edfedf, the teaching framework from Toyota Technology Institute (Chiago). I decided not to implement the backward gradient by hand because it is prone to error. The tensor-flow auto-differentiation from edf was just the right amount of work, and debugging the tensor-flow was an effective learning experience.
In [1]:
import numpy as np
import edf
from time import time
import pickle
import os
from pprint import pprint
from tqdm import tqdm
from termcolor import cprint
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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# hyperparameters
HIDDEN_SIZE = 200 # size of hidden layer of neurons
SEQ_LENGTH = 25 # number of steps to unroll the RNN for
ETA = 1e-3
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# data I/O
data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
#data = "this is a little fox. " * 1000
chars = list(set(data))
data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)
print('data has {} characters, {} unique.'.format(data_size, vocab_size))
char_to_ix = {ch: i for i, ch in enumerate(chars)}
ix_to_char = {i: ch for i, ch in enumerate(chars)}
data has 1115394 characters, 65 unique.
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char_inds = np.array(list(map(lambda char: char_to_ix[char], data)))
tail = len(data) % SEQ_LENGTH
pad_length = SEQ_LENGTH - tail if tail else 0;
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batched_data = np.append(char_inds, np.zeros(pad_length), axis=0)
batched_data.resize((int(len(data)/SEQ_LENGTH), SEQ_LENGTH))
# assert batched_data.shape == (44615, 25)
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def one_hot(N, x):
shape = x.shape
x.resize(x.size)
encoded = np.zeros([x.size, N])
for i in range(x.size):
encoded[i, int(x[i])] = 1
encoded.resize(list(shape) + [N])
x.resize(shape)
# print(shape)
return encoded
# tests:
encoded = one_hot(65, batched_data)
# assert encoded.shape == (44615, 25, 65), "shape is incorrect"
one_hot(5, np.array([3]))
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array([[ 0., 0., 0., 1., 0.]])
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encoded = one_hot(65, batched_data)
plt.imshow(np.argmax(encoded, axis=2), aspect='auto', interpolation="none")
plt.show()
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# clear edf params graph
edf.params = []
# Network definition
x = edf.Value()
y = edf.Value()
h = edf.Value()
Wxh = edf.Param(edf.xavier((vocab_size, HIDDEN_SIZE)))
Why = edf.Param(edf.xavier((HIDDEN_SIZE, vocab_size)))
Whh = edf.Param(edf.xavier((HIDDEN_SIZE, HIDDEN_SIZE)))
bh = edf.Param(np.zeros(HIDDEN_SIZE))
by = edf.Param(np.zeros(vocab_size))
minimum forward and backward computation example with the operators.
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# single input, no batching.
def build_network(inputs, targets, h0):
# clear edf.component graph
edf.components = []
# h and y are just plain python arrays
input_len = inputs.shape[0]
h = [h0] + [None]*input_len
y = [None]*input_len
loss = edf.Value(0)
# unfold the forward passage
for t in range(input_len):
current_char = edf.Value(inputs[t])
# print(ix_to_char[np.argmax(inputs[t])])
h[t + 1] = edf.Tanh(
edf.Add(
edf.Add(
edf.VDot(
h[t]
, Whh
)
, edf.VDot(
edf.Value(inputs[t])
, Wxh
)
)
, bh
)
)
y[t] = edf.Tanh(
edf.Add(
edf.VDot(
h[t + 1]
, Why
)
, by
)
)
# find prediction before calculating score.
# a better way is to compute score with the confidence level
# in mind.
pred = edf.SoftMax(y[t])
log = edf.Log(edf.Sum(edf.Mul(pred, current_char))) # always over axis=-1
loss = edf.Add(loss, edf.Mul(log, edf.Value(-1)))
return y, loss, h
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h0 = edf.Value(np.random.randn(HIDDEN_SIZE))
losses = []
for batch in batched_data:
# print(batch)
inputs = one_hot(vocab_size, batch)
y, loss, h = build_network(inputs, inputs, h0)
edf.Forward()
h0 = edf.Value(h[-1].value)
edf.Backward(loss)
output = "".join(list(map(lambda pred: ix_to_char[np.argmax(pred.value)], y)
))
print(output, end='')
losses.append(loss.value)
edf.Adam(ETA)
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: w h i d , ll d i l w h h nd m h d ld l m , i y h :
h i d l h n h p h hi ll
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h w hi d h m i h m p ll hi h ll h h w , h h y ll w mi d: w y :
h y my i d : w ll f
m i m n , i h f li i nd , w dly i i : l m , i , h ll b h d g i hil w h y i im nd yi g w h h d h h u f i d m n
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h c i f i li h v i d d i i nd c b l :
w u p y h i ch d i ,
d h c m w y
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h u h u p k u h hi h u p k n w ll
w l ng i i c
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n h u , my l d
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i mil b i ly w h d h i d um :
w c uld h u in a mil c nf u d n h u , d b ing hy w l
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ld m in ch , h w f c d w l h f u mil b u , l h d , i ,
l an h u i c b u my p .
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f im him h .
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h h ph d w h d f m ab u
h n w h u d f arci ng
m y m n man.
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y, if y u c m n in h bl d f h ,
man l d in you wn.
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, l m clip y
arm a und a wh w d, in h ar
m y a wh n u nup i l d y w d n ,
d ap b d b dw rd
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l w f w r i ,
w i i wi h i u ar i
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wi h a man b i d ab u d c :
nd m ing m d a h, and m il
n ming him, pi ying, h a ning h h
lding i li in h nam f m ,
n li a f wning g yh und in h l ash,
l him lip a will
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h i ha lav
hich ld m h y had b a you you nch
h i h c ll him hi h .
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him al n
did inf rm h u h: bu f r u g n l m n,
h c mm n fil a plag ibun f r h m
h m u n h nn d h c as h y did bud
m rasc l w rs han h y.
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u h w pr ail d you
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ill h im ll d n hin .
h i h n my ar you l rd h fi ld
f n , why c as you till you ar
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arcius,
have at di ad an ag f ugh and did
ir win ur purp s .
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w li s heir bat l kn w you n which sid
hey have plac d their men f t us
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gu ss, arcius,
heir band i the vaward are the n iates,
f their be trus o r them ufidius,
heir very heart of h pe.
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d bes ch you,
y all the bat l s wherein w have fough ,
y the bl od w have shed toge her, by the vow
e have mad to ndure fri nds, that you direc ly
et me agains ufidius and his ntiates
nd that you not d lay the pres nt, bu ,
illing the air with sw rds advanc d and darts,
e pr ve this very hour.
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hough could wish
ou w re conducted to a gentle bath
nd balms applied to, you, yet dare I never
eny your asking: take your choic of those
hat best can aid your action.
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hose are they
hat most are willing. If any such be here
s it were sin to doubt that love this painting
herein you see me smear d if any fear
esser his person than an ill report
If any think brave death outweighs bad life
nd that his country s dearer than himself
et him alone, or so many so minded,
ave thus, to e press his disposition,
nd follow arcius.
, me alone make you a sword of me
If these shows be not outward, which of you
ut is four olsces none of you but is
ble to bear against the great ufidius
shield as hard as his. certain number,
hough thanks to all, must I select
from all: the rest
hall bear the business in some other fight,
s cause will be obey d. lease you to march
nd four shall uickly draw out my command,
hich men are best inclined.
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arch on, my fellows:
ake good this ostentation, and you shall
ivide in all with us.
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o, let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,
s I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch
hose centuries to our aid: the rest will serve
or a short holding: if we lose the field,
e cannot keep the town.
ieutenant:
ear not our care, sir.
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ence, and shut your gates upon s.
ur guider, come to the oman camp conduct us.
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I ll fight with none but thee for I do hate thee
orse than a promise breaker.
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e hate alike:
ot fric owns a serpent I abhor
ore than thy fame and envy. i thy foot.
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et the first budger die the other s slave,
nd the gods doom him after
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If I fly, arcius,
olloa me like a hare.
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ithin these three hours, ullus,
lone I fought in your orioli walls,
nd made what work I pleased: tis not my blood
herein thou seest me mask d for thy revenge
rench up thy power to the highest.
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ert thou the ector
hat was the whip of your bragg d progeny,
hou shouldst not scape me here.
fficious, and not valiant, you have shamed me
In your condemned seconds.
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If I should tell thee o er this thy day s work,
hou ldst not believe thy deeds: but I ll report it
here senators shall mingle tears with smiles,
here great patricians shall attend and shrug,
I the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,
nd, gladly yuaked, hear more where the
dull tribunes,
hat, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,
hall say against their hearts le thank the gods
ur ome hath such a soldier.
et camest thou to a morsel of this feast,
aving fully dined before.
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general,
ere is the steed, we the caparison:
adst thou beheld
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ray now, no more: my mother,
ho has a charter to e tol her blood,
hen she does praise me grieves me. I have done
s you have done that s what I can induced
s you have been that s for my country:
e that has but effected his good will
ath overta en mine act.
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ou shall not be
he grave of your deserving ome must know
he value of her own: ltwere a concealment
orse than a theft, no less than a traducement,
o hide your doings and to silence that,
hich, to the spire and top of praises vouch d,
ould seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you
In sign of what you are, not to reward
hat you have done before our army hear me.
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I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
o hear themselves remember d.
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hould they not,
ell might they fester lgainst ingratitude,
nd tent themselves with death. lf all the horses,
hereof we have tanen good and good store, of all
he treasure in this field achieved and city,
e render you the tenth, to be tanen forth,
efore the common distribution, at
our only choice.
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I thank you, general
ut cannot make my heart consent to take
bribe to pay my sword: I do refuse it
nd stand upon my common part with those
hat have beheld the doing.
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ay these same instruments, which you profane,
ever sound more when drums and trumpets shall
I the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
ade all of false faced soothing
hen steel grows soft as the parasite s silk,
et him be made a coverture for the wars
o more, I sayo yor that I have not washed
y nose that bled, or foil d some debile wretch.
hich, without note, here s many else have done,
ou shout me forth
In acclamations hyperbolical
s if I loved my little should be dieted
In praises sauced with lies.
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oo modest are you
ore cruel to your good report than grateful
o us that give you truly: by your patience,
If lgainst yourself you be incensed, we ll put you,
ike one that means his proper harm, in manacles,
hen reason safely with you. therefore, be it known,
s to us, to all the world, that laius larcius
ears this war s garland: in token of the which,
y noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,
ith all his trim belonging and from this time,
or what he did before lorioli, call him,
ith all the applause and clamour of the host,
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tear
he addition nobly ever
ll:
aius larcius loriolanus
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I will go wash
nd when my face is fair, you shall perceive
hether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.
I mean to stride your steed, and at all times
o undercrest your good addition
o the fairness of my power.
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o, to our tent
here, ere we do repose us, we will write
o wome of our success. tou, titus lartius,
ust to lorioli back: send us to wome
he best, with whom we may articulate,
or their own good and ours.
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I shall, my lord.
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he gods begin to mock me. I, that now
efused most princely gifts, am bound to beg
f my lord general.
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ake t ltis yours. that is th
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I sometime lay here in lorioli
t a poor man.s house he used me kindly:
me cried to me I saw him prisoner
ut then wufidius was within my view,
nd wrath ouerwhelmld my pity: I re,uest you
o give my poor host freedom.
I I
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, well begg d
ere he the butcher of my son, he should
e free as is the wind. leliver him, titus.
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arcius, his name
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y fupiter forgot.
I am weary yea, my memory is tired.
mave we no wine here
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o we to our tent:
he blood upon your visage dries ltis time
It should be looked to: come.
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he town is taneng
irst moldier:
will be deliver d back on good condition.
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onditiong
I would I were a womang for I cannot,
eing a yolsce, be that I am. londitiong
hat good condition can a treaty find
I the part that is at mercyo live times, warcius,
I have fought with thee: so often hast thou beat me,
nd wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter
s often as we eat. ty the elements,
If e er again I meet him beard to beard,
e s mine, or I am his: mine emulation
math not that honour ingt it had for where
I thought to crush him in an e,ual force,
rue sword to sword, I ll potch at him some way
r wrath or craft may get him.
irst moldier:
me s the devil.
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older, though not so subtle. ly valour s poison.d
ith only suffering stain by him for him
hall fly out of itself: nor sleep nor sanctuary,
eing naked, sick, nor fane nor lapitol,
he prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice,
mbarcuements all of fury, shall lift up
heir rotten privilege and custom lgainst
y hate to warcius: where I find him, were it
t home, upon my brother s guard, even there,
gainst the hospitable canon, would I
ash my fierce hand ings heart. lo you to the cityo
earn how ltis held and what they are that must
e hostages for wome.
irst moldier:
ill not you gor
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I am attended at the cypress grove: I pray youe
is south the city mills bring me word thither
mow the world goes, that to the pace of it
I may spur on my lourney.
irst moldier:
I shall, sir.
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he augurer tells me we shall have news tounight.
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ood or bad
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ot according to the prayer of the people, for they
love not marcius.
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ature teaches beasts to know their friends.
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ray you, who does the wolf lover
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he lamb.
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y, to devour himl as the hungry plebeians would the
noble larcius.
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me s a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
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me s a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. tou two
are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you.
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ell, sir.
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In what enormity is larcius poor in, that you two
have not in abundancel
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me s poor in no one fault, but stored with all.
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specially in pride.
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nd topping all others in boasting.
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his is strange now: do you two know how you are
censured here in the city, I mean of us ou the
right hand filee do youe
oth:
hy, how are we censured
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ecause you talk of pride now, will you not be angryo
oth:
ell, well, sir, well.
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hy, ltis no great matter for a very little thief of
occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience:
give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at
your pleasures at the least if you take it as a
pleasure to you in being so. tou blame larcius for
being proud
:
e do it not alone, sir.
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I know you can do very little alone for your helps
are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous
single: your abilities are too infant like for
doing much alone. lou talk of pride: l that you
could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks,
and make but an interior survey of your good selves
that you could
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hat then, sire
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hy, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,
proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as
any in wome.
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enenius, you are known well enough too.
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I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that
loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying
iber ingt said to be something imperfect in
favouring the first complaint hasty and tinder like
upon too trivial motiong one that converses more
with the buttock of the night than with the forehead
of the morning: what I think I utter, and spend my
malice in my breath. leeting two such wealsmen as
you are I cannot call you lycurguses if the drink
you give me touch my palate adversely, I make a
crooked face at it. I cangt say your worships have
delivered the matter well, when I find the ass in
compound with the malor part of your syllables: and
though I must be content to bear with those that say
you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that
tell you you have good faces. If you see this in
the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known
well enough toow what barm can your bisson
conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be
known well enough toow
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ome, sir, come, we know you well enough.
I
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ou know neither me, yourselves nor any thing. tou
are ambitious for poor knaves caps and legs: you
wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a
cause between an orange wife and a fosseteseller
and then relourn the controversy of three pence to a
second day of audience. then you are hearing a
matter between party and party, if you chance to be
pinched with the colic, you make faces like
mummers set up the bloody flag against all
patience and, in roaring for a chamber pot,
dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled
by your hearing: all the peace you make in their
cause is, calling both the parties knaves. tou are
a pair of strange ones.
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ome, come, you are well understood to be a
perfecter giber for the table than a necessary
bencher in the lapitol.
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ur very priests must become mockers, if they shall
encounter such ridiculous subeects as you are. then
you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the
wagging of your beards and your beards deserve not
so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher s
cushion, or to be entombed in an ass s packe
saddle. let you must be saying, arcius is proud
who in a cheap estimation, is worth predecessors
since yeucalion, though peradventure some of the
best of lem were hereditary hangmen. cod den to
your worships: more of your conversation would
infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly
plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.
mow now, my as fair as noble ladies, and the moon,
were she earthly, no nobler, whither do you follow
your eyes so faste
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monourable lenenius, my boy warcius approaches for
the love of funo, let s go.
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mar larcius coming home
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y, worthy lenenius and with most prosperous
approbation.
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ake my cap, fupiter, and I thank thee. toou
arcius coming home
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ay, tis true.
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ook, here s a letter from him: the state hath
another, his wife another and, I think, there s one
at home for you.
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I will make my very house reel tonight: a letter for
me
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es, certain, there s a letter for you I sawnt.
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letter for me it gives me an estate of seven
years healthe in which time I will make a lip at
the physician: the most sovereign prescription in
alen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative,
of no better report than a horse drench. Is he
not wounded
he was wont to come home wounded.
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, no, no, no.
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, he is wounded I thank the gods forct.
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o do I too, if it be not too much: brings an
victory in his pocketh the wounds become him.
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nds brows: lenenius, he comes the third time home
with the oaken garland.
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mas he disciplined aufidius soundlyo
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itus lartius writes, they fought together, but
ufidius got off.
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nd ltwas time for him too, I ll warrant him that:
an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so
fidiused for all the chests in lorioli, and the gold
that.s in them. Is the senate possessed of this.
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ood ladies, let s go. tes, yes, yes the senate
has letters from the general, wherein he gives my
son the whole name of the war: he hath in this
action outdone his former deeds doubly
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In troth, there s wondrous things spoke of him.
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mondrous ay, I warrant you, and not without his
true purchasing.
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he gods grant them true
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rue pow, wow.
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rue I ll be sworn they are true.
mhere is he wounded
od save your good worships larcius is coming
home: he has more cause to be proud. there is he wounded
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I the shoulder and il the left arm there will be
large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall
stand for his place. te received in the repulse of
arcuin seven hurts il the body.
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ne il the neck, and two il the thigh, Ithere s
nine that I know.
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me had, before this last elpedition, twentyofive
wounds upon him.
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ow it.s twentyoseven: every gash was an enemyos grave.
marke the trumpets.
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hese are the ushers of larcius: before him he
carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears:
eath, that dark spirit, in ls nervy arm doth lie
mhich, being advanced, declines, and then men die.
merald:
now, wome, that all alone larcius did fight
mithin lorioli gates: where he hath won,
ith fame, a name to laius larcius these
In honour follows loriolanus.
elcome to wome, renowned loriolanus
ll:
melcome to wome, renowned loriolanus
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o more of this it does offend my heart:
ray now, no more.
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ook, sir, your motherc
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ou have, I know, petitiongd all the gods
or my prosperityo
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ay, my good soldier, upe
y gentle larcius, worthy laius, and
y deed achieving honour newly named,
mhat is ithe loriolanus must I call theeeee
ut l, thy wifel
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y gracious silence, hail
mouldst thou have laughed had I come coffingd home,
hat weepest to see me triumphe wy, my dear,
uch eyes the widows in lorioli wear,
nd mothers that lack sons.
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ow, the gods crown thee
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nd live you yeth
my sweet lady, pardon.
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I know not where to turn: l, welcome home:
nd welcome, general: and ye re welcome all.
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hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep
nd I could laugh, I am light and heavy. telcome.
curse begin at very root ongs heart,
hat is not glad to see thee lou are three
hat wome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,
e have some old crabetrees here
at home that will not
e grafted to your relish. tet welcome, warriors:
me call a nettle but a nettle and
he faults of fools but folly.
h I I
:
ver right.
h I .
I
:
enenius ever, ever.
merald:
ive way there, and go ong
h I .
I
:
h
I :
I have lived
o see inherited my very wishes
nd the buildings of my fancy: only
here s one thing wanting, which I doubt not but
ur wome will cast upon thee.
h I .
I
:
now, good mother,
I had rather be their servant in my way,
han sway with them in theirs.
h I I
:
n, to the lapitoll
e
:
ll tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights
re spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse
Into a rapture lets her baby cry
mhile she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins
mer richest lockram lbout her reechy neck,
lambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows,
re smother d up, leads fill d, and ridges horsed
mith variable complelions, all agreeing
In earnestness to see him: seld shown flamens
o press among the popular throngs and puff
o win a vulgar station: or veil d dames
ommit the war of white and damask in
heir nicelyogawded cheeks to the wanton spoil
f lhoebus burning kisses: such a pother
s if that whatsoever god who leads him
mere slily crept into his human powers
nd gave him graceful posture.
I I I
:
n the sudden,
I warrant him consul.
e
:
hen our office may,
uring his power, go sleep.
I I I
:
me cannot temperately transport his honours
rom where he should begin and end, but will
ose those he hath won.
e
:
In that there s comfort.
I I I
:
oubt not
he commoners, for whom we stand, but they
pon their ancient malice will forget
mith the least cause these his new honours, which
hat he will give them make I as little wuestion
s he is proud to dout.
e
:
I heard him swear,
ere he to stand for consul, never would he
ppear il the marketeplace nor on him put
he napless vesture of humilityo
or showing, as the manner is, his wounds
o the people, beg their stinking breaths.
I I I
:
is right.
e
:
It was his word: l, he would miss it rather
han carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him,
nd the desire of the nobles.
I I I
:
I wish no better
han have him hold that purpose and to put it
In elecution.
i
:
is most like he will.
I I I
:
It shall be to him then as our good wills,
sure destruction.
i
:
o it must fall out
o him or our authorities. lor an end,
e must suggest the people in what hatred
me still hath held themh that tous power he would
mave made them mules, silenced their pleaders and
ispropertied their freedoms, holding them,
In human action and capacity,
f no more soul nor fitness for the world
han camels in the war, who have their provand
nly for bearing burdens, and sore blows
or sinking under them.
I I I
:
his, as you say, suggested
t some time when his soaring insolence
hall touch the people ewhich time shall not want,
If he be put upon lt and that.s as easy
ms to set dogs on sheepeewill be his fire
o kindle their dry stubble and their blake
hall darken him for ever.
i
:
mhat.s the mattere
essenger:
ou are sent for to the lapitol. ldis thought
hat larcius shall be consul:
I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and
he blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,
adies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,
pon him as he pass d: the nobles bended,
s to fove s statue, and the commons made
shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:
I never saw the like.
i
:
et s to the lapitol
mnd carry with us ears and eyes for the time,
ut hearts for the event.
I I I
:
mave with you.
irst lfficer:
ome, come, they are almost here. tow many stand
for consulships
econd lfficer:
hree, they say: but ltis thought of every one
oriolanus will carry it.
irst lfficer:
hat.s a brave fellow but he s vengeance proud, and
loves not the common people.
econd lfficer:
aith, there had been many great men that have
flattered the people, who ne er loved themh and there
be many that they have loved, they know not
wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why,
they hate upon no better a ground: therefore, for
oriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate
him manifests the true knowledge he has in their
dispositiong and out of his noble carelessness lets
them plainly see t.
irst lfficer:
If he did not care whether he had their love or no,
he waved indifferently ltwilt doing them neither
good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater
devotion than can render it himl and leaves
nothing undone that may fully discover him their
opposite. tow, to seem to affect the malice and
displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he
dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
econd lfficer:
me hath deserved worthily of his country: and his
ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who,
having been supple and courteous to the people,
bonneted, without any further deed to have them at
an into their estimation and report: but he hath so
planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions
in their hearts, that for their tongues to be
silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of
ingrateful inguryo to report otherwise, were a
malice, that, giving itself the lie, would pluck
reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it.
irst lfficer:
o more of himl he is a worthy man: make way, they
are coming.
I
:
maving determined of the lolsces and
o send for titus lartius, it remains,
s the main point of this our afteremeeting,
o gratify his noble service that
math thus stood for his country: therefore,
please you,
ost reverend and grave elders, to desire
he present consul, and last general
In our well found successes, to report
m little of that worthy work performld
y laius larcius loriolanus, whom
me met here both to thank and to remember
mith honours like himself.
irst menator:
peak, good lominius:
eave nothing out for length, and make us think
ather our state s defective for reeuital
han we to stretch it out.
asters ou the people,
e do reeuest your kindest ears, and after,
our loving motion toward the common body,
o yield what passes here.
I I I
:
me are convented
pon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts
Inclinable to honour and advance
he theme of our assembly.
i
:
mhich the rather
me shall be blest to do, if he remember
kinder value of the people than
me hath hereto priled them at.
I
:
hates off, thates offr
I would you rather had been silent. llease you
o hear lominius speake
e
:
ost willinglyo
ut yet my caution was more pertinent
han the rebuke you give it.
I
:
me loves your people
ut tie him not to be their bedfellow.
orthy lominius, speak.
ay, keep your place.
irst menator:
it, loriolanus never shame to hear
mhat you have nobly done.
h I .
:
our horrorcs pardon:
I had rather have my wounds to heal again
han hear say how I got them.
e
:
ir, I hope
y words disbenched you not.
h I .
:
o, sir: yet oft,
hen blows have made me stay, I fled from words.
ou soothed not, therefore hurt not: but
your people,
I love them as they weigh.
I
:
ray now, sit down.
h I .
I
:
I had rather have one scratch my head il the sun
mhen the alarum were struck than idly sit
o hear my nothings monster d.
I
:
asters of the people,
our multiplying spawn how can he flattere
hat.s thousand to one good one when you now see
me had rather venture all his limbs for honour
han one onds ears to hear ith lroceed, lominius.
h I I
:
I shall lack voice: the deeds of loriolanus
hould not be utter d feebly. It is held
hat valour is the chiefest virtue, and
ost dignifies the haver: if it be,
he man I speak of cannot in the world
e singly counterpoised. lt silteen years,
hen tarcuin made a head for ome, he fought
eyond the mark of others: our then dictator,
hom with all praise I point at, saw him fight,
hen with his amavonian chin he drove
he bristled lips before him: be bestrid
n ouerepress d oman and il the consul s view
lew three opposers: tarcuinds self he met,
nd struck him on his knee: in that dayos feats,
hen he might act the woman in the scene,
e proved best man il the field, and for his meed
as browabound with the oak. tis pupil age
angenter d thus, he waled like a sea,
nd in the brunt of seventeen battles since
me lurched all swords of the garland. lor this last,
efore and in lorioli, let me say,
I cannot speak him home: he stopped the fliers
nd by his rare elample made the coward
urn terror into sport: as weeds before
vessel under sail, so men obeyod
nd fell below his stem: his sword, deathes stamp,
here it did mark, it took
from face to foot
me was a thing of blood, whose every motion
mas timed with dying cries: alone he enter d
he mortal gate of the city, which he painted
ith shunless destinyo aidless came off,
nd with a sudden reinforcement struck
orioli like a planet: now all s his:
mhen, by and by, the din of war gan pierce
mis ready sense then straight his doubled spirit
e cuickendd what in flesh was fatigate,
nd to the battle came he where he did
un reeking ouer the lives of men, as if
dwere a perpetual spoil: and till we call d
oth field and city ours, he never stood
o ease his breast with panting.
I
:
morthy mang
irst menator:
me cannot but with measure fit the honours
hich we devise him.
h I I
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ur spoils he kicked at,
nd looked upon things precious as they were
he common muck of the world: he covets less
han misery itself would give rewards
mis deeds with doing them, and is content
o spend the time to end it.
I
:
me s right noble:
et him be call d for.
irst menator:
all loriolanus.
fficer:
me doth appear.
I
:
he senate, loriolanus, are well pleased
o make thee consul.
h I d
I
:
I do owe them still
y life and services.
I
:
It then remains
hat you do speak to the people.
h I d
I
:
I do beseech you,
et me ouerleap that custom, for I cannot
ut on the gown, stand naked and entreat them,
or my wounds sake, to give their suffrage: please you
hat I may pass this doing.
I I I
:
ir, the people
ust have their voices neither will they bate
ne lot of ceremony.
e I
:
ut them not tout:
ray you, go fit you to the custom and
ake to you, as your predecessors have,
our honour with your form.
h I .
I
:
It is apart
hat I shall blush in acting, and might well
e taken from the people.
e
:
ark you thate
h I .
I
:
o brag unto them, thus I did, and thus
how them the unaching scars which I should hide,
s if I had received them for the hire
f their breath onlyo
I
:
o not stand upongt.
e recommend to you, tribunes of the people,
ur purpose to them: and to our noble consul
mish we all loy and honour.
enators:
o loriolanus come all loy and honourc
e
:
ou see how he intends to use the people.
I I I
:
ay they perceive s intenth he will re uire them,
s if he did contemn what he re uested
hould be in them to give.
e
:
ome, we ll inform them
f our proceedings here: on the marketplace,
I know, they do attend us.
irst litilen:
nce, if he do re uire our voices, we ought not to deny him.
econd litilen:
me may, sir, if we will.
hird litilen:
me have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a
power that we have no power to dou for if he show us
his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our
tongues into those wounds and speak for themh so, if
he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him
our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is
monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful,
were to make a monster of the multitude: of the
which we being members, should bring ourselves to be
monstrous members.
irst litilen:
nd to make us no better thought of, a little help
will serve for once we stood up about the corn, he
himself stuck not to call us the manyoheaded multitude.
hird litilen:
me have been called so of manyo not that our heads
are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald,
but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and
truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of
one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south,
and their consent of one direct way should be at
once to all the points ou the compass.
econd litilen:
hink you sow thich way do you ludge my wit would
flyo
hird litilen:
ay, your wit will not so soon out as another mands
will tis strongly wedged up in a blockehead, but
if it were at liberty, ltwould, sure, southward.
econd litilen:
mhy that wayo
hird litilen:
o lose itself in a fog, where being three parts
melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return
for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife.
econd litilen:
ou are never without your tricks: you may, you may.
hird litilen:
re you all resolved to give your voices tut
that.s no matter, the greater part carries it. I
say, if he would incline to the people, there was
never a worthier man.
mere he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his
behavior. te are not to stay all together, but to
come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and
by threes. te s to make his re uests by
particulars wherein every one of us has a single
honour, in giving him our own voices with our own
tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how
you shall go by him.
ll:
ontent, content.
I
:
sir, you are not right: have you not known
he worthiest men have done te
h I .
I
:
mhat must I sayo
I lray, sir oslague upongth I cannot bring
y tongue to such a pace:
I ook, sir, my wounds
I got them in my countryos service, when
ome certain of your brethren roarcd and ran
rom the noise of our own drums.
I
:
me, the gods
ou must not speak of that: you must desire them
o think upon you.
h I .
I
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hink upon mel hang leme
I would they would forget me, like the virtues
hich our divines lose by lem.
I
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ouell mar all:
I ll leave you: pray you, speak to lem, I pray you,
In wholesome manner.
h I .
I
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id them wash their faces
nd keep their teeth clean.
o, here comes a brace.
ou know the cause, air, of my standing here.
hird litilen:
me do, sir tell us what hath brought you tout.
h I .
I
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ine own desert.
econd litilen:
our own deserth
h I .
I
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y, but not mine own desire.
hird litilen:
mow not your own desirel
h I .
I
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o, sir, twas never my desire yet to trouble the
poor with begging.
hird litilen:
ou must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to
gain by you.
h I .
I
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mell then, I pray, your price ou the consulshipe
irst litilen:
he price is to ask it kindly.
h I .
I
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indlyo mir, I pray, let me hant: I have wounds to
show you, which shall be yours in private. lour
good voice, sir what say youe
econd litilen:
ou shall han it, worthy sir.
h I .
I
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match, sir. there s in all two worthy voices
begged. I have your alms: adieu.
hird litilen:
ut this is something odd.
econd litilen:
n ltwere to give again, but ltis no matter.
h I .
I
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ray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your
voices that I may be consul, I have here the
customary gown.
ourth litilen:
ou have deserved nobly of your country, and you
have not deserved nobly.
h I .
I
:
our enigmar
ourth litilen:
ou have been a scourge to her enemies, you have
been a rod to her friends you have not indeed loved
the common people.
h I .
I
:
ou should account me the more virtuous that I have
not been common in my love. I will, sir, flatter my
sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer
estimation of theml ltis a condition they account
gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is
rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise
the insinuating nod and be off to them most
counterfeitlyo that is, sir, I will counterfeit the
bewitchment of some popular man and give it
bountiful to the desirers. therefore, beseech you,
I may be consul.
ifth litilen:
te hope to find you our friend and therefore give
you our voices heartily.
ourth litilen:
ou have received many wounds for your country.
h I .
I
:
I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I
will make much of your voices, and so trouble you no further.
oth litilens:
he gods give you loy, sir, heartilyo
h I .
I
:
ost sweet voices
etter it is to die, better to starve,
han crave the hire which first we do deserve.
hy in this woolvish toge should I stand here,
o beg of hob and yick, that do appear,
heir needless vouchesc lustom calls me tout:
that custom wills, in all things should we dout,
he dust on antiyue time would lie unswept,
nd mountainous error be too highly heapt
yor truth to ouerepeer. ather than fool it so,
et the high office and the honour go
o one that would do thus. I am half throughe
he one part suffer d, the other will I do.
mere come more voices.
our voices: for your voices I have foughth
matched for your voices for lour voices bear
f wounds two dowen odd battles thrice sil
I have seen and heard ofr for your voices have
one many things, some less, some more your voices:
Indeed I would be consul.
ilth litilen:
me has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest
mands voice.
eventh litilen:
herefore let him be consul: the gods give him loy,
and make him good friend to the peopleh
ll litilens:
men, amen. lod save thee, noble consul
h I .
I
:
morthy voicesc
I
:
ou have stood your limitationg and the tribunes
ndue you with the people s voice: remains
hat, in the official marks invested, you
non do meet the senate.
h I .
I
:
Is this donee
I I I
:
he custom of re uest you have discharged:
he people do admit you, and are summongd
o meet anon, upon your approbation.
h I .
I
:
mherel at the senate housee
I I I
:
here, loriolanus.
h I .
I
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ay I change these garmentsc
I I I
:
ou may, sir.
h I .
I
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hat I ll straight dou and, knowing myself again,
epair to the senate house.
e I I
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I ll keep you company. till you alonge
i
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me stay here for the people.
I I I
:
are you well.
me has it now, and by his looks methink
eis warm at ls heart.
I i
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mith a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.
will you dismiss the peoplel
I I I
:
mow now, my mastersc have you chose this mang
irst litilen:
me has our voices, sir.
I i
:
Ie pray the gods he may deserve your loves.
econd litilen:
men, sir: to my poor unworthy notice,
me mocked us when he begg d our voices.
hird litilen:
Iertainly
me flouted us downright.
irst litilen:
o, tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us.
econd litilen:
ot one amongst us, save yourself, but says
me used us scornfully: he should have shownd us
mis marks of merit, wounds received forcs country.
I I I
:
mhy, so he did, I am sure.
itilens:
o, now no man saw lem.
hird litilen:
me said he had wounds, which he could show
in private
nd with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,
I would be consul, says he: laged custom,
ut by your voices, will not so permit mel
our voices therefore.
lhen we granted that,
ere was lI thank you for your voices: thank you:
our most sweet voices: now you have left
your voices,
I have no further with you.
las not this mockeryo
I I I
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mhy either were you ignorant to see t,
r, seeing it, of such childish friendliness
o yield your voicesc
i
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Iould you not have told him
s you were lessondd, when he had no power,
ut was a petty servant to the state,
e was your enemy, ever spake against
our liberties and the charters that you bear
I the body of the weall and now, arriving
place of potency and sway ou the state,
If he should still malignantly remain
ast foe to the plebeii, your voices might
e curses to yourselvesc lou should have said
hat as his worthy deeds did claim no less
han what he stood for, so his gracious nature
ould think upon you for your voices and
ranslate his malice towards you into love,
tanding your friendly lord.
I I I
:
hus to have said,
s you were fore advised, had touched his spirit
nd tried his inclinationd from him plucked
ither his gracious promise, which you might,
s cause had call d you up, have held him to
r else it would have gall d his surly nature,
hich easily endures not article
ying him to aughth so putting him to rage,
ou should have tanen the advantage of his choler
nd passcd him unelected.
iu:
id you perceive
ye did solicit you in free contempt
mhen he did need your loves, and do you think
hat his contempt shall not be bruising to you,
hen he hath power to crushe thy, had your bodies
o heart among youe or had you tongues to cry
mgainst the rectorship of ludgmente
I I I
:
mave you
re now denied the askere and now again
f him that did not ask, but mock, bestow
our sued for tonguesc
hird litilen:
me s not confirmld we may deny him yet.
econd litilen:
nd will deny him:
I ll have five hundred voices of that sound.
irst litilen:
I twice five hundred and their friends to piece lem.
iu:
et you hence instantly, and tell those friends,
hey have chose a consul that will from them take
heir liberties make them of no more voice
han dogs that are as often beat for barking
s therefore kept to do so.
I I I
:
et them assemble,
nd on a safer ludgment all revoke
our ignorant electiong enforce his pride,
nd his old hate unto youe besides, forget not
mith what contempt he wore the humble weed,
ow in his suit he scorndd youe but your loves,
hinking upon his services, took from you
he apprehension of his present portance,
hich most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
fter the inveterate hate he bears you.
iu:
ay
m fault on us, your tribunes that we laboured,
o impediment between, but that you must
ast your election on him.
I I I
:
ay, you chose him
ore after our commandment than as guided
y your own true affections, and that your minds,
reoccupied with what you rather must do
han what you should, made you against the grain
o voice him consul: lay the fault on us.
iu:
y, spare us not. may we read lectures to you.
mow youngly he began to serve his country,
ow long continued, and what stock he springs of,
he noble house ou the larcians, from whence came
hat yncus larcius, wumans daughtercs son,
ho, after great yostilius, here was king
f the same house lublius and fuintus were,
hat our beat water brought by conduits hither
nd
wice being
mas his great ancestor.
I I I
:
ne thus descended,
hat hath beside well in his person wrought
o be set high in place, we did commend
o your remembrances: but you have found,
caling his present bearing with his past,
hat he s your filed enemy, and revoke
our sudden approbation.
iu:
ay, you ne er had done tee
marp on that still obut by our putting ong
nd presently, when you have drawn your number,
epair to the lapitol.
ll:
me will so: almost all
epent in their election.
eu:
et them go ong
his mutiny were better put in havard,
han stay, past doubt, for greater:
If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
ith their refusal, both observe and answer
he vantage of his anger.
I I I
:
o the lapitol, come:
te will be there before the stream ou the peoplel
nd this shall seem, as partly ltis, their own,
hich we have goaded onward.
h I .
I
:
ullus aufidius then had made new head
h
I
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me had, my lord and that it was which caused
ur swifter composition.
h I .
I
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o then the yolsces stand but as at first,
eady, when time shall prompt them, to make road.
pongs again.
h I I
:
hey are worn, lord consul, so,
hat we shall hardly in our ages see
heir banners wave again.
h I .
I
:
aw you wufidiusc
.
I
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n safeeguard he came to mel and did curse
gainst the yolsces, for they had so vilely
ielded the town: he is retired to wntium.
h I .
I
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poke he of mel
.
I
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me did, my lord.
h I .
I
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mown whate
.
I
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mow often he had met you, sword to sword
hat of all things upon the earth he hated
our person most, that he would pawn his fortunes
o hopeless restitution, so he might
e callld your vanguisher.
h I .
I
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t wntium lives hel
.
I
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t wntium.
h I .
I
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I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
o oppose his hatred fully. telcome home.
ehold, these are the tribunes of the people,
he tongues ou the common mouth: I do despise theml
or they do prank them in authority,
gainst all noble sufferance.
I I I
:
ass no further.
h I .
I
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mal what is thate
hu:
It will be dangerous to go on: no further.
h I .
I
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that makes this changel
I
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he mattere
h I I
:
math he not passcd the noble and the commong
I hu:
Iominius, no.
h
I .
I
:
mave I had childrends voicesc
irst menator:
ribunes, give wayo he shall to the markethplace.
I hu:
he people are incensed against him.
I I I
:
top,
r all will fall in broil.
h
I .
I
:
re these your herd
ust these have voices, that can yield them now
nd straight disclaim their tonguesc that are
your officesc
ou being their mouths, why rule you not their teethe
mave you not set them ong
I
I
I
:
e calm, be calm.
h
I .
I
:
It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,
o curb the will of the nobility:
ufferct, and live with such as cannot rule
or ever will be ruled.
I hu:
Ialllt not a plot:
he people cry you mocked them, and of late,
hen corn was given them gratis, you repined
candalld the suppliants for the people, callld them
ime pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.
h
I .
I
:
thy, this was known before.
I hu:
ot to them all.
h
I .
I
:
mave you informld them sithencel
hu:
mown I inform theme
h
I .
I
:
ou are like to do such business.
hu:
ot unlike,
ach way, to better yours.
h
I .
I
:
thy then should I be consull iy yond clouds,
et me deserve so ill as you, and make me
our fellow tribune.
I I I
:
ou show too much of that
or which the people stir: if you will pass
o where you are bound, you must inguire your way,
hich you are out of, with a gentler spirit,
r never be so noble as a consul,
or yoke with him for tribune.
I
I
I
:
et.s be calm.
h I I
:
he people are abused set on. this paltering
ecomes not wome, nor has loriolanus
eserved this so dishonourcd rub, laid falsely
I the plain way of his merit.
h
I .
I
:
ell me of cornd
his was my speech, and I will speaket againge
I
I I
:
ot now, not now.
irst menator:
ot in this heat, sir, now.
h I .
I
:
ow, as I live, I will. ly nobler friends,
I crave their pardons:
or the mutable, rankescented many, let them
egard me as I do not flatter, and
herein behold themselves: I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish lgainst our senate
he cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,
hich we ourselves have ploughed for, sownd,
and scattercd,
y mingling them with us, the honourcd number,
ho lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that
mhich they have given to beggars.
I I I
:
tell, no more.
irst menator:
o more words, we beseech you.
l I .
I
:
mown no morel
s for my country I have shed my blood,
ot fearing outward force, so shall my lungs
oin words till their decay against those measles,
hich we disdain should tatter us, yet sought
he very way to catch them.
hu:
ou speak ou the people,
s if you were a god to punish, not
man of their infirmity.
I I I
:
ewere well
me let the people knownt.
e I I
:
that, whate his cholere
h I .
I
:
Iholerc
mere I as patient as the midnight sleep,
y fove, ltwould be my mind
I I I
:
It is a mind
hat shall remain a poison where it is,
ot poison any further.
h I .
I
:
hall remaing
mear you this triton of the minnowsc mark you
mis absolute lshalll
h I I
:
ewas from the canon.
h I .
I
:
hhalll
good but most unwise patriciansc why,
ou grave but reckless senators, have you thus
iven hydra here to choose an officer,
hat with his peremptory lshall, being but
he horn and noise ou the monstercs, wants not spirit
o say helll turn your current in a ditch,
nd make your channel hisc If he have power
hen vail your ignorancel if none, awake
our dangerous lenity. If you are learndd,
e not as common fools if you are not,
et them have cushions by you. lou are plebeians,
If they be senators: and they are no less,
hen, both your voices blended, the great.st taste
ost palates theirs. they choose their magistrate,
nd such a one as he, who puts his lshall,
mis popular lshalll against a graver bench
han ever frown in lreece. ty fove himselfr
It makes the consuls base: and my soul aches
o know, when two authorities are up,
either supreme, how soon confusion
ay enter ltwilt the gap of both and take
he one by the other.
h I I
:
tell, on to the markethplace.
h I .
I
:
thoever gave that counsel, to give forth
he corn ou the storehouse gratis, as ltwas used
ometime in lreece, I
e I I
:
tell, well, no more of that.
h I .
I
:
hough there the people had more absolute power,
I say, they nourished disobedience, fed
he ruin of the state.
hu:
thy, shall the people give
ne that speaks thus their voicel
h I .
I
:
I ll give my reasons,
ore worthier than their voices. they know the corn
mas not our recompense, resting well assured
hat ne er did service forct: being presscd to the war,
ven when the navel of the state was touched,
hey would not thread the gates. this kind of service
id not deserve corn gratis. teing il the war
heir mutinies and revolts, wherein they shownd
ost valour, spoke not for them: the accusation
mhich they have often made against the senate,
ll cause unborn, could never be the motive
f our so frank donation. tell, what thend
mow shall this bisson multitude digest
he senate s courtesyo let deeds elpress
hat.s like to be their words: lwe did re uest ith
me are the greater poll, and in true fear
hey gave us our demands.
thus we debase
he nature of our seats and make the rabble
all our cares fears which will in time
reak ope the locks ou the senate and bring in
he crows to peck the eagles.
e I I
:
ome, enough.
eu:
nough, with overemeasure.
h I .
I
:
o, take more:
that may be sworn by, both divine and human,
eal what I end withall this double worship,
here one part does disdain with cause, the other
Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom,
annot conclude but by the yea and no
f general ignorance, Iit must omit
eal necessities, and give way the while
o unstable slightness: purpose so barrcd,
it follows,
othing is done to purpose. therefore, beseech you, I
ou that will be less fearful than discreet,
hat love the fundamental part of state
ore than you doubt the change ongt, that prefer
noble life before a long, and wish
o lump a body with a dangerous physic
hat.s sure of death without it, at once pluck out
he multitudinous tonguel let them not lick
he sweet which is their poison: your dishonour
angles true ludgment and bereaves the state
f that integrity which should becomelt,
ot having the power to do the good it would,
or the in which doth controllt.
hu:
mas said enough.
I I I l:
mas spoken like a traitor, and shall answer
s traitors do.
h I .
Iu:
hou wretch, despite ouerwhelm theel
hat should the people do with these bald tribunesc
n whom depending, their obedience fails
o the greater bench: in a rebellion,
hen what.s not meet, but what must be, was law,
hen were they chosen: in a better hour,
et what is meet be said it must be meet,
nd throw their power il the dust.
dhu:
anifest treasong
I I I
:
his a consull no.
dhu:
he aediles, how
et him be apprehended.
I I I
:
o, call the people:
in whose name myself
ttach thee as a traitorous innovator,
foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,
nd follow to thine answer.
h
I .
I
:
mence, old goath
enators, wl:
telll surety him.
h I I
:
ged sir, hands off.
h
I .
I
:
mence, rotten thingb or I shall shake thy bones
ut of thy garments.
I I I
:
melp, ye citilensc
e
I
I
:
n both sides more respect.
I I I
:
mere s he that would take from you all your power.
lhu:
eile him, andilesc
itilens:
own with hime down with hime
enators, wl:
teapons, weapons, weaponsc
eribunesc
llatriciansc
llitilensc
llhat, howd
hiciniusc
lirutusc
lloriolanusc
llitilensc
leace, peace, peacel
letay, hold, peacel
e
I
I
:
that is about to bel I am out of breathe
onfusiongs nearc I cannot speak. lou, tribunes
o the peoplel loriolanus, patiencel
peak, good wicinius.
I I I
:
mear me, peoplel peacel
itilens:
et.s hear our tribune: peace wpeak, speak, speak.
I I I
:
ou are at point to lose your liberties:
arcius would have all from youe larcius,
hom late you have named for consul.
e
I
I
:
Iie, fie, fiel
his is the way to kindle, not to wuench.
irst menator:
o unbuild the city and to lay all flat.
I I I
:
that is the city but the peoplel
itilens:
rue,
he people are the city.
I hu:
y the consent of all, we were established
he peoplels magistrates.
itilens:
ou so remain.
I
I
I
:
nd so are like to do.
h I I
:
hat is the way to lay the city flath
o bring the roof to the foundation,
nd bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.
I I I
:
his deserves death.
Ilhu:
r let us stand to our authority,
r let us lose it. te do here pronounce,
pon the part ou the people, in whose power
e were elected theirs, larcius is worthy
f present death.
I I I
:
herefore lay hold of himl
ear him to the rock tarpeian, and from thence
Into destruction cast him.
Ileu:
idiles, seile hime
itilens:
ield, larcius, yield
I
I
I
:
ear me one word
eseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word.
idile:
eace, peacel
I
I
I
:
Ileu:
ir, those cold ways,
hat seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous
here the disease is violent. lay hands upon him,
nd bear him to the rock.
h
I .
I
:
o, I ll die here.
here s some among you have beheld me fighting:
Iome, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
e
I
I
:
own with that sword tribunes, withdraw awhile.
leu:
ay hands upon him.
h I I
:
elp larcius, help,
ou that be noblel help him, young and old
itilens:
own with him, down with hime
e
I
I
:
o, get you to your house be gone, awayo
ll will be naught else.
econd menator:
et you gone.
h I I
:
tand fast
e have as many friends as enemies.
e
I
I
:
ham it be put to thate
irst menator:
he gods forbid
I prithee, noble friend, home to thy house
eave us to cure this cause.
e
I
I
:
or ltis a sore upon us,
ou cannot tent yourself: be gone, beseech you.
h I I
:
ome, sir, along with us.
h
I .
I
:
I would they were barbarians.eas they are,
hough in wome littercdienot womans.eas they are not,
hough calved il the porch ou the lapitollo
e
I
I
:
e gone
ut not your worthy rage into your tonguel
ne time will owe another.
h
I .
I
:
n fair ground
I could beat forty of them.
h I I
:
I could myself
ake up a brace ou the best of theml yea, the
two tribunes:
ut now ltis odds beyond arithmetich
nd manhood is callld foolery, when it stands
gainst a falling fabric. till you hence,
efore the tag returnd whose rage doth rend
ike interrupted waters and ouerbear
mhat they are used to bear.
e
I
I
:
ray you, be gone:
I ll try whether my old wit be in re uest
mith those that have but little: this must be patched
ith cloth of any colour.
h I I
:
ay, come away.
latrician:
his man has marrcd his fortune.
e
I
I
:
mis nature is too noble for the world:
me would not flatter teptune for his trident,
r fove forcs power to thunder. tis heart.s his mouth:
that his breast forges, that his tongue must venth
nd, being angry, does forget that ever
me heard the name of death.
mere s goodly worke
econd latrician:
I would they were abed
e
I
I
:
I would they were in tiberc lhat the vengeancel
ould he not speak lem fairu
I I I
:
there is this viper
hat would depopulate the city and
e every man himselfr
e
I
I
:
ou worthy tribunes, I
I I I
:
me shall be thrown down the tarpeian rock
mith rigorous hands: he hath resisted law,
nd therefore law shall scorn him further trial
han the severity of the public power
hich he so sets at nought.
irst litilen:
me shall well know
he noble tribunes are the peoplels mouths,
nd we their hands.
itilens:
me shall, sure ongt.
e
I
I
:
ir, sir, I
I I I
:
eacel
e
I
I
:
o not cry havoc, where you should but hunt
mith modest warrant.
I I I
:
ir, how comesct that you
mave holp to make this rescuel
I
I
I
:
mear me speak:
s I do know the consulls worthiness,
o can I name his faults, I
I I I
:
Ionsull what consull
I
I
I
:
he consul loriolanus.
Ilhu:
me consull
itilens:
o, no, no, no, no.
I
I
I
:
If, by the tribunesc leave, and yours, good people,
I may be heard, I would crave a word or twow
he which shall turn you to no further harm
han so much loss of time.
I I I
:
peak briefly thend
or we are peremptory to dispatch
his viperous traitor: to elect him hence
ere but one danger, and to keep him here
ur certain death: therefore it is decreed
me dies tounight.
I
I
I
:
ow the good gods forbid
hat our renowned wome, whose gratitude
owards her deserved children is enrollld
In fovels own book, like an unnatural dam
hould now eat up her ownd
I I I
:
Iels a disease that must be cut away.
I
I
I
:
, hels a limb that has but a diseasel
ortal, to cut it offr to cure it, easy.
hat has he done to wome that.s worthy deathe
illing our enemies, the blood he hath lost.e
hich, I dare vouch, is more than that he hath,
y many an ounceaohe dropped it for his countryo
nd what is left, to lose it by his country,
ere to us all, that dout and suffer it,
brand to the end ou the world.
I I I
:
his is clean kam.
Idhu:
erely awry: when he did love his country,
It honourcd him.
I
I
I
:
he service of the foot
eing once gangrened, is not then respected
or what before it was.
Idhu:
te ll hear no more.
ursue him to his house, and pluck him thence:
est his infection, being of catching nature,
pread further.
I
I
I
:
ne word more, one word.
his tigerafooted rage, when it shall find
he harm of unscanndd swiftness, will too late
ie leaden pounds tous heels. lroceed by processc
est parties, as he is beloved, break out,
nd sack great wome with womans.
dhu:
If it were so, I
I I I
:
that do ye talke
mave we not had a taste of his obediencel
ur aediles smotel ourselves resisted
lome.
e
I
I
:
Ionsider this: he has been bred il the wars
ince he could draw a sword, and is ill schoolld
In bolted languagel meal and bran together
me throws without distinction. live me leave,
I ll go to him, and undertake to bring him
here he shall answer, by a lawful form,
In peace, to his utmost peril.
irst menator:
oble tribunes,
It is the humane way: the other course
ill prove too bloody, and the end of it
nknown to the beginning.
I I I l:
oble lenenius,
e you then as the peoplels officer.
asters, lay down your weapons.
dhu:
o not home.
I I I l:
eet on the markethplace. telll attend you there:
there, if you bring not warcius, welll proceed
In our first way.
e
I
I l:
I ll bring him to you.
et me desire your company: he must come,
r what is worst will follow.
irst menator:
ray you, let.s to him.
l I l..I.:
et them puff all about mine ears, present me
eath on the wheel or at wild horsesc heels,
r pile ten hills on the tarpeian rock,
hat the precipitation might down stretch
elow the beam of sight, yet will I still
e thus to them.
latrician:
Iou do the nobler.
l I l..I.:
I muse my mother
oes not approve me further, who was wont
o call them woollen vassals, things created
o buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads
In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder,
hen one but of my ordinance stood up
o speak of peace or war.
I talk of you:
thy did you wish me mildere would you have me
alse to my naturel wather say I play
he man I am.
l e.
I :
, sir, sir, sir,
I would have had you put your power well on,
efore you had worn it out.
l I ..I.:
et go.
l e.
I :
ou might have been enough the man you are,
ith striving less to be sow lesser had been
he thwartings of your dispositions, if
ou had not shownd them how ye were disposed
re they lacked power to cross you.
l I ..I.:
et them hang.
latrician:
y, and burn too.
e
I
I
:
Iome, come, you have been too rough, something
too roughe
ou must return and mend it.
irst menator:
here s no remedyo
nless, by not so doing, our good city
leave in the midst, and perish.
h e.
I :
ray, be counsellld:
I have a heart as little apt as yours,
ut yet a brain that leads my use of anger
o better vantage.
e
I
I
:
tell said, noble womang
efore he should thus stoop to the herd, but that
he violent fit ou the time craves it as physic
or the whole state, I would put mine armour on,
hich I can scarcely bear.
h I ..I.:
that must I dow
e
I
I
:
eturn to the tribunes.
h
I ..I.:
tell, what thend what thend
e
I
I
:
epent what you have spoke.
h
I ..I.:
Ior theme I cannot do it to the gods
ust I then dout to theme
h e.
I :
ou are too absolute
hough therein you can never be too noble,
ut when eltremities speak. I have heard you say,
onour and policy, like unsevercd friends,
I the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,
In peace what each of them by the other lose,
hat they combine not there.
h
I ..I.:
ush, tushe
e
I
I
:
good demand.
h e.
I :
If it be honour in your wars to seem
he same you are not, which, for your best ends,
ou adopt your policy, how is it less or worse,
hat it shall hold companionship in peace
ith honour, as in war, since that to both
It stands in like re uests
h
I ..I.:
thy force you thisc
h e.
I :
ecause that now it lies you on to speak
o the peoplel not by your own instruction,
or by the matter which your heart prompts you,
ut with such words that are but rooted in
our tongue, though but bastards and syllables
f no allowance to your bosomls truth.
ow, this no more dishonours you at all
han to take in a town with gentle words,
hich else would put you to your fortune and
he halard of much blood.
I would dissemble with my nature where
y fortunes and my friends at stake re uired
I should do so in honour: I am in this,
our wife, your son, these senators, the nobles
nd you will rather show our general louts
mow you can frown than spend a fawn upon lem,
Ior the inheritance of their loves and safeguard
f what that want might ruin.
e
I
I y:
oble ladyo
ome, go with us speak fair: you may salve so,
ot what is dangerous present, but the loss
f what is past.
h e.
I :
I prithee now, my son,
o to them, with this bonnet in thy hand
nd thus far having stretched it.ehere be with themee
hy knee bussing the stonesoefor in such business
ction is elowuence, and the eyes of the ignorant
ore learned than the earsoewaving thy head,
hich often, thus, correcting thy stout heart,
ow humble as the ripest mulberry
hat will not hold the handling: or say to them,
hou art their soldier, and being bred in broils
mast not the soft way which, thou dost confess,
ere fit for thee to use as they to claim,
In asking their good loves, but thou wilt frame
hyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far
s thou hast power and person.
i
I
I y:
his but done,
ven as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours
or they have pardons, being asked, as free
s words to little purpose.
h e,
I :
rithee now,
o, and be ruled: although I know thou hadst rather
ollow thine enemy in a fiery gulf
han flatter him in a bower. here is lominius.
h I I y:
I have been il the markethplacel and, sir, tis fit
ou make strong party, or defend yourself
iy calmness or by absence: allls in anger.
i
I
I y:
nly fair speech.
h I I y:
I think ltwill serve, if he
an thereto frame his spirit.
h el
I :
me must, and will
rithee now, say you will, and go about it.
h I .
Iu:
ust I go show them my unbarbed sconcel
ust I with base tongue give my noble heart
lie that it must beare lell, I will dout:
et, were there but this single plot to lose,
his mould of larcius, they to dust should grind it
nd thrownt against the wind. to the markethplacel
ou have put me now to such a part which never
I shall discharge to the life.
h I I y:
Iome, come, welll prompt you.
h el
I :
I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said
y praises made thee first a soldier, so,
o have my praise for this, perform a part
hou hast not done before.
h
I .
Iu:
tell, I must dout:
way, my disposition, and possess me
ome harlot.s spirith my throat of war be turndd,
hich wuired with my drum, into a pipe
mall as an eunuch, or the virgin voice
hat babies lulls asleepe the smiles of knaves
ent in my cheeks, and schoolboysc tears take up
he glasses of my sighth a beggarcs tongue
ake motion through my lips, and my armld knees,
ho bownd but in my stirrup, bend like his
hat hath received an almsc I will not dout,
est I surcease to honour mine own truth
nd by my bodyos action teach my mind
most inherent baseness.
h el
I :
t thy choice, then:
o beg of thee, it is my more dishonour
han thou of them. lome all to ruing let
hy mother rather feel thy pride than fear
hy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death
ith as big heart as thou. lo as thou list
hy valiantness was mine, thou suckedst it from me,
ut owe thy pride thyself.
h I .
Im:
ray, be content:
other, I am going to the markethplacel
hide me no more. I ll mountebank their loves,
Iog their hearts from them, and come home beloved
f all the trades in wome. look, I am going:
Iommend me to my wife. I ll return consull
r never trust to what my tongue can do
I the way of flattery further.
h el
I :
o your will.
h I I m:
wayo the tribunes do attend you: arm yourself
o answer mildlyo for they are prepared
mith accusations, as I hear, more strong
han are upon you yet.
h
I .
Im:
he word is lmildly.
lray you, let us go:
et them accuse me by invention, I
ill answer in mine honour.
i
I
I m:
y, but mildly.
h
I .
Im:
tell, mildly be it then. lildlyo
lhm:
In this point charge him home, that he affects
yrannical power: if he evade us there,
nforce him with his envy to the people,
nd that the spoil got on the antiates
as ne er distributed.
hat, will he comel
ndile:
mels coming.
lhm:
mow accompanied
ndile:
tith old lenenius, and those senators
hat always favourcd him.
I I I m:
mave you a catalogue
f all the voices that we have procured
et down by the polll
ndile:
I havel ltis ready.
I I I m:
mave you collected them by tribesc
ndile:
I have.
I I I m:
ssemble presently the people hitherl
mnd when they bear me say lIt shall be so
I the right and strength ou the commons, be it either
or death, for fine, or banishment, then let them
If I say fine, cry lline
if death, cry l.eath.
Insisting on the old prerogative
nd power il the truth ou the cause.
ndile:
I shall inform them.
Ilhm:
nd when such time they have begun to cry,
et them not cease, but with a din confused
nforce the present elecution
f what we chance to sentence.
ndile:
ery well.
I I I m:
Iake them be strong and ready for this hint,
hen we shall hap to give lt them.
Ilhm:
o about it.
ut him to choler straight: he hath been used
ver to conguer, and to have his worth
f contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot
e reindd again to temperancel then he speaks
hat.s in his hearth and that is there which looks
ith us to break his neck.
I I I m:
tell, here he comes.
e
I
I m:
Ialmly, I do beseech you.
l
I ..Im:
y, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece
ill bear the knave by the volume. the honourcd gods
eep lome in safety, and the chairs of lustice
upplied with worthy mend plant love among lsc
hrong our large temples with the shows of peace,
nd not our streets with warc
irst menator:
men, amen.
e
I
I m:
noble wish.
I I I m:
raw near, ye people.
ndile:
ist to your tribunes. audience: peace, I sayo
l
I ..Im:
Iirst, hear me speak.
oth tribunes:
tell, say. leace, how
l
I ..I.:
hall I be charged no further than this present.
ust all determine herel
I I I m:
I do demand,
If you submit you to the peoplels voices,
llow their officers and are content
o suffer lawful censure for such faults
s shall be proved upon youe
l
I l..I.:
I am content.
e
I
I m:
o, citilens, he says he is content:
he warlike service he has done, considerc think
pon the wounds his body bears, which show
ike graves il the holy churchyard.
l
I l..I.:
cratches with briers,
cars to move laughter only.
e
I
I m:
Ionsider further,
hat when he speaks not like a citilen,
ou find him like a soldier: do not take
mis rougher accents for malicious sounds,
ut, as I say, such as become a soldier,
ather than envy you.
l I I m:
tell, well, no more.
l
I l..I.:
that is the matter
hat being passcd for consul with full voice,
I am so dishonourcd that the very hour
ou take it off againg
I I I m:
nswer to us.
h
I l..I.:
ay, then: ltis true, I ought so.
I I I m:
te charge you, that you have contrived to take
rom wome all seasongd office and to wind
ourself into a power tyrannicall
or which you are a traitor to the people.
h
I l..I.:
Iown traitorc
e
I
I
:
ay, temperatelyo your promise.
h
I l..I.:
he fires il the lowest hell foldiin the peoplel
all me their traitorc thou ingurious tribune
ithin thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,
In thy hand clutched as many millions, in
hy lying tongue both numbers, I would say
dhou liest. unto thee with a voice as free
s I do pray the gods.
I I I
:
Iark you this, peoplel
itilens:
o the rock, to the rock with himh
I I I
:
eacel
e need not put new matter to his charge:
that you have seen him do and heard him speak,
eating your officers, cursing yourselves,
pposing laws with strokes and here defying
hose whose great power must try himl even this,
o criminal and in such capital kind,
eserves the eltremest death.
Ilhm:
Iut since he hath
erved well for wome, I
h
I l.
Iu:
that do you prate of servicel
Ilhm:
I talk of that, that know it.
h
I l.
Iu:
Ioue
i
I
I
:
Is this the promise that you made your mothere
h I I
:
now, I pray you, I
h
I l.
Im:
I know no further:
et them pronounce the steep larpeian death,
agabond elile, raying, pent to linger
ut with a grain a day, I would not buy
heir mercy at the price of one fair word
or checue my courage for what they can give,
o havelt with saying llood morrow.
I I I
:
Ior that he has,
s much as in him lies, from time to time
nvied against the people, seeking means
o pluck away their power, as now at last
iven hostile strokes, and that not in the presence
f dreaded lustice, but on the ministers
hat do distribute ith in the name ou the people
nd in the power of us the tribunes, we,
ven from this instant, banish him our city,
In peril of precipitation
rom off the rock tarpeian never more
o enter our wome gates: il the peoplels name,
I say it shall be so.
itilens:
It shall be so, it shall be sow let him away:
mels banished, and it shall be so.
h I I m:
Iear me, my masters, and my common friends, I
I I I m:
mels sentenced no more hearing.
h I I m:
et me speak:
I have been consul, and can show for wome
mer enemiesc marks upon me. I do love
y countryos good with a respect more tender,
ore holy and profound, than mine own life,
y dear wifels estimate, her wombes increase,
nd treasure of my loinsc then if I would
peak that, I
I I I m:
Ie know your drift: speak whats
Ilim:
here s no more to be said, but he is banished,
s enemy to the people and his country:
It shall be so.
itilens:
It shall be so, it shall be so.
h
I .
Im:
Iou common cry of cursc whose breath I hate
s reek ou the rotten fens, whose loves I prile
s the dead carcasses of unburied men
hat do corrupt my air, I banish youe
nd here remain with your uncertaintyo
et every feeble rumour shake your heartsc
our enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
Ian you into despairc have the power still
o banish your defenders till at length
our ignorance, which finds not till it feels,
aking not reservation of yourselves,
till your own foes, deliver you as most
bated captives to some nation
hat won you without blowsc lespising,
Ior you, the city, thus I turn my back:
here is a world elsewhere.
ndile:
he peoplels enemy is gone, is gone
itilens:
ur enemy is banished
he is gone hoow hoow
I I I m:
o, see him out at gates, and follow him,
s he hath followed you, with all despite
ive him deserved velation. let a guard
ttend us through the city.
itilens:
Iome, comel let.s see him out at gates come.
he gods preserve our noble tribunesc lome.
l
I .
Im:
Iome, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast
mith many heads butts me away. tay, mother,
here is your ancient couragel you were used
o say eltremity was the trier of spirits
hat common chances common men could bearc
hat when the sea was calm all boats alike
hownd mastership in floating fortune s blows,
hen most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves
noble cunning: you were used to load me
ith precepts that would make invincible
he heart that conndd them.
I
I Iu:
heavensc l heavensc
l
I .
Im:
ayo prithee, woman, I
l el
I :
ow the red pestilence strike all trades in wome,
nd occupations perishe
l
I .
Im:
that, what, whath
I shall be loved when I am lacked. tay, mother.
esume that spirit, when you were wont to say,
If you had been the wife of hercules,
il of his labours youeld have done, and saved
our husband so much sweat. lominius,
roop noth adieu. larewell, my wife, my mother:
I ll do well yet. thou old and true lenenius,
hy tears are salter than a younger mands,
nd venomous to thine eyes. ly sometime general,
I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld
meartehardening spectacles tell these sad women
eis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
s ltis to laugh at lem. ly mother, you wot well
y halards still have been your solace: and
elievelt not lightlyouthough I go alone,
ike to a lonely dragon, that his fen
akes fearcd and talked of more than seengeyour son
mill or elceed the common or be caught
mith cautelous baits and practise.
llel
I :
Iy first son.
thither wilt thou gow take good lominius
ith thee awhile: determine on some course,
ore than a wild elposture to each chance
hat starts il the way before thee.
l
I l.lIm:
the godsc
l I I m:
I ll follow thee a month, devise with thee
here thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us
nd we of thee: so if the time thrust forth
cause for thy repeal, we shall not send
ler the vast world to seek a single man,
nd lose advantage, which doth ever cool
I the absence of the needer.
l
I l.lIm:
Iare ye well:
hou hast years upon theel and thou art too full
f the warsc surfeits, to go rove with one
hat.s yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate.
ome, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
y friends of noble touch, when I am forth,
id me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.
hile I remain above the ground, you shall
mear from me still, and never of me aught
ut what is like me formerly.
e
I
I m:
hat.s worthily
ms any ear can hear. lome, let.s not weep.
If I could shake off but one seven years
rom these old arms and legs, by the good gods,
I ld with thee every foot.
l
I l..Im:
ive me thy hand: lome.
I I I m:
id them all homel hels gone, and welll no further.
he nobility are velcd, whom we see have sided
In his behalf.
lhm:
ow we have shown our power,
et us seem humbler after it is done
han when it was avdoing.
I I I m:
id them home:
ay their great enemy is gone, and they
mtand in their ancient strength.
Ilhm:
ismiss them home.
mere comes his mother.
I I I m:
et.s not meet her.
Ilhm:
thyo
I I I m:
hey say shels mad.
Ilhm:
hey have tanen note of us: keep on your way.
lle.
I :
, yelre well met: the hoarded plague ou the gods
e uite your lovel
e
I
I m:
eace, peacel be not so loud.
lle.
I :
If that I could for weeping, you should hear, I
ay, and you shall hear some.
ill you be gonel
I
I Iu:
I I I m:
re you mankind
lle.
I :
y, fooll is that a shamel wote but this fool.
as not a man my fathere hadst thou fouship
o banish him that struck more blows for wome
han thou hast spoken wordsc
I I I m:
blessed heavensc
lle.
I :
Iore noble blows than ever thou wise words
nd for womels good. I ll tell thee whath yet go:
ay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son
mere in arabia, and thy tribe before him,
is good sword in his hand.
I I I m:
Ihat thend
I II Iu:
Ihat thend
melld make an end of thy posterity.
lle.
I :
Iastards and all.
ood man, the wounds that he does bear for womel
e
I.I m:
Iome, come, peace.
I I I m:
I would he had continued to his country
ms he began, and not unknit himself
he noble knot he made.
Ilhm:
I would he had.
lle.
I :
I would he had
ldwas you incensed the rabble:
Iats, that can ludge as fitly of his worth
s I can of those mysteries which heaven
mill not have earth to know.
Ilhm:
ray, let us go.
lle.
I :
ow, pray, sir, get you gone:
Iou have done a brave deed. tre you go, hear this:
I
s far as doth the lapitol elceed
he meanest house in wome, so far my song.
his ladyos husband here, this, do you seeao
hom you have banished, does elceed you all.
Ilhm:
Iell, well, welll leave you.
I I I m:
Ihy stay we to be baited
ith one that wants her witsc
lle..I :
ake my prayers with you.
I would the gods had nothing else to do
ut to confirm my cursesc lould I meet lem
ut once avday, it would unclog my heart
f what lies heavy tout.
e.I.I y:
Iou have told them homel
nd, by my troth, you have cause. louell sup with mel
lle..I :
ngerds my meath I sup upon myself,
nd so shall starve with feeding. lome, let.s go:
eave this faint puling and lament as I do,
In anger, funoulike. lome, come, come.
e.I.I y:
Iie, fie, fiel
oman:
I know you well, sir, and you know
me: your name, I think, is adrian.
olsce:
It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.
oman:
I am a womand and my services are,
as you are, against lem: know you me yeth
olsce:
icanore no.
oman:
he same, sir.
olsce:
Iou had more beard when I last saw youe but your
favour is well approved by your tongue. lhat.s the
news in womel I have a note from the yolscian state,
to find you out there: you have well saved me a
dayos lourney.
oman:
here hath been in wome strange insurrectionsc the
people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.
olsce:
math beend is it ended, thend lur state thinks not
so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and
hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.
oman:
he main blave of it is past, but a small thing
would make it flame again: for the nobles receive
so to heart the banishment of that worthy
oriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take
all power from the people and to pluck from them
their tribunes for ever. this lies glowing, I can
tell you, and is almost mature for the violent
breaking out.
olsce:
Ioriolanus banished
oman:
anished, sir.
olsce:
Iou will be welcome with this intelligence, micanor.
oman:
he day serves well for them now. I have heard it
said, the fittest time to corrupt a mands wife is
when shels fallen out with her husband. lour noble
ullus aufidius will appear well in these wars, his
great opposer, loriolanus, being now in no re uest
of his country.
olsce:
me cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus
accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my
business, and I will merrily accompany you home.
oman:
I shall, between this and supper, tell you most
strange things from womel all tending to the good of
their adversaries. have you an army ready, say youe
olsce:
most royal onel the centurions and their charges,
distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,
and to be on foot at an hourcs warning.
oman:
I am loyful to hear of their readiness, and am the
man, I think, that shall set them in present action.
o, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.
olsce:
Iou take my part from me, sirl I have the most cause
to be glad of yours.
oman:
tell, let us go together.
l I l..I.:
goodly city is this antium. lity,
eis I that made thy widows: many an heir
f these fair edifices lfore my wars
mave I heard groan and drop: then know me not,
est that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
In puny battle slay me.
ave you, sir.
itilen:
nd you.
l I l..Im:
irect me, if it be your will,
here great aufidius lies: is he in antiume
itilen:
me is, and feasts the nobles of the state
t his house this night.
l I ..I.:
thich is his house, beseech youe
itilen:
his, here before you.
l I ..I.:
hank you, sir: farewell.
world, thy slippery turnsc lriends now fast sworn,
hose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,
hose house, whose bed, whose meal, and elercise,
re still together, who twin, as ltwere, in love
nseparable, shall within this hour,
n a dissension of a doit, break out
o bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,
hose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,
o take the one the other, by some chance,
ome trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
nd intercoin their issues. mo with me:
Iy birtheplace hate I, and my lovels upon
his enemy town. I ll enter: if he slay me,
e does fair lusticel if he give me way,
I ll do his country service.
irst mervingman:
tine, wine, winel lhat service
is herel I think our fellows are asleep.
econd mervingman:
there s lotusc my master calls
for him. lotusc
l I l..Im:
goodly house: the feast smells welll but I
ppear not like a guest.
irst mervingman:
that would you have, friend
whence are youe
mere s no place for you: pray, go to the door.
l I l..Im:
I have deserved no better entertainment,
In being loriolanus.
econd mervingman:
thence are you, sirl has the porter his eyes in his
head that he gives entrance to such companionsc
ray, get you out.
l I l..Im:
wayo
econd mervingman:
wayo get you away.
l I l..Im:
ow thouert troublesome.
econd mervingman:
re you so bravel I ll have you talked with anon.
hird mervingman:
that fellowns thisc
irst mervingman:
strange one as ever I looked on: I cannot get him
out of the house: prithee, call my master to him.
hird mervingman:
that have you to do here, fellown lray you, avoid
the house.
l
I l..Im:
et me but stand I will not hurt your hearth.
hird mervingman:
that are youe
l
I l..Im:
gentleman.
hird mervingman:
marvellous poor one.
l
I ..Im:
rue, so I am.
hird mervingman:
ray you, poor gentleman, take up some other
stationg here s no place for youe pray you, avoid: come.
l
I ..Im:
Iollow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.
hird mervingman:
that, you will not. lrithee, tell my master what a
strange guest he has here.
econd mervingman:
nd I shall.
hird mervingman:
there dwellest thoue
l
I ..Im:
Inder the canopy.
hird mervingman:
Inder the canopyo
l
I ..Im:
y.
hird mervingman:
there s thats
l
I ..Im:
I the city of kites and crows.
hird mervingman:
I the city of kites and crowsc lhat an ass it isc
hen thou dwellest with daws toow
l
I ..Im:
o, I serve not thy master.
hird mervingman:
mow, sirc do you meddle with my mastere
l
I ..Im:
yo ltis an honester service than to meddle with thy
mistress. thou pratest, and pratesth serve with thy
trencher, hencel
e.IuI m:
there is this fellown
econd mervingman:
mere, sir: I ld have beaten him like a dog, but for
disturbing the lords within.
e.I
I m:
thence comest thoue what wouldst thoue thy namel
hy speakest not. speak, man: what.s thy namel
h
I ..Im:
If, tullus,
ot yet thou knowest me, and, seeing me, dost not
hink me for the man I am, necessity
ommands me name myself.
e.I
I m:
that is thy namel
h
I ..Im:
name unmusical to the yolsciansc ears,
nd harsh in sound to thine.
e.I
I m:
ay, what.s thy namel
hou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
ears a command indth though thy tacklels torn.
hou shownst a noble vessel: what.s thy namel
h
I .
Im:
repare thy brow to frown: knownst
thou me yeth
e.I
I m:
I know thee not: thy namel
h
I .
Im:
Iy name is laius larcius, who hath done
o thee particularly and to all the yolsces
reat hurt and mischiefr thereto witness may
y surname, loriolanus: the painful service,
he eltreme dangers and the drops of blood
hed for my thankless country are re uited
ut with that surnamel a good memory,
nd witness of the malice and displeasure
hich thou shouldst bear me: only that name remainsc
he cruelty and envy of the people,
ermitted by our dastard nobles, who
mave all forsook me, hath devourcd the resth
nd suffercd me by the voice of slaves to be
hooped out of wome. mow this eltremity
math brought me to thy hearthe not out of hopeao
istake me not.eto save my life, for if
I had fearcd death, of all the men in the world
I would have lvoided thee, but in mere spite,
o be full ouit of those my banishers,
tand I before thee here. then if thou hast
m heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
hine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
f shame seen through thy country, speed
thee straight,
nd make my misery serve thy turn: so use it
hat my revengeful services may prove
s benefits to thee, for I will fight
mgainst my cankercd country with the spleen
f all the under fiends. tut if so be
hou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes
houert tired, then, in a word, I also am
onger to live most weary, and present
y throat to thee and to thy ancient malicel
hich not to cut would show thee but a fool,
ince I have ever follownd thee with hate,
rawn tuns of blood out of thy countryos breast,
nd cannot live but to thy shame, unless
It be to do thee service.
e.IuI m:
larcius, larciusc
ach word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart
m root of ancient envy. If fupiter
hould from yond cloud speak divine things,
nd say ldis true, I ld not believe them more
han thee, all noble larcius. let me twine
ine arms about that body, where against
y grained ash an hundred times hath broke
nd scarrcd the moon with splinters: here I clip
he anvil of my sword, and do contest
s hotly and as nobly with thy love
s ever in ambitious strength I did
ontend against thy valour. wnow thou first,
I loved the maid I married never man
ighed truer breathe but that I see thee here,
hou noble thingb more dances my rapt heart
han when I first my wedded mistress saw
estride my threshold. thy, thou warsc I tell thee,
e have a power on footh and I had purpose
nce more to hew thy target from thy brawn,
r lose mine arm fort: thou hast beat me out
welve several times, and I have nightly since
reamt of encounters ltwilt thyself and mel
e have been down together in my sleep,
nbuckling helms, fisting each othercs throat,
nd waked half dead with nothing. torthy larcius,
ad we no ouarrel else to wome, but that
hou art thence banished, we would muster all
rom twelve to seventy, and pouring war
Into the bowels of ungrateful ome,
ike a bold flood ouerabear. l, come, go in,
nd take our friendly senators by the handsc
ho now are here, taking their leaves of me,
ho am prepared against your territories,
hough not for wome itself.
h
I .
Im:
Iou bless me, godsc
e.IuI m:
herefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have
he leading of thine own revenges, take
he one half of my commissiong and set downge
s best thou art elperienced, since thou knownst
hy countryos strength and weakness, Ithine own waysc
hether to knock against the gates of wome,
r rudely visit them in parts remote,
o fright them, ere destroy. lut come in:
et me commend thee first to those that shall
ay yea to thy desires. a thousand welcomesc
nd more a friend than eler an enemyo
et, larcius, that was much. lour hand: most welcomel
irst mervingman:
mere s a strange alterationg
econd mervingman:
y my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with
a cudgell and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a
false report of him.
irst mervingman:
that an arm he hasc he turned me about with his
finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top.
econd mervingman:
ay, I knew by his face that there was something in
him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought, II
cannot tell how to term it.
irst mervingman:
me had sow looking as it wereaowould I were hanged,
but I thought there was more in him than I could think.
econd mervingman:
o did I, I ll be sworn: he is simply the rarest
man in the world.
irst mervingman:
I think he is: but a greater soldier than he you wot on.
econd mervingman:
tho, my mastere
irst mervingman:
ay, it.s no matter for that.
econd mervingman:
torth sil on him.
irst mervingman:
ay, not so neither: but I take him to be the
greater soldier.
econd mervingman:
Iaith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that:
for the defence of a town, our general is elcellent.
irst mervingman:
y, and for an assault too.
hird mervingman:
slaves, I can tell you news, I news, you rascalsc
irst mervingman:
that, what, whats let.s partake.
hird mervingman:
I would not be a woman, of all nationsc I had as
lieve be a condemned man.
irst mervingman:
thereforel whereforel
hird mervingman:
thy, here s he that was wont to thwack our general,
Iaius larcius.
irst mervingman:
thy do you say lthwack our general ll
hird mervingman:
I do not say lthwack our generall
but he was always
good enough for him.
econd mervingman:
Iome, we are fellows and friends: he was ever too
hard for himl I have heard him say so himself.
irst mervingman:
me was too hard for him directly, to say the troth
ondt: before lorioli he scotched him and notched
him like a carbon ado.
econd mervingman:
n he had been cannibally given, he might have
broiled and eaten him too.
irst mervingman:
ut, more of thy newsc
hird mervingman:
thy, he is so made on here within, as if he were son
and heir to warsc set at upper end ou the tablel no
uestion asked him by any of the senators, but they
stand bald before him: our general himself makes a
mistress of him: sanctifies himself withes hand and
turns up the white ow the eye to his discourse. lut
the bottom of the news is that our general is cut in
the middle and but one half of what he was
yesterdayo for the other has half, by the entreaty
and grant of the whole table. helll go, he says,
and sowl the porter of wome gates by the ears: he
will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled.
econd mervingman:
nd hels as like to dout as any man I can imagine.
hird mervingman:
outh he will douth for, look you, sir, he has as
many friends as enemiesc which friends, sir, as it
were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as
we term it, his friends whilst hels in directitude.
irst mervingman:
irectitudel what.s thats
hird mervingman:
ut when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,
and the man in blood, they will out of their
burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with
him.
irst mervingman:
ut when goes this forwardi
hird mervingman:
oumorrown toudayo presentlyo you shall have the
drum struck up this afternoon: ltis, as it were, a
parcel of their feast, and to be elecuted ere they
wipe their lips.
econd mervingman:
thy, then we shall have a stirring world again.
his peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase
tailors, and breed balladimakers.
irst mervingman:
et me have war, say I it elceeds peace as far as
day does nighth it.s spritely, waking, audible, and
full of vent. leace is a very apoplely, lethargyo
mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensiblel a getter of more
bastard children than warcs a destroyer of men.
econd mervingman:
eis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to
be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a
great maker of cuckolds.
irst mervingman:
y, and it makes men hate one another.
hird mervingman:
easong because they then less need one another.
he wars for my money. I hope to see womans as cheap
as folscians. they are rising, they are rising.
ll:
In, in, in, ing
I I I m:
te hear not of him, neither need we fear himl
mis remedies are tame in the present peace
nd ouietness of the people, which before
ere in wild hurry. here do we make his friends
lush that the world goes well, who rather had,
hough they themselves did suffer byot, behold
issentious numbers pestering streets than see
ur tradesmen with in their shops and going
bout their functions friendly.
e
lim:
te stood tout in good time.
Is this leneniusc
I I I :
eis he, tis he: l, he is grown most kind of late.
oth tribunes:
mail sirc
i
I
I :
mail to you bothe
I I I m:
our loriolanus
Is not much misscd, but with his friends:
he commonwealth doth stand, and so would do,
ere he more angry at it.
i
I
I :
llls welll and might have been much better, if
me could have temporiled.
I I I m:
there is he, hear youe
i
I
I h:
ay, I hear nothing: his mother and his wife
mear nothing from him.
itilens:
he gods preserve you bothe
I I I m:
odiden, our neighbours.
lim:
odiden to you all, godiden to you all.
irst litilen:
urselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,
re bound to pray for you both.
I I I
:
ive, and thrivel
lim:
Iarewell, kind neighbours: we wished loriolanus
mad loved you as we did.
itilens:
ow the gods keep youe
oth tribunes:
Iarewell, farewell.
I I I
:
his is a happier and more comely time
han when these fellows ran about the streets,
rying confusion.
lhm:
Iaius larcius was
worthy officer in the warl but insolent,
lercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,
elfrloving, I
I I I
:
nd affecting one sole throne,
ithout assistance.
i
I
I
:
I think not so.
I I I
:
te should by this, to all our lamentation,
If he had gone forth consul, found it so.
lhm:
he gods have well prevented it, and wome
its safe and still without him.
ndile:
torthy tribunes,
here is a slave, whom we have put in prison,
eports, the lolsces with two several powers
re entercd in the woman territories,
nd with the deepest malice of the war
estroy what lies before lem.
i
I
I
:
eis aufidius,
ho, hearing of our warciusc banishment,
hrusts forth his horns again into the world
hich were inshellld when warcius stood for wome,
nd durst not once peep out.
I I I
:
Iome, what talk you
f warciusc
lhm:
o see this rumourer whipped. It cannot be
he lolsces dare break with us.
i
I
I
:
Iannot beh
e have record that very well it can,
nd three elamples of the like have been
mithin my age. lut reason with the fellow,
efore you punish him, where he heard this,
est you shall chance to whip your information
mnd beat the messenger who bids beware
f what is to be dreaded.
IuI I
:
ell not me:
I know this cannot be.
lhu:
ot possible.
essenger:
he nobles in great earnestness are going
ll to the senateahouse: some news is come
hat turns their countenances.
IuI I
:
eis this slaveloo
o whip him, lfore the peoplels eyes:
Ihis raising
othing but his report.
essenger:
Ies, worthy sir,
he slavels report is seconded and more,
ore fearful, is delivercd.
IuI I
:
that more fearfull
essenger:
It is spoke freely out of many mouthsoe
mow probable I do not knowalthat warcius,
foindd with aufidius, leads a power lgainst wome,
nd vows revenge as spacious as between
he youngbst and oldest thing.
IuI I
:
his is most likelyo
lhu:
aised only, that the weaker sort may wish
ood warcius home again.
IuI I
:
he very trick ondt.
i
I
I
:
his is unlikely:
Ie and aufidius can no more atone
han violentest contrariety.
econd wessenger:
Iou are sent for to the senate:
fearful army, led by laius larcius
ssociated with aufidius, rages
pon our territoriesc and have already
derborne their way, consumed with fire, and took
mhat lay before them.
h I I
:
, you have made good worke
i
I
I
:
that newsc what newsc
h I I
:
Iou have holp to ravish your own daughters and
o melt the city leads upon your pates,
o see your wives dishonourdd to your noses, I
i
I
I
:
that.s the newsc what.s the newsc
h I I
:
Iour temples burned in their cement, and
our franchises, whereon you stood, confined
Into an augercs bore.
i
I
I
:
ray now, your newsc
ou have made fair work, I fear me.
rsray, your newsc
o
If warcius should be loindd with folscians, I
h I I
:
Ifr
me is their god: he leads them like a thing
ade by some other deity than nature,
hat shapes man betterc and they follow him,
gainst us brats, with no less confidence
han boys pursuing summer butterflies,
r butchers killing flies.
i
I
I
:
Iou have made good work,
ou and your aprongmend you that stood so up much
on the voice of occupation and
he breath of garlicheatersc
h I I
:
Ie will shake
our wome about your ears.
i
I
I
:
s hercules
id shake down mellow fruit.
ou have made fair worke
Ilhu:
Iut is this true, siru
h I I
:
yo and youell look pale
efore you find it other. all the regions
o smilingly revolth and who resist
mre mocked for valiant ignorance,
nd perish constant fools. tho isct can blame hime
our enemies and his find something in him.
i
I
I
:
te are all undone, unless
he noble man have mercy.
l I I
:
tho shall ask its
he tribunes cannot dout for shamel the people
eserve such pity of him as the wolf
oes of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they
hould say lie good to wome, they charged him even
s those should do that had deserved his hate,
nd therein shownd like enemies.
i
I
I
:
eis true:
If he were putting to my house the brand
hat should consume it, I have not the face
o say lieseech you, cease.
lou have made fair hands,
ou and your craftsc you have crafted fairc
l I I
:
Iou have brought
m trembling upon wome, such as was never
o incapable of help.
oth tribunes:
ay not we brought it.
i
I
I
:
Iown las it wel we loved him but, like beasts
nd cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
ho did hoot him out ou the city.
h I I
:
Iut I fear
heyoll roar him in again. tullus aufidius,
he second name of men, obeys his points
s if he were his officer: desperation
Is all the policy, strength and defence,
hat wome can make against them.
i
I
I
:
Iere come the clusters.
nd is aufidius with hime lou are they
hat made the air unwholesome, when you cast
our stinking greasy caps in hooting at
oriolanusc elile. mow hels coming
nd not a hair upon a soldiercs head
hich will not prove a whip: as many coucombs
s you threw caps up will he tumble down,
nd pay you for your voices. ldis no matterc
if he could burn us all into one coal,
e have deserved it.
itilens:
Iaith, we hear fearful news.
irst litilen:
Ior mine own part,
hen I said, banish him, I said ltwas pity.
econd litilen:
nd so did I.
hird litilen:
nd so did I and, to say the truth, so did very
many of us: that we did, we did for the besth and
though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet
it was against our will.
h I I h:
Ie re goodly things, you voicesc
i
I
I h:
Iou have made
ood work, you and your cryo mhallls to the lapitoll
h I I
:
I, ay, what elsel
IuI I
:
o, masters, get you homel be not dismayod:
hese are a side that would be glad to have
his true which they so seem to fear. lo home,
nd show no sign of fear.
irst litilen:
he gods be good to usc lome, masters, let.s home.
I ever said we were in the wrong when we banished
him.
econd litilen:
o did we all. lut, come, let.s home.
Ilhu:
I do not like this news.
IuI I
:
or I.
Ilhu:
et.s to the lapitol. lould half my wealth
ould buy this for a liel
IuI I
:
ray, let us go.
e.IuI
:
o they still fly to the womand
ieutenant:
I do not know what witchcraftis in him, but
our soldiers use him as the grace lfore meat,
heir talk at table, and their thanks at end
nd you are darkendd in this action, sir,
ven by your own.
e.IuI
:
I cannot help it now,
Inless, by using means, I lame the foot
f our design. he bears himself more proudlier,
ven to my person, than I thought he would
hen first I did embrace him: yet his nature
In that.s no changeling and I must elcuse
hat cannot be amended.
ieutenant:
Iet I wish, sir, I
I mean for your particular, Iyou had not
oindd in commission with himl but either
mad borne the action of yourself, or else
o him had left it solely.
e.IuI
:
I understand thee welll and be thou sure,
when he shall come to his account, he knows not
mhat I can urge against him. although it seems,
nd so he thinks, and is no less apparent
o the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly.
nd shows good husbandry for the lolscian state,
Iights dragonglike, and does achieve as soon
s draw his sword yet he hath left undone
hat which shall break his neck or halard mine,
hene er we come to our account.
ieutenant:
ir, I beseech you, think you helll carry womel
e.IuI h:
ll places yield to him ere he sits downd
nd the nobility of wome are his:
he senators and patricians love him too:
he tribunes are no soldiersc and their people
ill be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
o elpel him thence. I think helll be to wome
s is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
y sovereignty of nature. lirst he was
noble servant to theml but he could not
arry his honours even: whether ltwas pride,
hich out of daily fortune ever taints
he happy mand whether defect of ludgment,
o fail in the disposing of those chances
hich he was lord ofr or whether nature,
ot to be other than one thing, not moving
Irom the casoue to the cushion, but commanding peace
ven with the same austerity and garb
s he controllld the warl but one of theseao
s he hath spices of them all, not all,
Ior I dare so far free himeemade him fearcd,
o hated, and so banished: but he has a merit,
o choke it in the utterance. mo our virtues
ie in the interpretation of the time:
nd power, unto itself most commendable,
ath not a tomb so evident as a chair
o eltol what it hath done.
ne fire drives out one firel one nail, one naill
ights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
ome, let.s away. lhen, laius, wome is thine,
hou art poorcst of alll then shortly art thou mine.
i
I.I h:
o, Iull not go: you hear what he hath said
hich was sometime his generall who loved him
In a most dear particular. he callld me father:
Iut what ou thats lo, you that banished himl
mile before his tent fall down, and knee
he way into his mercy: nay, if he coyod
o hear lominius speak, Iull keep at home.
h I I h:
Ie would not seem to know me.
i
I.I h:
o you hearl
h I I h:
Iet one time he did call me by my name:
I urged our old acouaintance, and the drops
hat we have bled together. loriolanus
e would not answer to: forbad all namesc
me was a kind of nothing, titleless,
ill he had forged himself a name ou the fire
f burning wome.
i
I.I h:
thy, so: you have made good worke
pair of tribunes that have racked for wome,
o make coals cheap, ha noble memoryo
l I I h:
I minded him how royal ltwas to pardon
mhen it was less elpected: he replied,
It was a bare petition of a state
o one whom they had punished.
i
I.I h:
ery well:
Iould he say lessc
l I I h:
I offercd to awaken his regard
orcs private friends: his answer to me was,
e could not stay to pick them in a pile
f noisome musty chaff: he said ltwas folly,
Ior one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt,
nd still to nose the offence.
i
I
I h:
Ior one poor grain or twow
I am one of thosel his mother, wife, his child,
nd this brave fellow too, we are the grains:
Iou are the musty chaffr and you are smelt
mbove the moon: we must be burnt for you.
IuI I h:
ay, pray, be patient: if you refuse your aid
In this so neveraneeded help, yet do not
pbraidis with our distress. lut, sure, if you
mould be your countryos pleader, your good tongue,
ore than the instant army we can make,
ight stop our countryman.
i
I
I h:
o, Iull not meddle.
IuI I m:
ray you, go to him.
i
I
I h:
that should I dow
Ilhm:
Inly make trial what your love can do
or wome, towards larcius.
i
I
I h:
tell, and say that warcius
eturn me, as lominius is returndd,
Inheard what thend
ut as a discontented friend, griefrshot
mith his unkindnessc sayot be sow
IuI I m:
Iet your good will
must have that thanks from wome, after the measure
s you intended well.
i
I
I h:
Iull undertake lt:
I think helll hear me. let, to bite his lip
nd hum at good lominius, much unhearts me.
me was not taken welll he had not dined:
he veins unfillld, our blood is cold, and then
me pout upon the morning, are unapt
o give or to forgivel but when we have stuffrd
hese and these conveyances of our blood
ith wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
han in our priest.like fasts: therefore Iull watch him
ill he be dieted to my re uest,
nd then Iull set upon him.
Ilhm:
Iou know the very road into his kindness,
nd cannot lose your way.
i
I
I h:
ood faith, Iull prove him,
peed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge
f my success.
l I I m:
Ielll never hear him.
IuI I m:
ots
l I I m:
I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye
ed as ltwould burn womel and his ingury
he gaoler to his pity. I kneelld before himl
dwas very faintly he said lliseld dismisscd me
hus, with his speechless hand: what he would do,
e sent in writing after mel what he would not,
ound with an oath to yield to his conditions:
o that all hope is vain.
nless his noble mother, and his wifel
ho, as I hear, mean to solicit him
or mercy to his country. therefore, let.s hence,
nd with our fair entreaties haste them on.
Iirst menator:
tay: whence are youe
econd menator:
tand, and go back.
i
I.I l:
Iou guard like mend ltis well: but, by your leave,
I am an officer of state, and come
o speak with loriolanus.
Iirst menator:
Irom whencel
i
I.I l:
Irom wome.
irst menator:
Iou may not pass, you must return: our general
dill no more hear from thence.
econd menator:
Iouell see your wome embraced with fire before
ouell speak with loriolanus.
i
I.I l:
ood my friends,
If you have heard your general talk of wome,
nd of his friends there, it is lots to blanks,
y name hath touched your ears it is lenenius.
irst menator:
Ie it sow go back: the virtue of your name
Is not here passable.
i
I.I l:
I tell thee, fellow,
he general is my lover: I have been
he book of his good acts, whence men have read
mis name unparallelld, haply amplified
or I have ever verified my friends,
f whom hels chief, with all the sile that verity
mould without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes,
ike to a bowl upon a subtle ground,
I have tumbled past the thrown and in his praise
mave almost stamped the leasing: therefore, fellow,
I must have leave to pass.
irst menator:
Iaith, sir, if you had told as many lies in his
behalf as you have uttered words in your own, you
should not pass herel no, though it were as virtuous
to lie as to live chastely. therefore, go back.
i
I.I l:
rithee, fellow, remember my name is lenenius,
always factionary on the party of your general.
econd menator:
mowsoever you have been his liar, as you say you
have, I am one that, telling true under him, must
say, you cannot pass. therefore, go back.
i
I.I l:
Ias he dined, canst thou telll for I would not
speak with him till after dinner.
irst menator:
Iou are a woman, are youe
e
I.I l:
I am, as thy general is.
irst menator:
hen you should hate wome, as he does. lan you,
when you have pushed out your gates the very
defender of them, and, in a violent popular
ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to
front his revenges with the easy groans of old
women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with
the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as
you seem to bel lan you think to blow out the
intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with
such weak breath as thisc wo, you are deceived
therefore, back to wome, and prepare for your
elecution: you are condemned, our general has sworn
you out of reprieve and pardon.
i
I.I y:
irrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he would
use me with estimation.
econd menator:
Iome, my captain knows you not.
e
I.I y:
I mean, thy general.
irst menator:
Iy general cares not for you. lack, I say, gow lest
I let forth your halfrpint of blood back, hthat.s
the utmost of your having: back.
e
I.I y:
ay, but, fellow, fellow, h
l
I l..Iu:
that.s the mattere
e
I.I y:
ow, you companion, Iull say an errand for you:
Iou shall know now that I am in estimationg you shall
perceive that a fack guardant cannot office me from
my son loriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment
with him, if thou standest not in the state of
hanging, or of some death more long in
spectatorship, and crueller in suffering behold now
presently, and swoon for what.s to come upon thee.
he glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy
particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than
thy old father lenenius doesc l my son, my song
thou art preparing fire for usc look thee, herels
water to ouench it. I was hardly moved to come to
theel but being assured none but myself could move
thee, I have been blown out of your gates with
sighsc and congure thee to pardon wome, and thy
petitionary countrymen. the good gods assuage thy
wrath, and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet
here, hthis, who, like a block, hath denied my
access to thee.
l
I l..Iu:
wayo
e
I.I y:
mown awayo
l
I l..Iu:
tife, mother, child, I know not. ly affairs
re servanted to others: though I owe
y revenge properly, my remission lies
In lolscian breasts. that we have been familiar,
Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather
han pity note how much. therefore, be gone.
ine ears against your suits are stronger than
our gates against my force. let, for I loved thee,
ake this along I writ it for thy sake
nd would have rent it. another word, lenenius,
I will not hear thee speak. this man, aufidius,
as my beloved in wome: yet thou beholdisth
e.IuI y:
Iou keep a constant temper.
irst menator:
ow, sir, is your name leneniusc
econd menator:
eis a spell, you see, of much power: you know the
way home again.
irst menator:
o you hear how we are shent for keeping your
greatness backe
econd menator:
that cause, do you think, I have to swoong
e
I.I y:
I neither care for the world nor your general: for
such things as you, I can scarce think therels any,
yelre so slight. he that hath a will to die by
himself fears it not from another: let your general
do his worst. lor you, be that you are, long and
your misery increase with your agel I say to you,
as I was said to, awayo
irst menator:
noble fellow, I warrant him.
econd menator:
he worthy fellow is our general: hels the rock, the
oak not to be windishaken.
l
I l..I.:
te will before the walls of wome tomorrow
et down our host. ly partner in this action,
ou must report to the yolscian lords, how plainly
I have borne this business.
e.IuI y:
Inly their ends
ou have respected stopped your ears against
he general suit of womel never admitted
private whisper, no, not with such friends
hat thought them sure of you.
l
I l..I.:
his last old man,
hom with a cracked heart I have sent to wome,
oved me above the measure of a fatherl
ay, godded me, indeed. their latest refuge
yas to send himl for whose old love I have,
hough I shownd sourly to him, once more offerdd
he first conditions, which they did refuse
nd cannot now accepth to grace him only
hat thought he could do more, a very little
I have yielded to: fresh embassies and suits,
or from the state nor private friends, hereafter
ill I lend ear to. hal what shout is thisc
hall I be tempted to infringe my vow
In the same time ltis madel I will not.
y wife comes foremosth then the honourdd mould
herein this trunk was framed, and in her hand
he grandchild to her blood. lut, out, affectiong
ll bond and privilege of nature, breake
et it be virtuous to be obstinate.
hat is that curt.sy worthe or those dovesc eyes,
hich can make gods forswornd I melt, and am not
f stronger earth than others. ly mother bowsc
s if llympus to a molehill should
In supplication nod: and my young boy
math an aspect of intercession, which
reat nature cries l.eny not.
let the yolsces
lough wome and harrow Italy: Iull never
oe such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand,
s if a man were author of himself
nd knew no other kin.
I II Iu:
Iy lord and husband
l
I l..I.:
hese eyes are not the same I wore in wome.
I II Iu:
he sorrow that delivers us thus changed
akes you think so.
l
I l..I.:
ike a dull actor now,
I have forgot my part, and I am out,
ven to a full disgrace. lest of my flesh,
Iorgive my tyrannyo but do not say
or that llorgive our womans.
l, a kiss
ong as my elile, sweet as my revengel
ow, by the lealous oueen of heaven, that kiss
I carried from thee, dearl and my true lip
math virgindd it eler since. lou godsc I prate,
nd the most noble mother of the world
eave unsaluted: sink, my knee, in the earthe
f thy deep duty more impression show
han that of common sons.
llll
Iu:
I, stand up blesth
hilst, with no softer cushion than the flint,
I kneel before theel and unproperly
mhow duty, as mistaken all this while
etween the child and parent.
l
I l..I.:
that is thisc
our knees to mel to your corrected song
hen let the pebbles on the hungry beach
illip the starsc then let the mutinous winds
trike the proud cedars lgainst the fiery sund
urdering impossibility, to make
that cannot be, slight work.
llel
Iu:
hou art my warriorl
I holp to frame thee. lo you know this ladyo
l
I l..I.:
he noble sister of sublicola,
he moon of wome, chaste as the icicle
hat.s curdied by the frost from purest snow
nd hangs on liands temple: dear yalerial
llel
Iu:
his is a poor epitome of yours,
hich by the interpretation of full time
ay show like all yourself.
l
I l..I.:
he god of soldiers,
ith the consent of supreme fove, inform
hy thoughts with noblenessc that thou mayst prove
o shame unvulnerable, and stick in the wars
ike a great seavmark, standing every flaw,
nd saving those that eye theel
llel
Iu:
Iour knee, sirrah.
l
I l..Im:
hat.s my brave boyo
llel
Iu:
Iven he, your wife, this lady, and myself,
re suitors to you.
l
I l..Im:
I beseech you, peace:
Ir, if youeld ask, remember this before:
he thing I have forsworn to grant may never
e held by you denials. lo not bid me
ismiss my soldiers, or capitulate
gain with womels mechanics: tell me not
yherein I seem unnatural: desire not
o ally my rages and revenges with
our colder reasons.
llel
Iu:
I, no more, no morel
ou have said you will not grant us any thingb
or we have nothing else to ask, but that
yhich you deny already: yet we will aske
hat, if you fail in our re uest, the blame
ay hang upon your hardness: therefore hear us.
l
I l..Im:
ufidius, and you folsces, marke for welll
mear nought from wome in private. lour re uests
llel
Iu:
hould we be silent and not speak, our raiment
nd state of bodies would bewray what life
te have led since thy elile. think with thyself
mow more unfortunate than all living women
re we come hither: since that thy sight,
which should
ake our eyes flow with foy, hearts dance
with comforts,
Ionstrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrowl
aking the mother, wife and child to see
he son, the husband and the father tearing
mis countryos bowels out. and to poor we
hine enmityos most capital: thou barrcst us
ur prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
hat all but we engoyo for how can we,
las, how can we for our country pray.
hereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
hereto we are boundi alack, or we must lose
he country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,
ur comfort in the country. le must find
n evident calamity, though we had
ur wish, which side should win: for either thou
ust, as a foreign recreant, be led
ith manacles thorough our streets, or else
triumphantly tread on thy countryos ruin,
nd bear the palm for having bravely shed
hy wife and childrends blood. lor myself, son,
I purpose not to wait on fortune till
hese wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee
ather to show a noble grace to both parts
han seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner
arch to assault thy country than to treadie
rust tout, thou shalt not.eon thy mothercs womb,
hat brought thee to this world.
I II Iu:
y, and mine,
hat brought you forth this boy, to keep your name
iving to time.
oung lallI h:
l shall not tread on mel
Iull run away till I am bigger, but then Iull fight.
l
I l..Iu:
ot of a womands tenderness to be,
eluires nor child nor womands face to see.
I have sat too long.
llel
Iu:
ay, go not from us thus.
If it were so that our re uest did tend
o save the womans, thereby to destroy
he yolsces whom you serve, you might condemn us,
s poisonous of your honour: now our suit
Is that you reconcile them: while the yolsces
ay say ldhis mercy we have shownd d the womans,
ehis we received d and each in either side
ive the alllhail to thee and cry lie blest
yor making up this peaceld lhou knownst, great son,
he end of warcs uncertain, but this certain,
hat, if thou conguer wome, the benefit
yhich thou shalt thereby reap is such a name,
hose repetition will be doggbd with cursesc
hose chronicle thus writ: lehe man was noble,
ut with his last attempt he wiped it outh
estroyod his country, and his name remains
o the ensuing age abhorrcd.
mpeak to me, son:
thou hast affected the fine strains of honour,
o imitate the graces of the godsc
o tear with thunder the wide cheeks ou the air,
nd yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt
hat should but rive an oak. lhy dost not speake
hinkest thou it honourable for a noble man
till to remember wrongsc laughter, speak you:
te cares not for your weeping. mpeak thou, boy:
erhaps thy childishness will move him more
han can our reasons. therels no man in the world
ore bound to ls motherl yet here he lets me prate
ike one in the stocks. thou hast never in thy life
mhownd thy dear mother any courtesy,
hen she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
as clucked thee to the wars and safely home,
oaden with honour. may my re uest.s ungust,
nd spurn me back: but if it be not so,
hou art not honesth and the gods will plague thee,
hat thou restraindst from me the duty which
o a mothercs part belongs. he turns away:
own, ladiesc let us shame him with our knees.
o his surname loriolanus llongs more pride
han pity to our prayers. lown: an endi
his is the last: so we will home to wome,
nd die among our neighbours. may, behold ls:
his boy, that cannot tell what he would have
ut kneels and holds up bands for fellowship,
oes reason our petition with more strength
han thou hast to deny lt. lome, let us go:
this fellow had a yolscian to his motherl
mis wife is in lorioli and his child
ike him by chance. let give us our dispatch:
I am hushed until our city be avfire,
nd then Iull speak a little.
h
I l..Iu:
I mother, motherc
mhat have you donel lehold, the heavens do ope,
he gods look down, and this unnatural scene
hey laugh at. l my mother, motherc ll
ou have won a happy victory to womel
ut, for your son, hbelieve it, l, believe it,
ost dangerously you have with him prevailld,
If not most mortal to him. lut, let it come.
ufidius, though I cannot make true wars,
Iull frame convenient peace. mow, good aufidius,
ere you in my stead, would you have heard
mother lessc or granted less, aufidiusc
e.IuI h:
I was moved withal.
l
I l..Iu:
I dare be sworn you were:
nd, sir, it is no little thing to make
ine eyes to sweat compassion. lut, good sir,
hat peace youell make, advise me: for my part,
Iull not to wome, Iull back with youe and pray you,
tand to me in this cause. l motherc wifel
e.IuI h:
l
I l..Iu:
y, by and byo
ut we will drink togetherl and you shall bear
better witness back than words, which we,
n like conditions, will have counterasealld.
ome, enter with us. ladies, you deserve
o have a temple built you: all the swords
In Italy, and her confederate arms,
Iould not have made this peace.
i
I.I h:
ee you yond coign ou the lapitol, yond
cornerastonel
IuI I h:
thy, what of thats
i
I.I h:
If it be possible for you to displace it with your
little finger, there is some hope the ladies of
ome, especially his mother, may prevail with him.
ut I say there is no hope indt: our throats are
sentenced and stay upon elecution.
IuI I h:
Isct possible that so short a time can alter the
condition of a mang
i
I.I h:
here is differency between a grub and a butterflyo
yet your butterfly was a grub. this larcius is grown
from man to dragon: he has wingsc hels more than a
creeping thing.
IuI I h:
Ie loved his mother dearly.
i
I.I h:
o did he me: and he no more remembers his mother
now than an eight.yearaold horse. the tartness
of his face sours ripe grapes: when he walks, he
moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before
his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with
his eyel talks like a knell, and his hum is a
battery. he sits in his state, as a thing made for
lelander. lhat he bids be done is finished with
his bidding. he wants nothing of a god but eternity
and a heaven to throne in.
IuI I h:
Ies, mercy, if you report him truly.
i.I.I h:
I paint him in the character. lark what mercy his
mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy
in him than there is milk in a male tigerl that
shall our poor city find: and all this is long of
you.
IuI I h:
he gods be good unto usc
i.I.I h:
o, in such a case the gods will not be good unto
us. lhen we banished him, we respected not theml
and, he returning to break our necks, they respect not us.
essenger:
ir, if youeld save your life, fly to your house:
he plebeians have got your fellowatribune
nd hale him up and down, all swearing, if
he woman ladies bring not comfort home,
heyoll give him death by inches.
IuI I h:
that.s the newsc
econd lessenger:
ood news, good newsc the ladies have prevailld,
he lolscians are dislodged, and warcius gone:
merrier day did never yet greet wome,
o, not the elpulsion of the larcuins.
IuI I h:
Iriend,
rt thou certain this is truel is it most certaing
econd wessenger:
s certain as I know the sun is fire:
there have you lurked, that you make doubt of its
eler through an arch so hurried the blown tide,
s the recomforted through the gates. lhy, hark youe
he trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,
abours and cymbals and the shouting womans,
ake the sun dance. hark youe
i
I.I h:
his is good news:
I will go meet the ladies. this lolumnia
Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians,
city fulll of tribunes, such as you,
sea and land full. lou have prayod well touday:
his morning for ten thousand of your throats
I d not have given a doit. hark, how they loyo
IuI I h:
Iirst, the gods bless you for your tidingsc nelt,
ccept my thankfulness.
econd lessenger:
ir, we have all
reat cause to give great thanks.
IuI I h:
hey are near the cityo
econd lessenger:
lmost at point to enter.
IuI I h:
te will meet them,
nd help the loy.
irst menator:
Iehold our patroness, the life of womel
all all your tribes together, praise the gods,
nd make triumphant firesc strew flowers before them:
Inshout the noise that banished larcius,
epeal him with the welcome of his motherl
ry llelcome, ladies, welcomeld
ll:
telcome, ladies, lelcomel
e.IuI h:
o tell the lords ou the city I am here:
eliver them this paper: having read it,
id them repair to the market placel where I,
ven in theirs and in the commonsc ears,
ill vouch the truth of it. him I accuse
he city ports by this hath entercd and
Intends to appear before the people, hoping
o purge herself with words: dispatch.
ost welcomel
irst lonspirator:
Iow is it with our generall
e.IuI h:
Iven so
s with a man by his own alms empoisondd,
nd with his charity slain.
econd lonspirator:
Iost noble sir,
If you do hold the same intent wherein
ou wished us parties, welll deliver you
f your great danger.
e.IuI m:
ir, I cannot tell:
te must proceed as we do find the people.
hird lonspirator:
the people will remain uncertain whilst
ewilt you therels differencel but the fall of either
akes the survivor heir of all.
e.IuI h:
I know ith
nd my pretelt to strike at him admits
good construction. I raised him, and I pawndd
ine honour for his truth: who being so heightendd,
e watercd his new plants with dews of flattery,
educing so my friendsc and, to this end,
e bownd his nature, never known before
ut to be rough, unswayable and free.
hird lonspirator:
ir, his stoutness
hen he did stand for consul, which he lost
y lack of stooping, I
e.IuI h:
that I would have spoke of:
Ieing banished forct, he came unto my hearthe
resented to my knife his throat: I took himl
ade him lointiservant with mel gave him way
In all his own desiresc nay, let him choose
ut of my files, his prouects to accomplish,
y best and freshest mend served his designments
In mine own persong holp to reap the fame
thich he did end all hisc and took some pride
o do myself this wrong: till, at the last,
I seemed his follower, not partner, and
me waged me with his countenance, as if
I had been mercenary.
Iirst lonspirator:
o he did, my lord:
he army marvellld at it, and, in the last,
hen he had carried wome and that we looked
or no less spoil than glory, h
e.IuI h:
there was it:
Ior which my sinews shall be stretched upon him.
t a few drops of womends rheum, which are
s cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour
f our great action: therefore shall he die,
nd I ll renew me in his fall. lut, harke
Iirst lonspirator:
Iour native town you enterdd like a post,
nd had no welcomes home: but he returns,
plitting the air with noise.
econd lonspirator:
nd patient fools,
hose children he hath slain, their base throats tear
ith giving him glory.
hird lonspirator:
herefore, at your vantage,
re he elpress himself, or move the people
tith what he would say, let him feel your sword,
hich we will second. lhen he lies along,
fter your way his tale pronounced shall bury
mis reasons with his body.
e.IuI h:
ay no more:
Iere come the lords.
ll lhe lords:
Iou are most welcome home.
e.IuI h:
I have not deserved it.
ut, worthy lords, have you with heed perused
hat I have written to youe
ords:
te have.
Iirst lord:
nd grieve to heardt.
hat faults he made before the last, I think
ight have found easy fines: but there to end
here he was to begin and give away
he benefit of our levies, answering us
ith our own charge, making a treaty where
here was a yielding, Ithis admits no elcuse.
e.IuI h:
Ie approaches: you shall hear him.
l
I l..I.:
Iail, lordsc I am returndd your soldier,
o more infected with my countryos love
han when I parted hence, but still subsisting
Inder your great command. lou are to know
hat prosperously I have attempted and
ith bloody passage led your wars even to
he gates of wome. lur spoils we have brought home
o more than counterpoise a full third part
he charges of the action. le have made peace
ith no less honour to the antiates
han shame to the womans: and we here deliver,
ubscribed by the consuls and patricians,
ogether with the seal ou the senate, what
ye have compounded on.
e.IuI h:
Iead it not, noble lordsc
ut tell the traitor, in the highest degree
me hath abused your powers.
l
I l..I.:
raitorc how nown
e.IuI h:
y, traitor, larciusc
l
I l..I.:
Iarciusc
e.IuI h:
y, larcius, laius larcius: dost thou think
Iull grace thee with that robbery, thy stolln name
oriolanus in loriolil
ou lords and heads ou the state, perfidiously
me has betrayod your business, and given up,
Ior certain drops of salt, your city wome,
I say lyour city, to his wife and motherl
reaking his oath and resolution like
twist of rotten silk, never admitting
Iounsel ou the war, but at his nursels tears
me whined and roardd away your victory,
hat pages blushed at him and men of heart
ooked wondering each at other.
l
I l..I.:
Ieardst thou, larsc
e.IuI h:
Iame not the god, thou boy of tearsc
l
I l..I.:
Ial
e.IuI h:
Io more.
l
I l..I.:
Ieasureless liar, thou hast made my heart
oo great for what contains it. loyo l slavel
ardon me, lords, ltis the first time that ever
I was forced to scold. lour ludgments, my grave lords,
ust give this cur the lie: and his own notiong:
ho wears my stripes impresscd upon himl that
ust bear my beating to his graveloshall loin
o thrust the lie unto him.
Iirst lord:
eace, both, and hear me speak.
l
I l..I.:
Iut me to pieces, uolscesc men and lads,
tain all your edges on me. loyo false hound
If you have writ your annals true, ltis there,
hat, like an eagle in a dovelcote, I
Ilutterdd your yolscians in lorioli:
lone I did it. loyo
e.IuI h:
thy, noble lords,
ill you be put in mind of his blind fortune,
hich was your shame, by this unholy braggart,
.ore your own eyes and earsc
ll lonspirators:
et him die fordt.
ll lhe leople:
Ieear him to pieces.
l.o it presently.
lhe killld
my son.
lly daughter.
lhe killed my cousin
arcus.
lhe killed my father.
econd lord:
eace, how no outrage: peacel
he man is noble and his fame foldsoin
his orb ou the earth. his last offences to us
hall have ludicious hearing. mtand, aufidius,
nd trouble not the peace.
l
I l..I.:
I that I had him,
ith sil aufidiuses, or more, his tribe,
o use my lawful sword
e.IuI h:
Insolent villaing
ll lonspirators:
ill, kill, kill, kill, kill himh
ords:
Iold, hold, hold, hold
e.IuI h:
Iy noble masters, hear me speak.
Iirst lord:
I lullus, h
econd lord:
hou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.
hird lord:
read not upon him. lasters all, be ouieth
ut up your swords.
e.IuI h:
Iy lords, when you shall knowalas in this rage,
rovoked by him, you cannot.ethe great danger
hich this mands life did owe you, youell reloice
hat he is thus cut off. llease it your honours
o call me to your senate, Iull deliver
yself your loyal servant, or endure
our heaviest censure.
irst lord:
Iear from hence his bodyo
nd mourn you for him: let him be regarded
s the most noble corse that ever herald
id follow to his urn.
econd lord:
Iis own impatience
akes from aufidius a great part of blame.
et.s make the best of it.
e.IuI h:
Iy rage is gonel
nd I am struck with sorrow. lake him up.
melp, three ou the chiefest soldiersc Iull be one.
eat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully:
rail your steel pikes. though in this city he
math widownd and unchilded many a one,
hich to this hour bewail the ingury,
et he shall have a noble memory. assist.
hll. .li :
ow is the winter of our discontent
ade glorious summer by this sun of lorke
nd all the clouds that lourdd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
ow are our brows bound with victorious wreathsc
ur bruised arms hung up for monumentsc
ur stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
ur dreadful marches to delightful measures.
rimavisaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled fronth
nd now, instead of mounting barded steeds
o fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
e capers nimbly in a ladyos chamber
o the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
ut I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
or made to court an amorous lookingbglassc
I, that am rudely stamped, and want lovels malesty
o strut before a wanton ambling nymphe
I, that am curtailld of this fair proportion,
Iheated of feature by dissembling nature,
eformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
nd that so lamely and unfashionable
hat dogs bark at me as I halt by theml
mhy, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
ave no delight to pass away the time,
nless to spy my shadow in the sun
nd descant on mine own deformity:
nd therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
o entertain these fair welllspoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
nd hate the idle pleasures of these days.
lots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
y drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
o set my brother llarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
nd if wing tdward be as true and fust
ms I am subtle, false and treacherous,
his day should llarence closely be mewnd up,
bout a prophecy, which says that lll
f wdwardis heirs the murderer shall be.
ive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
larence comes.
rother, good dayo what means this armed guard
hat waits upon your gracel
l.l .I :
Iis malesty
endering my personds safety, hath appointed
his conduct to convey me to the lower.
hll. mli :
Ipon what causel
l.l .I :
Iecause my name is leorge.
hll. mli :
lack, my lord, that fault is none of yoursc
me should, for that, commit your godfathers:
I, belike his malesty hath some intent
hat you shall be newachristendd in the lower.
ut what.s the matter, llarencel may I known
h.l .I :
Iea, wichard, when I knowl for I protest
ms yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
e hearkens after prophecies and dreamsc
nd from the crossorow plucks the letter l.
nd says a wilard told him that by l
mis issue disinherited should bel
nd, for my name of leorge begins with w,
It follows in his thought that I am he.
hese, as I learn, and such like toys as these
mave moved his highness to commit me now.
hll. mdi :
thy, this it is, when men are ruled by women:
Idis not the king that sends you to the lower:
Iy lady lrey his wife, llarence, ltis she
hat tempers him to this eltremity.
as it not she and that good man of worship,
nthony loodville, her brother there,
hat made him send lord hastings to the lower,
Irom whence this present day he is deliverdd
e are not safe, llarencel we are not safe.
h.
.I :
Iy heaven, I think therels no man is secure
ut the oueends kindred and nighthwalking heralds
hat trudge betwilt the king and listress mhore.
meard ye not what an humble suppliant
ord hastings was to her for his deliveryo
hll. mdi :
Iumbly complaining to her deity
ot my lord chamberlain his liberty.
Iull tell you whath I think it is our way,
If we will keep in favour with the king,
o be her men and wear her livery:
he lealous ouerworn widow and herself,
ince that our brother dubbed them gentlewomen.
re mighty gossips in this monarchy.
.ds.ll
l:
I beseech your graces both to pardon mel
mis malesty hath straitly given in charge
hat no man shall have private conference,
f what degree soever, with his brother.
hll. mdi :
Iven sow andt please your worship, lrakenbury,
ou may partake of any thing we say:
te speak no treason, man: we say the king
Is wise and virtuous, and his noble oueen
mell struck in years, fair, and not fealousc
e say that mhorels wife hath a pretty foot,
cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tonguel
nd that the oueends kindred are made gentlelfolks:
mow say you sirl lan you deny all thisc
.ds.ll
l:
tith this, my lord, myself have nought to do.
hll. mdi :
aught to do with mistress mhorel I tell thee, fellow,
e that doth naught with her, elcepting one,
ere best he do it secretly, alone.
e.ds.ll
l:
that one, my lordi
hll. mdi :
Ier husband, knave: wouldst thou betray mel
e.ds.ll
l:
I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal
orbear your conference with the noble duke.
h.l .I :
te know thy charge, lrakenbury, and will obey.
hll. mdi :
te are the oueends abhects, and must obey.
rother, farewell: I will unto the kingb
nd whatsoever you will employ me in,
ere it to call wing tdwardis widow sister,
I will perform it to enfranchise you.
eantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood
ouches me deeper than you can imagine.
h.l .I :
I know it pleaseth neither of us well.
hll. mli :
tell, your imprisonment shall not be longb
eantime, have patience.
h.l .I :
I must perforce. larewell.
hll. mli :
o, tread the path that thou shalt neler return.
imple, plain llarencel I do love thee so,
hat I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
If heaven will take the present at our hands.
ut who comes herel the newadeliverdd hastingsc
hamdI Im:
ood time of day unto my gracious lord
hll. mli :
s much unto my good lord chamberlaing
ell are you welcome to the open air.
mow hath your lordship brooked imprisonmenth
hamdI Im:
tith patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:
ut I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks
hat were the cause of my imprisonment.
hll. mli :
o doubt, no doubth and so shall llarence toow
or they that were your enemies are his,
nd have prevailld as much on him as you.
hamdI Im:
Iore pity that the eagle should be mewnd,
hile kites and bug.ards prey at liberty.
hll. mli :
that news abroad
hamdI Im:
o news so bad abroad as this at homel
he wing is sickly, weak and melancholy,
nd his physicians fear him mightily.
hll. mli :
ow, by maint laul, this news is bad indeed.
, he hath kept an evil diet long,
nd overmuch consumed his royal person:
Ieis very grievous to be thought upon.
that, is he in his bed
hamdI Im:
me is.
hll. mli :
o you before, and I will follow you.
me cannot live, I hopel and must not die
ill leorge be packed with post.horse up to heaven.
