enter Soldier
Timon of Athens|Soldier|My noble general, Timon is dead,
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea,
Timon of Athens|Soldier|And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which
Timon of Athens|Soldier|With wax I brought away, whose soft impression
Timon of Athens|Soldier|Interprets for my poor ignorance.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|[Reads the epitaph]  'Here lies a
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|caitiffs left!
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Here lie I, Timon, who, alive, all living men did hate:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|not here thy gait.'
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|These well express in thee thy latter spirits:
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|droplets which
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Is noble Timon: of whose memory
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|And I will use the olive with my sword,
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Prescribe to other as each other's leech.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Let our drums strike.
Timon of Athens|ALCIBIADES|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|ALCIBIADES|ACT I
Titus Andronicus|ALCIBIADES|SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol.
Titus Andronicus|ALCIBIADES|The Tomb of the ANDRONICI appearing, the Tribunes  and Senators aloft. Enter, below, from one side,  SATURNINUS and his Followers, and, from the other side, BASSIANUS and his Followers, with drum and colours
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Defend the justice of my cause with arms,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And, countrymen, my loving followers,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Plead my successive title with your swords:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I am his first-born son, that was the last
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That wore the imperial diadem of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Then let my father's honours live in me,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|If ever Bassianus, Caesar's son,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Keep then this passage to the Capitol
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|And suffer not dishonour to approach
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|To justice, continence and nobility,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|But let desert in pure election shine,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Enter MARCUS ANDRONICUS, aloft, with the crown
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Princes, that strive by factions and by friends
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Ambitiously for rule and empery,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|A special party, have, by common voice,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|In election for the Roman empery,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|For many good and great deserts to Rome:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|A nobler man, a braver warrior,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Lives not this day within the city walls:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|He by the senate is accit'd home
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|From weary wars against the barbarous Goths,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That, with his sons, a terror to our foes,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Hath yoked a nation strong, train'd up in arms.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Ten years are spent since first he undertook
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This cause of Rome and chastised with arms
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Our enemies' pride: five times he hath return'd
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|In coffins from the field,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And now at last, laden with horror's spoils,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Returns the good Andronicus to Rome,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Let us entreat, by honour of his name,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Whom worthily you would have now succeed.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And in the Capitol and senate's right,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Whom you pretend to honour and adore,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That you withdraw you and abate your strength,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Dismiss your followers and, as suitors should,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|How fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts!
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Marcus Andronicus, so I do ally
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|In thy uprightness and integrity,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|And so I love and honour thee and thine,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Thy noble brother Titus and his sons,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Gracious Lavinia, Rome's rich ornament,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|That I will here dismiss my loving friends,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|And to my fortunes and the people's favor
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Exeunt the followers of BASSIANUS
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Friends, that have been thus forward in my right,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I thank you all and here dismiss you all,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And to the love and favor of my country
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Commit myself, my person and the cause.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Exeunt the followers of SATURNINUS
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Rome, be as just and gracious unto me
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|As I am confident and kind to thee.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Open the gates, and let me in.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Tribunes, and me, a poor competitor.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Flourish. SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS go up into the Capitol
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Enter a Captain
Titus Andronicus|Captain|Romans, make way: the good Andronicus.
Titus Andronicus|Captain|Patron of virtue, Rome's best champion,
Titus Andronicus|Captain|Successful in the battles that he fights,
Titus Andronicus|Captain|With honour and with fortune is return'd
Titus Andronicus|Captain|From where he circumscribed with his sword,
Titus Andronicus|Captain|And brought to yoke, the enemies of Rome.
Titus Andronicus|Captain|Drums and trumpets sounded. Enter MARTIUS and  MUTIUS, After them, two Men bearing a coffin  covered with black, then LUCIUS and QUINTUS. After  them, TITUS ANDRONICUS, and then TAMORA, with  ALARBUS, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, AARON, and other Goths,  prisoners, Soldiers and people following. The Bearers set down the coffin, and TITUS speaks
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lo, as the bark, that hath discharged her fraught,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Returns with precious jading to the bay
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Cometh Andronicus, bound with laurel boughs,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To re-salute his country with his tears,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tears of true joy for his return to Rome.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou great defender of this Capitol,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Stand gracious to the rites that we intend!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Romans, of five and twenty valiant sons,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Half of the number that King Priam had,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Behold the poor remains, alive and dead!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|These that survive let Rome reward with love,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|These that I bring unto their latest home,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|With burial amongst their ancestors:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Titus, unkind and careless of thine own,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why suffer'st thou thy sons, unburied yet,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Make way to lay them by their brethren.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The tomb is opened
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O sacred receptacle of my joys,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sweet cell of virtue and nobility,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How many sons of mine hast thou in store,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That thou wilt never render to me more!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Before this earthy prison of their bones,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That so the shadows be not unappeased,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I give him you, the noblest that survives,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The eldest son of this distressed queen.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|A mother's tears in passion for her son:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|O, think my son to be as dear to me!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To beautify thy triumphs and return,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|For valiant doings in their country's cause?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|O, if to fight for king and commonweal
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Were piety in thine, it is in these.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Draw near them then in being merciful:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Patient yourself, madam, and pardon me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|These are their brethren, whom you Goths beheld
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Alive and dead, and for their brethren slain
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Religiously they ask a sacrifice:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To this your son is mark'd, and die he must,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To appease their groaning shadows that are gone.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Away with him! and make a fire straight,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And with our swords, upon a pile of wood,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS, and MUTIUS, with ALARBUS
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|O cruel, irreligious piety!
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Was ever Scythia half so barbarous?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Alarbus goes to rest, and we survive
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|To tremble under Titus' threatening looks.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Then, madam, stand resolved, but hope withal
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|The self-same gods that arm'd the Queen of Troy
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|With opportunity of sharp revenge
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|May favor Tamora, the Queen of Goths--
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|When Goths were Goths and Tamora was queen--
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Re-enter LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS and MUTIUS, with their swords bloody
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|See, lord and father, how we have perform'd
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Our Roman rites: Alarbus' limbs are lopp'd,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And entrails feed the sacrificing fire,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Whose smoke, like incense, doth perfume the sky.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Remaineth nought, but to inter our brethren,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And with loud 'larums welcome them to Rome.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Let it be so, and let Andronicus
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Make this his latest farewell to their souls.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Trumpets sounded, and the coffin laid in the tomb
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In peace and honour rest you here, my sons,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here grow no damned grudges, here are no storms,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|No noise, but silence and eternal sleep:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In peace and honour rest you here, my sons!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|In peace and honour live Lord Titus long,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|My noble lord and father, live in fame!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|I render, for my brethren's obsequies,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|And at thy feet I kneel, with tears of joy,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Shed on the earth, for thy return to Rome:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|O, bless me here with thy victorious hand,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Kind Rome, that hast thus lovingly reserved
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The cordial of mine age to glad my heart!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lavinia, live, outlive thy father's days,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter, below, MARCUS ANDRONICUS and Tribunes, re-enter SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS, attended
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Marcus.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And welcome, nephews, from successful wars,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|You that survive, and you that sleep in fame!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That in your country's service drew your swords:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But safer triumph is this funeral pomp,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That hath aspired to Solon's happiness
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And triumphs over chance in honour's bed.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Send thee by me, their tribune and their trust,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This palliament of white and spotless hue,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And name thee in election for the empire,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|With these our late-deceased emperor's sons:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Be candidatus then, and put it on,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And help to set a head on headless Rome.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A better head her glorious body fits
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Than his that shakes for age and feebleness:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What should I don this robe, and trouble you?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Be chosen with proclamations to-day,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To-morrow yield up rule, resign my life,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And set abroad new business for you all?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And led my country's strength successfully,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And buried one and twenty valiant sons,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In right and service of their noble country
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Give me a staff of honour for mine age,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But not a sceptre to control the world:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Upright he held it, lords, that held it last.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Titus, thou shalt obtain and ask the empery.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Patience, Prince Saturninus.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Romans, do me right:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Patricians, draw your swords: and sheathe them not
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Till Saturninus be Rome's emperor.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Andronicus, would thou wert shipp'd to hell,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Rather than rob me of the people's hearts!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Proud Saturnine, interrupter of the good
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That noble-minded Titus means to thee!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Content thee, prince, I will restore to thee
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Andronicus, I do not flatter thee,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|But honour thee, and will do till I die:
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|My faction if thou strengthen with thy friends,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|I will most thankful be, and thanks to men
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Of noble minds is honourable meed.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|People of Rome, and people's tribunes here,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I ask your voices and your suffrages:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?
Titus Andronicus|Tribunes|To gratify the good Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|Tribunes|And gratulate his safe return to Rome,
Titus Andronicus|Tribunes|The people will accept whom he admits.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tribunes, I thank you: and this suit I make,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That you create your emperor's eldest son,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lord Saturnine, whose virtues will, I hope,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Reflect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And ripen justice in this commonweal:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then, if you will elect by my advice,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Crown him and say 'Long live our emperor!'
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|With voices and applause of every sort,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Patricians and plebeians, we create
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Lord Saturninus Rome's great emperor,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And say 'Long live our Emperor Saturnine!'
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|A long flourish till they come down
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Titus Andronicus, for thy favors done
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|To us in our election this day,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And, for an onset, Titus, to advance
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thy name and honourable family,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Lavinia will I make my empress,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my heart,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please thee?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|It doth, my worthy lord, and in this match
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I hold me highly honour'd of your grace:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And here in sight of Rome to Saturnine,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|King and commander of our commonweal,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My sword, my chariot and my prisoners,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Presents well worthy Rome's imperial lord:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Receive them then, the tribute that I owe,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thanks, noble Titus, father of my life!
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Rome shall record, and when I do forget
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|The least of these unspeakable deserts,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Romans, forget your fealty to me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|[To TAMORA]  Now, madam, are you prisoner to
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|an emperor,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To him that, for your honour and your state,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Will use you nobly and your followers.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|A goodly lady, trust me, of the hue
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That I would choose, were I to choose anew.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thou comest not to be made a scorn in Rome:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Princely shall be thy usage every way.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Rest on my word, and let not discontent
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Daunt all your hopes: madam, he comforts you
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Lavinia, you are not displeased with this?
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Not I, my lord, sith true nobility
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Warrants these words in princely courtesy.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Ransomless here we set our prisoners free:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Proclaim our honours, lords, with trump and drum.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Flourish. SATURNINUS courts TAMORA in dumb show
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Lord Titus, by your leave, this maid is mine.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Seizing LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How, sir! are you in earnest then, my lord?
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Ay, noble Titus, and resolved withal
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|To do myself this reason and this right.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|'Suum cuique' is our Roman justice:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This prince in justice seizeth but his own.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And that he will, and shall, if Lucius live.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Traitors, avaunt! Where is the emperor's guard?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Treason, my lord! Lavinia is surprised!
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Surprised! by whom?
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|By him that justly may
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Bear his betroth'd from all the world away.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Exeunt BASSIANUS and MARCUS with LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|Brothers, help to convey her hence away,
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|And with my sword I'll keep this door safe.
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Follow, my lord, and I'll soon bring her back.
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|My lord, you pass not here.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What, villain boy!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Barr'st me my way in Rome?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Stabbing MUTIUS
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|Help, Lucius, help!
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|Dies
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|During the fray, SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON and AARON go out and re-enter, above
Titus Andronicus|MUTIUS|Re-enter LUCIUS
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|My lord, you are unjust, and, more than so,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Nor thou, nor he, are any sons of mine,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My sons would never so dishonour me:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Traitor, restore Lavinia to the emperor.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Dead, if you will, but not to be his wife,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That is another's lawful promised love.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Exit
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|No, Titus, no, the emperor needs her not,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy stock:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I'll trust, by leisure, him that mocks me once,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Confederates all thus to dishonour me.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Was there none else in Rome to make a stale,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|But Saturnine? Full well, Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Agree these deeds with that proud brag of thine,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That said'st I begg'd the empire at thy hands.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O monstrous! what reproachful words are these?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|But go thy ways, go, give that changing piece
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|To him that flourish'd for her with his sword
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|These words are razors to my wounded heart.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And therefore, lovely Tamora, queen of Goths,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That like the stately Phoebe 'mongst her nymphs
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And will create thee empress of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Speak, Queen of Goths, dost thou applaud my choice?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And here I swear by all the Roman gods,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Sith priest and holy water are so near
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And tapers burn so bright and every thing
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|In readiness for Hymenaeus stand,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I will not re-salute the streets of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Or climb my palace, till from forth this place
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I lead espoused my bride along with me.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And here, in sight of heaven, to Rome I swear,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|She will a handmaid be to his desires,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|A loving nurse, a mother to his youth.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Ascend, fair queen, Pantheon. Lords, accompany
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Your noble emperor and his lovely bride,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|There shall we consummate our spousal rites.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Exeunt all but TITUS
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I am not bid to wait upon this bride.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Titus, when wert thou wont to walk alone,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Dishonour'd thus, and challenged of wrongs?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Re-enter MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O Titus, see, O, see what thou hast done!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|No, foolish tribune, no, no son of mine,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the deed
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That hath dishonour'd all our family,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Unworthy brother, and unworthy sons!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|But let us give him burial, as becomes,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Give Mutius burial with our brethren.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Traitors, away! he rests not in this tomb:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This monument five hundred years hath stood,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Which I have sumptuously re-edified:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here none but soldiers and Rome's servitors
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Repose in fame, none basely slain in brawls:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Bury him where you can, he comes not here.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My lord, this is impiety in you:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|He must be buried with his brethren.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|And shall, or him we will accompany.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'And shall!' what villain was it that spake
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|that word?
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|He that would vouch it in any place but here.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What, would you bury him in my despite?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|No, noble Titus, but entreat of thee
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To pardon Mutius and to bury him.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, with these boys, mine honour thou hast wounded:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My foes I do repute you every one,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|So, trouble me no more, but get you gone.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|He is not with himself, let us withdraw.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Not I, till Mutius' bones be buried.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|MARCUS and the Sons of TITUS kneel
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Brother, for in that name doth nature plead,--
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Father, and in that name doth nature speak,--
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Speak thou no more, if all the rest will speed.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Renowned Titus, more than half my soul,--
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Dear father, soul and substance of us all,--
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|His noble nephew here in virtue's nest,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That died in honour and Lavinia's cause.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That slew himself, and wise Laertes' son
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Did graciously plead for his funerals:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Let not young Mutius, then, that was thy joy
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Be barr'd his entrance here.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Rise, Marcus, rise.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Well, bury him, and bury me the next.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|MUTIUS is put into the tomb
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy friends,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.
Titus Andronicus|All|[Kneeling]  No man shed tears for noble Mutius,
Titus Andronicus|All|He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I know not, Marcus, but I know it is,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Is she not then beholding to the man
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That brought her for this high good turn so far?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Yes, and will nobly him remunerate.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, SATURNINUS  attended, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON and AARON, from the other, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, and others
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|So, Bassianus, you have play'd your prize:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|God give you joy, sir, of your gallant bride!
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|And you of yours, my lord! I say no more,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Nor wish no less, and so, I take my leave.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Rape, call you it, my lord, to seize my own,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|My truth-betrothed love and now my wife?
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|But let the laws of Rome determine all,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Meanwhile I am possess'd of that is mine.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|'Tis good, sir: you are very short with us,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|But, if we live, we'll be as sharp with you.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|My lord, what I have done, as best I may,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Answer I must and shall do with my life.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Only thus much I give your grace to know:
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|By all the duties that I owe to Rome,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|This noble gentleman, Lord Titus here,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Is in opinion and in honour wrong'd,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|That in the rescue of Lavinia
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|With his own hand did slay his youngest son,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|In zeal to you and highly moved to wrath
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|To be controll'd in that he frankly gave:
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Receive him, then, to favor, Saturnine,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|That hath express'd himself in all his deeds
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|A father and a friend to thee and Rome.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Prince Bassianus, leave to plead my deeds:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Tis thou and those that have dishonour'd me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Rome and the righteous heavens be my judge,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How I have loved and honour'd Saturnine!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|My worthy lord, if ever Tamora
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Then hear me speak in indifferently for all,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And at my suit, sweet, pardon what is past.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|What, madam! be dishonour'd openly,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And basely put it up without revenge?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Not so, my lord, the gods of Rome forfend
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I should be author to dishonour you!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|But on mine honour dare I undertake
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|For good Lord Titus' innocence in all,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Then, at my suit, look graciously on him,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Aside to SATURNINUS
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|be won at last,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Dissemble all your griefs and discontents:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|You are but newly planted in your throne,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Lest, then, the people, and patricians too,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Upon a just survey, take Titus' part,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And so supplant you for ingratitude,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Yield at entreats, and then let me alone:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I'll find a day to massacre them all
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And raze their faction and their family,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The cruel father and his traitorous sons,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To whom I sued for my dear son's life,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Aloud
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Come, come, sweet emperor, come, Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Take up this good old man, and cheer the heart
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|That dies in tempest of thy angry frown.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Rise, Titus, rise, my empress hath prevail'd.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I thank your majesty, and her, my lord:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|These words, these looks, infuse new life in me.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|A Roman now adopted happily,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And must advise the emperor for his good.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|This day all quarrels die, Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And let it be mine honour, good my lord,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|That I have reconciled your friends and you.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|For you, Prince Bassianus, I have pass'd
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|My word and promise to the emperor,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|That you will be more mild and tractable.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And fear not lords, and you, Lavinia,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|By my advice, all humbled on your knees,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|You shall ask pardon of his majesty.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|We do, and vow to heaven and to his highness,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That what we did was mildly as we might,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Tendering our sister's honour and our own.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That, on mine honour, here I do protest.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Away, and talk not, trouble us no more.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Nay, nay, sweet emperor, we must all be friends:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I will not be denied: sweet heart, look back.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Marcus, for thy sake and thy brother's here,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And at my lovely Tamora's entreats,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I do remit these young men's heinous faults: Stand up.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I found a friend, and sure as death I swore
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I would not part a bachelor from the priest.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Come, if the emperor's court can feast two brides,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|This day shall be a love-day, Tamora.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To-morrow, an it please your majesty
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To hunt the panther and the hart with me,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|With horn and hound we'll give your grace bonjour.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Be it so, Titus, and gramercy too.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Flourish. Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|ACT II
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|SCENE I. Rome. Before the Palace.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Enter AARON
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Safe out of fortune's shot, and sits aloft,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Advanced above pale envy's threatening reach.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|As when the golden sun salutes the morn,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And overlooks the highest-peering hills,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|So Tamora:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To mount aloft with thy imperial mistress,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Hast prisoner held, fetter'd in amorous chains
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And faster bound to Aaron's charming eyes
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To wait upon this new-made empress.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Holloa! what storm is this?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, braving
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And manners, to intrude where I am graced,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And may, for aught thou know'st, affected be.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Demetrius, thou dost over-ween in all,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And so in this, to bear me down with braves.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|'Tis not the difference of a year or two
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate:
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|I am as able and as fit as thou
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|To serve, and to deserve my mistress' grace,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And that my sword upon thee shall approve,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And plead my passions for Lavinia's love.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|[Aside]  Clubs, clubs! these lovers will not keep
Titus Andronicus|AARON|the peace.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Are you so desperate grown, to threat your friends?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Go to, have your lath glued within your sheath
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Till you know better how to handle it.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Full well shalt thou perceive how much I dare.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Ay, boy, grow ye so brave?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|They draw
Titus Andronicus|AARON|[Coming forward]  Why, how now, lords!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|So near the emperor's palace dare you draw,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And maintain such a quarrel openly?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I would not for a million of gold
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The cause were known to them it most concerns,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Nor would your noble mother for much more
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Be so dishonour'd in the court of Rome.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|For shame, put up.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Not I, till I have sheathed
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|My rapier in his bosom and withal
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|That he hath breathed in my dishonour here.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|For that I am prepared and full resolved.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And with thy weapon nothing darest perform!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Away, I say!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This petty brabble will undo us all.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
Titus Andronicus|AARON|It is to jet upon a prince's right?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|What, is Lavinia then become so loose,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Or Bassianus so degenerate,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That for her love such quarrels may be broach'd
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Without controlment, justice, or revenge?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Young lords, beware! and should the empress know
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This discord's ground, the music would not please.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|I care not, I, knew she and all the world:
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|I love Lavinia more than all the world.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Youngling, learn thou to make some meaner choice:
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, are ye mad? or know ye not, in Rome
Titus Andronicus|AARON|How furious and impatient they be,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And cannot brook competitors in love?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I tell you, lords, you do but plot your deaths
Titus Andronicus|AARON|By this device.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Aaron, a thousand deaths
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Would I propose to achieve her whom I love.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To achieve her! how?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Why makest thou it so strange?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|She is a woman, therefore may be won,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|What, man! more water glideth by the mill
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Than wots the miller of, and easy it is
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|[Aside]  Ay, and as good as Saturninus may.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Then why should he despair that knows to court it
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|With words, fair looks and liberality?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|What, hast not thou full often struck a doe,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, then, it seems, some certain snatch or so
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Would serve your turns.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Ay, so the turn were served.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Aaron, thou hast hit it.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Would you had hit it too!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Then should not we be tired with this ado.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, hark ye, hark ye! and are you such fools
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To square for this? would it offend you, then
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That both should speed?
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Faith, not me.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Nor me, so I were one.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|For shame, be friends, and join for that you jar:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|'Tis policy and stratagem must do
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That you affect, and so must you resolve,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That what you cannot as you would achieve,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|You must perforce accomplish as you may.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Take this of me: Lucrece was not more chaste
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Than this Lavinia, Bassianus' love.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|A speedier course than lingering languishment
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Must we pursue, and I have found the path.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|My lords, a solemn hunting is in hand,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|There will the lovely Roman ladies troop:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The forest walks are wide and spacious,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And many unfrequented plots there are
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Fitted by kind for rape and villany:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Single you thither then this dainty doe,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And strike her home by force, if not by words:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This way, or not at all, stand you in hope.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Come, come, our empress, with her sacred wit
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To villany and vengeance consecrate,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Will we acquaint with all that we intend,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And she shall file our engines with advice,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That will not suffer you to square yourselves,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But to your wishes' height advance you both.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The emperor's court is like the house of Fame,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The palace full of tongues, of eyes, and ears:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|There speak, and strike, brave boys, and take
Titus Andronicus|AARON|your turns,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|There serve your lusts, shadow'd from heaven's eye,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And revel in Lavinia's treasury.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Per Styga, per manes vehor.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|SCENE II. A forest near Rome. Horns and cry of hounds heard.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Enter TITUS ANDRONICUS, with Hunters,  and c., MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The fields are fragrant and the woods are green:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Uncouple here and let us make a bay
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And wake the emperor and his lovely bride
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That all the court may echo with the noise.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To attend the emperor's person carefully:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I have been troubled in my sleep this night,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A cry of hounds and horns, winded in a peal. Enter  SATURNINUS, TAMORA, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, and Attendants
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Many good morrows to your majesty,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Madam, to you as many and as good:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I promised your grace a hunter's peal.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And you have rung it lustily, my lord,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Somewhat too early for new-married ladies.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Lavinia, how say you?
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|I say, no,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|I have been broad awake two hours and more.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Come on, then, horse and chariots let us have,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And to our sport.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|To TAMORA
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Madam, now shall ye see
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Our Roman hunting.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|I have dogs, my lord,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And climb the highest promontory top.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And I have horse will follow where the game
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|SCENE III. A lonely part of the forest.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Enter AARON, with a bag of gold
Titus Andronicus|AARON|He that had wit would think that I had none,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To bury so much gold under a tree,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And never after to inherit it.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Let him that thinks of me so abjectly
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Know that this gold must coin a stratagem,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Which, cunningly effected, will beget
Titus Andronicus|AARON|A very excellent piece of villany:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And so repose, sweet gold, for their unrest
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Hides the gold
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That have their alms out of the empress' chest.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Enter TAMORA
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|When every thing doth make a gleeful boast?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The birds chant melody on every bush,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And, whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|As if a double hunt were heard at once,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Let us sit down and mark their yelping noise,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And, after conflict such as was supposed
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|When with a happy storm they were surprised
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Be unto us as is a nurse's song
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Madam, though Venus govern your desires,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Saturn is dominator over mine:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|What signifies my deadly-standing eye,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|My silence and my cloudy melancholy,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Even as an adder when she doth unroll
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To do some fatal execution?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|No, madam, these are no venereal signs:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Hark Tamora, the empress of my soul,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This is the day of doom for Bassianus:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|His Philomel must lose her tongue to-day,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Thy sons make pillage of her chastity
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And wash their hands in Bassianus' blood.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Seest thou this letter? take it up, I pray thee,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And give the king this fatal plotted scroll.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Now question me no more, we are espied,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Which dreads not yet their lives' destruction.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|No more, great empress, Bassianus comes:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Be cross with him, and I'll go fetch thy sons
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To back thy quarrels, whatsoe'er they be.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Exit
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Enter BASSIANUS and LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Who have we here? Rome's royal empress,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Unfurnish'd of her well-beseeming troop?
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Or is it Dian, habited like her,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Who hath abandoned her holy groves
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|To see the general hunting in this forest?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Saucy controller of our private steps!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Had I the power that some say Dian had,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Thy temples should be planted presently
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|With horns, as was Actaeon's, and the hounds
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Unmannerly intruder as thou art!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Under your patience, gentle empress,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|'Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|And to be doubted that your Moor and you
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Are singled forth to try experiments:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Jove shield your husband from his hounds to-day!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|'Tis pity they should take him for a stag.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Doth make your honour of his body's hue,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Spotted, detested, and abominable.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Why are you sequester'd from all your train,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|And wander'd hither to an obscure plot,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor,
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|If foul desire had not conducted you?
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|And, being intercepted in your sport,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Great reason that my noble lord be rated
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|For sauciness. I pray you, let us hence,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|And let her joy her raven-colour'd love,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|This valley fits the purpose passing well.
Titus Andronicus|BASSIANUS|The king my brother shall have note of this.
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Ay, for these slips have made him noted long:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Good king, to be so mightily abused!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Why have I patience to endure all this?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|A barren detested vale, you see it is,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Here never shines the sun, here nothing breeds,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And when they show'd me this abhorred pit,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|They told me, here, at dead time of the night,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Would make such fearful and confused cries
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|As any mortal body hearing it
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|No sooner had they told this hellish tale,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|But straight they told me they would bind me here
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Unto the body of a dismal yew,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And leave me to this miserable death:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And then they call'd me foul adulteress,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|That ever ear did hear to such effect:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And, had you not by wondrous fortune come,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|This vengeance on me had they executed.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Revenge it, as you love your mother's life,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|This is a witness that I am thy son.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Stabs BASSIANUS
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And this for me, struck home to show my strength.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Also stabs BASSIANUS, who dies
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|For no name fits thy nature but thy own!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Give me thy poniard, you shall know, my boys
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Stay, madam, here is more belongs to her,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw:
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|This minion stood upon her chastity,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And with that painted hope braves your mightiness:
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And shall she carry this unto her grave?
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|An if she do, I would I were an eunuch.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|But when ye have the honey ye desire,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|I warrant you, madam, we wil l make that sure.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|That nice-preserved honesty of yours.
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|O Tamora! thou bear'st a woman's face,--
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I will not hear her speak, away with her!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Sweet lords, entreat her hear me but a word.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Listen, fair madam: let it be your glory
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|To see her tears, but be your heart to them
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|As unrelenting flint to drops of rain.
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|O, do not learn her wrath, she taught it thee,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Yet every mother breeds not sons alike:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|To CHIRON
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Do thou entreat her show a woman pity.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|What, wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard?
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|'Tis true, the raven doth not hatch a lark:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Yet have I heard,--O, could I find it now!--
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|The lion moved with pity did endure
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|To have his princely paws pared all away:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Some say that ravens foster forlorn children,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|The whilst their own birds famish in their nests:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|O, be to me, though thy hard heart say no,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Nothing so kind, but something pitiful!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I know not what it means, away with her!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|O, let me teach thee! for my father's sake,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|That gave thee life, when well he might have
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|slain thee,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Even for his sake am I pitiless.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Remember, boys, I pour'd forth tears in vain,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To save your brother from the sacrifice,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|But fierce Andronicus would not relent,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Therefore, away with her, and use her as you will,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The worse to her, the better loved of me.
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|O Tamora, be call'd a gentle queen,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|And with thine own hands kill me in this place!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|For 'tis not life that I have begg'd so long,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Poor I was slain when Bassianus died.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|What begg'st thou, then? fond woman, let me go.
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|'Tis present death I beg, and one thing more
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|That womanhood denies my tongue to tell:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|O, keep me from their worse than killing lust,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|And tumble me into some loathsome pit,
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Where never man's eye may behold my body:
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Do this, and be a charitable murderer.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|No, let them satisfy their lust on thee.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Away! for thou hast stay'd us here too long.
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|No grace? no womanhood? Ah, beastly creature!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|The blot and enemy to our general name!
Titus Andronicus|LAVINIA|Confusion fall--
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Nay, then I'll stop your mouth. Bring thou her husband:
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|This is the hole where Aaron bid us hide him.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|DEMETRIUS throws the body of BASSIANUS into the  pit, then exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, dragging off LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Farewell, my sons: see that you make her sure.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Till all the Andronici be made away.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And let my spleenful sons this trull deflow'r.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Exit
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Re-enter AARON, with QUINTUS and MARTIUS
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Come on, my lords, the better foot before:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Where I espied the panther fast asleep.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|My sight is very dull, whate'er it bodes.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|And mine, I promise you, were't not for shame,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Falls into the pit
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|What art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is this,
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers,
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers?
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|A very fatal place it seems to me.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|O brother, with the dismall'st object hurt
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|That ever eye with sight made heart lament!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|[Aside]  Now will I fetch the king to find them here,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That he thereby may give a likely guess
Titus Andronicus|AARON|How these were they that made away his brother.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Exit
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Why dost not comfort me, and help me out
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole?
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|I am surprised with an uncouth fear,
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints:
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|To prove thou hast a true-divining heart,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Aaron and thou look down into this den,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|And see a fearful sight of blood and death.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Aaron is gone, and my compassionate heart
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Will not permit mine eyes once to behold
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|The thing whereat it trembles by surmise,
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|O, tell me how it is, for ne'er till now
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Was I a child to fear I know not what.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Lord Bassianus lies embrewed here,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|All on a heap, like to a slaughter'd lamb,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|If it be dark, how dost thou know 'tis he?
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Upon his bloody finger he doth wear
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|A precious ring, that lightens all the hole,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Which, like a taper in some monument,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|And shows the ragged entrails of the pit:
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|When he by night lay bathed in maiden blood.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|O brother, help me with thy fainting hand--
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath--
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Out of this fell devouring receptacle,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out,
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good,
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|I may be pluck'd into the swallowing womb
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Of this deep pit, poor Bassianus' grave.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|I have no strength to pluck thee to the brink.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Nor I no strength to climb without thy help.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Thy hand once more, I will not loose again,
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Till thou art here aloft, or I below:
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Thou canst not come to me: I come to thee.
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Falls in
Titus Andronicus|QUINTUS|Enter SATURNINUS with AARON
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Along with me: I'll see what hole is here,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And what he is that now is leap'd into it.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Say who art thou that lately didst descend
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Into this gaping hollow of the earth?
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|The unhappy son of old Andronicus:
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Brought hither in a most unlucky hour,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|To find thy brother Bassianus dead.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|My brother dead! I know thou dost but jest:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|He and his lady both are at the lodge
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Upon the north side of this pleasant chase,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|'Tis not an hour since I left him there.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|We know not where you left him all alive,
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|But, out, alas! here have we found him dead.
Titus Andronicus|MARTIUS|Re-enter TAMORA, with Attendants, TITUS ANDRONICUS, and Lucius
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Where is my lord the king?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Here, Tamora, though grieved with killing grief.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Where is thy brother Bassianus?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Poor Bassianus here lies murdered.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Then all too late I bring this fatal writ,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The complot of this timeless tragedy,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And wonder greatly that man's face can fold
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|She giveth SATURNINUS a letter
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|[Reads]  'An if we miss to meet him handsomely--
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Sweet huntsman, Bassianus 'tis we mean--
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Do thou so much as dig the grave for him:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thou know'st our meaning. Look for thy reward
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Among the nettles at the elder-tree
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Which overshades the mouth of that same pit
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Where we decreed to bury Bassianus.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Do this, and purchase us thy lasting friends.'
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|O Tamora! was ever heard the like?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|This is the pit, and this the elder-tree.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Look, sirs, if you can find the huntsman out
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That should have murdered Bassianus here.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|My gracious lord, here is the bag of gold.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|[To TITUS]  Two of thy whelps, fell curs of
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|bloody kind,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Have here bereft my brother of his life.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|There let them bide until we have devised
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|What, are they in this pit? O wondrous thing!
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|How easily murder is discovered!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|High emperor, upon my feeble knee
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That this fell fault of my accursed sons,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Accursed if the fault be proved in them,--
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|If it be proved! you see it is apparent.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Who found this letter? Tamora, was it you?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Andronicus himself did take it up.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I did, my lord: yet let me be their bail,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For, by my father's reverend tomb, I vow
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|They shall be ready at your highness' will
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To answer their suspicion with their lives.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Thou shalt not bail them: see thou follow me.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Some bring the murder'd body, some the murderers:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Let them not speak a word, the guilt is plain,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|For, by my soul, were there worse end than death,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That end upon them should be executed.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Andronicus, I will entreat the king,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Fear not thy sons, they shall do well enough.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, Lucius, come, stay not to talk with them.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|SCENE IV. Another part of the forest.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished, her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|See, how with signs and tokens she can scrowl.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And so let's leave her to her silent walks.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|An 'twere my case, I should go hang myself.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Enter MARCUS
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Who is this? my niece, that flies away so fast!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Cousin, a word, where is your husband?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|That I may slumber in eternal sleep!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|And might not gain so great a happiness
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|As have thy love? Why dost not speak to me?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Coming and going with thy honey breath.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|But, sure, some Tereus hath deflowered thee,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Ah, now thou turn'st away thy face for shame!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Blushing to be encountered with a cloud.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Shall I speak for thee? shall I say 'tis so?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|O, that I knew thy heart, and knew the beast,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|That I might rail at him, to ease my mind!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|That could have better sew'd than Philomel.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|O, had the monster seen those lily hands
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Tremble, like aspen-leaves, upon a lute,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|And make the silken strings delight to kiss them,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|He would not then have touch'd them for his life!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Or, had he heard the heavenly harmony
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Which that sweet tongue hath made,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Come, let us go, and make thy father blind,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|For such a sight will blind a father's eye:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Do not draw back, for we will mourn with thee
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|O, could our mourning ease thy misery!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|ACT III
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|SCENE I. Rome. A street.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS|Enter Judges, Senators and Tribunes, with MARTIUS  and QUINTUS, bound, passing on to the place of execution, TITUS going before, pleading
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hear me, grave fathers! noble tribunes, stay!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In dangerous wars, whilst you securely slept,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And for these bitter tears, which now you see
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Be pitiful to my condemned sons,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For two and twenty sons I never wept,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Because they died in honour's lofty bed.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lieth down, the Judges,  and c., pass by him, and Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I write
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That shall distil from these two ancient urns,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Than youthful April shall with all his showers:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And keep eternal spring-time on thy face,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter LUCIUS, with his sword drawn
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O reverend tribunes! O gentle, aged men!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And let me say, that never wept before,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My tears are now prevailing orators.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O noble father, you lament in vain:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|The tribunes hear you not, no man is by,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And you recount your sorrows to a stone.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ah, Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Grave tribunes, once more I entreat of you,--
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|My gracious lord, no tribune hears you speak.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, tis no matter, man, if they did hear,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|They would not mark me, or if they did mark,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|They would not pity me, yet plead I must,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Who, though they cannot answer my distress,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For that they will not intercept my tale:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|When I do weep, they humbly at my feet
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Receive my tears and seem to weep with me,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, were they but attired in grave weeds,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A stone is soft as wax,--tribunes more hard than stones,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Rises
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|To rescue my two brothers from their death:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|For which attempt the judges have pronounced
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|My everlasting doom of banishment.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O happy man! they have befriended thee.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But me and mine: how happy art thou, then,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|From these devourers to be banished!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But who comes with our brother Marcus here?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter MARCUS and LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Or, if not so, thy noble heart to break:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|I bring consuming sorrow to thine age.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Will it consume me? let me see it, then.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This was thy daughter.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, Marcus, so she is.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Ay me, this object kills me!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Faint-hearted boy, arise, and look upon her.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What fool hath added water to the sea,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My grief was at the height before thou camest,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Give me a sword, I'll chop off my hands too,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For they have fought for Rome, and all in vain,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And they have nursed this woe, in feeding life,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In bootless prayer have they been held up,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And they have served me to effectless use:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Now all the service I require of them
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Is that the one will help to cut the other.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For hands, to do Rome service, are but vain.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyr'd thee?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O, that delightful engine of her thoughts
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O, say thou for her, who hath done this deed?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O, thus I found her, straying in the park,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That hath received some unrecuring wound.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|It was my deer, and he that wounded her
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For now I stand as one upon a rock
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Environed with a wilderness of sea,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Expecting ever when some envious surge
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This way to death my wretched sons are gone,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here stands my other son, a banished man,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And here my brother, weeping at my woes.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Is dear Lavinia, dearer than my soul.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|It would have madded me: what shall I do
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Now I behold thy lively body so?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou hast no hands, to wipe away thy tears:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Nor tongue, to tell me who hath martyr'd thee:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thy husband he is dead: and for his death
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thy brothers are condemn'd, and dead by this.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Look, Marcus! ah, son Lucius, look on her!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Perchance she weeps because they kill'd her husband,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Perchance because she knows them innocent.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|No, no, they would not do so foul a deed,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Witness the sorrow that their sister makes.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or make some sign how I may do thee ease:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother Lucius,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And thou, and I, sit round about some fountain,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How they are stain'd, as meadows, yet not dry,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|With miry slime left on them by a flood?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And in the fountain shall we gaze so long
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or shall we cut away our hands, like thine?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or shall we bite our tongues, and in dumb shows
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Pass the remainder of our hateful days?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What shall we do? let us, that have our tongues,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Plot some deuce of further misery,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To make us wonder'd at in time to come.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Sweet father, cease your tears, for, at your grief,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Patience, dear niece. Good Titus, dry thine eyes.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ah, Marcus, Marcus! brother, well I wot
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For thou, poor man, hast drown'd it with thine own.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Ah, my Lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Mark, Marcus, mark! I understand her signs:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Had she a tongue to speak, now would she say
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That to her brother which I said to thee:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|His napkin, with his true tears all bewet,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O, what a sympathy of woe is this,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As far from help as Limbo is from bliss!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter AARON
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Titus Andronicus, my lord the emperor
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Sends thee this word,--that, if thou love thy sons,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Or any one of you, chop off your hand,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And send it to the king: he for the same
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Will send thee hither both thy sons alive,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And that shall be the ransom for their fault.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O gracious emperor! O gentle Aaron!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Did ever raven sing so like a lark,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|With all my heart, I'll send the emperor My hand:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Stay, father! for that noble hand of thine,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That hath thrown down so many enemies,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Shall not be sent: my hand will serve the turn:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|My youth can better spare my blood than you,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Which of your hands hath not defended Rome,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Writing destruction on the enemy's castle?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O, none of both but are of high desert:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My hand hath been but idle, let it serve
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To ransom my two nephews from their death,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Then have I kept it to a worthy end.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Nay, come, agree whose hand shall go along,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|For fear they die before their pardon come.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My hand shall go.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|By heaven, it shall not go!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sirs, strive no more: such wither'd herbs as these
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Sweet father, if I shall be thought thy son,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Let me redeem my brothers both from death.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And, for our father's sake and mother's care,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Now let me show a brother's love to thee.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Agree between you, I will spare my hand.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Then I'll go fetch an axe.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But I will use the axe.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt LUCIUS and MARCUS
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come hither, Aaron, I'll deceive them both:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|[Aside]  If that be call'd deceit, I will be honest,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And never, whilst I live, deceive men so:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But I'll deceive you in another sort,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And that you'll say, ere half an hour pass.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Cuts off TITUS's hand
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Re-enter LUCIUS and MARCUS
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Now stay your strife: what shall be is dispatch'd.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tell him it was a hand that warded him
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|From thousand dangers, bid him bury it
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|More hath it merited, that let it have.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As for my sons, say I account of them
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As jewels purchased at an easy price,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And yet dear too, because I bought mine own.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Aside
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Their heads, I mean. O, how this villany
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Aaron will have his soul black like his face.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Exit
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And bow this feeble ruin to the earth:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|If any power pities wretched tears,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To that I call!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What, wilt thou kneel with me?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Do, then, dear heart, for heaven shall hear our prayers,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|When they do hug him in their melting bosoms.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O brother, speak with possibilities,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And do not break into these deep extremes.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then be my passions bottomless with them.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But yet let reason govern thy lament.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|If there were reason for these miseries,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then into limits could I bind my woes:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I am the sea, hark, how her sighs do blow!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then must my sea be moved with her sighs,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then must my earth with her continual tears
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But like a drunkard must I vomit them.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then give me leave, for losers will have leave
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter a Messenger, with two heads and a hand
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|Worthy Andronicus, ill art thou repaid
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|For that good hand thou sent'st the emperor.
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|Here are the heads of thy two noble sons,
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|And here's thy hand, in scorn to thee sent back,
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|Thy griefs their sports, thy resolution mock'd,
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|That woe is me to think upon thy woes
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|More than remembrance of my father's death.
Titus Andronicus|Messenger|Exit
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Now let hot AEtna cool in Sicily,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And be my heart an ever-burning hell!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|These miseries are more than may be borne.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But sorrow flouted at is double death.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Ah, that this sight should make so deep a wound,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And yet detested life not shrink thereat!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That ever death should let life bear his name,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Where life hath no more interest but to breathe!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|LAVINIA kisses TITUS
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Alas, poor heart, that kiss is comfortless
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|As frozen water to a starved snake.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|When will this fearful slumber have an end?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Now, farewell, flattery: die, Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons' heads,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Thy other banish'd son, with this dear sight
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Struck pale and bloodless, and thy brother, I,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Ah, now no more will I control thy griefs:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Gnawing with thy teeth, and be this dismal sight
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The closing up of our most wretched eyes,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Now is a time to storm, why art thou still?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ha, ha, ha!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, I have not another tear to shed:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Besides, this sorrow is an enemy,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And would usurp upon my watery eyes
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And make them blind with tributary tears:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then which way shall I find Revenge's cave?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For these two heads do seem to speak to me,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And threat me I shall never come to bliss
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Till all these mischiefs be return'd again
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Even in their throats that have committed them.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, let me see what task I have to do.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|You heavy people, circle me about,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That I may turn me to each one of you,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And swear unto my soul to right your wrongs.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The vow is made. Come, brother, take a head,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And in this hand the other I will bear.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lavinia, thou shalt be employ'd: these arms!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hie to the Goths, and raise an army there:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, if you love me, as I think you do,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Let's kiss and part, for we have much to do.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt TITUS, MARCUS, and LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Farewell Andronicus, my noble father,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|The wofull'st man that ever lived in Rome:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Farewell, proud Rome, till Lucius come again,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|He leaves his pledges dearer than his life:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O, would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|But in oblivion and hateful griefs.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|If Lucius live, he will requite your wrongs,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And make proud Saturnine and his empress
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Beg at the gates, like Tarquin and his queen.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Exit
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|SCENE II. A room in Titus's house. A banquet set out.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Enter TITUS, MARCUS, LAVINIA and Young LUCIUS, a boy
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|So, so, now sit: and look you eat no more
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Than will preserve just so much strength in us
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As will revenge these bitter woes of ours.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And cannot passionate our tenfold grief
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Is left to tyrannize upon my breast,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Who, when my heart, all mad with misery,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then thus I thump it down.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or get some little knife between thy teeth,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And just against thy heart make thou a hole,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|May run into that sink, and soaking in
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Fie, brother, fie! teach her not thus to lay
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Such violent hands upon her tender life.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How now! has sorrow made thee dote already?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, Marcus, no man should be mad but I.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What violent hands can she lay on her life?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To bid AEneas tell the tale twice o'er,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lest we remember still that we have none.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As if we should forget we had no hands,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|If Marcus did not name the word of hands!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, let's fall to, and, gentle girl, eat this:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here is no drink! Hark, Marcus, what she says,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I can interpret all her martyr'd signs,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|She says she drinks no other drink but tears,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|In thy dumb action will I be as perfect
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As begging hermits in their holy prayers:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But I of these will wrest an alphabet
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And by still practise learn to know thy meaning.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments:
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Peace, tender sapling, thou art made of tears,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And tears will quickly melt thy life away.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|MARCUS strikes the dish with a knife
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|At that that I have kill'd, my lord, a fly.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A deed of death done on the innocent
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Becomes not Titus' brother: get thee gone:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I see thou art not for my company.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a fly.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But how, if that fly had a father and mother?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How would he hang his slender gilded wings,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And buzz lamenting doings in the air!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Poor harmless fly,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That, with his pretty buzzing melody,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Came here to make us merry! and thou hast
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|kill'd him.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Pardon me, sir, it was a black ill-favor'd fly,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Like to the empress' Moor, therefore I kill'd him.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O, O, O,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then pardon me for reprehending thee,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For thou hast done a charitable deed.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Give me thy knife, I will insult on him,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come hither purposely to poison me.--
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ah, sirrah!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Yet, I think, we are not brought so low,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But that between us we can kill a fly
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|He takes false shadows for true substances.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I'll to thy closet, and go read with thee
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sad stories chanced in the times of old.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|ACT IV
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|SCENE I. Rome. Titus's garden.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter young LUCIUS, and LAVINIA running after him,  and the boy flies from her, with books under his arm. Then enter TITUS and MARCUS
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Help, grandsire, help! my aunt Lavinia
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Follows me every where, I know not why:
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Alas, sweet aunt, I know not what you mean.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Stand by me, Lucius, do not fear thine aunt.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|She loves thee, boy, too well to do thee harm.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Ay, when my father was in Rome she did.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|What means my niece Lavinia by these signs?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Fear her not, Lucius: somewhat doth she mean:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Somewhither would she have thee go with her.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ah, boy, Cornelia never with more care
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Read to her sons than she hath read to thee
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus?
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|My lord, I know not, I, nor can I guess,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her:
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|For I have heard my grandsire say full oft,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Extremity of griefs would make men mad,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|And I have read that Hecuba of Troy
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Ran mad through sorrow: that made me to fear,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|And would not, but in fury, fright my youth:
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Which made me down to throw my books, and fly--
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Causeless, perhaps. But pardon me, sweet aunt:
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|I will most willingly attend your ladyship.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Lucius, I will.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|LAVINIA turns over with her stumps the books which LUCIUS has let fall
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How now, Lavinia! Marcus, what means this?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Some book there is that she desires to see.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But thou art deeper read, and better skill'd
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, and take choice of all my library,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Reveal the damn'd contriver of this deed.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|I think she means that there was more than one
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Confederate in the fact: ay, more there was,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so?
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|My mother gave it me.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|For love of her that's gone,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Perhaps she cull'd it from among the rest.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Soft! see how busily she turns the leaves!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Helping her
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What would she find? Lavinia, shall I read?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This is the tragic tale of Philomel,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And treats of Tereus' treason and his rape:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And rape, I fear, was root of thine annoy.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|See, brother, see, note how she quotes the leaves.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lavinia, wert thou thus surprised, sweet girl,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ravish'd and wrong'd, as Philomela was,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? See, see!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ay, such a place there is, where we did hunt--
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O, had we never, never hunted there!--
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Pattern'd by that the poet here describes,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|By nature made for murders and for rapes.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O, why should nature build so foul a den,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Unless the gods delight in tragedies?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|but friends,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What Roman lord it was durst do the deed:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or slunk not Saturnine, as Tarquin erst,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That left the camp to sin in Lucrece' bed?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Sit down, sweet niece: brother, sit down by me.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Inspire me, that I may this treason find!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My lord, look here: look here, Lavinia:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This sandy plot is plain, guide, if thou canst
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This after me, when I have writ my name
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Without the help of any hand at all.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|He writes his name with his staff, and guides it with feet and mouth
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Write thou good niece, and here display, at last,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|What God will have discover'd for revenge,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That we may know the traitors and the truth!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it with her stumps, and writes
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O, do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Stuprum. Chiron. Demetrius.'
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|What, what! the lustful sons of Tamora
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Performers of this heinous, bloody deed?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Magni Dominator poli,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O, calm thee, gentle lord, although I know
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|There is enough written upon this earth
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And arm the minds of infants to exclaims.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My lord, kneel down with me, Lavinia, kneel,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And swear with me, as, with the woful fere
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece' rape,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That we will prosecute by good advice
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And see their blood, or die with this reproach.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Tis sure enough, an you knew how.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The dam will wake, and, if she wind you once,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|She's with the lion deeply still in league,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And when he sleeps will she do what she list.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|You are a young huntsman, Marcus, let it alone,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And with a gad of steel will write these words,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And lay it by: the angry northern wind
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Will blow these sands, like Sibyl's leaves, abroad,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And where's your lesson, then? Boy, what say you?
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|I say, my lord, that if I were a man,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Their mother's bed-chamber should not be safe
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|For these bad bondmen to the yoke of Rome.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Ay, that's my boy! thy father hath full oft
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|For his ungrateful country done the like.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|And, uncle, so will I, an if I live.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, go with me into mine armoury,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lucius, I'll fit thee, and withal, my boy,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Shalt carry from me to the empress' sons
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Presents that I intend to send them both:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, come, thou'lt do thy message, wilt thou not?
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|No, boy, not so, I'll teach thee another course.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lavinia, come. Marcus, look to my house:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lucius and I'll go brave it at the court:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ay, marry, will we, sir, and we'll be waited on.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt TITUS, LAVINIA, and Young LUCIUS
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O heavens, can you hear a good man groan,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And not relent, or not compassion him?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Marcus, attend him in his ecstasy,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But yet so just that he will not revenge.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Revenge, ye heavens, for old Andronicus!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Exit
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|SCENE II. The same. A room in the palace.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Enter, from one side, AARON, DEMETRIUS, and  CHIRON, from the other side, Young LUCIUS, and an  Attendant, with a bundle of weapons, and verses writ upon them
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Demetrius, here's the son of Lucius,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|He hath some message to deliver us.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|My lords, with all the humbleness I may,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|I greet your honours from Andronicus.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Aside
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|And pray the Roman gods confound you both!
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Gramercy, lovely Lucius: what's the news?
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|[Aside]  That you are both decipher'd, that's the news,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|For villains mark'd with rape.--May it please you,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|The goodliest weapons of his armoury
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|To gratify your honourable youth,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|The hope of Rome, for so he bade me say,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|And so I do, and with his gifts present
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Your lordships, that, whenever you have need,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|You may be armed and appointed well:
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|And so I leave you both:
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Aside
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|like bloody villains.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Exeunt Young LUCIUS, and Attendant
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|What's here? A scroll, and written round about?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Let's see,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Reads
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|'Integer vitae, scelerisque purus,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Non eget Mauri jaculis, nec arcu.'
