After young Arthur, claim this land for mine; Pand. You look but on the outside of this work. 13 [Trumpet sounds. What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us? 12 i. e. passed along the banks of the river. Thus in the old play: from the hollow holes of Thamesis Echo apace replied, Vive le roi! From thence along the wanton rolling glade To Troynovant, your fair metropolis.' We still say to coast' and to flank; and to bank has no less propriety, though not reconciled to us by modern usage. 13 i. e. assembled it, drew it out of the field. So in King Henry IV. Part I. — ‹ And that his friends by deputation could not So soon be drawn.' 14 Face down, bear down by a show of magnanimity. So be outface the brow Of bragging horror.' Enter the Bastard, attended. Bast. According to the fair play of the world, I come to learn how you have dealt for him; Pand. The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite, Bast. By all the blood that ever fury breath'd, That hand, which had the strength, even at your door, To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks; 15 The old copies read unheard: the emendation is Theobald's. It should be remarked that hair was often spelt hear. 16 To take, for to leap. Hunters still say to take a hedge or gate, meaning to leap over them. Baret has to take horse, to leap on horseback.' 17 i. e. the crowing of a cock; Gallus being both a cock and a Frenchman. That in your chambers gave you chastisement? Lew. There end thy brave 20, and turn thy face in We grant, thou canst outscold us: fare thee well; We hold our time too precious to be spent With such a brabbler. Pand. Give me leave to speak. Bast. No, I will speak. Lew. We will attend to neither:Strike up the drums; and let the tongue of war Plead for our interest; and our being here. Bast. Indeed, your drums, being beaten, will cry And so shall you, being beaten: Do but start A bare-ribb'd death, whose office is this day 18 Nest. 19 Needles. 20 Boast. To feast upon whole thousands of the French. doubt. SCENE III. The same. A Field of Battle. Alarums. Enter KING JOHN and HUBERT. Hub. Badly, I fear: How fares your majesty? K.John. This fever, that hath troubled me so long, Lies heavy on me: O, my heart is sick! Enter a Messenger. Mess. My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge, Desires your majesty to leave the field; And send him word by me, which way you go. K. John. Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there. Mess. Be of good comfort; for the great supply1, That was expected by the Dauphin here, Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands. This news was brought to Richard 2 but even now: The French fight coldly, and retire themselves. K. John. Ah me! this tyrant fever burns me up, And will not let me welcome this good news.Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight; Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint. [Exeunt. 1 Supply is here used as a noun of multitude, as it is again in Scene v. P. 428. 2 The king had not long since called him by his original name of Philip, but the messenger could not take the same liberty. SCENE IV. The same. Another Part of the same. Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and Sal. I did not think the king so stor❜d with friends. Pem. Up once again; put spirit in the French; If they miscarry, we miscarry too. Sal. That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day. Pem. They say, King John, sore sick, hath left the field. Enter MELUN wounded, and led by Soldiers. Sal. Wounded to death. Mel. Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold1; Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, 2 And welcome home again discarded faith. Sal. May this be possible? may this be true? Mel. Have I not hideous death within my view, Retaining but a quantity of life; Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax A proverbial expression intimating treachery. See King Henry VI. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 4. 2 The Frenchman, i. e. Lewis means, &c. |