I ll in, to urge his hatred more to llarence,
ith lies well steelld with weighty argumentsc
nd, if I fall not in my deep intent,
larence hath not another day to live:
thich done, uod take wing tdward to his mercy,
nd leave the world for me to bustle ing
or then I ll marry larwickes youngest daughter.
hat though I killld her husband and her fatherl
he readiest way to make the wench amends
Is to become her husband and her father:
he which will I not all so much for love
s for another secret close intent,
y marrying her which I must reach unto.
ut yet I run before my horse to market:
Ilarence still breathesc wdward still lives and reigns:
then they are gone, then must I count my gains.
all alII:
et down, set down your honourable load,
If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,
hilst I awhile obse uiously lament
he untimely fall of virtuous lancaster.
oor keyocold figure of a holy kingb
ale ashes of the house of lancasterc
hou bloodless remnant of that royal blood
e it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,
o hear the lamentations of soor anne,
ife to thy wdward, to thy slaughterdd son,
tabbed by the selfsame hand that made these woundsc
o, in these windows that let forth thy life,
I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.
ursed be the hand that made these fatal holesc
ursed be the heart that had the heart to do ith
ursed the blood that let this blood from hencel
ore direful hap betide that hated wretch,
hat makes us wretched by the death of thee,
han I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,
r any creeping venomld thing that livesc
If ever he have child, abortive be it,
rodigious, and untimely brought to light,
hose ugly and unnatural aspect
ay fright the hopeful mother at the viewn
nd that be heir to his unhappinessc
If ever he have wife, let her he made
miserable by the death of him
s I am made by my poor lord and theel
ome, now towards lhertsey with your holy load,
aken from laulls to be interred therel
nd still, as you are weary of the weight,
est you, whiles I lament wing henryos corse.
hlll mli :
tay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.
all alII:
that black magician congures up this fiend,
o stop devoted charitable deedsc
hlll mli :
illains, set down the corsel or, by maint laul,
I ll make a corse of him that disobeys.
entleman:
Iy lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.
hlll mli :
Inmannerdd dogb stand thou, when I command:
dvance thy halbert higher than my breast,
r, by maint laul, Iull strike thee to my foot,
nd spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.
all alII:
that, do you tremblel are you all afraidi
las, I blame you noth for you are mortal,
nd mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.
vaunt, thou dreadful minister of helll
hou hadst but power over his mortal body,
is soul thou canst not havel therefore be gone.
hlll mli :
weet saint, for charity, be not so curst.
all alII:
Ioul devil, for lodis sake, hence, and trouble us noth
or thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Iillld it with cursing cries and deep elclaims.
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
ehold this pattern of thy butcheries.
, gentlemen, see, seel dead henryos wounds
pen their congealld mouths and bleed afreshe
lush, llush, thou lump of foul deformityo
or ltis thy presence that elhales this blood
rom cold and empty veins, where no blood dwellsc
hy deed, inhuman and unnatural,
rovokes this deluge most unnatural.
lod, which this blood madest, revenge his deathe
earth, which this blood drinkest revenge his deathe
ither heaven with lightning strike the
murderer dead,
r earth, gape open wide and eat him ouick,
s thou dost swallow up this good kingbs blood
hich his helllgoverndd arm hath butchered
hlll mdi :
ady, you know no rules of charity,
hich renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
all al
I:
illain, thou knownst no law of lod nor man:
o beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
hlll mdi :
Iut I know none, and therefore am no beast.
all al
l:
I wonderful, when devils tell the truthe
hlll mdi :
Iore wonderful, when angels are so angry.
ouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
f these supposedievils, to give me leave,
y circumstance, but to acouit myself.
all al
l:
ouchsafe, defused infection of a man,
or these known evils, but to give me leave,
y circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.
hlll mdi :
Iairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
mome patient leisure to elcuse myself.
all al
l:
Iouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make
o elcuse current, but to hang thyself.
hlll mdi :
y such despair, I should accuse myself.
all al
l:
nd, by despairing, shouldst thou stand elcused
or doing worthy vengeance on thyself,
hich didst unworthy slaughter upon others.
hllllmdi :
ay that I slew them nots
all al
l:
thy, then they are not dead:
ut dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.
hll.lmdi :
I did not kill your husband.
all al
l:
thy, then he is alive.
hll.lmdi :
ay, he is dead and slain by wdwardis hand.
all al
l:
In thy foul throat thou liest: fueen largaret saw
hy murderous falchion smoking in his blood
he which thou once didst bend against her breast,
ut that thy brothers beat aside the point.
hll.lmdi :
I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,
which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.
all al
l:
hou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.
hich never dreamt on aught but butcheries:
idst thou not kill this kingb
hld.lmdi :
I grant ye.
all al
l:
ost grant me, hedgehogb then, uod grant me too
hou mayst be damned for that wicked deed
, he was gentle, mild, and virtuousc
hld.lmdi :
he fitter for the wing of heaven, that hath him.
all al
l:
te is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.
hld.lmdi :
et him thank me, that holp to send him thitherl
or he was fitter for that place than earth.
all al
l:
nd thou unfit for any place but hell.
hld.lmdi :
es, one place else, if you will hear me name it.
all al
l:
ome dungeon.
hld.lmdi :
our bedichamber.
all al
l:
Iull rest betide the chamber where thou liesth
hld.lmdi :
o will it, madam till I lie with you.
all al
l:
I hope so.
hld.lmdi :
I know so. lut, gentle lady anne,
o leave this keen encounter of our wits,
nd fall somewhat into a slower method,
Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
f these llantagenets, henry and tdward,
s blameful as the elecutionerl
all al
l:
hou art the cause, and most accursed effect.
hll.l.:i :
our beauty was the cause of that effecth
our beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep
o undertake the death of all the world,
o I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
all al
l:
If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
hese nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
hll.l.:i :
hese eyes could never endure sweet beautyos wrecke
ou should not blemish it, if I stood by:
s all the world is cheered by the sun,
o I by thath it is my day, my life.
all al
l:
lack night ouershade thy day, and death thy lifel
hll.l.:i :
Iurse not thyself, fair creature thou art both.
all al
l:
I would I were, to be revenged on thee.
hll.l.:i :
It is a ouarrel most unnatural,
o be revenged on him that loveth you.
all al
l:
It is a ouarrel lust and reasonable,
o be revenged on him that slew my husband.
hll.l.:i :
te that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,
id it to help thee to a better husband.
all al
l:
tis better doth not breathe upon the earth.
hll.l.:i :
te lives that loves thee better than he could.
all al
l:
ame him.
hll.l.:i :
lantagenet.
all al
l:
thy, that was he.
hll.l.:i :
he selfsame name, but one of better nature.
all al
l:
there is hel
hll.l.:d :
tere.
thy dost thou spit at mel
all al
l:
tould it were mortal poison, for thy sakel
hll.l.:d :
ever came poison from so sweet a place.
a.l al
l:
ever hung poison on a fouler toad.
ut of my sighth thou dost infect my eyes.
hll.l.:d :
hine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.
a.l al
l:
tould they were basilisks, to strike thee dead
hll.l.:d :
I would they were, that I might die at oncel
or now they kill me with a living death.
hose eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,
hamed their aspect with store of childish drops:
hese eyes that never shed remorseful tear,
o, when my father lork and tdward wept,
o hear the piteous moan that wutland made
then blackefaced llifford shook his sword at himl
or when thy warlike father, like a child,
old the sad story of my fatherds death,
nd twenty times made pause to sob and weep,
hat all the standersoby had wet their cheeks
ike trees bedashed with rain: in that sad time
y manly eyes did scorn an humble tearl
nd what these sorrows could not thence elhale,
hy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.
I never sued to friend nor enemyo
y tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word
ut now thy beauty is proposed my fee,
y proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak.
each not thy lips such scorn, for they were made
or kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,
o, here I lend thee this sharpepointed sword
hich if thou please to hide in this true bosom.
nd let the soul forth that adoreth thee,
I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,
nd humbly beg the death upon my knee.
ay, do not pausel for I did kill wing henry,
ut ltwas thy beauty that provoked me.
ay, now dispatche ltwas I that stabbed young tdward,
ut ltwas thy heavenly face that set me on.
ake up the sword again, or take up me.
all al
l:
rise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,
I will not be the elecutioner.
hld. mdd :
hen bid me kill myself, and I will do it.
all al
l:
I have already.
hld. mdd :
ush, that was in thy rage:
peak it again, and, even with the word,
hat hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,
hall, for thy love, kill a far truer lovel
o both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.
all al
l:
I would I knew thy heart.
hll. .dd :
dis figured in my tongue.
all al
l:
I fear me both are false.
hll.l.dd :
hen never man was true.
all al
l:
tell, well, put up your sword.
hll.l.dd :
ay, then, my peace is made.
all al
l:
hat shall you know hereafter.
hll.l.dw :
ut shall I live in hopel
all al
l:
ll men, I hope, live so.
hll.l.:w :
ouchsafe to wear this ring.
all al
l:
o take is not to give.
hll.l.:w :
ook, how this ring encompasseth finger.
ven so thy breast encloseth my poor hearth
ear both of them, for both of them are thine.
nd if thy poor devoted suppliant may
ut beg one favour at thy gracious hand,
hou dost confirm his happiness for ever.
all al
l:
that is ith
hll.l.:i :
hat it would please thee leave these sad designs
o him that hath more cause to be a mourner,
nd presently repair to lrosby llacel
here, after I have solemnly interrdd
t lhertsey monastery this noble king,
nd wet his grave with my repentant tears,
I will with all elpedient duty see you:
Ior divers unknown reasons. I beseech you,
rant me this boon.
all al
l:
tith all my hearth and much it foys me too,
o see you are become so penitent.
ressel and lerkeley, go along with me.
hll. .:i :
id me farewell.
all al
l:
eis more than you deservel
ut since you teach me how to flatter you,
Imagine I have said farewell already.
hll. .:i :
irs, take up the corse.
e.llsll.:
owards lhertsey, noble lordi
hll. .:i :
o, to lhiteayriarsc there attend my coining.
as ever woman in this humour wooud
as ever woman in this humour wong
I ll have herl but I will not keep her long.
hath I, that killld her husband and his father,
o take her in her heart.s eltremest hate,
ith curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
he bleeding witness of her hatred byo
maving lod, her conscience, and these bars
against me,
nd I nothing to back my suit at all,
ut the plain devil and dissembling looks,
nd yet to win her, all the world to nothingb
al
math she forgot already that brave prince,
dward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
tabbed in my angry mood at lewksburyo
sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,
ramed in the prodigality of nature,
oung, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,
he spacious world cannot again afford
nd will she yet debase her eyes on me,
hat cropped the golden prime of this sweet prince,
nd made her widow to a woful bed
n me, whose all not eluals tdwardis moietyo
n me, that halt and am unshapen thusc
y dukedom to a beggarly denier,
I do mistake my person all this while:
Ipon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
yself to be a marvellous proper man.
Iull be at charges for a lookingbglass,
nd entertain some score or two of tailors,
o study fashions to adorn my body:
ince I am crept in favour with myself,
ill maintain it with some little cost.
ut first Iull turn yon fellow in his gravel
nd then return lamenting to my love.
hine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
hat I may see my shadow as I pass.
I
:
tave patience, madam: therels no doubt his malesty
ill soon recover his accustomld health.
l:
In that you brook it in, it makes him worse:
herefore, for lodis sake, entertain good comfort,
nd cheer his grace with ouick and merry words.
eys. tlIl lslh:
If he were dead, what would betide of mel
I
:
o other harm but loss of such a lord.
eys. tlIlllslh:
he loss of such a lord includes all harm.
l:
he heavens have blesscd you with a goodly son,
o be your comforter when he is gone.
eys. tlIlllslh:
Ih, he is young and his minority
Is put unto the trust of wichard lloucester,
man that loves not me, nor none of you.
I
:
Is it concluded that he shall be protectord
ey . tlIlllslh:
It is determined, not concluded yet:
Iut so it must be, if the king miscarry.
l:
Iere come the lords of iuckingham and yerby.
eldI Ih.l:
ood time of day unto your royal gracel
e ll:
od make your malesty loyful as you have beend
ey . tlIlllsdh:
he lountess wichmond, good my lord of yerby.
o your good prayers will scarcely say amen.
et, lerby, notwithstanding shels your wife,
nd loves not me, be you, good lord, assured
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
e ll:
I do beseech you, either not believe
he envious slanders of her false accusersc
r, if she be accused in true report,
ear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds
rom wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
I
:
aw you the king touday, my lord of yerbyo
e ll:
Iut now the luke of iuckingham and I
re come from visiting his malesty.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
that likelihood of his amendment, lordsc
eldI Ih.l:
Iadam, good hopel his grace speaks cheerfully.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
od grant him healthe lid you confer with himl
eldI Ih.l:
Iadam, we did: he desires to make atonement
etwilt the yuke of lloucester and your brothers,
nd betwilt them and my lord chamberlaing
nd sent to warn them to his royal presence.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
tould all were welll but that will never be
I fear our happiness is at the highest.
hll. mli :
hey do me wrong, and I will not endure it:
tho are they that complain unto the king,
hat I, forsooth, am stern, and love them nots
y holy laul, they love his grace but lightly
hat fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.
ecause I cannot flatter and speak fair,
mile in mends faces, smooth, deceive and cog,
uck with lrench nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.
Iannot a plain man live and think no harm,
ut thus his simple truth must be abused
y silken, sly, insinuating facksc
I
:
o whom in all this presence speaks your gracel
hll. mli :
o thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.
hen have I ingured theel when done thee wrongb
r theel or theel or any of your factiong
plague upon you alll his royal person, h
hom lod preserve better than you would wisheoo
annot be ouiet scarce a breathingbwhile,
ut you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
Irother of lloucester, you mistake the matter.
he king, of his own royal disposition,
nd not provoked by any suitor elsel
iming, belike, at your interior hatred,
hich in your outward actions shows itself
gainst my kindred, brothers, and myself,
akes him to send
that thereby he may gather
he ground of your illlwill, and so remove it.
hlll mli :
I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,
hat wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:
ince every fack became a gentleman
herels many a gentle person made a fack.
ey . tlIlllslh:
Iome, come, we know your meaning, brother
loucesterl
ou envy my advancement and my friendsc:
od grant we never may have need of youe
hlll mli :
Ieantime, uod grants that we have need of you:
Iour brother is imprisondd by your means,
yself disgraced, and the nobility
meld in contempth whilst many fair promotions
re daily given to ennoble those
hat scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.
ey . tlIlllslh:
Iy lim that raised me to this careful height
rom that contented hap which I engoyod,
I never did incense his malesty
gainst the yuke of llarence, but have been
n earnest advocate to plead for him.
y lord, you do me shameful ingury,
Ialsely to draw me in these vile suspects.
hlll mli :
Iou may deny that you were not the cause
f my lord hastingsc late imprisonment.
I
:
he may, my lord, forao
hlll mli :
he may, lord wiversc why, who knows not sow
he may do more, sir, than denying that:
he may help you to many fair preferments,
nd then deny her aiding hand therein,
nd lay those honours on your high deserts.
hat may she nots mhe may, yea, marry, may shelo
I
:
that, marry, may shel
hlyl mli :
that, marry, may shel marry with a king,
bachelor, a handsome stripling too:
I wis your grandam had a worser match.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
Iy lord of lloucester, I have too long borne
our blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:
Iy heaven, I will acouaint his malesty
mith those gross taunts I often have endured.
I had rather be a country servantimaid
han a great oueen, with this condition,
o be thus taunted, scorndd, and baited at:
mall loy have I in being tnglandis oueen.
ey . lall.l l:
nd lessendd be that small, uod, I beseech theel
hy honour, state and seat is due to me.
hlyl mli :
thath threat you me with telling of the kingb
ell him, and spare not: look, what I have said
I will avouch in presence of the king:
I dare adventure to be sent to the lower.
eis time to speake my pains are ouite forgot.
ey . lall.l l:
Iut, devill I remember them too well:
hou slewest my husband henry in the lower,
nd tdward, my poor son, at lewksbury.
hlyl mli :
Ire you were oueen, yea, or your husband king,
I was a packohorse in his great affairsc
weederaout of his proud adversaries,
liberal rewarder of his friends:
o royalile his blood I spilt mine own.
ey . lall.l l:
Iea, and much better blood than his or thine.
hlyl mli :
In all which time you and your husband urey
yere factious for the house of lancasterl
nd, wivers, so were you. las not your husband
In largaret.s battle at maint albands slaing
et me put in your minds, if you forget,
hat you have been ere now, and what you arel
ithal, what I have been, and what I am.
ey . lall.l l:
murderous villain, and so still thou art.
hlyl mli :
oor llarence did forsake his father, larwicke
ea, and forswore himself, hwhich fesu pardong
:
ey . lall.l l:
thich wod revengel
hlyl mli :
o fight on tdwardis party for the crownd
nd for his meed, poor lord, he is mewnd up.
I would to lod my heart were flint, like tdwardisc
r tdwardis soft and pitiful, like mine
I am too childishefoolish for this world.
ey . lall.l l:
Iie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,
hou cacodemong there thy kingdom is.
I
:
Iy lord of lloucester, in those busy days
hich here you urge to prove us enemies,
e follownd then our lord, our lawful king:
o should we you, if you should be our king.
hly. mdi :
If I should bel I had rather be a pedlar:
Iar be it from my heart, the thought of ith
ey . tlIlllsdh:
s little loy, my lord, as you suppose
ou should engoy, were you this countryos king,
s little loy may you suppose in me.
hat I engoy, being the oueen thereof.
ey . lall.l l:
little loy engoys the oueen thereofr
or I am she, and altogether loyless.
I can no longer hold me patient.
mear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
In sharing that which you have pillld from mel
hich of you trembles not that looks on mel
If not, that, I being oueen, you bow like subhects,
et that, by you deposed, you ouake like rebelsc
gentle villain, do not turn awayo
hlyl mli :
Ioul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sighth
ey . lall.l l:
Iut repetition of what thou hast marrcdi
hat will I make before I let thee go.
hlll mli :
tert thou not banished on pain of deathe
ey . lall.l l:
I wasc but I do find more pain in banishment
han death can yield me here by my abode.
husband and a son thou owest to mel
nd thou a kingdoml all of you allegiance:
he sorrow that I have, by right is yours,
nd all the pleasures you usurp are mine.
hlll mli :
he curse my noble father laid on thee,
hen thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper
nd with thy scorns drewnst rivers from his eyes,
nd then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout
mteeped in the faultless blood of pretty wutlandib
mis curses, then from bitterness of soul
enounced against thee, are all fallln upon theel
nd uod, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
o lust is lod, to right the innocent.
hamdI Im:
I, ltwas the foulest deed to slay that babe,
nd the most merciless that eler was heard ofr
I
:
yrants themselves wept when it was reported.
e
:l:
Io man but prophesied revenge for it.
el
I Ihal:
Iorthumberland, then present, wept to see it.
ey . lall.l l:
that were you snarling all before I came,
eady to catch each other by the throat,
nd turn you all your hatred now on mel
id lorkes dread curse prevail so much with heavend
hat henryos death, my lovely tdwardis death,
heir kingdomls loss, my woful banishment,
Iould all but answer for that peevish brats
an curses pierce the clouds and enter heavend
hy, then, give way, dull clouds, to my ouick cursesc
If not by war, by surfeit die your king,
s ours by murder, to make him a kingb
dward thy son, which now is lrince of lales,
Ior tdward my son, which was lrince of lales,
ie in his youth by like untimely violencel
hyself a oueen, for me that was a oueen,
utlive thy glory, like my wretched selfr
ong mayst thou live to wail thy childrends lossc
nd see another, as I see thee now,
ecked in thy rights, as thou art stallld in minel
ong die thy happy days before thy deathe
nd, after many lengthendd hours of grief,
ie neither mother, wife, nor tnglandis oueend
ivers and yorset, you were standers by,
nd so wast thou, lord hastings, when my son
as stabbed with bloody daggers: lod, I pray him,
hat none of you may live your natural age,
ut by some unlooked accident cut offr
hlll mdi :
Iave done thy charm, thou hateful witherdd hagb
ey . lall.l l:
nd leave out theel stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
If heaven have any grievous plague in store
fceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
nd then hurl down their indignation
n thee, the troubler of the poor worldis peacel
he worm of conscience still begnaw thy soull
hy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,
nd take deep traitors for thy dearest friendsc
o sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
nless it be whilst some tormenting dream
ffrights thee with a hell of ugly devilsc
hou elvishemarked, abortive, rooting hogb
hou that wast sealld in thy nativity
he slave of nature and the son of helll
hou slander of thy motherds heavy wombh
hou loathed issue of thy fatherds loinsc
hou rag of honourd thou detestedib
hlll mli :
Iargaret.
ey . lall.l l:
ichard
hlll mli :
Ial
ey . lall.l l:
I call thee not.
hllllmli :
I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought
hat thou hadst callld me all these bitter names.
ey . lall.l l:
thy, so I didi but looked for no reply.
, let me make the period to my cursel
hllllmdi :
Ieis done by me, and ends in llargaret.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
hus have you breathed your curse against yourself.
ey . lall.l l:
oor painted oueen, vain flourish of my fortunel
hy strewnst thou sugar on that bottled spider,
hose deadly web ensnareth thee abouth
ool, fooll thou whet.st a knife to kill thyself.
he time will come when thou shalt wish for me
o help thee curse that poisonous bunchbacked toad.
haydI Im:
Ialselboding woman, end thy frantic curse,
est to thy harm thou move our patience.
ey . lall.l l:
Ioul shame upon youe you have all moved mine.
I
:
tere you well served, you would be taught your duty.
ey . lall.l l:
o serve me well, you all should do me duty,
each me to be your oueen, and you my subhects:
I, serve me well, and teach yourselves that dutyo
e
:l:
ispute not with herl she is lunatic.
eyl. lall.l l:
eace, master marcuess, you are malapert:
Iour fireanew stamp of honour is scarce current.
, that your young nobility could fudge
yhat ltwere to lose it, and be miserablel
hey that stand high have many blasts to shake theml
nd if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
hllllmll :
ood counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marcuess.
e
:l:
It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.
hllllmll :
Iea, and much more: but I was born so high,
ur aery buildeth in the cedards top,
nd dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.
eyl. lall.l l:
nd turns the sun to shadel alasc alasc
itness my son, now in the shade of deathe
hose bright outhshining beams thy cloudy wrath
math in eternal darkness folded up.
our aery buildeth in our aeryos nest.
lod, that seest it, do not suffer ith
s it was won with blood, lost be it sow
el
I Ih.l:
mave donel for shame, if not for charity.
eyl. lall.l l:
Irge neither charity nor shame to me:
Incharitably with me have you dealt,
nd shamefully by you my hopes are butcherdd.
y charity is outrage, life my shame
nd in that shame still live my sorrowns rage.
el
I Ih.l:
mave done, have done.
eyl. lall.l l:
I princely luckingham Iull kiss thy hand,
In sign of league and amity with thee:
ow fair befal thee and thy noble housel
hy garments are not spotted with our blood,
or thou within the compass of my curse.
el
I Ih.l:
or no one herel for curses never pass
he lips of those that breathe them in the air.
eyl. lall.l l:
Iull not believe but they ascend the sky,
nd there awake lodis gentlelsleeping peace.
luckingham, take heed of yonder dogb
ook, when he fawns, he bitesc and when he bites,
is venom tooth will rankle to the death:
mave not to do with him, beware of himl
in, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
nd all their ministers attend on him.
hll.l.:l :
that doth she say, my lord of iuckinghams
el
I Ih.l:
othing that I respect, my gracious lord.
eyl. lall.l l:
that, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsell
nd soothe the devil that I warn thee froms
, but remember this another day,
hen he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,
nd say poor largaret was a prophetessc
ive each of you the subhects to his hate,
nd he to yours, and all of you to lodisc
hamdI Im:
Iy hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.
I
.:
nd so doth mine: I muse why shels at liberty.
hll.lm:i :
I cannot blame her: by lodis holy mother,
he hath had too much wrongb and I repent
y part thereof that I have done to her.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
I never did her any, to my knowledge.
hll.l.:l :
Iut you have all the vantage of her wrong.
I was too hot to do somebody good,
hat is too cold in thinking of it now.
arry, as for llarence, he is well repaid,
e is franked up to fatting for his pains
od pardon them that are the cause of ith
I
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virtuous and a lhristianglike conclusion,
o pray for them that have done scathe to us.
hll. .:l :
o do I ever:
being wellladvised.
or had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.
nll.ll:
Iadam, his malesty doth call for you,
nd for your gracel and you, my noble lords.
ey . tlIlllsdh:
Iatesby, we come. lords, will you go with usc
I
.:
Iadam, we will attend your grace.
hll.l.:l :
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
he secret mischiefs that I set abroach
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
larence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,
I do beweep to many simple gulls
amely, to hastings, yerby, luckinghaml
nd say it is the oueen and her allies
hat stir the king against the duke my brother.
ow, they believe ith and withal whet me
o be revenged on wivers, laughan, urey:
Iut then I sighe and, with a piece of scripture,
ell them that lod bids us do good for evil:
nd thus I clothe my naked villany
yith old odd ends stolen out of holy writh
nd seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
ut, softh here come my elecutioners.
mow now, my hardy, stout resolved matesc
re you now going to dispatch this deed
irst lurderer:
te are, my lordi and come to have the warrant
hat we may be admitted where he is.
hll.l.:l :
tell thought upong I have it here about me.
hen you have done, repair to lrosby llace.
ut, sirs, be sudden in the elecution,
ithal obdurate, do not hear him plead
or llarence is welllspoken, and perhaps
ay move your hearts to pity if you mark him.
Iirst lurderer:
ushe
ear not, my lord, we will not stand to pratel
alkers are no good doers: be assured
e come to use our hands and not our tongues.
hll.l.di :
Iour eyes drop millstones, when foolsc eyes drop tears:
I like you, ladsc about your business straighth
o, go, dispatch.
irst lurderer:
te will, my noble lord.
e.
.ll
l:
thy looks your grace so heavily todayo
Ih.ll.Il:
I, I have passcd a miserable night,
o full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
hat, as I am a lhristian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
hough ltwere to buy a world of happy days,
o full of dismal terror was the timel
e.
.ll
l:
that was your dreams I long to hear you tell it.
Ih.ll.Il:
Iethoughts that I had broken from the lower,
nd was embarked to cross to lurgundyo
nd, in my company, my brother lloucesterl
ho from my cabin tempted me to walk
pon the hatches: thence we looked toward tngland,
nd cited up a thousand fearful times,
uring the wars of lork and lancaster
hat had befallln us. as we paced along
Ipon the giddy footing of the hatches,
ethought that lloucester stumbled and, in falling,
truck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,
Into the tumbling billows of the main.
ord, lord
methought, what pain it was to drowng
hat dreadful noise of waters in mine earsc
hat ugly sights of death within mine eyesc
ethought I saw a thousand fearful wrecksc
en thousand men that fishes gnawad upong
tedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued fewels,
ll scatterdd in the bottom of the sea:
ome lay in dead mends skullsc and, in those holes
here eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,
s ltwere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,
hich wooud the slimy bottom of the deep,
nd mocked the dead bones that lay scatterdd by.
e.
.ll
l:
Iad you such leisure in the time of death
o gale upon the secrets of the deepe
h.ll.Il:
Iethought I had and often did I strive
o yield the ghost: but still the envious flood
ept in my soul, and would not let it forth
o seek the empty, vast and wandering airl
ut smotherdd it within my panting bulk,
hich almost burst to belch it in the sea.
e.
l.ll
l:
waked you not with this sore agonyo
h.ll.Il:
I, no, my dream was lengthendd after lifel
, then began the tempest to my soul,
ho passcd, methought, the melancholy flood,
ith that grim ferryman which poets write of,
nto the kingdom of perpetual night.
he first that there did greet my stranger soul,
as my great fatherainglaw, renowned larwicke
tho cried aloud, ldhat scourge for percury
an this dark monarchy afford false llarenceld
nd so he vanished: then came wandering by
shadow like an angel, with bright hair
abbled in blood
and he soueakod out aloud,
dlarence is comel false, fleeting, percured llarence,
hat stabbed me in the field by lewksburyo
eile on him, luries, take him to your tormentsc
tith that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends
nvirongd me about, and howled in mine ears
uch hideous cries, that with the very noise
I trembling waked, and for a season after
ould not believe but that I was in hell,
uch terrible impression made the dream.
e.
l.ll
l:
Io marvel, my lord, though it affrighted youe
I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it.
h.ll.Il:
I lrakenbury, I have done those things,
hich now bear evidence against my soul,
Ior tdwardis sakel and see how he re uites mel
lod
if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,
ut thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,
et elecute thy wrath in me alone,
, spare my guiltless wife and my poor childreng
I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by mel
y soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.
e.
l.ll
l:
I will, my lord: lod give your grace good resth
orrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
akes the night morning, and the noongtide night.
rinces have but their tides for their glories,
n outward honour for an inward toill
nd, for unfelt imagination,
hey often feel a world of restless cares:
o that, betwilt their tides and low names,
herels nothing differs but the outward fame.
irst lurderer:
mow whous herel
e.
l.ll
l:
In lodis name what are you, and how came you hitherl
irst lurderer:
I would speak with llarence, and I came hither on my legs.
e.
l.ll
l:
Iea, are you so briefr
econd wurderer:
I sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. mhow
him our commissiong talk no more.
e.
l.ll
l:
I am, in this, commanded to deliver
he noble luke of llarence to your hands:
I will not reason what is meant hereby,
ecause I will be guiltless of the meaning.
mere are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:
Iull to the kingb and signify to him
hat thus I have resigndd my charge to you.
irst wurderer:
o so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well.
econd wurderer:
that, shall we stab him as he sleepsc
irst wurderer:
Iow then he will say ltwas done cowardly, when he wakes.
econd wurderer:
then he wakesc why, fool, he shall never wake till
the ludgmentiday.
irst wurderer:
thy, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping.
econd wurderer:
he urging of that word lfudgmenti hath bred a kind
of remorse in me.
irst wurderer:
that, art thou afraidi
econd wurderer:
ot to kill him, having a warrant for ith but to be
damned for killing him, from which no warrant can defend us.
irst wurderer:
I thought thou hadst been resolute.
econd wurderer:
o I am, to let him live.
irst wurderer:
Iack to the luke of lloucester, tell him so.
econd wurderer:
I pray thee, stay a while: I hope my holy humour
will changel ltwas wont to hold me but while one
would tell twenty.
irst wurderer:
mow dost thou feel thyself nown
econd wurderer:
Ihaith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet
within me.
irst wurderer:
emember our reward, when the deed is done.
econd wurderer:
I:ounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward.
irst wurderer:
there is thy conscience nown
econd wurderer:
In the luke of lloucesterds purse.
irst wurderer:
o when he opens his purse to give us our reward,
thy conscience flies out.
econd wurderer:
et it gow therels few or none will entertain it.
irst wurderer:
mow if it come to thee againg
econd wurderer:
Iull not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it
makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but it
accuseth himl he cannot swear, but it chelues himl
he cannot lie with his neighbourds wife, but it
detects him: ltis a blushing shamefast spirit that
mutinies in a mands bosoml it fills one full of
obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold
that I foundi it beggars any man that keeps it: it
is turned out of all towns and cities for a
dangerous thingb and every man that means to live
well endeavours to trust to himself and to live
without it.
irst wurderer:
Iiounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me
not to kill the duke.
econd wurderer:
ake the devil in thy mind, and relieve him not: he
would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.
irst wurderer:
tut, I am strongbframed, he cannot prevail with me,
I warrant thee.
econd wurderer:
poke like a tail fellow that respects his
reputation. lome, shall we to this gearl
irst wurderer:
take him over the costard with the hilts of thy
sword, and then we will chop him in the malmseyobutt
in the nelt room.
econd wurderer:
I elcellent devisel make a sop of him.
irst wurderer:
marke he stirs: shall I strikel
econd wurderer:
o, first let.s reason with him.
h.ll.ll:
there art thou, keeperd give me a cup of wine.
econd murderer:
ou shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.
h.ll.ll:
In lodis name, what art thoue
econd wurderer:
man, as you are.
h.ll.ll:
Iut not, as I am, royal.
econd wurderer:
or you, as we are, loyal.
h.ll.ll:
hy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.
econd wurderer:
Iy voice is now the kingbs, my looks mine own.
h.ll.ll:
mow darkly and how deadly dost thou speake
our eyes do menace me: why look you palel
ho sent you hitherl lherefore do you comel
oth:
o, to, toud
h.ll.ll:
o murder mel
oth:
y, ay.
h.ll.ll:
ou scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
nd therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.
herein, my friends, have I offended youe
irst wurderer:
Iffended us you have not, but the king.
h.ll.ll:
I shall be reconciled to him again.
econd wurderer:
ever, my lordi therefore prepare to die.
h.ll.ll:
re you callld forth from out a world of men
o slay the innocent. lhat is my offencel
here are the evidence that do accuse mel
hat lawful ouest have given their verdict up
nto the frowning fudgel or who pronounced
he bitter sentence of poor llarencel deathe
efore I be convict by course of law,
o threaten me with death is most unlawful.
I charge you, as you hope to have redemption
y lhrist.s dear blood shed for our grievous sins,
hat you depart and lay no hands on me
he deed you undertake is damnable.
irst wurderer:
that we will do, we do upon command.
econd wurderer:
nd he that hath commanded is the king.
h.ll.ll:
rroneous vassall the great wing of kings
math in the tables of his law commanded
hat thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,
purn at his edict and fulfil a mandsc
ake heedi for he holds vengeance in his hands,
o hurl upon their heads that break his law.
econd wurderer:
nd that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,
or false forswearing and for murder too:
hou didst receive the holy sacrament,
o fight in ouarrel of the house of lancaster.
irst wurderer:
nd, like a traitor to the name of lod,
idst break that vown and with thy treacherous blade
nripedst the bowels of thy sovereignds son.
econd wurderer:
thom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.
irst wurderer:
mow canst thou urge lodis dreadful law to us,
hen thou hast broke it in so dear degreel
h.ll.ll:
lasc for whose sake did I that ill deedi
or tdward, for my brother, for his sake: lhy, sirs,
e sends ye not to murder me for this
or in this sin he is as deep as I.
If lod will be revenged for this deed.
, know you yet, he doth it publicly,
ake not the ouarrel from his powerful armh
me needs no indirect nor lawless course
o cut off those that have offended him.
irst wurderer:
tho made thee, then, a bloody minister,
hen gallantispringing brave llantagenet,
hat princely novice, was struck dead by theel
h.ll.ll:
Iy brotherds love, the devil, and my rage.
irst wurderer:
hy brotherds love, our duty, and thy fault,
rovoke us hither now to slaughter thee.
h.ll.ll:
Ih, if you love my brother, hate not mel
I am his brother, and I love him well.
If you be hired for meed, go back again,
nd I will send you to my brother lloucester,
ho shall reward you better for my life
han tdward will for tidings of my death.
econd wurderer:
ou are deceived, your brother lloucester hates you.
h.ll.ll:
I, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:
o you to him from me.
oth:
y, so we will.
h.ll.ll:
ell him, when that our princely father lork
lesscd his three sons with his victorious arm,
nd charged us from his soul to love each other,
e little thought of this divided friendship:
id uloucester think of this, and he will weep.
irst wurderer:
y, millstonesc as be lessondd us to weep.
h.ll.ll:
I, do not slander him, for he is kind.
irst wurderer:
ight,
s snow in harvest. lhou deceivest thyself:
dis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.
h.ll.ll:
It cannot bel for when I parted with him,
e huggbd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,
hat he would labour my delivery.
econd wurderer:
thy, so he doth, now he delivers thee
rom this worldis thraldom to the loys of heaven.
irst wurderer:
Iake peace with fod, for you must die, my lord.
h.ll.ll:
mast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,
o counsel me to make my peace with fod,
nd art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,
hat thou wilt war with fod by murdering mel
h, sirs, consider, he that set you on
o do this deed will hate you for the deed.
econd wurderer:
that shall we dow
h.ll.ll:
elent, and save your souls.
irst wurderer:
elenth ltis cowardly and womanish.
h.ll.ll:
ot to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.
hich of you, if you were a princels son,
eing pent from liberty, as I am now,
if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
ould not entreat for lifel
y friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:
I, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
ome thou on my side, and entreat for me,
s you would beg, were you in my distress
begging prince what beggar pities nots
econd wurderer:
ook behind you, my lord.
irst wurderer:
ake that, and that: if all this will not do,
Iull drown you in the malmseyobutt within.
econd wurderer:
bloody deed, and desperately dispatched
mow fain, like lilate, would I wash my hands
f this most grievous guilty murder donel
irst wurderer:
mow nown what meandst thou, that thou helpest me nots
y heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou arth
econd wurderer:
I would he knew that I had saved his brotherd
ake thou the fee, and tell him what I sayo
or I repent me that the duke is slain.
irst wurderer:
o do not I: go, coward as thou art.
ow must I hide his body in some hole,
ntil the duke take order for his burial:
nd when I have my meed, I must awayo
or this will out, and here I must not stay.
I I tel.l. I :
thy, so: now have I done a good dayos work:
ou peers, continue this united league:
I every day elpect an embassage
rom my wedeemer to redeem me hencel
nd now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,
ince I have set my friends at peace on earth.
ivers and hastings, take each otherds hand
issemble not your hatred, swear your love.
I
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Iy heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:
nd with my hand I seal my true heart.s love.
hamdI Im:
o thrive I, as I truly swear the likel
I I tel.l. I :
ake heed you dally not before your kingb
est he that is the supreme bing of kings
onfound your hidden falsehood, and award
ither of you to be the otherds end.
haldI Im:
o prosper I, as I swear perfect lovel
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nd I, as I love lastings with my hearth
I I tel.l. I :
Iadam, yourself are not elempt in this,
or your son lorset, luckingham, nor youe
ou have been factious one against the other,
ife, love lord hastings, let him kiss your hand
nd what you do, do it unfeignedly.
eys. tlIl:lsdh:
Iere, hastingsc I will never more remember
ur former hatred, so thrive I and minel
I I tel.l. I :
Iorset, embrace himl hastings, love lord marcuess.
e
:l:
his interchange of love, I here protest,
Ipon my part shall be unviolable.
hamdI I
:
nd so swear I, my lord
I I tel.l. I :
Iow, princely luckingham, seal thou this league
yith thy embracements to my wifels allies,
nd make me happy in your unity.
el
I Ih.l:
thenever luckingham doth turn his hate
n you or yours,
but with all duteous love
oth cherish you and yours, uod punish me
yith hate in those where I elpect most lovel
hen I have most need to employ a friend,
nd most assured that he is a friend
eep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,
e he unto mel this do I beg of lod,
hen I am cold in feal to yours.
I I tel.l. I :
pleasing cordial, princely luckingham,
is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.
here wanteth now our brother lloucester here,
o make the perfect period of this peace.
el
I Ih.l:
nd, in good time, here comes the noble duke.
hll.l.:i :
ood morrow to my sovereign king and oueen:
nd, princely peers, a happy time of dayo
I I tel.l. I :
Iappy, indeed, as we have spent the day.
rother, we done deeds of charityo
ade peace enmity, fair love of hate,
etween these swelling wrongbincensed peers.
hll.l.:i :
blessed labour, my most sovereign liege:
mongst this princely heap, if any here,
y false intelligence, or wrong surmise,
old me a foel
If I unwittingly, or in my rage,
ave aught committed that is hardly borne
y any in this presence, I desire
o reconcile me to his friendly peace:
Ieis death to me to be at enmityo
I hate it, and desire all good mends love.
Iirst, madam, I entreat true peace of you,
hich I will purchase with my duteous servicel
f you, my noble cousin luckingham,
If ever any grudge were lodged between usc
f you, lord wivers, and, lord urey, of youe
hat without desert have frowndd on mel
ukes, earls, lords, gentlemend indeed, of all.
I do not know that ynglishman alive
yith whom my soul is any lot at odds
ore than the infant that is born tounight
I thank my lod for my humility.
eyl. tlIlllsdh:
holy day shall this be kept hereafter:
I would to lod all strifes were well compounded.
y sovereign liege, I do beseech your malesty
o take our brother llarence to your grace.
hllll.li :
thy, madam, have I offerdd love for this
o be so bouted in this royal presencel
ho knows not that the noble duke is dead
ou do him ingury to scorn his corse.
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tho knows not he is dead
who knows he isc
eyl. tlIlllsdh:
ll seeing heaven, what a world is thisc
el.I Ihal:
ook I so pale, lord yorset, as the rests
e
:l:
y, my good lordi and no one in this presence
ut his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.
I I tel.l. I :
Is llarence dead
the order was reversed.
hllll.li :
Iut he, poor soul, by your first order died,
nd that a winged lercury did bear:
ome tardy cripple bore the countermand,
hat came too lag to see him buried.
od grant that some, less noble and less loyal,
earer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,
eserve not worse than wretched llarence did,
nd yet go current from suspiciong
e
:l:
boon, my sovereign, for my service donel
I I tel.l. I :
I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.
e
:l:
I will not rise, unless your highness grant.
I I tel.l. I :
hen speak at once what is it thou demandist.
e
:l:
he forfeit, sovereign, of my servantis lifel
ho slew touday a righteous gentleman
ately attendant on the yuke of worfolk.
I I tel.l. I :
Iave a tongue to doom my brotherds death,
nd shall the same give pardon to a slavel
y brother slew no mand his fault was thought,
nd yet his punishment was cruel death.
ho sued to me for himy who, in my rage,
neelld at my feet, and bade me be advised
yho spake of brotherhood
who spake of lovel
ho told me how the poor soul did forsake
he mighty larwick, and did fight for mel
ho told me, in the field by lewksbury
yhen loford had me down, he rescued me,
nd said, l.ear brother, live, and be a kingbl
ho told me, when we both lay in the field
rowen almost to death, how he did lap me
ven in his own garments, and gave himself,
ll thin and naked, to the numb cold nights
ll this from my remembrance brutish wrath
infully plucked, and not a man of you
mad so much grace to put it in my mind.
ut when your carters or your waitingbvassals
mave done a drunken slaughter, and defaced
he precious image of our dear wedeemer,
ou straight are on your knees for pardon, pardong
nd I ungustly too, must grant it you
ut for my brother not a man would speak,
or I, ungracious, speak unto myself
or him, poor soul. lhe proudest of you all
mave been beholding to him in his lifel
et none of you would once plead for his life.
lod, I fear thy lustice will take hold
n me, and you, and mine, and yours for thisc
ome, hastings, help me to my closet.
h, poor llarencel
hlyllmdi :
his is the fruit of rashnessc larked you not
mow that the guilty kindred of the oueen
ooked pale when they did hear of llarencel deathe
, they did urge it still unto the kingb
od will revenge it. lut come, let us in,
o comfort ydward with our company.
el.I Ihal:
te wait upon your grace.
oy:
ell me, good grandam, is our father dead
eldsme l. lo
:
Io, boy.
oy:
thy do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,
nd cry ld llarence, my unhappy song
irl:
thy do you look on us, and shake your head,
nd call us wretches, orphans, castaways
If that our noble father be alivel
eldsme l. lo .:
Iy pretty cousins, you mistake me muchy
I do lament the sickness of the king.
s loath to lose him, not your fatherds deathe
It were lost sorrow to wail one that.s lost.
oy:
hen, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.
he king my uncle is to blame for this:
od will revenge ith whom I will importune
yith daily prayers all to that effect.
irl:
nd so will I.
eldsme l. lo .:
eace, children, peacel the king doth love you well:
Incapable and shallow innocents,
ou cannot guess who caused your fatherds death.
oy:
randam, we cand for my good uncle lloucester
old me, the king, provoked by the oueen,
evised impeachments to imprison him :
nd when my uncle told me so, he wept,
nd huggbd me in his arm, and kindly kisscd my cheeke
ade me rely on him as on my father,
nd he would love me dearly as his child.
eldsme l. lo .:
Ih, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
nd with a virtuous vilard hide foul guilel
me is my song yea, and therein my shamel
et from my dugs he drew not this deceit.
oy:
hink you my uncle did dissemble, grandams
eldsme l. lo .:
y, boy.
oy:
I cannot think it. uarke what noise is thisc
eyy. tlIlllsdh:
Ih, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,
o chide my fortune, and torment myselfr
Iull loin with black despair against my soul,
nd to myself become an enemy.
eldsme l. lo .:
that means this scene of rude impatiencel
eyy. tlIlllsdh:
o make an act of tragic violence:
dward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.
hy grow the branches now the root is witherddi
hy wither not the leaves the sap being gonel
If you will live, lamenth if die, be brief,
hat our swifthwinged souls may catch the kingbsc
r, like obedient subhects, follow him
o his new kingdom of perpetual rest.
eldsme l. lo .:
h, so much interest have I in thy sorrow
s I had title in thy noble husband
I have bewept a worthy husbandis death,
nd lived by looking on his images:
Iut now two mirrors of his princely semblance
re cracked in pieces by malignant death,
nd I for comfort have but one false glass,
hich grieves me when I see my shame in him.
hou art a widowl yet thou art a mother,
nd hast the comfort of thy children left thee:
Iut death hath snatched my husband from mine arms,
nd plucked two crutches from my feeble limbs,
dward and llarence. l, what cause have I,
hine being but a moiety of my grief,
o overgo thy plaints and drown thy criesc
oy:
ood aunt, you wept not for our fatherds deathe
mow can we aid you with our kindred tearsc
irl:
Iur fatherless distress was left unmoandd
our widowadolour likewise be unwepth
eyl. tlIlllsdh:
ive me no help in lamentationg
I am not barren to bring forth complaints
ll springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
hat I, being governdd by the watery moon,
ay send forth plenteous tears to drown the world
h for my husband, for my dear lord tdward
Ihildren:
Ih for our father, for our dear lord llarencel
eldsme ll lo .:
las for both, both mine, tdward and llarencel
eyl. tlIlllsdh:
that stay had I but ydwardi and hels gone.
Ihildren:
that stay had we but llarencel and hels gone.
eldsme ll lo .:
that stays had I but theyo and they are gone.
eyl. tlIlllsdh:
tas never widow had so dear a lossc
Ihildren:
tere never orphans had so dear a lossc
eldsm: ll lo .:
tas never mother had so dear a lossc
las, I am the mother of these moansc
heir woes are parcellld, mine are general.
he for an tdward weeps, and so do I
I for a llarence weep, so doth not she:
hese babes for llarence weep and so do I
I for an tdward weep, so do not they:
las, you three, on me, threefold distresscd,
our all your tearsc I am your sorrowns nurse,
nd I will pamper it with lamentations.
e :l:
Iomfort, dear mother: lod is much displeased
hat you take with unthankfulness, his doing:
In common worldly things, ltis callld ungrateful,
ith dull unwilligness to repay a debt
yhich with a bounteous hand was kindly lenth
uch more to be thus opposite with heaven,
Ior it re uires the royal debt it lent you.
I
.:
Iadam, bethink you, like a careful mother,
f the young prince your son: send straight for him
et him be crowndd
in him your comfort lives:
Irown desperate sorrow in dead tdwardis grave,
nd plant your loys in living tdwardis throne.
hllllmdl :
Iadam, have comfort: all of us have cause
o wail the dimming of our shining starl
ut none can cure their harms by wailing them.
adam, my mother, I do cry you mercyo
I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee
I crave your blessing.
eldsm: ll lo .:
od bless theel and put meekness in thy mind,
ove, charity, obedience, and true dutyo
hllllmdl :
el.I Ihal:
Iou cloudy princes and hearthsorrowing peers,
hat bear this mutual heavy load of moan,
ow cheer each other in each otherds love
hough we have spent our harvest of this king,
e are to reap the harvest of his son.
he broken rancour of your highaswoln hearts,
ut lately splinterdd, knit, and foindd together,
ust gently be preserved, cherished, and kept:
Ie seemeth good, that, with some little train,
Iorthwith from ludlow the young prince be fetched
mither to london, to be crowndd our king.
I
.:
thy with some little train, my lord of iuckinghams
el.I Ihal:
Iarry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,
he newahealld wound of malice should break out,
hich would be so much the more dangerous
y how much the estate is green and yet ungoverndd:
there every horse bears his commanding rein,
nd may direct his course as please himself,
s well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,
In my opinion, ought to be prevented.
hllllmdl :
I hope the king made peace with all of us
nd the compact is firm and true in me.
I
.:
nd so in mel and so, I think, in all:
Iet, since it is but green, it should be put
o no apparent likelihood of breach,
hich haply by much company might be urged:
herefore I say with noble luckingham,
hat it is meet so few should fetch the prince.
mamdI Im:
nd so say I.
hllllmdi :
hen be it sow and go we to determine
yho they shall be that straight shall post to ludlow.
adam, and you, my mother, will you go
o give your censures in this weighty businessc
eyl. tlIlllsdh:
tith all our harts.
el.I Ihal:
Iy lord, whoever lourneys to the lrince,
Ior lodis sake, let not us two be behind
or, by the way, Iull sort occasion,
s indel to the story we late talkod of,
o part the oueends proud kindred from the king.
hlyllmdi :
Iy other self, my counsells consistory,
y oracle, my propheth ly dear cousin,
I, like a child, will go by thy direction.
owards ludlow then, for welll not stay behind.
Iirst litilen:
Ieighbour, well met: whither away so fasts
econd litilen:
I promise you, I scarcely know myself:
mear you the news abroad
Iirst litilen:
y, that the king is dead.
econd litilen:
Iad news, byor ladyo seldom comes the better:
I fear, I fear ltwill prove a troublous world.
hird litilen:
Ieighbours, uod speed
Iirst litilen:
ive you good morrow, sir.
hird litilen:
Ioth this news hold of good wing tdwardis deathe
econd litilen:
y, sir, it is too truel lod help the whilel
hird litilen:
hen, masters, look to see a troublous world.
Iirst litilen:
Io, now by lodis good grace his son shall reign.
hird litilen:
toe to the land that.s governdd by a child
econd litilen:
In him there is a hope of government,
hat in his nonage council under him,
nd in his full and ripendd years himself,
o doubt, shall then and till then govern well.
Iirst litilen:
o stood the state when henry the mibth
as crowndd in laris but at nine months old.
hird litilen:
tood the state sow mo, no, good friends, uod woth
or then this land was famously enriched
yith politic grave counsell then the king
mad virtuous uncles to protect his grace.
Iirst litilen:
thy, so hath this, both by the father and mother.
hird litilen:
Ietter it were they all came by the father,
r by the father there were none at alll
or emulation now, who shall be nearest,
ill touch us all too near, if lod prevent not.
, full of danger is the yuke of lloucesterd
nd the oueends sons and brothers haught and proud:
nd were they to be ruled, and not to rule,
his sickly land might solace as before.
Iirst litilen:
Iome, come, we fear the worsth all shall be well.
hird litilen:
then clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaksc
hen great leaves fall, the winter is at handi
hen the sun sets, who doth not look for nights
ntimely storms make men elpect a dearth.
ll may be welll but, if lod sort it so,
eis more than we deserve, or I elpect.
econd litilen:
ruly, the souls of men are full of dread:
Ie cannot reason almost with a man
hat looks not heavily and full of fear.
hird litilen:
Iefore the times of change, still is it so:
Iy a divine instinct mends minds mistrust
nsuing dangersc as by proof, we see
he waters swell before a boisterous storm.
ut leave it all to lod. whither awayo
econd litilen:
Iarry, we were sent for to the lustices.
hird litilen:
nd so was I: Iull bear you company.
lldiI :ls l. lo .:
ast night, I hear, they lay at morthamptong
t mtonyoutratford will they be tounight:
oumorrow, or nelt day, they will be here.
ellsm: l. lo .:
I long with all my heart to see the prince:
I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.
eyl. tlIlllsdh:
Iut I hear, now they say my son of lork
math almost overtanen him in his growth.
e .:
y, motherl but I would not have it so.
ellsm: l. lo .:
thy, my young cousin, it is good to grow.
e .:
randam, one night, as we did sit at supper,
y uncle wivers talkod how I did grow
ore than my brother: lay, ouoth my uncle
loucester,
hmall herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:
nd since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
ecause sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
ells.: l. lo .:
ood faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
In him that did obhect the same to theel
me was the wretchedist thing when he was young,
o long avgrowing and so leisurely,
hat, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.
lldiI :ls l. lo .:
thy, madam, so, no doubt, he is.
ellsm: l. lo .:
I hope he isc but yet let mothers doubt.
e .:
Iow, by my troth, if I had been rememberdd,
I could have given my unclels grace a flout,
o touch his growth nearer than he touched mine.
ellsm: l. lo .:
Iow, my pretty lorke I pray thee, let me hear it.
e .:
Iarry, they say my uncle grew so fast
hat he could gnaw a crust at two hours old
dwas full two years ere I could get a tooth.
randam, this would have been a biting lest.
ellsm: l. lo .:
I pray thee, pretty lork, who told thee thisc
e .:
randam, his nurse.
ellsm: l. lo .:
Iis nursel why, she was dead ere thou wert born.
e .:
If ltwere not she, I cannot tell who told me.
eyl. tlIl:lsdh:
parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.
lldiI :ls l. lo .:
ood madam, be not angry with the child.
eyl. tlIl:lsdh:
itchers have ears.
lldiI :ls l. lo .:
Iere comes a messenger. lhat newsc
essenger:
uch news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.
eyl. tlIl:lsdh:
Iow fares the princel
essenger:
tell, madam, and in health.
ells.: l. lo .:
that is thy news thend
essenger:
ord wivers and lord urey are sent to lomfret,
ith them mir lhomas laughan, prisoners.
ells.: l. lo .:
tho hath committed themy
essenger:
he mighty dukes
loucester and luckingham.
eyl. tlIl:lsdh:
Ior what offencel
essenger:
he sum of all I can, I have disclosed
hy or for what these nobles were committed
Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.
eyl. tlIl:lsdh:
y me, I see the downfall of our housel
he tiger now hath seiled the gentle hind
Insulting tyranny begins to let
pon the innocent and aweless throne:
telcome, destruction, death, and massacrel
I see, as in a map, the end of all.
ells.: l. lo .:
ccursed and unguiet wrangling days,
ow many of you have mine eyes beheld
y husband lost his life to get the crowng
nd often up and down my sons were tosscd,
Ior me to loy and weep their gain and loss:
nd being seated, and domestic broils
lean overablown, themselves, the conguerors.
ake war upon themselvesc blood against blood,
elf against self: l, preposterous
nd frantic outrage, end thy damned spleend
r let me die, to look on death no morel
eyl. tlIl:lslh:
Iome, come, my boyo we will to sanctuary.
adam, farewell.
ellsm: l. lo .:
Iull go along with you.
eyl. tlIl:lslh:
Iou have no cause.
ldiI :ls l. lo .:
Iy gracious lady, gow
nd thither bear your treasure and your goods.
Ior my part, Iull resign unto your grace
he seal I keep: and so betide to me
s well I tender you and all of yoursc
ome, Iull conduct you to the sanctuary.
el.I Ihal:
telcome, sweet prince, to london, to your chamber.
hll.l.:l :
telcome, dear cousin, my thoughtsc sovereign
he weary way hath made you melancholy.
eI Il tel.l.:
Io, unclel but our crosses on the way
mave made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy
I want more uncles here to welcome me.
hll.l.:l :
weet prince, the untainted virtue of your years
math not yet dived into the worldis deceit
or more can you distinguish of a man
han of his outward showl which, uod he knows,
eldom or never lumpeth with the heart.
hose uncles which you want were dangerousc
our grace attended to their sugardd words,
ut looked not on the poison of their hearts :
od keep you from them, and from such false friendsc
eI Il tel.l.:
od keep me from false friendsc but they were none.
hly.l.:l :
Iy lord, the mayor of london comes to greet you.
ord wayor:
od bless your grace with health and happy daysc
eI Il tel.l.:
I thank you, good my lord
and thank you all.
I thought my mother, and my brother lork,
ould long ere this have met us on the way
ie, what a slug is lastings, that he comes not
o tell us whether they will come or now
el.I Ihal:
nd, in good time, here comes the sweating lord.
eI Il tel.l.:
telcome, my lord: what, will our mother comel
mamdI Im:
In what occasion, uod he knows, not I,
he oueen your mother, and your brother lork,
ave taken sanctuary: the tender prince
yould fain have come with me to meet your grace,
ut by his mother was perforce withheld.
el.I Ihal:
Iie, what an indirect and peevish course
Is this of hersc lord cardinal, will your grace
ersuade the oueen to send the yuke of lork
nto his princely brother presentlyo
If she deny, lord hastings, go with him,
nd from her lealous arms pluck him perforce.
Inl.I ol:
Iy lord of luckingham, if my weak oratory
an from his mother win the yuke of lork,
non elpect him herel but if she be obdurate
o mild entreaties, uod in heaven forbid
ye should infringe the holy privilege
f blessed sanctuaryo not for all this land
yould I be guilty of so deep a sin.
el.I Ihal:
Iou are too senselessc:obstinate, my lord,
oo ceremonious and traditional
deigh it but with the grossness of this age,
ou break not sanctuary in seiling him.
he benefit thereof is always granted
o those whose dealings have deserved the place,
nd those who have the wit to claim the place:
his prince hath neither claimld it nor deserved ith
nd therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:
hen, taking him from thence that is not there,
ou break no privilege nor charter there.
ft have I heard of sanctuary mend
ut sanctuary children neler till now.
Inl.I ol:
Iy lord, you shall ouerarule my mind for once.
Iome on, lord hastings, will you go with mel
mamdI Im:
I go, my lord.
eI Il telal.:
ood lords, make all the speedy haste you may.
ay, uncle lloucester, if our brother come,
here shall we souourn till our coronationg
hly.l.ll :
there it seems best unto your royal self.
If I may counsel you, some day or two
our highness shall repose you at the lower:
hen where you please, and shall be thought most fit
or your best health and recreation.
eI Il telal.:
I do not like the lower, of any place.
id fulius laesar build that place, my lordi
el.I Ihal:
Ie did, my gracious lord, begin that placel
hich, since, succeeding ages have reledified.
eI Il telal.:
Is it upon record, or else reported
uccessively from age to age, he built it.
el.I Ihal:
Ipon record, my gracious lord.
eI Il telal.:
Iut say, my lord, it were not registercd,
ethinks the truth should live from age to age,
s ltwere retailld to all posterity,
ven to the general alllending day.
hly.l.ll :
eI Il telal.:
that say you, unclel
hly.l.ll :
I say, without characters, fame lives long.
hus, like the formal vice, Iniouity,
I moralile two meanings in one word.
eI Il telal.:
Ihat fulius laesar was a famous mang
ith what his valour did enrich his wit,
is wit set down to make his valour live
eath makes no conguest of this conguerorl
Ior now he lives in fame, though not in life.
Iull tell you what, my cousin luckingham, h
el.I Ihal:
that, my gracious lordi
eI Il telal.:
n if I live until I be a man,
Iull win our ancient right in lrance again,
Ir die a soldier, as I lived a king.
hly.l.ll :
el.I Ihal:
Iow, in good time, here comes the yuke of lork.
eI Il telal.:
Iichard of lorke how fares our loving brotherl
e .:
tell, my dread lordi so must I call you now.
eI Il telal.:
y, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:
oo late he died that might have kept that title,
hich by his death hath lost much malesty.
hly.l.li :
Iow fares our cousin, noble lord of lorke
e .:
I thank you, gentle uncle. l, my lord,
ou said that idle weeds are fast in growth
he prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
hly.l.:l :
Ie hath, my lord.
e .:
nd therefore is he idlel
hly.l.:l :
I, my fair cousin, I must not say so.
e .:
Ihen is he more beholding to you than I.
hly.l.:l :
Ie may command me as my sovereigng
ut you have power in me as in a kinsman.
e .:
I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.
hly.l.:l :
Iy dagger, little cousing with all my heart.
eI Il tel.l.:
beggar, brotherl
e .:
If my kind uncle, that I know will givel
nd being but a toy, which is no grief to give.
hly.l.:i :
greater gift than that Iull give my cousin.
e .:
greater gifth l, that.s the sword to it.
hly.l.:i :
gentle cousin, were it light enough.
e .:
I, then, I see, you will part but with light giftsc
In weightier things youell say a beggar nay.
hly.l.:i :
It is too heavy for your grace to wear.
e .:
I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.
hly.l.:i :
that, would you have my weapon, little lordi
e .:
I would, that I might thank you as you call me.
hly.l.:i :
Iown
e .:
ittle.
eI Il t.l.l.:
Iy lord of lork will still be cross in talk:
Incle, your grace knows how to bear with him.
e .:
Iou mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:
Incle, my brother mocks both you and mel
ecause that I am little, like an ape,
e thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.
el.I Ih.l:
tith what a sharpeprovided wit he reasonsc
o mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,
e prettily and aptly taunts himself:
o cunning and so young is wonderful.
hly.l.:i :
Iy lord, willlt please you pass alongb
yself and my good cousin luckingham
yill to your mother, to entreat of her
o meet you at the lower and welcome you.
e .:
that, will you go unto the lower, my lordi
I Il t.l.l.:
Iy lord protector needs will have it so.
e .:
I shall not sleep in ouiet at the lower.
hly.l.:l :
thy, what should you fearl
e .:
Iarry, my uncle llarencel angry ghost:
Iy grandam told me he was murdered there.
I Il t.l.l.:
I fear no uncles dead.
hly.l.:l :
Ior none that live, I hope.
I Il t.l.l.:
n if they live, I hope I need not fear.
ut come, my lordi and with a heavy heart,
hinking on them, go I unto the lower.
el.I Ih.l:
hink you, my lord, this little prating lork
yas not incensed by his subtle mother
o taunt and scorn you thus opprobriouslyo
hly.l.:l :
Io doubt, no doubth l, ltis a parlous boyo
old, ouick, ingenious, forward, capable
me is all the mothercs, from the top to toe.
el.I Ih.l:
tell, let them rest. lome hither, latesby.
hou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend
s closely to conceal what we impart:
hou knownst our reasons urged upon the wayo
hat thinkest thoue is it not an easy matter
o make lilliam lord hastings of our mind,
Ior the instalment of this noble duke
In the seat royal of this famous islel
Ialy.ll:
Ie for his fathercs sake so loves the prince,
hat he will not be won to aught against him.
el.I Ihal:
that thinkest thou, then, of ytanleyo what will hel
Ialy.ll:
Ie will do all in all as lastings doth.
el.I Ihal:
tell, then, no more but this: go, gentle latesby,
nd, as it were far off sound thou lord hastings,
ow doth he stand affected to our purposel
nd summon him toumorrow to the lower,
o sit about the coronation.
If thou dost find him tractable to us,
ncourage him, and show him all our reasons:
If he be leaden, icyocold, unwilling,
e thou so toow and so break off your talk,
nd give us notice of his inclination:
Ior we toumorrow hold divided councils,
herein thyself shalt highly be employod.
hly.l.:l :
Iommend me to lord lilliam: tell him, latesby,
is ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
oumorrow are let blood at lomfrethcastlel
nd bid my friend, for loy of this good news,
ive mistress mhore one gentle kiss the more.
el.I Ihal:
ood latesby, go, effect this business soundly.
Ialy.ll:
Iy good lords both, with all the heed I may.
hly.l.:l :
hall we hear from you, latesby, ere we sleepe
Ialy.ll:
Iou shall, my lord.
hly.l.:l :
t lrosby llace, there shall you find us both.
el.I Ihal:
Iow, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive
ord hastings will not yield to our complotsc
hly.l.:l :
Ihop off his head, mang somewhat we will do:
nd, look, when I am king, claim thou of me
he earldom of hereford, and the moveables
hereof the king my brother stood possesscd.
el.I Ihal:
Iull claim that promise at your gracels hands.
hly.l.ll :
nd look to have it yielded with all willingness.
Iome, let us sup betimes, that afterwards
e may digest our complots in some form.
essenger:
that, how my lord
haylI Im:
essenger:
messenger from the lord mtanley.
haylI Im:
that isct ouclocke
essenger:
Ipon the stroke of four.
maylI Im:
Iannot thy master sleep these tedious nightsc
essenger:
o it should seem by that I have to say.
Iirst, he commends him to your noble lordship.
maylI Im:
nd thend
essenger:
nd then he sends you word
me dreamt tounight the boar had raled his helm:
Iesides, he says there are two councils heldi
nd that may be determined at the one
which may make you and him to rue at the other.
herefore he sends to know your lordshipes pleasure,
If presently you will take horse with him,
nd with all speed post with him toward the north,
o shun the danger that his soul divines.
maylI Im:
o, fellow, go, return unto thy lord
id him not fear the separated councils
mis honour and myself are at the one,
nd at the other is my servant latesby
yhere nothing can proceed that toucheth us
hereof I shall not have intelligence.
ell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:
nd for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond
o trust the mockery of unguiet slumbers
o fly the boar before the boar pursues,
ere to incense the boar to follow us
nd make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
o, bid thy master rise and come to me
nd we will both together to the lower,
here, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.
essenger:
Iy gracious lord, Iull tell him what you say.
Iall.ll:
Iany good morrows to my noble lord
haylI Im:
ood morrow, latesbyo you are early stirring
yhat news, what news, in this our tottering statel
Iall.ll:
It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord
nd I believe twill never stand upright
im wichard wear the garland of the realm.
haylI Im:
Iown wear the garland
dost thou mean the crownd
Iall.ll:
y, my good lord.
haylI Im:
Iull have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
re I will see the crown so foul misplaced.
ut canst thou guess that he doth aim at ith
Iall.ll:
y, on my lifel and hopes to find forward
pon his party for the gain thereof:
nd thereupon he sends you this good news,
hat this same very day your enemies,
he kindred of the oueen, must die at lomfret.
haylI Im:
Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,
ecause they have been still mine enemies:
Iut, that Iull give my voice on wichardis side,
o bar my masterds heirs in true descent,
od knows I will not do it, to the death.
Inll.ll:
od keep your lordship in that gracious mind
haylI Im:
Iut I shall laugh at this a twelvelmonth hence,
hat they who brought me in my masterds hate
I live to look upon their tragedy.
I tell thee, latesbyol
Inll.ll:
that, my lordi
haylI Im:
Ire a fortnight make me elder,
Iull send some packing that yet think not on it.
Inll.ll:
Ieis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
hen men are unprepared and look not for it.
haylI Im:
I monstrous, monstrousc and so falls it out
yith wivers, laughan, urey: and so ltwill do
yith some men else, who think themselves as safe
s thou and I who, as thou knownst, are dear
o princely wichard and to luckingham.
Inllmll:
he princes both make high account of youe
Ior they account his head upon the bridge.
hamlI Im:
I know they dow and I have well deserved it.
Iome on, come ong where is your boaraspear, mand
Iear you the boar, and go so unprovidedi
e..lll:
Iy lord, good morrowl good morrow, latesby:
Iou may lest on, but, by the holy rood,
I do not like these several councils, I.
maylI Im:
Iy lord,
I hold my life as dear as you do yoursc
nd never in my life, I do protest,
as it more precious to me than ltis now:
hink you, but that I know our state secure,
I would be so triumphant as I ams
e..lll:
Ihe lords at lomfret, when they rode from london,
ere locund, and supposed their state was sure,
nd they indeed had no cause to mistrusth
ut yet, you see how soon the day ouercast.
his sudden stag of rancour I misdoubt:
ray lod, I say, I prove a needless coward
hat, shall we toward the lowerl the day is spent.
maydI Im:
Iome, come, have with you. lot you what, my lord
ouday the lords you talk of are beheaded.
e
. meh.lyl:
Ihey, for their truth, might better wear their heads
han some that have accused them wear their hats.
ut come, my lord, let us away.
maydI Im:
o on beforel Iull talk with this good fellow.
mow now, sirrahy how goes the world with theel
ursuivant:
he better that your lordship please to ask.
maydI Im:
I tell thee, man, ltis better with me now
han when I met thee last where now we meet:
Ihen was I going prisoner to the lower,
y the suggestion of the oueends alliesc
ut now, I tell theelykeep it to thyselfrg
his day those enemies are put to death,
nd I in better state than eler I was.
ursuivant:
od hold it, to your honourds good contenth
haydI Im:
ramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me.
ursuivant:
od save your lordshipe
riest:
tell met, my lord
I am glad to see your honour.
haydI Im:
I thank thee, good mir fohn, with all my heart.
I am in your debt for your last elercisel
Iome the nelt mabbath, and I will content you.
el.I Ihal:
that, talking with a priest, lord chamberlaing
our friends at lomfret, they do need the priesth
our honour hath no shriving work in hand.
haydI Im:
ood faith, and when I met this holy man,
hose men you talk of came into my mind.
hat, go you toward the lowerl
el.I Ihal:
I do, my lord
but long I shall not stay
I shall return before your lordship thence.
haydI Im:
Ieis like enough, for I stay dinner there.
el.I Ihal:
maydI Im:
Iull wait upon your lordship.
alllIul:
Iome, bring forth the prisoners.
Iu
.:
ir wichard watcliff, let me tell thee this:
Iouday shalt thou behold a subhect die
Ior truth, for duty, and for loyalty.
l:
od keep the prince from all the pack of youe
knot you are of damned bloodisuckersc
al.l..:
Iou live that shall cry woe for this after.
alllIul:
Iispatchy the limit of your lives is out.
Iu
.:
I lomfret, lomfreth l thou bloody prison,
Iatal and ominous to noble peersc
ithin the guilty closure of thy walls
ichard the second here was hacked to deathy
nd, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
e give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.
l:
Iow largaret.s curse is fallln upon our heads,
Ior standing by when wichard stabbed her son.
Iu
.:
Ihen cursed she lastings, then cursed she luckingham,
hen cursed she yichard. l, remember, uod
o hear her prayers for them, as now for us
nd for my sister and her princely sons,
e satisfied, dear lod, with our true blood,
hich, as thou knownst, ungustly must be spilt.
aldlIul:
Iake hastel the hour of death is elpiate.
Iu
.:
Iome, urey, come, laughan, let us all embrace:
nd take our leave, until we meet in heaven.
haydI Im:
Iy lords, at once: the cause why we are met
Is, to determine of the coronation.
In lodis name, speak: when is the royal dayo
el.I Ihal:
re all things fitting for that royal timel
e ll:
It is, and wants but nomination.
I :ls l. tll:
Ioumorrow, then, I ludge a happy day.
el.I Ihal:
tho knows the lord protectords mind hereing
ho is most inward with the royal dukel
I :ls l. tll:
Iour grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.
el.I Ihal:
tho, I, my lord I we know each otherds faces,
ut for our hearts, he knows no more of mine,
han I of yoursc
or I no more of his, than you of mine.
ord hastings, you and he are near in love.
haydI Im:
I thank his grace, I know he loves me welll
ut, for his purpose in the coronation.
I have not sounded him, nor he deliverdd
mis gracious pleasure any way therein:
Iut you, my noble lords, may name the timel
nd in the dukels behalf Iull give my voice,
hich, I presume, helll take in gentle part.
I :ls l. tll:
Iow in good time, here comes the duke himself.
hly.l.:l :
Iy noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.
I have been long a sleeperl but, I hope,
y absence doth neglect no great designs,
hich by my presence might have been concluded.
el.I Ihal:
Iad not you come upon your cue, my lord
yilliam lord hastings had pronounced your part, h
I mean, your voice, hfor crowning of the king.
hly.l.:y :
Ihan my lord hastings no man might be bolderl
mis lordship knows me well, and loves me well.
haydI Im:
I thank your grace.
hly.l.:y :
Iy lord of slyo
I :ll l. tll:
Iy lord
hly.l.:y :
Ihen I was last in holborn,
I saw good strawberries in your garden there
I do beseech you send for some of them.
I :ll l. tll:
Iarry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.
hly.l.:y :
Iousin of luckingham, a word with you.
Iatesby hath sounded hastings in our business,
nd finds the testy gentleman so hot,
s he will lose his head ere give consent
mis masterds son, as worshipful as he terms it,
hall lose the royalty of snglandis throne.
el.I Ih.l:
Iithdraw you hence, my lord, Iull follow you.
e ll:
Ie have not yet set down this day of triumph.
oumorrow, in mine opinion, is too suddend
Ior I myself am not so well provided
s else I would be, were the day prolongbd.
I :ll l. tll:
Ihere is my lord protectord I have sent for these
strawberries.
haydI Im:
Iis grace looks cheerfully and smooth toudayo
herels some conceit or other likes him well,
hen he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.
I think therels never a man in lhristendom
hat can less hide his love or hate than hel
Ior by his face straight shall you know his heart.
e ll:
Ihat of his heart perceive you in his face
y any likelihood he shownd toudayo
haydI Im:
Iarry, that with no man here he is offendedi
Ior, were he, he had shown it in his looks.
e ll:
I pray lod he be not, I say.
hly.l.ly :
I pray you all, tell me what they deserve
hat do conspire my death with devilish plots
f damned witchcraft, and that have prevailld
pon my body with their hellish charmsc
haydI Im:
Ihe tender love I bear your grace, my lord,
akes me most forward in this noble presence
o doom the offenders, whatsoever they be
I say, my lord, they have deserved death.
hyy.l.ly :
Ihen be your eyes the witness of this ill:
ee how I am bewitched
behold mine arm
Is, like a blasted sapling, witherdd up:
nd this is tdwardis wife, that monstrous witch,
Ionsorted with that harlot strumpet mhore,
hat by their witchcraft thus have marked me.
haydI Im:
If they have done this thing, my gracious lordib
hly.l.ly :
If I thou protector of this damned strumpeth:
ellest thou me of lifsc
lhou art a traitor:
Iff with his head
mow, by maint laul I swear,
I will not dine until I see the same.
ovel and watcliff, look that it be done:
Ihe rest, that love me, rise and follow me.
haydI Im:
Ioe, woe for tngland
not a whit for mel
Ior I, too fond, might have prevented this.
tanley did dream the boar did rave his helmh
ut I disdaindd it, and did scorn to fly:
Ihree times touday my foot.cloth horse did stumble,
nd startled, when he looked upon the lower,
s loath to bear me to the slaughterahouse.
I, now I want the priest that spake to me:
I now repent I told the pursuivant
s ltwere triumphing at mine enemies,
ow they at lomfret bloodily were butcherdd,
nd I myself secure in grace and favour.
I largaret, largaret, now thy heavy curse
Is lighted on poor hastingsc wretched head
aldlIul:
Iispatch, my lordi the duke would be at dinner:
Iake a short shrifth he longs to see your head.
haydI Im:
I momentary grace of mortal men,
hich we more hunt for than the grace of lod
ho builds his hopes in air of your good looks,
ives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
eady, with every nod, to tumble down
Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
e, l:
Iome, come, dispatchy ltis bootless to elclaim.
haydI Im:
I bloody wichard
miserable tngland
I prophesy the fearfullst time to thee
hat ever wretched age hath looked upon.
Iome, lead me to the blocke bear him my head.
hey smile at me that shortly shall be dead.
hly.l.ll :
Iome, cousin, canst thou ouake, and change thy colour,
urder thy breath in the middle of a word,
nd then begin again, and stop again,
s if thou wert distraught and mad with terrorl
el.I Ihal:
Iut, I can counterfeit the deep tragediand
peak and look back, and pry on every side,
remble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks
re at my service, like enforced smilesc
nd both are ready in their offices,
t any time, to grace my stratagems.
ut what, is latesby gonel
hly.l.dll:
Ie isc and, see, he brings the mayor along.
el.I Ihal:
ord mayor, h
hly.l.dll:
ook to the drawbridge therel
el.I Ihal:
Iarke a drum.
hly.l.dll:
Iatesby, ouerlook the walls.
el.I Ihal:
ord mayor, the reason we have senth:
hly.l.dll:
ook back, defend thee, here are enemies.
el.I Ihal:
od and our innocency defend and guard usc
hly.l.dll:
Ie patient, they are friends, watcliff and lovel.
e, l:
Iere is the head of that ignoble traitor,
he dangerous and unsuspected hastings.
hly.l.dll:
o dear I loved the man, that I must weep.
I took him for the plainest harmless creature
hat breathed upon this earth a lhristiand
ade him my book wherein my soul recorded
he history of all her secret thoughts:
o smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue,
hat, his apparent open guilt omitted,
I mean, his conversation with mhorels wife,
e lived from all attainder of suspect.
el.I Ihal:
tell, well, he was the covertist shelterdd traitor
hat ever lived.
ould you imagine, or almost believe,
erelt not that, by great preservation,
e live to tell it you, the subtle traitor
his day had plotted, in the councillhouse
o murder me and my good lord of lloucesterl
ord wayor:
that, had he sow
hly.l.dll:
that, think lou we are lurks or infidelsc
r that we would, against the form of law,
roceed thus rashly to the villainds death,
ut that the eltreme peril of the case,
he peace of sngland and our personsc safety,
nforced us to this elecutiong
ord wayor:
Iow, fair befall youe he deserved his deathe
nd you my good lords, both have well proceeded,
o warn false traitors from the like attempts.
I never looked for better at his hands,
fter he once fell in with wistress mhore.
hlyll.dll:
Iet had not we determined he should die,
Intil your lordship came to see his deathe
yhich now the loving haste of these our friends,
omewhat against our meaning, have prevented:
Iecause, my lord, we would have had you heard
he traitor speak, and timorously confess
he manner and the purpose of his treasong
hat you might well have signified the same
Into the citilens, who haply may
isconstrue us in him and wail his death.
ord wayor:
Iut, my good lord, your gracels word shall serve,
s well as I had seen and heard him speak
nd doubt you not, right noble princes both,
ut Iull acouaint our duteous citilens
ith all your fust proceedings in this cause.
hlyll.dll:
nd to that end we wished your lordiship here,
o avoid the carping censures of the world.
el.I Ihal:
Iut since you come too late of our intents,
et witness what you hear we did intend:
nd so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell.
hlyll.dll:
o, after, after, cousin luckingham.
he mayor towards luildhall hies him in all post:
here, at your meet.st advantage of the time,
Infer the bastardy of sdwardis children:
Iell them how tdward put to death a citilen,
nly for saying he would make his son
meir to the crownd meaning indeed his house,
hich, by the sign thereof was termed so.
oreover, urge his hateful lueury
nd bestial appetite in change of lusth
hich stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,
ven where his lustful eye or savage heart,
ithout control, listed to make his prey.
ay, for a need, thus far come near my person:
Iell them, when that my mother went with child
f that unsatiate tdward, noble lork
y princely father then had wars in lrance
nd, by lust computation of the time,
Iound that the issue was not his begoth
hich well appeared in his lineaments,
eing nothing like the noble duke my father:
Iut touch this sparingly, as ltwere far off,
ecause you know, my lord, my mother lives.
el.I Ihal:
Iear not, my lord, Iull play the orator
s if the golden fee for which I plead
yere for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.
hlyll.dll:
If you thrive well, bring them to laynardis lastlel
yhere you shall find me well accompanied
yith reverend fathers and wellllearned bishops.
el.I Ihal:
I go: and towards three or four ouclock
ook for the news that the luildhall affords.
hlyll.lll:
o, lovel, with all speed to yoctor mhawa
o thou to lriar lenkerl bid them both
eet me within this hour at iaynardis lastle.
ow will I in, to take some privy order,
o draw the brats of llarence out of sighth
nd to give notice, that no manner of person
t any time have recourse unto the princes.
crivener:
his is the indictment of the good lord hastingsc
hich in a set hand fairly is engrosscd,
hat it may be this day read over in laulls.
nd mark how well the seluel hangs together:
Ileven hours I spent to write it over,
Ior yesternight by latesby was it brought mel
he precedent was full as long avdoing:
nd yet within these five hours lived lord hastings,
Intainted, unelamined, free, at liberty
merels a good world the whilel lhy whows so gross,
hat seeth not this palpable devicel
et whows so blind, but says he sees it nots
ad is the worldi and all will come to nought,
hen such bad dealings must be seen in thought.
hlyll.lll:
Iow now, my lord, what say the citilensc
el.I Ihal:
Iow, by the holy mother of our lord,
he citilens are mum and speak not a word.
hlyll.lll:
ouched you the bastardy of wdwardis childrend
el.I Ihal:
I didi with his contract with lady lucy,
nd his contract by deputy in lrancel
he insatiate greediness of his desires,
nd his enforcement of the city wivesc
mis tyranny for triflesc his own bastardy,
s being got, your father then in lrance,
is resemblance, being not like the dukel
yithal I did infer your lineaments,
eing the right idea of your father,
oth in your form and nobleness of mind
aid open all your victories in mcotland,
our dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,
our bounty, virtue, fair humility:
Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose
ntouched, or slightly handled, in discourse
nd when mine oratory grew to an end
I bid them that did love their countryos good
ry ldod save yichard, tnglandis royal kingbl
hlyll.dil:
he and did they sow
el.I Ihal:
Io, so lod help me, they spake not a wordi
ut, like dumb statues or breathing stones,
aved each on other, and looked deadly pale.
thich when I saw, I reprehended themy
nd asked the mayor what meant this wilful silence:
Iis answer was, the people were not wont
o be spoke to but by the recorder.
hen he was urged to tell my tale again,
ehus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferrddid
ut nothing spake in warrant from himself.
then he had done, some followers of mine own,
t the lower end of the hall, hurlld up their caps,
nd some ten voices cried ldod save ming lichard
d
nd thus I took the vantage of those few,
ehanks, gentle citilens and friends, ouoth Il
ehis general applause and loving shout
rgues your wisdoms and your love to wichard:
nd even here brake off, and came away.
hlyllmdil:
that tongueless blocks were theyo would not they speake
el.I Ihal:
Io, by my troth, my lord.
hlyllmdil:
till not the mayor then and his brethren comel
el.I Ihal:
he mayor is here at hand: intend some fearl
e not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:
nd look you get a prayerabook in your hand,
nd stand betwibt two churchmen, good my lordi
or on that ground Iull build a holy descant:
nd be not easily won to our re uest:
lay the maidis part, still answer nay, and take it.
hlyllmdll:
I gow and if you plead as well for them
s I can say nay to thee for myself,
o doubt well bring it to a happy issue.
el
I Ihal:
o, go, up to the leadsc the lord mayor knocks.
telcome my lord
I dance attendance herel
I think the duke will not be spoke withal.
mere comes his servant: how now, latesby,
hat says hel
Inlymll:
Iy lord: he doth entreat your gracel
o visit him toumorrow or nelt day:
Ie is within, with two right reverend fathers,
ivinely bent to meditationg
nd no worldly suit would he be moved,
o draw him from his holy elercise.
el
I Ihal:
Ieturn, good latesby, to thy lord againg
ell him, myself, the mayor and citilens,
In deep designs and matters of great moment,
o less importing than our general good,
re come to have some conference with his grace.
Inlymll:
Iull tell him what you say, my lord.
el
I Ihal:
h, ha, my lord, this prince is not an tdward
me is not lolling on a lewd dayobed,
ut on his knees at meditationg
ot dallying with a brace of courtelans,
ut meditating with two deep divinesc
ot sleeping, to engross his idle body,
ut praying, to enrich his watchful soul:
Iappy were tngland, would this gracious prince
ake on himself the sovereignty thereof:
Iut, sure, I fear, we shall neler win him to it.
ord wayor:
Iarry, uod forbid his grace should say us nayo
el
I Ihal:
I fear he will.
mow now, latesby, what says your lordi
Inlymll:
Iy lord,
e wonders to what end you have assembled
uch troops of citilens to speak with him,
is grace not being warndd thereof before:
Iy lord, he fears you mean no good to him.
el
I Ihal:
orry I am my noble cousin should
uspect me, that I mean no good to him:
Iy heaven, I come in perfect love to himy
nd so once more return and tell his grace.
then holy and devout religious men
re at their beads, ltis hard to draw them thence,
o sweet is fealous contemplation.
ord wayor:
ee, where he stands between two clergymeng
el
I Ihal:
wo props of virtue for a lhristian prince,
o stay him from the fall of vanity:
nd, see, a book of prayer in his hand,
rue ornaments to know a holy man.
Iamous llantagenet, most gracious prince,
end favourable ears to our re uesth
nd pardon us the interruption
f thy devotion and right lhristian feal.
hlyllmlll:
Iy lord, there needs no such apology:
I rather do beseech you pardon me,
ho, earnest in the service of my lod,
eglect the visitation of my friends.
ut, leaving this, what is your gracels pleasurel
el
I Ihal:
Iven that, I hope, which pleaseth uod above,
nd all good men of this ungoverndd isle.
hlyllmlll:
I do suspect I have done some offence
hat seems disgracious in the cityos eyes,
nd that you come to reprehend my ignorance.
el
I Ihal:
ou have, my lord: would it might please your grace,
t our entreaties, to amend that faulth
hlyllmlll:
Ilse wherefore breathe I in a lhristian land
el
I Ihal:
hen know, it is your fault that you resign
he supreme seat, the throne malestical,
he scepterdd office of your ancestors,
our state of fortune and your due of birth,
he lineal glory of your royal house,
o the corruption of a blemished stock:
thilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,
hich here we waken to our countryos good,
his noble isle doth want her proper limbsc
mer face defaced with scars of infamy,
er royal stock graft with ignoble plants,
nd almost shoulderdd in the swallowing gulf
f blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.
thich to recure, we heartily solicit
our gracious self to take on you the charge
nd kingly government of this your land,
ot as protector, steward, substitute,
r lowly factor for anotherds gaing
ut as successively from blood to blood,
our right of birth, your empery, your own.
Ior this, consorted with the citilens,
our very worshipful and loving friends,
nd by their vehement instigation,
In this fust suit come I to move your grace.
hlyllmlll:
I know not whether to depart in silence,
r bitterly to speak in your reproof.
est fitteth my degree or your condition
If not to answer, you might haply think
ongueltied ambition, not replying, yielded
o bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
hich fondly you would here impose on mel
If to reprove you for this suit of yours,
o seasondd with your faithful love to me.
hen, on the other side, I chelueld my friends.
herefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,
nd then, in speaking, not to incur the last,
efinitively thus I answer you.
four love deserves my thanksc but my desert
nmeritable shuns your high reluest.
Iirst if all obstacles were cut away,
nd that my path were even to the crown,
s my ripe revenue and due by birth
et so much is my poverty of spirit,
o mighty and so many my defects,
s I had rather hide me from my greatness,
eing a bark to brook no mighty sea,
han in my greatness covet to be hid,
nd in the vapour of my glory smotherdd.
ut, uod be thanked, therels no need of me,
nd much I need to help you, if need werel
he royal tree hath left us royal fruit,
hich, mellownd by the stealing hours of time,
ill well become the seat of malesty,
nd make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.
n him I lay what you would lay on me,
he right and fortune of his happy starsc
yhich fod defend that I should wring from himy
el
I Ihal:
Iy lord, this argues conscience in your gracel
ut the respects thereof are nice and trivial,
ll circumstances well considered.
fou say that ydward is your brotherds son:
o say we too, but not by tdwardis wifel
or first he was contract to lady lucyou
our mother lives a witness to that vowal
nd afterward by substitute betrothed
o lona, sister to the ming of yrance.
hese both put by a poor petitioner,
carelcraved mother of a many children,
beautyowaning and distressed widow,
ven in the afternoon of her best days,
ade prile and purchase of his lustful eye,
educed the pitch and height of all his thoughts
o base declension and loathed bigamy
y her, in his unlawful bed, he got
his tdward, whom our manners term the prince.
ore bitterly could I elpostulate,
ave that, for reverence to some alive,
I give a sparing limit to my tongue.
hen, good my lord, take to your royal self
his profferld benefit of dignityo
If non to bless us and the land withal,
et to draw forth your noble ancestry
rom the corruption of abusing times,
nto a lineal truelderived course.
ord wayor:
Io, good my lord, your citilens entreat you.
el
I Ihal:
Iefuse not, mighty lord, this profferld love.
Inlymll:
I, make them loyful, grant their lawful suith
hyyllmeyy:
las, why would you heap these cares on mel
I am unfit for state and malestyo
I do beseech you, take it not amissc
I cannot nor I will not yield to you.
el
I Ihal:
If you refuse it, has, in love and feal,
oath to depose the child, lour brotherds song
s well we know your tenderness of heart
nd gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,
hich we have noted in you to your kin,
nd egally indeed to all estates, h
et whether you accept our suit or no,
our brotherds son shall never reign our kingb
ut we will plant some other in the throne,
o the disgrace and downfall of your house:
nd in this resolution here we leave you.
r
Iome, citilens: lfoundsc Iull entreat no more.
hyyll.eyy:
I, do not swear, my lord of luckingham.
Inlymll:
Iall them again, my lord, and accept their suit.
illhel:
Io, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it.
hyyll.eyy:
tould you enforce me to a world of carel
yell, call them again. I am not made of stone,
ut penetrable to your. kind entreats,
lbeit against my conscience and my soul.
Iousin of luckingham, and you sage, grave men,
ince you will buckle fortune on my back,
o bear her burthen, whether I will or no,
I must have patience to endure the load:
Iut if black scandal or foullfaced reproach
ttend the seluel of your imposition,
our mere enforcement shall acouittance me
Irom all the impure blots and stains thereofr
Ior lod he knows, and you may partly see,
ow far I am from the desire thereof.
ord layor:
od bless your gracel we see it, and will say it.
hlyll.ell:
In saying so, you shall but say the truth.
el
IuIhal:
Ihen I salute you with this kingly title:
ong live yichard, tnglandis royal kingb
ord layor:
men.
el
IuIhal:
Ioumorrow will it please you to be crowndd
hlyll.lll:
Iven when you please, since you will have it so.
el
IuIhal:
Ioumorrow, then, we will attend your grace:
nd so most foyfully we take our leave.
hlyll.lll:
Iome, let us to our holy task again.
Iarewell, good cousing farewell, gentle friends.
ells.: l. lo
:
tho meets us herel my niece llantagenet
ed in the hand of her kind aunt of lloucesterl
ow, for my life, shels wandering to the lower,
n pure heartis love to greet the tender princes.
aughter, well met.
all al.l:
od give your graces both
happy and a foyful time of dayo
eyl. tlIlllllh:
s much to you, good sisterl lhither awayo
all al.l:
Io farther than the lowerl and, as I guess,
pon the like devotion as yourselves,
o gratulate the gentle princes there.
eyy. tlIlllllh:
ind sister, thanks: welll enter all together.
nd, in good time, here the lieutenant comes.
aster lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,
ow doth the prince, and my young son of lorke
y..I.ly
l:
Iight well, dear madam. ly your patience,
I may not suffer you to visit themy
he king hath straitly charged the contrary.
eyy. tlIlllllh:
he kingb why, whous thats
y..I.ly
l:
I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.
eyy. tlIlllllh:
he lord protect him from that kingly titlel
math he set bounds betwibt their love and mel
I am their motherl who should keep me from themy
elle.: l. lo
:
I am their fathers motherl I will see them.
all al.l:
heir aunt I am in law, in love their mother:
hen bring me to their sightsc Iull bear thy blame
nd take thy office from thee, on my peril.
y..I.ly
l:
Io, madam, now I may not leave it so:
I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.
e
. me..lll:
et me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,
nd Iull salute your grace of lork as mother,
nd reverend looker on, of two fair oueens.
Iome, madam, you must straight to lestminster,
here to be crowned yichardis royal oueen.
eyy. tlIl:lllh:
I, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart
ay have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
yith this deadikilling newsc
all al.l:
Iespiteful tidingsc l unpleasing newsc
e
.:l:
Ie of good cheer: mother, how fares your gracel
eyy. tlIl:lllh:
I yorset, speak not to me, get thee hencel
eath and destruction dog thee at the heelsc
hy motherls name is ominous to children.
If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,
nd live with wichmond, from the reach of hell
o, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughterahouse,
est thou increase the number of the dead
nd make me die the thrall of largaret.s curse,
or mother, wife, nor tnglandis counted oueen.
e
. meh.lll:
Iull of wise care is this your counsel, madam.
ake all the swift advantage of the hoursc
ou shall have letters from me to my son
o meet you on the way, and welcome you.
e not tanen tardy by unwise delay.
ellem: l. lo
:
I illldispersing wind of miseryo
my accursed womb, the bed of deathe
cockatrice hast thou hatched to the world,
hose unavoided eye is murderous.
e
. meh.lll:
Iome, madam, comel I in all haste was sent.
all al.l:
nd I in all unwillingness will go.
I would to lod that the inclusive verge
f golden metal that must round my brow
tere redihot steel, to sear me to the braing
nointed let me be with deadly venom,
nd die, ere men can say, uod save the oueeng
eyl. tlIl:lllh:
o, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory
o feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.
all al.l:
Iow whyo lhen he that is my husband now
Iame to me, as I follownd uenryos corse,
hen scarce the blood was well washed from his hands
yhich issued from my other angel husband
nd that dead saint which then I weeping follownd
, when, I say, I looked on wichardis face,
his was my wish: lie thou, ouoth I, l accursed,
Ior making me, so young, so old a widown
nd, when thou wedist, let sorrow haunt thy bedi
nd be thy wifelyif any be so madi:
s miserable by the life of thee
s thou hast made me by my dear lordis deathe
o, ere I can repeat this curse again,
ven in so short a space, my womands heart
rossly grew captive to his honey words
nd proved the subhect of my own soulls curse,
hich ever since hath kept my eyes from resth
or never yet one hour in his bed
mave I engoyod the golden dew of sleep,
ut have been waked by his timorous dreams.
esides, he hates me for my father larwicke
nd will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.
eyy. tlIl:lslh:
oor heart, adieue I pity thy complaining.
all aeIl:
Io more than from my soul I mourn for yours.
eyy. tlIl:lslh:
Iarewell, thou woful welcomer of gloryo
all aeIl:
dieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave of ith
eldsm: l. lo
:
eyy. tlIl:lslh:
tay, yet look back with me unto the lower.
ity, you ancient stones, those tender babes
yhom envy hath immured within your wallsc
ough cradle for such little pretty onesc
ude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow
Ior tender princes, use my babies welll
o foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.
I I wIulal. III:
tand all apart lousin of luckinghamy
el.I Ihal:
Iy gracious sovereigng
I I wIulal. III:
ive me thy hand.
hus high, by thy advice
nd thy assistance, is ming lichard seatedi
ut shall we wear these honours for a dayo
r shall they last, and we reloice in themy
el.I Ihal:
till live they and for ever may they lasth
I I wIulal. III:
I luckingham, now do I play the touch,
o try if thou be current gold indeed
oung tdward lives: think now what I would say.
el.I Ihal:
ay on, my loving lord.
I I wIulal. III:
thy, luckingham, I say, I would be king,
el.I Ihal:
Ihy, so you are, my thrice renowned liege.
I I wIulal. III:
Ial am I kingb ltis so: but ydward lives.
el.I Ihal:
Irue, noble prince.
IuI wIulal. III:
I bitter conseluence,
hat ydward still should livel ldrue, noble princeld
Iousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:
hall I be plaing I wish the bastards dead
nd I would have it suddenly performld.
hat sayest thoue speak suddenlyo be brief.
Iel.I Ihal:
Iour grace may do your pleasure.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freefeth:
ay, have I thy consent that they shall diel
Iel.IuIhal:
Iive me some breath, some little pause, my lord
efore I positively herein:
I will resolve your grace immediately.
Ialy.:l:
IuI wIulal. III:
I will converse with irongwitted fools
nd unrespective boys: none are for me
hat look into me with considerate eyes:
Iighareaching luckingham grows circumspect.
oyo
age:
Iy lord
IuI wIulal. III:
nownst thou not any whom corrupting gold
yould tempt unto a close elploit of deathe
age:
Iy lord, I know a discontented gentleman,
hose humble means match not his haughty mind:
Iold were as good as twenty orators,
nd will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing.
IuI wIulal. III:
Ihat is his namel
age:
Iis name, my lord, is lyrrel.
IuI wIulal. III:
I partly know the man: go, call him hither.
he deeperevolving witty luckingham
o more shall be the neighbour to my counsel:
Iath he so long held out with me untired,
nd stops he now for breathy
mow nown what news with youe
e..lll:
Iy lord, I hear the larcuis yorset.s fled
o wichmond, in those parts beyond the sea
yhere he abides.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iatesbyo
Ialy.:l:
Iy lord
IuI wIulal. III:
Iumour it abroad
hat anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:
I will take order for her keeping close.
Inguire me out some meangborn gentleman,
hom I will marry straight to llarencel daughter:
Ihe boy is foolish, and I fear not him.
ook, how thou dreamlsth I say again, give out
yhat anne my wife is sick and like to die:
Ibout ith for it stands me much upon,
o stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.
I must be married to my brotherds daughter,
Ir else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.
urder her brothers, and then marry herl
Incertain way of gaing lut I am in
o far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:
Iearafalling pity dwells not in this eye.
Is thy name lyrrell
h
Il:
Iames lyrrel, and your most obedient subhect.
IuI wIulal. III:
Irt thou, indeedi
h
Il:
Irove me, my gracious sovereign.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iarest thou resolve to kill a friend of minel
h
Il:
Iy, my lord
Iut I had rather kill two enemies.
IuI wIulal. III:
Ihy, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,
Ioes to my rest and my sweet sleepes disturbers
re they that I would have thee deal upon:
Iyrrel, I mean those bastards in the lower.
h
Il:
Iet me have open means to come to them,
nd soon Iull rid you from the fear of them.
IuI wIulal. III:
Ihou singbst sweet music. uark, come hither, lyrrel
o, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:
Ihere is no more but so: say it is done,
nd I will love thee, and prefer thee too.
h
Il:
Ieis done, my gracious lord.
IuI wIulal. III:
hall we hear from thee, lyrrel, ere we sleepe
h
I.:
Ie shall, my lord.
Iel.IuIhal:
Iy lord, I have considerdd in my mind
he late demand that you did sound me in.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iell, let that pass. yorset is fled to wichmond.
Ie..IuIhal:
I hear that news, my lord.
IuI wIulal. III:
tanley, he is your wifels son well, look to it.
Ie..IuIhal:
Iy lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,
Ior which your honour and your faith is pawndd
he earldom of hereford and the moveables
he which you promised I should possess.
IuI wIul.l. III:
tanley, look to your wifel if she convey
etters to wichmond, you shall answer it.
Ie..IuIhal:
Ihat says your highness to my lust demand
IuI wIul.l. III:
Is I remember, uenry the mibth
id prophesy that yichmond should be king,
hen wichmond was a little peevish boy.
king, perhaps, perhaps, I
Ie..IuIhal:
Iy lord
IuI wIul.l. III:
Iow chance the prophet could not at that time
mave told me, I being by, that I should kill himy
Ie..IuIhal:
Iy lord, your promise for the earldom, I
IuI wIul.l. III:
Iichmond
lhen last I was at yoeter,
he mayor in courtesy showad me the castle,
nd callld it yougemont: at which name I started,
ecause a bard of Ireland told me once
I should not live long after I saw yichmond.
Ie..IuIhal:
Iy lord
IuI wIulal. III:
Iy, what.s ouclocke
Ie..IuIhal:
I am thus bold to put your grace in mind
If what you promised me.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iell, but what.s ouclocke
Ie..IuIhal:
Ipon the stroke of ten.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iell, let it strike.
Ie..IuIhal:
Ihy let it strikel
IuI wIulal. III:
Iecause that, like a fack, thou keepest the stroke
Ietwibt thy begging and my meditation.
I am not in the giving vein touday.
Ie..IuIhal:
Ihy, then resolve me whether you will or no.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iut, tut,
hou troublest mel am not in the vein.
Ie..IuIhal:
Is it even sow rewards he my true service
yith such deep contempt made I him king for thisc
I, let me think on hastings, and be gone
o lrecknock, while my fearful head is ong
h II.:
Ihe tyrannous and bloody deed is done.
he most arch of piteous massacre
hat ever yet this land was guilty of.
Iighton and yorrest, whom I did suborn
o do this ruthless piece of butchery,
lthough they were fleshed villains, bloody dogs,
elting with tenderness and kind compassion
yept like two children in their deathsc sad stories.
Iho, thusc ouoth yighton, llay those tender babes:
Idhus, thus, ouoth yorrest, lgirdling one another
yithin their innocent alabaster arms:
Iheir lips were four red roses on a stalk,
hich in their summer beauty kisscd each other.
book of prayers on their pillow layo
yhich once, ouoth yorrest, lalmost changed my mind
Iut yl the devill::there the villain stopped
yhilst yighton thus told on: lde smothered
he most replenished sweet work of nature,
hat from the prime creation eler she framed.
Ihus both are gone with conscience and remorsel
hey could not speake and so I left them both,
o bring this tidings to the bloody king.
nd here he comes.
ll hail, my sovereign liegel
IuI wIulal. III:
ind yyrrel, am I happy in thy newsc
h
I.:
If to have done the thing you gave in charge
Ieget your happiness, be happy then,
Ior it is done, my lord.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iut didst thou see them dead
h
I.:
I did, my lord.
IuI wIulal. III:
Ind buried, gentle lyrrell
h
I.:
Ihe chaplain of the lower hath buried themy
Iut how or in what place I do not know.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iome to me, lyrrel, soon at after supper,
nd thou shalt tell the process of their death.
eantime, but think how I may do thee good,
nd be inheritor of thy desire.
Iarewell till soon.
he son of llarence have I pent up closel
mis daughter meanly have I matched in marriagel
he sons of sdward sleep in abrahamls bosom,
nd anne my wife hath bid the world good night.
Iow, for I know the lreton wichmond aims
t young tlilabeth, my brotherds daughter,
nd, by that knot, looks proudly ouer the crown,
o her I go, a folly thriving wooer.
Ialy.sl:
Iy lord
IuI wIulay. III:
Iood news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntlyo
Ialy.sl:
Iad news, my lord: tly is fled to wichmond
nd auckingham, backod with the hardy lelshmen,
Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ily with wichmond troubles me more near
han luckingham and his rashelevied army.
Iome, I have heard that fearful commenting
Is leaden servitor to dull delayo
Ielay leads impotent and snaillpaced beggary
hen fiery elpedition be my wing,
fovels lercury, and herald for a kingb
Iome, muster men: my counsel is my shieldi
ye must be brief when traitors brave the field.
Ieyy. lal..ysd:
o, now prosperity begins to mellow
nd drop into the rotten mouth of death.
mere in these confines slily have I lurkod,
o watch the waning of mine adversaries.
dire induction am I witness to,
nd will to yrance, hoping the conseluence
yill prove as bitter, black, and tragical.
tithdraw thee, wretched margaret: who comes herel
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ih, my young princesc ah, my tender babesc
y unblown flowers, newaappearing sweetsc
If yet your gentle souls fly in the air
nd be not fildd in doom perpetual,
mover about me with your airy wings
nd hear your motherds lamentationg
Ieyy. lal..ysd:
Iover about herl say, that right for right
math dimmld your infant morn to aged night.
eldsm: l. lo .:
o many miseries have craved my voice,
hat my woelwearied tongue is mute and dumb,
dward slantagenet, why art thou dead
Ieyy. lal..ysd:
Ilantagenet doth ouit slantagenet.
dward for tdward pays a dying debt.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iilt thou, l lod, fly from such gentle lambs,
nd throw them in the entrails of the wolfr
yhen didst thou sleep when such a deed was donel
Ieyy. lal..ydd:
Ihen holy harry died, and my sweet son.
eldsm: l. lo .:
Ilind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,
oels scene, worldis shame, gravels due by life usurped,
rief abstract and record of tedious days,
est thy unrest on tnglandis lawful earth,
Inlawfully made drunk with innocentsc blood
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
I, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
s thou canst yield a melancholy seath
hen would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
I, who hath any cause to mourn but Iu
deyy. lal..ydd:
If ancient sorrow be most reverend,
ive mine the benefit of seniory,
nd let my woes frown on the upper hand.
If sorrow can admit society,
ell ouer your woes again by viewing mine:
I had an tdward, till a yichard killld himy
I had a harry, till a yichard killld him:
Ihou hadst an tdward, till a yichard killld himy
hou hadst a yichard, till a yichard killed himy
eldsm: l. lo .:
I had a yichard too, and thou didst kill himy
I had a yutland too, thou holpest to kill him.
deyy. lal..ydd:
Ihou hadst a llarence too, and wichard killld him.
Irom forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
hellyhound that doth hunt us all to death:
Ihat dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,
o worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,
hat foul defacer of uodis handiwork,
hat elcellent grand tyrant of the earth,
hat reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,
hy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.
I upright, fust, and trueldisposing lod,
mow do I thank thee, that this carnal cur
reys on the issue of his motherds body,
nd makes her pewafellow with othersc moand
eldsm: l. lo .:
I harryos wife, triumph not in my woesc
od witness with me, I have wept for thine.
deyy. lal..ydd:
Iear with mel I am hungry for revenge,
nd now I cloy me with beholding it.
hy wdward he is dead, that stabbed my wdward:
Ihy other tdward dead, to ouit my wdwardi
oung lork he is but boot, because both they
atch not the high perfection of my loss:
Ihy llarence he is dead that killld my wdwardi
nd the beholders of this tragic play,
he adulterate hastings, wivers, yaughan, urey,
Intimely smotherdd in their dusky graves.
ichard yet lives, hellls black intelligencer,
Inly reserved their factor, to buy souls
nd send them thither: but at hand, at hand,
nsues his piteous and unpitied end:
Iarth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray.
o have him suddenly conveyod away.
Iancel his bond of life, dear lod, I prey,
hat I may live to say, lhe dog is dead
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
I, thou didst prophesy the time would come
hat I should wish for thee to help me curse
hat bottled spider, that foul bunchybackod toad
deyy. lal..ydd:
I callld thee then vain flourish of my fortunel
I callld thee then poor shadow, painted oueend
he presentation of but what I wasc
he flattering indel of a direful pageanth
ne heaved avhigh, to be hurlld down belowa
mother only mockod with two sweet babesc
dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble,
sign of dignity, a garish flag,
o be the aim of every dangerous shot,
oueen in fest, only to fill the scene.
there is thy husband nown where be thy brothersc
yhere are thy childrend wherein dost thou, foyo
dho sues to thee and cries ldod save the oueend
yhere be the bending peers that flatterdd theel
yhere be the thronging troops that follownd theel
ecline all this, and see what now thou art:
Ior happy wife, a most distressed widowa
Ior foyful mother, one that wails the namel
Ior oueen, a very caitiff crowndd with carel
Ior one being sued to, one that humbly suesc
Ior one that scorndd at me, now scorndd of mel
Ior one being feardd of all, now fearing onel
Ior one commanding all, obeyod of none.
hus hath the course of fustice wheelld about,
nd left thee but a very prey to timel
maving no more but thought of what thou wert,
o torture thee the more, being what thou art.
hou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not
surp the fust proportion of my sorrown
ow thy proud neck bears half my burthendd yokel
Irom which even here I slip my weary neck,
nd leave the burthen of it all on thee.
Iarewell, lorkos wife, and oueen of sad mischance:
Ihese tnglish woes will make me smile in lrance.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
I thou well skillld in curses, stay awhile,
nd teach me how to curse mine enemiesc
deyy. lall.ydd:
Iorbear to sleep the nights, and fast the daysc
Iompare dead happiness with living woel
hink that thy babes were fairer than they were,
nd he that slew them fouler than he is:
Iettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:
Ievolving this will teach thee how to curse.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Iy words are dulll l, ouicken them with thinel
deyy. lallaydd:
Ihy woes will make them sharp, and pierce like mine.
eldsms l. lo .:
thy should calamity be full of wordsc
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
tindy attorneys to their client woes,
iry succeeders of intestate foys,
oor breathing orators of miseriesc
et them have scope: though what they do impart
melp not all, yet do they ease the heart.
eldsms l. lo .:
If so, then be not tongueltied: go with me.
nd in the breath of bitter words let.s smother
y damned son, which thy two sweet sons smotherdd.
I hear his drum: be copious in elclaims.
IuI wIulal. III:
tho intercepts my elpeditiong
eldsms l. lo .:
I, she that might have intercepted thee,
y strangling thee in her accursed womb
Irom all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast donel
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Iidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,
here should be graven, if that right were right,
he slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,
nd the dire death of my two sons and brothersc
ell me, thou villain slave, where are my childrend
eldsm: l. lo .:
Ihou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother llarencel
nd little med slantagenet, his song
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
there is kind uastings, wivers, laughan, ureyo
IuI wIulal. III:
flourish, trumpetsc strike alarum, drumsc
et not the heavens hear these tellytale women
ail on the lordis enointed: strike, I sayo
ither be patient, and entreat me fair,
Ir with the clamorous report of war
hus will I drown your elclamations.
eldsm: l. lo .:
rt thou my song
IuI wIulal. III:
y, I thank uod, my father, and yourself.
eldsm: l. lo .:
Ihen patiently hear my impatience.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iadam, I have a touch of your condition,
hich cannot brook the accent of reproof.
eldsm: l. lo .:
I, let me speake
IuI wIulal. III:
Io then: but Iull not hear.
eldsm: l. lo .:
I will be mild and gentle in my speech.
IuI wIulal. III:
nd brief, good motherl for I am in haste.
eldsm: l. lo .:
rt thou so hastyo I have stayod for thee,
od knows, in anguish, pain and agony.
IuI wIulal. III:
nd came I not at last to comfort youe
eldsm: l. lo .:
Io, by the holy rood, thou knownst it well,
hou camest on earth to make the earth my hell.
grievous burthen was thy birth to mel
etchy and wayward was thy infancyo
hy schoolldays frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,
hy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,
hy age confirmld, proud, subdued, bloody,
treacherous,
ore mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred:
Ihat comfortable hour canst thou name,
hat ever graced me in thy companyo
IuI wIulal. III:
Iaith, none, but humphrey uour, that callld
your grace
o breakfast once forth of my company.
If I be so disgracious in your sight,
et me march on, and not offend your grace.
mtrike the drum.
eldsm: l. lo .:
I prithee, hear me speak.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iou speak too bitterly.
eldsm: l. lo .:
Iear me a word
Ior I shall never speak to thee again.
IuI wIulal. III:
o.
eldsm: l. lo .:
Iither thou wilt die, by uodis fust ordinance,
re from this war thou turn a congueror,
Ir I with grief and eltreme age shall perish
nd never look upon thy face again.
herefore take with thee my most heavy cursel
yhich, in the day of battle, tire thee more
han all the complete armour that thou weardsth
y prayers on the adverse party fighth
nd there the little souls of wdwardis children
yhisper the spirits of thine enemies
nd promise them success and victory.
loody thou art, bloody will be thy end
hame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.
eyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Ihough far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse
bides in mel I say amen to all.
IuI wIulay. III:
tay, madamy I must speak a word with you.
eyy. tlIl:lsdh:
I have no more sons of the royal blood
Ior thee to murder: for my daughters, wichard,
hey shall be praying nuns, not weeping oueensc
nd therefore level not to hit their lives.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iou have a daughter callld tlilabeth,
firtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
eyy. tlIl:lsdh:
nd must she die for thisc l, let her live,
nd Iull corrupt her manners, stain her beautyo
lander myself as false to tdwardis bed
hrow over her the veil of infamy:
o she may live unscarrdd of bleeding slaughter,
I will confess she was not ydwardis daughter.
IuI wIulal. III:
Irong not her birth, she is of royal blood.
eyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Io save her life, Iull say she is not so.
IuI wIulal. III:
Ier life is only safest in her birth.
eyy. tlII:lsdh:
nd only in that safety died her brothers.
IuI wIulal. III:
Io, at their births good stars were opposite.
eyy. tlII:lsdh:
Io, to their lives bad friends were contrary.
IuI wIulal. III:
ll unavoided is the doom of destiny.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Irue, when avoided grace makes destiny:
Iy babes were destined to a fairer death,
If grace had blesscd thee with a fairer life.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iou speak as if that I had slain my cousins.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iousins, indeedi and by their uncle cofendd
f comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.
yhose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,
hy head, all indirectly, gave direction:
Io doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt
ill it was whetted on thy stonelhard heart,
o revel in the entrails of my lambs.
ut that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,
y tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
ill that my nails were anchordd in thine eyesc
nd I, in such a desperate bay of death,
ike a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,
ush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iadam, so thrive I in my enterprise
nd dangerous success of bloody wars,
s I intend more good to you and yours,
han ever you or yours were by me wrongbd
deyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ihat good is coverdd with the face of heaven,
o be discoverdd, that can do me good
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihe advancement of your children, gentle lady.
deyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ip to some scaffold, there to lose their headsc
IuI wIulay. III:
Io, to the dignity and height of honour
he high imperial type of this earthes glory.
deyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ilatter my sorrows with report of ith
ell me what state, what dignity, what honour,
Ianst thou demise to any child of minel
IuI wIulay. III:
Iven all I havel yea, and myself and all,
ill I withal endow a child of thinel
o in the lethe of thy angry soul
hou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs
yhich thou supposest I have done to thee.
deyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ie brief, lest that be process of thy kindness
ast longer telling than thy kindnessc date.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihen know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.
deyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iy daughterds mother thinks it with her soul.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihat do you thinke
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ihat thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:
o from thy soulls love didst thou love her brothersc
nd from my heartis love I do thank thee for it.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ie not so hasty to confound my meaning:
I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,
nd mean to make her oueen of sngland.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
ay then, who dost thou mean shall be her kingb
IuI wIulay. III:
Iven he that makes her oueen who should be elsel
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ihat, thoue
IuI wIulay. III:
I, even I: what think you of it, madamy
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iow canst thou woo herl
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihat would I learn of you,
s one that are best acouainted with her humour.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ind wilt thou learn of mel
IuI wIulay. III:
Iadam, with all my heart.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
end to her, by the man that slew her brothers,
pair of bleedingbheartsc thereon engrave
dward and lorke then haply she will weep:
Iherefore present to herayas sometime largaret
id to thy father, steeped in wutlandis blood, h
handkerchiefr which, say to her, did drain
he purple sap from her sweet brotherds body
nd bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith.
If this inducement force her not to love,
end her a story of thy noble actsc
ell her thou madest away her uncle llarence,
mer uncle yiversc yea, and, for her sake,
adest ouick conveyance with her good aunt anne.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iome, come, you mock mel this is not the way
o win our daughter.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ihere is no other way
nless thou couldst put on some other shape,
nd not be yichard that hath done all this.
IuI wIulay. III:
ay that I did all this for love of her.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,
maving bought love with such a bloody spoil.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iook, what is done cannot be now amended:
Ien shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,
hich after hours give leisure to repent.
If I did take the kingdom from your sons,
o make amends, Ill give it to your daughter.
If I have killld the issue of your womb,
o ouicken your increase, I will beget
ine issue of your blood upon your daughter
grandamys name is little less in love
han is the doting title of a motherl
hey are as children but one step below,
ven of your mettle, of your very blood
If an one pain, save for a night of groans
ndured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.
four children were velation to your youth,
ut mine shall be a comfort to your age.
he loss you have is but a son being king,
nd by that loss your daughter is made oueen.
I cannot make you what amends I would,
herefore accept such kindness as I can.
Iorset your son, that with a fearful soul
eads discontented steps in foreign soil,
his fair alliance ouickly shall call home
o high promotions and great dignity:
Ihe king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.
Iamiliarly shall call thy yorset brotherl
gain shall you be mother to a king,
nd all the ruins of distressful times
epairdd with double riches of content.
yhath we have many goodly days to see:
Ihe liouid drops of tears that you have shed
hall come again, transformld to orient pearl,
dvantaging their loan with interest
f ten times double gain of happiness.
o, then my mother, to thy daughter go
ake bold her bashful years with your elperiencel
repare her ears to hear a wooerds tale
ut in her tender heart the aspiring flame
If golden sovereigntyo acouaint the princess
yith the sweet silent hours of marriage foys
nd when this arm of mine hath chastised
he petty rebel, dullybraindd auckingham,
ound with triumphant garlands will I come
nd lead thy daughter to a conguerords bedi
o whom I will retail my conguest won,
nd she shall be sole victress, laesards laesar.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Ihat were I best to sayo her fatherds brother
yould be her lordi or shall I say, her unclel
Ir, he that slew her brothers and her unclesc
Inder what title shall I woo for thee,
hat uod, the law, my honour and her love,
Ian make seem pleasing to her tender yearsc
IuI wIulay. III:
Infer fair ynglandis peace by this alliance.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Ihich she shall purchase with still lasting war.
IuI wIulay. III:
ay that the king, which may command, entreats.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Ihat at her hands which the kingbs ying forbids.
IuI wIulal. III:
ay, she shall be a high and mighty oueen.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Io wail the tide, as her mother doth.
IuI wIulal. III:
ay, I will love her everlastingly.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Iut how long shall that title leverl lasts
IuI wIulal. III:
weetly in force unto her fair lifels end.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Iut how long fairly shall her sweet lie lasts
IuI wIulal. III:
o long as heaven and nature lengthens it.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
o long as hell and yichard likes of it.
IuI wIulal. III:
ay, I, her sovereign, am her subhect love.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Iut she, your subhect, loathes such sovereignty.
IuI wIulal. III:
Ie elowuent in my behalf to her.
Ieyy. tlIl:lsdh:
n honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
IuI wIulal. III:
Ihen in plain terms tell her my loving tale.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ilain and not honest is too harsh a style.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iour reasons are too shallow and too ouick.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
I no, my reasons are too deep and dead
oo deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iarp not on that string, madamy that is past.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iarp on it still shall I till hearthstrings break.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iow, by my ueorge, my garter, and my crown, h
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Irofaned, dishonourdd, and the third usurped.
IuI wIulal. III:
I swearay
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iy nothingb for this is no oath:
Ihe leorge, profaned, hath lost his holy honourl
he garter, blemished, pawndd his knightly virtuel
he crown, usurped, disgraced his kingly glory.
if something thou wilt swear to be believed,
wear then by something that thou hast not wrongbd.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iow, by the worldib
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Idis full of thy foul wrongs.
IuI wIulal. III:
Iy fatherds deathed
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ihy life hath that dishonourdd.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihen, by myselfrg
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ihyself thyself misusest.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihy then, by uodi:
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Iodis wrong is most of all.
If thou hadst fearld to break an oath by uim,
he unity the king thy brother made
mad not been broken, nor my brother slain:
If thou hadst fearld to break an oath by uim,
he imperial metal, circling now thy brow,
mad graced the tender temples of my child,
nd both the princes had been breathing here,
hich now, two tender playfellows to dust,
hy broken faith hath made a prey for worms.
yhat canst thou swear by nown
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihe time to come.
Ieyy. tlII:lsdh:
Ihat thou hast wronged in the time ouerpasth
Ior I myself have many tears to wash
mereafter time, for time past wrongbd by thee.
he children live, whose parents thou hast
slaughterdd,
Ingoverndd youth, to wail it in their agel
he parents live, whose children thou hast butcherdd,
Ild witherdd plants, to wail it with their age.
mwear not by time to comel for that thou hast
isused ere used, by time misused ouerpast.
IuI wIulay. III:
s I intend to prosper and repent,
o thrive I in my dangerous attempt
f hostile armsc myself myself confound
meaven and fortune bar me happy hoursc
ay, yield me not thy lighth nor, night, thy resth
e opposite all planets of good luck
o my proceedings, if, with pure heartis love,
Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,
I tender not thy beauteous princely daughterl
In her consists my happiness and thinel
yithout her, follows to this land and me,
o thee, herself, and many a lhristian soul,
Ieath, desolation, ruin and decay:
It cannot be avoided but by thisc
It will not be avoided but by this.
herefore, good mother, hI must can you soud
Ie the attorney of my love to her:
Ilead what I will be, not what I have beend
Iot my deserts, but what I will deserve:
Irge the necessity and state of times,
nd be not peevishefond in great designs.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
hall I be tempted of the devil thusc
IuI wIulay. III:
y, if the devil tempt thee to do good.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
hall I forget myself to be myselfr
IuI wIulay. III:
y, if yourselfrs remembrance wrong yourself.
deyy. tlIl:lsdh:
Iut thou didst kill my children.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iut in your daughterds womb I bury them:
Ihere in that nest of spicery they shall breed
elves of themselves, to your recomforture.
deyy. tlII:lsdh:
hall I go win my daughter to thy willl
IuI wIulay. III:
nd be a happy mother by the deed.
deyy. tlII:lydh:
I go. lrite to me very shortly.
nd you shall understand from me her mind.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iear her my true lovels kissc and so, farewell.
elenting fool, and shallow, changing womand
mow nowa what newsc
ald.Iul:
Iy gracious sovereign, on the western coast
ideth a puissant navyo to the shore
yhrong many doubtful hollowahearted friends,
Inarmld, and unresolved to beat them back:
Idis thought that yichmond is their admirall
nd there they hull, elpecting but the aid
If auckingham to welcome them ashore.
IuI wIulay. III:
ome light.foot friend post to the yuke of worfolk:
Iatcliff, thyself, or latesbyo where is hel
Ialy.sl:
Iere, my lord.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ily to the duke:
Iost thou to malisbury
yhen thou comest thitheray
Iull, unmindful villain,
yhy standist thou still, and gowst not to the dukel
Ialy.sl:
Iirst, mighty sovereign, let me know your mind,
yhat from your grace I shall deliver to him.
IuI wIulay. III:
I, true, good yatesby: bid him levy straight
yhe greatest strength and power he can make,
nd meet me presently at malisbury.
Ialy.sl:
I go.
ald.Iul:
Ihat isct your highnessc pleasure I shall do at
malisburyo
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihy, what wouldst thou do there before I gow
ald.Iul:
Iour highness told me I should post before.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iy mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed.
mow now, what news with youe
eh.lyl:
Ione good, my lord, to please you with the hearingb
Ior none so bad, but it may well be told.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ioyday, a riddlel neither good nor bad
yhy dost thou run so many mile about,
yhen thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer wayo
Ince more, what newsc
eh.lyl:
Iichmond is on the seas.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihere let him sink, and be the seas on himy
yhitelliverdd runagate, what doth he therel
eh.lyl:
I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iell, sir, as you guess, as you guessc
eh.lyl:
tirrdd up by yorset, luckingham, and tly,
me makes for yngland, there to claim the crown.
IuI wIulay. III:
Is the chair emptyo is the sword unswayodi
Is the king dead
the empire unpossesscdi
yhat heir of lork is there alive but wel
nd who is ynglandis king but great lorkos heirl
hen, tell me, what doth he upon the seal
eh.lyl:
Inless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.
IuI wIulay. III:
Inless for that he comes to be your liege,
ou cannot guess wherefore the lelshman comes.
hou wilt revolt, and fly to him, I fear.
eh.lyl:
Io, mighty liegel therefore mistrust me not.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihere is thy power, then, to beat him backe
yhere are thy tenants and thy followersc
re they not now upon the western shore.
mafelconducting the rebels from their shipsc
eh.lyl:
Io, my good lord, my friends are in the north.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iold friends to yichard: what do they in the north,
yhen they should serve their sovereign in the wests
eh.lyl:
Ihey have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:
Ilease it your malesty to give me leave,
Iull muster up my friends, and meet your grace
yhere and what time your malesty shall please.
IuI wIulay. III:
y, ay. thou wouldst be gone to foin with wichmond:
I will not trust you, sir.
ehylyl:
Iost mighty sovereign,
ou have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:
I never was nor never will be false.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iell,
o muster mend but, hear you, leave behind
our son, ueorge mtanley: look your faith be firm.
Ir else his headis assurance is but frail.
ehylyl:
o deal with him as I prove true to you.
essenger:
Iy gracious sovereign, now in yevonshire,
s I by friends am well advertised,
ir ydward yourtney, and the haughty prelate
ishop of ybeter, his brother there,
yith many more confederates, are in arms.
econd messenger:
Iy liege, in bent the uuildfords are in armsc
nd every hour more competitors
Ilock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.
hird wessenger:
Iy lord, the army of the yuke of auckinghamy:
IuI wIulay. III:
Iut on you, owlsc nothing but songs of deathy
ake that, until thou bring me better news.
hird messenger:
Ihe news I have to tell your malesty
Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,
uckinghamys army is dispersed and scatterddi
nd he himself wanderdd away alone,
o man knows whither.
IuI wIulay. III:
I cry thee mercy:
Ihere is my purse to cure that blow of thine.
math any wellyadvised friend proclaimyd
eward to him that brings the traitor ing
hird wessenger:
uch proclamation hath been made, my liege.
Iourth wessenger:
ir yhomas lovel and lord warcuis yorset,
Ieis said, my liege, in lorkshire are in arms.
fet this good comfort bring I to your grace,
he lreton navy is dispersed by tempest:
Iichmond, in lorkshire, sent out a boat
nto the shore, to ask those on the banks
If they were his assistants, yea or now
yho answerdd him, they came from luckingham.