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|O, 'tis a verse in Horace, I know it well:
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|I read it in the grammar long ago.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ay, just, a verse in Horace, right, you have it.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Aside
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Here's no sound jest! the old man hath found their guilt,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But were our witty empress well afoot,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|She would applaud Andronicus' conceit:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But let her rest in her unrest awhile.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And now, young lords, was't not a happy star
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Led us to Rome, strangers, and more than so,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Captives, to be advanced to this height?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|It did me good, before the palace gate
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To brave the tribune in his brother's hearing.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|But me more good, to see so great a lord
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Basely insinuate and send us gifts.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Had he not reason, Lord Demetrius?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Did you not use his daughter very friendly?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|I would we had a thousand Roman dames
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|At such a bay, by turn to serve our lust.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|A charitable wish and full of love.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Here lacks but your mother for to say amen.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And that would she for twenty thousand more.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Come, let us go, and pray to all the gods
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|For our beloved mother in her pains.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|[Aside]  Pray to the devils, the gods have given us over.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Trumpets sound within
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Belike, for joy the emperor hath a son.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Soft! who comes here?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Enter a Nurse, with a blackamoor Child in her arms
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Good morr ow, lords:
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|O, tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Here Aaron is, and what with Aaron now?
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|O gentle Aaron, we are all undone!
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Now help, or woe betide thee evermore!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, what a caterwauling dost thou keep!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|What dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms?
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|O, that which I would hide from heaven's eye,
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Our empress' shame, and stately Rome's disgrace!
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|She is deliver'd, lords, she is deliver'd.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To whom?
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|I mean, she is brought a-bed.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Well, God give her good rest! What hath he sent her?
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|A devil.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, then she is the devil's dam, a joyful issue.
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue:
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Amongst the fairest breeders of our clime:
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal,
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|'Zounds, ye whore! is black so base a hue?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom, sure.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Villain, what hast thou done?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That which thou canst not undo.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Thou hast undone our mother.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Villain, I have done thy mother.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And therein, hellish dog, thou hast undone.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Woe to her chance, and damn'd her loathed choice!
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Accursed the offspring of so foul a fiend!
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|It shall not live.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|It shall not die.
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Aaron, it must, the mother wills it so.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|What, must it, nurse? then let no man but I
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Do execution on my flesh and blood.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point:
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Nurse, give it me, my sword shall soon dispatch it.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Takes the Child from the Nurse, and draws
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Stay, murderous villains! will you kill your brother?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Now, by the burning tapers of the sky,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That shone so brightly when this boy was got,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That touches this my first-born son and heir!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|With all his threatening band of Typhon's brood,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Shall seize this prey out of his father's hands.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ye white-limed walls! ye alehouse painted signs!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Coal-black is better than another hue,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|In that it scorns to bear another hue,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|For all the water in the ocean
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Tell the empress from me, I am of age
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To keep mine own, excuse it how she can.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|My mistress is my mistress, this myself,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The vigour and the picture of my youth:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This before all the world do I prefer,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This maugre all the world will I keep safe,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|By this our mother is forever shamed.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Rome will despise her for this foul escape.
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|The emperor, in his rage, will doom her death.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|I blush to think upon this ignomy.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, there's the privilege your beauty bears:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The close enacts and counsels of the heart!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Here's a young lad framed of another leer:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|As who should say 'Old lad, I am thine own.'
Titus Andronicus|AARON|He is your brother, lords, sensibly fed
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Of that self-blood that first gave life to you,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And from that womb where you imprison'd were
Titus Andronicus|AARON|He is enfranchised and come to light:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Nay, he is your brother by the surer side,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Although my seal be stamped in his face.
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Aaron, what shall I say unto the empress?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|And we will all subscribe to thy advice:
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Save thou the child, so we may all be safe.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Then sit we down, and let us all consult.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|My son and I will have the wind of you:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Keep there: now talk at pleasure of your safety.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|They sit
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|How many women saw this child of his?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, so, brave lords! when we join in league,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I am a lamb: but if you brave the Moor,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The chafed boar, the mountain lioness,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But say, again, how many saw the child?
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|Cornelia the midwife and myself,
Titus Andronicus|Nurse|And no one else but the deliver'd empress.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The empress, the midwife, and yourself:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Two may keep counsel when the third's away:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Go to the empress, tell her this I said.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|He kills the nurse
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|What mean'st thou, Aaron? wherefore didst thou this?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|O Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|A long-tongued babbling gossip? no, lords, no:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And now be it known to you my full intent.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Not far, one Muli lives, my countryman,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|His wife but yesternight was brought to bed,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|His child is like to her, fair as you are:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Go pack with him, and give the mother gold,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And tell them both the circumstance of all,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And how by this their child shall be advanced,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And be received for the emperor's heir,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And substituted in the place of mine,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To calm this tempest whirling in the court,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And let the emperor dandle him for his own.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Hark ye, lords, ye see I have given her physic,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Pointing to the nurse
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And you must needs bestow her funeral,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The fields are near, and you are gallant grooms:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|This done, see that you take no longer days,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But send the midwife presently to me.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The midwife and the nurse well made away,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Then let the ladies tattle what they please.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Aaron, I see thou wilt not trust the air
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|With secrets.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|For this care of Tamora,
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Herself and hers are highly bound to thee.
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON bearing off the Nurse's body
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|There to dispose this treasure in mine arms,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And secretly to greet the empress' friends.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Come on, you thick lipp'd slave, I'll bear you hence,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|For it is you that puts us to our shifts:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I'll make you feed on berries and on roots,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And cabin in a cave, and bring you up
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To be a warrior, and command a camp.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Exit
Titus Andronicus|AARON|SCENE III. The same. A public place.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Enter TITUS, bearing arrows with letters at the  ends of them, with him, MARCUS, Young LUCIUS,  PUBLIUS, SEMPRONIUS, CAIUS, and other Gentlemen, with bows
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, Marcus, come, kinsmen, this is the way.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sir boy, now let me see your archery,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Look ye draw home enough, and 'tis there straight.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Terras Astraea reliquit:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Be you remember'd, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sirs, take you to your tools. You, cousins, shall
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Go sound the ocean, and cast your nets,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Happily you may catch her in the sea,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Yet there's as little justice as at land:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|No, Publius and Sempronius, you must do it,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And pierce the inmost centre of the earth:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then, when you come to Pluto's region,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I pray you, deliver him this petition,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tell him, it is for justice and for aid,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And that it comes from old Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ah, Rome! Well, well, I made thee miserable
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What time I threw the people's suffrages
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Go, get you gone, and pray be careful all,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And leave you not a man-of-war unsearch'd:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, kinsmen, then we may go pipe for justice.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O Publius, is not this a heavy case,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To see thy noble uncle thus distract?
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|Therefore, my lord, it highly us concerns
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|By day and night to attend him carefully,
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|And feed his humour kindly as we may,
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|Till time beget some careful remedy.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Join with the Goths, and with revengeful war
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Publius, how now! how now, my masters!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What, have you met with her?
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|No, my good lord, but Pluto sends you word,
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|If you will have Revenge from hell, you shall:
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|Marry, for Justice, she is so employ'd,
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|He thinks, with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else,
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|So that perforce you must needs stay a time.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|He doth me wrong to feed me with delays.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I'll dive into the burning lake below,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And pull her out of Acheron by the heels.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, sith there's no justice in earth nor hell,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|We will solicit heaven and move the gods
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, to this gear. You are a good archer, Marcus,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|He gives them the arrows
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Ad Jovem,' that's for you: here, 'Ad Apollinem:'
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Ad Martem,' that's for myself:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here, boy, to Pallas: here, to Mercury:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To Saturn, Caius, not to Saturnine,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|You were as good to shoot against the wind.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To it, boy! Marcus, loose when I bid.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Of my word, I have written to effect,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|There's not a god left unsolicited.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|We will afflict the emperor in his pride.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Now, masters, draw.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|They shoot
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O, well said, Lucius!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Good boy, in Virgo's lap, give it Pallas.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Your letter is with Jupiter by this.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Ha, ha!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Publius, Publius, what hast thou done?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|See, see, thou hast shot off one of Taurus' horns.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This was the sport, my lord: when Publius shot,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The Bull, being gall'd, gave Aries such a knock
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That down fell both the Ram's horns in the court,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And who should find them but the empress' villain?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|She laugh'd, and told the Moor he should not choose
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But give them to his master for a present.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, there it goes: God give his lordship joy!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter a Clown, with a basket, and two pigeons in it
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sirrah, what tidings? have you any letters?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Shall I have justice? what says Jupiter?
Titus Andronicus|Clown|O, the gibbet-maker! he says that he hath taken
Titus Andronicus|Clown|them down again, for the man must not be hanged till
Titus Andronicus|Clown|the next week.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But what says Jupiter, I ask thee?
Titus Andronicus|Clown|Alas, sir, I know not Jupiter, I never drank with him
Titus Andronicus|Clown|in all my life.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, villain, art not thou the carrier?
Titus Andronicus|Clown|Ay, of my pigeons, sir, nothing else.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, didst thou not come from heaven?
Titus Andronicus|Clown|From heaven! alas, sir, I never came there     God
Titus Andronicus|Clown|forbid I should be so bold to press to heaven in my
Titus Andronicus|Clown|young days. Why, I am going with my pigeons to the
Titus Andronicus|Clown|tribunal plebs, to take up a matter of brawl
Titus Andronicus|Clown|betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Why, sir, that is as fit as can be to serve for
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|your oration, and let him deliver the pigeons to
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|the emperor from you.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tell me, can you deliver an oration to the emperor
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|with a grace?
Titus Andronicus|Clown|Nay, truly, sir, I could never say grace in all my life.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sirrah, come hither: make no more ado,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But give your pigeons to the emperor:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|By me thou shalt have justice at his hands.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hold, hold, meanwhile here's money for thy charges.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Give me pen and ink. Sirrah, can you with a grace
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|deliver a supplication?
Titus Andronicus|Clown|Ay, sir.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Then here is a supplication for you. And when you
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|come to him, at the first approach you must kneel,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|then kiss his foot, then deliver up your pigeons, and
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|then look for your reward. I'll be at hand, sir, see
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|you do it bravely.
Titus Andronicus|Clown|I warrant you, sir, let me alone.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sirrah, hast thou a knife? come, let me see it.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For thou hast made it like an humble suppliant.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And when thou hast given it the emperor,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Knock at my door, and tell me what he says.
Titus Andronicus|Clown|God be with you, sir, I will.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, Marcus, let us go. Publius, follow me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|SCENE IV. The same. Before the palace.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON,  Lords, and others, SATURNINUS with the arrows in his hand that TITUS shot
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Why, lords, what wrongs are these! was ever seen
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|An emperor in Rome thus overborne,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Troubled, confronted thus, and, for the extent
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Of egal justice, used in such contempt?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|My lords, you know, as know the mightful gods,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|However these disturbers of our peace
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Buz in the people's ears, there nought hath pass'd,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|But even with law, against the willful sons
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Of old Andronicus. And what an if
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And now he writes to heaven for his redress:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|See, here's to Jove, and this to Mercury,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|This to Apollo, this to the god of war,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome!
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|What's this but libelling against the senate,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And blazoning our injustice every where?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|A goodly humour, is it not, my lords?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|As who would say, in Rome no justice were.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|But if I live, his feigned ecstasies
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Shall be no shelter to these outrages:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|But he and his shall know that justice lives
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|In Saturninus' health, whom, if she sleep,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|He'll so awake as she in fury shall
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus' age,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The effects of sorrow for his valiant sons,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And rather comfort his distressed plight
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Than prosecute the meanest or the best
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|For these contempts.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Aside
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Why, thus it shall become
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|High-witted Tamora to gloze with all:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|But, Titus, I have touched thee to the quick,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Thy life-blood out: if Aaron now be wise,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Then is all safe, the anchor's in the port.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Enter Clown
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|How now, good fellow! wouldst thou speak with us?
Titus Andronicus|Clown|Yea, forsooth, an your mistership be emperial.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Empress I am, but yonder sits the emperor.
Titus Andronicus|Clown|'Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you good den:
Titus Andronicus|Clown|I have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here.
Titus Andronicus|Clown|SATURNINUS reads the letter
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Go, take him away, and hang him presently.
Titus Andronicus|Clown|How much money must I have?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Come, sirrah, you must be hanged.
Titus Andronicus|Clown|Hanged! by'r lady, then I have brought up a neck to
Titus Andronicus|Clown|a fair end.
Titus Andronicus|Clown|Exit, guarded
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Shall I endure this monstrous villany?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|I know from whence this same device proceeds:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|May this be borne?--as if his traitorous sons,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That died by law for murder of our brother,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully!
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Go, drag the villain hither by the hair,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughterman,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Sly frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|In hope thyself should govern Rome and me.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Enter AEMILIUS
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|What news with thee, AEmilius?
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Arm, arm, my lord,--Rome never had more cause.
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|The Goths have gather'd head, and with a power
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|high-resolved men, bent to the spoil,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|They hither march amain, under conduct
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Of Lucius, son to old Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Who threats, in course of this revenge, to do
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|As much as ever Coriolanus did.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Is warlike Lucius general of the Goths?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|These tidings nip me, and I hang the head
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|As flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|'Tis he the common people love so much,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Myself hath often over-heard them say,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|When I have walked like a private man,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|That Lucius' banishment was wrongfully,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And they have wish'd that Lucius were their emperor.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Why should you fear? is not your city strong?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Ay, but the citizens favor Lucius,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And will revolt from me to succor him.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|King, be thy thoughts imperious, like thy name.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And is not careful what they mean thereby,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Knowing that with the shadow of his wings
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|He can at pleasure stint their melody:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Even so mayst thou the giddy men of Rome.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Then cheer thy spirit : for know, thou emperor,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I will enchant the old Andronicus
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|When as the one is wounded with the bait,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The other rotted with delicious feed.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|But he will not entreat his son for us.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|If Tamora entreat him, then he will:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|For I can smooth and fill his aged ear
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|With golden promises, that, were his heart
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Almost impregnable, his old ears deaf,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To AEmilius
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Go thou before, be our ambassador:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Say that the emperor requests a parley
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Of warlike Lucius, and appoint the meeting
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Even at his father's house, the old Andronicus.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|AEmilius, do this message honourably:
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And if he stand on hostage for his safety,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Bid him demand what pledge will please him best.
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Your bidding shall I do effectually.
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Exit
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Now will I to that old Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And temper him with all the art I have,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And now, sweet emperor, be blithe again,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And bury all thy fear in my devices.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Then go successantly, and plead to him.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|ACT V
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|SCENE I. Plains near Rome.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Enter LUCIUS with an army of Goths, with drum and colours
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Approved warriors, and my faithful friends,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|I have received letters from great Rome,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Which signify what hate they bear their emperor
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And how desirous of our sight they are.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Imperious and impatient of your wrongs,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Let him make treble satisfaction.
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|Brave slip, sprung from the great Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort,
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|Whose high exploits and honourable deeds
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt,
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|Be bold in us: we'll follow where thou lead'st,
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|Led by their master to the flowered fields,
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|And be avenged on cursed Tamora.
Titus Andronicus|All the Goths|And as he saith, so say we all with him.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|I humbly thank him, and I thank you all.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|But who comes here, led by a lusty Goth?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Enter a Goth, leading AARON with his Child in his arms
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Renowned Lucius, from our troops I stray'd
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|To gaze upon a ruinous monastery,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|And, as I earnestly did fix mine eye
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Upon the wasted building, suddenly
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|I heard a child cry underneath a wall.
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|I made unto the noise, when soon I heard
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|The crying babe controll'd with this discourse:
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|'Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam!
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Villain, thou mightst have been an emperor:
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|But where the bull and cow are both milk-white,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|They never do beget a coal-black calf.
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Peace, villain, peace!'--even thus he rates
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|the babe,--
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|'For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Who, when he knows thou art the empress' babe,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake.'
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|With this, my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon him,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither,
Titus Andronicus|Second Goth|To use as you think needful of the man.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O worthy Goth, this is the incarnate devil
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|This is the pearl that pleased your empress' eye,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And here's the base fruit of his burning lust.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Say, wall-eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|This growing image of thy fiend-like face?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Why dost not speak? what, deaf? not a word?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And by his side his fruit of bastardy.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Touch not the boy, he is of royal blood.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Too like the sire for ever being good.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|A sight to vex the father's soul withal.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Get me a ladder.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|A ladder brought, which AARON is made to ascend
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Lucius, save the child,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And bear it from me to the empress.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|If thou do this, I'll show thee wondrous things,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That highly may advantage thee to hear:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I'll speak no more but 'Vengeance rot you all!'
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Say on: an if it please me which thou speak'st
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Thy child shall live, and I will see it nourish'd.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|For I must talk of murders, rapes and massacres,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Complots of mischief, treason, villanies
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And this shall all be buried by my death,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Unless thou swear to me my child shall live.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Tell on thy mind, I say thy child shall live.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Swear that he shall, and then I will begin.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Who should I swear by? thou believest no god:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That granted, how canst thou believe an oath?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|What if I do not? as, indeed, I do not,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Yet, for I know thou art religious
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Therefore I urge thy oath, for that I know
Titus Andronicus|AARON|An idiot holds his bauble for a god
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
Titus Andronicus|AARON|By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Or else I will discover nought to thee.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Even by my god I swear to thee I will.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|First know thou, I begot him on the empress.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O most insatiate and luxurious woman!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Tut, Lucius, this was but a deed of charity
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To that which thou shalt hear of me anon.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|'Twas her two sons that murder'd Bassianus,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|They cut thy sister's tongue and ravish'd her
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And cut her hands and trimm'd her as thou saw'st.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O detestable villain! call'st thou that trimming?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Why, she was wash'd and cut and trimm'd, and 'twas
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Trim sport for them that had the doing of it.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O barbarous, beastly villains, like thyself!
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Indeed, I was their tutor to instruct them:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That codding spirit had they from their mother,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|As sure a card as ever won the set,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That bloody mind, I think, they learn'd of me,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|As true a dog as ever fought at head.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Well, let my deeds be witness of my worth.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I wrote the letter that thy father found
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And hid the gold within the letter mention'd,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Confederate with the queen and her two sons:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And what not done, that thou hast cause to rue,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in it?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I play'd the cheater for thy father's hand,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And, when I had it, drew myself apart
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I pry'd me through the crevice of a wall
Titus Andronicus|AARON|When, for his hand, he had his two sons' heads,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Beheld his tears, and laugh'd so heartily,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|That both mine eyes were rainy like to his :
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And when I told the empress of this sport,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|She swooned almost at my pleasing tale,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses.
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|What, canst thou say all this, and never blush?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Few come within the compass of my curse,--
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Make poor men's cattle break their necks,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Even when their sorrows almost were forgot,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
Titus Andronicus|AARON|As willingly as one would kill a fly,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But that I cannot do ten thousand more.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Bring down the devil, for he must not die
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|So sweet a death as hanging presently.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|If there be devils, would I were a devil,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|To live and burn in everlasting fire,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|So I might have your company in hell,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Enter a Goth
Titus Andronicus|Third Goth|My lord, there is a messenger from Rome
Titus Andronicus|Third Goth|Desires to be admitted to your presence.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Let him come near.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Enter AEMILIUS
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Welcome, AEmilius	what's the news from Rome?
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Lord Lucius, and you princes of the Goths,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|The Roman emperor greets you all by me,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|And, for he understands you are in arms,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|He craves a parley at your father's house,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Willing you to demand your hostages,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|And they shall be immediately deliver'd.
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|What says our general?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|AEmilius, let the emperor give his pledges
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Unto my father and my uncle Marcus,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And we will come. March away.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Exeunt
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|SCENE II. Rome. Before TITUS's house.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Enter TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON, disguised
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I will encounter with Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And say I am Revenge, sent from below
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To join with him and right his heinous wrongs.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Tell him Revenge is come to join with him,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And work confusion on his enemies.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|They knock
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Enter TITUS, above
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Who doth molest my contemplation?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Is it your trick to make me ope the door,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|That so my sad decrees may fly away,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And all my study be to no effect?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|You are deceived: for what I mean to do
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|See here in bloody lines I have set down,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And what is written shall be executed.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Titus, I am come to talk with thee.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|No, not a word, how can I grace my talk,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Wanting a hand to give it action?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou hast the odds of me, therefore no more.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|If thou didst know me, thou wouldest talk with me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I am not mad, I know thee well enough:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Witness these trenches made by grief and care,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Witness the tiring day and heavy night,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For our proud empress, mighty Tamora:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Is not thy coming for my other hand?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Come down, and welcome me to this world's light,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Confer with me of murder and of death:
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|No vast obscurity or misty vale,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Where bloody murder or detested rape
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Can couch for fear, but I will find them out,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To be a torment to mine enemies?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I am, therefore come down, and welcome me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Do me some service, ere I come to thee.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And then I'll come and be thy waggoner,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And whirl along with thee about the globe.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And find out murderers in their guilty caves:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And when thy car is loaden with their heads,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Trot, like a servile footman, all day long,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Even from Hyperion's rising in the east
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Until his very downfall in the sea:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And day by day I'll do this heavy task,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|These are my ministers, and come with me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Rapine and Murder, therefore called so,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And you, the empress! but we worldly men
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I will embrace thee in it by and by.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exit above
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|This closing with him fits his lunacy
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick fits,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|For now he firmly takes me for Revenge,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And, being credulous in this mad thought,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I'll make him send for Lucius his son,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And, whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I'll find some cunning practise out of hand,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Or, at the least, make them his enemies.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|See, here he comes, and I must ply my theme.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Enter TITUS below
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Welcome, dread Fury, to my woful house:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|How like the empress and her sons you are!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Could not all hell afford you such a devil?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For well I wot the empress never wags
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But in her company there is a Moor,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, would you represent our queen aright,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|It were convenient you had such a devil:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But welcome, as you are. What shall we do?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|What wouldst thou have us do, Andronicus?
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him.
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Show me a villain that hath done a rape,
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|And I am sent to be revenged on him.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And I will be revenged on them all.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Look round about the wicked streets of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Good Murder, stab him, he's a murderer.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Go thou with him, and when it is thy hap
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To find another that is like to thee,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Good Rapine, stab him, he's a ravisher.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Go thou with them, and in the emperor's court
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|There is a queen, attended by a Moor,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|for up and down she doth resemble thee:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I pray thee, do on them some violent death,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|They have been violent to me and mine.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Well hast thou lesson'd us, this shall we do.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|But would it please thee, good Andronicus,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To send for Lucius, thy thrice-valiant son,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Who leads towards Rome a band of warlike Goths,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And bid him come and banquet at thy house,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|When he is here, even at thy solemn feast,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|I will bring in the empress and her sons,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|The emperor himself and all thy foes,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And at thy mercy shalt they stoop and kneel,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|What says Andronicus to this device?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Marcus, my brother! 'tis sad Titus calls.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter MARCUS
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Bid him repair to me, and bring with him
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tell him the emperor and the empress too
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This do thou for my love, and so let him,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|As he regards his aged father's life.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This will I do, and soon return again.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Exit
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Now will I hence about thy business,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And take my ministers along with me.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Nay, nay, let Rape and Murder stay with me,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Or else I'll call my brother back again,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And cleave to no revenge but Lucius.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|[Aside to her sons]  What say you, boys? will you
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|bide with him,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|How I have govern'd our determined jest?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair,
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|And tarry with him till I turn again.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|[Aside]  I know them all, though they suppose me mad,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And will o'erreach them in their own devices:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam!
Titus Andronicus|DEMETRIUS|Madam, depart at pleasure, leave us here.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Farewell, Andronicus: Revenge now goes
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|To lay a complot to betray thy foes.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I know thou dost, and, sweet Revenge, farewell.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exit TAMORA
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ'd?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Tut, I have work enough for you to do.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter PUBLIUS and others
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|What is your will?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Know you these two?
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|The empress' sons, I take them, Chiron and Demetrius.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Fie, Publius, fie! thou art too much deceived,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The one is Murder, Rape is the other's name,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And therefore bind them, gentle Publius.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And now I find it, therefore bind them sure,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And stop their mouths, if they begin to cry.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exit
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|PUBLIUS,  and c. lay hold on CHIRON and DEMETRIUS
Titus Andronicus|CHIRON|Villains, forbear! we are the empress' sons.
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|And therefore do we what we are commanded.
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word.
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|Is he sure bound? look that you bind them fast.
Titus Andronicus|PUBLIUS|Re-enter TITUS, with LAVINIA, he bearing a knife, and she a basin
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, come, Lavinia, look, thy foes are bound.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|But let them hear what fearful words I utter.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This goodly summer with your winter mix'd.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|You kill'd her husband, and for that vile fault
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My hand cut off and made a merry jest,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forced.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|What would you say, if I should let you speak?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hark, wretches! how I mean to martyr you.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|The basin that receives your guilty blood.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|You know your mother means to feast with me,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And of the paste a coffin I will rear
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And make two pasties of your shameful heads,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Like to the earth swallow her own increase.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|This is the feast that I have bid her to,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And this the banquet she shall surfeit on,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For worse than Philomel you used my daughter,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And worse than Progne I will be revenged:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And now prepare your throats. Lavinia, come,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|He cuts their throats
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Let me go grind their bones to powder small
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And with this hateful liquor temper it,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Come, come, be every one officious
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To make this banquet, which I wish may prove
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt, bearing the dead bodies
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|SCENE III. Court of TITUS's house. A banquet set out.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Enter LUCIUS, MARCUS, and Goths, with AARON prisoner
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Uncle Marcus, since it is my father's mind
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That I repair to Rome, I am content.
Titus Andronicus|First Goth|And ours with thine, befall what fortune will.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Good uncle, take you in this barbarous Moor,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|This ravenous tiger, this accursed devil,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Let him receive no sustenance, fetter him
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Till he be brought unto the empress' face,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|For testimony of her foul proceedings:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And see the ambush of our friends be strong,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|I fear the emperor means no good to us.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Some devil whisper curses in mine ear,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|And prompt me, that my tongue may utter forth
Titus Andronicus|AARON|The venomous malice of my swelling heart!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Away, inhuman dog! unhallow'd slave!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Sirs, help our uncle to convey him in.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Exeunt Goths, with AARON. Flourish within
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|The trumpets show the emperor is at hand.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Enter SATURNINUS and TAMORA, with AEMILIUS, Tribunes, Senators, and others
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|What, hath the firmament more suns than one?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|What boots it thee to call thyself a sun?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Rome's emperor, and nephew, break the parle,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|These quarrels must be quietly debated.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The feast is ready, which the careful Titus
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Hath ordain'd to an honourable end,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Please you, therefore, draw nigh, and take your places.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Marcus, we will.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Hautboys sound. The Company sit down at table
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Enter TITUS dressed like a Cook, LAVINIA veiled,  Young LUCIUS, and others. TITUS places the dishes on the table
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Welcome, my gracious lord, welcome, dread queen,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Welcome, ye warlike Goths, welcome, Lucius,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And welcome, all: although the cheer be poor,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Twill fill your stomachs, please you eat of it.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Because I would be sure to have all well,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To entertain your highness and your empress.
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|We are beholding to you, good Andronicus.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|An if your highness knew my heart, you were.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|My lord the emperor, resolve me this:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Was it well done of rash Virginius
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To slay his daughter with his own right hand,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Because she was enforced, stain'd, and deflower'd?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|It was, Andronicus.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Your reason, mighty lord?
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Because the girl should not survive her shame,
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|And by her presence still renew his sorrows.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A reason mighty, strong, and effectual,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|For me, most wretched, to perform the like.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Kills LAVINIA
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|I am as woful as Virginius was,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And have a thousand times more cause than he
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|To do this outrage: and it now is done.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|What, was she ravish'd? tell who did the deed.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Will't please you eat? will't please your
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|highness feed?
Titus Andronicus|TAMORA|Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Not I, 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Go fetch them hither to us presently.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Why, there they are both, baked in that pie,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|'Tis true, 'tis true, witness my knife's sharp point.
Titus Andronicus|TITUS ANDRONICUS|Kills TAMORA
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!
Titus Andronicus|SATURNINUS|Kills TITUS
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Kills SATURNINUS. A great tumult. LUCIUS, MARCUS, and others go up into the balcony
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|By uproar sever'd, like a flight of fowl
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O, let me teach you how to knit again
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|This scatter'd corn  into one mutual sheaf,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|These broken limbs again into one body,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Do shameful execution on herself.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Grave witnesses of true experience,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Cannot induce you to attend my words,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To LUCIUS
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|When with his solemn tongue he did discourse
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To love-sick Dido's sad attending ear
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The story of that baleful burning night
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch'd our ears,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Or who hath brought the fatal engine in
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|My heart is not compact of flint nor steel,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Nor can I utter all our bitter grief,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|But floods of tears will drown my oratory,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And break my utterance, even in the time
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|When it should move you to attend me most,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Lending your kind commiseration.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Here is a captain, let him tell the tale,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Then, noble auditory, be it known to you,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That cursed Chiron and Demetrius
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Were they that murdered our emperor's brother,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And they it were that ravished our sister:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Our father's tears despised, and basely cozen'd
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Of that true hand that fought Rome's quarrel out,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And sent her enemies unto the grave.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Lastly, myself unkindly banished,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|The gates shut on me, and turn'd weeping out,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|To beg relief among Rome's enemies:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Who drown'd their enmity in my true tears.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|I am the turned forth, be it known to you,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That have preserved her welfare in my blood,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And from her bosom took the enemy's point,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Sheathing the steel in my adventurous body.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Alas, you know I am no vaunter, I,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|My scars can witness, dumb although they are,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That my report is just and full of truth.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|But, soft! methinks I do digress too much,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Citing my worthless praise: O, pardon me,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Now is my turn to speak. Behold this child:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Pointing to the Child in the arms of an Attendant
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Of this was Tamora delivered,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The issue of an irreligious Moor,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Chief architect and plotter of these woes:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The villain is alive in Titus' house,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And as he is, to witness this is true.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|These wrongs, unspeakable, past patience,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Or more than any living man could bear.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Now you have heard the truth, what say you, Romans?
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Have we done aught amiss,--show us wherein,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And, from the place where you behold us now,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|The poor remainder of Andronici
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Will, hand in hand, all headlong cast us down.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And on the ragged stones beat forth our brains,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And make a mutual closure of our house.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Speak, Romans, speak, and if you say we shall,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Lo, hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall.
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|And bring our emperor gently in thy hand,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Lucius our emperor, for well I know
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|The common voice do cry it shall be so.
Titus Andronicus|All|Lucius, all hail, Rome's royal emperor!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Go, go into old Titus' sorrowful house,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To Attendants
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|And hither hale that misbelieving Moor,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|To be adjudged some direful slaughtering death,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|As punishment for his most wicked life.
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Exeunt Attendants
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|LUCIUS, MARCUS, and the others descend
Titus Andronicus|All|Lucius, all hail, Rome's gracious governor!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Thanks, gentle Romans: may I govern so,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|To heal Rome's harms, and wipe away her woe!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|But, gentle people, give me aim awhile,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|For nature puts me to a heavy task:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Stand all aloof: but, uncle, draw you near,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Kissing TITUS
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|The last true duties of thy noble son!
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss,
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips:
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|O were the sum of these that I should pay
Titus Andronicus|MARCUS ANDRONICUS|Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them!
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Come hither, boy, come, come, and learn of us
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|To melt in showers: thy grandsire loved thee well:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Many a time he danced thee on his knee,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Many a matter hath he told to thee,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Meet and agreeing with thine infancy,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|In that respect, then, like a loving child,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Because kind nature doth require it so:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Friends should associate friends in grief and woe:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Do him that kindness, and take leave of him.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Would I were dead, so you did live again!
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|O Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping,
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth.
Titus Andronicus|Young LUCIUS|Re-enter Attendants with AARON
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|You sad Andronici, have done with woes:
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|Give sentence on this execrable wretch,
Titus Andronicus|AEMILIUS|That hath been breeder of these dire events.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|If any one relieves or pities him,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|For the offence he dies. This is our doom:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth.
Titus Andronicus|AARON|O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I should repent the evils I have done:
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
Titus Andronicus|AARON|Would I perform, if I might have my will,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|If one good deed in all my life I did,
Titus Andronicus|AARON|I do repent it from my very soul.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And give him burial in his father's grave:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|My father and Lavinia shall forthwith
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Be closed in our household's monument.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|No funeral rite, nor man m mourning weeds,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|No mournful bell shall ring her burial,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|And, being so, shall have like want of pity.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Then, afterwards, to order well the state,
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|That like events may ne'er it ruinate.
Titus Andronicus|LUCIUS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|ACT I
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|PROLOGUE
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Have to the port of Athens sent their ships,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Fraught with the ministers and instruments
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that wore
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Put forth toward Phrygia, and their vow is made
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|To ransack Troy, within whose strong immures
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|With wanton Paris sleeps, and that's the quarrel.
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|To Tenedos they come,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Their warlike fraughtage: now on Dardan plains
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|And Antenorides, with massy staples
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Sperr up the sons of Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|On one and other side, Trojan and Greek,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Sets all on hazard: and hither am I come
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|A prologue arm'd, but not in confidence
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|In like conditions as our argument,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|To tell you, fair beholders, that our play
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Beginning in the middle, starting thence away
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|To what may be digested in a play.
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Like or find fault, do as your pleasures are:
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war.
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|SCENE I. Troy. Before Priam's palace.
Troilus and Cressida|LUCIUS|Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Call here my varlet, I'll unarm again:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Why should I war without the walls of Troy,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That find such cruel battle here within?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Each Trojan that is master of his heart,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let him to field, Troilus, alas! hath none.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Will this gear ne'er be mended?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But I am weaker than a woman's tear,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Less valiant than the virgin in the night
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And skilless as unpractised infancy.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I'll not meddle nor make no further. He that will
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Have I not tarried?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ay, the grinding, but you must tarry
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|the bolting.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Have I not tarried?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Still have I tarried.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ay, to the leavening, but here's yet in the word
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|heating of the oven and the baking, nay, you must
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|At Priam's royal table do I sit,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts,--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|So, traitor! 'When she comes!' When is she thence?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Well, she looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|her look, or any woman else.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I was about to tell thee:--when my heart,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Lest Hector or my father should perceive me,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I have, as when the sun doth light a storm,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|well, go to--there were no more comparison between
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|the women: but, for my part, she is my kinswoman, I
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|would not, as they term it, praise her: but I would
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit, but--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus,--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|When I do tell thee, there my hopes lie drown'd,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Reply not in how many fathoms deep
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|They lie indrench'd. I tell thee I am mad
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In Cressid's love: thou answer'st 'she is fair,'
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The cygnet's down is harsh and spirit of sense
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hard as the palm of ploughman: this thou tell'st me,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The knife that made it.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I speak no more than truth.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Thou dost not speak so much.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Faith, I'll not meddle in't. Let her be as she is:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|if she be fair, 'tis the better for her, an she be
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|not, she has the mends in her own hands.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Good Pandarus, how now, Pandarus!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I have had my labour for my travail, ill-thought on of
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|her and ill-thought on of you, gone between and
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|between, but small thanks for my labour.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What, art thou angry, Pandarus? what, with me?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Because she's kin to me, therefore she's not so fair
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|as Helen: an she were not kin to me, she would be as
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday. But what care
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I? I care not an she were a black-a-moor, 'tis all one to me.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Say I she is not fair?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I do not care whether you do or no. She's a fool to
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|stay behind her father, let her to the Greeks, and so
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I'll tell her the next time I see her: for my part,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I'll meddle nor make no more i' the matter.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Pandarus,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Not I.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Sweet Pandarus,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Pray you, speak no more to me: I will leave all as I
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|found it, and there an end.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit PANDARUS. An alarum
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I cannot fight upon this argument,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|It is too starved a subject for my sword.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But Pandarus,--O gods, how do you plague me!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Her bed is India, there she lies, a pearl:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Alarum. Enter AENEAS
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|How now, Prince Troilus! wherefore not afield?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Because not there: this woman's answer sorts,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For womanish it is to be from thence.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What news, AEneas, from the field to-day?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That Paris is returned home and hurt.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|By whom, AEneas?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Troilus, by Menelaus.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let Paris bleed, 'tis but a scar to scorn,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Paris is gored with Menelaus' horn.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Alarum
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Hark, what good sport is out of town to-day!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Better at home, if 'would I might' were 'may.'
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But to the sport abroad: are you bound thither?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|In all swift haste.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Come, go we then together.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|SCENE II. The Same. A street.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Enter CRESSIDA and ALEXANDER
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Who were those went by?
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Queen Hecuba and Helen.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And whither go they?
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Up to the eastern tower,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Whose height commands as subject all the vale,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|To see the battle. Hector, whose patience
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Is, as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was moved:
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|He chid Andromache and struck his armourer,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|And, like as there were husbandry in war,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Before the sun rose he was harness'd light,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|And to the field goes he, where every flower
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|In Hector's wrath.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|What was his cause of anger?
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|They call him Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Good, and what of him?
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|They say he is a very man per se,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|And stands alone.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|particular additions, he is as valiant as the lion,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|valour is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use,
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But how should this man, that makes
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|me smile, make Hector angry?
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle and
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|struck him down, the disdain and shame whereof hath
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|ever since kept Hector fasting and waking.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Who comes here?
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Madam, your uncle Pandarus.
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|Enter PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Hector's a gallant man.
Troilus and Cressida|ALEXANDER|As may be in the world, lady.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What's that? what's that?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Good morrow, uncle Pandarus.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Good morrow, cousin Cressid: what do you talk of?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Good morrow, Alexander. How do you, cousin? When
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|were you at Ilium?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|This morning, uncle.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What were you talking of when I came? Was Hector
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium? Helen was not
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|up, was she?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Hector was gone, but Helen was not up.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Even so: Hector was stirring early.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|That were we talking of, and of his anger.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Was he angry?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|So he says here.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|True, he was so: I know the cause too: he'll lay
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|about him to-day, I can tell them that: and there's
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Troilus will not come far behind him: let them take
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|heed of Troilus, I can tell them that too.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|What, is he angry too?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man of the two.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O Jupiter! there's no comparison.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What, not between Troilus and Hector? Do you know a
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|man if you see him?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Well, I say Troilus is Troilus.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Then you say as I say, for, I am sure, he is not Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|No, nor Hector is not Troilus in some degrees.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|'Tis just to each of them, he is himself.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Himself! Alas, poor Troilus! I would he were.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|So he is.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Condition, I had gone barefoot to India.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|He is not Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Himself! no, he's not himself: would a' were
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|himself! Well, the gods are above, time must friend
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|or end: well, Troilus, well: I would my heart were
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|in her body. No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Excuse me.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|He is elder.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Pardon me, pardon me.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Th' other's not come to't, you shall tell me another
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|tale, when th' other's come to't. Hector shall not
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|have his wit this year.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|He shall not need it, if he have his own.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Nor his qualities.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|No matter.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Nor his beauty.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|'Twould not become him, his own's better.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You have no judgment, niece: Helen
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|herself swore th' other day, that Troilus, for
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|a brown favour--for so 'tis, I must confess,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|not brown neither,--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|No, but brown.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|To say the truth, true and not true.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|She praised his complexion above Paris.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Why, Paris hath colour enough.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|So he has.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Then Troilus should have too much: if she praised
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|him above, his complexion is higher than his, he
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|having colour enough, and the other higher, is too
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|a copper nose.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I swear to you. I think Helen loves him better than Paris.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Then she's a merry Greek indeed.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him th' other
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|day into the compassed window,--and, you know, he
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|has not past three or four hairs on his chin,--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|particulars therein to a total.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Why, he is very young: and yet will he, within
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|three pound, lift as much as his brother Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Is he so young a man and so old a lifter?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|But to prove to you that Helen loves him: she came
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Juno have mercy! how came it cloven?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Why, you know 'tis dimpled: I think his smiling
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O, he smiles valiantly.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Does he not?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Why, go to, then: but to prove to you that Helen
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|loves Troilus,--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Troilus will stand to the proof, if you'll
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|prove it so.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Troilus! why, he esteems her no more than I esteem
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|an addle egg.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|head, you would eat chickens i' the shell.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I cannot choose but laugh, to think how she tickled
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|his chin: indeed, she has a marvellous white hand, I
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|must needs confess,--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Without the rack.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Alas, poor chin! many a wart is richer.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laughed
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|that her eyes ran o'er.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|With mill-stones.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|And Cassandra laughed.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But there was more temperate fire under the pot of
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|her eyes: did her eyes run o'er too?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|And Hector laughed.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|At what was all this laughing?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus' chin.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|too.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|They laughed not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|What was his answer?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Quoth she, 'Here's but two and fifty hairs on your
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|chin, and one of them is white.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|This is her question.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|That's true, make no question of that. 'Two and
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|fifty hairs' quoth he, 'and one white: that white
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons.'
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'Jupiter!' quoth she, 'which of these hairs is Paris,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|my husband? 'The forked one,' quoth he, 'pluck't
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|out, and give it him.' But there was such laughing!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and Helen so blushed, an Paris so chafed, and all the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|rest so laughed, that it passed.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|So let it now, for it has been while going by.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Well, cousin. I told you a thing yesterday, think on't.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|So I do.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I'll be sworn 'tis true, he will weep you, an 'twere
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|a man born in April.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|against May.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|A retreat sounded
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Hark! they are coming from the field: shall we
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|stand up here, and see them as they pass toward
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ilium? good niece, do, sweet niece Cressida.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|At your pleasure.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Here, here, here's an excellent place, here we may
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|see most bravely: I'll tell you them all by their
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|names as they pass by, but mark Troilus above the rest.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Speak not so loud.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|AENEAS passes
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|That's AEneas: is not that a brave man? he's one of
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|the flowers of Troy, I can tell you: but mark
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Troilus, you shall see anon.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|ANTENOR passes
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Who's that?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|That's Antenor: he has a shrewd wit, I can tell you,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and he's a man good enough, he's one o' the soundest
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|judgments in whosoever, and a proper man of person.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|When comes Troilus? I'll show you Troilus anon: if
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|he see me, you shall see him nod at me.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Will he give you the nod?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You shall see.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|If he do, the rich shall have more.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|HECTOR passes
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|That's Hector, that, that, look you, that, there's a
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|fellow! Go thy way, Hector! There's a brave man,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|niece. O brave Hector! Look how he looks! there's
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|a countenance! is't not a brave man?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O, a brave man!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Is a' not? it does a man's heart good. Look you
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|what hacks are on his helmet! look you yonder, do
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|you see? look you there: there's no jesting,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|there's laying on, take't off who will, as they say:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|there be hacks!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Be those with swords?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Swords! any thing, he cares not, an the devil come
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|to him, it's all one: by God's lid, it does one's
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|heart good. Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|PARIS passes
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Look ye yonder, niece, is't not a gallant man too,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|is't not? Why, this is brave now. Who said he came
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|hurt home to-day? he's not hurt: why, this will do
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Helen's heart good now, ha! Would I could see
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Troilus now! You shall see Troilus anon.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|HELENUS passes
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Who's that?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|That's Helenus. I marvel where Troilus is. That's
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Helenus. I think he went not forth to-day. That's Helenus.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Can Helenus fight, uncle?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Helenus? no. Yes, he'll fight indifferent well. I
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|marvel where Troilus is. Hark! do you not hear the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|people cry 'Troilus'? Helenus is a priest.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|What sneaking fellow comes yonder?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|TROILUS passes
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|there's a man, niece! Hem! Brave Troilus! the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|prince of chivalry!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Peace, for shame, peace!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Mark him, note him. O brave Troilus! Look well upon
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|him, niece: look you how his sword is bloodied, and
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|his helm more hacked than Hector's, and how he looks,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and how he goes! O admirable youth! he ne'er saw
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Had I a sister were a grace, or a daughter a goddess,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|he should take his choice. O admirable man! Paris?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Paris is dirt to him, and, I warrant, Helen, to
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|change, would give an eye to boot.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Here come more.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Forces pass
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|porridge after meat! I could live and die i' the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look: the eagles
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|are gone: crows and daws, crows and daws! I had
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|rather be such a man as Troilus than Agamemnon and
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|all Greece.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better man than Troilus.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Well, well.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'Well, well!' why, have you any discretion? have
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|in the pie, for then the man's date's out.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You are such a woman! one knows not at what ward you
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|lie.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Upon my back, to defend my belly, upon my wit, to
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|defend my wiles, upon my secrecy, to defend mine
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|honesty, my mask, to defend my beauty, and you, to
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|defend all these: and at all these wards I lie, at a
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|thousand watches.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Say one of your watches.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Nay, I'll watch you for that, and that's one of the
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|chiefest of them too: if I cannot ward what I would
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|the blow, unless it swell past hiding, and then it's
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|past watching.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You are such another!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Enter Troilus's Boy
Troilus and Cressida|Boy|Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Where?
Troilus and Cressida|Boy|At your own house, there he unarms him.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Good boy, tell him I come.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit boy
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I doubt he be hurt. Fare ye well, good niece.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Adieu, uncle.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I'll be with you, niece, by and by.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|To bring, uncle?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ay, a token from Troilus.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|By the same token, you are a bawd.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exit PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|He offers in another's enterprise,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But more in Troilus thousand fold I see
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|That she was never yet that ever knew
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Achievement is command, ungain'd, beseech:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon's tent.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, MENELAUS, and others
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Princes,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|The ample proposition that hope makes
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|In all designs begun on earth below
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Fails in the promised largeness: cheques and disasters
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Infect the sound pine and divert his grain
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Nor, princes, is it matter new to us
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That we come short of our suppose so far
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That after seven years' siege yet Troy walls stand,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Sith every action that hath gone before,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Whereof we have record, trial did draw
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Bias and thwart, not answering the aim,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And that unbodied figure of the thought
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That gave't surmised shape. Why then, you princes,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And call them shames? which are indeed nought else
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|But the protractive trials of great Jove
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|To find persistive constancy in men:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|The fineness of which metal is not found
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|In fortune's love, for then the bold and coward,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|The hard and soft seem all affined and kin:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Puffing at all, winnows the light away,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And what hath mass or matter, by itself
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Lies rich in virtue and unmingled.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|With due observance of thy godlike seat,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Upon her patient breast, making their way
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|With those of nobler bulk!
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|The gentle Thetis, and anon behold
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Bounding between the two moist elements,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Like Perseus' horse: where's then the saucy boat
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Co-rivall'd greatness? Either to harbour fled,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Doth valour's show and valour's worth divide
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|In storms of fortune, for in her ray and brightness
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|The herd hath more annoyance by the breeze
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Than by the tiger, but when the splitting wind
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And flies fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|As roused with rage with rage doth sympathize,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And with an accent tuned in selfsame key
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Retorts to chiding fortune.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Agamemnon,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In whom the tempers and the minds of all
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Should be shut up, hear what Ulysses speaks.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Besides the applause and approbation To which,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To AGAMEMNON
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|most mighty for thy place and sway,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To NESTOR
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I give to both your speeches, which were such
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Should hold up high in brass, and such again
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|On which heaven rides, knit all the Greekish ears
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To his experienced tongue, yet let it please both,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Speak, prince of Ithaca, and be't of less expect
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That matter needless, of importless burden,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Divide thy lips, than we are confident,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We shall hear music, wit and oracle.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And the great Hector's sword had lack'd a master,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But for these instances.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The specialty of rule hath been neglected:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|When that the general is not like the hive
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To whom the foragers shall all repair,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Observe degree, priority and place,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Office and custom, in all line of order,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In noble eminence enthroned and sphered
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Amidst the other, whose medicinable eye
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And posts, like the commandment of a king,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Sans cheque to good and bad: but when the planets
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In evil mixture to disorder wander,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|What plagues and what portents! what mutiny!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|What raging of the sea! shaking of earth!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Divert and crack, rend and deracinate
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The unity and married calm of states
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Quite from their fixure! O, when degree is shaked,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Which is the ladder to all high designs,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The primogenitive and due of birth,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But by degree, stand in authentic place?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Take but degree away, untune that string,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And make a sop of all this solid globe:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Strength should be lord of imbecility,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And the rude son should strike his father dead:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Force should be right, or rather, right and wrong,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Between whose endless jar justice resides,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Then every thing includes itself in power,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Power into will, will into appetite,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And appetite, an universal wolf,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|So doubly seconded with will and power,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Must make perforce an universal prey,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|This chaos, when degree is suffocate,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Follows the choking.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And this neglection of degree it is
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|By him one step below, he by the next,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That next by him beneath, so every step,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Exampled by the first pace that is sick
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Of pale and bloodless emulation:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Not her own sinews. To end a tale of length,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Troy in our weakness stands, not in her strength.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Most wisely hath Ulysses here discover'd
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|The fever whereof all our power is sick.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What is the remedy?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The sinew and the forehand of our host,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Having his ear full of his airy fame,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Lies mocking our designs: with him Patroclus
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Upon a lazy bed the livelong day
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Breaks scurril jests,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And with ridiculous and awkward action,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Which, slanderer, he imitation calls,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He pageants us. Sometime, great Agamemnon,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Thy topless deputation he puts on,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And, like a strutting player, whose conceit
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage,--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|'Tis like a chime a-mending, with terms unsquared,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Cries 'Excellent! 'tis Agamemnon just.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Now play me Nestor, hem, and stroke thy beard,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As he being drest to some oration.'
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That's done, as near as the extremest ends
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Of parallels, as like as Vulcan and his wife:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Yet god Achilles still cries 'Excellent!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|'Tis Nestor right. Now play him me, Patroclus,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Arming to answer in a night alarm.'
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Must be the scene of mirth, to cough and spit,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And, with a palsy-fumbling on his gorget,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Shake in and out the rivet: and at this sport
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Sir Valour dies, cries 'O, enough, Patroclus,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Or give me ribs of steel! I shall split all
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In pleasure of my spleen.' And in this fashion,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Severals and generals of grace exact,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Achievements, plots, orders, preventions,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Excitements to the field, or speech for truce,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Success or loss, what is or is not, serves
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As stuff for these two to make paradoxes.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And in the imitation of these twain--
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|With an imperial voice--many are infect.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Ajax is grown self-will'd, and bears his head
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|In such a rein, in full as proud a place
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|As broad Achilles, keeps his tent like him,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Makes factious feasts, rails on our state of war,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Bold as an oracle, and sets Thersites,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|To match us in comparisons with dirt,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|To weaken and discredit our exposure,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|How rank soever rounded in with danger.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|They tax our policy, and call it cowardice,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Count wisdom as no member of the war,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Forestall prescience, and esteem no act
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But that of hand: the still and mental parts,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That do contrive how many hands shall strike,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|When fitness calls them on, and know by measure
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Of their observant toil the enemies' weight,--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Why, this hath not a finger's dignity:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|So that the ram that batters down the wall,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For the great swing and rudeness of his poise,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|They place before his hand that made the engine,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Or those that with the fineness of their souls
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|By reason guide his execution.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Let this be granted, and Achilles' horse
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Makes many Thetis' sons.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|A tucket
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What trumpet? look, Menelaus.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|From Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|Enter AENEAS
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What would you 'fore our tent?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Is this great Agamemnon's tent, I pray you?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Even this.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|May one, that is a herald and a prince,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Do a fair message to his kingly ears?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|With surety stronger than Achilles' arm
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|'Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Call Agamemnon head and general.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Fair leave and large security. How may
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|A stranger to those most imperial looks
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Know them from eyes of other mortals?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|How!
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Ay,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|I ask, that I might waken reverence,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And bid the cheek be ready with a blush
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The youthful Phoebus:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Which is that god in office, guiding men?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|This Trojan scorns us, or the men of Troy
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Are ceremonious courtiers.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm'd,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|As bending angels, that's their fame in peace:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Good arms, strong joints, true swords, and,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Jove's accord,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Nothing so full of heart. But peace, AEneas,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Peace, Trojan, lay thy finger on thy lips!
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The worthiness of praise distains his worth,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|If that the praised himself bring the praise forth:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|But what the repining enemy commends,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That breath fame blows, that praise, sole sure,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|transcends.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself AEneas?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Ay, Greek, that is my name.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What's your affair I pray you?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Sir, pardon, 'tis for Agamemnon's ears.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|He hears naught privately that comes from Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Nor I from Troy come not to whisper him:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|I bring a trumpet to awake his ear,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|To set his sense on the attentive bent,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And then to speak.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Speak frankly as the wind,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|It is not Agamemnon's sleeping hour:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That thou shalt know. Trojan, he is awake,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|He tells thee so himself.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Trumpet, blow loud,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And every Greek of mettle, let him know,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Trumpet sounds
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|A prince call'd Hector,--Priam is his father,--
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Who in this dull and long-continued truce
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Is rusty grown: he bade me take a trumpet,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And to this purpose speak. Kings, princes, lords!
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|If there be one among the fair'st of Greece
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That holds his honour higher than his ease,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That knows his valour, and knows not his fear,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That loves his mistress more than in confession,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|With truant vows to her own lips he loves,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And dare avow her beauty and her worth
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|In other arms than hers,--to him this challenge.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Shall make it good, or do his best to do it,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Than ever Greek did compass in his arms,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And will to-morrow with his trumpet call
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Midway between your tents and walls of Troy,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|To rouse a Grecian that is true in love:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|If any come, Hector shall honour him,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The Grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The splinter of a lance. Even so much.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|This shall be told our lovers, Lord AEneas,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|If none of them have soul in such a kind,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We left them all at home: but we are soldiers,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And may that soldier a mere recreant prove,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That means not, hath not, or is not in love!
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|If then one is, or hath, or means to be,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That one meets Hector, if none else, I am he.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|When Hector's grandsire suck'd: he is old now,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|But if there be not in our Grecian host
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|One noble man that hath one spark of fire,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|To answer for his love, tell him from me
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And meeting him will tell him that my lady
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Was fairer than his grandam and as chaste
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|As may be in the world: his youth in flood,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|I'll prove this truth with my three drops of blood.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Amen.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Fair Lord AEneas, let me touch your hand,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|To our pavilion shall I lead you, sir.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Achilles shall have word of this intent,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to tent:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Yourself shall feast with us before you go
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And find the welcome of a noble foe.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Exeunt all but ULYSSES and NESTOR
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nestor!
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|What says Ulysses?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I have a young conception in my brain,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Be you my time to bring it to some shape.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|What is't?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|This 'tis:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Blunt wedges rive hard knots: the seeded pride
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That hath to this maturity blown up
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In rank Achilles must or now be cropp'd,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To overbulk us all.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Well, and how?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|This challenge that the gallant Hector sends,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|However it is spread in general name,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Relates in purpose only to Achilles.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|The purpose is perspicuous even as substance,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Whose grossness little characters sum up:
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And, in the publication, make no strain,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|But that Achilles, were his brain as barren
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|As banks of Libya,--though, Apollo knows,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|'Tis dry enough,--will, with great speed of judgment,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Ay, with celerity, find Hector's purpose
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Pointing on him.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And wake him to the answer, think you?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Yes, 'tis most meet: whom may you else oppose,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|That can from Hector bring his honour off,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|If not Achilles? Though't be a sportful combat,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Yet in the trial much opinion dwells,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|For here the Trojans taste our dear'st repute
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|With their finest palate: and trust to me, Ulysses,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Our imputation shall be oddly poised
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|In this wild action, for the success,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Although particular, shall give a scantling
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Of good or bad unto the general,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And in such indexes, although small pricks
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|The baby figure of the giant mass
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Of things to come at large. It is supposed
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|He that meets Hector issues from our choice
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And choice, being mutual act of all our souls,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Makes merit her election, and doth boil,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|As 'twere from us all, a man distill'd
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Out of our virtues, who miscarrying,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|What heart receives from hence the conquering part,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|To steel a strong opinion to themselves?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Which entertain'd, limbs are his instruments,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|In no less working than are swords and bows
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Directive by the limbs.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Give pardon to my speech:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Therefore 'tis meet Achilles meet not Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And think, perchance, they'll sell, if not,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The lustre of the better yet to show,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Shall show the better. Do not consent
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That ever Hector and Achilles meet,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For both our honour and our shame in this
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Are dogg'd with two strange followers.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|I see them not with my old eyes: what are they?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|What glory our Achilles shares from Hector,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Were he not proud, we all should share with him:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But he already is too insolent,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|A nd we were better parch in Afric sun
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Should he 'scape Hector fair: if he were foil'd,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Why then, we did our main opinion crush
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In taint of our best man. No, make a lottery,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The sort to fight with Hector: among ourselves
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Give him allowance for the better man,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For that will physic the great Myrmidon
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|We'll dress him up in voices: if he fail,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Yet go we under our opinion still
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That we have better men. But, hit or miss,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Our project's life this shape of sense assumes:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Ajax employ'd plucks down Achilles' plumes.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Ulysses,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Now I begin to relish thy advice,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And I will give a taste of it forthwith
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|To Agamemnon: go we to him straight.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Two curs shall tame each other: pride alone
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|ACT II
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|SCENE I. A part of the Grecian camp.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Enter AJAX and THERSITES
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Thersites!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Agamemnon, how if he had boils? full, all over,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|generally?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Thersites!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|And those boils did run? say so: did not the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|general run then? were not that a botchy core?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Dog!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Then would come some matter from him, I see none now.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Thou bitch-wolf's son, canst thou not hear?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Beating him
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Feel, then.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|beef-witted lord!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Speak then, thou vinewedst leaven, speak: I will
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|beat thee into handsomeness.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness: but,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration than
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|canst thou? a red murrain o' thy jade's tricks!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Toadstool, learn me the proclamation.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Dost thou think I have no sense, thou strikest me thus?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|The proclamation!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Thou art proclaimed a fool, I think.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Do not, porpentine, do not: my fingers itch.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|the scratching of thee, I would make thee the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou art forth in
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I say, the proclamation!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Cerberus is at Proserpine's beauty, ay, that thou
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|barkest at him.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Mistress Thersites!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Thou shouldest strike him.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Cobloaf!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|sailor breaks a biscuit.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|[Beating him]  You whoreson cur!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Do, do.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Thou stool for a witch!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ay, do, do, thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|more brain than I have in mine elbows, an assinego
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|may tutor thee: thou scurvy-valiant ass! thou art
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|here but to thrash Trojans, and thou art bought and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|sold among those of any wit, like a barbarian slave.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|If thou use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|tell what thou art by inches, thou thing of no
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|bowels, thou!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|You dog!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|You scurvy lord!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|[Beating him]  You cur!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Mars his idiot! do, rudeness, do, camel, do, do.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Why, how now, Ajax! wherefore do you thus? How now,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Thersites! what's the matter, man?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|You see him there, do you?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Ay, what's the matter?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Nay, look upon him.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|So I do: what's the matter?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Nay, but regard him well.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|'Well!' why, I do so.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|But yet you look not well upon him, for whosoever you
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|take him to be, he is Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I know that, fool.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ay, but that fool knows not himself.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Therefore I beat thee.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters! his
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|evasions have ears thus long. I have bobbed his
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|brain more than he has beat my bones: I will buy
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|worth the nineth part of a sparrow. This lord,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|his guts in his head, I'll tell you what I say of
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|him.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I say, this Ajax--
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ajax offers to beat him
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Nay, good Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Has not so much wit--
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Nay, I must hold you.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for whom he
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|comes to fight.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Peace, fool!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|not: he there: that he: look you there.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|O thou damned cur! I shall--
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Will you set your wit to a fool's?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|No, I warrant you, for a fools will shame it.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Good words, Thersites.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What's the quarrel?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|proclamation, and he rails upon me.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I serve thee not.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Well, go to, go to.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I serve here voluntarily.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Your last service was sufferance, 'twas not
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|voluntary: no man is beaten voluntary: Ajax was
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|here the voluntary, and you as under an impress.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|E'en so, a great deal of your wit, too, lies in your
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|sinews, or else there be liars. Hector have a great
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|catch, if he knock out either of your brains: a'
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What, with me too, Thersites?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|There's Ulysses and old Nestor, whose wit was mouldy
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|ere your grandsires had nails on their toes, yoke you
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|like draught-oxen and make you plough up the wars.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What, what?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Yes, good sooth: to, Achilles! to, Ajax! to!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I shall cut out your tongue.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|'Tis no matter! I shall speak as much as thou
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|afterwards.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|No more words, Thersites, peace!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|There's for you, Patroclus.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|any more to your tents: I will keep where there is
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|A good riddance.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Marry, this, sir, is proclaim'd through all our host:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|That Hector, by the fifth hour of the sun,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Will with a trumpet 'twixt our tents and Troy
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To-morrow morning call some knight to arms
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|That hath a stomach, and such a one that dare
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Maintain--I know not what: 'tis trash. Farewell.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Farewell. Who shall answer him?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I know not: 'tis put to lottery, otherwise
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|He knew his man.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|O, meaning you. I will go learn more of it.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|SCENE II. Troy. A room in Priam's palace.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|After so many hours, lives, speeches spent,
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks:
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|'Deliver Helen, and all damage else--
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|As honour, loss of time, travail, expense,
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consumed
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|In hot digestion of this cormorant war--
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Shall be struck off.' Hector, what say you to't?
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|As far as toucheth my particular,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Yet, dread Priam,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|There is no lady of more softer bowels,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?'
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Than Hector is: the wound of peace is surety,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Surety secure, but modest doubt is call'd
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To the bottom of the worst. Let Helen go:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Since the first sword was drawn about this question,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismes,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Hath been as dear as Helen, I mean, of ours:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|If we have lost so many tenths of ours,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To guard a thing not ours nor worth to us,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Had it our name, the value of one ten,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|What merit's in that reason which denies
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The yielding of her up?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fie, fie, my brother!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Weigh you the worth and honour of a king
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|So great as our dread father in a scale
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of common ounces? will you with counters sum
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The past proportion of his infinite?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And buckle in a waist most fathomless
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|With spans and inches so diminutive
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame!
Troilus and Cressida|HELENUS|No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons,
Troilus and Cressida|HELENUS|You are so empty of them. Should not our father
Troilus and Cressida|HELENUS|Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons,
Troilus and Cressida|HELENUS|Because your speech hath none that tells him so?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You fur your gloves with reason. Here are
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|your reasons:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You know an enemy intends you harm,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You know a sword employ'd is perilous,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And reason flies the object of all harm:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|A Grecian and his sword, if he do set
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The very wings of reason to his heels
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Or like a star disorb'd? Nay, if we talk of reason,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let's shut our gates and sleep: manhood and honour
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Should have hare-hearts, would they but fat
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|their thoughts
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|With this cramm'd reason: reason and respect
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Make livers pale and lustihood deject.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Brother, she is not worth what she doth cost
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The holding.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What is aught, but as 'tis valued?
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|But value dwells not in particular will,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|It holds his estimate and dignity
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|As in the prizer: 'tis mad idolatry
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To make the service greater than the god
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And the will dotes that is attributive
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To what infectiously itself affects,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Without some image of the affected merit.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I take to-day a wife, and my election
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Is led on in the conduct of my will,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of will and judgment: how may I avoid,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Although my will distaste what it elected,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The wife I chose? there can be no evasion
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To blench from this and to stand firm by honour:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|We turn not back the silks upon the merchant,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|When we have soil'd them, nor the remainder viands
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|We do not throw in unrespective sieve,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Because we now are full. It was thought meet
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Paris should do some vengeance on the Greeks:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Your breath of full consent bellied his sails,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a truce
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And did him service: he touch'd the ports desired,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|He brought a Grecian queen, whose youth and freshness
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Why keep we her? the Grecians keep our aunt:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Is she worth keeping? why, she is a pearl,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|If you'll avouch 'twas wisdom Paris went--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As you must needs, for you all cried 'Go, go,'--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|If you'll confess he brought home noble prize--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As you must needs, for you all clapp'd your hands
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And cried 'Inestimable!'--why do you now
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The issue of your proper wisdoms rate,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And do a deed that fortune never did,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Beggar the estimation which you prized
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Richer than sea and land? O, theft most base,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That we have stol'n what we do fear to keep!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But, thieves, unworthy of a thing so stol'n,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That in their country did them that disgrace,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|We fear to warrant in our native place!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|[Within]  Cry, Trojans, cry!
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|What noise? what shriek is this?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|'Tis our mad sister, I do know her voice.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|[Within]  Cry, Trojans!
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|It is Cassandra.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Enter CASSANDRA, raving
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Cry, Trojans, cry! lend me ten thousand eyes,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|And I will fill them with prophetic tears.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Peace, sister, peace!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Add to my clamours! let us pay betimes
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|A moiety of that mass of moan to come.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Cry, Trojans, cry! practise your eyes with tears!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Troy must not be, nor goodly Ilion stand,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Cry, Trojans, cry! a Helen and a woe:
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Now, youthful Troilus, do not these high strains
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Of divination in our sister work
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Some touches of remorse? or is your blood
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|So madly hot that no discourse of reason,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Can qualify the same?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Why, brother Hector,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|We may not think the justness of each act
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Such and no other than event doth form it,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Nor once deject the courage of our minds,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Because Cassandra's mad: her brain-sick raptures
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Which hath our several honours all engaged
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To make it gracious. For my private part,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I am no more touch'd than all Priam's sons:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And Jove forbid there should be done amongst us
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Such things as might offend the weakest spleen
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To fight for and maintain!
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Else might the world convince of levity
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|As well my undertakings as your counsels:
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|But I attest the gods, your full consent
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Gave wings to my propension and cut off
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|All fears attending on so dire a project.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|For what, alas, can these my single arms?
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|What Propugnation is in one man's valour,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|To stand the push and enmity of those
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|This quarrel would excite? Yet, I protest,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Were I alone to pass the difficulties
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|And had as ample power as I have will,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Paris should ne'er retract what he hath done,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Nor faint in the pursuit.
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Paris, you speak
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Like one besotted on your sweet delights:
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|You have the honey still, but these the gall,
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|So to be valiant is no praise at all.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Sir, I propose not merely to myself
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|The pleasures such a beauty brings with it,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|But I would have the soil of her fair rape
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Wiped off, in honourable keeping her.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|What treason were it to the ransack'd queen,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Disgrace to your great worths and shame to me,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Now to deliver her possession up
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|On terms of base compulsion! Can it be
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|That so degenerate a strain as this
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Should once set footing in your generous bosoms?
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|There's not the meanest spirit on our party
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Without a heart to dare or sword to draw
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|When Helen is defended, nor none so noble
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Whose life were ill bestow'd or death unfamed
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Where Helen is the subject, then, I say,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Well may we fight for her whom, we know well,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|The world's large spaces cannot parallel.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Paris and Troilus, you have both said well,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And on the cause and question now in hand
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Have glozed, but superficially: not much
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Unfit to hear moral philosophy:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The reasons you allege do more conduce
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To the hot passion of distemper'd blood
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Than to make up a free determination
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Of any true decision. Nature craves
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|All dues be render'd to their owners: now,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|What nearer debt in all humanity
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Than wife is to the husband? If this law
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Of nature be corrupted through affection,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And that great minds, of partial indulgence
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To their benumbed wills, resist the same,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|There is a law in each well-order'd nation
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To curb those raging appetites that are
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Most disobedient and refractory.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|As it is known she is, these moral laws
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Of nature and of nations speak aloud
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To have her back return'd: thus to persist
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|But makes it much more heavy. Hector's opinion
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Is this in way of truth, yet ne'ertheless,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|My spritely brethren, I propend to you
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|In resolution to keep Helen still,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependance
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Upon our joint and several dignities.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Why, there you touch'd the life of our design:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Were it not glory that we more affected
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Than the performance of our heaving spleens,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Spent more in her defence. But, worthy Hector,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|She is a theme of honour and renown,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Whose present courage may beat down our foes,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And fame in time to come canonize us,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For, I presume, brave Hector would not lose
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|So rich advantage of a promised glory
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As smiles upon the forehead of this action
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For the wide world's revenue.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I am yours,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|You valiant offspring of great Priamus.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I have a roisting challenge sent amongst
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The dun and factious nobles of the Greeks
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I was advertised their great general slept,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Whilst emulation in the army crept:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|This, I presume, will wake him.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Enter THERSITES, solus
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|How now, Thersites! what lost in the labyrinth of
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|thy fury! Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|beats me, and I rail at him: O, worthy satisfaction!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|would it were otherwise, that I could beat him,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|whilst he railed at me. 'Sfoot, I'll learn to
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|conjure and raise devils, but I'll see some issue of
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|my spiteful execrations. Then there's Achilles, a
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|rare enginer! If Troy be not taken till these two
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|themselves. O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods and,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|caduceus, if ye take not that little, little less
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|than little wit from them that they have! which
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|scarce, it will not in circumvention deliver a fly
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|from a spider, without drawing their massy irons and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|for a placket. I have said my prayers and devil Envy
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|say Amen. What ho! my Lord Achilles!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter PATROCLUS
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Who's there? Thersites! Good Thersites, come in and rail.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|If I could have remembered a gilt counterfeit, thou
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|wouldst not have slipped out of my contemplation: but
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|it is no matter, thyself upon thyself! The common
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|great revenue! heaven bless thee from a tutor, and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|discipline come not near thee! Let thy blood be thy
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|direction till thy death! then if she that lays thee
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|out says thou art a fair corse, I'll be sworn and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|sworn upon't she never shrouded any but lazars.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Amen. Where's Achilles?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|What, art thou devout? wast thou in prayer?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ay: the heavens hear me!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter ACHILLES
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Who's there?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Thersites, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Where, where? Art thou come? why, my cheese, my
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|digestion, why hast thou not served thyself in to
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|my table so many meals? Come, what's Agamemnon?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Thy commander, Achilles. Then tell me, Patroclus,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|what's Achilles?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Thy lord, Thersites: then tell me, I pray thee,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|what's thyself?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Thy knower, Patroclus: then tell me, Patroclus,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|what art thou?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Thou mayst tell that knowest.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|O, tell, tell.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I'll decline the whole question. Agamemnon commands
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Achilles, Achilles is my lord, I am Patroclus'
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|knower, and Patroclus is a fool.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|You rascal!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Peace, fool! I have not done.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|He is a privileged man. Proceed, Thersites.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Agamemnon is a fool, Achilles is a fool, Thersites
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|is a fool, and, as aforesaid, Patroclus is a fool.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Derive this, come.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Achilles is a fool to be commanded of Agamemnon,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Thersites is a fool to serve such a fool, and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Patroclus is a fool positive.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Why am I a fool?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Make that demand of the prover. It suffices me thou
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|art. Look you, who comes here?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Patroclus, I'll speak with nobody.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Come in with me, Thersites.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Here is such patchery, such juggling and such
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|whore, a good quarrel to draw emulous factions
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|and bleed to death upon. Now, the dry serpigo on
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|the subject! and war and lechery confound all!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and AJAX
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Where is Achilles?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Within his tent, but ill disposed, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Let it be known to him that we are here.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|He shent our messengers, and we lay by
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Our appertainments, visiting of him:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Let him be told so, lest perchance he think
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We dare not move the question of our place,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Or know not what we are.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|I shall say so to him.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|We saw him at the opening of his tent:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He is not sick.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud heart: you may call it
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|melancholy, if you will favour the man, but, by my
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|head, 'tis pride: but why, why? let him show us the
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|cause. A word, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Takes AGAMEMNON aside
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|What moves Ajax thus to bay at him?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Who, Thersites?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his argument.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|No, you see, he is his argument that has his
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|argument, Achilles.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|All the better, their fraction is more our wish than
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|could disunite.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|untie. Here comes Patroclus.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Re-enter PATROCLUS
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|No Achilles with him.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Achilles bids me say, he is much sorry,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|If any thing more than your sport and pleasure
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Did move your greatness and this noble state
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|To call upon him, he hopes it is no other
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|But for your health and your digestion sake,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|And after-dinner's breath.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Hear you, Patroclus:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We are too well acquainted with these answers:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|But his evasion, wing'd thus swift with scorn,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Cannot outfly our apprehensions.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Much attribute he hath, and much the reason
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Why we ascribe it to him, yet all his virtues,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Not virtuously on his own part beheld,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Are like to rot untasted. Go and tell him,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We come to speak with him, and you shall not sin,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|If you do say we think him over-proud
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And under-honest, in self-assumption greater
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Than in the note of judgment, and worthier
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|than himself
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Disguise the holy strength of their command,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And underwrite in an observing kind
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|His humorous predominance, yea, watch
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|The passage and whole carriage of this action
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Rode on his tide. Go tell him this, and add,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That if he overhold his price so much,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We'll none of him, but let him, like an engine
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Not portable, lie under this report:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|'Bring action hither, this cannot go to war:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Before a sleeping giant.' Tell him so.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|I shall, and bring his answer presently.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|In second voice we'll not be satisfied,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We come to speak with him. Ulysses, enter you.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Exit ULYSSES
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|What is he more than another?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|No more than what he thinks he is.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Is he so much? Do you not think he thinks himself a
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|better man than I am?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|No question.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Will you subscribe his thought, and say he is?
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|No, noble Ajax, you are as strong, as valiant, as
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|wise, no less noble, much more gentle, and altogether
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|more tractable.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Why should a man be proud? How doth pride grow? I
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|know not what pride is.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues the
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|fairer. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|the deed in the praise.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Yet he loves himself: is't not strange?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Aside
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Re-enter ULYSSES
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Achilles will not to the field to-morrow.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What's his excuse?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He doth rely on none,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But carries on the stream of his dispose
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Without observance or respect of any,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In will peculiar and in self-admission.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Why will he not upon our fair request
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Untent his person and share the air with us?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Things small as nothing, for request's sake only,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He makes important: possess'd he is with greatness,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And speaks not to himself but with a pride
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That quarrels at self-breath: imagined worth
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That 'twixt his mental and his active parts
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And batters down himself: what should I say?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Cry 'No recovery.'
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Let Ajax go to him.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Dear lord, go you and greet him in his tent:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|'Tis said he holds you well, and will be led
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|At your request a little from himself.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|O Agamemnon, let it not be so!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|We'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|When they go from Achilles: shall the proud lord
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That bastes his arrogance with his own seam
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And never suffers matter of the world
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Enter his thoughts, save such as do revolve
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And ruminate himself, shall he be worshipp'd
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Of that we hold an idol more than he?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|No, this thrice worthy and right valiant lord
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquired,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As amply titled as Achilles is,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|By going to Achilles:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That were to enlard his fat already pride
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And add more coals to Cancer when he burns
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|With entertaining great Hyperion.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And say in thunder 'Achilles go to him.'
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|[Aside to DIOMEDES]  O, this is well, he rubs the
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|vein of him.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|[Aside to NESTOR]  And how his silence drinks up
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|this applause!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|If I go to him, with my armed fist I'll pash him o'er the face.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|O, no, you shall not go.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|An a' be proud with me, I'll pheeze his pride:
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Let me go to him.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|A paltry, insolent fellow!
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|How he describes himself!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Can he not be sociable?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The raven chides blackness.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I'll let his humours blood.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|He will be the physician that should be the patient.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|An all men were o' my mind,--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Wit would be out of fashion.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|A' should not bear it so, a' should eat swords first:
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|shall pride carry it?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|An 'twould, you'ld carry half.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|A' would have ten shares.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I will knead him, I'll make him supple.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|He's not yet through warm: force him with praises:
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|pour in, pour in, his ambition is dry.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|[To AGAMEMNON]  My lord, you feed too much on this dislike.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Our noble general, do not do so.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|You must prepare to fight without Achilles.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Why, 'tis this naming of him does him harm.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Here is a man--but 'tis before his face,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I will be silent.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Wherefore should you so?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|He is not emulous, as Achilles is.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Know the whole world, he is as valiant.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|A whoreson dog, that shall pelter thus with us!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Would he were a Trojan!
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|What a vice were it in Ajax now,--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|If he were proud,--
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Or covetous of praise,--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Ay, or surly borne,--
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Or strange, or self-affected!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Thank the heavens, lord, thou art of sweet composure,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Praise him that got thee, she that gave thee suck:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Famed be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Thrice famed, beyond all erudition:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But he that disciplined thy arms to fight,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Let Mars divide eternity in twain,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And give him half: and, for thy vigour,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Bull-bearing Milo his addition yield
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Thy spacious and dilated parts: here's Nestor,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Instructed by the antiquary times,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He must, he is, he cannot but be wise:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Put pardon, father Nestor, were your days
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As green as Ajax' and your brain so temper'd,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You should not have the eminence of him,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But be as Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Shall I call you father?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Ay, my good son.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Be ruled by him, Lord Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|There is no tarrying here, the hart Achilles
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Keeps thicket. Please it our great general
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To call together all his state of war,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Fresh kings are come to Troy: to-morrow
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|We must with all our main of power stand fast:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And here's a lord,--come knights from east to west,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Go we to council. Let Achilles sleep:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|ACT III
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|SCENE I. Troy. Priam's palace.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Enter a Servant and PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Friend, you! pray you, a word: do not you follow
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|the young Lord Paris?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Ay, sir, when he goes before me.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You depend upon him, I mean?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Sir, I do depend upon the lord.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You depend upon a noble gentleman, I must needs
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|praise him.
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|The lord be praised!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You know me, do you not?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Faith, sir, superficially.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Friend, know me better, I am the Lord Pandarus.
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|I hope I shall know your honour better.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I do desire it.
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|You are in the state of grace.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Grace! not so, friend: honour and lordship are my titles.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Music within
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What music is this?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|I do but partly know, sir: it is music in parts.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Know you the musicians?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Wholly, sir.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Who play they to?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|To the hearers, sir.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|At whose pleasure, friend
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|At mine, sir, and theirs that love music.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Command, I mean, friend.
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Who shall I command, sir?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Friend, we understand not one another: I am too
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|courtly and thou art too cunning. At whose request
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|do these men play?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|That's to 't indeed, sir: marry, sir, at the request
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|of Paris my lord, who's there in person, with him,
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|invisible soul,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Who, my cousin Cressida?
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|No, sir, Helen: could you not find out that by her
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|attributes?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris from the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Prince Troilus: I will make a complimental assault
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|upon him, for my business seethes.
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Sodden business! there's a stewed phrase indeed!
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Enter PARIS and HELEN, attended
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|company! fair desires, in all fair measure,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|fairly guide them! especially to you, fair queen!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|fair thoughts be your fair pillow!
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Dear lord, you are full of fair words.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. Fair
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|prince, here is good broken music.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|You have broke it, cousin: and, by my life, you
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|shall make it whole again, you shall piece it out
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|with a piece of your performance. Nell, he is full
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|of harmony.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Truly, lady, no.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|O, sir,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Rude, in sooth, in good sooth, very rude.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Well said, my lord! well, you say so in fits.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I have business to my lord, dear queen. My lord,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|will you vouchsafe me a word?
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Nay, this shall not hedge us out: we'll hear you
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|sing, certainly.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Well, sweet queen. you are pleasant with me. But,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|marry, thus, my lord: my dear lord and most esteemed
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|friend, your brother Troilus,--
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|My Lord Pandarus, honey-sweet lord,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Go to, sweet queen, to go:--commends himself most
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|affectionately to you,--
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|You shall not bob us out of our melody: if you do,
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|our melancholy upon your head!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Sweet queen, sweet queen! that's a sweet queen, i' faith.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Nay, that shall not serve your turn, that shall not,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|in truth, la. Nay, I care not for such words, no,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|no. And, my lord, he desires you, that if the king
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|call for him at supper, you will make his excuse.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|My Lord Pandarus,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What says my sweet queen, my very very sweet queen?
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|What exploit's in hand? where sups he to-night?
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Nay, but, my lord,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What says my sweet queen? My cousin will fall out
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|with you. You must not know where he sups.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|No, no, no such matter, you are wide: come, your
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|disposer is sick.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Well, I'll make excuse.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? no,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|your poor disposer's sick.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|I spy.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|You spy! what do you spy? Come, give me an
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|instrument. Now, sweet queen.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Why, this is kindly done.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|sweet queen.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord Paris.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|He! no, she'll none of him, they two are twain.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Falling in, after falling out, may make them three.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Come, come, I'll hear no more of this, I'll sing
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|you a song now.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord, thou
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|hast a fine forehead.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ay, you may, you may.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Love! ay, that it shall, i' faith.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|In good troth, it begins so.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Sings
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Love, love, nothing but love, still more!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|For, O, love's bow
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Shoots buck and doe:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|The shaft confounds,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Not that it wounds,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|But tickles still the sore.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|These lovers cry Oh! oh! they die!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Yet that which seems the wound to kill,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|So dying love lives still:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Oh! oh! groans out for ha! ha! ha!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Heigh-ho!
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|In love, i' faith, to the very tip of the nose.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|thoughts, and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|is love a generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who's
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|a-field to-day?
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|gallantry of Troy: I  would fain have armed to-day,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|but my Nell would not have it so. How chance my
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|brother Troilus went not?
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|He hangs the lip at something: you know all, Lord Pandarus.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Not I, honey-sweet queen. I long to hear how they
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|sped to-day. You'll remember your brother's excuse?
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|To a hair.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Farewell, sweet queen.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Commend me to your niece.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I will, sweet queen.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|A retreat sounded
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|They're come from field: let us to Priam's hall,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo you
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|To help unarm our Hector: his stubborn buckles,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Shall more obey than to the edge of steel
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Or force of Greekish sinews, you shall do more
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Than all the island kings,--disarm great Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|'Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris,
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Gives us more palm in beauty than we have,
Troilus and Cressida|HELEN|Yea, overshines ourself.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Sweet, above thought I love thee.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|SCENE II. The same. Pandarus' orchard.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Enter PANDARUS and Troilus's Boy, meeting
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|How now! where's thy master? at my cousin
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Cressida's?
Troilus and Cressida|Boy|No, sir, he stays for you to conduct him thither.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|O, here he comes.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Enter TROILUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|How now, how now!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Sirrah, walk off.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exit Boy
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Have you seen my cousin?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|No, Pandarus: I stalk about her door,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And give me swift transportance to those fields
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Where I may wallow in the lily-beds
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Proposed for the deserver! O gentle Pandarus,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And fly with me to Cressid!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Walk here i' the orchard, I'll bring her straight.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The imaginary relish is so sweet
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That it enchants my sense: what will it be,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|When that the watery palate tastes indeed
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Love's thrice repured nectar? death, I fear me,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Swooning destruction, or some joy too fine,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For the capacity of my ruder powers:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I fear it much, and I do fear besides,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That I shall lose distinction in my joys,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The enemy flying.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Re-enter PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|She's making her ready, she'll come straight: you
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|must be witty now. She does so blush, and fetches
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|sprite: I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|villain: she fetches her breath as short as a
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|new-ta'en sparrow.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And all my powers do their bestowing lose,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Like vassalage at unawares encountering
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The eye of majesty.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Re-enter PANDARUS with CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Come, come, what need you blush? shame's a baby.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Here she is now: swear the oaths now to her that
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|you have sworn to me. What, are you gone again?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|you must be watched ere you be made tame, must you?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Come your ways, come your ways, an you draw backward,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|we'll put you i' the fills. Why do you not speak to
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|her? Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|daylight! an 'twere dark, you'ld close sooner.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|So, so, rub on, and kiss the mistress. How now!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|a kiss in fee-farm! build there, carpenter, the air
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I part you. The falcon as the tercel, for all the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|ducks i' the river: go to, go to.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You have bereft me of all words, lady.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|activity in question. What, billing again? Here's
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'In witness whereof the parties interchangeably'--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Come in, come in: I'll go get a fire.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Will you walk in, my lord?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O Cressida, how often have I wished me thus!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Wished, my lord! The gods grant,--O my lord!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What should they grant? what makes this pretty
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|lady in the fountain of our love?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fears make devils of cherubims, they never see truly.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|fear the worst oft cures the worse.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O, let my lady apprehend no fear: in all Cupid's
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|pageant there is presented no monster.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Nor nothing monstrous neither?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Nothing, but our undertakings, when we vow to weep
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers, thinking
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|it harder for our mistress to devise imposition
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|is infinite and the execution confined, that the
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|They say all lovers swear more performance than they
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|are able and yet reserve an ability that they never
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|perform, vowing more than the perfection of ten and
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|discharging less than the tenth part of one. They
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|that have the voice of lions and the act of hares,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|are they not monsters?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Are there such? such are not we: praise us as we
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|are tasted, allow us as we prove, our head shall go
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|bare till merit crown it: no perfection in reversion
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|shall have a praise in present: we will not name
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|desert before his birth, and, being born, his addition
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|shall be humble. Few words to fair faith: Troilus
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|shall be a mock for his truth, and what truth can
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|speak truest not truer than Troilus.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Will you walk in, my lord?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Re-enter PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What, blushing still? have you not done talking yet?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I thank you for that: if my lord get a boy of you,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|you'll give him me. Be true to my lord: if he
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|flinch, chide me for it.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You know now your hostages, your uncle's word and my
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|firm faith.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Nay, I'll give my word for her too: our kindred,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|though they be long ere they are wooed, they are
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|constant being won: they are burs, I can tell you,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|they'll stick where they are thrown.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|For many weary months.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|With the first glance that ever--pardon me--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I love you now, but not, till now, so much
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But I might master it: in faith, I lie,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|When we are so unsecret to ourselves?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But, though I loved you well, I woo'd you not,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Or that we women had men's privilege
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|For in this rapture I shall surely speak
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|My very soul of counsel! stop my mouth.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And shall, albeit sweet music issues thence.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Pretty, i' faith.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|'Twas not my purpose, thus to beg a kiss:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I am ashamed. O heavens! what have I done?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|For this time will I take my leave, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Your leave, sweet Cressid!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Leave! an you take leave till to-morrow morning,--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Pray you, content you.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What offends you, lady?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Sir, mine own company.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You cannot shun Yourself.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Let me go and try:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I have a kind of self resides with you,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But an unkind self, that itself will leave,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|To be another's fool. I would be gone:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Where is my wit? I know not what I speak.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And fell so roundly to a large confession,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|To angle for your thoughts: but you are wise,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exceeds man's might, that dwells with gods above.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O that I thought it could be in a woman--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As, if it can, I will presume in you--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To feed for aye her ramp and flames of love,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To keep her constancy in plight and youth,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That doth renew swifter than blood decays!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Or that persuasion could but thus convince me,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That my integrity and truth to you
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Might be affronted with the match and weight
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of such a winnow'd purity in love,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|How were I then uplifted! but, alas!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I am as true as truth's simplicity
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|In that I'll war with you.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O virtuous fight,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|When right with right wars who shall be most right!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|True swains in love shall in the world to come
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Full of protest, of oath and big compare,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Want similes, truth tired with iteration,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Yet, after all comparisons of truth,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As truth's authentic author to be cited,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And sanctify the numbers.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Prophet may you be!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|When time is old and hath forgot itself,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And mighty states characterless are grated
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|To dusty nothing, yet let memory,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|From false to false, among false maids in love,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Upbraid my falsehood! when they've said 'as false
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son,'
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|'Yea,' let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|'As false as Cressid.'
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it, I'll be the
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|witness. Here I hold your hand, here my cousin's.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|If ever you prove false one to another, since I have
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|taken such pains to bring you together, let all
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|after my name, call them all Pandars, let all
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and all brokers-between Pandars! say, amen.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Amen.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Amen.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber with a
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|bed, which bed, because it shall not speak of your
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|pretty encounters, press it to death: away!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX, MENELAUS, and CALCHAS
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Now, princes, for the service I have done you,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|The advantage of the time prompts me aloud
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|That, through the sight I bear in things to love,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Incurr'd a traitor's name, exposed myself,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|From certain and possess'd conveniences,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|To doubtful fortunes, sequestering from me all
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|That time, acquaintance, custom and condition
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Made tame and most familiar to my nature,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|And here, to do you service, am become
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|As new into the world, strange, unacquainted:
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|I do beseech you, as in way of taste,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|To give me now a little benefit,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Out of those many register'd in promise,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Which, you say, live to come in my behalf.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make demand.
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear.
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Oft have you--often have you thanks therefore--
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Desired my Cressid in right great exchange,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|I know, is such a wrest in their affairs
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|That their negotiations all must slack,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Wanting his manage, and they will almost
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|In change of him: let him be sent, great princes,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|And he shall buy my daughter, and her presence
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Shall quite strike off all service I have done,
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|In most accepted pain.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Let Diomedes bear him,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And bring us Cressid hither: Calchas shall have
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What he requests of us. Good Diomed,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Furnish you fairly for this interchange:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Withal bring word if Hector will to-morrow
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|This shall I undertake, and 'tis a burden
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Which I am proud to bear.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS, before their tent
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Please it our general to pass strangely by him,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As if he were forgot, and, princes all,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Lay negligent and loose regard upon him:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|If so, I have derision medicinable,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To use between your strangeness and his pride,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Which his own will shall have desire to drink:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|It may be good: pride hath no other glass
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To show itself but pride, for supple knees
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We'll execute your purpose, and put on
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|A form of strangeness as we pass along:
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|So do each lord, and either greet him not,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What, comes the general to speak with me?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|You know my mind, I'll fight no more 'gainst Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What says Achilles? would he aught with us?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Would you, my lord, aught with the general?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|No.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Nothing, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|The better.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Exeunt AGAMEMNON and NESTOR
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Good day, good day.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|How do you? how do you?
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What, does the cuckold scorn me?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|How now, Patroclus!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Good morrow, Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Ha?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Good morrow.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Ay, and good next day too.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What mean these fellows? Know they not Achilles?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|They pass by strangely: they were used to bend
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|To send their smiles before them to Achilles,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|To come as humbly as they used to creep
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|To holy altars.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What, am I poor of late?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortune,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Must fall out with men too: what the declined is
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|As feel in his own fall, for men, like butterflies,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Show not their mealy wings but to the summer,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|And not a man, for being simply man,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Prizes of accident as oft as merit:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|The love that lean'd on them as slippery too,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Do one pluck down another and together
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Fortune and I are friends: I do enjoy
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|At ample point all that I did possess,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Save these men's looks, who do, methinks, find out
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Something not worth in me such rich beholding
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|As they have often given. Here is Ulysses,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I'll interrupt his reading.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|How now Ulysses!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Now, great Thetis' son!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What are you reading?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|A strange fellow here
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Writes me: 'That man, how dearly ever parted,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|How much in having, or without or in,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As when his virtues shining upon others
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Heat them and they retort that heat again
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To the first giver.'
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|This is not strange, Ulysses.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|The beauty that is borne here in the face
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|The bearer knows not, but commends itself
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To others' eyes, nor doth the eye itself,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Not going from itself, but eye to eye opposed
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Salutes each other with each other's form,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|For speculation turns not to itself,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Till it hath travell'd and is mirror'd there
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Where it may see itself. This is not strange at all.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I do not strain at the position,--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|It is familiar,--but at the author's drift,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Who, in his circumstance, expressly proves
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That no man is the lord of any thing,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Though in and of him there be much consisting,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Till he communicate his parts to others:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nor doth he of himself know them for aught
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Till he behold them form'd in the applause
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Where they're extended, who, like an arch,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|reverberates
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The voice again, or, like a gate of steel
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Fronting the sun, receives and renders back
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|His figure and his heat.  I was much wrapt in this,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And apprehended here immediately
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The unknown Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Heavens, what a man is there! a very horse,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That has he knows not what. Nature, what things there are
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Most abject in regard and dear in use!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|What things again most dear in the esteem
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And poor in worth! Now shall we see to-morrow--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|An act that very chance doth throw upon him--
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Ajax renown'd. O heavens, what some men do,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|While some men leave to do!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|How one man eats into another's pride,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|While pride is fasting in his wantonness!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To see these Grecian lords!--why, even already
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And great Troy shrieking.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I do believe it, for they pass'd by me
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Good word nor look: what, are my deeds forgot?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As fast as they are made, forgot as soon
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As done: perseverance, dear my lord,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In monumental mockery. Take the instant way,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For honour travels in a strait so narrow,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For emulation hath a thousand sons
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That one by one pursue: if you give way,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And leave you hindmost,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Or like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For time is like a fashionable host
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|virtue seek
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Remuneration for the thing it was,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For beauty, wit,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To envious and calumniating time.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That all with one consent praise new-born gawds,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Though they are made and moulded of things past,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And give to dust that is a little gilt
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The present eye praises the present object.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Then marvel not, thou great and complete man,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Since things in motion sooner catch the eye
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Than what not stirs. The cry went once on thee,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And still it might, and yet it may again,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And case thy reputation in thy tent,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And drave great Mars to faction.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Of this my privacy
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I have strong reasons.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But 'gainst your privacy
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The reasons are more potent and heroical:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|'Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|With one of Priam's daughters.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Ha! known!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Is that a wonder?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The providence that's in a watchful state
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Keeps place with thought and almost, like the gods,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|There is a mystery--with whom relation
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Durst never meddle--in the soul of state,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Which hath an operation more divine
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Than breath or pen can give expressure to:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|All the commerce that you have had with Troy
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And better would it fit Achilles much
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To throw down Hector than Polyxena:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|When fame shall in our islands sound her trump,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.'
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Farewell, my lord: I as your lover speak,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|To this effect, Achilles, have I moved you:
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|A woman impudent and mannish grown
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|In time of action. I stand condemn'd for this,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|They think my little stomach to the war
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|And your great love to me restrains you thus:
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Sweet, rouse yourself, and the weak wanton Cupid
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Be shook to air.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Shall Ajax fight with Hector?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I see my reputation is at stake
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|My fame is shrewdly gored.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|O, then, beware,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves:
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Omission to do what is necessary
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Seals a commission to a blank of danger,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Go call Thersites hither, sweet Patroclus:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I'll send the fool to Ajax and desire him
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To invite the Trojan lords after the combat
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To see us here unarm'd: I have a woman's longing,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|An appetite that I am sick withal,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To see great Hector in his weeds of peace,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To talk with him and to behold his visage,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Even to my full of view.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Enter THERSITES
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|A labour saved!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|A wonder!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|What?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|How so?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|He must fight singly to-morrow with Hector, and is so
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|raves in saying nothing.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|How can that be?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock,--a stride
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|and a stand: ruminates like an hostess that hath no
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning:
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|say 'There were wit in this head, an 'twould out,'
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|in a flint, which will not show without knocking.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|The man's undone forever, for if Hector break not his
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|neck i' the combat, he'll break 't himself in
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|vain-glory. He knows not me: I said 'Good morrow,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ajax,' and he replies 'Thanks, Agamemnon.' What think
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|you of this man that takes me for the general? He's
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|grown a very land-fish, language-less, a monster.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|sides, like a leather jerkin.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Thou must be my ambassador to him, Thersites.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Who, I? why, he'll answer nobody, he professes not
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|answering: speaking is for beggars, he wears his
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|tongue in's arms. I will put on his presence: let
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Patroclus make demands to me, you shall see the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|pageant of Ajax.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To him, Patroclus, tell him I humbly desire the
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous Hector
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|to come unarmed to my tent, and to procure
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|safe-conduct for his person of the magnanimous
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|and most illustrious six-or-seven-times-honoured
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|captain-general of the Grecian army, Agamemnon,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|et cetera. Do this.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Jove bless great Ajax!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Hum!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|I come from the worthy Achilles,--
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ha!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent,--
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Hum!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|And to procure safe-conduct from Agamemnon.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Agamemnon!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Ay, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Ha!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|What say you to't?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|God b' wi' you, with all my heart.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Your answer, sir.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|If to-morrow be a fair day, by eleven o'clock it will
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|go one way or other: howsoever, he shall pay for me
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|ere he has me.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Your answer, sir.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Fare you well, with all my heart.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|No, but he's out o' tune thus. What music will be in
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|not, but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|get his sinews to make catlings on.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Let me bear another to his horse, for that's the more
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|capable creature.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|And I myself see not the bottom of it.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|that I might water an ass at it! I had rather be a
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|ACT IV
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|SCENE I. Troy. A street.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter, from one side, AENEAS, and Servant with a  torch, from the other, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, DIOMEDES, and others, with torches
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|See, ho! who is that there?
Troilus and Cressida|DEIPHOBUS|It is the Lord AEneas.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Is the prince there in person?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Had I so good occasion to lie long
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|As you, prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Should rob my bed-mate of my company.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|That's my mind too. Good morrow, Lord AEneas.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|A valiant Greek, AEneas,--take his hand,--
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Witness the process of your speech, wherein
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|You told how Diomed, a whole week by days,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Did haunt you in the field.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Health to you, valiant sir,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|During all question of the gentle truce,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|But when I meet you arm'd, as black defiance
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|As heart can think or courage execute.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|The one and other Diomed embraces.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Our bloods are now in calm, and, so long, health!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|But when contention and occasion meet,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|By Jove, I'll play the hunter for thy life
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|With all my force, pursuit and policy.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And thou shalt hunt a lion, that will fly
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|With his face backward. In humane gentleness,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Welcome to Troy! now, by Anchises' life,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Welcome, indeed! By Venus' hand I swear,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|No man alive can love in such a sort
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The thing he means to kill more excellently.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|We sympathize: Jove, let AEneas live,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|If to my sword his fate be not the glory,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|A thousand complete courses of the sun!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|But, in mine emulous honour, let him die,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|With every joint a wound, and that to-morrow!
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|We know each other well.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|We do, and long to know each other worse.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|This is the most despiteful gentle greeting,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|The noblest hateful love, that e'er I heard of.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|What business, lord, so early?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|I was sent for to the king, but why, I know not.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|His purpose meets you: 'twas to bring this Greek
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|To Calchas' house, and there to render him,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|For the enfreed Antenor, the fair Cressid:
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Let's have your company, or, if you please,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Haste there before us: I constantly do think--
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Or rather, call my thought a certain knowledge--
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|My brother Troilus lodges there to-night:
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Rouse him and give him note of our approach.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|With the whole quality wherefore: I fear
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|We shall be much unwelcome.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That I assure you:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Than Cressid borne from Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|There is no help,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|The bitter disposition of the time
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Will have it so. On, lord, we'll follow you.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Good morrow, all.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Exit with Servant
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|And tell me, noble Diomed, faith, tell me true,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Even in the soul of sound good-fellowship,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Who, in your thoughts, merits fair Helen best,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Myself or Menelaus?
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Both alike:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|He merits well to have her, that doth seek her,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Not making any scruple of her soilure,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|With such a hell of pain and world of charge,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|And you as well to keep her, that defend her,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Not palating the taste of her dishonour,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|With such a costly loss of wealth and friends:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|He, like a puling cuckold, would drink up
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Both merits poised, each weighs nor less nor more,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|But he as he, the heavier for a whore.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|You are too bitter to your countrywoman.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|She's bitter to her country: hear me, Paris:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|For every false drop in her bawdy veins
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|A Grecian's life hath sunk, for every scruple
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Of her contaminated carrion weight,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|A Trojan hath been slain: since she could speak,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|She hath not given so many good words breath
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|As for her Greeks and Trojans suffer'd death.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy:
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|But we in silence hold this virtue well,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|We'll but commend what we intend to sell.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Here lies our way.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|SCENE II. The same. Court of Pandarus' house.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Enter TROILUS and CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Dear, trouble not yourself: the morn is cold.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Then, sweet my lord, I'll call mine uncle down,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|He shall unbolt the gates.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Trouble him not,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To bed, to bed: sleep kill those pretty eyes,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And give as soft attachment to thy senses
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As infants' empty of all thought!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Good morrow, then.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I prithee now, to bed.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Are you a-weary of me?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O Cressida! but that the busy day,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I would not from thee.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Night hath been too brief.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|With wings more momentary-swift than thought.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You will catch cold, and curse me.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Prithee, tarry:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You men will never tarry.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O foolish Cressid! I might have still held off,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And then you would have tarried. Hark!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|there's one up.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|[Within]  What, 's all the doors open here?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|It is your uncle.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|A pestilence on him! now will he be mocking:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I shall have such a life!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Enter PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|How now, how now! how go maidenheads? Here, you
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|maid! where's my cousin Cressid?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You bring me to do, and then you flout me too.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|To do what? to do what? let her say
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|what: what have I brought you to do?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Come, come, beshrew your heart! you'll ne'er be good,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Nor suffer others.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ha! ha! Alas, poor wretch! ah, poor capocchia!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|hast not slept to-night? would he not, a naughty
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|man, let it sleep? a bugbear take him!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Did not I tell you? Would he were knock'd i' the head!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Knocking within
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Who's that at door? good uncle, go and see.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|My lord, come you again into my chamber:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Ha, ha!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Come, you are deceived, I think of no such thing.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Knocking within
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|How earnestly they knock! Pray you, come in:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I would not for half Troy have you seen here.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exeunt TROILUS and CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Who's there? what's the matter? will you beat
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|down the door? How now! what's the matter?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Enter AENEAS
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Good morrow, lord, good morrow.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Who's there? my Lord AEneas! By my troth,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|I knew you not: what news with you so early?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Is not Prince Troilus here?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Here! what should he do here?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Come, he is here, my lord, do not deny him:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|It doth import him much to speak with me.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Is he here, say you? 'tis more than I know, I'll
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|be sworn: for my own part, I came in late. What
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|should he do here?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Who!--nay, then: come, come, you'll do him wrong
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|ere you're ware: you'll be so true to him, to be
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|false to him: do not you know of him, but yet go
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|fetch him hither, go.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Re-enter TROILUS
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|How now! what's the matter?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|My matter is so rash: there is at hand
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Paris your brother, and Deiphobus,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The Grecian Diomed, and our Antenor
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Deliver'd to us, and for him forthwith,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|We must give up to Diomedes' hand
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The Lady Cressida.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Is it so concluded?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|By Priam and the general state of Troy:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|They are at hand and ready to effect it.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|How my achievements mock me!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I will go meet them: and, my Lord AEneas,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|We met by chance, you did not find me here.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Good, good, my lord, the secrets of nature
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Have not more gift in taciturnity.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Exeunt TROILUS and AENEAS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Is't possible? no sooner got but lost? The devil
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|take Antenor! the young prince will go mad: a
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|plague upon Antenor! I would they had broke 's neck!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Re-enter CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|How now! what's the matter? who was here?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ah, ah!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Why sigh you so profoundly? where's my lord? gone!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Tell me, sweet uncle, what's the matter?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Would I were as deep under the earth as I am above!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O the gods! what's the matter?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Prithee, get thee in: would thou hadst ne'er been
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|born! I knew thou wouldst be his death. O, poor
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|gentleman! A plague upon Antenor!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Good uncle, I beseech you, on my knees! beseech you,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|what's the matter?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Thou must be gone, wench, thou must be gone, thou
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|art changed for Antenor: thou must to thy father,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and be gone from Troilus: 'twill be his death,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'twill be his bane, he cannot bear it.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O you immortal gods! I will not go.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Thou must.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I will not, uncle: I have forgot my father,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I know no touch of consanguinity,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|No kin no love, no blood, no soul so near me
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|As the sweet Troilus. O you gods divine!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Make Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|If ever she leave Troilus! Time, force, and death,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Do to this body what extremes you can,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But the strong base and building of my love
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Is as the very centre of the earth,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Drawing all things to it. I'll go in and weep,--
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Do, do.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Tear my bright hair and scratch my praised cheeks,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|With sounding Troilus. I will not go from Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|SCENE III. The same. Street before Pandarus' house.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Enter PARIS, TROILUS, AENEAS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, and DIOMEDES
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|It is great morning, and the hour prefix'd
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Of her delivery to this valiant Greek
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Tell you the lady what she is to do,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|And haste her to the purpose.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Walk into her house,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I'll bring her to the Grecian presently:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And to his hand when I deliver her,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|A priest there offering to it his own heart.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|I know what 'tis to love,
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|And would, as I shall pity, I could help!