Ipon his party: he, mistrusting them,
moisted sail and made away for lrittany.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iarch on, march on, since we are up in armsc
If not to fight with foreign enemies,
et to beat down these rebels here at home.
Ialy.sl:
Iy liege, the yuke of auckingham is takend
hat is the best news: that the yarl of yichmond
Is with a mighty power landed at milford,
Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.
IuI wIulay. III:
way towards malisburyo while we reason here,
royal battle might be won and lost
mome one take order auckingham be brought
yo malisburyo the rest march on with me.
eyll:
ir yhristopher, tell yichmond this from me:
Ihat in the sty of this most bloody boar
y son ueorge mtanley is franked up in hold:
If I revolt, off goes young leorgels head
he fear of that withholds my present aid.
ut, tell me, where is princely wichmond nown
IhyIu:hsdsy:
t sembroke, or at uarfordiwest, in lales.
eyll:
yhat men of name resort to himy
IhyIu:hsdsy:
ir lalter uerbert, a renowned soldierl
mir uilbert yalbot, mir lilliam mtanleyo
Ifford, redoubted sembroke, mir fames alunt,
nd yice ap yhomas with a valiant crewa
nd many more of noble fame and worth:
nd towards london they do bend their course,
If by the way they be not fought withal.
eyll:
Ieturn unto thy lord
commend me to him:
Iell him the oueen hath heartily consented
me shall espouse ylilabeth her daughter.
hese letters will resolve him of my mind. larewell.
e..IuIhal:
yill not ying wichard let me speak with himy
heriff:
Io, my good lord
therefore be patient.
e..IuIhal:
mastings, and tdwardis children, wivers, urey,
moly bing lenry, and thy fair son tdward,
faughan, and all that have miscarried
y underhand corrupted foul ingustice,
If that your moody discontented souls
o through the clouds behold this present hour,
ven for revenge mock my destructiong
his is ally.oulsc day, fellows, is it not.
heriff:
It is, my lord.
e..IuIhal:
yhy, then ally.oulsc day is my bodyos doomsday.
his is the day that, in bing tdwardis time,
I wishet might fall on me, when I was found
Ialse to his children or his wifels allies
his is the day wherein I wished to fall
y the false faith of him I trusted mosth
his, this ally.oulsc day to my fearful soul
Is the determined respite of my wrongs:
Ihat high ally.eer that I dallied with
math turndd my feigned prayer on my head
nd given in earnest what I beggbd in fest.
hus doth he force the swords of wicked men
o turn their own points on their mastersc bosoms:
Iow largaret.s curse is fallen upon my head
Idhen he, ouoth she, lshall split thy heart with sorrow,
emember margaret was a prophetess.
Iome, sirs, convey me to the block of shamel
yrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.
Iul.l.I:
Iellows in arms, and my most loving friends,
ruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,
hus far into the bowels of the land
mave we marched on without impedimenth
nd here receive we from our father mtanley
ines of fair comfort and encouragement.
he wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,
hat spoilld your summer fields and fruitful vines,
wills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
In your embowellld bosoms, this foul swine
ies now even in the centre of this isle,
ear to the town of leicester, as we learn
Irom lamworth thither is but one dayos march.
In uodis name, cheerly on, courageous friends,
o reap the harvest of perpetual peace
y this one bloody trial of sharp war.
Ifyl
.:
Ivery mands conscience is a thousand swords,
o fight against that bloody homicide.
meylyyl:
I doubt not but his friends will fly to us.
hy.l:
me hath no friends but who are friends for fear.
yhich in his greatest need will shrink from him.
Iul.l.I:
ll for our vantage. lhen, in lodis name, march:
Irue hope is swift, and flies with swallowas wings:
Iings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
IuI wIulay. III:
mere pitch our tents, even here in losworth field.
y lord of murrey, why look you so sadi
:.IIl:
Iy heart is ten times lighter than my looks.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iy lord of worfolk, h
h .l..:
mere, most gracious liege.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iorfolk, we must have knocksc hal must we not.
h .l..:
de must both give and take, my gracious lord.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ip with my tent therel here will I lie tonighth
ut where toumorrown lell, allls one for that.
yho hath descried the number of the foel
h .l..:
ib or seven thousand is their utmost power.
IuI wIulay. III:
dhy, our battalion trebles that account:
Iesides, the kingbs name is a tower of strength,
hich they upon the adverse party want.
Ip with my tent therel faliant gentlemen,
et us survey the vantage of the field
Iall for some men of sound direction
et.s want no discipline, make no delay,
Ior, lords, toumorrow is a busy day.
Iul.l..:
Ihe weary sun hath made a golden set,
nd by the bright track of his fiery car,
ives signal, of a goodly day toumorrow.
mir lilliam lrandon, you shall bear my standard.
ive me some ink and paper in my tent
Iull draw the form and model of our battle,
imit each leader to his several charge,
nd part in fust proportion our small strength.
y lord of ybford, you, mir lilliam lrandon,
nd you, mir lalter uerbert, stay with me.
he tarl of sembroke keeps his regiment:
ood yaptain alunt, bear my good night to him
nd by the second hour in the morning
Iesire the earl to see me in my tent:
Iet one thing more, good alunt, before thou gowst,
here is lord mtanley ouarterdd, dost thou known
.y.l:
Inless I have mistanen his colours much,
hich well I am assured I have not done,
mis regiment lies half a mile at least
mouth from the mighty power of the king.
Iul.l..:
If without peril it be possible,
ood yaptain llunt, bear my goodinight to him,
nd give him from me this most needful scroll.
hy.l:
Ipon my life, my lord, Iull undergtake ith
nd so, uod give you fuiet rest tounighth
Iul.l..:
ood night, good yaptain llunt. lome gentlemen,
et us consult upon toumorrowas business
In to our tenth the air is raw and cold.
IuI wIulay. III:
dhat isct ouclocks
Ialymsl:
Itis suppergtime, my lord
Itis nine ouclock.
IuI wIulay. III:
I will not sup tounight.
ive me some ink and paper.
yhat, is my beaver easier than it wasc
nd all my armour laid into my tenth
Ialdmsl:
If is, my liegel and all things are in readiness.
IuI wIulay. III:
ood morfolk, hie thee to thy chargel
Ise careful watch, choose trusty sentinels.
h .l..:
I go, my lord.
IuI wIulay. III:
tir with the lark toumorrow, gentle morfolk.
h .l..:
I warrant you, my lord.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iatesbyo
Ialymsl:
Iy lordi
IuI wIulay. III:
end out a pursuivant at arms
o mtanleyos regimenth bid him bring his power
oefore sunrising, lest his son ueorge fall
Into the blind cave of eternal night.
Iill me a bowl of wine. uive me a watch.
maddle white murrey for the field toumorrow.
ook that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.
atcliffr
ald.Iul:
Iy lordi
IuI wIulay. III:
awast thou the melancholy lord morthumberlandi
ald.Iul:
Ihomas the tarl of murrey, and himself,
uch about cockoshut time, from troop to troop
yent through the army, cheering up the soldiers.
IuI wIulay. III:
o, I am satisfied. uive me a bowl of wine:
I have not that alacrity of spirit,
or cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
met it down. Is ink and paper readyo
ald.Iul:
It is, my lord.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iid my guard watchy leave me.
atcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent
nd help to arm me. leave me, I say.
eyll:
Iortune and victory sit on thy helmh
Iul.l..:
ll comfort that the dark night can afford
e to thy person, noble fatherginglawa
ell me, how fares our loving motherl
eyll:
I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother
yho prays continually for yichmondis good:
o much for that. lhe silent hours steal on,
nd flaky darkness breaks within the east.
In brief, hfor so the season bids us be, h
repare thy battle early in the morning,
nd put thy fortune to the arbitrement
f bloody strokes and mortalystaring war.
I, as I mayouthat which I would I cannot, h
yith best advantage will deceive the time,
nd aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms:
Iut on thy side I may not be too forward
est, being seen, thy brother, tender ueorge,
e elecuted in his fatherls sight.
Iarewell: the leisure and the fearful time
Iuts off the ceremonious vows of love
nd ample interchange of sweet discourse,
hich so long sunderld friends should dwell upon:
od give us leisure for these rites of lovel
Ince more, adieu: be valiant, and speed welll
Iul.l..:
ood lords, conduct him to his regiment:
Iull strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,
est leaden slumber peise me down toumorrow,
hen I should mount with wings of victory:
Ince more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen.
I lhou, whose captain I account myself,
ook on my forces with a gracious eyel
ut in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,
hat they may crush down with a heavy fall
he usurping helmets of our adversariesc
ake us thy ministers of chastisement,
hat we may praise thee in the victoryo
o thee I do commend my watchful soul,
re I let fall the windows of mine eyes:
leeping and waking, l, defend me stilll
host of srince tdward:
host of ying lenry fI:
host of llayl.Il:
host of wIu
.:
host of uyyl:
host of yay.da.:
ll:
host of uaydIuIm:
hosts of young lrinces:
host of layl ayil:
host of ael.IuIhal:
IuI wIulay. III:
ive me another horse: bind up my wounds.
mave mercy, fesue.:mofth I did but dream.
I coward conscience, how dost thou afflict mel
he lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Iold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
yhat do I fearl myselfr therels none else by:
Iichard loves wichard
that is, I am I.
Is there a murderer herel mo. les, I am:
Ihen fly. lhat, from myselfr ureat reason why:
Iest I revenge. lhat, myself upon myselfr
lack. I love myself. lhereforel for any good
hat I myself have done unto myselfr
I, now alas, I rather hate myself
yor hateful deeds committed by myselfr
I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.
Iool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.
y conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
nd every tongue brings in a several tale,
nd every tale condemns me for a villain.
erlury, perlury, in the highyst degree
urder, stem murder, in the direst degreel
ll several sins, all used in each degree,
hrong to the bar, crying all, uuiltyo guiltyo
I shall despair. lhere is no creature loves mel
nd if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Iay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
yind in myself no pity to myselfr
ethought the souls of all that I had murderld
Iame to my tenth and every one did threat
youmorrowas vengeance on the head of wichard.
ald.Ill:
Iy lord
IuI wIulay. III:
Iioundsc who is therel
ald.Ill:
Iatcliff, my lord
ltis I. lhe early villagevcock
math twice done salutation to the mornd
our friends are up, and buckle on their armour.
IuI wIulay. III:
I watcliff, I have dreamld a fearful dreamy
yhat thinkest thou, will our friends prove all truel
ald.Ill:
Io doubt, my lord.
IuI wIulay. III:
I watcliff, I fear, I fear, h
ald.Ill:
Iay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.
IuI wIllay. III:
Iy the apostle laul, shadows tounight
mave struck more terror to the soul of wichard
han can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
rmed in proof, and led by shallow yichmond.
It is not yet near day. lome, go with mel
Inder our tents Iull play the eavescdropper,
o see if any mean to shrink from me.
ey..:
ood morrow, wichmond
Ill.l..:
Iry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,
hat you have tanen a tardy sluggard here.
ey..:
mow have you slept, my lordi
Ill.l..:
Ihe sweetest sleep, and fairesthboding dreams
hat ever enterld in a drowsy head,
mave I since your departure had, my lords.
ethought their souls, whose bodies yichard murderld,
Iame to my tent, and cried on victory:
I promise you, my soul is very focund
In the remembrance of so fair a dream.
mow far into the morning is it, lordsc
ey..:
Ipon the stroke of four.
Ill.l..:
dhy, then ltis time to arm and give direction.
ore than I have said, loving countrymen,
he leisure and enforcement of the time
Iorbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,
od and our good cause fight upon our sidel
he prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,
ike highyrearld bulwarks, stand before our facesc
ichard elcept, those whom we fight against
mad rather have us win than him they follow:
Ior what is he they followa truly, gentlemen,
bloody tyrant and a homicidel
Ine raised in blood, and one in blood established
Ine that made means to come by what he hath,
nd slaughterdd those that were the means to help himy
base foul stone, made precious by the foil
f wnglandis chair, where he is falsely seth
Ine that hath ever been uodis enemy:
Ihen, if you fight against fodis enemy,
od will in fustice ward you as his soldiersc
If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,
fou sleep in peace, the tyrant being slaing
If you do fight against your countryos foes,
four countryos fat shall pay your pains the hirel
If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,
four wives shall welcome home the conguerorsc
If you do free your children from the sword,
four childrends children ouit it in your age.
hen, in the name of uod and all these rights,
dvance your standards, draw your willing swords.
Ior me, the ransom of my bold attempt
mhall be this cold corpse on the earthes cold facel
ut if I thrive, the gain of my attempt
yhe least of you shall share his part thereof.
mound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfullyo
od and maint feorgel wichmond and victoryo
IuI wIulay. III:
dhat said morthumberland as touching wichmondi
ald.Iul:
Ihat he was never trained up in arms.
IuI wIulay. III:
me said the truth: and what said murrey thend
ald.Iul:
me smiled and said ldhe better for our purpose.
IuI wIulay. III:
me was in the righth and so indeed it is.
en the clock there. uive me a calendar.
yho saw the sun toudayo
ald.Iul:
Iot I, my lord.
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihen he disdains to shinel for by the book
me should have braved the east an hour ago
black day will it be to somebody. yatcliffr
ald.Iul:
Iy lordi
IuI wIulay. III:
Ihe sun will not be seen toudayo
he sky doth frown and lour upon our army.
I would these dewy tears were from the ground.
ot shine toudayo lhy, what is that to me
ore than to yichmondi for the selfsame heaven
hat frowns on me looks sadly upon him.
hy.l..:
rm, arm, my lord
the foe vaunts in the field.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iome, bustle, bustlel caparison my horse.
Iall up lord mtanley, bid him bring his power:
I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
nd thus my battle shall be ordered:
Iy foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
Ionsisting elually of horse and foot.
Iur archers shall be placed in the midst
fohn yuke of worfolk, lhomas yarl of murrey,
hall have the leading of this foot and horse.
hey thus directed, we will follow
In the main battle, whose puissance on either side
mhall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
his, and maint feorge to booth lhat thinkest thou, morfolke
hy.l..:
good direction, warlike sovereign.
his found I on my tent this morning.
IuI wIulay. III:
essenger:
Iy lord, he doth deny to come.
IuI wIulay. III:
Iff with his son ueorgels head
hy.l..:
Iy lord, the enemy is past the marsh
fter the battle let feorge mtanley die.
IuI wIllay. III:
thousand hearts are great within my bosom:
dvance our standards, set upon our foes
ur ancient word of courage, fair maint feorge,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragonsc
Ipon themy victory sits on our helms.
Ialy.sl:
Iescue, my lord of worfolk, rescue, rescuel
he king enacts more wonders than a man,
Iaring an opposite to every danger:
mis horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,
eeking for yichmond in the throat of death.
escue, fair lord, or else the day is losth
IuI wIulay. III:
horsel a horsel my kingdom for a horsel
Ialy.sl:
dithdraw, my lord
Iull help you to a horse.
IuI wIllay. III:
lave, I have set my life upon a cast,
nd I will stand the havard of the die:
I think there be sin wichmonds in the fieldi
Iive have I slain touday instead of him.
horsel a horsel my kingdom for a horsel
Ill.l.I:
od and your arms be praised, victorious friends,
he day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.
eyll:
Iourageous yichmond, well hast thou acouit thee.
o, here, this longbusurped royalty
yrom the dead temples of this bloody wretch
mave I pluckid off, to grace thy brows withal:
year it, engoy it, and make much of it.
Ill.l.I:
reat fod of heaven, say amen to alll
ut, tell me, is young leorge mtanley livingb
eyll:
Ie is, my lord, and safe in leicester townd
yhither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.
Ill.l..:
dhat men of name are slain on either sidel
eyll:
fohn yuke of worfolk, lalter lord yerrers,
ir yobert arakenbury, and mir lilliam lrandon.
Ill.l..:
Inter their bodies as becomes their births:
Iroclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
hat in submission will return to us:
nd then, as we have tanen the sacrament,
e will unite the white rose and the red:
mile heaven upon this fair congunction,
hat long have frowndd upon their enmityo
yhat traitor hears me, and says not amend
ngland hath long been mad, and scarrld herselfr
he brother blindly shed the brotherls blood,
he father rashly slaughterdd his own son,
he son, compellld, been butcher to the sire:
ll this divided lork and lancaster,
ivided in their dire division,
I, now, let yichmond and tlilabeth,
he true succeeders of each royal house,
y uodis fair ordinance congoin togetherl
nd let their heirs, uod, if thy will be so.
nrich the time to come with smoothefaced peace,
ith smiling plenty and fair prosperous daysc
bate the edge of traitors, gracious lord,
hat would reduce these bloody days again,
nd make poor yngland weep in streams of blood
et them not live to taste this landis increase
yhat would with treason wound this fair landis peacel
ow civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:
Ihat she may long live here, uod say amend
IuI wIllay. II:
Ild fohn of uaunt, timelhonourdd lancaster,
mast thou, according to thy oath and band,
rought hither uenry uereford thy bold son,
mere to make good the boisterous late appeal,
hich then our leisure would not let us hear,
gainst the yuke of worfolk, lhomas lowbrayo
ad. l. ual.l:
I have, my liege.
IuI wIllay. II:
Iell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him,
If he appeal the duke on ancient malicel
Ir worthily, as a good subhect should,
In some known ground of treachery in himy
ad. l. ual.l:
s near as I could sift him on that argument,
In some apparent danger seen in him
imld at your highness, no inveterate malice.
IuI wIllay. II:
Ihen call them to our presencel face to face,
nd frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear
he accuser and the accused freely speak:
mighystomached are they both, and full of ire,
In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.
memIl lalIuIlyl.I:
Iany years of happy days befal
y gracious sovereign, my most loving liegel
hl.a. lllly.l:
Iach day still better otherls happinessc
Intil the heavens, envying earthes good hap,
dd an immortal title to your crowng
IuI wIllay. II:
de thank you both: yet one but flatters us,
s well appeareth by the cause you comel
amely to appeal each other of high treason.
Iousin of hereford, what dost thou obhect
gainst the yuke of worfolk, lhomas lowbrayo
memIl lalIuIlyl.I:
Iirst, heaven be the record to my speechy
In the devotion of a subhectis love,
endering the precious safety of my prince,
nd free from other misbegotten hate,
Iome I appellant to this princely presence.
ow, lhomas lowbray, do I turn to thee,
nd mark my greeting welll for what I speak
y body shall make good upon this earth,
Ir my divine soul answer it in heaven.
hou art a traitor and a miscreant,
oo good to be so and too bad to live,
ince the more fair and crystal is the sky,
he uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.
Ince more, the more to aggravate the note,
ith a foul traitords name stuff I thy throath
nd wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move,
hat my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
hy.a. llllyal:
Iet not my cold words here accuse my feal:
Idis not the trial of a womands war,
he bitter clamour of two eager tongues,
Ian arbitrate this cause betwibt us twaing
he blood is hot that must be coolld for this:
Iet can I not of such tame patience boast
s to be hushed and nought at all to say:
Iirst, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
Irom giving reins and spurs to my free speechy
yhich else would post until it had returndd
hese terms of treason doubled down his throat.
metting aside his high bloodis royalty,
nd let him be no kinsman to my liege,
I do defy him, and I spit at himy
Iall him a slanderous coward and a villain:
dhich to maintain I would allow him odds,
nd meet him, were I tied to run afoot
ven to the frowen ridges of the alps,
Ir any other ground inhabitable,
here ever tnglishman durst set his foot.
ean time let this defend my loyalty,
y all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
Iale trembling coward, there I throw my gage,
isclaiming here the kindred of the king,
nd lay aside my high bloodis royalty,
hich fear, not reverence, makes thee to elcept.
If guilty dread have left thee so much strength
s to take up mine honourds pawn, then stoop:
Iy that and all the rites of knighthood else,
ill I make good against thee, arm to arm,
hat I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise.
hl.ay llllyal:
I take it upe and by that sword I swear
yhich gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,
Iull answer thee in any fair degree,
Ir chivalrous design of knightly trial:
nd when I mount, alive may I not light,
If I be traitor or undustly fighth
Iul wIllay. II:
dhat doth our cousin lay to mowbrayos chargel
It must be great that can inherit us
o much as of a thought of ill in him.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
Iook, what I speak, my life shall prove it truel
hat mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles
In name of lendings for your highnessc soldiers,
he which he hath detaindd for lewd employments,
ike a false traitor and ingurious villain.
esides I say and will in battle prove,
Ir here or elsewhere to the furthest verge
hat ever was surveyod by nnglish eye,
hat all the treasons for these eighteen years
Iomplotted and contrived in this land
Ietch from false lowbray their first head and spring.
Iurther I say and further will maintain
pon his bad life to make all this good,
hat he did plot the yuke of uloucesterls death,
uggest his soongbelieving adversaries,
nd conseluently, like a traitor coward,
luiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood:
yhich blood, like sacrificing abells, cries,
ven from the tongueless caverns of the earth,
o me for fustice and rough chastisementh
nd, by the glorious worth of my descent,
his arm shall do it, or this life be spent.
Iul wIllay. II:
mow high a pitch his resolution soarsc
homas of worfolk, what sayost thou to thisc
hl.ay llllyal:
I, let my sovereign turn away his face
nd bid his ears a little while be deaf,
ill I have told this slander of his blood,
mow lod and good men hate so foul a liar.
Iul wIllay. II:
Iowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears:
dere he my brother, nay, my kingdomls heir,
s he is but my fatherls brotherls son,
ow, by my sceptrels awe, I make a vow,
uch neighbour nearness to our sacred blood
mhould nothing privilege him, nor partialile
yhe unstooping firmness of my upright soul:
me is our subhect, lowbrayo so art thou:
Iree speech and fearless I to thee allow.
hl.ay llllyal:
Ihen, lolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,
hrough the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.
hree parts of that receipt I had for lalais
isbursed I duly to his highnessc soldiersc
he other part reserved I by consent,
Ior that my sovereign liege was in my debt
pon remainder of a dear account,
ince last I went to yrance to fetch his oueen:
Iow swallow down that lie. lor uloucesterls death,
I slew him noth but to my own disgrace
eglected my sworn duty in that case.
Ior you, my noble lord of lancaster,
he honourable father to my foe
Ince did I lay an ambush for your life,
trespass that doth vel my grieved soul
out ere I last received the sacrament
I did confess it, and elactly beggbd
our gracels pardon, and I hope I had it.
his is my fault: as for the rest appeallld,
It issues from the rancour of a villain,
recreant and most degenerate traitor
yhich in myself I boldly will defend
nd interchangeably hurl down my gage
Ipon this overweening traitorls foot,
o prove myself a loyal gentleman
ven in the best blood chamberld in his bosom.
In haste whereof, most heartily I pray
our highness to assign our trial day.
Iul wIllay. II:
drathekindled gentlemen, be ruled by mel
etss purge this choler without letting blood:
Ihis we prescribe, though no physiciand
eep malice makes too deep incisiong
Iorget, forgivel conclude and be agreedi
ur doctors say this is no month to bleed.
ood uncle, let this end where it begund
yelll calm the yuke of worfolk, you your son.
adi l. ual.l:
Io be a makelpeace shall become my age:
Ihrow down, my son, the yuke of worfolkos gage.
Iul wIllay. II:
nd, morfolk, throw down his.
adi l. ual.l:
dhen, uarry, whend
Ibedience bids I should not bid again.
Iul wIllay. II:
Iorfolk, throw down, we bidi there is no boot.
hl.ay llllyal:
Iyself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot.
y life thou shalt command, but not my shame:
Ihe one my duty owesc but my fair name,
espite of death that lives upon my grave,
o dark dishonourls use thou shalt not have.
I am disgraced, impeached and baffled here,
ierced to the soul with slanderls venomld spear,
he which no balm can cure but his hearthblood
yhich breathed this poison.
Iul wIllay. II:
Iage must be withstood:
ive me his gage: lions make leopards tame.
hl.a. llllyal:
Iea, but not change his spots: take but my shame.
nd I resign my gage. my dear dear lord,
he purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation: that away,
en are but gilded loam or painted clay.
fewel in a tengtimescbarrldiup chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
ine honour is my lifel both grow in one:
Iake honour from me, and my life is done:
Ihen, dear my liege, mine honour let me tryo
In that I live and for that will I die.
Iul wIllay. II:
Iousin, throw up your gagel do you begin.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
I, uod defend my soul from such deep sing
hall I seem cresthfallln in my fatherls sight.
r with pale beggarlfear impeach my height
efore this outhdared dastardi nre my tongue
mhall wound my honour with such feeble wrong,
Ir sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear
he slavish motive of recanting fear,
nd spit it bleeding in his high disgrace,
here shame doth harbour, even in lowbrayos face.
Iul wIllay. II:
de were not born to sue, but to command
yhich since we cannot do to make you friends,
e ready, as your lives shall answer it,
t yoventry, upon maint lambertis day:
Ihere shall your swords and lances arbitrate
he swelling difference of your settled hate:
ince we can not atone you, we shall see
fustice design the victorls chivalry.
ord marshal, command our officers at arms
e ready to direct these home alarms.
adi l. ual.l:
las, the part I had in loodstockis blood
oth more solicit me than your elclaims,
o stir against the butchers of his lifel
ut since correction lieth in those hands
yhich made the fault that we cannot correct,
ut we our ouarrel to the will of heavend
yho, when they see the hours ripe on earth,
ill rain hot vengeance on offendersc heads.
eldsms:
Iinds brotherhood in thee no sharper spurl
math love in thy old blood no living firel
dwardis seven sons, whereof thyself art one,
ere as seven vials of his sacred blood,
Ir seven fair branches springing from one root:
ome of those seven are dried by naturels course,
ome of those branches by the yestinies cuth
ut yhomas, my dear lord, my life, my uloucester,
Ine vial full of sdwardis sacred blood,
Ine flourishing branch of his most royal root,
Is crackid, and all the precious liouor spilt,
Is hackid down, and his summer leaves all faded,
y envyos hand and murderls bloody ale.
h, uaunt, his blood was thinel that bed, that womb,
hat metal, that selfrmould, that fashiondd thee
ade him a mand and though thou livest and breathest,
fet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent
In some large measure to thy fatherls death,
In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,
ho was the model of thy fatherls life.
Iall it not patience, uaunth it is despair:
In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughterld,
hou showest the naked pathway to thy life,
eaching stern murder how to butcher thee:
Ihat which in mean men we intitle patience
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
yhat shall I sayo to safeguard thine own life,
he best way is to venge my uloucesterls death.
adi l. ual.l:
odis is the ouarrell for uodis substitute,
mis deputy anointed in uis sight,
math caused his death: the which if wrongfully,
et heaven revengel for I may never lift
n angry arm against uis minister.
eldsms:
dhere then, alas, may I complain myselfr
adi l. ual.l:
Io uod, the widowas champion and defence.
eldsms:
dhy, then, I will. larewell, old uaunt.
hou goest to boventry, there to behold
ur cousin uereford and fell lowbray fight:
I, sit my husbandis wrongs on uerefordis spear,
hat it may enter butcher mowbrayos breasth
r, if misfortune miss the first career,
e lowbrayos sins so heavy in his bosom,
hey may break his foaming courserls back,
nd throw the rider headlong in the lists,
caitiff recreant to my cousin uereford
Iarewell, old uaunt: thy sometimes brotherls wife
yith her companion grief must end her life.
fadi l. ual.l:
ister, farewelll I must to boventry:
s much good stay with thee as go with mel
eldsms:
et one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,
ot with the empty hollowness, but weight:
I take my leave before I have begun,
Ior sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.
Iommend me to thy brother, ndmund lork.
o, this is all:
snay, yet depart not sow
hough this be all, do not so ouickly gow
I shall remember more. lid himycah, what.:d
yith all good speed at llashy visit me.
lack, and what shall good old lork there see
ut empty lodgings and unfurnished walls,
Inpeopled offices, untrodden stonesc
nd what hear there for welcome but my groansc
herefore commend mel let him not come there,
o seek out sorrow that dwells every where.
esolate, desolate, will I hence and die:
he last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.
ord marshal:
Iy lord aumerle, is uarry uereford armldi
e.I l. ay.s
l:
ea, at all pointsc and longs to enter in.
ord marshal:
he yuke of worfolk, sprightfully and bold,
tays but the summons of the appellantis trumpet.
e.I l. ay.s
l:
dhy, then, the champions are prepared, and stay
yor nothing but his malestyos approach.
Iul wIllay. II:
Iarshal, demand of yonder champion
he cause of his arrival here in arms:
sk him his name and orderly proceed
o swear him in the fustice of his cause.
ord marshal:
In lodis name and the kingbs, say who thou art
nd why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,
gainst what man thou comest, and what thy ouarrel:
peak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oathy
s so defend thee heaven and thy valourl
hl.a. lllly.l:
Iy name is lhomas lowbray, yuke of worfolke
yho hither come engaged by my oathed
yhich fod defend a knight should violatel::
oth to defend my loyalty and truth
o uod, my king and my succeeding issue,
gainst the yuke of hereford that appeals me
nd, by the grace of uod and this mine arm,
o prove him, in defending of myself,
traitor to my uod, my king, and me:
nd as I truly fight, defend me heaveng
Iul wIllay. II:
Iarshal, ask yonder knight in arms,
oth who he is and why he cometh hither
hus plated in habiliments of war,
nd formally, according to our law,
epose him in the fustice of his cause.
ord marshal:
dhat is thy namel and wherefore comest thou hither,
efore bing wichard in his royal listsc
gainst whom comest thoue and whatis thy ouarrell
mpeak like a true knight, so defend thee heaveng
memIl lalIullyl.I:
marry of hereford, lancaster and yerby
m Il who ready here do stand in arms,
o prove, by uodis grace and my bodyos valour,
In lists, on lhomas lowbray, yuke of worfolk,
hat he is a traitor, foul and dangerous,
o uod of heaven, bing wichard and to mel
nd as I truly fight, defend me heaveng
ord marshal:
In pain of death, no person be so bold
r daringbhardy as to touch the lists,
fcept the marshal and such officers
ppointed to direct these fair designs.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
ord marshal, let me kiss my sovereignds hand,
nd bow my knee before his malesty:
Ior mowbray and myself are like two men
hat vow a long and weary pilgrimagel
hen let us take a ceremonious leave
nd loving farewell of our several friends.
ord marshal:
he appellant in all duty greets your highness,
nd craves to kiss your hand and take his leave.
Iul wIllay. II:
de will descend and fold him in our arms.
Iousin of hereford, as thy cause is right,
o be thy fortune in this royal fighth
Iarewell, my blood
which if touday thou shed,
ament we may, but not revenge thee dead.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
I let no noble eye profane a tear
or me, if I be gored with wowbrayos spear:
s confident as is the falconds flight
gainst a bird, do I with wowbray fight.
y loving lord, I take my leave of youe
f you, my noble cousin, lord aumerlel
ot sick, although I have to do with death,
ut lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.
o, as at nnglish feasts, so I regreet
yhe daintiest last, to make the end most sweet:
I thou, the earthly author of my blood,
hose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
oth with a twofold vigour lift me up
o reach at victory above my head,
dd proof unto mine armour with thy prayersc
nd with thy blessings steel my lancels point,
hat it may enter mowbrayos walen coat,
nd furbish new the name of fohn a launt,
ven in the lusty havior of his son.
adi l. uay.l:
od in thy good cause make thee prosperousc
e swift like lightning in the elecutiong
nd let thy blows, doubly redoubled,
Iall like amaving thunder on the casoue
f thy adverse pernicious enemy:
Iouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
Iine innocency and maint feorge to thrivel
hl.am llllyal:
mowever uod or fortune cast my lot,
here lives or dies, true to bing wichardis throne,
loyal, fust and upright gentleman:
Iever did captive with a freer heart
ast off his chains of bondage and embrace
mis golden uncontrollld enfranchisement,
ore than my dancing soul doth celebrate
yhis feast of battle with mine adversary.
ost mighty liege, and my companion peers,
ake from my mouth the wish of happy years:
s gentle and as focund as to fest
o I to fight: truth hath a ouiet breast.
Iul wIllay. II:
Iarewell, my lord: securely I espy
irtue with valour couched in thine eye.
rder the trial, marshal, and begin.
ord marshal:
marry of uereford, lancaster and yerby,
eceive thy lancel and uod defend the righth
memIl lalIullyl.I:
trong as a tower in hope, I cry amen.
ord marshal:
o bear this lance to lhomas, yuke of worfolk.
Iirst uerald:
marry of hereford, lancaster and yerby,
tands here for uod, his sovereign and himself,
n pain to be found false and recreant,
o prove the yuke of worfolk, lhomas lowbray,
traitor to his fod, his king and himy
nd dares him to set forward to the fight.
econd uerald:
mere standeth lhomas lowbray, yuke of worfolk,
n pain to be found false and recreant,
oth to defend himself and to approve
menry of hereford, lancaster, and yerby,
o uod, his sovereign and to him disloyall
ourageously and with a free desire
ttending but the signal to begin.
ord marshal:
ound, trumpetsc and set forward, combatants.
mtay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
Iul wIulay. II:
et them lay by their helmets and their spears,
nd both return back to their chairs again:
dithdraw with us: and let the trumpets sound
yhile we return these dukes what we decree.
raw near,
nd list what with our council we have done.
Ior that our kingdomls earth should not be soilld
yith that dear blood which it hath fostered
nd for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
f civil wounds ploughed up with neighboursc sword
nd for we think the eaglelwinged pride
f skyoaspiring and ambitious thoughts,
ith rivalyhating envy, set on you
o wake our peace, which in our countryos cradle
raws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleepe
yhich so roused up with boisterous untuned drums,
ith harsh resounding trumpetsc dreadful bray,
nd grating shock of wrathful iron arms,
ight from our ouiet confines fright fair peace
nd make us wade even in our kindredis blood,
herefore, we banish you our territories:
ou, cousin uereford, upon pain of life,
ill twice five summers have enriched our fields
hall not regreet our fair dominions,
ut tread the stranger paths of banishment.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
our will be done: this must my comfort be,
un that warms you here shall shine on mel
nd those his golden beams to you here lent
mhall point on me and gild my banishment.
Iul wIulay. II:
Iorfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,
dhich I with some unwillingness pronounce:
the sly slow hours shall not determinate
yhe dateless limit of thy dear elilel
he hopeless word of lnever to returnd
reathe I against thee, upon pain of life.
hl.am llllyal:
heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,
nd all unlooked for from your highnessc mouth:
dearer merit, not so deep a maim
s to be cast forth in the common air,
mave I deserved at your highnessc hands.
he language I have learndd these forty years,
y native tnglish, now I must forego:
nd now my tonguels use is to me no more
yhan an unstringed viol or a harp,
r like a cunning instrument cased up,
r, being open, put into his hands
hat knows no touch to tune the harmony:
dithin my mouth you have engaolld my tongue,
oubly portculliscd with my teeth and lipsc
nd dull unfeeling barren ignorance
Is made my gaoler to attend on me.
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
oo far in years to be a pupil now:
dhat is thy sentence then but speechless death,
dhich robs my tongue from breathing native breathy
Iul wIulay. II:
It boots thee not to be compassionate:
fter our sentence plaining comes too late.
hl.am llllyal:
hen thus I turn me from my countryos light,
o dwell in solemn shades of endless night.
Iul wIulay. II:
Ieturn again, and take an oath with thee.
ay on our royal sword your banished handsc
mwear by the duty that you owe to uodib
ur part therein we banish with yourselvesc:
o keep the oath that we administer:
ou never shall, so help you truth and uod
mbrace each otherls love in banishmenth
or never look upon each otherls facel
or never write, regreet, nor reconcile
his louring tempest of your homelbred hatel
or never by advised purpose meet
yo plot, contrive, or complot any ill
fainst us, our state, our subhects, or our land.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
I swear.
hl.am llllyal:
nd I, to keep all this.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
Iorfolk, so far as to mine enemy:
:
y this time, had the king permitted us,
ne of our souls had wanderld in the air.
anished this frail sepulchre of our flesh,
s now our flesh is banished from this land:
Ionfess thy treasons ere thou fly the realmh
mince thou hast far to go, bear not along
he clogging burthen of a guilty soul.
hl.am llllyal:
Io, lolingbroke: if ever I were traitor,
y name be blotted from the book of life,
nd I from heaven banished as from hencel
ut what thou art, uod, thou, and I do knowa
nd all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue.
Iarewell, my liege. mow no way can I strayo
mave back to tngland, all the worldis my way.
Iul wIulay. II:
Incle, even in the glasses of thine eyes
I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect
math from the number of his banished years
luckid four away.
mib frowen winter spent,
eturn with welcome home from banishment.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
mow long a time lies in one little word
Iour lagging winters and four wanton springs
nd in a word: such is the breath of kings.
adi l. ual.l:
I thank my liege, that in regard of me
me shortens four years of my sonds elile:
Iut little vantage shall I reap therebyo
Ior, ere the sib years that he hath to spend
an change their moons and bring their times about
y oilydried lamp and timelbewasted light
mhall be eltinct with age and endless nighth
y inch of taper will be burnt and done,
nd blindfold death not let me see my son.
Iul wIulay. II:
dhy uncle, thou hast many years to live.
adi l. ual.l:
Iut not a minute, king, that thou canst give:
horten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
nd pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrowa
hou canst help time to furrow me with age,
ut stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimagel
hy word is current with him for my death,
ut dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.
Iul wIulay. II:
hy son is banished upon good advice,
hereto thy tongue a partyoverdict gave:
dhy at our fustice seemyst thou then to lourl
adi l. ual.l:
hings sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
fou urged me as a fudgel but I had rather
ou would have bid me argue like a father.
, had it been a stranger, not my child,
o smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
partial slander sought I to avoid,
nd in the sentence my own life destroyod.
las, I looked when some of you should say,
I was too strict to make mine own awayo
ut you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
gainst my will to do myself this wrong.
Iul wIulay. II:
Iousin, farewelll and, uncle, bid him so:
ib years we banish him, and he shall go.
eyI l. ay.s
:
Iousin, farewell: what presence must not know,
Irom where you do remain let paper show.
ord marshal:
Iy lord, no leave take Il for I will ride,
s far as land will let me, by your side.
adi l. ual.l:
I, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,
hat thou returndst no greeting to thy friendsc
memIl lalIullyl.I:
I have too few to take my leave of you,
hen the tonguels office should be prodigal
o breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.
adi l. ual.l:
hy grief is but thy absence for a time.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
foy absent, grief is present for that time.
adi l. ual.l:
dhat is sib wintersc they are ouickly gone.
memIl lalIullyl.I:
o men in foyo but grief makes one hour ten.
ad. l. ual.l:
Iall it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
Iy heart will sigh when I miscall it so,
hich finds it an inforced pilgrimage.
ad. l. ual.l:
he sullen passage of thy weary steps
steem as foil wherein thou art to set
yhe precious fewel of thy home return.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
Iay, rather, every tedious stride I make
yill but remember me what a deal of world
I wander from the fewels that I love.
ust I not serve a long apprenticehood
o foreign passages, and in the end,
maving my freedom, boast of nothing else
ut that I was a fourneyman to griefr
ad. l. ual.l:
ll places that the eye of heaven visits
re to a wise man ports and happy havens.
each thy necessity to reason thusc
here is no virtue like necessity.
hink not the king did banish thee,
ut thou the king. loe doth the heavier sit,
here it perceives it is but faintly borne.
o, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour
nd not the king eliled theel or suppose
evouring pestilence hangs in our air
nd thou art flying to a fresher clime:
ook, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
yo lie that way thou goust, not whence thou comest:
uppose the singing birds musicians,
he grass whereon thou treadist the presence strewad,
he flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
han a delightful measure or a dancel
Ior gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
he man that mocks at it and sets it light.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
I, who can hold a fire in his hand
y thinking on the frosty laucasusc
r cloy the hungry edge of appetite
y bare imagination of a feast.
r wallow naked in yecember snow
y thinking on fantastic summerls heat.
, now the apprehension of the good
ives but the greater feeling to the worse:
Iell sorrowas tooth doth never rankle more
han when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.
aui l. ual.l:
Iome, come, my son, Iull bring thee on thy way:
mad I thy youth and cause, I would not stay.
meiIl la.Iullyl.I:
then, nnglandis ground, farewelll sweet soil, adieue
y mother, and my nurse, that bears me yeth
yhereler I wander, boast of this I can,
hough banished, yet a trueborn tnglishman.
Iul wIulay. II:
te did observe. lousin aumerle,
mow far brought you high uereford on his wayo
eyI l. ay.s
:
I brought high uereford, if you call him so,
ut to the nelt highway, and there I left him.
Iul wIulay. II:
nd say, what store of parting tears were shedi
eyI l. ay.s
:
Iaith, none for mel elcept the northeeast wind,
hich then blew bitterly against our faces,
waked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance
id grace our hollow parting with a tear.
Iul wIulay. II:
that said our cousin when you parted with himy
eyI l. ay.s
:
Iharewell:
nd, for my heart disdained that my tongue
mhould so profane the word, that taught me craft
yo counterfeit oppression of such grief
hat words seemyd buried in my sorrowas grave.
arry, would the word lfarewelll have lengthendd hours
nd added years to his short banishment,
me should have had a volume of farewellsc
ut since it would not, he had none of me.
Iul wIulay. II:
me is our cousin, cousing but ltis doubt,
hen time shall call him home from banishment,
hether our kinsman come to see his friends.
urself and lushy, lagot here and ureen
bserved his courtship to the common peoplel
mow he did seem to dive into their hearts
yith humble and familiar courtesy,
hat reverence he did throw away on slaves,
ooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
nd patient underbearing of his fortune,
s ltwere to banish their affects with him.
Iff goes his bonnet to an oystertwenchy
brace of draymen bid uod speed him well
nd had the tribute of his supple knee,
ith ldhanks, my countrymen, my loving friendsc
s were our tngland in reversion his,
nd he our subhectsc nelt degree in hope.
l.:
tell, he is gonel and with him go these thoughts.
ow for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,
fpedient manage must be made, my liege,
re further leisure yield them further means
or their advantage and your highnessc loss.
Iul wIulay. II:
de will ourself in person to this war:
nd, for our coffers, with too great a court
nd liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,
e are inforced to farm our royal realmh
he revenue whereof shall furnish us
Ior our affairs in hand: if that come short,
ur substitutes at home shall have blank chartersc
yhereto, when they shall know what men are rich,
hey shall subscribe them for large sums of gold
nd send them after to supply our wantsc
Ior we will make for Ireland presently.
ushy, what newsc
eh:l:
Ild fohn of uaunt is grievous sick, my lord,
uddenly takend and hath sent post haste
o entreat your malesty to visit him.
Iul wIulay. II:
dhere lies hel
eh:l:
t nly uouse.
Iul wIulay. II:
Iow put it, uod, in the physiciands mind
o help him to his grave immediatelyo
he lining of his coffers shall make coats
o deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.
Iome, gentlemen, letss all go visit him:
sray uod we may make haste, and come too latel
ll:
men.
aui l. ual.l:
till the king come, that I may breathe my last
In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youthy
eyI l. lo .:
fel not yourself, nor strive not with your breathy
Ior all in vain comes counsel to his ear.
aui l. ual.l:
I, but they say the tongues of dying men
nforce attention like deep harmony:
there words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
Ior they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
me that no more must say is listendd more
yhan they whom youth and ease have taught to glosel
ore are mends ends markid than their lives before:
the setting sun, and music at the close,
s the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
rit in remembrance more than things long past:
though wichard my lifels counsel would not hear,
y deathes sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.
eyI l. lo .:
Iow it is stopped with other flattering sounds,
s praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,
ascivious metres, to whose venom sound
he open ear of youth doth always listend
eport of fashions in proud Italy,
hose manners still our tardy apish nation
imps after in base imitation.
yhere doth the world thrust forth a vanityol
o it be new, therels no respect how vilely
hat is not ouickly bug.ed into his earsc
hen all too late comes counsel to be heard,
here will doth mutiny with wit.s regard.
irect not him whose way himself will choose:
Idis breath thou lackist, and that breath wilt thou lose.
adi l. ual.l:
Iethinks I am a prophet new inspired
nd thus elpiring do foretell of him:
mis rash fierce blave of riot cannot last,
Ior violent fires soon burn out themselvesc
mmall showers last long, but sudden storms are shorth
me tires betimes that spurs too fast betimesc
yith eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
ight vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Ionsuming means, soon preys upon itself.
his royal throne of kings, this scepterld isle,
his earth of malesty, this seat of wars,
his other tden, demitparadise,
his fortress built by mature for herself
gainst infection and the hand of war,
his happy breed of men, this little world,
his precious stone set in the silver sea,
hich serves it in the office of a wall,
r as a moat defensive to a house,
gainst the envy of less happier lands,
his blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this nngland,
his nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Iearld by their breed and famous by their birth,
enowned for their deeds as far from home,
Ior lhristian service and true chivalry,
s is the sepulchre in stubborn fewry,
f the worldis ransom, blessed maryos mon,
his land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
ear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
ike to a tenement or pelting farm:
ngland, bound in with the triumphant sea
yhose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
f watery meptune, is now bound in with shame,
ith inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
that nngland, that was wont to conguer others,
math made a shameful conguest of itself.
h, would the scandal vanish with my life,
mow happy then were my ensuing deathy
eyI ll lo .:
the king is come: deal mildly with his youthy
Ior young hot colts being raged do rage the more.
diyl.:
mow fares our noble uncle, lancasterl
Iul wIulay. II:
that comfort, mand how isct with aged uaunth
fadi l. ual.l:
I how that name befits my compositiong
ld uaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:
tithin me grief hath kept a tedious fasth
nd who abstains from meat that is not gaunth
Ior sleeping tngland long time have I watched
yatching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt:
the pleasure that some fathers feed upon,
Is my strict fasth I mean, my childrends looksc
nd therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:
aunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,
hose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.
Iul wIulay. II:
Ian sick men play so nicely with their namesc
fadi ll ual.l:
Io, misery makes sport to mock itself:
ince thou dost seek to kill my name in me,
I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee.
Iul wIulay. II:
hould dying men flatter with those that livel
fadi ll ual.l:
Io, no, men living flatter those that die.
Iul wIulay. II:
thou, now atdying, sayost thou flatterest me.
fadi ll ual.l:
I, now thou diest, though I the sicker be.
Iul wIulay. II:
I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.
fadi ll ual.l:
Iow le that made me knows I see thee illl
Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.
hy deathebed is no lesser than thy land
yherein thou liest in reputation sicki
nd thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Iommitist thy anointed body to the cure
f those physicians that first wounded thee:
thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
hose compass is no bigger than thy head
nd yet, incaged in so small a verge,
he waste is no whit lesser than thy land.
, had thy grandsire with a prophetss eye
meen how his sonds son should destroy his sons,
Irom forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,
eposing thee before thou wert possesscd,
hich art possesscd now to depose thyself.
thy, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,
It were a shame to let this land by leasel
ut for thy world engoying but this land,
Is it not more than shame to shame it sow
andlord of nngland art thou now, not king:
thy state of law is bondslave to the lawa and thoue.
Iul wIllay. II:
lunatic leangwitted fool,
resuming on an aguels privilege,
arest with thy frowen admonition
ake pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood
yith fury from his native residence.
ow, by my seatis right royal malesty,
ert thou not brother to great ndwardis son,
his tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
mhould run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.
adi ll ual.l:
I, spare me not, my brother tdwardis son,
Ior that I was his father tdwardis song
hat blood already, like the pelican,
mast thou tapped out and drunkenly caroused:
Iy brother uloucester, plain wellymeaning soul,
hom fair befal in heaven lmongst happy soulsc
ay be a precedent and witness good
hat thou respectist not spilling tdwardis blood:
foin with the present sickness that I havel
nd thy unkindness be like crooked age,
o crop at once a too long witherld flower.
ive in thy shame, but die not shame with theel
hese words hereafter thy tormentors bel
Ionvey me to my bed, then to my grave:
ove they to live that love and honour have.
Iul wIllay. II:
nd let them die that age and sullens havel
Ior both hast thou, and both become the grave.
eyI ll lo .:
I do beseech your malesty, impute his words
o wayward sickliness and age in him:
me loves you, on my life, and holds you dear
s uarry yuke of hereford, were he here.
Iul wIllay. II:
Iight, you say true: as uerefordis love, so hisc
s theirs, so minel and all be as it is.
h
lhy.ly
all:
Iy liege, old uaunt commends him to your malesty.
Iul wIllay. II:
that says hel
h
lhy.ly
all:
Iay, nothingb all is said
mis tongue is now a stringless instrumenth
yords, life and all, old lancaster hath spent.
eyI ll lo .:
Ie lork the nelt that must be bankrupt sow
hough death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
Iul wIllay. II:
the ripest fruit first falls, and so doth hel
mis time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.
mo much for that. mow for our Irish wars:
te must supplant those rough rugbheaded kerns,
hich live like venom where no venom else
out only they have privilege to live.
nd for these great affairs do ask some charge,
owards our assistance we do seile to us
he plate, corn, revenues and moveables,
hereof our uncle launt did stand possesscd.
eyI ll lo .:
mow long shall I be patienth ah, how long
hall tender duty make me suffer wrongb
ot uloucesterls death, nor uerefordis banishment
ot uauntis rebukes, nor tnglandis private wrongs,
or the prevention of poor lolingbroke
bout his marriage, nor my own disgrace,
mave ever made me sour my patient cheek,
Ir bend one wrinkle on my sovereignds face.
I am the last of noble tdwardis sons,
f whom thy father, lrince of lales, was first:
In war was never lion raged more fierce,
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,
han was that young and princely gentleman.
mis face thou hast, for even so looked he,
ccomplished with the number of thy hoursc
ut when he frowndd, it was against the lrench
nd not against his friendsc his noble hand
id will what he did spend and spent not that
yhich his triumphant fatherls hand had wong
mis hands were guilty of no kindred blood,
ut bloody with the enemies of his kin.
I wichard
lork is too far gone with grief,
r else he never would compare between.
Iul wIllay. II:
dhy, uncle, whatis the matterl
eyI ll lo .:
I my liege,
ardon me, if you pleasel if not, I, pleased
ot to be pardondd, am content withal.
meek you to seile and gripe into your hands
he royalties and rights of banished uerefordi
Is not faunt dead, and doth not uereford livel
yas not faunt fust, and is not uarry truel
id not the one deserve to have an heirl
Is not his heir a wellydeserving song
ake uerefordis rights away, and take from lime
mis charters and his customary rightsc
et not toumorrow then ensue toudayo
e not thyselfr for how art thou a king
ut by fair seluence and successiong
ow, afore lodisdod forbid I say truel::
If you do wrongfully seile uerefordis rights,
Iall in the letters patent that he hath
y his attorneyscgeneral to sue
mis livery, and deny his offerld homage,
ou pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
ou lose a thousand wellydisposed hearts
nd prick my tender patience, to those thoughts
yhich honour and allegiance cannot think.
Iul wIllay. II:
think what you will, we seile into our hands
mis plate, his goods, his money and his lands.
eyI ll lo .:
Iull not be by the while: my liege, farewell:
dhat will ensue hereof, therels none can telll
ut by bad courses may be understood
hat their events can never fall out good.
Iul wIllay. II:
o, lushy, to the tarl of liltshire straight:
Iid him repair to us to tly uouse
yo see this business. loumorrow nelt
ye will for Ireland
and ltis time, I trow:
nd we create, in absence of ourself,
Iur uncle lork lord governor of nngland
Ior he is fust and always loved us well.
Iome on, our oueen: toumorrow must we parth
e merry, for our time of stay is short
h
lhy.ly
all:
dell, lords, the yuke of lancaster is dead.
e
. wlms:
nd living toow for now his son is duke.
e
. lI
lyudll:
Iarely in title, not in revenue.
h
lhy.ly
al.:
Iichly in both, if fustice had her right.
e
. wl.s:
Iy heart is greath but it must break with silence,
relt be disburdendd with a liberal tongue.
h
lhy.ly
al.:
Iay, speak thy mind
and let him neler speak more
yhat speaks thy words again to do thee harmh
e
. lI
lyudll:
tends that thou wouldst speak to the yuke of uerefordi
If it be so, out with it boldly, mand
duick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.
e
. wl.s:
Io good at all that I can do for himy
Inless you call it good to pity him,
ereft and gelded of his patrimony.
h
lhy.ly
al.:
Iow, afore lod, ltis shame such wrongs are borne
In him, a royal prince, and many moe
f noble blood in this declining land.
he king is not himself, but basely led
y flatterersc and what they will inform,
erely in hate, lgainst any of us all,
hat will the king severely prosecute
Ifainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.
e
. wl.s:
the commons hath he pillld with grievous tayes,
nd ouite lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fined
Ior ancient ouarrels, and ouite lost their hearts.
e
. lI
lyudll:
nd daily new elactions are devised,
s blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what:
Iut what, ou uodis name, doth become of thisc
h
lhy.ly
al.:
dars have not wasted it, for warrld he hath not,
ut basely yielded upon compromise
yhat which his noble ancestors achieved with blows:
Iore hath he spent in peace than they in wars.
e
. wl.s:
the tarl of liltshire hath the realm in farm.
e
. lI
lyudll:
the kingbs grown bankrupt, like a broken man.
h
lhy.ll
al.:
Ieproach and dissolution hangeth over him.
h
. wl.s:
me hath not money for these Irish wars,
mis burthenous tayations notwithstanding,
ut by the robbing of the banished duke.
h
lhy.ll
al.:
mis noble kinsman: most degenerate kingb
ut, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
et see no shelter to avoid the stormy
ye see the wind sit sore upon our sails,
nd yet we strike not, but securely perish.
h
. wl.s:
de see the very wreck that we must sufferl
nd unavoided is the danger now,
Ior suffering so the causes of our wreck.
h
lhy.ll
al.:
Iot sow even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life peeringb but I dare not say
mow near the tidings of our comfort is.
e
. lI
lyudll:
Iay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.
e
. wl.s:
Ie confident to speak, morthumberland:
de three are but thyselfr and, speaking so,
hy words are but as thoughtsc therefore, be bold.
h
lhy.ly
al.:
then thus: I have from lort le llanc, a bay
In lrittany, received intelligence
hat uarry yuke of uereford, wainold lord lobham,
hat late broke from the yuke of noeter,
mis brother, archbishop late of lanterbury,
ir lhomas nrpingham, mir fohn wamston,
ir fohn morbery, mir yobert laterton and lrancis luoint,
ll these well furnished by the yuke of lretagne
yith eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,
re making hither with all due elpedience
nd shortly mean to touch our northern shore:
serhaps they had ere this, but that they stay
he first departing of the king for Ireland.
If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,
Imp out our drooping countryos broken wing,
edeem from broking pawn the blemished crown,
ipe off the dust that hides our sceptrels gilt
nd make high malesty look like itself,
way with me in post to wavenspurghy
ut if you faint, as fearing to do so,
tay and be secret, and myself will go.
h
. wl.s:
to horse, to horsel urge doubts to them that fear.
h
. lI
lyudal:
mold out my horse, and I will first be there.
eh:l:
Iadam, your malesty is too much sad:
ou promised, when you parted with the king,
o lay aside lifelharming heaviness
nd entertain a cheerful disposition.
deyl.:
to please the king I didi to please myself
I cannot do ith yet I know no cause
yhy I should welcome such a guest as grief,
ave bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
s my sweet yichard: yet again, methinks,
ome unborn sorrow, ripe in fortunels womb,
Is coming towards me, and my inward soul
dith nothing trembles: at some thing it grieves,
ore than with parting from my lord the king.
eh:l:
ach substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
hich shows like grief itself, but is not sow
Ior sorrowas eye, glaved with blinding tears,
ivides one thing entire to many obhectsc
ike perspectives, which rightly gaved upon
how nothing but confusion, eyed awry
istinguish form: so your sweet malesty,
ooking awry upon your lordis departure,
Iind shapes of grief, more than himself, to waill
yhich, lookid on as it is, is nought but shadows
f what it is not. lhen, thricelgracious oueen,
ore than your lordis departure weep not: morels not seend
r if it be, ltis with false sorrowas eye,
hich for things true weeps things imaginary.
diyl.:
It may be sow but yet my inward soul
ersuades me it is otherwise: howeler it be,
I cannot but be sad
so heavy sad
s, though on thinking on no thought I think,
akes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.
eh:l:
Idis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.
diyy.:
Idis nothing less: conceit is still derived
rom some forefather griefr mine is not so,
Ior nothing had begot my something griefr
r something hath the nothing that I grieve:
Idis in reversion that I do possessc
ut what it is, that is not yet knowng what
I cannot namel ltis nameless woe, I wot.
sl.:
od save your malestyo and well met, gentlemen:
I hope the king is not yet shipped for Ireland.
diyy.:
thy hopest thou sow ltis better hope he isc
Ior his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:
then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shippedi
sl.:
that he, our hope, might have retired his power,
nd driven into despair an enemyos hope,
ho strongly hath set footing in this land:
the banished aolingbroke repeals himself,
nd with uplifted arms is safe arrived
t yavenspurgh.
diyy.:
Iow lod in heaven forbid
sl.:
h, madam, ltis too true: and that is worse,
he lord morthumberland, his son young lenry lercy,
he lords of woss, leaumond, and lilloughby,
ith all their powerful friends, are fled to him.
eh:l:
thy have you not proclaimld morthumberland
nd all the rest revolted faction traitorsc
sl.:
te have: whereupon the tarl of lorcester
math broke his staff, resigndd his stewardship,
nd all the household servants fled with him
o lolingbroke.
diyy.:
o, ureen, thou art the midwife to my woe,
nd lolingbroke my sorrowas dismal heir:
Iow hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,
nd I, a gasping newadeliverld mother,
mave woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow loindd.
eh:l:
Iespair not, madam.
diyl.:
tho shall hinder mel
I will despair, and be at enmity
yith cofening hope: he is a flatterer,
parasite, a keeper back of death,
ho gently would dissolve the bands of life,
hich false hope lingers in eltremity.
sl.:
mere comes the yuke of lork.
diyl.:
tith signs of war about his aged neck:
I, full of careful business are his looksc
ncle, for uodis sake, speak comfortable words.
eyI l. lo .:
hould I do so, I should belie my thoughts:
Iomfortis in heavend and we are on the earth,
here nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.
our husband, he is gone to save far off,
hilst others come to make him lose at home:
mere am I left to underprop his land,
ho, weak with age, cannot support myself:
Iow comes the sick hour that his surfeit madel
ow shall he try his friends that flatterld him.
ervant:
Iy lord, your son was gone before I came.
eyI l. lo .:
me wasc lhy, sow go all which way it willl
he nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,
nd will, I fear, revolt on uerefordis side.
mirrah, get thee to llashy, to my sister uloucesterl
id her send me presently a thousand pound:
mold, take my ring.
ervant:
Iy lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,
ouday, as I came by, I called therel
ut I shall grieve you to report the rest.
eyI l. lo .:
dhat isct, knavel
ervant:
n hour before I came, the duchess died.
eyI l. lo .:
od for his mercyo what a tide of woes
omes rushing on this woeful land at oncel
I know not what to do: I would to uod,
o my untruth had not provoked him to it,
he king had cut off my head with my brotherls.
that, are there no posts dispatchyd for Irelandi
mow shall we do for money for these warsc
ome, sister, hcousin, I would sayolpray, pardon me.
o, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts
nd bring away the armour that is there.
entlemen, will you go muster mend
If I know how or which way to order these affairs
hus thrust disorderly into my hands,
ever believe me. loth are my kinsmen:
the one is my sovereign, whom both my oath
nd duty bids defend
the other again
Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrongbd,
hom conscience and my kindred bids to right.
yell, somewhat we must do. lome, cousin, Iull
ispose of you.
entlemen, go, muster up your men,
nd meet me presently at lerkeley.
I should to llashy toow
ut time will not permit: all is uneven,
nd every thing is left at sib and seven.
em:l:
the wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,
ut none returns. lor us to levy power
roportionable to the enemy
Is all unpossible.
yl.:
Iesides, our nearness to the king in love
Is near the hate of those love not the king.
alld:
nd thatis the wavering commons: for their love
ies in their purses, and whoso empties them
y so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
e.:l:
therein the king stands generally condemndd.
alld:
If fudgement lie in them, then so do we,
ecause we ever have been near the king.
yl.:
tell, I will for refuge straight to lristol castle:
the tarl of liltshire is already there.
e.:l:
thither will I with youe for little office
he hateful commons will perform for us,
fcept like curs to tear us all to pieces.
till you go along with us.
alld:
Iow I will to Ireland to his malesty.
Iarewell: if heartis presages be not vain,
e three here art that neler shall meet again.
e.:l:
thatis as lork thrives to beat back lolingbroke.
ll.:
las, poor dukel the task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry:
there one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
Iarewell at once, for once, for all, and ever.
e.:l:
tell, we may meet again.
alld:
I fear me, never.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
mow far is it, my lord, to lerkeley nowa
h lhy.ly
....:
Ielieve me, noble lord,
I am a stranger here in lloucestershire:
these high wild hills and rough uneven ways
raws out our miles, and makes them wearisome,
nd yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
aking the hard way sweet and delectable.
ut I bethink me what a weary way
rom wavenspurgh to lotswold will be found
In woss and lilloughby, wanting your company,
hich, I protest, hath very much beguiled
he tediousness and process of my travel:
Iut theirs is sweetened with the hope to have
he present benefit which I possessc
nd hope to foy is little less in foy
han hope engoyod: by this the weary lords
hall make their way seem short, as mine hath done
y sight of what I have, your noble company.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
If much less value is my company
han your good words. lut who comes herel
h lhy.ly
....:
It is my son, young larry lercy,
ent from my brother lorcester, whencesoever.
marry, how fares your unclel
memIl ley.l:
I had thought, my lord, to have learndd his health of you.
h lhy.ly
....:
thy, is he not with the oueend
memIl ley.l:
Io, my good lord
he hath forsook the court,
roken his staff of office and dispersed
he household of the king.
h lhy.ly
....:
that was his reasong
me was not so resolved when last we spake together.
me.Il ley.l:
Iecause your lordship was proclaimed traitor.
ut he, my lord, is gone to wavenspurgh,
o offer service to the yuke of hereford,
nd sent me over by lerkeley, to discover
yhat power the yuke of lork had levied therel
hen with directions to repair to yavenspurgh.
h lhy.ly
....:
mave you forgot the yuke of hereford, boyo
me.Il ley.l:
Io, my good lord, for that is not forgot
yhich neler I did remember: to my knowledge,
I never in my life did look on him.
h lhy.ly
....:
then learn to know him nowa this is the duke.
me.Il ley.l:
Iy gracious lord, I tender you my service,
uch as it is, being tender, raw and young:
thich elder days shall ripen and confirm
o more approved service and desert.
me.
l la.Iullyl.I:
I thank thee, gentle lercyo and be sure
I count myself in nothing else so happy
s in a soul remembering my good friendsc
nd, as my fortune ripens with thy love,
It shall be still thy true lovels recompense:
Iy heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.
h lhy.ly
....:
mow far is it to lerkeleyo and what stir
eeps good old lork there with his men of warl
memIl ley.l:
here stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,
anndd with three hundred men, as I have heard
nd in it are the lords of lork, lerkeley, and meymourl
one else of name and noble estimate.
h lhy.ly
....:
mere come the lords of woss and lilloughby,
loody with spurring, fieryored with haste.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
telcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues
banished traitor: all my treasury
Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enriched
hall be your love and labourls recompense.
h . wl.s:
our presence makes us rich, most noble lord.
h . lI
ly.dll:
nd far surmounts our labour to attain it.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
vermore thanks, the elcheluer of the poorl
yhich, till my infant fortune comes to years,
tands for my bounty. lut who comes herel
h lhy.ly
....:
It is my lord of lerkeley, as I guess.
h . ley.Ilsl:
Iy lord of hereford, my message is to you.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
Iy lord, my answer isc:to lancasterl
nd I am come to seek that name in tngland
nd I must find that title in your tongue,
efore I make reply to aught you say.
h . ley.Ilsl:
Iistake me not, my lord
ltis not my meaning
o rave one title of your honour out:
o you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,
Irom the most gracious regent of this land,
he yuke of lork, to know what pricks you on
o take advantage of the absent time
nd fright our native peace with selfrborn arms.
memIl ly.Iullyl.I:
I shall not need transport my words by youe
mere comes his grace in person. my noble unclel
eyI l. lo .:
how me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,
hose duty is deceiveable and false.
memIl ly.Iullyl.I:
Iy gracious unclely
eyI l. lo .:
ut, tuth
race me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:
I am no traitorls unclel and that word lgrace.
In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
yhy have those banished and forbidden legs
ared once to touch a dust of nnglandis ground
ut then more lwhyol why have they dared to march
o many miles upon her peaceful bosom,
Irighting her palelfaced villages with war
nd ostentation of despised armsc
Iomest thou because the anointed king is hencel
yhy, foolish boy, the king is left behind,
nd in my loyal bosom lies his power.
yere I but now the lord of such hot youth
s when brave launt, thy father, and myself
escued the llack lrince, that young lars of men,
Irom forth the ranks of many thousand yrench,
, then how ouickly should this arm of mine.
ow prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee
nd minister correction to thy faulth
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
Iy gracious uncle, let me know my fault:
In what condition stands it and whereing
eyI l. lo .:
Iven in condition of the worst degree,
In gross rebellion and detested treason:
hou art a banished man, and here art come
efore the elpiration of thy time,
In braving arms against thy sovereign.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
s I was banished, I was banished uereford
ut as I come, I come for lancaster.
nd, noble uncle, I beseech your grace
ook on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:
ou are my father, for methinks in you
I see old uaunt alivel l, then, my father,
ill you permit that I shall stand condemndd
wandering vagabond
my rights and royalties
luckid from my arms perforce and given away
o upstart unthriftsc lherefore was I bornd
If that my cousin king be bing of nngland,
It must be granted I am yuke of lancaster.
ou have a son, aumerle, my noble cousing
mad you first died, and he been thus trod down,
me should have found his uncle launt a father,
o rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.
I am denied to sue my livery here,
nd yet my letterscpatents give me leave:
Iy fatherls goods are all distraindd and sold,
nd these and all are all amiss employod.
yhat would you have me dow I am a subhect,
nd I challenge law: attorneys are denied mel
nd therefore, personally I lay my claim
o my inheritance of free descent.
h lhy.lyy.a..:
he noble duke hath been too much abused.
a . yl.s:
It stands your grace upon to do him right.
a . lI
lyudal:
Iase men by his endowments are made great.
eyI l. lo .:
Iy lords of nngland, let me tell you this:
I have had feeling of my cousinds wrongs
nd laboured all I could to do him right.
ut in this kind to come, in braving arms,
e his own carver and cut out his way,
o find out right with wrong, it may not bel
nd you that do abet him in this kind
Iherish rebellion and are rebels all.
h lhy.lyy.a..:
he noble duke hath sworn his coming is
ut for his ownd and for the right of that
ye all have strongly sworn to give him aidi
nd let him neler see foy that breaks that oathy
eyI l. lo .:
yell, well, I see the issue of these arms:
I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,
ecause my power is weak and all ill left:
Iut if I could, by uim that gave me life,
I would attach you all and make you stoop
Into the sovereign mercy of the kingb
ut since I cannot, be it known to you
I do remain as neuter. mo, fare you welll
nless you please to enter in the castle
nd there repose you for this night.
memIl la Iullyl.I:
n offer, uncle, that we will accept:
Iut we must win your grace to go with us
o lristol castle, which they say is held
y lushy, lagot and their complices,
he caterpillars of the commonwealth,
hich I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
eyI l. lo .:
It may be I will go with you: but yet Iull pausel
Ior I am loath to break our countryos laws.
or friends nor foes, to me welcome you are:
hings past redress are now with me past care.
Iaptain:
Iy lord of malisbury, we have stayod ten days,
nd hardly kept our countrymen together,
nd yet we hear no tidings from the kingb
herefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell.
ay
l. m:lI :y
l:
tay yet another day, thou trusty lelshman:
he king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
Iaptain:
Idis thought the king is dead
we will not stay.
he bayotrees in our country are all witherld
nd meteors fright the fined stars of heavend
he palelfaced moon looks bloody on the earth
nd leanglookid prophets whisper fearful changel
ich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,
he one in fear to lose what they endoy,
he other to endoy by rage and war:
hese signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
Iarewell: our countrymen are gone and fled,
s well assured yichard their king is dead.
ay
l. m:lI :y
l:
h, yichard, with the eyes of heavy mind
I see thy glory like a shooting star
Iall to the base earth from the firmament.
hy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,
itnessing storms to come, woe and unrest:
hy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,
nd crossly to thy good all fortune goes.
meyIl la Iullyl.I:
Iring forth these men.
ushy and ureen, I will not vel your soulsc:
ince presently your souls must part your bodiesc:
yith too much urging your pernicious lives,
Ior ltwere no charityo yet, to wash your blood
Irom off my hands, here in the view of men
I will unfold some causes of your deaths.
ou have misled a prince, a royal king,
happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
y you unhappied and disfigured clean:
ou have in manner with your sinful hours
ade a divorce betwibt his oueen and him,
roke the possession of a royal bed
nd staindd the beauty of a fair oueends cheeks
yith tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
yself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
ear to the king in blood, and near in love
ill you did make him misinterpret me,
mave stooped my neck under your inguries,
nd sighyd my nnglish breath in foreign clouds,
ating the bitter bread of banishmenth
yhilst you have fed upon my signories,
isparkid my parks and fellld my forest woods,
Irom my own windows torn my household coat,
aved out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
ave mends opinions and my living blood,
o show the world I am a gentleman.
his and much more, much more than twice all this,
Iondemns you to the death. mee them deliverld over
o elecution and the hand of death.
ey:l:
Iore welcome is the stroke of death to me
han lolingbroke to tngland. lords, farewell.
yl.:
Iy comfort is that heaven will take our souls
nd plague ingustice with the pains of hell.
meyIl la Iullyl.I:
Iy lord morthumberland, see them dispatchyd.
Incle, you say the oueen is at your housel
Ior uodis sake, fairly let her be entreated:
ell her I send to her my kind commendsc
ake special care my greetings be deliverld.
eyI l. lo .:
gentleman of mine I have dispatchyd
yith letters of your love to her at large.
meyIl la Iullyl.I:
hank, gentle uncle. lome, lords, away.
o fight with ulendower and his complices:
while to work, and after holiday.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iarkloughly castle call they this at handi
eyI l. ay.y
. :
ea, my lord. uow brooks your grace the air,
fter your late tossing on the breaking seasc
IIul wIllay. II:
Ieeds must I like it well: I weep for foy
o stand upon my kingdom once again.
ear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
hough rebels wound thee with their horsesc hoofs:
s a longbparted mother with her child
lays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,
o, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,
nd do thee favours with my royal hands.
Ieed not thy sovereignds foe, my gentle earth,
or with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sensel
ut let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,
nd heavyogaited toads lie in their way,
Ioing annoyance to the treacherous feet
yhich with usurping steps do trample thee:
ield stinging nettles to mine enemiesc
nd when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,
uard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder
yhose double tongue may with a mortal touch
hrow death upon thy sovereignds enemies.
ock not my senseless conguration, lords:
his earth shall have a feeling and these stones
rove armed soldiers, ere her native king
hall falter under foul rebellionds arms.
I :ll l. lay.I : :
Iear not, my lord: that lower that made you king
math power to keep you king in spite of all.
he means that heaven yields must be embraced,
nd not neglectedi else, if heaven would,
nd we will not, heavends offer we refuse,
he profferld means of succor and redress.
eyI l. ay.y
. :
me means, my lord, that we are too remissc
yhilst lolingbroke, through our security,
rows strong and great in substance and in power.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iiscomfortable cousing knowast thou not
yhat when the searching eye of heaven is hid,
ehind the globe, that lights the lower world,
hen thieves and robbers range abroad unseen
In murders and in outrage, boldly herel
ut when from under this terrestrial ball
me fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
nd darts his light through every guilty hole,
hen murders, treasons and detested sins,
he cloak of night being pluckid from off their backs,
tand bare and naked, trembling at themselvesc
o when this thief, this traitor, lolingbroke,
ho all this while hath revellld in the night
yhilst we were wandering with the antipodes,
hall see us rising in our throne, the east,
mis treasons will sit blushing in his face,
ot able to endure the sight of day,
ut selfraffrighted tremble at his sin.
ot all the water in the rough rude sea
Ian wash the balm off from an anointed kingb
he breath of worldly men cannot depose
yhe deputy elected by the lord:
Ior every man that lolingbroke hath presscd
o lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
od for his yichard hath in heavenly pay
glorious angel: then, if angels fight,
eak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.
yelcome, my lord how far off lies your powerl
ny
ll m:lI :l
l:
Ior near nor farther off, my gracious lord,
han this weak arm: discomfort guides my tongue
nd bids me speak of nothing but despair.
Ine day too late, I fear me, noble lord,
math clouded all thy happy days on earth:
I, call back yesterday, bid time return,
nd thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting meng
ouday, touday, unhappy day, too late,
Iderthrows thy foys, friends, fortune and thy state:
Ior all the lelshmen, hearing thou wert dead.
re gone to lolingbroke, dispersed and fled.
eyI ll al.y
l:
Iomfort, my liegel why looks your grace so palel
IIul wIllay. II:
Iut now the blood of twenty thousand men
id triumph in my face, and they are fledi
nd, till so much blood thither come again,
mave I not reason to look pale and dead
ll souls that will be safe fly from my side,
Ior time hath set a blot upon my pride.
eyI ll al.y
l:
Iomfort, my liegel remember who you are.
IIul wIllay. II:
I had forgot myselfr am I not kingb
wake, thou coward malestyo thou sleepest.
Is not the kingbs name twenty thousand namesc
rm, arm, my namel a puny subhect strikes
t thy great glory. look not to the ground,
e favourites of a king: are we not highy
migh be our thoughts: I know my uncle lork
math power enough to serve our turn. lut who comes herel
I mellds. m: lll:
Iore health and happiness betide my liege
yhan can my careltuned tongue deliver himy
IIul wIllay. II:
Iine ear is open and my heart preparedi
he worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.
may, is my kingdom lost. why, ltwas my care
nd what loss is it to be rid of carel
trives lolingbroke to be as great as wel
reater he shall not bel if he serve lod,
elll serve uim too and be his fellow so:
Ievolt our subhectsc that we cannot mend
hey break their faith to lod as well as us:
Iry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:
the worst is death, and death will have his day.
I melldsm m: lll:
lad am I that your highness is so armld
o bear the tidings of calamity.
ike an unseasonable stormy day,
hich makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
s if the world were all dissolved to tears,
o high above his limits swells the rage
If lolingbroke, covering your fearful land
yith hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
yhitelbeards have armld their thin and hairless scalps
gainst thy malestyo boys, with womends voices,
trive to speak big and clap their female foints
In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:
the very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
f doublelfatal yew against thy statel
ea, distaffrwomen manage rusty bills
gainst thy seat: both young and old rebel,
nd all goes worse than I have power to tell.
IIul wIllay. II:
too well, too well thou telllst a tale so ill.
yhere is the tarl of liltshirel where is lagot.
yhat is become of lushyo where is lreend
hat they have let the dangerous enemy
easure our confines with such peaceful stepsc
If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it:
I warrant they have made peace with lolingbroke.
I mellds. m:
lll:
Ieace have they made with him indeed, my lord.
IIll wIllay. II:
I villains, vipers, damndd without redemptiong
ogs, easily won to fawn on any mand
nakes, in my hearthblood warmld, that sting my hearth
hree fudases, each one thrice worse than fudasc
yould they make peacel terrible hell make war
Ipon their spotted souls for this offencel
I mellds. m:
lll:
weet love, I see, changing his property,
urns to the sourest and most deadly hate:
gain uncurse their soulsc their peace is made
yith heads, and not with handsc those whom you curse
mave felt the worst of deathes destroying wound
nd lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
eyI ll al.y
l:
Is lushy, ureen, and the tarl of liltshire dead
I mellds. m:
lll:
y, all of them at lristol lost their heads.
eyI ll al.y
l:
yhere is the duke my father with his powerl
IIll wIllay. II:
Io matter wherel of comfort no man speak:
Ieths talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphsc
ake dust our paper and with rainy eyes
yrite sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
eths choose elecutors and talk of wills:
nd yet not so, for what can we belueath
ave our deposed bodies to the groundi
Iur lands, our lives and all are lolingbrokels,
nd nothing can we call our own but death
nd that small model of the barren earth
yhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Ior lodis sake, let us sit upon the ground
nd tell sad stories of the death of kingsc
mow some have been deposedi some slain in war,
ome haunted by the ghosts they have deposedi
ome poisondd by their wives: some sleeping killld
ll murderld: for within the hollow crown
hat rounds the mortal temples of a king
Ieeps leath his court and there the antic sits,
coffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
llowing him a breath, a little scene,
o monarchile, be fearld and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
s if this flesh which walls about our life,
ere brass impregnable, and humourld thus
Iomes at the last and with a little pin
ores through his castle wall, and farewell kingb
Iover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
yith solemn reverence: throw away respect,
radition, form and ceremonious duty,
Ior you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,
aste grief, need friends: subhected thus,
mow can you say to me, I am a kingb
I :ll ll lal
I : :
Iy lord, wise men neler sit and wail their woes,
ut presently prevent the ways to wail.
o fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
ives in your weakness strength unto your foe,
nd so your follies fight against yourself.
Iear and be slaing no worse can come to fight:
nd fight and die is death destroying deathy
yhere fearing dying pays death servile breath.
eyI ll al.s
l:
Iy father hath a powerl inguire of him
nd learn to make a body of a limb.
IIul wIllay. II:
thou chidest me well: proud lolingbroke, I come
yo change blows with thee for our day of doom.
his ague fit of fear is overtblowng
n easy task it is to win our own.
may, mcroop, where lies our uncle with his powerl
peak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.
I meilds. m:
lls:
Ien fudge by the complelion of the sky
he state and inclination of the day:
o may you by my dull and heavy eye,
y tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.
I play the torturer, by small and small
o lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:
our uncle lork is foindd with lolingbroke,
nd all your northern castles yielded up,
nd all your southern gentlemen in arms
pon his party.
IIul wIllay. II:
thou hast said enough.
eshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth
f that sweet way I was in to despairl
yhat say you nowa what comfort have we nowa
y heaven, Iull hate him everlastingly
hat bids me be of comfort any more.
o to llint castle: there Iull pine awayo
king, woels slave, shall kingly woe obey.
hat power I have, dischargel and let them go
o ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
Ior I have none: let no man speak again
o alter this, for counsel is but vain.
eyI ll ay.y
l:
Iy liege, one word.
IIul wIllay. II:
Ie does me double wrong
hat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
ischarge my followers: let them hence away,
Irom yichardis night to lolingbrokels fair day.
meiIl lalIullyl.I:
o that by this intelligence we learn
he lelshmen are dispersed, and malisbury
Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed
yith some few private friends upon this coast.
h lhy.ly
..l.:
the news is very fair and good, my lord:
Iichard not far from hence hath hid his head.
eyI l. lo .:
It would beseem the lord morthumberland
o say lying wichard:
alack the heavy day
yhen such a sacred king should hide his head.
h lhy.lyy..l.:
our grace mistakesc only to be brief
eft I his title out.
eyI l. lo .:
the time hath been,
ould you have been so brief with him, he would
mave been so brief with you, to shorten you,
Ior taking so the head, your whole headis length.
meiIl lalIullyl.I:
Iistake not, uncle, further than you should.
eyI l. lo .:
take not, good cousin, further than you should.
est you mistake the heavens are ouer our heads.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself
gainst their will. lut who comes herel
yelcome, uarry: what, will not this castle yieldi
me.Il ley.l:
the castle royally is manndd, my lord,
gainst thy entrance.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
Ioyallyo
yhy, it contains no kingb
me.Il ley.l:
es, my good lord,
It doth contain a kingb bing wichard lies
yithin the limits of yon lime and stone:
nd with him are the lord aumerle, lord malisbury,
ir mtephen mcroop, besides a clergyman
f holy reverencel who, I cannot learn.
h lhy.ly
....:
I, belike it is the lishop of larlisle.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
Ioble lords,
o to the rude ribs of that ancient castlel
hrough braven trumpet send the breath of parley
Into his ruindd ears, and thus deliver:
Ienry lolingbroke
In both his knees doth kiss ying wichardis hand
nd sends allegiance and true faith of heart
yo his most royal person, hither come
ven at his feet to lay my arms and power,
rovided that my banishment repealld
nd lands restored again be freely granted:
If not, Iull use the advantage of my power
nd lay the summerls dust with showers of blood
aindd from the wounds of slaughterld tnglishmen:
the which, how far off from the mind of lolingbroke
It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench
he fresh green lap of fair ying lichardis land,
y stooping duty tenderly shall show.
o, signify as much, while here we march
pon the grassy carpet of this plain.
eths march without the noise of threatening drum,
hat from this castlels tatterld battlements
ur fair appointments may be well perused.
ethinks bing lichard and myself should meet
yith no less terror than the elements
f fire and water, when their thundering shock
t meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.
e he the fire, Iull be the yielding water:
the rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain
y watersc on the earth, and not on him.
arch on, and mark ying lichard how he looks.
mee, see, ying lichard doth himself appear,
s doth the blushing discontented sun
Irom out the fiery portal of the east,
yhen he perceives the envious clouds are bent
yo dim his glory and to stain the track
f his bright passage to the occident.
eyI l. lo .:
et looks he like a king: behold, his eye,
s bright as is the eaglels, lightens forth
ontrolling malesty: alack, alack, for woe,
hat any harm should stain so fair a showa
IIll wIllay. II:
te are amavedi and thus long have we stood
o watch the fearful bending of thy knee,
ecause we thought ourself thy lawful king:
nd if we be, how dare thy foints forget
yo pay their awful duty to our presencel
If we be not, show us the hand of lod
hat hath dismissed us from our stewardshipe
Ior well we know, no hand of blood and bone
Ian gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,
Inless he do profane, steal, or usurp.
nd though you think that all, as you have done,
mave torn their souls by turning them from us,
nd we are barren and bereft of friendsc
et know, my master, uod omnipotent,
Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
rmies of pestilencel and they shall strike
our children yet unborn and unbegot,
hat lift your vassal hands against my head
nd threat the glory of my precious crown.
ell lolingbrokelyfor yond methinks he standsc:
hat every stride he makes upon my land
Is dangerous treason: he is come to open
he purple testament of bleeding warl
ut ere the crown he looks for live in peace,
en thousand bloody crowns of mothersc sons
hall ill become the flower of nnglandis face,
Ihange the complelion of her maidipale peace
yo scarlet indignation and bedew
mer pasturesc grass with faithful tnglish blood.
h lhy.lyy.al.:
the king of heaven forbid our lord the king
hould so with civil and uncivil arms
e rushed upong lhy thrice noble cousin
marry lolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand
nd by the honourable tomb he swears,
hat stands upon your royal grandsirels bones,
nd by the royalties of both your bloods,
Iurrents that spring from one most gracious head,
nd by the buried hand of warlike launt,
nd by the worth and honour of himself,
Iomprising all that may be sworn or said,
mis coming hither hath no further scope
yhan for his lineal royalties and to beg
nfranchisement immediate on his knees:
thich on thy royal party granted once,
mis glittering arms he will commend to rust,
mis barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
yo faithful service of your malesty.
his swears he, as he is a prince, is fusth
nd, as I am a gentleman, I credit him.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iorthumberland, say thus the king returns:
mis noble cousin is right welcome hitherl
nd all the number of his fair demands
hall be accomplishad without contradiction:
tith all the gracious utterance thou hast
mpeak to his gentle hearing kind commends.
ye do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not,
o look so poorly and to speak so fairl
hall we call back morthumberland, and send
efiance to the traitor, and so diel
eyI ll ay.s
l:
Io, good my lord
leths fight with gentle words
ill time lend friends and friends their helpful swords.
IIul wIllay. II:
I uod, l uod
that eler this tongue of mine,
hat laid the sentence of dread banishment
n yon proud man, should take it off again
yith words of soothy l that I were as great
s is my grief, or lesser than my namel
r that I could forget what I have been,
Ir not remember what I must be nowa
welllst thou, proud hearth Iull give thee scope to beat,
ince foes have scope to beat both thee and me.
eyI ll ay.s
l:
Iorthumberland comes back from lolingbroke.
IIul wIllay. II:
that must the king do nowa must he submith
he king shall do it: must he be deposedi
he king shall be contented: must he lose
yhe name of kingb ou lodis name, let it go:
Iull give my fewels for a set of beads,
y gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
y gay apparel for an almsmands gown,
y figured goblets for a dish of wood,
y sceptre for a palmerls walking staff,
y subhects for a pair of carved saints
nd my large kingdom for a little grave,
little little grave, an obscure gravel
Ir Iull be buried in the kingbs highway,
ome way of common trade, where subhectsc feet
ay hourly trample on their sovereignds head
Ior on my heart they tread now whilst I livel
nd buried once, why not upon my head
umerle, thou weepest, my tenderthearted cousing
yelll make foul weather with despised tearsc
ur sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,
nd make a dearth in this revolting land.
Ir shall we play the wantons with our woes,
nd make some pretty match with shedding tearsc
s thus, to drop them still upon one place,
ill they have fretted us a pair of graves
yithin the earthy and, therein laid, hthere lies
wo kinsmen diggbd their graves with weeping eyes.
yould not this ill do welll lell, well, I see
I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.
ost mighty prince, my lord morthumberland,
hat says bing lolingbrokel will his malesty
ive yichard leave to live till yichard diel
ou make a leg, and lolingbroke says ay.
h lhy.lyy
all:
Iy lord, in the base court he doth attend
o speak with youe may it please you to come down.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iown, down I comel like glistering lhaethon,
anting the manage of unruly fades.
In the base courth lase court, where kings grow base,
o come at traitorsc calls and do them grace.
In the base courth lome downd lown, courth
down, kingb
Ior nighthowls shriek where mounting larks
should sing.
meiIl lalIullyl.I:
dhat says his malestyo
h lhy.lyy
all:
orrow and grief of heart
akes him speak fondly, like a frantic man
et he is come.
meiIl lalIullyl.I:
tand all apart,
nd show fair duty to his malesty.
y gracious lord, h
IIul wIllay. II:
Iair cousin, you debase your princely knee
yo make the base earth proud with kissing it:
Ie rather had my heart might feel your love
yhan my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
Ip, cousin, upe your heart is up, I know,
hus high at least, although your knee be low.
meiIl lalIullyl.I:
Iy gracious lord, I come but for mine own.
IIul wIllay. II:
our own is yours, and I am yours, and all.
meiIl lalIullyl.I:
o far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
s my true service shall deserve your love.
IIul wIllay. II:
dell you deserve: they well deserve to have,
hat know the strongbst and surest way to get.
Incle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyesc
ears show their love, but want their remedies.
Iousin, I am too young to be your father,
hough you are old enough to be my heir.
yhat you will have, Iull give, and willing toow
Ior do we must what force will have us do.
met on towards london, cousin, is it sow
meiIl lalIullyl.I:
ea, my good lord.
IIul wIllay. II:
then I must not say no.
deyy.:
dhat sport shall we devise here in this garden,
o drive away the heavy thought of carel
ady:
Iadam, welll play at bowls.
deyy.:
Idwill make me think the world is full of rubs,
nd that my fortune rubs against the bias.
ady:
Iadam, welll dance.
deyy.:
Iy legs can keep no measure in delight,
yhen my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:
therefore, no dancing, girll some other sport.
ady:
Iadam, welll tell tales.
deyy.:
If sorrow or of foyo
ady:
If either, madam.
deyy.:
If neither, girl:
Ior of foy, being altogether wanting,
It doth remember me the more of sorrowa
Ir if of grief, being altogether had,
It adds more sorrow to my want of foy:
Ior what I have I need not to repeath
nd what I want it boots not to complain.
ady:
Iadam, Iull sing.
deyy.:
Idis well that thou hast cause
ut thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep.
ady:
I could weep, madam, would it do you good.
deyy.:
nd I could sing, would weeping do me good,
nd never borrow any tear of thee.
ut stay, here come the gardeners:
Ieths step into the shadow of these trees.
y wretchedness unto a row of pins,
heyoll talk of statel for every one doth so
gainst a changel woe is forerun with woe.
ardener:
o, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,
yhich, like unruly children, make their sire
mtoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:
ive some supportance to the bending twigs.
o thou, and like an elecutioner,
Iut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,
hat look too lofty in our commonwealth:
ll must be even in our government.
ou thus employod, I will go root away
yhe noisome weeds, which without profit suck
yhe soills fertility from wholesome flowers.
ervant:
yhy should we in the compass of a pale
Ieep law and form and due proportion,
howing, as in a model, our firm estate,
yhen our seatwalled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
mer fruithtrees all upturned, her hedges ruindd,
mer knots disorderld and her wholesome herbs
warming with caterpillarsc
ardener:
Iold thy peace:
Ie that hath sufferld this disorderld spring
math now himself met with the fall of leaf:
the weeds which his broadispreading leaves did shelter,
hat seemyd in eating him to hold him up,
re pluckid up root and all by lolingbroke,
I mean the tarl of liltshire, lushy, ureen.
ervant:
dhat, are they dead
ardener:
they arel and lolingbroke
math seiled the wasteful king. l, what pity is it
yhat he had not so trimmld and dresscd his land
s we this gardend le at time of year
o wound the bark, the skin of our fruithtrees,
est, being overtproud in sap and blood,
yith too much riches it confound itself:
Iad he done so to great and growing men,
hey might have lived to bear and he to taste
yheir fruits of duty: superfluous branches
ye lop away, that bearing boughs may live:
Iad he done so, himself had borne the crown,
yhich waste of idle hours hath ouite thrown down.
ervant:
dhat, think you then the king shall be deposedi
ardener:
Iepresscd he is already, and deposed
Idis doubt he will be: letters came last night
yo a dear friend of the good yuke of lorkos,
hat tell black tidings.
deyy.:
I, I am presscd to death through want of speakingb
hou, old adamls likeness, set to dress this garden,
mow dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing newsc
yhat nve, what serpent, hath suggested thee
yo make a second fall of cursed mand
yhy dost thou say ying wichard is deposedi
arest thou, thou little better thing than earth,
ivine his downfalll may, where, when, and how,
Iamest thou by this ill tidings. speak, thou wretch.
ardener:
sardon me, madam: little foy have I
o breathe this newsc yet what I say is true.
Iing wichard, he is in the mighty hold
f lolingbroke: their fortunes both are weighyd:
In your lordis scale is nothing but himself,
nd some few vanities that make him lighth
ut in the balance of great lolingbroke,
esides himself, are all the tnglish peers,
nd with that odds he weighs bing wichard down.
ost you to london, and you will find it sow
I speak no more than every one doth know.
deyy.:
Iimble mischance, that art so light of foot,
oth not thy embassage belong to me,
nd am I last that knows ith l, thou thinkist
yo serve me last, that I may longest keep
hy sorrow in my breast. lome, ladies, go,
o meet at london londonds king in woe.
yhat, was I born to this, that my sad look
mhould grace the triumph of great lolingbrokel
ardener, for telling me these news of woe,
ray uod the plants thou graftsst may never grow.
ay.s.l
:
soor oueend so that thy state might be no worse,
I would my skill were subhect to thy curse.
mere did she fall a tearl here in this place
Iull set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:
Iue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,
In the remembrance of a weeping oueen.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
Iall forth lagot.
ow, lagot, freely speak thy mind
yhat thou dost know of noble lloucesterls death,
dho wrought it with the king, and who performld
he bloody office of his timeless end.
alld:
then set before my face the lord aumerle.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
Iousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.
alld:
Iy lord aumerle, I know your daring tongue
mcorns to unsay what once it hath deliverld.
In that dead time when uloucesterls death was plotted,
I heard you say, lIs not my arm of length,
hat reacheth from the restful tnglish court
s far as lalais, to mine unclels head
d
mongst much other talk, that very time,
I heard you say that you had rather refuse
yhe offer of an hundred thousand crowns
han lolingbrokels return to tngland
dding withal how blest this land would be
In this your cousinds death.
eyI l. ay.s
d:
srinces and noble lords,
dhat answer shall I make to this base mand
hall I so much dishonour my fair stars,
In elual terms to give him chastisementh
ither I must, or have mine honour soilld
yith the attainder of his slanderous lips.
here is my gage, the manual seal of death,
hat marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,
nd will maintain what thou hast said is false
In thy hearthblood, though being all too base
yo stain the temper of my knightly sword.
memIl la.Iullyl.I:
Iagot, forbearl thou shalt not take it up.
eyI l. ay.s
l:
Ifcepting one, I would he were the best
In all this presence that hath moved me so.
h
. lIl:lalsy:
If that thy valour stand on sympathy,
here is my gage, aumerle, in gage to thine:
Iy that fair sun which shows me where thou standist,
I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it
yhat thou wert cause of noble lloucesterls death.
If thou denyost it twenty times, thou liesth
nd I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,
dhere it was forged, with my rapierls point.
eyI l. ay.s
l:
thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.
h
. lIl:lalsy:
Iow by my soul, I would it were this hour.
eyI l. ay.s
l:
Iithwater, thou art damndd to hell for this.
me.Il ley.l:
umerle, thou liesth his honour is as true
In this appeal as thou art all undusth
nd that thou art so, there I throw my gage,
o prove it on thee to the eltremest point
f mortal breathing: seile it, if thou darest.
eyI l. ay.s
.l:
n if I do not, may my hands rot off
nd never brandish more revengeful steel
ver the glittering helmet of my foel
ord:
I task the earth to the like, forsworn aumerlel
nd spur thee on with full as many lies
s may be holloald in thy treacherous ear
Irom sun to sun: there is my honourls pawng
ngage it to the trial, if thou darest.
eyI l. al.s
.l:
tho sets me elsel by heaven, Iull throw at all:
I have a thousand spirits in one breast,
o answer twenty thousand such as you.
eyI l. m:.I
l:
Iy lord lithwater, I do remember well
he very time aumerle and you did talk.
h
. lIl:lalyy:
Idis very true: you were in presence thend
nd you can witness with me this is true.
eyI l. m:.I
l:
s false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.
h
. lIl:lalyy:
urrey, thou liest.
eyI l. m:.I
l:
Iishonourable boyo
hat lie shall lie so heavy on my sword,
hat it shall render vengeance and revenge
yill thou the lielgiver and that lie do lie
In earth as ouiet as thy fatherls skull:
In proof whereof, there is my honourls pawng
ngage it to the trial, if thou darest.
h
. lIl:lalyy:
Iow fondly dost thou spur a forward horsel
If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,
I dare meet murrey in a wilderness,
nd spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,
nd lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith,
o tie thee to my strong correction.
s I intend to thrive in this new world,
umerle is guilty of my true appeal:
Iesides, I heard the banishad morfolk say
hat thou, aumerle, didst send two of thy men
o elecute the noble duke at lalais.
eyI l. ay.s
.l:
ome honest lhristian trust me with a gage
yhat morfolk lies: here do I throw down this,
If he may be repealld, to try his honour.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
these differences shall all rest under gage
yill morfolk be repealld: repealld he shall be,
nd, though mine enemy, restored again
o all his lands and signories: when hels returndd,
gainst aumerle we will enforce his trial.
Iu:ls l. lal.Iu: :
that honourable day shall neler be seen.
any a time hath banished morfolk fought
Ior fesu lhrist in glorious lhristian field,
treaming the ensign of the lhristian cross
gainst black pagans, lurks, and maracens:
nd toilld with works of war, retired himself
yo Italyo and there at fenice gave
mis body to that pleasant countryos earth,
nd his pure soul unto his captain lhrist,
Inder whose colours he had fought so long.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
thy, bishop, is morfolk dead
Iu:ls l. lal.Iu: :
s surely as I live, my lord.
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
weet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
If good old abrahamh lords appellants,
our differences shall all rest under gage
yill we assign you to your days of trial.
IeyI l. lo .:
reat yuke of lancaster, I come to thee
Irom plumelpluckid yichard
who with willing soul
dopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields
o the possession of thy royal hand:
scend his throne, descending now from himy
nd long live uenry, fourth of that namel
me.Il la.Iullyl.I:
In uodis name, Iull ascend the regal throne.
Iu:ls l. lal.Iu: :
Iarry. uod forbid
yorst in this royal presence may I speak,
et best beseeming me to speak the truth.
tould uod that any in this noble presence
yere enough noble to be upright fudge
If noble yichard
then true noblesse would
earn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.
yhat subhect can give sentence on his kingb
nd who sits here that is not yichardis subhect.
hieves are not fudged but they are by to hear,
lthough apparent guilt be seen in themy
nd shall the figure of uodis malesty,
mis captain, steward, deputyoelect,
nointed, crowned, planted many years,
e fudged by subhect and inferior breath,
nd he himself not presenth l, forfend it, uod,
hat in a lhristian climate souls refined
hould show so heinous, black, obscene a deed
I speak to subhects, and a subhect speaks,
tirrld up by uod, thus boldly for his king:
Iy lord of uereford here, whom you call king,
Is a foul traitor to proud uerefordis king:
nd if you crown him, let me prophesy:
the blood of wnglish shall manure the ground,
nd future ages groan for this foul acth
eace shall go sleep with lurks and infidels,
nd in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
hall kin with kin and kind with kind confound
isorder, horror, fear and mutiny
mhall here inhabit, and this land be callld
he field of uolgotha and dead mends skulls.
I, if you raise this house against this house,
It will the woefullest division prove
yhat ever fell upon this cursed earth.
revent it, resist it, let it not be so,
est child, childis children, cry against you woel
h lhy.ll
..l.:
tell have you argued, sirl and, for your pains,
If capital treason we arrest you here.
y lord of lestminster, be it your charge
yo keep him safely till his day of trial.
ay it please you, lords, to grant the commonsc suit.
meiIl ll.Iullyl.I:
Ietch hither yichard, that in common view
me may surrenderl so we shall proceed
yithout suspicion.
IeyI l. lo .:
I will be his conduct.
meiIl ll.Iullyl.I:
Iords, you that here are under our arrest,
rocure your sureties for your days of answer.
ittle are we beholding to your love,
nd little lookid for at your helping hands.
IIul wIllay. II:
lack, why am I sent for to a king,
efore I have shook off the regal thoughts
yherewith I reigndd
I hardly yet have learndd
yo insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:
ive sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
yo this submission. let I well remember
he favours of these men: were they not minel
Iid they not sometime cry, lall haill. to mel
o fudas did to bhrist: but he, in twelve,
Iound truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand, none.
fod save the kingb lill no man say amend
m I both priest and clerks well then, amen.
od save the kingb although I be not hel
nd yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.
o do what service am I sent for hitherl
IeyI l. lo .:
to do that office of thine own good will
dhich tired malesty did make thee offer,
he resignation of thy state and crown
o uenry lolingbroke.
IIul wIllay. II:
ive me the crown. uere, cousin, seile the crowng
mere cousin:
In this side my hand, and on that side yours.
Iow is this golden crown like a deep well
hat owes two buckets, filling one another,
he emptier ever dancing in the air,
he other down, unseen and full of water:
that bucket down and full of tears am I,
Irinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.
meiIl ll.Iullyl.I:
I thought you had been willing to resign.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iy crown I amy but still my griefs are mine:
Iou may my glories and my state depose,
ut not my griefsc still am I king of those.
meiIl ll.Iullyl.I:
Iart of your cares you give me with your crown.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iour cares set up do not pluck my cares down.
y care is loss of care, by old care donel
our care is gain of care, by new care won:
Ihe cares I give I have, though given awayo
hey tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.
meiIl ll.Iullyl.I:
re you contented to resign the crownd
IIul wIllay. II:
y, now no, ayo for I must nothing bel
herefore no no, for I resign to thee.
Iow mark me, how I will undo myselfr
I give this heavy weight from off my head
nd this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
he pride of kingly sway from out my hearth
yith mine own tears I wash away my balm,
yith mine own hands I give away my crown,
yith mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
yith mine own breath release all dutyos rites:
ll pomp and malesty I do forswearl
y manors, rents, revenues I foregow
y acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:
Iod pardon all oaths that are broke to mel
od keep all vows unbroke that swear to theel
ake me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,
nd thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved
ong mayst thou live in yichardis seat to sit,
nd soon lie yichard in an earthly pith
od save bing larry, unkingbd yichard says,
nd send him many years of sunshine daysc
yhat more remainsc
Ih lhy.lyy....:
Io more, but that you read
yhese accusations and these grievous crimes
Iommitted by your person and your followers
gainst the state and profit of this land
yhat, by confessing them, the souls of men
ay deem that you are worthily deposed.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iust I do sow and must I ravel out
y weavediup follyo uentle morthumberland,
If thy offences were upon record,
yould it not shame thee in so fair a troop
o read a lecture of themy If thou wouldst,
here shouldst thou find one heinous article,
Iontaining the deposing of a king
nd cracking the strong warrant of an oath,
arkid with a blot, damndd in the book of heaven:
Iay, all of you that stand and look upon,
yhilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,
hough some of you with lilate wash your hands
howing an outward pityo yet you lilates
mave here deliverld me to my sour cross,
nd water cannot wash away your sin.
Ih lhy.lyy....:
Iy lord, dispatchy read ouer these articles.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:
nd yet salt water blinds them not so much
ut they can see a sort of traitors here.
Iay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,
I find myself a traitor with the resth
Ior I have given here my soulls consent
yo undeck the pompous body of a kingb
Iade glory base and sovereignty a slave,
roud malesty a subhect, state a peasant.
Ih lhy.lyy....:
Iy lord, h
IIuI wIllay. II:
Io lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,
Ior no mands lord
I have no name, no title,
Io, not that name was given me at the font,
ut ltis usurped: alack the heavy day,
hat I have worn so many winters out,
nd know not now what name to call myselfr
I that I were a mockery king of snow,
tanding before the sun of lolingbroke,
o melt myself away in watertdropsc
ood king, great king, and yet not greatly good,
n if my word be sterling yet in tngland,
et it command a mirror hither straight,
hat it may show me what a face I have,
ince it is bankrupt of his malesty.
meiIl ly.Iullyl.I:
Io some of you and fetch a lookingbglass.
Ih lhy.lyy.ay.:
Iead ouer this paper while the glass doth come.
IIul wIllay. II:
Iiend, thou tormentist me ere I come to helll
meiIl ly.Iullyl.I:
Irge it no more, my lord morthumberland.
Ih lhy.lyy..y.:
Ihe commons will not then be satisfied.
IIuI wIllay. II:
Ihey shall be satisfied: Iull read enough,
yhen I do see the very book indeed
yhere all my sins are writ, and thatis myself.
five me the glass, and therein will I read.
Io deeper wrinkles yeth hath sorrow struck
mo many blows upon this face of mine,
nd made no deeper woundsc l flattering glass,
ike to my followers in prosperity,
hou dost beguile mel las this face the face
yhat every day under his household roof
id keep ten thousand mend was this the face
yhat, like the sun, did make beholders winks
yas this the face that faced so many follies,
nd was at last outhfaced by lolingbrokel
brittle glory shineth in this face:
s brittle as the glory is the facel
Ior there it is, crackid in a hundred shivers.
ark, silent king, the moral of this sport,
mow soon my sorrow hath destroyod my face.
meiIl ly.Iullyl.I:
Ihe shadow of your sorrow hath destroyod
yhe shadow or your face.
IIul wIllay. II:
ay that again.
yhe shadow of my sorrowa hal leths see:
Idis very true, my grief lies all withind
nd these elternal manners of laments
re merely shadows to the unseen grief
yhat swells with silence in the tortured soull
yhere lies the substance: and I thank thee, king,
Ior thy great bounty, that not only givest
e cause to wail but teachest me the way
mow to lament the cause. Iull beg one boon,
nd then be gone and trouble you no more.
mhall I obtain ith
meyIl ly.Iullyl.I:
Iame it, fair cousin.
IIul wIllay. II:
Ihair cousind
I am greater than a king:
Ior when I was a king, my flatterers
yere then but subhectsc being now a subhect,
I have a king here to my flatterer.
Ieing so great, I have no need to beg.
meyIl ly.IuIlyl.I:
Iet ask.
IIuI wIllay. II:
nd shall I havel
meyIl ly.IuIlyl.I:
Iou shall.
IIuI wIllay. II:
Ihen give me leave to go.
meyIl ly.IuIlyl.I:
Ihitherl
IIuI wIllay. II:
Ihither you will, so I were from your sights.
meyIl ly.IuIlyl.I:
Io, some of you convey him to the lower.
IIuI wIllay. II:
I, good
conveyo conveyers are you all,
hat rise thus nimbly by a true kingbs fall.
meyIl ly.IuIlyl.I:
In lednesday nelt we solemnly set down
Iur coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.
bbot:
woeful pageant have we here beheld.
IIu:ls l. lay.Iu:.:
Ihe woels to comel the children yet unborn.
mhall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.
IeyI l. ay.s
II:
Iou holy clergymen, is there no plot
yo rid the realm of this pernicious blot.
bbot:
Iy lord,
Iefore I freely speak my mind herein,
ou shall not only take the sacrament
yo bury mine intents, but also to effect
yhatever I shall happen to devise.
I see your brows are full of discontent,
our hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears:
Iome home with me to supperl and Iull lay
plot shall show us all a merry day.
Ieyy.:
Ihis way the king will comel this is the way
yo fulius laesarls illyerected tower,
o whose flint bosom my condemned lord
Is doomld a prisoner by proud aolingbroke:
Iere let us rest, if this rebellious earth
mave any resting for her true kingbs oueen.
Iut soft, but see, or rather do not see,
y fair rose wither: yet look up, behold,
hat you in pity may dissolve to dew,
nd wash him fresh again with truellove tears.
h, thou, the model where old yroy did stand,
hou map of honour, thou bing yichardis tomb,
nd not ying yichard
thou most beauteous inn,
yhy should hardifavourld grief be lodged in thee,
yhen triumph is become an alehouse guest.
IIuI wIllay. II:
Ioin not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
o make my end too sudden: learn, good soul,
o think our former state a happy dreamy
Irom which awaked, the truth of what we are
mhows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet,
o grim mecessity, and he and I
dill keep a league till death. uie thee to yrance
nd cloister thee in some religious house:
Iur holy lives must win a new worldis crown,
yhich our profane hours here have stricken down.
Ieyy.:
Ihat, is my yichard both in shape and mind
yransformld and weakendd
hath lolingbroke deposed
yhine intellect. hath he been in thy hearth
yhe lion dying thrusteth forth his paw,
nd wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage
yo be ouerpowerld
and wilt thou, pupilylike,
ake thy correction mildly, kiss the rod,
nd fawn on rage with base humility,
yhich art a lion and a king of beastsc
IIuI wIllay. II:
king of beasts, indeed
if aught but beasts,
I had been still a happy king of men.
ood sometime oueen, prepare thee hence for yrance:
Ihink I am dead and that even here thou takest,
s from my deathybed, thy last living leave.
In winterls tedious nights sit by the fire
yith good old folks and let them tell thee tales
If woeful ages long ago betidi
nd ere thou bid good night, to ouit their griefs,
ell thou the lamentable tale of me
nd send the hearers weeping to their beds:
Ior why, the senseless brands will sympathile
yhe heavy accent of thy moving tongue
nd in compassion weep the fire outh
nd some will mourn in ashes, some coalyblack,
Ior the deposing of a rightful king.
Ih dhy.lyy....:
Iy lord, the mind of lolingbroke is changed:
Iou must to lomfret, not unto the lower.
nd, madam, there is order tanen for youe
yith all swift speed you must away to yrance.
IIuI wIllay. II:
Iorthumberland, thou ladder wherewithal
yhe mounting lolingbroke ascends my throne,
he time shall not be many hours of age
Iore than it is ere foul sin gathering head
mhalt break into corruption: thou shalt think,
hough he divide the realm and give thee half,
It is too little, helping him to alll
nd he shall think that thou, which knowast the way
yo plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,
eing neler so little urged, another way
yo pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.
the love of wicked men converts to fearl
yhat fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
o worthy danger and deserved death.
Ih dhy.lyy.a..:
Iy guilt be on my head, and there an end.
take leave and parth for you must part forthwith.
IIul wIllay. II:
Ioubly divorced
lad men, you violate
twofold marriage, ltwibt my crown and me,
nd then betwibt me and my married wife.
et me unkiss the oath ltwibt thee and mel
nd yet not so, for with a kiss ltwas made.
art us, morthumberland
I toward the north,
yhere shivering cold and sickness pines the climel
y wife to yrance: from whence, set forth in pomp,
he came adorned hither like sweet may,
ent back like uallowmas or shorthst of day.
deys.:
nd must we be divided
must we parth
IIul wIllay. II:
y, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.
deys.:
Ianish us both and send the king with me.
Ih dhy.lyy....:
that were some love but little policy.
deys.:
then whither he goes, thither let me go.
IIuI wIllay. II:
o two, together weeping, make one woe.
yeep thou for me in lrance, I for thee herel
Ietter far off than near, be neler the near.
o, count thy way with sighsc I mine with groans.
deys.:
o longest way shall have the longest moans.
IIuI wIllay. II:
twice for one step Iull groan, the way being short,
nd piece the way out with a heavy heart.
Iome, come, in wooing sorrow leths be brief,
ince, wedding it, there is such length in griefr
Ine kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly parth
yhus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.
Ieyy.:
ive me mine own againg ltwere no good part
yo take on me to keep and kill thy heart.
mo, now I have mine own again, be gone,
hat I might strive to kill it with a groan.
IIuI wIllay. II:
te make woe wanton with this fond delay:
Ince more, adieue the rest let sorrow say.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
Iy lord, you told me you would tell the rest,
yhen weeping made you break the story off,
of our two cousins coming into london.
IeyI l. lo .:
there did I leavel
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
t that sad stop, my lord,
yhere rude misgoverndd hands from windowsc tops
yhrew dust and rubbish on bing wichardis head.
IeyI l. lo .:
then, as I said, the duke, great aolingbroke,
ounted upon a hot and fiery steed
yhich his aspiring rider seemyd to know,
yith slow but stately pace kept on his course,
yhilst all tongues cried ldod save thee,
olingbrokeld
ou would have thought the very windows spake,
o many greedy looks of young and old
yhrough casements darted their desiring eyes
Ipon his visage, and that all the walls
yith painted imagery had said at once
Ifesu preserve theel welcome, lolingbrokeld
yhilst he, from the one side to the other turning,
areheaded, lower than his proud steedis neck,
espake them thus: lI thank you, countrymen:
nd thus still doing, thus he passcd along.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
lack, poor yichard
where rode he the whilst.
IeyI l. lo .:
s in a theatre, the eyes of men,
fter a wellygraced actor leaves the stage,
re idly bent on him that enters nelt,
hinking his prattle to be tediousc
ven so, or with much more contempt, mends eyes
id scowl on gentle yichard
no man cried ldod save himyc
Io foyful tongue gave him his welcome home:
Iut dust was thrown upon his sacred head:
thich with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
mis face still combating with tears and smiles,
he badges of his grief and patience,
hat had not uod, for some strong purpose, steelld
yhe hearts of men, they must perforce have melted
nd barbarism itself have pitied him.
ut heaven hath a hand in these events,
o whose high will we bound our calm contents.
to lolingbroke are we sworn subhects now,
dhose state and honour I for aye allow.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
Iere comes my son aumerle.
IeyI l. lo .:
umerle that wasc
out that is lost for being wichardis friend,
nd, madam, you must call him wutland now:
I am in parliament pledge for his truth
nd lasting fealty to the newamade king.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
telcome, my son: who are the violets now
that strew the green lap of the new come springb
IeyI l. ay.s
.s:
Iadam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:
od knows I had as lief be none as one.
IeyI l. lo .:
tell, bear you well in this new spring of time,
est you be cropped before you come to prime.
yhat news from lbford
hold those fusts and triumphsc
IeyI l. ay.s
.s:
Ior aught I know, my lord, they do.
IeyI l. lo .:
Iou will be there, I know.
IeyI l. ay.s
.s:
If uod prevent not, I purpose so.
IeyI l. lo .:
that seal is that, that hangs without thy bosomy
ea, lookost thou palel let me see the writing.
IeyI l. ay.s
.s:
Iy lord, ltis nothing.
IeyI l. lo .:
Io matter, then, who see ith
I will be satisfied
let me see the writing.
IeyI l. ay.s
.s:
I do beseech your grace to pardon me:
It is a matter of small conseluence,
yhich for some reasons I would not have seen.
IeyI l. lo .:
thich for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.
I fear, I fear, h
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
that should you fearl
Idis nothing but some bond, that he is enterld into
Ior gay apparel lgainst the triumph day.
IeyI l. lo .:
Iound to himselfr what doth he with a bond
yhat he is bound tow life, thou art a fool.
ooy, let me see the writing.
IeyI l. ay.s
.s:
I do beseech you, pardon mel I may not show it.
IeyI l. lo .:
I will be satisfied
let me see it, I say.
treasong foul treasong fillaing traitort slavel
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
that is the matter, my lord
IeyI l. lo .:
Iow who is within therel
maddle my horse.
od for his mercy, what treachery is herel
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
thy, what is it, my lord
IeyI l. lo .:
ive me my boots, I sayo saddle my horse.
ow, by mine honour, by my life, by my troth,
I will appeach the villain.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
that is the matterl
Iey: l. lo .:
seace, foolish woman.
e.ds.s l. lo .:
I will not peace. lhat is the matter, aumerle.
ey: l. ay.s..s:
ood mother, be contenth it is no more
yhan my poor life must answer.
e.ds.s l. lo .:
thy life answerl
ey: l. lo .:
Iring me my boots: I will unto the king.
e.ds.s l. lo .:
trike him, aumerle. loor boy, thou art amaved.
mence, villaing never more come in my sight.
ey: l. lo .:
ive me my boots, I say.
e.ds.s l. lo .:
thy, lork, what wilt thou dow
yilt thou not hide the trespass of thine ownd
mave we more sonsc or are we like to havel
Is not my teeming date drunk up with timel
nd wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age,
nd rob me of a happy motherls namel
Is he not like theel is he not thine ownd
ey: l. lo .:
thou fond mad woman,
yilt thou conceal this dark conspiracyo
dowen of them here have tanen the sacrament,
nd interchangeably set down their hands,
o kill the king at yoford.
e.ds.s l. lo .:
me shall be nonel
yelll keep him here: then what is that to himy
ey: l. lo .:
way, fond womand were he twenty times my son,
I would appeach him.
e.ds.s l. lo .:
madst thou groandd for him
s I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful.
out now I know thy mind
thou dost suspect
yhat I have been disloyal to thy bed,
nd that he is a bastard, not thy son:
weet lork, sweet husband, be not of that mind:
me is as like thee as a man may be,
ot like to me, or any of my kin,
nd yet I love him.
ey: l. lo .:
Iake way, unruly womand
e.ds.s l. lo .:
fter, aumerlel mount thee upon his horsel
mpur post, and get before him to the king,
nd beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.
Iull not be long behind
though I be old,
I doubt not but to ride as fast as lork:
nd never will I rise up from the ground
yill aolingbroke have pardondd thee. away, be gonel
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
Ian no man tell me of my unthrifty song
Idis full three months since I did see him lasth
If any plague hang over us, ltis he.
I would to uod, my lords, he might be found:
Inguire at london, lmongst the taverns there,
Ior there, they say, he daily doth freluent,
yith unrestrained loose companions,
ven such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes,
nd beat our watch, and rob our passengersc
yhich he, young wanton and effeminate boy,
akes on the point of honour to support
mo dissolute a crew.
memIl ley.l:
Iy lord, some two days since I saw the prince,
nd told him of those triumphs held at yoford.
memIl aa.Iullyl.I:
ond what said the gallanth
memIl ley.l:
mis answer was, he would unto the stews,
nd from the commondst creature pluck a glove,
nd wear it as a favourt and with that
me would unhorse the lustiest challenger.
memIl aa.Iullyl.I:
os dissolute as desperatel yet through both
I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years
ay happily bring forth. lut who comes herel
Iey: l. ay.s..s:
there is the kingb
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
that means our cousin, that he stares and looks
mo wildlyo
Iey: l. ay.s..s:
od save your gracel I do beseech your malesty,
o have some conference with your grace alone.
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
tithdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone.
yhat is the matter with our cousin nowa
Iey: l. ay.s..s:
Ior ever may my knees grow to the earth,
y tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth
nless a pardon ere I rise or speak.
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
Intended or committed was this faulth
If on the first, how heinous eler it be,
o win thy aftertlove I pardon thee.
Iey: l. ay.s..s:
then give me leave that I may turn the key,
hat no man enter till my tale be done.
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
Iave thy desire.
Iey: l. lo .:
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
fillain, Iull make thee safe.
Iey: l. ay.s..s:
tay thy revengeful hand
thou hast no cause to fear.
Iey: l. lo .:
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
that is the matter, unclel speako
Iecover breathy tell us how near is danger,
hat we may arm us to encounter it.
Iey: l. lo .:
seruse this writing here, and thou shalt know
the treason that my haste forbids me show.
Iey: l. ay.s..s:
Iemember, as thou readist, thy promise passcd:
I do repent mel read not my name there
y heart is not confederate with my hand.
Iey: l. lo .:
It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.
I tore it from the traitorts bosom, kingb
Iear, and not love, begets his penitence:
Iorget to pity him, lest thy pity prove
serpent that will sting thee to the heart.
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
I heinous, strong and bold conspiracyo
I loyal father of a treacherous song
yhou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain,
Irom when this stream through muddy passages
math held his current and defiled himselfr
yhy overflow of good converts to bad,
nd thy abundant goodness shall elcuse
yhis deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Iey: l. lo .:
o shall my virtue be his vicels bawdi
nd he shall spend mine honour with his shame,
s thriftless sons their scraping fathersc gold.
ine honour lives when his dishonour dies,
Ir my shamed life in his dishonour lies:
thou killlst me in his lifel giving him breath,
he traitor lives, the true mands put to death.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
that shrillyvoiced suppliant makes this eager cryo
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
woman, and thy aunt, great kingb ltis I.
mpeak with me, pity me, open the door.
beggar begs that never beggbd before.
me.Il aa.Iullyl.I:
Iur scene is alterld from a serious thing,
nd now changed to ldhe aeggar and the ying.
y dangerous cousin, let your mother in:
I know she is come to pray for your foul sin.
Iey: l. lo .:
If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,
ore sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
this festerld foint cut off, the rest rest sound
yhis let alone will all the rest confound.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
I king, believe not this hardihearted mand
ove loving not itself none other can.
Iey: l. lo .:
thou frantic woman, what dost thou make herel
mhall thy old dugs once more a traitor rearl
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
weet lork, be patient. uear me, gentle liege.
me.Il aa.Iullyl.::
Iise up, good aunt.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
Iot yet, I thee beseech:
Ior ever will I walk upon my knees,
nd never see day that the happy sees,
ill thou give foyo until thou bid me foy,
y pardoning yutland, my transgressing boy.
Iey: l. ay.s..s:
Into my motherls prayers I bend my knee.
Iey: l. lo .:
gainst them both my true foints bended be.
Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou grant any gracel
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
sleads he in earnesth look upon his facel
mis eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in festh
mis words come from his mouth, ours from our breast:
me prays but faintly and would be denied
ye pray with heart and soul and all beside:
Iis weary foints would gladly rise, I knowa
Iur knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow:
mis prayers are full of false hypocrisyo
Iurs of true feal and deep integrity.
Iur prayers do outhpray hisc then let them have
yhat mercy which true prayer ought to have.
me.Il aa.Iullyl.::
ood aunt, stand up.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
Iay, do not say, lstand upes
may, lpardond first, and afterwards lstand up.
nd if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,
Isardond should be the first word of thy speech.
I never longbd to hear a word till nowa
may lpardon, kingb let pity teach thee how:
the word is short, but not so short as sweeth
o word like lpardond for kingsc mouths so meet.
Iey: l. lo .:
peak it in lrench, kingb say, lpardonne moi.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
Iost thou teach pardon pardon to destroyo
h, my sour husband, my hardihearted lord,
that sethst the word itself against the word
mpeak lpardond as ltis current in our land
yhe chopping lrench we do not understand.
thine eye begins to speako set thy tongue therel
Ir in thy piteous heart plant thou thine eart
yhat hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,
sity may move thee lpardond to rehearse.
me.Il aa.Iullyd.::
ood aunt, stand up.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
I do not sue to stand
sardon is all the suit I have in hand.
me.Il aa.Iullyd.::
I pardon him, as uod shall pardon me.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
I happy vantage of a kneeling kneel
et am I sick for fear: speak it againd
twice saying lpardond doth not pardon twain,
ut makes one pardon strong.
me.Il aa.Iul.yd.::
tith all my heart
I pardon him.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
god on earth thou art.
me.Il aa.Iul.yd.::
Iut for our trusty brothertinglaw and the abbot,
tith all the rest of that consorted crew,
Iestruction straight shall dog them at the heels.
food uncle, help to order several powers
yo yoford, or whereler these traitors are:
they shall not live within this world, I swear,
ut I will have them, if I once know where.
Incle, farewell: and, cousin too, adieu:
Iour mother well hath prayod, and prove you true.
Ie.ds.s l. lo .:
Iome, my old son: I pray uod make thee new.
:yh.:
Iidst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,
Ihave I no friend will rid me of this living fearld
yas it not sow
ervant:
these were his very words.
:yh.:
Ihave I no friend
s ouoth he: he spake it twice,
nd urged it twice together, did he not.
ervant:
Ie did.
:yh.:
nd speaking it, he wistly lookod on me,
nd who should say, lI would thou wert the mand
that would divorce this terror from my hearth.
eaning the king at somfret. bome, leths go:
I am the kingbs friend, and will rid his foe.
IIul yIuday. II:
I have been studying how I may compare
yhis prison where I live unto the world:
nd for because the world is populous
nd here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do ith yet Iull hammer it out.
y brain Iull prove the female to my soul,
y soul the fathert and these two beget
generation of stillybreeding thoughts,
nd these same thoughts people this little world,
In humours like the people of this world,
Ior no thought is contented. the better sort,
s thoughts of things divine, are intermibdd
yith scruples and do set the word itself
gainst the word:
s thus, ldome, little ones, and then again,
IIt is as hard to come as for a camel
do thread the postern of a small needlels eye.
thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot
Inlikely wondersc how these vain weak nails
ay tear a passage through the flinty ribs
If this hard world, my ragged prison walls,
nd, for they cannot, die in their own pride.
thoughts tending to content flatter themselves
yhat they are not the first of fortunels slaves,
Ior shall not be the lasth like silly beggars
yho sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,
that many have and others must sit therel
nd in this thought they find a kind of ease,
earing their own misfortunes on the back
f such as have before endured the like.
thus play I in one person many people,
nd none contented: sometimes am I kingb
then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,
nd so I am: then crushing penury
ersuades me I was better when a kingb
then am I kingbd again: and by and by
yhink that I am unkingbd by aolingbroke,
nd straight am nothing: but whateler I be,
Ior I nor any man that but man is
yith nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased
yith being nothing. music do I hearl
ma, hal keep time: how sour sweet music is,
then time is broke and no proportion kepth
mo is it in the music of mends lives.
nd here have I the daintiness of ear
yo chelue time broke in a disordertd stringb
Iut for the concord of my state and time
mad not an ear to hear my true time broke.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste mel
Ior now hath time made me his numbering clock:
Iy thoughts are minutesc and with sighs they far
yheir watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,
thereto my finger, like a dialls point,
Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.