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Please you walk in, my lords.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|SCENE IV. The same. Pandarus' house.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Be moderate, be moderate.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Why tell you me of moderation?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And violenteth in a sense as strong
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|As that which causeth it: how can I moderate it?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|If I could temporize with my affection,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Or brew it to a weak and colder palate,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|The like allayment could I give my grief.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|My love admits no qualifying dross,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|No more my grief, in such a precious loss.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Here, here, here he comes.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Enter TROILUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ah, sweet ducks!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O Troilus! Troilus!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Embracing him
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|What a pair of spectacles is here!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Let me embrace too. 'O heart,' as the goodly saying is,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'--O heart, heavy heart,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Why sigh'st thou without breaking?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|where he answers again,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|'Because thou canst not ease thy smart
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|By friendship nor by speaking.'
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|There was never a truer rhyme. Let us cast away
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|nothing, for we may live to have need of such a
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|verse: we see it, we see it. How now, lambs?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Cressid, I love thee in so strain'd a purity,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That the bless'd gods, as angry with my fancy,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|More bright in zeal than the devotion which
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Cold lips blow to their deities, take thee from me.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Have the gods envy?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Ay, ay, ay, ay, 'tis too plain a case.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And is it true that I must go from Troy?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|A hateful truth.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|What, and from Troilus too?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|From Troy and Troilus.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Is it possible?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And suddenly, where injury of chance
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|We two, that with so many thousand sighs
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|With the rude brevity and discharge of one.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Injurious time now with a robber's haste
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As many farewells as be stars in heaven,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|He fumbles up into a lose adieu,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|[Within]  My lord, is the lady ready?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hark! you are call'd: some say the Genius so
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Cries 'come' to him that instantly must die.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Bid them have patience, she shall come anon.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Where are my tears? rain, to lay this wind, or
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|my heart will be blown up by the root.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I must then to the Grecians?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|No remedy.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|A woful Cressid 'mongst the merry Greeks!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|When shall we see again?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hear me, my love: be thou but true of heart,--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I true! how now! what wicked deem is this?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Nay, we must use expostulation kindly,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For it is parting from us:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I speak not 'be thou true,' as fearing thee,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For I will throw my glove to Death himself,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That there's no maculation in thy heart:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But 'be thou true,' say I, to fashion in
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|My sequent protestation, be thou true,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And I will see thee.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O, you shall be exposed, my lord, to dangers
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|As infinite as imminent! but I'll be true.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And I'll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And you this glove. When shall I see you?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I will corrupt the Grecian sentinels,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To give thee nightly visitation.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But yet be true.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O heavens! 'be true' again!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hear while I speak it, love:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The Grecian youths are full of quality,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|They're loving, well composed with gifts of nature,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|How novelty may move, and parts with person,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Alas, a kind of godly jealousy--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Which, I beseech you, call a virtuous sin--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Makes me afeard.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O heavens! you love me not.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Die I a villain, then!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In this I do not call your faith in question
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|So mainly as my merit: I cannot sing,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Nor heel the high lavolt, nor sweeten talk,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Nor play at subtle games, fair virtues all,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But I can tell that in each grace of these
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That tempts most cunningly: but be not tempted.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Do you think I will?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|No.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But something may be done that we will not:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And sometimes we are devils to ourselves,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Presuming on their changeful potency.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|[Within]  Nay, good my lord,--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Come, kiss, and let us part.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|[Within]  Brother Troilus!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Good brother, come you hither,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And bring AEneas and the Grecian with you.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|My lord, will you be true?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Who, I? alas, it is my vice, my fault:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I with great truth catch mere simplicity,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Is 'plain and true,' there's all the reach of it.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, DEIPHOBUS, and DIOMEDES
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Welcome, Sir Diomed! here is the lady
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Which for Antenor we deliver you:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|At the port, lord, I'll give her to thy hand,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And by the way possess thee what she is.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Entreat her fair, and, by my soul, fair Greek,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|If e'er thou stand at mercy of my sword,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Name Cressida and thy life shall be as safe
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As Priam is in Ilion.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Fair Lady Cressid,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|So please you, save the thanks this prince expects:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Pleads your fair usage, and to Diomed
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|You shall be mistress, and command him wholly.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Grecian, thou dost not use me courteously,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To shame the zeal of my petition to thee
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In praising her: I tell thee, lord of Greece,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|She is as far high-soaring o'er thy praises
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As thou unworthy to be call'd her servant.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I charge thee use her well, even for my charge,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For, by the dreadful Pluto, if thou dost not,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Though the great bulk Achilles be thy guard,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I'll cut thy throat.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|O, be not moved, Prince Troilus:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Let me be privileged by my place and message,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|To be a speaker free, when I am hence
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I'll answer to my lust: and know you, lord,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I'll nothing do on charge: to her own worth
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|She shall be prized, but that you say 'be't so,'
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I'll speak it in my spirit and honour, 'no.'
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Come, to the port. I'll tell thee, Diomed,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Lady, give me your hand, and, as we walk,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To our own selves bend we our needful talk.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exeunt TROILUS, CRESSIDA, and DIOMEDES
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Trumpet within
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|Hark! Hector's trumpet.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|How have we spent this morning!
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The prince must think me tardy and remiss,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|That sore to ride before him to the field.
Troilus and Cressida|PARIS|'Tis Troilus' fault: come, come, to field with him.
Troilus and Cressida|DEIPHOBUS|Let us make ready straight.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Let us address to tend on Hector's heels:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The glory of our Troy doth this day lie
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|On his fair worth and single chivalry.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|SCENE V. The Grecian camp. Lists set out.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Enter AJAX, armed, AGAMEMNON, ACHILLES, PATROCLUS, MENELAUS, ULYSSES, NESTOR, and others
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Anticipating time with starting courage.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Thou dreadful Ajax, that the appalled air
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|May pierce the head of the great combatant
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And hale him hither.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Thou, trumpet, there's my purse.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon:
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Come, stretch thy chest and let thy eyes spout blood,
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Thou blow'st for Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Trumpet sounds
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|No trumpet answers.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|'Tis but early days.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Is not yond Diomed, with Calchas' daughter?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|He rises on the toe: that spirit of his
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|In aspiration lifts him from the earth.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Enter DIOMEDES, with CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Is this the Lady Cressid?
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Even she.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Most dearly welcome to the Greeks, sweet lady.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Our general doth salute you with a kiss.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Yet is the kindness but particular,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|'Twere better she were kiss'd in general.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And very courtly counsel: I'll begin.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|So much for Nestor.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I'll take what winter from your lips, fair lady:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Achilles bids you welcome.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|I had good argument for kissing once.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|But that's no argument for kissing now,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|For this popp'd Paris in his hardiment,
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|And parted thus you and your argument.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For which we lose our heads to gild his horns.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|The first was Menelaus' kiss, this, mine:
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Patroclus kisses you.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|O, this is trim!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Paris and I kiss evermore for him.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|I'll have my kiss, sir. Lady, by your leave.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|In kissing, do you render or receive?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Both take and give.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I'll make my match to live,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|The kiss you take is better than you give,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Therefore no kiss.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You're an odd man, give even or give none.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|An odd man, lady! every man is odd.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|No, Paris is not, for you know 'tis true,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|That you are odd, and he is even with you.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|You fillip me o' the head.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|No, I'll be sworn.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|It were no match, your nail against his horn.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|May I, sweet lady, beg a kiss of you?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You may.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I do desire it.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Why, beg, then.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Why then for Venus' sake, give me a kiss,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|When Helen is a maid again, and his.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I am your debtor, claim it when 'tis due.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Never's my day, and then a kiss of you.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Lady, a word: I'll bring you to your father.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Exit with CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|A woman of quick sense.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Fie, fie upon her!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nay, her foot speaks, her wanton spirits look out
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|At every joint and motive of her body.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That give accosting welcome ere it comes,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To every ticklish reader! set them down
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For sluttish spoils of opportunity
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And daughters of the game.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Trumpet within
Troilus and Cressida|ALL|The Trojans' trumpet.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Yonder comes the troop.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Enter HECTOR, armed, AENEAS, TROILUS, and other Trojans, with Attendants
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Hail, all you state of Greece! what shall be done
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|To him that victory commands? or do you purpose
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|A victor shall be known? will you the knights
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Shall to the edge of all extremity
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Pursue each other, or shall be divided
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|By any voice or order of the field?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Hector bade ask.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Which way would Hector have it?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|He cares not, he'll obey conditions.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|'Tis done like Hector, but securely done,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|A little proudly, and great deal misprizing
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|The knight opposed.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|If not Achilles, sir,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|What is your name?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|If not Achilles, nothing.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Therefore Achilles: but, whate'er, know this:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|In the extremity of great and little,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The one almost as infinite as all,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|And that which looks like pride is courtesy.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|This Ajax is half made of Hector's blood:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|In love whereof, half Hector stays at home,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to seek
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|This blended knight, half Trojan and half Greek.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|A maiden battle, then? O, I perceive you.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Re-enter DIOMEDES
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Here is Sir Diomed. Go, gentle knight,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Stand by our Ajax: as you and Lord AEneas
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Consent upon the order of their fight,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|So be it, either to the uttermost,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Or else a breath: the combatants being kin
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Half stints their strife before their strokes begin.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|AJAX and HECTOR enter the lists
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|They are opposed already.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What Trojan is that same that looks so heavy?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The youngest son of Priam, a true knight,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Not yet mature, yet matchless, firm of word,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Not soon provoked nor being provoked soon calm'd:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|His heart and hand both open and both free,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Manly as Hector, but more dangerous,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To tender objects, but he in heat of action
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Is more vindicative than jealous love:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|They call him Troilus, and on him erect
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|A second hope, as fairly built as Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Thus says AEneas, one that knows the youth
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Even to his inches, and with private soul
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Alarum. Hector and Ajax fight
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|They are in action.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Now, Ajax, hold thine own!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hector, thou sleep'st,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Awake thee!
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|His blows are well disposed: there, Ajax!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|You must no more.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Trumpets cease
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Princes, enough, so please you.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I am not warm yet, let us fight again.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|As Hector pleases.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Why, then will I no more:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|A cousin-german to great Priam's seed,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The obligation of our blood forbids
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|A gory emulation 'twixt us twain:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|That thou couldst say 'This hand is Grecian all,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And this is Trojan, the sinews of this leg
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|All Greek, and this all Troy, my mother's blood
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Bounds in my father's,' by Jove multipotent,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Wherein my sword had not impressure made
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Of our rank feud: but the just gods gainsay
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Be drain'd! Let me embrace thee, Ajax:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|By him that thunders, thou hast lusty arms,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Hector would have them fall upon him thus:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Cousin, all honour to thee!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I thank thee, Hector
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Thou art too gentle and too free a man:
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I came to kill thee, cousin, and bear hence
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|A great addition earned in thy death.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Not Neoptolemus so mirable,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st Oyes
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Cries 'This is he,' could promise to himself
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|A thought of added honour torn from Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|There is expectance here from both the sides,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|What further you will do.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|We'll answer it,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The issue is embracement: Ajax, farewell.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|If I might in entreaties find success--
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|As seld I have the chance--I would desire
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|My famous cousin to our Grecian tents.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|'Tis Agamemnon's wish, and great Achilles
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Doth long to see unarm'd the valiant Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|AEneas, call my brother Troilus to me,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And signify this loving interview
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To the expecters of our Trojan part,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Desire them home. Give me thy hand, my cousin,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I will go eat with thee and see your knights.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Great Agamemnon comes to meet us here.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The worthiest of them tell me name by name,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|But for Achilles, mine own searching eyes
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Shall find him by his large and portly size.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Worthy of arms! as welcome as to one
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That would be rid of such an enemy,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|But that's no welcome: understand more clear,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And formless ruin of oblivion,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|But in this extant moment, faith and troth,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Strain'd purely from all hollow bias-drawing,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Bids thee, with most divine integrity,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I thank thee, most imperious Agamemnon.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|[To TROILUS]  My well-famed lord of Troy, no
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|less to you.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|Let me confirm my princely brother's greeting:
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|You brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Who must we answer?
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|The noble Menelaus.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|O, you, my lord? by Mars his gauntlet, thanks!
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Mock not, that I affect the untraded oath,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Your quondam wife swears still by Venus' glove:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|She's well, but bade me not commend her to you.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|Name her not now, sir, she's a deadly theme.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|O, pardon, I offend.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Labouring for destiny make cruel way
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Through ranks of Greekish youth, and I have seen thee,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Despising many forfeits and subduements,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i' the air,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Not letting it decline on the declined,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|That I have said to some my standers by
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|'Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life!'
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Like an Olympian wrestling: this have I seen,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|But this thy countenance, still lock'd in steel,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|I never saw till now. I knew thy grandsire,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And once fought with him: he was a soldier good,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|But, by great Mars, the captain of us all,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Never saw like thee. Let an old man embrace thee,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And, worthy warrior, welcome to our tents.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|'Tis the old Nestor.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|That hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Most reverend Nestor, I am glad to clasp thee.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|I would my arms could match thee in contention,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|As they contend with thee in courtesy.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I would they could.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Ha!
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|By this white beard, I'ld fight with thee to-morrow.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Well, welcome, welcome! I have seen the time.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I wonder now how yonder city stands
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|When we have here her base and pillar by us.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I know your favour, Lord Ulysses, well.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Ah, sir, there's many a Greek and Trojan dead,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Since first I saw yourself and Diomed
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|In Ilion, on your Greekish embassy.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Sir, I foretold you then what would ensue:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|My prophecy is but half his journey yet,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Yond towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Must kiss their own feet.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I must not believe you:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|There they stand yet, and modestly I think,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|A drop of Grecian blood: the end crowns all,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Will one day end it.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|So to him we leave it.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Most gentle and most valiant Hector, welcome:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|After the general, I beseech you next
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To feast with me and see me at my tent.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I shall forestall thee, Lord Ulysses, thou!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Now, Hector, I have fed mine eyes on thee,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I have with exact view perused thee, Hector,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|And quoted joint by joint.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Is this Achilles?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I am Achilles.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Stand fair, I pray thee: let me look on thee.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Behold thy fill.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Nay, I have done already.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Thou art too brief: I will the second time,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|As I would buy thee, view thee limb by limb.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|O, like a book of sport thou'lt read me o'er,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|But there's more in me than thou understand'st.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Shall I destroy him? whether there, or there, or there?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|That I may give the local wound a name
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|And make distinct the very breach whereout
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Hector's great spirit flew: answer me, heavens!
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|It would discredit the blest gods, proud man,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To answer such a question: stand again:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Think'st thou to catch my life so pleasantly
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|As to prenominate in nice conjecture
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Where thou wilt hit me dead?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I tell thee, yea.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Wert thou an oracle to tell me so,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I'd not believe thee. Henceforth guard thee well,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|For I'll not kill thee there, nor there, nor there,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|But, by the forge that stithied Mars his helm,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I'll kill thee every where, yea, o'er and o'er.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|You wisest Grecians, pardon me this brag,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|His insolence draws folly from my lips,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|But I'll endeavour deeds to match these words,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Or may I never--
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Do not chafe thee, cousin:
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|And you, Achilles, let these threats alone,
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Till accident or purpose bring you to't:
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|You may have every day enough of Hector
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|If you have stomach, the general state, I fear,
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I pray you, let us see you in the field:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|We have had pelting wars, since you refused
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|The Grecians' cause.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Dost thou entreat me, Hector?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To-morrow do I meet thee, fell as death,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To-night all friends.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Thy hand upon that match.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|There in the full convive we: afterwards,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Concur together, severally entreat him.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Beat loud the tabourines, let the trumpets blow,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|That this great soldier may his welcome know.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Exeunt all except TROILUS and ULYSSES
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|My Lord Ulysses, tell me, I beseech you,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In what place of the field doth Calchas keep?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|At Menelaus' tent, most princely Troilus:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|There Diomed doth feast with him to-night,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Who neither looks upon the heaven nor earth,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|On the fair Cressid.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Shall sweet lord, be bound to you so much,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|After we part from Agamemnon's tent,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To bring me thither?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You shall command me, sir.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As gentle tell me, of what honour was
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|This Cressida in Troy? Had she no lover there
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That wails her absence?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O, sir, to such as boasting show their scars
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|A mock is due. Will you walk on, my lord?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|She was beloved, she loved, she is, and doth:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|ACT V
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|SCENE I. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Here comes Thersites.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Enter THERSITES
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|How now, thou core of envy!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|of idiot worshippers, here's a letter for thee.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|From whence, fragment?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Why, thou full dish of fool, from Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Who keeps the tent now?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|The surgeon's box, or the patient's wound.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Well said, adversity! and what need these tricks?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Prithee, be silent, boy, I profit not by thy talk:
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet.
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Male varlet, you rogue! what's that?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten diseases
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|loads o' gravel i' the back, lethargies, cold
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|limekilns i' the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|again such preposterous discoveries!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Why thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|thou to curse thus?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Do I curse thee?
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|indistinguishable cur, no.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is pestered
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|with such waterflies, diminutives of nature!
Troilus and Cressida|PATROCLUS|Out, gall!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Finch-egg!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|A token from her daughter, my fair love,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Both taxing me and gaging me to keep
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Fall Greeks, fail fame, honour or go or stay,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|This night in banqueting must all be spent.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Away, Patroclus!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|With too much blood and too little brain, these two
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|may run mad, but, if with too much brain and too
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|little blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough and one
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|earwax: and the goodly transformation of Jupiter
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|there, his brother, the bull,--the primitive statue,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|and oblique memorial of cuckolds, a thrifty
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|leg,--to what form but that he is, should wit larded
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|To an ass, were nothing, he is both ass and ox: to
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|an ox, were nothing, he is both ox and ass. To be a
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|not care, but to be Menelaus, I would conspire
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|against destiny. Ask me not, what I would be, if I
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|were not Thersites, for I care not to be the louse
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus! Hey-day!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|spirits and fires!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter HECTOR, TROILUS, AJAX, AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR, MENELAUS, and DIOMEDES, with lights
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|We go wrong, we go wrong.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|No, yonder 'tis,
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|There, where we see the lights.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I trouble you.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|No, not a whit.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Here comes himself to guide you.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Re-enter ACHILLES
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Welcome, brave Hector, welcome, princes all.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|So now, fair prince of Troy, I bid good night.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Thanks and good night to the Greeks' general.
Troilus and Cressida|MENELAUS|Good night, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Good night, sweet lord Menelaus.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Sweet draught: 'sweet' quoth 'a! sweet sink,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|sweet sewer.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Good night and welcome, both at once, to those
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|That go or tarry.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Good night.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Exeunt AGAMEMNON and MENELAUS
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Old Nestor tarries, and you too, Diomed,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Keep Hector company an hour or two.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I cannot, lord, I have important business,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|The tide whereof is now. Good night, great Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Give me your hand.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|[Aside to TROILUS]  Follow his torch, he goes to
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Calchas' tent:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I'll keep you company.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Sweet sir, you honour me.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And so, good night.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Exit DIOMEDES, ULYSSES and TROILUS following
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Come, come, enter my tent.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exeunt ACHILLES, HECTOR, AJAX, and NESTOR
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|That same Diomed's a false-hearted rogue, a most
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|unjust knave, I will no more trust him when he leers
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|than I will a serpent when he hisses: he will spend
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound:
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|but when he performs, astronomers foretell it, it
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|is prodigious, there will come some change, the sun
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps his
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|word. I will rather leave to see Hector, than
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|not to dog him: they say he keeps a Trojan
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|drab, and uses the traitor Calchas' tent: I'll
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|after. Nothing but lechery! all incontinent varlets!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|SCENE II. The same. Before Calchas' tent.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter DIOMEDES
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|What, are you up here, ho? speak.
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|[Within]  Who calls?
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|[Within]  She comes to you.
Troilus and Cressida|CALCHAS|Enter TROILUS and ULYSSES, at a distance, after them, THERSITES
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Stand where the torch may not discover us.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Enter CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Cressid comes forth to him.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|How now, my charge!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Now, my sweet guardian! Hark, a word with you.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Whispers
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Yea, so familiar!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|She will sing any man at first sight.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|And any man may sing her, if he can take her cliff,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|she's noted.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Will you remember?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Remember! yes.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Nay, but do, then,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|And let your mind be coupled with your words.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What should she remember?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|List.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Roguery!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Nay, then,--
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I'll tell you what,--
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Foh, foh! come, tell a pin: you are forsworn.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|In faith, I cannot: what would you have me do?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|A juggling trick,--to be secretly open.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|What did you swear you would bestow on me?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Bid me do any thing but that, sweet Greek.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Good night.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hold, patience!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|How now, Trojan!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Diomed,--
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|No, no, good night: I'll be your fool no more.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Thy better must.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Hark, one word in your ear.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O plague and madness!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You are moved, prince, let us depart, I pray you,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|To wrathful terms: this place is dangerous,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|The time right deadly, I beseech you, go.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Behold, I pray you!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nay, good my lord, go off:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You flow to great distraction, come, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I pray thee, stay.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You have not patience, come.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I pray you, stay, by hell and all hell's torments
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I will not speak a word!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|And so, good night.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Nay, but you part in anger.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Doth that grieve thee?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O wither'd truth!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Why, how now, lord!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|By Jove,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I will be patient.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Guardian!--why, Greek!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Foh, foh! adieu, you palter.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|In faith, I do not: come hither once again.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You shake, my lord, at something: will you go?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You will break out.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|She strokes his cheek!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Come, come.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Nay, stay, by Jove, I will not speak a word:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|There is between my will and all offences
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|A guard of patience: stay a little while.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|potato-finger, tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|But will you, then?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|In faith, I will, la, never trust me else.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Give me some token for the surety of it.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I'll fetch you one.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|You have sworn patience.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fear me not, sweet lord,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I will not be myself, nor have cognition
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of what I feel: I am all patience.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Re-enter CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Now the pledge, now, now, now!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O beauty! where is thy faith?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|My lord,--
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I will be patient, outwardly I will.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You look upon that sleeve, behold it well.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|He loved me--O false wench!--Give't me again.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Whose was't?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|It is no matter, now I have't again.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I will not meet with you to-morrow night:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Now she sharpens: well said, whetstone!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I shall have it.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|What, this?
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Ay, that.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|O, all you gods! O pretty, pretty pledge!
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Thy master now lies thinking in his bed
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Of thee and me, and sighs, and takes my glove,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And gives memorial dainty kisses to it,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|As I kiss thee. Nay, do not snatch it from me,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|He that takes that doth take my heart withal.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I had your heart before, this follows it.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I did swear patience.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You shall not have it, Diomed, faith, you shall not,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I'll give you something else.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I will have this: whose was it?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|It is no matter.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Come, tell me whose it was.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|'Twas one's that loved me better than you will.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But, now you have it, take it.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Whose was it?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|By all Diana's waiting-women yond,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|And by herself, I will not tell you whose.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|To-morrow will I wear it on my helm,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Wert thou the devil, and worest it on thy horn,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|It should be challenged.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past: and yet it is not,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|I will not keep my word.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Why, then, farewell,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Thou never shalt mock Diomed again.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|You shall not go: one cannot speak a word,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But it straight starts you.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I do not like this fooling.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Nor I, by Pluto: but that that likes not you pleases me best.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|What, shall I come? the hour?
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Ay, come:--O Jove!--do come:--I shall be plagued.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Farewell till then.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Good night: I prithee, come.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exit DIOMEDES
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|But with my heart the other eye doth see.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|The error of our eye directs our mind:
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|What error leads must err, O, then conclude
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude.
Troilus and Cressida|CRESSIDA|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|A proof of strength she could not publish more,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Unless she said ' My mind is now turn'd whore.'
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|All's done, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|It is.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Why stay we, then?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To make a recordation to my soul
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of every syllable that here was spoke.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But if I tell how these two did co-act,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Shall I not lie in publishing a truth?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|An esperance so obstinately strong,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As if those organs had deceptious functions,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Created only to calumniate.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Was Cressid here?
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I cannot conjure, Trojan.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|She was not, sure.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Most sure she was.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Why, my negation hath no taste of madness.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Nor mine, my lord: Cressid was here but now.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let it not be believed for womanhood!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Think, we had mothers, do not give advantage
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For depravation, to square the general sex
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|By Cressid's rule: rather think this not Cressid.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Nothing at all, unless that this were she.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Will he swagger himself out on's own eyes?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|This she? no, this is Diomed's Cressida:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|If beauty have a soul, this is not she,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|If souls guide vows, if vows be sanctimonies,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|If sanctimony be the gods' delight,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|If there be rule in unity itself,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|This is not she. O madness of discourse,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That cause sets up with and against itself!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Bi-fold authority! where reason can revolt
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Without perdition, and loss assume all reason
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Without revolt: this is, and is not, Cressid.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Within my soul there doth conduce a fight
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of this strange nature that a thing inseparate
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Divides more wider than the sky and earth,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And yet the spacious breadth of this division
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Admits no orifex for a point as subtle
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As Ariachne's broken woof to enter.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Instance, O instance! strong as Pluto's gates,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The bonds of heaven are slipp'd, dissolved, and loosed,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And with another knot, five-finger-tied,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The fractions of her faith, orts of her love,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Of her o'er-eaten faith, are bound to Diomed.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|May worthy Troilus be half attach'd
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|With that which here his passion doth express?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Ay, Greek, and that shall be divulged well
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In characters as red as Mars his heart
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Inflamed with Venus: never did young man fancy
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|With so eternal and so fix'd a soul.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hark, Greek: as much as I do Cressid love,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|So much by weight hate I her Diomed:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That sleeve is mine that he'll bear on his helm,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Were it a casque composed by Vulcan's skill,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|My sword should bite it: not the dreadful spout
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Which shipmen do the hurricano call,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Constringed in mass by the almighty sun,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In his descent than shall my prompted sword
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Falling on Diomed.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|He'll tickle it for his concupy.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O Cressid! O false Cressid! false, false, false!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And they'll seem glorious.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|O, contain yourself
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Your passion draws ears hither.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Enter AENEAS
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|I have been seeking you this hour, my lord:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Hector, by this, is arming him in Troy,
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Ajax, your guard, stays to conduct you home.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Have with you, prince. My courteous lord, adieu.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Farewell, revolted fair! and, Diomed,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Stand fast, and wear a castle on thy head!
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|I'll bring you to the gates.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Accept distracted thanks.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exeunt TROILUS, AENEAS, and ULYSSES
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Would I could meet that rogue Diomed! I would
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|croak like a raven, I would bode, I would bode.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Patroclus will give me any thing for the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|intelligence of this whore: the parrot will not
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Lechery, lechery, still, wars and lechery, nothing
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|SCENE III. Troy. Before Priam's palace.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter HECTOR and ANDROMACHE
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|When was my lord so much ungently temper'd,
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|To stop his ears against admonishment?
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|You train me to offend you, get you in:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|By all the everlasting gods, I'll go!
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|My dreams will, sure, prove ominous to the day.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|No more, I say.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Enter CASSANDRA
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Where is my brother Hector?
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Here, sister, arm'd, and bloody in intent.
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Consort with me in loud and dear petition,
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Pursue we him on knees, for I have dream'd
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|O, 'tis true.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Ho! bid my trumpet sound!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|No notes of sally, for the heavens, sweet brother.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Be gone, I say: the gods have heard me swear.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows:
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|O, be persuaded! do not count it holy
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|To hurt by being just: it is as lawful,
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|For we would give much, to use violent thefts,
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|And rob in the behalf of charity.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|It is the purpose that makes strong the vow,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|But vows to every purpose must not hold:
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Unarm, sweet Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Hold you still, I say,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Lie every man holds dear, but the brave man
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Holds honour far more precious-dear than life.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Enter TROILUS
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|How now, young man! mean'st thou to fight to-day?
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Cassandra, call my father to persuade.
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Exit CASSANDRA
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|No, faith, young Troilus, doff thy harness, youth,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I am to-day i' the vein of chivalry:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Unarm thee, go, and doubt thou not, brave boy,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I'll stand to-day for thee and me and Troy.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Which better fits a lion than a man.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|What vice is that, good Troilus? chide me for it.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|When many times the captive Grecian falls,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You bid them rise, and live.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|O,'tis fair play.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fool's play, by heaven, Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|How now! how now!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|For the love of all the gods,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And when we have our armours buckled on,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Fie, savage, fie!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hector, then 'tis wars.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Troilus, I would not have you fight to-day.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Who should withhold me?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Not you, my brother, with your true sword drawn,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Opposed to  hinder me, should stop my way,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But by my ruin.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Re-enter CASSANDRA, with PRIAM
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast:
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|He is thy crutch, now if thou lose thy stay,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Fall all together.
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Come, Hector, come, go back:
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Thy wife hath dream'd, thy mother hath had visions,
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Cassandra doth foresee, and I myself
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|To tell thee that this day is ominous:
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Therefore, come back.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|AEneas is a-field,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|And I do stand engaged to many Greeks,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Even in the faith of valour, to appear
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|This morning to them.
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Ay, but thou shalt not go.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I must not break my faith.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|You know me dutiful, therefore, dear sir,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Let me not shame respect, but give me leave
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|To take that course by your consent and voice,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|O Priam, yield not to him!
Troilus and Cressida|ANDROMACHE|Do not, dear father.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Andromache, I am offended with you:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Upon the love you bear me, get you in.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Exit ANDROMACHE
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Makes all these bodements.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|O, farewell, dear Hector!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Look, how thou diest! look, how thy eye turns pale!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Hark, how Troy roars! how Hecuba cries out!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Behold, distraction, frenzy and amazement,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Like witless antics, one another meet,
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|And all cry, Hector! Hector's dead! O Hector!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Away! away!
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Farewell: yet, soft! Hector! take my leave:
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive.
Troilus and Cressida|CASSANDRA|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|You are amazed, my liege, at her exclaim:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Go in and cheer the town: we'll forth and fight,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee!
Troilus and Cressida|PRIAM|Exeunt severally PRIAM and HECTOR. Alarums
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|They are at it, hark! Proud Diomed, believe,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Enter PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Do you hear, my lord? do you hear?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|What now?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Here's a letter come from yond poor girl.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let me read.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|and what one thing, what another, that I shall
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|leave you one o' these days: and I have a rheum
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|to think on't. What says she there?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|The effect doth operate another way.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Tearing the letter
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|My love with words and errors still she feeds,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But edifies another with her deeds.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exeunt severally
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|SCENE IV. Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Alarums: excursions. Enter THERSITES
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Now they are clapper-clawing one another, I'll go
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|look on. That dissembling abominable varlets Diomed,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|sleeve of Troy there in his helm: I would fain see
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|them meet, that that same young Trojan ass, that
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|loves the whore there, might send that Greekish
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|whore-masterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errand.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|O' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|not proved worthy a blackberry: they set me up, in
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|policy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog of
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|as bad a kind, Achilles: and now is the cur Ajax
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|to-day, whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Soft! here comes sleeve, and t'other.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Fly not, for shouldst thou take the river Styx,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I would swim after.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Thou dost miscall retire:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I do not fly, but advantageous care
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Withdrew me from the odds of multitude:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Have at thee!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Hold thy whore, Grecian!--now for thy whore,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Trojan!--now the sleeve, now the sleeve!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exeunt TROILUS and DIOMEDES, fighting
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter HECTOR
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|What art thou, Greek? art thou for Hector's match?
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Art thou of blood and honour?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|No, no, I am a rascal, a scurvy railing knave:
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|a very filthy rogue.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I do believe thee: live.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me, but a
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|plague break thy neck for frightening me! What's
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|become of the wenching rogues? I think they have
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|swallowed one another: I would laugh at that
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|miracle: yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I'll seek them.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|SCENE V. Another part of the plains.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Fellow, commend my service to her beauty,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|And am her knight by proof.
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|I go, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|Servant|Enter AGAMEMNON
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Hath Doreus prisoner,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Upon the pashed corses of the kings
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Patroclus ta'en or slain, and Palamedes
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful Sagittary
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|To reinforcement, or we perish all.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Enter NESTOR
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|There is a thousand Hectors in the field:
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And there lacks work, anon he's there afoot,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Before the belching whale, then is he yonder,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes,
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Dexterity so obeying appetite
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|That what he will he does, and does so much
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|That proof is call'd impossibility.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Enter ULYSSES
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Together with his mangled Myrmidons,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd and at it,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Roaring for Troilus, who hath done to-day
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Mad and fantastic execution,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Engaging and redeeming of himself
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|With such a careless force and forceless care
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Bade him win all.
Troilus and Cressida|ULYSSES|Enter AJAX
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Troilus! thou coward Troilus!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Ay, there, there.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|So, so, we draw together.
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Enter ACHILLES
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Where is this Hector?
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Hector? where's Hector? I will none but Hector.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|SCENE VI. Another part of the plains.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Enter AJAX
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Enter DIOMEDES
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Troilus, I say! where's Troilus?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|What wouldst thou?
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|I would correct him.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! what, Troilus!
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Enter TROILUS
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|O traitor Diomed! turn thy false face, thou traitor,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse!
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|Ha, art thou there?
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|He is my prize, I will not look upon.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Come, both you cogging Greeks, have at you both!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exeunt, fighting
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Enter HECTOR
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Enter ACHILLES
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Now do I see thee, ha! have at thee, Hector!
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Pause, if thou wilt.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Be happy that my arms are out of use:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|My rest and negligence befriends thee now,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|But thou anon shalt hear of me again,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Till when, go seek thy fortune.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Fare thee well:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I would have been much more a fresher man,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Had I expected thee. How now, my brother!
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Re-enter TROILUS
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Ajax hath ta'en AEneas: shall it be?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|He shall not carry him: I'll be ta'en too,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Or bring him off: fate, hear me what I say!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I reck not though I end my life to-day.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Enter one in sumptuous armour
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Stand, stand, thou Greek, thou art a goodly mark:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|No? wilt thou not? I like thy armour well,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|But I'll be master of it: wilt thou not,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|beast, abide?
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Why, then fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|SCENE VII. Another part of the plains.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Come here about me, you my Myrmidons,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|And when I have the bloody Hector found,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Empale him with your weapons round about,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|In fellest manner execute your aims.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|It is decreed Hector the great must die.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting: then THERSITES
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now,
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double-
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|game: ware horns, ho!
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Enter MARGARELON
Troilus and Cressida|MARGARELON|Turn, slave, and fight.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|What art thou?
Troilus and Cressida|MARGARELON|A bastard son of Priam's.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|I am a bastard too, I love bastards: I am a bastard
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment:
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|farewell, bastard.
Troilus and Cressida|THERSITES|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|MARGARELON|The devil take thee, coward!
Troilus and Cressida|MARGARELON|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|MARGARELON|SCENE VIII. Another part of the plains.
Troilus and Cressida|MARGARELON|Enter HECTOR
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Most putrefied core, so fair without,
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Now is my day's work done, I'll take good breath:
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Rest, sword, thou hast thy fill of blood and death.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Puts off his helmet and hangs his shield behind him
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|Enter ACHILLES and Myrmidons
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|How ugly night comes breathing at his heels:
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Even with the vail and darking of the sun,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|To close the day up, Hector's life is done.
Troilus and Cressida|HECTOR|I am unarm'd, forego this vantage, Greek.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Strike, fellows, strike, this is the man I seek.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|HECTOR falls
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down!
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|On, Myrmidons, and cry you all amain,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|'Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain.'
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|A retreat sounded
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part.
Troilus and Cressida|MYRMIDONS|The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|And, stickler-like, the armies separates.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Sheathes his sword
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Come, tie his body to my horse's tail,
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Along the field I will the Trojan trail.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Exeunt
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|SCENE IX. Another part of the plains.
Troilus and Cressida|ACHILLES|Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and others, marching. Shouts within
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Hark! hark! what shout is that?
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Peace, drums!
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Within
Troilus and Cressida|NESTOR|Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles.
Troilus and Cressida|DIOMEDES|The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles.
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|If it be so, yet bragless let it be,
Troilus and Cressida|AJAX|Great Hector was a man as good as he.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|March patiently along: let one be sent
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|To pray Achilles see us at our tent.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|If in his death the gods have us befriended,
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Exeunt, marching
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|SCENE X. Another part of the plains.
Troilus and Cressida|AGAMEMNON|Enter AENEAS and Trojans
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field:
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Never go home, here starve we out the night.
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|Enter TROILUS
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hector is slain.
Troilus and Cressida|ALL|Hector! the gods forbid!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|He's dead, and at the murderer's horse's tail,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|And linger not our sure destructions on!
Troilus and Cressida|AENEAS|My lord, you do discomfort all the host!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|You understand me not that tell me so:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|But dare all imminence that gods and men
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Address their dangers in. Hector is gone:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba?
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Go in to Troy, and say there, Hector's dead:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|There is a word will Priam turn to stone,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Cold statues of the youth, and, in a word,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hector is dead, there is no more to say.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Stay yet. You vile abominable tents,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Let Titan rise as early as he dare,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I'll through and through you! and, thou great-sized coward,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|No space of earth shall sunder our two hates:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Strike a free march to Troy! with comfort go:
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exeunt AENEAS and Trojans
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|As TROILUS is going out, enter, from the other side, PANDARUS
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|But hear you, hear you!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name!
Troilus and Cressida|TROILUS|Exit
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|A goodly medicine for my aching bones! O world!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|world! world! thus is the poor agent despised!
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|a-work, and how ill requited! why should our
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|endeavour be so loved and the performance so loathed?
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|what verse for it? what instance for it? Let me see:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Till he hath lost his honey and his sting,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|And being once subdued in armed tail,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Good traders in the flesh, set this in your
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|painted cloths.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|As many as be here of pander's hall,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Some two months hence my will shall here be made:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|It should be now, but that my fear is this,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss:
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|And at that time bequeathe you my diseases.
Troilus and Cressida|PANDARUS|Exit
Twelfth Night|PANDARUS|ACT I
Twelfth Night|PANDARUS|SCENE I. DUKE ORSINO's palace.
Twelfth Night|PANDARUS|Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords, Musicians attending
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|If music be the food of love, play on,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That strain again! it had a dying fall:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Stealing and giving odour! Enough, no more:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But falls into abatement and low price,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That it alone is high fantastical.
Twelfth Night|CURIO|Will you go hunt, my lord?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|What, Curio?
Twelfth Night|CURIO|The hart.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That instant was I turn'd into a hart,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|E'er since pursue me.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Enter VALENTINE
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|How now! what news from her?
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|So please my lord, I might not be admitted,
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|But from her handmaid do return this answer:
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|Shall not behold her face at ample view,
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|And water once a day her chamber round
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|With eye-offending brine: all this to season
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|And lasting in her sad remembrance.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That live in her, when liver, brain and heart,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Her sweet perfections with one self king!
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|SCENE II. The sea-coast.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What country, friends, is this?
Twelfth Night|Captain|This is Illyria, lady.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And what should I do in Illyria?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My brother he is in Elysium.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?
Twelfth Night|Captain|It is perchance that you yourself were saved.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.
Twelfth Night|Captain|True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,
Twelfth Night|Captain|Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
Twelfth Night|Captain|When you and those poor number saved with you
Twelfth Night|Captain|Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Twelfth Night|Captain|Most provident in peril, bind himself,
Twelfth Night|Captain|Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,
Twelfth Night|Captain|To a strong mast that lived upon the sea,
Twelfth Night|Captain|Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
Twelfth Night|Captain|I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
Twelfth Night|Captain|So long as I could see.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|For saying so, there's gold:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|The like of him. Know'st thou this country?
Twelfth Night|Captain|Ay, madam, well, for I was bred and born
Twelfth Night|Captain|Not three hours' travel from this very place.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Who governs here?
Twelfth Night|Captain|A noble duke, in nature as in name.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What is the name?
Twelfth Night|Captain|Orsino.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Orsino! I have heard my father name him:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|He was a bachelor then.
Twelfth Night|Captain|And so is now, or was so very late,
Twelfth Night|Captain|For but a month ago I went from hence,
Twelfth Night|Captain|And then 'twas fresh in murmur,--as, you know,
Twelfth Night|Captain|What great ones do the less will prattle of,--
Twelfth Night|Captain|That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What's she?
Twelfth Night|Captain|A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
Twelfth Night|Captain|That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
Twelfth Night|Captain|In the protection of his son, her brother,
Twelfth Night|Captain|Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,
Twelfth Night|Captain|They say, she hath abjured the company
Twelfth Night|Captain|And sight of men.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|O that I served that lady
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And might not be delivered to the world,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What my estate is!
Twelfth Night|Captain|That were hard to compass,
Twelfth Night|Captain|Because she will admit no kind of suit,
Twelfth Night|Captain|No, not the duke's.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|There is a fair behavior in thee, captain,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|With this thy fair and outward character.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|For such disguise as haply shall become
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|It may be worth thy pains, for I can sing
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And speak to him in many sorts of music
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That will allow me very worth his service.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What else may hap to time I will commit,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.
Twelfth Night|Captain|Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:
Twelfth Night|Captain|When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I thank thee: lead me on.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|SCENE III. OLIVIA'S house.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|What a plague means my niece, to take the death of
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy to life.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o'
Twelfth Night|MARIA|nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great
Twelfth Night|MARIA|exceptions to your ill hours.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Why, let her except, before excepted.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest
Twelfth Night|MARIA|limits of order.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|these clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|these boots too: an they be not, let them hang
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|themselves in their own straps.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard
Twelfth Night|MARIA|my lady talk of it yesterday, and of a foolish
Twelfth Night|MARIA|knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Ay, he.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|What's that to the purpose?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:
Twelfth Night|MARIA|he's a very fool and a prodigal.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|word for word without book, and hath all the good
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|gifts of nature.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that
Twelfth Night|MARIA|he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that
Twelfth Night|MARIA|he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he
Twelfth Night|MARIA|hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent
Twelfth Night|MARIA|he would quickly have the gift of a grave.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|that say so of him. Who are they?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|her as long as there is a passage in my throat and
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Sir Toby Belch! how now, Sir Toby Belch!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Sweet Sir Andrew!
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Bless you, fair shrew.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|And you too, sir.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|What's that?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|My niece's chambermaid.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|My name is Mary, sir.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Good Mistress Mary Accost,--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|You mistake, knight, 'accost' is front her, board
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|her, woo her, assail her.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|By my troth, I would not undertake her in this
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|company. Is that the meaning of 'accost'?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Fare you well, gentlemen.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|never draw sword again.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|An you part so, mistress, I would I might never
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|fools in hand?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Sir, I have not you by the hand.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Marry, but you shall have, and here's my hand.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring
Twelfth Night|MARIA|your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your metaphor?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|It's dry, sir.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|A dry jest, sir.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Are you full of them?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry,
Twelfth Night|MARIA|now I let go your hand, I am barren.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Exit
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|see thee so put down?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Never in your life, I think, unless you see canary
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more wit
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|No question.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|to-morrow, Sir Toby.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Pourquoi, my dear knight?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|followed the arts!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Why, would that have mended my hair?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Past question, for thou seest it will not curl by nature.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|But it becomes me well enough, does't not?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaff, and I
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|and spin it off.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|will not be seen, or if she be, it's four to one
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit, I
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|man.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|strangest mind i' the world, I delight in masques
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|and revels sometimes altogether.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|degree of my betters, and yet I will not compare
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|with an old man.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Faith, I can cut a caper.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|And I can cut the mutton to't.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|as any man in Illyria.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|a coranto? My very walk should be a jig, I would not
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|flame-coloured stock. Shall we set about some revels?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Taurus! That's sides and heart.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see the
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|caper, ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|SCENE IV. DUKE ORSINO's palace.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man's attire
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|If the duke continue these favours towards you,
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|You either fear his humour or my negligence, that
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|you call in question the continuance of his love:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
Twelfth Night|VALENTINE|No, believe me.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I thank you. Here comes the count.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and Attendants
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Who saw Cesario, ho?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|On your attendance, my lord, here.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Stand you a while aloof, Cesario,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Thou know'st no less but all, I have unclasp'd
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To thee the book even of my secret soul:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Till thou have audience.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Sure, my noble lord,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Rather than make unprofited return.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O, then unfold the passion of my love,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|It shall become thee well to act my woes,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|She will attend it better in thy youth
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I think not so, my lord.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Dear lad, believe it,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That say thou art a man: Diana's lip
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Is not more smooth and rubious, thy small pipe
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And all is semblative a woman's part.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|I know thy constellation is right apt
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|For this affair. Some four or five attend him,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|All, if you will, for I myself am best
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|When least in company. Prosper well in this,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To call his fortunes thine.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I'll do my best
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|To woo your lady:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Aside
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|yet, a barful strife!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|SCENE V. OLIVIA'S house.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter MARIA and Clown
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will
Twelfth Night|MARIA|not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in
Twelfth Night|MARIA|way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy absence.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this
Twelfth Night|Clown|world needs to fear no colours.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Make that good.
Twelfth Night|Clown|He shall see none to fear.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|A good lenten answer: I can tell thee where that
Twelfth Night|MARIA|saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.'
Twelfth Night|Clown|Where, good Mistress Mary?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|In the wars, and that may you be bold to say in your foolery.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Well, God give them wisdom that have it, and those
Twelfth Night|Clown|that are fools, let them use their talents.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent, or,
Twelfth Night|MARIA|to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage, and,
Twelfth Night|Clown|for turning away, let summer bear it out.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|You are resolute, then?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Not so, neither, but I am resolved on two points.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|That if one break, the other will hold, or, if both
Twelfth Night|MARIA|break, your gaskins fall.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Apt, in good faith, very apt. Well, go thy way, if
Twelfth Night|Clown|Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a
Twelfth Night|Clown|piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my
Twelfth Night|MARIA|lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Exit
Twelfth Night|Clown|Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Twelfth Night|Clown|Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
Twelfth Night|Clown|prove fools, and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
Twelfth Night|Clown|pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
Twelfth Night|Clown|'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
Twelfth Night|Clown|Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|Clown|God bless thee, lady!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Take the fool away.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Go to, you're a dry fool, I'll no more of you:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|besides, you grow dishonest.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel
Twelfth Night|Clown|will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is
Twelfth Night|Clown|the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend
Twelfth Night|Clown|himself, if he mend, he is no longer dishonest, if
Twelfth Night|Clown|he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing
Twelfth Night|Clown|that's mended is but patched: virtue that
Twelfth Night|Clown|transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that
Twelfth Night|Clown|amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
Twelfth Night|Clown|simple syllogism will serve, so, if it will not,
Twelfth Night|Clown|what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but
Twelfth Night|Clown|calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take
Twelfth Night|Clown|away the fool, therefore, I say again, take her away.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Sir, I bade them take away you.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non
Twelfth Night|Clown|facit monachum, that's as much to say as I wear not
Twelfth Night|Clown|motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to
Twelfth Night|Clown|prove you a fool.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Can you do it?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Dexterously, good madonna.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Make your proof.
Twelfth Night|Clown|I must catechise you for it, madonna: good my mouse
Twelfth Night|Clown|of virtue, answer me.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Good madonna, why mournest thou?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Good fool, for my brother's death.
Twelfth Night|Clown|I think his soul is in hell, madonna.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I know his soul is in heaven, fool.
Twelfth Night|Clown|The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's
Twelfth Night|Clown|soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|better fool.
Twelfth Night|Clown|God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the
Twelfth Night|Clown|better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be
Twelfth Night|Clown|sworn that I am no fox, but he will not pass his
Twelfth Night|Clown|word for two pence that you are no fool.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How say you to that, Malvolio?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|barren rascal: I saw him put down the other day
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|with an ordinary fool that has no more brain
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|already, unless you laugh and minister occasion to
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|him, he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise men,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|than the fools' zanies.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|with a distempered appetite. To be generous,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|nothing but rail, nor no railing in a known discreet
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|man, though he do nothing but reprove.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou
Twelfth Night|Clown|speakest well of fools!
Twelfth Night|Clown|Re-enter MARIA
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much
Twelfth Night|MARIA|desires to speak with you.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|From the Count Orsino, is it?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|I know not, madam: 'tis a fair young man, and well attended.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Who of my people hold him in delay?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Fetch him off, I pray you, he speaks nothing but
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|madman: fie on him!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exit MARIA
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|am sick, or not at home, what you will, to dismiss it.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exit MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|people dislike it.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest
Twelfth Night|Clown|son should be a fool, whose skull Jove cram with
Twelfth Night|Clown|brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy kin has a
Twelfth Night|Clown|most weak pia mater.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|A gentleman.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A gentleman! what gentleman?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|'Tis a gentle man here--a plague o' these
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|pickle-herring! How now, sot!
Twelfth Night|Clown|Good Sir Toby!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Ay, marry, what is he?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Let him be the devil, an he will, I care not: give
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|me faith, say I. Well, it's all one.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exit
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What's a drunken man like, fool?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man: one
Twelfth Night|Clown|draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads
Twelfth Night|Clown|him, and a third drowns him.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' my
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|coz, for he's in the third degree of drink, he's
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|drowned: go, look after him.
Twelfth Night|Clown|He is but mad yet, madonna, and the fool shall look
Twelfth Night|Clown|to the madman.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Exit
Twelfth Night|Clown|Re-enter MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|you. I told him you were sick, he takes on him to
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|understand so much, and therefore comes to speak
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|with you. I told him you were asleep, he seems to
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|have a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|lady? he's fortified against any denial.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Tell him he shall not speak with me.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Has been told so, and he says, he'll stand at your
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|door like a sheriff's post, and be the supporter to
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|a bench, but he'll speak with you.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What kind o' man is he?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Why, of mankind.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What manner of man?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Of very ill manner, he'll speak with you, will you or no.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Of what personage and years is he?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|a boy, as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|cooling when 'tis almost an apple: 'tis with him
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|in standing water, between boy and man. He is very
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly, one
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Let him approach: call in my gentlewoman.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Gentlewoman, my lady calls.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Re-enter MARIA
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter VIOLA, and Attendants
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|The honourable lady of the house, which is she?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Speak to me, I shall answer for her.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Your will?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,--I
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|my speech, for besides that it is excellently well
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|beauties, let me sustain no scorn, I am very
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|comptible, even to the least sinister usage.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Whence came you, sir?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I can say little more than I have studied, and that
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give me
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|modest assurance if you be the lady of the house,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|that I may proceed in my speech.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Are you a comedian?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|of malice I swear, I am not that I play. Are you
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|the lady of the house?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|If I do not usurp myself, I am.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|yourself, for what is yours to bestow is not yours
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|on with my speech in your praise, and then show you
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|the heart of my message.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone, if
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|longer. Some mollification for your giant, sweet
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|lady. Tell me your mind: I am a messenger.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|war, no taxation of homage: I hold the olive in my
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|hand, my words are as fun of peace as matter.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Yet you began rudely. What are you? what would you?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|learned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|would, are as secret as maidenhead, to your ears,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|divinity, to any other's, profanation.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt MARIA and Attendants
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Now, sir, what is your text?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Most sweet lady,--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Where lies your text?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|In Orsino's bosom.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, I have read it: it is heresy. Have you no more to say?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Good madam, let me see your face.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|with my face? You are now out of your text: but
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Look you, sir, such a one I was this present: is't
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|not well done?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Unveiling
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Excellently done, if God did all.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|If you will lead these graces to the grave
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And leave the world no copy.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted, I will give
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|inventoried, and every particle and utensil
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|labelled to my will: as, item, two lips,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|indifferent red, item, two grey eyes, with lids to
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|them, item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|you sent hither to praise me?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I see you what you are, you are too proud,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My lord and master loves you: O, such love
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|The nonpareil of beauty!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How does he love me?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|With adorations, fertile tears,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And in dimension and the shape of nature
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|He might have took his answer long ago.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|If I did love you in my master's flame,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|With such a suffering, such a deadly life,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|In your denial I would find no sense,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I would not understand it.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Why, what would you?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And call upon my soul within the house,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Write loyal cantons of contemned love
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And sing them loud even in the dead of night,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And make the babbling gossip of the air
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Between the elements of air and earth,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But you should pity me!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|You might do much.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What is your parentage?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I am a gentleman.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Get you to your lord,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I cannot love him: let him send no more,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Unless, perchance, you come to me again,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I thank you for your pains: spend this for me.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I am no fee'd post, lady, keep your purse:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My master, not myself, lacks recompense.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Love make his heart of flint that you shall love,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And let your fervor, like my master's, be
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Exit
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|'What is your parentage?'