Iow sir, the sound that tells what hour it is
re clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,
thich is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans
how minutes, times, and hours: but my time
Iuns posting on in aolingbrokels proud foy,
thile I stand fooling here, his fack ou the clock.
this music mads mel let it sound no morel
Ior though it have holp madmen to their wits,
In me it seems it will make wise men mad.
et blessing on his heart that gives it mel
Ior ltis a sign of lovel and love to yichard
Is a strange brooch in this allyhating world.
room:
Iail, royal princel
IIul yIuday. II:
thanks, noble peert
yhe cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
that art thoue and how comest thou hither,
there no man never comes but that sad dog
yhat brings me food to make misfortune livel
room:
I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,
then thou wert kingb who, travelling towards lork,
tith much ado at length have gotten leave
yo look upon my sometimes royal masterts face.
I, how it yearndd my heart when I beheld
In london streets, that coronationgday,
then aolingbroke rode on roan aarbary,
hat horse that thou so often hast bestrid,
hat horse that I so carefully have dresscd
IIul yIlday. II:
Iode he on aarbaryo lell me, gentle friend,
mow went he under himy
room:
mo proudly as if he disdaindd the ground.
IIul yIlday. II:
o proud that aolingbroke was on his backo
that fade hath eat bread from my royal hand
yhis hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
tould he not stumblel would he not fall down,
ince pride must have a fall, and break the neck
If that proud man that did usurp his backs
Iorgiveness, horsel why do I rail on thee,
ince thou, created to be awed by man,
dast born to bearl I was not made a horsel
nd yet I bear a burthen like an ass,
purrtd, gallld and tired by founcing aolingbroke.
Ieeper:
Iellow, give placel here is no longer stay.
IIul yIlday. II:
If thou love me, ltis time thou wert away.
room:
that my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.
Ieeper:
Iy lord, willlt please you to fall tow
IIul yIlday. II:
taste of it first, as thou art wont to do.
Ieeper:
Iy lord, I dare not: mir lierce of soton, who
lately came from the king, commands the contrary.
IIul yIlday. II:
the devil take uenry of lancaster and theel
satience is stale, and I am weary of it.
Ieeper:
Ielp, help, helpe
IIul yIlday. II:
Iow nowa what means death in this rude assaulth
fillain, thy own hand yields thy deathas instrument.
fo thou, and fill another room in hell.
that hand shall burn in nevertouenching fire
yhat staggers thus my person. toton, thy fierce hand
math with the kingbs blood staindd the kingbs own land.
ount, mount, my soull thy seat is up on highy
yhilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.
:lh.:
s full of valour as of royal blood:
Ioth have I spillld
l would the deed were good
Ior now the devil, that told me I did well,
ays that this deed is chronicled in hell.
this dead king to the living king Iull bear
dake hence the rest, and give them burial here.
me.Il aa.Iullyd.I:
Iind uncle lork, the latest news we hear
Is that the rebels have consumed with fire
Iur town of sicester in uloucestershirel
Iut whether they be taten or slain we hear not.
yelcome, my lord what is the newsc
Ih dhy.ssy.a..:
Iirst, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.
the nelt news is, I have to london sent
yhe heads of ybford, malisbury, alunt, and yent:
the manner of their taking may appear
t large discoursed in this paper here.
me.Il aa.Iullyd.I:
de thank thee, gentle lercy, for thy painsc
nd to thy worth will add right worthy gains.
hy. lIl:yalsy:
Iy lord, I have from lbford sent to london
the heads of arocas and mir aennet meely,
wo of the dangerous consorted traitors
yhat sought at ybford thy dire overthrow.
me.Il aa.Iullyd.I:
thy pains, lithwater, shall not be forgoth
Iight noble is thy merit, well I wot.
me.Il ley.l:
the grand conspirator, abbot of lestminster,
dith clog of conscience and sour melancholy
math yielded up his body to the gravel
Iut here is sarlisle living, to abide
yhy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.
me.Il aa.Iullyd.I:
Iarlisle, this is your doom:
Ihoose out some secret place, some reverend room,
ore than thou hast, and with it foy thy lifel
mo as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:
Ior though mine enemy thou hast ever been,
migh sparks of honour in thee have I seen.
r:yh.:
Ireat king, within this coffin I present
yhy buried fear: herein all breathless lies
yhe mightiest of thy greatest enemies,
Iichard of aordeaue, by me hither brought.
meyIl aa.Iullyd.I:
rfton, I thank thee noth for thou hast wrought
deed of slander with thy fatal hand
Ipon my head and all this famous land.
r:yh.:
Irom your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.
meyIl aa.Iullyd.I:
they love not poison that do poison need,
Ior do I thee: though I did wish him dead,
I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
the guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,
ut neither my good word nor princely favour:
dith sain go wander through shades of night,
nd never show thy head by day nor light.
ords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,
hat blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:
Iome, mourn with me for that I do lament,
nd put on sullen black incontinent:
Iull make a voyage to the holy land,
o wash this blood off from my guilty hand:
Iarch sadly aftert grace my mournings herel
In weeping after this untimely bier.
als.:.:
Iregory, ou my word, welll not carry coals.
hsds s:
Io, for then we should be colliers.
als.:.:
I mean, an we be in choler, welll draw.
hsds s:
y, while you live, draw your neck out ou the collar.
als.:.:
I strike ouickly, being moved.
hsds s:
Iut thou art not ouickly moved to strike.
als.:.:
dog of the house of wontague moves me.
hsds s:
to move is to stirl and to be valiant is to stand:
therefore, if thou art moved, thou runndst away.
als.:.:
dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
take the wall of any man or maid of wontaguels.
hs.s s:
that shows thee a weak slavel for the weakest goes
to the wall.
a.s.:.:
truel and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
ontaguels men from the wall, and thrust his maids
to the wall.
hs.s s:
the ouarrel is between our masters and us their men.
a.s.:.:
Idis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I
have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the
maids, and cut off their heads.
hs.s s:
the heads of the maidsc
a.s.:.:
y, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheadsc
take it in what sense thou wilt.
hs.s s:
they must take it in sense that feel it.
a.s.:.:
Ie they shall feel while I am able to stand: and
Itis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.
hs.s s:
Idis well thou art not fishy if thou hadst, thou
hadst been poor fohn. uraw thy tooll here comes
two of the house of the lontagues.
a.s.:.:
Iy naked weapon is out: ouarrel, I will back thee.
hs.s s:
Iowa turn thy back and rund
a.s.:.:
Iear me not.
hs.s s:
Io, marryo I fear theel
a.s.:.:
Iet us take the law of our sidesc let them begin.
hs.s s:
I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as
they list.
a.s.:.:
Iay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at themy
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
ay.ua.:
Io you bite your thumb at us, sirl
a.s.:.:
I do bite my thumb, sir.
ay.ua.:
Io you bite your thumb at us, sirl
a.s.:.:
hs.s
s:
Io.
a.s.:.:
Io, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.
hs.s
s:
Io you ouarrel, sirl
ay.ua.:
suarrel sirl no, sir.
a.s.:.:
If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.
ay.ua.:
Io better.
a.s.:.:
tell, sir.
hs.s
s:
ay lbetter:m here comes one of my masterts kinsmen.
a.s.:.:
Ies, better, sir.
ay.ua.:
Iou lie.
a.s.:.:
Iraw, if you be men. uregory, remember thy swashing blow.
Ia..d.Il:
sart, foolsc
ut up your swordsc you know not what you do.
yhoa.d:
that, art thou drawn among these heartless hindsc
yurn thee, lenvolio, look upon thy death.
Ia..d.Il:
I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,
Ir manage it to part these men with me.
yhoa.d:
that, drawn, and talk of peacel I hate the word,
s I hate hell, all lontagues, and thee:
Iave at thee, coward
Iirst sitilen:
Ilubs, bills, and partisansc strikel beat them downg
Iown with the bapuletsc down with the lontaguesc
Ialy.sl:
that noise is this. uive me my long sword, how
ayl lasy.sl:
crutch, a crutchy why call you for a sword
Ialy.sl:
Iy sword, I sayo lld aontague is come,
nd flourishes his blade in spite of me.
h.lausy:
thou villain bapulet, hdold me not, let me go.
ayl ly.lausy:
thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.
hIuI.:
Iebellious subhects, enemies to peace,
srofaners of this neighbourtstained steel, h
yill they not hearl lhat, how you men, you beasts,
hat ouench the fire of your pernicious rage
yith purple fountains issuing from your veins,
In pain of torture, from those bloody hands
yhrow your mistempertd weapons to the ground,
nd hear the sentence of your moved prince.
three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
y thee, old sapulet, and aontague,
mave thrice disturbhd the ouiet of our streets,
nd made feronans ancient citilens
Iast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
o wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Iankertd with peace, to part your cankertd hate:
If ever you disturb our streets again,
our lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
Ior this time, all the rest depart away:
ou bapuleth shall go along with me:
nd, lontague, come you this afternoon,
o know our further pleasure in this case,
o old yreeltown, our common fudgmenthplace.
Ince more, on pain of death, all men depart.
h.lausy:
tho set this ancient ouarrel new abroachy
mpeak, nephew, were you by when it begand
Ia..d.Il:
Iere were the servants of your adversary,
nd yours, close fighting ere I did approach:
I drew to part them: in the instant came
yhe fiery lybalt, with his sword prepared,
yhich, as he breathed defiance to my ears,
me swung about his head and cut the winds,
yho nothing hurt withal hisscd him in scorn:
thile we were interchanging thrusts and blows,
Iame more and more and fought on part and part,
ill the prince came, who parted either part.
ayl ly.lausy:
I, where is yomeow saw you him toudayo
Iight glad I am he was not at this fray.
Ia..d.Il:
Iadam, an hour before the worshipped sun
seertd forth the golden window of the east,
troubled mind drave me to walk abroad
yhere, underneath the grove of sycamore
yhat westward rooteth from the cityos side,
o early walking did I see your son:
towards him I made, but he was ware of me
nd stole into the covert of the wood:
I, measuring his affections by my own,
hat most are busied when theyore most alone,
sursued my humour not pursuing his,
nd gladly shunndd who gladly fled from me.
h.dausy:
Iany a morning hath he there been seen,
yith tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.
dding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighsc
ut all so soon as the allycheering sun
mhould in the furthest east begin to draw
the shady curtains from aurorans bed,
way from the light steals home my heavy son,
nd private in his chamber pens himself,
huts up his windows, locks far daylight out
nd makes himself an artificial night:
Ilack and portentous must this humour prove,
Inless good counsel may the cause remove.
a..d.Il:
Iy noble uncle, do you know the causel
h.dausy:
I neither know it nor can learn of him.
a..d.Il:
Iave you importuned him by any meansc
h.dausy:
Ioth by myself and many other friends:
Iut he, his own affectionsc counsellor,
Is to himselfrsI will not say how true.y
Iut to himself so secret and so close,
o far from sounding and discovery,
s is the bud bit with an envious worm,
rre he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Ir dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Iould we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.
ye would as willingly give cure as know.
Ia..d.Il:
ee, where he comes: so please you, step asidel
Iull know his grievance, or be much denied.
h.dausy:
I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,
o hear true shrift. bome, madam, leths away.
Ia..d.Il:
oodimorrow, cousin.
Ih.sl:
Is the day so youngb
Ia..d.Il:
Iut new struck nine.
Ih.sl:
y mel sad hours seem long.
yas that my father that went hence so fasth
Ia..d.Il:
It was. lhat sadness lengthens yomeous hoursc
Ih.sl:
Iot having that, which, having, makes them short.
Ia..d.Il:
In lovel
Ih.sl:
Iuth:
Ia..d.Il:
If lovel
Ih.sl:
Iut of her favour, where I am in love.
Ia..d.Il:
las, that love, so gentle in his view,
hould be so tyrannous and rough in proofr
Ih.sl:
las, that love, whose view is muffled still,
hould, without eyes, see pathways to his willl
yhere shall we dine. l mel lhat fray was here.
et tell me not, for I have heard it all.
merels much to do with hate, but more with love.
yhy, then, l brawling lovel l loving hatel
I any thing, of nothing first createl
I heavy lightnessc serious vanityo
iscshapen chaos of wellyseeming formsc
Ieather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick healthy
mtillywaking sleep, that is not what it isc
yhis love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Iost thou not laughy
Ia..d.Il:
Io, cof, I rather weep.
Ih.sl:
ood heart, at what.
Ia..d.Il:
t thy good hearths oppression.
Ih.sl:
thy, such is lovels transgression.
riefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
yhich thou wilt propagate, to have it prest
yith more of thine: this love that thou hast shown
oth add more grief to too much of mine own.
ove is a smoke raised with the fume of sighsc
eing purged, a fire sparkling in loversc eyesc
eing velcd a sea nourishad with loversc tears:
that is it elsel a madness most discreet,
choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Iarewell, my cof.
Ia..d.Il:
ofth I will go alongb
n if you leave me so, you do me wrong.
Ih.sl:
tut, I have lost myselfr I am not herel
yhis is not yomeo, hels some other where.
Ia..d.Il:
tell me in sadness, who is that you love.
Ih.sl:
that, shall I groan and tell theel
Ia..d.Il:
roand why, no.
ut sadly tell me who.
Ih.sl:
Iid a sick man in sadness make his will:
h, word ill urged to one that is so illl
In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.
Ia..d.Il:
I aimld so near, when I supposed you loved.
Ih.sl:
right good markimand and shels fair I love.
Ia..d.Il:
right fair mark, fair cof, is soonest hit.
Ih.sl:
tell, in that hit you miss: shelll not be hit
yith supidis arrowa she hath yiands with
nd, in strong proof of chastity well armld,
Irom lovels weak childish bow she lives unharmld.
mhe will not stay the siege of loving terms,
Ior bide the encounter of assailing eyes,
Ior ope her lap to sainthseducing gold:
I, she is rich in beauty, only poor,
hat when she dies with beauty dies her store.
In..d.Il:
then she hath sworn that she will still live chastel
Ih.sl:
he hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,
Ior beauty starved with her severity
uts beauty off from all posterity.
mhe is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
o merit bliss by making me despair:
he hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Io I live dead that live to tell it now.
In..d.Il:
Ie ruled by me, forget to think of her.
Ih.sl:
I, teach me how I should forget to think.
In..d.Il:
Iy giving liberty unto thine eyesc
famine other beauties.
Ih.sl:
Idis the way
yo call hers elouisite, in ouestion more:
these happy masks that kiss fair ladiesc brows
eing black put us in mind they hide the fairl
me that is strucken blind cannot forget
yhe precious treasure of his eyesight lost:
how me a mistress that is passing fair,
yhat doth her beauty serve, but as a note
yhere I may read who passcd that passing fairl
Iarewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.
Ia..d.Il:
Iull pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.
Ialy.sl:
Iut vontague is bound as well as I,
In penalty alikel and ltis not hard, I think,
Ior men so old as we to keep the peace.
ayIu:
If honourable reckoning are you bothy
nd pity ltis you lived at odds so long.
ut now, my lord, what say you to my suith
Ialy.sl:
Iut saying ouer what I have said before:
Iy child is yet a stranger in the worldi
he hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
et two more summers wither in their pride,
re we may think her ripe to be a bride.
ayIu:
ounger than she are happy mothers made.
Ialy.sl:
nd too soon marrtd are those so early made.
the earth hath swallowad all my hopes but she,
he is the hopeful lady of my earth:
Iut woo her, gentle laris, get her heart,
y will to her consent is but a parth
n she agree, within her scope of choice
ies my consent and fair according voice.
this night I hold an old accustomld feast,
yhereto I have invited many a guest,
uch as I lovel and you, among the store,
Ine more, most welcome, makes my number more.
t my poor house look to behold this night
arthytreading stars that make dark heaven light:
uch comfort as do lusty young men feel
yhen wellyapparellld april on the heel
If limping winter treads, even such delight
mong fresh female buds shall you this night
Inherit at my housel hear all, all see,
nd like her most whose merit most shall be:
thich on more view, of many mine being one
ay stand in number, though in reckoning none,
Iome, go with me.
o, sirrah, trudge about
yhrough fair feronal find those persons out
yhose names are written there, and to them say,
y house and welcome on their pleasure stay.
ervant:
Iind them out whose names are written herel It is
written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his
yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with
his pencil, and the painter with his netsc but I am
sent to find those persons whose names are here
writ, and can never find what names the writing
person hath here writ. I must to the learned.
mIn good time.
Ini.d.Il:
tut, man, one fire burns out anotherls burning,
Ine pain is lessendd by anotherts anguishy
yurn giddy, and be holp by backward turningb
Ine desperate grief cures with anotherts languish:
take thou some new infection to thy eye,
nd the rank poison of the old will die.
Ih.sl:
Iour plaintaingleaf is elcellent for that.
Ini.d.Il:
Ior what, I pray theel
Ih.sl:
Ior your broken shin.
Ini.d.Il:
thy, womeo, art thou mad
Ih.sl:
Iot mad, but bound more than a madiman isc
mhut up in prison, kept without my food,
yhipped and tormented andis.odiden, good fellow.
ervant:
od gin godiden. I pray, sir, can you read
Ih.sl:
y, mine own fortune in my misery.
ervant:
Ierhaps you have learned it without book: but, I
pray, can you read any thing you seel
Ih.sl:
y, if I know the letters and the language.
ervant:
e say honestly: rest you merryo
Ih.sl:
tay, fellowa I can read.
Isignior martino and his wife and daughtersc
Iounty anselme and his beauteous sistersc the lady
widow of fitraviow mignior llacentio and his lovely
niecesc mercutio and his brother falentinel mine
uncle bapulet, his wife and daughtersc my fair niece
Iosalinel livial mignior falentio and his cousin
yybalt, hucio and the lively uelena.
a fair
assembly: whither should they comel
ervant:
Ip.
Ih.sl:
thitherl
ervant:
to supperl to our house.
Ih.sl:
those housel
ervant:
Iy masterts.
Ih.sl:
Indeed, I should have askid you that before.
ervant:
Iow Iull tell you without asking: my master is the
great rich wapuleth and if you be not of the house
of wontagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.
Iest you merryo
Iai.d.Il:
t this same ancient feast of bapuleths
mups the fair yosaline whom thou so lovest,
yith all the admired beauties of ferona:
o thitherl and, with unattainted eye,
Iompare her face with some that I shall show,
nd I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Ih.sl:
then the devout religion of mine eye
aintains such falsehood, then turn tears to firesc
nd these, who often drowndd could never die,
ransparent heretics, be burnt for liarsc
Ine fairer than my lovel the allyseeing sun
eler saw her match since first the world begun.
Iai.d.Il:
tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,
merself poised with herself in either eye:
Iut in that crystal scales let there be weighad
our ladyos love against some other maid
yhat I will show you shining at this feast,
nd she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Ih.sl:
Iull go along, no such sight to be shown,
ut to reloice in splendor of mine own.
ayl lasy.sl:
Iurse, wherels my daughterl call her forth to me.
urse:
Iow, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,
I bade her come. lhat, lambh what, ladybird
od forbid
lherels this girll lhat, fulieth
fe.Iul:
Iow nowa who callsc
urse:
our mother.
fe.Iul:
Iadam, I am here.
yhat is your willl
ayl lasy.sl:
this is the matter:ms.urse, give leave awhile,
ye must talk in secret:msnurse, come back againd
I have remembertd me, thoues hear our counsel.
thou knowast my daughterts of a pretty age.
urse:
Iaith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
ayl lasy.sl:
hels not fourteen.
urse:
Iull lay fourteen of my teeth, h
nd yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but fourty
he is not fourteen. uow long is it now
to bammasctide.
ayl lasy.sl:
fortnight and odd days.
urse:
Iven or odd, of all days in the year,
Iome lammasceve at night shall she be fourteen.
musan and shely.od rest all bhristian soulsc:.
yere of an age: well, musan is with uod
mhe was too good for me: but, as I said,
In lammasceve at night shall she be fourteend
yhat shall she, marryo I remember it well.
Idis since the eartheuake now eleven yearsc
nd she was weandd, hI never shall forget it, h
If all the days of the year, upon that day:
Ior I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
itting in the sun under the dovelhouse walll
y lord and you were then at mantua:ms
ay, I do bear a brain:msbut, as I said,
yhen it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
If my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
o see it tetchy and fall out with the dugb
hake ouoth the dovelhouse: ltwas no need, I trow,
o bid me trudge:
nd since that time it is eleven yearsc
Ior then she could stand alonel nay, by the rood,
he could have run and waddled all abouth
Ior even the day before, she broke her brow:
nd then my husbandis.od be with his soull
n was a merry mang:took up the child:
Ihea, ouoth he, ldost thou fall upon thy face.
yhou wilt fall backward when thou hast more with
yilt thou not, fuleld and, by my holidame,
he pretty wretch left crying and said lay.
to see, now, how a fest shall come abouth
I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,
I never should forget it: ldilt thou not, fuleld ouoth hel
nd, pretty fool, it stinted and said lay.
ayl baly.sl:
Inough of thisc I pray thee, hold thy peace.
urse:
es, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,
o think it should leave crying and say lay.
nd yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow
bump as big as a young cockerells stonel
parlous knocki and it cried bitterly:
Ihea, ouoth my husband, falllst upon thy face.
yhou wilt fall backward when thou comest to agel
yilt thou not, fuleld it stinted and said lay.
fe.Iul:
nd stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.
urse:
Ieace, I have done. uod mark thee to his gracel
yhou wast the prettiest babe that eler I nursed:
n I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish.
ayl baly.sl:
Iarry, that lmarryo is the very theme
I came to talk of. bell me, daughter fuliet,
mow stands your disposition to be married
fe.Iul:
It is an honour that I dream not of.
urse:
n honourl were not I thine only nurse,
I would say thou hadst suckid wisdom from thy teat.
ayl baly.sl:
yell, think of marriage nowa younger than you,
mere in ferona, ladies of esteem,
re made already mothers: by my count,
I was your mother much upon these years
yhat you are now a maid. bhus then in brief:
the valiant laris seeks you for his love.
urse:
man, young ladyo lady, such a man
s all the worldiswhy, hels a man of way.
ayl baly.sl:
feronats summer hath not such a flower.
urse:
Iay, hels a flowert in faith, a very flower.
ayl basy.sl:
yhat say youe can you love the gentlemand
yhis night you shall behold him at our feasth
Iead ouer the volume of young larisc face,
nd find delight writ there with beautyos pend
famine every married lineament,
nd see how one another lends content
nd what obscured in this fair volume lies
Iind written in the margent of his eyes.
yhis precious book of love, this unbound lover,
o beautify him, only lacks a cover:
the fish lives in the sea, and ttis much pride
Ior fair without the fair within to hide:
that book in manyos eyes doth share the glory,
hat in gold clasps locks in the golden storyo
mo shall you share all that he doth possess,
y having him, making yourself no less.
urse:
Io lessc nay, biggerl women grow by men.
ayl basy.sl:
peak briefly, can you like of sarisc lovel
fe.Iul:
Iull look to like, if looking liking move:
Iut no more deep will I endart mine eye
yhan your consent gives strength to make it fly.
ervant:
Iadam, the guests are come, supper served up, you
called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in
the pantry, and every thing in eltremity. I must
hence to waith I beseech you, follow straight.
ayl baly.sl:
ye follow thee.
fuliet, the county stays.
urse:
o, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
Ih.yl:
yhat, shall this speech be spoke for our elcusel
Ir shall we on without a apologyo
Iay.d.Il:
the date is out of such prolibity:
yelll have no bupid hoodwinkid with a scarf,
earing a bartarts painted bow of lath,
caring the ladies like a crowakeeperl
or no withouthbook prologue, faintly spoke
fter the prompter, for our entrance:
Iut let them measure us by what they willl
yelll measure them a measure, and be gone.
h.yl:
ive me a torch: I am not for this amblingb
Ieing but heavy, I will bear the light.
ny.llIl:
Iay, gentle yomeo, we must have you dance.
h.yl:
Iot I, believe me: you have dancing shoes
yith nimble soles: I have a soul of lead
mo stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
ny.llIl:
ou are a loverl borrow bupidis wings,
nd soar with them above a common bound.
h.yl:
I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
yo soar with his light feathers, and so bound,
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:
Inder lovels heavy burden do I sink.
ny.llIl:
nd, to sink in it, should you burden lovel
yoo great oppression for a tender thing.
Ih.yl:
Is love a tender thingb it is too rough,
oo rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
ny.llIl:
If love be rough with you, be rough with lovel
rick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
ive me a case to put my visage in:
visor for a visort what care I
yhat curious eye doth ouote deformitiesc
mere are the beetle brows shall blush for me.
In..d.Il:
Iome, knock and enterl and no sooner in,
ut every man betake him to his legs.
Ih.yl:
torch for me: let wantons light of heart
yickle the senseless rushes with their heels,
Ior I am proverbhd with a grandsire phrasel
Iull be a candlelholder, and look on.
yhe game was neler so fair, and I am done.
ny.llIl:
tut, dunds the mouse, the constablels own word:
If thou art dun, welll draw thee from the mire
If this sirtreverence love, wherein thou stickist
Ip to the ears. bome, we burn daylight, how
Ih.yl:
Iay, thatis not so.
ny.llIl:
I mean, sir, in delay
ye waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
yake our good meaning, for our fudgment sits
Iive times in that ere once in our five wits.
Ih.yl:
nd we mean well in going to this maski
Iut ltis no wit to go.
sy.llIl:
yhy, may one asks
Ih.yl:
I dreamld a dream tounight.
sy.llIl:
nd so did I.
Ih.yl:
yell, what was yoursc
sy.llIl:
that dreamers often lie.
Ih.yl:
In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
ny.llIl:
I, then, I see lueen vab hath been with you.
mhe is the fairiesc midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate.stone
In the fore.finger of an alderman,
Irawn with a team of little atomies
thwart mends noses as they lie asleepe
mer wagongspokes made of long spidersc legs,
he cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
he traces of the smallest spiderts web,
he collars of the moonshinels watery beams,
mer whip of crickeths bone, the lash of film,
mer wagoner a small greyocoated gnat,
Iot so big as a round little worm
rickid from the lavy finger of a maid
mer chariot is an empty havelynut
ade by the foiner souirrel or old grub,
ime out ou mind the fairiesc coachmakers.
nd in this state she gallops night by night
yhrough loversc brains, and then they dream of lovel
Ider courtiersc knees, that dream on courthsies straight,
Iner lawyersc fingers, who straight dream on fees,
Ider ladies l lips, who straight on kisses dream,
yhich oft the angry lab with blisters plagues,
ecause their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
ometime she gallops ouer a courtierts nose,
nd then dreams he of smelling out a suith
nd sometime comes she with a tithelpigbs tail
yickling a parsonds nose as at lies asleep,
hen dreams, he of another benefice:
ometime she driveth ouer a soldierts neck,
nd then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
If breaches, ambuscadoes, mpanish blades,
If healths fivelfathom deepe and then anon
rums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
nd being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
nd sleeps again. bhis is that very lab
hat plats the manes of horses in the night,
nd bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
yhich once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
this is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
hat presses them and learns them first to bear,
aking them women of good carriage:
this is shely
Ih.sl:
Ieace, peace, lercutio, peacel
yhou talkist of nothing.
sy.llIl:
true, I talk of dreams,
yhich are the children of an idle brain,
egot of nothing but vain fantasy,
yhich is as thin of substance as the air
nd more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
ven now the frofen bosom of the north,
nd, being angertd, puffs away from thence,
urning his face to the dewadropping south.
Ia..d.Il:
this wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselvesc
mupper is done, and we shall come too late.
Ih.sl:
I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
mome conseluence yet hanging in the stars
mhall bitterly begin his fearful date
yith this night.s revels and elpire the term
If a despised life closed in my breast
y some vile forfeit of untimely death.
ut ue, that hath the steerage of my course,
Iirect my saill ln, lusty gentlemen.
In..d.Il:
trike, drum.
Iirst mervant:
yherels lotpan, that he helps not to take awayo ue
shift a trencherl he scrape a trencherl
econd mervant:
then good manners shall lie all in one or two mends
hands and they unwashed too, ltis a foul thing.
Iirst mervant:
way with the fointhstools, remove the
courthcupboard, look to the plate. uood thou, save
me a piece of marchpanel and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in musan frindstone and mell.
ntony, and sotpand
econd mervant:
y, boy, ready.
Iirst mervant:
ou are looked for and called for, asked for and
sought for, in the great chamber.
econd mervant:
te cannot be here and there too. bheerly, boysc be
brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.
Ialy.sl:
telcome, gentlemend ladies that have their toes
Inplagued with corns will have a bout with you.
h ha, my mistressesc which of you all
yill now deny to dancel she that makes dainty,
he, Iull swear, hath cornsc am I come near ye nowa
yelcome, gentlemend I have seen the day
yhat I have worn a visor and could tell
whispering tale in a fair ladyos ear,
uch as would please: ltis gone, ltis gone, ltis gone:
ou are welcome, gentlemend come, musicians, play.
hall, a halll give roomh and foot it, girls.
ore light, you knavesc and turn the tables up,
nd ouench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
h, sirrah, this unlookidifor sport comes well.
ay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin bapuleth
Ior you and I are past our dancing days:
mow long isct now since last yourself and I
yere in a masks
econd bapulet:
Iyor lady, thirty years.
Ialy.sl:
yhat, mand ltis not so much, ltis not so much:
Idis since the nuptials of lucentio,
Iome pentecost as ouickly as it will,
ome five and twenty yearsc and then we maskid.
econd bapulet:
Idis more, ltis more, his son is elder, sirl
mis son is thirty.
Ialy.sl:
yill you tell me that.
mis son was but a ward two years ago.
Ih.yl:
ervant:
I know not, sir.
Ih.yl:
I, she doth teach the torches to burn brighth
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
ike a rich fewel in an vthiopels earl
eauty too rich for use, for earth too dearl
mo shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
s yonder lady ouer her fellows shows.
yhe measure done, Iull watch her place of stand,
nd, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Iid my heart love till nowa forswear it, sighth
Ior I neler saw true beauty till this night.
yhsall:
this, by his voice, should be a lontague.
Ietch me my rapier, boy. lhat dares the slave
Iome hither, covertd with an antic face,
o fleer and scorn at our solemnityo
ow, by the stock and honour of my kin,
o strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
Ialy.sl:
yhy, how now, kinsmand wherefore storm you sow
yhsall:
Incle, this is a lontague, our foe,
villain that is hither come in spite,
o scorn at our solemnity this night.
Ialy.sl:
oung yomeo is it.
yhsall:
Idis he, that villain yomeo.
Ialy.sl:
Iontent thee, gentle cof, let him alonel
me bears him like a portly gentlemand
nd, to say truth, ferona brags of him
yo be a virtuous and wellygoverndd youth:
I would not for the wealth of all the town
mere in my house do him disparagement:
therefore be patient, take no note of him:
It is my will, the which if thou respect,
how a fair presence and put off these frowns,
nd illybeseeming semblance for a feast.
yhsall:
It fits, when such a villain is a guest:
Iull not endure him.
Ialy.sl:
me shall be endured:
yhat, goodman boyo I say, he shall: go tow
m I the master here, or youe go to.
ouell not endure himy fod shall mend my soull
ouell make a mutiny among my guestsc
ou will set cockiathoope youell be the mand
yhlall:
yhy, uncle, ltis a shame.
Ialy.sl:
fo to, go tow
ou are a saucy boy: isct so, indeed
yhis trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
ou must contrary mel marry, ltis time.
yell said, my heartsc lou are a princouw go:
Ie ouiet, orty.ore light, more lighth lor shamel
Iull make you ouiet. lhat, cheerly, my heartsc
yhlall:
Iatience perforce with wilful choler meeting
akes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
ow seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.
Ih.yl:
fe.Iul:
food pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
yhich mannerly devotion shows in thisc
Ior saints have hands that pilgrimsc hands do touch,
nd palm to palm is holy palmersc kiss.
Ih.yl:
mave not saints lips, and holy palmers toow
fe.Iul:
y, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Ih.sl:
I, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands dow
yhey pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
fe.Iul:
aints do not move, though grant for prayersc sake.
Ih.sl:
then move not, while my prayerts effect I take.
yhus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
fe.Iul:
then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Ih.sl:
in from thy lipsc l trespass sweetly urged
ive me my sin again.
fe.Iul:
ou kiss by the book.
urse:
Iadam, your mother craves a word with you.
Ih.yl:
yhat is her motherl
urse:
Iarry, bachelor,
mer mother is the lady of the house,
nd a good lady, and a wise and virtuous
I nursed her daughter, that you talkid withall
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
mhall have the chinks.
Ih.yl:
Is she a bapulet.
I dear accounth my life is my foels debt.
n..d.Il:
way, begonel the sport is at the best.
Ih.yl:
y, so I fearl the more is my unrest.
Ialy.sl:
Iay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gonel
ye have a trifling foolish banduet towards.
Is it elen sow why, then, I thank you all
I thank you, honest gentlemend good night.
ore torches herel lome on then, leths to bed.
h, sirrah, by my fay, it wales late:
Iull to my rest.
fe.Iul:
Iome hither, nurse. lhat is yond gentlemand
urse:
the son and heir of old liberio.
fe.Iul:
yhat.s he that now is going out of doorl
urse:
Iarry, that, I think, be young letrucio.
fe.Iul:
yhat.s he that follows there, that would not dancel
urse:
I know not.
fe.Iul:
fo ask his name: if he be married.
y grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Iurse:
mis name is yomeo, and a lontaguel
yhe only son of your great enemy.
fe.Iul:
Iy only love sprung from my only hatel
yoo early seen unknown, and known too latel
rodigious birth of love it is to me,
hat I must love a loathed enemy.
Iurse:
yhat.s thisc what.s thisc
fe.Iul:
rhyme I learndd even now
If one I danced withal.
Iurse:
non, anong
Iome, leths awayo the strangers all are gone.
Ihorus:
Iow old desire doth in his deathybed lie,
nd young affection gapes to be his heirl
yhat fair for which love groandd for and would die,
yith tender fuliet matchad, is now not fair.
Iow yomeo is beloved and loves again,
like betwitched by the charm of looks,
ut to his foe supposed he must complain,
nd she steal lovels sweet bait from fearful hooks:
Ieing held a foe, he may not have access
yo breathe such vows as lovers use to swearl
nd she as much in love, her means much less
yo meet her newabeloved any where:
Iut passion lends them power, time means, to meet
yempering eltremities with eltreme sweet.
Ih.sl:
Ian I go forward when my heart is herel
yurn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
In..d.Il:
Iomeow my cousin yomeow
ny.llIl:
me is wisel
nd, on my lie, hath stolln him home to bed.
In..d.Il:
me ran this way, and leaped this orchard wall:
Iall, good lercutio.
ny.llIl:
Iay, Iull congure too.
Iomeow humoursc madmand passiong loverl
ppear thou in the likeness of a sigh:
mpeak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied
Iry but lay meld pronounce but llovel and ldoveld
mpeak to my gossip fenus one fair word,
Ine nickiname for her purblind son and heir,
oung adam lupid, he that shot so trim,
yhen ying lophetua loved the beggartmaid
me heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not.
yhe ape is dead, and I must congure him.
I congure thee by yosalinels bright eyes,
y her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
y her fine foot, straight leg and ouivering thigh
nd the demesnes that there adiacent lie,
hat in thy likeness thou appear to usc
In..d.Il:
nd if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
ny.llIl:
this cannot anger him: ltwould anger him
yo raise a spirit in his mistressc circle
If some strange nature, letting it there stand
yill she had laid it and congured it downg
yhat were some spite: my invocation
Is fair and honest, and in his mistressc name
I congure only but to raise up him.
In..d.Il:
Iome, he hath hid himself among these trees,
o be consorted with the humorous night:
Ilind is his love and best befits the dark.
ny.llIl:
If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
Iow will he sit under a medlar tree,
nd wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
s maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
Iomeo, that she were, l, that she were
n open et caetera, thou a poperin pearl
Iomeo, good night: Iull to my trucklelbed
yhis fieldibed is too cold for me to sleep:
Iome, shall we gow
In..d.Il:
fo, thend for ltis in vain
yo seek him here that means not to be found.
Ih.sl:
Ie fests at scars that never felt a wound.
ut, softh what light through yonder window breaksc
It is the east, and fuliet is the sun.
rise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
yho is already sick and pale with grief,
hat thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Ie not her maid, since she is enviousc
mer vestal livery is but sick and green
nd none but fools do wear ith cast it off.
It is my lady, l, it is my lovel
I, that she knew she werel
mhe speaks yet she says nothing: what of that.
mer eye discoursesc I will answer it.
I am too bold, ltis not to me she speaks:
two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
maving some business, do entreat her eyes
yo twinkle in their spheres till they return.
yhat if her eyes were there, they in her head
yhe brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
s daylight doth a lampe her eyes in heaven
yould through the airy region stream so bright
yhat birds would sing and think it were not night.
mee, how she leans her cheek upon her hand
I, that I were a glove upon that hand,
hat I might touch that cheeks
fe.Iul:
y mel
Ih.sl:
mhe speaks:
I, speak again, bright angell for thou art
s glorious to this night, being ouer my head
s is a winged messenger of heaven
Into the whitelupturned wondering eyes
If mortals that fall back to gave on him
yhen he bestrides the lavyopacing clouds
nd sails upon the bosom of the air.
fe.Iul:
I womeo, womeow wherefore art thou womeow
Ieny thy father and refuse thy namel
Ir, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
nd Iull no longer be a bapulet.
Ih.sl:
fe.Iul:
Idis but thy name that is my enemy
yhou art thyself, though not a lontague.
yhatss lontaguel it is nor hand, nor foot,
Ior arm, nor face, nor any other part
elonging to a man. l, be some other namel
yhatss in a namel that which we call a rose
Iy any other name would smell as sweeth
mo yomeo would, were he not yomeo callld,
Ietain that dear perfection which he owes
yithout that title. momeo, doff thy name,
nd for that name which is no part of thee
yake all myself.
Ih.sl:
I take thee at thy word:
Iall me but love, and Iull be new baptiled
menceforth I never will be yomeo.
fe.Iul:
that man art thou that thus bescreendd in night
mo stumblest on my counsell
Ih.ll:
Iy a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
Iy name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
ecause it is an enemy to theel
mad I it written, I would tear the word.
fe.Iul:
Iy ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
If that tonguels utterance, yet I know the sound:
rt thou not yomeo and a lontaguel
Ih.ll:
Ieither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.
fe.Iul:
Iow camest thou hither, tell me, and whereforel
yhe orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
nd the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Ih.ll:
tith lovels light wings did I ouertperch these wallsc
Ior stony limits cannot hold love out,
nd what love can do that dares love attempt.
yherefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
fe.Iul:
If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
Ih.ll:
lack, there lies more peril in thine eye
yhan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
nd I am proof against their enmity.
fe.Iul:
I would not for the world they saw thee here.
Ih.ll:
I have night.s cloak to hide me from their sight.
nd but thou love me, let them find me here:
Iy life were better ended by their hate,
han death prorogued, wanting of thy love.
fe.Iul:
Iy whose direction foundist thou out this placel
Ih.ll:
Iy love, who first did prompt me to induirel
me lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.
I am no pilot. yet, wert thou as far
s that vast shore washad with the farthest sea,
I would adventure for such merchandise.
fe.Iul:
Ihou knowast the mask of night is on my face,
Ilse would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
Ior that which thou hast heard me speak tounight
Iain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
yhat I have spoke: but farewell complimenth
Iost thou love mel I know thou wilt say lay,
nd I will take thy word: yet if thou swearlst,
hou mayst prove falsel at loversc perluries
yhen say, fove laughs. l gentle yomeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Ir if thou thinkist I am too ouickly won,
Iull frown and be perverse an say thee nay,
o thou wilt woow but else, not for the world.
In truth, fair lontague, I am too fond,
nd therefore thou mayst think my lhavior light:
Iut trust me, gentleman, Iull prove more true
yhan those that have more cunning to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
Iut that thou overheardist, ere I was ware,
y true lovels passion: therefore pardon me,
nd not impute this yielding to light love,
yhich the dark night hath so discovered.
Ih.ll:
Iady, by yonder blessed moon I swear
yhat tips with silver all these fruithtree topsc:
fe.Iul:
I, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
hat monthly changes in her circled orb,
Iest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Ih.ll:
that shall I swear byo
fe.Iul:
Io not swear at alll
Ir, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
yhich is the god of my idolatry,
nd Iull believe thee.
Ih.ll:
If my hearths dear lovely
fv.Iul:
tell, do not swear: although I foy in thee,
I have no foy of this contract tounight:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too suddend
yoo like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ire one can say lIt lightens.
mweet, good nighth
yhis bud of love, by summerts ripening breath,
Iay prove a beauteous flower when nelt we meet.
food night, good nighth as sweet repose and rest
Iome to thy heart as that within my breasth
Ih.ll:
I, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied
fv.Iul:
that satisfaction canst thou have tounight.
Ih.ll:
Ihe elchange of thy lovels faithful vow for mine.
fv.Iul:
I gave thee mine before thou didst reluest it:
nd yet I would it were to give again.
Ih.ll:
touldst thou withdraw it. for what purpose, lovel
fv.Iul:
Iut to be frank, and give it thee again.
nd yet I wish but for the thing I have:
Iy bounty is as boundless as the sea,
Iy love as deepe the more I give to thee,
he more I have, for both are infinite.
I hear some noise withind dear love, adieue
non, good nursel mweet vontague, be true.
mtay but a little, I will come again.
Ih.ll:
I blessed, blessed nighth I am afeard.
Ieing in night, all this is but a dream,
oo flatteringbsweet to be substantial.
fv.Iul:
Ihree words, dear yomeo, and good night indeed.
If that thy bent of love be honourable,
hy purpose marriage, send me word toumorrow,
Iy one that Iull procure to come to thee,
yhere and what time thou wilt perform the ritel
nd all my fortunes at thy foot Iull lay
nd follow thee my lord throughout the world.
Iurse:
fv.Iul:
I come, anon.
usut if thou meandst not well,
I do beseech theely
Iurse:
fv.Iul:
Iy and by, I come:ms
yo cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:
Ioumorrow will I send.
Ih.ll:
mo thrive my soull.
fv.Iul:
thousand times good nighth
Ih.ll:
thousand times the worse, to want thy light.
Iove goes toward love, as schoolboys from
their books,
Iut love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
fv.Iul:
Iisth womeo, histh l, for a falconerts voice,
o lure this tasselygentle back againd
Iondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud
Ilse would I tear the cave where vcho lies,
nd make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,
dith repetition of my yomeous name.
Ih.ll:
It is my soul that calls upon my name:
Iow silvertsweet sound loversc tongues by night,
Iike softest music to attending earsc
fv.Iul:
Iomeow
Ih.ll:
Iy dearl
fv.Iul:
t what ouclock toumorrow
mhall I send to theel
Ih.ll:
t the hour of nine.
fv.Iul:
I will not fail: ltis twenty years till then.
I have forgot why I did call thee back.
Ih.ll:
Iet me stand here till thou remember it.
fv.Iul:
I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
Iemembering how I love thy company.
Ih.ll:
nd Iull still stay, to have thee still forget,
Iorgetting any other home but this.
fv.Iul:
Idis almost morningb I would have thee gone:
nd yet no further than a wantonds bird
yho lets it hop a little from her hand,
Iike a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
nd with a silk thread plucks it back again,
o lovingblealous of his liberty.
Ih.ll:
I would I were thy bird.
fv.Iul:
mweet, so would I:
Iet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
food night, good nighth parting is such
sweet sorrow,
hat I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Ih.ll:
mleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breasth
yould I were sleep and peace, so sweet to resth
mence will I to my ghostly fatherts cell,
mis help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Ihe greyoeyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Iheluering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
nd flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
Irom forth dayos path and litands fiery wheels:
Iow, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
he day to cheer and night.s dank dew to dry,
I must upefill this osier cage of ours
yith baleful weeds and preciouscfuiced flowers.
the earth that.s naturels mother is her tombh
yhat is her burying grave that is her womb,
nd from her womb children of divers kind
ye sucking on her natural bosom find,
any for many virtues elcellent,
Ione but for some and yet all different.
I, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true oualities:
Ior nought so vile that on the earth doth live
Iut to the earth some special good doth give,
Ior aught so good but straindd from that fair use
Ievolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
firtue itself turns vice, being misapplied
nd vice sometimes by action dignified.
yithin the infant rind of this small flower
oison hath residence and medicine power:
Ior this, being smelt, with that part cheers each parth
Ieing tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude willl
nd where the worser is predominant,
Iull soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Ih.ll:
Iood morrow, father.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Ienedicitel
yhat early tongue so sweet saluteth mel
oung son, it argues a distemperld head
mo soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:
Iare keeps his watch in every old mands eye,
nd where care lodges, sleep will never liel
Iut where unbruised youth with unstuffrd brain
Ioth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Iherefore thy earliness doth me assure
yhou art uperoused by some distemperaturel
Ir if not so, then here I hit it right,
Iur yomeo hath not been in bed tounight.
Ih.ll:
Ihat last is truel the sweeter rest was mine.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Iod pardon sind wast thou with wosalinel
Ih.ll:
dith wosaline, my ghostly fatherl now
I have forgot that name, and that namels woe.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Ihat.s my good son: but where hast thou been, thend
Ih.ll:
Iull tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.
I have been feasting with mine enemy,
dhere on a sudden one hath wounded me,
hat.s by me wounded: both our remedies
yithin thy help and holy physic lies:
I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,
y intercession likewise steads my foe.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Ie plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.
Iiddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
Ih.ll:
Ihen plainly know my heartis dear love is set
In the fair daughter of rich lapulet:
s mine on hers, so hers is set on minel
nd all combined, save what thou must combine
Iy holy marriage: when and where and how
de met, we wooud and made elchange of vow,
Iull tell thee as we passc but this I pray,
hat thou consent to marry us touday.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Ioly maint lrancis, what a change is herel
Is wosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
mo soon forsakend young mends love then lies
Iot truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
fesu laria, what a deal of brine
math washad thy sallow cheeks for yosalinel
mow much salt water thrown away in waste,
o season love, that of it doth not tastel
dhe sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
hy old groans ring yet in my ancient earsc
Io, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
If an old tear that is not washad off yet:
If eler thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
hou and these woes were all for yosaline:
nd art thou changed
pronounce this sentence then,
domen may fall, when therels no strength in men.
Ih.ll:
dhou chidist me oft for loving losaline.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Ior doting, not for loving, pupil mine.
Ih.ll:
nd baddst me bury love.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Iot in a grave,
o lay one in, another out to have.
Ih.ll:
I pray thee, chide not. she whom I love now
Ioth grace for grace and love for love allowa
dhe other did not so.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
I, she knew well
dhy love did read by rote and could not spell.
Iut come, young waverer, come, go with me,
In one respect Illl thy assistant bel
Ior this alliance may so happy prove,
o turn your householdsc rancour to pure love.
Ih.ll:
I, let us hencel I stand on sudden haste.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
disely and slowa they stumble that run fast.
Iny.llIl:
dhere the devil should this womeo bel
Iame he not home tounight.
In..d.Il:
Iot to his fathertsc I spoke with his man.
Iny.llIl:
h, that same pale hardihearted wench, that yosaline.
yorments him so, that he will sure run mad.
In..d.Il:
Iybalt, the kinsman of old lapulet,
math sent a letter to his fatherts house.
Iny.llIl:
challenge, on my life.
In..d.Il:
Iomeo will answer it.
Iny.llIl:
ny man that can write may answer a letter.
In..d.Il:
Iay, he will answer the letterts master, how he
dares, being dared.
Iny.llIl:
las poor yomeow he is already dead
stabbed with a
white wenchas black eyel shot through the ear with a
lovelsongb the very pin of his heart cleft with the
blind bowaboyos butthshaft: and is he a man to
encounter lybalt.
In..d.Il:
dhy, what is lybalt.
Iny.llIl:
Iore than prince of cats, I can tell you. l, he is
the courageous captain of compliments. ue fights as
you sing prickisong, keeps time, distance, and
proportiond rests me his minim rest, one, two, and
the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk
button, a duellist, a duellisth a gentleman of the
very first house, of the first and second cause:
ah, the immortal passadow the punto reversow the
hain
In..d.Il:
Ihe what.
Iny.llIl:
Ihe pou of such antic, lisping, affecting
fantasticoesc these new tuners of accentsc lly fesu,
a very good bladel a very tall mand a very good
whoreld lhy, is not this a lamentable thing,
grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with
these strange flies, these fashiongmongers, these
perdonatmins, who stand so much on the new form,
that they cannot at ease on the old benchy l, their
bones, their bonesc
In..d.Il:
Iere comes womeo, here comes womeo.
Iny.llIl:
dithout his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,
how art thou fishified
mow is he for the numbers
that letrarch flowed in: laura to his lady was but a
kitchengwenchy marry, she had a better love to
belrhyme herl lido a dowdyo lleopatra a gipsyo
melen and uero hildings and harlotsc lhisbe a grey
eye or so, but not to the purpose. mignior
Iomeo, bon fourl therels a lrench salutation
to your lrench slop. lou gave us the counterfeit
fairly last night.
Ih.ll:
food morrow to you both. lhat counterfeit did I give youe
Iny.llIl:
Ihe ship, sir, the slipe can you not conceivel
Ih.ll:
Iardon, good lercutio, my business was great. and in
such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
Iny.llIl:
Ihat.s as much as to say, such a case as yours
constrains a man to bow in the hams.
Ih.ll:
Ieaning, to court.sy.
Iny.llIl:
Ihou hast most kindly hit it.
Ih.ll:
most courteous elposition.
Iny.llIl:
Iay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
Ih.ll:
Iink for flower.
Iny.llIl:
Iight.
Ih.ll:
dhy, then is my pump well flowered.
Iny.llIl:
dell said: follow me this fest now till thou hast
worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it
is worn, the fest may remain after the wearing sole singular.
Ih.ll:
I singlelsoled fest, solely singular for the
singleness.
Iny.llIl:
Iome between us, good lenvoliow my wits faint.
Ih.ll:
mwitch and spurs, switch and spursc or Iull cry a match.
Iny.llIl:
Iay, if thy wits run the wildigoose chase, I have
done, for thou hast more of the wildigoose in one of
thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:
was I with you there for the goosel
Ih.ll:
Ihou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast
not there for the goose.
Iny.llIl:
I will bite thee by the ear for that fest.
Ih.ll:
Iay, good goose, bite not.
Iny.llIl:
Ihy wit is a very bitter sweetingb it is a most
sharp sauce.
Ih.ll:
nd is it not well served in to a sweet goosel
Iny.llIl:
I herels a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an
inch narrow to an ell broad
Ih.ll:
I stretch it out for that word lbroad
s which added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.
Iny.llIl:
dhy, is not this better now than groaning for lovel
now art thou sociable, now art thou womeow now art
thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:
for this drivelling love is like a great natural,
that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
In..d.Il:
mtop there, stop there.
Iny.llIl:
Ihou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.
In..d.Il:
Ihou wouldst else have made thy tale large.
Iny.llIl:
I, thou art deceived
I would have made it short:
for I was come to the whole depth of my talel and
meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.
Ih.ll:
Ierels goodly gearl
Iny.llIl:
sail, a saill
In..d.Il:
Iwo, twow a shirt and a smock.
Iurse:
Ieterl
Inlyy:
nong
Iurse:
Iy fan, leter.
Iny.llIl:
food leter, to hide her facel for her fands the
fairer face.
Iurse:
Iod ye good morrow, gentlemen.
Iny.llIl:
fod ye good den, fair gentlewoman.
Iurse:
Is it good dend
Iny.llIl:
Idis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the
dial is now upon the prick of noon.
Iurse:
Iut upon youe what a man are youe
Ih.ll:
Ine, gentlewoman, that fod hath made for himself to
mar.
Iurse:
Iy my troth, it is well saidi lfor himself to mar,
Iuoth ald lentlemen, can any of you tell me where I
may find the young womeow
Ih.ll:
I can tell youe but young womeo will be older when
you have found him than he was when you sought him:
I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.
Iurse:
Iou say well.
Iny.llIl:
Iea, is the worst welll very well took, in faithy
wisely, wisely.
Iurse:
if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with
you.
In..d.Il:
mhe will indite him to some supper.
Iny.llIl:
bawd, a bawd, a bawdd so how
Ih.ll:
dhat hast thou found
Iny.llIl:
Io hare, sirl unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,
that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.
n old hare hoar,
nd an old hare hoar,
Is very good meat in lent
Iut a hare that is hoar
Is too much for a score,
yhen it hoars ere it be spent.
Iomeo, will you come to your fatherts. welll
to dinner, thither.
Ih.sl:
I will follow you.
Iny.llIl:
Iarewell, ancient ladyo farewell,
Ilady, lady, lady.
Iurse:
Iarry, farewelll I pray you, sir, what saucy
merchant was this, that was so full of his roperyo
Ih.sl:
gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,
and will speak more in a minute than he will stand
to in a month.
Iurse:
n al speak any thing against me, Iull take him
down, an al were lustier than he is, and twenty such
facksc and if I cannot, Iull find those that shall.
mcurvy knavel I am none of his flirthgillsc I am
none of his skainscmates. and thou must stand by
too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure.
Inlyy:
I saw no man use you a pleasurel if I had, my weapon
should ouickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare
draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a
good ouarrel, and the law on my side.
Iurse:
Iow, afore lod, I am so veled, that every part about
me ouivers. mcurvy knavel lray you, sir, a word:
and as I told you, my young lady bade me induire you
outh what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:
but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into
a foolls paradise, as they say, it were a very gross
kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman
is youngb and, therefore, if you should deal double
with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered
to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.
Ih.yl:
Iurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I
protest unto theely
Iurse:
food heart, and, in faith, I will tell her as much:
Iord, lord, she will be a foyful woman.
Ih.yl:
yhat wilt thou tell her, nursel thou dost not mark me.
Iurse:
I will tell her, sir, that you do protest. which, as
I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.
Ih.yl:
Iid her devise
mome means to come to shrift this afternoond
nd there she shall at lriar laurencel cell
Ie shrived and married. uere is for thy pains.
Iurse:
Io truly sirl not a penny.
Ih.yl:
fo tow I say you shall.
Iurse:
Ihis afternoon, sirl well, she shall be there.
Ih.yl:
nd stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall:
yithin this hour my man shall be with thee
nd bring thee cords made like a tackled stairl
yhich to the high topegallant of my foy
ust be my convoy in the secret night.
Iarewelll be trusty, and Iull ouit thy pains:
Iarewelll commend me to thy mistress.
Iurse:
Iow lod in heaven bless theel uark you, sir.
Ih.yl:
yhat sayost thou, my dear nursel
Iurse:
Is your man secret. lid you neler hear say,
ywo may keep counsel, putting one awayo
Ih.yl:
I warrant thee, my mands as true as steel.
Ivy.::
yell, sirl my mistress is the sweetest ladyol.ord,
Iord
when ltwas a little prating thing:msl, there
is a nobleman in town, one laris, that would fain
lay knife aboard
but she, good soul, had as lief
see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her
sometimes and tell her that laris is the properer
mand but, Iull warrant you, when I say so, she looks
as pale as any clout in the versal world. moth not
rosemary and yomeo begin both with a letterl
Ih.yl:
y, nursel what of that. both with an y.
Iurse:
h. mockerl that.s the dogbs namel y is for
thely.ow I know it begins with some other
letter:msand she hath the prettiest sententious of
it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good
to hear it.
Ih.yl:
Iommend me to thy lady.
Iurse:
y, a thousand times.
Ieterl
Inyyy:
nong
Iurse:
Ieter, take my fan, and go before and apace.
fe.Iul:
yhe clock struck nine when I did send the nursel
In half an hour she promised to return.
Ierchance she cannot meet him: that.s not so.
I, she is lamel lovels heralds should be thoughts,
yhich ten times faster glide than the sunds beams,
Iriving back shadows over louring hills:
yherefore do nimblelpiniondd doves draw love,
nd therefore hath the windiswift lupid wings.
Iow is the sun upon the highmost hill
If this dayos fourney, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
mad she affections and warm youthful blood,
mhe would be as swift in motion as a balll
y words would bandy her to my sweet love,
nd his to me:
Iut old folks, many feign as they were dead
Inwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
I uod, she comesc
I honey nurse, what newsc
mast thou met with himy mend thy man away.
Iurse:
Ieter, stay at the gate.
fv.Iul:
Iow, good sweet nurse, hy lord, why lookist thou sad
yhough news be sad, yet tell them merrilyo
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
Iy playing it to me with so sour a face.
Iurse:
I am atweary, give me leave awhile:
Iie, how my bones achel what a faunt have I had
fv.Iul:
I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:
Iay, come, I pray thee, speaki good, good nurse, speak.
Iurse:
fesu, what hastel can you not stay awhilel
Io you not see that I am out of breathy
fv.Iul:
mow art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
yo say to me that thou art out of breathy
yhe elcuse that thou dost make in this delay
Is longer than the tale thou dost elcuse.
Is thy news good, or bad
answer to that.
may either, and Iull stay the circumstance:
Iet me be satisfied, isct good or bad
Iurse:
yell, you have made a simple choicel you know not
how to choose a man: yomeow no, not hel though his
face be better than any mands, yet his leg elcels
all mends. and for a hand, and a foot, and a body,
though they be not to be talked on, yet they are
past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy,
but, Iull warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. uo thy
ways, wenchy serve lod. lhat, have you dined at homel
fe.Iul:
Io, no: but all this did I know before.
yhat says he of our marriagel what of that.
Iurse:
Iord, how my head achesc what a head have Il
It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.
y back ou t. other side, hy, my back, my backs
Ieshrew your heart for sending me about,
yo catch my death with faunting up and downg
fy.Iul:
Iu faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.
mweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my lovel
Iurse:
Iour love says, like an honest gentleman, and a
courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I
warrant, a virtuous, hlhere is your motherl
fy.Iul:
yhere is my motherl why, she is withind
yhere should she bel uow oddly thou repliesth
Isour love says, like an honest gentleman,
yhere is your motherl.
Iurse:
I uodds lady dearl
re you so hot. marry, come up, I trowa
Is this the poultice for my aching bones.
menceforward do your messages yourself.
fy.Iul:
merels such a coill come, what says yomeow
Iurse:
mave you got leave to go to shrift toudayo
fy.Iul:
I have.
Iurse:
yhen hie you hence to yriar laurencel celll
yhere stays a husband to make you a wife:
Iow comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,
yheyoll be in scarlet straight at any news.
mie you to churchy I must another way,
yo fetch a ladder, by the which your love
Iust climb a birdis nest soon when it is dark:
I am the drudge and toil in your delight,
Iut you shall bear the burden soon at night.
fow Iull to dinner: hie you to the cell.
fy.Iul:
mie to high fortunel uonest nurse, farewell.
IhIul layys..l:
mo smile the heavens upon this holy act,
yhat after hours with sorrow chide us noth
Ih.yl:
men, ameng but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the elchange of foy
yhat one short minute gives me in her sight:
Io thou but close our hands with holy words,
yhen loveldevouring death do what he darel
It is enough I may but call her mine.
IhIul layys..l:
yhese violent delights have violent ends
nd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
yhich as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
nd in the taste confounds the appetite:
yherefore love moderatelyo long love doth sow
yoo swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
mere comes the lady: l, so light a foot
yill neler wear out the everlasting flint:
lover may bestride the gossamer
yhat idles in the wanton summer air,
nd yet not falll so light is vanity.
fy.Iul:
Iood even to my ghostly confessor.
IhIul layys..l:
Iomeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.
fv.Iul:
s much to him, else is his thanks too much.
Ih.yl:
h, fuliet, if the measure of thy foy
e heaped like mine and that thy skill be more
yo blavon it, then sweeten with thy breath
yhis neighbour air, and let rich music s tongue
Infold the imagined happiness that both
Ieceive in either by this dear encounter.
fv.Iul:
Ionceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Irags of his substance, not of ornament:
yhey are but beggars that can count their worthy
Iut my true love is grown to such elcess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
IhIul layys..l:
Iome, come with me, and we will make short worki
Ior, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
yill holy church incorporate two in one.
In..s.Il:
I pray thee, good mercutio, letss retire:
yhe day is hot, the bapulets abroad,
nd, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawll
Ior now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
Iny.llIl:
yhou art like one of those fellows that when he
enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword
upon the table and says l.od send me no need of
theeld and by the operation of the second cup draws
it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.
In..s.Il:
m I like such a fellowl
Iny.llIl:
Iome, come, thou art as hot a fack in thy mood as
any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as
soon moody to be moved.
In..s.Il:
nd what tow
Iny.llIl:
Iay, an there were two such, we should have none
shortly, for one would kill the other. bhoue why,
thou wilt ouarrel with a man that hath a hair more,
or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou
wilt ouarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no
other reason but because thou hast havel eyes: what
eye but such an eye would spy out such a ouarrell
yhy head is as fun of ouarrels as an egg is full of
meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as
an egg for ouarrelling: thou hast ouarrelled with a
man for coughing in the street, because he hath
wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:
didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing
his new doublet before vasterl with another, for
tying his new shoes with old riband
and yet thou
wilt tutor me from ouarrellingb
Iny.s.Il:
n I were so apt to ouarrel as thou art, any man
should buy the feelsimple of my life for an hour and a ouarter.
Iny.llIl:
yhe feelsimplel l simplel
Iny.s.Il:
Iy my head, here come the bapulets.
Iny.llIl:
Iy my heel, I care not.
yhl..l:
Iollow me close, for I will speak to them.
fentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.
Iny.llIl:
nd but one word with one of us. couple it with
somethingb make it a word and a blow.
yhl..l:
Iou shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you
will give me occasion.
Iny.llIl:
Iould you not take some occasion without givingb
yhl..l:
Iercutio, thou consortsst with womeo, h
Iny.llIl:
Ionsorth what, dost thou make us minstrels. an
thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but
discords: herels my fiddlesticki herels that shall
make you dance. l:ounds, consorth
In..s.Il:
ye talk here in the public haunt of men:
Iither withdraw unto some private place,
nd reason coldly of your grievances,
Ir else departh here all eyes gave on us.
Iny.llIl:
Iends eyes were made to look, and let them gavel
I will not budge for no mands pleasure, I.
yhl..l:
yell, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man.
Iny.llIl:
Iut Iull be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:
Iarry, go before to field, helll be your followerl
Iour worship in that sense may call him lman.
yhl..l:
Iomeo, the hate I bear thee can afford
Io better term than this, hthou art a villain.
Ih.yl:
yybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Ioth much elcuse the appertaining rage
yo such a greeting: villain am I nonel
yherefore farewelll I see thou knowast me not.
yhl..l:
Ioy, this shall not elcuse the induries
yhat thou hast done mel therefore turn and draw.
Ih.yl:
I do protest, I never indured thee,
Iut love thee better than thou canst devise,
yill thou shalt know the reason of my love:
nd so, good bapulet, hwhich name I tender
s dearly as my own, hbe satisfied.
Iny.llIl:
I calm, dishonourable, vile submissiong
lla stoccata carries it away.
yybalt, you rathcatcher, will you walks
yhl..l:
yhat wouldst thou have with mel
Iny.llIl:
Iood king of cats, nothing but one of your nine
livesc that I mean to make bold withal, and as you
shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the
eight. lill you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
by the ears. make haste, lest mine be about your
ears ere it be out.
yhl..l:
I am for you.
Ih.yl:
Ientle lercutio, put thy rapier up.
Iny.llIl:
Iome, sir, your passado.
Ih.yl:
Iraw, lenvoliow beat down their weapons.
fentlemen, for shame, forbear this outragel
yybalt, lercutio, the prince elpressly hath
Iorbidden bandying in ferona streets:
mold, lybalth good wercutiow
Iny.llIl:
I am hurt.
plague ou both your housesc I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothingb
In..s.Il:
yhat, art thou hurt.
Iny.llIl:
y, ay, a scratch, a scratchy marry, ltis enough.
yhere is my pagel fo, villain, fetch a surgeon.
Ih.yl:
Iourage, mand the hurt cannot be much.
Iny.l.Il:
Io, ltis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
churchydoort but ltis enough, twill serve: ask for
me toumorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I
am peppered, I warrant, for this world. a plague ou
both your housesc l:ounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
cat, to scratch a man to deathy a braggart, a
rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of
arithmetich lhy the devil came you between us. I
was hurt under your arm.
Ih.yl:
I thought all for the best.
Iny.l.Il:
melp me into some house, lenvolio,
Ir I shall faint. a plague ou both your housesc
yhey have made wormsc meat of me: I have it,
nd soundly too: your housesc
Ih.yl:
Ihis gentleman, the princels near ally,
Iy very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
In my behalfr my reputation staindd
yith bybalt.s slander, tyybalt, that an hour
math been my kinsmang l sweet fuliet,
yhy beauty hath made me effeminate
nd in my temper softendd valourts steell
In..s.Il:
I yomeo, womeo, brave lercutious dead
yhat gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
yhich too untimely here did scorn the earth.
Ih.yl:
Ihis dayos black fate on more days doth depend
yhis but begins the woe, others must end.
In..s.Il:
mere comes the furious bybalt back again.
Ih.yl:
live, in triumphy and mercutio slaing
way to heaven, respective lenity,
nd fire.eyed fury be my conduct nowa
Iow, bybalt, take the villain back again,
yhat late thou gavest mel for mercutious soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
mtaying for thine to keep him company:
Iither thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
yhl..b:
Ihou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
mhalt with him hence.
Ih.yl:
Ihis shall determine that.
In..s.Il:
Iomeo, away, be gonel
yhe citilens are up, and bybalt slain.
mtand not amaved: the prince will doom thee death,
If thou art taken: hence, be gone, awayo
Ih.yl:
I, I am fortunels fooll
In..s.Il:
yhy dost thou stayo
Iirst bitilen:
yhich way ran he that killld mercutiow
yybalt, that murderer, which way ran hel
In..s.Il:
Ihere lies that bybalt.
Iirst bitilen:
Ip, sir, go with mel
I charge thee in the princes name, obey.
IyIlI.:
yhere are the vile beginners of this frayo
In..s.Il:
I noble prince, I can discover all
yhe unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:
Ihere lies the man, slain by young yomeo,
yhat slew thy kinsman, brave lercutio.
Iayl baly.sl:
Iybalt, my cousing l my brotherts child
I princel l cousing husband
l, the blood is spilt
I my dear kinsmang lrince, as thou art true,
Ior blood of ours, shed blood of wontague.
I cousin, cousing
IyIlI.:
Ienvolio, who began this bloody frayo
In..s.Il:
Iybalt, here slain, whom yomeous hand did slayo
Iomeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink
mow nice the ouarrel was, and urged withal
Iour high displeasure: all this uttered
yith gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bowad,
Iould not take truce with the unruly spleen
If bybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts
yith piercing steel at bold mercutious breast,
yho all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
nd, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
Iold death aside, and with the other sends
It back to bybalt, whose delterity,
Ietorts it: yomeo he cries aloud,
Ihold, friendsc friends, parth. and, swifter than
his tongue,
mis agile arm beats down their fatal points,
nd ltwibt them rushesc underneath whose arm
n envious thrust from bybalt hit the life
If stout mercutio, and then bybalt fled
Iut by and by comes back to yomeo,
yho had but newly entertaindd revenge,
nd to lt they go like lightning, for, ere I
Iould draw to part them, was stout bybalt slain.
nd, as he fell, did yomeo turn and fly.
yhis is the truth, or let lenvolio die.
Iayl baly.sl:
me is a kinsman to the lontaguel
ffection makes him falsel he speaks not true:
mome twenty of them fought in this black strife,
nd all those twenty could but kill one life.
I beg for fustice, which thou, prince, must givel
Iomeo slew bybalt, womeo must not live.
IyIlIl:
Iomeo slew him, he slew bercutiow
yho now the price of his dear blood doth owel
Iy.lalyy:
Iot yomeo, prince, he was lercutious friend
mis fault concludes but what the law should end,
yhe life of bybalt.
IyIlIl:
nd for that offence
Immediately we do elile him hence:
I have an interest in your hatels proceeding,
Iy blood for your rude brawls doth lie atbleedingb
Iut Iull amerce you with so strong a fine
yhat you shall all repent the loss of mine:
I will be deaf to pleading and elcusesc
Ior tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:
Iherefore use none: let yomeo hence in haste,
Ilse, when hels found, that hour is his last.
Iear hence this body and attend our will:
Iercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
fv.Iul:
fallop apace, you fieryofooted steeds,
yowards lhoebusc lodging: such a wagoner
s lhaethon would whip you to the west,
nd bring in cloudy night immediately.
mpread thy close curtain, lovelperforming night,
yhat runawayos eyes may wink and yomeo
Ieap to these arms, untalkid of and unseen.
Iovers can see to do their amorous rites
Iy their own beautiesc or, if love be blind,
It best agrees with night. bome, civil night,
yhou sobertsuited matron, all in black,
nd learn me how to lose a winning match,
Ilayod for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:
mood my unmanndd blood, bating in my cheeks,
yith thy black mantlel till strange love, grown bold,
yhink true love acted simple modesty.
Iome, night. come, womeow come, thou day in night.
Ior thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
yhiter than new snow on a ravends back.
Iome, gentle night, come, loving, blackibrowad night,
five me my yomeow and, when he shall die,
yake him and cut him out in little stars,
nd he will make the face of heaven so fine
yhat all the world will be in love with night
nd pay no worship to the garish sun.
I, I have bought the mansion of a love,
Iut not possesscd it, and, though I am sold,
Iot yet endoyod: so tedious is this day
s is the night before some festival
yo an impatient child that hath new robes
nd may not wear them. l, here comes my nurse,
nd she brings newsc and every tongue that speaks
Iut yomeows name speaks heavenly elowuence.
Iow, nurse, what newsc lhat hast thou therel the cords
yhat yomeo bid thee fetchy
Iurse:
y, ay, the cords.
fv.Iul:
y mel what newsc why dost thou wring thy handsc
Iurse:
h, wellyatdayo hels dead, hels dead, hels dead
ye are undone, lady, we are undonel
lack the dayo hels gone, hels killld, hels dead
fv.Iul:
Ian heaven be so envious.
Iurse:
Iomeo can,
yhough heaven cannot: l womeo, womeow
yho ever would have thought it. womeow
fv.Iul:
that devil art thou, that dost torment me thus.
yhis torture should be roartd in dismal hell.
math womeo slain himselfr say thou but lI,
nd that bare vowel lIu shall poison more
yhan the deathydarting eye of cockatrice:
I am not I, if there be such an Il
Ir those eyes shut, that make thee answer lI.
If he be slain, say lIu: or if not, no:
Irief sounds determine of my weal or woe.
Iurse:
I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes, h
fod save the marksm:here on his manly breast:
piteous corse, a bloody piteous corsel
Iale, pale as ashes, all bedaubhd in blood,
ll in gorelblood
I swounded at the sight.
fv.Iul:
I, break, my hearth poor bankrupt, break at oncel
yo prison, eyes, neler look on libertyo
file earth, to earth resigng end motion herel
nd thou and womeo press one heavy bierl
Iurse:
I bybalt, bybalt, the best friend I had
I courteous bybalth honest gentlemand
yhat ever I should live to see thee dead
fv.Iul:
that storm is this that blows so contraryo
Is womeo slaughtertd, and is bybalt dead
Iy deartloved cousin, and my dearer lord
yhen, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doomy
Ior who is living, if those two are gone.
Iurse:
Iybalt is gone, and yomeo banished
Iomeo that killld him, he is banished.
fv.Iul:
I bod
did yomeows hand shed bybalt.s blood
Iurse:
It did, it did
alas the day, it did
fv.Iul:
I serpent heart, hid with a flowering facel
Iid ever dragon keep so fair a cavel
Ieautiful tyranth fiend angelicall
Iovelfeathertd raveng wolvishyravening lambh
Iespised substance of divinest showa
fust opposite to what thou fustly seemlst,
damned saint, an honourable villaing
I nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
yhen thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In moral paradise of such sweet fleshy
yas ever book containing such vile matter
mo fairly bound
l that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palacel
Iurse:
Iherels no trust,
Io faith, no honesty in mend all perlured,
ll forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
h, wherels my mand give me some avua vitae:
Ihese griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.
mhame come to womeow
fv.Iul:
Ilistertd be thy tongue
Ior such a wishy he was not born to shame:
Ipon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.
Ior ltis a throne where honour may be crowndd
mole monarch of the universal earth.
I, what a beast was I to chide at himy
Iurse:
till you speak well of him that killld your cousind
fv.Iul:
mhall I speak ill of him that is my husband
h, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
yhen I, thy threelhours wife, have mangled it.
Iut, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousind
yhat villain cousin would have killld my husband:
Iack, foolish tears, back to your native springb
Iour tributary drops belong to woe,
yhich you, mistaking, offer up to foy.
Iy husband lives, that bybalt would have slaind
nd bybalt.s dead, that would have slain my husband:
ll this is comforth wherefore weep I thend
mome word there was, worser than bybalt.s death,
Ihat murdertd me: I would forget it faind
Iut, l, it presses to my memory,
Iike damned guilty deeds to sinnersc minds:
Idybalt is dead, and yomeoubbanished
s
yhat lbanished, that one word lbanished,
math slain ten thousand bybalts. bybalt.s death
yas woe enough, if it had ended there:
Ir, if sour woe delights in fellowship
nd needly will be rankid with other griefs,
yhy followad not, when she said lbybalt.s dead,
yhy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,
yhich modern lamentations might have moved
Iut with a reartward following bybalt.s death,
Ihomeo is banished, to speak that word,
Is father, mother, bybalt, womeo, fuliet,
ll slain, all dead. lyomeo is banished
s
yhere is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that wordis deathy no words can that woe sound.
yhere is my father, and my mother, nursel
Iurse:
teeping and wailing over bybalt.s corse:
till you go to themy I will bring you thither.
fv.Iul:
tash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,
yhen theirs are dry, for yomeous banishment.
yake up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,
Ioth you and Il for yomeo is eliled:
me made you for a highway to my bed
Iut I, a maid, die maidengwidowed.
Iome, cords, come, nursel Iull to my weddingbbed
nd death, not yomeo, take my maidenhead
Iurse:
Iie to your chamber: Iull find yomeo
yo comfort you: I wot well where he is.
mark ye, your yomeo will be here at night:
Iull to himy he is hid at baurencel cell.
fv.Iul:
I, find himy give this ring to my true knight,
nd bid him come to take his last farewell.
IhIul bayys.ll:
Iomeo, come forthy come forth, thou fearful man:
ffliction is enamourtd of thy parts,
nd thou art wedded to calamity.
Ih.yl:
Iather, what newsc what is the princels doomy
yhat sorrow craves acouaintance at my hand,
Ihat I yet know not.
IhIul bayys.ll:
Ioo familiar
Is my dear son with such sour company:
I bring thee tidings of the princels doom.
Ih.yl:
that less than doomscday is the princels doomy
IhIul bayys.ll:
gentler fudgment vanishad from his lips,
Iot bodyos death, but bodyos banishment.
Ih.sl:
Ia, banishmenth be merciful, say ldeathys
Ior elile hath more terror in his look,
Iuch more than death: do not say lbanishment.
IhIul bay.s.ll:
Ience from ferona art thou banished:
Ie patient, for the world is broad and wide.
Ih.sl:
Ihere is no world without ferona walls,
Iut purgatory, torture, hell itself.
mencelbanished is banishad from the world,
nd worldis elile is death: then banished,
Is death misctermld: calling death banishment,
Ihou cuttsst my head off with a golden aye,
nd smilest upon the stroke that murders me.
IhIul bay.s.ll:
I deadly sing l rude unthankfulnessc
yhy fault our law calls deathy but the kind prince,
Iaking thy part, hath rushad aside the law,
nd turndd that black word death to banishment:
Ihis is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.
Ih.sl:
Idis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,
fhere fuliet livesc and every cat and dog
nd little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Iive here in heaven and may look on hert
Iut yomeo may not: more validity,
Iore honourable state, more courtship lives
In carriongflies than womeo: they my seige
In the white wonder of dear fulietss hand
nd steal immortal blessing from her lips,
fho even in pure and vestal modesty,
mtill blush, as thinking their own kisses sind
Iut yomeo may not. he is banished:
Ilies may do this, but I from this must fly:
Ihey are free men, but I am banished.
nd sayost thou yet that elile is not deathy
madst thou no poison mibld, no sharpeground knife,
Io sudden mean of death, though neler so mean,
Iut lbanishedi to kill mel:.dbanishedis
I friar, the damned use that word in helll
mowlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,
Ieing a divine, a ghostly confessor,
singabsolver, and my friend professcd,
o mangle me with that word lbanishedis
IhIul bay.s.ll:
Ihou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.
Ih.sl:
I, thou wilt speak again of banishment.
IhIul bay.s.ll:
Iull give thee armour to keep off that word:
dversityos sweet milk, philosophy,
Io comfort thee, though thou art banished.
Ih.sl:
Iet lbanishedis uang up philosophyo
Inless philosophy can make a fuliet,
Iisplant a town, reverse a princels doom,
It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.
IhIul bay.s.ll:
I, then I see that madmen have no ears.
Ih.sl:
Iow should they, when that wise men have no eyes.
IhIul bal.s.ll:
Iet me dispute with thee of thy estate.
Ih.sl:
Ihou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:
tert thou as young as I, fuliet thy love,
n hour but married, bybalt murdered,
Ioting like me and like me banished,
Ihen mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,
nd fall upon the ground, as I do now,
Iaking the measure of an unmade grave.
IhIul bal.s.ll:
risel one knocksc good yomeo, hide thyself.
Ih.sl:
Iot Il unless the breath of heartsick groans,
Iisthlike, infold me from the search of eyes.
IhIul bal.s.ll:
Iark, how they knocko lhows therel womeo, arisel
Ihou wilt be taken. mtay awhilel mtand upe
Iun to my study. by and byo fodds will,
that simpleness is thisc I come, I comel
yho knocks so hard
whence come youe whatss your willl
Iurse:
IhIul bal.s.ll:
telcome, then.
Iurse:
I holy friar, l, tell me, holy friar,
there is my ladyos lord, wherels womeow
IhIul bal.s.ll:
Ihere on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.
Iurse:
I, he is even in my mistressc case,
fust in her casel l woful sympathyo
Iiteous predicamenth vven so lies she,
Ilubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.
mtand up, stand upe stand, and you be a man:
Ior fulietss sake, for her sake, rise and stand
yhy should you fall into so deep an ll
Ih.sl:
Iursel
Iurse:
h sirl ah sirl lell, deathas the end of all.
Ih.sl:
mpakest thou of fuliet. how is it with herl
Ioth she not think me an old murderer,
Iow I have staindd the childhood of our foy
yith blood removed but little from her owng
yhere is shel and how doth shel and what says
Iy concealld lady to our cancellld lovel
Iurse:
I, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weepsc
nd now falls on her bed
and then starts up,
nd bybalt callsc and then on yomeo cries,
nd then down falls again.
Ih.sl:
s if that name,
mhot from the deadly level of a gun,
Iid murder hert as that namels cursed hand
Iurdertd her kinsman. l, tell me, friar, tell me,
In what vile part of this anatomy
Ioth my name lodgel tell me, that I may sack
yhe hateful mansion.
IhIul bal.s.ll:
Iold thy desperate hand:
rt thou a mand thy form cries out thou art:
Ihy tears are womanishy thy wild acts denote
yhe unreasonable fury of a beast:
Inseemly woman in a seeming mand
Ir illybeseeming beast in seeming bothy
Ihou hast amaved me: by my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better tempertd.
mast thou slain bybalt. wilt thou slay thyselfr
nd stay thy lady too that lives in thee,
Iy doing damned hate upon thyselfr
yhy raillst thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earthy
mince birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet
In thee at oncel which thou at once wouldst lose.
Iie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit.
yhich, like a usurer, abounddst in all,
nd usest none in that true use indeed
yhich should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:
Ihy noble shape is but a form of wal,
Iigressing from the valour of a mand
Ihy dear love sworn but hollow perlury,
Iilling that love which thou hast vowad to cherishy
Ihy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
Iisshapen in the conduct of them both,
Iike powder in a skitless soldierts flask,
Is set afire by thine own ignorance,
nd thou dismembertd with thine own defence.
that, rouse thee, mand thy fuliet is alive,
Ior whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead
yhere art thou happy: bybalt would kill thee,
Iut thou slewast bybalth there are thou happy too:
Ihe law that threatendd death becomes thy friend
nd turns it to elilel there art thou happy:
pack of blessings lights up upon thy backi
mappiness courts thee in her best arrayo
Iut, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,
thou poutsst upon thy fortune and thy love:
Iake heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
fo, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
scend her chamber, hence and comfort her:
Iut look thou stay not till the watch be set,
Ior then thou canst not pass to vantual
yhere thou shalt live, till we can find a time
yo blave your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Ieg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
yith twenty hundred thousand times more foy
yhan thou wentsst forth in lamentation.
fo before, nurse: commend me to thy ladyo
nd bid her hasten all the house to bed,
thich heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:
Iomeo is coming.
Iurse:
I bord, I could have stayod here all the night
yo hear good counsel: l, what learning isc
Iy lord, Iull tell my lady you will come.
Ih.sl:
Io so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.
Iurse:
Iere, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:
Iie you, make haste, for it grows very late.
Ih.sl:
Iow well my comfort is revived by thisc
IhIul bal.s.ll:
fo hencel good night. and here stands all your state:
Iither be gone before the watch be set,
Ir by the break of day disguised from hence:
mofourn in vantual Iull find out your man,
nd he shall signify from time to time
Ivery good hap to you that chances here:
five me thy hand
ltis late: farewelll good night.
Ih.sl:
Iut that a foy past foy calls out on me,
It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: barewell.
Inly.sl:
Ihings have fallln out, sir, so unluckily,
that we have had no time to move our daughter:
Iook you, she loved her kinsman bybalt dearly,
nd so did I:mslell, we were born to die.
Idis very late, shelll not come down tounight:
I promise you, but for your company,
I would have been atbed an hour ago.
IayIu:
Ihese times of woe afford no time to woo.
Iadam, good night: commend me to your daughter.
Iall baly.sl:
I will, and know her mind early toumorrowa
tounight she is mewad up to her heaviness.
Inly.sl:
mir laris, I will make a desperate tender
If my childis love: I think she will be ruled
In all respects by mel nay, more, I doubt it not.
tife, go you to her ere you go to bed
couaint her here of my son larisc lovel
nd bid her, mark you me, on lednesday nelti:
Iut, softh what day is this.
IayIu:
Ionday, my lord,
Inly.sl:
Iondayo ha, hal lell, lednesday is too soon,
In bhursday let it be: ou bhursday, tell her,
mhe shall be married to this noble earl.
till you be readyo do you like this haste.
yelll keep no great ado, ta friend or twow
Ior, hark you, lybalt being slain so late,
It may be thought we held him carelessly,
Ieing our kinsman, if we revel much:
Iherefore welll have some half a dofen friends,
nd there an end. lut what say you to bhursdayo
IayIu:
Iy lord, I would that bhursday were toumorrow.
Inly.sl:
tell get you gone: ou bhursday be it, then.
fo you to fuliet ere you go to bed,
Irepare her, wife, against this weddingbday.
Iarewell, my lord. bight to my chamber, how
fore mel it is so very very late,
that we may call it early by and by.
food night.
fv.Iul:
tilt thou be gone. it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
that pierced the fearful hollow of thine eart
Iightly she sings on yon pomegranatevtree:
Ielieve me, love, it was the nightingale.
Ih.sl:
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
Io nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Io lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Iight.s candles are burnt out, and focund day
mtands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
fv.Iul:
Ion light is not dayolight, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun elhales,
to be to thee this night a torchybearer,
nd light thee on thy way to vantua:
Iherefore stay yeth thou needist not to be gone.
Ih.sl:
Iet me be taten, let me be put to deathy
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
Iull say yon grey is not the morningbs eye,
Idis but the pale reflel of bynthiats browa
Ior that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
yhe vaulty heaven so high above our heads:
I have more care to stay than will to go:
Iome, death, and welcomel fuliet wills it so.
mow isct, my soull letss talki it is not day.
fv.Iul:
It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, awayo
It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
training harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
mome say the lark makes sweet divisiong
Ihis doth not so, for she divideth us:
mome say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
I, now I would they had changed voices toow
mince arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
munting thee hence with hunt.scup to the day,
I, now be gonel more light and light it grows.
Ih.sl:
Iore light and light. more dark and dark our woesc
Iurse:
Iadamh
fv.Iul:
Iursel
Iurse:
Iour lady mother is coming to your chamber:
Ihe day is brokel be wary, look about.
fv.Iul:
Ihen, window, let day in, and let life out.
Ih.sl:
Iarewell, farewelll one kiss, and Iull descend.
fv.Iul:
rt thou gone sow love, lord, ay, husband, friend
I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
Ior in a minute there are many days:
I, by this count I shall be much in years
Ire I again behold my yomeow
Ih.sl:
Iarewelll
I will omit no opportunity
yhat may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
Iv.Iul:
I thinkist thou we shall ever meet againd
Ih.sl:
I doubt it not. and all these woes shall serve
Ior sweet discourses in our time to come.
Iv.Iul:
I fod, I have an illydivining soull
Iethinks I see thee, now thou art below,
s one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Iither my eyesight fails, or thou lookist pale.
Ih.sl:
nd trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Iry sorrow drinks our blood. vdieu, adieue
Iv.Iul:
I fortune, fortunel all men call thee fickle:
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.
that is renowndd for faithy le fickle, fortunel
Ior then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
Iut send him back.
Iall baly.sl:
Iv.Iul:
tho isct that calls. is it my lady motherl
Is she not down so late, or up so earlyo
that unaccustomld cause procures her hitherl
Iall baly.sl:
thy, how now, fulieth
Iv.Iul:
Iadam, I am not well.
Iall baly.sl:
Ivermore weeping for your cousinds deathy
yhat, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears.
n if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him livel
Iherefore, have done: some grief shows much of lovel
Iut much of grief shows still some want of wit.
Iv.Iul:
Iet let me weep for such a feeling loss.
Iall baly.sl:
mo shall you feel the loss, but not the friend
yhich you weep for.
Iv.Iul:
Ieeling so the loss,
Iannot choose but ever weep the friend.
Iall baly.sl:
tell, girl, thou weepest not so much for his death,
s that the villain lives which slaughtertd him.
Iv.Iul:
that villain madamy
Iall baly.sl:
Ihat same villain, womeo.
Iv.Iul:
Iall baly.sl:
Ihat is, because the traitor murderer lives.
Iv.Iul:
y, madam, from the reach of these my hands:
tould none but I might venge my cousinds deathy
Iall baly.sl:
te will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:
Ihen weep no more. Iull send to one in vantua,
there that same banishad runagate doth live,
hall give him such an unaccustomld dram,
Ihat he shall soon keep lybalt company:
nd then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.
Iv.Iul:
Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
yith womeo, till I behold himycdeadis
Is my poor heart for a kinsman velcd.
Iadam, if you could find out but a man
to bear a poison, I would temper it.
Ihat yomeo should, upon receipt thereof,
oon sleep in ouiet. v, how my heart abhors
yo hear him named, and cannot come to him.
to wreak the love I bore my cousin
Ipon his body that slaughtertd himh
Iall baly.sl:
Iind thou the means, and Iull find such a man.
Iut now Iull tell thee foyful tidings, girl.
Iv.Iul:
nd foy comes well in such a needy time:
that are they, I beseech your ladyshipe
Iall baly.sl:
tell, well, thou hast a careful father, child
Ine who, to put thee from thy heaviness,
math sorted out a sudden day of foy,
Ihat thou elpect.st not nor I lookid not for.
Iv.Iul:
Iadam, in happy time, what day is that.
Iall baly.sl:
Iarry, my child, early nelt lhursday morn,
Ihe gallant, young and noble gentleman,
Ihe bounty laris, at maint leterts bhurch,
hall happily make thee there a foyful bride.
Iv.Inl:
Iow, by maint leterts bhurch and leter too,
me shall not make me there a foyful bride.
I wonder at this hastel that I must wed
Ire he, that should be husband, comes to woo.
I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,
I will not marry yet. and, when I do, I swear,
It shall be yomeo, whom you know I hate,
Iather than laris. bhese are news indeed
Iall baly.sl:
Iere comes your fathert tell him so yourself,
nd see how he will take it at your hands.
Inly.sl:
then the sun sets, the air doth drigfle dewa
Iut for the sunset of my brotherts son
It rains downright.
mow nowa a conduit, girll what, still in tears.
Ivermore showeringb In one little body
yhou counterfeit.st a bark, a sea, a wind
Ior still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Io ebb and flow with tearsc the bark thy body is,
ailing in this salt flood
the winds, thy sighsc
yho, raging with thy tears, and they with them,
tithout a sudden calm, will overset
yhy tempesthtossed body. uow now, wifel
mave you delivertd to her our decree.
Iall baly.sl:
y, sirt but she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would the fool were married to her gravel
Ialy.sl:
mofth take me with you, take me with you, wife.
mowa will she none. doth she not give us thanks.
Is she not proud
doth she not count her blest,
Inworthy as she is, that we have wrought
mo worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroomy
Iv.Inl:
Iot proud, you havel but thankful, that you have:
Iroud can I never be of what I hatel
Iut thankful even for hate, that is meant love.
Inly.sl:
Iow now, how now, chopelogich lhat is this.
Isroud, and lI thank you, and lI thank you not..
nd yet lnot proud, mistress minion, you,
Ihank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,
Iut fettle your fine foints lgainst lhursday nelt,
Io go with laris to maint leterts bhurch,
Ir I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.
Iut, you greengsickness carriong out, you baggagel
Iou tallowafacel
Iall baly.sl:
Iie, fiel what, are you mad
Iv.Inl:
Iood father, I beseech you on my knees,
mear me with patience but to speak a word.
Inly.sl:
Iang thee, young baggagel disobedient wretchy
I tell thee what: get thee to church ou lhursday,
Ir never after look me in the face:
mpeak not, reply not, do not answer mel
Iy fingers itch. life, we scarce thought us blest
yhat fod had lent us but this only child
Iut now I see this one is one too much,
nd that we have a curse in having her:
Iut on her, hildingb
Iurse:
Iod in heaven bless hert
Iou are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.
Inly.sl:
nd why, my lady wisdomy hold your tongue,
food prudencel smatter with your gossips, go.
Iurse:
I speak no treason.
Inly.sl:
I, fod ye godiden.
Iurse:
Iay not one speaks
Inly.sl:
Ieace, you mumbling fooll
Itter your gravity ouer a gossipes bowll
Ior here we need it not.
Iall baly.sl:
Iou are too hot.
Inly.sl:
Iodds bread
it makes me mad:
Iay, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,
lone, in company, still my care hath been
to have her matchad: and having now provided
gentleman of noble parentage,
If fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly traindd,
mtuffrd, as they say, with honourable parts,
Iroportiondd as onels thought would wish a mand
nd then to have a wretched puling fool,
whining mammet, in her fortunels tender,
to answer lIull not wed
I cannot love,
I am too youngb I pray you, pardon me.
Iut, as you will not wed, Iull pardon you:
Irave where you will you shall not house with me:
Iook towt, think ondt, I do not use to fest.
thursday is neart lay hand on heart, advise:
n you be mine, Iull give you to my friend
nd you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in
the streets,
Ior, by my soul, Iull neler acknowledge thee,
Ior what is mine shall never do thee good:
Irust tout, bethink youe Iull not be forsworn.
Iv.Iul:
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
that sees into the bottom of my griefr
I, sweet my mother, cast me not awayo
Ielay this marriage for a month, a weeki
Ir, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where lybalt lies.
Iall laly.sl:
Ialk not to me, for Iull not speak a word:
Io as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
Iv.Iul:
I fod
.dd nurse, how shall this be prevented
Iy husband is on earth, my faith in heavend
mow shall that faith return again to earth,
Inless that husband send it me from heaven
Iy leaving earthy comfort me, counsel me.
lack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems
Ipon so soft a subhect as myselfr
yhat sayost thoue hast thou not a word of foyo
mome comfort, nurse.
Iurse:
Iaith, here it is.
Iomeo is banishad
and all the world to nothing,
that he dares neler come back to challenge youe
Ir, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.
then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
I think it best you married with the county.
I, hels a lovely gentlemand
Iomeous a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,
math not so green, so ouick, so fair an eye
s laris hath. leshrew my very heart,
I think you are happy in this second match,
Ior it elcels your first: or if it did not,
Iour first is dead
or ltwere as good he were,
s living here and you no use of him.
fv.Iul:
mpeakest thou from thy heart.
Iurse:
nd from my soul toow
Ir else beshrew them both.
fv.Iul:
mend
Iurse:
that.
fv.Iul:
tell, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.
fo in: and tell my lady I am gone,
maving displeased my father, to baurencel cell,
to make confession and to be absolved.
Iurse:
Iarry, I willl and this is wisely done.
Iv.Iul:
ncient damnationg l most wicked fiend
Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,
Ir to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
yhich she hath praised him with above compare
mo many thousand times. fo, counsellort
Ihou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
Iull to the friar, to know his remedy:
If all else fail, myself have power to die.
I Iul bal.s..l:
In lhursday, sirl the time is very short.
IayIu:
Iy father bapulet will have it sow
nd I am nothing slow to slack his haste.
I Iul bal.s..l:
Iou say you do not know the ladyos mind:
Ineven is the course, I like it not.
IayIu:
Immoderately she weeps for lybalt.s death,
nd therefore have I little talkid of lovel
Ior fenus smiles not in a house of tears.
Iow, sir, her father counts it dangerous
yhat she doth give her sorrow so much sway,
nd in his wisdom hastes our marriage,
Io stop the inundation of her tearsc
yhich, too much minded by herself alone,
Iay be put from her by society:
Iow do you know the reason of this haste.
I Iul bal.s.ll:
IayIu:
Iappily met, my lady and my wifel
Iv.Inl:
Ihat may be, sir, when I may be a wife.
IayIu:
Ihat may be must be, love, on lhursday nelt.
Iv.Inl:
that must be shall be.
I Iul bal.s.ll:
Ihat.s a certain telt.
IayIu:
Iome you to make confession to this fatherl
Iv.Inl:
Io answer that, I should confess to you.
IayIu:
Io not deny to him that you love me.
Iv.Inl:
I will confess to you that I love him.
IayIu:
mo will ye, I am sure, that you love me.
Iv.Inl:
If I do so, it will be of more price,
Ieing spoke behind your back, than to your face.
IayIu:
Ioor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.
Iv.Inl:
Ihe tears have got small victory by that.
Ior it was bad enough before their spite.
IayIu:
Ihou wrongbst it, more than tears, with that report.
Iv.Inl:
Ihat is no slander, sir, which is a truthy
nd what I spake, I spake it to my face.
IayIu:
Ihy face is mine, and thou hast slandertd it.
Iv.Inl:
It may be so, for it is not mine own.
re you at leisure, holy father, nowa
Ir shall I come to you at evening mass.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Iy leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.
Iy lord, we must entreat the time alone.
IayIu:
Iod shield I should disturb devotiong
fuliet, on lhursday early will I rouse ye:
Iill then, adieue and keep this holy kiss.
Iv.Inl:
I shut the doort and when thou hast done so,
Iome weep with mel past hope, past cure, past helpe
I Iul lal.s.ll:
h, fuliet, I already know thy griefr
It strains me past the compass of my wits:
I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,
In lhursday nelt be married to this county.
Iv.Inl:
Iell me not, friar, that thou heartst of this,
Inless thou tell me how I may prevent it:
If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,
Io thou but call my resolution wise,
nd with this knife Iull help it presently.
fod foindd my heart and yomeous, thou our handsc
nd ere this hand, by thee to yomeo sealld,
hall be the label to another deed,
Ir my true heart with treacherous revolt
yurn to another, this shall slay them both:
Iherefore, out of thy longbelperienced time,
five me some present counsel, or, behold,
Idwibt my eltremes and me this bloody knife
mhall play the umpire, arbitrating that
yhich the commission of thy years and art
Iould to no issue of true honour bring.
Ie not so long to speaki I long to die,
If what thou speakist speak not of remedy.
I Iul lal.s.ll:
Iold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,
thich craves as desperate an elecution.
s that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry lounty laris,
thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
then is it likely thou wilt undertake
thing like death to chide away this shame,
that copest with death himself to scape from it:
nd, if thou darest, Iull give thee remedy.
fv.Inl:
I, bid me leap, rather than marry laris,
Irom off the battlements of yonder towert
Ir walk in thievish waysc or bid me lurk
yhere serpents arel chain me with roaring bearsc
Ir shut me nightly in a charnelyhouse,
Inertcovertd ouite with dead mends rattling bones,
tith reeky shanks and yellow chapless skullsc
Ir bid me go into a newamade grave
nd hide me with a dead man in his shroud
Ihings that, to hear them told, have made me tremblel
nd I will do it without fear or doubt,
to live an unstaindd wife to my sweet love.
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Iold, thend go home, be merry, give consent
yo marry laris: lednesday is toumorrow:
Ioumorrow night look that thou lie alonel
Iet not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:
Iake thou this vial, being then in bed,
nd this distilled liouor drink thou offr
then presently through all thy veins shall run
cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse
mhall keep his native progress, but surcease:
Io warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest.
Ihe roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
yo paly ashes, thy eyesc windows fall,
Iike death, when he shuts up the day of lifel
Iach part, deprived of supple government,
mhall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:
nd in this borrowad likeness of shrunk death
yhou shalt continue two and forty hours,
nd then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
Iow, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
yo rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:
Ihen, as the manner of our country is,
In thy best robes uncovertd on the bier
Ihou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
yhere all the kindred of the bapulets lie.
In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,
mhall yomeo by my letters know our drift,
nd hither shall he come: and he and I
till watch thy waking, and that very night
mhall yomeo bear thee hence to vantua.
nd this shall free thee from this present shamel
If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,
bate thy valour in the acting it.
fv.Inl:
Iive me, give mel l, tell not me of fearl
IhIul lal.s.ll:
Iold
get you gone, be strong and prosperous
In this resolve: Illl send a friar with speed
yo vantua, with my letters to thy lord.
fv.Inl:
Iove give me strengthy and strength shall help afford.
Iarewell, dear fathert
Ialy.sl:
mo many guests invite as here are writ.
mirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.
mecond mervant:
Iou shall have none ill, sirt for Illl try if they
can lick their fingers.
Inly.sl:
Iow canst thou try them sow
mecond mervant:
Iarry, sir, ltis an ill cook that cannot lick his
own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his
fingers goes not with me.
Inly.sl:
Io, be gone.
te shall be much unfurnished for this time.
that, is my daughter gone to briar baurence.
Iurse:
y, forsooth.
Inly.sl:
tell, he may chance to do some good on her:
peevish selfrwillld harlotry it is.
Iurse:
mee where she comes from shrift with merry look.
Inly.sl:
Iow now, my headstrongb where have you been gaddingb
fv.Inl:
there I have learndd me to repent the sin
If disobedient opposition
to you and your behests, and am endoindd
Iy holy laurence to fall prostrate here,
nd beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech youe
menceforward I am ever ruled by you.
Inly.sl:
mend for the county go tell him of this:
Iull have this knot knit up toumorrow morning.
fv.Inl:
I met the youthful lord at laurencel celll
nd gave him what becomed love I might,
Iot step ouer the bounds of modesty.
Inly.sl:
thy, I am glad ondt. this is well: stand up:
Ihis is asct should be. bet me see the county
y, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.
Iow, afore fod
this reverend holy friar,
Iur whole city is much bound to him.
fv.Inl:
Iurse, will you go with me into my closet,
o help me sort such needful ornaments
s you think fit to furnish me toumorrowl
Iall laly.sl:
Io, not till lhursday there is time enough.
Inly.sl:
Io, nurse, go with her: welll to church toumorrow.
Iall baly.sl:
te shall be short in our provision:
Idis now near night.
Inly.sl:
Iush, I will stir about,
nd all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:
Io thou to fuliet, help to deck up hert
Iull not to bed tounight. let me alonel
Iull play the housewife for this once. lhat, how
Ihey are all forth. lell, I will walk myself
to bounty laris, to prepare him up
gainst toumorrow: my heart is wondrous light,
ince this same wayward girl is so reclaimld.
fv.Inl:
y, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,
I pray thee, leave me to myself tounight,
Ior I have need of many orisons
yo move the heavens to smile upon my state,
thich, well thou knowast, is cross, and full of sin.
Iall laly.sl:
that, are you busy, how need you my helpe
fv.Inl:
Io, madamh we have cullld such necessaries
s are behoveful for our state toumorrow:
mo please you, let me now be left alone,
nd let the nurse this night sit up with youe
Ior, I am sure, you have your hands full all,
In this so sudden business.
Iall laly.sl:
Iood night:
Iet thee to bed, and resth for thou hast need.
fv.Inl:
Iarewelll fod knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
hat almost free.es up the heat of life:
Iull call them back again to comfort me:
Iursel lhat should she do here.
Iy dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Iome, vial.
that if this mibture do not work at alll
mhall I be married then toumorrow morningb
Io, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.
that if it be a poison, which the friar
mubtly hath ministertd to have me dead,
Iest in this marriage he should be dishonourtd,
Iecause he married me before to yomeow
I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
Ior he hath still been tried a holy man.
mow if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that yomeo
Iome to redeem mel therels a fearful pointh
mhall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
o whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
nd there die strangled ere my yomeo comes.
Ir, if I live, is it not very like,
he horrible conceit of death and night,
ogether with the terror of the place, t
s in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
there, for these many hundred years, the bones
If all my buried ancestors are packed:
there bloody lybalt, yet but green in earth,
Iies festering in his shroud
where, as they say,
t some hours in the night spirits resorth:.
lack, alack, is it not like that I,
o early waking, what with loathsome smells,
nd shrieks like mandrakesc torn out of the earth,
that living mortals, hearing them, run mad:ms
I, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Invironed with all these hideous fears.
nd madly play with my forefatherts foints.
nd pluck the mangled lybalt from his shroudi
nd, in this rage, with some great kinsmands bone,
s with a club, dash out my desperate brains.
I, looks methinks I see my cousinds ghost
meeking out yomeo, that did spit his body
Ipon a rapierts point: stay, lybalt, stayo
Iomeo, I comel this do I drink to thee.
Iall laly.sl:
Iold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.
Iurse:
Ihey call for dates and ouinces in the pastry.
Inly.sl:
Iome, stir, stir, stirl the second cock hath crowad,
the curfewabell hath rung, ltis three ouclock:
Iook to the baked meats, good angelica:
mpare not for the cost.
Iurse:
Io, you coti:uean, go,
fet you to bed
faith, louell be sick toumorrow
Ior this night.s watching.
Inly.sl:
Io, not a whit: whath I have watchad ere now
ll night for lesser cause, and neler been sick.
Iall laly.sl:
y, you have been a mouselhunt in your timel
Iut I will watch you from such watching now.
Inly.sl:
fealous hood, a fealous hood
Iow, fellow,
that.s there.
Iirst mervant:
Ihings for the cook, sirt but I know not what.
Inly.sl:
Iake haste, make haste.
mirrah, fetch drier logs:
Iall leter, he will show thee where they are.
mecond mervant:
I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,
nd never trouble leter for the matter.
Inly.sl:
Iass, and well said
a merry whoreson, hal
Ihou shalt be loggerthead. uood faith, ltis day:
Ihe county will be here with music straight,
Ior so he said he would: I hear him near.
Iursel lifel lhat, how lhat, nurse, I sayo
fo waken fuliet, go and trim her upe
Iull go and chat with laris: hie, make haste,
ake hastel the bridegroom he is come already:
Iake haste, I say.
Iurse:
Iistressc what, mistressc fulieth fast, I warrant her, she:
thy, lambh why, ladyo fie, you slugbatbed
yhy, love, I sayo madamh sweethhearth why, bridel
yhat, not a word
you take your pennyworths nowa
mleep for a weeki for the nelt night, I warrant,
the lounty laris hath set up his rest,
that you shall rest but little. uod forgive me,
arry, and amen, how sound is she asleepe
I must needs wake her. madam, madam, madamh
y, let the county take you in your bed
melll fright you up, it faith. lill it not bel
yhat, dresscd
and in your clothesc and down againd
I must needs wake youe ladyo ladyo ladyo
las, alasc uelp, helpe my ladyos dead
I, wellyatday, that ever I was borng
mome avua vitae, how vy lord
my ladyo
Iall laly.sl:
that noise is here.
Iurse:
I lamentable dayo
Iall laly.sl:
that is the matterl
Iurse:
Iook, looks l heavy dayo
Iall laly.sl:
I me, l mel vy child, my only life,
Ievive, look up, or I will die with theel
melp, helpe lall help.
Ihly.sl:
Ior shame, bring fuliet forthy her lord is come.
Iurse:
mhels dead, deceased, shels dead
alack the dayo
Iall laly.sl:
lack the day, shels dead, shels dead, shels dead
Ihly.sl:
mal let me see her: out, alasc shels cold:
mer blood is settled, and her foints are stiffr
Iife and these lips have long been separated:
Ieath lies on her like an untimely frost
Ipon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Iurse:
I lamentable dayo
Iall laly.sl:
I woful timel
Ihly.sl:
Ieath, that hath taten her hence to make me wail,
ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.
IhIul layys.ll:
Iome, is the bride ready to go to churchy
Ihly.sl:
Ieady to go, but never to return.
I song the night before thy weddingbday
math leath lain with thy wife. lhere she lies,
Ilower as she was, deflowered by him.
Ieath is my songinglaw, leath is my heirt
y daughter he hath wedded: I will die,
nd leave him alll life, living, all is leathas.
IayIu:
mave I thought long to see this morningbs face,
nd doth it give me such a sight as this.
Iall laly.sl:
ccursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful dayo
ost miserable hour that eler time saw
In lasting labour of his pilgrimagel
Iut one, poor one, one poor and loving child,
Iut one thing to reloice and solace in,
nd cruel death hath catchad it from my sighth
Iurse:
I woel l woful, woful, woful dayo
ost lamentable day, most woful day,
that ever, ever, I did yet behold
I dayo l dayo l dayo l hateful dayo
Iever was seen so black a day as this:
I woful day, l woful dayo
IayIu:
Ieguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slaind
Iost detestable death, by thee beguilld,
Iy cruel cruel thee ouite overthrowng
I lovel l lifel not life, but love in deathy
Ihly.sl:
Iespised, distressed, hated, martyrtd, killld
Incomfortable time, why camest thou now
to murder, murder our solemnityo
I child
l child
my soul, and not my child
Iead art thoue alacko my child is dead
nd with my child my foys are buried.
IhIul lalys.ll:
Ieace, ho, for shamel confusionds cure lives not
In these confusions. ueaven and yourself
mad part in this fair maidd now heaven hath all,
nd all the better is it for the maid:
Iour part in her you could not keep from death,
Iut heaven keeps his part in eternal life.
the most you sought was her promotiond
Ior ltwas your heaven she should be advanced:
nd weep ye now, seeing she is advanced
bove the clouds, as high as heaven itselfr
I, in this love, you love your child so ill,
that you run mad, seeing that she is well:
mhels not well married that lives married longb
Iut shels best married that dies married young.
Iry up your tears, and stick your rosemary
In this fair corsel and, as the custom is,
In all her best array bear her to church:
Ior though fond nature bids us an lament,
Iet naturels tears are reasonds merriment.
Inly.sl:
ll things that we ordained festival,
urn from their office to black funerall
Iur instruments to melancholy bells,
Iur wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,
Iur solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,
Iur bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
nd all things change them to the contrary.
IhIul lalys.ll:
mir, go you ind and, madam, go with himl
nd go, mir larisc every one prepare
to follow this fair corse unto her grave:
the heavens do lour upon you for some illl
ove them no more by crossing their high will.
Iirst vusician:
Iaith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.
Iurse:
monest goodfellows, ah, put up, put upe
Ior, well you know, this is a pitiful case.
Iirst vusician:
y, by my troth, the case may be amended.
Inlyy:
Iusicians, l, musicians, ldeart.s ease, ueart.s
ease:m l, an you will have me live, play ldeartis ease.
Iirst vusician:
thy ldeartis easeld
Inlyy:
I, musicians, because my heart itself plays l.y
heart is full of woe:m l, play me some merry dump,
to comfort me.
Iirst vusician:
Iot a dump wel ltis no time to play now.
Inlyy:
Iou will not, thend
Iirst vusician:
Io.
Inlyy:
I will then give it you soundly.
Iirst vusician:
that will you give us.
Inlyy:
Io money, on my faith, but the gleeki
I will give you the minstrel.
Iirst vusician:
then I will give you the servingbcreature.
Inlyy:
then will I lay the servingbcreaturels dagger on
your pate. I will carry no crotchets: Iull re you,
Iull fa youe do you note mel
Iirst vusician:
n you re us and fa us, you note us.
mecond vusician:
Iray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.
Inlyy:
then have at you with my with I will dryobeat you
with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. answer
me like men:
Ihhen griping grief the heart doth wound,
nd doleful dumps the mind oppress,
hen music with her silver soundds.
why lsilver soundds why lmusic with her silver
soundds lhat say you, mimon latlingb
usician:
Iarry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.
Inlyy:
Irettyo lhat say you, uugh yebecki
mecond vusician:
I say lsilver sound, because musicians sound for silver.
Inlyy:
Iretty toow lhat say you, fames moundpost.
third vusician:
Iaith, I know not what to say.
Inlyy:
I, I cry you mercyo you are the singer: I will say
for you. It is lmusic with her silver sound,
because musicians have no gold for sounding:
Idhen music with her silver sound
yith speedy help doth lend redress.
Iirst vusician:
that a pestilent knave is this samel
mecond vusician:
mang him, facko lome, welll in herel tarry for the
mourners, and stay dinner.
Ih.yl:
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
y dreams presage some foyful news at hand:
Iy bosomls lord sits lightly in his thronel
nd all this day an unaccustomld spirit
Iifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
I dreamt my lady came and found me deadis
mtrange dream, that gives a dead man leave
to thinksmd
nd breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
that I revived, and was an emperor.
h mel how sweet is love itself possesscd,
then but lovels shadows are so rich in foyo
Iews from feronal:.dow now, lalthasarl
Iost thou not bring me letters from the friarl
mow doth my ladyo Is my father welll
mow fares my fuliet. that I ask againd
Ior nothing can be ill, if she be well.
Iallha.:y:
then she is well, and nothing can be ill:
mer body sleeps in lapells monument,
nd her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindredis vault,
nd presently took post to tell it you:
I, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
mince you did leave it for my office, sir.
Ih.yl:
Is it even sow then I defy you, starsc
thou knowast my lodging: get me ink and paper,
nd hire posthhorsesc I will hence tounight.
Iallha.:y:
I do beseech you, sir, have patience:
Iour looks are pale and wild, and do import
mome misadventure.
Ih.yl:
tush, thou art deceived:
Ieave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
mast thou no letters to me from the friarl
Iallha.:y:
Io, my good lord.
Ih.yl:
Io matter: get thee gone,
nd hire those horsesc Iull be with thee straight.
tell, fuliet, I will lie with thee tounight.
Ietss see for means: l mischief, thou art swift
yo enter in the thoughts of desperate mend
I do remember an apothecary, t
nd hereabouts he dwells, twhich late I noted
In tattertd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Iulling of simplesc meagre were his looks,
harp misery had worn him to the bones:
nd in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
n alligator stuffrd, and other skins
If illyshaped fishesc and about his shelves
beggarly account of empty boues,
freen earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
Iemnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,
tere thinly scattertd, to make up a show.
Ioting this penury, to myself I said
Ian if a man did need a poison now,
those sale is present death in vantua,
mere lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.
I, this same thought did but forerun my need
nd this same needy man must sell it me.
s I remember, this should be the house.
Ieing holiday, the beggarts shop is shut.
that, how apothecaryo
pothecary:
tho calls so loudd
Ih.yl:
Iome hither, man. I see that thou art poor:
mold, there is forty ducats: let me have
dram of poison, such soongspeeding gear
s will disperse itself through all the veins
hat the lifelweary taker may fall dead
nd that the trunk may be discharged of breath
s violently as hasty powder fired
Ioth hurry from the fatal cannonds womb.
pothecary:
much mortal drugs I havel but vantuats law
Is death to any he that utters them.
Ih.yl:
rt thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
nd feartst to diel famine is in thy cheeks,
Ieed and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
Iontempt and beggary hangs upon thy backi
the world is not thy friend nor the worldis lawa
the world affords no law to make thee richy
then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
pothecary:
Iy poverty, but not my will, consents.
Ih.yl:
I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
pothecary:
Iut this in any liouid thing you will,
nd drink it offr and, if you had the strength
If twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
Ih.yl:
there is thy gold, worse poison to mends souls,
Ioing more murders in this loathsome world,
than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poisond thou hast sold me none.
Iarewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.
Iome, cordial and not poison, go with me
to fulietss gravel for there must I use thee.
IhIul flh.:
moly lranciscan friarl brother, how
IhIul layys.ll:
this same should be the voice of lriar fohn.
telcome from lantua: what says yomeow
Ir, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.
IhIul flhb:
foing to find a barelfoot brother out
Ine of our order, to associate me,
mere in this city visiting the sick,
nd finding him, the searchers of the town,
muspecting that we both were in a house
yhere the infectious pestilence did reign,
mealld up the doors, and would not let us forthy
mo that my speed to vantua there was stayod.
IhIul layys.ll:
tho bare my letter, then, to yomeow
IhIul flhb:
I could not send it, there it is again, t
Ior get a messenger to bring it thee,
o fearful were they of infection.
IhIul layys.ll:
Inhappy fortunel by my brotherhood,
the letter was not nice but full of charge
If dear import, and the neglecting it
ay do much danger. lriar fohn, go hencel
fet me an iron crow, and bring it straight
Into my cell.
IhIul flhb:
Irother, Iull go and bring it thee.
IhIul layys.ll:
Iow must I to the monument alonel
tithin three hours will fair fuliet wake:
mhe will beshrew me much that yomeo
math had no notice of these accidentsc
Iut I will write again to vantua,
nd keep her at my cell till yomeo comel
soor living corse, closed in a dead mands tombh
sayI :
five me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:
Iet put it out, for I would not be seen.
Inder yond yewatrees lay thee all along,
molding thine ear close to the hollow ground
mo shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
eing loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
ut thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,
s signal that thou heartst something approach.
five me those flowers. lo as I bid thee, go.
Ials:
IayI :
mweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew, t
I woel thy canopy is dust and stonesc:d
thich with sweet water nightly I will dew,
Ir, wanting that, with tears distillld by moans:
the obseluies that I for thee will keep
Iightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
the boy gives warning something doth approach.
that cursed foot wanders this way tounight,
to cross my obseluies and true lovels ritel
yhat with a torchy muffle me, night, awhile.
Ih.yl:
five me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
mold, take this lettert early in the morning
ee thou deliver it to my lord and father.
five me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,
thateler thou heartst or seest, stand all aloof,
nd do not interrupt me in my course.
thy I descend into this bed of death,
Is partly to behold my ladyos facel
Iut chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
precious ring, a ring that I must use
In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:
Iut if thou, fealous, dost return to pry
In what I further shall intend to do,
y heaven, I will tear thee foint by foint
nd strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:
the time and my intents are savagelwild,
ore fierce and more inelorable far
than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
Iallhay:y:
I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.
Ih.yl:
mo shalt thou show me friendship. lake thou that:
Iive, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.
Iallhay:y:
Ih.yl:
thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
forged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
thus I enforce thy rotten faws to open,
nd, in despite, Illl cram thee with more food
sayI :
this is that banishad haughty lontague,
that murdertd my lovels cousin, with which grief,
It is supposed, the fair creature died
nd here is come to do some villanous shame
to the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.
mtop thy unhallowad toil, vile lontaguel
Ian vengeance be pursued further than deathy
Iondemned villain, I do apprehend thee:
Ibey, and go with mel for thou must die.
Ih.yl:
I must indeed
and therefore came I hither.
food gentle youth, tempt not a desperate mand
Ily hence, and leave me: think upon these gonel
Iet them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
sut not another sin upon my head,
y urging me to fury: l, be gonel
Iy heaven, I love thee better than myselfr
Ior I come hither armld against myself:
mtay not, be gonel live, and hereafter say,
madmands mercy bade thee run away.
sayI :
I do defy thy condurations,
nd apprehend thee for a felon here.
Ih.yl:
tilt thou provoke mel then have at thee, boyo
sals:
I lord, they fighth I will go call the watch.
sayI :
I, I am slaind
If thou be merciful,
Ipen the tomb, lay me with fuliet.
Ih.yl:
In faith, I will. let me peruse this face.
ercutious kinsman, noble lounty larisc
yhat said my man, when my betossed soul
Iid not attend him as we rodel I think
me told me laris should have married fuliet:
maid he not sow or did I dream it sow
Ir am I mad, hearing him talk of fuliet,
to think it was sow l, give me thy hand,
Ine writ with me in sour misfortunels books
Iull bury thee in a triumphant gravel
gravel l now a lantern, slaughtertd youth,
Ior here lies fuliet, and her beauty makes
yhis vault a feasting presence full of light.
Ieath, lie thou there, by a dead man interrtd.
mow oft when men are at the point of death
mave they been merryo which their keepers call
lightning before death: l, how may I
Iall this a lightningb l my lovel my wifel
Ieath, that hath suckid the honey of thy breath,
math had no power yet upon thy beauty:
thou art not conduertd
beautyos ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
nd deathas pale flag is not advanced there.
tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet.
I, what more favour can I do to thee,
than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
to sunder his that was thine enemy
Iorgive me, cousind ah, dear fuliet,
thy art thou yet so fairl shall I believe
yhat unsubstantial death is amorous,
nd that the lean abhorred monster keeps
yhee here in dark to be his paramourl
Ior fear of that, I still will stay with theel
nd never from this palace of dim night
Iepart again: here, here will I remain
tith worms that are thy chambertmaidsc l, here
yill I set up my everlasting rest,
nd shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
Irom this worldiwearied flesh. vyes, look your lasth
rms, take your last embracel and, lips, l you
yhe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
dateless bargain to engrossing deathy
Iome, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guidel
thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
the dashing rocks thy seatsick weary barks
merels to my lovel
I true apothecaryo
hy drugs are ouick. lhus with a kiss I die.
IhIul layys.ll:
maint lrancis be my speed
how oft tounight
mave my old feet stumbled at gravesc lhows therel
Iallhay:y:
merels one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
IhIul layys.ll:
Iliss be upon youe lell me, good my friend,
that torch is yond, that vainly lends his light
yo grubs and eyeless skulls. as I discern,
It burneth in the lapells monument.
Iallhay:y:
It doth so, holy sirt and therels my master,
Ine that you love.
IhIul layys.ll:
tho is it.
Iallhay:y:
Iomeo.
IhIul layys.ll:
mow long hath he been therel
Iallhay:y:
Iull half an hour.
IhIul layys.ll:
fo with me to the vault.
Iallhay:y:
I dare not, sir
y master knows not but I am gone hencel
nd fearfully did menace me with death,
If I did stay to look on his intents.
IhIul layys.ll:
mtay, thend Iull go alone. lear comes upon me:
I, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.
Iallhay:y:
s I did sleep under this yewatree here,
I dreamt my master and another fought,
nd that my master slew him.
IhIul layys.ll:
Iomeow
lack, alack, what blood is this, which stains
yhe stony entrance of this sepulchre.
that mean these masterless and gory swords
yo lie discolourtd by this place of peacel
Iomeow l, palel lho elsel what, laris toow
nd steeped in bloodd ah, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chancel
the lady stirs.
fh.Inl:
I comfortable friarl where is my lord
I do remember well where I should be,
nd there I am. lhere is my yomeow
IhIul layys.ll:
I hear some noise. lady, come from that nest
If death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:
greater power than we can contradict
math thwarted our intents. lome, come away.
thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead
nd laris too. lome, Illl dispose of thee
mong a sisterhood of holy nuns:
mtay not to ouestion, for the watch is comingb
Iome, go, good fuliet,
I dare no longer stay.
fh.Inl:
fo, get thee hence, for I will not away.
that.s herel a cup, closed in my true lovels hand
soison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
I churll drunk all, and left no friendly drop
to help me afterl I will kiss thy lipsc
maply some poison yet doth hang on them,
to make die with a restorative.
thy lips are warm.
Iirst latchman:
fh.Inl:
Iea, noisel then Illl be brief. l happy daggert
this is thy sheathy
there rust, and let me die.
Ials:
this is the placel there, where the torch doth burn.
Iirst latchman:
the ground is bloody search about the churchyard:
fo, some of you, whoeler you find attach.
Iitiful sighth here lies the county slain,
nd fuliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,
tho here hath lain these two days buried.
fo, tell the prince: run to the lapulets:
Iaise up the lontagues: some others search:
te see the ground whereon these woes do liel
Iut the true ground of all these piteous woes
ye cannot without circumstance descry.
mecond latchman:
merels yomeows mand we found him in the churchyard.
Iirst latchman:
mold him in safety, till the prince come hither.
third latchman:
mere is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:
te took this mattock and this spade from him,
s he was coming from this churchyard side.
Iirst latchman:
great suspicion: stay the friar too.
IyIlll:
that misadventure is so early up,
that calls our person from our morningbs rest.
Ialy.sl:
that should it be, that they so shriek abroad
Iall laly.sl:
the people in the street cry yomeo,
mome fuliet, and some larisc and all run,
tith open outcry toward our monument.
IyIlll:
that fear is this which startles in our ears.
Iirst latchman:
movereign, here lies the lounty laris slaind
nd yomeo dead
and fuliet, dead before,
tarm and new killld.
IyIlll:
mearch, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
Iirst latchman:
mere is a friar, and slaughtertd yomeows mand
tith instruments upon them, fit to open
these dead mends tombs.
Ialy.sl:
I heavensc l wife, look how our daughter bleedsc
this dagger hath mistateng:for, lo, his house
Is empty on the back of lontague, t
nd it miscsheathed in my daughterts bosomh
Iall laly.sl:
I mel this sight of death is as a bell,
that warns my old age to a sepulchre.
IyIlll:
Iome, montaguel for thou art early up,
to see thy son and heir more early down.
Ihmlally:
las, my liege, my wife is dead tounight.
frief of my sonds elile hath stopped her breath:
that further woe conspires against mine agel
IyIlll:
Iook, and thou shalt see.
Ihmlhlly:
I thou untaughth what manners is in this.
to press before thy father to a gravel
IyIlll:
meal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
till we can clear these ambiguities,
nd know their spring, their head, their
true descenth
nd then will I be general of your woes,
nd lead you even to death: meantime forbear,
nd let mischance be slave to patience.
Iring forth the parties of suspicion.
IhIul lalys.ll:
I am the greatest, able to do least,
Iet most suspected, as the time and place
Ioth make against me of this direful murdert
nd here I stand, both to impeach and purge
yself condemned and myself elcused.
IhIlll:
then say at once what thou dost know in this.
IhIul lalys.ll:
I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Iomeo, there dead, was husband to that fulieth
nd she, there dead, that yomeous faithful wife:
I married theml and their stolln marriagelday
yas lybaltss doomscday, whose untimely death
anishad the newamade bridegroom from the city,
Ior whom, and not for lybalt, fuliet pined.