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|soft, soft!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Unless the master were the man. How now!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|With an invisible and subtle stealth
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What ho, Malvolio!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Re-enter MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Here, madam, at your service.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Run after that same peevish messenger,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|The county's man: he left this ring behind him,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Desire him not to flatter with his lord,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Nor hold him up with hopes, I am not for him:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I'll give him reasons for't: hie thee, Malvolio.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Madam, I will.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I do I know not what, and fear to find
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What is decreed must be, and be this so.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exit
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|ACT II
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|SCENE I. The sea-coast.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|distemper yours, therefore I shall crave of you your
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|ANTONIO: Let me yet know of you whither you are bound.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|what I am willing to keep in, therefore it charges
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|me in manners the rather to express myself. You
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|which I called Roderigo. My father was that
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|for some hour before you took me from the breach of
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|the sea was my sister drowned.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Alas the day!
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|though I could not with such estimable wonder
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|publish her, she bore a mind that envy could not but
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|If you will not murder me for my love, let me be
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|your servant.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|If you will not undo what you have done, that is,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Fare ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Exit
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Else would I very shortly see thee there.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|But, come what may, I do adore thee so,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|SCENE II. A street.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Enter VIOLA, MALVOLIO following
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Even now, sir, on a moderate pace I have since
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|arrived but hither.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|She returns this ring to you, sir: you might have
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|into a desperate assurance she will none of him:
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|and one thing more, that you be never so hardy to
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|come again in his affairs, unless it be to report
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|your lord's taking of this. Receive it so.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her, and her
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|will is, it should be so returned: if it be worth
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|stooping for, there it lies in your eye, if not, be
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|it his that finds it.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I left no ring with her: what means this lady?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|She made good view of me, indeed, so much,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|For she did speak in starts distractedly.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|She loves me, sure, the cunning of her passion
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Invites me in this churlish messenger.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|How easy is it for the proper-false
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|For such as we are made of, such we be.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What will become of this? As I am man,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My state is desperate for my master's love,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|As I am woman,--now alas the day!--
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|O time! thou must untangle this, not I,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|It is too hard a knot for me to untie!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Exit
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|SCENE III. OLIVIA's house.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|midnight is to be up betimes, and 'diluculo
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|surgere,' thou know'st,--
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|late is to be up late.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|four elements?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Faith, so they say, but I think it rather consists
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|of eating and drinking.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Thou'rt a scholar, let us therefore eat and drink.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter Clown
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Here comes the fool, i' faith.
Twelfth Night|Clown|How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture
Twelfth Night|Clown|of 'we three'?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg,
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: 'twas
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|leman: hadst it?
Twelfth Night|Clown|I did impeticos thy gratillity, for Malvolio's nose
Twelfth Night|Clown|is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the
Twelfth Night|Clown|Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Excellent! why, this is the best fooling, when all
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|is done. Now, a song.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come on, there is sixpence for you: let's have a song.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a--
Twelfth Night|Clown|Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|A love-song, a love-song.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Ay, ay: I care not for good life.
Twelfth Night|Clown|[Sings]
Twelfth Night|Clown|O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
Twelfth Night|Clown|O, stay and hear, your true love's coming,
Twelfth Night|Clown|That can sing both high and low:
Twelfth Night|Clown|Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Every wise man's son doth know.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Excellent good, i' faith.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Good, good.
Twelfth Night|Clown|[Sings]
Twelfth Night|Clown|What is love? 'tis not hereafter,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Present mirth hath present laughter,
Twelfth Night|Clown|What's to come is still unsure:
Twelfth Night|Clown|In delay there lies no plenty,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|A contagious breath.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? shall we
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|souls out of one weaver? shall we do that?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|An you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch.
Twelfth Night|Clown|By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Most certain. Let our catch be, 'Thou knave.'
Twelfth Night|Clown|'Hold thy peace, thou knave,' knight? I shall be
Twelfth Night|Clown|constrained in't to call thee knave, knight.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins 'Hold thy peace.'
Twelfth Night|Clown|I shall never begin if I hold my peace.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Good, i' faith. Come, begin.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Catch sung
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Enter MARIA
Twelfth Night|MARIA|What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady
Twelfth Night|MARIA|have not called up her steward Malvolio and bid him
Twelfth Night|MARIA|turn you out of doors, never trust me.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Tillyvally. Lady!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Sings
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady!'
Twelfth Night|Clown|Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I too: he does it with a better grace, but I do it
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|more natural.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|[Sings]  'O, the twelfth day of December,'--
Twelfth Night|MARIA|For the love o' God, peace!
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Enter MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|time in you?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|tell you, that, though she harbours you as her
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|kinsman, she's nothing allied to your disorders. If
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors, you
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|are welcome to the house, if not, an it would please
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|you to take leave of her, she is very willing to bid
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|you farewell.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|'Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.'
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Nay, good Sir Toby.
Twelfth Night|Clown|'His eyes do show his days are almost done.'
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Is't even so?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|'But I will never die.'
Twelfth Night|Clown|Sir Toby, there you lie.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|This is much credit to you.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|'Shall I bid him go?'
Twelfth Night|Clown|'What an if you do?'
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|'Shall I bid him go, and spare not?'
Twelfth Night|Clown|'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Out o' tune, sir: ye lie. Art any more than a
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|steward? Dost thou think, because thou art
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the
Twelfth Night|Clown|mouth too.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Thou'rt i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|crumbs. A stoup of wine, Maria!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at any
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thing more than contempt, you would not give means
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|for this uncivil rule: she shall know of it, by this hand.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Go shake your ears.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|a-hungry, to challenge him the field, and then to
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|break promise with him and make a fool of him.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Do't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge: or I'll
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight: since the
Twelfth Night|MARIA|youth of the count's was today with thy lady, she is
Twelfth Night|MARIA|much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let me
Twelfth Night|MARIA|alone with him: if I do not gull him into a
Twelfth Night|MARIA|nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not
Twelfth Night|MARIA|think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:
Twelfth Night|MARIA|I know I can do it.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|dear knight?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|good enough.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing
Twelfth Night|MARIA|constantly, but a time-pleaser, an affectioned ass,
Twelfth Night|MARIA|that cons state without book and utters it by great
Twelfth Night|MARIA|swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so
Twelfth Night|MARIA|crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is
Twelfth Night|MARIA|his grounds of faith that all that look on him love
Twelfth Night|MARIA|him, and on that vice in him will my revenge find
Twelfth Night|MARIA|notable cause to work.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|What wilt thou do?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of
Twelfth Night|MARIA|love, wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape
Twelfth Night|MARIA|of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure
Twelfth Night|MARIA|of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find
Twelfth Night|MARIA|himself most feelingly personated. I can write very
Twelfth Night|MARIA|like my lady your niece: on a forgotten matter we
Twelfth Night|MARIA|can hardly make distinction of our hands.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Excellent! I smell a device.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I have't in my nose too.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|that they come from my niece, and that she's in
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|love with him.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|And your horse now would make him an ass.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Ass, I doubt not.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|O, 'twill be admirable!
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Sport royal, I warrant you: I know my physic will
Twelfth Night|MARIA|work with him. I will plant you two, and let the
Twelfth Night|MARIA|fool make a third, where he shall find the letter:
Twelfth Night|MARIA|observe his construction of it. For this night, to
Twelfth Night|MARIA|bed, and dream on the event. Farewell.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Exit
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Good night, Penthesilea.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Before me, she's a good wench.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me:
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|what o' that?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I was adored once too.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|more money.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Send for money, knight: if thou hast her not i'
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|the end, call me cut.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come, come, I'll go burn some sack, 'tis too late
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|to go to bed now: come, knight, come, knight.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|SCENE IV. DUKE ORSINO's palace.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and others
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That old and antique song we heard last night:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Methought it did relieve my passion much,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|More than light airs and recollected terms
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Come, but one verse.
Twelfth Night|CURIO|He is not here, so please your lordship that should sing it.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Who was it?
Twelfth Night|CURIO|Feste, the jester, my lord, a fool that the lady
Twelfth Night|CURIO|Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Seek him out, and play the tune the while.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Exit CURIO. Music plays
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|In the sweet pangs of it remember me,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|For such as I am all true lovers are,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Save in the constant image of the creature
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|It gives a very echo to the seat
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Where Love is throned.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Thou dost speak masterly:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Hath it not, boy?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|A little, by your favour.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|What kind of woman is't?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Of your complexion.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|About your years, my lord.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Too old by heaven: let still the woman take
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|So sways she level in her husband's heart:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Than women's are.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I think it well, my lord.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Or thy affection cannot hold the bent,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And so they are: alas, that they are so,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|To die, even when they to perfection grow!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Re-enter CURIO and Clown
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And dallies with the innocence of love,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Like the old age.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Are you ready, sir?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Ay, prithee, sing.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Music
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|SONG.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Come away, come away, death,
Twelfth Night|Clown|And in sad cypress let me be laid,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Fly away, fly away breath,
Twelfth Night|Clown|I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
Twelfth Night|Clown|My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
Twelfth Night|Clown|O, prepare it!
Twelfth Night|Clown|My part of death, no one so true
Twelfth Night|Clown|Did share it.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Not a flower, not a flower sweet
Twelfth Night|Clown|On my black coffin let there be strown,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Not a friend, not a friend greet
Twelfth Night|Clown|My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:
Twelfth Night|Clown|A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Lay me, O, where
Twelfth Night|Clown|Sad true lover never find my grave,
Twelfth Night|Clown|To weep there!
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|There's for thy pains.
Twelfth Night|Clown|No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|I'll pay thy pleasure then.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Give me now leave to leave thee.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Now, the melancholy god protect thee, and the
Twelfth Night|Clown|tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for
Twelfth Night|Clown|thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such
Twelfth Night|Clown|constancy put to sea, that their business might be
Twelfth Night|Clown|every thing and their intent every where, for that's
Twelfth Night|Clown|it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Exit
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Let all the rest give place.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|CURIO and Attendants retire
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Once more, Cesario,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Prizes not quantity of dirty lands,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But if she cannot love you, sir?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|I cannot be so answer'd.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Sooth, but you must.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Hath for your love a great a pang of heart
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|You tell her so, must she not then be answer'd?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|There is no woman's sides
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|As love doth give my heart, no woman's heart
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|So big, to hold so much, they lack retention
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|No motion of the liver, but the palate,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And can digest as much: make no compare
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Between that love a woman can bear me
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And that I owe Olivia.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Ay, but I know--
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|What dost thou know?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Too well what love women to men may owe:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My father had a daughter loved a man,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I should your lordship.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And what's her history?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And with a green and yellow melancholy
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|She sat like patience on a monument,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|We men may say more, swear more: but indeed
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Our shows are more than will, for still we prove
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Much in our vows, but little in our love.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But died thy sister of her love, my boy?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I am all the daughters of my father's house,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Sir, shall I to this lady?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Ay, that's the theme.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To her in haste, give her this jewel, say,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|My love can give no place, bide no denay.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|SCENE V. OLIVIA's garden.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come thy ways, Signior Fabian.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out o'
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|To anger him we'll have the bear again, and we will
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|fool him black and blue: shall we not, Sir Andrew?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|An we do not, it is pity of our lives.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Here comes the little villain.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter MARIA
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|How now, my metal of India!
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's
Twelfth Night|MARIA|coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the
Twelfth Night|MARIA|sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half
Twelfth Night|MARIA|hour: observe him, for the love of mockery, for I
Twelfth Night|MARIA|know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of
Twelfth Night|MARIA|him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there,
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Throws down a letter
Twelfth Night|MARIA|for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Exit
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Enter MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Tis but fortune, all is fortune. Maria once told
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|me she did affect me: and I have heard herself come
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|exalted respect than any one else that follows her.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|What should I think on't?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Here's an overweening rogue!
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Peace, I say.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|To be Count Malvolio!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Ah, rogue!
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Pistol him, pistol him.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Peace, peace!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|There is example for't, the lady of the Strachy
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|married the yeoman of the wardrobe.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Fie on him, Jezebel!
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|imagination blows him.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Having been three months married to her, sitting in
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|my state,--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|gown, having come from a day-bed, where I have left
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Olivia sleeping,--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Fire and brimstone!
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|O, peace, peace!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|And then to have the humour of state, and after a
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|demure travel of regard, telling them I know my
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|place as I would they should do theirs, to for my
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|kinsman Toby,--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Bolts and shackles!
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|O peace, peace, peace! now, now.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|out for him: I frown the while, and perchance wind
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|up watch, or play with my--some rich jewel. Toby
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|approaches, courtesies there to me,--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Shall this fellow live?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|smile with an austere regard of control,--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|your niece give me this prerogative of speech,'--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|What, what?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'You must amend your drunkenness.'
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Out, scab!
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|a foolish knight,'--
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|That's me, I warrant you.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'One Sir Andrew,'--
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|What employment have we here?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Taking up the letter
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Now is the woodcock near the gin.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|O, peace! and the spirit of humour intimate reading
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|aloud to him!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Her C's, her U's and her T's: why that?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|[Reads]  'To the unknown beloved, this, and my good
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|This wins him, liver and all.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|[Reads]
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Jove knows I love: But who?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Lips, do not move,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|No man must know.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|altered! 'No man must know:' if this should be
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thee, Malvolio?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Marry, hang thee, brock!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|[Reads]
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I may command where I adore,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|A fustian riddle!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Excellent wench, say I.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|me see, let me see, let me see.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|What dish o' poison has she dressed him!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|me: I serve her, she is my lady. Why, this is
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|evident to any formal capacity, there is no
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|obstruction in this: and the end,--what should
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|that alphabetical position portend? If I could make
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I,--
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|O, ay, make up that: he is now at a cold scent.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|rank as a fox.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|M,--Malvolio, M,--why, that begins my name.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Did not I say he would work it out? the cur is
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|excellent at faults.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|M,--but then there is no consonancy in the sequel,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|that suffers under probation A should follow but O does.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|And O shall end, I hope.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry O!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|And then I comes behind.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|more detraction at your heels than fortunes before
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|you.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|M, O, A, I, this simulation is not as the former: and
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|every one of these letters are in my name. Soft!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|here follows prose.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Reads
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness: some
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates open
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|their hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants, let
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thy tongue tang arguments of state, put thyself into
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|cross-gartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|made, if thou desirest to be so, if not, let me see
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|She that would alter services with thee,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY.'
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|me, for every reason excites to this, that my lady
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|and in this she manifests herself to my love, and
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|postscript.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Reads
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thy smiles become thee well, therefore in my
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.'
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Jove, I thank thee: I will smile, I will do
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|everything that thou wilt have me.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|I will not give my part of this sport for a pension
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I could marry this wench for this device.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|So could I too.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Nor I neither.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Here comes my noble gull-catcher.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Re-enter MARIA
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Or o' mine either?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Shall I play my freedom at traytrip, and become thy
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|bond-slave?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I' faith, or I either?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|the image of it leaves him he must run mad.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Nay, but say true, does it work upon him?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark
Twelfth Night|MARIA|his first approach before my lady: he will come to
Twelfth Night|MARIA|her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she
Twelfth Night|MARIA|abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests,
Twelfth Night|MARIA|and he will smile upon her, which will now be so
Twelfth Night|MARIA|unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a
Twelfth Night|MARIA|melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him
Twelfth Night|MARIA|into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow
Twelfth Night|MARIA|me.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I'll make one too.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|ACT III
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|SCENE I. OLIVIA's garden.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Enter VIOLA, and Clown with a tabour
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Save thee, friend, and thy music: dost thou live by
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|thy tabour?
Twelfth Night|Clown|No, sir, I live by the church.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Art thou a churchman?
Twelfth Night|Clown|No such matter, sir: I do live by the church, for
Twelfth Night|Clown|I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by
Twelfth Night|Clown|the church.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|So thou mayst say, the king lies by a beggar, if a
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|beggar dwell near him, or, the church stands by thy
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|tabour, if thy tabour stand by the church.
Twelfth Night|Clown|You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is
Twelfth Night|Clown|but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the
Twelfth Night|Clown|wrong side may be turned outward!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Nay, that's certain, they that dally nicely with
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|words may quickly make them wanton.
Twelfth Night|Clown|I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Why, man?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Why, sir, her name's a word, and to dally with that
Twelfth Night|Clown|word might make my sister wanton. But indeed words
Twelfth Night|Clown|are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Thy reason, man?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words, and
Twelfth Night|Clown|words are grown so false, I am loath to prove
Twelfth Night|Clown|reason with them.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I warrant thou art a merry fellow and carest for nothing.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Not so, sir, I do care for something, but in my
Twelfth Night|Clown|conscience, sir, I do not care for you: if that be
Twelfth Night|Clown|to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool?
Twelfth Night|Clown|No, indeed, sir, the Lady Olivia has no folly: she
Twelfth Night|Clown|will keep no fool, sir, till she be married, and
Twelfth Night|Clown|fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to
Twelfth Night|Clown|herrings, the husband's the bigger: I am indeed not
Twelfth Night|Clown|her fool, but her corrupter of words.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun,
Twelfth Night|Clown|it shines every where. I would be sorry, sir, but
Twelfth Night|Clown|the fool should be as oft with your master as with
Twelfth Night|Clown|my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Nay, an thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Hold, there's expenses for thee.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|one,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Aside
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|lady within?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Yes, being kept together and put to use.
Twelfth Night|Clown|I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring
Twelfth Night|Clown|a Cressida to this Troilus.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I understand you, sir, 'tis well begged.
Twelfth Night|Clown|The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but
Twelfth Night|Clown|a beggar: Cressida was a beggar. My lady is
Twelfth Night|Clown|within, sir. I will construe to them whence you
Twelfth Night|Clown|come, who you are and what you would are out of my
Twelfth Night|Clown|welkin, I might say 'element,' but the word is over-worn.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Exit
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|The quality of persons, and the time,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And, like the haggard, cheque at every feather
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That comes before his eye. This is a practise
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|As full of labour as a wise man's art
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|For folly that he wisely shows is fit,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Save you, gentleman.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And you, sir.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Dieu vous garde, monsieur.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Et vous aussi, votre serviteur.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I hope, sir, you are, and I am yours.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Will you encounter the house? my niece is desirous
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|you should enter, if your trade be to her.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I am bound to your niece, sir, I mean, she is the
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|list of my voyage.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Taste your legs, sir, put them to motion.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My legs do better understand me, sir, than I
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I mean, to go, sir, to enter.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I will answer you with gait and entrance. But we
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|are prevented.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter OLIVIA and MARIA
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|odours on you!
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|That youth's a rare courtier: 'Rain odours,' well.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My matter hath no voice, to your own most pregnant
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|and vouchsafed ear.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|'Odours,' 'pregnant' and 'vouchsafed:' I'll get 'em
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|all three all ready.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and MARIA
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Give me your hand, sir.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My duty, madam, and most humble service.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What is your name?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|You're servant to the Count Orsino, youth.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And he is yours, and his must needs be yours:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Your servant's servant is your servant, madam.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|On his behalf.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, by your leave, I pray you,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I bade you never speak again of him:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|But, would you undertake another suit,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I had rather hear you to solicit that
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Than music from the spheres.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Dear lady,--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|After the last enchantment you did here,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A ring in chase of you: so did I abuse
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Myself, my servant and, I fear me, you:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Under your hard construction must I sit,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|To force that on you, in a shameful cunning,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Which you knew none of yours: what might you think?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Have you not set mine honour at the stake
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enough is shown: a cypress, not a bosom,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Hideth my heart. So, let me hear you speak.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I pity you.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That's a degree to love.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|No, not a grize, for 'tis a vulgar proof,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That very oft we pity enemies.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Why, then, methinks 'tis time to smile again.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|If one should be a prey, how much the better
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|To fall before the lion than the wolf!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Clock strikes
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Your were is alike to reap a proper man:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|There lies your way, due west.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Then westward-ho! Grace and good disposition
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Attend your ladyship!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Stay:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I prithee, tell me what thou thinkest of me.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That you do think you are not what you are.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|If I think so, I think the same of you.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Then think you right: I am not what I am.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I would you were as I would have you be!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Would it be better, madam, than I am?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I wish it might, for now I am your fool.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|In the contempt and anger of his lip!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Love sought is good, but given unsought better.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|By innocence I swear, and by my youth
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I have one heart, one bosom and one truth,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And that no woman has, nor never none
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And so adieu, good madam: never more
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Will I my master's tears to you deplore.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Yet come again, for thou perhaps mayst move
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|SCENE II. OLIVIA's house.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me,
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I saw't i' the orchard.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Did she see thee the while, old boy? tell me that.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|As plain as I see you now.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|This was a great argument of love in her toward you.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|'Slight, will you make an ass o' me?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|judgment and reason.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|And they have been grand-jury-men since before Noah
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|was a sailor.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|She did show favour to the youth in your sight only
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|You should then have accosted her, and with some
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|have banged the youth into dumbness. This was
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|looked for at your hand, and this was balked: the
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|off, and you are now sailed into the north of my
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|lady's opinion, where you will hang like an icicle
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|on a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|some laudable attempt either of valour or policy.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|An't be any way, it must be with valour, for policy
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I hate: I had as lief be a Brownist as a
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|politician.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|valour. Challenge me the count's youth to fight
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|with him, hurt him in eleven places: my niece shall
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|take note of it, and assure thyself, there is no
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|commendation with woman than report of valour.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|There is no way but this, Sir Andrew.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and brief,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink:
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|amiss, and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|paper, although the sheet were big enough for the
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|bed of Ware in England, set 'em down: go, about it.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|write with a goose-pen, no matter: about it.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Where shall I find you?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|We'll call thee at the cubiculo: go.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exit SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|strong, or so.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|We shall have a rare letter from him: but you'll
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|not deliver't?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Never trust me, then, and by all means stir on the
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|youth to an answer. I think oxen and wainropes
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|the anatomy.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|great presage of cruelty.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Enter MARIA
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Look, where the youngest wren of nine comes.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself
Twelfth Night|MARIA|into stitches, follow me. Yond gull Malvolio is
Twelfth Night|MARIA|turned heathen, a very renegado, for there is no
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Christian, that means to be saved by believing
Twelfth Night|MARIA|rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages
Twelfth Night|MARIA|of grossness. He's in yellow stockings.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|And cross-gartered?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Most villanously, like a pedant that keeps a school
Twelfth Night|MARIA|i' the church. I have dogged him, like his
Twelfth Night|MARIA|murderer. He does obey every point of the letter
Twelfth Night|MARIA|that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his
Twelfth Night|MARIA|face into more lines than is in the new map with the
Twelfth Night|MARIA|augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such
Twelfth Night|MARIA|a thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things
Twelfth Night|MARIA|at him. I know my lady will strike him: if she do,
Twelfth Night|MARIA|he'll smile and take't for a great favour.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come, bring us, bring us where he is.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|SCENE III. A street.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I would not by my will have troubled you,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|But, since you make your pleasure of your pains,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I will no further chide you.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I could not stay behind you: my desire,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|And not all love to see you, though so much
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|But jealousy what might befall your travel,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Being skilless in these parts, which to a stranger,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Unguided and unfriended, often prove
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Rough and unhospitable: my willing love,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|The rather by these arguments of fear,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Set forth in your pursuit.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|My kind Antonio,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I can no other answer make but thanks,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|And thanks, and ever [         ] oft good turns
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|But, were my worth as is my conscience firm,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|You should find better dealing. What's to do?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Shall we go see the reliques of this town?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|To-morrow, sir: best first go see your lodging.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I am not weary, and 'tis long to night:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|With the memorials and the things of fame
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|That do renown this city.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Would you'ld pardon me,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I do not without danger walk these streets:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Once, in a sea-fight, 'gainst the count his galleys
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I did some service, of such note indeed,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|That were I ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Belike you slew great number of his people.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|The offence is not of such a bloody nature,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Might well have given us bloody argument.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|It might have since been answer'd in repaying
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|What we took from them, which, for traffic's sake,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Most of our city did: only myself stood out,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|For which, if I be lapsed in this place,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I shall pay dear.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Do not then walk too open.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Is best to lodge: I will bespeak our diet,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|With viewing of the town: there shall you have me.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Why I your purse?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|You have desire to purchase, and your store,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I think, is not for idle markets, sir.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I'll be your purse-bearer and leave you
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|For an hour.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|To the Elephant.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I do remember.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|SCENE IV. OLIVIA's garden.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Enter OLIVIA and MARIA
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I have sent after him: he says he'll come,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How shall I feast him? what bestow of him?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I speak too loud.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Where is Malvolio? he is sad and civil,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And suits well for a servant with my fortunes:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Where is Malvolio?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|He's coming, madam, but in very strange manner. He
Twelfth Night|MARIA|is, sure, possessed, madam.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Why, what's the matter? does he rave?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|No. madam, he does nothing but smile: your
Twelfth Night|MARIA|ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if
Twelfth Night|MARIA|he come, for, sure, the man is tainted in's wits.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Go call him hither.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exit MARIA
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I am as mad as he,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|If sad and merry madness equal be.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Re-enter MARIA, with MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How now, Malvolio!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sweet lady, ho, ho.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Smilest thou?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sad, lady! I could be sad: this does make some
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering, but
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|with me as the very true sonnet is, 'Please one, and
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|please all.'
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|did come to his hands, and commands shall be
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|executed: I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|To bed! ay, sweet-heart, and I'll come to thee.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so and kiss
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|thy hand so oft?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|How do you, Malvolio?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|At your request! yes, nightingales answer daws.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Be not afraid of greatness:' 'twas well writ.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What meanest thou by that, Malvolio?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Some are born great,'--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Ha!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Some achieve greatness,'--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What sayest thou?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'And some have greatness thrust upon them.'
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Heaven restore thee!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Remember who commended thy yellow stocking s,'--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Thy yellow stockings!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.'
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Cross-gartered!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'Go to thou art made, if thou desirest to be so,'--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Am I made?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Why, this is very midsummer madness.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter Servant
Twelfth Night|Servant|Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is
Twelfth Night|Servant|returned: I could hardly entreat him back: he
Twelfth Night|Servant|attends your ladyship's pleasure.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I'll come to him.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exit Servant
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|my cousin Toby? Let some of my people have a special
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|care of him: I would not have him miscarry for the
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|half of my dowry.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt OLIVIA and MARIA
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|O, ho! do you come near me now? no worse man than
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sir Toby to look to me! This concurs directly with
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|appear stubborn to him, for she incites me to that
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|in the letter. 'Cast thy humble slough,' says she,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|let thy tongue tang with arguments of state, put
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thyself into the trick of singularity,' and
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|consequently sets down the manner how, as, a sad
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|habit of some sir of note, and so forth. I have
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|limed her, but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|fellow be looked to:' fellow! not Malvolio, nor
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|after my degree, but fellow. Why, every thing
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|adheres together, that no dram of a scruple, no
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|or unsafe circumstance--What can be said? Nothing
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|that can be can come between me and the full
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|doer of this, and he is to be thanked.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Re-enter MARIA, with SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|the devils of hell be drawn in little, and Legion
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|how is't with you, man?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Go off, I discard you: let me enjoy my private: go
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|off.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! did not
Twelfth Night|MARIA|I tell you? Sir Toby, my lady prays you to have a
Twelfth Night|MARIA|care of him.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Ah, ha! does she so?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Go to, go to, peace, peace, we must deal gently
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|with him: let me alone. How do you, Malvolio? how
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|is't with you? What, man! defy the devil:
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Do you know what you say?
Twelfth Night|MARIA|La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes
Twelfth Night|MARIA|it at heart! Pray God, he be not bewitched!
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Carry his water to the wise woman.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Marry, and it shall be done to-morrow morning, if I
Twelfth Night|MARIA|live. My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|How now, mistress!
Twelfth Night|MARIA|O Lord!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Prithee, hold thy peace, this is not the way: do
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|you not see you move him? let me alone with him.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|No way but gentleness, gently, gently: the fiend is
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|rough, and will not be roughly used.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sir!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Ay, Biddy, come with me. What, man! 'tis not for
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|him, foul collier!
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|My prayers, minx!
Twelfth Night|MARIA|No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|things: I am not of your element: you shall know
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|more hereafter.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Is't possible?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|If this were played upon a stage now, I could
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Why, we shall make him mad indeed.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|The house will be the quieter.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|niece is already in the belief that he's mad: we
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|us to have mercy on him: at which time we will
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|finder of madmen. But see, but see.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|More matter for a May morning.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Here's the challenge, read it: warrant there's
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|vinegar and pepper in't.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Is't so saucy?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Ay, is't, I warrant him: do but read.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Give me.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Reads
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.'
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Good, and valiant.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|[Reads]  'Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|why I do call thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't.'
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|A good note, that keeps you from the blow of the law.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|[Reads]  'Thou comest to the lady Olivia, and in my
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|sight she uses thee kindly: but thou liest in thy
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|throat, that is not the matter I challenge thee for.'
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Very brief, and to exceeding good sense--less.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|[Reads]  'I will waylay thee going home, where if it
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|be thy chance to kill me,'--
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Good.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|[Reads]  'Thou killest me like a rogue and a villain.'
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Still you keep o' the windy side of the law: good.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|[Reads]  'Fare thee well, and God have mercy upon
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine, but
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|ANDREW AGUECHEEK.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|If this letter move him not, his legs cannot:
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I'll give't him.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|You may have very fit occasion for't: he is now in
Twelfth Night|MARIA|some commerce with my lady, and will by and by depart.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|him, draw, and, as thou drawest swear horrible, for
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|more approbation than ever proof itself would have
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|earned him. Away!
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Nay, let me alone for swearing.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Exit
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|capacity and breeding, his employment between his
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|word of mouth, set upon Aguecheek a notable report
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|of valour, and drive the gentleman, as I know his
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|youth will aptly receive it, into a most hideous
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|opinion of his rage, skill, fury and impetuosity.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|This will so fright them both that they will kill
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|one another by the look, like cockatrices.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Re-enter OLIVIA, with VIOLA
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Here he comes with your niece: give them way till
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|he take leave, and presently after him.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I will meditate the while upon some horrid message
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|for a challenge.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, FABIAN, and MARIA
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I have said too much unto a heart of stone
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And laid mine honour too unchary out:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|There's something in me that reproves my fault,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|But such a headstrong potent fault it is,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That it but mocks reproof.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|With the same 'havior that your passion bears
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Goes on my master's grief.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Refuse it not, it hath no tongue to vex you,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And I beseech you come again to-morrow.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That honour saved may upon asking give?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Nothing but this, your true love for my master.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How with mine honour may I give him that
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Which I have given to you?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I will acquit you.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Well, come again to-morrow: fare thee well:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exit
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Gentleman, God save thee.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And you, sir.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|That defence thou hast, betake thee to't: of what
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|not, but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end:
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|thy assailant is quick, skilful and deadly.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|You mistake, sir, I am sure no man hath any quarrel
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|to me: my remembrance is very free and clear from
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|any image of offence done to any man.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|You'll find it otherwise, I assure you: therefore,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|if you hold your life at any price, betake you to
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|your guard, for your opposite hath in him what
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|youth, strength, skill and wrath can furnish man withal.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I pray you, sir, what is he?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and on
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|carpet consideration, but he is a devil in private
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three, and
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|his incensement at this moment is so implacable,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|and sepulchre. Hob, nob, is his word, give't or take't.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I will return again into the house and desire some
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|conduct of the lady. I am no fighter. I have heard
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|others, to taste their valour: belike this is a man
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|of that quirk.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Sir, no, his indignation derives itself out of a
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|very competent injury: therefore, get you on and
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|give him his desire. Back you shall not to the
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|house, unless you undertake that with me which with
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|as much safety you might answer him: therefore, on,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|or strip your sword stark naked, for meddle you
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|must, that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|this courteous office, as to know of the knight what
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|my offence to him is: it is something of my
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|negligence, nothing of my purpose.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|gentleman till my return.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exit
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|mortal arbitrement, but nothing of the circumstance more.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I beseech you, what manner of man is he?
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|his form, as you are like to find him in the proof
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|of his valour. He is, indeed, sir, the most skilful,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|bloody and fatal opposite that you could possibly
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|have found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|towards him? I will make your peace with him if I
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|can.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I shall be much bound to you for't: I am one that
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|had rather go with sir priest than sir knight: I
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|care not who knows so much of my mettle.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH, with SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Why, man, he's a very devil, I have not seen such a
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|motion, that it is inevitable, and on the answer, he
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|step on. They say he has been fencer to the Sophy.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|scarce hold him yonder.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant and so
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|have challenged him. Let him let the matter slip,
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I'll make the motion: stand here, make a good show
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|on't: this shall end without the perdition of souls.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Aside
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Marry, I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Re-enter FABIAN and VIOLA
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|To FABIAN
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I have his horse to take up the quarrel:
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I have persuaded him the youth's a devil.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|He is as horribly conceited of him, and pants and
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|[To VIOLA]  There's no remedy, sir, he will fight
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|with you for's oath sake: marry, he hath better
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|scarce to be worth talking of: therefore draw, for
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|the supportance of his vow, he protests he will not hurt you.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|[Aside]  Pray God defend me! A little thing would
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|make me tell them how much I lack of a man.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Give ground, if you see him furious.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy, the gentleman
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|will, for his honour's sake, have one bout with you,
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|he cannot by the duello avoid it: but he has
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|will not hurt you. Come on, to't.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Pray God, he keep his oath!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I do assure you, 'tis against my will.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|They draw
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter ANTONIO
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Put up your sword. If this young gentleman
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Have done offence, I take the fault on me:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|If you offend him, I for him defy you.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|You, sir! why, what are you?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Than you have heard him brag to you he will.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|They draw
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter Officers
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|O good Sir Toby, hold! here come the officers.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I'll be with you anon.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Marry, will I, sir, and, for that I promised you,
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I'll be as good as my word: he will bear you easily
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|and reins well.
Twelfth Night|First Officer|This is the man, do thy office.
Twelfth Night|Second Officer|Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|You do mistake me, sir.
Twelfth Night|First Officer|No, sir, no jot, I know your favour well,
Twelfth Night|First Officer|Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.
Twelfth Night|First Officer|Take him away: he knows I know him well.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I must obey.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|To VIOLA
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|This comes with seeking you:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|But there's no remedy, I shall answer it.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|What will you do, now my necessity
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Makes me to ask you for my purse? It grieves me
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Much more for what I cannot do for you
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Than what befalls myself. You stand amazed,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|But be of comfort.
Twelfth Night|Second Officer|Come, sir, away.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I must entreat of you some of that money.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|What money, sir?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And, part, being prompted by your present trouble,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Out of my lean and low ability
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I'll lend you something: my having is not much,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I'll make division of my present with you:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Hold, there's half my coffer.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Will you deny me now?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Is't possible that my deserts to you
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Lest that it make me so unsound a man
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|As to upbraid you with those kindnesses
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|That I have done for you.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I know of none,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Nor know I you by voice or any feature:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I hate ingratitude more in a man
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Inhabits our frail blood.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|O heavens themselves!
Twelfth Night|Second Officer|Come, sir, I pray you, go.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Relieved him with such sanctity of love,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|And to his image, which methought did promise
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
Twelfth Night|First Officer|What's that to us? The time goes by: away!
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|But O how vile an idol proves this god
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|In nature there's no blemish but the mind,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil.
Twelfth Night|First Officer|The man grows mad: away with him! Come, come, sir.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Lead me on.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Exit with Officers
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Methinks his words do from such passion fly,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That he believes himself: so do not I.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come hither, knight, come hither, Fabian: we'll
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|He named Sebastian: I my brother know
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Yet living in my glass, even such and so
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|In favour was my brother, and he went
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|For him I imitate: O, if it prove,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Exit
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|friend here in necessity and denying him, and for
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|his cowardship, ask Fabian.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Do, cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|An I do not,--
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Come, let's see the event.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|ACT IV
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|SCENE I. Before OLIVIA's house.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown
Twelfth Night|Clown|Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Let me be clear of thee.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you, nor
Twelfth Night|Clown|I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come
Twelfth Night|Clown|speak with her, nor your name is not Master Cesario,
Twelfth Night|Clown|nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|know'st not me.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some
Twelfth Night|Clown|great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my
Twelfth Night|Clown|folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world,
Twelfth Night|Clown|will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy
Twelfth Night|Clown|strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my
Twelfth Night|Clown|lady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There's
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|money for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall give
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|worse payment.
Twelfth Night|Clown|By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men
Twelfth Night|Clown|that give fools money get themselves a good
Twelfth Night|Clown|report--after fourteen years' purchase.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Enter SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY BELCH, and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. Are all
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|the people mad?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.
Twelfth Night|Clown|This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be
Twelfth Night|Clown|in some of your coats for two pence.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Exit
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come on, sir, hold.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to work
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|with him, I'll have an action of battery against
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Let go thy hand.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed, come on.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? If
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|of this malapert blood from you.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Enter OLIVIA
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Hold, Toby, on thy life I charge thee, hold!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Madam!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Be not offended, dear Cesario.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Rudesby, be gone!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|I prithee, gentle friend,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|In this uncivil and thou unjust extent
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|He started one poor heart of mine in thee.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|What relish is in this? how runs the stream?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Or I am mad, or else this is a dream:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Nay, come, I prithee, would thou'ldst be ruled by me!
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Madam, I will.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, say so, and so be!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|SCENE II. OLIVIA's house.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter MARIA and Clown
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard,
Twelfth Night|MARIA|make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate: do
Twelfth Night|MARIA|it quickly, I'll call Sir Toby the whilst.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Exit
Twelfth Night|Clown|Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself
Twelfth Night|Clown|in't, and I would I were the first that ever
Twelfth Night|Clown|dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to
Twelfth Night|Clown|become the function well, nor lean enough to be
Twelfth Night|Clown|thought a good student, but to be said an honest man
Twelfth Night|Clown|and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a
Twelfth Night|Clown|careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Jove bless thee, master Parson.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of
Twelfth Night|Clown|Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily
Twelfth Night|Clown|said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is,'
Twelfth Night|Clown|so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson, for,
Twelfth Night|Clown|what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|To him, Sir Topas.
Twelfth Night|Clown|What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|The knave counterfeits well, a good knave.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|[Within]  Who calls there?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio
Twelfth Night|Clown|the lunatic.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man!
Twelfth Night|Clown|talkest thou nothing but of ladies?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Well said, Master Parson.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|here in hideous darkness.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most
Twelfth Night|Clown|modest terms, for I am one of those gentle ones
Twelfth Night|Clown|that will use the devil himself with courtesy:
Twelfth Night|Clown|sayest thou that house is dark?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|As hell, Sir Topas.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes,
Twelfth Night|Clown|and the clearstores toward the south north are as
Twelfth Night|Clown|lustrous as ebony, and yet complainest thou of
Twelfth Night|Clown|obstruction?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness
Twelfth Night|Clown|but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than
Twelfth Night|Clown|the Egyptians in their fog.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|ignorance were as dark as hell, and I say, there
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|are: make the trial of it in any constant question.
Twelfth Night|Clown|What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.
Twelfth Night|Clown|What thinkest thou of his opinion?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness:
Twelfth Night|Clown|thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will
Twelfth Night|Clown|allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest
Twelfth Night|Clown|thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sir Topas, Sir Topas!
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|My most exquisite Sir Topas!
Twelfth Night|Clown|Nay, I am for all waters.
Twelfth Night|MARIA|Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and
Twelfth Night|MARIA|gown: he sees thee not.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|thou findest him: I would we were well rid of this
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|would he were, for I am now so far in offence with
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA
Twelfth Night|Clown|[Singing]
Twelfth Night|Clown|'Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Tell me how thy lady does.'
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Fool!
Twelfth Night|Clown|'My lady is unkind, perdy.'
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Fool!
Twelfth Night|Clown|'Alas, why is she so?'
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Fool, I say!
Twelfth Night|Clown|'She loves another'--Who calls, ha?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper:
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|thee for't.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Master Malvolio?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Ay, good fool.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.
Twelfth Night|Clown|But as well? then you are mad indeed, if you be no
Twelfth Night|Clown|better in your wits than a fool.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|They have here propertied me, keep me in darkness,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|face me out of my wits.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Advise you what you say, the minister is here.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore!
Twelfth Night|Clown|endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain
Twelfth Night|Clown|bibble babble.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Sir Topas!
Twelfth Night|Clown|Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I,
Twelfth Night|Clown|sir? not I, sir. God be wi' you, good Sir Topas.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Merry, amen. I will, sir, I will.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Fool, fool, fool, I say!
Twelfth Night|Clown|Alas, sir, be patient. What say you sir? I am
Twelfth Night|Clown|shent for speaking to you.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Good fool, help me to some light and some paper: I
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Well-a-day that you were, sir
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper and
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|light, and convey what I will set down to my lady:
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|of letter did.
Twelfth Night|Clown|I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you
Twelfth Night|Clown|not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Believe me, I am not, I tell thee true.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his
Twelfth Night|Clown|brains. I will fetch you light and paper and ink.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|prithee, be gone.
Twelfth Night|Clown|[Singing]
Twelfth Night|Clown|I am gone, sir,
Twelfth Night|Clown|And anon, sir,
Twelfth Night|Clown|I'll be with you again,
Twelfth Night|Clown|In a trice,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Like to the old Vice,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Your need to sustain,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Who, with dagger of lath,
Twelfth Night|Clown|In his rage and his wrath,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Cries, ah, ha! to the devil:
Twelfth Night|Clown|Like a mad lad,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Pare thy nails, dad,
Twelfth Night|Clown|Adieu, good man devil.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Exit
Twelfth Night|Clown|SCENE III. OLIVIA's garden.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Enter SEBASTIAN
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|This is the air, that is the glorious sun,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I could not find him at the Elephant:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|That he did range the town to seek me out.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|His counsel now might do me golden service,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|For though my soul disputes well with my sense,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|That this may be some error, but no madness,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|So far exceed all instance, all discourse,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|That I am ready to distrust mine eyes
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|And wrangle with my reason that persuades me
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|To any other trust but that I am mad
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Or else the lady's mad, yet, if 'twere so,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|She could not sway her house, command her followers,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Take and give back affairs and their dispatch
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|With such a smooth, discreet and stable bearing
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|As I perceive she does: there's something in't
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|That is deceiveable. But here the lady comes.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Enter OLIVIA and Priest
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Now go with me and with this holy man
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Into the chantry by: there, before him,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And underneath that consecrated roof,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Plight me the full assurance of your faith,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|May live at peace. He shall conceal it
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What time we will our celebration keep
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|According to my birth. What do you say?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I'll follow this good man, and go with you,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Then lead the way, good father, and heavens so shine,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That they may fairly note this act of mine!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|ACT V
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|SCENE I. Before OLIVIA's house.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter Clown and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Any thing.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Do not desire to see this letter.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire my
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|dog again.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and Lords
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Ay, sir, we are some of her trappings.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|I know thee well, how dost thou, my good fellow?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse
Twelfth Night|Clown|for my friends.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Just the contrary, the better for thy friends.
Twelfth Night|Clown|No, sir, the worse.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|How can that be?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me,
Twelfth Night|Clown|now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by
Twelfth Night|Clown|my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself,
Twelfth Night|Clown|and by my friends, I am abused: so that,
Twelfth Night|Clown|conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives
Twelfth Night|Clown|make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for
Twelfth Night|Clown|my friends and the better for my foes.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Why, this is excellent.
Twelfth Night|Clown|By my troth, sir, no, though it please you to be
Twelfth Night|Clown|one of my friends.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold.
Twelfth Night|Clown|But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would
Twelfth Night|Clown|you could make it another.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O, you give me ill counsel.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once,
Twelfth Night|Clown|and let your flesh and blood obey it.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|double-dealer: there's another.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play, and the old
Twelfth Night|Clown|saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex,
Twelfth Night|Clown|sir, is a good tripping measure, or the bells of
Twelfth Night|Clown|Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind, one, two, three.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|You can fool no more money out of me at this throw:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|if you will let your lady know I am here to speak
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|my bounty further.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come
Twelfth Night|Clown|again. I go, sir, but I would not have you to think
Twelfth Night|Clown|that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness:
Twelfth Night|Clown|but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I
Twelfth Night|Clown|will awake it anon.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Exit
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Enter ANTONIO and Officers
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That face of his I do remember well,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|A bawbling vessel was he captain of,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|For shallow draught and bulk unprizable,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|With which such scathful grapple did he make
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|With the most noble bottom of our fleet,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That very envy and the tongue of loss
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?
Twelfth Night|First Officer|Orsino, this is that Antonio
Twelfth Night|First Officer|That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy,
Twelfth Night|First Officer|And this is he that did the Tiger board,
Twelfth Night|First Officer|When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:
Twelfth Night|First Officer|Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,
Twelfth Night|First Officer|In private brabble did we apprehend him.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But in conclusion put strange speech upon me:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I know not what 'twas but distraction.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Hast made thine enemies?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Orsino, noble sir,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Though I confess, on base and ground enough,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|That most ingrateful boy there by your side,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Did I redeem, a wreck past hope he was:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|His life I gave him and did thereto add
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|My love, without retention or restraint,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|All his in dedication, for his sake
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Did I expose myself, pure for his love,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Into the danger of this adverse town,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Drew to defend him when he was beset:
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Where being apprehended, his false cunning,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Not meaning to partake with me in danger,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|And grew a twenty years removed thing
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|While one would wink, denied me mine own purse,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Which I had recommended to his use
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Not half an hour before.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|How can this be?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|When came he to this town?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|To-day, my lord, and for three months before,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|No interim, not a minute's vacancy,
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Both day and night did we keep company.
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Enter OLIVIA and Attendants
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But for thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madness:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Three months this youth hath tended upon me,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But more of that anon. Take him aside.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What would my lord, but that he may not have,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Madam!
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Gracious Olivia,--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord,--
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My lord would speak, my duty hushes me.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|As howling after music.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Still so cruel?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Still so constant, lord.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Kill what I love?--a savage jealousy
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And that I partly know the instrument
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That screws me from my true place in your favour,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But this your minion, whom I know you love,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Come, boy, with me, my thoughts are ripe in mischief:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To spite a raven's heart within a dove.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And I, most jocund, apt and willingly,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Where goes Cesario?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|After him I love
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|More than I love these eyes, more than my life,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|If I do feign, you witnesses above
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Punish my life for tainting of my love!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Call forth the holy father.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Come, away!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Husband!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Ay, husband: can he that deny?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Her husband, sirrah!
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|No, my lord, not I.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|That makes thee strangle thy propriety:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|As great as that thou fear'st.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter Priest
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, welcome, father!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Here to unfold, though lately we intended
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|To keep in darkness what occasion now
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me.
Twelfth Night|Priest|A contract of eternal bond of love,
Twelfth Night|Priest|Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,
Twelfth Night|Priest|Attested by the holy close of lips,
Twelfth Night|Priest|Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings,
Twelfth Night|Priest|And all the ceremony of this compact
Twelfth Night|Priest|Seal'd in my function, by my testimony:
Twelfth Night|Priest|Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave
Twelfth Night|Priest|I have travell'd but two hours.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Farewell, and take her, but direct thy feet
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My lord, I do protest--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|O, do not swear!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|to Sir Toby.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|What's the matter?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|My gentleman, Cesario?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|nothing, and that that I did, I was set on to do't
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|by Sir Toby.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|You drew your sword upon me without cause,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me: I
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb.
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|Here comes Sir Toby halting, you shall hear more:
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|but if he had not been in drink, he would have
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|tickled you othergates than he did.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|How now, gentleman! how is't with you?
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the end
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?
Twelfth Night|Clown|O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone, his eyes
Twelfth Night|Clown|were set at eight i' the morning.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures panyn: I
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|hate a drunken rogue.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with them?
Twelfth Night|SIR ANDREW|I'll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together.
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a
Twelfth Night|SIR TOBY BELCH|knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exeunt Clown, FABIAN, SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Enter SEBASTIAN
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|But, had it been the brother of my blood,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I must have done no less with wit and safety.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I do perceive it hath offended you:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|We made each other but so late ago.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|A natural perspective, that is and is not!
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Antonio, O my dear Antonio!
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|How have the hours rack'd and tortured me,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Since I have lost thee!
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Sebastian are you?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Fear'st thou that, Antonio?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|How have you made division of yourself?
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin
Twelfth Night|ANTONIO|Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Most wonderful!
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Do I stand there? I never had a brother,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Nor can there be that deity in my nature,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Of here and every where. I had a sister,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Of charity, what kin are you to me?
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|What countryman? what name? what parentage?
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Such a Sebastian was my brother too,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|So went he suited to his watery tomb:
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|If spirits can assume both form and suit
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|You come to fright us.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|A spirit I am indeed,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|But am in that dimension grossly clad
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Which from the womb I did participate.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|And say 'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|My father had a mole upon his brow.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|And so had mine.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And died that day when Viola from her birth
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Had number'd thirteen years.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|O, that record is lively in my soul!
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|He finished indeed his mortal act
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|That day that made my sister thirteen years.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|If nothing lets to make us happy both
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|But this my masculine usurp'd attire,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Do not embrace me till each circumstance
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That I am Viola: which to confirm,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I'll bring you to a captain in this town,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Where lie my maiden weeds, by whose gentle help
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|I was preserved to serve this noble count.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|All the occurrence of my fortune since
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Hath been between this lady and this lord.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|[To OLIVIA]  So comes it, lady, you have been mistook:
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|But nature to her bias drew in that.
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|You would have been contracted to a maid,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,
Twelfth Night|SEBASTIAN|You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Be not amazed, right noble is his blood.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|I shall have share in this most happy wreck.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To VIOLA
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And all those sayings will I overswear,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|And those swearings keep as true in soul
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|As doth that orbed continent the fire
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|That severs day from night.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Give me thy hand,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|The captain that did bring me first on shore
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,
Twelfth Night|VIOLA|A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And yet, alas, now I remember me,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Re-enter Clown with a letter, and FABIAN
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A most extracting frenzy of mine own
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|From my remembrance clearly banish'd his.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How does he, sirrah?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the staves's end as
Twelfth Night|Clown|well as a man in his case may do: has here writ a
Twelfth Night|Clown|letter to you, I should have given't you to-day
Twelfth Night|Clown|morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels,
Twelfth Night|Clown|so it skills not much when they are delivered.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Open't, and read it.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers
Twelfth Night|Clown|the madman.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Reads
Twelfth Night|Clown|'By the Lord, madam,'--
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How now! art thou mad?