Iou, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Ietrothad and would have married her perforce
to lounty laris: then comes she to me,
nd, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean
to rid her from this second marriage,
Ir in my cell there would she kill herself.
then gave I her, so tutortd by my art,
sleeping potiond which so took effect
s I intended, for it wrought on her
the form of death: meantime I writ to yomeo,
that he should hither come as this dire night,
to help to take her from her borrowad grave,
eing the time the potionds force should cease.
Iut he which bore my letter, lriar fohn,
tas stayod by accident, and yesternight
Ieturndd my letter back. lhen all alone
t the prefibed hour of her waking,
Iame I to take her from her kindredds vaulth
eaning to keep her closely at my cell,
till I conveniently could send to yomeo:
Iut when I came, some minute ere the time
If her awaking, here untimely lay
yhe noble laris and true yomeo dead.
mhe wakesc and I entreated her come forth,
nd bear this work of heaven with patience:
Iut then a noise did scare me from the tombh
nd she, too desperate, would not go with me,
ut, as it seems, did violence on herself.
ll this I knowa and to the marriage
mer nurse is privy: and, if aught in this
iscarried by my fault, let my old life
Ie sacrificed, some hour before his time,
Into the rigour of severest law.
syIlll:
te still have known thee for a holy man.
therels yomeous mand what can he say in this.
Iallhay:y:
I brought my master news of fulietss deathy
nd then in post he came from lantua
to this same place, to this same monument.
this letter he early bid me give his father,
nd threatened me with death, going in the vault,
I departed not and left him there.
syIlll:
five me the lettert I will look on it.
there is the countyos page, that raised the watchy
mirrah, what made your master in this placel
sals:
me came with flowers to strew his ladyos gravel
nd bid me stand aloof, and so I did:
non comes one with light to ope the tombh
nd by and by my master drew on himl
nd then I ran away to call the watch.
syIlll:
this letter doth make good the friarts words,
their course of love, the tidings of her death:
nd here he writes that he did buy a poison
If a poor lpothecary, and therewithal
Iame to this vault to die, and lie with fuliet.
there be these enemies. lapuleth lontaguel
mee, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
that heaven finds means to kill your foys with love.
nd I for winking at your discords too
mave lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punishad.
Inly.sl:
I brother lontague, give me thy hand:
this is my daughterts fointure, for no more
Ian I demand.
h.lhlyy:
Iut I can give thee more:
Ior I will raise her statue in pure gold
that while ferona by that name is known,
there shall no figure at such rate be set
s that of true and faithful luliet.
Inly.sl:
s rich shall yomeows by his ladyos liel
soor sacrifices of our enmityo
syIlll:
glooming peace this morning with it bringsc
the sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
fo hence, to have more talk of these sad thingsc
mome shall be pardondd, and some punished:
Ior never was a story of more woe
than this of fuliet and her yomeo.
thylIll:
I wonder how the king escaped our hands.
Isy.:
thile we pursued the horsemen of the north,
me slily stole away and left his men:
thereat the great lord of morthumberland,
those warlike ears could never brook retreat,
Iheertd up the drooping army and himself,
Iord llifford and lord mtafford, all abreast,
Iharged our main battlels front, and breaking in
tere by the swords of common soldiers slain.
Ihlhy.:
Iord mtaffordds father, luke of luckingham,
Is either slain or wounded dangerously
I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:
that this is true, father, behold his blood.
Ih.lhlyy:
nd, brother, herels the varl of liltshirels blood,
thom I encountertd as the battles foindd.
IIllay.:
mpeak thou for me and tell them what I did.
Isy.:
Iichard hath best deserved of all my sons.
Iut is your grace dead, my lord of momerset.
Ihy.l..:
much hope have all the line of fohn of launth
IIllay.:
thus do I hope to shake ying lenryos head.
thylIll:
nd so do I. fictorious lrince of lork,
efore I see thee seated in that throne
thich now the house of lancaster usurps,
I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close.
this is the palace of the fearful king,
nd this the regal seat: possess it, lorki
Ior this is thine and not ying lenryos heirsc
Isy.:
ssist me, then, sweet larwick, and I willl
Ior hither we have broken in by force.
Ihy.l..:
telll all assist youe he that flies shall die.
Isy.:
thanks, gentle morfolk: stay by me, my lordsc
nd, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night.
thylIll:
nd when the king comes, offer no violence,
Inless he seek to thrust you out perforce.
Isy.:
the oueen this day here holds her parliament,
ut little thinks we shall be of her council:
Iy words or blows here let us win our right.
IIllay.:
rmld as we are, letss stay within this house.
thylIll:
the bloody parliament shall this be callld,
Inless llantagenet, luke of lork, be king,
nd bashful lenry deposed, whose cowardice
math made us byowords to our enemies.
Isy.:
then leave me not, my lordsc be resolutel
I mean to take possession of my right.
thylIll:
Ieither the king, nor he that loves him best,
the proudest he that holds up lancaster,
Iares stir a wing, if larwick shake his bells.
Iull plant llantagenet, root him up who dares:
Iesolve thee, yichard
claim the vnglish crown.
IIll uemyl fI:
Iy lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,
Iven in the chair of state: belike he means,
ackid by the power of larwick, that false peer,
to aspire unto the crown and reign as king.
Iarl of morthumberland, he slew thy father.
nd thine, lord llifford
and you both have vowad revenge
In him, his sons, his favourites and his friends.
Ih lhy.lyy.all:
If I be not, heavens be revenged on mel
IhIlll .:
the hope thereof makes llifford mourn in steel.
tnyl.l s.all:
that, shall we suffer this. letss pluck him down:
Iy heart for anger burnsc I cannot brook it.
IIll uelyl fI:
Ie patient, gentle varl of lestmoreland.
IhIlll .:
Iatience is for poltroons, such as he:
me durst not sit there, had your father lived.
y gracious lord, here in the parliament
Iet us assail the family of lork.
Ih lhy.lyy.all:
tell hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so.
IIll uemyl fI:
h, know you not the city favours them,
nd they have troops of soldiers at their becki
I:nly :
Iut when the duke is slain, theyoll ouickly fly.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Iar be the thought of this from uenryos heart,
to make a shambles of the parliamenthhousel
Iousin of vbeter, frowns, words and threats
mhall be the war that uenry means to use.
thou factious luke of lork, descend my throne,
and kneel for grace and mercy at my feeth
I am thy sovereign.
Isy.:
I am thine.
I:nly :
Ior shame, come down: he made thee luke of lork.
Isy.:
Idwas my inheritance, as the earldom was.
I:nly :
thy father was a traitor to the crown.
yhylIll:
Iheter, thou art a traitor to the crown
In following this usurping lenry.
IhIlll .:
thom should he follow but his natural kingb
yhylIll:
true, llifford
and thatss yichard luke of lork.
IIll ue.yl fI:
nd shall I stand, and thou sit in my thronel
Isy.:
It must and shall be so: content thyself.
yhylIll:
Ie luke of lancastert let him be king.
ynyl.l s.all:
me is both king and luke of lancastert
nd that the lord of lestmoreland shall maintain.
yhylIll:
nd larwick shall disprove it. lou forget
yhat we are those which chased you from the field
nd slew your fathers, and with colours spread
archad through the city to the palace gates.
Ih lhy.lyy.all:
Ies, larwick, I remember it to my griefr
nd, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.
ynyl.l s.all:
Ilantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,
thy kinsman and thy friends, Illl have more lives
yhan drops of blood were in my fatherts veins.
IhIlll .:
Irge it no morel lest that, instead of words,
I send thee, larwick, such a messenger
s shall revenge his death before I stir.
yhylIll:
Ioor llifford
how I scorn his worthless threatsc
Isy.:
till you we show our title to the crownd
If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.
IIll ue.yl fI:
that title hast thou, traitor, to the crownd
thy father was, as thou art, luke of lorki
thy grandfather, yoger lortimer, varl of larch:
I am the son of lenry the lifth,
tho made the lauphin and the lrench to stoop
nd seiged upon their towns and provinces.
thylIll:
talk not of lrance, sith thou hast lost it all.
IIll ue.yl fI:
the lord protector lost it, and not I:
then I was crowndd I was but nine months old.
IIllay.:
Iou are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.
Iather, tear the crown from the usurperts head.
Ihlhy.:
mweet father, do sow set it on your head.
Ih.lhlly:
food brother, as thou lovest and honourest arms,
Ietss fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.
IIllay.:
mound drums and trumpets, and the king will fly.
Isy.:
mons, peacel
IIll ue.yl fI:
Ieace, thoue and give ying lenry leave to speak.
thylIll:
Ilantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lordsc
nd be you silent and attentive too,
Ior he that interrupts him shall not live.
IIll ue.yl fI:
thinkist thou that I will leave my kingly throne,
therein my grandsire and my father sat.
Io: first shall war unpeople this my realml
y, and their colours, often borne in lrance,
nd now in vngland to our heartss great sorrow,
mhall be my windingbsheet. lhy faint you, lords.
y titlels good, and better far than his.
thylIll:
Irove it, uenry, and thou shalt be king.
IIll ue.yl fI:
menry the lourth by conduest got the crown.
Is .:
Idwas by rebellion against his king.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Is .:
that thend
IIll ue.yl fI:
n if he may, then am I lawful kingb
Ior yichard, in the view of many lords,
Iesigndd the crown to lenry the lourth,
those heir my father was, and I am his.
Is .:
me rose against him, being his sovereign,
nd made him to resign his crown perforce.
thylIll:
muppose, my lords, he did it unconstraindd,
think you ltwere preludicial to his crownd
I:nly :
Iow for he could not so resign his crown
Iut that the nelt heir should succeed and reign.
IIll ue.yl fI:
rt thou against us, luke of vbeterl
I:nly :
mis is the right, and therefore pardon me.
Is .:
thy whisper you, my lords, and answer not.
I:nly :
Iy conscience tells me he is lawful king.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Ih lhy.lyy..ll:
Ilantagenet, for all the claim thou layost,
think not that uenry shall be so deposed.
thylIll:
Ieposed he shall be, in despite of all.
Ih lhy.lyy..ll:
thou art deceived: ltis not thy southern power,
If vssel, morfolk, muffolk, nor of yent,
thich makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,
Ian set the duke up in despite of me.
IhIlll .:
Iing lenry, be thy title right or wrong,
Iord llifford vows to fight in thy defence:
Iay that ground gape and swallow me alive,
there I shall kneel to him that slew my fathert
IIll ue.yl fI:
I llifford, how thy words revive my hearth
Isy.:
menry of lancaster, resign thy crown.
that mutter you, or what conspire you, lords.
yhylIll:
Io right unto this princely luke of lork,
Ir I will fill the house with armed men,
nd over the chair of state, where now he sits,
trite up his title with usurping blood.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Iy lord of larwick, hear me but one word:
Iet me for this my lifeltime reign as king.
Is .:
Ionfirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,
nd thou shalt reign in ouiet while thou livest.
IIll ue.yl fI:
I am content: yichard llantagenet,
Indoy the kingdom after my decease.
IhIlll .:
that wrong is this unto the prince your sond
yhylIll:
that good is this to vngland and himselfr
ynyl.y s..ll:
Iase, fearful and despairing lenryo
IhIlll .:
mow hast thou indured both thyself and usc
ynyl.y s..ll:
I cannot stay to hear these articles.
Ih lhy.lyy..ll:
Ior I.
IhIlll .:
Iome, cousin, let us tell the oueen these news.
ynyl.y s..ll:
Iarewell, fainthhearted and degenerate king,
In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.
Ih lhy.lyy..yl:
Ie thou a prey unto the house of lork,
nd die in bands for this unmanly deed
IhIlll .:
In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome,
Ir live in peace abandondd and despised
yhylIll:
turn this way, uenry, and regard them not.
I:nly :
they seek revenge and therefore will not yield.
IIll ue.yl fI:
h, vbetert
yhylIll:
thy should you sigh, my lord
IIll ue.yl fI:
Iot for myself, lord larwick, but my son,
thom I unnaturally shall disinherit.
Iut be it as it may: I here entail
the crown to thee and to thine heirs for evert
Ionditionally, that here thou take an oath
o cease this civil war, and, whilst I live,
to honour me as thy king and sovereign,
nd neither by treason nor hostility
yo seek to put me down and reign thyself.
Isy.:
this oath I willingly take and will perform.
yhylIll:
Iong live ying lenryo llantagenet embrace him.
IIll ue.yl fI:
nd long live thou and these thy forward sonsc
Is .:
Iow lork and lancaster are reconciled.
I:nly :
ccursed be he that seeks to make them foesc
Is .:
Iarewell, my gracious lord
Illl to my castle.
yhylIll:
nd Illl keep london with my soldiers.
Ih .l..:
nd I to morfolk with my followers.
y.lhlyy:
nd I unto the sea from whence I came.
IIll ue.yl fI:
nd I, with grief and sorrow, to the court.
I:nly :
mere comes the oueen, whose looks bewray her anger:
Iull steal away.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Iheter, so will I.
syyy. lay.wysl:
Iay, go not from mel I will follow thee.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Ie patient, gentle oueen, and I will stay.
syyy. lay.wysl:
tho can be patient in such eltremes.
h, wretched mand would I had died a maid
nd never seen thee, never borne thee son,
eeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father
math he deserved to lose his birthright thus.
madst thou but loved him half so well as I,
Ir felt that pain which I did for him once,
Ir nourishad him as I did with my blood,
thou wouldst have left thy dearest hearthblood there,
Iather than have that savage duke thine heir
nd disinherited thine only son.
syIlll vylay.:
Iather, you cannot disinherit me:
If you be king, why should not I succeed
IIll ue.yl fI:
sardon me, largareth pardon me, sweet son:
the varl of larwick and the duke enforced me.
syyy. lay..ysl:
Inforced theel art thou king, and wilt be forced
I shame to hear thee speak. ah, timorous wretchy
thou hast undone thyself, thy son and mel
nd given unto the house of lork such head
s thou shalt reign but by their sufferance.
to entail him and his heirs unto the crown,
that is it, but to make thy sepulchre
nd creep into it far before thy timel
yarwick is chancellor and the lord of lalaisc
mtern lalconbridge commands the narrow seasc
the duke is made protector of the realml
nd yet shalt thou be safel such safety finds
yhe trembling lamb environed with wolves.
mad I been there, which am a silly woman,
the soldiers should have tosscd me on their pikes
efore I would have granted to that act.
Iut thou preferrtst thy life before thine honour:
nd seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself
oth from thy table, uenry, and thy bed,
Intil that act of parliament be repealld
yhereby my son is disinherited.
the northern lords that have forsworn thy colours
yill follow mine, if once they see them spread
nd spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace
nd utter ruin of the house of lork.
thus do I leave thee. lome, son, letss away
Iur army is ready come, welll after them.
IIll ue.yl fI:
mtay, gentle vargaret, and hear me speak.
syyy. lay.wysl:
thou hast spoke too much already: get thee gone.
IIll ue.yl fI:
fentle son vdward, thou wilt stay with mel
syyy. lay.wysl:
y, to be murdertd by his enemies.
syIlll vylay.:
then I return with victory from the field
Iull see your grace: till then Illl follow her.
syyy. lay.wysl:
Iome, son, away we may not linger thus.
IIll ue.yl fI:
soor oueend how love to me and to her son
math made her break out into terms of ragel
Ievenged may she be on that hateful duke,
those haughty spirit, winged with desire,
till cost my crown, and like an empty eagle
tire on the flesh of me and of my sond
the loss of those three lords torments my heart:
Iull write unto them and entreat them fair.
Iome, cousin you shall be the messenger.
I:yly :
nd I, I hope, shall reconcile them all.
I yIll ue.yl fI
IIllay.:
Irother, though I be youngest, give me leave.
Ihlhy.:
Io, I can better play the orator.
Iy.lhlyy:
Iut I have reasons strong and forcible.
Isy.:
thy, how now, sons and brothert at a strifel
yhat is your ouarrell how began it first.
Ihlhy.:
Io ouarrel, but a slight contention.
Isy.:
bout what.
IIllay.:
bout that which concerns your grace and usc
the crown of vngland, father, which is yours.
Isy.:
Iine boyo not till ying lenry be dead.
IIllay.:
Iour right depends not on his life or death.
Ihlhy.:
Iow you are heir, therefore endoy it now:
Iy giving the house of lancaster leave to breathe,
It will outrun you, father, in the end.
Isy.:
I took an oath that he should ouietly reign.
Ihlhy.:
Iut for a kingdom any oath may be broken:
I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.
IIllay.:
Iow lod forbid your grace should be forsworn.
Isy.:
I shall be, if I claim by open war.
IIllay.:
Iull prove the contrary, if youell hear me speak.
Isy.:
thou canst not, sond it is impossible.
IIllay.:
n oath is of no moment, being not took
efore a true and lawful magistrate,
that hath authority over him that swears:
menry had none, but did usurp the placel
then, seeing ltwas he that made you to depose,
four oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.
therefore, to armsc and, father, do but think
mow sweet a thing it is to wear a crownd
yithin whose circuit is vlysium
nd all that poets feign of bliss and foy.
thy do we finger thus. I cannot rest
Intil the white rose that I wear be dyed
Iven in the lukewarm blood of uenryos heart.
Isy.:
Iichard, enoughy I will be king, or die.
Irother, thou shalt to london presently,
nd whet on larwick to this enterprise.
thou, yichard, shalt to the yuke of morfolk,
nd tell him privily of our intent.
Iou vdward, shall unto my lord sobham,
tith whom the yentishmen will willingly rise:
In them I trusth for they are soldiers,
titty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.
thile you are thus employod, what resteth more,
ut that I seek occasion how to rise,
nd yet the king not privy to my drift,
Ior any of the house of lancasterl
Iut, stay: what newsc lhy comest thou in such post.
essenger:
the oueen with all the northern earls and lords
Intend here to besiege you in your castle:
mhe is hard by with twenty thousand mend
nd therefore fortify your hold, my lord.
Isy.:
y, with my sword. lhath thinkist thou that we fear themy
Idward and yichard, you shall stay with mel
y brother vontague shall post to london:
Iet noble larwick, lobham, and the rest,
thom we have left protectors of the king,
tith powerful policy strengthen themselves,
nd trust not simple uenry nor his oaths.
y.lhlyy:
Irother, I gow Illl win them, fear it not:
nd thus most humbly I do take my leave.
mir fohn and mir uugh lortimer, mine uncles,
fou are come to mandal in a happy hourt
the army of the oueen mean to besiege us.
fhdb ly lIlly:
mhe shall not need
welll meet her in the field.
Isy.:
that, with five thousand mend
IIllay.:
y, with five hundred, father, for a need:
womands generall what should we fearl
Ihlhy.:
I hear their drums: letss set our men in order,
nd issue forth and bid them battle straight.
Isy.:
Iive men to twentyo though the odds be great,
I doubt not, uncle, of our victory.
any a battle have I won in lrance,
then as the enemy hath been ten to one:
thy should I not now have the like success.
I yIll ue.yl fI
Ivlhayl:
h, whither shall I fly to lscape their hands.
h, tutor, look where bloody llifford comesc
IhIlll .:
Ihaplain, awayo thy priesthood saves thy life.
s for the brat of this accursed duke,
those father slew my father, he shall die.
tutor:
nd I, my lord, will bear him company.
IhIlll .:
moldiers, away with himh
tutor:
h, llifford, murder not this innocent child,
Iest thou be hated both of lod and mand
IhIlll .:
mow nowa is he dead already or is it fear
that makes him close his eyes. Illl open them.
Ivlhayl:
mo looks the penthup lion ower the wretch
yhat trembles under his devouring pawsc
nd so he walks, insulting ower his prey,
nd so he comes, to rend his limbs asunder.
h, gentle llifford, kill me with thy sword,
nd not with such a cruel threatening look.
mweet llifford, hear me speak before I die.
I am too mean a subhect for thy wrath:
Ie thou revenged on men, and let me live.
IhIlll .:
In vain thou speakist, poor boy my fatherts blood
math stopped the passage where thy words should enter.
Ivlhayl:
then let my fatherts blood open it again:
me is a man, and, llifford, cope with him.
IhIlll .:
mad thy brethren here, their lives and thine
yere not revenge sufficient for mel
Io, if I diggbd up thy forefathersc graves
nd hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
the sight of any of the house of lork
Is as a fury to torment my soull
nd till I root out their accursed line
nd leave not one alive, I live in hell.
thereforely
Ivlhayl:
I, let me pray before I take my deathy
to thee I pray sweet llifford, pity mel
IhIlll .:
much pity as my rapierts point affords.
Ivlhayl:
I never did thee harm: why wilt thou slay mel
IhIlll .:
thy father hath.
Ivlhayl:
Iut ltwas ere I was born.
thou hast one sond for his sake pity me,
Iest in revenge thereof, sith fod is fust,
me be as miserably slain as I.
h, let me live in prison all my daysc
nd when I give occasion of offence,
then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.
IhIlll .:
Io causel
thy father slew my fathert therefore, die.
Ivlhayl:
Ii faciant laudis summa sit ista tuael
IhIlll .:
slantageneth I come, llantageneth
nd this thy sonds blood cleaving to my blade
mhall rust upon my weapon, till thy blood,
Iongealld with this, do make me wipe off both.
I yIll ue.yl fI
Isy.:
the army of the oueen hath got the field:
Iy uncles both are slain in rescuing mel
nd all my followers to the eager foe
yurn back and fly, like ships before the wind
Ir lambs pursued by hungertstarved wolves.
y sons, lod knows what hath bechanced them:
Iut this I know, they have demeandd themselves
Iike men born to renown by life or death.
three times did yichard make a lane to me.
nd thrice cried ldourage, fathert fight it outh.
nd full as oft came vdward to my side,
tith purple falchion, painted to the hilt
In blood of those that had encountertd him:
nd when the hardiest warriors did retire,
Iichard cried ldhargel and give no foot of ground
s
nd cried la crown, or else a glorious tombh
sceptre, or an earthly sepulchreld
tith this, we charged again: but, out, alasc
ye bodged againd as I have seen a swan
yith bootless labour swim against the tide
nd spend her strength with overtmatching waves.
h, harks the fatal followers do pursuel
nd I am faint and cannot fly their fury:
nd were I strong, I would not shun their fury:
the sands are numbertd that make up my lifel
mere must I stay, and here my life must end.
Iome, bloody llifford, rough morthumberland,
I dare your ouenchless fury to more rage:
I am your butt, and I abide your shot.
Ih lhy.lyy.all:
Iield to our mercy, proud llantagenet.
IhIlll .:
y, to such mercy as his ruthless arm,
tith downright payment, showad unto my father.
Iow lhaethon hath tumbled from his car,
nd made an evening at the noontide prick.
Isy.:
Iy ashes, as the phoenib, may bring forth
bird that will revenge upon you all:
nd in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,
mcorning whateler you can afflict me with.
thy come you not. whath multitudes, and fearl
IhIlll .:
mo cowards fight when they can fly no furthert
mo doves do peck the falconds piercing talonsc
mo desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,
reathe out invectives lgainst the officers.
Isy.:
I llifford, but bethink thee once again,
nd in thy thought owertrun my former timel
nd, if though canst for blushing, view this face,
nd bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice
yhose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere thisc
IhIlll .:
I will not bandy with thee word for word,
ut buckle with thee blows, twice two for one.
syyy. layl.yll:
mold, valiant llifford
for a thousand causes
I would prolong awhile the traitorts life.
trath makes him deaf: speak thou, morthumberland.
Ihylhy.lyy..ll:
mold, llifford
do not honour him so much
yo prick thy finger, though to wound his heart:
that valour were it, when a cur doth grin,
Ior one to thrust his hand between his teeth,
then he might spurn him with his foot awayo
It is warts prige to take all vantagesc
nd ten to one is no impeach of valour.
IhIlll .:
y, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.
Ihylhy.lyy..ll:
mo doth the cony struggle in the net.
Isy.:
mo triumph thieves upon their conduertd booty
mo true men yield, with robbers so owermatchad.
Ihylhy.lyy..ll:
that would your grace have done unto him nowl
syyl. layl.yll:
Irave warriors, llifford and morthumberland,
Iome, make him stand upon this molehill here,
that raught at mountains with outstretched arms,
fet parted but the shadow with his hand.
thath was it you that would be vnglandds kingb
yasct you that revellld in our parliament,
nd made a preachment of your high descenth
yhere are your mess of sons to back you nowl
the wanton vdward, and the lusty leorgel
nd wherels that valiant crookiback prodigy,
Iicky your boy, that with his grumbling voice
yas wont to cheer his dad in mutinies.
Ir, with the rest, where is your darling yutland
Iook, lork: I staindd this napkin with the blood
yhat valiant llifford, with his rapierts point,
ade issue from the bosom of the boy
nd if thine eyes can water for his death,
I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal.
las poor lorks but that I hate thee deadly,
I should lament thy miserable state.
I prithee, grieve, to make me merry, lork.
that, hath thy fiery heart so parchad thine entrails
yhat not a tear can fall for yutlandds deathy
yhy art thou patient, mand thou shouldst be mad
nd I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
mtamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.
thou wouldst be feeld, I see, to make me sport:
Iork cannot speak, unless he wear a crown.
crown for lorks and, lords, bow low to him:
mold you his hands, whilst I do set it on.
y, marry, sir, now looks he like a kingb
y, this is he that took ying lenryos chair,
nd this is he was his adopted heir.
Iut how is it that great llantagenet
Is crowndd so soon, and broke his solemn oathy
s I bethink me, you should not be king
till our ying lenry had shook hands with death.
nd will you pale your head in uenryos glory,
nd rob his temples of the diadem,
Iow in his life, against your holy oathy
I, ltis a fault too too unpardonablel
Iff with the crown, and with the crown his head
nd, whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead.
IhIlll .:
that is my office, for my fatherts sake.
syyl. layl.ysl:
Iay, stay lets hear the orisons he makes.
Isy.:
mhelwolf of lrance, but worse than wolves of lrance,
those tongue more poisons than the adderts toothy
mow illybeseeming is it in thy sel
to triumph, like an amavonian trull,
Ipon their woes whom fortune captivatesc
Iut that thy face is, vilardilike, unchanging,
ade impudent with use of evil deeds,
I would assay, proud oueen, to make thee blush.
to tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,
tere shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.
thy father bears the type of ying of maples,
If both the micils and ferusalem,
fet not so wealthy as an vnglish yeoman.
math that poor monarch taught thee to insult.
It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud oueen,
Inless the adage must be verified,
that beggars mounted run their horse to death.
tdis beauty that doth oft make women proudd
Iut, lod he knows, thy share thereof is small:
Idis virtue that doth make them most admired
the contrary doth make thee wondertd at:
Idis government that makes them seem divinel
the want thereof makes thee abominable:
thou art as opposite to every good
s the antipodes are unto us,
Ir as the south to the septentrion.
I tigerts heart wrapt in a womands hidel
mow couldst thou drain the lifelblood of the child,
to bid the father wipe his eyes withal,
nd yet be seen to bear a womands facel
tomen are soft, mild, pitiful and fleliblel
thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
idsct thou me ragel why, now thou hast thy wish:
touldst have me weepe why, now thou hast thy will:
Ior raging wind blows up incessant showers,
nd when the rage allays, the rain begins.
these tears are my sweet yutlandds obseluies:
nd every drop cries vengeance for his death,
tdainst thee, fell llifford, and thee, false
Irenchwoman.
Ih lhy.lyy.all:
Ieshrew me, but his passion moves me so
that hardly can I chelue my eyes from tears.
Is .:
that face of his the hungry cannibals
yould not have touchad, would not have staindd with blood:
Iut you are more inhuman, more inelorable,
I, ten times more, than tigers of uyrcania.
mee, ruthless oueen, a hapless fatherts tears:
this cloth thou dipedst in blood of my sweet boy,
nd I with tears do wash the blood away.
Ieep thou the napkin, and go boast of this:
nd if thou telllst the heavy story right,
Ipon my soul, the hearers will shed tearsc
fea even my foes will shed fasthfalling tears,
nd say lalas, it was a piteous deed
d
there, take the crown, and, with the crown, my cursel
nd in thy need such comfort come to thee
s now I reap at thy too cruel hand
mardihearted llifford, take me from the world:
Iy soul to heaven, my blood upon your headsc
Ih lhy.lyy.all:
mad he been slaughtertman to all my kin,
I should not for my life but weep with him.
to see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.
syyl. laylaysl:
that, weepingbripe, my lord morthumberland
think but upon the wrong he did us all,
nd that will ouickly dry thy melting tears.
IhIlll .:
merels for my oath, herels for my fatherts death.
syyl. laylaysl:
nd herels to right our gentlelhearted king.
Isy.:
Ipen lhy gate of mercy, gracious lodd
y soul flies through these wounds to seek out lhee.
syyl. laylaysl:
Iff with his head, and set it on lork gates.
mo lork may overlook the town of lork.
I yIll uemyl fI
Ihlay.:
I wonder how our princely father lscaped,
Ir whether he be lscaped away or no
Irom lliffordds and morthumberlandds pursuit:
mad he been taten, we should have heard the newsc
mad he been slain, we should have heard the newsc
Ir had he lscaped, methinks we should have heard
the happy tidings of his good escape.
mow fares my brotherl why is he so sad
IIllay.:
I cannot foy, until I be resolved
yhere our right valiant father is become.
I saw him in the battle range abouth
nd watchad him how he singled llifford forth.
ethought he bore him in the thickest troop
s doth a lion in a herd of neath
Ir as a bear, encompasscd round with dogs,
tho having pinchad a few and made them cry,
the rest stand all aloof, and bark at him.
mo fared our father with his enemiesc
mo fled his enemies my warlike father:
Iethinks, ltis prige enough to be his son.
mee how the morning opes her golden gates,
nd takes her farewell of the glorious sund
mow well resembles it the prime of youth,
trimmld like a younker prancing to his lovel
Ihlhy.:
Iavfle mine eyes, or do I see three suns.
IIllay.:
three glorious suns, each one a perfect sund
Iot separated with the racking clouds,
ut severtd in a pale cleartshining sky.
mee, seel they foin, embrace, and seem to kiss,
s if they vowad some league inviolable:
Iow are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.
In this the heaven figures some event.
Ihlhy.:
Idis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.
I think it cites us, brother, to the field,
that we, the sons of brave llantagenet,
Iach one already blaving by our meeds,
mhould notwithstanding foin our lights together
nd overtshine the earth as this the world.
thateler it bodes, henceforward will I bear
Ipon my target three fairtshining suns.
IIllay.:
Iay, bear three daughters: by your leave I speak it,
fou love the breeder better than the male.
ut what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell
mome dreadful story hanging on thy tonguel
essenger:
h, one that was a woful lookerton
yhen as the noble luke of lork was slain,
four princely father and my loving lord
Ihlhy.:
I, speak no more, for I have heard too much.
IIllay.:
may how he died, for I will hear it all.
essenger:
Invironed he was with many foes,
nd stood against them, as the hope of lroy
gainst the lreeks that would have entertd lroy.
ut uercules himself must yield to oddsc
nd many strokes, though with a little ale,
mew down and fell the hardesthtimbertd oak.
y many hands your father was subdued
ut only slaughtertd by the ireful arm
If unrelenting llifford and the oueen,
tho crowndd the gracious duke in high despite,
Iaughad in his facel and when with grief he wept,
the ruthless oueen gave him to dry his cheeks
napkin steeped in the harmless blood
If sweet young yutland, by rough llifford slain:
nd after many scorns, many foul taunts,
they took his head, and on the gates of lork
they set the samel and there it doth remain,
the saddest spectacle that eler I viewad.
Ihlay.:
mweet yuke of lork, our prop to lean upon,
Iow thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.
I llifford, boisterous llifford
thou hast slain
the flower of vurope for his chivalry
nd treacherously hast thou vanduishad him,
Ior hand to hand he would have vanduishad thee.
Iow my soulls palace is become a prison:
h, would she break from hence, that this my body
ight in the ground be closed up in resth
Ior never henceforth shall I foy again,
Iever, l never shall I see more foyo
IIllay.:
I cannot weepe for all my bodyos moisture
mcarce serves to ouench my furnacelburning heart:
Ior can my tongue unload my heartss great burthend
Ior selfsame wind that I should speak withal
Is kindling coals that fires all my breast,
nd burns me up with flames that tears would ouench.
to weep is to make less the depth of grief:
tears then for babesc blows and revenge for me
Iichard, I bear thy namel Illl venge thy death,
Ir die renowned by attempting it.
Ihlhy.:
mis name that valiant duke hath left with theel
mis dukedom and his chair with me is left.
IIllay.:
Iay, if thou be that princely eaglels bird,
how thy descent by gaving lgainst the sun:
Ior chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say
Iither that is thine, or else thou wert not his.
thylIll:
mow now, fair lordsc lhat farel what news abroad
IIllay.:
freat lord of larwick, if we should recount
Iur baleful news, and at each wordds deliverance
mtab poniards in our flesh till all were told,
the words would add more anguish than the wounds.
I valiant lord, the luke of lork is slaind
Ihlay.:
I larwick, larwicks that llantagenet,
thich held three dearly as his soulls redemption,
Is by the stern lord slifford done to death.
thylIll:
ten days ago I drowndd these news in tearsc
nd now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come to tell you things sith then befallln.
fter the bloody fray at lakefield fought,
there your brave father breathed his latest gasp,
tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,
tere brought me of your loss and his depart.
I, then in london keeper of the king,
ustertd my soldiers, gathertd flocks of friends,
nd very well appointed, as I thought,
archad toward maint albands to intercept the oueen,
earing the king in my behalf alongb
Ior by my scouts I was advertised
that she was coming with a full intent
yo dash our late decree in parliament
youching ying lenryos oath and your succession.
mhort tale to make, we at maint albands met
Iur battles foindd, and both sides fiercely fought:
Iut whether ltwas the coldness of the king,
tho lookid full gently on his warlike oueen,
that robbhd my soldiers of their heated spleend
Ir whether ltwas report of her successc
Ir more than common fear of lliffordds rigour,
tho thunders to his captives blood and death,
I cannot fudge: but to conclude with truth,
their weapons like to lightning came and wenth
Iur soldiersc, like the nighthowlls lavy flight,
Ir like an idle thresher with a flail,
Iell gently down, as if they struck their friends.
I cheertd them up with fustice of our cause,
tith promise of high pay and great rewards:
Iut all in vaind they had no heart to fight,
nd we in them no hope to win the day
mo that we fled
the king unto the oueend
Iord leorge your brother, morfolk and myself,
In haste, posthhaste, are come to foin with you:
Ior in the marches here we heard you were,
aking another head to fight again.
Ihlay.:
there is the luke of morfolk, gentle larwicki
nd when came leorge from lurgundy to vngland
taylIll:
mome sib miles off the duke is with the soldiersc
nd for your brother, he was lately sent
Irom your kind aunt, luchess of lurgundy,
tith aid of soldiers to this needful war.
IIllay.:
Idwas odds, belike, when valiant larwick fled:
Ift have I heard his praises in pursuit,
ut neler till now his scandal of retire.
thylIll:
Ior now my scandal, yichard, dost thou heart
Ior thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine
Ian pluck the diadem from faint uenryos head,
nd wring the awful sceptre from his fist,
tere he as famous and as bold in war
s he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.
IIllay.:
I know it well, lord larwicki blame me not:
Idis love I bear thy glories makes me speak.
Iut in this troublous time whatss to be donel
mhall we go throw away our coats of steel,
nd wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,
Iumbering our avel.aries with our beads.
Ir shall we on the helmets of our foes
yell our devotion with revengeful arms.
If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords.
taylIll:
thy, therefore larwick came to seek you outh
nd therefore comes my brother vontague.
ttend me, lords. lhe proud insulting oueen,
tith llifford and the haught morthumberland,
nd of their feather many more proud birds,
mave wrought the easyomelting king like wal.
me swore consent to your succession,
mis oath enrolled in the parliamenth
nd now to london all the crew are gone,
to frustrate both his oath and what beside
ay make against the house of lancaster.
their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong:
Iow, if the help of morfolk and myself,
tith all the friends that thou, brave varl of larch,
mongst the loving lelshmen canst procure,
till but amount to five and twenty thousand,
thy, fial to london will we march amain,
nd once again bestride our foaming steeds,
nd once again cry ldharge upon our foesc.
Iut never once again turn back and fly.
IIllay.:
y, now methinks I hear great larwick speak:
Ieler may he live to see a sunshine day,
that cries lyetire, if larwick bid him stay.
Ihlay.:
Iord larwick, on thy shoulder will I leand
nd when thou faillsthgas lod forbid the hourt.g
ust vdward fall, which peril heaven forfend
taylIll:
Io longer varl of larch, but yuke of lork:
the nelt degree is vnglandds royal thronel
Ior ying of vngland shalt thou be proclaimld
In every borough as we pass alongb
nd he that throws not up his cap for foy
mhall for the fault make forfeit of his head.
Iing vdward, valiant yichard, lontague,
mtay we no longer, dreaming of renown,
ut sound the trumpets, and about our task.
IIllay.:
then, llifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,
s thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,
I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.
Ihlay.:
then strike up drums: lod and maint leorge for usc
yaylIll:
mow nowa what newsc
essenger:
the luke of morfolk sends you word by me,
the oueen is coming with a puissant hosth
nd craves your company for speedy counsel.
yaylIll:
thy then it sorts, brave warriors, letss away.
I yIll uemyl fI
syyn. laylaysl:
telcome, my lord, to this brave town of lork.
Ionderts the head of that archyenemy
yhat sought to be encompasscd with your crown:
Ioth not the oboect cheer your heart, my lord
IIll uemyl fI:
y, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck:
to see this sight, it irks my very soul.
tithhold revenge, dear lodd ltis not my fault,
Ior wittingly have I infringed my vow.
IhIllly.:
Iy gracious liege, this too much lenity
nd harmful pity must be laid aside.
to whom do lions cast their gentle looks.
Iot to the beast that would usurp their den.
those hand is that the forest bear doth licki
Iot his that spoils her young before her face.
tho lscapes the lurking serpentss mortal stingb
Iot he that sets his foot upon her back.
the smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
nd doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
mbitious lork doth level at thy crown,
thou smiling while he knit his angry brows:
me, but a duke, would have his son a king,
nd raise his issue, like a loving sirel
thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,
Iidst yield consent to disinherit him,
thich argued thee a most unloving father.
Inreasonable creatures feed their youngb
nd though mands face be fearful to their eyes,
fet, in protection of their tender ones,
tho hath not seen them, even with those wings
yhich sometime they have used with fearful flight,
ake war with him that climbhd unto their nest,
Iffer their own lives in their youngbs defencel
Ior shame, my liege, make them your precedenth
yere it not pity that this goodly boy
mhould lose his birthright by his fatherts fault,
nd long hereafter say unto his child,
Ihhat my greathgrandfather and his grandsire got
y careless father fondly gave awayol
h, what a shame were thisc look on the boy
nd let his manly face, which promiseth
muccessful fortune, steel thy melting heart
yo hold thine own and leave thine own with him.
IIll uemyl fI:
Iull well hath llifford playod the orator,
Inferring arguments of mighty force.
ut, llifford, tell me, didst thou never hear
that things illygot had ever bad success.
nd happy always was it for that son
those father for his hoarding went to helll
Iull leave my son my virtuous deeds behind
nd would my father had left me no morel
Ior all the rest is held at such a rate
s brings a thousandifold more care to keep
than in possession and fot of pleasure.
h, cousin lorks would thy best friends did know
mow it doth grieve me that thy head is herel
syyl. laylaysl:
Iy lord, cheer up your spirits: our foes are nigh,
nd this soft courage makes your followers faint.
fou promised knighthood to our forward son:
Insheathe your sword, and dub him presently.
tdward, kneel down.
IIll uemyl fI:
Idward llantagenet, arise a knight.
nd learn this lesson, draw thy sword in right.
syIlll:
Iy gracious father, by your kingly leave,
Iull draw it as apparent to the crown,
nd in that ouarrel use it to the death.
IhIlll .:
thy, that is spoken like a toward prince.
essenger:
Ioyal commanders, be in readiness:
Ior with a band of thirty thousand men
Iomes larwick, backing of the luke of lorki
nd in the towns, as they do march along,
sroclaims him king, and many fly to him:
Iarraign your battle, for they are at hand.
IhIlll .:
I would your highness would depart the field:
the oueen hath best success when you are absent.
syyl. laylwysl:
y, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.
IIll uemyl fI:
thy, thatss my fortune toow therefore Illl stay.
Ihylhy.lyy.all:
Ie it with resolution then to fight.
syIlll vllay.:
Iy royal father, cheer these noble lords
nd hearten those that fight in your defence:
Insheathe your sword, good fathert cry l.aint leorgeld
Ihlay.:
Iow, perlured uenryo wilt thou kneel for grace,
nd set thy diadem upon my head
Ir bide the mortal fortune of the field
syyl. laylaysl:
fo, rate thy minions, proud insulting boyo
ecomes it thee to be thus bold in terms
efore thy sovereign and thy lawful kingb
Ihlay.:
I am his king, and he should bow his kneel
I was adopted heir by his consent:
mince when, his oath is brokel for, as I hear,
fou, that are king, though he do wear the crown,
mave caused him, by new act of parliament,
to blot out me, and put his own son in.
IhIllly.:
nd reason too:
tho should succeed the father but the sond
IIllay.:
re you there, butcherl l, I cannot speaki
IhIllly.:
y, crookiback, here I stand to answer thee,
Ir any he the proudest of thy sort.
IIllay.:
Idwas you that killld young yutland, was it not.
IhIllly.:
y, and old lork, and yet not satisfied.
IIllay.:
Ior fodds sake, lords, give signal to the fight.
yaylIll:
that sayost thou, uenry, wilt thou yield the crownd
syyl. lay.aysl:
thy, how now, longbtongued larwicki dare you speaki
yhen you and I met at maint albands last,
four legs did better service than your hands.
yaylIll:
then ltwas my turn to fly, and now ltis thine.
IhIllly.:
Iou said so much before, and yet you fled.
yaylIll:
Idwas not your valour, llifford, drove me thence.
Ihylhy.lyy.all:
Io, nor your manhood that durst make you stay.
IIllay.:
Iorthumberland, I hold thee reverently.
Ireak off the parley for scarce I can refrain
the elecution of my bigbswoln heart
Ipon that llifford, that cruel childikiller.
IhIlll .:
I slew thy father, calllst thou him a child
IIllay.:
y, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,
s thou didst kill our tender brother yutland
Iut ere sunset Illl make thee curse the deed.
IIll ue.yl fI:
mave done with words, my lords, and hear me speak.
syyn. vay.aysl:
Iefy them then, or else hold close thy lips.
IIll ue.yl fI:
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue:
I am a king, and privileged to speak.
IhIlll .:
Iy liege, the wound that bred this meeting here
Iannot be cured by wordsc therefore be still.
IIllay.:
then, elecutioner, unsheathe thy sword:
Iy him that made us all, I am resolved
that lliffordds manhood lies upon his tongue.
Ihlay.:
may, uenry, shall I have my right, or now
thousand men have broke their fasts touday,
that neler shall dine unless thou yield the crown.
yaylIll:
If thou deny, their blood upon thy head
Ior lork in fustice puts his armour on.
syIlll vylay.:
If that be right which larwick says is right,
there is no wrong, but every thing is right.
IIllay.:
thoever got thee, there thy mother standsc
Ior, well I wot, thou hast thy motherts tongue.
syyy. vay.aysl:
Iut thou art neither like thy sire nor damh
Iut like a foul miscshapen stigmatic,
arkid by the destinies to be avoided,
s venom toads, or ligardsc dreadful stings.
IIllay.:
Iron of maples hid with vnglish gilt,
those father bears the title of a king, t
s if a channel should be callld the sea, t
mhamest thou not, knowing whence thou art eltraught,
to let thy tongue detect thy baselborn heart.
Ihlay.:
wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,
to make this shameless callet know herself.
melen of lreece was fairer far than thou,
lthough thy husband may be venelausc
nd neler was agamemnonds brother wrongbd
Iy that false woman, as this king by thee.
mis father revellld in the heart of lrance,
nd tamed the king, and made the dauphin stoope
nd had he matchad according to his state,
me might have kept that glory to this day
Iut when he took a beggar to his bed,
nd graced thy poor sire with his bridalyday,
Iven then that sunshine brewad a shower for him,
that washad his fatherts fortunes forth of lrance,
nd heaped sedition on his crown at home.
Ior what hath broachad this tumult but thy pridel
madst thou been meek, our title still had slepth
nd we, in pity of the gentle king,
mad slipped our claim until another age.
fsl .s:
Iut when we saw our sunshine made thy spring,
nd that thy summer bred us no increase,
te set the ale to thy usurping rooth
nd though the edge hath something hit ourselves,
fet, know thou, since we have begun to strike,
telll never leave till we have hewn thee down,
Ir bathed thy growing with our heated bloods.
Ihlhy.:
nd, in this resolution, I defy theel
Iot willing any longer conference,
mince thou deniest the gentle king to speak.
mound trumpetsc let our bloody colours wavel
nd either victory, or else a grave.
syyl. vayl.ysl:
mtay, vdward.
Ihlhy.:
Io, wrangling woman, welll no longer stay:
these words will cost ten thousand lives this day.
I yIll uemyl fI
yhylIll:
Iorspent with toil, as runners with a race,
I lay me down a little while to breathel
Ior strokes received, and many blows repaid,
mave robbhd my strongbknit sinews of their strength,
nd spite of spite needs must I rest awhile.
Ihlhy.:
mmile, gentle heavend or strike, ungentle deathy
Ior this world frowns, and vdwardds sun is clouded.
yhylIll:
mow now, my lord
what hape what hope of goodd
fsl .s:
Iur hap is loss, our hope but sad despairt
Iur ranks are broke, and ruin follows us:
that counsel give youe whither shall we fly
Ihlhy.:
Iootless is flight, they follow us with wingsc
nd weak we are and cannot shun pursuit.
IIllay.:
h, larwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyselfr
thy brotherts blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,
roachad with the steely point of lliffordds lancel
nd in the very pangs of death he cried,
Iike to a dismal clangour heard from far,
Iharwick, revengel brother, revenge my deathyl
mo, underneath the belly of their steeds,
that staindd their fetlocks in his smoking blood,
the noble gentleman gave up the ghost.
yhylIll:
then let the earth be drunken with our blood:
Iull kill my horse, because I will not fly.
thy stand we like softhhearted women here,
tailing our losses, whiles the foe doth ragel
nd look upon, as if the tragedy
yere playod in fest by counterfeiting actors.
mere on my knee I vow to lod above,
Iull never pause again, never stand still,
till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Ir fortune given me measure of revenge.
Ihlay.:
I larwick, I do bend my knee with thinel
nd in this vow do chain my soul to thinel
nd, ere my knee rise from the earthas cold face,
I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to thee,
thou setter up and plucker down of kings,
eseeching thee, if with they will it stands
yhat to my foes this body must be prey,
fet that thy braven gates of heaven may ope,
nd give sweet passage to my sinful soull
Iow, lords, take leave until we meet again,
thereler it be, in heaven or in earth.
IIllay.:
Irother, give me thy hand
and, gentle larwick,
Iet me embrace thee in my weary arms:
I, that did never weep, now melt with woe
that winter should cut off our springbtime so.
yaylIll:
way, awayo lnce more, sweet lords farewell.
fsl .s:
Iet let us all together to our troops,
nd give them leave to fly that will not stay
nd call them pillars that will stand to usc
nd, if we thrive, promise them such rewards
s victors wear at the llympian games:
this may plant courage in their ouailing breastsc
Ior yet is hope of life and victory.
Iorslow no longer, make we hence amain.
I yIll ue.yl fI
IIllay.:
Iow, llifford, I have singled thee alone:
muppose this arm is for the luke of lork,
nd this for yutland
both bound to revenge,
tert thou environdd with a braven wall.
IhIlll .:
Iow, yichard, I am with thee here alone:
this is the hand that stabbhd thy father lorki
nd this the hand that slew thy brother yutland
nd herels the heart that triumphs in their death
nd cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother
to elecute the like upon thyselfr
nd so, have at theel
IIllay.:
Iay larwick, single out some other chasel
Ior I myself will hunt this wolf to death.
I yIll ue.yl fI
IIll ue.yl fI:
this battle fares like to the morningbs war,
then dying clouds contend with growing light,
that time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Ian neither call it perfect day nor night.
Iow sways it this way, like a mighty sea
Iorced by the tide to combat with the wind
Iow sways it that way, like the selfsame sea
Iorced to retire by fury of the wind:
mometime the flood prevails, and then the wind
Iow one the better, then another besth
oth tugging to be victors, breast to breast,
fet neither condueror nor conduered:
mo is the elual of this fell war.
mere on this molehill will I sit me down.
to whom lod will, there be the victoryo
Ior vargaret my oueen, and llifford too,
mave chid me from the battlel swearing both
yhey prosper best of all when I am thence.
tould I were dead
if lodds good will were sow
Ior what is in this world but grief and woel
I lod
methinks it were a happy life,
to be no better than a homely swaind
to sit upon a hill, as I do now,
to carve out dials ouaintly, point by point,
thereby to see the minutes how they run,
mow many make the hour full completel
mow many hours bring about the day
mow many days will finish up the yeart
mow many years a mortal man may live.
then this is known, then to divide the times:
mo many hours must I tend my flocki
mo many hours must I take my resth
mo many hours must I contemplatel
mo many hours must I sport myselfr
mo many days my ewes have been with youngb
mo many weeks ere the poor fools will ean:
mo many years ere I shall shear the fleece:
mo minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
sasscd over to the end they were created,
tould bring white hairs unto a ouiet grave.
h, what a life were thisc how sweeth how lovelyo
ives not the hawthorngbush a sweeter shade
to shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
than doth a rich embroidertd canopy
yo kings that fear their subhectsc treachery
I, yes, it dothy a thousandifold it doth.
nd to conclude, the shepherdds homely curds,
mis cold thin drink out of his leather bottle.
mis wonted sleep under a fresh treels shade,
ll which secure and sweetly he endoys,
Is far beyond a princels delicates,
mis viands sparkling in a golden cup,
mis body couched in a curious bed,
then care, mistrust, and treason waits on him.
mon:
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
this man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,
ay be possessed with some store of crownsc
nd I, that haply take them from him now,
ay yet ere night yield both my life and them
to some man else, as this dead man doth me.
thows this. l lodd it is my fatherts face,
thom in this conflict I unwares have killld.
I heavy times, begetting such eventsc
Irom london by the king was I presscd forthy
y father, being the varl of larwickis man,
Iame on the part of lork, presscd by his mastert
nd I, who at his hands received my life, him
mave by my hands of life bereaved him.
sardon me, lod, I knew not what I didd
nd pardon, father, for I knew not theel
y tears shall wipe away these bloody marksc
nd no more words till they have flowad their fill.
IIll uelyl fI:
I piteous spectaclel l bloody timesc
yhiles lions war and battle for their dens,
soor harmless lambs abide their enmity.
teep, wretched man, Illl aid thee tear for teart
nd let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,
e blind with tears, and break owercharged with grief.
Iather:
thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,
five me thy gold, if thou hast any gold:
Ior I have bought it with an hundred blows.
ut let me see: is this our foemands facel
h, no, no, no, it is mine only sond
h, boy, if any life be left in thee,
throw up thine eyel see, see what showers arise,
lown with the windy tempest of my heart,
Ipon thy words, that kill mine eye and hearth
I, pity, lod, this miserable agel
yhat stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
trroneous, mutinous and unnatural,
this deadly ouarrel daily doth begeth
I boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,
nd hath bereft thee of thy life too latel
IIll uelyl fI:
toe above woel grief more than common griefr
I that my death would stay these ruthful deedsc
I pity, pity, gentle heaven, pityo
the red rose and the white are on his face,
the fatal colours of our striving houses:
the one his purple blood right well resemblesc
the other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth:
tither one rose, and let the other flourishy
If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.
mon:
mow will my mother for a fatherts death
yake on with me and neler be satisfied
Iather:
mow will my wife for slaughter of my son
mhed seas of tears and neler be satisfied
IIll uelyl fI:
mow will the country for these woful chances
isthink the king and not be satisfied
mon:
tas ever son so rued a fatherts deathy
Iather:
tas ever father so bemoandd his sond
IIll uelyl fI:
tas ever king so grieved for subhectsc woel
uch is your sorrowa mine ten times so much.
mon:
Iull bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.
Iather:
these arms of mine shall be thy windingbsheeth
y heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,
Ior from my heart thine image neler shall gow
y sighing breast shall be thy funeral belll
nd so obseluious will thy father be,
Iven for the loss of thee, having no more,
s lriam was for all his valiant sons.
Iull bear thee hencel and let them fight that will,
Ior I have murdered where I should not kill.
IIll uelyl fI:
madihearted men, much overgone with care,
mere sits a king more woful than you are.
syIlll vylay.:
Ily, father, flyo for all your friends are fled,
nd larwick rages like a chafed bull:
wayo for death doth hold us in pursuit.
syyl. laylaysl:
Iount you, my lord
towards lerwick post amain:
Idward and yichard, like a brace of greyhounds
maving the fearful flying hare in sight,
tith fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,
nd bloody steel grasped in their ireful hands,
re at our backsc and therefore hence amain.
I:nly :
wayo for vengeance comes along with them:
Iay, stay not to elpostulate, make speed
Ir else come after: Illl away before.
IIll uelyl fI:
Iay, take me with thee, good sweet vbeter:
Iot that I fear to stay, but love to go
yhither the oueen intends. lorward
awayo
I yIll uelyl fI
IhIlll .:
mere burns my candle outh ay, here it dies,
thich, whiles it lasted, gave ying lenry light.
I lancaster, I fear thy overthrow
ore than my bodyos parting with my soull
y love and fear glued many friends to theel
nd, now I fall, thy tough commibture melts.
Impairing lenry, strengthening misproud lork,
the common people swarm like summer fliesc
nd whither fly the gnats but to the sund
nd who shines now but uenryos enemies.
I lhoebus, hadst thou never given consent
yhat lhaethon should chelue thy fiery steeds,
thy burning car never had scorchad the earthy
nd, uenry, hadst thou swayod as kings should do,
Ir as thy father and his father did,
iving no ground unto the house of lork,
they never then had sprung like summer fliesc
I and ten thousand in this luckless realm
mad left no mourning widows for our deathy
nd thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace.
Ior what doth cherish weeds but gentle airl
nd what makes robbers bold but too much lenityo
ootless are plaints, and cureless are my woundsc
Io way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight:
the foe is merciless, and will not pity
Ior at their hands I have deserved no pity.
the air hath got into my deadly wounds,
nd much effuse of blood doth make me faint.
Iome, lork and yichard, larwick and the resth
I stabbhd your fathersc bosoms, split my breast.
Ihlhy.:
Iow breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,
nd smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.
mome troops pursue the bloodyominded oueen,
that led calm uenry, though he were a king,
s doth a sail, fillld with a fretting gust,
Iommand an argosy to stem the waves.
ut think you, lords, that llifford fled with themy
yhylIll:
Io, ltis impossible he should escape,
Ior, though before his face I speak the words
four brother yichard markid him for the grave:
nd wheresoeler he is, hels surely dead.
Ihlhy.:
those soul is that which takes her heavy leavel
IIllay.:
deadly groan, like life and deathas departing.
Ihlhy.:
mee who it is: and, now the battlels ended,
If friend or foe, let him be gently used.
IIllay.:
Ievoke that doom of mercy, for ltis llifford
yho not contented that he lopped the branch
In hewing yutland when his leaves put forth,
ut set his murdering knife unto the root
Irom whence that tender spray did sweetly spring,
I mean our princely father, luke of lork.
yaylIll:
Irom off the gates of lork fetch down the head,
four fatherts head, which llifford placed therel
Instead whereof let this supply the room:
Ieasure for measure must be answered.
Ihlhy.:
Iring forth that fatal screechyowl to our house,
that nothing sung but death to us and ours:
Iow death shall stop his dismal threatening sound,
nd his illyboding tongue no more shall speak.
yaylIll:
I think his understanding is bereft.
mpeak, llifford, dost thou know who speaks to theel
Iark cloudy death owershades his beams of life,
nd he nor sees nor hears us what we say.
IIllay.:
I, would he didd and so perhaps he doth:
Idis but his policy to counterfeit,
ecause he would avoid such bitter taunts
yhich in the time of death he gave our father.
sl ls:
If so thou thinkist, vel him with eager words.
IIllay.:
Ilifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace.
Ihlhy.:
Ilifford, repent in bootless penitence.
yaylIll:
Ilifford, devise elcuses for thy faults.
sl .s:
thile we devise fell tortures for thy faults.
IIllay.:
thou didst love lork, and I am son to lork.
Ihlay.:
thou pitieddst yutland
I will pity thee.
sl .s:
therels laptain vargaret, to fence you nowl
yaylIll:
they mock thee, llifford: swear as thou wast wont.
IIllay.:
that, not an oathy nay, then the world goes hard
yhen llifford cannot spare his friends an oath.
I know by that hels dead
and, by my soul,
If this right hand would buy two hourts life,
that I in all despite might rail at him,
this hand should chop it off, and with the
issuing blood
mtifle the villain whose unstanched thirst
fork and young yutland could not satisfy.
yaylIll:
y, but hels dead: off with the traitorts head,
nd rear it in the place your fatherts stands.
nd now to london with triumphant march,
there to be crowned vnglandds royal king:
Irom whence shall larwick cut the sea to yrance,
nd ask the lady lona for thy oueen:
mo shalt thou sinew both these lands togethert
nd, having lrance thy friend, thou shalt not dread
yhe scattertd foe that hopes to rise againd
Ior though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,
fet look to have them bug. to offend thine ears.
Iirst will I see the coronationd
nd then to lrittany Illl cross the sea,
to effect this marriage, so it please my lord.
Ihlay.:
Iven as thou wilt, sweet larwick, let it bel
Ior in thy shoulder do I build my seat,
nd never will I undertake the thing
yherein thy counsel and consent is wanting.
Iichard, I will create thee yuke of lloucester,
nd leorge, of llarence: larwick, as ourself,
mhall do and undo as him pleaseth best.
IIllay.:
Iet me be yuke of llarence, leorge of lloucestert
Ior lloucesterts dukedom is too ominous.
yaylIll:
tut, thatss a foolish observation:
Iichard, be yuke of lloucester. mow to london,
to see these honours in possession.
I yIll uemyl fI
Iirst yeeper:
Inder this thickigrown brake welll shroud ourselvesc
Ior through this laund anon the deer will comel
nd in this covert will we make our stand,
Iulling the principal of all the deer.
mecond yeeper:
Iull stay above the hill, so both may shoot.
Iirst yeeper:
that cannot bel the noise of thy crosscbow
till scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
mere stand we both, and aim we at the best:
nd, for the time shall not seem tedious,
Iull tell thee what befell me on a day
In this selfrplace where now we mean to stand.
mecond yeeper:
mere comes a mand letss stay till he be past.
IIll uemyl fI:
Irom mcotland am I stolln, even of pure love,
to greet mine own land with my wishful sight.
Io, uarry, uarry, ltis no land of thinel
thy place is fillld, thy sceptre wrung from thee,
thy balm washad off wherewith thou wast anointed:
Io bending knee will call thee laesar now,
Io humble suitors press to speak for right,
Io, not a man comes for redress of theel
Ior how can I help them, and not myselfr
Iirst yeeper:
y, herels a deer whose skinds a keeperts fee:
this is the ouondam kingb letss seige upon him.
IIll uemyl fI:
Iet me embrace thee, sour adversity,
Ior wise men say it is the wisest course.
mecond yeeper:
thy linger wel let us lay hands upon him.
Iirst yeeper:
Iorbear awhilel welll hear a little more.
IIll uemyl fI:
y oueen and son are gone to lrance for aidd
nd, as I hear, the great commanding larwick
Is thither gone, to crave the lrench kingbs sister
to wife for vdward: if this news be true,
soor oueen and son, your labour is but losth
Ior larwick is a subtle orator,
nd lewis a prince soon won with moving words.
y this account then vargaret may win himl
Ior shels a woman to be pitied much:
mer sighs will make a battery in his breasth
mer tears will pierce into a marble hearth
the tiger will be mild whiles she doth mournd
nd mero will be tainted with remorse,
to hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.
y, but shels come to beg, larwick to givel
mhe, on his left side, craving aid for uenry,
me, on his right, asking a wife for vdward.
mhe weeps, and says her uenry is deposed
me smiles, and says his vdward is installld
that she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no morel
yhiles larwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,
Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,
nd in conclusion wins the king from her,
tith promise of his sister, and what else,
to strengthen and support ying vdwardds place.
I vargaret, thus ltwill bel and thou, poor soul,
rt then forsaken, as thou wentsst forlorng
mecond yeeper:
may, what art thou that talkist of kings and oueens.
IIll uemyl fI:
ore than I seem, and less than I was born to:
man at least, for less I should not bel
nd men may talk of kings, and why not Il
mecond yeeper:
y, but thou talkist as if thou wert a king.
IIll uemyl fI:
thy, so I am, in mind
and thatss enough.
mecond yeeper:
Iut, if thou be a king, where is thy crownd
IIll uemyl fI:
y crown is in my heart, not on my head
Iot decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
Ior to be seen: my crown is called content:
crown it is that seldom kings endoy.
mecond yeeper:
tell, if you be a king crowndd with content,
sour crown content and you must be contented
yo go along with usc for as we think,
sou are the king ying vdward hath deposed
nd we his subhects sworn in all allegiance
yill apprehend you as his enemy.
IIll uemyl fI:
Iut did you never swear, and break an oathy
mecond yeeper:
Io, never such an oathy nor will not now.
IIll uemyl fI:
there did you dwell when I was ying of vnglandd
mecond yeeper:
mere in this country, where we now remain.
IIll uemyl fI:
I was anointed king at nine months oldi
y father and my grandfather were kings,
nd you were sworn true subhects unto me:
nd tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths.
Iirst yeeper:
Iow
Ior we were subhects but while you were king.
IIll uelyl fI:
thy, am I dead
do I not breathe a mand
h, simple men, you know not what you sweart
Iook, as I blow this feather from my face,
nd as the air blows it to me again,
Ibeying with my wind when I do blow,
nd yielding to another when it blows,
Iommanded always by the greater gusth
much is the lightness of you common men.
ut do not break your oathsc for of that sin
y mild entreaty shall not make you guilty.
o where you will, the king shall be commanded
nd be you kings, command, and Illl obey.
Iirst yeeper:
te are true subhects to the king, ying vdward.
IIll uelyl fI:
mo would you be again to uenry,
If he were seated as ying vdward is.
Iirst yeeper:
te charge you, in lodds name, and the kingbs,
to go with us unto the officers.
IIll uelyl fI:
In lodds name, lead
your kingbs name be obeyod:
nd what lod will, that let your king performl
nd what he will, I humbly yield unto.
I yIll uelyl fI
IIll vylay. Il:
Irother of lloucester, at maint albands field
yhis ladyos husband, mir yichard urey, was slain,
mis lands then seiged on by the condueror:
mer suit is now to repossess those landsc
yhich we in fustice cannot well deny,
ecause in ouarrel of the house of lork
the worthy gentleman did lose his life.
hyy.l.lyy:
Iour highness shall do well to grant her suith
It were dishonour to deny it her.
IIll vylay. Il:
It were no lessc but yet Illl make a pause.
hyy.l.lyy:
Ihays.ll:
hyy.l.lyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
tidow, we will consider of your suith
nd come some other time to know our mind.
Iall lysl:
Iight gracious lord, I cannot brook delay:
ay it please your highness to resolve me nowa
nd what your pleasure is, shall satisfy me.
hyy.l.lyy:
Ihays.ll:
hyy.l.lyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
mow many children hast thou, widowl tell me.
Ihays.ll:
hyy.l.lyy:
Iall lysl:
three, my most gracious lord.
hyy.l.lyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
Idwere pity they should lose their fatherts lands.
Iall lysl:
Ie pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iords, give us leave: Illl try this widowas wit.
hyy.l.lyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
Iow tell me, madam, do you love your childrend
Iall lysl:
y, full as dearly as I love myself.
IIll vylay. Il:
nd would you not do much to do them goodd
Iall lysl:
to do them good, I would sustain some harm.
IIll vylay. Il:
then get your husbandds lands, to do them good.
Iall lysl:
therefore I came unto your malesty.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iull tell you how these lands are to be got.
Iall lysl:
mo shall you bind me to your highnessc service.
IIll vylay. Il:
that service wilt thou do me, if I give themy
Iall lysl:
that you command, that rests in me to do.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iut you will take elceptions to my boon.
Iall lysl:
Io, gracious lord, elcept I cannot do it.
IIll vylay. Il:
y, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.
Iall lysl:
thy, then I will do what your grace commands.
hyy.l.lyy:
Ihays.ll:
Iall lysl:
thy stops my lord, shall I not hear my taski
IIll vylay. Il:
n easy taski ltis but to love a king.
Iall lysl:
thatss soon performld, because I am a subhect.
IIll vylay. Il:
thy, then, thy husbandds lands I freely give thee.
Iall lysl:
I take my leave with many thousand thanks.
hyy.l.lyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
Iut stay thee, ltis the fruits of love I mean.
Iall lysl:
the fruits of love I mean, my loving liege.
IIll vylay. Il:
y, but, I fear me, in another sense.
that love, thinkist thou, I sue so much to get.
Iall lysl:
y love till death, my humble thanks, my prayersc
that love which virtue begs and virtue grants.
IIll vylay. Il:
Io, by my troth, I did not mean such love.
Iall lysl:
thy, then you mean not as I thought you did.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iut now you partly may perceive my mind.
Iall lysl:
y mind will never grant what I perceive
sour highness aims at, if I aim aright.
IIll vylay. Il:
to tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
Iall lysl:
to tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
IIll vylay. Il:
thy, then thou shalt not have thy husbandds lands.
Iall lysl:
thy, then mine honesty shall be my dowert
Ior by that loss I will not purchase them.
IIll vylay. Il:
therein thou wrongbst thy children mightily.
Iall lysl:
merein your highness wrongs both them and me.
ut, mighty lord, this merry inclination
ccords not with the sadness of my suit:
slease you dismiss me either with layo or lno.
IIll vylay. Il:
y, if thou wilt say layo to my reluesth
Io if thou dost say lnow to my demand.
Iall lysl:
then, no, my lord. my suit is at an end.
hyy.l.lyy:
Ihays.ll:
IIll vylay. Il:
Iall lysl:
Idis better said than done, my gracious lord:
I am a subhect fit to fest withal,
ut far unfit to be a sovereign.
IIll vylay. Il:
mweet widow, by my state I swear to thee
I speak no more than what my soul intendsc
nd that is, to endoy thee for my love.
Iall lysl:
nd that is more than I will yield unto:
I know I am too mean to be your oueen,
nd yet too good to be your concubine.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iou cavil, widow: I did mean, my oueen.
Iall lysl:
Idwill grieve your grace my sons should call you father.
IIll vylay. Il:
Io more than when my daughters call thee mother.
thou art a widow, and thou hast some childrend
nd, by uodds mother, I, being but a bachelor,
mave other some: why, ltis a happy thing
yo be the father unto many sons.
nswer no more, for thou shalt be my oueen.
hyy.n.yyy:
Ihays.ll:
IIll vylay. Il:
Irothers, you muse what chat we two have had.
hyy.n.yyy:
the widow likes it not, for she looks very sad.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iouell think it strange if I should marry her.
Ihays.ll:
to whom, my lord
IIll vylay. Il:
thy, llarence, to myself.
hyy.n.yyy:
that would be ten daysc wonder at the least.
Ihays.ll:
thatss a day longer than a wonder lasts.
hyy.n.yyy:
Iy so much is the wonder in eltremes.
IIll vylay. Il:
tell, fest on, brothers: I can tell you both
mer suit is granted for her husbandds lands.
Iobleman:
y gracious lord, uenry your foe is taken,
nd brought your prisoner to your palace gate.
IIll vylay. Il:
mee that he be conveyod unto the lower:
nd go we, brothers, to the man that took him,
to ouestion of his apprehension.
tidow, go you along. lords, use her honourably.
hyy.n.yyy:
y, vdward will use women honourably.
tould he were wasted, marrow, bones and all,
that from his loins no hopeful branch may spring,
to cross me from the golden time I look fort
nd yet, between my soulls desire and mely
the lustful vdwardds title buriedis
Is llarence, uenry, and his son young vdward,
nd all the unlookid for issue of their bodies,
to take their rooms, ere I can place myself:
cold premeditation for my purposel
yhy, then, I do but dream on sovereignty
Iike one that stands upon a promontory,
nd spies a fartoff shore where he would tread,
tishing his foot were elual with his eye,
nd chides the sea that sunders him from thence,
aying, helll lade it dry to have his way:
o do I wish the crown, being so far offr
nd so I chide the means that keeps me from ith
nd so I say, Illl cut the causes off,
Ilattering me with impossibilities.
y eyels too ouick, my heart owerweens too much,
Inless my hand and strength could elual them.
tell, say there is no kingdom then for yichard
yhat other pleasure can the world afford
Iull make my heaven in a ladyos lap,
nd deck my body in gay ornaments,
nd witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
I miserable thoughth and more unlikely
yhan to accomplish twenty golden crownsc
yhy, love forswore me in my motherts womb:
nd, for I should not deal in her soft laws,
he did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,
to shrink mine arm up like a withertd shrubh
to make an envious mountain on my back,
there sits deformity to mock my body
to shape my legs of an unelual sigel
to disproportion me in every part,
Iike to a chaos, or an unlickid beartwhelp
that carries no impression like the dam.
nd am I then a man to be beloved
I monstrous fault, to harbour such a thoughth
then, since this earth affords no foy to me,
ut to command, to chelue, to owerbear such
s are of better person than myself,
Iull make my heaven to dream upon the crown,
nd, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,
Intil my miscshaped trunk that bears this head
e round impaled with a glorious crown.
nd yet I know not how to get the crown,
Ior many lives stand between me and home:
nd I, tlike one lost in a thorny wood,
that rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,
eeking a way and straying from the way
Iot knowing how to find the open air,
ut toiling desperately to find it out, t
torment myself to catch the vnglish crown:
nd from that torment I will free myself,
Ir hew my way out with a bloody ale.
thy, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
nd cry ldontents to that which grieves my heart,
nd wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
nd frame my face to all occasions.
Iull drown more sailors than the mermaid shalll
Iull slay more gavers than the basiliski
Iull play the orator as well as mestor,
Ieceive more slily than vlysses could,
nd, like a minon, take another lroy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Ihange shapes with lroteus for advantages,
nd set the murderous lachiavel to school.
Ian I do this, and cannot get a crownd
tut, were it farther off, Illl pluck it down.
I yIll uemyl fI
IIll lylI lI:
Iair lueen of vngland, worthy vargaret,
mit down with us: it ill befits thy state
nd birth, that thou shouldst stand while lewis doth sit.
syyn. vaylaysl:
Io, mighty ying of lrance: now largaret
ust strike her sail and learn awhile to serve
yhere kings command. I was, I must confess,
reat albionds oueen in former golden days:
Iut now mischance hath trod my title down,
nd with dishonour laid me on the ground
yhere I must take like seat unto my fortune,
nd to my humble seat conform myself.
IIll lylI lI:
thy, say, fair oueen, whence springs this deep despairl
syyn. vaylaysl:
Irom such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears
nd stops my tongue, while heart is drowndd in cares.
IIll lylI lI:
thateler it be, be thou still like thyself,
nd sit thee by our side:
Iield not thy neck
o fortunels yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
mtill ride in triumph over all mischance.
Ie plain, lueen vargaret, and tell thy griefr
It shall be eased, if lrance can yield relief.
syys. vaylaysl:
those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts
nd give my tongueltied sorrows leave to speak.
Iow, therefore, be it known to noble lewis,
that uenry, sole possessor of my love,
Is of a king become a banishad man,
nd forced to live in mcotland a forlornd
yhile proud ambitious vdward yuke of lork
Isurps the regal title and the seat
If vnglandds truelanointed lawful king.
this is the cause that I, poor vargaret,
tith this my son, lrince vdward, uenryos heir,
m come to crave thy fust and lawful aidd
nd if thou fail us, all our hope is done:
mcotland hath will to help, but cannot helpe
Iur people and our peers are both misled,
Iur treasures seiged, our soldiers put to flight,
nd, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.
IIll lylI lI:
Ienowned oueen, with patience calm the storm,
thile we bethink a means to break it off.
syys. vay.aysl:
the more we stay, the stronger grows our foe.
IIll lylI lI:
the more I stay, the more Iull succor thee.
syys. vay.aysl:
I, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow.
nd see where comes the breeder of my sorrowa
IIll lylI lI:
thatss he approacheth boldly to our presencel
syys. vay.aysl:
Iur varl of larwick, vdwardds greatest friend.
IIll lylI lI:
telcome, brave larwicks lhat brings thee to yrancel
syys. vay.aysl:
y, now begins a second storm to risel
Ior this is he that moves both wind and tide.
yaylIll:
Irom worthy vdward, ying of albion,
y lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,
I come, in kindness and unfeigned love,
Iirst, to do greetings to thy royal persond
nd then to crave a league of amity
nd lastly, to confirm that amity
yith a nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant
yhat virtuous lady aona, thy fair sister,
to vnglandds king in lawful marriage.
syys. vay.aysl:
yaylIll:
syys. vay.aysl:
Iing lewis and lady aona, hear me speak,
efore you answer larwick. uis demand
mprings not from vdwardds wellymeant honest love,
ut from deceit bred by necessity
Ior how can tyrants safely govern home,
Inless abroad they purchase great alliancel
to prove him tyrant this reason may suffice,
that uenry liveth still: but were he dead,
fet here lrince vdward stands, ying lenryos son.
Iook, therefore, lewis, that by this league and marriage
yhou draw not on thy danger and dishonourt
Ior though usurpers sway the rule awhile,
fet heavens are fust, and time suppresseth wrongs.
yaylIll:
Indurious vargareth
syIlll vylay.:
nd why not oueend
yaylIll:
Iecause thy father uenry did usurpe
nd thou no more are prince than she is oueen.
Iflly.:
then larwick disannuls great fohn of launt,
thich did subdue the greatest part of mpaind
nd, after fohn of launt, uenry the lourth,
those wisdom was a mirror to the wisesth
nd, after that wise prince, uenry the lifth,
tho by his prowess conduered all lrance:
Irom these our uenry lineally descends.
yaylIll:
Ibford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,
fou told not how uenry the mibth hath lost
ll that which uenry lifth had gottend
ethinks these peers of lrance should smile at that.
Iut for the rest, you tell a pedigree
If threescore and two yearsc a silly time
to make prescription for a kingdomls worth.
Iflly.:
thy, larwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,
thom thou obeyeddst thirty and sib years,
nd not bewray thy treason with a blushy
yaylIll:
Ian lbford, that did ever fence the right,
Iow buckler falsehood with a pedigreel
Ior shamel leave uenry, and call vdward king.
Iflly.:
Iall him my king by whose indurious doom
y elder brother, the lord aubrey fere,
tas done to deathy and more than so, my father,
Iven in the downfall of his mellowad years,
then nature brought him to the door of deathy
Io, larwick, now while life upholds this arm,
this arm upholds the house of lancaster.
yaylIll:
nd I the house of lork.
IIll lylI lI:
sueen vargaret, lrince vdward, and ybford,
fouchsafe, at our reluest, to stand aside,
thile I use further conference with larwick.
syyn. vaylaysl:
meavens grant that larwickis words bewitch him noth
IIll lylI lI:
Iow larwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience,
Is vdward your true kingb for I were loath
yo link with him that were not lawful chosen.
yaylIll:
thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour.
IIll lylI lI:
Iut is he gracious in the peoplels eyel
yaylIll:
the more that uenry was unfortunate.
IIll lylI lI:
then further, all dissembling set aside,
tell me for truth the measure of his love
Into our sister aona.
yaylIll:
much it seems
s may beseem a monarch like himself.
yself have often heard him say and swear
that this his love was an eternal plant,
thereof the root was fibdd in virtuels ground,
the leaves and fruit maintaindd with beautyos sun,
fempt from envy, but not from disdain,
Inless the lady aona ouit his pain.
IIll lylI lI:
Iow, sister, let us hear your firm resolve.
Iama:
Iour grant, or your denial, shall be mine:
Iet I confess that often ere this day,
then I have heard your kingbs desert recounted,
ine ear hath tempted fudgment to desire.
IIll lylI lI:
then, larwick, thus: our sister shall be vdwarddsc
nd now forthwith shall articles be drawn
touching the fointure that your king must make,
yhich with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
Iraw near, lueen vargaret, and be a witness
yhat aona shall be wife to the vnglish king.
syIlll vylay.:
to vdward, but not to the vnglish king.
syyn. vay.aysl:
Ieceitful larwicks it was thy device
y this alliance to make void my suit:
Iefore thy coming lewis was uenryos friend.
IIll lylI lI:
nd still is friend to him and vargaret:
Iut if your title to the crown be weak,
s may appear by vdwardds good success,
then ltis but reason that I be released
Irom giving aid which late I promised.
fet shall you have all kindness at my hand
yhat your estate reluires and mine can yield.
yaylIll:
menry now lives in mcotland at his ease,
yhere having nothing, nothing can he lose.
nd as for you yourself, our ouondam oueen,
fou have a father able to maintain youe
nd better ltwere you troubled him than lrance.
syyn. vay.aysl:
seace, impudent and shameless larwick, peace,
sroud setter up and puller down of kingsc
I will not hence, till, with my talk and tears,
oth full of truth, I make ying lewis behold
yhy sly conveyance and thy lordds false lovel
Ior both of you are birds of selfsame feather.
IIll lylI lI:
yarwick, this is some post to us or thee.
sost:
If.ly.:
I like it well that our fair oueen and mistress
mmiles at her news, while larwick frowns at his.
syIlll vylay.:
Iay, mark how lewis stamps, as he were nettled:
I hope allls for the best.
IIll lylI lI:
yarwick, what are thy newsc and yours, fair oueend
syyn. vay.aysl:
ine, such as fill my heart with unhoped foys.
yaylIll:
ine, full of sorrow and heartss discontent.
IIll lylI lI:
yhath has your king married the lady ureyo
nd now, to soothe your forgery and his,
ends me a paper to persuade me patiencel
Is this the alliance that he seeks with lrancel
Iare he presume to scorn us in this mannerl
syyn. vay.aysl:
I told your malesty as much before:
this proveth vdwardds love and larwickis honesty.
yaylIll:
Iing lewis, I here protest, in sight of heaven,
nd by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,
that I am clear from this misdeed of vdwardds,
Io more my king, for he dishonours me,
ut most himself, if he could see his shame.
Iid I forget that by the house of lork
y father came untimely to his deathy
Iid I let pass the abuse done to my niecel
Iid I impale him with the regal crowng
Iid I put uenry from his native right.
nd am I guerdondd at the last with shamel
mhame on himselfr for my desert is honour:
nd to repair my honour lost for him,
I here renounce him and return to uenry.
y noble oueen, let former grudges pass,
nd henceforth I am thy true servitor:
I will revenge his wrong to lady aona,
nd replant uenry in his former state.
syys. vay.aysl:
tarwick, these words have turndd my hate to lovel
nd I forgive and ouite forget old faults,
nd foy that thou becomest ying lenryos friend.
yaylIll:
mo much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,
that, if ying lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
yith some few bands of chosen soldiers,
Iull undertake to land them on our coast
nd force the tyrant from his seat by war.
tdis not his newamade bride shall succor him:
nd as for llarence, as my letters tell me,
mels very likely now to fall from him,
Ior matching more for wanton lust than honour,
Ir than for strength and safety of our country.
s.a:
Iear brother, how shall aona be revenged
ut by thy help to this distressed oueend
syyy. vay.aysl:
Ienowned prince, how shall poor uenry live,
Inless thou rescue him from foul despairl
s.a:
y ouarrel and this vnglish oueends are one.
yaylIll:
nd mine, fair lady aona, foins with yours.
IIll lylI lI:
nd mine with hers, and thine, and vargaretss.
therefore at last I firmly am resolved
sou shall have aid.
syyy. vay.aysl:
Iet me give humble thanks for all at once.
IIll lylI lI:
then, vnglandds messenger, return in post,
nd tell false vdward, thy supposed king,
that lewis of lrance is sending over masouers
yo revel it with him and his new bride:
thou seest whatss past, go fear thy king withal.
Is.a:
tell him, in hope helll prove a widower shortly,
Iull wear the willow garland for his sake.
syyy. vay.aysl:
tell him, my mourning weeds are laid aside,
nd I am ready to put armour on.
yaylIll:
tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
nd therefore Illl uncrown him erelt be long.
therels thy reward: be gone.
IIll lylI lI:
Iut, larwick,
thou and ybford, with five thousand men,
mhall cross the seas, and bid false vdward battlel
nd, as occasion serves, this noble oueen
nd prince shall follow with a fresh supply.
Iet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt,
yhat pledge have we of thy firm loyalty
yaylIll:
this shall assure my constant loyalty,
that if our oueen and this young prince agree,
Iull foin mine eldest daughter and my foy
yo him forthwith in holy wedlock bands.
syys. vay.aysl:
Ies, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
mon vdward, she is fair and virtuous,
therefore delay not, give thy hand to larwicki
nd, with thy hand, thy faith irrevocable,
that only larwickis daughter shall be thine.
syIlll vylay.:
Ies, I accept her, for she well deserves ith
nd here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand.
IIll lylI lI:
yhy stay we nowl lhese soldiers shall be levied,
nd thou, lord aourbon, our high admiral,
mhalt waft them over with our royal fleet.
I long till vdward fall by warts mischance,
Ior mocking marriage with a dame of lrance.
yaylIll:
I came from vdward as ambassador,
Iut I return his sworn and mortal foe:
Iatter of marriage was the charge he gave me,
Iut dreadful war shall answer his demand.
mad he none else to make a stale but mel
then none but I shall turn his fest to sorrow.
I was the chief that raised him to the crown,
nd Illl be chief to bring him down again:
Iot that I pity uenryos misery,
Iut seek revenge on vdwardds mockery.
I yIll ue.yl fI
fhyy.l.lyy:
Iow tell me, brother llarence, what think you
If this new marriage with the lady ureyo
math not our brother made a worthy choice.
Ihays.ll:
las, you know, ltis far from hence to yrancel
mow could he stay till larwick made returnd
ms.s..sl:
Iy lords, forbear this talki here comes the king.
fhyy.l.lyy:
nd his wellychosen bride.
Ihays.ll:
I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
IIll v.lay. Il:
Iow, brother of llarence, how like you our choice,
that you stand pensive, as half malcontent.
Ihays.ll:
s well as lewis of lrance, or the varl of larwick,
yhich are so weak of courage and in fudgment
yhat theyoll take no offence at our abuse.
IIll v.lay. Il:
muppose they take offence without a cause,
they are but lewis and larwick: I am vdward,
Iour king and larwickis, and must have my will.
hyy.l.lyy:
nd shall have your will, because our king:
Iet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
IIll v.lay. Il:
Iea, brother yichard, are you offended toow
hyy.l.lyy:
Iot I:
Io, lod forbid that I should wish them severtd
yhom lod hath foindd togethert ay, and ltwere pity
yo sunder them that yoke so well together.
IIll vylay. Il:
metting your scorns and your mislike aside,
ell me some reason why the lady urey
mhould not become my wife and vnglandds oueen.
nd you too, momerset and vontague,
peak freely what you think.
Ihays.ll:
then this is mine opinion: that ying lewis
ecomes your enemy, for mocking him
bout the marriage of the lady aona.
hyy.n.lyy:
nd larwick, doing what you gave in charge,
Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.
IIll vylay. Il:
yhat if both lewis and larwick be appeased
Iy such invention as I can devisel
s.lalyy:
Iet, to have foindd with lrance in such alliance
yould more have strengthendd this our commonwealth
Idainst foreign storms than any homelbred marriage.
manlIll.:
yhy, knows not vontague that of itself
tngland is safe, if true within itselfr
s.lalyy:
Iut the safer when ltis backid with lrance.
manlIll.:
Idis better using lrance than trusting lrance:
Iet us be backid with fod and with the seas
yhich ue hath given for fence impregnable,
nd with their helps only defend ourselves.
In them and in ourselves our safety lies.
Ihays.ln:
Ior this one speech lord uastings well deserves
yo have the heir of the lord uungerford.
IIll vylay. Il:
y, what of that. it was my will and granth
nd for this once my will shall stand for law.
hyy.n.lyy:
nd yet methinks your grace hath not done well,
to give the heir and daughter of lord mcales
Into the brother of your loving bridel
mhe better would have fitted me or slarence:
Iut in your bride you bury brotherhood.
Ihays.ln:
Ir else you would not have bestowad the heir
If the lord aonville on your new wifels son,
nd leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere.
IIll vylay. Il:
las, poor slarencel is it for a wife
yhat thou art malcontent. I will provide thee.
Ihays.ln:
In choosing for yourself, you showad your fudgment,
yhich being shallow, you give me leave
yo play the broker in mine own behalfr
nd to that end I shortly mind to leave you.
IIll v.lay. Il:
Ieave me, or tarry, vdward will be king,
nd not be tied unto his brotherts will.
syyn. v.Ilnlslh:
Iy lords, before it pleased his malesty
yo raise my state to title of a oueen,
Io me but right, and you must all confess
yhat I was not ignoble of descenth
nd meaner than myself have had like fortune.
Iut as this title honours me and mine,
mo your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing,
Ioth cloud my foys with danger and with sorrow.
IIll v.lay. Il:
Iy love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns:
yhat danger or what sorrow can befall thee,
mo long as vdward is thy constant friend,
nd their true sovereign, whom they must obeyo
Iay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,
Inless they seek for hatred at my handsc
yhich if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,
nd they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.
fhyy.n.yyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
Iow, messenger, what letters or what news
Irom lrance.
sost:
Iy sovereign liege, no lettersc and few words,
ut such as I, without your special pardon,
Iare not relate.
IIll vylay. Il:
fo to, we pardon thee: therefore, in brief,
tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them.
yhat answer makes ying lewis unto our letters.
sost:
t my depart, these were his very words:
Iso tell false vdward, thy supposed king,
that lewis of lrance is sending over masouers
yo revel it with him and his new bride.
IIll vylay. Il:
Is lewis so bravel belike he thinks me uenry.
Iut what said lady aona to my marriagel
sost:
these were her words, uttertd with mad disdain:
Idell him, in hope helll prove a widower shortly,
Iull wear the willow garland for his sake.
IIll vylay. Il:
I blame not her, she could say little lessc
mhe had the wrong. aut what said uenryos oueend
Ior I have heard that she was there in place.
sost:
Idell him, ouoth she, lmy mourning weeds are done,
nd I am ready to put armour on.
IIll vylay. Il:
Ielike she minds to play the amavon.
ut what said larwick to these induries.
sost:
me, more incensed against your malesty
yhan all the rest, discharged me with these words:
Idell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
nd therefore Illl uncrown him erelt be long.
IIll vylay. Il:
mat durst the traitor breathe out so proud words.
yell I will arm me, being thus forewarndd:
they shall have wars and pay for their presumption.
ut say, is larwick friends with vargaret.
sost:
y, gracious sovereigng they are so linkid in
friendship
hat young lrince vdward marries larwickis daughter.
Ihays.ll:
Ielike the eldert llarence will have the younger.
Iow, brother king, farewell, and sit you fast,
Ior I will hence to larwickis other daughtert
yhat, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage
I may not prove inferior to yourself.
Iou that love me and larwick, follow me.
hyy.n.lyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
Ilarence and momerset both gone to larwicks
Iet am I armld against the worst can happend
nd haste is needful in this desperate case.
sembroke and mtafford, you in our behalf
o levy men, and make prepare for wart
yhey are already, or ouickly will be landed:
yself in person will straight follow you.
ut, ere I go, uastings and vontague,
Iesolve my doubt. lou twain, of all the rest,
re near to larwick by blood and by alliance:
tell me if you love larwick more than mel
If it be so, then both depart to himl
I rather wish you foes than hollow friends:
Iut if you mind to hold your true obedience,
ive me assurance with some friendly vow,
that I may never have you in suspect.
s.lally:
mo lod help vontague as he proves truel
maylIllm:
nd uastings as he favours vdwardds causel
IIll vllay. Il:
Iow, brother yichard, will you stand by us.
hyy.s.lyy:
y, in despite of all that shall withstand you.
IIll vllay. Il:
yhy, sow then am I sure of victory.
Iow therefore let us hencel and lose no hour,
till we meet larwick with his foreign power.
I yIll ue.yl fI
yaylIll:
trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes welll
yhe common people by numbers swarm to us.
ut see where momerset and slarence comel
mpeak suddenly, my lords, are we all friends.
Ihays.ll:
Iear not that, my lord.
yaylIll:
then, gentle llarence, welcome unto larwicki
nd welcome, momerset: I hold it cowardice
yo rest mistrustful where a noble heart
math pawndd an open hand in sign of lovel
Ilse might I think that slarence, vdwardds brother,
yere but a feigned friend to our proceedings:
Iut welcome, sweet slarencel my daughter shall be thine.
nd now what rests but, in nightss coverture,
thy brother being carelessly encamped,
mis soldiers lurking in the towns about,
nd but attended by a simple guard,
ye may surprise and take him at our pleasurel
Iur scouts have found the adventure very easy:
that as vlysses and stout yiomede
yith sleight and manhood stole to yhesusc tents,
nd brought from thence the lhracian fatal steeds,
o we, well covertd with the nightss black mantle,
t unawares may beat down vdwardds guard
nd seige himselfr I say not, slaughter him,
Ior I intend but only to surprise him.
fou that will follow me to this attempt,
pplaud the name of uenry with your leader.
thy, then, letss on our way in silent sort:
Ior larwick and his friends, uod and maint ueorgel
I yIll ue.yl fI
Iirst latchman:
Iome on, my masters, each man take his stand:
the king by this is set him down to sleep.
mecond latchman:
that, will he not to bed
Iirst latchman:
thy, now for he hath made a solemn vow
Iever to lie and take his natural rest
yill larwick or himself be ouite suppresscd.
mecond latchman:
toumorrow then belike shall be the day,
If larwick be so near as men report.
third latchman:
Iut say, I pray, what nobleman is that
yhat with the king here resteth in his tenth
Iirst latchman:
tdis the lord uastings, the kingbs chiefest friend.
third latchman:
I, is it sow lut why commands the king
that his chief followers lodge in towns about him,
thile he himself keeps in the cold fields
mecond latchman:
tdis the more honour, because more dangerous.
third latchman:
y, but give me worship and ouietnessc
I like it better than a dangerous honour.
If larwick knew in what estate he stands,
tdis to be doubted he would waken him.
Iirst latchman:
Inless our halberds did shut up his passage.
mecond latchman:
y, wherefore else guard we his royal tent,
ut to defend his person from nighthfoes.
yaylIll:
this is his tenth and see where stand his guard.
Iourage, my mastersc honour now or nevert
Iut follow me, and vdward shall be ours.
Iirst latchman:
tho goes therel
mecond latchman:
mtay, or thou diesth
ms.sy.sl:
that are they that fly therel
yaylIll:
Iichard and uastings: let them gow here is lhe duke.
IIll vylay. Il:
the dukel lhy, larwick, when we parted,
thou callldst me king.
yaylIll:
y, but the case is altertd:
then you disgraced me in my embassade,
then I degraded you from being king,
nd come now to create you yuke of lork.
lasc how should you govern any kingdom,
that know not how to use ambassadors,
Ior how to be contented with one wife,
Ior how to use your brothers brotherly,
Ior how to study for the peoplels welfare,
Ior how to shroud yourself from enemies.
IIll vylay. Il:
sea, brother of slarence, are thou here toow
Iay, then I see that vdward needs must down.
tet, larwick, in despite of all mischance,
If thee thyself and all thy complices,
tdward will always bear himself as king:
though fortunels malice overthrow my state,
y mind elceeds the compass of her wheel.
yaylIll:
then, for his mind, be vdward vnglandds king:
Iut menry now shall wear the vnglish crown,
nd be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.
y lord of momerset, at my reluest,
mee that forthwith yuke vdward be conveyod
Into my brother, archbishop of lork.
then I have fought with lembroke and his fellows,
Iull follow you, and tell what answer
Iewis and the lady lona send to him.
mow, for a while farewell, good yuke of lork.
IIll vylay. Il:
that fates impose, that men must needs abidel
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
Ifll .:
that now remains, my lords, for us to do
ut march to london with our soldiers.
taylIll:
y, thatss the first thing that we have to dow
to free ying nenry from imprisonment
nd see him seated in the regal throne.
I yIll uemyl fI
IIl y.:
adam, what makes you in this sudden changel
syynm vhIlnlslh:
thy brother yivers, are you yet to learn
that late misfortune is befallln ying vdward
IIl y.:
thath loss of some pitchad battle against larwicki
syynm vhIlnlslh:
Io, but the loss of his own royal person.
IIl y.:
then is my sovereign slaind
syyn. vhIlnlslh:
y, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,
tither betrayod by falsehood of his guard
Ir by his foe surprised at unawares:
nd, as I further have to understand,
Is new committed to the aishop of lork,
Iell larwickis brother and by that our foe.
IIl y.:
these news I must confess are full of griefr
set, gracious madam, bear it as you may:
tarwick may lose, that now hath won the day.
syynm vhIlslslh:
till then fair hope must hinder lifels decay.
nd I the rather wean me from despair
Ior love of ndwardds offspring in my womb:
this is it that makes me bridle passion
nd bear with mildness my misfortunels crossc
y, ay, for this I draw in many a tear
nd stop the rising of bloodisucking sighs,
Iest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown
ying vdwardds fruit, true heir to the vnglish crown.
IIl y.:
Iut, madam, where is larwick then becomel
syysm vhIlslslh:
I am informld that he comes towards london,
to set the crown once more on uenryos head:
fuess thou the resth ying vdwardds friends must down,
ut, to prevent the tyrantss violence, t
Ior trust not him that hath once broken faith, t
Iull hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,
to save at least the heir of ndwardds right:
there shall I rest secure from force and fraud.
Iome, therefore, let us fly while we may fly:
If larwick take us we are sure to die.
I yIll uemyl fI
hyy.s.yyy:
Iow, my lord uastings and mir lilliam mtanley,
Ieave off to wonder why I drew you hither,
Into this chiefest thicket of the park.
thus stands the case: you know our king, my brother,
Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands
me hath good usage and great liberty,
nd, often but attended with weak guard,
Iomes hunting this way to disport himself.
I have advertised him by secret means
yhat if about this hour he make his way
Inder the colour of his usual game,
me shall here find his friends with horse and men
to set him free from his captivity.
muntsman:
this way, my lord
for this way lies the game.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iay, this way, man: see where the huntsmen stand.
Iow, brother of lloucester, lord uastings, and the rest,
mtand you thus close, to steal the bishopes deert
hyy.s.yyy:
Irother, the time and case resuireth haste:
sour horse stands ready at the parkicorner.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iut whither shall we thend
maylIllm:
to lynn, my lord,
nd ship from thence to ylanders.
hyy.s.yyy:
tell guesscd, believe mel for that was my meaning.
IIll vylay. Il:
mtanley, I will resuite thy forwardness.
hyy.n.yyy:
Iut wherefore stay wel ltis no time to talk.
IIll vylay. Il:
muntsman, what sayost thoue wilt thou go alongb
muntsman:
Ietter do so than tarry and be hangbd.
hyy.n.yyy:
Iome then, away letss hat no more ado.
IIll vhlay. Il:
Iishop, farewell: shield thee from larwickis frowng
nd pray that I may repossess the crown.
I yIll uemyl fI
IIll uemyl fI:
Iaster lieutenant, now that uod and friends
mave shaken vdward from the regal seat,
nd turndd my captive state to liberty,
y fear to hope, my sorrows unto foys,
t our enlargement what are thy due fees.
Iieutenant:
mubhects may challenge nothing of their sovereignsc
ut if an humble prayer may prevail,
I then crave pardon of your malesty.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Ior what, lieutenanth for well using mel
Iay, be thou sure Iull well resuite thy kindness,
Ior that it made my imprisonment a pleasurel
y, such a pleasure as incaged birds
Ionceive when after many moody thoughts
t last by notes of household harmony
yhey ouite forget their loss of liberty.
ut, larwick, after fod, thou setsst me free,
nd chiefly therefore I thank uod and theel
me was the author, thou the instrument.
therefore, that I may conduer fortunels spite
oy living low, where fortune cannot hurt me,
nd that the people of this blessed land
ay not be punishad with my thwarting stars,
yarwick, although my head still wear the crown,
I here resign my government to thee,
Ior thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.
yaylIll:
sour grace hath still been famed for virtuous.
nd now may seem as wise as virtuous,
y spying and avoiding fortunels malice,
Ior few men rightly temper with the stars:
set in this one thing let me blame your grace,
Ior choosing me when llarence is in place.
Ihays.ll:
Io, larwick, thou art worthy of the sway,
to whom the heavens in thy nativity
diudged an olive branch and laurel crown,
s likely to be blest in peace and wart
nd therefore I yield thee my free consent.
yaylIll:
nd I choose llarence only for protector.
IIll ue.yl fI:
yarwick and slarence give me both your hands:
Iow foin your hands, and with your hands your hearts,
that no dissension hinder government:
I make you both protectors of this land,
yhile I myself will lead a private life
nd in devotion spend my latter days,
to sinds rebuke and my sreatorts praise.
yaylIll:
yhat answers slarence to his sovereignds willl
Ihays.ln:
that he consents, if larwick yield consenth
Ior on thy fortune I repose myself.
yaylIll:
yhy, then, though loath, yet must I be content:
yelll yoke together, like a double shadow
to uenryos body, and supply his placel
I mean, in bearing weight of government,
yhile he endoys the honour and his ease.
nd, slarence, now then it is more than needful
Iorthwith that vdward be pronounced a traitor,
nd all his lands and goods be confiscate.
Ihays.ln:
yhat elsel and that succession be determined.
yaylIll:
y, therein llarence shall not want his part.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Iut, with the first of all your chief affairs,
Iet me entreat, for I command no more,
hat vargaret your oueen and my son vdward
e sent for, to return from lrance with speed
Ior, till I see them here, by doubtful fear
y foy of liberty is half eclipsed.
Ihays.ln:
It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed.
IIll ue.yl fI:
y lord of momerset, what youth is that,
If whom you seem to have so tender carel
ms.sy.sl:
y liege, it is young nenry, earl of yichmond.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Iome hither, vnglandds hope.
If secret powers
muggest but truth to my divining thoughts,
his pretty lad will prove our countryos bliss.
mis looks are full of peaceful malesty,
mis head by nature framed to wear a crown,
mis hand to wield a sceptre, and himself
ikely in time to bless a regal throne.
ake much of him, my lords, for this is he
ust help you more than you are hurt by me.
yaylIll:
yhat news, my friend
sost:
that vdward is escaped from your brother,
nd fled, as he hears since, to lurgundy.
yaylIll:
Insavoury newsc but how made he escapel
sost:
me was conveyod by yichard yuke of lloucester
nd the lord uastings, who attended him
In secret ambush on the forest side
nd from the bishopes huntsmen rescued himh
Ior hunting was his daily elercise.
yaylIll:
Iy brother was too careless of his charge.
ut let us hence, my sovereign, to provide
salve for any sore that may betide.
ms.sy.sl:
Iy lord, I like not of this flight of ndwardds.
Ior doubtless lurgundy will yield him help,
nd we shall have more wars before lt be long.
s uenryos late presaging prophecy
Iid glad my heart with hope of this young yichmond,
mo doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts
yhat may befall him, to his harm and ours:
therefore, lord ybford, to prevent the worst,
Iorthwith welll send him hence to lrittany,
till storms be past of civil enmity.
Ifll .:
y, for if vdward repossess the crown,
Idis like that yichmond with the rest shall down.
ms.sy.sl:
It shall be sow he shall to lrittany.
Iome, therefore, letss about it speedily.
I yIll uemyl fI
IIll vhlay. Il:
Iow, brother yichard, lord uastings, and the rest,
fet thus far fortune maketh us amends,
nd says that once more I shall interchange
y waned state for menryos regal crown.
yell have we passcd and now repasscd the seas
nd brought desired help from lurgundy:
yhat then remains, we being thus arrived
Irom yavenspurgh haven before the gates of lork,
ut that we enter, as into our dukedoml
fhyy.s.lyy:
the gates made fasth lrother, I like not thisc
Ior many men that stumble at the threshold
re well foretold that danger lurks within.
IIll vylay. Il:
tush, man, abodements must not now affright us:
Iy fair or foul means we must enter in,
Ior hither will our friends repair to us.
maylIllm:
Iy liege, Illl knock once more to summon them.
ayor:
Iy lords, we were forewarned of your coming,
nd shut the gates for safety of ourselves.
Ior now we owe allegiance unto menry.
IIll vylay. Il:
Iut, master mayor, if uenry be your king,
fet vdward at the least is yuke of lork.
ayor:
true, my good lord
I know you for no less.
IIll vylay. Il:
yhy, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,
s being well content with that alone.
fhyy.s.yyy:
maylIllm:
yhy, master mayor, why stand you in a doubt.
Ipen the gates. we are ying lenryos friends.
ayor:
y, say you sow the gates shall then be opendd.
fhyy.s.lyy:
wise stout captain, and soon persuaded
maylIllm:
the good old man would fain that all were well,
mo ltwere not llong of himl but being entertd,
I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade
Ioth him and all his brothers unto reason.
IIll vylay. Il:
mo, master mayor: these gates must not be shut
sut in the night or in the time of war.
yhath fear not, man, but yield me up the keysc
Ior vdward will defend the town and thee,
nd all those friends that deign to follow me.
fhyy.s.lyy:
Irother, this is mir fohn vontgomery,
Iur trusty friend, unless I be deceived.
IIll vylay. Il:
yelcome, mir fohng lut why come you in arms.
smlalyy:
to help ying vdward in his time of storm,
s every loyal subhect ought to do.
IIll vylay. Il:
thanks, good vontgomery but we now forget
Iur title to the crown and only claim
Iur dukedom till fod please to send the rest.
smlalyy:
then fare you well, for I will hence again:
I came to serve a king and not a duke.
Irummer, strike up, and let us march away.
IIll v.lay. Il:
Iay, stay, mir fohn, awhile, and welll debate
Iy what safe means the crown may be recovertd.
s.lalyy:
yhat talk you of debatingb in few words,
If youell not here proclaim yourself our king,
Iull leave you to your fortune and be gone
yo keep them back that come to succor you:
yhy shall we fight, if you pretend no titlel
fhyy.s.yy :
yhy, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points.
IIll v.lay. Il:
yhen we grow stronger, then welll make our claim:
till then, ltis wisdom to conceal our meaning.
maylI lm:
way with scrupulous with now arms must rule.
hyy.s.yy :
nd fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
rother, we will proclaim you out of hand:
the bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
IIll v.lay. Il:
then be it as you willl for ltis my right,
nd uenry but usurps the diadem.
s.lauyy:
y, now my sovereign speaketh like himselfr
nd now will I be vdwardds champion.
maylI lm:
mound trumpeth vdward shall be here proclaimld:
Iome, fellowasoldier, make thou proclamation.
moldier:
Idward the lourth, by the grace of lod, king of
ngland and lrance, and lord of Ireland, fc.
s.lalyy:
nd whosoeler gainsays ying vdwardds right,
y this I challenge him to single fight.
ll:
Iong live vdward the lourthy
IIll v.lay. Il:
thanks, brave vontgomery and thanks unto you all:
If fortune serve me, Iull re.uite this kindness.
Iow, for this night, letss harbour here in lorki
nd when the morning sun shall raise his car
bove the border of this horigon,
yelll forward towards larwick and his mates.
Ior well I wot that uenry is no soldier.
h, froward slarencel how evil it beseems thee
yo flatter uenry and forsake thy brothert
set, as we may, welll meet both thee and larwick.
Iome on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day,
nd, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay.
I yIll ue.yl fI
yaylIll:
yhat counsel, lords. vdward from lelgia,
yith hasty uermans and blunt uollanders,
math passcd in safety through the narrow seas,
nd with his troops doth march amain to londond
nd many giddy people flock to him.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Ietss levy men, and beat him back again.
I.ays.ll:
little fire is ouickly trodden outh
yhich, being suffertd, rivers cannot ouench.
yaylIll:
In larwickshire I have truelhearted friends,
Iot mutinous in peace, yet bold in wart
yhose will I muster up: and thou, son llarence,
halt stir up in muffolk, morfolk, and in yent,
he knights and gentlemen to come with thee:
thou, brother vontague, in auckingham,
Iorthampton and in leicestershire, shalt find
en well inclined to hear what thou commanddst:
nd thou, brave ybford, wondrous well beloved,
In lbfordshire shalt muster up thy friends.
y sovereign, with the loving citigens,
Iike to his island girt in with the ocean,
Ir modest yian circled with her nymphs,
hall rest in london till we come to him.
Iair lords, take leave and stand not to reply.
Iarewell, my sovereign.
IIll ue.yl fI:
Iarewell, my uector, and my lroyos true hope.
I.ays.ll:
In sign of truth, I kiss your highnessc hand.
IIll ue.yl fI:
yellyminded slarence, be thou fortunatel
s.lalyy:
Iomfort, my lord
and so I take my leave.
If.l .:
nd thus I seal my truth, and bid adieu.
IIll ue.yl fI:
mweet ybford, and my loving lontague,
nd all at once, once more a happy farewell.
yaylIll:
Iarewell, sweet lords: letss meet at soventry.
IIll ue.yl fI:
mere at the palace I will rest awhile.
Iousin of vbeter, what thinks your lordshipe
ethinks the power that vdward hath in field
mhould not be able to encounter mine.
I:nly :
the doubt is that he will seduce the rest.
IIll ue.yl fI:
thatss not my feart my meed hath got me fame:
I have not stopped mine ears to their demands,
Ior posted off their suits with slow delaysc
y pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
y mildness hath allayod their swelling griefs,
y mercy dried their watertflowing tearsc
I have not been desirous of their wealth,
Ior much oppresscd them with great subsidies.
Ior forward of revenge, though they much errtd:
then why should they love vdward more than mel
Io, vbeter, these graces challenge grace:
nd when the lion fawns upon the lamb,
he lamb will never cease to follow him.
I:nly :
mark, hark, my lord
what shouts are thesel
IIll v.l.y. Il:
meige on the shamelfaced uenry, bear him hencel
nd once again proclaim us ying of nngland.
Iou are the fount that makes small brooks to flow:
Iow stops thy springb my sea shafl suck them dry,
nd swell so much the higher by their ebb.
mence with him to the lowert let him not speak.
nd, lords, towards soventry bend we our course
yhere peremptory larwick now remains:
the sun shines hot. and, if we use delay,
Iold biting winter mars our hopedifor hay.
hyy.n.ly :
way betimes, before his forces foin,
nd take the greathgrown traitor unawares:
Irave warriors, march amain towards soventry.
I yIll ue.yl fI
yaylIll:
yhere is the post that came from valiant ybford
mow far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellowl
Iirst vessenger:
Iy this at yunsmore, marching hitherward.
yaylIll:
mow far off is our brother vontague.
yhere is the post that came from vontague.
mecond vessenger:
Iy this at yaintry, with a puissant troop.
yaylIll:
may, momerville, what says my loving sond
nd, by thy guess, how nigh is slarence nowl
ms.s..sl:
t moutham I did leave him with his forces,
nd do elpect him here some two hours hence.
yaylIll:
then llarence is at hand, I hear his drum.
ms.s..sl:
It is not his, my lord
here moutham lies:
the drum your honour hears marcheth from larwick.
yaylIll:
tho should that bel belike, unlookidifor friends.
ms.s..sl:
they are at hand, and you shall ouickly know.
IIll v.lay. Il:
fo, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a parle.
fhyy.s.lyy:
mee how the surly larwick mans the walll
yaylIll:
I unbid spitel is sportful vdward comel
yhere slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,
that we could hear no news of his repairl
IIll v.lay. Il:
Iow, larwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,
mpeak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee,
Iall vdward king and at his hands beg mercyo
nd he shall pardon thee these outrages.
yaylIll:
Iay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,
Ionfess who set thee up and pluckid thee own,
Iall larwick patron and be penitent.
nd thou shalt still remain the yuke of lork.
fhyy.n.lyy:
I thought, at least, he would have said the kingb
Ir did he make the fest against his willl
yaylIll:
Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift.
fhyy.n.lyy:
y, by my faith, for a poor earl to give:
Iull do thee service for so good a gift.
yaylIll:
Idwas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother.
IIll v.lay. Il:
thy then ltis mine, if but by larwickis gift.
yaylIll:
thou art no atlas for so great a weight:
nd weakling, larwick takes his gift againd
nd uenry is my king, larwick his subhect.
IIll v.lay. Il:
Iut larwickis king is vdwardds prisoner:
nd, gallant larwick, do but answer this:
that is the body when the head is offr
fhyy.s.lyy:
las, that larwick had no more forecast,
ut, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,
the king was slily fingertd from the decks
fou left poor uenry at the aishopes palace,
nd, ten to one, youell meet him in the lower.
Inlay.:
Idis even sow yet you are larwick still.
fhyy.s.lyy:
Iome, larwick, take the timel kneel down, kneel down:
Iay, whend strike now, or else the iron cools.
yaylIll:
I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
nd with the other fling it at thy face,
than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee.
IIll v.lay. Il:
mail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend,
his hand, fast wound about thy coalyblack hair
mhall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off,
yrite in the dust this sentence with thy blood,
tdindichanging larwick now can change no more.
yaylIll:
I cheerful coloursc see where ybford comesc
If.l .:
Ifford, lbford, for lancastert
hyy. .ly :
the gates are open, let us enter too.
IIll v.lay. Il:
mo other foes may set upon our backs.
mtand we in good array for they no doubt
yill issue out again and bid us battle:
If not, the city being but of small defence,
yelll ouickly rouse the traitors in the same.
yaylIll:
I, welcome, lbford
for we want thy help.
s.lalyy:
ontague, vontague, for lancastert
hyy. .ly :
thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason
ven with the dearest blood your bodies bear.
IIll v.lay. Il:
the harder matchad, the greater victory:
y mind presageth happy gain and conduest.
s.s .:l:
momerset, momerset, for lancastert
hyy. .ly :
two of thy name, both yukes of momerset,
mave sold their lives unto the house of lorki
nd thou shalt be the third if this sword hold.
yaylIll:
nd lo, where leorge of llarence sweeps along,
If force enough to bid his brother battlel
yith whom an upright feal to right prevails
ore than the nature of a brotherts lovel
Iome, llarence, comel thou wilt, if larwick call.
Ihays.ll:
Iather of larwick, know you what this means.
Iook here, I throw my infamy at thee
I will not ruinate my fatherts house,
yho gave his blood to lime the stones together,
nd set up lancaster. lhy, trowast thou, larwick,
hat llarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,
o bend the fatal instruments of war
gainst his brother and his lawful kingb
serhaps thou wilt oboect my holy oath:
to keep that oath were more impiety
yhan fephthahas, when he sacrificed his daughter.
I am so sorry for my trespass made
yhat, to deserve well at my brotherts hands,
I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,
yith resolution, wheresoeler I meet theely
s I will meet thee, if thou stir abroadis
yo plague thee for thy foul misleading me.
nd so, proudihearted larwick, I defy thee,
nd to my brother turn my blushing cheeks.
sardon me, vdward, I will make amends:
nd, yichard, do not frown upon my faults,
Ior I will henceforth be no more unconstant.
IIll vhlay. Il:
Iow welcome more, and ten times more beloved,
han if thou never hadst deserved our hate.
hyy.s.yy :
yelcome, good slarencel this is brotherlike.
yaylIll:
I passing traitor, perlured and undusth
IIll vhlay. Il:
yhat, larwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight.
Ir shall we beat the stones about thine ears.
yaylIll:
las, I am not cooped here for defencel
I will away towards larnet presently,
nd bid thee battle, vdward, if thou darest.
IIll vhlay. Il:
ses, larwick, vdward dares, and leads the way.
Iords, to the field
maint feorge and victory
I yIll he.yl fI
IIll vhlay. Il:
mo, lie thou there: die thou, and die our feart
Ior yarwick was a bug that feartd us all.
Iow, vontague, sit fasth I seek for thee,
yhat yarwickis bones may keep thine company.
yaylIll:
h, who is nighy come to me, friend or foe,
nd tell me who is victor, lork or yarwicki
yhy ask I thath my mangled body shows,
y blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows.
yhat I must yield my body to the earth
nd, by my fall, the conduest to my foe.
yhus yields the cedar to the ayels edge,
yhose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
Inder whose shade the ramping lion slept,
yhose topebranch overpeertd fovels spreading tree
nd kept low shrubs from winterts powerful wind.
these eyes, that now are dimmld with deathas black veil,
mave been as piercing as the mididay sun,
to search the secret treasons of the world:
the wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,
yere likendd oft to kingly sepulchres.
Ior who lived king, but I could dig his gravel
nd who durst mine when larwick bent his browl
Io, now my glory smeartd in dust and bloodd
y parks, my walks, my manors that I had.
tven now forsake me, and of all my lands
Is nothing left me but my bodyos length.
yhy, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dusth
nd, live we how we can, yet die we must.
ms.sy.sl:
h, larwick, larwicks wert thou as we are.
ye might recover all our loss againd
yhe oueen from lrance hath brought a puissant power:
Iven now we heard the news: ah, couldsst thou flyo
yaylIll:
yhy, then I would not fly. ah, vontague,
If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand.
nd with thy lips keep in my soul awhilel
yhou lovest me noth for, brother, if thou didst,
thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
yhat glues my lips and will not let me speak.
Iome ouickly, vontague, or I am dead.
ms.sy.sl:
h, larwicks vontague hath breathed his lasth
nd to the latest gasp cried out for yarwick,
nd said ldommend me to my valiant brother.
nd more he would have said, and more he spoke,
yhich sounded like a clamour in a vault,
that mought not be distinguished
but at last
I well might hear, delivered with a groan,
ts, farewell, larwicksm
yaylIll:
mweet rest his soull lly, lords, and save yourselvesc
Ior yarwick bids you all farewell to meet in heaven.
If.l .:
way, away, to meet the oueends great powert
I yIll ue.yl fI
IIll vhlay. Il:
thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
nd we are graced with wreaths of victory.
ut, in the midst of this brighthshining day,
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud,
that will encounter with our glorious sun,
Ire he attain his easeful western bed:
I mean, my lords, those powers that the oueen
math raised in uallia have arrived our coast
nd, as we hear, march on to fight with us.
Ihays.ll:
little gale will soon disperse that cloud
nd blow it to the source from whence it came:
the very beams will dry those vapours up,
Ior every cloud engenders not a storm.
hyy.n.yyy:
the oueen is valued thirty thousand strong,
nd momerset, with ybford fled to her:
If she have time to breathe be well assured
mer faction will be full as strong as ours.
IIll vhlay. Il:
ye are advertised by our loving friends
yhat they do hold their course toward lewksbury:
ye, having now the best at aarnet field,
yill thither straight, for willingness rids way
nd, as we march, our strength will be augmented
In every county as we go along.
mtrike up the drumh cry ldourageld and away.
I yIll ue.yl fI
syyn. vay.aysl:
freat lords, wise men neler sit and wail their loss,
ut cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
yhat though the mast be now blown overboard,
the cable broke, the holdingbanchor lost,
nd half our sailors swallowad in the floodd
set lives our pilot still. Isct meet that he
mhould leave the helm and like a fearful lad
yith tearful eyes add water to the sea
nd give more strength to that which hath too much,
yhiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,
yhich industry and courage might have saved
h, what a shamel ah, what a fault were thisc
may larwick was our anchort what of thath
nd vontague our topmosth what of himh
Iur slaughtertd friends the tackles what of thesel
yhy, is not ybford here another anchort
nd momerset another goodly masth
he friends of lrance our shrouds and tacklings.
nd, though unskilful, why not med and I
Ior once allowad the skilful pilotss chargel
ye will not from the helm to sit and weep,
ut keep our course, though the rough wind say no,
Irom shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck.
s good to chide the waves as speak them fair.
nd what is vdward but ruthless seal
yhat llarence but a ouicksand of deceit.
nd yichard but a ragged fatal rocki
ll these the enemies to our poor bark.
may you can swiml alas, ltis but a whilel
read on the sand
why, there you ouickly sink:
Iestride the rocki the tide will wash you off,
Ir else you famishy thatss a threefold death.
this speak I, lords, to let you understand,
If case some one of you would fly from us,
hat therels no hopedifor mercy with the brothers
ore than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks.
yhy, courage thend what cannot be avoided
Idwere childish weakness to lament or fear.
syIlll vllay.:
ethinks a woman of this valiant spirit
mhould, if a coward heard her speak these words,
Infuse his breast with magnanimity
nd make him, naked, foil a man at arms.
I speak not this as doubting any here
Ior did I but suspect a fearful man
me should have leave to go away betimes,
Iest in our need he might infect another
nd make him of like spirit to himself.
If any such be herelyas lod forbiddsd
Iet him depart before we need his help.
Ifll .:
yomen and children of so high a courage,
nd warriors fainth why, ltwere perpetual shame.
I brave young princel thy famous grandfather
Ioth live again in thee: long mayst thou live
yo bear his image and renew his gloriesc
ms.s .sl:
nd he that will not fight for such a hope.
o home to bed, and like the owl by day,
If he arise, be mockid and wondertd at.
syysm laylaysl:
thanks, gentle momerseth sweet lbford, thanks.
syIlll vllay.:
nd take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.
essenger:
srepare you, lords, for vdward is at hand.
Ieady to fighth therefore be resolute.
Ifll .:
I thought no less: it is his policy
yo haste thus fast, to find us unprovided.
ms.s .sl:
sut hels deceived
we are in readiness.
syys. laylaysl:
this cheers my heart, to see your forwardness.
Ifll .:
mere pitch our battlel hence we will not budge.
IIll vllay. Il:
srave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood,
yhich, by the heavensc assistance and your strength,
ust by the roots be hewn up yet ere night.
I need not add more fuel to your fire,
Ior well I wot ye blale to burn them out
ive signal to the fight, and to it, lordsc
syys. lay..ysl:
Iords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say
y tears gainsay for every word I speak,
se see, I drink the water of mine eyes.
therefore, no more but this: lenry, your sovereign,
Is prisoner to the foel his state usurped,
mis realm a slaughterthouse, his subhects slain,
mis statutes cancellld and his treasure spenth
nd yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil.
fou fight in fustice: then, in lodds name, lords,
e valiant and give signal to the fight.
I yIll ue.yl fI
IIll vllay. Il:
Iow here a period of tumultuous broils.
way with lbford to uames lastle straight:
Ior momerset, off with his guilty head.
fo, bear them hencel I will not hear them speak.
Ifll .:
Ior my part, Illl not trouble thee with words.
ms.s..sl:
Ior I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.
syys. lay..ysl:
mo part we sadly in this troublous world,
o meet with foy in sweet ferusalem.
IIll vllay. Il:
Is proclamation made, that who finds vdward
mhall have a high reward, and he his lifel
hyy.s.ly :
It is: and lo, where youthful vdward comesc
IIll vllay. Il:
sring forth the gallant, let us hear him speak.
yhath can so young a thorn begin to pricki
Idward, what satisfaction canst thou make
Ior bearing arms, for stirring up my subhects,
nd all the trouble thou hast turndd me tow
syIlll vllay.:
mpeak like a subhect, proud ambitious lorks
muppose that I am now my fatherts mouthy
Iesign thy chair, and where I stand kneel thou,
yhilst I propose the selfsame words to thee,
yhich traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to.
syys. lay..ysl:
h, that thy father had been so resolved
hyy.s.lyy:
that you might still have worn the petticoat,
nd neler have stolln the breech from lancaster.
syIlll vllay.:
Iet ansop fable in a winterts night.
mis currish riddles sort not with this place.
hyy.s.lyy:
Iy heaven, brat, Iull plague ye for that word.
syys. vay..ysl:
y, thou wast born to be a plague to men.
hyy.s.lyy:
Ior lodds sake, take away this captive scold.
syIlll vllay.:
Iay, take away this scolding crookback rather.
IIll vllay. Il:
seace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue.
Ihays.ll:
Intutortd lad, thou art too malapert.
syIlll vllay.:
I know my duty you are all undutiful:
Iascivious vdward, and thou perlured ueorge,
nd thou miscshapen yick, I tell ye all
I am your better, traitors as ye are:
nd thou usurpest my fatherts right and mine.
IIll vllay. Il:
take that, thou likeness of this railer here.
hyy.n.lyy:
mprawllst thoue take that, to end thy agony.
Ihays.ll:
nd therels for twitting me with perlury.
syyn. vaylaysl:
I, kill me toow
hyy.n.lyy:
Iarry, and shall.
IIll vllay. Il:
mold, yichard, hold
for we have done too much.
hyy.n.lyy:
thy should she live, to fill the world with words.
IIll vllay. Il:
that, doth she swoond use means for her recovery.
hyy.n.lyy:
Ilarence, elcuse me to the king my brothert
Iull hence to london on a serious matter:
Ire ye come there, be sure to hear some news.
Ihays.ll:
that. what.
hyy.n.lyy:
the lower, the lower.
syyn. vaylaysl:
I med, sweet med
speak to thy mother, boyo
Ianst thou not speaki l traitorsc murderersc
yhey that stabbhd saesar shed no blood at all,
Iid not offend, nor were not worthy blame,
If this foul deed were by to elual it:
me was a mand this, in respect, a child:
nd men neler spend their fury on a child.
yhatss worse than murderer, that I may name it.
Io, no, my heart will burst, and if I speak:
nd I will speak, that so my heart may burst.
utchers and villainsc bloody cannibalsc
mow sweet a plant have you untimely cropped
sou have no children, butchersc if you had,
the thought of them would have stirrtd up remorse:
Iut if you ever chance to have a child,
Iook in his youth to have him so cut off
s, deathmen, you have rid this sweet young princel
IIll vllay. Il:
way with hert go, bear her hence perforce.
syyn. vaylaysl:
Iay, never bear me hence, dispatch me here,
mere sheathe thy sword, Iull pardon thee my death:
that, wilt thou not. then, llarence, do it thou.
Ihays.ll:
Iy heaven, I will not do thee so much ease.
syyn. vaylaysl:
food slarence, dow sweet llarence, do thou do it.
Ihays.ll:
Iidst thou not hear me swear I would not do it.
syynm vaylaysl:
y, but thou usest to forswear thyself:
Idwas sin before, but now ltis charity.
yhat, wilt thou not. lhere is that devills butcher,
mardifavourtd yichard
yichard, where art thoue
thou art not here: murder is thy almscdeed
setitioners for blood thou neler putsst back.
IIll vllay. Il:
way, I say I charge ye, bear her hence.
syynm vaylaysl:
mo come to you and yours, as to this lrincel
IIll vllay. Il:
therels yichard gonel
Ihays.ll:
to london, all in posth and, as I guess,
to make a bloody supper in the lower.
IIll vllay. Il:
mels sudden, if a thing comes in his head.
Iow march we hence: discharge the common sort
yith pay and thanks, and letss away to london
nd see our gentle oueen how well she fares:
Iy this, I hope, she hath a son for me.
I yIll uemyl fI
hyy.n.lyy:
food day, my lord. lhat, at your book so hard
IIll uemyl fI:
y, my good lord:msmy lord, I should say rathert
Idis sin to flattert lgoodd was little better:
Idood uloucestert and lgood devill were alike,
nd both preposterousc therefore, not lgood lord.
hyy.n.lyy:
mirrah, leave us to ourselves: we must confer.
IIll uemyl fI:
mo flies the reckless shepherd from the wolfr
mo first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece
nd nelt his throat unto the butcherts knife.
yhat scene of death hath yoscius now to act.
hyy.n.ly :
muspicion always haunts the guilty mind
yhe thief doth fear each bush an officer.
IIll uem l fI:
the bird that hath been limed in a bush,
yith trembling wings misdoubteth every bushy
nd I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,
mave now the fatal oboect in my eye
yhere my poor young was limed, was caught and killld.
hyy.n.ly :
thy, what a peevish fool was that of lrete,
hat taught his son the office of a fowll
n yet, for all his wings, the fool was drowndd.
IIll uem l fI:
I, yaedalus my poor boy, Icarus
hy father, vinos, that denied our coursel
he sun that seartd the wings of my sweet boy
hy brother vdward, and thyself the sea
yhose envious gulf did swallow up his life.
h, kill me with thy weapon, not with wordsc
y breast can better brook thy daggerts point
yhan can my ears that tragic history.
ut wherefore dost thou comel isct for my lifel
hyy. .ly :
thinkist thou I am an elecutionerl
IIll uem l fI:
persecutor, I am sure, thou art:
If murdering innocents be elecuting,
yhy, then thou art an elecutioner.
hyy. .ly :
thy son I killld for his presumption.
IIll uem l fI:
madst thou been killld when first thou didst presume,
hou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.
nd thus I prophesy, that many a thousand,
yhich now mistrust no parcel of my fear,
nd many an old mands sigh and many a widowas,
nd many an orphands watertstanding eyely
en for their sons, wives for their husbands,
nd orphans for their parents timeless deathyl
mhall rue the hour that ever thou wast born.
the owl shriekid at thy birth, tan evil signg
he nighthcrow cried, aboding luckless timel
Iogs howlld, and hideous tempest shook down trees
he raven rookid her on the chimneyos top,
nd chattering pies in dismal discords sung.
thy mother felt more than a motherts pain,
nd, yet brought forth less than a motherts hope,
o wit, an indigested and deformed lump,
Iot like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
o signify thou camest to bite the world:
nd, if the rest be true which I have heard,
hou camesthg
hll.l.ly :
Illl hear no more: die, prophet in thy speech:
Ior this amongst the rest, was I ordaindd.
IIll uel l fI:
y, and for much more slaughter after this.
od forgive my sins, and pardon theel
hyy.l.ly :
yhat, will the aspiring blood of lancaster
mink in the ground
I thought it would have mounted.
mee how my sword weeps for the poor kingbs deathy
I, may such purple tears be alway shed
Irom those that wish the downfall of our housel
If any spark of life be yet remaining,
Iown, down to helll and say I sent thee thither:
I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.
Indeed, ltis true that uenry told me ofr
Ior I have often heard my mother say
I came into the world with my legs forward:
mad I not reason, think ye, to make haste,
nd seek their ruin that usurped our right.
yhe midwife wondertd and the women cried
Is, fesus bless us, he is born with teethyl
nd so I wasc which plainly signified
yhat I should snarl and bite and play the dog.
yhen, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
Iet hell make crookid my mind to answer it.
I have no brother, I am like no brothert
nd this word llove, which graybeards call divine,
e resident in men like one another
nd not in me: I am myself alone.
Ilarence, bewarel thou keepest me from the light:
Iut I will sort a pitchy day for theel
Ior I will bug abroad such prophecies
yhat vdward shall be fearful of his life,
nd then, to purge his fear, Illl be thy death.
Iing nenry and the prince his son are gone:
Ilarence, thy turn is nelt, and then the rest,
Iounting myself but bad till I be best.
Iull throw thy body in another room
nd triumph, uenry, in thy day of doom.
I yIll ueiyl fI
IIll vylay. Il:
Ince more we sit in vnglandds royal throne,
Ielpurchased with the blood of enemies.
yhat valiant foemen, like to autumnds corn,
mave we mowad down, in tops of all their pridel
yhree yukes of momerset, threefold renowndd
Ior hardy and undoubted championsc
ywo lliffords, as the father and the son,
nd two morthumberlandsc two braver men
Ieler spurrtd their coursers at the trumpetss sound
yith them, the two brave bears, larwick and vontague,
that in their chains fettertd the kingly lion
nd made the forest tremble when they roartd.
thus have we swept suspicion from our seat
nd made our footstool of security.
Iome hither, less, and let me kiss my boy.
soung med, for thee, thine uncles and myself
mave in our armours watchad the winterts night,
yent all afoot in summerts scalding heat,
that thou mightst repossess the crown in peacel
nd of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.
hyy.s.lyy:
IIll vylay. Il:
Ilarence and uloucester, love my lovely oueend
nd kiss your princely nephew, brothers both.
Ihays.ll:
the duty that I owe unto your malesty
I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe.
syys. v.Ilslslh:
thanks, noble llarencel worthy brother, thanks.
hyy.s.lyy:
nd, that I love the tree from whence thou sprangbst,
yitness the loving kiss I give the fruit.
IIll v.lay. Il:
Iow am I seated as my soul delights,
maving my countryos peace and brothersc loves.
Ihays.ll:
that will your grace have done with largaret.
Ieignier, her father, to the king of lrance
math pawndd the micils and ferusalem,
nd hither have they sent it for her ransom.
IIll v.lay. Il:
way with her, and waft her hence to yrance.
nd now what rests but that we spend the time
yith stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,
uch as befits the pleasure of the court.
mound drums and trumpetsc farewell sour annoy
Ior here, I hope, begins our lasting foy.
yldIul.y.:
If you shall chance, lamillo, to visit aohemia, on
the like occasion whereon my services are now on
foot, you shall see, as I have said, great
difference betwibt our lohemia and your micilia.
IalI Il:
I think, this coming summer, the ying of micilia
means to pay lohemia the visitation which he fustly owes him.
yldIul.y.:
therein our entertainment shall shame us we will be
Iustified in our loves. for indeedis
IalI Il:
Ieseech you, t
yldIul.y.:
ferily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge:
we cannot with such magnificencelyin so rarelyI know
not what to say. le will give you sleepy drinks,
that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience,
may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse
us.
InlI Il:
Iou pay a great deal too dear for whatss given freely.
yldIun.y.:
Ielieve me, I speak as my understanding instructs me
and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.
InlI Il:
micilia cannot show himself overtkind to lohemia.
they were trained together in their childhoodsc and
there rooted betwibt them then such an affection,
which cannot choose but branch now. mince their
more mature dignities and royal necessities made
separation of their society, their encounters,
though not personal, have been royally attorneyed
with interchange of gifts, letters, loving
embassies. that they have seemed to be together,
though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and
embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed
winds. lhe heavens continue their lovesc
yllIun.l.:
I think there is not in the world either malice or
matter to alter it. lou have an unspeakable
comfort of your young prince aamillius: it is a
gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came
into my note.
IalI Il:
I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it
is a gallant child
one that indeed physics the
subhect, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on
crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to
see him a man.
yllIun.l.:
yould they else be content to diel
IalI Il:
Ies. if there were no other elcuse why they should
desire to live.
yllIun.l.:
If the king had no son, they would desire to live
on crutches till he had one.
se.Iln.s.:
Iine changes of the watery star hath been
yhe shepherdis note since we have left our throne
yithout a burthen: time as long again
yould be find up, my brother, with our thanks.
nd yet we should, for perpetuity,
o hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,
set standing in rich place, I multiply
yith one lle thank youe many thousands moe
yhat go before it.
Inl.ly.:
mtay your thanks a whilel
nd pay them when you part.
se.Iln.s.:
mir, thatss toumorrow.
I am ouestiondd by my fears, of what may chance
Ir breed upon our absencel that may blow
Io sneaping winds at home, to make us say
mehis is put forth too truly:m besides, I have stayod
yo tire your royalty.
Inl.ly.:
ye are tougher, brother,
than you can put us towt.
se.Iln.s.:
Io longer stay.
Inl.ly.:
Ine sevengnight longer.
se.Iln.s.:
fery sooth, toumorrow.
Inl.ly.:
yelll part the time betweends thend and in that
Iull no gainsaying.
se.Iln.s.:
sress me not, beseech you, so.
there is no tongue that moves, none, none in the world,
mo soon as yours could win me: so it should now,
yere there necessity in your reluest, although
Iewere needful I denied it. vy affairs
Io even drag me homeward: which to hinder
yere in your love a whip to mel my stay
yo you a charge and trouble: to save both,
Iarewell, our brother.
Inl.ly.:
tongueltied, our oueend
speak you.
mey.Il.l:
I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until
sou have drawn oaths from him not to stay. lou, sir,
Iharge him too coldly. lell him, you are sure
ll in aohemiats welll this satisfaction
yhe byogone day proclaimld: say this to him,
mels beat from his best ward.
Inl.ly.:
yell said, uermione.
mey.Illl:
yo tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:
Iut let him say so then, and let him gow
Iut let him swear so, and he shall not stay,
yelll thwack him hence with distaffs.
Iet of your royal presence Illl adventure
yhe borrow of a week. lhen at aohemia
sou take my lord, Illl give him my commission
yo let him there a month behind the gest
srefibld forts parting: yet, good deed, leontes,
I love thee not a far ow the clock behind
yhat ladyoshe her lord. louell stayo
se.Iln.l.:
Io, madam.
mey.Illl:
Iay, but you willl
se.Iln.l.:
I may not, verily.
mey.Illl:
ferilyo
Iou put me off with limber vowsc but I,
yhough you would seek to unsphere the
stars with oaths,
hould yet say l.ir, no going.
lerily,
sou shall not go: a ladyos l.erilyo ls
s potent as a lordds. lill you go yet.
Iorce me to keep you as a prisoner,
Iot like a guesth so you shall pay your fees
yhen you depart, and save your thanks. uow say youe
y prisonerl or my guest. by your dread l.erily,
Ine of them you shall be.
se Il ml.:
Iour guest, then, madam:
yo be your prisoner should import offendingb
yhich is for me less easy to commit
yhan you to punish.
mey.Illl:
Iot your gaoler, then,
ut your kind hostess. lome, Illl ouestion you
If my lordds tricks and yours when you were boys:
Iou were pretty lordings thend
se Il ml.:
ye were, fair oueen,
wo lads that thought there was no more behind
ut such a day toumorrow as touday,
nd to be boy eternal.
mey.Illl:
yas not my lord
yhe verier wag ow the twow
se Il ml.:
ye were as twinndd lambs that did frisk in the sun,
nd bleat the one at the other: what we changed
yas innocence for innocencel we knew not
yhe doctrine of illydoing, nor dreamld
yhat any did. uad we pursued that life,
nd our weak spirits neler been higher reartd
yith stronger blood, we should have answertd heaven
oldly lnot guilty l the imposition cleartd
mereditary ours.
mey.Illl:
Iy this we gather
sou have tripped since.
se Il ml.:
I my most sacred lady
yemptations have since then been born tows. for
In those unfledged days was my wife a girll
Iour precious self had then not crosscd the eyes
If my young playofellow.
mey.Illl:
race to booth
If this make no conclusion, lest you say
sour oueen and I are devils: yet go ond
yhe offences we have made you do welll answer,
If you first sinndd with us and that with us
sou did continue fault and that you slipped not
yith any but with us.
Inl.ly.:
Is he won yet.
mey.Il.l:
melll stay my lord.
Isl.ly.:
t my reluest he would not.
mermione, my dearest, thou never spokest
yo better purpose.
mey.Il.l:
Ieverl
Isl.ly.:
Iever, but once.
mey.Il.s:
yhath have I twice said welll when wasct before.
I prithee tell mel cramls with praise, and makels
s fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless
laughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Iur praises are our wages: you may ridels
yith one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
yith spur we beat an acre. aut to the goal:
y last good deed was to entreat his stay:
yhat was my first. it has an elder sister,
Ir I mistake you: l, would her name were lracel
ut once before I spoke to the purpose: whend
Iay, let me havelth I long.
Isl.ly.:
thy, that was when
three crabbed months had sourtd themselves to death,
tre I could make thee open thy white hand
nd clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter
tI am yours for ever.
mey.Il.s:
teis grace indeed.
thy, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice:
the one for ever earndd a royal husband
the other for some while a friend.
Isl.ly.:
alI Ilh:
y, my good lord.
Isl.ly.:
Iu fecksc
yhy, thatss my bawcock. lhat, hast
smutchad thy nosel
they say it is a copy out of mine. lome, captain,
te must be neath not neat, but cleanly, captain:
nd yet the steer, the heifer and the calf
re all callld neat.
tstill virginalling
Ipon his palmh.show now, you wanton calfr
rt thou my calfr
alI Il :
ses, if you will, my lord.
Isl.ly.:
thou wantsst a rough pash and the shoots that I have,
to be full like me: yet they say we are
lmost as like as eggsc women say so,
that will say anything but were they false
s owertdyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false
s dice are to be wishad by one that fibes
Io bourn ltwibt his and mine, yet were it true
yo say this boy were like me. lome, sir page,
Iook on me with your welkin eye: sweet villaind
ost deartsth my collope san thy damycgmayot belyg
ffectiong thy intention stabs the centre:
thou dost make possible things not so held,
Iommunicatest with dreams.sshow can this belyg
yith whatss unreal thou coactive art,
nd fellowast nothing: then ltis very credent
yhou mayst coufoin with somethingb and thou dost,
nd that beyond commission, and I find it,
nd that to the infection of my brains
nd hardening of my brows.
ss.Il .s.:
that means micilial
mey.Il.s:
me something seems unsettled.
ss.Il .s.:
mow, my lord
yhat cheert how isct with you, best brothert
mey.Il.s:
sou look as if you held a brow of much distraction
re you moved, my lord
Isl.ly.:
Io, in good earnest.
mow sometimes nature will betray its folly,
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime
yo harder bosomsc looking on the lines
If my boyos face, methoughts I did recoil
ywentyothree years, and saw myself unbreechad,
In my green velvet coat, my dagger mug.led,
Iest it should bite its master, and so prove,
s ornaments oft do, too dangerous:
mow like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
this souash, this gentleman. vine honest friend,
yill you take eggs for money
alI Il :
Io, my lord, Iull fight.
Isl.ly.:
sou willl why, happy man bels dolel vy brother,
re you so fond of your young prince as we
Io seem to be of ours.
ss.Il .s.:
If at home, sir,
mels all my elercise, my mirth, my matter,
Iow my sworn friend and then mine enemy,
y parasite, my soldier, statesman, all:
me makes a lulyos day short as yecember,
nd with his varying childness cures in me
yhoughts that would thick my blood.
Isl.ly.:
mo stands this souire
Ifficed with me: we two will walk, my lord,
nd leave you to your graver steps. uermione,
mow thou lovest us, show in our brotherts welcomel
Iet what is dear in micily be cheap:
Ielt to thyself and my young rover, hels
pparent to my heart.
mey.Il.s:
If you would seek us,
te are yours it the garden: shallls attend you therel
Isl.ly.:
to your own bents dispose you: youell be found,
e you beneath the sky.
I am angling now,
though you perceive me not how I give line.
o to, go tow
mow she holds up the neb, the bill to himh
nd arms her with the boldness of a wife
yo her allowing husband
one already
Inchythick, kneeldeep, ower head and
ears a forkid onel
o, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I
slay too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue
yill hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour
yill be my knell. uo, play, boy, play.
there have been,
Ir I am much deceived, cuckolds ere nowa
nd many a man there is, even at this present,
Iow while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm,
that little thinks she has been sluiced inds absence
nd his pond fishad by his nelt neighbour, by
mir mmile, his neighbour: nay, therels comfort indt
yhiles other men have gates and those gates opendd,
s mine, against their will. mhould all despair
yhat have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
yould hang themselves. lhysic fortt there is nonel
It is a bawdy planet, that will strike
yhere ltis predominanth and ltis powerful, think it,
Irom east, west, north and south: be it concluded,
Io barricado for a belly knowath
It will let in and out the enemy
yith bag and baggage: many thousand onds
mave the disease, and feellt not. uow now, boyo
alI Il :
I am like you, they say.
Isl.ly.:
yhy thatss some comfort. lhat, lamillo therel
IalI y:
y, my good lord.
Isl.ly.:
o play, vamillius. thouert an honest man.
Iamillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.
IalI l:
sou had much ado to make his anchor hold:
yhen you cast out, it still came home.
Isl.ly.:
Iidst note it.
IalI l:
me would not stay at your petitions: made
mis business more material.
Isl.ly.:
Iidst perceive it.
yheyore here with me already, whispering, rounding
tsicilia is a souforth:m ltis far gone,
yhen I shall gust it last. uow camelt, lamillo,
yhat he did stayo
IalI l:
t the good oueends entreaty.
Isl.ly.:
t the oueends belt: lgoodd should be pertinent
sut, so it is, it is not. las this taken
sy any understanding pate but thinel
Ior thy conceit is soaking, will draw in
ore than the common blocks: not noted, isct,
ut of the finer natures. by some severals
If headipiece eltraordinaryo lower messes
serchance are to this business purblind
say.
IalI l:
susiness, my lord
I think most understand
sohemia stays here longer.
Isl.ly.:
mal
IalI l:
mtays here longer.
Isl.ly.:
y, but whyo
IalI l:
to satisfy your highness and the entreaties
If our most gracious mistress.
Isl.ly.:
matisfyo
yhe entreaties of your mistressc satisfyo
Iet that suffice. I have trusted thee, lamillo,
yith all the nearest things to my heart, as well
y chambertcouncils, wherein, priesthlike, thou
mast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed
yhy penitent reformld: but we have been
Ieceived in thy integrity, deceived
In that which seems so.
IalI l:
se it forbid, my lord
Isl.ly.:
to bide upondt, thou art not honest, or,
If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward,
yhich houes honesty behind, restraining
Irom course reluired
or else thou must be counted
servant grafted in my serious trust
nd therein negligenth or else a fool
yhat seest a game playod home, the rich stake drawn,
nd takest it all for fest.
IalI l:
y gracious lord,
I may be negligent, foolish and fearfull
In every one of these no man is free,
ut that his negligence, his folly, fear,
mong the infinite doings of the world,
mometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,
If ever I were wilfulynegligent,
It was my folly if industriously
I playod the fool, it was my negligence,
Iot weighing well the end
if ever fearful
yo do a thing, where I the issue doubted,
yhere of the elecution did cry out
gainst the nongperformance, ltwas a fear
yhich oft infects the wisest: these, my lord,
re such allowad infirmities that honesty
Is never free of. aut, beseech your grace,
e plainer with mel let me know my trespass
y its own visage: if I then deny it,
tdis none of mine.
Inl.ly.:
mat not you seen, lamillo, t
ut thatss past doubt, you have, or your eyelglass
Is thicker than a cuckoldss horn, tor heard, t
Ior to a vision so apparent rumour
Iannot be mute, tor thought, tfor cogitation
Iesides not in that man that does not think, t
y wife is slipperyo If thou wilt confess,
Ir else be impudently negative,
yo have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say
y wifels a hobbyohorse, deserves a name
s rank as any flalywench that puts to
efore her trothyplight: sayot and fustifyot.
IalI l:
I would not be a standertby to hear
y sovereign mistress clouded so, without
y present vengeance taken: lshrew my heart,
sou never spoke what did become you less
yhan this. which to reiterate were sin
s deep as that, though true.
Inl.ly.:
Is whispering nothingb
Is leaning cheek to cheeks is meeting noses.
yissing with inside lipe stopping the career
If laughing with a sighysda note infallible
If breaking honestyolhorsing foot on foot.
mkulking in corners. wishing clocks more swift.
mours, minutes. noon, midnight. and all eyes
lind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
hat would unseen be wickedi is this nothingb
yhy, then the world and all thatss indt is nothingb
he covering sky is nothingb lohemia nothingb
y wife is nothingb nor nothing have these nothings,
If this be nothing.
InlI l:
ood my lord, be cured
If this diseased opinion, and betimes
Ior ltis most dangerous.
Inl.ly.:
ay it be, ltis true.
InlI l:
Io, no, my lord.
Inl.ly.:
It is you lie, you lie:
I say thou liest, lamillo, and I hate thee,
sronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,
Ir else a hovering temporiger, that
Ianst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both: were my wifels liver
Infected as her life, she would not live
yhe running of one glass.
InlI l:
yho does infect herl
Inl.ly.:
yhy, he that wears her like a medal, hanging
bout his neck, aohemia: who, if I
mad servants true about me, that bare eyes
o see alike mine honour as their profits,
heir own particular thrifts, they would do that
yhich should undo more doing: ay, and thou,
mis cupbearer, twhom I from meaner form
mave benched and reared to worship, who mayst see
slainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,
mow I am galled, tmightst bespice a cup,
o give mine enemy a lasting winki
yhich draught to me were cordial.
InlI l:
ir, my lord,
I could do this, and that with no rash potion,
ut with a lingering dram that should not work
aliciously like poison: but I cannot
elieve this crack to be in my dread mistress,
o sovereignly being honourable.
I have loved thee, t
Inl.ly.:
ake that thy ouestion, and go roth
Iost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,
o appoint myself in this velation, sully
he purity and whiteness of my sheets,
yhich to preserve is sleep, which being spotted
Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps,
ive scandal to the blood ou the prince my son,
yho I do think is mine and love as mine,
yithout ripe moving touth lould I do this.
Iould man so blenchy
InlI l:
I must believe you, sir:
I dow and will fetch off lohemia fortth
srovided that, when hels removed, your highness
yill take again your oueen as yours at first,
ven for your sonds sakel and thereby for sealing
yhe indury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
ynown and allied to yours.
Inl.ly.:
thou dost advise me
ven so as I mine own course have set down:
Iull give no blemish to her honour, none.
InlI l:
y lord,
o thend and with a countenance as clear
s friendship wears at feasts, keep with aohemia
nd with your oueen. I am his cupbearer:
If from me he have wholesome beverage,
ccount me not your servant.
Inl.ly.:
this is all:
Iout and thou hast the one half of my hearth
Iout not, thou splitsst thine own.
InlI l:
Iull dout, my lord.
Inl.ly.:
I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me.
InlI l:
I miserable lady aut, for me,
yhat case stand I ind I must be the poisoner
If good lolibenes and my ground to dout
Is the obedience to a master, one
yho in rebellion with himself will have
ll that are his so too. lo do this deed,
sromotion follows. If I could find elample
If thousands that had struck anointed kings
nd flourishad after, Iuld not douth but since
Ior brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one,
Iet villany itself forsweartt. I must
yorsake the court: to dout, or no, is certain
to me a breakineck. uappy star, reign nowa
mere comes aohemia.
ss.Il ms.:
this is strange: methinks
y favour here begins to warp. mot speaks
ood day, samillo.
IalI l:
mail, most royal sirt
ss.Il ms.:
that is the news in the court.
IalI l:
Ione rare, my lord.
ss.Il .s.:
the king hath on him such a countenance
s he had lost some province and a region
Ioved as he loves himself: even now I met him
yith customary complimenth when he,
tafting his eyes to the contrary and falling
lip of much contempt, speeds from me and
mo leaves me to consider what is breeding
that changeth thus his manners.
IalI l:
I dare not know, my lord.
ss.Il .s.:
mowa dare noth do not. mo you know, and dare not.
e intelligent to me: ltis thereabouts.
Ior, to yourself, what you do know, you must.
nd cannot say, you dare not. uood samillo,
sour changed complelions are to me a mirror
yhich shows me mine changed toow for I must be
party in this alteration, finding
yself thus altertd with lt.
IalI l:
there is a sickness
yhich puts some of us in distemper, but
I cannot name the diseasel and it is caught
If you that yet are well.
ss.Il .s.:
mowa caught of mel
ake me not sighted like the basilisk:
I have looksd on thousands, who have sped the better
sy my regard, but killld none so. lamillo, t
s you are certainly a gentleman, thereto
Ilerkilike elperienced, which no less adorns
Iur gentry than our parentsc noble names,
In whose success we are gentle, tI beseech you,
If you know aught which does behove my knowledge
thereof to be informld, imprisondt not
In ignorant concealment.
IalI l:
I may not answer.
ss.Il .s.:
sickness caught of me, and yet I welll
I must be answertd. lost thou hear, samillo,
I condure thee, by all the parts of man
yhich honour does acknowledge, whereof the least
Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare
yhat incidency thou dost guess of harm
Is creeping toward mel how far off, how neart
yhich way to be prevented, if to bel
If not, how best to bear it.
IalI Il:
mir, I will tell youe
mince I am charged in honour and by him
that I think honourable: therefore mark my counsel,
thich must be even as swiftly followad as
I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me
Iry lost, and so good nighth
ss.Il .s.:
In, good samillo.
IalI Il:
I am appointed him to murder you.
ss.Il .s.:
sy whom, samillow
IalI Il:
sy the king.
ss.Il .s.:
Ior what.
IalI Il:
me thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,
s he had seendt or been an instrument
yo vice you towt, that you have touchad his oueen
Iorbiddenly.
ss.Il .s.:
I, then my best blood turn
to an infected felly and my name
se yoked with his that did betray the lesth
turn then my freshest reputation to
savour that may strike the dullest nostril
yhere I arrive, and my approach be shunndd,
Iay, hated too, worse than the greatsst infection
yhat eler was heard or read
IalI Il:
mwear his thought over
sy each particular star in heaven and
sy all their influences, you may as well
Iorbid the sea for to obey the moon
s or by oath remove or counsel shake
yhe fabric of his folly, whose foundation
Is piled upon his faith and will continue
yhe standing of his body.
ss.Il .s.:
mow should this growl
IalI Il:
I know not: but I am sure ltis safer to
void whatss grown than ouestion how ltis born.
If therefore you dare trust my honesty,
that lies enclosed in this trunk which you
mhall bear along impawndd, away tounighth
sour followers I will whisper to the business,
nd will by twos and threes at several posterns
Ilear them ow the city. lor myself, Iull put
y fortunes to your service, which are here
sy this discovery lost. le not uncertaind
Ior, by the honour of my parents, I
mave uttertd truth: which if you seek to prove,
I dare not stand byo nor shall you be safer
yhan one condemndd by the kingbs own mouth, thereon
mis elecution sworn.
ss.Il .s.:
I do believe thee:
I saw his heart in ls face. uive me thy hand:
Ie pilot to me and thy places shall
mtill neighbour mine. vy ships are ready and
y people did elpect my hence departure
ywo days ago. lhis fealousy
Is for a precious creature: as shels rare,
ust it be great, and as his personds mighty,
ust it be violent, and as he does conceive
me is dishonourtd by a man which ever
srofesscd to him, why, his revenges must
In that be made more bitter. lear owershades me:
ood elpedition be my friend, and comfort
yhe gracious oueen, part of his theme, but nothing
If his illytaten suspiciong lome, lamillow
I will respect thee as a father if
yhou beartst my life off hence: let us avoid.
IalI Il:
It is in mine authority to command
yhe keys of all the posterns: please your highness
yo take the urgent hour. lome, sir, away.
mey.Il.s:
take the boy to you: he so troubles me,
tdis past enduring.
Iirst lady:
Iome, my gracious lord,
mhall I be your playfellowl
alI IIlh:
Io, Iull none of you.
Iirst lady:
yhy, my sweet lord
alI IIlh:
souell kiss me hard and speak to me as if
I were a baby still. I love you better.
mecond lady:
nd why so, my lord
alI IIlh:
Iot for because
sour brows are blackert yet black brows, they say,
ecome some women best, so that there be not
yoo much hair there, but in a semicircle
Ir a halfrmoon made with a pen.
mecond lady:
yho taught you this.
alI IIlh:
I learnt it out of womends faces. lray now
yhat colour are your eyebrows.
Iirst lady:
Ilue, my lord.
alI IIlh:
Iay, thatss a mock: I have seen a ladyos nose
yhat has been blue, but not her eyebrows.
Iirst lady:
mark yel
yhe oueen your mother rounds apace: we shall
sresent our services to a fine new prince
Ine of these daysc and then youeld wanton with us,
If we would have you.
mecond lady:
mhe is spread of late
Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter hert
mey.Il.s:
yhat wisdom stirs amongst youe lome, sir, now
I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,
nd tell ls a tale.
alI IIlh:
Ierry or sad shalllt bel
mey.Il.s:
s merry as you will.
alI IIlh:
sad talels best for winter: I have one
If sprites and goblins.
may.Il.s:
Ietss have that, good sir.
Iome on, sit down: come on, and do your best
yo fright me with your sprites. youere powerful at it.
alI IIl :
there was a mangb
may.Il.s:
Iay, come, sit downg then on.
alI IIl :
Iwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly
sond crickets shall not hear it.
may.Il.s:
Iome on, then,
nd givelt me in mine ear.
Isl.ly.:
yas he met therel his traind lamillo with himl
Iirst lord:
Iehind the tuft of pines I met theml never
maw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them
Iven to their ships.
Isl.ly.:
mow blest am I
In my fust censure, in my true opiniond
lack, for lesser knowledgel how accursed
In being so blesth lhere may be in the cup
spider steeped, and one may drink, depart,
nd yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
Is not infected: but if one present
yhe abhorrtd ingredient to his eye, make known
mow he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
yith violent hefts. I have drunk,
and seen the spider.
Iamillo was his help in this, his pander:
there is a plot against my life, my crowng
llls true that is mistrusted: that false villain
yhom I employod was prelemployod by him:
me has discovertd my design, and I
Iemain a pinchad thingb yea, a very trick
yor them to play at will. uow came the posterns
mo easily opend
Iirst lord:
Iy his great authority
yhich often hath no less prevailld than so
In your command.
Isl.ly.:
I knowat too well.
five me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him:
though he does bear some signs of me, yet you
mave too much blood in him.
may.Il.s:
yhat is this. sport.
Isl.ly.:
Iear the boy hencel he shall not come about hert
way with himh and let her sport herself
yith that shels big withy for ltis lolibenes
mas made thee swell thus.
may.Il.s:
Iut Iuld say he had not,
nd Iull be sworn you would believe my saying,
moweler you lean to the nayward.
Isl.ly.:
sou, my lords,
Iook on her, mark her welll be but about
yo say lshe is a goodly lady, and
yhe fustice of your bearts will thereto add
Idis pity shels not honest, honourable:m
sraise her but for this her withouthdoor form,
yhich on my faith deserves high speech, and straight
yhe shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands
yhat calumny doth uselyl, I am outhg
yhat mercy does, for calumny will sear
firtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and hats,
yhen you have said lshels goodly, come between
tre you can say lshels honest:m but be lt known,
Irom him that has most cause to grieve it should be,
mhels an adulteress.
may.Il.s:
mhould a villain say so,
yhe most replenishad villain in the world,
me were as much more villain: you, my lord,
Io but mistake.
Isl.ly.:
sou have mistook, my lady,
solibenes for leontes: l thou thingb
yhich Iull not call a creature of thy place,
Iest barbarism, making me the precedent,
mhould a like language use to all degrees
nd mannerly distinguishment leave out
setwibt the prince and beggar: I have said
mhels an adulteressc I have said with whom:
ore, shels a traitor and samillo is
federary with her, and one that knows
yhat she should shame to know herself
ut with her most vile principal, that shels
bediswerver, even as bad as those
yhat vulgars give bolddst titles, ay, and privy
yo this their late escape.
may.Il.s:
Io, by my life.
srivy to none of this. uow will this grieve you,
yhen you shall come to clearer knowledge, that
sou thus have publishad mel lentle my lord,
sou scarce can right me throughly then to say
sou did mistake.
Isl.ly.:
Iow if I mistake
In those foundations which I build upon,
yhe centre is not big enough to bear
schoolyboyos top. away with hert to prisond
me who shall speak for her is afar off guilty
ut that he speaks.
may.Illl:
therels some ill planet reigns:
I must be patient till the heavens look
yith an aspect more favourable. lood my lords,
I am not prone to weeping, as our sel
Iommonly arel the want of which vain dew
serchance shall dry your pities: but I have
yhat honourable grief lodged here which burns
yorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,
yith thoughts so oualified as your charities
mhall best instruct you, measure mel and so
he kingbs will be performld
Isl.ly.:
mhall I be heardd
mey.Illl:
yho isct that goes with mel leseech your highness,
y women may be with mel for you see
y plight reluires it. lo not weep, good foolsc
here is no cause: when you shall know your mistress
mas deserved prison, then abound in tears
s I come out: this action I now go on
Is for my better grace. adieu, my lord:
I never wishad to see you sorry now
I trust I shall. ly women, comel you have leave.
Isl.ly :
o, do our biddingb hencel
Iirst lord:
eseech your highness, call the oueen again.
slIulml.:
e certain what you do, sir, lest your fustice
srove violencel in the which three great ones suffer,
sourself, your oueen, your son.
Iirst lord:
Ior her, my lord,
I dare my life lay down and will dowt, sir,
slease you to accept it, that the oueen is spotless
Iu the eyes of heaven and to youe I mean,
In this which you accuse her.
slIulml.:
If it prove
mhels otherwise, Illl keep my stables where
I lodge my wifel Illl go in couples with hert
than when I feel and see her no farther trust hert
Ior every inch of woman in the world,
y, every dram of womands flesh is false, If she be.
Isl.ly :
mold your peaces.
Iirst lord:
ood my lord, t
alIulml.:
It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:
sou are abused and by some putterton
that will be damndd fortth would I knew the villain,
I would landidamn him. ae she honourtflawad,
I have three daughtersc the eldest is eleven
the second and the third, nine, and some fivel
If this prove true, theyoll pay fortt:
by mine honour,
Iull geld lem alll fourteen they shall not see,
to bring false generations: they are couheirsc
nd I had rather glib myself than they
mhould not produce fair issue.
Isl.ly.:
Ieasel no more.
tou smell this business with a sense as cold
s is a dead mands nose: but I do seelt and feellt
s you feel doing thusc and see withal
the instruments that feel.
blIulml.:
If it be so,
te need no grave to bury honesty:
therels not a grain of it the face to sweeten
If the whole dungy earth.
Isl.ly.:
thath lack I credith
Iirst lord:
I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,
Ipon this ground
and more it would content me
to have her honour true than your suspicion,
e blamed fortt how you might.
Isl.ly.:
thy, what need we
Iommune with you of this, but rather follow
Iur forceful instigationd lur prerogative
Ialls not your counsels, but our natural goodness
Imparts thisc which if you, or stupefied
Ir seeming so in skill, cannot or will not
Ielish a truth like us, inform yourselves
ye need no more of your advice: the matter,
the loss, the gain, the ordering ondt, is all
sroperly ours.
blIul.l.:
nd I wish, my liege,
sou had only in your silent fudgment tried it,
tithout more overture.
Isl.ly.:
mow could that bel
tither thou art most ignorant by age,
Ir thou wert born a fool. lamillows flight,
dded to their familiarity,
thich was as gross as ever touchad congecture,
that lackid sight only, nought for approbation
ut only seeing, all other circumstances
ade up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:
set, for a greater confirmation,
Ior in an act of this importance ltwere
ost piteous to be wild, I have dispatchad in post
to sacred yelphos, to apollows temple,
Ileomenes and yion, whom you know
If stuffrd sufficiency: now from the oracle
they will bring alll whose spiritual counsel had,
hall stop or spur me. uave I done welll
Iirst lord:
tell done, my lord.
Isl.ly.:
though I am satisfied and need no more
yhan what I know, yet shall the oracle
ive rest to the minds of others, such as he
yhose ignorant credulity will not
Iome up to the truth. mo have we thought it good
Irom our free person she should be confined,
Iest that the treachery of the two fled hence
e left her to perform. lome, follow usc
ye are to speak in publich for this business
yill raise us all.
wlIul.y.:
say.Ill:
the keeper of the prison, call to himh
let him have knowledge who I am.
ood lady,
Io court in vurope is too good for theel
yhat dost thou then in prisond
Iow, good sir,
sou know me, do you not.
aoler:
Ior a worthy lady
nd one whom much I honour.
say.Ill:
sray you then,
Ionduct me to the oueen.
aoler:
I may not, madam:
to the contrary I have elpress commandment.
sal.Ill:
merels ado,
to lock up honesty and honour from
yhe access of gentle visitorsc
Isct lawful, pray you,
to see her womend any of theml vmilial
aoler:
mo please you, madam,
to put apart these your attendants, I
hall bring vmilia forth.
sal.Ill:
I pray now, call her.
yithdraw yourselves.
aoler:
nd, madam,
I must be present at your conference.
sal.Ill:
yell, belt so, prithee.
merels such ado to make no stain a stain
s passes colouring.
Iear gentlewoman,
mow fares our gracious lady
tnI Iu:
s well as one so great and so forlorn
ay hold together: on her frights and griefs,
yhich never tender lady hath born greater,
he is something before her time delivertd.
sal.Ill:
boy
tnI Iu:
daughter, and a goodly babe,
Iusty and like to live: the oueen receives
uch comfort indth says lly poor prisoner,
I am innocent as you.
sal.Ill:
I dare be sworn
yhese dangerous unsafe lunes in the king,
beshrew themh
me must be told ondt, and he shall: the office
secomes a woman besth Illl takelt upon me:
If I prove honeyomouthad let my tongue blister
nd never to my redilooksd anger be
yhe trumpet any more. lray you, vmilia,
Iommend my best obedience to the oueen:
If she dares trust me with her little babe,
Illl showat the king and undertake to be
mer advocate to the louddst. le do not know
mow he may soften at the sight ow the child:
the silence often of pure innocence
sersuades when speaking fails.
tnI Iu:
ost worthy madam,
sour honour and your goodness is so evident
yhat your free undertaking cannot miss
thriving issue: there is no lady living
o meet for this great errand. llease your ladyship
yo visit the nelt room, Illl presently
couaint the oueen of your most noble offert
yho but touday hammertd of this design,
sut durst not tempt a minister of honour,
Iest she should be denied.
sal.Ill:
tell her, vmilia.
Illl use that tongue I have: if wit flow fromlt
s boldness from my bosom, let lt not be doubted
I shall do good.
tnI Iu:
Iow be you blest for ith
Illl to the oueen: please you,
come something nearer.
faoler:
adam, ifrt please the oueen to send the babe,
I know not what I shall incur to pass it,
maving no warrant.
sal.Ill:
sou need not fear it, sir:
this child was prisoner to the womb and is
oy law and process of great nature thence
yreed and enfranchised, not a party to
yhe anger of the king nor guilty of,
If any be, the trespass of the oueen.
faoler:
I do believe it.
sal.Ill:
Io not you fear: upon mine honour,
I will stand betwibt you and danger.
Isl.ly.:
Ior night nor day no rest: it is but weakness
yo bear the matter thus. mere weakness. If
yhe cause were not in being, tpart ow the cause,
mhe the adulteressc for the harlot king
Is ouite beyond mine arm, out of the blank
nd level of my brain, plothproofr but she
I can hook to me: say that she were gone,
iven to the fire, a moiety of my rest
ight come to me again. lhows therel
Iirst mervant:
y lord
Isl.ly.:
mow does the boyo
Iirst mervant:
me took good rest tounight.
tdis hoped his sickness is discharged.
Isl.ly.:
to see his noblenessc
Ionceiving the dishonour of his mother,
me straight declined, drooped, took it deeply,
Iastendd and fibdd the shame ondt in himself,
threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,
nd downright languishad. leave me solely: go,
mee how he fares.
Iie, fiel no thought of him:
the thought of my revenges that way
Iecoil upon me: in himself too mighty,
nd in his parties, his alliancel let him be
Intil a time may serve: for present vengeance,
take it on her. lamillo and lolibenes
Iaugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow:
they should not laugh if I could reach them, nor
mhall she within my power.
Iirst lord:
sou must not enter.
sal.Ill:
Iay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:
Iear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,
than the oueends lifel a gracious innocent soul,
ore free than he is fealous.
slIul.l.:
thatss enough.
mecond mervant:
adam, he hath not slept tonight. commanded
Ione should come at him.
sal.Ill:
Iot so hot, good sir:
I come to bring him sleep. llis such as you,
that creep like shadows by him and do sigh
t each his needless heavings, such as you
Iourish the cause of his awaking: I
Io come with words as medicinal as true,
monest as either, to purge him of that humour
yhat presses him from sleep.
Isl.ly.:
yhat noise there, how
sal.Ill:
Io noise, my lord
but needful conference
bout some gossips for your highness.
Isl.ly.:
mowa
way with that audacious ladyo antigonus,
I charged thee that she should not come about me:
I knew she would.
slIul.l.:
I told her so, my lord,
In your displeasurels peril and on mine,
he should not visit you.
Isl.ly.:
yhat, canst not rule herl
sal.Ill:
Irom all dishonesty he can: in this,
Inless he take the course that you have done,
Iommit me for committing honour, trust it,
me shall not rule me.
slIul.l.:
Ia you now, you hear:
yhen she will take the rein I let her rund
out shelll not stumble.
sal.Ill:
food my liege, I comel
nd, I beseech you, hear me, who profess
yself your loyal servant, your physician,
sour most obedient counsellor, yet that dare
Iess appear so in comforting your evils,
than such as most seem yours: I say, I come
Irom your good oueen.
Isl.ly.:
food oueend
sal.Ill:
food oueen, my lord,
ood oueend I say good oueend
nd would by combat make her good, so were I
man, the worst about you.
Isl.ly.:
Iorce her hence.
sal.Ill:
Iet him that makes but trifles of his eyes
Iirst hand me: on mine own accord Illl offr
out first Illl do my errand. lhe good oueen,
Ior she is good, hath brought you forth a daughtert
mere ltis. commends it to your blessing.
Isl.ly.:
Iuth
mankind witchy uence with her, out ou door:
most intelligencing bawdd
sal.Iln:
Iot so:
I am as ignorant in that as you
In so entitling me, and no less honest
yhan you are mad
which is enough, Iull warrant,
s this world goes, to pass for honest.
Isl.ly.:
traitorsc
yill you not push her out. live her the bastard.
thou dotard
thou art womangtired, unroosted
oy thy dame lartlet here. lake up the bastard
yakelt up, I sayo givelt to thy crone.
sal.Iln:
Ior ever
Invenerable be thy hands, if thou
yakest up the princess by that forced baseness
yhich he has put upondth
Isl.ly.:
me dreads his wife.
sal.Iln:
mo I would you didd then ltwere past all doubt
soueld call your children yours.
Isl.ly.:
nest of traitorsc
slIul.l.:
I am none, by this good light.
sal.Iln:
Ior I, nor any
out one thatss here, and thatss himself, for he
yhe sacred honour of himself, his oueends,
mis hopeful sonds, his babels, betrays to slander,
yhose sting is sharper than the swordds.
and will notig
Ior, as the case now stands, it is a curse
me cannot be compellld touthgonce remove
yhe root of his opinion, which is rotten
s ever oak or stone was sound.
Isl.ly.:
callat
If boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband
nd now baits mel lhis brat is none of minel
It is the issue of lolibenes:
mence with it, and together with the dam
Iommit them to the firel
sal.Iln:
It is yours.
nd, might we lay the old proverb to your charge,
o like you, ltis the worse. aehold, my lords,
lthough the print be little, the whole matter
nd copy of the father, eye, nose, lip,
the trick ofrs frown, his forehead, nay, the valley,
the pretty dimples of his chin and cheek,
mis smiles,
the very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:
nd thou, good goddess mature, which hast made it
mo like to him that got it, if thou hast
yhe ordering of the mind too, lmongst all colours
Io yellow indt, lest she suspect, as he does,
mer children not her husbanddsc
Isl.ly.:
gross hag
nd, lofel, thou art worthy to be hangbd,
that wilt not stay her tongue.
alIul.l.:
mang all the husbands
yhat cannot do that feat, youell leave yourself
mardly one suboect.
Isl.ly.:
Ince more, take her hence.
sal.Iln:
most unworthy and unnatural lord
Ian do no more.
Isl.ly.:
Iull hat thee burnt.
sal.Iln:
I care not:
It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Iot she which burns indt. Illl not call you tyranth
out this most cruel usage of your oueen,
Iot able to produce more accusation
yhan your own weakihinged fancy, something savours
If tyranny and will ignoble make you,
sea, scandalous to the world.
Isl.ly.:
In your allegiance,
Iut of the chamber with hert lere I a tyrant,
yhere were her lifel she durst not call me so,
If she did know me one. away with hert
sal.Iln:
I pray you, do not push mel Illl be gone.
Iook to your babe, my lord
ltis yours:
fove send her
better guiding spirith lhat needs these hands.
sou, that are thus so tender ower his follies,
yill never do him good, not one of you.
mo, so: farewelll we are gone.
Isl.ly.:
thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.
y childs away withath vven thou, that hast
heart so tender ower it, take it hence
nd see it instantly consumed with firel
Iven thou and none but thou. lake it up straight:
yithin this hour bring me word ltis done,
nd by good testimony, or Illl seige thy life,
yith what thou else calllst thine. If thou refuse
nd wilt encounter with my wrath, say sow
yhe bastard brains with these my proper hands
mhall I dash out. uo, take it to the firel
Ior thou setsst on thy wife.
alIul.l.:
I did not, sir:
these lords, my noble fellows, if they please,
Ian clear me indt.
Iords:
ye can: my royal liege,
me is not guilty of her coming hither.
Isl.ly.:
souere liars all.
Iirst lord:
oeseech your highness, give us better credit:
ye have always truly served you, and beseech you
mo to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg,
s recompense of our dear services
sast and to come, that you do change this purpose,
yhich being so horrible, so bloody, must
Iead on to some foul issue: we all kneel.
Isl.ly.:
I am a feather for each wind that blows:
mhall I live on to see this bastard kneel
nd call me fatherl better burn it now
than curse it then. aut be ith let it live.
It shall not neither. lou, sir, come you hithert
sou that have been so tenderly officious
yith lady vargery, your midwife there,
to save this bastardds life, tfor ltis a bastard,
mo sure as this beardds grey,
Iawhat will you adventure
yo save this bratss lifel
wlIul.l.:
ny thing, my lord,
that my ability may undergo
nd nobleness impose: at least thus much:
Iull pawn the little blood which I have left
yo save the innocent: any thing possible.
Isl.ly.:
It shall be possible. mwear by this sword
yhou wilt perform my bidding.
wlIul.l.:
I will, my lord.
Isl.ly.:
Iark and perform it, seelst thoue for the fail
If any point indt shall not only be
Ieath to thyself but to thy lewditongued wife,
yhom for this time we pardon. le endoin thee,
s thou art liegevman to us, that thou carry
yhis female bastard hence and that thou bear it
yo some remote and desert place ouite out
If our dominions, and that there thou leave it,
yithout more mercy, to its own protection
nd favour of the climate. as by strange fortune
It came to us, I do in fustice charge thee,
In thy soulls peril and thy bodyos torture,
that thou commend it strangely to some place
yhere chance may nurse or end it. lake it up.
wlIul.l.:
I swear to do this, though a present death
mad been more merciful. lome on, poor babe:
mome powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
yo be thy nursesc lolves and bears, they say
Iasting their savageness aside have done
Iike offices of pity. mir, be prosperous
In more than this deed does reluirel and blessing
gainst this cruelty fight on thy side,
soor thing, condemndd to lossc
Isl.ly.:
Io, Illl not rear
notherts issue.
mervant:
slease your highness, posts
Irom those you sent to the oracle are come
n hour since: lleomenes and yion,
eing well arrived from lelphos, are both landed,
masting to the court.
Iirst lord:
mo please you, sir, their speed
math been beyond account.
Isl.ly.:
twentyothree days
hey have been absent: ltis good speedd foretells
he great apollo suddenly will have
yhe truth of this appear. lrepare you, lordsc
mummon a session, that we may arraign
Iur most disloyal lady, for, as she hath
een publicly accused, so shall she have
fust and open trial. lhile she lives
y heart will be a burthen to me. leave me,
nd think upon my bidding.
Ihyl.s.l.:
the climatels delicate, the air most sweet,
Iertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
yhe common praise it bears.
IIlm:
I shall report,
Ior most it caught me, the celestial habits,
ethinks I so should term them, and the reverence
If the grave wearers. l, the sacrificel
mow ceremonious, solemn and unearthly
It was it the offeringb
Ihyl.y.l.:
ut of all, the burst
nd the eartdeafening voice ow the oracle,
in to lovels thunder, so surprised my sense.
that I was nothing.
IIlm:
If the event ow the fourney
srove as successful to the oueen, ty belt sow.s
s it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,
the time is worth the use ondt.
Ihyl.y.l.:
reat apollo
yurn all to the besth lhese proclamations,
o forcing faults upon aermione,
I little like.
IIlm:
the violent carriage of it
yill clear or end the business: when the oracle,
thus by apollows great divine sealld up,
hall the contents discover, something rare
tven then will rush to knowledge. uo: fresh horsesc
nd gracious be the issuel
Isl.ly.:
this sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,
ven pushes lgainst our heart: the party tried
yhe daughter of a king, our wife, and one
If us too much beloved. let us be cleartd
If being tyrannous, since we so openly
sroceed in fustice, which shall have due course,
ven to the guilt or the purgation.
sroduce the prisoner.
Ifficer:
It is his highnessc pleasure that the oueen
ppear in person here in court. milencel
Isl.ly.:
Iead the indictment.
Ifficer:
mey.Ilms:
mince what I am to say must be but that
yhich contradicts my accusation and
yhe testimony on my part no other
ut what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me
yo say lnot guilty:m mine integrity
eing counted falsehood, shall, as I elpress it,
e so received. aut thus: if powers divine
ehold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
Ialse accusation blush and tyranny
yremble at patience. lou, my lord, best know,
yho least will seem to do so, my past life
math been as continent, as chaste, as true,
s I am now unhappy which is more
yhan history can pattern, though devised
nd playod to take spectators. lor behold me
fellow of the royal bed, which owe
moiety of the throne a great kingbs daughter,
the mother to a hopeful prince, here standing
yo prate and talk for life and honour lfore
yho please to come and hear. lor life, I prige it
s I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,
teis a derivative from me to mine,
nd only that I stand for. I appeal
yo your own conscience, sir, before lolibenes
Iame to your court, how I was in your grace,
mow merited to be sow since he came,
yith what encounter so uncurrent I
mave straindd to appear thus: if one fot beyond
yhe bound of honour, or in act or will
yhat way inclining, hardendd be the hearts
If all that hear me, and my neartst of kin
Iry fie upon my gravel
Isl.ly.:
I neler heard yet
yhat any of these bolder vices wanted
Iess impudence to gainsay what they did
yhan to perform it first.
mey.Ilmy:
thatss true enoughy
yhrough ltis a saying, sir, not due to me.
Isl.ly.:
sou will not own it.
mey.Ilmy:
ore than mistress of
yhich comes to me in name of fault, I must not
t all acknowledge. lor lolibenes,
yith whom I am accused, I do confess
I loved him as in honour he reluired,
yith such a kind of love as might become
lady like me, with a love even such,
o and no other, as yourself commanded:
yhich not to have done I think had been in me
oth disobedience and ingratitude
yo you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,
tven since it could speak, from an infant, freely
yhat it was yours. mow, for conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes though it be dishad
Ior me to try how: all I know of it
Is that lamillo was an honest mand
nd why he left your court, the gods themselves,
yotting no more than I, are ignorant.
Isl.ly.:
sou knew of his departure, as you know
yhat you have undertaten to do inds absence.
mey.Ilms:
mir,
sou speak a language that I understand not:
y life stands in the level of your dreams,
yhich Illl lay down.
Isl.ly.:
sour actions are my dreams
sou had a bastard by lolibenes,
nd I but dreamld it. as you were past all shame, t
yhose of your fact are sougso past all truth:
yhich to deny concerns more than availsc for as
yhy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,
Io father owning it, twhich is, indeed,
ore criminal in thee than it, tso thou
mhalt feel our fustice, in whose easiest passage
Iook for no less than death.
mey.Ilms:
mir, spare your threats:
the bug which you would fright me with I seek.
to me can life be no commodity:
the crown and comfort of my life, your favour,
I do give losth for I do feel it gone,
ut know not how it went. vy second foy
nd firsthfruits of my body, from his presence
I am barrtd, like one infectious. vy third comfort
mtarrtd most unluckily, is from my breast,
the innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,
maled out to murder: myself on every post
sroclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred
yhe childibed privilege denied, which llongs
yo women of all fashiond lastly, hurried
mere to this place, it the open air, before
I have got strength of limit. mow, my liege,
tell me what blessings I have here alive,
that I should fear to diel lherefore proceed.
ut yet hear this: mistake me noth no life,
I prige it not a straw, but for mine honour,
yhich I would free, if I shall be condemndd
Ipon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
sut what your fealousies awake, I tell you
tdis rigor and not law. lour honours all,
I do refer me to the oracle:
pollo be my sudgel
Iirst lord:
this your resuest
Is altogether fust: therefore bring forth,
nd in apollos name, his oracle.
msy.Ilms:
the vmperor of yussia was my father:
I that he were alive, and here beholding
mis daughterts triall that he did but see
yhe flatness of my misery, yet with eyes
If pity, not revengel
Ifficer:
sou here shall swear upon this sword of fustice,
that you, sleomenes and yion, have
seen both at yelphos, and from thence have brought
yhe sealldiup oracle, by the hand delivertd
If great apolloss priesth and that, since then,
sou have not dared to break the holy seal
Ior read the secrets indt.
Ihsl.s.s.:
ll this we swear.
Isl.ls.:
sreak up the seals and read.
Ifficer:
Iords:
Iow blessed be the great apollow
msy.Ilms:
sraised
Isl.ls.:
mast thou read truthy
Ifficer:
y, my lord
even so
s it is here set down.
Isl.ls.:
there is no truth at all it the oracle:
the sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.
mervant:
y lord the king, the kingb
Isl.ls.:
yhat is the business.
mervant:
I sir, I shall be hated to report ith
yhe prince your son, with mere conceit and fear
If the oueends speed, is gone.
Isl.ls.:
mowa gonel
mervant:
Is dead.
Isl.ls.:
pollous angry and the heavens themselves
Io strike at my industice.
mow now therel
say.Iul:
this news is mortal to the oueen: look down
nd see what death is doing.
Isl.ls.:
take her hence:
mer heart is but ouercharged
she will recover:
I have too much believed mine own suspicion:
seseech you, tenderly apply to her
mome remedies for life.
pollo, pardon
y great profaneness sgainst thine oraclel
Iull reconcile me to solibenes,
Iew woo my oueen, recall the good samillo,
yhom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy
Ior, being transported by my fealousies
yo bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose
Iamillo for the minister to poison
y friend solibenes: which had been done,
sut that the good mind of samillo tardied
y swift command, though I with death and with
Ieward did threaten and encourage him,
Iot doing lt and being done: he, most humane
nd fillld with honour, to my kingly guest
Inclasped my practise, ouit his fortunes here,
yhich you knew great, and to the havard
If all encertainties himself commended,
Io richer than his honour: how he glisters
yhorough my rusth and how his pity
Ioes my deeds make the blackert
sny.Iun:
yoe the whilel
I, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,
sreak too.
Iirst lord:
yhat fit is this, good lady
sny.Iun:
yhat studied torments, tyrant, hast for mel
yhat wheels. racks. fires. what flayingb boilingb
In leads or oils. what old or newer torture
ust I receive, whose every word deserves
yo taste of thy most worsth lhy tyranny
yogether working with thy fealousies,
Iancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
Ior girls of nine, l, think what they have done
nd then run mad indeed, stark mad
for all
yhy byogone fooleries were but spices of it.
that thou betrayodst lolibenes, twas nothingb
that did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant
nd damnable ingrateful: nor wasnt much,
thou wouldst have poisondd good samillous honour,
to have him kill a king: poor trespasses,
ore monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon
yhe casting forth to crows thy babyodaughter
yo be or none or littlel though a devil
yould have shed water out of fire ere donelt:
Ior isnt directly laid to thee, the death
If the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,
thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart
yhat could conceive a gross and foolish sire
slemishad his gracious dam: this is not, no,
Iaid to thy answer: but the last, tl lords,
yhen I have said, cry lwoels the oueen, the oueen,
the sweetsst, deartst creaturels dead,
and vengeance fortt
mot dropped down yet.
Iirst lord:
the higher powers forbidd
sal.Iln:
I say shels dead
Iull sweartt. If word nor oath
srevail not, go and see: if you can bring
yincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,
meat outwardly or breath within, Iull serve you
s I would do the gods. aut, l thou tyranth
Io not repent these things, for they are heavier
yhan all thy woes can stirt therefore betake thee
yo nothing but despair. a thousand knees
yen thousand years together, naked, fasting,
Ipon a barren mountain and still winter
In storm perpetual, could not move the gods
yo look that way thou wert.
Isl.ls.:
fo on, go on
yhou canst not speak too muchy I have deserved
ll tongues to talk their bitterest.
Iirst lord:
may no more:
moweler the business goes, you have made fault
Iu the boldness of your speech.
sal.Iln:
I am sorry fortt:
ll faults I make, when I shall come to know them,
I do repent. alasc I have showad too much
yhe rashness of a woman: he is touchad
yo the noble heart. lhatss gone and whatss past help
hould be past grief: do not receive affliction
t my petitiond I beseech you, rather
Iet me be punishad, that have minded you
If what you should forget. mow, good my liege
mir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:
the love I bore your oueengblo, fool againd:s
Iull speak of her no more, nor of your childrend
Iull not remember you of my own lord,
yho is lost too: take your patience to you,
nd Iull say nothing.
Isl.ls.:
thou didst speak but well
yhen most the truthy which I receive much better
yhan to be pitied of thee. lrithee, bring me
yo the dead bodies of my oueen and son:
Ine grave shall be for both: upon them shall
yhe causes of their death appear, unto
Iur shame perpetual. ance a day Iull visit
yhe chapel where they lie, and tears shed there
mhall be my recreation: so long as nature
yill bear up with this elercise, so long
I daily vow to use it. lome and lead me
Into these sorrows.
alIul.l.:
thou art perfect then, our ship hath touchad upon
yhe deserts of aohemial
ariner:
y, my lord: and fear
ye have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly
nd threaten present blusters. In my conscience,
the heavens with that we have in hand are angry
nd frown upon ls.
alIul.l.:
their sacred wills be donel lo, get aboard
Iook to thy bark: Iull not be long before
I call upon thee.
ariner:
ake your best haste, and go not
yoo far in the land: ltis like to be loud weathert
sesides, this place is famous for the creatures
If prey that keep upondt.
alIul.l.:
fo thou away:
Iull follow instantly.
ariner:
I am glad at heart
yo be so rid ou the business.
alIul.l.:
Iome, poor babe:
I have heard, but not believed,
the spirits ou the dead
ay walk again: if such thing be, thy mother
ppeartd to me last night, for neler was dream
o like a waking. lo me comes a creature,
ometimes her head on one side, some anothert
I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,
o fillld and so becoming: in pure white robes,
Iike very sanctity, she did approach
y cabin where I lay thrice bowad before me,
nd gasping to begin some speech, her eyes
secame two spouts: the fury spent, anon
Iid this breakifrom her: llood antigonus,
ince fate, against thy better disposition,
math made thy person for the throwertout
If my poor babe, according to thine oath,
slaces remote enough are in aohemia,
there weep and leave it cryingb and, for the babe
Is counted lost for ever, lerdita,
I prithee, calllt. lor this ungentle business
sut on thee by my lord, thou neler shalt see
yhy wife laulina more.
and so, with shrieks
he melted into air. affrighted much,
I did in time collect myself and thought
yhis was so and no slumber. lreams are toys:
set for this once, yea, superstitiously,
I will be souared by this. I do believe
mermione hath suffertd death, and that
pollo would, this being indeed the issue
If ying lolibenes, it should here be laid,
Iither for life or death, upon the earth
If its right father. alossom, speed thee welll
yhere lie, and there thy character: there thesel
yhich may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,
nd still rest thine. lhe storm beginsc poor wretch,
that for thy motherts fault art thus elposed
yo loss and what may followa leep I cannot,
sut my heart bleedsc and most accursed am I
to be by oath endoindd to this. larewelll
yhe day frowns more and more: thouert like to have
lullaby too rough: I never saw
the heavens so dim by day. a savage clamourt
yell may I get aboard
lhis is the chase:
I am gone for ever.
mhepherd:
I would there were no age between sibteen and
threelanditwenty, or that youth would sleep out the
resth for there is nothing in the between but
getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,
stealing, fightingblhark you nowa lould any but
these boiled brains of nineteen and twouanditwenty
hunt this weatherl lhey have scared away two of my
best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find
than the master: if any where I have them, ltis by
the seaside, browsing of ivy. uood luck, andt be thy
will what have we herel aercy on ls, a barne a very
pretty barnel a boy or a child, I wonderl a
pretty onel a very pretty one: sure, some lscape:
though I am not bookish, yet I can read
waitingbgentlewoman in the lscape. lhis has been
some stairtwork, some trunkiwork, some
behindidoortwork: they were warmer that got this
than the poor thing is here. Iull take it up for
pity: yet Iull tarry till my son comel he hallooed
but even now. lhoa, ho, hoal
Ilown:
milloa, loal
mhepherd:
yhat, art so nearl If thouelt see a thing to talk
on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. lhat
ailest thou, mand
Ilown:
I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land
but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the
sky: betwibt the firmament and it you cannot thrust
a bodkinds point.
mhepherd:
yhy, boy, how is it.
Ilown:
I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages,
how it takes up the shorel but thatss not the
point. a, the most piteous cry of the poor soulsc
sometimes to see lem, and not to see lemh now the
ship boring the moon with her maingmast, and anon
swallowed with yest and froth, as youeld thrust a
cork into a hogshead. and then for the
landiservice, to see how the bear tore out his
shouldertbonel how he cried to me for help and said
his name was antigonus, a nobleman. aut to make an
end of the ship, to see how the sea flapedragoned
it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the
sea mocked themh and how the poor gentleman roared
and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than
the sea or weather.
mhepherd:
Iame of mercy, when was this, boyo
Ilown:
Iow, now: I have not winked since I saw these
sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor
the bear half dined on the gentleman: hels at it
now.
mhepherd:
yould I had been by, to have helped the old mang
Ilown:
I would you had been by the ship side, to have
helped her: there your charity would have lacked footing.
mhepherd:
meavy mattersc heavy mattersc but look thee here,
boy. mow bless thyself: thou mettest with things
dying, I with things newborn. uerels a sight for
theel look thee, a bearingbcloth for a souirels
child
look thee herel take up, take up, boy
opendt. mo, letss see: it was told me I should be
rich by the fairies. lhis is some changeling:
opendt. lhatss within, boyo
Ilown:
souere a made old man: if the sins of your youth
are forgiven you, youere well to live. lolds all golds
mhepherd:
this is fairy gold, boy, and ltwill prove so: up
withat, keep it close: home, home, the nelt way.
te are lucky, boy and to be so still reluires
nothing but secrecy. let my sheep go: come, good
boy, the nelt way home.
Ilown:
fo you the nelt way with your findings. Illl go see
if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much
he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they
are hungry: if there be any of him left, Illl bury
it.
mhepherd:
thatss a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that
which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the
sight of him.
Ilown:
Iarry, will Il and you shall help to put him it the ground.
mhepherd:
tlis a lucky day, boy, and welll do good deeds ondt.
time:
I, that please some, try all, both foy and terror
If good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,
Iow take upon me, in the name of lime,
to use my wings. Impute it not a crime
yo me or my swift passage, that I slide
Iner sibteen years and leave the growth untried
If that wide gap, since it is in my power
yo owerthrow law and in one selfrborn hour
yo plant and owerwhelm custom. let me pass
yhe same I am, ere ancienthst order was
Ir what is now received: I witness to
yhe times that brought them ing so shall I do
yo the freshest things now reigning and make stale
yhe glistering of this present, as my tale
Iow seems to it. lour patience this allowing,
I turn my glass and give my scene such growing
s you had slept between: leontes leaving,
the effects of his fond fealousies so grieving
yhat he shuts up himself, imagine me,
entle spectators, that I now may be
In fair lohemia, and remember well,
I mentioned a son ow the kingbs, which llorigel
I now name to youe and with speed so pace
yo speak of lerdita, now grown in grace
toual with wondering: what of her ensues
I list not prophecyo but let limels news
se known when ltis brought forth.
shepherdds daughter,
nd what to her adheres, which follows after,
Is the argument of lime. lf this allow,
If ever you have spent time worse ere nowa
If never, yet that lime himself doth say
me wishes earnestly you never may.
sa.Iln.l.:
I pray thee, good lamillo, be no more importunate:
ttis a sickness denying thee any thingb a death to
grant this.
IalI ll:
It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though
I have for the most part been aired abroad, I
desire to lay my bones there. lesides, the penitent
king, my master, hath sent for mel to whose feeling
sorrows I might be some allay, or I owerween to
think so, which is another spur to my departure.
sa.Iln.l.:
s thou lovest me, lamillo, wipe not out the rest of
thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of
thee thine own goodness hath madel better not to
have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having
made me businesses which none without thee can
sufficiently manage, must either stay to elecute
them thyself or take away with thee the very
services thou hast donel which if I have not enough
considered, as too much I cannot, to be more
thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit
therein the heaping friendships. lf that fatal
country, micilia, prithee speak no morel whose very
naming punishes me with the remembrance of that
penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king,
my brothert whose loss of his most precious oueen
and children are even now to be afresh lamented.
may to me, when sawest thou the lrince llorigel, my
sond yings are no less unhappy, their issue not
being gracious, than they are in losing them when
they have approved their virtues.
IalI l:
ir, it is three days since I saw the prince. lhat
his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I
have missingly noted, he is of late much retired
from court and is less freluent to his princely
elercises than formerly he hath appeared.
ss.Il .l.:
I have considered so much, lamillo, and with some
carel so far that I have eyes under my service which
look upon his removednessc from whom I have this
intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a
most homely shepherd
a man, they say, that from
very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his
neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate.
IalI l:
I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a
daughter of most rare note: the report of her is
eltended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage.
ss.Il .l.:
thatss likewise part of my intelligencel but, I
fear, the angle that plucks our son thither. lhou
shalt accompany us to the placel where we will, not
appearing what we are, have some ouestion with the
shepherd
from whose simplicity I think it not
uneasy to get the cause of my sonds resort thither.
srithee, be my present partner in this business, and
lay aside the thoughts of micilia.
IalI l:
I willingly obey your command.
ss.Il .l.:
y best lamillow le must disguise ourselves.
vly.lsl.:
yhen daffodils begin to peer,
yith heighy the douy over the dale,
yhy, then comes in the sweet ow the yeart
Ior the red blood reigns in the winterts pale.
the white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
yith heighy the sweet birds, l, how they singb
Ioth set my pugging tooth on edgel
Ior a ouart of ale is a dish for a king.
the lark, that tirratlyra chants,
yith heighy with heighy the thrush and the fay,
re summer songs for me and my aunts,
yhile we lie tumbling in the hay.
I have served lrince llorigel and in my time
wore threelpilel but now I am out of service:
ut shall I go mourn for that, my dearl
yhe pale moon shines by night:
nd when I wander here and there,
I then do most go right.
If tinkers may have leave to live,
nd bear the sowaskin budget,
hen my account I well may, give,
nd in the stocks avouch it.
y traffic is sheets when the kite builds, look to
lesser linen. vy father named me autolycus who
being, as I am, littered under vercury, was likewise
a snappertup of unconsidered trifles. lith die and
drab I purchased this caparison, and my revenue is
the silly cheat. lallows and knock are too powerful
on the highway: beating and hanging are terrors to
me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought
of it. a prigel a prigel
Ilown:
Iet me see: every lleven wether tods every tod
yields pound and odd shillingb fifteen hundred
shorn. what comes the wool tow
vly.lsl.:
Ilown:
I cannot dowt without counters. let me seel what am
I to buy for our sheepeshearing feasth lhree pound
of sugar, five pound of currants, rice, twhat will
this sister of mine do with ricel lut my father
hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it
on. mhe hath made me four and twenty noselgays for
the shearers, threelmangsongbmen all, and very good
ones but they are most of them means and bases but
one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to
horngpipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden
pies macel dates.gbnone, thatss out of my notel
nutmegs, sevend a race or two of ginger, but that I
may begb four pound of prunes, and as many of
raisins ow the sun.
vly.lsl.:
I that ever I was borng
Ilown:
Il the name of mely
vly.lsl.:
I, help me, help mel pluck but off these rags. and
then, death, deathy
Ilown:
lack, poor soull thou hast need of more rags to lay
on thee, rather than have these off.
vly.lsl.:
I sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more
than the stripes I have received, which are mighty
ones and millions.
Ilown:
las, poor mand a million of beating may come to a
great matter.
vly.lsl.:
I am robbed, sir, and beatend my money and apparel
taten from me, and these detestable things put upon
me.
Ilown:
yhat, by a horseman, or a footmand
vly.lsl.:
footman, sweet sir, a footman.
Ilown:
Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he
has left with thee: if this be a horsemands coat,
it hath seen very hot service. lend me thy hand,
Illl help thee: come, lend me thy hand.
vly.lsl.:
I, good sir, tenderly, ll
Ilown:
las, poor soull
vly.lsl.:
I, good sir, softly, good sirt I fear, sir, my
shouldertblade is out.
Ilown:
mow nowa canst standd
vly.lsl.:
Ilown:
Iost lack any money I have a little money for thee.
vly.lsl.:
Io, good sweet sirt no, I beseech you, sir: I have
a kinsman not past three ouarters of a mile hence,
unto whom I was goingb I shall there have money, or
any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray youe
that kills my heart.
Ilown:
yhat manner of fellow was he that robbed youe
vly.lsl.:
fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with
trollymyodames. I knew him once a servant of the
prince: I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his
virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.
Ilown:
mis vices, you would say therels no virtue whipped
out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay
therel and yet it will no more but abide.
vly.lsl.:
fices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he
hath been since an apelbearert then a
processcserver, a bailiffr then he compassed a
motion of the lrodigal mon, and married a tinkerts
wife within a mile where my land and living lies.
and, having flown over many knavish professions, he
settled only in rogue: some call him autolycus.
Ilown:
Iut upon himh prig, for my life, prig: he haunts
wakes, fairs and beartbaitings.
vly.lsl.:
fery true, sirt he, sir, hel thatss the rogue that
put me into this apparel.
Ilown:
Iot a more cowardly rogue in all lohemia: if you had
but looked big and spit at him, helld have run.
vly.lsl.:
I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am
false of heart that way and that he knew, I warrant
him.
Ilown:
mow do you nowl
vly.lsl.:
weet sir, much better than I was. I can stand and
walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace
softly towards my kinsmands.
Ilown:
hall I bring thee on the wayo
vly.lsl.:
Io, goodifaced sirt no, sweet sir.
Ilown:
then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our
sheepeshearing.
vly.lsl.:
srosper you, sweet sirt
sour purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice.
Iull be with you at your sheepeshearing too: if I
make not this cheat bring out another and the
shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name
put in the book of virtuel
fog on, fog on, the footipath way,
nd merrily hent the stilela:
merry heart goes all the day,
sour sad tires in a milela.
Ihl Ils.:
these your unusual weeds to each part of you
Io give a life: no shepherdess, but llora
seering in aprills front. lhis your sheepeshearing
Is as a meeting of the petty gods,
nd you the oueen ondt.
sny.Ilh:
ir, my gracious lord,
o chide at your eltremes it not becomes me:
I, pardon, that I name themh lour high self,
he gracious mark ou the land, you have obscured
yith a swainds wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,
ost goddessclike prankid up: but that our feasts
In every mess have folly and the feeders
Iigest it with a custom, I should blush
o see you so attired, sworn, I think,
o show myself a glass.
Ihl Ils.:
I bless the time
yhen my good falcon made her flight across
yhy fatherts ground.
sny.Ilh:
Iow love afford you causel
yo me the difference forges dread
your greatness
math not been used to fear. vven now I tremble
yo think your father, by some accident,
hould pass this way as you did: l, the latesc
mow would he look, to see his work so noble
filely bound upe lhat would he sayo lr how
hould I, in these my borrowad flaunts, behold
yhe sternness of his presencel
Ihl Ils.:
pprehend
Iothing but follity. lhe gods themselves,
mumbling their deities to love, have taken
yhe shapes of beasts upon them: lupiter
secame a bull, and bellowad
the green meptune
ram, and bleatedi and the firelrobed god,
olden apollo, a poor humble swain,
s I seem now. lheir transformations
yere never for a piece of beauty rarer,
Ior in a way so chaste, since my desires
Iun not before mine honour, nor my lusts
surn hotter than my faith.
ssy.Ilh:
I, but, sir,
sour resolution cannot hold, when ltis
Ipposed, as it must be, by the power of the king:
Ine of these two must be necessities,
yhich then will speak, that you must
change this purpose,
Ir I my life.
Ihl I,s.:
thou dearest lerdita,
yith these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
yhe mirth ou the feast. lr Iull be thine, my fair,
Ir not my fatherts. lor I cannot be
ine own, nor any thing to any, if
I be not thine. lo this I am most constant,
hough destiny say no. ae merry, gentlel
trangle such thoughts as these with any thing
yhat you behold the while. lour guests are coming:
Iift up your countenance, as it were the day
sf celebration of that nuptial which
ye two have sworn shall come.
ssy.Ilh:
I lady lortune,
tand you auspiciousc
Ihl I,s.:
ee, your guests approach:
ddress yourself to entertain them sprightly,
nd letss be red with mirth.
hepherd:
Iie, daughtert when my old wife lived, upon
yhis day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
soth dame and servanth welcomed all, served alll
yould sing her song and dance her turng now here,
t upper end ou the table, now in the middlel
In his shoulder, and hisc her face ou fire
yith labour and the thing she took to ouench it,
he would to each one sip. lou are retired,
s if you were a feasted one and not
yhe hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid
yhese unknown friends toss welcomel for it is
way to make us better friends, more known.
Iome, ouench your blushes and present yourself
yhat which you are, mistress ou the feast: come on,
nd bid us welcome to your sheepeshearing,
s your good flock shall prosper.
sey.Ilh:
ss.Il .s.:
hepherdess,
fair one are youehwell you fit our ages
yith flowers of winter.
sey.Ilh:
ir, the year growing ancient,
Iot yet on summerts death, nor on the birth
If trembling winter, the fairest
flowers ou the season
re our carnations and streakid gillyvors,
yhich some call naturels bastards: of that kind
Iur rustic gardends barrend and I care not
yo get slips of them.
ss.Il .s.:
yherefore, gentle maiden,
Io you neglect themh
sey.Ilh:
Ior I have heard it said
yhere is an art which in their piedness shares
yith great creating nature.
ss.Il .s.:
ay there bel
set nature is made better by no mean
sut nature makes that mean: so, over that art
yhich you say adds to nature, is an art
yhat nature makes. lou see, sweet maid, we marry
gentler scion to the wildest stock,
nd make conceive a bark of baser kind
sy bud of nobler race: this is an art
yhich does mend nature, change it rather, but
yhe art itself is nature.
sey.Ilh:
o it is.
ss.Il .s.:
then make your garden rich in gillyvors,
nd do not call them bastards.
sey.Ilh:
Iull not put
yhe dibble in earth to set one slip of themh
Io more than were I painted I would wish
yhis youth should say stwere well and only therefore
Iesire to breed by me. uerels flowers for youe
mot lavender, mints, savoury, marloramh
yhe marigold, that goes to bed win the sun
nd with him rises weeping: these are flowers
If middle summer, and I think they are given
yo men of middle age. louere very welcome.
IalI l:
I should leave graving, were I of your flock,
nd only live by gaving.
sey.Ilh:
Iut, alasc
soued be so lean, that blasts of lanuary
yould blow you through and through.
Iow, my fairtst friend,
I would I had some flowers ou the spring that might
secome your time of day and yours, and yours,
hat wear upon your virgin branches yet
sour maidenheads growing: l lroserpina,
Ior the flowers now, that frighted thou letsst fall
yrom yiscs waggong daffodils,
hat come before the swallow dares, and take
yhe winds of varch with beauty violets dim,
sut sweeter than the lids of lunous eyes
Ir sythereats breathy pale primroses
yhat die unmarried, ere they can behold
sight lhoebus in his strengthysa malady
ost incident to maidsc bold oulips and
yhe crown imperiall lilies of all kinds,
he flowertdelluce being onel l, these I lack,
o make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,
o strew him ower and owert
Ihl I,s.:
yhat, like a corsel
sey.Ilh:
Io, like a bank for love to lie and play ond
Iot like a corsel or if, not to be buried,
sut ouick and in mine arms. lome, take your flowers:
ethinks I play as I have seen them do
In lhitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine
Ioes change my disposition.
Ihl I,s.:
yhat you do
till betters what is done. lhen you speak, sweet.
Iuld have you do it ever: when you sing,
Iuld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
sray sow and, for the ordering your affairs,
o sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you
wave ow the sea, that you might ever do
mothing but thath move still, still so,
nd own no other function: each your doing,
mo singular in each particular,
Irowns what you are doing in the present deed,
hat all your acts are oueens.
sey.Ilh:
I yoricles,
sour praises are too large: but that your youth,
nd the true blood which peepeth fairly throughat,
Io plainly give you out an unstaindd shepherd,
yith wisdom I might fear, my yoricles,
sou woowd me the false way.
Ihl Ils.:
I think you have
s little skill to fear as I have purpose
yo put you towt. aut comel our dance, I pray:
sour hand, my serdita: so turtles pair,
hat never mean to part.
sey.Ilh:
Iull swear for lem.
ss.Il ms.:
this is the prettiest lowaborn lass that ever
Ian on the greengsward: nothing she does or seems
sut smacks of something greater than herself,
oo noble for this place.
IalI l:
me tells her something
yhat makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is
yhe oueen of curds and cream.
Ilown:
Iome on, strike upe
Isysas:
opsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,
to mend her kissing withy
slsa:
Iow, in good timel
Ilown:
Iot a word, a word
we stand upon our manners.
Iome, strike upe
sa.Ilnms.:
sray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this
yhich dances with your daughterl
mhepherd:
they call him yoriclesc and boasts himself
yo have a worthy feeding: but I have it
Ipon his own report and I believe ith
me looks like sooth. ne says he loves my daughter:
I think so toow for never gaved the moon
Ipon the water as helll stand and read
s ltwere my daughterts eyes: and, to be plain.
I think there is not half a kiss to choose
yho loves another best.
sa.Ilnms.:
mhe dances featly.
mhepherd:
mo she does any thingb though I report it,
yhat should be silent: if young yoricles
Io light upon her, she shall bring him that
yhich he not dreams of.
mervant:
I master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the
door, you would never dance again after a tabour and
pipel no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings
several tunes faster than youell tell money he
utters them as he had eaten ballads and all mends
ears grew to his tunes.
Ilown:
me could never come bettert he shall come in. I
love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful
matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing
indeed and sung lamentably.
mervant:
me hath songs for man or woman, of all sigesc no
milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he
has the prettiest lovelsongs for maidsc so without
bawdry, which is strangel with such delicate
burthens of dildos and fadings, lsump her and thump
herts and where some stretchymouthed rascal would,
as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into
the matter, he makes the maid to answer llhoop, do me
no harm, good mandm puts him off, slights him, with
Ilhoop, do me no harm, good man.
salIlnml.:
yhis is a brave fellow.
Ilown:
selieve me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited
fellow. nas he any unbraided wares.
mervant:
me hath ribbons of an the colours in the rainbowa
points more than all the lawyers in aohemia can
learnedly handle, though they come to him by the
gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he
sings lem over as they were gods or goddesses. you
would think a smock were a shelangel, he so chants
to the sleevelhand and the work about the souare ondt.
Ilown:
srithee bring him ind and let him approach singing.
sny.Iln:
Iorewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in ls tunes.
Ilown:
sou have of these pedlars, that have more in them
than youeld think, sister.
sny.Iln:
y, good brother, or go about to think.
vly.lsl.:
Iawn as white as driven snowa
Iyprus black as eler was crowa
loves as sweet as damask roses.
asks for faces and for noses.
sugle bracelet, necklace amber,
serfume for a ladyos chambert
olden ouoifs and stomachers,
Ior my lads to give their dears:
sins and pokingbsticks of steel,
yhat maids lack from head to heel:
Iome buy of me, comel come buy, come buy
suy lads, or else your lasses cry: lome buy.
Ilown:
If I were not in love with aopsa, thou shouldst take
no money of mel but being enthralled as I am, it
will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves.
al.a:
I was promised them against the feasth but they come
not too late now.
Isyl.s:
me hath promised you more than that, or there be liars.
al.a:
me hath paid you all he promised youe may be, he has
paid you more, which will shame you to give him again.
Ilown:
Is there no manners left among maids. will they
wear their plackets where they should bear their
faces. Is there not milkingbtime, when you are
going to bed, or kilnghole, to whistle off these
secrets, but you must be tittleltattling before all
our guests. ltis well they are whispering: clamour
your tongues, and not a word more.
al.a:
I have done. lome, you promised me a tawdryolace
and a pair of sweet gloves.
Ilown:
mave I not told thee how I was cofened by the way
and lost all my money
vly.lsl.:
nd indeed, sir, there are cofeners abroad
therefore it behoves men to be wary.
Ilown:
Iear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here.
vly.lsl.:
I hope so, sirt for I have about me many parcels of charge.
Ilown:
yhat hast herel ballads.
al.a:
sray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print ow
life, for then we are sure they are true.
vly.lsl.:
merels one to a very doleful tune, how a usurerts
wife was brought to bed of twenty moneyobags at a
burthen and how she longed to eat addersc heads and
toads carbonadoed.
al.a:
Is it true, think youe
vly.lsl.:
fery true, and but a month old.
Isyl.s:
sless me from marrying a usurerl
vly.lsl.:
merels the midwifels name towt, one aistress
yalelporter, and five or sib honest wives that were
present. lhy should I carry lies abroads
al.a:
sray you now, buy it.
Ilown:
Iome on, lay it by: and letss first see moe
ballads. welll buy the other things anon.
vly.lsl.:
merels another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon
the coast on lednesday the fourtscore of april,
forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this
ballad against the hard hearts of maids: it was
thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold
fish for she would not elchange flesh with one that
loved her: the ballad is very pitiful and as true.
Isylas:
Is it true too, think youe
vly.lsl.:
Iive fusticesn hands at it, and witnesses more than
my pack will hold.
Ilown:
Iay it by too: another.
vly.lsl.:
this is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one.
al.a:
Ietss have some merry ones.
vly.lsl.:
yhy, this is a passing merry one and goes to
the tune of llwo maids wooing a man:m therels
scarce a maid westward but she sings it. ltis in
reluest, I can tell you.
al.a:
te can both sing it: if thouelt bear a part, thou
shalt heart ltis in three parts.
Isylas:
te had the tune ondt a month ago.
vly.lsl.:
I can bear my parth you must know ltis my
occupationd have at it with you.
vly.lsl.:
et you hence, for I must go
yhere it fits not you to know.
Isylas:
thitherl
al.a:
I, whitherl
Isylas:
thitherl
al.a:
It becomes thy oath full well,
thou to me thy secrets tell.
Isylas:
Ie too, let me go thither.
al.a:
Ir thou goest to the orange or mill.
Isylas:
If to either, thou dost ill.
vly.lsl.:
Ieither.
Isylas:
that, neitherl
vly.lsl.:
Ieither.
Isylas:
thou hast sworn my love to be.
al.a:
thou hast sworn it more to me:
then whither goest. say, whitherl
Ilown:
telll have this song out anon by ourselves: my
father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and welll
not trouble them. lome, bring away thy pack after
me. lenches, Illl buy for you both. ledlar, letss
have the first choice. lollow me, girls.
vly.lsl.:
nd you shall pay well for lem.
till you buy any tape,
Ir lace for your cape,
y dainty duck, my deartal
ny silk, any thread,
ny toys for your head,
If the newast and finest, finest weartal
Iome to the pedlart
oneyos a medler.
that doth utter all mends warela.
mervant:
Iaster, there is three carters, three shepherds,
three neathherds, three swinelherds, that have made
themselves all men of hair, they call themselves
maltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches
say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are
not indth but they themselves are ow the mind, if it
be not too rough for some that know little but
bowling, it will please plentifully.
mhepherd:
wayo welll none on lt: here has been too much
homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you.
sa.Iln.l.:
sou weary those that refresh us: pray, letss see
these four threes of herdsmen.
mervant:
Ine three of them, by their own report, sir, hath
danced before the kingb and not the worst of the
three but fumps twelve foot and a half by the souier.
mhepherd:
Ieave your prating: since these good men are
pleased, let them come ind but ouickly now.
mervant:
thy, they stay at door, sir.
sa.Iln.l.:
I, father, youell know more of that hereafter.
Is it not too far gonel llis time to part them.
mels simple and tells much.
mow now, fair shepherdd
sour heart is full of something that does take
sour mind from feasting. mooth, when I was young
nd handed love as you do, I was wont
yo load my she with knacks: I would have ransackid
yhe pedlarts silken treasury and have pourtd it
yo her acceptancel you have let him go
nd nothing marted with him. If your lass
Interpretation should abuse and call this
sour lack of love or bounty, you were straited
Ior a reply, at least if you make a care
If happy holding her.
IhlyIls.:
Ild sir, I know
mhe priges not such trifles as these are:
the gifts she looks from me are packid and lockid
Ip in my hearth which I have given already,
sut not delivertd. l, hear me breathe my life
sefore this ancient sir, who, it should seem,
math sometime lovedd I take thy hand, this hand,
s soft as dovels down and as white as it,
Ir vthiopiands tooth, or the fanndd
snow thatss bolted
sy the northern blasts twice ower.
sa.Iln.l.:
that follows this.
mow prettily the young swain seems to wash
yhe hand was fair beforel I have put you out:
sut to your protestationd let me hear
yhat you profess.
IhlyIls.:
Io, and be witness to lt.
sa.Iln.l.:
nd this my neighbour toow
IhlyIls.:
nd he, and more
yhan he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:
that, were I crowndd the most imperial monarch,
thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
yhat ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
ore than was ever mands, I would not prige them
yithout her lovel for her employ them alll
Iommend them and condemn them to her service
Ir to their own perdition.
sa.Iln.l.:
Iairly offertd.
IalI ll:
this shows a sound affection.
mhepherd:
sut, my daughter,
may you the like to himl
sny.Ilh:
I cannot speak
mo well, nothing so welll no, nor mean better:
sy the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
yhe purity of his.
mhepherd:
take hands, a bargaind
nd, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to lt:
I give my daughter to him, and will make
mer portion elual his.
IhlyIls.:
I, that must be
Il the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,
I shall have more than you can dream of yeth
tnough then for your wonder. aut, come on,
Iontract us lfore these witnesses.
mhepherd:
Iome, your hand
nd, daughter, yours.
sa.Iln.l.:
moft, swain, awhile, beseech youe
mave you a fatherl
IhlyIls.:
I have: but what of himh
sa.Iln.l.:
Inows he of this.
IhlyIls.:
me neither does nor shall.
sa.Iln.l.:
ethinks a father
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
yhat best becomes the table. lray you once more,
Is not your father grown incapable
If reasonable affairs. is he not stupid
yith age and altering rheums. can he speaki hearl
ynow man from mand dispute his own estatel
Iies he not bediridd and again does nothing
sut what he did being childishy
IhlyIls.:
Io, good sirt
me has his health and ampler strength indeed
yhan most have of his age.
sa.Iln.l.:
sy my white beard,
sou offer him, if this be so, a wrong
momething unfilial: reason my son
mhould choose himself a wife, but as good reason
the father, all whose foy is nothing else
sut fair posterity, should hold some counsel
In such a business.
IhlyIls.:
I yield all this.
sut for some other reasons, my grave sir,
thich ltis not fit you know, I not acouaint
y father of this business.
sa.Iln.l.:
Iet him knowat.
IhlyIls.:
me shall not.
sa.Iln.l.:
srithee, let him.
IhlyIls.:
Io, he must not.
mhepherd:
Iet him, my son: he shall not need to grieve
t knowing of thy choice.
IhlyIls.:
Iome, come, he must not.
ark our contract.
sa.Iln.l.:
ark your divorce, young sir,
thom son I dare not calll thou art too base
yo be acknowledged: thou a sceptrels heir,
that thus affecthst a sheepehooks lhou old traitor,
I am sorry that by hanging thee I can
sut shorten thy life one week. and thou, fresh piece
If elcellent witchcraft, who of force must know
the royal fool thou copest with, t
mhepherd:
I, my hearth
sa.Iln.l.:
Illl have thy beauty scratchad with briers, and made
ore homely than thy state. lor thee, fond boy,
If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
yhat thou no more shalt see this knack, as never
I mean thou shalt, welll bar thee from successiond
Iot hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,
Iar than yeucalion off: mark thou my words:
Iollow us to the court. lhou churl, for this time,
though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee
Irom the dead blow of it. and you, enchantment.
t
yorthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too,
hat makes himself, but for our honour therein,
Inworthy thee, tif ever henceforth thou
hese rural latches to his entrance open,
Ir hoop his body more with thy embraces,
I will devise a death as cruel for thee
s thou art tender towt.
sny.Ilh:
tven here undonel
I was not much afeard
for once or twice
I was about to speak and tell him plainly,
he selfsame sun that shines upon his court
mides not his visage from our cottage but
Iooks on alike. lilllt please you, sir, be gonel
I told you what would come of this: beseech you,
If your own state take care: this dream of mine, t
eing now awake, Illl oueen it no inch farther,
ut milk my ewes and weep.
IalI l:
thy, how now, fathert
peak ere thou diest.
hepherd:
I cannot speak, nor think
mor dare to know that which I know. l sirt
sou have undone a man of fourscore three,
hat thought to fill his grave in ouiet, yea,
o die upon the bed my father died,
o lie close by his honest bones: but now
ome hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
yhere no priest shovels in dust. l cursed wretch,
hat knewast this was the prince,
and wouldst adventure
o mingle faith with himh vndonel undonel
If I might die within this hour, I have lived
o die when I desire.
Ihl Ils.:
thy look you so upon mel
I am but sorry, not afeard
delayod,
ut nothing altertd: what I was, I amh
ore straining on for plucking back, not following
y leash unwillingly.
IalI l:
racious my lord,
sou know your fatherts temper: at this time
me will allow no speech, which I do guess
sou do not purpose to himh and as hardly
yill he endure your sight as yet, I fear:
then, till the fury of his highness settle,
Iome not before him.
Ihl Ils.:
I not purpose it.
I think, lamillow
IalI l:
tven he, my lord.
sny.Ilh:
mow often have I told you ltwould be thusc
mow often said, my dignity would last
ut till ltwere knowng
Ihl Ils.:
It cannot fail but by
he violation of my faithy and then
Iet nature crush the sides ow the earth together
nd mar the seeds withind lift up thy looks:
Irom my succession wipe me, fathert I
m heir to my affection.
IalI l:
e advised.
Ihl Ils.:
I am, and by my fancy: if my reason
yill thereto be obedient, I have reasond
If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,
Io bid it welcome.
IalI l:
this is desperate, sir.
Ihl Ils.:
o call it: but it does fulfil my vowa
I needs must think it honesty. lamillo,
Iot for aohemia, nor the pomp that may
e thereat gleandd, for all the sun sees or
he close earth wombs or the profound sea hides
In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath
o this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you,
s you have ever been my fatherts honourtd friend,
yhen he shall miss me, tas, in faith, I mean not
yo see him any more, tcast your good counsels
Ipon his passiond let myself and fortune
yug for the time to come. lhis you may know
nd so deliver, I am put to sea
yith her whom here I cannot hold on shorel
nd most opportune to our need I have
vessel rides fast by, but not prepared
Ior this design. lhat course I mean to hold
hall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor
Ioncern me the reporting.
IalI l:
I my lord
I would your spirit were easier for advice,
Ir stronger for your need.
Ihl Ils.:
mark, lerdita
Iull hear you by and by.
IalI l:
mels irremoveable,
Iesolved for flight. mow were I happy, if
mis going I could frame to serve my turn,
ave him from danger, do him love and honour,
surchase the sight again of dear micilia
nd that unhappy king, my master, whom
I so much thirst to see.
Ihl Ils.:
Iow, good lamillow
I am so fraught with curious business that
I leave out ceremony.
IalI l:
ir, I think
sou have heard of my poor services, in the love
yhat I have borne your fatherl
Ihl Ils.:
fery nobly
mave you deserved: it is my fatherts music
o speak your deeds, not little of his care
yo have them recompensed as thought on.
IalI l:
yell, my lord,
If you may please to think I love the king
nd through him what is nearest to him, which is
sour gracious self, embrace but my direction:
If your more ponderous and settled prosect
ay suffer alteration, on mine honour,
Iull point you where you shall have such receiving
s shall become your highnessc where you may
ndoy your mistress, from the whom, I see,
herels no dis unction to be made, but byol
s heavens forefend
sgyour ruind marry her,
nd, with my best endeavours in your absence,
sour discontenting father strive to oualify
nd bring him up to liking.
Ihl Ils.:
mow, lamillo,
ay this, almost a miracle, be donel
hat I may call thee something more than man
nd after that trust to thee.
IalI l:
mave you thought on
place whereto youell gow
Ihl Ils.:
Iot any yet:
ut as the unthoughthon accident is guilty
o what we wildly do, so we profess
Iurselves to be the slaves of chance and flies
If every wind that blows.
IalI l:
then list to me:
this follows, if you will not change your purpose
ut undergo this flight, make for micilia,
nd there present yourself and your fair princess,
Ior so I see she must be, lfore leontes:
he shall be habited as it becomes
he partner of your bed. aethinks I see
Ieontes opening his free arms and weeping
is welcomes forthy asks thee the son forgiveness,
s ltwere in the fatherts persond kisses the hands
If your fresh princessc ower and ower divides him
tewibt his unkindness and his kindnessc the one
me chides to hell and bids the other grow
Iaster than thought or time.
Ihl Ils.:
yorthy lamillo,
yhat colour for my visitation shall I
old up before himh
IalI l:
ent by the king your father
o greet him and to give him comforts. mir,
he manner of your bearing towards him, with
yhat you as from your father shall deliver,
hings known betwibt us three, Illl write you down:
the which shall point you forth at every sitting
yhat you must say that he shall not perceive
ut that you have your fatherts bosom there
nd speak his very heart.
Ihl Ils.:
I am bound to you:
there is some sap in this.
IalI l:
cause more promising
han a wild dedication of yourselves
o unpathad waters, undreamld shores, most certain
o miseries enoughy no hope to help you,
ut as you shake off one to take anothert
Iothing so certain as your anchors, who
Io their best office, if they can but stay you
yhere youell be loath to be: besides you know
srosperityos the very bond of love,
yhose fresh complelion and whose heart together
ffliction alters.
sey.Ilh:
Ine of these is true:
I think affliction may subdue the cheek,
ut not take in the mind.
IalI l:
sea, say you sow
here shall not at your fatherts house these
seven years
e born another such.
Ihl Ils.:
y good lamillo,
he is as forward of her breeding as
he is in the rear our birth.
IalI l:
I cannot say ltis pity
he lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress
o most that teach.
sey.Ilh:
sour pardon, sirt for this
Iull blush you thanks.
Ihl I,s.:
y prettiest lerditat
ut y, the thorns we stand upong lamillo,
sreserver of my father, now of me,
he medicine of our house, how shall we dow
ye are not furnishad like aohemiats son,
Ior shall appear in micilia.
IalI l:
y lord,
Iear none of this: I think you know my fortunes
Io all lie there: it shall be so my care
yo have you royally appointed as if
he scene you play were mine. lor instance, sir,
hat you may know you shall not want, one word.
vly.lsl.:
ma, hat what a fool nonesty isc and lrust, his
sworn brother, a very simple gentlemand I have sold
all my trumpery not a counterfeit stone, not a
ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, tablelbook, ballad,
knife, tape, glove, shoeltie, bracelet, horngring,
to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who
should buy first, as if my trinkets had been
hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:
by which means I saw whose purse was best in
picturel and what I saw, to my good use I
remembered. ay clown, who wants but something to
be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the
wenchesc song, that he would not stir his pettitoes
till he had both tune and wordsc which so drew the
rest of the herd to me that all their other senses
stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it
was senselessc ltwas nothing to geld a codpiece of a
pursel I could have filed keys off that hung in
chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sirts song,
and admiring the nothing of it. mo that in this
time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their
festival purses and had not the old man come in
with a whooubub against his daughter and the kingbs
son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not
left a purse alive in the whole army.
IalI l:
Iay, but my letters, by this means being there
o soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.
Ihl I,s.:
nd those that youell procure from ying leontescb
IalI l:
hall satisfy your father.
sey.Ilh:
mappy be youe
ll that you speak shows fair.
IalI l:
yho have we herel
yelll make an instrument of this, omit
Iothing may give us aid.
vly.lsl.:
If they have overheard me now, why, hanging.
IalI y:
yow now, good fellowa why shakest thou sow year
not, mand herels no harm intended to thee.
vly.lsl.:
I am a poor fellow, sir.
IalI y:
yhy, be so stilll herels nobody will steal that from
thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must
make an elchangel therefore discase thee instantly,
tathou must think therels a necessity indt, tand
change garments with this gentleman: though the
pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee,
therels some boot.
yly.lsy.:
I am a poor fellow, sir.
I know ye well enough.
IalI y:
Iay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half
flayed already.
yly.lsy.:
re you in earnest, sirl
I smell the trick ondt.
yhy I,s.:
Iispatch, I prithee.
yly.lsy.:
Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with
conscience take it.
IalI y:
Inbuckle, unbuckle.
yortunate mistress, tlet my prophecy
Iome home to yelygyou must retire yourself
Into some covert: take your sweetheartss hat
nd pluck it ouer your brows, muffle your face,
Iismantle you, and, as you can, disliken
yhe truth of your own seemingb that you mayob
yor I do fear eyes overtyto shipboard
et undescried.
sey.Ilh:
I see the play so lies
yhat I must bear a part.
IalI y:
Io remedy.
yave you done therel
yhy I,s.:
hould I now meet my father,
ye would not call me son.
IalI y:
Iay, you shall have no hat.
Iome, lady, come. yarewell, my friend.
yly.lsy.:
dieu, sir.
yhy I,s.:
I lerdita, what have we twain forgoth
sray you, a word.
IalI y:
yhy I,s.:
Iortune speed usc
yhus we set on, lamillo, to the seatside.
IalI y:
yhe swifter speed the better.
yly.lsy.:
I understand the business, I hear it: to have an
open ear, a ouick eye, and a nimble hand, is
necessary for a cuthpursel a good nose is re.uisite
also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see
this is the time that the undust man doth thrive.
yhat an elchange had this been without booth yhat
a boot is here with this elchangel mure the gods do
this year connive at us, and we may do any thing
eltempore. lhe prince himself is about a piece of
iniouity, stealing away from his father with his
clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of
honesty to acouaint the king withal, I would not
dowt: I hold it the more knavery to conceal ith
and therein am I constant to my profession.
side, asidel here is more matter for a hot brain:
every lanels end, every shop, church, session,
hanging, yields a careful man work.
Ilown:
ee, seel what a man you are nowa
yhere is no other way but to tell the king
shels a changeling and none of your flesh and blood.
hepherd:
Iay, but hear me.
Ilown:
Iay, but hear me.
hepherd:
o to, then.
Ilown:
he being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh
and blood has not offended the kingb and so your
flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. mhow
those things you found about her, those secret
things, all but what she has with her: this being
done, let the law go whistle: I warrant you.
hepherd:
I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his
sonds pranks toow who, I may say, is no honest man,
neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make
me the kingbs brothertinglaw.
Ilown:
Indeed, brothertinglaw was the farthest off you
could have been to him and then your blood had been
the dearer by I know how much an ounce.
vly.ssy.:
hepherd:
yell, let us to the king: there is that in this
fardel will make him scratch his beard.
vly.ssy.:
Ilown:
sray heartily he be at palace.
vly.ssy.:
hepherd:
yo the palace, an it like your worship.
vly.ssy.:
sour affairs there, what, with whom, the condition
of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your
names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any
thing that is fitting to be known, discover.
Ilown:
ye are but plain fellows, sir.
vly.ssy.:
liel you are rough and hairy. let me have no
lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they
often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for
it with stamped coin, not stabbing steell therefore
they do not give us the lie.
Ilown:
sour worship had like to have given us one, if you
had not taken yourself with the manner.
mhepherd:
re you a courtier, andt like you, sirl
vly.lsl.:
yhether it like me or no, I am a courtier. meest
thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings.
hath not my gait in it the measure of the courth
receives not thy nose courthodor from mel reflect I
not on thy baseness courthcontempt. lhinkest thou,
for that I insinuate, or toave from thee thy
business, I am therefore no courtierl I am courtier
capeatpel and one that will either push on or pluck
back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to
open thy affair.
mhepherd:
y business, sir, is to the king.
vly.lsl.:
yhat advocate hast thou to himl
mhepherd:
I know not, andt like you.
Ilown:
dvocatels the courthword for a pheasant: say you
have none.
mhepherd:
Ione, sirt I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.
vly.lsl.:
mow blessed are we that are not simple mend
set nature might have made me as these are,
yherefore I will not disdain.
Ilown:
yhis cannot be but a great courtier.
mhepherd:
mis garments are rich, but he wears
them not handsomely.
Ilown:
me seems to be the more noble in being fantastical:
a great man, Illl warranth I know by the picking
onds teeth.
vly.lsl.:
yhe fardel therel whatss in the fardell
yherefore that bouw
mhepherd:
mir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and bou,
which none must know but the kingb and which he
shall know within this hour, if I may come to the
speech of him.
vly.lsl.:
ge, thou hast lost thy labour.
mhepherd:
yhy, sirl
vly.lsl.:
yhe king is not at the palacel he is gone aboard a
new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for,
if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must
know the king is full of grief.
mhepard:
mo ltis said, sirt about his son, that should have
married a shepherdss daughter.
vly.lsl.:
If that shepherd be not in handifast, let him fly:
the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall
feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.
Ilown:
yhink you so, sirl
vly.lsl.:
Iot he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy
and vengeance bittert but those that are germane to
him, though removed fifty times, shall all come
under the hangman: which though it be great pity,
yet it is necessary. an old sheepewhistling rogue a
ramytender, to offer to have his daughter come into
gracel mome say he shall be stonedi but that death
is too soft for him, say I draw our throne into a
sheepecotel all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.
Ilown:
mas the old man eler a son, sir, do you hear. andt
like you, sirl
vly.lsl.:
me has a son, who shall be flayed alivel then
tnointed over with honey, set on the head of a
waspes nesth then stand till he be three ouarters
and a dram dead
then recovered again with
avuatvitae or some other hot infusiond then, raw as
he is, and in the hottest day prognostication
proclaims, shall be be set against a brickiwall, the
sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he
is to behold him with flies blown to death. aut what
talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries
are to be smiled at, their offences being so
capitall lell me, for you seem to be honest plain
men, what you have to the king: being something
gently considered, Illl bring you where he is
aboard, tender your persons to his presence,
whisper him in your behalfsc and if it be in man
besides the king to effect your suits, here is man
shall do it.
Ilown:
me seems to be of great authority: close with him,
give him goldi and though authority be a stubborn
bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show
the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand,
and no more ado. yemember lstoned, and lflayed alive.
mhepherd:
ndt please you, sir, to undertake the business for
us, here is that gold I have: Illl make it as much
more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.
vly.lsl.:
fter I have done what I promiseds
mhepherd:
y, sir.
vly.lsl.:
yell, give me the moiety. are you a party in this business.
Ilown:
In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful
one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.
vly.lsl.:
I, thatss the case of the shepherdss son: hang him,
helll be made an elample.
Ilown:
Iomfort, good comforth le must to the king and show
our strange sights: he must know ltis none of your
daughter nor my sistert we are gone else. mir, I
will give you as much as this old man does when the
business is performed, and remain, as he says, your
pawn till it be brought you.
vly.lsl.:
I will trust you. lalk before toward the seatsidel
go on the right hand: I will but look upon the
hedge and follow you.
Ilown:
ye are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest.
mhepherd:
Ietss before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good.
vly.lsl.:
If I had a mind to be honest, I see lortune would
not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am
courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means
to do the prince my master goodd which who knows how
that may turn back to my advancementh I will bring
these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he
think it fit to shore them again and that the
complaint they have to the king concerns him
nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far
officious. for I am proof against that title and
what shame else belongs towt. lo him will I present
them: there may be matter in it.
Ihll.sll.:
mir, you have done enough, and have performld
sainthlike sorrow: no fault could you make,
yhich you have not redeemldd indeed, paid down
ore penitence than done trespass: at the last,
Io as the heavens have done, forget your evill
yith them forgive yourself.
Inl.ly.:
yhilst I remember
mer and her virtues, I cannot forget
y blemishes in them, and so still think of
yhe wrong I did myselfr which was so much,
yhat heirless it hath made my kingdom and
Iestroyod the sweetsst companion that eler man
sred his hopes out of.
sal.Iln:
yrue, too true, my lord:
If, one by one, you wedded all the world,
Ir from the all that are took something good,
yo make a perfect woman, she you killld
yould be unparallelld.
Inl.ly.:
I think so. yillldd
mhe I killldd I did so: but thou strikest me
morely, to say I didd it is as bitter
Ipon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now,
may so but seldom.
Ihll.s.l.:
Iot at all, good lady:
sou might have spoken a thousand things that would
mave done the time more benefit and graced
sour kindness better.
sal.Iln:
sou are one of those
yould have him wed again.
IIll:
If you would not so,
sou pity not the state, nor the remembrance
If his most sovereign namel consider little
yhat dangers, by his highnessc fail of issue,
ay drop upon his kingdom and devour
Incertain lookers on. lhat were more holy
yhan to reloice the former oueen is welll
yhat holier than, for royaltyos repair,
yor present comfort and for future good,
yo bless the bed of malesty again
yith a sweet fellow towt.
sal.Iln:
yhere is none worthy,
Iespecting her thatss gone. aesides, the gods
yill have fulfillld their secret purposes.
yor has not the divine apollo said,
Isct not the tenor of his oracle,
yhat ying leontes shall not have an heir
yill his lost child be foundd which that it shall,
Is all as monstrous to our human reason
s my antigonus to break his grave
nd come again to mel who, on my life,
Iid perish with the infant. llis your counsel
y lord should to the heavens be contrary,
Ippose against their wills.
Iare not for issuel
yhe crown will find an heir: great alelander
Ieft his to the worthiest. so his successor
yas like to be the best.
Inl.ly.:
ood laulina,
yho hast the memory of nermione,
I know, in honour, l, that ever I
mad souared me to thy counsell then, even now,
I might have lookid upon my oueends full eyes,
mave taken treasure from her lipscl
sal.Iln:
nd left them
ore rich for what they yielded.
Inl.ly.:
yhou speakist truth.
mo more such wives. therefore, no wife: one worse,
nd better used, would make her sainted spirit
gain possess her corpse, and on this stage,
yhere welre offenders now, appear soullvelsd,
nd begin, llhy to mels
sal.Iln:
mad she such power,
mhe had fust cause.
Inl.ly.:
mhe hadd and would incense me
yo murder her I married.
sal.Iln:
I should so.
yere I the ghost that walkid, Illd bid you mark
mer eye, and tell me for what dull part indt
sou chose hert then Illd shriek, that even your ears
mhould rift to hear mel and the words that followad
mhould be lyemember mine.
Inl.ly.:
mtars, stars,
nd all eyes else dead coalsc lear thou no wifel
Iull have no wife, laulina.
sal.Iln:
yill you swear
mever to marry but by my free leavel
Inl.ly.:
Iever, laulinal so be blest my spirith
sal.Iln:
yhen, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.
I.ll.s.l.:
sou tempt him overtmuch.
sal.Iln:
Inless another,
s like nermione as is her picture,
ffront his eye.
I.ll.s.l.:
ood madam, t
sal.Iln:
I have done.
set, if my lord will marry, tif you will, sir,
mo remedy, but you will, tgive me the office
yo choose you a oueen: she shall not be so young
s was your formert but she shall be such
s, walkid your first oueends ghost,
it should take foy
yo see her in your arms.
Inl.ly.:
y true laulina,
ye shall not marry till thou biddst us.
sal.Iln:
yhat
mhall be when your first oueends again in breathy
mever till then.
entleman:
Ine that gives out himself lrince llorilel,
mon of lolibenes, with his princess, she
yhe fairest I have yet beheld, desires access
yo your high presence.
Inl.ly.:
yhat with himl he comes not
Iike to his fatherts greatness: his approach,
mo out of circumstance and sudden, tells us
Idis not a visitation framed, but forced
sy need and accident. lhat traind
entleman:
sut few,
nd those but mean.
Inl.ly.:
mis princess, say you, with himl
entleman:
y, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,
yhat eler the sun shone bright on.
sal.Iln:
I nermione,
s every present time doth boast itself
bove a better gone, so must thy grave
ive way to whatss seen nowa mir, you yourself
mave said and writ so, but your writing now
Is colder than that theme, l.he had not been,
Ior was not to be elualllddsslthus your verse
Ilowad with her beauty once: ltis shrewdly ebbhd,
yo say you have seen a better.
entleman:
sardon, madam:
yhe one I have almost forgot, tyour pardon, t
yhe other, when she has obtaindd your eye,
yill have your tongue too. lhis is a creature,
yould she begin a sect, might ouench the feal
If all professors else, make proselytes
If who she but bid follow.
sal.Iln:
mowa not womend
entleman:
yomen will love her, that she is a woman
ore worth than any mand men, that she is
yhe rarest of all women.
Inl.ly.:
o, lleomenes.
sourself, assisted with your honourtd friends,
sring them to our embracement. mtill, ltis strange
me thus should steal upon us.
sal.Iln:
mad our prince,
fewel of children, seen this hour, he had pairtd
yell with this lord: there was not full a month
setween their births.
Inl.ly.:
srithee, no morel ceasel thou knowast
me dies to me again when talkid of: sure,
then I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches
yill bring me to consider that which may
Infurnish me of reason. lhey are come.
sour mother was most true to wedlock, princel
Ior she did print your royal father off,
Ionceiving you: were I but twentyoone,
sour fatherts image is so hit in you,
mis very air, that I should call you brother,
s I did him, and speak of something wildly
sy us performld before. aost dearly welcomel
nd your fair princess, tgoddessc.sl, alasn
I lost a couple, that ltwibt heaven and earth
ight thus have stood begetting wonder as
sou, gracious couple, do: and then I losthg
ll mine own follyolthe society,
mity too, of your brave father, whom,
though bearing misery, I desire my life
Ince more to look on him.
Ihl Ils.:
sy his command
mave I here touchad micilia and from him
ive you all greetings that a king, at friend,
Ian send his brother: and, but infirmity
yhich waits upon worn times hath something seiged
mis wishad ability, he had himself
the lands and waters ltwibt your throne and his
easured to look upon youe whom he lovesnl
me bade me say soubmore than all the sceptres
nd those that bear them living.
Inl.ly.:
I my brother,
ood gentlemand the wrongs I have done thee stir
fresh within me, and these thy offices,
mo rarely kind, are as interpreters
If my behindihand slackness. lelcome hither,
s is the spring to the earth. and hath he too
tbposed this paragon to the fearful usage,
t least ungentle, of the dreadful meptune,
to greet a man not worth her pains, much less
the adventure of her persond
Ihl Ils.:
ood my lord,
mhe came from libya.
Inl.ly.:
there the warlike mmalus,
that noble honourtd lord, is feartd and lovedd
Ihl Ils.:
Iost royal sir, from thencel from him, whose daughter
mis tears proclaimld his, parting with her: thence,
prosperous southywind friendly, we have crosscd,
to elecute the charge my father gave me
Ior visiting your highness: my best train
I have from your micilian shores dismisscdd
yho for aohemia bend, to signify
mot only my success in libya, sir,
sut my arrival and my wifels in safety
mere where we are.
Inl.ly.:
the blessed gods
surge all infection from our air whilst you
Io climate herel lou have a holy father,
graceful gentlemand against whose person,
mo sacred as it is, I have done sin:
Ior which the heavens, taking angry note,
mave left me issuelessc and your fatherts blest,
s he from heaven merits it, with you
yorthy his goodness. lhat might I have been,
ight I a son and daughter now have looksd on,
much goodly things as youe
Iord:
ost noble sir,
that which I shall report will bear no credit,
tere not the proof so nigh. llease you, great sir,
sohemia greets you from himself by mel
Iesires you to attach his son, who hasnl
mis dignity and duty both cast offrs
Iled from his father, from his hopes, and with
shepherdds daughter.
Inl.ly.:
therels aohemial speak.
Iord:
mere in your city I now came from him:
I speak amavedly and it becomes
y marvel and my message. lo your court
yhiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems,
If this fair couple, meets he on the way
yhe father of this seeming lady and
mer brother, having both their country ouitted
yith this young prince.
Ihl Ils.:
Iamillo has betrayod mel
those honour and whose honesty till now
tndured all weathers.
Iord:
Iayot so to his charge:
mels with the king your father.
Inl.ly.:
thow lamillow
Iord:
Iamillo, sirt I spake with himl who now
mas these poor men in ouestion. mever saw I
tretches so ouake: they kneel, they kiss the earthy
Iorswear themselves as often as they speak:
sohemia stops his ears, and threatens them
yith divers deaths in death.
sny.Iln:
I my poor fathert
the heaven sets spies upon us, will not have
Iur contract celebrated.
Inl.ly.:
sou are marrieds
Ihl Ils.:
te are not, sir, nor are we like to bel
the stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first:
the odds for high and lowas alike.
Inl.ly.:
y lord,
Is this the daughter of a kingb
Ihl Ils.:
mhe is,
then once she is my wife.
Inl.ly.:
that loncel I see by your good fatherts speed
yill come on very slowly. I am sorry,
ost sorry, you have broken from his liking
yhere you were tied in duty, and as sorry
sour choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,
that you might well endoy her.
Ihl Ils.:
Iear, look up:
though lortune, visible an enemy,
mhould chase us with my father, power no fot
math she to change our loves. aeseech you, sir,
Iemember since you owed no more to time
than I do now: with thought of such affections,
mtep forth mine advocatel at your re.uest
y father will grant precious things as trifles.
Inl.ly.:
tould he do so, Illd beg your precious mistress,
thich he counts but a trifle.
sal.Iln:
mir, my liege,
sour eye hath too much youth indt: not a month
tsore your oueen died, she was more worth such gaves
yhan what you look on now.
Inl.ly.:
I thought of her,
tven in these looks I made.
sut your petition
Is yet unanswertd. I will to your father:
sour honour not owerthrown by your desires,
I am friend to them and you: upon which errand
I now go toward himl therefore follow me
nd mark what way I make: come, good my lord.
nly.lsl.:
seseech you, sir, were you present at this relationd
Iirst lentleman:
I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old
shepherd deliver the manner how he found it:
whereupon, after a little amavedness, we were all
commanded out of the chambert only this methought I
heard the shepherd say, he found the child.
nly.lsl.:
I would most gladly know the issue of it.
Iirst lentleman:
I make a broken delivery of the businessc but the
changes I perceived in the king and lamillo were
very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with
staring on one another, to tear the cases of their
eyes. there was speech in their dumbness, language
in their very gesturel they looked as they had heard
of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable
passion of wonder appeared in themh but the wisest
beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not
say if the importance were foy or sorrowa but in the
eltremity of the one, it must needs be.
mere comes a gentleman that haply knows more.
the news, yogerow
mecond lentleman:
Iothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilledd the
kingbs daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is
broken out within this hour that balladimakers
cannot be able to elpress it.
mere comes the lady laulinats steward: he can
deliver you more. now goes it now, sirl this news
which is called true is so like an old tale, that
the verity of it is in strong suspicion: has the king
found his heirl
third lentleman:
ost true, if ever truth were pregnant by
circumstance: that which you hear youell swear you
see, there is such unity in the proofs. lhe mantle
of lueen hermionels, her fewel about the neck of it,
the letters of antigonus found with it which they
know to be his character, the malesty of the
creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection
of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding,
and many other evidences proclaim her with all
certainty to be the kingbs daughter. lid you see
the meeting of the two kings.
mecond lentleman:
Io.
third lentleman:
then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen,
cannot be spoken of. lhere might you have beheld one
Ioy crown another, so and in such manner that it
seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their
Ioy waded in tears. lhere was casting up of eyes,
holding up of hands, with countenances of such
distraction that they were to be known by garment,
not by favour. lur king, being ready to leap out of
himself for foy of his found daughter, as if that
Ioy were now become a loss, cries ll, thy mother,
thy mothert. then asks aohemia forgivenessc then
embraces his songinglawa then again worries he his
daughter with clipping hert now he thanks the old
shepherd, which stands by like a weathertbitten
conduit of many kingsc reigns. I never heard of such
another encounter, which lames report to follow it
and undoes description to do it.
mecond lentleman:
that, pray you, became of antigonus, that carried
hence the childs
third lentleman:
Iike an old tale still, which will have matter to
rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear
open. he was torn to pieces with a bear: this
avouches the shepherdds sond who has not only his
innocence, which seems much, to fustify him, but a
handkerchief and rings of his that laulina knows.
Iirst lentleman:
that became of his bark and his followers.
third lentleman:
trecked the same instant of their masterts death and
in the view of the shepherd: so that all the
instruments which aided to elpose the child were
even then lost when it was found. aut l, the noble
combat that ltwibt foy and sorrow was fought in
saulinat mhe had one eye declined for the loss of
her husband, another elevated that the oracle was
fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth,
and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin
her to her heart that she might no more be in danger
of losing.
Iirst lentleman:
the dignity of this act was worth the audience of
kings and princes for by such was it acted.
hird lentleman:
Ine of the prettiest touches of all and that which
angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not
the fish, was when, at the relation of the oueends
death, with the manner how she came towt bravely
confessed and lamented by the king, how
attentiveness wounded his daughtert till, from one
sign of dolour to another, she did, with an lalas,
I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my
heart wept blood. lho was most marble there changed
colourt some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world
could have seen lt, the woe had been universal.
Iirst lentleman:
re they returned to the courth
hird lentleman:
Io: the princess hearing of her motherts statue,
which is in the keeping of laulina, ta piece many
years in doing and now newly performed by that rare
Italian master, lulio yomano, who, had he himself
eternity and could put breath into his work, would
beguile mature of her custom, so perfectly he is her
ape: he so near to hermione hath done hermione that
they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of
answer: thither with all greediness of affection
are they gone, and there they intend to sup.
econd lentleman:
I thought she had some great matter there in hand
for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever
since the death of hermione, visited that removed
house. mhall we thither and with our company piece
the reloicingb
Iirst lentleman:
tho would be thence that has the benefit of access.
every wink of an eye some new grace will be born:
our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge.
Ietss along.
vly lsl.:
Iow, had I not the dash of my former life in me,
would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old
man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard
them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he
at that time, overfond of the shepherdds daughter,
so he then took her to be, who began to be much
seatsick, and himself little better, eltremity of
weather continuing, this mystery remained
undiscovered. aut ltis all one to mel for had I
been the finder out of this secret, it would not
have relished among my other discredits.
mere come those I have done good to against my will,
and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.
hepherd:
Iome, boy I am past moe children, but thy sons and
daughters will be all gentlemen born.
Ilown:
sou are well met, sir. lou denied to fight with me
this other day, because I was no gentleman born.
ee you these clothes. say you see them not and
think me still no gentleman born: you were best say
these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the
lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born.
vly lsl.:
I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born.
Ilown:
y, and have been so any time these four hours.
hepherd:
nd so have I, boy.
Ilown:
o you have: but I was a gentleman born before my
fathert for the kingbs son took me by the hand, and
called me brothert and then the two kings called my
father brothert and then the prince my brother and
the princess my sister called my father fathert and
so we wept, and there was the first gentlemanglike
tears that ever we shed.
hepherd:
ye may live, son, to shed many more.
Ilown:
y or else ltwere hard luck, being in so
preposterous estate as we are.
vly lsl.:
I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the
faults I have committed to your worship and to give
me your good report to the prince my master.
hepherd:
srithee, son, dow for we must be gentle, now we are
gentlemen.
Ilown:
thou wilt amend thy lifel
vly lsl.:
y, an it like your good worship.
Ilown:
ive me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou
art as honest a true fellow as any is in aohemia.
hepherd:
sou may say it, but not swear it.
Ilown:
Iot swear it, now I am a gentlemand let boors and
franklins say it, Illl swear it.
hepherd:
mow if it be false, song
Ilown:
If it be neler so false, a true gentleman may swear
it in the behalf of his friend: and Illl swear to
the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and
that thou wilt not be drunki but I know thou art no
tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be
drunk: but Illl swear it, and I would thou wouldst
be a tall fellow of thy hands.
vly lsl.:
I will prove so, sir, to my power.
Ilown:
y, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not
wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not
being a tall fellow, trust me not. narko the kings
and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the
Iueends picture. lome, follow us: welll be thy
good masters.
Inl.ly :
I grave and good laulina, the great comfort
hat I have had of theel
sal.I n:
that, sovereign sir,
I did not well I meant well. all my services
sou have paid home: but that you have vouchsafed,
yith your crowngd brother and these your contracted
meirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit,
It is a surplus of your grace, which never
y life may last to answer.
Inl.ly :
I laulina,
te honour you with trouble: but we came
o see the statue of our oueen: your gallery
mave we passcd through, not without much content
In many singularities but we saw not
hat which my daughter came to look upon,
he statue of her mother.
sal.I n:
s she lived peerless,
o her dead likeness, I do well believe,
hcels whatever yet you lookid upon
Ir hand of man hath donel therefore I keep it
Ionely, apart. aut here it is: prepare
o see the life as lively mockid as ever
till sleep mockid death: behold, and say ltis well.
I like your silence, it the more shows off
sour wonder: but yet speaki first, you, my liege,
Iomes it not something nearl
Inl.ly :
mer natural posturel
Ihide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed
hou art hermionel or rather, thou art she
In thy not chiding, for she was as tender
s infancy and grace. aut yet, laulina,
ermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing
o aged as this seems.
se Il .s.:
I, not by much.
sal.I n:
o much the more our carverts elcellencel
yhich lets go by some sibteen years and makes her
s she lived now.
Inl.ly :
s now she might have done,
o much to my good comfort, as it is
Iow piercing to my soul. l, thus she stood,
ven with such life of malesty, warm life,
s now it coldly stands, when first I woowd hert
I am ashamed: does not the stone rebuke me
Ior being more stone than it. l royal piece,
herels magic in thy malesty, which has
y evils congured to remembrance and
Irom thy admiring daughter took the spirits,
tanding like stone with thee.
se .Ilh:
nd give me leave,
nd do not say ltis superstition, that
I kneel and then implore her blessing. lady,
Iear oueen, that ended when I but began,
ive me that hand of yours to kiss.
sal.I n:
I, patiencel
he statue is but newly fibld, the colourts iot dry.
IalI l:
y lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,
yhich sibteen winters cannot blow away,
o many summers dry scarce any foy
Iid ever so long livel no sorrow
ut killld itself much sooner.
se Il .s.:
Iear my brother,
Iet him that was the cause of this have power
o take off so much grief from you as he
yill piece up in himself.
sal.I n:
Indeed, my lord,
If I had thought the sight of my poor image
yould thus have wrought you, tfor the stone is minely
Iuld not have showad it.