Twelfth Night|Clown|No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship
Twelfth Night|Clown|will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Prithee, read i' thy right wits.
Twelfth Night|Clown|So I do, madonna, but to read his right wits is to
Twelfth Night|Clown|read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Read it you, sirrah.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|To FABIAN
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|[Reads]  'By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|world shall know it: though you have put me into
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|me to the semblance I put on, with the which I doubt
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|not but to do myself much right, or you much shame.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|unthought of and speak out of my injury.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Did he write this?
Twelfth Night|Clown|Ay, madam.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|This savours not much of distraction.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|See him deliver'd, Fabian, bring him hither.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Exit FABIAN
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|My lord so please you, these things further
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|thought on,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|To think me as well a sister as a wife,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Here at my house and at my proper cost.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|To VIOLA
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Your master quits you, and for your service done him,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|So much against the mettle of your sex,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|And since you call'd me master for so long,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Here is my hand: you shall from this time be
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Your master's mistress.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|A sister! you are she.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Is this the madman?
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Ay, my lord, this same.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|How now, Malvolio!
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Madam, you have done me wrong,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Notorious wrong.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Have I, Malvolio? no.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|You must not now deny it is your hand:
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention:
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|You can say none of this: well, grant it then
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|To put on yellow stockings and to frown
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|And made the most notorious geck and gull
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Though, I confess, much like the character
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And now I do bethink me, it was she
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|First told me thou wast mad, then camest in smiling,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|And in such forms which here were presupposed
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Of thine own cause.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Good madam, hear me speak,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Taint the condition of this present hour,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Most freely I confess, myself and Toby
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Set this device against Malvolio here,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|We had conceived against him: Maria writ
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|The letter at Sir Toby's great importance,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|In recompense whereof he hath married her.
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|May rather pluck on laughter than revenge,
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|If that the injuries be justly weigh'd
Twelfth Night|FABIAN|That have on both sides pass'd.
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!
Twelfth Night|Clown|Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness,
Twelfth Night|Clown|and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was
Twelfth Night|Clown|one, sir, in this interlude, one Sir Topas, sir, but
Twelfth Night|Clown|that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.'
Twelfth Night|Clown|But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such
Twelfth Night|Clown|a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:'
Twelfth Night|Clown|and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
Twelfth Night|MALVOLIO|Exit
Twelfth Night|OLIVIA|He hath been most notoriously abused.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Pursue him and entreat him to a peace:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|He hath not told us of the captain yet:
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|When that is known and golden time convents,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|A solemn combination shall be made
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|We will not part from hence. Cesario, come,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|For so you shall be, while you are a man,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|But when in other habits you are seen,
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen.
Twelfth Night|DUKE ORSINO|Exeunt all, except Clown
Twelfth Night|Clown|[Sings]
Twelfth Night|Clown|When that I was and a little tiny boy,
Twelfth Night|Clown|With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
Twelfth Night|Clown|A foolish thing was but a toy,
Twelfth Night|Clown|For the rain it raineth every day.
Twelfth Night|Clown|But when I came to man's estate,
Twelfth Night|Clown|With hey, ho,  and c.
Twelfth Night|Clown|'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
Twelfth Night|Clown|For the rain,  and c.
Twelfth Night|Clown|But when I came, alas! to wive,
Twelfth Night|Clown|With hey, ho,  and c.
Twelfth Night|Clown|By swaggering could I never thrive,
Twelfth Night|Clown|For the rain,  and c.
Twelfth Night|Clown|But when I came unto my beds,
Twelfth Night|Clown|With hey, ho,  and c.
Twelfth Night|Clown|With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
Twelfth Night|Clown|For the rain,  and c.
Twelfth Night|Clown|A great while ago the world begun,
Twelfth Night|Clown|With hey, ho,  and c.
Twelfth Night|Clown|But that's all one, our play is done,
Twelfth Night|Clown|And we'll strive to please you every day.
Twelfth Night|Clown|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Clown|ACT I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Clown|SCENE I. Verona. An open place.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Clown|Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Were't not affection chains thy tender days
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I rather would entreat thy company
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Even as I would when I to love begin.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Wish me partaker in thy happiness
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|When thou dost meet good hap, and in thy danger,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|If ever danger do environ thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And on a love-book pray for my success?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|That's on some shallow story of deep love:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That's a deep story of a deeper love:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For he was more than over shoes in love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|'Tis true, for you are over boots in love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And yet you never swum the Hellespont.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No, I will not, for it boots thee not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If lost, why then a grievous labour won,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|However, but a folly bought with wit,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|'Tis love you cavil at: I am not Love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Love is your master, for he masters you:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And he that is so yoked by a fool,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The eating canker dwells, so eating love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Inhabits in the finest wits of all.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And writers say, as the most forward bud
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Even so by love the young and tender wit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Losing his verdure even in the prime
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And all the fair effects of future hopes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|That art a votary to fond desire?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Once more adieu! my father at the road
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Expects my coming, there to see me shipp'd.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Sweet Proteus, no, now let us take our leave.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To Milan let me hear from thee by letters
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Of thy success in love, and what news else
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Betideth here in absence of thy friend,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And likewise will visit thee with mine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|As much to you at home! and so, farewell.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|He after honour hunts, I after love:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|He leaves his friends to dignify them more,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|War with good counsel, set the world at nought,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter SPEED
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|And I have play'd the sheep in losing him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|An if the shepherd be a while away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|and I a sheep?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I do.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|A silly answer and fitting well a sheep.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|This proves me still a sheep.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|True, and thy master a shepherd.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|shepherd, but I seek my master, and my master seeks
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|not me: therefore I am no sheep.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|wages followest thy master, thy master for wages
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Such another proof will make me cry 'baa.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|lost mutton, nothing for my labour.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Nay: in that you are astray, 'twere best pound you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|carrying your letter.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|You mistake, I mean the pound,--a pinfold.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|your lover.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But what said she?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|[First nodding]  Ay.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Nod--Ay--why, that's noddy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|You mistook, sir, I say, she did nod: and you ask
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|me if she did nod, and I say, 'Ay.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And that set together is noddy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Now you have taken the pains to set it together,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|take it for your pains.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|No, no, you shall have it for bearing the letter.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Why sir, how do you bear with me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly, having nothing
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|but the word 'noddy' for my pains.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Come come, open the matter in brief: what said she?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Open your purse, that the money and the matter may
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|be both at once delivered.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her, no,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|mind. Give her no token but stones, for she's as
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|hard as steel.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What said she? nothing?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.' To
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|me, in requital whereof, henceforth carry your
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|letters yourself: and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Which cannot perish having thee aboard,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Being destined to a drier death on shore.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit SPEED
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I must go send some better messenger:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Receiving them from such a worthless post.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|SCENE II. The same. Garden of JULIA's house.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter JULlA and LUCETTA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That every day with parle encounter me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|According to my shallow simple skill.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|But, were I you, he never should be mine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Well of his wealth, but of himself, so so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What think'st thou of the gentle Proteus?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Lord, Lord! to see what folly reigns in us!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|How now! what means this passion at his name?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Pardon, dear madam: 'tis a passing shame
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|That I, unworthy body as I am,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Then thus: of many good I think him best.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Your reason?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|I have no other, but a woman's reason,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|I think him so because I think him so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Ay, if you thought your love not cast away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Yet he, of all the rest, I think, best loves ye.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|His little speaking shows his love but small.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|They do not love that do not show their love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|O, they love least that let men know their love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I would I knew his mind.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Peruse this paper, madam.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|'To Julia.' Say, from whom?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|That the contents will show.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Say, say, who gave it thee?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Valentine's page, and sent, I think, from Proteus.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|He would have given it you, but I, being in the way,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Did in your name receive it: pardon the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|fault I pray.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To whisper and conspire against my youth?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Now, trust me, 'tis an office of great worth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And you an officer fit for the place.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Or else return no more into my sight.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Will ye be gone?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|That you may ruminate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|It were a shame to call her back again
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And pray her to a fault for which I chid her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What a fool is she, that knows I am a maid,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And would not force the letter to my view!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Since maids, in modesty, say 'no' to that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And presently all humbled kiss the rod!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|When willingly I would have had her here!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|How angerly I taught my brow to frown,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|When inward joy enforced my heart to smile!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|My penance is to call Lucetta back
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And ask remission for my folly past.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What ho! Lucetta!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Re-enter LUCETTA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|What would your ladyship?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Is't near dinner-time?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|I would it were,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|That you might kill your stomach on your meat
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|And not upon your maid.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What is't that you took up so gingerly?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Nothing.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Why didst thou stoop, then?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|To take a paper up that I let fall.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And is that paper nothing?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Nothing concerning me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Then let it lie for those that it concerns.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Madam, it will not lie where it concerns
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Unless it have a false interpeter.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|That I might sing it, madam, to a tune.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Give me a note: your ladyship can set.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|As little by such toys as may be possible.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Best sing it to the tune of 'Light o' love.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|It is too heavy for so light a tune.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Heavy! belike it hath some burden then?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And why not you?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|I cannot reach so high.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Let's see your song. How now, minion!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|And yet methinks I do not like this tune.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|You do not?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|No, madam, it is too sharp.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|You, minion, are too saucy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Nay, now you are too flat
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|And mar the concord with too harsh a descant:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|The mean is drown'd with your unruly bass.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|This babble shall not henceforth trouble me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Here is a coil with protestation!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Tears the letter
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Go get you gone, and let the papers lie:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|You would be fingering them, to anger me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|She makes it strange, but she would be best pleased
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|To be so anger'd with another letter.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And kill the bees that yield it with your stings!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I'll kiss each several paper for amends.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Look, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Unkind Julia!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|As in revenge of thy ingratitude,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And here is writ 'love-wounded Proteus.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Poor wounded name! my bosom as a bed
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But twice or thrice was 'Proteus' written down.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Till I have found each letter in the letter,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Except mine own name: that some whirlwind bear
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Unto a ragged fearful-hanging rock
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And throw it thence into the raging sea!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To the sweet Julia:' that I'll tear away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And yet I will not, sith so prettily
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|He couples it to his complaining names.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Thus will I fold them one on another:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Re-enter LUCETTA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Madam,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Dinner is ready, and your father stays.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Well, let us go.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|If you respect them, best to take them up.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Nay, I was taken up for laying them down:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I see you have a month's mind to them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|I see things too, although you judge I wink.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Come, come, will't please you go?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|SCENE III. The same. ANTONIO's house.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Why, what of him?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|He wonder'd that your lordship
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Would suffer him to spend his youth at home,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|While other men, of slender reputation,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Some to the wars, to try their fortune there,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Some to discover islands far away,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Some to the studious universities.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|For any or for all these exercises,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|He said that Proteus your son was meet,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|And did request me to importune you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|To let him spend his time no more at home,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Which would be great impeachment to his age,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|In having known no travel in his youth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Nor need'st thou much importune me to that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Whereon this month I have been hammering.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|I have consider'd well his loss of time
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|And how he cannot be a perfect man,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Not being tried and tutor'd in the world:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Experience is by industry achieved
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|And perfected by the swift course of time.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Then tell me, whither were I best to send him?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|I think your lordship is not ignorant
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|How his companion, youthful Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Attends the emperor in his royal court.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|I know it well.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|And be in eye of every exercise
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|I like thy counsel, well hast thou advised:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|The execution of it shall make known.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Even with the speediest expedition
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|I will dispatch him to the emperor's court.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|To-morrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|With other gentlemen of good esteem,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Are journeying to salute the emperor
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|And to commend their service to his will.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Good company, with them shall Proteus go:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|And, in good time! now will we break with him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Enter PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sweet love! sweet lines! sweet life!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Here is her hand, the agent of her heart,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O, that our fathers would applaud our loves,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To seal our happiness with their consents!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O heavenly Julia!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|How now! what letter are you reading there?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|May't please your lordship, 'tis a word or two
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Of commendations sent from Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Deliver'd by a friend that came from him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Lend me the letter, let me see what news.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|There is no news, my lord, but that he writes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|How happily he lives, how well beloved
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And daily graced by the emperor,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|And how stand you affected to his wish?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|As one relying on your lordship's will
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And not depending on his friendly wish.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|My will is something sorted with his wish.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|For what I will, I will, and there an end.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|With Valentinus in the emperor's court:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|What maintenance he from his friends receives,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|To-morrow be in readiness to go:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Excuse it not, for I am peremptory.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|My lord, I cannot be so soon provided:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Please you, deliberate a day or two.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Look, what thou want'st shall be sent after thee:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|No more of stay! to-morrow thou must go.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Come on, Panthino: you shall be employ'd
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|To hasten on his expedition.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|ANTONIO|Exeunt ANTONIO and PANTHINO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Thus have I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Lest he should take exceptions to my love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And with the vantage of mine own excuse
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Hath he excepted most against my love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O, how this spring of love resembleth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The uncertain glory of an April day,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And by and by a cloud takes all away!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Re-enter PANTHINO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Sir Proteus, your father calls for you:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|He is in haste, therefore, I pray you to go.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And yet a thousand times it answers 'no.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|ACT II
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|SCENE I. Milan. The DUKE's palace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter VALENTINE and SPEED
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Sir, your glove.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Not mine, my gloves are on.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ha! let me see: ay, give it me, it's mine:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ah, Silvia, Silvia!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How now, sirrah?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|She is not within hearing, sir.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why, sir, who bade you call her?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Your worship, sir, or else I mistook.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Well, you'll still be too forward.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Go to, sir: tell me, do you know Madam Silvia?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|She that your worship loves?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why, how know you that I am in love?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Marry, by these special marks: first, you have
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|like a malecontent, to relish a love-song, like a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|robin-redbreast, to walk alone, like one that had
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|the pestilence, to sigh, like a school-boy that had
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|lost his A B C, to weep, like a young wench that had
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|buried her grandam, to fast, like one that takes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock, when you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|walked, to walk like one of the lions, when you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|fasted, it was presently after dinner, when you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|on you, I can hardly think you my master.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Are all these things perceived in me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|They are all perceived without ye.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Without me? they cannot.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Without you? nay, that's certain, for, without you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|were so simple, none else would: but you are so
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|without these follies, that these follies are within
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|you and shine through you like the water in an
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|urinal, that not an eye that sees you but is a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|physician to comment on your malady.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Hast thou observed that? even she, I mean.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why, sir, I know her not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|knowest her not?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Is she not hard-favoured, sir?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Sir, I know that well enough.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What dost thou know?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|That's because the one is painted and the other out
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|of all count.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How painted? and how out of count?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|man counts of her beauty.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|You never saw her since she was deformed.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How long hath she been deformed?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Ever since you loved her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I have loved her ever since I saw her, and still I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|see her beautiful.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|If you love her, you cannot see her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|ungartered!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What should I see then?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Your own present folly and her passing deformity:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|for he, being in love, could not see to garter his
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|hose, and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Belike, boy, then, you are in love, for last
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|True, sir, I was in love with my bed: I thank you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|you swinged me for my love, which makes me the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|bolder to chide you for yours.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|In conclusion, I stand affected to her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|I would you were set, so your affection would cease.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|one she loves.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|And have you?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I have.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Are they not lamely writ?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|here she comes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|[Aside]  O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Now will he interpret to her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Enter SILVIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|[Aside]  O, give ye good even! here's a million of manners.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|[Aside]  He should give her interest and she gives it him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Unto the secret nameless friend of yours,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Which I was much unwilling to proceed in
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|But for my duty to your ladyship.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I thank you gentle servant: 'tis very clerkly done.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For being ignorant to whom it goes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I writ at random, very doubtfully.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Perchance you think too much of so much pains?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No, madam, so it stead you, I will write
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Please you command, a thousand times as much, And yet--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And yet I will not name it, and yet I care not,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And yet take this again, and yet I thank you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|[Aside]  And yet you will, and yet another 'yet.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What means your ladyship? do you not like it?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Yes, yes, the lines are very quaintly writ,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|But since unwillingly, take them again.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Nay, take them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Madam, they are for you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Ay, ay: you writ them, sir, at my request,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|But I will none of them, they are for you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I would have had them writ more movingly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Please you, I'll write your ladyship another.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And when it's writ, for my sake read it over,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And if it please you, so, if not, why, so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If it please me, madam, what then?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Why, if it please you, take it for your labour:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And so, good morrow, servant.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|My master sues to her, and she hath
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|taught her suitor,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|He being her pupil, to become her tutor.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|That my master, being scribe, to himself should write
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|the letter?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To do what?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To whom?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What figure?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|By a letter, I should say.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why, she hath not writ to me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|What need she, when she hath made you write to
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No, believe me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|her earnest?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|She gave me none, except an angry word.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why, she hath given you a letter.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|That's the letter I writ to her friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I would it were no worse.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|I'll warrant you, 'tis as well:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why muse you, sir? 'tis dinner-time.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I have dined.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Ay, but hearken, sir, though the chameleon Love can
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|your mistress, be moved, be moved.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|SCENE II. Verona. JULIA'S house.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Enter PROTEUS and JULIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Have patience, gentle Julia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I must, where is no remedy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|When possibly I can, I will return.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Giving a ring
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Why then, we'll make exchange, here, take you this.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Here is my hand for my true constancy,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And when that hour o'erslips me in the day
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Torment me for my love's forgetfulness!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|My father stays my coming, answer not,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Julia, farewell!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit JULIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What, gone without a word?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter PANTHINO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Sir Proteus, you are stay'd for.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Go, I come, I come.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|SCENE III. The same. A street.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter LAUNCE, leading a dog
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|have received my proportion, like the prodigious
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|wringing her hands, and all our house in a great
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|has no more pity in him than a dog: a Jew would have
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|wept to have seen our parting, why, my grandam,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|shoe is my father: no, this left shoe is my father:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|no, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so, it
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|it, is my mother, and this my father, a vengeance
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|on't! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is my
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|as small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid: I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|dog--Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself, ay, so,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|so. Now come I to my father, Father, your blessing:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|now should I kiss my father, well, he weeps on. Now
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|come I to my mother: O, that she could speak now
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her, why, there
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|'tis, here's my mother's breath up and down. Now
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|come I to my sister, mark the moan she makes. Now
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|word, but see how I lay the dust with my tears.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Enter PANTHINO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Launce, away, away, aboard! thy master is shipped
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|and thou art to post after with oars. What's the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|matter? why weepest thou, man? Away, ass! You'll
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|lose the tide, if you tarry any longer.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|It is no matter if the tied were lost, for it is the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|unkindest tied that ever any man tied.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|What's the unkindest tide?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Tut, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood, and, in
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|losing the flood, lose thy voyage, and, in losing
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|thy voyage, lose thy master, and, in losing thy
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|master, lose thy service, and, in losing thy
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|service,--Why dost thou stop my mouth?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Where should I lose my tongue?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|In thy tale.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|In thy tail!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|the service, and the tied! Why, man, if the river
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears, if the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Come, come away, man, I was sent to call thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Sir, call me what thou darest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PANTHINO|Wilt thou go?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Well, I will go.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|SCENE IV. Milan. The DUKE's palace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Enter SILVIA, VALENTINE, THURIO, and SPEED
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Servant!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Mistress?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ay, boy, it's for love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Not of you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Of my mistress, then.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Twere good you knocked him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Servant, you are sad.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Indeed, madam, I seem so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Seem you that you are not?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Haply I do.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|So do counterfeits.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|So do you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|What seem I that I am not?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Wise.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|What instance of the contrary?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Your folly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|And how quote you my folly?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I quote it in your jerkin.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|My jerkin is a doublet.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Well, then, I'll double your folly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|How?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change colour?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Give him leave, madam, he is a kind of chameleon.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|in your air.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|You have said, sir.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Ay, sir, and done too, for this time.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I know it well, sir, you always end ere you begin.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|'Tis indeed, madam, we thank the giver.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Who is that, servant?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Yourself, sweet lady, for you gave the fire. Sir
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|make your wit bankrupt.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I know it well, sir, you have an exchequer of words,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|and, I think, no other treasure to give your
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|followers, for it appears by their bare liveries,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|that they live by your bare words.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|No more, gentlemen, no more:--here comes my father.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Enter DUKE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Sir Valentine, your father's in good health:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|What say you to a letter from your friends
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Of much good news?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|My lord, I will be thankful.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To any happy messenger from thence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To be of worth and worthy estimation
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And not without desert so well reputed.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Hath he not a son?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ay, my good lord, a son that well deserves
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|The honour and regard of such a father.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|You know him well?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I know him as myself, for from our infancy
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|We have conversed and spent our hours together:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And though myself have been an idle truant,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Omitting the sweet benefit of time
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Made use and fair advantage of his days,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|His years but young, but his experience old,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And, in a word, for far behind his worth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Comes all the praises that I now bestow,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|He is complete in feature and in mind
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|He is as worthy for an empress' love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|As meet to be an emperor's counsellor.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|With commendation from great potentates,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And here he means to spend his time awhile:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I think 'tis no unwelcome news to you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Welcome him then according to his worth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|For Valentine, I need not cite him to it:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I will send him hither to you presently.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|This is the gentleman I told your ladyship
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Had come along with me, but that his mistress
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Upon some other pawn for fealty.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Nay, then he should be blind, and, being blind
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|How could he see his way to seek out you?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|They say that Love hath not an eye at all.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Upon a homely object Love can wink.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Have done, have done, here comes the gentleman.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Exit THURIO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Enter PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Confirm his welcome with some special favour.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Not so, sweet  lady: but too mean a servant
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To have a look of such a worthy mistress.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Leave off discourse of disability:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|My duty will I boast of, nothing else.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And duty never yet did want his meed:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I'll die on him that says so but yourself.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|That you are welcome?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That you are worthless.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Re-enter THURIO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Madam, my lord your father would speak with you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I wait upon his pleasure. Come, Sir Thurio,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I'll leave you to confer of home affairs,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|When you have done, we look to hear from you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|We'll both attend upon your ladyship.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exeunt SILVIA and THURIO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Your friends are well and have them much commended.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And how do yours?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I left them all in health.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How does your lady? and how thrives your love?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|My tales of love were wont to weary you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I know you joy not in a love discourse.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I have done penance for contemning Love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For in revenge of my contempt of love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|O gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And hath so humbled me, as, I confess,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|There is no woe to his correction,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Nor to his service no such joy on earth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Now no discourse, except it be of love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Now can I break my fast, dine, sup and sleep,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Upon the very naked name of love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enough, I read your fortune in your eye.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Was this the idol that you worship so?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Even she, and is she not a heavenly saint?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|No, but she is an earthly paragon.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Call her divine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I will not flatter her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|O, flatter me, for love delights in praises.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And I must minister the like to you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Then speak the truth by her, if not divine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Yet let her be a principality,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Except my mistress.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Sweet, except not any,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Except thou wilt except against my love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Have I not reason to prefer mine own?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And I will help thee to prefer her too:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|She shall be dignified with this high honour--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And, of so great a favour growing proud,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And make rough winter everlastingly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Why, Valentine, what braggardism is this?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Pardon me, Proteus: all I can is nothing
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|She is alone.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Then let her alone.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And I as rich in having such a jewel
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Because thou see'st me dote upon my love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|My foolish rival, that her father likes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Only for his possessions are so huge,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is gone with her along, and I must after,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But she loves you?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ay, and we are betroth'd: nay, more, our,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|marriage-hour,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|With all the cunning manner of our flight,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Determined of, how I must climb her window,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|The ladder made of cords, and all the means
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Go on before, I shall inquire you forth:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I must unto the road, to disembark
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Some necessaries that I needs must use,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And then I'll presently attend you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Will you make haste?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I will.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit VALENTINE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Even as one heat another heat expels,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|So the remembrance of my former love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|She is fair, and so is Julia that I love--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Bears no impression of the thing it was.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And that I love him not as I was wont.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O, but I love his lady too too much,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And that's the reason I love him so little.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|How shall I dote on her with more advice,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That thus without advice begin to love her!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And that hath dazzled my reason's light,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But when I look on her perfections,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|There is no reason but I shall be blind.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|If I can cheque my erring love, I will,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|SCENE V. The same. A street.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Milan!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|say 'Welcome!'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Come on, you madcap, I'll to the alehouse with you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|presently, where, for one shot of five pence, thou
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|did thy master part with Madam Julia?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|fairly in jest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|But shall she marry him?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|No.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|How then? shall he marry her?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|No, neither.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|What, are they broken?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|No, they are both as whole as a fish.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why, then, how stands the matter with them?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|stands well with her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|staff understands me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|What thou sayest?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|and my staff understands me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|It stands under thee, indeed.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|But tell me true, will't be a match?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Ask my dog: if he say ay, it will! if he say no,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|it will, if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|The conclusion is then that it will.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayest
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|thou, that my master is become a notable lover?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I never knew him otherwise.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Than how?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, fool, I meant not thee, I meant thy master.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|in love. If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|name of a Christian.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|go to the ale with a Christian. Wilt thou go?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|At thy service.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|SCENE VI. The same. The DUKE'S palace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Enter PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And even that power which gave me first my oath
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Provokes me to this threefold perjury,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Love bade me swear and Love bids me forswear.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|At first I did adore a twinkling star,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But now I worship a celestial sun.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And he wants wit that wants resolved will
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I cannot leave to love, and yet I do,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But there I leave to love where I should love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Julia I lose and Valentine I lose:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|If I keep them, I needs must lose myself,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|If I lose them, thus find I by their loss
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I to myself am dearer than a friend,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For love is still most precious in itself,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And Silvia--witness Heaven, that made her fair!--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I will forget that Julia is alive,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Remembering that my love to her is dead,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And Valentine I'll hold an enemy,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I cannot now prove constant to myself,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Without some treachery used to Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Myself in counsel, his competitor.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Now presently I'll give her father notice
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Of their disguising and pretended flight,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But, Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|SCENE VII. Verona. JULIA'S house.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter JULIA and LUCETTA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Counsel, Lucetta, gentle girl, assist me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And even in kind love I do conjure thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Who art the table wherein all my thoughts
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Are visibly character'd and engraved,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To lesson me and tell me some good mean
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|How, with my honour, I may undertake
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|A journey to my loving Proteus.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Alas, the way is wearisome and long!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Much less shall she that hath Love's wings to fly,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And when the flight is made to one so dear,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Better forbear till Proteus make return.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Pity the dearth that I have pined in,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|By longing for that food so long a time.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|The current that with gentle murmur glides,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But when his fair course is not hindered,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|He makes sweet music with the enamell'ed stones,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|He overtaketh in his pilgrimage,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And so by many winding nooks he strays
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Then let me go and hinder not my course
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I'll be as patient as a gentle stream
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And make a pastime of each weary step,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Till the last step have brought me to my love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|But in what habit will you go along?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Not like a woman, for I would prevent
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|The loose encounters of lascivious men:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|As may beseem some well-reputed page.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Why, then, your ladyship must cut your hair.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To be fantastic may become a youth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Of greater time than I shall show to be.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|What fashion, madam shall I make your breeches?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That fits as well as 'Tell me, good my lord,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What compass will you wear your farthingale?'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Why even what fashion thou best likest, Lucetta.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Out, out, Lucetta! that would be ill-favour'd.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|A round hose, madam, now's not worth a pin,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Lucetta, as thou lovest me, let me have
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What thou thinkest meet and is most mannerly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I fear me, it will make me scandalized.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|If you think so, then stay at home and go not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Nay, that I will not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Then never dream on infamy, but go.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|If Proteus like your journey when you come,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|No matter who's displeased when you are gone:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|I fear me, he will scarce be pleased withal.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And instances of infinite of love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Warrant me welcome to my Proteus.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|All these are servants to deceitful men.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Base men, that use them to so base effect!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LUCETTA|Pray heaven he prove so, when you come to him!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Now, as thou lovest me, do him not that wrong
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To bear a hard opinion of his truth:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Only deserve my love by loving him,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And presently go with me to my chamber,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To take a note of what I stand in need of,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To furnish me upon my longing journey.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|All that is mine I leave at thy dispose,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|My goods, my lands, my reputation,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Come, answer not, but to it presently!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I am impatient of my tarriance.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|ACT III
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|SCENE I. Milan. The DUKE's palace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter DUKE, THURIO, and PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|We have some secrets to confer about.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Exit THURIO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Now, tell me, Proteus, what's your will with me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|My gracious lord, that which I would discover
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The law of friendship bids me to conceal,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But when I call to mind your gracious favours
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Done to me, undeserving as I am,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|My duty pricks me on to utter that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Which else no worldly good should draw from me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine, my friend,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|This night intends to steal away your daughter:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Myself am one made privy to the plot.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I know you have determined to bestow her
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And should she thus be stol'n away from you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|It would be much vexation to your age.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To cross my friend in his intended drift
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Than, by concealing it, heap on your head
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|A pack of sorrows which would press you down,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Being unprevented, to your timeless grave.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Which to requite, command me while I live.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|This love of theirs myself have often seen,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Haply when they have judged me fast asleep,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And oftentimes have purposed to forbid
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Sir Valentine her company and my court:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But fearing lest my jealous aim might err
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And so unworthily disgrace the man,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|A rashness that I ever yet have shunn'd,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That which thyself hast now disclosed to me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And, that thou mayst perceive my fear of this,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I nightly lodge her in an upper tower,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|The key whereof myself have ever kept,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And thence she cannot be convey'd away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|How he her chamber-window will ascend
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And with a corded ladder fetch her down,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For which the youthful lover now is gone
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And this way comes he with it presently,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Where, if it please you, you may intercept him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But, good my Lord, do it so cunningly
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That my discovery be not aimed at,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For love of you, not hate unto my friend,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Hath made me publisher of this pretence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Upon mine honour, he shall never know
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That I had any light from thee of this.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Adieu, my Lord, Sir Valentine is coming.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter VALENTINE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Please it your grace, there is a messenger
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|That stays to bear my letters to my friends,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And I am going to deliver them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Be they of much import?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|The tenor of them doth but signify
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|My health and happy being at your court.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Nay then, no matter, stay with me awhile,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I am to break with thee of some affairs
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I know it well, my Lord, and, sure, the match
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Were rich and honourable, besides, the gentleman
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is full of virtue, bounty, worth and qualities
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|No, trust me, she is peevish, sullen, froward,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Neither regarding that she is my child
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Nor fearing me as if I were her father,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And, where I thought the remnant of mine age
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I now am full resolved to take a wife
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And turn her out to who will take her in:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|For me and my possessions she esteems not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What would your Grace have me to do in this?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|There is a lady in Verona here
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Whom I affect, but she is nice and coy
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And nought esteems my aged eloquence:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|For long agone I have forgot to court,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Besides, the fashion of the time is changed--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|How and which way I may bestow myself
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Win her with gifts, if she respect not words:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|More than quick words do move a woman's mind.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But she did scorn a present that I sent her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Send her another, never give her o'er,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For scorn at first makes after-love the more.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|But rather to beget more love in you:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For why, the fools are mad, if left alone.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Take no repulse, whatever she doth say,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away!'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But she I mean is promised by her friends
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Unto a youthful gentleman of worth,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And kept severely from resort of men,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That no man hath access by day to her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why, then, I would resort to her by night.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Ay, but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That no man hath recourse to her by night.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What lets but one may enter at her window?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And built so shelving that one cannot climb it
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Without apparent hazard of his life.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why then, a ladder quaintly made of cords,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To cast up, with a pair of anchoring hooks,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Would serve to scale another Hero's tower,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|So bold Leander would adventure it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Now, as thou art a gentleman of blood,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Advise me where I may have such a ladder.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|When would you use it? pray, sir, tell me that.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|This very night, for Love is like a child,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That longs for every thing that he can come by.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But, hark thee, I will go to her alone:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|How shall I best convey the ladder thither?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Under a cloak that is of any length.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ay, my good lord.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Then let me see thy cloak:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I'll get me one of such another length.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|What letter is this same? What's here? 'To Silvia'!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And here an engine fit for my proceeding.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I'll be so bold to break the seal for once.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Reads
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|'My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And slaves they are to me that send them flying:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|O, could their master come and go as lightly,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Himself would lodge where senseless they are lying!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|While I, their king, that hither them importune,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Because myself do want my servants' fortune:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I curse myself, for they are sent by me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That they should harbour where their lord would be.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|What's here?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|'Tis so, and here's the ladder for the purpose.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Why, Phaeton,--for thou art Merops' son,--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Go, base intruder! overweening slave!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And think my patience, more than thy desert,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Is privilege for thy departure hence:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Thank me for this more than for all the favours
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Which all too much I have bestow'd on thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But if thou linger in my territories
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Longer than swiftest expedition
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Will give thee time to leave our royal court,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I ever bore my daughter or thyself.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Be gone! I will not hear thy vain excuse,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But, as thou lovest thy life, make speed from hence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And why not death rather than living torment?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To die is to be banish'd from myself,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Unless it be to think that she is by
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And feed upon the shadow of perfection
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Except I be by Silvia in the night,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|There is no music in the nightingale,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|There is no day for me to look upon,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|She is my essence, and I leave to be,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If I be not by her fair influence
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Foster'd, illumined, cherish'd, kept alive.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Tarry I here, I but attend on death:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|But, fly I hence, I fly away from life.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Enter PROTEUS and LAUNCE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Soho, soho!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What seest thou?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Him we go to find: there's not a hair on's head
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|but 'tis a Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Valentine?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Who then? his spirit?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Neither.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What then?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Nothing.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Can nothing speak? Master, shall I strike?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Who wouldst thou strike?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Nothing.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Villain, forbear.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, sir, I'll strike nothing: I pray you,--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sirrah, I say, forbear. Friend Valentine, a word.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|My ears are stopt and cannot hear good news,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|So much of bad already hath possess'd them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For they are harsh, untuneable and bad.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is Silvia dead?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|No, Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No Valentine, indeed, for sacred Silvia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Hath she forsworn me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|No, Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What is your news?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That thou art banished--O, that's the news!--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|From hence, from Silvia and from me thy friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|O, I have fed upon this woe already,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And now excess of it will make me surfeit.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Doth Silvia know that I am banished?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Ay, ay, and she hath offer'd to the doom--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|With them, upon her knees, her humble self,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|As if but now they waxed pale for woe:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Besides, her intercession chafed him so,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|When she for thy repeal was suppliant,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That to close prison he commanded her,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|With many bitter threats of biding there.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|No more, unless the next word that thou speak'st
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Have some malignant power upon my life:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If so, I pray thee, breathe it in mine ear,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|As ending anthem of my endless dolour.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And study help for that which thou lament'st.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Hope is a lover's staff, walk hence with that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And manage it against despairing thoughts.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The time now serves not to expostulate:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Come, I'll convey thee through the city-gate,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And, ere I part with thee, confer at large
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Of all that may concern thy love-affairs.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|As thou lovest Silvia, though not for thyself,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Regard thy danger, and along with me!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I pray thee, Launce, an if thou seest my boy,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Bid him make haste and meet me at the North-gate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|O my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Exeunt VALENTINE and PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I am but a fool, look you, and yet I have the wit to
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|all one, if he be but one knave. He lives not now
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|that knows me to be in love, yet I am in love, but a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|team of horse shall not pluck that from me, nor who
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|'tis I love, and yet 'tis a woman, but what woman, I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|will not tell myself, and yet 'tis a milkmaid, yet
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|'tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips, yet 'tis
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|a maid, for she is her master's maid, and serves for
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|wages. She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|which is much in a bare Christian.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Pulling out a paper
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Here is the cate-log of her condition.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|'Imprimis: She can fetch and carry.' Why, a horse
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|carry, therefore is she better than a jade. 'Item:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|She can milk,' look you, a sweet virtue in a maid
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|with clean hands.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Enter SPEED
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|How now, Signior Launce! what news with your
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|mastership?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|With my master's ship? why, it is at sea.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Well, your old vice still, mistake the word. What
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|news, then, in your paper?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|The blackest news that ever thou heardest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why, man, how black?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, as black as ink.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Let me read them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Fie on thee, jolt-head! thou canst not read.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Thou liest, I can.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I will try thee. Tell me this: who begot thee?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Marry, the son of my grandfather.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|O illiterate loiterer! it was the son of thy
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|grandmother: this proves that thou canst not read.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Come, fool, come, try me in thy paper.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|There, and St. Nicholas be thy speed!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|[Reads]  'Imprimis: She can milk.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Ay, that she can.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She brews good ale.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|And thereof comes the proverb: 'Blessing of your
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|heart, you brew good ale.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She can sew.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|That's as much as to say, Can she so?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She can knit.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|she can knit him a stock?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She can wash and scour.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|A special virtue: for then she need not be washed
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|and scoured.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She can spin.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|spin for her living.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She hath many nameless virtues.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|That's as much as to say, bastard virtues, that,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|indeed, know not their fathers and therefore have no names.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Here follow her vices.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Close at the heels of her virtues.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She is not to be kissed fasting in respect
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|of her breath.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She hath a sweet mouth.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|That makes amends for her sour breath.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She doth talk in her sleep.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|It's no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She is slow in words.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|be slow in words is a woman's only virtue: I pray
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|thee, out with't, and place it for her chief virtue.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She is proud.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Out with that too, it was Eve's legacy, and cannot
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|be ta'en from her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She hath no teeth.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I care not for that neither, because I love crusts.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She is curst.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She will often praise her liquor.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|If her liquor be good, she shall: if she will not, I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|will, for good things should be praised.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She is too liberal.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down she
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|is slow of, of her purse she shall not, for that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I'll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|that cannot I help. Well, proceed.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|than hairs, and more wealth than faults.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Stop there, I'll have her: she was mine, and not
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|mine, twice or thrice in that last article.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Rehearse that once more.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'Item: She hath more hair than wit,'--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|More hair than wit? It may be, I'll prove it. The
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|is more than the salt, the hair that covers the wit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|less. What's next?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'And more faults than hairs,'--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|That's monstrous: O, that that were out!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|'And more wealth than faults.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I'll have her, and if it be a match, as nothing is
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|impossible,--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|What then?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Why, then will I tell thee--that thy master stays
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|for thee at the North-gate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|For me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|For thee! ay, who art thou? he hath stayed for a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|better man than thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|And must I go to him?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|that going will scarce serve the turn.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Why didst not tell me sooner? pox of your love letters!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Now will he be swinged for reading my letter, an
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|secrets! I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|SCENE II. The same. The DUKE's palace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Enter DUKE and THURIO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Since his exile she hath despised me most,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Forsworn my company and rail'd at me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|That I am desperate of obtaining her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|This weak impress of love is as a figure
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|A little time will melt her frozen thoughts
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Enter PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|How now, Sir Proteus! Is your countryman
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|According to our proclamation gone?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Gone, my good lord.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|My daughter takes his going grievously.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|For thou hast shown some sign of good desert--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Makes me the better to confer with thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Longer than I prove loyal to your grace
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Let me not live to look upon your grace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Thou know'st how willingly I would effect
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I do, my lord.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|How she opposes her against my will
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|What might we do to make the girl forget
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|The love of Valentine and love Sir Thurio?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The best way is to slander Valentine
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|With falsehood, cowardice and poor descent,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Three things that women highly hold in hate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Ay, but she'll think that it is spoke in hate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Ay, if his enemy deliver it:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Then you must undertake to slander him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|'Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Especially against his very friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Where your good word cannot advantage him,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Your slander never can endamage him,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Therefore the office is indifferent,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Being entreated to it by your friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|You have prevail'd, my lord, if I can do it
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|By ought that I can speak in his dispraise,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|She shall not long continue love to him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But say this weed her love from Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Lest it should ravel and be good to none,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|You must provide to bottom it on me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Which must be done by praising me as much
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Because we know, on Valentine's report,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|You are already Love's firm votary
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And cannot soon revolt and change your mind.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Upon this warrant shall you have access
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Where you with Silvia may confer at large,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And, for your friend's sake, will be glad of you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Where you may temper her by your persuasion
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|To hate young Valentine and love my friend.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|As much as I can do, I will effect:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|You must lay lime to tangle her desires
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Ay,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Say that upon the altar of her beauty
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That may discover such integrity:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|After your dire-lamenting elegies,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Visit by night your lady's chamber-window
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|With some sweet concert, to their instruments
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|And thy advice this night I'll put in practise.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Let us into the city presently
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|To give the onset to thy good advice.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|About it, gentlemen!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|We'll wait upon your grace till after supper,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And afterward determine our proceedings.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Even now about it! I will pardon you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|ACT IV
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|SCENE I. The frontiers of Mantua. A forest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Enter certain Outlaws
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Fellows, stand fast, I see a passenger.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Enter VALENTINE and SPEED
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|If not: we'll make you sit and rifle you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Sir, we are undone, these are the villains
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|That all the travellers do fear so much.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|My friends,--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|That's not so, sir: we are your enemies.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Peace! we'll hear him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Ay, by my beard, will we, for he's a proper man.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Then know that I have little wealth to lose:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|A man I am cross'd with adversity,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|My riches are these poor habiliments,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Of which if you should here disfurnish me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|You take the sum and substance that I have.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Whither travel you?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To Verona.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Whence came you?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|From Milan.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Have you long sojourned there?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Some sixteen months, and longer might have stay'd,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|What, were you banish'd thence?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I was.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|For what offence?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For that which now torments me to rehearse:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Bu t yet I slew him manfully in fight,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Without false vantage or base treachery.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Why, ne'er repent it, if it were done so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|But were you banish'd for so small a fault?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Have you the tongues?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|My youthful travel therein made me happy,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Or else I often had been miserable.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|We'll have him. Sirs, a word.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SPEED|Master, be one of them, it's an honourable kind of thievery.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Peace, villain!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Tell us this: have you any thing to take to?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Nothing but my fortune.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Thrust from the company of awful men:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Myself was from Verona banished
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|For practising to steal away a lady,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|An heir, and near allied unto the duke.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|And I from Mantua, for a gentleman,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Who, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|And I for such like petty crimes as these,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|But to the purpose--for we cite our faults,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|And partly, seeing you are beautified
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|With goodly shape and by your own report
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|A linguist and a man of such perfection
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|As we do in our quality much want--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Are you content to be our general?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|To make a virtue of necessity
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|And live, as we do, in this wilderness?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|What say'st thou? wilt thou be of our consort?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Say ay, and be the captain of us all:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|We'll do thee homage and be ruled by thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Love thee as our commander and our king.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I take your offer and will live with you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Provided that you do no outrages
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|On silly women or poor passengers.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|No, we detest such vile base practises.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|And show thee all the treasure we have got,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|SCENE II. Milan. Outside the DUKE's palace, under SILVIA's chamber.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Enter PROTEUS
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Already have I been false to Valentine
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Under the colour of commending him,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I have access my own love to prefer:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|When I protest true loyalty to her,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|She twits me with my falsehood to my friend,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|When to her beauty I commend my vows,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|She bids me think how I have been forsworn
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|In breaking faith with Julia whom I loved:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The least whereof would quell a lover's hope,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The more it grows and fawneth on her still.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But here comes Thurio: now must we to her window,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And give some evening music to her ear.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Enter THURIO and Musicians
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Ay, gentle Thurio: for you know that love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Will creep in service where it cannot go.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sir, but I do, or else I would be hence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Who? Silvia?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Ay, Silvia, for your sake.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Enter, at a distance, Host, and JULIA in boy's clothes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Now, my young guest, methinks you're allycholly: I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|pray you, why is it?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Come, we'll have you merry: I'll bring you where
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But shall I hear him speak?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Ay, that you shall.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That will be music.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Music plays
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Hark, hark!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Is he among these?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Ay: but, peace! let's hear 'em.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|SONG.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Who is Silvia? what is she,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|That all our swains commend her?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Holy, fair and wise is she,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|The heaven such grace did lend her,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|That she might admired be.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Is she kind as she is fair?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|For beauty lives with kindness.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Love doth to her eyes repair,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|To help him of his blindness,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Then to Silvia let us sing,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|That Silvia is excelling,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|She excels each mortal thing
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Upon the dull earth dwelling:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|To her let us garlands bring.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|How now! are you sadder than you were before? How
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|do you, man? the music likes you not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|You mistake, the musician likes me not.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Why, my pretty youth?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|He plays false, father.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|How? out of tune on the strings?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Not so, but yet so false that he grieves my very
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|heart-strings.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|You have a quick ear.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Ay, I would I were deaf, it makes me have a slow heart.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|I perceive you delight not in music.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Not a whit, when it jars so.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Hark, what fine change is in the music!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Ay, that change is the spite.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|You would have them always play but one thing?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I would always have one play but one thing.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But, host, doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Often resort unto this gentlewoman?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|I tell you what Launce, his man, told me: he loved
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|her out of all nick.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Where is Launce?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Gone to seek his dog, which tomorrow, by his
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Peace! stand aside: the company parts.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sir Thurio, fear not you: I will so plead
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That you shall say my cunning drift excels.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Where meet we?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|At Saint Gregory's well.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Farewell.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Exeunt THURIO and Musicians
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Enter SILVIA above
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Madam, good even to your ladyship.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I thank you for your music, gentlemen.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Who is that that spake?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|You would quickly learn to know him by his voice.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Sir Proteus, as I take it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|What's your will?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That I may compass yours.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|You have your wish, my will is even this:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|That presently you hie you home to bed.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|To be seduced by thy flattery,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|That hast deceived so many with thy vows?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Return, return, and make thy love amends.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|For me, by this pale queen of night I swear,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I am so far from granting thy request
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And by and by intend to chide myself
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Even for this time I spend in talking to thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But she is dead.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]        'Twere false, if I should speak it,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|For I am sure she is not buried.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Say that she be, yet Valentine thy friend
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Survives, to whom, thyself art witness,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I am betroth'd: and art thou not ashamed
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|To wrong him with thy importunacy?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I likewise hear that Valentine is dead.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And so suppose am I, for in his grave
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Assure thyself my love is buried.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  He heard not that.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|The picture that is hanging in your chamber,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For since the substance of your perfect self
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Is else devoted, I am but a shadow,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And to your shadow will I make true love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  If 'twere a substance, you would, sure,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|deceive it,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And make it but a shadow, as I am.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I am very loath to be your idol, sir,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|But since your falsehood shall become you well
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|To worship shadows and adore false shapes,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Send to me in the morning and I'll send it:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And so, good rest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|As wretches have o'ernight
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That wait for execution in the morn.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exeunt PROTEUS and SILVIA severally
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Host, will you go?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|By my halidom, I was fast asleep.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think 'tis almost
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Host|day.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Not so, but it hath been the longest night
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That e'er I watch'd and the most heaviest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|SCENE III. The same.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter EGLAMOUR
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|This is the hour that Madam Silvia
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Entreated me to call and know her mind:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|There's some great matter she'ld employ me in.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Madam, madam!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Enter SILVIA above
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Who calls?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Your servant and your friend,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|One that attends your ladyship's command.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|As many, worthy lady, to yourself:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|According to your ladyship's impose,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|I am thus early come to know what service
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|It is your pleasure to command me in.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I bear unto the banish'd Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Nor how my father would enforce me marry
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Thyself hast loved, and I have heard thee say
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|No grief did ever come so near thy heart
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|As when thy lady and thy true love died,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I do desire thy worthy company,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Upon whose faith and honour I repose.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And on the justice of my flying hence,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|To keep me from a most unholy match,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I do desire thee, even from a heart
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|To bear me company and go with me:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|If not, to hide what I have said to thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|That I may venture to depart alone.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Madam, I pity much your grievances,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Which since I know they virtuously are placed,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|I give consent to go along with you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Recking as little what betideth me
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|As much I wish all good befortune you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|When will you go?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|This evening coming.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Where shall I meet you?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|At Friar Patrick's cell,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Where I intend holy confession.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Exeunt severally
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|SCENE IV. The same.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Enter LAUNCE, with his his Dog
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|When a man's servant shall play the cur with him,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|puppy, one that I saved from drowning, when three or
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I have taught him, even as one would say precisely,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|'thus I would teach a dog.' I was sent to deliver
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|in all companies! I would have, as one should say,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I think verily he had been hanged for't, sure as I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|live, he had suffered for't, you shall judge. He
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|thrusts me himself into the company of three or four
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|gentlemanlike dogs under the duke's table: he had
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|not been there--bless the mark!--a pissing while, but
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|all the chamber smelt him. 'Out with the dog!' says
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|one: 'What cur is that?' says another: 'Whip him
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|out' says the third: 'Hang him up' says the duke.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|I, having been acquainted with the smell before,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|whips the dogs: 'Friend,' quoth I, 'you mean to whip
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|the dog?' 'Ay, marry, do I,' quoth he. 'You do him
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|the more wrong,' quoth I, ''twas I did the thing you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me out
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|of the chamber. How many masters would do this for
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|been executed, I have stood on the pillory for geese
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Thou thinkest not of this now. Nay, I remember the
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|thou ever see me do such a trick?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Enter PROTEUS and JULIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And will employ thee in some service presently.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|In what you please: I'll do what I can.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I hope thou wilt.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To LAUNCE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|How now, you whoreson peasant!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Where have you been these two days loitering?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And what says she to my little jewel?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|currish thanks is good enough for such a present.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But she received my dog?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|No, indeed, did she not: here have I brought him
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|back again.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What, didst thou offer her this from me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|Ay, sir: the other squirrel was stolen from me by
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|the hangman boys in the market-place: and then I
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of
Two Gentlemen of Verona|LAUNCE|yours, and therefore the gift the greater.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Go get thee hence, and find my dog again,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Or ne'er return again into my sight.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Away, I say! stay'st thou to vex me here?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit LAUNCE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|A slave, that still an end turns me to shame!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Sebastian, I have entertained thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Partly that I have need of such a youth
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That can with some discretion do my business,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But chiefly for thy face and thy behavior,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Which, if my augury deceive me not,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Witness good bringing up, fortune and truth:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Therefore know thou, for this I entertain thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Go presently and take this ring with thee,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Deliver it to Madam Silvia:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|She loved me well deliver'd it to me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|It seems you loved not her, to leave her token.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|She is dead, belike?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Not so, I think she lives.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Alas!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Why dost thou cry 'alas'?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I cannot choose
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But pity her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Wherefore shouldst thou pity her?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Because methinks that she loved you as well
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|As you do love your lady Silvia:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|She dreams of him that has forgot her love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|You dote on her that cares not for your love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|'Tis pity love should be so contrary,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!'