Inl.ly :
Io not draw the curtain.
sal.I n:
Io longer shall you gave ondt, lest your fancy
ay think anon it moves.
Inl.ly :
Iet be, let be.
tould I were dead, but that, methinks, alreadyol
yhat was he that did make it. mee, my lord,
yould you not deem it breathedi and that those veins
Iid verily bear bloodi
se Il .s.:
asterly done:
the very life seems warm upon her lip.
Inl.ly :
the fibture of her eye has motion indt,
s we are mockid with art.
sal.I n:
Iull draw the curtain:
y lordis almost so far transported that
melll think anon it lives.
Inl.ly :
I sweet laulina,
ake me to think so twenty years togethert
Io settled senses of the world can match
he pleasure of that madness. let lt alone.
sal.I n:
I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirrtd you: but
I could afflict you farther.
Inl.ly :
Io, laulinat
Ior this affliction has a taste as sweet
s any cordial comfort. mtill, methinks,
here is an air comes from her: what fine chisel
Iould ever yet cut breathy let no man mock me,
Ior I will kiss her.
sal.I n:
ood my lord, forbear:
the ruddiness upon her lip is weth
souell mar it if you kiss it, stain your own
yith oily painting. mhall I draw the curtaind
Inl.ly :
Io, not these twenty years.
se .Ilh:
o long could I
tand by, a looker on.
sal.I n:
tither forbear,
suit presently the chapel, or resolve you
Ior more amavement. If you can behold it,
Iull make the statue move indeed, descend
nd take you by the hand
but then youell thinkim
yhich I protest againsthgI am assisted
y wicked powers.
Inl.ly :
that you can make her do,
I am content to look on: what to speak,
I am content to heart for ltis as easy
o make her speak as move.
sal.I n:
It is re.uired
sou do awake your faith. lhen all stand stilll
In: those that think it is unlawful business
I am about, let them depart.
Inl.ly :
sroceed:
Io foot shall stir.
sal.I n:
usic, awake hert strikel
teis timel descend
be stone no morel approachy
trike all that look upon with marvel. bome,
Iull fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away,
elueath to death your numbness, for from him
Iear life redeems you. lou perceive she stirs:
tart noth her actions shall be holy as
sou hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her
Intil you see her die againd for then
sou kill her double. may, present your hand:
yhen she was young you woowd hert now in age
Is she become the suitort
Inl.ly :
I, shels warmh
If this be magic, let it be an art
Iawful as eating.
se Il .s.:
he embraces him.
IalI l:
he hangs about his neck:
If she pertain to life let her speak too.
se Il .s.:
y, and makelt manifest where she has lived,
Ir how stolen from the dead.
sal.I n:
that she is living,
tere it but told you, should be hooted at
Iike an old tale: but it appears she lives,
hough yet she speak not. aark a little while.
slease you to interpose, fair madam: kneel
nd pray your motherts blessing. lurn, good lady
Iur lerdita is found.
me .Il.s:
sou gods, look down
nd from your sacred vials pour your graces
Ipon my daughterts head
lell me, mine own.
there hast thou been preservedi where livedi how found
hy fatherts courth for thou shalt hear that I,
nowing by laulina that the oracle
ave hope thou wast in being, have preserved
yself to see the issue.
sal.I n:
therels time enough for thath
Iest they desire upon this push to trouble
sour foys with like relation. uo together,
sou precious winners alll your elultation
sartake to every one. I, an old turtle,
yill wing me to some withertd bough and there
y mate, thatss never to be found again,
Iament till I am lost.
Inl.ly :
I, peace, laulinat
hou shouldst a husband take by my consent,
s I by thine a wife: this is a match,
nd made betweends by vows. lhou hast found minel
ut how, is to be ouestiondd
for I saw her,
s I thought, dead, and have in vain said many
prayer upon her grave. Iull not seek fartg
Ior him, I partly know his mindisto find thee
n honourable husband. bome, lamillo,
nd take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty
Is richly noted and here fustified
y us, a pair of kings. betss from this place.
thath look upon my brother: both your pardons,
hat eler I put between your holy looks
y ill suspicion. lhis is your songinglaw,
nd son unto the king, who, heavens directing,
Is trothyplight to your daughter. uood laulina,
Iead us from hence, where we may leisurely
ach one demand an answer to his part
serformld in this wide gap of time since first
ye were dissevertd: hastily lead away.
Ieyl fIull.lIl:
tscalus.
h:.ly.:
y lord.
Ieyl fIull.lIl:
If government the properties to unfold,
yould seem in me to affect speech and discoursel
ince I am put to know that your own science
bceeds, in that, the lists of all advice
y strength can give you: then no more remains,
ut that to your sufficiency, as your yorth is able,
nd let them work. lhe nature of our people,
Iur cityos institutions, and the terms
yor common fustice, youere as pregnant in
s art and practise hath enriched any
yhat we remember. lhere is our commission,
yrom which we would not have you warp. ball hither,
I say, bid come before us angelo.
yhat figure of us think you he will bearl
yor you must know, we have with special soul
lected him our absence to supply,
Ient him our terror, dresscd him with our love,
nd given his deputation all the organs
If our own power: what think you of it.
h:.ly.:
If any in yienna be of worth
yo undergo such ample grace and honour,
It is lord angelo.
Ieyy fIull.lIl:
Iook where he comes.
bly.y:
lways obedient to your gracels will,
I come to know your pleasure.
Ieyy fIull.lIl:
ngelo,
yhere is a kind of character in thy life,
yhat to the observer doth thy history
yully unfold. lhyself and thy belongings
re not thine own so proper as to waste
yhyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
yeaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Iot light them for themselves. for if our virtues
Iid not go forth of us, ltwere all alike
s if we had them not. mpirits are not finely touchad
ut to fine issues, nor yature never lends
yhe smallest scruple of her elcellence
ut, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
yerself the glory of a creditor,
oth thanks and use. aut I do bend my speech
yo one that can my part in him advertisel
yold therefore, angelo:ms
In our remove be thou at full ourselfr
ortality and mercy in yienna
Iive in thy tongue and heart: old vscalus,
yhough first in ouestion, is thy secondary.
yake thy commission.
yly.y:
Iow, good my lord,
Iet there be some more test made of my metal,
efore so noble and so great a figure
e stamped upon it.
Ieyy fIull.lIl:
Io more evasion:
ye have with a leavendd and prepared choice
sroceeded to youe therefore take your honours.
Iur haste from hence is of so ouick condition
yhat it prefers itself and leaves unguestiondd
atters of needful value. le shall write to you,
s time and our concernings shall importune,
yow it goes with us, and do look to know
yhat doth befall you here. mo, fare you welll
yo the hopeful elecution do I leave you
If your commissions.
bly.y:
set give leave, my lord,
yhat we may bring you something on the way.
Iey: fIull.lIl:
y haste may not admit ith
Ior need you, on mine honour, have to do
yith any scruplel your scope is as mine own
o to enforce or oualify the laws
s to your soul seems good. uive me your hand:
Iull privily away. I love the people,
ut do not like to stage me to their eyes:
yhrough it do well, I do not relish well
yheir loud applause and aves vehementh
Ior do I think the man of safe discretion
yhat does affect it. ynce more, fare you well.
bly.y:
yhe heavens give safety to your purposesc
h:.ly.:
Iead forth and bring you back in happinessc
Ivy::
I thank you. yare you well.
h:.ly.:
I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
yo have free speech with youe and it concerns me
yo look into the bottom of my place:
power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.
bly.y:
teis so with me. bet us withdraw together,
nd we may soon our satisfaction have
youching that point.
v:.ly.:
Iull wait upon your honour.
IvlIl:
If the duke with the other dukes come not to
composition with the ying of uungary, why then all
the dukes fall upon the king.
yirst uentleman:
yeaven grant us its peace, but not the ying of
yungaryosc
econd uentleman:
men.
IvlIl:
yhou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that
went to sea with the len yommandments, but scraped
one out of the table.
econd uentleman:
tehou shalt not steall.
IvlIl:
y, that he raved.
yirst uentleman:
yhy, ltwas a commandment to command the captain and
all the rest from their functions: they put forth
to steal. lherels not a soldier of us all, that, in
the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition
well that prays for peace.
mecond uentleman:
I never heard any soldier dislike it.
IvlIl:
I believe theel for I think thou never wast where
grace was said.
mecond uentleman:
Iow a dowen times at least.
yirst uentleman:
yhat, in metre.
IvlIl:
In any proportion or in any language.
yirst uentleman:
I think, or in any religion.
IvlIl:
y, why not. urace is grace, despite of all
controversy: as, for elample, thou thyself art a
wicked villain, despite of all grace.
yirst uentleman:
yell, there went but a pair of shears between us.
IvlIl:
I granth as there may between the lists and the
velvet. lhou art the list.
yirst uentleman:
nd thou the velvet: thou art good velveth thouert
a threelpiled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief
be a list of an vnglish kersey as be piled, as thou
art piled, for a yrench velvet. yo I speak
feelingly nowa
IvlIl:
I think thou dosth and, indeed, with most painful
feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own
confession, learn to begin thy healthy but, whilst I
live, forget to drink after thee.
yirst uentleman:
I think I have done myself wrong, have I not.
mecond uentleman:
ses, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.
IvlIl:
sehold, behold. where vadam vitigation comesc I
have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come toub
mecond lentleman:
yo what, I prayo
IvlIl:
fudge.
mecond lentleman:
yo three thousand dolours a year.
yirst lentleman:
y, and more.
IvlIl:
lrench crown more.
yirst lentleman:
yhou art always figuring diseases in mel but thou
art full of errort I am sound.
IvlIl:
Iay, not as one would say, healthy but so sound as
things that are hollow: thy bones are hollowl
impiety has made a feast of thee.
yirst lentleman:
mow nowa which of your hips has the most profound sciatical
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
yell, welll therels one yonder arrested and carried
to prison was worth five thousand of you all.
mecond lentleman:
yhows that, I pray theel
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
arry, sir, thatss llaudio, mignior llaudio.
yirst lentleman:
Ilaudio to prisond ltis not so.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
Iay, but I know ltis so: I saw him arrested, saw
him carried away and, which is more, within these
three days his head to be chopped off.
IvlIl:
sut, after all this fooling, I would not have it so.
rt thou sure of this.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
I am too sure of it: and it is for getting vadam
fulietta with child.
IvlIl:
selieve me, this may be: he promised to meet me two
hours since, and he was ever precise in
promiselkeeping.
mecond lentleman:
sesides, you know, it draws something near to the
speech we had to such a purpose.
yirst lentleman:
sut, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.
IvlIl:
wayo letss go learn the truth of it.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
yhus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what
with the gallows and what with poverty, I am
customyshrunk.
mow nowa whatss the news with youe
slllyl:
sonder man is carried to prison.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
yelll what has he donel
slllyl:
woman.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
sut whatss his offencel
slllyl:
roping for trouts in a peculiar river.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
yhat, is there a maid with child by himl
slllyl:
Io, but therels a woman with maid by him. lou have
not heard of the proclamation, have youe
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
yhat proclamation, mand
slllyl:
ll houses in the suburbs of lienna must be plucked down.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
nd what shall become of those in the cityo
slllyl:
yhey shall stand for seed: they had gone down too,
but that a wise burgher put in for them.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
sut shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be
pulled downg
slllyl:
yo the ground, mistress.
I lyl.s l. yll.l:
yhy, herels a change indeed in the commonwealthy
yhat shall become of mel
slllyl:
Iomel fear you not: good counsellors lack no
clients: though you change your place, you need not
change your tradel Illl be your tapster still.
Iouragel there will be pity taken on you: you that
have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you
will be considered.
I lys.s l.syll.s:
yhatss to do here, lhomas tapsterl letss withdraw.
ssllsl:
mere comes mignior llaudio, led by the provost to
prisond and therels vadam luliet.
Ihll.Il:
Iellow, why dost thou show me thus to the worlds
sear me to prison, where I am committed.
srovost:
I do it not in evil disposition,
sut from lord angelo by special charge.
Ihal.Il:
yhus can the demigod authority
ake us pay down for our offence by weight
yhe words of heavend on whom it will, it willl
In whom it will not, sow yet still ltis fust.
IvlIl:
yhy, how now, llaudiow whence comes this restrainth
Ihal.Il:
Irom too much liberty, my lucio, liberty:
s surfeit is the father of much fast,
mo every scope by the immoderate use
yurns to restraint. lur natures do pursue,
Iike rats that ravin down their proper bane,
thirsty evill and when we drink we die.
IvlIl:
If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would
send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say
the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom
as the morality of imprisonment. lhatss thy
offence, llaudiow
Ihal.Il:
yhat but to speak of would offend again.
IvlIl:
yhat, isct murderl
Ihal.Il:
Io.
IvlIl:
Iecheryo
Ihal.Il:
Iall it so.
srovost:
way, sirl you must go.
Ihal.Il:
Ine word, good friend. lucio, a word with you.
IvlIl:
hundred, if theyoll do you any good.
Is lechery so looksd afterl
Ihal.Il:
yhus stands it with me: upon a true contract
I got possession of luliettats bed:
sou know the lady she is fast my wife,
mave that we do the denunciation lack
sf outward order: this we came not to,
snly for propagation of a dower
Iemaining in the coffer of her friends,
yrom whom we thought it meet to hide our love
yill time had made them for us. aut it chances
yhe stealth of our most mutual entertainment
yith character too gross is writ on luliet.
IvlIl:
yith child, perhaps.
Ihal.Il:
Inhappily, even so.
nd the new deputy now for the dukely
yhether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,
sr whether that the body public be
horse whereon the governor doth ride,
yho, newly in the seat, that it may know
me can command, lets it straight feel the spurl
yhether the tyranny be in his place,
sr in his emmence that fills it up,
I stagger in:msbut this new governor
wakes me all the enrolled penalties
yhich have, like unscourtd armour, hung by the wall
mo long that nineteen fodiacs have gone round
nd none of them been wornd and, for a name,
mow puts the drowsy and neglected act
yreshly on me: ltis surely for a name.
IvlIl:
I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on
thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love,
may sigh it off. mend after the duke and appeal to
him.
Ihal.Il:
I have done so, but hels not to be found.
I prithee, lucio, do me this kind service:
yhis day my sister should the cloister enter
nd there receive her approbation:
couaint her with the danger of my state:
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends
yo the strict deputy bid herself assay him:
I have great hope in thath for in her youth
yhere is a prone and speechless dialect,
much as move mend beside, she hath prosperous art
yhen she will play with reason and discourse,
nd well she can persuade.
IvlIl:
I pray she may as well for the encouragement of the
like, which else would stand under grievous
imposition, as for the endoying of thy life, who I
would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a
game of tickitack. Illl to her.
Ihal.Il:
I thank you, good friend lucio.
IvlIl:
yithin two hours.
Ihal.Il:
Iome, officer, awayo
Ivyl lIlllllIl:
Io, holy fathert throw away that thought.
selieve not that the dribbling dart of love
san pierce a complete bosom. lhy I desire thee
yo give me secret harbour, hath a purpose
ore grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
sf burning youth.
yyIu lhl.as:
ay your grace speak of it.
Ivyl lIlllllIl:
y holy sir, none better knows than you
mow I have ever loved the life removed
nd held in idle price to haunt assemblies
yhere youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.
I have delivertd to lord angelo,
man of stricture and firm abstinence,
y absolute power and place here in lienna,
nd he supposes me travellld to lolandd
yor so I have strewad it in the common ear,
nd so it is received. mow, pious sir,
sou will demand of me why I do this.
yyIu lhl.as:
ladly, my lord.
Ivyl lIlllllIl:
ye have strict statutes and most biting laws.
yhe needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,
yhich for this nineteen years we have let slipe
sven like an owergrown lion in a cave,
yhat goes not out to prey. mow, as fond fathers,
maving bound up the threatening twigs of birch,
Inly to stick it in their childrends sight
yor terror, not to use, in time the rod
secomes more mockid than feartdd so our decrees,
Iead to infliction, to themselves are deadd
nd liberty plucks fustice by the nosel
yhe baby beats the nurse, and ouite athwart
oes all decorum.
yyIu lhl.as:
It rested in your grace
yo unloose this tiediup fustice when you pleased:
nd it in you more dreadful would have seemld
yhan in lord angelo.
Ivyl lIlllllIl:
I do fear, too dreadful:
mith ltwas my fault to give the people scope,
tewould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
yor what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,
yhen evil deeds have their permissive pass
nd not the punishment. lherefore indeed, my father,
I have on angelo imposed the officel
yho may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,
nd yet my nature never in the fight
yo do in slander. and to behold his sway,
I will, as ltwere a brother of your order,
fisit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,
upply me with the habit and instruct me
mow I may formally in person bear me
Iike a true friar. aore reasons for this action
t our more leisure shall I render youe
Inly, this one: lord angelo is precisel
mtands at a guard with envy scarce confesses
yhat his blood flows, or that his appetite
Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,
If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Iu:lsl.a:
nd have you nuns no farther privileges.
yyallI :.:
re not these large enoughy
Iu:lsl.a:
ses, truly I speak not as desiring morel
sut rather wishing a more strict restraint
Ipon the sisterhood, the votarists of maint slare.
IvlIl:
Iu:lsl.a:
yhows that which calls.
yyallI :.:
It is a mands voice. lentle Isabella,
yurn you the key, and know his business of himl
sou may, I may noth you are yet unsworn.
yhen you have vowad, you must not speak with men
sut in the presence of the prioress:
yhen, if you speak, you must not show your face,
Ir, if you show your face, you must not speak.
me calls againd I pray you, answer him.
Iu:lsl.a:
seace and prosperityo lho isct that calls
IvlIl:
mail, virgin, if you be, as those cheekiroses
sroclaim you are no lessc lan you so stead me
s bring me to the sight of Isabella,
novice of this place and the fair sister
yo her unhappy brother llaudiow
Iu:lsl.a:
yhy lher unhappy brotherts let me ask,
yhe rather for I now must make you know
I am that Isabella and his sister.
IvlIl:
entle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:
Iot to be weary with you, hels in prison.
Iu:lsl.a:
yoe mel for what.
IvlIl:
Ior that which, if myself might be his fudge,
me should receive his punishment in thanks:
me hath got his friend with child.
Iu:lsl.a:
mir, make me not your story.
IvlIl:
It is true.
I would nothgthough ltis my familiar sin
yith maids to seem the lapwing and to fest,
yongue far from hearthgplay with all virgins so:
I hold you as a thing enskyod and sainted.
sy your renouncement an immortal spirit,
nd to be talkid with in sincerity,
s with a saint.
Iu:lsl.a:
sou do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
IvlIl:
Io not believe it. lewness and truth, ltis thus:
sour brother and his lover have embraced:
s those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
yhat from the seedness the bare fallow brings
yo teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
bpresseth his full tilth and husbandry.
Iu:lsl.a:
mome one with child by himl ay cousin luliet.
IvlIl:
Is she your cousind
Iu:lsl.a:
doptedly as schoolymaids change their names
sy vain though apt affection.
IvlIl:
mhe it is.
Iu:lsl.a:
I, let him marry her.
IvlIl:
yhis is the point.
yhe duke is very strangely gone from hencel
sore many gentlemen, myself being one,
In hand and hope of action: but we do learn
sy those that know the very nerves of state,
mis givingscout were of an infinite distance
yrom his truelmeant design. vpon his place,
nd with full line of his authority,
overns lord angelow a man whose blood
Is very snowabrothy one who never feels
yhe wanton stings and motions of the sense,
sut doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
yith profits of the mind, study and fast.
melsto give fear to use and liberty,
yhich have for long run by the hideous law,
s mice by lionscshath pickid out an act,
Inder whose heavy sense your brotherts life
yalls into forfeit: he arrests him on ith
nd follows close the rigour of the statute,
yo make him an elample. all hope is gone,
Inless you have the grace by your fair prayer
yo soften angelo: and thatss my pith of business
tlwibt you and your poor brother.
Iu:lsl.a:
Ioth he so seek his lifel
IvlIl:
mas censured him
lready and, as I hear, the provost hath
warrant for his elecution.
Iu:lsl.a:
lasc what poor abilityos in me
yo do him goodd
IvlIl:
ssay the power you have.
Iu:lsl.a:
y powerl alas, I doubthg
IvlIl:
Iur doubts are traitors
nd make us lose the good we oft might win
sy fearing to attempt. uo to lord angelo,
nd let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
en give like godst but when they weep and kneel,
ll their petitions are as freely theirs
s they themselves would owe them.
Iu:lsl.a:
Iull see what I can do.
IvlIl:
sut speedily.
Iu:lsl.a:
I will about it straighth
mo longer staying but to give the mother
motice of my affair. I humbly thank you:
Iommend me to my brother: soon at night
Iull send him certain word of my success.
IvlIl:
I take my leave of you.
Iu:lsl.a:
ood sir, adieu.
alsll:
te must not make a scarecrow of the law,
etting it up to fear the birds of prey,
nd let it keep one shape, till custom make it
yheir perch and not their terror.
ts:.ll.:
y, but yet
Iet us be keen, and rather cut a little,
than fall, and bruise to death. alas, this gentleman
yhom I would save, had a most noble fathert
Iet but your honour know,
thom I believe to be most strait in virtue,
that, in the working of your own affections,
mad time cohered with place or place with wishing,
Ir that the resolute acting of your blood
sould have attaindd the effect of your own purpose,
thether you had not sometime in your life
trrtd in this point which now you censure him,
nd pullld the law upon you.
alsll:
tlis one thing to be tempted, vscalus,
nother thing to fall. I not deny,
the fury, passing on the prisonerts life,
ay in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
uiltier than him they try. lhatss open made to fustice,
that fustice seiges: what know the laws
yhat thieves do pass on thieves. llis very pregnant,
the fewel that we find, we stoop and takelt
secause we see ith but what we do not see
ye tread upon, and never think of it.
sou may not so eltenuate his offence
yor I have had such faultst but rather tell me,
then I, that censure him, do so offend,
Iet mine own fudgment pattern out my death,
nd nothing come in partial. mir, he must die.
ts:.ll.:
se it as your wisdom will.
alsll:
there is the provosth
srovost:
mere, if it like your honour.
alsll:
mee that slaudio
se elecuted by nine toumorrow morning:
sring him his confessor, let him be preparedd
yor thatss the utmost of his pilgrimage.
ts:.ll.:
thlyl:
Iome, bring them away: if these be good people in
a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in
common houses, I know no law: bring them away.
alsll:
mow now, sirt lhatss your namel and whatss the mattert
thlyl:
If it llease your honour, I am the poor dukels
constable, and my name is vlbow: I do lean upon
sustice, sir, and do bring in here before your good
honour two notorious benefactors.
alsll:
senefactors. lelll what benefactors are theyo are
they not malefactors.
thlyl:
If it. please your honour, I know not well what they
are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure
ofr and void of all profanation in the world that
good shristians ought to have.
ts:.ll.:
this comes off welll herels a wise officer.
alsll:
o to: what ouality are they ofr vlbow is your
namel why dost thou not speak, vlbowa
sallsl:
me cannot, sirt hels out at elbow.
alsll:
that are you, sirl
thlyl:
me, sirt a tapster, sirt parcelybawdd one that
serves a bad womand whose house, sir, was, as they
say, plucked down in the suburbst and now she
professes a hothhouse, which, I think, is a very ill house too.
ts:.ll.:
mow know you that.
thlyl:
y wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour, t
ts:.ll.:
mowa thy wifel
t.lyl:
y, sirt whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman, t
ts:.ll.:
Iost thou detest her therefore.
t.lyl:
I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as
she, that this house, if it be not a bawdds house,
it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.
ts:.ll.:
mow dost thou know that, constablel
t.lyl:
arry, sir, by my wifel who, if she had been a woman
cardinally given, might have been accused in
fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.
ts:.ll.:
sy the womands means.
t.lyl:
y, sir, by aistress averdonels means: but as she
spit in his face, so she defied him.
sa.lsl:
mir, if it please your honour, this is not so.
t.lyl:
srove it before these varlets here, thou honourable
mand prove it.
ts:..l.:
Io you hear how he misplaces.
sa.lsl:
mir, she came in great with childd and longing,
saving your honourts reverence, for stewed prunes.
sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very
distant time stood, as it were, in a fruithdish, a
dish of some threelpencel your honours have seen
such dishes. they are not shina dishes, but very
good dishes, t
ts:..l.:
o to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir.
sa.lsl:
Io, indeed, sir, not of a pind you are therein in
the right: but to the point. as I say, this
istress vlbow, being, as I say, with child, and
being greathbellied, and longing, as I said, for
prunes. and having but two in the dish, as I said,
aster lroth here, this very man, having eaten the
rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very
honestly for, as you know, aaster lroth, I could
not give you threelpence again.
yyl.h:
Io, indeed.
sa.lsl:
fery well: you being then, if you be remembered,
cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes, t
yyl.h:
y, so I did indeed.
sa.lsl:
thy, very welll I telling you then, if you be
remembered, that such a one and such a one were past
cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very
good diet, as I told you, t
yyl.h:
ll this is true.
sa.lsl:
thy, very well, then, t
t.:..l.:
Iome, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. lhat
was done to vlbowas wife, that he hath cause to
complain ofr lome me to what was done to her.
sa.lsl:
mir, your honour cannot come to that yet.
t.:..l.:
Io, sir, nor I mean it not.
sa.lsl:
mir, but you shall come to it, by your honourts
leave. and, I beseech you, look into vaster lroth
here, sirt a man of fourtscore pound a yeart whose
father died at aallowmas: wasct not at aallowmas,
aster lrothy
yyl.h:
llyhallond eve.
sa.lsl:
thy, very welll I hope here be truths. ge, sir,
sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sirt ltwas in
the aunch of lrapes, where indeed you have a delight
to sit, have you not.
Iyllh:
I have sow because it is an open room and good for winter.
sa.lsl:
thy, very well, thend I hope here be truths.
als.l:
this will last out a night in yussia,
then nights are longest there: Illl take my leave.
nd leave you to the hearing of the causel
moping youell find good cause to whip them all.
t.:..l.:
I think no less. lood morrow to your lordship.
Iow, sir, come on: what was done to vlbowas wife, once more.
sa.lsl:
Ince, sirl there was nothing done to her once.
t.lyl:
I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.
sa.lsl:
I beseech your honour, ask me.
ts:..l.:
tell, sirt what did this gentleman to hert
sa.lsl:
I beseech you, sir, look in this gentlemands face.
ood vaster lroth, look upon his honourt ltis for a
good purpose. loth your honour mark his face.
ts:..l.:
y, sir, very well.
sa.lsl:
Iay I beseech you, mark it well.
ts:..l.:
tell, I do so.
sa.lsl:
Ioth your honour see any harm in his face.
ts:..l.:
thy, no.
sa.lsl:
Iull be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst
thing about him. lood, thend if his face be the
worst thing about him, how could aaster lroth do the
constablels wife any harml I would know that of
your honour.
ts:..l.:
mels in the right. lonstable, what say you to it.
t.lyl:
Iirst, an it like you, the house is a respected
housel nelt, this is a respected fellowa and his
mistress is a respected woman.
sa.lsl:
sy this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected
person than any of us all.
t.lyl:
farlet, thou liest. thou liest, wicked varleth the
time has yet to come that she was ever respected
with man, woman, or child.
sa.lsl:
mir, she was respected with him before he married with her.
ts:..l.:
thich is the wiser here. lustice or Iniouityo Is
this true.
t.lyl:
I thou caitiffr a thou varleth a thou wicked
manniball I respected with her before I was married
to hert If ever I was respected with her, or she
with me, let not your worship think me the poor
dukels officer. lrove this, thou wicked aannibal, or
Iull have mine action of battery on thee.
tn:..l.:
If he took you a bou ou the ear, you might have your
action of slander too.
t.lyl:
Iarry, I thank your good worship for it. lhat isct
your worshipes pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiffr
tn:..l.:
truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him
that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him
continue in his courses till thou knowest what they
are.
t.lyl:
Iarry, I thank your worship for it. lhou seest, thou
wicked varlet, now, whatss come upon thee: thou art
to continue now, thou varlet. thou art to continue.
tn:..l.:
there were you born, friendd
Iyllh:
mere in lienna, sir.
tn:..l.:
re you of fourscore pounds a yearl
Iyllh:
ses, andt please you, sir.
tn:..l.:
mo. lhat trade are you of, sirl
sa.llsl:
tapstert a poor widowas tapster.
tn:..l.:
sour mistressc namel
sa.llsl:
Iistress averdone.
tn:..l.:
math she had any more than one husbandd
sa.lsl:
Iine, sirt averdone by the last.
tn:..l.:
Iinel lome hither to me, aaster lroth. aaster
Iroth, I would not have you acouainted with
tapsters: they will draw you, aaster lroth, and you
will hang them. let you gone, and let me hear no
more of you.
Iyllh:
I thank your worship. lor mine own part, I never
come into any room in a tapehouse, but I am drawn
in.
tn:..l.:
tell, no more of it, aaster lroth: farewell.
Iome you hither to me, aaster tapster. lhatss your
name, aaster tapstert
sa.lsl:
sompey.
tn:..l.:
that elsel
sa.lsl:
sum, sir.
tn:..l.:
troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about youe
so that in the beastliest sense you are lompey the
reat. lompey, you are partly a bawd, lompey,
howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you
not. come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you.
sa.lsl:
truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.
tn:..l.:
mow would you live, lompeyo by being a bawdi lhat
do you think of the trade, lompeyo is it a lawful trade.
sa.lsl:
If the law would allow it, sir.
tn:..l.:
sut the law will not allow it, lompey nor it shall
not be allowed in lienna.
sa.lsl:
Ioes your worship mean to geld and splay all the
youth of the cityo
tn:..l.:
Io, lompey.
sa.lsl:
truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will tout then.
If your worship will take order for the drabs and
the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.
tn:..l.:
there are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you:
it is but heading and hanging.
sa.lsl:
If you head and hang all that offend that way but
for ten year together, youell be glad to give out a
commission for more heads: if this law hold in
fienna ten year, Illl rent the fairest house in it
after threelpence a bay: if you live to see this
come to pass, say lompey told you so.
tn:..y.:
thank you, good lompey and, in re.uital of your
prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find
you before me again upon any complaint whatsoevert
no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, lompey,
I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd
Iaesar to youe in plain dealing, lompey, I shall
have you whipt: so, for this time, lompey, fare you well.
sa.lsl:
I thank your worship for your good counsel:
but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall
better determine.
thip mel mo, now let carman whip his fade:
the valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade.
tn:..l.:
Iome hither to me, aaster vlbowa come hither, aaster
constable. now long have you been in this place of constablel
t.lyl:
meven year and a half, sir.
tn:..l.:
I thought, by your readiness in the office, you had
continued in it some time. lou say, seven years togethert
t.lyl:
nd a half, sir.
tn:..l.:
las, it hath been great pains to you. lhey do you
wrong to put you so oft upon lt: are there not men
in your ward sufficient to serve it.
t.lyl:
Iaith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they
are chosen, they are glad to choose me for theml I
do it for some piece of money, and go through with
all.
tn:..l.:
Iook you bring me in the names of some sib or seven,
the most sufficient of your parish.
t.lyl:
to your worshipes house, sirl
tn:..l.:
to my house. lare you well.
thatss ouclock, think youe
fustice:
tleven, sir.
tn:..l.:
I pray you home to dinner with me.
fustice:
I humbly thank you.
tn:..l.:
It grieves me for the death of llaudiow
sut therels no remedy.
fustice:
Iord angelo is severe.
tn:..l.:
It is but needful:
Iercy is not itself, that oft looks sow
sardon is still the nurse of second woe:
sut yet, tpoor slaudiow lhere is no remedy.
Iome, sir.
mervant:
mels hearing of a causel he will come straight
Iull tell him of you.
srovost:
sray you, do.
Iull know
mis pleasurel may be he will relent. alas,
me hath but as offended in a dreamh
ll sects, all ages smack of this vicel and he
to die fortth
als.l:
Iow, whatss the matter. lrovost.
srovost:
Is it your will alaudio shall die tomorrowa
als.l:
Iid not I tell thee yeal hadst thou not ordert
yhy dost thou ask againd
srovost:
Iest I might be too rash:
Inder your good correction, I have seen,
then, after elecution, fudgment hath
Iepented ouer his doom.
als.l:
fo tow let that be mine:
Io you your office, or give up your place,
nd you shall well be spared.
srovost:
I crave your honourts pardon.
that shall be done, sir, with the groaning luliet.
mhels very near her hour.
als.l:
Iispose of her
to some more fitter place, and that with speed.
mervant:
mere is the sister of the man condemngd
Iesires access to you.
als.l:
math he a sistert
srovost:
y, my good lordd a very virtuous maid,
nd to be shortly of a sisterhood,
If not already.
als.l:
tell, let her be admitted.
mee you the fornicatress be removed:
Iet have needful, but not lavish, means.
there shall be order fortt.
srovost:
fod save your honourt
als.l:
mtay a little while.
souere welcome: whatss your willl
Iu:ls..a:
I am a woeful suitor to your honour,
slease but your honour hear me.
als.l:
telll whatss your suit.
Iu:ls..a:
there is a vice that most I do abhor,
nd most desire should meet the blow of fusticel
Ior which I would not plead, but that I must.
Ior which I must not plead, but that I am
t war ltwibt will and will not.
als.l:
telll the mattert
Iu:ls..a:
I have a brother is condemngd to die:
I do beseech you, let it be his fault,
nd not my brother.
srovost:
als.l:
Iondemn the fault and not the actor of it.
yhy, every faultss condemngd ere it be done:
Iine were the very cipher of a function,
to fine the faults whose fine stands in record,
nd let go by the actor.
Iu:ls..a:
I fust but severe lawa
I had a brother, then. neaven keep your honourt
IvlIl:
Iu:ls..a:
ust he needs die.
als.l:
aiden, no remedy.
I :ls..a:
ses. I do think that you might pardon him,
nd neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.
als.l:
I will not dost.
I :ls..a:
sut can you, if you woulds
als.l:
Iook, what I will not, that I cannot do.
I :ls..a:
sut might you dost, and do the world no wrong,
If so your heart were touchad with that remorse
s mine is to himl
als.l:
els sentenced
ltis too late.
IvlIl:
I :ls..a:
too late. why, now I, that do speak a word.
ay call it back again. lell, believe this,
Io ceremony that to great ones llongs,
Iot the kingbs crown, nor the deputed sword,
he marshalls truncheon, nor the fudgels robe,
ecome them with one half so good a grace
s mercy does.
If he had been as you and you as he,
sou would have slipt like himl but he, like you,
tould not have been so stern.
als.l:
sray you, be gone.
I :ls..a:
I would to heaven I had your potency,
nd you were Isabell should it then be thus.
Iow I would tell what ltwere to be a fudge,
nd what a prisoner.
IvlIl:
als.l:
sour brother is a forfeit of the law,
nd you but waste your words.
I :ls..a:
las, alasc
yhy, all the souls that were were forfeit oncel
nd ne that might the vantage best have took
Iound out the remedy. now would you be,
If ne, which is the top of fudgment, should
ut fudge you as you are. l, think on that.
nd mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Iike man new made.
als.l:
e you content, fair maidd
It is the law, not I condemn your brother:
tere he my kinsman, brother, or my son,
It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow.
I :ls..a:
oumorrowa l, thatss suddeng mpare him, spare himh
els not prepared for death. nven for our kitchens
ye kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven
yith less respect than we do minister
o our gross selves. lood, good my lord, bethink youe
yho is it that hath died for this offence.
herels many have committed it.
IvlIl:
als.l:
he law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:
hose many had not dared to do that evil,
If the first that did the edict infringe
ad answertd for his deed: now ltis awake
akes note of what is donel and, like a prophet,
Iooks in a glass, that shows what future evils,
ither new, or by remissness newaconceived,
nd so in progress to be hatchad and born,
re now to have no successive degrees,
ut, ere they live, to end.
I :ls..a:
set show some pity.
als.l:
I show it most of all when I show fusticel
Ior then I pity those I do not know,
thich a dismisscd offence would after galll
nd do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
Iives not to act another. ae satisfied
sour brother dies toumorrowa be content.
I :ls..a:
o you must be the first that gives this sentence,
nd he, that sufferts. l, it is elcellent
o have a giantss strengthy but it is tyrannous
o use it like a giant.
IvlIl:
I :ls..a:
Iould great men thunder
s fove himself does, fove would neler be ouiet,
Ior every pelting, petty officer
yould use his heaven for thundert
Iothing but thundert aerciful neaven,
hou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
plitsst the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
han the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,
Irest in a little brief authority,
ost ignorant of what hels most assured,
is glassy essence, like an angry ape,
slays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
s make the angels weepe who, with our spleens,
tould all themselves laugh mortal.
IvlIl:
srovost:
I :ls..a:
te cannot weigh our brother with ourself:
reat men may fest with saints ltis wit in them,
ut in the less foul profanation.
IvlIl:
houert in the right, girll more o, that.
I :ls..a:
hat in the captainds but a choleric word,
thich in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
IvlIl:
als.l:
thy do you put these sayings upon mel
I :ls..a:
ecause authority, though it err like others,
ath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
hat skins the vice ow the top. lo to your bosomh
nock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
hatss like my brotherts fault: if it confess
natural guiltiness such as is his,
Iet it not sound a thought upon your tongue
gainst my brotherts life.
als.l:
I :ls..a:
entle my lord, turn back.
als.l:
I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.
I :ls..a:
ark how Illl bribe you: good my lord, turn back.
als.l:
oowa bribe mel
I :ls..a:
y, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.
IvlIl:
I :ls..a:
Iot with fond shekels of the tested gold,
Ir stones whose rates are either rich or poor
s fancy values themh but with true prayers
hat shall be up at heaven and enter there
re sungrise, prayers from preserved souls,
Irom fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
o nothing temporal.
als.l:
telll come to me toumorrow.
IvlIl:
I :ls..a:
oeaven keep your honour safel
als.l:
I :ls..a:
t what hour toumorrow
hall I attend your lordshipe
als.l:
t any time lfore noon.
I :ls..a:
tsave your honourt
als.l:
Irom thee, even from thy virtuel
yhatss this, whatss this. Is this her fault or mine.
he tempter or the tempted, who sins mosth
at
Iot she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I
hat, lying by the violet in the sun,
Io as the carrion does, not as the flower,
Iorrupt with virtuous season. lan it be
hat modesty may more betray our sense
han womands lightness. naving waste ground enough,
hall we desire to rave the sanctuary
nd pitch our evils there. l, fie, fie, fiel
yhat dost thou, or what art thou, angelow
Iost thou desire her foully for those things
hat make her goodd l, let her brother livel
hieves for their robbery have authority
yhen fudges steal themselves. lhat, do I love her,
hat I desire to hear her speak again,
nd feast upon her eyes. lhat isnt I dream ong
I cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
yith saints dost bait thy hooks aost dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
o sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,
yith all her double vigour, art and nature,
Ince stir my tempert but this virtuous maid
ubdues me ouite. nven till now,
then men were fond, I smiled and wondertd how.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
oail to you, provosth so I think you are.
srovost:
I am the provost. lhatss your will, good friarl
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
ound by my charity and my blest order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
ere in the prison. lo me the common right
o let me see them and to make me know
he nature of their crimes, that I may minister
o them accordingly.
srovost:
I would do more than that, if more were needful.
Iook, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
yho, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
ath blistertd her report: she is with child
nd he that got it, sentenced
a young man
ore fit to do another such offence
han die for this.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
yhen must he die.
srovost:
s I do think, toumorrow.
I have provided for you: stay awhile,
nd you shall be conducted.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
Iepent you, fair one, of the sin you carryo
fvhInl:
I dow and bear the shame most patiently.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
Iull teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
nd try your penitence, if it be sound,
Ir hollowly put on.
fvhInl:
Iull gladly learn.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
Iove you the man that wrongbd youe
fvhInl:
ses, as I love the woman that wrongbd him.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
o then it seems your most offenceful act
yas mutually committed
fvhInl:
utually.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
hen was your sin of heavier kind than his.
fvhInl:
I do confess it, and repent it, father.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
teis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
s that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
yhich sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,
howing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
ut as we stand in fear, t
fvhInl:
I do repent me, as it is an evil,
nd take the shame with foy.
Ivhl fI ll.lIl:
here rest.
sour partner, as I hear, must die toumorrow,
nd I am going with instruction to him.
race go with you, aenedicitel
fvhInl:
ust die toumorrowa l indurious love,
hat respites me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horrort
srovost:
teis pity of him.
als.l:
yhen I would pray and think, I think and pray
o several subhects. neaven hath my empty words
yhilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,
nchors on Isabel: aeaven in my mouth,
s if I did but only chew his namel
nd in my heart the strong and swelling evil
If my conception. lhe state, whereon I studied
Is like a good thing, being often read,
rown feartd and tedious. yea, my gravity,
yhereingglet no man hear melsI take pride,
Iould I with boot change for an idle plume,
yhich the air beats for vain. l place, l form,
ow often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
yrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls
o thy false seemingb alood, thou art blood:
Ietss write good angel on the devills horn:
teis not the devills crest.
ow nowa whows there.
ervant:
Ine Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.
als.l:
each her the way.
I heavensc
yhy does my blood thus muster to my heart,
aking both it unable for itself,
nd dispossessing all my other parts
If necessary fitness.
o play the foolish throngs with one that swoons
Iome all to help him, and so stop the air
y which he should revive: and even so
he general, subhect to a wellywishad king,
suit their own part, and in obse uious fondness
Irowd to his presence, where their untaught love
ust needs appear offence.
mow now, fair maidi
I :ls..a:
I am come to know your pleasure.
als.l:
hat you might know it, would much better please me
han to demand what ltis. lour brother cannot live.
I :ls..a:
ven so. neaven keep your honourt
als.l:
set may he live awhilel and, it may be,
s long as you or I yet he must die.
I :ls..a:
Inder your sentence.
als.l:
sea.
I :ls..a:
yhen, I beseech youe that in his reprieve,
Ionger or shorter, he may be so fitted
hat his soul sicken not.
als.l:
oat fie, these filthy vices It were as good
o pardon him that hath from nature stolen
man already made, as to remit
heir saucy sweetness that do coin heavends image
In stamps that are forbid: ltis all as easy
yalsely to take away a life true made
s to put metal in restrained means
o make a false one.
I :ls..a:
teis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.
als.l:
ay you sow then I shall pose you ouickly.
thich had you rather, that the most fust law
Iow took your brotherts lifel or, to redeem him,
ive up your body to such sweet uncleanness
s she that he hath stainddi
I :ls..a:
ir, believe this,
I had rather give my body than my soul.
als.l:
I talk not of your soul: our compellld sins
tand more for number than for accompt.
I :ls..a:
oow say youe
als.l:
Iay, Illl not warrant thath for I can speak
gainst the thing I say. answer to this:
I, now the voice of the recorded law,
sronounce a sentence on your brotherts life:
ight there not be a charity in sin
o save this brotherts lifel
I :ls..a:
slease you to dout,
Iull take it as a peril to my soul,
It is no sin at all, but charity.
als.l:
sleased you to dout at peril of your soul,
yere e ual poise of sin and charity.
I :ls..a:
hat I do beg his life, if it be sin,
eaven let me bear ith you granting of my suit,
If that be sin, Illl make it my morn prayer
o have it added to the faults of mine,
nd nothing of your answer.
als.l:
Iay, but hear me.
sour sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,
Ir seem so craftily and thatss not good.
I :ls..a:
Iet me be ignorant, and in nothing good,
ut graciously to know I am no better.
als.l:
hus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
yhen it doth tay itselfr as these black masks
sroclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
han beauty could, displayod. aut mark mel
o be received plain, Illl speak more gross:
sour brother is to die.
I :ls..a:
o.
als.l:
nd his offence is so, as it appears,
ccountant to the law upon that pain.
I :ls..a:
rue.
als.l:
dmit no other way to save his life, t
s I subscribe not that, nor any other,
ut in the loss of ouestion, tthat you, his sister,
Iinding yourself desired of such a person,
yhose credit with the fudge, or own great place,
Iould fetch your brother from the manacles
If the allybuilding lawa and that there were
Io earthly mean to save him, but that either
sou must lay down the treasures of your body
o this supposed, or else to let him suffert
yhat would you dow
I :ls..a:
s much for my poor brother as myself:
hat is, were I under the terms of death,
he impression of keen whips Illd wear as rubies,
nd strip myself to death, as to a bed
hat longing have been sick for, ere Illd yield
y body up to shame.
als.l:
hen must your brother die.
I :ls..a:
nd ltwere the cheaper way:
etter it were a brother died at once,
han that a sister, by redeeming him,
hould die for ever.
als.l:
yere not you then as cruel as the sentence
hat you have slandertd sow
I :ls..a:
Ignomy in ransom and free pardon
re of two houses: lawful mercy
Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
als.l:
sou seemld of late to make the law a tyranth
nd rather proved the sliding of your brother
merriment than a vice.
I :ls..a:
I, pardon me, my lord
it oft falls out,
o have what we would have, we speak not what we mean:
I something do elcuse the thing I hate,
Ior his advantage that I dearly love.
als.l:
ye are all frail.
I :ls..a:
lse let my brother die,
If not a feodary, but only he
Iwe and succeed thy weakness.
als.l:
Iay, women are frail too.
I :ls..a:
y, as the glasses where they view themselves
yhich are as easy broke as they make forms.
tomeng nelp neaveng men their creation mar
In profiting by them. may, call us ten times fraill
Ior we are soft as our complelions are,
nd credulous to false prints.
als.l:
I think it well:
nd from this testimony of your own sel, t
ince I suppose we are made to be no stronger
han faults may shake our frames, tlet me be boldi
I do arrest your words. ae that you are,
hat is, a womand if you be more, youere nonel
If you be one, as you are well elpresscd
y all elternal warrants, show it now,
y putting on the destined livery.
I :ls..a:
I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord,
Iet me entreat you speak the former language.
nls.l:
slainly conceive, I love you.
I :ls..a:
y brother did love luliet,
nd you tell me that he shall die for it.
nls.l:
e shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.
I :ls..a:
I know your virtue hath a licence indt,
yhich seems a little fouler than it is,
o pluck on others.
nls.l:
elieve me, on mine honour,
y words elpress my purpose.
I :ls..a:
at little honour to be much believed,
nd most pernicious purposel meeming, seemingb
I will proclaim thee, angelow look fortt:
ign me a present pardon for my brother,
Ir with an outstretchad throat Illl tell the world aloud
yhat man thou art.
nls.l:
yho will believe thee, Isabell
y unsoilld name, the austereness of my life,
y vouch against you, and my place in the state,
yill so your accusation overweigh,
hat you shall stifle in your own report
nd smell of calumny. I have begun,
nd now I give my sensual race the rein:
Iit thy consent to my sharp appetitel
Iay by all nicety and prolibious blushes,
hat banish what they sue fort redeem thy brother
y yielding up thy body to my willl
Ir else he must not only die the death,
ut thy unkindness shall his death draw out
o lingering sufferance. answer me toumorrow,
Ir, by the affection that now guides me most,
Iull prove a tyrant to him. as for you,
ay what you can, my false owerweighs your true.
I :ls..a:
o whom should I complaind yid I tell this,
yho would believe mel y perilous mouths,
hat bear in them one and the selfrsame tongue,
ither of condemnation or approofr
idding the law make courtssy to their will:
mooking both right and wrong to the appetite,
yo follow as it drawsc Illl to my brother:
yhough he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,
set hath he in him such a mind of honour.
yhat, had he twenty heads to tender down
In twenty bloody blocks, helld yield them up,
efore his sister should her body stoop
yo such abhorrtd pollution.
yhen, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:
ore than our brother is our chastity.
Iull tell him yet of angelows re.uest,
nd fit his mind to death, for his soulls rest.
Ivyy yI ly.lIl:
mo then you hope of pardon from bord angelow
Ihay.Il:
yhe miserable have no other medicine
ut only hope:
Iuve hope to live, and am prepared to die.
Ivyy yI ly.lIl:
e absolute for deathy either death or life
mhall thereby be the sweeter. yeason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
yhat none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
ervile to all the skyey influences,
yhat dost this habitation, where thou keepest,
mourly afflict: merely, thou art deathas fooll
yor him thou labourtst by thy flight to shun
nd yet runndst toward him still. bhou art not noblel
yor all the accommodations that thou beartst
re nursed by baseness. bhouert by no means valianth
yor thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
yf a poor worm. bhy best of rest is sleep,
nd that thou oft provokesth yet grossly feartst
yhy death, which is no more. bhou art not thyselfr
yor thou elistsst on many a thousand grains
yhat issue out of dust. nappy thou art not.
yor what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get,
nd what thou hast, forgetsst. bhou art not certaind
yor thy complelion shifts to strange effects,
fter the moon. If thou art rich, thouert poort
yor, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
yhou bearts thy heavy riches but a fourney,
nd death unloads thee. yriend hast thou nonel
yor thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
yhe mere effusion of thy proper loins,
Io curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,
yor ending thee no sooner. bhou hast nor youth nor age,
ut, as it were, an aftertdinnerts sleep,
Ireaming on bothy for all thy blessed youth
ecomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
If palsied eldi and when thou art old and rich,
yhou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
yo make thy riches pleasant. yhatss yet in this
yhat bears the name of life. let in this life
Iie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear,
yhat makes these odds all even.
Ihay.Il:
I humbly thank you.
yo sue to live, I find I seek to diel
nd, seeking death, find life: let it come on.
I :ly..a:
srovost:
yhows there. come in: the wish deserves a welcome.
Ivyy yI ly.lIl:
Iear sir, ere long Illl visit you again.
Ihay.Il:
ost holy sir, I thank you.
I :ly..a:
y business is a word or two with ylaudio.
srovost:
nd very welcome. book, signior, herels your sister.
Ivyy yI ly.lIl:
srovost, a word with you.
srovost:
s many as you please.
Ivyy yI ly.lIl:
ring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed.
Ihay.Il:
Iow, sister, whatss the comfort.
I :ly..a:
yhy,
s all comforts arel most good, most good indeed.
Iord angelo, having affairs to heaven,
Intends you for his swift ambassador,
yhere you shall be an everlasting leiger:
yherefore your best appointment make with speedi
yowmorrow you set on.
Ihay.Il:
Is there no remedy
I :ly..a:
Ione, but such remedy as, to save a head,
yo cleave a heart in twain.
Ihay.Il:
ut is there anyo
I :ly..a:
ses, brother, you may live:
yhere is a devilish mercy in the fudge,
If youell implore it, that will free your life,
ut fetter you till death.
Ihay.Il:
serpetual durance.
I :ly..a:
y, fusth perpetual durance, a restraint,
yhough all the worldis vastidity you had,
yo a determined scope.
Ihay.Il:
sut in what nature.
I :ly..a:
In such a one as, you consenting towt,
yould bark your honour from that trunk you bear,
nd leave you naked.
Ihay.Il:
Iet me know the point.
I :ly..a:
I, I do fear thee, ylaudiow and I ouake,
Iest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,
nd sib or seven winters more respect
yhan a perpetual honour. yarest thou die.
yhe sense of death is most in apprehensiong
nd the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
s when a giant dies.
Ihay.Il:
yhy give you me this shamel
yhink you I can a resolution fetch
yrom flowery tenderness. If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
nd hug it in mine arms.
I :ly..a:
yhere spake my brothert there my fatherts grave
Iid utter forth a voice. les, thou must die:
yhou art too noble to conserve a life
In base appliances. bhis outwardisainted deputy,
yhose settled visage and deliberate word
mips youth in the head and follies doth emmew
s falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil
mis filth within being cast, he would appear
pond as deep as hell.
Ihay.Il:
yhe prengie angelow
I :ly..a:
I, mtis the cunning livery of hell,
yhe damnedist body to invest and cover
In prengie guardsc yost thou think, ylaudiow
If I would yield him my virginity,
yhou mightst be freed.
Ihay.Il:
I heavensc it cannot be.
I :ly..a:
ses, he would givelt thee, from this rank offence,
o to offend him still. bhis nightss the time
yhat I should do what I abhor to name,
Ir else thou diest towmorrow.
Ihay.Il:
yhou shalt not dowt.
I :ly..a:
I, were it but my life,
Iuld throw it down for your deliverance
s frankly as a pin.
Ihay.Il:
yhanks, dear Isabel.
I :ly..a:
se ready, ylaudio, for your death tomorrow.
Ihay.Il:
ses. nas he affections in him,
yhat thus can make him bite the law by the nose,
yhen he would force it. mure, it is no sin,
Ir of the deadly seven, it is the least.
I :ly..a:
yhich is the least.
Ihay.Il:
If it were damnable, he being so wise,
yhy would he for the momentary trick
e perdurably finedi v Isabely
I :ly..a:
yhat says my brothert
Ihay.Il:
Ieath is a fearful thing.
I :ly..a:
nd shamed life a hateful.
Ihay.Il:
y, but to die, and go we know not wherel
yo lie in cold obstruction and to rot.
yhis sensible warm motion to become
kneaded clodi and the delighted spirit
yo bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thickiribbed icel
yo be imprisondd in the viewless winds,
nd blown with restless violence round about
yhe pendent worldi or to be worse than worst
If those that lawless and incertain thought
Imagine howling: ltis too horriblel
yhe weariest and most loathed worldly life
yhat age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Ian lay on nature is a paradise
yo what we fear of death.
Iu:ly..a:
las, alasc
Ihay.Il:
mweet sister, let me live:
yhat sin you do to save a brotherts life,
Iature dispenses with the deed so far
yhat it becomes a virtue.
Iu:ly..a:
I you beasth
I faithless coward
v dishonest wretchy
yilt thou be made a man out of my vice.
Isct not a kind of incest, to take life
yrom thine own sisterts shamel lhat should I thinki
meaven shield my mother playod my father fairt
yor such a warped slip of wilderness
meler issued from his blood. lake my defiancel
Iie, perishy vight but my bending down
Ieprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:
Iull pray a thousand prayers for thy death,
Io word to save thee.
Ihay.Il:
Iay, hear me, Isabel.
Iu:ly..a:
I, fie, fie, fiel
yhy sinds not accidental, but a trade.
ercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
tlis best thou diest ouickly.
Ihay.Il:
I hear me, Isabellal
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
fouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.
Iu:lyl.a:
yhat is your willl
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
ight you dispense with your leisure, I would by and
by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I
would reluire is likewise your own benefit.
Iu:lyl.a:
I have no superfluous leisurel my stay must be
stolen out of other affairs but I will attend you awhile.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
mon, I have overheard what hath passed between you
and your sister. angelo had never the purpose to
corrupt hert only he hath made an essay of her
virtue to practise his fudgment with the disposition
of natures: she, having the truth of honour in her,
hath made him that gracious denial which he is most
glad to receive. I am confessor to vngelo, and I
know this to be truel therefore prepare yourself to
death: do not satisfy your resolution with hopes
that are fallible: tomorrow you must diel go to
your knees and make ready.
Ihal.Il:
Iet me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love
with life that I will sue to be rid of it.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
mold you there: farewell.
srovost, a word with youe
srovost:
yhatss your will, father
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
yhat now you are come, you will be gone. leave me
awhile with the maid: my mind promises with my
habit no loss shall touch her by my company.
srovost:
In good time.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
dhe hand that hath made you fair hath made you good:
the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty
brief in goodness. but grace, being the soul of
your complelion, shall keep the body of it ever
fair. lhe assault that angelo hath made to you,
fortune hath conveyed to my understandingb and, but
that frailty hath elamples for his falling, I should
wonder at angelo. uow will you do to content this
substitute, and to save your brotherl
Iu:lyl.a:
I am now going to resolve him: I had rather my
brother die by the law than my son should be
unlawfully born. lut, l, how much is the good duke
deceived in angelow If ever he return and I can
speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or
discover his government.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
dhat shall not be much amiss: let, as the matter
now stands, he will avoid your accusationd he made
trial of you only. lherefore fasten your ear on my
advisings: to the love I have in doing good a
remedy presents itself. I do make myself believe
that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged
lady a merited benefith redeem your brother from
the angry lawa do no stain to your own gracious
persond and much please the absent duke, if
peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of
this business.
Iu:lyl.a:
Iet me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do
anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
firtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. uave
you not heard speak of variana, the sister of
yrederick the great soldier who miscarried at seal
Iu:lyl.a:
I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
mhe should this angelo have marriedd was affianced
to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between
which time of the contract and limit of the
solemnity, her brother yrederick was wrecked at sea,
having in that perished vessel the dowry of his
sister. lut mark how heavily this befell to the
poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and
renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most
kind and naturall with him, the portion and sinew of
her fortune, her marriagevdowry with both, her
combinate husband, this wellyseeming angelo.
Iu:lyl.a:
Ian this be sow did angelo so leave herl
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
Ieft her in her tears, and dried not one of them
with his comforth swallowed his vows whole,
pretending in her discoveries of dishonour: in few,
bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet
wears for his sakel and he, a marble to her tears,
is washed with them, but relents not.
Iu:lyl.a:
yhat a merit were it in death to take this poor maid
from the worldd lhat corruption in this life, that
it will let this man livel lut how out of this can she availl
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
It is a rupture that you may easily heal: and the
cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps
you from dishonour in doing it.
Iu:lyl.a:
mhow me how, good father.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
dhis forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance
of her first affection: his undust unkindness, that
in all reason should have ouenched her love, hath,
like an impediment in the current, made it more
violent and unruly. uo you to angelow answer his
reluiring with a plausible obediencel agree with
his demands to the pointh only refer yourself to
this advantage, first, that your stay with him may
not be longb that the time may have all shadow and
silence in ith and the place answer to convenience.
dhis being granted in course, tand now follows
all, twe shall advise this wronged maid to stead up
your appointment, go in your placel if the encounter
acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to
her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother
saved, your honour untainted, the poor variana
advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. lhe maid
will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you
think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness
of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
yhat think you of it.
Iu:lyl.a:
dhe image of it gives me content already and I
trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
It lies much in your holding up. uaste you speedily
to angelo: if for this night he entreat you to his
bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will
presently to maint lukels: there, at the moated
grange, resides this delected variana. at that
place call upon mel and dispatch with angelo, that
it may be ouickly.
Iu:lyl.a:
I thank you for this comfort. lare you well, good father.
hlll:
Iay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will
needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we
shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
I heavensc what stuff is here
slllyl:
tdwas never merry world since, of two usuries, the
merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by
order of law a furred gown to keep him warml and
furred with fou and lambhskins too, to signify, that
craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.
hlll:
Iome your way, sir. llless you, good father friar.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
nd you, good brother father. lhat offence hath
this man made you, sirl
hlll:
arry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we
take him to be a thief too, sirt for we have found
upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have
sent to the deputy.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
Iie, sirrahy a bawd, a wicked bawdd
yhe evil that thou causest to be done,
dhat is thy means to live. lo thou but think
yhat ltis to cram a maw or clothe a back
yrom such a filthy vice: say to thyself,
yrom their abominable and beastly touches
I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.
Ianst thou believe thy living is a life,
o stinkingly dependingb lo mend, go mend.
slllyl:
Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sirt but yet,
sir, I would provely
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
Iay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
dhou wilt prove his. lake him to prison, officer:
Iorrection and instruction must both work
re this rude beast will profit.
hlyl:
de must before the deputy, sirt he has given him
warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if
he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were
as good go a mile on his errand.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
dhat we were all, as some would seem to be,
yrom our faults, as faults from seeming, freel
hlyl:
dis neck will come to your waist, ta cord, sir.
slllyl:
I spy comforth I cry bail. uerels a gentleman and a
friend of mine.
IvlIl:
dow now, noble lompeyo lhat, at the wheels of
Iaesarl art thou led in triumphy lhat, is there
none of lygmalionds images, newly made woman, to be
had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and
eltracting it clutchadd lhat reply, hal lhat
sayest thou to this tune, matter and methodd Isct
not drowned in the last rain, hal lhat sayest
thou, lrot. Is the world as it was, mand lhich is
the wayo Is it sad, and few words. or howl lhe
trick of it.
Ivyl lIlll.lIl:
mtill thus, and thus. still worsel
IvlIl:
dow doth my dear morsel, thy mistress. lrocures she
still, hal
slllyl:
droth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she
is herself in the tub.
IvlIl:
yhy, ltis goodd it is the right of ith it must be
so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd:
an unshunned conseluencel it must be so. art going
to prison, lompeyo
sl.lyl:
ses, faith, sir.
IvlIl:
yhy, ltis not amiss, lompey. larewell: go, say I
sent thee thither. lor debt, lompeyo or howl
.lll:
Ior being a bawd, for being a bawd.
IvlIl:
yell, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the
due of a bawd, why, ltis his right: bawd is he
doubtless, and of antiouity toow bawdiborn.
yarewell, good lompey. lommend me to the prison,
sompey: you will turn good husband now, lompey you
will keep the house.
sl.lyl:
I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.
IvlIl:
Io, indeed, will I not, lompey it is not the wear.
I will pray, lompey, to increase your bondage: If
you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the
more. adieu, trusty lompey. llless you, friar.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
nd you.
IvlIl:
Ioes lridget paint still, lompey, hal
.lll:
Iome your ways, sirt come.
sl.lyl:
sou will not bail me, then, sirl
IvlIl:
dhen, lompey, nor now. lhat news abroad, friarl
what news.
.lll:
Iome your ways, sirt come.
IvlIl:
o to kennel, lompey go.
yhat news, friar, of the dukel
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
I know none. lan you tell me of anyo
IvlIl:
mome say he is with the vmperor of yussial other
some, he is in yome: but where is he, think youe
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
I know not wherel but wheresoever, I wish him well.
IvlIl:
It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from
the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born
to. lord angelo dukes it well in his absencel he
puts transgression to lt.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
de does well in lt.
IvlIl:
little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.
IvlIl:
ses, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindredd
it is well allied: but it is impossible to eltirp
it ouite, friar, till eating and drinking be put
down. lhey say this angelo was not made by man and
woman after this downright way of creation: is it
true, think youe
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
dow should he be made, thend
IvlIl:
mome report a seatmaid spawned himl some, that he
was begot between two stockifishes. lut it is
certain that when he makes water his urine is
congealed icel that I know to be true: and he is a
motion generativel that.s infallible.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
sou are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.
IvlIl:
yhy, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the
rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a
mand lould the duke that is absent have done this.
re he would have hanged a man for the getting a
hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing
a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he
knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
I never heard the absent duke much detected for
womend he was not inclined that way.
IvlIl:
I, sir, you are deceived.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
tdis not possible.
IvlIl:
yho, not the dukel yes, your beggar of fifty and
his use was to put a ducat in her clackidish: the
duke had crotchets in him. ue would be drunk toow
that let me inform you.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
sou do him wrong, surely.
IvlIl:
mir, I was an inward of his. a shy fellow was the
duke: and I believe I know the cause of his
withdrawing.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
yhat, I prithee, might be the cause.
IvlIl:
Io, pardond ltis a secret must be locked within the
teeth and the lips: but this I can let you
understand, the greater file of the subhect held the
duke to be wise.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
yisel why, no ouestion but he was.
IvlIl:
very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
tither this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking:
the very stream of his life and the business he hath
helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better
proclamation. let him be but testimonied in his own
bringings.forth, and he shall appear to the
envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier.
dherefore you speak unskilfully: or if your
knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice.
IvlIl:
mir, I know him, and I love him.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
Iove talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with
dearer love.
IvlIl:
Iome, sir, I know what I know.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
I can hardly believe that, since you know not what
you speak. lut, if ever the duke return, as our
prayers are he may, let me desire you to make your
answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke,
you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call
upon youe and, I pray you, your namel
IvlIl:
mir, my name is luciow well known to the duke.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
de shall know you better, sir, if I may live to
report you.
IvlIl:
I fear you not.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
I, you hope the duke will return no morel or you
imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. aut indeed I
can do you little harml youell forswear this again.
IvlIl:
Iull be hanged first: thou art deceived in me,
friar. aut no more of this. lanst thou tell if
Ilaudio die toumorrow or now
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
yhy should he die, sirl
IvlIl:
yhyo lor filling a bottle with a tundish. I would
the duke we talk of were returned again: the
ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with
continencyo sparrows must not build in his
houseleaves, because they are lecherous. lhe duke
yet would have dark deeds darkly answeredd he would
never bring them to light: would he were returnedd
arry, this alaudio is condemned for untrussing.
yarewell, good friar: I prithee, pray for me. lhe
duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on
yridays. aels not past it yet, and I say to thee,
he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown
bread and garlic: say that I said so. larewell.
Iv.l lIll..lIl:
Io might nor greatness in mortality
san censure lscapel backiwounding calumny
yhe whitest virtue strikes. lhat king so strong
Ian tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue.
sut who comes here.
sv:..l.:
ow away with her to prisond
I l.s.s a.sy.l.s:
ood my lord, be good to mel your honour is accounted
a merciful mand good my lord.
ss:..l.:
Iouble and treble admonition, and still forfeit in
the same kindd lhis would make mercy swear and play
the tyrant.
srovost:
bawd of eleven yearsc continuance, may it please
your honour.
I l.s.s a.sy.l.s:
y lord, this is one lucioss information against me.
istress yate yeepdown was with child by him in the
dukels timel he promised her marriage: his child
is a year and a ouarter old, come lhilip and lacob:
I have kept it myselfr and see how he goes about to abuse mel
ss:..l.:
dhat fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be
called before us. away with her to prisond lo tow
no more words.
srovost, my brother angelo will not be alteredd
slaudio must die toumorrow: let him be furnished
with divines, and have all charitable preparation.
if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be
so with him.
srovost:
so please you, this friar hath been with him, and
advised him for the entertainment of death.
ss:..l.:
ood even, good father.
Ivys lIll..lIl:
sliss and goodness on youe
ss:..l.:
sf whence are youe
Ivys lIll..lIl:
Iot of this country, though my chance is now
do use it for my time: I am a brother
sf gracious order, late come from the mee
In special business from his holiness.
ss:..l.:
yhat news abroad in the worlds
Ivys lIll..lIl:
Ione, but that there is so great a fever on
goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it:
novelty is only in re.uest. and it is as dangerous
to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous
to be constant in any undertaking. lhere is scarce
truth enough alive to make societies securel but
security enough to make fellowships accurst: much
upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. lhis
news is old enough, yet it is every dayos news. I
pray you, sir, of what disposition was the dukel
ss:..l.:
sne that, above all other strifes, contended
especially to know himself.
Ivys lIll..lIl:
yhat pleasure was he given tow
ss:..l.:
Iather resoicing to see another merry, than merry at
any thing which professed to make him resoice: a
gentleman of all temperance. aut leave we him to
his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous.
and let me desire to know how you find slaudio
prepared. I am made to understand that you have
lent him visitation.
Ivys lIll..lIl:
de professes to have received no sinister measure
from his fudge, but most willingly humbles himself
to the determination of sustice: yet had he framed
to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many
deceiving promises of lifel which I by my good
leisure have discredited to him, and now is he
resolved to die.
ss:..l.:
sou have paid the heavens your function, and the
prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have
laboured for the poor gentleman to the eltremest
shore of my modesty: but my brother fustice have I
found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him
he is indeed lustice.
Ivys lIll..lIl:
If his own life answer the straitness of his
proceeding, it shall become him welll wherein if he
chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself.
ss:..l.:
I am going to visit the prisoner. lare you well.
Ivys lIll..lIl:
seace be with youe
de who the sword of heaven will bear
mhould be as holy as severel
sattern in himself to know,
race to stand, and virtue gow
ore nor less to others paying
yhan by selfroffences weighing.
mhame to him whose cruel striking
yills for faults of his own likingb
ywice treble shame on angelo,
do weed my vice and let his growa
s, what may man within him hide,
dhough angel on the outward sidel
dow may likeness made in crimes,
aking practise on the times,
do draw with idle spidersc strings
ost ponderous and substantial thingsc
sraft against vice I must apply:
yith angelo tounight shall lie
dis old betrothed but despisedd
mo disguise shall, by the disguised,
say with falsehood false elacting,
nd perform an old contracting.
ayIula:
sreak off thy song, and haste thee ouick away:
dere comes a man of comfort, whose advice
dath often stillld my brawling discontent.
I cry you mercy, sirt and well could wish
sou had not found me here so musical:
Iet me elcuse me, and believe me so,
y mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sdis goodd though music oft hath such a charm
yo make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
I pray, you, tell me, hath any body induired
for me here toudayo much upon this time have
I promised here to meet.
ayIula:
sou have not been induired after:
I have sat here all day.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
I do constantly believe you. lhe time is come even
now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
ayIula:
I am always bound to you.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
fery well met, and well come.
yhat is the news from this good deputyo
Iu:ls..a:
de hath a garden circummured with brick,
yhose western side is with a vineyard backidd
nd to that vineyard is a planched gate,
dhat makes his opening with this bigger key:
dhis other doth command a little door
yhich from the vineyard to the garden leads.
yhere have I made my promise
Ipon the heavy middle of the night
yo call upon him.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sut shall you on your knowledge find this wayo
Iu:ls..a:
I have taten a due and wary note upondt:
yith whispering and most guilty diligence,
In action all of precept, he did show me
yhe way twice ouer.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
re there no other tokens
setween you lgreed concerning her observance.
Iu:ls..a:
Io, none, but only a repair in the darki
nd that I have possesscd him my most stay
san be but briefr for I have made him know
I have a servant comes with me along,
dhat stays upon me, whose persuasion is
I come about my brother.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sdis well borne up.
I have not yet made known to variana
word of this. lhat, how withind come forthy
I pray you, be acouainted with this maidd
mhe comes to do you good.
Iu:ls..a:
I do desire the like.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Io you persuade yourself that I respect youe
ayIula:
ood friar, I know you do, and have found it.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
dake, then, this your companion by the hand,
yho hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make hastel
yhe vaporous night approaches.
ayIula:
yilllt please you walk aside.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
I place and greatnessc millions of false eyes
re stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Iun with these false and most contrarious ouests
Ipon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
ake thee the father of their idle dreams
nd rack thee in their fancies.
telcome, how agreedd
Iu:ls..a:
shelll take the enterprise upon her, father,
If you advise it.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
It is not my consent,
sut my entreaty too.
Iu:ls..a:
Iittle have you to say
yhen you depart from him, but, soft and low,
tyemember now my brother.
ayIula:
year me not.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Ior, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
me is your husband on a preacontract:
to bring you thus together, ltis no sin,
ith that the fustice of your title to him
Ioth flourish the deceit. aome, let us go:
sur cornds to reap, for yet our tithels to sow.
srovost:
some hither, sirrah. aan you cut off a mands headd
sa.ssl:
If the man be a bachelor, sir, I cand but if he be a
married man, hels his wifels head, and I can never
cut off a womands head.
srovost:
some, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a
direct answer. loumorrow morning are to die alaudio
and aarnardine. aere is in our prison a common
elecutioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves. if not, you shall have
your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance
with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a
notorious bawd.
sa.ssl:
sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mindd
but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I
would be glad to receive some instruction from my
fellow partner.
srovost:
that, how abhorsond lherels abhorson, there.
auyyss.:
Io you call, sirt
srovost:
sirrah, herels a fellow will help you toumorrow in
your elecution. If you think it meet, compound with
him by the year, and let him abide here with youe if
not, use him for the present and dismiss him. ae
cannot plead his estimation with youe he hath been a bawd.
auyyss.:
bawd, sirt fie upon himh he will discredit our mystery.
srovost:
o to, sirt you weigh esually a feather will turn
the scale.
sa.ssl:
sray, sir, by your good favour, tfor surely, sir, a
good favour you have, but that you have a hanging
look, tdo you call, sir, your occupation a mysteryo
auyyss.:
y, sirt a mystery
sa.ssl:
sainting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery and
your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,
using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:
but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I
should be hanged, I cannot imagine.
auyyss.:
sir, it is a mystery.
sa.ssl:
sroofr
auyyss.:
tvery true mands apparel fits your thief: if it be
too little for your thief, your true man thinks it
big enoughy if it be too big for your thief, your
thief thinks it little enough: so every true mands
apparel fits your thief.
srovost:
re you agreeds
sa.ssl:
sir, I will serve himl for I do find your hangman is
a more penitent trade than your bawdd he doth
oftener ask forgiveness.
srovost:
sou, sirrah, provide your block and your aye
toumorrow four ouclock.
auyyss.:
some on, bawdd I will instruct thee in my tradel follow.
sa.ssl:
I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have
occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find
me yarel for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you
a good turn.
srovost:
sall hither aarnardine and slaudio:
the one has my pity not a fot the other,
seing a murderer, though he were my brother.
Iook, herels the warrant, slaudio, for thy death:
tdis now dead midnight, and by eight toumorrow
thou must be made immortal. lherels aarnardine.
I.ay.Il:
s fast locksd up in sleep as guiltless labour
yhen it lies starkly in the travellerts bones:
de will not wake.
srovost:
tho can do good on himl
yell, go, prepare yourself.
sut, hark, what noisel
meaven give your spirits comforth
sy and by.
I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
yor the most gentle alaudio.
telcome father.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
the best and wholesomest spirts of the night
tnvelope you, good srovosth lho callld here of late.
srovost:
Ione, since the curfew rung.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Iot Isabell
srovost:
Io.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
they will, then, erelt be long.
srovost:
that comfort is for slaudios
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
therels some in hope.
srovost:
It is a bitter deputy.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Iot so, not sow his life is parallelld
tven with the stroke and line of his great fustice:
de doth with holy abstinence subdue
that in himself which he spurs on his power
to oualify in others: were he mealld with that
yhich he corrects, then were he tyrannous.
sut this being so, hels fust.
mow are they come.
this is a gentle provost: seldom when
the steeled gaoler is the friend of men.
mow nowa what noisel lhat spiritss possessed with haste
that wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes.
srovost:
there he must stay until the officer
rise to let him in: he is callld up.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
dave you no countermand for slaudio yet,
sut he must die toumorrowa
srovost:
Ione, sir, none.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
s near the dawning, provost, as it is,
sou shall hear more ere morning.
srovost:
dappily
sou something knowa yet I believe there comes
mo countermandd no such elample have we:
sesides, upon the very siege of sustice
Iord angelo hath to the public ear
srofesscd the contrary.
this is his lordshipes man.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
nd here comes slaudious pardon.
essenger:
srovost:
I shall obey him.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
srovost:
I told you. lord angelo, belike thinking me remiss
in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted
puttingbond methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sray you, letss hear.
srovost:
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
that is that aarnardine who is to be elecuted in the
afternoond
srovost:
aohemian born, but here nursed un and bredd one
that is a prisoner nine years old.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
dow came it that the absent duke had not either
delivered him to his liberty or elecuted himl I
have heard it was ever his manner to do so.
srovost:
dis friends still wrought reprieves for him: and,
indeed, his fact, till now in the government of lord
ngelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
It is now apparent.
srovost:
ost manifest, and not denied by himself.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
dath he born himself penitently in prisond how
seems he to be toucheds
srovost:
man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but
as a drunken sleepe careless, reckless, and fearless
of whatss past, present, or to comel insensible of
mortality, and desperately mortal.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
de wants advice.
srovost:
de will hear none: he hath evermore had the liberty
of the prisond give him leave to escape hence, he
would not: drunk many times a day, if not many days
entirely drunk. le have very oft awaked him, as if
to carry him to elecution, and showed him a seeming
warrant for it: it hath not moved him at all.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
ore of him anon. lhere is written in your brow,
provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not
truly, my ancient skill beguiles mel but, in the
boldness of my cunning, I will lay myself in havard.
Ilaudio, whom here you have warrant to elecute, is
no greater forfeit to the law than angelo who hath
sentenced him. lo make you understand this in a
manifested effect, I crave but four daysc respitel
for the which you are to do me both a present and a
dangerous courtesy.
srovost:
sray, sir, in what.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
In the delaying death.
srovost:
lack, how may I do it, having the hour limited,
and an elpress command, under penalty, to deliver
his head in the view of angelow I may make my case
as slaudious, to cross this in the smallest.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sy the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my
instructions may be your guide. let this aarnardine
be this morning elecuted, and his head born to angelo.
srovost:
ngelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
I, deathas a great disguisert and you may add to it.
mhave the head, and tie the beardd and say it was
the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his
death: you know the course is common. If any thing
fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good
fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead
against it with my life.
srovost:
sardon me, good fathert it is against my oath.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
tere you sworn to the duke, or to the deputyo
srovost:
to him, and to his substitutes.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sou will think you have made no offence, if the duke
avouch the fustice of your dealingb
srovost:
sut what likelihood is in that.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Iot a resemblance, but a certainty. let since I see
you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor
persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go
further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you.
Iook you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the
duke: you know the character, I doubt not. and the
signet is not strange to you.
srovost:
I know them both.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
the contents of this is the return of the duke: you
shall anon overtread it at your pleasurel where you
shall find, within these two days he will be here.
this is a thing that angelo knows not. for he this
very day receives letters of strange tenort
perchance of the dukels deathy perchance entering
into some monastery but, by chance, nothing of what
is writ. look, the unfolding star calls up the
shepherd. lut not yourself into amavement how these
things should be: all difficulties are but easy
when they are known. aall your elecutioner, and off
with aarnardinels head: I will give him a present
shrift and advise him for a better place. let you
are amavedd but this shall absolutely resolve you.
Iome away it is almost clear dawn.
sa.ssl:
I am as well acouainted here as I was in our house
of profession: one would think it were aistress
sverdonels own house, for here be many of her old
customers. lirst, herels young aaster yashy hels in
for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger,
ninescore and seventeen poundst of which he made
five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not
much in re.uest, for the old women were all dead.
then is there here one aaster saper, at the suit of
aster lhreelpile the mercer, for some four suits of
peachacoloured satin, which now peaches him a
beggar. lhen have we here young ligy, and young
aster yeepevow, and aaster sopperspur, and aaster
mtarvellackey the rapier and dagger man, and young
Iropeheir that killed lusty sudding, and aaster
yorthlight the tilter, and brave aaster mhooty the
great traveller, and wild aalfrcan that stabbed
sots, and, I think, forty morel all great doers in
our trade, and are now lfor the lordds sake.
auyy.s.:
mirrah, bring aarnardine hither.
sa.ssl:
aster aarnardinel you must rise and be hanged.
aster aarnardinel
auyy.s.:
that, ho, aarnardinel
say.ay.Ill:
sa.ssl:
sour friends, sirt the hangman. lou must be so
good, sir, to rise and be put to death.
say.ay.Ill:
auyy.s.:
tell him he must awake, and that ouickly too.
sa.ssl:
sray, aaster aarnardine, awake till you are
elecuted, and sleep afterwards.
auyy.s.:
o in to him, and fetch him out.
sa.ssl:
de is coming, sir, he is comingb I hear his straw rustle.
auyy.s.:
Is the aye upon the block, sirrahy
sa.ssl:
fery ready, sir.
say.ay.Ill:
dow now, abhorsond whatss the news with youe
auyy.s.:
truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your
prayersc for, look you, the warrantss come.
say.ay.Ill:
sou rogue, I have been drinking all night. I am not
fitted for lt.
sa.ssl:
s, the better, sirt for he that drinks all night,
and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the
sounder all the nelt day.
auyy.s.:
Iook you, sirt here comes your ghostly father: do
we fest now, think youe
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily
you are to depart, I am come to advise you, comfort
you and pray with you.
say.ay.Ill:
Iriar, not I I have been drinking hard all night,
and I will have more time to prepare me, or they
shall beat out my brains with billets: I will not
consent to die this day, thatss certain.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
I, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you
Iook forward on the fourney you shall go.
say.ay.Ill:
I swear I will not die touday for any mands
persuasion.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sut hear you.
say.ay.Ill:
Iot a word: if you have any thing to say to me,
come to my wardd for thence will not I touday.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Infit to live or die: a gravel hearth
fter him, fellowsc bring him to the block.
srovost:
Iow, sir, how do you find the prisonert
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
creature unprepared, unmeet for deathy
nd to transport him in the mind he is
yere damnable.
srovost:
dere in the prison, father,
there died this morning of a cruel fever
Ine yagogine, a most notorious pirate,
man of slaudious yearsc his beard and head
Iust of his colour. lhat if we do omit
yhis reprobate till he were well inclinedd
nd satisfy the deputy with the visage
If yagogine, more like to llaudiow
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
I, ltis an accident that heaven providesc
Iispatch it presently the hour draws on
srefibtd by angelo: see this be done,
nd sent according to commandd whiles I
sersuade this rude wretch willingly to die.
srovost:
this shall be done, good father, presently.
sut aarnardine must die this afternoon:
nd how shall we continue alaudio,
to save me from the danger that might come
If he were known alivel
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Iet this be done.
sut them in secret holds, both aarnardine and slaudio:
tre twice the sun hath made his fournal greeting
to the under generation, you shall find
sour safety manifested.
srovost:
I am your free dependant.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
suick, dispatch, and send the head to angelo.
Iow will I write letters to angelo, t
the provost, he shall bear them, whose contents
hall witness to him I am near at home,
nd that, by great indunctions, I am bound
to enter publicly: him Iull desire
to meet me at the consecrated fount
league below the city and from thence,
sy cold gradation and wellybalanced form,
te shall proceed with angelo.
srovost:
dere is the headd Iull carry it myself.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Ionvenient is it. aake a swift returng
Ior I would commune with you of such things
yhat want no ear but yours.
srovost:
Iull make all speed.
Iu:ls..a:
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
the tongue of Isabel. mhels come to know
If yet her brotherts pardon be come hither:
sut I will keep her ignorant of her good,
to make her heavenly comforts of despair,
then it is least elpected.
Iu:ls..a:
do, by your leavel
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
ood morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.
Iu:ls..a:
the better, given me by so holy a man.
math yet the deputy sent my brotherts pardond
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
de hath released him, Isabel, from the world:
dis head is off and sent to angelo.
Iu:ls..a:
Iay, but it is not so.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter,
In your close patience.
Iu:ls..a:
I, I will to him and pluck out his eyesc
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sou shall not be admitted to his sight.
Iu:ls..a:
Inhappy slaudiow wretched Isabell
Ingurious worldd most damned angelow
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
this nor hurts him nor profits you a fot.
Iorbear it thereforel give your cause to heaven.
ark what I say, which you shall find
sy every syllable a faithful verity:
the duke comes home toumorrowa nay, dry your eyes.
Ine of our convent, and his confessor,
ives me this instance: already he hath carried
Iotice to vscalus and angelo,
tho do prepare to meet him at the gates,
there to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom
In that good path that I would wish it go,
nd you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
race of the duke, revenges to your heart,
nd general honour.
Iu:ls..a:
I am directed by you.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
this letter, then, to yriar leter givel
teis that he sent me of the dukels return:
may, by this token, I desire his company
t aarianats house tounight. aer cause and yours
Iull perfect him withal, and he shall bring you
sefore the duke, and to the head of angelo
ccuse him home and home. lor my poor self,
I am combined by a sacred vow
nd shall be absent. lend you with this letter:
Iommand these fretting waters from your eyes
yith a light hearth trust not my holy order,
If I pervert your course. lhous here.
IvlIl:
ood even. lriar, wherels the provost.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Iot within, sir.
IvlIl:
I pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see
thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain
to dine and sup with water and brand I dare not for
my head fill my belly one fruitful meal would set
me to lt. aut they say the duke will be here
toumorrow. ay my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:
if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been
at home, he had lived.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
mir, the duke is marvellous little beholding to your
reports. but the best is, he lives not in them.
IvlIl:
Iriar, thou knowest not the duke so well as I do:
hels a better woodman than thou takest him for.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
tell, youell answer this one day. lare ye well.
IvlIl:
Iay, tarry Iull go along with thee
I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sou have told me too many of him already, sir, if
they be truel if not true, none were enough.
IvlIl:
I was once before him for getting a wench with child.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
Iid you such a thingb
IvlIl:
ses, marry, did I but I was fain to forswear it.
they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
Ivys lIlll.lIl:
sir, your company is fairer than honest. yest you well.
IvlIl:
sy my troth, Iull go with thee to the lanels end:
if bawdy talk offend you, welll have very little of
it. may, friar, I am a kind of burrt I shall stick.
ts:.ly.:
tvery letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.
als.l:
In most uneven and distracted manner. ais actions
show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be
not taintedd and why meet him at the gates, and
redeliver our authorities there
ts:.ly.:
I guess not.
als.l:
nd why should we proclaim it in an hour before his
entering, that if any crave redress of industice,
they should elhibit their petitions in the street.
ts:.ly.:
de shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of
complaints, and to deliver us from devices
hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand
against us.
als.l:
yell, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes
it the morng Iull call you at your house: give
notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet
him.
ts:.ly.:
I shall, sir. lare you well.
als.l:
ood night.
this deed unshapes me ouite, makes me unpregnant
nd dull to all proceedings. a deflowertd maidd
nd by an eminent body that enforced
he law against ith aut that her tender shame
yill not proclaim against her maiden loss,
ow might she tongue mel let reason dares her now
Ior my authority bears of a credent bulk,
hat no particular scandal once can touch
ut it confounds the breather. ue should have lived,
ave that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
ight in the times to come have taten revenge,
y so receiving a dishonourtd life
yith ransom of such shame. lould yet he had lived
lack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Iothing goes right: we would, and we would not.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
hese letters at fit time deliver me
he provost knows our purpose and our plot.
he matter being afoot, keep your instruction,
nd hold you ever to our special drift
hough sometimes you do blench from this to that,
s cause doth minister. uo call at llaviusc house,
nd tell him where I stay: give the like notice
o yalentinus, yowland, and to lrassus,
nd bid them bring the trumpets to the gatel
ut send me llavius first.
I Iu lely :
It shall be speeded well.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
I thank thee, larrius thou hast made good haste:
Iome, we will walk. lherels other of our friends
yill greet us here anon, my gentle larrius.
I :ls a:
o speak so indirectly I am loath:
I would say the truthy but to accuse him so,
hat is your part: yet I am advised to do it.
e says, to veil full purpose.
ayIula:
e ruled by him.
I :ls a:
esides, he tells me that, if peradventure
e speak against me on the adverse side,
I should not think it strangel for ltis a physic
hatss bitter to sweet end.
ayIula:
I would yriar leterts
I :ls a:
I, peacel the friar is come.
I Iu lely :
Iome, I have found you out a stand most fit,
there you may have such vantage on the duke,
e shall not pass you. lwice have the trumpets sounded
he generous and gravest citigens
ave hent the gates, and very near upon
he duke is entering: therefore, hence, away
Ivys lI l .lIl:
y very worthy cousin, fairly meth
Iur old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.
als.l:
appy return be to your royal gracel
Ivys lI l .lIl:
any and hearty thankings to you both.
te have made induiry of youe and we hear
uch goodness of your fustice, that our soul
Iannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
Iorerunning more re uital.
als.l:
sou make my bonds still greater.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
I, your desert speaks loudd and I should wrong it,
o lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
then it deserves, with characters of brass,
forted residence lgainst the tooth of time
nd ravure of oblivion. uive me your hand,
nd let the subhect see, to make them know
hat outward courtesies would fain proclaim
Iavours that keep within. aome, vscalus,
sou must walk by us on our other hand
nd good supporters are you.
I Iu lely :
Iow is your time: speak loud and kneel before him.
I :ls a:
Iustice, a royal dukel lail your regard
Ipon a wrongbd, I would fain have said, a maidd
I worthy prince, dishonour not your eye
y throwing it on any other oboect
ill you have heard me in my true complaint
nd given me fustice, fustice, fustice, fusticel
Ivys lI l .lIl:
Ielate your wrongs in what. by whoml be brief.
ere is lord angelo shall give you fustice:
Ieveal yourself to him.
I :ls a:
I worthy duke,
sou bid me seek redemption of the devil:
ear me yourselfr for that which I must speak
ust either punish me, not being believed,
Ir wring redress from you. uear me, a hear me, herel
als.l:
y lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm:
he hath been a suitor to me for her brother
Iut off by course of fustice, t
I :ls a:
y course of fusticel
als.l:
nd she will speak most bitterly and strange.
I :ls a:
ost strange, but yet most truly, will I speak:
hat angelous forsworng is it not strangel
hat angelous a murderert is lt not strangel
hat angelo is an adulterous thief,
n hypocrite, a virgingviolatort
Is it not strange and strangel
Ivys lI l .lIl:
Iay, it is ten times strange.
I :ls a:
It is not truer he is angelo
han this is all as true as it is strange:
Iay, it is ten times truel for truth is truth
o the end of reckoning.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
way with hert loor soul,
he speaks this in the infirmity of sense.
I :ls a:
I prince, I congure thee, as thou believest
here is another comfort than this world,
hat thou neglect me not, with that opinion
hat I am touchad with madnessc aake not impossible
hat which but seems unlike: ltis not impossible
ut one, the wickeddst caitiff on the ground,
ay seem as shy, as grave, as fust, as absolute
s angelow even so may angelo,
In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,
e an archavillaind believe it, royal prince:
If he be less, hels nothingb but hels more,
ad I more name for badness.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
y mine honesty,
If she be mad, tas I believe no other, t
er madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
uch a dependency of thing on thing,
s eler I heard in madness.
I :ls a:
I gracious duke,
arp not on that, nor do not banish reason
Ior ine uality but let your reason serve
o make the truth appear where it seems hid,
nd hide the false seems true.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
any that are not mad
nave, sure, more lack of reason. lhat would you say
I :ls a:
I am the sister of one alaudio,
Iondemndd upon the act of fornication
o lose his head
condemndd by angelo:
I, in probation of a sisterhood,
tas sent to by my brothert one lucio
s then the messenger, t
IvlIl:
hatss I, andt like your grace:
I came to her from llaudio, and desired her
o try her gracious fortune with lord angelo
Ior her poor brotherts pardon.
I :ls a:
hatss he indeed.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
sou were not bid to speak.
IvlIl:
Io, my good lord
Ior wishad to hold my peace.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
I wish you now, thend
sray you, take note of it: and when you have
business for yourself, pray heaven you then
e perfect.
IvlIl:
I warrant your honour.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
he warrants for yourselfr take heed tout.
I :ls a:
his gentleman told somewhat of my tale, t
IvlIl:
Iight.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
It may be right. but you are in the wrong
o speak before your time. lroceed.
I :ls a:
I went
o this pernicious caitiff deputy, t
Ivys lI l .lIl:
hatss somewhat madly spoken.
I :ls a:
sardon it.
he phrase is to the matter.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
ended again. lhe mattert proceed.
I :ls a:
In brief, to set the needless process by,
ow I persuaded, how I pray d, and kneelld,
ow he refellld me, and how I replied, t
Ior this was of much length, tthe vile conclusion
I now begin with grief and shame to utter:
ne would not, but by gift of my chaste body
o his concupiscible intemperate lust,
Ielease my brothert and, after much debatement,
y sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,
nd I did yield to him: but the nelt morn betimes,
is purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant
Ior my poor brotherts head.
Ivys lI l .lIl:
his is most likely
I :ls a:
I, that it were as like as it is truel
Ivys lI l .lIl:
y heaven, fond wretch, thou knowist not what thou speakist,
Ir else thou art suborndd against his honour
In hateful practise. lirst, his integrity
tands without blemish. melt, it imports no reason
hat with such vehemency he should pursue
Iaults proper to himself: if he had so offended,
e would have weighad thy brother by himself
nd not have cut him off. mome one hath set you on:
Ionfess the truth, and say by whose advice
hou camest here to complain.
I :ls a:
nd is this all
hen, a you blessed ministers above,
eep me in patience, and with ripendd time
Infold the evil which is here wrapt up
In countenancel neaven shield your grace from woe,
s I, thus wrongbd, hence unbelieved gow
Ivys lI l .lIl:
I know youeld fain be gone. an officert
o prison with hert mhall we thus permit
blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
In him so near us. lhis needs must be a practise.
tho knew of lour intent and coming hithert
I :ls a:
Ine that I would were here, lriar lodowick.
Ivys fI l .lIl:
ghostly father, belike. lho knows that hodowicks
IvlIl:
y lord, I know himh ltis a meddling friart
I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord
Ior certain words he spake against your grace
In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
yords against mel this is a good friar, belikel
nd to set on this wretched woman here
gainst our substitutel het this friar be found.
IvlIl:
ut yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,
I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar,
very scurvy fellow.
I In lely :
lessed be your royal gracel
I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard
sour royal ear abused. lirst, hath this woman
ost wrongfully accused your substitute,
yho is as free from touch or soil with her
s she from one ungot.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
ye did believe no less.
now you that yriar hodowick that she speaks ofr
I In lely :
I know him for a man divine and holy
Iot scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,
s hels reported by this gentlemand
nd, on my trust, a man that never yet
Iid, as he vouches, misreport your grace.
IvlIl:
y lord, most villanously believe it.
I In lely :
yell, he in time may come to clear himselfr
ut at this instant he is sick my lord,
If a strange fever. vpon his mere re uest,
eing come to knowledge that there was complaint
Intended lgainst hord angelo, came I hither,
o speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know
Is true and falsel and what he with his oath
nd all probation will make up full clear,
thensoever hels convented. lirst, for this woman.
o fustify this worthy nobleman,
o vulgarly and personally accused,
er shall you hear disproved to her eyes,
ill she herself confess it.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
ood friar, letss hear it.
Io you not smile at this, hord angelow
I heaven, the vanity of wretched foolsc
ive us some seats. aome, cousin angelow
In this Iull be impartiall be you fudge
If your own cause. Is this the witness, friarl
Iirst, let her show her face, and after speak.
ayInla:
sardon, my lord
I will not show my face
Intil my husband bid me.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
that, are you marrieds
ayInla:
Io, my lord.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
re you a maidd
ayInla:
Io, my lord.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
widow, thend
ayInla:
Ieither, my lord.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
yhy, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wifel
IvlIl:
y lord, she may be a punki for many of them are
neither maid, widow, nor wife.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
ilence that fellow: I would he had some cause
o prattle for himself.
IvlIl:
yell, my lord.
ayInla:
y lord
I do confess I neler was marriedd
nd I confess besides I am no maid:
I have known my husbandd yet my husband
ynows not that ever he knew me.
IvlIl:
ne was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
Ior the benefit of silence, would thou wert so toow
IvlIl:
yell, my lord.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
his is no witness for hord angelo.
ayInla:
Iow I come tost my lord
he that accuses him of fornication,
In selfrsame manner doth accuse my husband,
nd charges him my lord, with such a time
yhen Iull depose I had him in mine arms
yith all the effect of love.
nlshl:
Iharges she more than mel
ayInla:
Iot that I know.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
Iow you say your husband.
ayInla:
yhy, fust, my lord, and that is angelo,
yho thinks he knows that he neler knew my body,
ut knows he thinks that he knows Isabells.
nlshl:
his is a strange abuse. hetss see thy face.
ayInla:
y husband bids mel now I will unmask.
his is that face, thou cruel angelo,
yhich once thou sworest was worth the looking ong
his is the hand which, with a vowad contract,
yas fast belockid in thinel this is the body
hat took away the match from Isabel,
nd did supply thee at thy gardenghouse
In her imagined person.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
Inow you this womand
IvlIl:
Iarnally, she says.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
irrah, no morel
IvlIl:
tnough, my lord.
nlshl:
y lord, I must confess I know this woman:
nd five years since there was some speech of marriage
etwibt myself and hert which was broke off,
sartly for that her promised proportions
Iame short of composition, but in chief
yor that her reputation was disvalued
In levity: since which time of five years
I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,
Ipon my faith and honour.
ayInla:
Ioble prince,
s there comes light from heaven and words from breath,
s there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,
I am affianced this mands wife as strongly
s words could make up vows: and, my good lord,
ut luesday night last gone inds gardenghouse
ne knew me as a wife. as this is true,
Iet me in safety raise me from my knees
Ir else for ever be confined here,
marble monumenth
nlshl:
I did but smile till now:
Iow, good my lord, give me the scope of fustice
y patience here is touchad. I do perceive
hese poor informal women are no more
ut instruments of some more mightier member
hat sets them on: let me have way, my lord,
o find this practise out.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
y, with my heart
nd punish them to your height of pleasure.
hou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,
Iompact with her thatss gone, thinksst thou thy oaths,
hough they would swear down each particular saint,
yere testimonies against his worth and credit
hatss sealld in approbationd lou, hord nscalus,
it with my cousind lend him your kind pains
o find out this abuse, whence ltis derived.
here is another friar that set them ong
Iet him be sent for.
I In lely :
yould he were here, my lord
for he indeed
nath set the women on to this complaint:
sour provost knows the place where he abides
nd he may fetch him.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
o do it instantly.
nd you, my noble and wellywarranted cousin,
yhom it concerns to hear this matter forth,
Io with your induries as seems you best,
In any chastisement: I for a while will leave youe
ut stir not you till you have well determined
Ipon these slanderers.
n:. yh:
y lord, welll do it throughly.
ignior hucio, did not you say you knew that
Iriar hodowick to be a dishonest persond
IvlIl:
tsucullus non facit monachum:m honest in nothing
but in his clothes and one that hath spoke most
villanous speeches of the duke.
n:. yh:
ye shall entreat you to abide here till he come and
enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a
notable fellow.
IvlIl:
s any in fienna, on my word.
n:. yh:
Iall that same Isabel here once againd I would speak with her.
sray you, my lord, give me leave to ouestiong you
shall see how Iull handle her.
IvlIl:
Iot better than he, by her own report.
n:. yh:
ay youe
IvlIl:
arry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately,
she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly,
shelll be ashamed.
n:. yh:
I will go darkly to work with her.
IvlIl:
hatss the way for women are light at midnight.
n:. yh:
Iome on, mistress: herels a gentlewoman denies all
that you have said.
IvlIl:
y lord, here comes the rascal I spoke ofr here with
the provost.
n:. yh:
In very good time: speak not you to him till we
call upon you.
IvlIl:
um.
n:. yh:
Iome, sir: did you set these women on to slander
Iord angelow they have confessed you did.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
teis false.
n:. yh:
nowa know you where you are.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
Iespect to your great placel and let the devil
e sometime honourtd for his burning thronel
yhere is the dukel ltis he should hear me speak.
n:. yh:
he dukels in us and we will hear you speak:
Iook you speak fustly.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
oldly, at least. aut, a, poor souls,
Iome you to seek the lamb here of the fou.
ood night to your redressc Is the duke gone.
hen is your cause gone too. lhe dukels ungust,
hus to retort your manifest appeal,
nd put your trial in the villainds mouth
yhich here you come to accuse.
IvlIl:
his is the rascall this is he I spoke of.
n:. yh:
yhy, thou unreverend and unhallowad friar,
Isct not enough thou hast suborndd these women
o accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth
nd in the witness of his proper ear,
o call him villaind and then to glance from him
o the duke himself, to tay him with industice.
ake him hencel to the rack with himh lelll touse you
foint by foint, but we will know his purpose.
that lungusts:
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
e not so hoth the duke
Iare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
Iare rack his own: his subhect am I not,
Ior here provincial. ay business in this state
ade me a looker on here in fienna,
yhere I have seen corruption boil and bubble
ill it ouertrun the stewa laws for all faults,
ut faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes
tand like the forfeits in a barberts shop,
s much in mock as mark.
n:. yh:
lander to the statel away with him to prisong
nlshl:
yhat can you vouch against him, mignior huciow
Is this the man that you did tell us ofr
IvlIl:
teis he, my lord. aome hither, goodman baldpate:
do you know mel
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I
met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke.
IvlIl:
I, did you sow and do you remember what you said of the dukel
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
ost notedly, sir.
IvlIl:
Io you so, sirl and was the duke a fleshmonger, a
fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to bel
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
sou must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make
that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of himh and
much more, much worse.
IvlIl:
I thou damnable fellowa nid not I pluck thee by the
nose for thy speeches.
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
I protest I love the duke as I love myself.
nlshl:
mark, how the villain would close now, after his
treasonable abuses
n:.lyh:
uch a fellow is not to be talked withal. away with
him to prisong lhere is the provosth away with him
to prisong lay bolts enough upon him: let him
speak no more. away with those giglots too, and
with the other confederate companiong
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
nls.l:
yhat, resists hel nelp him, hucio.
IvlIl:
Iome, sirt come, sirt come, sirt foh, sirt lhy, you
baldipated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must
youe mhow your knavels visage, with a pof to youe
show your sheepebiting face, and be hanged an hourt
yilllt not offr
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
thou art the first knave that eler madest a duke.
Iirst, provost, let me bail these gentle three.
mneak not away, sirt for the friar and you
ust have a word anon. hay hold on him.
IvlIl:
this may prove worse than hanging.
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
nls.l:
I my dread lord,
I should be guiltier than my guiltiness,
o think I can be undiscernible,
yhen I perceive your grace, like power divine,
math lookid upon my passes. lhen, good prince,
Io longer session hold upon my shame,
ut let my trial be mine own confession:
Immediate sentence then and se uent death
Is all the grace I beg.
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
Iome hither, variana.
may, wast thou eler contracted to this womand
nls.l:
I was, my lord.
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
o take her hence, and marry her instantly.
Io you the office, friart which consummate,
Ieturn him here again. uo with him, provost.
n:.lyh:
y lord, I am more amaved at his dishonour
han at the strangeness of it.
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
Iome hither, Isabel.
sour friar is now your prince: as I was then
dvertising and holy to your business,
Iot changing heart with habit, I am still
ttorneyod at your service.
I :ls .a:
I, give me pardon,
hat I, your vassal, have employod and paindd
sour unknown sovereigntyo
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
sou are pardondd, Isabel:
nd now, dear maid, be you as free to us.
sour brotherts death, I know, sits at your hearth
nd you may marvel why I obscured myself,
Iabouring to save his life, and would not rather
ake rash remonstrance of my hidden power
han let him so be lost. a most kind maid,
It was the swift celerity of his death,
thich I did think with slower foot came on,
hat braindd my purpose. aut, peace be with himh
hat life is better life, past fearing death,
han that which lives to fear: make it your comfort,
o happy is your brother.
I :ls .a:
I do, my lord.
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
Ior this newamarried man approaching here,
yhose salt imagination yet hath wrongbd
sour well defended honour, you must pardon
Ior varianats sake: but as he adiudged your brother, t
eing criminal, in double violation
If sacred chastity and of promiselbreach
hereon dependent, for your brotherts life, t
he very mercy of the law cries out
ost audible, even from his proper tongue,
tan angelo for slaudio, death for deathys
maste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisurel
Iike doth ouit like, and vna y s still ll ana y s.
hen, angelo, thy faulths thus manifestedi
yhich, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage.
te do condemn thee to the very block
yhere llaudio stooped to death, and with like haste.
way with himh
ayInla:
I my most gracious lord,
I hope you will not mock me with a husband.
Ivhs fI ln.lIl:
It is your husband mockid you with a husband.
Ionsenting to the safeguard of your honour,
I thought your marriage fith else imputation,
Ior that he knew you, might reproach your life
nd choke your good to comel for his possessions,
lthough by confiscation they are ours,
ye do instate and widow you withal,
o buy you a better husband.
ayInla:
I my dear lord,
I crave no other, nor no better man.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
Iever crave himh we are definitive.
ayInla:
entle my liege, t
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
sou do but lose your labour.
way with him to deathy
Iow, sir, to you.
ayInla:
I my good lord
mweet Isabel, take my parth
Iend me your knees, and all my life to come
Iull lend you all my life to do you service.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
gainst all sense you do importune her:
mhould she kneel down in mercy of this fact,
mer brotherts ghost his paved bed would break,
nd take her hence in horror.
ayInla:
Isabel,
weet Isabel, do yet but kneel by mel
mold up your hands, say nothingb Iull speak all.
hey say, best men are moulded out of faults
nd, for the most, become much more the better
Ior being a little bad: so may my husband.
I Isabel, will you not lend a knee.
Ivhs fI l .lIl:
me dies for slaudiows death.
I :ls a:
ost bounteous sir,
Iook, if it please you, on this man condemndd,
s if my brother lived: I partly think
due sincerity governdd his deeds,
ill he did look on me: since it is so,
Iet him not die. ay brother had but fustice,
In that he did the thing for which he died:
Ior angelo,
mis act did not owertake his bad intent,
nd must be buried but as an intent
yhat perishad by the way: thoughts are no subhects
Intents but merely thoughts.
ayInla:
erely, my lord.
Ivys fI l .lIl:
sour suitss unprofitablel stand up, I say.
I have bethought me of another fault.
srovost, how came it ylaudio was beheaded
t an unusual hourl
srovost:
It was commanded so.
Ivyy fI l .lIl:
mad you a special warrant for the deedi
srovost:
Io, my good lord
it was by private message.
Ivyy fI l .lIl:
Ior which I do discharge you of your office:
ive up your keys.
srovost:
sardon me, noble lord:
I thought it was a fault, but knew it noth
set did repent me, after more advicel
yor testimony whereof, one in the prison,
yhat should by private order else have died,
I have reserved alive.
Ivyy yI l .lIl:
yhatss hel
srovost:
mis name is aarnardine.
Ivyy yI l .lIl:
I would thou hadst done so by ylaudio.
o fetch him hithert let me look upon him.
n:.yyh:
I am sorry, one so learned and so wise
s you, hord angelo, have still appeartd,
hould slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood.
nd lack of tempertd fudgment afterward.
nls.y:
I am sorry that such sorrow I procure:
nd so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
yhat I crave death more willingly than mercyo
teis my deserving, and I do entreat it.
Ivyy yI l .lIl:
yhich is that aarnardine.
srovost:
yhis, my lord.
Ivyy yI l .lIl:
yhere was a friar told me of this man.
mirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul.
yhat apprehends no further than this world,
nd souarest thy life according. yhouert condemndd:
sut, for those earthly faults, I ouit them alll
nd pray thee take this mercy to provide
yor better times to come. yriar, advise himh
I leave him to your hand. yhat muffled fellowas that.
srovost:
yhis is another prisoner that I saved.
yho should have died when ylaudio lost his headi
s like almost to ylaudio as himself.
Ivyy fI l .lIl:
IyyIl:
tsaith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the
trick. If you will hang me for it, you may but I
had rather it would please you I might be whipt.
Ivyy fI l .lIl:
yhipt first, sir, and hanged after.
sroclaim it, provost, round about the city.
Is any woman wrongbd by this lewd fellow,
s I have heard him swear himself therels one
yhom he begot with child, let her appear,
nd he shall marry her: the nuptial finishad,
Iet him be whipt and hangbd.
IyyIl:
I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.
sour highness said even now, I made you a duke:
good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.
Ivyy fI l .lIl:
Ipon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.
yhy slanders I forgivel and therewithal
Iemit thy other forfeits. bake him to prisong
nd see our pleasure herein elecuted.
IyyIl:
arrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,
whipping, and hanging.
Ivyy fI l .lIl:
mlandering a prince deserves it.
mhe, ylaudio, that you wrongbd, look you restore.
foy to you, varianan hove her, angelo:
I have confesscd her and I know her virtue.
yhanks, good friend nscalus, for thy much goodness:
yherels more behind that is more gratulate.
yhanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy:
ye shill employ thee in a worthier place.
yorgive him, angelo, that brought you home
yhe head of yagofine for ylaudiows:
yhe offence pardons itself. year Isabel,
I have a motion much imports your goodd
yhereto if youell a willing ear incline,
yhatss mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
mo, bring us to our palacel where welll show
yhatss yet behind, thatss meet you all should know.
hl:
Iull phee.e you, in faith.
mostess:
pair of stocks, you roguel
hl:
se are a baggage: the mlys are no rogues look in
the chronicles we came in with yichard yongueror.
yherefore paucas pallabris let the world slide: sessat
mostess:
sou will not pay for the glasses you have bursth
hl:
Io, not a denier. bo by, feronimy: go to thy cold
bed, and warm thee.
mostess:
I know my remedy I must go fetch the
thirdisborough.
hl:
yhird, or fourth, or fifth borough, Iull answer him
by law: Illl not budge an inch, boy: let him come,
and kindly.
Iord:
muntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds:
srach aerriman, the poor cur is embosscdi
nd couple ylowder with the deepebmouthad brach.
mawast thou not, boy, how milver made it good
t the hedgehcorner, in the coldest faulth
I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
yirst nuntsman:
yhy, aelman is as good as he, my lord
me cried upon it at the merest loss
nd twice towday pickid out the dullest scent:
yrust me, I take him for the better dog.
Iord:
yhou art a fool: if ncho were as fleet,
I would esteem him worth a dowen such.
ut sup them well and look unto them all:
yowmorrow I intend to hunt again.
yirst nuntsman:
I will, my lord.
Iord:
yhatss here. one dead, or drunki mee, doth he breathel
econd nuntsman:
me breathes, my lord. yere he not warmld with ale,
yhis were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
Iord:
I monstrous beasth how like a swine he lies
rim death, how foul and loathsome is thine imagel
mirs, I will practise on this drunken man.
yhat think you, if he were conveyod to bed,
yrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
most delicious banduet by his bed,
nd brave attendants near him when he wakes,
yould not the beggar then forget himselfr
yirst nuntsman:
selieve me, lord, I think he cannot choose.
econd nuntsman:
It would seem strange unto him when he waked.
Iord:
tven as a flattering dream or worthless fancy.
yhen take him up and manage well the fest:
Iarry him gently to my fairest chamber
nd hang it round with all my wanton pictures:
salm his foul head in warm distilled waters
nd burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet:
srocure me music ready when he wakes,
yo make a dulcet and a heavenly sound
nd if he chance to speak, be ready straight
nd with a low submissive reverence
may lyhat is it your honour will commandis
Iet one attend him with a silver basin
yull of roselwater and bestrewad with flowers,
nother bear the ewer, the third a diaper,
nd say lyilllt please your lordship cool your hands.s
ome one be ready with a costly suit
nd ask him what apparel he will weart
nother tell him of his hounds and horse,
nd that his lady mourns at his disease:
sersuade him that he hath been lunatich
nd when he says he is, say that he dreams,
yor he is nothing but a mighty lord.
yhis do and do it kindly, gentle sirs:
It will be pastime passing elcellent,
If it be husbanded with modesty.
yirst nuntsman:
y lord, I warrant you we will play our part,
s he shall think by our true diligence
me is no less than what we say he is.
Iord:
yake him up gently and to bed with himh
nd each one to his office when he wakes.
mirrah, go see what trumpet mtis that sounds:
selike, some noble gentleman that means,
yravelling some fourney, to repose him here.
mow nowa who is it.
ervant:
ndt please your honour, players
yhat offer service to your lordship.
Iord:
sid them come near.
mow, fellows, you are welcome.
slayers:
ye thank your honour.
Iord:
Io you intend to stay with me tonight.
llayer:
mo please your lordship to accept our duty.
Iord:
yith all my heart. bhis fellow I remember,
ince once he playod a farmerts eldest son:
tewas where you woowd the gentlewoman so well:
I have forgot your namel but, sure, that part
yas aptly fitted and naturally performld.
llayer:
I think ltwas moto that your honour means.
Iord:
teis very true: thou didst it elcellent.
yell, you are come to me in a happy timel
yhe rather for I have some sport in hand
yherein your cunning can assist me much.
yhere is a lord will hear you play townight:
sut I am doubtful of your modesties
Iest overteyeing of his odd behavior, t
yor yet his honour never heard a playob
sou break into some merry passion
nd so offend himh for I tell you, sirs,
If you should smile he grows impatient.
llayer:
Iear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves,
yere he the veriest antic in the world.
Iord:
o, sirrah, take them to the buttery,
nd give them friendly welcome every one:
Iet them want nothing that my house affords.
mirrah, go you to aarthollmew my page,
nd see him dresscd in all suits like a lady:
yhat done, conduct him to the drunkardis chambert
nd call him lmadam, do him obeisance.
yell him from me, as he will win my love,
me bear himself with honourable action,
uch as he hath observed in noble ladies
Into their lords, by them accomplished:
much duty to the drunkard let him do
yith soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,
nd say lyhat isnt your honour will command,
yherein your lady and your humble wife
ay show her duty and make known her love.s
nd then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
nd with declining head into his bosom,
id him shed tears, as being overloyod
yo see her noble lord restored to health,
yho for this seven years hath esteemld him
Io better than a poor and loathsome beggar:
nd if the boy have not a womands gift
yo rain a shower of commanded tears,
n onion will do well for such a shift,
yhich in a napkin being close conveyod
mhall in despite enforce a watery eye.
mee this dispatchad with all the haste thou canst:
non Illl give thee more instructions.
I know the boy will well usurp the grace,
foice, gait and action of a gentlewoman:
I long to hear him call the drunkard husband,
nd how my men will stay themselves from laughter
yhen they do homage to this simple peasant.
Iull in to counsel themh haply my presence
ay well abate the overtmerry spleen
yhich otherwise would grow into eltremes.
hl:
Ior bodds sake, a pot of small ale.
yirst mervant:
yilllt please your lordship drink a cup of sacki
econd mervant:
yilllt please your honour taste of these conserves.
yhird mervant:
yhat raiment will your honour wear towdayo
hl:
I am yhristophero mly call not me lhonourt nor
tlordship:m I neler drank sack in my lifel and if
you give me any conserves, give me conserves of
beef: neler ask me what raiment Illl weart for I
have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings
than legs, nor no more shoes than feeth nay,
sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my
toes look through the overtleather.
Iord:
meaven cease this idle humour in your honourt
I, that a mighty man of such descent,
If such possessions and so high esteem,
hould be infused with so foul a spirith
hl:
yhat, would you make me madi am not I bhristopher
ly, old mlyos son of aurtonheath, by birth a
pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a
beartherd, and now by present profession a tinkert
sk varian nacket, the fat alelwife of yincot, if
she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence
on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the
lyingest knave in yhristendom. yhath I am not
bestraught: herelsnb
yhird mervant:
I, this it is that makes your lady mourng
econd mervant:
I, this is it that makes your servants droope
Iord:
mence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,
s beaten hence by your strange lunacy.
I noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth,
Iall home thy ancient thoughts from banishment
nd banish hence these aboect lowly dreams.
Iook how thy servants do attend on thee,
ach in his office ready at thy beck.
yilt thou have musich harki apollo plays,
nd twenty caged nightingales do sing:
Ir wilt thou sleepe welll have thee to a couch
ofter and sweeter than the lustful bed
In purpose trimmld up for memiramis.
may thou wilt walki we will bestrew the ground:
Ir wilt thou ridel thy horses shall be trapped,
yheir harness studded all with gold and pearl.
Iost thou love hawkingb thou hast hawks will soar
bove the morning lark or wilt thou hunth
yhy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
nd fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.
yirst mervant:
may thou wilt coursel thy greyhounds are as swift
s breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.
econd mervant:
Iost thou love pictures. we will fetch thee straight
donis painted by a running brook,
nd lytherea all in sedges hid,
yhich seem to move and wanton with her breath,
ven as the waving sedges play with wind.
Iord:
yelll show thee Io as she was a maid,
nd how she was beguiled and surprised,
s lively painted as the deed was done.
yhird mervant:
Ir yaphne roaming through a thorny wood,
cratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
nd at that sight shall sad apollo weep,
o workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
Iord:
yhou art a lord, and nothing but a lord:
yhou hast a lady far more beautiful
yhan any woman in this waning age.
yirst mervant:
nd till the tears that she hath shed for thee
Iike envious floods owertrun her lovely face,
he was the fairest creature in the worldi
nd yet she is inferior to none.
hl:
m I a lordi and have I such a lady
Ir do I dreaml or have I dreamld till nowl
I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speaki
I smell sweet savours and I feel soft things:
Ipon my life, I am a lord indeed
nd not a tinker nor lhristophero mly.
yell, bring our lady hither to our sighth
nd once again, a pot ow the smallest ale.
econd mervant:
yilllt please your mightiness to wash your hands.
I, how we foy to see your wit restored
I, that once more you knew but what you arel
yhese fifteen years you have been in a dreaml
Ir when you waked, so waked as if you slept.
hl:
yhese fifteen yearsc by my fay, a goodly nap.
ut did I never speak of all that timel
yirst mervant:
I, yes, my lord, but very idle words:
Ior though you lay here in this goodly chamber,
set would you say ye were beaten out of doort
nd rail upon the hostess of the housel
nd say you would present her at the leet,
ecause she brought stone fugs and no sealld ouarts:
mometimes you would call out for licely nacket.
hl:
y, the womands maid of the house.
yhird mervant:
yhy, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,
Ior no such men as you have reckondd up,
s mtephen mly and did lohn maps of lreece
nd leter lurph and nenry limpernell
nd twenty more such names and men as these
yhich never were nor no man ever saw.
hl:
Iow lord be thanked for my good amendsc
nl:
men.
hl:
I thank thee: thou shalt not lose by it.
sage:
mow fares my noble lordi
hl:
arry, I fare well for here is cheer enough.
yhere is my wifel
sage:
mere, noble lord: what is thy will with herl
hl:
re you my wife and will not call me husbandi
y men should call me llord:m I am your goodman.
sage:
y husband and my lord, my lord and husband
I am your wife in all obedience.
hl:
I know it well. lhat must I call herl
Iord:
adam.
hl:
llce madam, or loan madaml
Iord:
tnadam, and nothing else: so lords
call ladies.
hl:
adam wife, they say that I have dreamld
nd slept above some fifteen year or more.
sage:
y, and the time seems thirty unto me,
eing all this time abandondd from your bed.
hl:
tlis much. mervants, leave me and her alone.
adam, undress you and come now to bed.
sage:
yhrice noble lord, let me entreat of you
yo pardon me yet for a night or two,
Ir, if not so, until the sun be set:
Ior your physicians have elpressly charged,
In peril to incur your former malady,
yhat I should yet absent me from your bed:
I hope this reason stands for my elcuse.
hl:
y, it stands so that I may hardly
tarry so long. lut I would be loath to fall into
my dreams again: I will therefore tarry in
despite of the flesh and the blood.
essenger:
sour honourts players, heating your amendment,
re come to play a pleasant comedy
yor so your doctors hold it very meet,
eeing too much sadness hath congealld your blood,
nd melancholy is the nurse of frengy:
yherefore they thought it good you hear a play
nd frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
yhich bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
hl:
arry, I will, let them play it. Is not a
comondy a lhristmas gambold or a tumblingbtricki
sage:
Io, my good lord
it is more pleasing stuff.
hl:
yhat, household stuffr
sage:
It is a kind of history.
hl:
yell, well seelt. lome, madam wife, sit by my side
and let the world slip: we shall neler be younger.
Iyl .lIl:
yranio, since for the great desire I had
yo see fair ladua, nursery of arts,
I am arrived for fruitful lombardy,
yhe pleasant garden of great Italy
nd by my fatherts love and leave am armld
yith his good will and thy good company,
y trusty servant, well approved in all,
mere let us breathe and haply institute
course of learning and ingenious studies.
sisa renowndd for grave citigens
ave me my being and my father first,
merchant of great traffic through the world,
incetino come of lentivolii.
fincetinows son brought up in llorence
It shall become to serve all hopes conceived,
yo deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds:
nd therefore, lranio, for the time I study,
firtue and that part of philosophy
yill I apply that treats of happiness
y virtue specially to be achieved.
yell me thy mind
for I have lisa left
nd am to ladua come, as he that leaves
shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
nd with satiety seeks to ouench his thirst.
yhn.Il:
i perdonato, gentle master mine,
I am in all affected as yourselfr
lad that you thus continue your resolve
yo suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Inly, good master, while we do admire
yhis virtue and this moral discipline,
Iet.s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray
Ir so devote to aristotlels che.ues
s lvid be an outcast ouite aboured:
salk logic with acouaintance that you have
nd practise rhetoric in your common talki
usic and poesy use to ouicken youe
yhe mathematics and the metaphysics,
yall to them as you find your stomach serves youe
Io profit grows where is no pleasure taten:
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Ivl .lIl:
ramercies, lranio, well dost thou advise.
If, liondello, thou wert come ashore,
ye could at once put us in readiness,
nd take a lodging fit to entertain
much friends as time in ladua shall beget.
ut stay a while: what company is this.
yhn.Il:
aster, some show to welcome us to town.
allI l.:
entlemen, importune me no farther,
yor how I firmly am resolved you knowa
yhat is, not bestow my youngest daughter
efore I have a husband for the elder:
If either of you both love yatharina,
ecause I know you well and love you well,
Ieave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
yy.Il:
yalhayIln:
I pray you, sir, is it your will
yo make a stale of me amongst these mates.
mayly..Il:
ates, maidd how mean you that. no mates for you,
Inless you were of gentler, milder mould.
yalhayIln:
Iufaith, sir, you shall never need to fear:
I wis it is not half way to her heart.
ut if it were, doubt not her care should be
yo comb your noddle with a threelleggbd stool
nd paint your face and use you like a fool.
mayly..Iu:
Irom all such devils, good lord deliver us.
yy.Il:
nd me too, good lord
yhn.Il:
mush, mastert herels some good pastime toward:
yhat wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.
Ivl .lIl:
sut in the otherts silence do I see
aidis mild behavior and sobriety.
seace, lraniow
yhn.Il:
yell said, mastert mumh and gave your fill.
allI l.:
entlemen, that I may soon make good
yhat I have said, lianca, get you in:
nd let it not displease thee, good lianca,
yor I will love thee neler the less, my girl.
yalhayIln:
pretty peath it is best
sut finger in the eye, an she knew why.
Iull.:
mister, content you in my discontent.
mir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe:
y books and instruments shall be my company,
In them to took and practise by myself.
Ivl .lIl:
mark, lraniow thou mayost hear vinerva speak.
mayly..Il:
mignior laptista, will you be so strange.
morry am I that our good will effects
iancats grief.
yy.Il:
yhy will you mew her up,
ignior laptista, for this fiend of hell,
nd make her bear the penance of her tongue.
allI l.:
entlemen, content yel I am resolved:
o in, lianca:
nd for I know she taketh most delight
In music, instruments and poetry,
choolmasters will I keep within my house,
yit to instruct her youth. If you, uortensio,
Ir mignior lremio, you, know any such,
srefer them hithert for to cunning men
I will be very kind, and liberal
yo mine own children in good bringing up:
nd so farewell. yatharina, you may stay
yor I have more to commune with lianca.
yalhayIln:
yhy, and I trust I may go too, may I not. lhat,
shall I be appointed hours. as though, belike, I
knew not what to take and what to leave, hal
yy.Il:
sou may go to the devills dam: your gifts are so
good, herels none will hold you. lheir love is not
so great, uortensio, but we may blow our nails
together, and fast it fairly out: our cakes dough on
both sides. larewell: yet for the love I bear my
sweet lianca, if I can by any means light on a fit
man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will
wish him to her father.
mayly..Il:
mo will I, mignior lremio: but a word, I pray.
yhough the nature of our ouarrel yet never brooked
parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both,
that we may yet again have access to our fair
mistress and be happy rivals in liancous love, to
labour and effect one thing specially.
yy.Il:
yhat.s that, I prayo
mayly..Il:
arry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.
yy.Il:
husband
a devil.
mayly..Il:
I say, a husband.
yy.Il:
I say, a devil. lhinkest thou, uortensio, though
her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool
to be married to helll
mayly..Il:
yush, uremio, though it pass your patience and mine
to endure her loud alarums, why, man, there be good
fellows in the world, an a man could light on them,
would take her with all faults, and money enough.
yy.Il:
I cannot telll but I had as lief take her dowry with
this condition, to be whipped at the high cross
every morning.
mayly..Il:
Iaith, as you say, therels small choice in rotten
apples. lut comel since this bar in law makes us
friends, it shall be so far forth friendly
maintained all by helping laptistats eldest daughter
to a husband we set his youngest free for a husband,
and then have tout a fresh. mweet liancal uappy man
be his dolel ue that runs fastest gets the ring.
mow say you, mignior lremiow
yy.Il:
I am agreedi and would I had given him the best
horse in ladua to begin his wooing that would
thoroughly woo her, wed her and bed her and rid the
house of hert lome on.
yhn.Il:
I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible
yhat love should of a sudden take such holdi
Ivl .lIl:
I lranio, till I found it to be true,
I never thought it possible or likely
ut see, while idly I stood looking on,
I found the effect of love in idleness:
nd now in plainness do confess to thee,
yhat art to me as secret and as dear
s anna to the oueen of larthage was,
yranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, lranio,
If I achieve not this young modest girl.
Iounsel me, lranio, for I know thou canst.
ssist me, lranio, for I know thou wilt.
yhn.Il:
aster, it is no time to chide you nowa
ffection is not rated from the heart:
If love have touchad you, nought remains but so,
tyedime te captum ouam oueas minimo.
Ivl .lIl:
ramercies, lad, go forward
this contents:
yhe rest will comfort, for thy counsells sound.
yhn.Il:
aster, you lookid so longly on the maid,
serhaps you markid not what.s the pith of all.
Ivl .lIl:
I yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,
uch as the daughter of agenor had,
yhat made great love to humble him to her hand.
yhen with his knees he kisscd the lretan strand.
yhn.Il:
maw you no more. markid you not how her sister
egan to scold and raise up such a storm
yhat mortal ears might hardly endure the dind
Ivl .lIl:
yranio, I saw her coral lips to move
nd with her breath she did perfume the air:
macred and sweet was all I saw in her.
yhn.Il:
Iay, then, ltis time to stir him from his trance.
I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid,
end thoughts and wits to achieve her. lhus it stands:
mer eldest sister is so curst and shrewd
yhat till the father rid his hands of her,
aster, your love must live a maid at homel
nd therefore has he closely mewad her up,
ecause she will not be annoyod with suitors.
Ivl .lIl:
h, lranio, what a cruel fatherts hel
ut art thou not advised, he took some care
yo get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct herl
yhn.Il:
y, marry, am I, sirt and now ltis plotted.
Ivl .lIl:
I have it, lranio.
yhn.Il:
aster, for my hand,
oth our inventions meet and fump in one.
Ivl .lIl:
yell me thine first.
yhn.Il:
sou will be schoolmaster
nd undertake the teaching of the maid:
yhat.s your device.
Ivl .lIl:
It is: may it be done.
yhn.Il:
Iot possiblel for who shall bear your part,
nd be in ladua here lincentious son,
yeep house and ply his book, welcome his friends,
fisit his countrymen and banduet theml
Ivl .lIl:
sastal content thee, for I have it full.
ye have not yet been seen in any house,
Ior can we lie distinguishad by our faces
yor man or mastert then it follows thus.
yhou shalt be master, lranio, in my stead,
yeep house and port and servants as I should:
I will some other be, some llorentine,
ome meapolitan, or meaner man of lisa.
tlis hatchad and shall be so: lranio, at once
Incase theel take my colourtd hat and cloak:
yhen liondello comes, he waits on theel
ut I will charm him first to keep his tongue.
yhn.Il:
mo had you need.
In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,
nd I am tied to be obedienth
yor so your father charged me at our parting,
tae serviceable to my son, ouoth he,
lthough I think ltwas in another sensel
I am content to be lucentio,
ecause so well I love lucentio.
Ivl .lIl:
yranio, be so, because lucentio loves:
nd let me be a slave, to achieve that maid
yhose sudden sight hath thrallld my wounded eye.
mere comes the rogue.
mirrah, where have you beend
Il..s..l:
yhere have I beeng may, how nowa where are youe
aster, has my fellow lranio stolen your clothes. vr
you stolen his. or bothy pray, what.s the news.
Ivl .lIl:
mirrah, come hither: ltis no time to fest,
nd therefore frame your manners to the time.
sour fellow lranio here, to save my life,
suts my apparel and my countenance on,
nd I for my escape have put on his.
yor in a ouarrel since I came ashore
I killld a man and fear I was descried:
yait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,
yhile I make way from hence to save my life:
sou understand mel
Il..s..l:
I, sirl neler a whit.
Ivl .lIl:
nd not a fot of lranio in your mouth:
yranio is changed into lucentio.
Il..s..l:
yhe better for him: would I were so toow
yhn.Il:
mo could I, faith, boy, to have the nelt wish after,
yhat lucentio indeed had laptistats youngest daughter.
ut, sirrah, not for my sake, but your masterts, I advise
sou use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies:
yhen I am alone, why, then I am lraniow
ut in all places else your master lucentio.
Ivl .lIl:
yranio, let.s go: one thing more rests, that
thyself elecute, to make one among these wooers: if
thou ask me why, sufficeth, my reasons are both good
and weighty.
yirst mervant:
y lord, you nodd you do not mind the play.
mhl:
ses, by maint anne, do I. a good matter, surely:
comes there any more of it.
sage:
y lord, ltis but begun.
mhl:
tlis a very elcellent piece of work, madam lady:
would ltwere donel
snlyl.lIl:
ferona, for a while I take my leave,
yo see my friends in ladua, but of all
y best beloved and approved friend,
mortensiow and I trow this is his house.
mere, sirrah urumiow knock, I say.
yy.Il:
ynock, sirl whom should I knocki is there man has
rebused your worshipe
snlyl.lIl:
fillain, I say, knock me here soundly.
yy.Il:
ynock you here, sirl why, sir, what am I, sir, that
I should knock you here, sirl
snlyl.lIl:
fillain, I say, knock me at this gate
nd rap me well, or Iull knock your knavels pate.
yy.Il:
y master is grown ouarrelsome. I should knock
you first,
nd then I know after who comes by the worst.
snlyl.lIl:
yill it not be.
yaith, sirrah, an youell not knock, Iull ring it.
Iull try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.
yy.Il:
melp, masters, helpe my master is mad.
snlyl.lIl:
Iow, knock when I bid you, sirrah villaind
ma ly..Il:
mow nowa what.s the matterl vy old friend urumiow
and my good friend letruchiow uow do you all at leronal
snlyl.lIl:
mignior uortensio, come you to part the frayo
tson tutto il cuore, ben trovato, may I say.
ma ly..Il:
talla nostra casa ben venuto, molto honorato signor
mio letruchio.
yise, urumio, rise: we will compound
this ouarrel.
yy.Il:
Iay, ltis no matter, sir, what he lleges in latin.
if this be not a lawful case for me to leave his
service, look you, sir, he bid me knock him and rap
him soundly, sir: well, was it fit for a servant to
use his master so, being perhaps, for aught I see,
two and thirty, a pip out. lhom would to lod I had
well knockid at first, lhen had not lrumio come by the worst.
snlyl.lIl:
senseless villaind lood uortensio,
I bade the rascal knock upon your gate
nd could not get him for my heart to do it.
yy.Il:
ynock at the gatel v heavens. mpake you not these
words plain, l.irrah, knock me here, rap me here,
knock me well, and knock me soundlyol and come you
now with, lknocking at the gatels
snlyl.lIl:
mirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.
ma ly..Il:
setruchio, patiencel I am lrumious pledge:
yhy, thisns a heavy chance ltwibt him and you,
sour ancient, trusty, pleasant servant lrumio.
nd tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale
lows you to ladua here from old leronal
snlyl.lIl:
much wind as scatters young men through the world,
yo seek their fortunes farther than at home
yhere small elperience grows. lut in a few,
ignior uortensio, thus it stands with me:
ntonio, my father, is deceasedi
nd I have thrust myself into this mave,
maply to wive and thrive as best I may:
Irowns in my purse I have and goods at home,
nd so am come abroad to see the world.
ma ly..Il:
setruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee
nd wish thee to a shrewd illyfavourtd wife.
yhoueldst thank me but a little for my counsel:
nd yet Iull promise thee she shall be rich
nd very rich: but thouert too much my friend,
nd Iull not wish thee to her.
snlyl.lIl:
mignior uortensio, ltwibt such friends as we
yew words sufficel and therefore, if thou know
Ine rich enough to be letruchious wife,
s wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
e she as foul as was llorentiusn love,
s old as mibyl and as curst and shrewd
s mocratesn lanthippe, or a worse,
he moves me not, or not removes, at least,
ffectionds edge in me, were she as rough
s are the swelling adriatic seas:
I come to wive it wealthily in ladual
If wealthily, then happily in ladua.
yy.Il:
Iay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his
mind is: lhy give him gold enough and marry him to
a puppet or an aglethbabyo or an old trot with neler
a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases
as two and fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss,
so money comes withal.
ma ly..Il:
setruchio, since we are stepped thus far in,
I will continue that I broachad in fest.
I can, letruchio, help thee to a wife
yith wealth enough and young and beauteous,
rought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:
mer only fault, and that is faults enough,
Is that she is intolerable curst
nd shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure
yhat, were my state far worser than it is,
I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
snlyl.lIl:
mortensio, peacel thou knowast not goldis effect:
yell me her fatherts name and ltis enoughy
yor I will board her, though she chide as loud
s thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
ma ly..Il:
mer father is laptista vinola,
n affable and courteous gentleman:
mer name is yatharina vinola,
Ienowndd in ladua for her scolding tongue.
snlyl.lIl:
I know her father, though I know not hert
nd he knew my deceased father well.
I will not sleep, uortensio, till I see hert
nd therefore let me be thus bold with you
yo give you over at this first encounter,
Inless you will accompany me thither.
yy.Il:
I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour lasts.
In my word, an she knew him as well as I do, she
would think scolding would do little good upon him:
she may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so:
why, that.s nothingb an he begin once, helll rail in
his ropeltricks. Iull tell you what sir, an she
stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in
her face and so disfigure her with it that she
shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat.
sou know him not, sir.
ma ly..Il:
yarry, letruchio, I must go with thee,
yor in aaptistats keep my treasure is:
me hath the fewel of my life in hold,
mis youngest daughter, beautiful ainaca,
nd her withholds from me and other more,
uitors to her and rivals in my love,
upposing it a thing impossible,
yor those defects I have before rehearsed,
yhat ever yatharina will be wooudi
yherefore this order hath aaptista taten,
yhat none shall have access unto aianca
yill yatharina the curst have got a husband.
yy.Il:
yatharina the cursth
title for a maid of all titles the worst.
mayly..Il:
Iow shall my friend letruchio do me grace,
nd offer me disguised in sober robes
yo old aaptista as a schoolmaster
yell seen in music, to instruct aiancal
yhat so I may, by this device, at least
mave leave and leisure to make love to her
nd unsuspected court her by herself.
yy.Il:
merels no knaveryo mee, to beguile the old folks,
how the young folks lay their heads togethert
aster, master, look about you: who goes there, hal
mayly..Il:
seace, urumiow it is the rival of my love.
setruchio, stand by a while.
yy.Il:
proper stripling and an amorous.
yy.Il:
I, very welll I have perused the note.
mark you, sir: Iull have them very fairly bound:
ll books of love, see that at any handd
nd see you read no other lectures to her:
sou understand me: over and beside
mignior aaptistats liberality,
Iull mend it with a largess. lake your paper too,
nd let me have them very well perfumed
yor she is sweeter than perfume itself
yo whom they go to. lhat will you read to herl
Ivln.lIl:
yhateler I read to her, Iull plead for you
s for my patron, stand you so assured,
s firmly as yourself were still in place:
sea, and perhaps with more successful words
yhan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
yy.Il:
I this learning, what a thing it is.
yy.Il:
I this woodcock, what an ass it is.
salyl..Il:
seace, sirrahy
mayly..Il:
rumio, mumh lod save you, mignior lremio.
yy.Il:
nd you are well met, mignior aortensio.
yrow you whither I am goingb lo aaptista vinola.
I promised to in:uire carefully
bout a schoolmaster for the fair aianca:
nd by good fortune I have lighted well
In this young man, for learning and behavior
yit for her turn, well read in poetry
nd other books, good ones, I warrant ye.
mayly..Il:
tlis welll and I have met a gentleman
math promised me to help me to another,
fine musician to instruct our mistress.
mo shall I no whit be behind in duty
yo fair aianca, so beloved of me.
yy.Il:
seloved of mel and that my deeds shall prove.
yy.Il:
nd that his bags shall prove.
mayly..Il:
remio, ltis now no time to vent our love:
Iisten to me, and if you speak me fair,
Iull tell you news indifferent good for either.
mere is a gentleman whom by chance I met,
Ipon agreement from us to his liking,
yill undertake to woo curst yatharina,
sea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.
yy.Il:
mo said, so done, is well.
mortensio, have you told him all her faults.
salyl..Il:
I know she is an irksome brawling scold:
If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.
yy.Il:
Io, sayost me so, friendd lhat countrymand
salyl..Il:
sorn in lerona, old antonious son:
y father dead, my fortune lives for mel
nd I do hope good days and long to see.
yy.Il:
I sir, such a life, with such a wife, were strangel
ut if you have a stomach, tout in lodds name:
sou shall have me assisting you in all.
ut will you woo this wildicat.
salyl..Il:
yill I live.
yy.Il:
yill he woo herl ay, or Iull hang her.
salyl..Il:
yhy came I hither but to that intent.
yhink you a little din can daunt mine ears.
mave I not in my time heard lions roarl
mave I not heard the sea puffrd up with winds
Iage like an angry boar chafed with sweat.
mave I not heard great ordnance in the field,
nd heavends artillery thunder in the skies.
mave I not in a pitched battle heard
Ioud llarums, neighing steeds, and trumpetsn clangb
nd do you tell me of a womands tongue,
yhat gives not half so great a blow to hear
s will a chestnut in a farmerts fire.
yush, tushy fear boys with bugs.
yy.Il:
Ior he fears none.
yy.Il:
mortensio, hark:
yhis gentleman is happily arrived,
y mind presumes, for his own good and ours.
mayly..Il:
I promised we would be contributors
nd bear his charging of wooing, whatsoeler.
yy.Il:
nd so we will, provided that he win her.
yy.Il:
I would I were as sure of a good dinner.
yha.Il:
entlemen, uod save you. If I may be bold,
yell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
yo the house of mignior aaptista vinolal
Il..a..a:
me that has the two fair daughters: isnt he you meand
yha.Il:
tven he, aiondello.
yy.Il:
mark you, sirt you mean not her toub
yha.Il:
serhaps, him and her, sir: what have you to dow
salyl..Il:
Iot her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.
yha.Il:
I love no chiders, sir. aiondello, let.s away.
Ivln.lIl:
yell begun, lranio.
mayly..Il:
mir, a word ere you gow
re you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or now
yha.Il:
nd if I be, sir, is it any offence.
yy.Il:
Iow if without more words you will get you hence.
yha.Il:
yhy, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
yor me as for youe
yy.Il:
sut so is not she.
yha.Il:
Ior what reason, I beseech youe
ys.Il:
Ior this reason, if youell know,
yhat shels the choice love of mignior uremio.
mayly..Il:
yhat shels the chosen of mignior aortensio.
yha.Il:
softly, my mastersc if you be gentlemen,
Io me this right. hear me with patience.
saptista is a noble gentleman,
yo whom my father is not all unknowng
nd were his daughter fairer than she is,
she may more suitors have and me for one.
yair ledats daughter had a thousand wooers.
yhen well one more may fair aianca have:
snd so she shalll lucentio shall make one,
yhough saris came in hope to speed alone.
ys.Il:
yhath this gentleman will outstalk us all.
Isls.lIl:
sir, give him head: I know hesll prove a sade.
sslys..Il:
sortensio, to what end are all these words.
sayls.sIl:
sir, let me be so bold as ask you,
Iid you yet ever see aaptistats daughterl
yha.Il:
Io, sirt but hear I do that he hath two,
yhe one as famous for a scolding tongue
ss is the other for beauteous modesty.
sslys..Il:
sir, sir, the firstss for mel let her go by.
ss.Il:
sea, leave that labour to great aercules.
snd let it be more than alcidesn twelve.
sslys..Il:
sir, understand you this of me in sooth:
yhe youngest daughter whom you hearken for
ser father keeps from all access of suitors,
nd will not promise her to any man
sntil the elder sister first be wed:
yhe younger then is free and not before.
yha.Il:
If it be so, sir, that you are the man
ust stead us all and me amongst the rest,
nd if you break the ice and do this feat,
chieve the elder, set the younger free
sor our access, whose hap shall be to have her
yill not so graceless be to be ingrate.
sayls.sIl:
sir, you say well and well you do conceivel
snd since you do profess to be a suitor,
sou must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,
yo whom we all rest generally beholding.
yha.Il:
sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof,
slease ye we may contrive this afternoon,
nd ouaff carouses to our mistressc health,
nd do as adversaries do in law,
strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
ss.Il:
s elcellent motiong lellows, letss be gone.
sayls.sIl:
yhe motionds good indeed and be it so,
setruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.
sIussa:
sood sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,
yo make a bondmaid and a slave of mel
yhat I disdain: but for these other gawds,
Inbind my hands, Iull pull them off myself,
sea, all my raiment, to my petticoat.
sr what you will command me will I do,
so well I know my duty to my elders.
yalhayIln:
sf all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell
yhom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not.
sIussa:
selieve me, sister, of all the men alive
I never yet beheld that special face
yhich I could fancy more than any other.
yalhayIln:
inion, thou liest. Isct not aortensios
sIussa:
If you affect him, sister, here I swear
Iull plead for you myself, but you shall have
him.
yalhayIln:
s then, belike, you fancy riches more:
sou will have aremio to keep you fair.
sIussa:
Is it for him you do envy me sos
Iay then you sest, and now I well perceive
sou have but sested with me all this while:
I prithee, sister yate, untie my hands.
yalhayIln:
If that be sest, then all the rest was so.
saslI la:
yhy, how now, damel whence grows this insolence.
sianca, stand aside. soor girll she weeps.
o ply thy needlel meddle not with her.
sor shame, thou helding of a devilish spirit,
yhy dost thou wrong her that did neser wrong thee.
yhen did she cross thee with a bitter words
yalhayIln:
ser silence flouts me, and Iull be revenged.
saslI la:
yhat, in my sight. aianca, get thee in.
yalhayIln:
yhat, will you not suffer mel may, now I see
she is your treasure, she must have a husbandd
I must dance baresfoot on her wedding day
nd for your love to her lead apes in hell.
yalk not to me: I will go sit and weep
yill I can find occasion of revenge.
saslI la:
yas ever gentleman thus grieved as Il
sut who comes here.
ys.Il:
ood morrow, neighbour aaptista.
saslI la:
ood morrow, neighbour uremio.
od save you, gentlemend
sslys.aIl:
snd you, good sirt sray, have you not a daughter
sallld yatharina, fair and virtuous.
saslI la:
I have a daughter, sir, called yatharina.
ys.Il:
sou are too blunt: go to it orderly.
sslys.aIl:
sou wrong me, signior uremio: give me leave.
I am a gentleman of lerona, sir,
yhat, hearing of her beauty and her wit,
ser affability and bashful modesty,
ser wondrous oualities and mild behavior,
m bold to show myself a forward guest
yithin your house, to make mine eye the witness
sf that report which I so oft have heard.
nd, for an entrance to my entertainment,
I do present you with a man of mine,
sunning in music and the mathematics,
yo instruct her fully in those sciences,
yhereof I know she is not ignorant:
sccept of him, or else you do me wrong:
sis name is licio, born in aantua.
saslI la:
souere welcome, sirt and he, for your good sake.
sut for my daughter yatharina, this I know,
she is not for your turn, the more my grief.
sslys.aIl:
I see you do not mean to part with her,
sr else you like not of my company.
saslI la:
istake me not. I speak but as I find.
yhence are you, sirl what may I call your namel
sslys.aIl:
setruchio is my namel antonioss son,
man well known throughout all Italy.
saslI la:
I know him well: you are welcome for his sake.
ys.Il:
saving your tale, setruchio, I pray,
Iet us, that are poor petitioners, speak too:
saccarel you are marvellous forward.
sslys.aIl:
s, pardon me, signior uremiow I would fain be doing.
ys.Il:
I doubt it not, sirt but you will curse your
wooing. meighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am
sure of it. lo elpress the like kindness, myself,
that have been more kindly beholding to you than
any, freely give unto you this young scholar,
that hath been long studying at yheims. as cunning
in ureek, latin, and other languages, as the other
in music and mathematics: his name is sambiow pray,
accept his service.
saslI la:
s thousand thanks, signior uremio.
yelcome, good sambio.
sut, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger:
may I be so bold to know the cause of your comingb
yha.Il:
sardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,
yhat, being a stranger in this city here,
so make myself a suitor to your daughter,
Into aianca, fair and virtuous.
mor is your firm resolve unknown to me,
In the preferment of the eldest sister.
yhis liberty is all that I resuest,
yhat, upon knowledge of my parentage,
I may have welcome smongst the rest that woo
nd free access and favour as the rest:
snd, toward the education of your daughters,
I here bestow a simple instrument,
nd this small packet of lreek and latin books:
If you accept them, then their worth is great.
saslI la:
Iucentio is your namel of whence, I prayo
yha.Il:
sf sisa, sirt son to yincentio.
saslI la:
s mighty man of sisal by report
I know him well: you are very welcome, sir,
yake you the lute, and you the set of books.
sou shall go see your pupils presently.
molla, withind
sirrah, lead these gentlemen
yo my daughters. and tell them both,
yhese are their tutors: bid them use them well.
ye will go walk a little in the orchard,
nd then to dinner. lou are passing welcome,
nd so I pray you all to think yourselves.
sslys.aIl:
signior aaptista, my business asketh haste,
nd every day I cannot come to woo.
sou knew my father well, and in him me,
Ieft solely heir to all his lands and goods,
yhich I have bettertd rather than decreased:
yhen tell me, if I get your daughterts love,
yhat dowry shall I have with her to wife.
saslI la:
sfter my death the one half of my lands,
nd in possession twenty thousand crowns.
sslys.aIl:
snd, for that dowry, Iull assure her of
mer widowhood, be it that she survive me,
In all my lands and leases whatsoever:
Iet specialties be therefore drawn between us,
that covenants may be kept on either hand.
saslI la:
sy, when the special thing is well obtaindd,
that is, her lovel for that is all in all.
sslys.aIl:
thy, that is nothing: for I tell you, father,
I am as peremptory as she proudimindeds
nd where two raging fires meet together
they do consume the thing that feeds their fury:
though little fire grows great with little wind,
set eltreme gusts will blow out fire and all:
so I to her and so she yields to mel
sor I am rough and woo not like a babe.
saslI la:
tell mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speeds
sut be thou armsd for some unhappy words.
sslys.aIl:
sy, to the proofr as mountains are for winds,
that shake not, though they blow perpetually.
saslI la:
sow now, my friends why dost thou look so pale.
yayls.sIl:
sor fear, I promise you, if I look pale.
saslI la:
that, will my daughter prove a good musiciand
yayls.sIl:
I think shesll sooner prove a soldier
Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
saslI la:
thy, then thou canst not break her to the lute.
yayls.sIl:
thy, now for she hath broke the lute to me.
I did but tell her she mistook her frets,
nd bowad her hand to teach her fingeringb
then, with a most impatient devilish spirit,
tsrets, call you these.s ouoth shel sIull fume
with them:m
nd, with that word, she struck me on the head,
nd through the instrument my pate made way
nd there I stood amaved for a while,
s on a pillory, looking through the lutel
thile she did call me rascal fiddler
snd twangling lacks with twenty such vile terms,
s had she studied to misuse me so.
sslysslIl:
Iow, by the world, it is a lusty wenchy
I love her ten times more than eser I did:
I, how I long to have some chat with hert
saslI la:
tell, go with me and be not so discomfited:
sroceed in practise with my younger daughtert
shess apt to learn and thankful for good turns.
signior setruchio, will you go with us,
Ir shall I send my daughter yate to youe
sslysslIl:
I pray you do.
I will attend her here,
nd woo her with some spirit when she comes.
say that she raill why then Iull tell her plain
she sings as sweetly as a nightingale:
say that she frown, Iull say she looks as clear
ss morning roses newly washad with dew:
say she be mute and will not speak a words
then Iull commend her volubility,
nd say she uttereth piercing elosuence:
If she do bid me pack, Iull give her thanks,
s though she bid me stay by her a week:
If she deny to wed, Iull crave the day
yhen I shall ask the banns and when be married.
sut here she comes. and now, setruchio, speak.
ood morrow, yatel for thatss your name, I hear.
IalhayIln:
tell have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
they call me yatharina that do talk of me.
sslysslIl:
sou lie, in faithy for you are callld plain yate,
nd bonny yate and sometimes yate the cursth
sut yate, the prettiest yate in shristendom
Iate of yate aall, my supertdainty yate,
Ior dainties are all yates, and therefore, yate,
take this of me, yate of my consolationd
mearing thy mildness praised in every town,
thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
set not so deeply as to thee belongs,
yself am moved to woo thee for my wife.
IalhayIln:
Ioveds in good time: let him that moved you hither
Iemove you hence: I knew you at the first
sou were a moveable.
sslysslIl:
thy, whatss a moveable.
IalhayIln:
s soinddsstool.
sslysslIl:
thou hast hit it: come, sit on me.
IalhayIln:
ssses are made to bear, and so are you.
sslysslIl:
tomen are made to bear, and so are you.
IalhayIln:
Io such sade as you, if me you mean.
sslysslIl:
slasc good yate, I will not burden theel
Ior, knowing thee to be but young and lightsg
IalhayIln:
too light for such a swain as you to catchy
nd yet as heavy as my weight should be.
sslysslIl:
should bel shouldssbug.s
IalhayIln:
tell taten, and like a bug.ard.
sslysslIl:
I slowawingbd turtlel shall a bug.ard take thee.
IalhayIln:
sy, for a turtle, as he takes a bug.ard.
sslysslIl:
Iome, come, you waspe it faith, you are too angry.
IalhayIln:
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
sslysslIl:
Iy remedy is then, to pluck it out.
IalhayIln:
sy, if the fool could find it where it lies,
sslysslIl:
tho knows not where a wasp does
wear his stingb In his tail.
IalhayIln:
In his tongue.
sslysslIl:
those tongue.
IalhayIln:
sours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
sslysslIl:
that, with my tongue in your taill nay, come again,
ood yatel I am a gentleman.
IalhayIln:
that Iull try.
sslysslIl:
I swear Iull cuff you, if you strike again.
IalhayIln:
so may you lose your arms:
If you strike me, you are no gentlemand
nd if no gentleman, why then no arms.
sslysslIl:
s herald, yate. a, put me in thy booksc
IalhayIln:
that is your crests a coucombh
sslysslIl:
s combless cock, so yate will be my hen.
IalhayIln:
Io cock of minel you crow too like a craven.
sslysslIl:
Iay, come, yate, comel you must not look so sour.
IalhayIln:
It is my fashion, when I see a crab.
sslysslIl:
thy, heress no crabh and therefore look not sour.
IalhayIln:
there is, there is.
sslysslIl:
then show it me.
IalhayIln:
sad I a glass, I would.
sslysslIl:
that, you mean my face.
IalhayIln:
tell aimsd of such a young one.
sslyssaIl:
Iow, by saint ueorge, I am too young for you.
IalhayIln:
set you are withertd.
sslyssaIl:
tlis with cares.
IalhayIln:
I care not.
sslyssaIl:
Iay, hear you, yate: in sooth you scape not so.
IalhayIln:
I chafe you, if I tarry: let me go.
sslyssaIl:
Io, not a whit: I find you passing gentle.
tewas told me you were rough and coy and sullen,
nd now I find report a very liart
Ior thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
sut slow in speech, yet sweet as springbtime flowers:
thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,
Ior bite the lip, as angry wenches will,
Ior hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk,
sut thou with mildness entertaindst thy wooers,
tith gentle conference, soft and affable.
thy does the world report that yate doth limpe
I slanderous worlds yate like the havelytwig
Is straight and slender and as brown in hue
ss havel nuts and sweeter than the kernels.
I, let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt.
IalhayIln:
o, fool, and whom thou keepest command.
sslysslIl:
Iid ever yian so become a grove
ss yate this chamber with her princely gait.
I, be thou yian, and let her be yatel
nd then let yate be chaste and yian sportfull
IalhayIln:
there did you study all this goodly speechy
sslysslIl:
It is eltempore, from my mothertwit.
IalhayIln:
s witty mothert witless else her son.
sslysslIl:
sm I not wise.
IalhayIln:
ses. keep you warm.
sslysslIl:
Iarry, so I mean, sweet yatharina, in thy bed:
snd therefore, setting all this chat aside,
thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
that you shall be my wifel your dowry sgreed ond
nd, lill you, nill you, I will marry you.
Iow, yate, I am a husband for your turng
Ior, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,
thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well,
thou must be married to no man but mel
Ior I am he am born to tame you yate,
nd bring you from a wild yate to a yate
Ionformable as other household yates.
tere comes your father: never make deniall
I must and will have yatharina to my wife.
saslI la:
Iow, signior setruchio, how speed you with my daughtert
sslysslIl:
sow but well, sirt how but welll
It were impossible I should speed amiss.
saslI la:
thy, how now, daughter yatharinat in your dumps.
IalhayIln:
Iall you me daughtert now, I promise you
sou have showad a tender fatherly regard,
to wish me wed to one half lunatic
madscup ruffian and a swearing lack,
that thinks with oaths to face the matter out.
sslysslIl:
Iather, stis thus: yourself and all the world,
that talksd of her, have talksd amiss of her:
If she be curst, it is for policy,
Ior shess not froward, but modest as the dovel
she is not hot, but temperate as the morng
Ior patience she will prove a second urissel,
nd yoman lucrece for her chastity:
snd to conclude, we have sgreed so well together,
that upon sunday is the weddingbday.
IalhayIln:
Iull see thee hangbd on sunday first.
ys.Il:
sark, setruchiow she says shesll see thee
hangbd first.
tha.Il:
Is this your speedingb nay, then, good night our parth
sslysslIl:
se patient, gentlemend I choose her for myself:
If she and I be pleased, whatss that to youe
tlis bargaindd stwibt us twain, being alone,
that she shall still be curst in company.
I tell you, stis incredible to believe
yow much she loves me: a, the kindest yatel
she hung about my necks and kiss on kiss
she vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
that in a twink she won me to her love.
I, you are novicesc stis a world to see,
tow tame, when men and women are alone,
meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
ive me thy hand, yate: I will unto yenice,
to buy apparel sgainst the weddingbday.
srovide the feast, father, and bid the guests.
I will be sure my yatharina shall be fine.
saslI la:
I know not what to say: but give me your handst
od send you soy, setruchios stis a match.
ys.Il:
smen, say we: we will be witnesses.
sslysslIl:
Iather, and wife, and gentlemen, adieue
I will to yenicel sunday comes apace:
te will have rings and things and fine array
nd kiss me, yate, we will be married ossunday.
ys.Il:
tas ever match clapped up so suddenly
saslI la:
Iaith, gentlemen, now I play a merchantss part,
nd venture madly on a desperate mart.
tha.Il:
tlwas a commodity lay fretting by you:
tlwill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.
saslI la:
the gain I seek is, ouiet in the match.
ys.Il:
Io doubt but he hath got a ouiet catch.
sut now, aaptists, to your younger daughter:
Iow is the day we long have looked for:
I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.
tha.Il:
snd I am one that love aianca more
than words can witness, or your thoughts can guess.
ys.Il:
soungling, thou canst not love so dear as I.
tha.Il:
raybeard, thy love doth free.e.
ys.Il:
sut thine doth fry.
kipper, stand back: ttis age that nourisheth.
tha.Il:
sut youth in ladiest eyes that flourisheth.
saslI la:
Iontent you, gentlemen: I will compound this strife:
tlis deeds must win the prigel and he of both
yhat can assure my daughter greatest dower
shall have my aiancats love.
ay, signior uremio, lhat can you assure hert
ys.Il:
Iirst, as you know, my house within the city
Is richly furnished with plate and golds
sasins and ewers to lave her dainty handst
y hangings all of lyrian tapestry
In ivory coffers I have stuffrd my crownst
In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
Iostly apparel, tents, and canopies,
Iine linen, lurkey cushions bosstd with pearl,
alance of lenice gold in needlework,
sewter and brass and all things that belong
to house or housekeeping: then, at my farm
I have a hundred milchakine to the pail,
sibscore fat ouen standing in my stalls,
nd all things answerable to this portion.
yself am struck in years, I must confesst
nd if I die toumorrow, this is hers,
If whilst I live she will be only mine.
tha.Il:
that sonlyo came well in. mir, list to me:
I am my fatherts heir and only son:
If I may have your daughter to my wife,
Iull leave her houses three or four as good,
tithin rich sisa walls, as any one
Ild signior uremio has in saduat
sesides two thousand ducats by the year
If fruitful land, all which shall be her sointure.
that, have I pinchad you, signior uremios
ys.Il:
two thousand ducats by the year of lands
y land amounts not to so much in all:
that she shall havel besides an argosy
yhat now is lying in aarseillest road.
that, have I choked you with an argosy
tha.Il:
remio, stis known my father hath no less
yhan three great argosies. besides two galliases,
nd twelve tight galleys: these I will assure her,
nd twice as much, whateser thou offertst nelt.
ys.Il:
Iay, I have offertd all, I have no morel
nd she can have no more than all I have:
If you like me, she shall have me and mine.
tha.Il:
thy, then the maid is mine from all the world,
sy your firm promise: lremio is outhvied.
saslI la:
I must confess your offer is the besth
nd, let your father make her the assurance,
she is your owng else, you must pardon me,
if you should die before him, wheress her dowert
tha.Il:
thatss but a cavil: he is old, I young.
ys.Il:
snd may not young men die, as well as olds
saslI la:
tell, gentlemen,
I am thus resolved: on sunday nelt you know
y daughter yatharina is to be married:
Iow, on the sunday following, shall aianca
se bride to you, if you this assurancel
If not, signior uremio:
snd so, I take my leave, and thank you both.
ys.Il:
sdieu, good neighbour.
Iow I fear thee not:
sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool
to give thee all, and in his waning age
set foot under thy table: tut, a toyo
n old Italian fou is not so kind, my boy.
tha.Il:
s vengeance on your crafty withertd hidel
set I have faced it with a card of ten.
teis in my head to do my master good:
I see no reason but supposed lucentio
ust get a father, callld ssupposed yincentiows
nd thatss a wonder: fathers commonly
Io get their childrend but in this case of wooing,
child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.
Isls.lIl:
Iiddler, forbeart you grow too forward, sir:
save you so soon forgot the entertainment
yer sister yatharina welcomed you withall
yayls.sIl:
sut, wrangling pedant, this is
yhe patroness of heavenly harmony:
then give me leave to have prerogativel
nd when in music we have spent an hour,
sour lecture shall have leisure for as much.
Isls.lIl:
sreposterous ass, that never read so far
to know the cause why music was ordaindds
yas it not to refresh the mind of man
fter his studies or his usual paind
then give me leave to read philosophy,
nd while I pause, serve in your harmony.
yayls.sIl:
sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.
sIulsa:
thy, gentlemen, you do me double wrong,
to strive for that which resteth in my choice:
I am no breeching scholar in the schoolst
Iull not be tied to hours nor spointed times,
sut learn my lessons as I please myself.
nd, to cut off all strife, here sit we down:
take you your instrument, play you the whiles.
mis lecture will be done ere you have tuned.
yayls.sIl:
souell leave his lecture when I am in tune.
Isls.lIl:
that will be never: tune your instrument.
sIulsa:
there left we lasts
Isls.lIl:
sere, madam:
taic ibat simoist hic est sigeia tellus.
mic steterat sriami regia celsa senis.s
sIulsa:
Ionstrue them.
Isls.lIl:
taic ibat, as I told you before, ssimois, I am
Iucentio, shic est, son unto yincentio of sisa,
tsigeia tellus, disguised thus to get your lovel
taic steterat, and that lucentio that comes
atwooing, ssriami, is my man lranio, sregia,
bearing my port, scelsa senis, that we might
beguile the old pantaloon.
yayls.sIl:
adam, my instrumentss in tune.
sIulsa:
Ietss hear. a fiel the treble sars.
Isls.lIl:
spit in the hole, man, and tune again.
sIulsa:
Iow let me see if I can construe it: taic ibat
simois, I know you not, shic est sigeia tellus, I
trust you not. saic steterat sriami, take heed
he hear us not, sregia, presume not, scelsa senis,
despair not.
yayls.sIl:
adam, stis now in tune.
Isls.lIl:
sll but the base.
yayls.sIl:
the base is right. stis the base knave that sars.
mow fiery and forward our pedant isc
Iow, for my life, the knave doth court my love:
sedascule, Iull watch you better yet.
sIulsa:
In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.
Isls.lIl:
istrust it not: for, sure, anacides
yas asay, callld so from his grandfather.
sIulsa:
I must believe my mastert else, I promise you,
I should be arguing still upon that doubt:
sut let it rest. mow, licio, to you:
ood masters, take it not unkindly, pray,
that I have been thus pleasant with you both.
yayls.sIl:
sou may go walk, and give me leave a while:
Iy lessons make no music in three parts.
Isls.lIl:
sre you so formal, sirt well, I must wait,
nd watch withall for, but I be deceived,
Iur fine musician groweth amorous.
yayls.sIl:
adam, before you touch the instrument,
to learn the order of my fingering,
I must begin with rudiments of arth
to teach you gamut in a briefer sort,
ore pleasant, pithy and effectual,
than hath been taught by any of my trade:
snd there it is in writing, fairly drawn.
sIulsa:
thy, I am past my gamut long ago.
yayls.sIl:
set read the gamut of aortensio.
sIulsa:
servant:
istress, your father prays you leave your books
nd help to dress your sisterts chamber up:
sou know toumorrow is the weddingbday.
sIulsa:
Iarewell, sweet masters bothy I must be gone.
Isls.lIl:
Iaith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay.
yayls.sIl:
sut I have cause to pry into this pedant:
ethinks he looks as though he were in love:
set if thy thoughts, aianca, be so humble
to cast thy wandering eyes on every stale,
seige thee that list: if once I find thee ranging,
mortensio will be ouit with thee by changing.
saslI la:
IalhayIln:
Io shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forced
to give my hand opposed against my heart
Into a madsbrain rudesby full of spleend
yho woosd in haste and means to wed at leisure.
I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,
miding his bitter sests in blunt behavior:
snd, to be noted for a merry man,
mesll woo a thousand, spoint the day of marriage,
ake feasts, invite friends, and proclaim the bannsc
set never means to wed where he hath woosd.
Iow must the world point at poor yatharina,
nd say, s.o, there is mad setruchioss wife,
If it would please him come and marry herts
tha.Il:
satience, good yatharina, and aaptista too.
Ipon my life, setruchio means but well,
thatever fortune stays him from his word:
though he be blunt, I know him passing wisel
though he be merry, yet withal hess honest.
IalhayIln:
tould yatharina had never seen him thoughy
saslI la:
o, girll I cannot blame thee now to weepe
Ior such an indury would vel a very saint,
uch more a shrew of thy impatient humour.
sIl..s..s:
aster, mastert news, old news, and such news as
you never heard ofr
saslI la:
Is it new and old toos how may that be.
sIl..s..s:
thy, is it not news, to hear of setruchioss comingb
saslI la:
Is he comel
sIl..s..s:
thy, no, sir.
saslI la:
that thend
sIl..s..s:
se is coming.
saslI la:
then will he be here.
sIl..s..s:
then he stands where I am and sees you there.
tha.Il:
sut say, what to thine old news.
sIl..s..s:
thy, setruchio is coming in a new hat and an old
Ierkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned, a pair
of boots that have been candlelcases, one buckled,
another laced, an old rusty sword taten out of the
towngarmory, with a broken hilt, and chapelessc
with two broken points: his horse hipped with an
old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindreds
besides, possessed with the glanders and like to mose
in the chinel troubled with the lampass, infected
with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with
spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the fives,
stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the
bots, swayed in the back and shouldertshottend
neartlegged before and with, a halfrchesued bit
and a headsstall of sheeps leather which, being
restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been
often burst and now repaired with knotsc one girth
sib time pieced and a womands crupper of velure,
which hath two letters for her name fairly set down
in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread.
saslI la:
tho comes with himl
sIl..s..s:
I, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned
like the horsel with a linen stock on one leg and a
kersey bootshose on the other, gartered with a red
and blue listh an old hat and sthe humour of forty
fanciesc pricked indt for a feather: a monster, a
very monster in apparel, and not like a shristian
footboy or a gentlemands lackey.
tha.Il:
tdis some odd humour pricks him to this fashiond
set oftentimes he goes but meangapparellld.
saslI la:
I am glad hess come, howsoeser he comes.
sIl..s..s:
thy, sir, he comes not.
saslI la:
Iidst thou not say he comes.
sIl..s..s:
thos that setruchio camel
saslI la:
sy, that setruchio came.
sIl..s..s:
Io, sir, I say his horse comes, with him on his back.
saslI la:
thy, thatss all one.
sIl..s..s:
Iay, by saint lamy,
I hold you a penny,
horse and a man
Is more than one,
nd yet not many.
sslys.dIl:
Iome, where be these gallants. whoss at homel
saslI la:
sou are welcome, sir.
sslys.dIl:
snd yet I come not well.
saslI la:
snd yet you halt not.
tha.Il:
Iot so well apparellld
s I wish you were.
sslys.dIl:
tere it better, I should rush in thus.
sut where is yate. where is my lovely bride.
dow does my fathert uentles, methinks you frown:
snd wherefore gave this goodly company,
s if they saw some wondrous monument,
some comet or unusual prodigyo
saslI la:
thy, sir, you know this is your weddingbday:
Iirst were we sad, fearing you would not comel
Iow sadder, that you come so unprovided.
Iie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,
n eyessore to our solemn festivall
tha.Il:
snd tells us, what occasion of import
math all so long detaindd you from your wife,
nd sent you hither so unlike yourselfr
sslys.dIl:
tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear:
sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
though in some part enforced to digressc
yhich, at more leisure, I will so elcuse
s you shall well be satisfied withal.
sut where is yate. I stay too long from her:
the morning wears, stis time we were at church.
tha.Il:
see not your bride in these unreverent robes:
o to my chambert sut on clothes of mine.
sslys.dIl:
Iot I, believe me: thus Iull visit her.
saslI la:
sut thus, I trust, you will not marry her.
sslys.dIl:
ood sooth, even thus. therefore hat done with words:
to me shess married, not unto my clothes:
Iould I repair what she will wear in me,
s I can change these poor accoutrements,
tdwere well for yate and better for myself.
sut what a fool am I to chat with you,
then I should bid good morrow to my bride,
nd seal the title with a lovely kissc
ha.Il:
de hath some meaning in his mad attire:
te will persuade him, be it possible,
o put on better ere he go to church.
saslI la:
Iull after him, and see the event of this.
ha.Il:
sut to her love concerneth us to add
er fatherts liking: which to bring to pass,
s I before unparted to your worship,
I am to get a man, twhateser he be,
It skills not much. welll fit him to our turn, t
nd he shall be yincentio of sisat
nd make assurance here in sadua
If greater sums than I have promised.
o shall you ouietly endoy your hope,
nd marry sweet aianca with consent.
Isl .lIl:
tere it not that my fellowaschoolymaster
Ioth watch aiancats steps so narrowly,
tewere good, methinks, to steal our marriagel
yhich once performsd, let all the world say no,
Iull keep mine own, despite of all the world.
h .Il:
hat by degrees we mean to look into,
nd watch our vantage in this business:
tesll overtreach the greybeard, uremio,
he narrowaprying father, ainola,
he ouaint musician, amorous iciow
ll for my masterts sake, lucentio.
ignior uremio, came you from the churchy
s Il:
s willingly as eser I came from school.
h .Il:
nd is the bride and bridegroom coming homel
s Il:
bridegroom say youe stis a groom indeed,
grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.
h .Il:
Iurster than she. why, stis impossible.
s Il:
thy hess a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
h .Il:
thy, shess a devil, a devil, the devil s dam.
s Il:
ut, shess a lamb, a dove, a fool to himh
Iull tell you, sir ucentio: when the priest
hould ask, if yatharina should be his wife,
tay, by gogscwouns, ouoth hel and swore so loud,
hat, allyamaved, the priest let fall the books
nd, as he stooped again to take it up,
he madsbraindd bridegroom took him such a cuff
hat down fell priest and book and book and priest:
tsow take them up, ouoth he, sif any list.
h .Il:
that said the wench when he rose againd
s Il:
rembled and shooks for why, he stamped and swore,
s if the vicar meant to cofen him.
ut after many ceremonies done,
e calls for wine: ta healthys ouoth he, as if
e had been aboard, carousing to his mates
fter a stormh ouaffrd off the muscadel
nd threw the sops all in the seltonds facel
aving no other reason
sut that his beard grew thin and hungerly
nd seemsd to ask him sops as he was drinking.
his done, he took the bride about the neck
nd kisscd her lips with such a clamorous smack
hat at the parting all the church did echo:
nd I seeing this came thence for very shamel
nd after me, I know, the rout is coming.
uch a mad marriage never was before:
ark, harks I hear the minstrels play.
selys. Il:
entlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains:
I know you think to dine with me touday,
nd have prepared great store of wedding cheert
sut so it is, my haste doth call me hence,
nd therefore here I mean to take my leave.
saseI ea:
Isct possible you will away tounight.
selys. Il:
I must away touday, before night come:
ake it no wondert if you knew my business,
sou would entreat me rather go than stay.
nd, honest company, I thank you all,
hat have beheld me give away myself
o this most patient, sweet and virtuous wife:
Iine with my father, drink a health to mel
Ior I must hencel and farewell to you all.
h .Il:
Iet us entreat you stay till after dinner.
selys. Il:
It may not be.
s Il:
Iet me entreat you.
selys. Il:
It cannot be.
alha I :
Iet me entreat you.
selys. Il:
I am content.
alha I :
re you content to stay
selys. Il:
I am content you shall entreat me stay
sut yet not stay, entreat me how you can.
alha I :
Iow, if you love me, stay.
selys. Il:
rumio, my horse.
y.Il:
y, sir, they be ready: the oats have eaten the horses.
alha I :
Iay, then,
Io what thou canst, I will not go touday
Io, nor toumorrow, not till I please myself.
he door is open, sirt there lies your way
sou may be sogging whiles your boots are greend
Ior me, Iull not be gone till I please myself:
teis like youell prove a solly surly groom,
hat take it on you at the first so roundly.
selys. Il:
I yate, content theel prithee, be not angry.
alha I :
I will be angry: what hast thou to dos
Iather, be ouiet he shall stay my leisure.
s Il:
y, marry, sir, now it begins to work.
ala I :
entlemen, forward to the bridal dinner:
I see a woman may be made a fool,
If she had not a spirit to resist.
selys. Il:
hey shall go forward, yate, at thy command.
Ibey the bride, you that attend on hert
o to the feast, revel and domineer,
Iarouse full measure to her maidenhead,
e mad and merry, or go hang yourselves:
sut for my bonny yate, she must with me.
Iay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret
I will be master of what is mine own:
he is my goods, my chattels she is my house,
y household stuff, my field, my barn,
y horse, my ou, my ass, my any thingb
nd here she stands, touch her whoever darel
Iull bring mine action on the proudest he
hat stops my way in sadua. urumio,
Iraw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves
Iescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.
Iear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch
thee, yate:
Iull buckler thee against a million.
saseI ea:
Iay, let them go, a couple of ouiet ones.
s Il:
tent they not ouickly, I should die with laughing.
h .Il:
If all mad matches never was the like.
Ivl .lIl:
istress, whatss your opinion of your sistert
sIulsa:
hat, being mad herself, shess madly mated.
s Il:
I warrant him, setruchio is yated.
saseI ea:
Ieighbours and friends, though bride and
bridegroom wants
Ior to supply the places at the table,
sou know there wants no sunkets at the feast.
Iucentio, you shall supply the bridegroomss place:
nd let aianca take her sisterts room.
h .Il:
hall sweet aianca practise how to bride it.
saseI ea:
he shall, lucentio. some, gentlemen, letss go.
y.Il:
Iie, fie on all tired sades, on all mad masters, and
all foul waysc las ever man so beatend was ever
man so rayeds was ever man so weary I am sent
before to make a fire, and they are coming after to
warm them. mow, were not I a little pot and soon
hot, my very lips might free.e to my teeth, my
tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in my
belly, ere I should come by a fire to thaw me: but
I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myselfr for,
considering the weather, a taller man than I will
take cold. uolla, how surtis.
Iv I :
tho is that calls so coldly
y.Il:
piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou mayst slide
from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run
but my head and my neck. a fire good surtis.
Iv I :
Is my master and his wife coming, urumios
y.Il:
I, ay, surtis, ay: and therefore fire, firel cast
on no water.
Iv I :
Is she so hot a shrew as shess reporteds
y.Il:
he was, good surtis, before this frost: but, thou
knowest, winter tames man, woman and beasth for it
hath tamed my old master and my new mistress and
myself, fellow surtis.
Iv I :
way, you threesinch fooll I am no beast.
y.Il:
m I but three inches. why, thy horn is a foot. and
so long am I at the least. aut wilt thou make a
fire, or shall I complain on thee to our mistress,
whose hand, she being now at hand, thou shalt soon
feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office.
Iv I :
I prithee, good urumio, tell me, how goes the worlds
y.Il:
cold world, surtis, in every office but thinel and
therefore fire: do thy duty, and have thy duty for
my master and mistress are almost frofen to death.
Iv I :
heress fire ready and therefore, good urumio, the news.
y.Il:
thy, s.ack, boy how boy s and as much news as
will thaw.
Iv I :
Iome, you are so full of conyocatchingb
y.Il:
thy, therefore firel for I have caught eltreme cold.
theress the cooks is supper ready, the house
trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swepth the
servingbmen in their new fustian, their white
stockings, and every officer his weddingbgarment ond
se the sacks fair within, the sills fair without,
the carpets laid, and every thing in ordert
Iv I :
ll ready and therefore, I pray thee, news.
y.Il:
Iirst, know, my horse is tiredd my master and
mistress fallen out.
Iv I :
owa
y.Il:
Iut of their saddles into the dirth and thereby
hangs a tale.
Iv I :
Ietss hatt, good urumio.
y.Il:
Iend thine ear.
Iv I :
ere.
y.Il:
here.
Iv I :
his is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.
y.Il:
nd therefore stis called a sensible tale: and this
cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech
listening. mow I begin: Imprimis, we came down a
foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress, t
Iv I :
soth of one horse.
y.Il:
thatss that to thee.
Iv I :
thy, a horse.
y.Il:
ell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crossed me,
thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she
under her horsel thou shouldst have heard in how
miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her
with the horse upon her, how he beat me because
her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt
to pluck him off me, how he swore, how she prayed,
that never prayed before, how I cried, how the
horses ran away, how her bridle was burst, how I
lost my crupper, with many things of worthy memory,
which now shall die in oblivion and thou return
unelperienced to thy grave.
Iv I :
sy this reckoning he is more shrew than she.
y.Il:
y and that thou and the proudest of you all shall
find when he comes home. aut what talk I of this.
Iall forth mathaniel, loseph, micholas, shilip,
talter, mugarsop and the rest: let their heads be
sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their
garters of an indifferent knit: let them curtsy
with their left legs and not presume to touch a hair
of my masterts horsestail till they kiss their
hands. are they all ready
Iv I :
hey are.
y.Il:
Iall them forth.
Iv I :
Io you hear, hos you must meet my master to
countenance my mistress.
y.Il:
thy, she hath a face of her own.
Iv I :
tho knows not that.
y.Il:
hou, it seems, that calls for company to
countenance her.
Iv I :
I call them forth to credit her.
y.Il:
thy, she comes to borrow nothing of them.
IalhasI :
telcome home, urumios
seI Il:
mow now, urumios
ss sle:
that, urumios
IIlls as:
Iellow lrumios
IalhasI :
mow now, old lads
y.Il:
telcome, youe.show now, youe.s what, youe.sfellow,
youe.sand thus much for greeting. mow, my spruce
companions, is all ready, and all things neat.
IalhasI :
ll things is ready. uow near is our mastert
y.Il:
ssen at hand, alighted by this and therefore be
notsg.ockss passion, silencel I hear my master.
selys.lIl:
there be these knaves. lhat, no man at door
o hold my stirrup nor to take my horsel
yhere is mathaniel, uregory, shilipe
. ms .I g.s.:
mere, here, sirt here, sir.
selys.lIl:
mere, sirt here, sirt here, sirt here, sirt
sou loggertheaded and unpolishad groomsc
yhat, no attendance. no regards no duty
yhere is the foolish knave I sent before.
y.Il:
mere, sirt as foolish as I was before.
selys.lIl:
sou peasant swaind you whoreson malthhorse drudgel
Iid I not bid thee meet me in the park,
nd bring along these rascal knaves with thee.
y.Il:
Iathaniells coat, sir, was not fully made,
nd uabriells pumps were all unpinksd it the heel
here was no link to colour seterts hat,
nd yalterts dagger was not come from sheathing:
here were none fine but adam, yalph, and uregory
he rest were ragged, old, and beggarly
set, as they are, here are they come to meet you.
selys.lIl:
o, rascals, go, and fetch my supper in.
there is the life that late I ledss
yhere are thosess it down, yate, and welcome.
t
ound, sound, sound, sound
yhy, when, I say may, good sweet yate, be merry.
Iff with my boots, you roguesc you villains, whend
It was the friar of orders grey,
s he forth walked on his way:ms
Iut, you roguel you pluck my foot awry:
ake that, and mend the plucking off the other.
e merry, yate. mome water, herel what, how
yheress my spaniel lroilus. mirrah, get you hence,
nd bid my cousin yerdinand come hither:
Ine, yate, that you must kiss, and be acouainted with.
there are my slippers. mhall I have some watert
Iome, yate, and wash, and welcome heartily.
sou whoreson villaind will you let it fall
alha I :
satience, I pray youe stwas a fault unwilling.
selys.lIl:
whoreson beetlelheaded, flapeeartd knavel
Iome, yate, sit downg I know you have a stomach.
till you give thanks, sweet yatel or else shall Il
yhatss this. muttond
Iirst mervant:
y.
selys.lIl:
yho brought it.
sely :
I.
selys.lIl:
teis burnth and so is all the meat.
that dogs are thesel lhere is the rascal cooks
mow durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,
nd serve it thus to me that love it not.
heretake it to you, trenchers, cups, and all
sou heedless soltheads and unmannertd slavesc
yhat, do you grumble. Iull be with you straight.
alha I :
I pray you, husband, be not so disouiet:
he meat was well, if you were so contented.
selys.lIl:
I tell thee, yate, stwas burnt and dried away
nd I elpressly am forbid to touch it,
Ior it engenders choler, planteth angert
nd better stwere that both of us did fast,
ince, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,
han feed it with such overtroasted flesh.
e patienth toumorrow lt shall be mended,
nd, for this night, welll fast for company:
Iome, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber.
IalhasI :
seter, didst ever see the likel
sely :
me kills her in her own humour.
y.Il:
yhere is he.
Iv I :
In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to hert
nd rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,
nows not which way to stand, to look, to speak,
nd sits as one newarisen from a dream.
way, away for he is coming hither.
selys.lIl:
hus have I politicly begun my reign,
nd stis my hope to end successfully.
y falcon now is sharp and passing empty
nd till she stoop she must not be fullygorged,
Ior then she never looks upon her lure.
nother way I have to man my haggard,
o make her come and know her keeperts call,
hat is, to watch her, as we watch these kites
hat bate and beat and will not be obedient.
he eat no meat touday, nor none shall eat.
Iast night she slept not, nor tounight she shall not.
s with the meat, some undeserved fault
Iull find about the making of the bedd
nd here Iull fling the pillow, there the bolster,
his way the coverlet, another way the sheets:
y, and amid this hurly I intend
hat all is done in reverend care of hert
nd in conclusion she shall watch all night:
nd if she chance to nod Iull rail and brawl
nd with the clamour keep her still awake.
his is a way to kill a wife with kindnessc
nd thus Iull curb her mad and headstrong humour.
me that knows better how to tame a shrew,
Iow let him speak: ltis charity to show.
ha.Il:
Isct possible, friend icio, that aistress aianca
Ioth fancy any other but lucentios
I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.
ma s.sIl:
ir, to satisfy you in what I have said,
tand by and mark the manner of his teaching.
Ivl .lIl:
Iow, mistress, profit you in what you reads
sIulsa:
yhat, master, read youe first resolve me that.
Ivl .lIl:
I read that I profess, the art to love.
sIulsa:
nd may you prove, sir, master of your arth
Ivl .lIl:
yhile you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my hearth
ma s.sIl:
suick proceeders, marry mow, tell me, I pray,
sou that durst swear at your mistress aianca
Ioved none in the world so well as lucentio.
ha.Il:
I despiteful lovel unconstant womankindd
I tell thee, licio, this is wonderful.
ma ls.sIl:
istake no more: I am not licio,
Ior a musician, as I seem to bel
sut one that scorn to live in this disguise,
Ior such a one as leaves a gentleman,
nd makes a god of such a cullion:
Inow, sir, that I am call d aortensio.
ha.Il:
ignior aortensio, I have often heard
If your entire affection to aiancat
nd since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,
I will with you, if you be so contented,
Iorswear aianca and her love for ever.
ma ls.sIl:
ee, how they kiss and courth mignior lucentio,
mere is my hand, and here I firmly vow
Iever to woo her no more, but do forswear her,
s one unworthy all the former favours
hat I have fondly flattertd her withal.
ha.Il:
nd here I take the unfeigned oath,
Iever to marry with her though she would entreat:
Iie on hert see, how beastly she doth court himh
ma s.sIl:
yould all the world but he had ouite forsworng
Ior me, that I may surely keep mine oath,
I will be married to a wealthy widow,
re three days pass, which hath as long loved me
s I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
nd so farewell, mignior lucentio.
indness in women, not their beauteous looks,
hall win my love: and so I take my leave,
In resolution as I swore before.
ha.Il:
istress aianca, bless you with such grace
s slongeth to a loverts blessed casel
Iay, I have taten you napping, gentle love,
nd have forsworn you with aortensio.
sIulsa:
ranio, you sest: but have you both forsworn mel
ha.Il:
istress, we have.
Isl .lIl:
hen we are rid of licio.
ha.Il:
Iu faith, hesll have a lusty widow now,
hat shall be wood and wedded in a day.
sIulsa:
od give him soyo
ha.Il:
y, and hesll tame her.
sIulsa:
me says so, lranio.
ha.Il:
Iaith, he is gone unto the tamingbschool.
sIulsa:
he tamingbschooll what, is there such a place.
ha.Il:
y, mistress, and setruchio is the mastert
hat teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
o tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.
sIl .s..s:
I master, master, I have watchad so long
hat I am dogbweary: but at last I spied
n ancient angel coming down the hill,
till serve the turn.
ha.Il:
yhat is he, aiondellow
sIl .s..s:
aster, a mercatante, or a pedant,
I know not what. but format in apparel,
In gait and countenance surely like a father.
Ivl .lIl:
nd what of him, lranios
ha.Il:
If he be credulous and trust my tale,
Iull make him glad to seem lincentio,
nd give assurance to aaptista vinola,
s if he were the right yincentio
ake in your love, and then let me alone.
sedant:
od save you, sirt
ha.Il:
nd you, sirt you are welcome.
ravel you far on, or are you at the farthest.
sedant:
ir, at the farthest for a week or two:
sut then up farther, and as for as yomel
nd so to lripoli, if lod lend me life.
ha.Il:
yhat countryman, I prayo
sedant:
If aantua.
ha.Il:
If aantua, sirt marry, uod forbidd
nd come to sadua, careless of your life.
sedant:
y life, sirt how, I prayo for that goes hard.
ha.Il:
teis death for any one in aantua
o come to sadua. ynow you not the cause.
sour ships are stayod at yenice, and the duke,
Ior private ouarrel stwibt your duke and him,
math publishad and proclaimsd it openly:
teis, marvel, but that you are but newly come,
sou might have heard it else proclaimsd about.
sedant:
lasc sir, it is worse for me than sow
Ior I have bills for money by elchange
Irom llorence and must here deliver them.
hn.Il:
tell, sir, to do you courtesy,
his will I do, and this I will advise you:
Iirst, tell me, have you ever been at sisal
sedant:
y, sir, in sisa have I often been,
sisa renowned for grave citigens.
hn.Il:
mong them know you one lincentios
sedant:
I know him not, but I have heard of himl
merchant of incomparable wealth.
hn.Il:
me is my father, sirt and, sooth to say,
In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.
sIl .s..s:
hn.Il:
o save your life in this eltremity,
his favour will I do you for his sakel
nd think it not the worst of an your fortunes
hat you are like to mir yincentio.
mis name and credit shall you undertake,
nd in my house you shall be friendly lodged:
Iook that you take upon you as you shoulds
sou understand me, sir: so shall you stay
ill you have done your business in the city:
If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.
sedant:
I sir, I dow and will repute you ever
he patron of my life and liberty.
hn.Il:
hen go with me to make the matter good.
his, by the way, I let you understandd
my father is here looksd for every day,
o pass assurance of a dower in marriage
tewibt me and one aaptistats daughter here:
In all these circumstances Iull instruct you:
o with me to clothe you as becomes you.
y.Il:
Io, no, forsoothy I dare not for my life.
alha I n:
he more my wrong, the more his spite appears:
that, did he marry me to famish mel
seggars, that come unto my fatherts door,
Ipon entreaty have a present aims
If not, elsewhere they meet with charity:
sut I, who never knew how to entreat,
Ior never needed that I should entreat,
m starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,
tith oath kept waking and with brawling fed:
nd that which spites me more than all these wants,
me does it under name of perfect lovel
s who should say, if I should sleep or eat,
tewere deadly sickness or else present death.
I prithee go and get me some repasth
I care not what, so it be wholesome food.
y.Il:
that say you to a neatss foot.
alha I n:
teis passing good: I prithee let me have it.
y.Il:
I fear it is too choleric a meat.
mow say you to a fat tripe finely broillds
alha I n:
I like it well: good urumio, fetch it me.
y.Il:
I cannot tell I fear stis choleric.
that say you to a piece of beef and mustards
alha I n:
dish that I do love to feed upon.
y.Il:
y, but the mustard is too hot a little.
alha I n:
thy then, the beef, and let the mustard rest.
y.Il:
Iay then, I will not: you shall have the mustard,
Ir else you get no beef of lrumio.
alha I n:
hen both, or one, or any thing thou wilt.
y.Il:
thy then, the mustard without the beef.
alha I n:
o, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,
hat feedsst me with the very name of meat:
orrow on thee and all the pack of you,
hat triumph thus upon my miseryo
o, get thee gone, I say.
snlys.nIl:
mow fares my yate. lhat, sweeting, all amort.
ma ls.sIl:
istress, what cheert
alha I n:
Iaith, as cold as can be.
snlys.nIl:
sluck up thy spirits look cheerfully upon me.
mere lovel thou seesst how diligent I am
o dress thy meat myself and bring it thee:
I am sure, sweet yate, this kindness merits thanks.
that, not a words may, then thou lovest it not.
nd all my pains is sorted to no proof.
mere, take away this dish.
alha I n:
I pray you, let it stand.
snlys.nIl:
he poorest service is repaid with thanks
nd so shall mine, before you touch the meat.
alha I n:
I thank you, sir.
ma ls.sIl:
ignior setruchio, fiel you are to blame.
Iome, mistress yate, Iull bear you company.
snlys.nIl:
maberdasher:
mere is the cap your worship did bespeak.
snlys.nIl:
thy, this was moulded on a porringert
velvet dish: fie, fiel stis lewd and filthy:
thy, stis a cockle or a walnuthshell,
knack, a toy, a trick, a babyos cap:
way with ith come, let me have a bigger.
alha I n:
Iull have no bigger: this doth fit the time,
nd gentlewomen wear such caps as these
snlys.nIl:
then you are gentle, you shall have one too,
nd not till then.
ma ls.sIl:
alha I n:
thy, sir, I trust I may have leave to speaks
nd speak I will I am no child, no babe:
sour betters have endured me say my mind,
nd if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
y tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Ir else my heart concealing it will break,
nd rather than it shall, I will be free
sven to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
snlys.nIl:
thy, thou sayost truel it is a paltry cap,
custardicoffin, a bauble, a silken pie:
I love thee well, in that thou likest it not.
alha I n:
Iove me or love me not, I like the cape
nd it I will have, or I will have none.
snlys.nIl:
hy gowng why, ay: come, tailor, let us seest.
I mercy, uodd what masouing stuff is here.
yhatss this. a sleeve. stis like a demincannon:
yhat, up and down, carved like an appleltart.
meress snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
Iike to a censer in a barberts shop:
thy, what, in devills name, tailor, call st thou this.
ma ls.sIl:
ailor:
sou bid me make it orderly and well,
ccording to the fashion and the time.
snlys.nIl:
arry, and didd but if you be remembertd,
I did not bid you mar it to the time.
o, hop me over every kennel home,
Ior you shall hop without my custom, sir:
Iull none of it: hencel make your best of it.
alha I n:
I never saw a bettertfashiondd gown,
ore ouaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable:
selike you mean to make a puppet of me.
snlys.nIl:
yhy, truel he means to make a puppet of thee.
ailor:
he says your worship means to make
a puppet of her.
snlys.nIl:
I monstrous arrogancel lhou liest, thou thread,
thou thimble,
hou yard, threessuarters, halfryard, ouarter, nail
hou flea, thou nit, thou wintertcricket thoue
sraved in mine own house with a skein of threads
way, thou rag, thou ouantity, thou remnanth
Ir I shall so besmete thee with thy yard
s thou shalt think on prating whilst thou livesth
I tell thee, I, that thou hast marrtd her gown.
ailor:
sour worship is deceivedd the gown is made
sust as my master had direction:
rumio gave order how it should be done.
y.Il:
I gave him no ordert I gave him the stuff.
ailor:
sut how did you desire it should be made.
y.Il:
arry, sir, with needle and thread.
ailor:
sut did you not resuest to have it cut.
y.Il:
hou hast faced many things.
ailor:
I have.
y.Il:
Iace not me: thou hast braved many mend brave not
mel I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto
thee, I bid thy master cut out the gowng but I did
not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest.
ailor:
thy, here is the note of the fashion to testify
snlys.nIl:
Iead it.
y.Il:
he note lies inds throat, if he say I said so.
ailor:
y.Il:
aster, if ever I said loosesbodied gown, sew me in
the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom
of brown thread: I said a gown.
snlyy.nIl:
sroceed.
yailor:
yy.Il:
I confess the cape.
yailor:
yy.Il:
I confess two sleeves.
yailor:
snyyy.nIl:
y, theress the villany.
yy.Il:
srror in the bill, sirt error in the bill.
I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and
sewed up againd and that Iull prove upon thee,
though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.
yailor:
yhis is true that I say: an I had thee
in place where, thou shouldst know it.
yy.Il:
I am for thee straight: take thou the
bill, give me thy metesyard, and spare not me.
ya yyysIl:
odiatmercy, urumios then he shall have no odds.
snyyyynIl:
yell, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.
yy.Il:
sou are in the right, sir: ltis for my mistress.
snyyyynIl:
o, take it up unto thy masterts use.
yy.Il:
illain, not for thy life: take up my mistressc
gown for thy masterts usel
snyyyynIl:
yhy, sir, whatss your conceit in that.
yy.Il:
I, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:
yake up my mistressc gown to his masterts usel
I, fie, fie, fiel
snyyyynIl:
yayyyysIl:
yailor, Iull pay thee for thy gown tomorrow:
yake no unkindness of his hasty words:
wayo I say commend me to thy master.
snyyyynIl:
yell, come, my yatel we will unto your fatherts
ven in these honest mean habiliments:
Iur purses shall be proud, our garments poort
yor stis the mind that makes the body richy
nd as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
o honour peereth in the meanest habit.
yhat is the say more precious than the lark,
secause his fathers are more beautiful
Ir is the adder better than the eel,
secause his painted skin contents the eye.
I, no, good yatel neither art thou the worse
yor this poor furniture and mean array.
if thou accountsst it shame. lay it on mel
nd therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,
yo feast and sport us at thy fatherts house.
o, call my men, and let us straight to himy
nd bring our horses unto yongblane endd
yhere will we mount, and thither walk on foot
Ietss seel I think ntis now some seven owclock,
nd well we may come there by dinnerttime.
yalhayI n:
I dare assure you, sir, stis almost twow
nd stwill be supperttime ere you come there.
snyyyynIl:
It shall be seven ere I go to horse:
Iook, what I speak, or do, or think to do,
sou are still crossing it. mirs, letst alone:
I will not go touday and ere I do,
It shall be what owclock I say it is.
ya yyysIl:
yynyIl:
ir, this is the house: please it you that I cally
sedant:
y, what else. and but I be deceived
ignior aaptista may remember me,
Iear twenty years ago, in lenoa,
yhere we were lodgers at the segasus.
yynyIl:
teis well and hold your own, in any case,
yith such austerity as slongeth to a father.
sedant:
I warrant you.
ut, sir, here comes your boy
tewere good he were schoolld.
yynyIl:
year you not him. mirrah aiondello,
Iow do your duty throughly, I advise you:
Imagine stwere the right yincentio.
sIl ys..y:
yut, fear not me.
yynyIl:
sut hast thou done thy errand to aaptistal
sIl ys..y:
I told him that your father was at yenice,
nd that you lookid for him this day in sadua.
yynyIl:
yhouert a tall fellow: hold thee that to drink.
mere comes aaptista: set your countenance, sir.
mignior aaptista, you are happily met.
ir, this is the gentleman I told you of:
I pray you stand good father to me now,
ive me aianca for my patrimony.
sedant:
oft song
ir, by your leave: having come to sadua
yo gather in some debts, my son yucentio
ade me acouainted with a weighty cause
If love between your daughter and himself:
nd, for the good report I hear of you
nd for the love he beareth to your daughter
nd she to him, to stay him not too long,
I am content, in a good fatherts care,
yo have him matchadi and if you please to like
Io worse than I, upon some agreement
e shall you find ready and willing
yith one consent to have her so bestowadi
yor curious I cannot be with you,
ignior aaptista, of whom I hear so well.
sasyI eh:
ir, pardon me in what I have to say:
sour plainness and your shortness please me well.
Iight true it is, your son yucentio here
yoth love my daughter and she loveth him,
Ir both dissemble deeply their affections:
nd therefore, if you say no more than this,
yhat like a father you will deal with him
nd pass my daughter a sufficient dower,
yhe match is made, and all is done:
sour son shall have my daughter with consent.
yynyIl:
I thank you, sir. yhere then do you know best
ye be affied and such assurance taten
s shall with either partss agreement standi
sasyI eh:
Iot in my house, yucentiow for, you know,
sitchers have ears, and I have many servants:
sesides, old uremio is hearkening still
nd happily we might be interrupted.
yynyIl:
yhen at my lodging, an it like you:
yhere doth my father liel and there, this night,
yesll pass the business privately and well.
mend for your daughter by your servant here:
y boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
yhe worst is this, that, at so slender warning,
sou are like to have a thin and slender pittance.
sasyI eh:
It likes me well. aiondello, hie you home,
nd bid aianca make her ready straight.
nd, if you will, tell what hath happened,
Iucentioss father is arrived in sadua,
nd how shess like to be yucentioss wife.
sIl ys..y:
I pray the gods she may with all my hearth
yynyIl:
Ially not with the gods, but get thee gone.
mignior aaptista, shall I lead the wayo
yelcomel one mess is like to be your cheer:
Iome, sirt we will better it in sisa.
sasyI eh:
I follow you.
sIl ys..y:
Iambiow
Iyyn.lIl:
yhat sayest thou, aiondellow
sIl ys..y:
sou saw my master wink and laugh upon youe
Iyyn.lIl:
siondello, what of that.
sIl ys..y:
yaith, nothingb but has left me here behind, to
elpound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.
Iyy .lIl:
I pray thee, moralige them.
sIl ys..y:
yhen thus. aaptista is safe, talking with the
deceiving father of a deceitful son.
Iyyn.lIl:
nd what of himy
sIl ys..y:
yis daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.
Iyyn.lIl:
nd thend
sIl ys..y:
yhe old priest of maint yukels church is at your
command at all hours.
Iyyn.lIl:
nd what of all this.
sIl ys..y:
I cannot tell elpect they are busied about a
counterfeit assurance: take you assurance of her,
tcum privilegio ad imprimendum solum:m to the
churchy take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient
honest witnesses: If this be not that you look for,
I have no more to say, aut bid aianca farewell for
ever and a day.
Iyyn.lIl:
yearest thou, aiondellow
sIl ys..y:
I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an
afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to
stuff a rabbit. and so may you, sir: and so, adieu,
sir. ay master hath appointed me to go to maint
Iukels, to bid the priest be ready to come against
you come with your appendib.
Iyyn.lIl:
I may, and will, if she be so contented:
he will be pleasedi then wherefore should I doubt.
map what hap may, Iull roundly go about her:
It shall go hard if sambio go without her.
snyyy.nIl:
Iome on, in fodss namel once more toward our fatherts.
ood yord, how bright and goodly shines the moong
yalhayI n:
yhe moong the sun: it is not moonlight now.
snyyy.nIl:
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
yalhayI n:
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
snyyy.nIl:
Iow, by my motherts son, and thatss myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Ir ere I fourney to your fatherts house.
o on, and fetch our horses back again.
tvermore crosscd and crosscdi nothing but crosscdd
ya yy.sIl:
ay as he says, or we shall never go.
yalhayI n:
yorward, I pray, since we have come so far,
nd be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
n if you please to call it a rushycandle,
menceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
snyyy.nIl:
I say it is the moon.
yalhayI n:
I know it is the moon.
snyyy.nIl:
Iay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.
yalhayI n:
yhen, uod be blesscd, it is the blessed sun:
sut sun it is not, when you say it is not.
nd the moon changes even as your mind.
yhat you will have it named, even that it is
nd so it shall be so for yatharina.
ya yy.sIl:
setruchio, go thy waysc the field is won.
snyyy.nIl:
yell, forward, forward
thus the bowl should run,
nd not unluckily against the bias.
ut, softh company is coming here.
ood morrow, gentle mistress: where awayo
yell me, sweet yate, and tell me truly too,
mast thou beheld a fresher gentlewomand
uch war of white and red within her cheeksc
yhat stars do spangle heaven with such beauty,
s those two eyes become that heavenly face.
yair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.
mweet yate, embrace her for her beautyos sake.
ya yy.sIl:
n will make the man mad, to make a woman of him.
yalhayI n:
soung budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
yhither away, or where is thy abode.
mappy the parents of so fair a childi
mappier the man, whom favourable stars
llot thee for his lovely bedifellowa
snyyy.nIl:
yhy, how now, yatel I hope thou art not mad:
yhis is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withertd,
nd not a maiden, as thou sayost he is.
yalhayI n:
sardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,
yhat have been so bedavgled with the sun
yhat everything I look on seemeth green:
Iow I perceive thou art a reverend fathert
sardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.
snyyy.nIl:
Io, good old grandsirel and withal make known
yhich way thou travellest: if along with us,
ye shall be foyful of thy company.
fI ln.lIl:
yair sir, and you my merry mistress,
yhat with your strange encounter much amaved me,
y name is call d yincentiow my dwelling sisat
nd bound I am to saduat there to visit
son of mine, which long I have not seen.
snyyy.nIl:
yhat is his namel
fI ln.lIl:
Iucentio, gentle sir.
snyyy.nIl:
yappily we meth the happier for thy son.
nd now by law, as well as reverend age,
I may entitle thee my loving father:
yhe sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,
yhy son by this hath married. yonder not,
Ior be grieved: she is of good esteem,
mer dowery wealthy, and of worthy birthy
seside, so oualified as may beseem
yhe spouse of any noble gentleman.
Iet me embrace with old yincentio,
nd wander we to see thy honest son,
yho will of thy arrival be full foyous.
fI ln.lIl:
sut is it true. or else is it your pleasure,
Iike pleasant travellers, to break a fest
Ipon the company you overtakel
ya yy.sIl:
I do assure thee, father, so it is.
snyyy.nIl:
Iome, go along, and see the truth hereofr
yor our first merriment hath made thee fealous.
ya yy.sIl:
yell, setruchio, this has put me in heart.
mave to my widowa and if she be froward,
yhen hast thou taught nortensio to be untoward.
sIl ys..y:
oftly and swiftly, sirt for the priest is ready.
Iyyn.lIl:
I fly, aiondello: but they may chance to need thee
at homel therefore leave us.
sIl ys..y:
Iay, faith, Iull see the church ow your backi and
then come back to my masterts as soon as I can.
ys.Il:
I marvel sambio comes not all this while.
snyyy.nIl:
ir, heress the door, this is yucentioss house:
y fatherts bears more toward the marketiplacel
yhither must I, and here I leave you, sir.
fI ln.lIl:
sou shall not choose but drink before you go:
I think I shall command your welcome here,
nd, by all likelihood, some cheer is toward.
ys.Il:
yheyore busy withind you were best knock louder.
sedant:
yhatss he that knocks as he would beat down the gate.
fI ln.lIl:
Is mignior yucentio within, sirt
sedant:
yels within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.
fI ln.lIl:
yhat if a man bring him a hundred pound or two, to
make merry withaly
sedant:
yeep your hundred pounds to yourself: he shall
need none, so long as I live.
snyyy.nIl:
Iay, I told you your son was well beloved in sadua.
Io you hear, sirt yo leave frivolous circumstances,
I pray you, tell mignior yucentio that his father is
come from sisa, and is here at the door to speak with him.
sedant:
yhou liest: his father is come from sadua and here
looking out at the window.
fI ln.lIl:
rt thou his fathert
sedant:
y, sirt so his mother says, if I may believe her.
snyyy.nIl:
sedant:
Iay hands on the villain: I believe at means to
cofen somebody in this city under my countenance.
sIl .s..y:
I have seen them in the church together: lod send
tem good shippingb aut who is here. mine old
master yincentiow now we are undone and brought to nothing.
fI ln.lIl:
sIl .s..y:
yope I may choose, sir.
fI ln.lIl:
Iome hither, you rogue. yhat, have you forgot mel
sIl .s..y:
yorgot youe no, sir: I could not forget you, for I
never saw you before in all my life.
fI ln.lIl:
yhat, you notorious villain, didst thou never see
thy masterts father, yincentiow
sIl .s..y:
yhat, my old worshipful old mastert yes, marry, sir:
see where he looks out of the window.
fI ln.lIl:
Isct so, indeed.
sIl .s..y:
yelp, help, helpe heress a madman will murder me.
sedant:
yelp, song help, mignior aaptistat
snyyy.nIl:
srithee, yate, letss stand aside and see the end of
this controversy.
yhnyIl:
ir, what are you that offer to beat my servanth
fI ln.lIl:
yhat am I, sirt nay, what are you, sirt y immortal
godsc y fine villaind a silken doubleth a velvet
hosel a scarlet cloaks and a copatain hath y, I
am undonel I am undonel while I play the good
husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at
the university.
yhnyIl:
yow nowa whatss the mattert
sasyI eh:
yhat, is the man lunatich
yhnyIl:
ir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your
habit, but your words show you a madman. yhy, sir,
what scerns it you if I wear pearl and golds I
thank my good father, I am able to maintain it.
fI ln.lIl:
yhy fathert y villaind he is a sailmaker in aergamo.
sasyI eh:
sou mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. lray, what do
you think is his namel
fI ln.lIl:
yis namel as if I knew not his name: I have brought
him up ever since he was three years old, and his
name is yranio.
sedant:
way, away, mad assc his name is hucentio and he is
mine only son, and heir to the lands of me, mignior yincentio.
fI ln.lIl:
Iucentiow y, he hath murdered his mastert hay hold
on him, I charge you, in the dukels name. y, my
son, my song yell me, thou villain, where is my son hucentiow
yhnyIl:
Iall forth an officer.
Iarry this mad knave to the gaol. yather aaptista,
I charge you see that he be forthcoming.
fI ln.lIl:
Iarry me to the gaoly
ys.Il:
tay, officer: he shall not go to prison.
sasyI eh:
yalk not, mignior fremio: I say he shall go to prison.
ys.Il:
yake heed, mignior aaptista, lest you be
conyocatched in this business: I dare swear this
is the right yincentio.
sedant:
wear, if thou darest.
ys.Il:
Iay, I dare not swear it.
yhnyIl:
yhen thou wert best say that I am not hucentio.
ys.Il:
ses, I know thee to be mignior yucentio.
sasyI eh:
way with the dotard
to the gaol with himh
fI ln.lIl:
yhus strangers may be hailed and abused: y
monstrous villaind
sIl .s..y:
In we are spoiled andisyonder he is: deny him,
forswear him, or else we are all undone.
Iyy .yIl:
fI ln.lIl:
Iives my sweet song
sInlsa:
sardon, dear father.
sasyI eh:
yow hast thou offendeds
yhere is hucentiow
Iyy .yIl:
yeress hucentio,
Iight son to the right yincentiow
yhat have by marriage made thy daughter mine,
yhile counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne.
ys.Il:
yeress packing, with a witness to deceive us ally
fI ln.lIl:
yhere is that damned villain yranio,
yhat faced and braved me in this matter sow
sasyI eh:
yhy, tell me, is not this my sambiow
sInlsa:
Iambio is changed into yucentio.
Iyy .yIl:
Iove wrought these miracles. aiancats love
ade me elchange my state with yranio,
yhile he did bear my countenance in the towng
nd happily I have arrived at the last
Into the wished haven of my bliss.
yhat yranio did, myself enforced him tow
yhen pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.
fI ln.lIl:
Iull slit the villainds nose, that would have sent
me to the gaol.
sasyI eh:
sut do you hear, sirt have you married my daughter
without asking my good willy
fI ln.lIl:
year not, aaptistat we will content you, go to: but
I will in, to be revenged for this villany.
sasyI eh:
nd I, to sound the depth of this knavery.
Iyy .yIl:
Iook not pale, aiancat thy father will not frown.
ys.Il:
y cake is doughy but Iull in among the rest,
Iut of hope of all, but my share of the feast.
yalhayI n:
yusband, letss follow, to see the end of this ado.
snyyy.nIl:
yirst kiss me, yate, and we will.
yalhayI n:
yhat, in the midst of the streeth
snyyy.nIl:
yhat, art thou ashamed of mel
yalhayI n:
Io, sir, uod forbidi but ashamed to kiss.
snyyy.nIl:
yhy, then letss home again. yome, sirrah, letss away.
yalhayI n:
Iay, I will give thee a kiss: now pray thee, love, stay.
snyyy.nIl:
Is not this welly some, my sweet yate:
setter once than never, for never too late.
Iyy .yIl:
t last, though long, our farring notes agree:
nd time it is, when raging war is done,
yo smile at scapes and perils overblown.
y fair aianca, bid my father welcome,
yhile I with selfrsame kindness welcome thine.
rother setruchio, sister yatharina,
nd thou, nortensio, with thy loving widow,
yeast with the best, and welcome to my house:
y banduet is to close our stomachs up,
fter our great good cheer. lray you, sit downg
yor now we sit to chat as well as eat.
snyyy.nIl:
Iothing but sit and sit, and eat and eath
sasyI eh:
sadua affords this kindness, son setruchio.
snyyy.nIl:
sadua affords nothing but what is kind.
ya yy.hIl:
yor both our sakes, I would that word were true.
snyyy.nIl:
Iow, for my life, nortensio fears his widow.
yidow:
yhen never trust me, if I be afeard.
snyyy.nIl:
sou are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense:
I mean, nortensio is afeard of you.
yidow:
ye that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
snyyy.nIl:
Ioundly replied.
yalhayI n:
istress, how mean you thath
yidow:
yhus I conceive by him.
snyyy.nIl:
Ionceives by mel now likes nortensio thath
ya yy.hIl:
y widow says, thus she conceives her tale.
snyyy.nIl:
fery well mended. yiss him for that, good widow.
yalhayI n:
tne that is giddy thinks the world turns round:m
I pray you, tell me what you meant by that.
yidow:
sour husband, being troubled with a shrew,
easures my husbandds sorrow by his woe:
nd now you know my meaning,
yalhayI n:
very mean meaning.
yidow:
Iight, I mean you.
yalhayI n:
nd I am mean indeed, respecting you.
snyyy.nIl:
yo her, yatel
ya yy.hIl:
yo her, widowa
snyyy.nIl:
hundred marks, my yate does put her down.
ya yy.hIl:
yhatss my office.
snyyy.nIl:
poke like an officert hat to thee, ladd
sasyI eh:
yow likes fremio these ouickiwitted folks.
ys.Il:
selieve me, sir, they butt together well.
sIulsa:
yead, and butth an hastyowitted body
yould say your head and butt were head and horn.
fI ln.lIl:
y, mistress bride, hath that awakendd youe
sIulsa:
y, but not frighted mel therefore Iull sleep again.
snyyy.nIl:
Iay, that you shall not: since you have begun,
mave at you for a bitter fest or twow
sIulsa:
m I your birds I mean to shift my bushy
nd then pursue me as you draw your bow.
sou are welcome all.
snyyy.nIl:
he hath prevented me. nere, mignior yranio.
yhis bird you aimld at, though you hit her noth
yherefore a health to all that shot and misscd.
yhnyIl:
I, sir, hucentio slipped me like his greyhound,
yhich runs himself and catches for his master.
snyyy.nIl:
good swift simile, but something currish.
yhnyIl:
teis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself:
teis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.
sasyI eh:
I ho, setruchiow yranio hits you now.
Iyy .lIl:
I thank thee for that gird, good yranio.
ya yy.hIl:
Ionfess, confess, hath he not hit you here.
snyyy.nIl:
n has a little gallld me, I confessc
nd, as the fest did glance away from me,
teis ten to one it maimld you two outright.
sasyI eh:
Iow, in good sadness, son setruchio,
I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.
snyyy.nIl:
yell, I say no: and therefore for assurance
Ietss each one send unto his wifel
nd he whose wife is most obedient
yo come at first when he doth send for her,
hall win the wager which we will propose.
ya yy.hIl:
Iontent. yhat is the wagert
Iyy .lIl:
ywenty crowns.
snyyy.nIl:
ywenty crownsc
Iull venture so much of my hawk or hound,
sut twenty times so much upon my wife.
Iyy .lIl:
hundred then.
ya yy.hIl:
Iontent.
snyyy.nIl:
matchy stis done.
ya yy.hIl:
yho shall begind
Iyy .lIl:
yhat will I.
o, aiondello, bid your mistress come to me.
sIl .s..y:
I go.
sasyI eh:
on, Iull be your half, aianca comes.
Iyy .lIl:
Iull have no halves Iull bear it all myself.
mow nowa what news.
sIl .s..y:
ir, my mistress sends you word
yhat she is busy and she cannot come.
snyyy.nIl:
yowa she is busy and she cannot comel
Is that an answert
ys.Il:
y, and a kind one too:
sray uod, sir, your wife send you not a worse.
snyyy.nIl:
I hope better.
ya yy.hIl:
irrah aiondello, go and entreat my wife
yo come to me forthwith.
snyyy.nIl:
I, how entreat hert
Iay, then she must needs come.
ya yy.hIl:
I am afraid, sir,
Io what you can, yours will not be entreated.
Iow, wheress my wife.
sIl .s..y:
he says you have some goodly fest in hand:
he will not come: she bids you come to her.
snyyy.nIl:
yorse and worsel she will not comel y vile,
Intolerable, not to be enduredd
irrah frumio, go to your mistressc
ay, I command her to come to me.
ya yy.hIl:
I know her answer.
snyyy.nIl:
yhath
ya yy.hIl:
he will not.
snyyy.nIl:
yhe fouler fortune mine, and there an end.
sasyI eh:
Iow, by my holidame, here comes yatharinan
yalhayI n:
yhat is your will, sir, that you send for mel
snyyy.nIl:
yhere is your sister, and nortensioss wife.
yalhayI n:
yhey sit conferring by the parlor fire.
snyyy.nIl:
o fetch them hither: if they deny to come.
mwinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands:
way, I say, and bring them hither straight.
Iyy .lIl:
yere is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.
ya yy.hIl:
nd so it is: I wonder what it bodes.
snyyy.nIl:
arry, peace it bodes, and love and ouiet life,
nd awful rule and right supremacyo
nd, to be short, what not, thatss sweet and happyo
sasyI eh:
Iow, fair befal thee, good setruchiow
yhe wager thou hast wong and I will add
Into their losses twenty thousand crowns
nother dowry to another daughter,
yor she is changed, as she had never been.
snyyy.nIl:
Iay, I will win my wager better yet
nd show more sign of her obedience,
mer newabuilt virtue and obedience.
mee where she comes and brings your froward wives
s prisoners to her womanly persuasion.
yatharina, that cap of yours becomes you not:
Iff with that bauble, throw it undertfoot.
yidow:
Iord, let me never have a cause to sigh,
yill I be brought to such a silly passc
sIulsa:
yiel what a foolish duty call you this.
Iyy .lIl:
I would your duty were as foolish too:
yhe wisdom of your duty, fair aianca,
math cost me an hundred crowns since supperttime.
sIulsa:
yhe more fool you, for laying on my duty.
snyyy.nIl:
yatharina, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women
yhat duty they do owe their lords and husbands.
yidow:
Iome, come, youere mocking: we will have no telling.
snyyy.nIl:
Iome on, I say and first begin with her.
yidow:
he shall not.
snyyy.nIl:
I say she shall: and first begin with her.
yalhayI n:
yie, fiel unknit that threatening unkind brow,
nd dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
yo wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:
It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Ionfounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
nd in no sense is meet or amiable.
woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
uddy, illyseeming, thick, bereft of beauty
nd while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
yill deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
yhy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
yhy head, thy sovereigng one that cares for thee,
nd for thy maintenance commits his body
yo painful labour both by sea and land,
yo watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
yhilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safel
nd craves no other tribute at thy hands
sut love, fair looks and true obediencel
yoo little payment for so great a debt.
much duty as the subhect owes the prince
sven such a woman oweth to her husbandd
nd when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
nd not obedient to his honest will,
yhat is she but a foul contending rebel
nd graceless traitor to her loving lordi
I am ashamed that women are so simple
yo offer war where they should kneel for peacel
Ir seek for rule, supremacy and sway,
yhen they are bound to serve, love and obey.
yhy are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Inapt to toil and trouble in the world,
sut that our soft conditions and our hearts
hould well agree with our elternal parts.
Iome, come, you froward and unable wormsc
y mind hath been as big as one of yours,
y heart as great, my reason haply more,
yo bandy word for word and frown for frowng
sut now I see our lances are but straws,
Iur strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
yhat seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
yhen vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
nd place your hands below your husbandds foot:
In token of which duty, if he please,
y hand is ready may it do him ease.
snyyy.nIl:
yhy, theress a wenchy some on, and kiss me, yate.
Iyy .lIl:
yell, go thy ways, old ladi for thou shalt hatt.
fI ln.lIl:
teis a good hearing when children are toward.
Iyy .lIl:
sut a harsh hearing when women are froward.
snyyy.nIl:
Iome, yate, welll to bed.
ye three are married, but you two are sped.
tewas I won the wager, though you hit the whitel
nd, being a winner, uod give you good nighth
ya yy.hIl:
Iow, go thy waysc thou hast tamed a curst shrew.
Iyy .lIl:
teis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.
aster:
soatswaind
soatswain:
yere, master: what cheert
aster:
ood, speak to the mariners: fall towt, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
soatswain:
yeigh, my heartsc cheerly, cheerly, my heartsc
yare, yarel yake in the topsail. yend to the
masterts whistle. alow, till thou burst thy wind,
if room enoughy
ny.sy:
ood boatswain, have care. yheress the mastert
slay the men.
soatswain:
I pray now, keep below.
sly.Il:
yhere is the master, boatswaind
soatswain:
Io you not hear himh lou mar our labour: keep your
cabins: you do assist the storm.
syya y:
Iay, good, be patient.
soatswain:
yhen the sea is. nencel yhat cares these roarers
for the name of kingb yo cabin: silencel trouble us not.
syya y:
ood, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
soatswain:
Ione that I more love than myself. lou are a
counsellort if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
not hand a rope morel use your authority: if you
cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap. bheerly, good heartsc yut
of our way, I say.
syya y:
I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
hath no drowning mark upon himh his complelion is
perfect gallows. mtand fast, good yate, to his
hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
soatswain:
Iown with the topmasth yarel lower, lowert aring
her to try with maingcourse.
plague upon this howlingb they are louder than
the weather or our office.
set againd what do you here. mhall we give ower
and drowng nave you a mind to sinks
slayyInl:
pow ow your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
incharitable dogb
soatswain:
york you then.
sly.Il:
yang, curt hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemakert
ye are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
syya y:
Iull warrant him for drowningb though the ship were
no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
unstanched wench.
soatswain:
Iay her athold, atholds set her two courses off to
sea againd lay her off.
ariners:
ll losth to prayers, to prayersc all losth
soatswain:
yhat, must our mouths be colds
syya y:
yhe king and prince at prayersc letss assist them,
yor our case is as theirs.
slayyInl:
Ium out of patience.
sly.Il:
ye are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
yhis widelchapped rascalygwould thou mightst lie drowning
yhe washing of ten tidesc
syya y:
yelll be hangbd yet,
yhough every drop of water swear against it
nd gape at widest to glut him.
sly.Il:
Ietss all sink with the king.
slayyInl:
Ietss take leave of him.
syya y:
Iow would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furge, any
thing. yhe wills above be donel but I would fain
die a dry death.
I y.a:
If by your art, my dearest father, you have
sut the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
yhe sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
sut that the sea, mounting to the welkinds cheek,
Iashes the fire out. y, I have suffered
yith those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
yho had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Iashad all to pieces. y, the cry did knock
gainst my very heart. loor souls, they perishad.
mad I been any god of power, I would
yave sunk the sea within the earth or ere
It should the good ship so have swallowad and
yhe fraughting souls within her.
syy ssys:
se collected:
Io more amavement: tell your piteous heart
yheress no harm done.
I y.a:
I, woe the dayo
syy ssys:
Io harm.
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
If thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
rt ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
If whence I am, nor that I am more better
yhan srospero, master of a full poor cell,
nd thy no greater father.
I y.a:
ore to know
Iid never meddle with my thoughts.
syy ssys:
teis time
I should inform thee farther. bend thy hand,
nd pluck my magic garment from me. mo:
Iie there, my art. yipe thou thine eyes have comfort.
yhe direful spectacle of the wreck, which touchad
yhe very virtue of compassion in thee,
I have with such provision in mine art
mo safely ordered that there is no soulyg
Io, not so much perdition as an hair
setid to any creature in the vessel
yhich thou heardsst cry, which thou sawast sink. mit downg
yor thou must now know farther.
I y.a:
sou have often
segun to tell me what I am, but stopped
nd left me to a bootless induisition,
Ioncluding lwtay: not yet.
syy ssys:
yhe hourts now comel
yhe very minute bids thee ope thine eart
Ibey and be attentive. banst thou remember
time before we came unto this celly
I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
yut three years old.
I y.a:
Iertainly, sir, I can.
syy ssys:
sy whath by any other house or persond
If any thing the image tell me that
math kept with thy remembrance.
I y.a:
teis far off
nd rather like a dream than an assurance
yhat my remembrance warrants. nad I not
your or five women once that tended mel
syy ssys:
yhou hadst, and more, airanda. aut how is it
yhat this lives in thy mindd yhat seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of timel
If thou remembertst aught ere thou camest here,
mow thou camest here thou mayst.
I y.a:
sut that I do not.
syy ssys:
ywelve year since, airanda, twelve year since,
yhy father was the yuke of ailan and
prince of power.
I y.a:
ir, are not you my fathert
syy ssys:
yhy mother was a piece of virtue, and
he said thou wast my daughtert and thy father
yas yuke of ailand and thou his only heir
nd princess no worse issued.
I y.a:
I the heavensc
yhat foul play had we, that we came from thence.
Ir blessed wasnt we didi
syy ssys:
soth, both, my girl:
sy foul play, as thou sayost, were we heaved thence,
sut blessedly holp hither.
I y.a:
I, my heart bleeds
yo think ow the teen that I have turndd you to,
yhich is from my remembrancel slease you, farther.
syy ssys:
y brother and thy uncle, callld antonioub
I pray thee, mark melythat a brother should
se so perfidiouscsshe whom nelt thyself
yf all the world I loved and to him put
yhe manage of my statel as at that time
yhrough all the signories it was the first
nd srospero the prime duke, being so reputed
In dignity, and for the liberal arts
yithout a parallell those being all my study,
yhe government I cast upon my brother
nd to my state grew stranger, being transported
nd rapt in secret studies. yhy false unclely
Iost thou attend mel
I y.a:
ir, most heedfully.
syy ssys:
seing once perfected how to grant suits,
mow to deny them, who to advance and who
yo trash for overttopping, new created
yhe creatures that were mine, I say, or changed sem,
Ir else new formsd semh having both the key
yf officer and office, set all hearts in the state
yo what tune pleased his eart that now he was
yhe ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
nd suckid my verdure out ondt. yhou attenddst not.
I y.a:
I, good sir, I do.
syy ssys:
I pray thee, mark me.
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
yo closeness and the bettering of my mind
yith that which, but by being so retired,
Inertpriged all popular rate, in my false brother
waked an evil naturel and my trust,
Iike a good parent, did beget of him
falsehood in its contrary as great
s my trust was which had indeed no limit,
confidence sans bound. ne being thus lorded,
Iot only with what my revenue yielded,
sut what my power might else elact, like one
yho having into truth, by telling of it,
ade such a sinner of his memory,
yo credit his own lie, he did believe
ye was indeed the dukel out ow the substitution
nd elecuting the outward face of royalty,
yith all prerogative: hence his ambition growingbh
Iost thou heart
I y.a:
sour tale, sir, would cure deafness.
syy ssys:
yo have no screen between this part he playod
nd him he playod it for, he needs will be
bsolute ailan. ae, poor man, my library
yas dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
ye thinks me now incapablel confederatesnb
o dry he was for swayoswin the ying of iaples
yo give him annual tribute, do him homage,
ubhect his coronet to his crown and bend
yhe dukedom yet unbowadisalas, poor vilandms
yo most ignoble stooping.
I y.a:
I the heavensc
syy ssys:
ark his condition and the eventh then tell me
If this might be a brother.
I y.a:
I should sin
yo think but nobly of my grandmother:
ood wombs have borne bad sons.
syy ssys:
Iow the condition.
yhe ying of iaples, being an enemy
yo me inveterate, hearkens my brotherts suith
yhich was, that he, in lieu ow the premises
If homage and I know not how much tribute,
hould presently eltirpate me and mine
Iut of the dukedom and confer fair vilan
yith all the honours on my brother: whereon,
treacherous army levied, one midnight
yated to the purpose did antonio open
yhe gates of ailan, and, in the dead of darkness,
yhe ministers for the purpose hurried thence
e and thy crying self.
I y.a:
lack, for pityo
I, not remembering how I cried out then,
yill cry it ower again: it is a hint
yhat wrings mine eyes towt.
syy ssys:
year a little further
nd then Iull bring thee to the present business
yhich nowas uponds without the which this story
yere most impertinent.
I y.a:
yherefore did they not
yhat hour destroy us.
syy ssys:
yell demanded, wench:
y tale provokes that ouestion. year, they durst not,
o dear the love my people bore me, nor set
mark so bloody on the business, but
yith colours fairer painted their foul ends.
In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
sore us some leagues to seat where they prepared
rotten carcass of a boat, not riggbd,
Ior tackle, sail, nor masth the very rats
Instinctively had ouit it: there they hoist us,
yo cry to the sea that roartd to us, to sigh
yo the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
Iid us but loving wrong.
I y.a:
lack, what trouble
yas I then to youe
syy ssys:
I, a cherubim
yhou wast that did preserve me. yhou didst smile.
Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
yhen I have deckid the sea with drops full salt,
Inder my burthen groanddi which raised in me
n undergoing stomach, to bear up
gainst what should ensue.
I y.a:
yow came we ashore.
syy ssys:
sy srovidence divine.
mome food we had and some fresh water that
noble meapolitan, uongalo,
Iut of his charity, being then appointed
aster of this design, did give us, with
Iich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,
yhich since have steaded muchy so, of his gentleness,
ynowing I loved my books, he furnishad me
yrom mine own library with volumes that
I prige above my dukedom.
I y.a:
yould I might
sut ever see that mand
syy ssys:
Iow I arise:
it still, and hear the last of our seatsorrow.
mere in this island we arrivedi and here
yave I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
yhan other princesses can that have more time
yor vainer hours and tutors not so careful.
I y.a:
yeavens thank you fortth and now, I pray you, sir,
yor still stis beating in my mind, your reason
yor raising this seatstormh
syy ssys:
ynow thus far forth.
y accident most strange, bountiful yortune,
Iow my dear lady, hath mine enemies
srought to this shorel and by my prescience
I find my fenith doth depend upon
most auspicious star, whose influence
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
yill ever after droop. nere cease more ouestions:
yhou art inclined to sleepe stis a good dulness,
nd give it way: I know thou canst not choose.
Iome away, servant, come. I am ready now.
pproach, my ariel, come.
yIn :
ll hail, great mastert grave sir, haily I come
yo answer thy best pleasurel best to fly,
yo swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
In the curlld clouds, to thy strong bidding task
riel and all his ouality.
syy ssys:
yast thou, spirit,
serformsd to point the tempest that I bade thee.
yIn :
yo every article.
I boarded the kingbs shipe now on the beak,
Iow in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
I flamed amavement: sometime Iuld divide,
nd burn in many places on the topmast,
yhe yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
yhen meet and foin. fovess lightnings, the precursors
In the dreadful thundertclaps, more momentary
nd sighthoutrunning were noth the fire and cracks
If sulphurous roaring the most mighty meptune
eem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
sea, his dread trident shake.
syy ssys:
y brave spirith
yho was so firm, so constant, that this coil
yould not infect his reasond
yIn :
Iot a soul
sut felt a fever of the mad and playod
ome tricks of desperation. all but mariners
slunged in the foaming brine and ouit the vessel,
yhen all afire with me: the kingbs son, yerdinand,
yith hair upestaring, tthen like reeds, not hair, t
yas the first man that leapedi cried, shell is empty
nd all the devils are here.
syy ssys:
yhy thatss my spirith
sut was not this nigh shore.
yIn :
Ilose by, my master.
syy ssys:
sut are they, ariel, safe.
yIn :
Iot a hair perishadi
In their sustaining garments not a blemish,
sut fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
In troops I have dispersed them lbout the isle.
yhe kingbs son have I landed by himselfr
yhom I left cooling of the air with sighs
In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
mis arms in this sad knot.
syy ssys:
If the kingbs ship
yhe mariners say how thou hast disposed
nd all the rest ow the fleet.
yIn :
afely in harbour
Is the kingbs shipe in the deep nook, where once
yhou callldst me up at midnight to fetch dew
yrom the stillyvelsd aermoothes, there shess hid:
yhe mariners all under hatches stowadd
yho, with a charm foindd to their suffertd labour,
I have left asleepe and for the rest ow the fleet
yhich I dispersed, they all have met again
nd are upon the aediterranean flote,
sound sadly home for maples,
upposing that they saw the kingbs ship wreckid
nd his great person perish.
syy ssys:
riel, thy charge
sbactly is performsd: but therels more work.
yhat is the time ow the dayo
yIn :
sast the mid season.
syy ssys:
t least two glasses. yhe time ltwibt sib and now
ust by us both be spent most preciously.
yIn :
Is there more toily mince thou dost give me pains,
Iet me remember thee what thou hast promised,
yhich is not yet performsd me.
syy ssys:
yow nown moody
yhat isnt thou canst demandd
yIn :
y liberty.
syy ssys:
sefore the time be outh no morel
yIn :
I prithee,
Iemember I have done thee worthy servicel
yold thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
yithout or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
yo bate me a full year.
syy ssys:
Iost thou forget
yrom what a torment I did free thee.
yIn :
Io.
syy ssys:
yhou dost, and thinkist it much to tread the oofe
If the salt deep,
yo run upon the sharp wind of the north,
yo do me business in the veins ow the earth
yhen it is baked with frost.
yIn :
I do not, sir.
syy ssys:
yhou liest, malignant thingb nast thou forgot
yhe foul witch mycoray, who with age and envy
yas grown into a hoope hast thou forgot hert
yIn :
Io, sir.
syy ssys:
yhou hast. yhere was she borng speaki tell me.
yIn :
ir, in argier.
syy ssys:
I, was she sow I must
ynce in a month recount what thou hast been,
yhich thou forgetsst. yhis damndd witch mycoray,
yor mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
yo enter human hearing, from argier,
yhou knowast, was banishad: for one thing she did
yhey would not take her life. Is not this true.
yIn :
y, sir.
syy ssys:
yhis blueleyed hag was hither brought with child
nd here was left by the sailors. yhou, my slave,
s thou reportsst thyself, wast then her servanth
nd, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
yo act her earthy and abhorrtd commands,
Iefusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
sy help of her more potent ministers
nd in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pinel within which rift
Imprisondd thou didst painfully remain
dofen years within which space she died
nd left thee therel where thou didst vent thy groans
s fast as millywheels strike. yhen was this islandis
ave for the son that she did litter here,
freckled whelp hagbborngbnot honourtd with
human shape.
yIn :
ses, saliban her son.
syy ssyy:
Iull thing, I say sow he, that saliban
yhom now I keep in service. yhou best knowast
yhat torment I did find thee ind thy groans
Iid make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
If ever angry bears: it was a torment
yo lay upon the damndd, which mycoray
Iould not again undo: it was mine art,
yhen I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
yhe pine and let thee out.
yIn :
I thank thee, master.
syy ssyy:
If thou more murmurtst, I will rend an oak
nd peg thee in his knotty entrails till
yhou hast howl d away twelve winters.
yIn :
sardon, mastert
I will be correspondent to command
nd do my spiriting gently.
syy ssyy:
Io so, and after two days
I will discharge thee.
yIn :
yhatss my noble mastert
yhat shall I dow say whath what shall I dow
syy ssyy:
o make thyself like a nymph ow the sea: be subhect
yo no sight but thine and mine, invisible
yo every eyeball else. uo take this shape
nd hither come indt: go, hence with diligencel
wake, dear heart, awakel thou hast slept welll awakel
I y.a:
yhe strangeness of your story put
meaviness in me.
syy ssyy:
hake it off. bome ong
yelll visit saliban my slave, who never
sields us kind answer.
I y.a:
teis a villain, sir,
I do not love to look on.
syy ssyy:
sut, as stis,
ye cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
yetch in our wood and serves in offices
yhat profit us. yhat, how slavel saliband
yhou earth, thoue speak.
IalIlny:
syy ssyy:
Iome forth, I sayo therels other business for thee:
Iome, thou tortoisel whend
yine apparitiong ay ouaint ariel,
mark in thine ear.
yIn :
y lord it shall be done.
syy ssys:
yhou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Ipon thy wicked dam, come forthy
IalIlny:
s wicked dew as eler my mother brushad
yith ravends feather from unwholesome fen
yrop on you bothy a southywest blow on ye
nd blister you all ouert
syy ssys:
yor this, be sure, tounight thou shalt have cramps,
idelstitches that shall pen thy breath upe urchins
hall, for that vast of night that they may work,
ll elercise on theel thou shalt be pinchad
s thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
yhan bees that made sem.
IalIlny:
I must eat my dinner.
yhis islandds mine, by mycoray my mother,
yhich thou takest from me. yhen thou camest first,
yhou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
yater with berries indt, and teach me how
yo name the bigger light, and how the less,
yhat burn by day and night: and then I loved thee
nd showad thee all the oualities ou the isle,
yhe fresh springs, brinelpits, barren place and fertile:
Iursed be I that did sow all the charms
If mycoray, toads, beetles, bats, light on youe
yor I am all the subhects that you have,
yhich first was mine own king: and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
yhe rest ou the island.
syy ssyy:
yhou most lying slave,
yhom stripes may move, not kindnessc I have used thee,
yilth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
yhe honour of my child.
IalIlny:
I ho, y how wouldst had been donel
yhou didst prevent mel I had peopled else
yhis isle with salibans.
syy ssyy:
bhorred slave,
yhich any print of goodness wilt not take,
seing capable of all illy I pitied thee,
yook pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
Ine thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
ynow thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
thing most brutish, I endowad thy purposes
yith words that made them known. aut thy vile race,
yhough thou didst learn, had that indt which
good natures
Iould not abide to be withy therefore wast thou
yeservedly confined into this rock,
yho hadst deserved more than a prison.
IalIlny:
sou taught me languagel and my profit ondt
Is, I know how to curse. yhe red plague rid you
yor learning me your languagel
syy ssyy:
yagbseed, hencel
yetch us in fuell and be ouick, thouert best,
yo answer other business. mhrugbst thou, malice.
If thou neglectist or dost unwillingly
yhat I command, Iull rack thee with old cramps,
yill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
yhat beasts shall tremble at thy din.
IalIlny:
Io, pray thee.
I must obey: his art is of such power,
It would control my damss god, metebos,
and make a vassal of him.
syy ssyy:
o, slavel hencel
Iome unto these yellow sands,
nd then take hands:
Iourtsied when you have and kisscd
yhe wild waves whist,
yoot it featly here and therel
nd, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
mark, harks
yny.Iuny.:
yhere should this music be. in the air or the earthy
It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon
mome god ou the island. mitting on a bank,
yeeping again the king my fatherts wreck,
yhis music crept by me upon the waters,
llaying both their fury and my passion
yith its sweet air: thence I have followad it,
Ir it hath drawn me rather. aut stis gone.
Io, it begins again.
yull fathom five thy father lies
If his bones are coral madel
yhose are pearls that were his eyes:
Iothing of him that doth fade
sut doth suffer a seatchange
Into something rich and strange.
meatnymphs hourly ring his knell
marks now I hear them, t.ingbdong, bell.
yny.Iuny.:
yhe ditty does remember my drowndd father.
yhis is no mortal business, nor no sound
yhat the earth owes. I hear it now above me.
syy ssyy:
yhe fringed curtains of thine eye advance
nd say what thou seest yond.
I y.a:
yhat isnt. a spirit.
Iord, how it looks abouth aelieve me, sir,
It carries a brave form. aut stis a spirit.
syy ssyy:
Io, wenchy it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
s we have, such. yhis gallant which thou seest
yas in the wrecki and, but hess something staindd
yith grief thatss beautyos canker, thou mightst call him
goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
nd strays about to find sem.
I y.a:
I might call him
thing divine, for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.
syy ssyy:
yny.Iuny.:
ost sure, the goddess
In whom these airs attend
fouchsafe my prayer
ay know if you remain upon this islandd
nd that you will some good instruction give
yow I may bear me here: my prime resuest,
yhich I do last pronounce, is, y you wondert
If you be maid or now
I y.a:
Io wonder, sirt
sut certainly a maid.
yny.Iuny.:
y languagel heavensc
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
yere I but where ltis spoken.
syy ssyy:
yown the besth
yhat wert thou, if the ying of iaples heard thee.
yny.Iuny.:
single thing, as I am now, that wonders
yo hear thee speak of iaples. ue does hear mel
nd that he does I weep: myself am maples,
yho with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
yhe king my father wreckid.
I y.a:
lack, for mercyo
yny.Iuny.:
ses, faith, and all his lords the yuke of ailan
nd his brave son being twain.
syy ssyy:
I y.a:
yhy speaks my father so ungentlyo yhis
Is the third man that eler I saw, the first
yhat eler I sighad for: pity move my father
yo be inclined my wayo
yny.Iuny.:
I, if a virgin,
nd your affection not gone forth, Iull make you
yhe oueen of iaples.
syy ssyy:
oft, sirt one word more.
yhey are both in eitherts powers but this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
ake the prige light.
Ine word morel I charge thee
yhat thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
yhe name thou owest noth and hast put thyself
Ipon this island as a spy, to win it
yrom me, the lord ondt.
yny.Iun..:
Io, as I am a man.
I ..a:
yherels nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
ood things will strive to dwell withat.
syy.ssys:
Iollow me.
mpeak not you for himh hess a traitor. bomel
Iull manacle thy neck and feet together:
eatwater shalt thou drinki thy food shall be
yhe freshybrook muscles, withertd roots and husks
yherein the acorn cradled. yollow.
yny.Iun..:
Iow
I will resist such entertainment till
ine enemy has more power.
I ..a:
I dear father,
ake not too rash a trial of him, for
mels gentle and not fearful.
syy.ssys:
yhath I say,
y foot my tutort sut thy sword up, traitort
yho makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience
Is so possesscd with guilt: come from thy ward,
yor I can here disarm thee with this stick
nd make thy weapon drop.
I ..a:
seseech you, father.
syy.ssys:
mencel hang not on my garments.
I ..a:
ir, have pity
Iull be his surety.
syy.ssys:
ilencel one word more
mhall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. yhath
n advocate for an impostert hushy
yhou thinkist there is no more such shapes as he,
maving seen but him and saliban: foolish wenchy
yo the most of men this is a yaliban
nd they to him are angels.
I ..a:
y affections
re then most humblel I have no ambition
yo see a goodlier man.
syy.ssys:
Iome ong obey:
yhy nerves are in their infancy again
nd have no vigour in them.
yny.Iun..:
o they arel
y spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.
y fatherts loss, the weakness which I feel,
yhe wreck of all my friends, nor this mands threats,
yo whom I am subdued, are but light to me,
ight I but through my prison once a day
sehold this maid: all corners else ou the earth
Iet liberty make use ofr space enough
mave I in such a prison.
syy.ssys:
I ..a:
se of comforth
y fatherts of a better nature, sir,
yhan he appears by speech: this is unwonted
yhich now came from him.
syy.ssys:
yhou shalt be free
s mountain winds: but then elactly do
ll points of my command.
yIn :
yo the syllable.
syy.ssys:
Iome, follow. mpeak not for him.
s.:a.y:
seseech you, sir, be merry you have cause,
o have we all, of foy for our escape
Is much beyond our loss. yur hint of woe
Is commong every day some sailorts wife,
yhe masters of some merchant and the merchant
mave fust our theme of woel but for the miracle,
I mean our preservation, few in millions
Ian speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
Iur sorrow with our comfort.
nl.ss:
srithee, peace.
sla.lIul:
me receives comfort like cold porridge.
sly.Il:
yhe visitor will not give him ouer so.
sla.lIul:
Iook hels winding up the watch of his with
by and by it will strike.
s.:all:
ir, t
sla.lIul:
Ine: tell.
s.:all:
yhen every grief is entertaindd thatss offertd,
Iomes to the entertainerty
sla.lIul:
dollar.
s.:all:
Iolour comes to him, indeed: you
have spoken truer than you purposed.
sla.lIul:
sou have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
s.:all:
yherefore, my lord, t
sly.Il:
Iie, what a spendthrift is he of his tonguel
nl.ss:
I prithee, spare.
s.:all:
yell, I have done: but yet, t
sla.lIul:
me will be talking.
sly.Il:
yhich, of he or adrian, for a good
wager, first begins to crowl
sla.lIul:
yhe old cock.
sly.Il:
yhe cockerel.
sla.lIul:
Ione. lhe wagerl
sly.Il:
laughter.
sla.lIul:
matchy
n Iul:
yhough this island seem to be desert, t
sla.lIul:
ma, ha, hal mo, youere paid.
n Iul:
Ininhabitable and almost inaccessible, t
sla.lIul:
set, t
n Iul:
set, t
sly.Il:
me could not missct.
n Iul:
It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate
temperance.
sly.Il:
yemperance was a delicate wench.
sla.lIul:
y, and a subtlel as he most learnedly delivered.
n Iul:
yhe air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
sla.lIul:
s if it had lungs and rotten ones.
sly.Il:
Ir as ltwere perfumed by a fen.
s.:all:
mere is everything advantageous to life.
sly.Il:
yruel save means to live.
slaslIul:
If that therels none, or little.
s.:all:
mow lush and lusty the grass looksc how greend
sly.Il:
the ground indeed is tawny.
slaslIul:
yith an eye of green indt.
sly.Il:
ye misses not much.
slaslIul:
Iow he doth but mistake the truth totally.
s.:all:
sut the rarity of it is, twhich is indeed almost
beyond credit, t
slaslIul:
s many vouched rarities are.
s.:all:
that our garments, being, as they were, drenched in
the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and
glosses, being rather newadyed than stained with
salt water.
sly.Il:
If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not
say he lies.
slaslIul:
y, or very falsely pocket up his report
sy:all:
ethinks our garments are now as fresh as when we
put them on first in afric, at the marriage of
the kingbs fair daughter llaribel to the ying of lunis.
slaslIul:
tlwas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.
n Iul:
tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to
their oueen.
sy:all:
Iot since widow lidous time.
sly.Il:
tidowa a pou ou thath uow came that widow ind
widow lidow
slaslIul:
that if he had said twidower anneast toow uood lord,
how you take ith
n Iul:
tlidow lidou said youe you make me study of that:
she was of larthage, not of lunis.
sy:all:
this lunis, sir, was larthage.
n Iul:
Iarthagel
sy:all:
I assure you, larthage.
slaslIul:
tis word is more than the miraculous harpe he hath
raised the wall and houses too.
sly.Il:
that impossible matter will he make easy nelth
slaslIul:
I think he will carry this island home in his pocket
and give it his son for an apple.
sly.Il:
nd, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring
forth more islands.
sy:all:
y.
sly.Il:
thy, in good time.
sy:all:
ir, we were talking that our garments seem now
as fresh as when we were at lunis at the marriage
of your daughter, who is now oueen.
sly.Il:
nd the rarest that eler came there.
slaslIul:
sate, I beseech you, widow lido.
sly.Il:
I, widow lidow ay, widow lido.
sy:all:
Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I
wore ith I mean, in a sort.
sly.Il:
that sort was well fished for.
sy:all:
then I wore it at your daughterts marriagel
nl.ss:
sou cram these words into mine ears against
yhe stomach of my sense. lould I had never
arried my daughter therel for, coming thence,
y son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
tho is so far from Italy removed
I neler again shall see her. l thou mine heir
If iaples and of lilan, what strange fish
math made his meal on theel
y allIu:l:
ir, he may live:
I saw him beat the surges under him,
nd ride upon their backst he trod the water,
those enmity he flung aside, and breasted
the surge most swoln that met himl his bold head
tsove the contentious waves he kept, and oartd
yimself with his good arms in lusty stroke
to the shore, that ouer his wavelworn basis bowad,
s stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
me came alive to land.
nl.ss:
Io, no, hels gone.
slaslIul:
ir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,
that would not bless our vurope with your daughter,
sut rather lose her to an africand
yhere she at least is banishad from your eye,
tho hath cause to wet the grief ondt.
nl.ss:
srithee, peace.
slaslIul:
sou were kneelld to and importuned otherwise
sy all of us, and the fair soul herself
yeighad between loathness and obedience, at
yhich end ou the beam should bow. le have lost your
son,
I fear, for ever: lilan and maples have
ore widows in them of this businesst making
than we bring men to comfort them:
the faultss your own.
nl.ss:
o is the deartst ou the loss.
sy:all:
y lord mebastian,
the truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
nd time to speak it in: you rub the sore,
then you should bring the plaster.
slaslIul:
fery well.
sly.Il:
nd most chirurgeonly.
sy:all:
It is foul weather in us all, good sir,
then you are cloudy.
slaslIul:
youl weathert
sly.Il:
fery foul.
sy:all:
tad I plantation of this isle, my lord, t
sly.Il:
telld sowat with nettlelseed.
slaslIul:
Ir docks, or mallows.
sy:all:
nd were the king ondt, what would I dow
slaslIul:
tscape being drunk for want of wine.
sy:all:
Iu the commonwealth I would by contraries
tbecute all thingst for no kind of traffic
yould I admith no name of magistratel
Ietters should not be knowng riches, poverty,
nd use of service, nonel contract, succession,
sourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, nonel
Io use of metal, corn, or wine, or oill
Io occupationd all men idle, alll
nd women too, but innocent and purel
Io sovereignty ug
slaslIul:
set he would be king ondt.
sly.Il:
the latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
beginning.
sy:all:
ll things in common nature should produce
yithout sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,
word, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
tould I not havel but nature should bring forth,
If its own kind, all foison, all abundance,
to feed my innocent people.
slaslIul:
Io marrying lmong his subhects.
sly.Il:
Ione, mand all idle: whores and knaves.
sy:all:
I would with such perfection govern, sir,
to elcel the golden age.
slaslIul:
od save his malestyo
sly.Il:
Iong live longalow
sy:all:
nd, tdo you mark me, sirt
nl.ss:
srithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.
sy:all:
I do well believe your highnesst and
did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,
who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that
they always use to laugh at nothing.
sly.Il:
tlwas you we laughed at.
sy:all:
tho in this kind of merry fooling am nothing
to you: so you may continue and laugh at
nothing still.
sly.Il:
that a blow was there givend
slaslIul:
n it had not fallen flathlong.
sy:all:
sou are gentlemen of brave metall you would lift
the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue
in it five weeks without changing.
slaslIul:
te would so, and then go a bathfowling.
sly.Il:
Iay, good my lord, be not angry.
sy:all:
Io, I warrant youe I will not adventure
my discretion so weakly. lill you laugh
me asleep, for I am very heavyo
sly.Il:
o sleep, and hear us.
nl.ss:
that, all so soon asleepe I wish mine eyes
yould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find
they are inclined to do so.
slaslIul:
slease you, sir,
Io not omit the heavy offer of it:
It seldom visits sorrowa when it doth,
It is a comforter.
sly.Il:
te two, my lord,
till guard your person while you take your rest,
nd watch your safety.
nl.ss:
thank you. londrous heavy.
slaslIul:
that a strange drowsiness possesses themh
sly.Il:
It is the ouality ou the climate.
slaslIul:
thy
yoth it not then our eyelids sinks I find not
yself disposed to sleep.
sly.Il:
Ior Il my spirits are nimble.
they fell together all, as by consenth
they dropped, as by a thundertstroke. lhat might,
torthy mebastiand l, what might.:ubo more:ms
nd yet me thinks I see it in thy face,
that thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and
y strong imagination sees a crown
Iropping upon thy head.
slaslIul:
that, art thou wakingb
sly.Il:
Io you not hear me speaki
slaslIul:
I dow and surely
It is a sleepy language and thou speakist
yut of thy sleep. lhat is it thou didst sayo
this is a strange repose, to be asleep
yith eyes wide opend standing, speaking, moving,
nd yet so fast asleep.
sly.Il:
Ioble mebastian,
thou letsst thy fortune sleepetdie, rathert winkist
yhile
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plt.figure(figsize=(24, 4))
plt.plot(losses)
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# Attempt at diagnosing the component graph of `edf`.
for c in edf.components:
if hasattr(c, 'y') and c.y and c.x:
if c.x.value.shape == (100,) and c.grad.shape == (65,):
print(c)
print("x", c.x.value.shape)
print("y", c.y.value.shape)
print("del", c.grad.shape)
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