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Well, give her that ring and therewithal
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|How many women would do such a message?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Alas, poor Proteus! thou hast entertain'd
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Alas, poor fool! why do I pity him
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That with his very heart despiseth me?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Because he loves her, he despiseth me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Because I love him I must pity him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|This ring I gave him when he parted from me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To bind him to remember my good will,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And now am I, unhappy messenger,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To plead for that which I would not obtain,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To carry that which I would have refused,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To praise his faith which I would have dispraised.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I am my master's true-confirmed love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But cannot be true servant to my master,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Unless I prove false traitor to myself.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter SILVIA, attended
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you, be my mean
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|What would you with her, if that I be she?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|If you be she, I do entreat your patience
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To hear me speak the message I am sent on.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|From whom?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|From my master, Sir Proteus, madam.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|O, he sends you for a picture.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Ay, madam.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Ursula, bring my picture here.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Go give your master this: tell him from me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Would better fit his chamber than this shadow.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Madam, please you peruse this letter.--
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Pardon me, madam, I have unadvised
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Deliver'd you a paper that I should not:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|This is the letter to your ladyship.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I pray thee, let me look on that again.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|It may not be, good madam, pardon me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|There, hold!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I will not look upon your master's lines:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I know they are stuff'd with protestations
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And full of new-found oaths, which he will break
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|As easily as I do tear his paper.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|The more shame for him that he sends it me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|For I have heard him say a thousand times
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|His Julia gave it him at his departure.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Though his false finger have profaned the ring,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|She thanks you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|What say'st thou?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I thank you, madam, that you tender her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Poor gentlewoman! my master wrongs her much.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Dost thou know her?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Almost as well as I do know myself:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To think upon her woes I do protest
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That I have wept a hundred several times.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I think she doth, and that's her cause of sorrow.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Is she not passing fair?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|She hath been fairer, madam, than she is:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|When she did think my master loved her well,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|She, in my judgment, was as fair as you:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But since she did neglect her looking-glass
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And threw her sun-expelling mask away,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That now she is become as black as I.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|How tall was she?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|About my stature, for at Pentecost,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|When all our pageants of delight were play'd,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Our youth got me to play the woman's part,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Which served me as fit, by all men's judgments,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|As if the garment had been made for me:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Therefore I know she is about my height.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And at that time I made her weep agood,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|For I did play a lamentable part:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Madam, 'twas Ariadne passioning
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Which I so lively acted with my tears
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That my poor mistress, moved therewithal,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Wept bitterly, and would I might be dead
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|If I in thought felt not her very sorrow!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|She is beholding to thee, gentle youth.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Alas, poor lady, desolate and left!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I weep myself to think upon thy words.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Here, youth, there is my purse, I give thee this
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lovest her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Farewell.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Exit SILVIA, with attendants
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I hope my master's suit will be but cold,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Since she respects my mistress' love so much.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Here is her picture: let me see, I think,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|If I had such a tire, this face of mine
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Were full as lovely as is this of hers:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And yet the painter flatter'd her a little,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Unless I flatter with myself too much.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|If that be all the difference in his love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|What should it be that he respects in her
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|But I can make respective in myself,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|If this fond Love were not a blinded god?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Come, shadow, come and take this shadow up,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, loved and adored!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And, were there sense in his idolatry,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|My substance should be statue in thy stead.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|That used me so, or else, by Jove I vow,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|To make my master out of love with thee!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|ACT V
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|SCENE I. Milan. An abbey.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter EGLAMOUR
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|The sun begins to gild the western sky,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|And now it is about the very hour
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|That Silvia, at Friar Patrick's cell, should meet me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|She will not fail, for lovers break not hours,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Unless it be to come before their time,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|So much they spur their expedition.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|See where she comes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Enter SILVIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Lady, a happy evening!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Amen, amen! Go on, good Eglamour,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Out at the postern by the abbey-wall:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I fear I am attended by some spies.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Fear not: the forest is not three leagues off,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|If we recover that, we are sure enough.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|SCENE II. The same. The DUKE's palace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|EGLAMOUR|Enter THURIO, PROTEUS, and JULIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O, sir, I find her milder than she was,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And yet she takes exceptions at your person.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|What, that my leg is too long?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|No, that it is too little.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  But love will not be spurr'd to what
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|it loathes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|What says she to my face?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|She says it is a fair one.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Nay then, the wanton lies, my face is black.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But pearls are fair, and the old saying is,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  'Tis true, such pearls as put out
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|ladies' eyes,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|For I had rather wink than look on them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|How likes she my discourse?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Ill, when you talk of war.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|But well, when I discourse of love and peace?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|What says she to my valour?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O, sir, she makes no doubt of that.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  She needs not, when she knows it cowardice.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|What says she to my birth?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That you are well derived.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  True, from a gentleman to a fool.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Considers she my possessions?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O, ay, and pities them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Wherefore?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  That such an ass should owe them.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That they are out by lease.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Here comes the duke.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter DUKE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|How now, Sir Proteus! how now, Thurio!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Not I.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Nor I.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Saw you my daughter?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Neither.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Why then,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|She's fled unto that peasant Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And Eglamour is in her company.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|'Tis true, for Friar Laurence met them both,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|As he in penance wander'd through the forest,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Besides, she did intend confession
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|At Patrick's cell this even, and there she was not,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|But mount you presently and meet with me
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Upon the rising of the mountain-foot
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|That leads towards Mantua, whither they are fled:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Why, this it is to be a peevish girl,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|That flies her fortune when it follows her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|I'll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Than for the love of reckless Silvia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And I will follow, more for Silvia's love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And I will follow, more to cross that love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Than hate for Silvia that is gone for love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Exit
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|SCENE III. The frontiers of Mantua. The forest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter Outlaws with SILVIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Come, come,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Be patient, we must bring you to our captain.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|A thousand more mischances than this one
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Second Outlaw|Come, bring her away.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Where is the gentleman that was with her?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|But Moyses and Valerius follow him.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|Go thou with her to the west end of the wood,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|There is our captain: we'll follow him that's fled,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Third Outlaw|The thicket is beset, he cannot 'scape.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|Fear not, he bears an honourable mind,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|First Outlaw|And will not use a woman lawlessly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|O Valentine, this I endure for thee!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Exeunt
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|SCENE IV. Another part of the forest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Enter VALENTINE
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|How use doth breed a habit in a man!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And to the nightingale's complaining notes
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Tune my distresses and record my woes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And leave no memory of what it was!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Repair me with thy presence, Silvia,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What halloing and what stir is this to-day?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|They love me well, yet I have much to do
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To keep them from uncivil outrages.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Withdraw thee, Valentine: who's this comes here?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Enter PROTEUS, SILVIA, and JULIA
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Madam, this service I have done for you,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Though you respect not aught your servant doth,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|To hazard life and rescue you from him
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|That would have forced your honour and your love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|A smaller boon than this I cannot beg
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And less than this, I am sure, you cannot give.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|[Aside]  How like a dream is this I see and hear!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|O miserable, unhappy that I am!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But by my coming I have made you happy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|By thy approach thou makest me most unhappy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|[Aside]  And me, when he approacheth to your presence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I would have been a breakfast to the beast,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|O, Heaven be judge how I love Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And full as much, for more there cannot be,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|I do detest false perjured Proteus.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Therefore be gone, solicit me no more.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What dangerous action, stood it next to death,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Would I not undergo for one calm look!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|When women cannot love where they're beloved!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|When Proteus cannot love where he's beloved.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Read over Julia's heart, thy first best love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Into a thousand oaths, and all those oaths
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Descended into perjury, to love me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|And that's far worse than none, better have none
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Than plural faith which is too much by one:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|Thou counterfeit to thy true friend!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|In love
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Who respects friend?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|All men but Proteus.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Can no way change you to a milder form,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I'll woo you like a soldier, at arms' end,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|And love you 'gainst the nature of love,--force ye.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|SILVIA|O heaven!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I'll force thee yield to my desire.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Thou friend of an ill fashion!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Valentine!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Thou common friend, that's without faith or love,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|For such is a friend now, treacherous man!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Thou hast beguiled my hopes, nought but mine eye
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Could have persuaded me: now I dare not say
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I have one friend alive, thou wouldst disprove me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Who should be trusted, when one's own right hand
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I am sorry I must never trust thee more,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|But count the world a stranger for thy sake.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|My shame and guilt confounds me.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Be a sufficient ransom for offence,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I tender 't here, I do as truly suffer
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|As e'er I did commit.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Then I am paid,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And once again I do receive thee honest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Who by repentance is not satisfied
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Is nor of heaven nor earth, for these are pleased.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And, that my love may appear plain and free,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|O me unhappy!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Swoons
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Look to the boy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Why, boy! why, wag! how now! what's the matter?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Look up, speak.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|to Madam Silvia, which, out of my neglect, was never done.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Where is that ring, boy?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Here 'tis, this is it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|How! let me see:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|This is the ring you sent to Silvia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But how camest thou by this ring? At my depart
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|I gave this unto Julia.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And Julia herself did give it me,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And Julia herself hath brought it hither.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|How! Julia!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And entertain'd 'em deeply in her heart.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Such an immodest raiment, if shame live
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|In a disguise of love:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Women to change their shapes than men their minds.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Than men their minds! 'tis true.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|O heaven! were man
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|But constant, he were perfect. That one error
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Fills him with faults, makes him run through all the sins:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|More fresh in Julia's with a constant eye?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Come, come, a hand from either:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Let me be blest to make this happy close,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|PROTEUS|Bear witness, Heaven, I have my wish for ever.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|And I mine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|JULIA|Enter Outlaws, with DUKE and THURIO
Two Gentlemen of Verona|Outlaws|A prize, a prize, a prize!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Forbear, forbear, I say! it is my lord the duke.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Your grace is welcome to a man disgraced,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Banished Valentine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Sir Valentine!
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Yonder is Silvia, and Silvia's mine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Come not within the measure of my wrath,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Do not name Silvia thine, if once again,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Take but possession of her with a touch:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|I hold him but a fool that will endanger
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|His body for a girl that loves him not:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|THURIO|I claim her not, and therefore she is thine.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|The more degenerate and base art thou,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|To make such means for her as thou hast done
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And leave her on such slight conditions.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Now, by the honour of my ancestry,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|And think thee worthy of an empress' love:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Know then, I here forget all former griefs,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Thou art a gentleman and well derived,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I thank your grace, the gift hath made me happy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|To grant one boom that I shall ask of you.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|These banish'd men that I have kept withal
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Are men endued with worthy qualities:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Forgive them what they have committed here
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And let them be recall'd from their exile:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|They are reformed, civil, full of good
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And fit for great employment, worthy lord.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Thou hast prevail'd, I pardon them and thee:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|Come, let us go: we will include all jars
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|With triumphs, mirth and rare solemnity.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|And, as we walk along, I dare be bold
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|With our discourse to make your grace to smile.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|What think you of this page, my lord?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|I think the boy hath grace in him, he blushes.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|DUKE|What mean you by that saying?
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Come, Proteus, 'tis your penance but to hear
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|The story of your loves discovered:
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.
Two Gentlemen of Verona|VALENTINE|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|VALENTINE|ACT I
A Winters Tale|VALENTINE|SCENE I. Antechamber in LEONTES' palace.
A Winters Tale|VALENTINE|Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|the like occasion whereon my services are now on
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|foot, you shall see, as I have said, great
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|justified in our loves, for indeed--
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Beseech you,--
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge:
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks,
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience,
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|us.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|They were trained together in their childhoods, and
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|there rooted betwixt them then such an affection,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|which cannot choose but branch now. Since their
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|more mature dignities and royal necessities made
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|separation of their society, their encounters,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|though not personal, have been royally attorneyed
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|with interchange of gifts, letters, loving
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|embassies, that they have seemed to be together,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|winds. The heavens continue their loves!
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|I think there is not in the world either malice or
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|into my note.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|is a gallant child, one that indeed physics the
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|see him a man.
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|Would they else be content to die?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Yes, if there were no other excuse why they should
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|desire to live.
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|If the king had no son, they would desire to live
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|on crutches till he had one.
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|SCENE II. A room of state in the same.
A Winters Tale|ARCHIDAMUS|Enter LEONTES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, POLIXENES, CAMILLO, and Attendants
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Nine changes of the watery star hath been
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The shepherd's note since we have left our throne
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Without a burthen: time as long again
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Would be find up, my brother, with our thanks,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And yet we should, for perpetuity,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Yet standing in rich place, I multiply
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That go before it.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Stay your thanks a while,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And pay them when you part.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Sir, that's to-morrow.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Or breed upon our absence, that may blow
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|No sneaping winds at home, to make us say
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To tire your royalty.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We are tougher, brother,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Than you can put us to't.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|No longer stay.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|One seven-night longer.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Very sooth, to-morrow.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We'll part the time between's then, and in that
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I'll no gainsaying.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Press me not, beseech you, so.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|So soon as yours could win me: so it should now,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Were there necessity in your request, although
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Were in your love a whip to me, my stay
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To you a charge and trouble: to save both,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Farewell, our brother.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Tongue-tied, our queen?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|speak you.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|All in Bohemia's well, this satisfaction
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|He's beat from his best ward.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Well said, Hermione.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But let him say so then, and let him go,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|We'll thwack him hence with distaffs.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You take my lord, I'll give him my commission
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To let him there a month behind the gest
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|What lady-she her lord. You'll stay?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|No, madam.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Nay, but you will?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I may not, verily.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Verily!
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You put me off with limber vows, but I,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Though you would seek to unsphere the
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|stars with oaths,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Force me to keep you as a prisoner,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Not like a guest, so you shall pay your fees
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,'
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|One of them you shall be.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Your guest, then, madam:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To be your prisoner should import offending,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Which is for me less easy to commit
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Than you to punish.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Not your gaoler, then,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You were pretty lordings then?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|We were, fair queen,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Two lads that thought there was no more behind
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|But such a day to-morrow as to-day,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And to be boy eternal.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Was not my lord
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The verier wag o' the two?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And bleat the one at the other: what we changed
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Was innocence for innocence, we knew not
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That any did. Had we pursued that life,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Boldly 'not guilty,' the imposition clear'd
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Hereditary ours.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|By this we gather
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You have tripp'd since.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|O my most sacred lady!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Temptations have since then been born to's, for
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|In those unfledged days was my wife a girl,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Of my young play-fellow.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Grace to boot!
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Of this make no conclusion, lest you say
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Your queen and I are devils: yet go on,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The offences we have made you do we'll answer,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|If you first sinn'd with us and that with us
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With any but with us.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is he won yet?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|He'll stay my lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|At my request he would not.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To better purpose.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Never?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Never, but once.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|What! have I twice said well? when was't before?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I prithee tell me, cram's with praise, and make's
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Our praises are our wages: you may ride's
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With spur we beat an acre. But to the goal:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|My last good deed was to entreat his stay:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|What was my first? it has an elder sister,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace!
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But once before I spoke to the purpose: when?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Nay, let me have't, I long.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Why, that was when
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Ere I could make thee open thy white hand
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|'I am yours for ever.'
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|'Tis grace indeed.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The one for ever earn'd a royal husband,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The other for some while a friend.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|[Aside]	Too hot, too hot!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But not for joy, not joy. This entertainment
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|May a free face put on, derive a liberty
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And well become the agent, 't may, I grant,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As now they are, and making practised smiles,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The mort o' the deer, O, that is entertainment
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Art thou my boy?
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Ay, my good lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I' fecks!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Why, that's my bawcock. What, hast
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|smutch'd thy nose?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We must be neat, not neat, but cleanly, captain:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Are all call'd neat.--Still virginalling
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Upon his palm!--How now, you wanton calf!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Art thou my calf?
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Yes, if you will, my lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To be full like me: yet they say we are
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Almost as like as eggs, women say so,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That will say anything but were they false
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Most dear'st! my collop! Can thy dam?--may't be?--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Affection! thy intention stabs the centre:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou dost make possible things not so held,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Communicatest with dreams,--how can this be?--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|With what's unreal thou coactive art,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou mayst co-join with something, and thou dost,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And that beyond commission, and I find it,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And that to the infection of my brains
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And hardening of my brows.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|What means Sicilia?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|He something seems unsettled.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|How, my lord!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|What cheer? how is't with you, best brother?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You look as if you held a brow of much distraction
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Are you moved, my lord?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No, in good earnest.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How sometimes nature will betray its folly,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will you take eggs for money?
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|No, my lord, I'll fight.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You will! why, happy man be's dole! My brother,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Are you so fond of your young prince as we
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Do seem to be of ours?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|If at home, sir,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|He makes a July's day short as December,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And with his varying childness cures in me
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Thoughts that would thick my blood.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So stands this squire
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Officed with me: we two will walk, my lord,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How thou lovest us, show in our brother's welcome,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Next to thyself and my young rover, he's
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Apparent to my heart.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|If you would seek us,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To your own bents dispose you: you'll be found,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Be you beneath the sky.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Aside
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I am angling now,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Though you perceive me not how I give line.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Go to, go to!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And arms her with the boldness of a wife
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To her allowing husband!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and Attendants
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Gone already!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|ears a fork'd one!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Play too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|There have been,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And many a man there is, even at this present,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Now while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour, by
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As mine, against their will. Should all despair
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|It is a bawdy planet, that will strike
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Where 'tis predominant, and 'tis powerful, think it,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|From east, west, north and south: be it concluded,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No barricado for a belly, know't,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|It will let in and out the enemy
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|With bag and baggage: many thousand on's
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Have the disease, and feel't not. How now, boy!
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|I am like you, they say.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Why that's some comfort. What, Camillo there?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Ay, my good lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Go play, Mamillius, thou'rt an honest man.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exit MAMILLIUS
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|You had much ado to make his anchor hold:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|When you cast out, it still came home.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Didst note it?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|He would not stay at your petitions: made
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|His business more material.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Didst perceive it?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Aside
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|They're here with me already, whispering, rounding
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|'Sicilia is a so-forth:' 'tis far gone,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|When I shall gust it last. How came't, Camillo,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That he did stay?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|At the good queen's entreaty.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|By any understanding pate but thine?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|More than the common blocks: not noted, is't,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But of the finer natures? by some severals
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Perchance are to this business purblind? say.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Business, my lord! I think most understand
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Bohemia stays here longer.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Ha!
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Stays here longer.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Ay, but why?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To satisfy your highness and the entreaties
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Of our most gracious mistress.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Satisfy!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|With all the nearest things to my heart, as well
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Deceived in thy integrity, deceived
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|In that which seems so.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Be it forbid, my lord!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|From course required, or else thou must be counted
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A servant grafted in my serious trust
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And therein negligent, or else a fool
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And takest it all for jest.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|My gracious lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I may be negligent, foolish and fearful,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|In every one of these no man is free,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Among the infinite doings of the world,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|If ever I were wilful-negligent,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|It was my folly, if industriously
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Not weighing well the end, if ever fearful
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To do a thing, where I the issue doubted,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Where of the execution did cry out
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Is never free of. But, beseech your grace,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Be plainer with me, let me know my trespass
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|By its own visage: if I then deny it,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|'Tis none of mine.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Ha' not you seen, Camillo,--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For to a vision so apparent rumour
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Resides not in that man that does not think,--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Or else be impudently negative,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I would not be a stander-by to hear
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|You never spoke what did become you less
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Than this, which to reiterate were sin
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|As deep as that, though true.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is whispering nothing?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The covering sky is nothing, Bohemia nothing,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My wife is nothing, nor nothing have these nothings,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|If this be nothing.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Good my lord, be cured
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Of this diseased opinion, and betimes,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|For 'tis most dangerous.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Say it be, 'tis true.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|No, no, my lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|It is, you lie, you lie:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Or else a hovering temporizer, that
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Inclining to them both: were my wife's liver
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Infected as her life, she would not live
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The running of one glass.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Who does infect her?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Why, he that wears her like a medal, hanging
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Had servants true about me, that bare eyes
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To see alike mine honour as their profits,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Their own particular thrifts, they would do that
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|His cupbearer,--whom I from meaner form
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How I am galled,--mightst bespice a cup,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To give mine enemy a lasting wink,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which draught to me were cordial.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Sir, my lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I could do this, and that with no rash potion,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|But with a lingering dram that should not work
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Maliciously like poison: but I cannot
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|So sovereignly being honourable.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I have loved thee,--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Make that thy question, and go rot!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To appoint myself in this vexation, sully
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The purity and whiteness of my sheets,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Who I do think is mine and love as mine,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Without ripe moving to't? Would I do this?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Could man so blench?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I must believe you, sir:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I do, and will fetch off Bohemia for't,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Provided that, when he's removed, your highness
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Will take again your queen as yours at first,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Even for your son's sake, and thereby for sealing
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Known and allied to yours.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou dost advise me
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Even so as I mine own course have set down:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I'll give no blemish to her honour, none.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|My lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Go then, and with a countenance as clear
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And with your queen. I am his cupbearer:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|If from me he have wholesome beverage,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Account me not your servant.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|This is all:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Do't not, thou split'st thine own.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I'll do't, my lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exit
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|O miserable lady! But, for me,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Of good Polixenes, and my ground to do't
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Is the obedience to a master, one
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Who in rebellion with himself will have
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|All that are his so too. To do this deed,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Promotion follows. If I could find example
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Of thousands that had struck anointed kings
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And flourish'd after, I'ld not do't, but since
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Let villany itself forswear't. I must
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Forsake the court: to do't, or no, is certain
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To me a break-neck. Happy star, reign now!
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Here comes Bohemia.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Re-enter POLIXENES
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|This is strange: methinks
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|My favour here begins to warp. Not speak?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Good day, Camillo.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Hail, most royal sir!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|What is the news i' the court?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|None rare, my lord.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The king hath on him such a countenance
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|As he had lost some province and a region
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Loved as he loves himself: even now I met him
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|With customary compliment, when he,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|So leaves me to consider what is breeding
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That changeth thus his manners.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I dare not know, my lord.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|How! dare not! do not. Do you know, and dare not?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Be intelligent to me: 'tis thereabouts,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|For, to yourself, what you do know, you must.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And cannot say, you dare not. Good Camillo,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Your changed complexions are to me a mirror
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Which shows me mine changed too, for I must be
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|A party in this alteration, finding
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Myself thus alter'd with 't.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|There is a sickness
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Which puts some of us in distemper, but
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I cannot name the disease, and it is caught
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Of you that yet are well.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|How! caught of me!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Make me not sighted like the basilisk:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|By my regard, but kill'd none so. Camillo,--
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Our gentry than our parents' noble names,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|In whose success we are gentle,--I beseech you,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|If you know aught which does behove my knowledge
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|In ignorant concealment.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I may not answer.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|A sickness caught of me, and yet I well!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I must be answer'd. Dost thou hear, Camillo,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I conjure thee, by all the parts of man
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|What incidency thou dost guess of harm
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Is creeping toward me, how far off, how near,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Which way to be prevented, if to be,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|If not, how best to bear it.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Sir, I will tell you,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Since I am charged in honour and by him
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|That I think honourable: therefore mark my counsel,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Cry lost, and so good night!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|On, good Camillo.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I am appointed him to murder you.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|By whom, Camillo?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|By the king.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|For what?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|As he had seen't or been an instrument
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Forbiddenly.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|O, then my best blood turn
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To an infected jelly and my name
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Be yoked with his that did betray the Best!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Turn then my freshest reputation to
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|A savour that may strike the dullest nostril
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn'd,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That e'er was heard or read!
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Swear his thought over
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|By each particular star in heaven and
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|By all their influences, you may as well
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Forbid the sea for to obey the moon
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|As or by oath remove or counsel shake
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The fabric of his folly, whose foundation
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Is piled upon his faith and will continue
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The standing of his body.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|How should this grow?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|If therefore you dare trust my honesty,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|That lies enclosed in this trunk which you
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night!
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Your followers I will whisper to the business,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And will by twos and threes at several posterns
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|My fortunes to your service, which are here
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|For, by the honour of my parents, I
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I dare not stand by, nor shall you be safer
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|His execution sworn.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I do believe thee:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I saw his heart in 's face. Give me thy hand:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Be pilot to me and thy places shall
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready and
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|My people did expect my hence departure
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Two days ago. This jealousy
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Is for a precious creature: as she's rare,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Must it be great, and as his person's mighty,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Must it be violent, and as he does conceive
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|He is dishonour'd by a man which ever
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Profess'd to him, why, his revenges must
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Good expedition be my friend, and comfort
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Of his ill-ta'en suspicion! Come, Camillo,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I will respect thee as a father if
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Thou bear'st my life off hence: let us avoid.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|It is in mine authority to command
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The keys of all the posterns: please your highness
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|ACT II
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|SCENE I. A room in LEONTES' palace.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|'Tis past enduring.
A Winters Tale|First Lady|Come, my gracious lord,
A Winters Tale|First Lady|Shall I be your playfellow?
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|No, I'll none of you.
A Winters Tale|First Lady|Why, my sweet lord?
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|I were a baby still. I love you better.
A Winters Tale|Second Lady|And why so, my lord?
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Not for because
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Your brows are blacker, yet black brows, they say,
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Become some women best, so that there be not
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Or a half-moon made with a pen.
A Winters Tale|Second Lady|Who taught you this?
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|What colour are your eyebrows?
A Winters Tale|First Lady|Blue, my lord.
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.
A Winters Tale|First Lady|Hark ye,
A Winters Tale|First Lady|The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall
A Winters Tale|First Lady|Present our services to a fine new prince
A Winters Tale|First Lady|One of these days, and then you'ld wanton with us,
A Winters Tale|First Lady|If we would have you.
A Winters Tale|Second Lady|She is spread of late
A Winters Tale|Second Lady|Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And tell 's a tale.
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Merry or sad shall't be?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|As merry as you will.
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|A sad tale's best for winter: I have one
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Of sprites and goblins.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Let's have that, good sir.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To fright me with your sprites, you're powerful at it.
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|There was a man--
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Nay, come, sit down, then on.
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Dwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly,
A Winters Tale|MAMILLIUS|Yond crickets shall not hear it.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Come on, then,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And give't me in mine ear.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Enter LEONTES, with ANTIGONUS, Lords and others
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him?
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Behind the tuft of pines I met them, never
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Saw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Even to their ships.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How blest am I
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|In my just censure, in my true opinion!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|In being so blest! There may be in the cup
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is not infected: but if one present
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|With violent hefts. I have drunk,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|and seen the spider.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Camillo was his help in this, his pander:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|There is a plot against my life, my crown,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|He has discover'd my design, and I
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Remain a pinch'd thing, yea, a very trick
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For them to play at will. How came the posterns
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So easily open?
A Winters Tale|First Lord|By his great authority,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Which often hath no less prevail'd than so
A Winters Tale|First Lord|On your command.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I know't too well.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Give me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Have too much blood in him.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|What is this? sport?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Bear the boy hence, he shall not come about her,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Away with him! and let her sport herself
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|With that she's big with, for 'tis Polixenes
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Has made thee swell thus.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But I'ld say he had not,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Howe'er you lean to the nayward.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You, my lords,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Look on her, mark her well, be but about
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The justice of your bearts will thereto add
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|'Tis pity she's not honest, honourable:'
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Praise her but for this her without-door form,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That calumny doth use--O, I am out--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That mercy does, for calumny will sear
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be 't known,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|From him that has most cause to grieve it should be,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|She's an adulteress.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Should a villain say so,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The most replenish'd villain in the world,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|He were as much more villain: you, my lord,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Do but mistake.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You have mistook, my lady,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Should a like language use to all degrees
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And mannerly distinguishment leave out
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|She's an adulteress, I have said with whom:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|More, she's a traitor and Camillo is
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A federary with her, and one that knows
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What she should shame to know herself
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But with her most vile principal, that she's
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A bed-swerver, even as bad as those
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To this their late escape.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|No, by my life.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You scarce can right me throughly then to say
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You did mistake.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No, if I mistake
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|In those foundations which I build upon,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The centre is not big enough to bear
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But that he speaks.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|There's some ill planet reigns:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I must be patient till the heavens look
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Commonly are, the want of which vain dew
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|That honourable grief lodged here which burns
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With thoughts so qualified as your charities
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Shall best instruct you, measure me, and so
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The king's will be perform'd!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Shall I be heard?
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|My women may be with me, for you see
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Has deserved prison, then abound in tears
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|As I come out: this action I now go on
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I never wish'd to see you sorry, now
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I trust I shall. My women, come, you have leave.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Go, do our bidding, hence!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exit HERMIONE, guarded, with Ladies
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Beseech your highness, call the queen again.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Prove violence, in the which three great ones suffer,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Yourself, your queen, your son.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|For her, my lord,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless
A Winters Tale|First Lord|I' the eyes of heaven and to you, I mean,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|In this which you accuse her.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|If it prove
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I lodge my wife, I'll go in couples with her,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|For every inch of woman in the world,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Hold your peaces.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Good my lord,--
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|You are abused and by some putter-on
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|That will be damn'd for't, would I knew the villain,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I would land-damn him. Be she honour-flaw'd,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I have three daughters, the eldest is eleven
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|The second and the third, nine, and some five,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|If this prove true, they'll pay for't:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|by mine honour,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I'll geld 'em all, fourteen they shall not see,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|To bring false generations: they are co-heirs,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|And I had rather glib myself than they
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Should not produce fair issue.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Cease, no more.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You smell this business with a sense as cold
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As is a dead man's nose: but I do see't and feel't
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As you feel doing thus, and see withal
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The instruments that feel.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|If it be so,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|We need no grave to bury honesty:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Of the whole dungy earth.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What! lack I credit?
A Winters Tale|First Lord|I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Upon this ground, and more it would content me
A Winters Tale|First Lord|To have her honour true than your suspicion,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Be blamed for't how you might.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Why, what need we
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Commune with you of this, but rather follow
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Imparts this, which if you, or stupefied
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We need no more of your advice: the matter,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Properly ours.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|And I wish, my liege,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|You had only in your silent judgment tried it,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Without more overture.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How could that be?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Either thou art most ignorant by age,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Added to their familiarity,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But only seeing, all other circumstances
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Yet, for a greater confirmation,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For in an act of this importance 'twere
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|They will bring all, whose spiritual counsel had,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Well done, my lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Though I am satisfied and need no more
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Than what I know, yet shall the oracle
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Give rest to the minds of others, such as he
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Whose ignorant credulity will not
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|From our free person she should be confined,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Be left her to perform. Come, follow us,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We are to speak in public, for this business
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will raise us all.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|[Aside]
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|To laughter, as I take it,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|If the good truth were known.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|SCENE II. A prison.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Enter PAULINA, a Gentleman, and Attendants
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The keeper of the prison, call to him,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|let him have knowledge who I am.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Exit Gentleman
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Good lady,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|No court in Europe is too good for thee,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|What dost thou then in prison?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Re-enter Gentleman, with the Gaoler
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Now, good sir,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You know me, do you not?
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|For a worthy lady
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|And one whom much I honour.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Pray you then,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Conduct me to the queen.
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|I may not, madam:
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|To the contrary I have express commandment.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Here's ado,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To lock up honesty and honour from
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The access of gentle visitors!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Is't lawful, pray you,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To see her women? any of them? Emilia?
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|So please you, madam,
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|To put apart these your attendants, I
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|Shall bring Emilia forth.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I pray now, call her.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Withdraw yourselves.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|And, madam,
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|I must be present at your conference.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Well, be't so, prithee.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Exit Gaoler
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Here's such ado to make no stain a stain
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As passes colouring.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Re-enter Gaoler, with EMILIA
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Dear gentlewoman,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|How fares our gracious lady?
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|As well as one so great and so forlorn
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|May hold together: on her frights and griefs,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Which never tender lady hath born greater,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|She is something before her time deliver'd.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|A boy?
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|A daughter, and a goodly babe,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Lusty and like to live: the queen receives
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Much comfort in't, says 'My poor prisoner,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|I am innocent as you.'
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I dare be sworn
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|beshrew them!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|He must be told on't, and he shall: the office
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Becomes a woman best, I'll take't upon me:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blister
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And never to my red-look'd anger be
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Commend my best obedience to the queen:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|If she dares trust me with her little babe,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'll show't the king and undertake to be
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|How he may soften at the sight o' the child:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The silence often of pure innocence
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Persuades when speaking fails.
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Most worthy madam,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Your honour and your goodness is so evident
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|That your free undertaking cannot miss
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|A thriving issue: there is no lady living
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|To visit the next room, I'll presently
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Who  but to-day hammer'd of this design,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|But durst not tempt a minister of honour,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Lest she should be denied.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Tell her, Emilia.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I shall do good.
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|Now be you blest for it!
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|I'll to the queen: please you,
A Winters Tale|EMILIA|come something nearer.
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe,
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|I know not what I shall incur to pass it,
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|Having no warrant.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You need not fear it, sir:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|This child was prisoner to the womb and is
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|By law and process of great nature thence
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Freed and enfranchised, not a party to
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The anger of the king nor guilty of,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|If any be, the trespass of the queen.
A Winters Tale|Gaoler|I do believe it.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Do not you fear: upon mine honour,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I will stand betwixt you and danger.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|SCENE III. A room in LEONTES' palace.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and Servants
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To bear the matter thus, mere weakness. If
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|She the adulteress, for the harlot king
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And level of my brain, plot-proof, but she
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I can hook to me: say that she were gone,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Might come to me again. Who's there?
A Winters Tale|First Servant|My lord?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How does the boy?
A Winters Tale|First Servant|He took good rest to-night,
A Winters Tale|First Servant|'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To see his nobleness!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Conceiving the dishonour of his mother,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|See how he fares.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exit Servant
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Fie, fie! no thought of him:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The thought of my revenges that way
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And in his parties, his alliance, let him be
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Until a time may serve: for present vengeance,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Shall she within my power.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Enter PAULINA, with a child
A Winters Tale|First Lord|You must not enter.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|More free than he is jealous.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|That's enough.
A Winters Tale|Second Servant|Madam, he hath not slept tonight, commanded
A Winters Tale|Second Servant|None should come at him.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Not so hot, good sir:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That creep like shadows by him and do sigh
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|At each his needless heavings, such as you
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Nourish the cause of his awaking: I
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Do come with words as medicinal as true,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Honest as either, to purge him of that humour
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That presses him from sleep.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What noise there, ho?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|No noise, my lord, but needful conference
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|About some gossips for your highness.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I charged thee that she should not come about me:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I knew she would.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I told her so, my lord,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|On your displeasure's peril and on mine,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|She should not visit you.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What, canst not rule her?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|From all dishonesty he can: in this,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Unless he take the course that you have done,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Commit me for committing honour, trust it,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|He shall not rule me.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|La you now, you hear:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|When she will take the rein I let her run,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|But she'll not stumble.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Good my liege, I come,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Myself your loyal servant, your physician,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dare
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Less appear so in comforting your evils,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Than such as most seem yours: I say, I come
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|From your good queen.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Good queen!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Good queen, my lord,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Good queen, I say good queen,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And would by combat make her good, so were I
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|A man, the worst about you.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Force her hence.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|First hand me: on mine own accord I'll off,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|But first I'll do my errand. The good queen,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Here 'tis, commends it to your blessing.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Laying down the child
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Out!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A most intelligencing bawd!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Not so:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I am as ignorant in that as you
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|In so entitling me, and no less honest
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Than you are mad, which is enough, I'll warrant,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As this world goes, to pass for honest.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Traitors!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Take't up, I say, give't to thy crone.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|For ever
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Takest up the princess by that forced baseness
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Which he has put upon't!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|He dreads his wife.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|So I would you did, then 'twere past all doubt
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You'ld call your children yours.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A nest of traitors!
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I am none, by this good light.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Nor I, nor any
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|But one that's here, and that's himself, for he
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The sacred honour of himself, his queen's,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Whose sting is sharper than the sword's,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|and will not--
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|For, as the case now stands, it is a curse
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|He cannot be compell'd to't--once remove
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The root of his opinion, which is rotten
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As ever oak or stone was sound.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A callat
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And now baits me! This brat is none of mine,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|It is the issue of Polixenes:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Hence with it, and together with the dam
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Commit them to the fire!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|It is yours,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Although the print be little, the whole matter
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|His smiles,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|So like to him that got it, if thou hast
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colours
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Her children not her husband's!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A gross hag
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That wilt not stay her tongue.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Hang all the husbands
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Hardly one subject.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Once more, take her hence.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|A most unworthy and unnatural lord
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Can do no more.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I'll ha' thee burnt.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I care not:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|It is an heretic that makes the fire,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|But this most cruel usage of your queen,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Not able to produce more accusation
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savours
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Of tyranny and will ignoble make you,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Yea, scandalous to the world.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|On your allegiance,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Where were her life? she durst not call me so,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|If she did know me one. Away with her!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I pray you, do not push me, I'll be gone.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Look to your babe, my lord, 'tis yours:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Jove send her
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Will never do him good, not one of you.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|So, so: farewell, we are gone.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Exit
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And see it instantly consumed with fire,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Even thou and none but thou. Take it up straight:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Within this hour bring me word 'tis done,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And by good testimony, or I'll seize thy life,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The bastard brains with these my proper hands
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For thou set'st on thy wife.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I did not, sir:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|These lords, my noble fellows, if they please,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Can clear me in't.
A Winters Tale|Lords|We can: my royal liege,
A Winters Tale|Lords|He is not guilty of her coming hither.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You're liars all.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Beseech your highness, give us better credit:
A Winters Tale|First Lord|We have always truly served you, and beseech you
A Winters Tale|First Lord|So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|As recompense of our dear services
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Past and to come, that you do change this purpose,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Which being so horrible, so bloody, must
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I am a feather for each wind that blows:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And call me father? better burn it now
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Than curse it then. But be it, let it live.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You that have been so tenderly officious
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|With Lady Margery, your midwife there,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So sure as this beard's grey,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|--what will you adventure
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To save this brat's life?
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Any thing, my lord,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|That my ability may undergo
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|And nobleness impose: at least thus much:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I'll pawn the little blood which I have left
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|To save the innocent: any thing possible.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|It shall be possible. Swear by this sword
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou wilt perform my bidding.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I will, my lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Mark and perform it, see'st thou! for the fail
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of any point in't shall not only be
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|This female bastard hence and that thou bear it
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To some remote and desert place quite out
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Without more mercy, to its own protection
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|It came to us, I do in justice charge thee,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That thou commend it strangely to some place
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I swear to do this, though a present death
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Casting their savageness aside have done
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|In more than this deed does require! And blessing
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Against this cruelty fight on thy side,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Exit with the child
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No, I'll not rear
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Another's issue.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Enter a Servant
A Winters Tale|Servant|Please your highness, posts
A Winters Tale|Servant|From those you sent to the oracle are come
A Winters Tale|Servant|An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,
A Winters Tale|Servant|Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed,
A Winters Tale|Servant|Hasting to the court.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|So please you, sir, their speed
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Hath been beyond account.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Twenty-three days
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|They have been absent: 'tis good speed, foretells
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The great Apollo suddenly will have
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Summon a session, that we may arraign
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Been publicly accused, so shall she have
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A just and open trial. While she lives
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And think upon my bidding.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|ACT III
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|SCENE I. A sea-port in Sicilia.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Enter CLEOMENES and DION
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|The common praise it bears.
A Winters Tale|DION|I shall report,
A Winters Tale|DION|For most it caught me, the celestial habits,
A Winters Tale|DION|Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence
A Winters Tale|DION|Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!
A Winters Tale|DION|How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly
A Winters Tale|DION|It was i' the offering!
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|But of all, the burst
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle,
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense.
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|That I was nothing.
A Winters Tale|DION|If the event o' the journey
A Winters Tale|DION|Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!--
A Winters Tale|DION|As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,
A Winters Tale|DION|The time is worth the use on't.
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Great Apollo
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Turn all to the best! These proclamations,
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|So forcing faults upon Hermione,
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|I little like.
A Winters Tale|DION|The violent carriage of it
A Winters Tale|DION|Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,
A Winters Tale|DION|Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,
A Winters Tale|DION|Shall the contents discover, something rare
A Winters Tale|DION|Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses!
A Winters Tale|DION|And gracious be the issue!
A Winters Tale|DION|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|DION|SCENE II. A court of Justice.
A Winters Tale|DION|Enter LEONTES, Lords, and Officers
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The daughter of a king, our wife, and one
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of being tyrannous, since we so openly
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Even to the guilt or the purgation.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Produce the prisoner.
A Winters Tale|Officer|It is his highness' pleasure that the queen
A Winters Tale|Officer|Appear in person here in court. Silence!
A Winters Tale|Officer|Enter HERMIONE guarded, PAULINA and Ladies attending
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Read the indictment.
A Winters Tale|Officer|[Reads]            Hermione, queen to the worthy
A Winters Tale|Officer|Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and
A Winters Tale|Officer|arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery
A Winters Tale|Officer|with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring
A Winters Tale|Officer|with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign
A Winters Tale|Officer|lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence
A Winters Tale|Officer|whereof being by circumstances partly laid open,
A Winters Tale|Officer|thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance
A Winters Tale|Officer|of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for
A Winters Tale|Officer|their better safety, to fly away by night.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Since what I am to say must be but that
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Which contradicts my accusation and
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The testimony on my part no other
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Be so received. But thus: if powers divine
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Behold our human actions, as they do,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I doubt not then but innocence shall make
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|False accusation blush and tyranny
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Who least will seem to do so, my past life
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|As I am now unhappy, which is more
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Than history can pattern, though devised
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And play'd to take spectators. For behold me
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|A fellow of the royal bed, which owe
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|'Tis a derivative from me to mine,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And only that I stand for. I appeal
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Came to your court, how I was in your grace,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|How merited to be so, since he came,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With what encounter so uncurrent I
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The bound of honour, or in act or will
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Cry fie upon my grave!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I ne'er heard yet
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That any of these bolder vices wanted
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Less impudence to gainsay what they did
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Than to perform it first.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|That's true enough,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You will not own it.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|More than mistress of
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With whom I am accused, I do confess
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I loved him as in honour he required,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|With such a kind of love as might become
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|A lady like me, with a love even such,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|So and no other, as yourself commanded:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Which not to have done I think had been in me
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Both disobedience and ingratitude
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I know not how it tastes, though it be dish'd
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|For me to try how: all I know of it
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Is that Camillo was an honest man,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And why he left your court, the gods themselves,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Wotting no more than I, are ignorant.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You knew of his departure, as you know
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What you have underta'en to do in's absence.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Sir,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You speak a language that I understand not:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|My life stands in the level of your dreams,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Which I'll lay down.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Your actions are my dreams,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You had a bastard by Polixenes,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Those of your fact are so--so past all truth:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which to deny concerns more than avails, for as
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No father owning it,--which is, indeed,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|More criminal in thee than it,--so thou
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Look for no less than death.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Sir, spare your threats:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To me can life be no commodity:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The crown and comfort of my life, your favour,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I do give lost, for I do feel it gone,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But know not how it went. My second joy
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And first-fruits of my body, from his presence
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Haled out to murder: myself on every post
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|To women of all fashion, lastly, hurried
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Here to this place, i' the open air, before
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Tell me what blessings I have here alive,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But yet hear this: mistake me not, no life,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|But what your jealousies awake, I tell you
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|I do refer me to the oracle:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Apollo be my judge!
A Winters Tale|First Lord|This your request
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,
A Winters Tale|First Lord|And in Apollos name, his oracle.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Exeunt certain Officers
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The Emperor of Russia was my father:
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|O that he were alive, and here beholding
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|His daughter's trial! that he did but see
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Of pity, not revenge!
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION
A Winters Tale|Officer|You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,
A Winters Tale|Officer|That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have
A Winters Tale|Officer|Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought
A Winters Tale|Officer|The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd
A Winters Tale|Officer|Of great Apollo's priest, and that, since then,
A Winters Tale|Officer|You have not dared to break the holy seal
A Winters Tale|Officer|Nor read the secrets in't.
A Winters Tale|DION|All this we swear.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Break up the seals and read.
A Winters Tale|Officer|[Reads]	Hermione is chaste,
A Winters Tale|Officer|Polixenes blameless, Camillo a true subject, Leontes
A Winters Tale|Officer|a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly begotten,
A Winters Tale|Officer|and the king shall live without an heir, if that
A Winters Tale|Officer|which is lost be not found.
A Winters Tale|Lords|Now blessed be the great Apollo!
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Praised!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Hast thou read truth?
A Winters Tale|Officer|Ay, my lord, even so
A Winters Tale|Officer|As it is here set down.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|There is no truth at all i' the oracle:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Enter Servant
A Winters Tale|Servant|My lord the king, the king!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What is the business?
A Winters Tale|Servant|O sir, I shall be hated to report it!
A Winters Tale|Servant|The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear
A Winters Tale|Servant|Of the queen's speed, is gone.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How! gone!
A Winters Tale|Servant|Is dead.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Apollo's angry, and the heavens themselves
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Do strike at my injustice.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|HERMIONE swoons
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|How now there!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|This news is mortal to the queen: look down
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And see what death is doing.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Take her hence:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Her heart is but o'ercharged, she will recover:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I have too much believed mine own suspicion:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Beseech you, tenderly apply to her
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Some remedies for life.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exeunt PAULINA and Ladies, with HERMIONE
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Apollo, pardon
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I'll reconcile me to Polixenes,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For, being transported by my jealousies
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Camillo for the minister to poison
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My friend Polixenes: which had been done,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But that the good mind of Camillo tardied
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My swift command, though I with death and with
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Reward did threaten and encourage him,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which you knew great, and to the hazard
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of all encertainties himself commended,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No richer than his honour: how he glisters
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thorough my rust! and how his pity
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Does my deeds make the blacker!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Re-enter PAULINA
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Woe the while!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Break too.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|What fit is this, good lady?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|In leads or oils? what old or newer torture
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Must I receive, whose every word deserves
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Together working with thy jealousies,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|For girls of nine, O, think what they have done
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To be or none or little, though a devil
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That could conceive a gross and foolish sire
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|and vengeance for't
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Not dropp'd down yet.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|The higher powers forbid!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I say she's dead, I'll swear't. If word nor oath
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Than all thy woes can stir, therefore betake thee
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To nothing but despair. A thousand knees
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Upon a barren mountain and still winter
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|In storm perpetual, could not move the gods
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To look that way thou wert.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Go on, go on
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou canst not speak too much, I have deserved
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|All tongues to talk their bitterest.
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Say no more:
A Winters Tale|First Lord|Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault
A Winters Tale|First Lord|I' the boldness of your speech.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I am sorry for't:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Should be past grief: do not receive affliction
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|At my petition, I beseech you, rather
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Let me be punish'd, that have minded you
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!--
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'll not remember you of my own lord,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Who is lost too: take your patience to you,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And I'll say nothing.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou didst speak but well
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|When most the truth, which I receive much better
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To the dead bodies of my queen and son:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|One grave shall be for both: upon them shall
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The causes of their death appear, unto
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Shall be my recreation: so long as nature
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will bear up with this exercise, so long
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Unto these sorrows.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|SCENE III. Bohemia. A desert country near the sea.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Enter ANTIGONUS with a Child, and a Mariner
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|The deserts of Bohemia?
A Winters Tale|Mariner|Ay, my lord: and fear
A Winters Tale|Mariner|We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly
A Winters Tale|Mariner|And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,
A Winters Tale|Mariner|The heavens with that we have in hand are angry
A Winters Tale|Mariner|And frown upon 's.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Their sacred wills be done! Go, get aboard,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Look to thy bark: I'll not be long before
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I call upon thee.
A Winters Tale|Mariner|Make your best haste, and go not
A Winters Tale|Mariner|Too far i' the land: 'tis like to be loud weather,
A Winters Tale|Mariner|Besides, this place is famous for the creatures
A Winters Tale|Mariner|Of prey that keep upon't.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Go thou away:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I'll follow instantly.
A Winters Tale|Mariner|I am glad at heart
A Winters Tale|Mariner|To be so rid o' the business.
A Winters Tale|Mariner|Exit
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Come, poor babe:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I have heard, but not believed,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|the spirits o' the dead
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Appear'd to me last night, for ne'er was dream
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|So like a waking. To me comes a creature,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Sometimes her head on one side, some another,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Like very sanctity, she did approach
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|My cabin where I lay, thrice bow'd before me,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Became two spouts: the fury spent, anon
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Did this break-from her: 'Good Antigonus,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Since fate, against thy better disposition,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Hath made thy person for the thrower-out
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Of my poor babe, according to thine oath,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Places remote enough are in Bohemia,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|There weep and leave it crying, and, for the babe
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Is counted lost for ever, Perdita,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I prithee, call't. For this ungentle business
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Thy wife Paulina more.' And so, with shrieks
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|She melted into air. Affrighted much,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I did in time collect myself and thought
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|This was so and no slumber. Dreams are toys:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I will be squared by this. I do believe
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Apollo would, this being indeed the issue
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Either for life or death, upon the earth
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well!
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|There lie, and there thy character: there these,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|And still rest thine. The storm begins, poor wretch,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot,
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|But my heart bleeds, and most accursed am I
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewell!
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|The day frowns more and more: thou'rt like to have
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|A lullaby too rough: I never saw
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour!
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Well may I get aboard! This is the chase:
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|I am gone for ever.
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Exit, pursued by a bear
A Winters Tale|ANTIGONUS|Enter a Shepherd
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|I would there were no age between sixteen and
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|rest, for there is nothing in the between but
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|stealing, fighting--Hark you now! Would any but
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|the seaside, browsing of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|will what have we here! Mercy on 's, a barne a very
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? A
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|pretty one, a very pretty one: sure, some 'scape:
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|though I am not bookish, yet I can read
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape. This has been
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|some stair-work, some trunk-work, some
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|behind-door-work: they were warmer that got this
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come, he hallooed
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|but even now. Whoa, ho, hoa!
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Enter Clown
A Winters Tale|Clown|Hilloa, loa!
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|ailest thou, man?
A Winters Tale|Clown|I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land!
A Winters Tale|Clown|but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the
A Winters Tale|Clown|sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust
A Winters Tale|Clown|a bodkin's point.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Why, boy, how is it?
A Winters Tale|Clown|I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages,
A Winters Tale|Clown|how it takes up the shore! but that's not the
A Winters Tale|Clown|point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls!
A Winters Tale|Clown|sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em, now the
A Winters Tale|Clown|ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon
A Winters Tale|Clown|swallowed with yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a
A Winters Tale|Clown|cork into a hogshead. And then for the
A Winters Tale|Clown|land-service, to see how the bear tore out his
A Winters Tale|Clown|shoulder-bone, how he cried to me for help and said
A Winters Tale|Clown|his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to make an
A Winters Tale|Clown|end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned
A Winters Tale|Clown|it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the
A Winters Tale|Clown|sea mocked them, and how the poor gentleman roared
A Winters Tale|Clown|and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than
A Winters Tale|Clown|the sea or weather.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Name of mercy, when was this, boy?
A Winters Tale|Clown|Now, now: I have not winked since I saw these
A Winters Tale|Clown|sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor
A Winters Tale|Clown|the bear half dined on the gentleman: he's at it
A Winters Tale|Clown|now.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Would I had been by, to have helped the old man!
A Winters Tale|Clown|I would you had been by the ship side, to have
A Winters Tale|Clown|helped her: there your charity would have lacked footing.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|dying, I with things newborn. Here's a sight for
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|thee, look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|child! look thee here, take up, take up, boy,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should be
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|rich by the fairies. This is some changeling:
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|open't. What's within, boy?
A Winters Tale|Clown|You're a made old man: if the sins of your youth
A Winters Tale|Clown|are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold!
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|with't, keep it close: home, home, the next way.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|We are lucky, boy, and to be so still requires
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|nothing but secrecy. Let my sheep go: come, good
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|boy, the next way home.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go see
A Winters Tale|Clown|if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much
A Winters Tale|Clown|he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they
A Winters Tale|Clown|are hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury
A Winters Tale|Clown|it.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|sight of him.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Marry, will I, and you shall help to put him i' the ground.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|ACT IV
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|SCENE I:
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Enter Time, the Chorus
A Winters Tale|Time|I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror
A Winters Tale|Time|Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,
A Winters Tale|Time|Now take upon me, in the name of Time,
A Winters Tale|Time|To use my wings. Impute it not a crime
A Winters Tale|Time|To me or my swift passage, that I slide
A Winters Tale|Time|O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried
A Winters Tale|Time|Of that wide gap, since it is in my power
A Winters Tale|Time|To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour
A Winters Tale|Time|To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass
A Winters Tale|Time|The same I am, ere ancient'st order was
A Winters Tale|Time|Or what is now received: I witness to
A Winters Tale|Time|The times that brought them in, so shall I do
A Winters Tale|Time|To the freshest things now reigning and make stale
A Winters Tale|Time|The glistering of this present, as my tale
A Winters Tale|Time|Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,
A Winters Tale|Time|I turn my glass and give my scene such growing
A Winters Tale|Time|As you had slept between: Leontes leaving,
A Winters Tale|Time|The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving
A Winters Tale|Time|That he shuts up himself, imagine me,
A Winters Tale|Time|Gentle spectators, that I now may be
A Winters Tale|Time|In fair Bohemia, and remember well,
A Winters Tale|Time|I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel
A Winters Tale|Time|I now name to you, and with speed so pace
A Winters Tale|Time|To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace
A Winters Tale|Time|Equal with wondering: what of her ensues
A Winters Tale|Time|I list not prophecy, but let Time's news
A Winters Tale|Time|Be known when 'tis brought forth.
A Winters Tale|Time|A shepherd's daughter,
A Winters Tale|Time|And what to her adheres, which follows after,
A Winters Tale|Time|Is the argument of Time. Of this allow,
A Winters Tale|Time|If ever you have spent time worse ere now,
A Winters Tale|Time|If never, yet that Time himself doth say
A Winters Tale|Time|He wishes earnestly you never may.
A Winters Tale|Time|Exit
A Winters Tale|Time|SCENE II. Bohemia. The palace of POLIXENES.
A Winters Tale|Time|Enter POLIXENES and CAMILLO
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|'tis a sickness denying thee any thing, a death to
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|grant this.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I have for the most part been aired abroad, I
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|king, my master, hath sent for me, to whose feeling
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|think so, which is another spur to my departure.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|thee thine own goodness hath made, better not to
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|made me businesses which none without thee can
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|them thyself or take away with thee the very
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|services thou hast done, which if I have not enough
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|considered, as too much I cannot, to be more
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more, whose very
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|naming punishes me with the remembrance of that
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|my brother, whose loss of his most precious queen
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|and children are even now to be afresh lamented.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Say to me, when sawest thou the Prince Florizel, my
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|being gracious, than they are in losing them when
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|they have approved their virtues.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|have missingly noted, he is of late much retired
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|from court and is less frequent to his princely
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|exercises than formerly he hath appeared.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I have considered so much, Camillo, and with some
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|care, so far that I have eyes under my service which
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|look upon his removedness, from whom I have this
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|most homely shepherd, a man, they say, that from
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|daughter of most rare note: the report of her is
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That's likewise part of my intelligence, but, I
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|fear, the angle that plucks our son thither. Thou
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|shalt accompany us to the place, where we will, not
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|appearing what we are, have some question with the
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|shepherd, from whose simplicity I think it not
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Prithee, be my present partner in this business, and
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I willingly obey your command.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|My best Camillo! We must disguise ourselves.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|SCENE III. A road near the Shepherd's cottage.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|When daffodils begin to peer,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Doth set my pugging tooth on edge,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Are summer songs for me and my aunts,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|While we lie tumbling in the hay.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I have served Prince Florizel and in my time
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|wore three-pile, but now I am out of service:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|The pale moon shines by night:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|And when I wander here and there,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I then do most go right.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|If tinkers may have leave to live,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|And bear the sow-skin budget,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Then my account I well may, give,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|And in the stocks avouch it.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|My traffic is sheets, when the kite builds, look to
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus, who
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With die and
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|drab I purchased this caparison, and my revenue is
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|the silly cheat. Gallows and knock are too powerful
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|on the highway: beating and hanging are terrors to
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|of it. A prize! a prize!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Enter Clown
A Winters Tale|Clown|Let me see: every 'leven wether tods, every tod
A Winters Tale|Clown|yields pound and odd shilling, fifteen hundred
A Winters Tale|Clown|shorn. what comes the wool to?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|[Aside]
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|If the springe hold, the cock's mine.
A Winters Tale|Clown|I cannot do't without counters. Let me see, what am
A Winters Tale|Clown|I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound
A Winters Tale|Clown|of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will
A Winters Tale|Clown|this sister of mine do with rice? But my father
A Winters Tale|Clown|hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it
A Winters Tale|Clown|on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for
A Winters Tale|Clown|the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good
A Winters Tale|Clown|ones, but they are most of them means and bases, but
A Winters Tale|Clown|one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to
A Winters Tale|Clown|horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden
A Winters Tale|Clown|pies, mace, dates?--none, that's out of my note,
A Winters Tale|Clown|nutmegs, seven, a race or two of ginger, but that I
A Winters Tale|Clown|may beg, four pound of prunes, and as many of
A Winters Tale|Clown|raisins o' the sun.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|O that ever I was born!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Grovelling on the ground
A Winters Tale|Clown|I' the name of me--
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags, and
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|then, death, death!
A Winters Tale|Clown|Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay
A Winters Tale|Clown|on thee, rather than have these off.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|than the stripes I have received, which are mighty
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|ones and millions.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a
A Winters Tale|Clown|great matter.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I am robbed, sir, and beaten, my money and apparel
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|me.
A Winters Tale|Clown|What, by a horseman, or a footman?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|A footman, sweet sir, a footman.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he
A Winters Tale|Clown|has left with thee: if this be a horseman's coat,
A Winters Tale|Clown|it hath seen very hot service. Lend me thy hand,
A Winters Tale|Clown|I'll help thee: come, lend me thy hand.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|O, good sir, tenderly, O!
A Winters Tale|Clown|Alas, poor soul!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|shoulder-blade is out.
A Winters Tale|Clown|How now! canst stand?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|[Picking his pocket]
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Softly, dear sir, good sir, softly. You ha' done me
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|a charitable office.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|No, good sweet sir, no, I beseech you, sir: I have
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|unto whom I was going, I shall there have money, or
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray you,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|that kills my heart.
A Winters Tale|Clown|What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|troll-my-dames, I knew him once a servant of the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|prince: I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.
A Winters Tale|Clown|His vices, you would say, there's no virtue whipped
A Winters Tale|Clown|out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay
A Winters Tale|Clown|there, and yet it will no more but abide.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|hath been since an ape-bearer, then a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|process-server, a bailiff, then he compassed a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|motion of the Prodigal Son, and married a tinker's
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|wife within a mile where my land and living lies,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|and, having flown over many knavish professions, he
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|settled only in rogue: some call him Autolycus.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts
A Winters Tale|Clown|wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Very true, sir, he, sir, he, that's the rogue that
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|put me into this apparel.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia: if you had
A Winters Tale|Clown|but looked big and spit at him, he'ld have run.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|false of heart that way, and that he knew, I warrant
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|him.
A Winters Tale|Clown|How do you now?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Sweet sir, much better than I was, I can stand and
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|softly towards my kinsman's.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Shall I bring thee on the way?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|No, good-faced sir, no, sweet sir.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our
A Winters Tale|Clown|sheep-shearing.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Prosper you, sweet sir!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Exit Clown
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too: if I
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|make not this cheat bring out another and the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|put in the book of virtue!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Sings
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|And merrily hent the stile-a:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|A merry heart goes all the day,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Your sad tires in a mile-a.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Exit
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|SCENE IV. The Shepherd's cottage.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Enter FLORIZEL and PERDITA
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|These your unusual weeds to each part of you
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Is as a meeting of the petty gods,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And you the queen on't.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Sir, my gracious lord,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To chide at your extremes it not becomes me:
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|In every mess have folly and the feeders
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Digest it with a custom, I should blush
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To see you so attired, sworn, I think,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To show myself a glass.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I bless the time
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|When my good falcon made her flight across
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Thy father's ground.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Now Jove afford you cause!
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To me the difference forges dread, your greatness
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To think your father, by some accident,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates!
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|How would he look, to see his work so noble
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The sternness of his presence?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Apprehend
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Humbling their deities to love, have taken
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Became a bull, and bellow'd, the green Neptune
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|A ram, and bleated, and the fire-robed god,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|As I seem now. Their transformations
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Burn hotter than my faith.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|O, but, sir,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king:
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|One of these two must be necessities,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Which then will speak, that you must
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|change this purpose,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Or I my life.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Thou dearest Perdita,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The mirth o' the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Or not my father's. For I cannot be
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Mine own, nor any thing to any, if
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I be not thine. To this I am most constant,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|That you behold the while. Your guests are coming:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Lift up your countenance, as it were the day
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Of celebration of that nuptial which
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|We two have sworn shall come.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|O lady Fortune,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Stand you auspicious!
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|See, your guests approach:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And let's be red with mirth.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Enter Shepherd, Clown, MOPSA, DORCAS, and others, with POLIXENES and CAMILLO disguised
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Both dame and servant, welcomed all, served all,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Would sing her song and dance her turn, now here,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|On his shoulder, and his, her face o' fire
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|With labour and the thing she took to quench it,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|She would to each one sip. You are retired,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|As if you were a feasted one and not
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|These unknown friends to's welcome, for it is
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|A way to make us better friends, more known.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Come, quench your blushes and present yourself
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|That which you are, mistress o' the feast: come on,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|As your good flock shall prosper.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|[To POLIXENES]                  Sir, welcome:
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|It is my father's will I should take on me
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The hostess-ship o' the day.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To CAMILLO
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|You're welcome, sir.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|For you there's rosemary and rue, these keep
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Seeming and savour all the winter long:
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Grace and remembrance be to you both,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|And welcome to our shearing!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Shepherdess,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|A fair one are you--well you fit our ages
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|With flowers of winter.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Sir, the year growing ancient,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Of trembling winter, the fairest
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|flowers o' the season
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Our rustic garden's barren, and I care not
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To get slips of them.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Wherefore, gentle maiden,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Do you neglect them?
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|For I have heard it said
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|There is an art which in their piedness shares
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|With great creating nature.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Say there be,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Yet nature is made better by no mean
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|But nature makes that mean: so, over that art
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Which you say adds to nature, is an art
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And make conceive a bark of baser kind
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|By bud of nobler race: this is an art
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Which does mend nature, change it rather, but
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The art itself is nature.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|So it is.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And do not call them bastards.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I'll not put
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The dibble in earth to set one slip of them,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|No more than were I painted I would wish
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|This youth should say 'twere well and only therefore
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|And with him rises weeping: these are flowers
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Of middle summer, and I think they are given
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To men of middle age. You're very welcome.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And only live by gazing.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Out, alas!
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|You'd be so lean, that blasts of January
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Would blow you through and through.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Now, my fair'st friend,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|That wear upon your virgin branches yet
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|From Dis's waggon! daffodils,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|That come before the swallow dares, and take
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The winds of March with beauty, violets dim,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Or Cytherea's breath, pale primroses
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|That die unmarried, ere they can behold
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Bight Phoebus in his strength--a malady
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Most incident to maids, bold oxlips and
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The crown imperial, lilies of all kinds,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|To strew him o'er and o'er!
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|What, like a corse?
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|No, like a bank for love to lie and play on,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Not like a corse, or if, not to be buried,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers:
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Methinks I play as I have seen them do
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|In Whitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Does change my disposition.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|What you do
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Pray so, and, for the ordering your affairs,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Nothing but that, move still, still so,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And own no other function: each your doing,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|So singular in each particular,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|That all your acts are queens.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|O Doricles,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Your praises are too large: but that your youth,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|And the true blood which peepeth fairly through't,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|You woo'd me the false way.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I think you have
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|As little skill to fear as I have purpose
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To put you to't. But come, our dance, I pray:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|That never mean to part.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I'll swear for 'em.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|But smacks of something greater than herself,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Too noble for this place.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|He tells her something
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|That makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The queen of curds and cream.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Come on, strike up!
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|To mend her kissing with!
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Now, in good time!
A Winters Tale|Clown|Not a word, a word, we stand upon our manners.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Come, strike up!
A Winters Tale|Clown|Music. Here a dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Which dances with your daughter?
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|They call him Doricles, and boasts himself
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|To have a worthy feeding: but I have it
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Upon his own report and I believe it,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter:
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|I think so too, for never gazed the moon
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Upon the water as he'll stand and read
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|I think there is not half a kiss to choose
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Who loves another best.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|She dances featly.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|So she does any thing, though I report it,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|That should be silent: if young Doricles
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Do light upon her, she shall bring him that
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Which he not dreams of.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Enter Servant
A Winters Tale|Servant|O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the
A Winters Tale|Servant|door, you would never dance again after a tabour and
A Winters Tale|Servant|pipe, no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings
A Winters Tale|Servant|several tunes faster than you'll tell money, he
A Winters Tale|Servant|utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's
A Winters Tale|Servant|ears grew to his tunes.
A Winters Tale|Clown|He could never come better, he shall come in. I
A Winters Tale|Clown|love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful
A Winters Tale|Clown|matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing
A Winters Tale|Clown|indeed and sung lamentably.
A Winters Tale|Servant|He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes, no
A Winters Tale|Servant|milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he
A Winters Tale|Servant|has the prettiest love-songs for maids, so without
A Winters Tale|Servant|bawdry, which is strange, with such delicate
A Winters Tale|Servant|burthens of dildos and fadings, 'jump her and thump
A Winters Tale|Servant|her,' and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would,
A Winters Tale|Servant|as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into
A Winters Tale|Servant|the matter, he makes the maid to answer 'Whoop, do me
A Winters Tale|Servant|no harm, good man,' puts him off, slights him, with
A Winters Tale|Servant|'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.'
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|This is a brave fellow.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited
A Winters Tale|Clown|fellow. Has he any unbraided wares?
A Winters Tale|Servant|He hath ribbons of an the colours i' the rainbow,
A Winters Tale|Servant|points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can
A Winters Tale|Servant|learnedly handle, though they come to him by the
A Winters Tale|Servant|gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he
A Winters Tale|Servant|sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses, you
A Winters Tale|Servant|would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants
A Winters Tale|Servant|to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Prithee bring him in, and let him approach singing.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Exit Servant
A Winters Tale|Clown|You have of these pedlars, that have more in them
A Winters Tale|Clown|than you'ld think, sister.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Ay, good brother, or go about to think.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Lawn as white as driven snow,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Cyprus black as e'er was crow,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Gloves as sweet as damask roses,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Masks for faces and for noses,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Perfume for a lady's chamber,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Golden quoifs and stomachers,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|For my lads to give their dears:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|What maids lack from head to heel:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Come buy of me, come, come buy, come buy,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Buy lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy.
A Winters Tale|Clown|If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take
A Winters Tale|Clown|no money of me, but being enthralled as I am, it
A Winters Tale|Clown|will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|I was promised them against the feast, but they come
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|not too late now.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|He hath paid you all he promised you, may be, he has
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|paid you more, which will shame you to give him again.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Is there no manners left among maids? will they
A Winters Tale|Clown|wear their plackets where they should bear their
A Winters Tale|Clown|faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are
A Winters Tale|Clown|going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these
A Winters Tale|Clown|secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all
A Winters Tale|Clown|our guests? 'tis well they are whispering: clamour
A Winters Tale|Clown|your tongues, and not a word more.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|and a pair of sweet gloves.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way
A Winters Tale|Clown|and lost all my money?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|therefore it behoves men to be wary.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I hope so, sir, for I have about me many parcels of charge.
A Winters Tale|Clown|What hast here? ballads?
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print o'
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|life, for then we are sure they are true.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|burthen and how she longed to eat adders' heads and
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|toads carbonadoed.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Is it true, think you?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Very true, and but a month old.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|Bless me from marrying a usurer!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Here's the midwife's name to't, one Mistress
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Tale-porter, and five or six honest wives that were
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|present. Why should I carry lies abroad?
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Pray you now, buy it.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Come on, lay it by: and let's first see moe
A Winters Tale|Clown|ballads, we'll buy the other things anon.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|the coast on Wednesday the four-score of April,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|ballad against the hard hearts of maids: it was
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|loved her: the ballad is very pitiful and as true.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|Is it true too, think you?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more than
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|my pack will hold.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Lay it by too: another.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Let's have some merry ones.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|the tune of 'Two maids wooing a man:' there's
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|scarce a maid westward but she sings it, 'tis in
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|request, I can tell you.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|We can both sing it: if thou'lt bear a part, thou
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|shalt hear, 'tis in three parts.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|We had the tune on't a month ago.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I can bear my part, you must know 'tis my
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|occupation, have at it with you.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|SONG
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Get you hence, for I must go
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Where it fits not you to know.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|Whither?
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|O, whither?
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|Whither?
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|It becomes thy oath full well,
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Thou to me thy secrets tell.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|Me too, let me go thither.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Or thou goest to the orange or mill.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|If to either, thou dost ill.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Neither.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|What, neither?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Neither.
A Winters Tale|DORCAS|Thou hast sworn my love to be.
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Thou hast sworn it more to me:
A Winters Tale|MOPSA|Then whither goest? say, whither?
A Winters Tale|Clown|We'll have this song out anon by ourselves: my
A Winters Tale|Clown|father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we'll
A Winters Tale|Clown|not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack after
A Winters Tale|Clown|me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Pedlar, let's
A Winters Tale|Clown|have the first choice. Follow me, girls.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Exit with DORCAS and MOPSA
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|And you shall pay well for 'em.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Follows singing
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Will you buy any tape,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Or lace for your cape,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|My dainty duck, my dear-a?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Any silk, any thread,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Any toys for your head,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Come to the pedlar,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Money's a medler.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|That doth utter all men's ware-a.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Exit
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Re-enter Servant
A Winters Tale|Servant|Master, there is three carters, three shepherds,
A Winters Tale|Servant|three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made
A Winters Tale|Servant|themselves all men of hair, they call themselves
A Winters Tale|Servant|Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches
A Winters Tale|Servant|say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are
A Winters Tale|Servant|not in't, but they themselves are o' the mind, if it
A Winters Tale|Servant|be not too rough for some that know little but
A Winters Tale|Servant|bowling, it will please plentifully.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Away! we'll none on 't: here has been too much
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|You weary those that refresh us: pray, let's see
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|these four threes of herdsmen.
A Winters Tale|Servant|One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath
A Winters Tale|Servant|danced before the king, and not the worst of the
A Winters Tale|Servant|three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Leave your prating: since these good men are
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|pleased, let them come in, but quickly now.
A Winters Tale|Servant|Why, they stay at door, sir.
A Winters Tale|Servant|Exit
A Winters Tale|Servant|Here a dance of twelve Satyrs
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To CAMILLO
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Is it not too far gone? 'Tis time to part them.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|He's simple and tells much.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To FLORIZEL
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|How now, fair shepherd!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Your heart is full of something that does take
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And handed love as you do, I was wont
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To her acceptance, you have let him go
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And nothing marted with him. If your lass
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Interpretation should abuse and call this
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|For a reply, at least if you make a care
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Of happy holding her.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Old sir, I know
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|She prizes not such trifles as these are:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Up in my heart, which I have given already,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|As soft as dove's down and as white as it,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|snow that's bolted
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|By the northern blasts twice o'er.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|What follows this?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|How prettily the young swain seems to wash
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The hand was fair before! I have put you out:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|But to your protestation, let me hear
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|What you profess.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Do, and be witness to 't.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|And this my neighbour too?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And he, and more
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|That, were I crown'd the most imperial monarch,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|More than was ever man's, I would not prize them
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Without her love, for her employ them all,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Commend them and condemn them to her service
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Or to their own perdition.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Fairly offer'd.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|This shows a sound affection.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|But, my daughter,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Say you the like to him?
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I cannot speak
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|So well, nothing so well, no, nor mean better:
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The purity of his.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Take hands, a bargain!
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to 't:
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|I give my daughter to him, and will make
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Her portion equal his.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|O, that must be
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I shall have more than you can dream of yet,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Enough then for your wonder. But, come on,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Contract us 'fore these witnesses.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Come, your hand,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|And, daughter, yours.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Have you a father?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I have: but what of him?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Knows he of this?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|He neither does nor shall.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Methinks a father
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Is not your father grown incapable
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Know man from man? dispute his own estate?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|But what he did being childish?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|No, good sir,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|He has his health and ampler strength indeed
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Than most have of his age.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|By my white beard,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|You offer him, if this be so, a wrong
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Something unfilial: reason my son
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The father, all whose joy is nothing else
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|But fair posterity, should hold some counsel
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|In such a business.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I yield all this,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|But for some other reasons, my grave sir,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|My father of this business.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Let him know't.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|He shall not.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Prithee, let him.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|No, he must not.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|At knowing of thy choice.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Come, come, he must not.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Mark our contract.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Mark your divorce, young sir,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Discovering himself
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Whom son I dare not call, thou art too base
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I am sorry that by hanging thee I can
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The royal fool thou copest with,--
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|O, my heart!
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment.--
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Worthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|That makes himself, but for our honour therein,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|These rural latches to his entrance open,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|I will devise a death as cruel for thee
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|As thou art tender to't.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Exit
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Even here undone!
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I was not much afeard, for once or twice
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I was about to speak and tell him plainly,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The selfsame sun that shines upon his court
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Hides not his visage from our cottage but
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone?
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I told you what would come of this: beseech you,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,--
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|But milk my ewes and weep.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Why, how now, father!
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Speak ere thou diest.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|I cannot speak, nor think
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir!
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|You have undone a man of fourscore three,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|To die upon the bed my father died,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|To lie close by his honest bones: but now
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|That knew'st this was the prince,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|and wouldst adventure
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone!
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|If I might die within this hour, I have lived
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|To die when I desire.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Exit
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Why look you so upon me?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I am but sorry, not afeard, delay'd,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|But nothing alter'd: what I was, I am,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|More straining on for plucking back, not following
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|My leash unwillingly.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Gracious my lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|You know your father's temper: at this time
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|He will allow no speech, which I do guess
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|You do not purpose to him, and as hardly
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Then, till the fury of his highness settle,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Come not before him.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I not purpose it.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I think, Camillo?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Even he, my lord.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|How often have I told you 'twould be thus!
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|How often said, my dignity would last
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|But till 'twere known!
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|It cannot fail but by
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The violation of my faith, and then
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|From my succession wipe me, father, I
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Am heir to my affection.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Be advised.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I am, and by my fancy: if my reason
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Will thereto be obedient, I have reason,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Do bid it welcome.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|This is desperate, sir.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|So call it: but it does fulfil my vow,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|As you have ever been my father's honour'd friend,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|When he shall miss me,--as, in faith, I mean not
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To see him any more,--cast your good counsels
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Upon his passion, let myself and fortune
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Tug for the time to come. This you may know
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And so deliver, I am put to sea
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|With her whom here I cannot hold on shore,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And most opportune to our need I have
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|For this design. What course I mean to hold
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Concern me the reporting.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|O my lord!
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I would your spirit were easier for advice,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Or stronger for your need.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Hark, Perdita
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Drawing her aside
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I'll hear you by and by.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|He's irremoveable,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|His going I could frame to serve my turn,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Save him from danger, do him love and honour,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And that unhappy king, my master, whom
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I so much thirst to see.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Now, good Camillo,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I am so fraught with curious business that
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I leave out ceremony.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Sir, I think
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|You have heard of my poor services, i' the love
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|That I have borne your father?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Very nobly
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Have you deserved: it is my father's music
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To speak your deeds, not little of his care
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To have them recompensed as thought on.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Well, my lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|If you may please to think I love the king
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And through him what is nearest to him, which is
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Your gracious self, embrace but my direction:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|If your more ponderous and settled project
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|May suffer alteration, on mine honour,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I'll point you where you shall have such receiving
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|As shall become your highness, where you may
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|There's no disjunction to be made, but by--
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|As heavens forefend!--your ruin, marry her,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And, with my best endeavours in your absence,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Your discontenting father strive to qualify
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And bring him up to liking.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|How, Camillo,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|May this, almost a miracle, be done?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|That I may call thee something more than man
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And after that trust to thee.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Have you thought on
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|A place whereto you'll go?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Not any yet:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To what we wildly do, so we profess
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Of every wind that blows.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Then list to me:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|This follows, if you will not change your purpose
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And there present yourself and your fair princess,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|For so I see she must be, 'fore Leontes:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|She shall be habited as it becomes
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The partner of your bed. Methinks I see
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Leontes opening his free arms and weeping
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|His welcomes forth, asks thee the son forgiveness,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|As 'twere i' the father's person, kisses the hands
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Of your fresh princess, o'er and o'er divides him
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness, the one
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|He chides to hell and bids the other grow
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Faster than thought or time.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Worthy Camillo,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|What colour for my visitation shall I
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Hold up before him?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Sent by the king your father
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The manner of your bearing towards him, with
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|What you as from your father shall deliver,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The which shall point you forth at every sitting
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|What you must say, that he shall not perceive
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|But that you have your father's bosom there
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And speak his very heart.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I am bound to you:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|There is some sap in this.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|A cause more promising
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Than a wild dedication of yourselves
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores, most certain
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To miseries enough, no hope to help you,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|But as you shake off one to take another,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Nothing so certain as your anchors, who
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Do their best office, if they can but stay you
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Where you'll be loath to be: besides you know
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Prosperity's the very bond of love,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Affliction alters.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|One of these is true:
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I think affliction may subdue the cheek,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|But not take in the mind.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Yea, say you so?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|There shall not at your father's house these
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|seven years
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Be born another such.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|My good Camillo,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|She is as forward of her breeding as
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|She is i' the rear our birth.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I cannot say 'tis pity
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To most that teach.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Your pardon, sir, for this
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I'll blush you thanks.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|My prettiest Perdita!
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Preserver of my father, now of me,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The medicine of our house, how shall we do?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Nor shall appear in Sicilia.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|My lord,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Fear none of this: I think you know my fortunes
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Do all lie there: it shall be so my care
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To have you royally appointed as if
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|That you may know you shall not want, one word.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|They talk aside
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Re-enter AUTOLYCUS
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|all my trumpery, not a counterfeit stone, not a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|should buy first, as if my trinkets had been
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|by which means I saw whose purse was best in
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|picture, and what I saw, to my good use I
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|remembered. My clown, who wants but something to
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|till he had both tune and words, which so drew the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|rest of the herd to me that all their other senses
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|was senseless, 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|purse, I could have filed keys off that hung in
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|festival purses, and had not the old man come in
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|left a purse alive in the whole army.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|CAMILLO, FLORIZEL, and PERDITA come forward
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Nay, but my letters, by this means being there
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And those that you'll procure from King Leontes--
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Shall satisfy your father.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Happy be you!
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|All that you speak shows fair.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Who have we here?
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Seeing AUTOLYCUS
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|We'll make an instrument of this, omit
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Nothing may give us aid.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|If they have overheard me now, why, hanging.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|not, man, here's no harm intended to thee.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I am a poor fellow, sir.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Why, be so still, here's nobody will steal that from
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|make an exchange, therefore discase thee instantly,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|--thou must think there's a necessity in't,--and
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|change garments with this gentleman: though the
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|there's some boot.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I am a poor fellow, sir.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Aside
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I know ye well enough.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|flayed already.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Are you in earnest, sir?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Aside
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I smell the trick on't.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Dispatch, I prithee.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|conscience take it.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Unbuckle, unbuckle.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|FLORIZEL and AUTOLYCUS exchange garments
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The truth of your own seeming, that you may--
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Get undescried.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I see the play so lies
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|That I must bear a part.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|No remedy.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Have you done there?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Should I now meet my father,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|He would not call me son.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Nay, you shall have no hat.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Giving it to PERDITA
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Adieu, sir.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Pray you, a word.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|[Aside]  What I do next, shall be to tell the king
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Of this escape and whither they are bound,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|To force him after: in whose company
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|I have a woman's longing.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Fortune speed us!
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|The swifter speed the better.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Exeunt FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and CAMILLO
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I understand the business, I hear it: to have an
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|necessary for a cut-purse, a good nose is requisite
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|What an exchange had this been without boot! What
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the gods do
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|this year connive at us, and we may do any thing
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|iniquity, stealing away from his father with his
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|and therein am I constant to my profession.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Re-enter Clown and Shepherd
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Aside, aside, here is more matter for a hot brain:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|every lane's end, every shop, church, session,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|hanging, yields a careful man work.
A Winters Tale|Clown|See, see, what a man you are now!
A Winters Tale|Clown|There is no other way but to tell the king
A Winters Tale|Clown|she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Nay, but hear me.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Nay, but hear me.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Go to, then.
A Winters Tale|Clown|She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh
A Winters Tale|Clown|and blood has not offended the king, and so your
A Winters Tale|Clown|flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. Show
A Winters Tale|Clown|those things you found about her, those secret
A Winters Tale|Clown|things, all but what she has with her: this being
A Winters Tale|Clown|done, let the law go whistle: I warrant you.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|son's pranks too, who, I may say, is no honest man,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|me the king's brother-in-law.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you
A Winters Tale|Clown|could have been to him and then your blood had been
A Winters Tale|Clown|the dearer by I know how much an ounce.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|[Aside]  Very wisely, puppies!
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Well, let us to the king: there is that in this
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|fardel will make him scratch his beard.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|[Aside]  I know not what impediment this complaint
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|may be to the flight of my master.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Pray heartily he be at palace.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|[Aside]  Though I am not naturally honest, I am so
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Takes off his false beard
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|How now, rustics! whither are you bound?
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|To the palace, an it like your worship.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|thing that is fitting to be known, discover.
A Winters Tale|Clown|We are but plain fellows, sir.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|A lie, you are rough and hairy. Let me have no
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel, therefore
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|they do not give us the lie.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Your worship had like to have given us one, if you
A Winters Tale|Clown|had not taken yourself with the manner.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|hath not my gait in it the measure of the court?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|receives not thy nose court-odor from me? reflect I
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|cap-a-pe, and one that will either push on or pluck
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|open thy affair.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|My business, sir, is to the king.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|What advocate hast thou to him?
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|I know not, an't like you.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you
A Winters Tale|Clown|have none.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|None, sir, I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|How blessed are we that are not simple men!
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Yet nature might have made me as these are,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Therefore I will not disdain.
A Winters Tale|Clown|This cannot be but a great courtier.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|His garments are rich, but he wears
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|them not handsomely.
A Winters Tale|Clown|He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical:
A Winters Tale|Clown|a great man, I'll warrant, I know by the picking
A Winters Tale|Clown|on's teeth.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Wherefore that box?
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|which none must know but the king, and which he
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|shall know within this hour, if I may come to the
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|speech of him.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Age, thou hast lost thy labour.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Why, sir?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|The king is not at the palace, he is gone aboard a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|know the king is full of grief.
A Winters Tale|Shepard|So 'tis said, sir, about his son, that should have
A Winters Tale|Shepard|married a shepherd's daughter.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly:
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Think you so, sir?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|and vengeance bitter, but those that are germane to
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|him, though removed fifty times, shall all come
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|under the hangman: which though it be great pity,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|grace! Some say he shall be stoned, but that death
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|is too soft for him, say I	draw our throne into a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't
A Winters Tale|Clown|like you, sir?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|He has a son, who shall be flayed alive, then
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|wasp's nest, then stand till he be three quarters
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|and a dram dead, then recovered again with
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion, then, raw as
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|he is, and in the hottest day prognostication
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|are to be smiled at, their offences being so
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest plain
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|men, what you have to the king: being something
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|gently considered, I'll bring you where he is
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|aboard, tender your persons to his presence,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|whisper him in your behalfs, and if it be in man
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|besides the king to effect your suits, here is man
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|shall do it.
A Winters Tale|Clown|He seems to be of great authority: close with him,
A Winters Tale|Clown|give him gold, and though authority be a stubborn
A Winters Tale|Clown|bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show
A Winters Tale|Clown|the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand,
A Winters Tale|Clown|and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.'
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|After I have done what I promised?
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Ay, sir.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business?
A Winters Tale|Clown|In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful
A Winters Tale|Clown|one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|he'll be made an example.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show
A Winters Tale|Clown|our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your
A Winters Tale|Clown|daughter nor my sister, we are gone else. Sir, I
A Winters Tale|Clown|will give you as much as this old man does when the
A Winters Tale|Clown|business is performed, and remain, as he says, your
A Winters Tale|Clown|pawn till it be brought you.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|go on the right hand: I will but look upon the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|hedge and follow you.
A Winters Tale|Clown|We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Exeunt Shepherd and Clown
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|to do the prince my master good, which who knows how
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|think it fit to shore them again and that the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|complaint they have to the king concerns him
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|officious, for I am proof against that title and
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|them: there may be matter in it.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Exit
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|ACT V
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|SCENE I. A room in LEONTES' palace.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and Servants
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make,
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Which you have not redeem'd, indeed, paid down
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|More penitence than done trespass: at the last,
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil,
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|With them forgive yourself.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Whilst I remember
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Her and her virtues, I cannot forget
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My blemishes in them, and so still think of
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The wrong I did myself, which was so much,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That heirless it hath made my kingdom and
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Bred his hopes out of.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|True, too true, my lord:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|If, one by one, you wedded all the world,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Or from the all that are took something good,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Would be unparallel'd.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I think so. Kill'd!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Sorely, to say I did, it is as bitter
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Say so but seldom.
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Not at all, good lady:
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|You might have spoken a thousand things that would
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Have done the time more benefit and graced
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Your kindness better.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You are one of those
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Would have him wed again.
A Winters Tale|DION|If you would not so,
A Winters Tale|DION|You pity not the state, nor the remembrance
A Winters Tale|DION|Of his most sovereign name, consider little
A Winters Tale|DION|What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue,
A Winters Tale|DION|May drop upon his kingdom and devour
A Winters Tale|DION|Incertain lookers on. What were more holy
A Winters Tale|DION|Than to rejoice the former queen is well?
A Winters Tale|DION|What holier than, for royalty's repair,
A Winters Tale|DION|For present comfort and for future good,
A Winters Tale|DION|To bless the bed of majesty again
A Winters Tale|DION|With a sweet fellow to't?
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|There is none worthy,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|For has not the divine Apollo said,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Is't not the tenor of his oracle,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That King Leontes shall not have an heir
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Till his lost child be found? which that it shall,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Is all as monstrous to our human reason
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As my Antigonus to break his grave
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And come again to me, who, on my life,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|My lord should to the heavens be contrary,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Oppose against their wills.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To LEONTES
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Care not for issue,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The crown will find an heir: great Alexander
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Left his to the worthiest, so his successor
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Was like to be the best.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Good Paulina,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Who hast the memory of Hermione,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I know, in honour, O, that ever I
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Had squared me to thy counsel! then, even now,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Have taken treasure from her lips--
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And left them
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|More rich for what they yielded.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou speak'st truth.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No more such wives, therefore, no wife: one worse,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And better used, would make her sainted spirit
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And begin, 'Why to me?'
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Had she such power,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|She had just cause.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|She had, and would incense me
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To murder her I married.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I should so.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'ld bid you mark
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You chose her, then I'ld shriek, that even your ears
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Should rift to hear me, and the words that follow'd
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Should be 'Remember mine.'
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Stars, stars,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I'll have no wife, Paulina.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Will you swear
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Never to marry but by my free leave?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Never, Paulina, so be blest my spirit!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|You tempt him over-much.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Unless another,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As like Hermione as is her picture,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Affront his eye.
A Winters Tale|CLEOMENES|Good madam,--
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I have done.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Yet, if my lord will marry,--if you will, sir,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|No remedy, but you will,--give me the office
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As was your former, but she shall be such
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As, walk'd your first queen's ghost,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|it should take joy
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To see her in your arms.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My true Paulina,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We shall not marry till thou bid'st us.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Shall be when your first queen's again in breath,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Never till then.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Enter a Gentleman
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|One that gives out himself Prince Florizel,
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Son of Polixenes, with his princess, she
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|The fairest I have yet beheld, desires access
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|To your high presence.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What with him? he comes not
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Like to his father's greatness: his approach,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|By need and accident. What train?
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|But few,
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|And those but mean.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|His princess, say you, with him?
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|That e'er the sun shone bright on.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|O Hermione,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As every present time doth boast itself
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Above a better gone, so must thy grave
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Have said and writ so, but your writing now
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Nor was not to be equall'd,'--thus your verse
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To say you have seen a better.
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Pardon, madam:
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,--
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|The other, when she has obtain'd your eye,
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Will have your tongue too. This is a creature,
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Of all professors else, make proselytes
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Of who she but bid follow.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|How! not women?
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|Women will love her, that she is a woman
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|More worth than any man, men, that she is
A Winters Tale|Gentleman|The rarest of all women.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Go, Cleomenes,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exeunt CLEOMENES and others
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|He thus should steal upon us.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Had our prince,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Well with this lord: there was not full a month
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Between their births.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Prithee, no more, cease, thou know'st
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will bring me to consider that which may
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Unfurnish me of reason. They are come.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For she did print your royal father off,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Your father's image is so hit in you,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|His very air, that I should call you brother,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As I did him, and speak of something wildly
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And your fair princess,--goddess!--O, alas!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Might thus have stood begetting wonder as
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|All mine own folly--the society,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Amity too, of your brave father, whom,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Though bearing misery, I desire my life
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Once more to look on him.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|By his command
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Give you all greetings that a king, at friend,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Can send his brother: and, but infirmity
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Which waits upon worn times hath something seized
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|His wish'd ability, he had himself
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Measured to look upon you, whom he loves--
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|He bade me say so--more than all the sceptres
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|And those that bear them living.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|O my brother,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee stir
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Afresh within me, and these thy offices,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So rarely kind, are as interpreters
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Of my behind-hand slackness. Welcome hither,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To greet a man not worth her pains, much less
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The adventure of her person?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Good my lord,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|She came from Libya.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Where the warlike Smalus,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Most royal sir, from thence, from him, whose daughter
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|To execute the charge my father gave me
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|For visiting your highness: my best train
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Who for Bohemia bend, to signify
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Not only my success in Libya, sir,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|But my arrival and my wife's in safety
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Here where we are.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The blessed gods
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Purge all infection from our air whilst you
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Do climate here! You have a holy father,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A graceful gentleman, against whose person,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So sacred as it is, I have done sin:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For which the heavens, taking angry note,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Have left me issueless, and your father's blest,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As he from heaven merits it, with you
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Such goodly things as you!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Enter a Lord
A Winters Tale|Lord|Most noble sir,
A Winters Tale|Lord|That which I shall report will bear no credit,
A Winters Tale|Lord|Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir,
A Winters Tale|Lord|Bohemia greets you from himself by me,
A Winters Tale|Lord|Desires you to attach his son, who has--
A Winters Tale|Lord|His dignity and duty both cast off--
A Winters Tale|Lord|Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with
A Winters Tale|Lord|A shepherd's daughter.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Where's Bohemia? speak.
A Winters Tale|Lord|Here in your city, I now came from him:
A Winters Tale|Lord|I speak amazedly, and it becomes
A Winters Tale|Lord|My marvel and my message. To your court
A Winters Tale|Lord|Whiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems,
A Winters Tale|Lord|Of this fair couple, meets he on the way
A Winters Tale|Lord|The father of this seeming lady and
A Winters Tale|Lord|Her brother, having both their country quitted
A Winters Tale|Lord|With this young prince.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Camillo has betray'd me,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Whose honour and whose honesty till now
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Endured all weathers.
A Winters Tale|Lord|Lay't so to his charge:
A Winters Tale|Lord|He's with the king your father.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Who? Camillo?
A Winters Tale|Lord|Camillo, sir, I spake with him, who now
A Winters Tale|Lord|Has these poor men in question. Never saw I
A Winters Tale|Lord|Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth,
A Winters Tale|Lord|Forswear themselves as often as they speak:
A Winters Tale|Lord|Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them
A Winters Tale|Lord|With divers deaths in death.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|O my poor father!
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Our contract celebrated.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|You are married?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|We are not, sir, nor are we like to be,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|The odds for high and low's alike.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My lord,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is this the daughter of a king?
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|She is,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|When once she is my wife.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That 'once' I see by your good father's speed
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Will come on very slowly. I am sorry,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Most sorry, you have broken from his liking
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Where you were tied in duty, and as sorry
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That you might well enjoy her.
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Dear, look up:
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Though Fortune, visible an enemy,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Should chase us with my father, power no jot
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Hath she to change our loves. Beseech you, sir,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Remember since you owed no more to time
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Than I do now: with thought of such affections,
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|Step forth mine advocate, at your request
A Winters Tale|FLORIZEL|My father will grant precious things as trifles.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Would he do so, I'ld beg your precious mistress,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Which he counts but a trifle.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Sir, my liege,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Than what you look on now.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I thought of her,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Even in these looks I made.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To FLORIZEL
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But your petition
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I am friend to them and you: upon which errand
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I now go toward him, therefore follow me
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And mark what way I make: come, good my lord.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|SCENE II. Before LEONTES' palace.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|shepherd deliver the manner how he found it:
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|commanded out of the chamber, only this methought I
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|heard the shepherd say, he found the child.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I would most gladly know the issue of it.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|I make a broken delivery of the business, but the
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|staring on one another, to tear the cases of their
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|eyes, there was speech in their dumbness, language
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|in their very gesture, they looked as they had heard
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|passion of wonder appeared in them, but the wisest
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|say if the importance were joy or sorrow, but in the
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|extremity of the one, it must needs be.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|Enter another Gentleman
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|The news, Rogero?
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled, the
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|king's daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|broken out within this hour that ballad-makers
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|cannot be able to express it.
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|Enter a third Gentleman
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|Here comes the Lady Paulina's steward: he can
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? this news
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|which is called true is so like an old tale, that
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|the verity of it is in strong suspicion: has the king
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|found his heir?
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|circumstance: that which you hear you'll swear you
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|see, there is such unity in the proofs. The mantle
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|of Queen Hermione's, her jewel about the neck of it,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|the letters of Antigonus found with it which they
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|know to be his character, the majesty of the
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|and many other evidences proclaim her with all
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|certainty to be the king's daughter. Did you see
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|the meeting of the two kings?
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|No.
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|joy crown another, so and in such manner that it
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|holding up of hands, with countenances of such
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|distraction that they were to be known by garment,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness, then
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|embraces his son-in-law, then again worries he his
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|daughter with clipping her, now he thanks the old
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|another encounter, which lames report to follow it
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|and undoes description to do it.
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|hence the child?
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|Like an old tale still, which will have matter to
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|open. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|avouches the shepherd's son, who has not only his
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|innocence, which seems much, to justify him, but a
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|What became of his bark and his followers?
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|Wrecked the same instant of their master's death and
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|in the view of the shepherd: so that all the
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|instruments which aided to expose the child were
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|her husband, another elevated that the oracle was
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|her to her heart that she might no more be in danger
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|of losing.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|The dignity of this act was worth the audience of
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|kings and princes, for by such was it acted.
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|One of the prettiest touches of all and that which
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|the fish, was when, at the relation of the queen's
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|death, with the manner how she came to't bravely
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|confessed and lamented by the king, how
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|attentiveness wounded his daughter, till, from one
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|sign of dolour to another, she did, with an 'Alas,'
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|heart wept blood. Who was most marble there changed
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|colour, some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|could have seen 't, the woe had been universal.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|Are they returned to the court?
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue,
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|years in doing and now newly performed by that rare
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|eternity and could put breath into his work, would
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|answer: thither with all greediness of affection
A Winters Tale|Third Gentleman|are they gone, and there they intend to sup.
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|I thought she had some great matter there in hand,
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|since the death of Hermione, visited that removed
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|house. Shall we thither and with our company piece
A Winters Tale|Second Gentleman|the rejoicing?
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|Who would be thence that has the benefit of access?
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|every wink of an eye some new grace will be born:
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|Let's along.
A Winters Tale|First Gentleman|Exeunt Gentlemen
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|so he then took her to be, who began to be much
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|weather continuing, this mystery remained
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me, for had I
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|been the finder out of this secret, it would not
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|have relished among my other discredits.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Enter Shepherd and Clown
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Here come those I have done good to against my will,
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Come, boy, I am past moe children, but thy sons and
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|daughters will be all gentlemen born.
A Winters Tale|Clown|You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me
A Winters Tale|Clown|this other day, because I was no gentleman born.
A Winters Tale|Clown|See you these clothes? say you see them not and
A Winters Tale|Clown|think me still no gentleman born: you were best say
A Winters Tale|Clown|these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the
A Winters Tale|Clown|lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|And so have I, boy.
A Winters Tale|Clown|So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my
A Winters Tale|Clown|father, for the king's son took me by the hand, and
A Winters Tale|Clown|called me brother, and then the two kings called my
A Winters Tale|Clown|father brother, and then the prince my brother and
A Winters Tale|Clown|the princess my sister called my father father, and
A Winters Tale|Clown|so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like
A Winters Tale|Clown|tears that ever we shed.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|We may live, son, to shed many more.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Ay, or else 'twere hard luck, being in so
A Winters Tale|Clown|preposterous estate as we are.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|faults I have committed to your worship and to give
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|me your good report to the prince my master.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|Prithee, son, do, for we must be gentle, now we are
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|gentlemen.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Thou wilt amend thy life?
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|Ay, an it like your good worship.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou
A Winters Tale|Clown|art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|You may say it, but not swear it.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and
A Winters Tale|Clown|franklins say it, I'll swear it.
A Winters Tale|Shepherd|How if it be false, son?
A Winters Tale|Clown|If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear
A Winters Tale|Clown|it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to
A Winters Tale|Clown|the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and
A Winters Tale|Clown|that thou wilt not be drunk, but I know thou art no
A Winters Tale|Clown|tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be
A Winters Tale|Clown|drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst
A Winters Tale|Clown|be a tall fellow of thy hands.
A Winters Tale|AUTOLYCUS|I will prove so, sir, to my power.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not
A Winters Tale|Clown|wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not
A Winters Tale|Clown|being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings
A Winters Tale|Clown|and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the
A Winters Tale|Clown|queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy
A Winters Tale|Clown|good masters.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Exeunt
A Winters Tale|Clown|SCENE III. A chapel in PAULINA'S house.
A Winters Tale|Clown|Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, FLORIZEL, PERDITA, CAMILLO, PAULINA, Lords, and Attendants
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That I have had of thee!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|What, sovereign sir,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I did not well I meant well. All my services
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You have paid home: but that you have vouchsafed,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|With your crown'd brother and these your contracted
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|It is a surplus of your grace, which never
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|My life may last to answer.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|O Paulina,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We honour you with trouble: but we came
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To see the statue of our queen: your gallery
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Have we pass'd through, not without much content
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|In many singularities, but we saw not
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That which my daughter came to look upon,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The statue of her mother.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As she lived peerless,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|So her dead likeness, I do well believe,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Excels whatever yet you look'd upon
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Or hand of man hath done, therefore I keep it
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|To see the life as lively mock'd as ever
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Still sleep mock'd death: behold, and say 'tis well.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE standing like a statue
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I like your silence, it the more shows off
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Your wonder: but yet speak, first, you, my liege,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Comes it not something near?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Her natural posture!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou art Hermione, or rather, thou art she
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|In thy not chiding, for she was as tender
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So aged as this seems.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|O, not by much.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|So much the more our carver's excellence,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|As she lived now.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As now she might have done,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|So much to my good comfort, as it is
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Even with such life of majesty, warm life,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As now it coldly stands, when first I woo'd her!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I am ashamed: does not the stone rebuke me
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For being more stone than it? O royal piece,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|There's magic in thy majesty, which has
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My evils conjured to remembrance and
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|From thy admiring daughter took the spirits,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Standing like stone with thee.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|And give me leave,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|And do not say 'tis superstition, that
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|I kneel and then implore her blessing. Lady,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Dear queen, that ended when I but began,
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Give me that hand of yours to kiss.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|O, patience!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's Not dry.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|So many summers dry, scarce any joy
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|Did ever so long live, no sorrow
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|But kill'd itself much sooner.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Dear my brother,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Let him that was the cause of this have power
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|To take off so much grief from you as he
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Will piece up in himself.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Indeed, my lord,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|If I had thought the sight of my poor image
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Would thus have wrought you,--for the stone is mine--
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'ld not have show'd it.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Do not draw the curtain.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|May think anon it moves.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Let be, let be.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What was he that did make it? See, my lord,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Would you not deem it breathed? and that those veins
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Did verily bear blood?
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Masterly done:
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|The very life seems warm upon her lip.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The fixture of her eye has motion in't,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As we are mock'd with art.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'll draw the curtain:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|My lord's almost so far transported that
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|He'll think anon it lives.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|O sweet Paulina,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Make me to think so twenty years together!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No settled senses of the world can match
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|The pleasure of that madness. Let 't alone.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr'd you: but
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I could afflict you farther.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Do, Paulina,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For this affliction has a taste as sweet
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|There is an air comes from her: what fine chisel
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For I will kiss her.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Good my lord, forbear:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|The ruddiness upon her lip is wet,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You'll mar it if you kiss it, stain your own
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No, not these twenty years.
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|So long could I
A Winters Tale|PERDITA|Stand by, a looker on.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Either forbear,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|For more amazement. If you can behold it,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'll make the statue move indeed, descend
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And take you by the hand, but then you'll think--
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Which I protest against--I am assisted
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|By wicked powers.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What you can make her do,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I am content to look on: what to speak,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|I am content to hear, for 'tis as easy
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|To make her speak as move.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|It is required
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You do awake your faith. Then all stand still,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|On: those that think it is unlawful business
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I am about, let them depart.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Proceed:
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|No foot shall stir.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Music, awake her, strike!
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Music
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|'Tis time, descend, be stone no more, approach,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|HERMIONE comes down
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Start not, her actions shall be holy as
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Until you see her die again, for then
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You kill her double. Nay, present your hand:
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|When she was young you woo'd her, now in age
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Is she become the suitor?
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|O, she's warm!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|If this be magic, let it be an art
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Lawful as eating.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|She embraces him.
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|She hangs about his neck:
A Winters Tale|CAMILLO|If she pertain to life let her speak too.
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Ay, and make't manifest where she has lived,
A Winters Tale|POLIXENES|Or how stolen from the dead.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|That she is living,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Were it but told you, should be hooted at
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Like an old tale: but it appears she lives,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Please you to interpose, fair madam: kneel
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Our Perdita is found.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|You gods, look down
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|And from your sacred vials pour your graces
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own.
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I,
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Knowing by Paulina that the oracle
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved
A Winters Tale|HERMIONE|Myself to see the issue.
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|There's time enough for that,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Lest they desire upon this push to trouble
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Your joys with like relation. Go together,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|You precious winners all, your exultation
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Partake to every one. I, an old turtle,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Will wing me to some wither'd bough and there
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|My mate, that's never to be found again,
A Winters Tale|PAULINA|Lament till I am lost.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|O, peace, Paulina!
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As I by thine a wife: this is a match,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And made between's by vows. Thou hast found mine,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|But how, is to be question'd, for I saw her,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|As I thought, dead, and have in vain said many
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far--
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|For him, I partly know his mind--to find thee
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|An honourable husband. Come, Camillo,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is richly noted and here justified
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|What! look upon my brother: both your pardons,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|That e'er I put between your holy looks
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|My ill suspicion. This is your son-in-law,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|And son unto the king, who, heavens directing,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina,
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Each one demand an answer to his part
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|We were dissever'd: hastily lead away.
A Winters Tale|LEONTES|Exeunt
