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KING JOHN'S palace.
[Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and others, with
CHATILLON]
KING JOHN
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Now* say | Chatil|lon, what | would France | with
us?
CHATILLON
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Thus^(aft|er greet|ing) speaks | the King | of
France,
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In my | behav|ior to | the maj|esty,
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The bor|rowed maj|esty | of Eng|land here.
QUEEN ELINOR
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A strange | begin|ning: bor|rowed maj|esty?
KING JOHN
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Silence |(good* moth|er) hear | the em|bassy.
CHATILLON
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Philip | of France,| in right | and true | behalf
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Of thy | deceas|ed broth|er, Geof|frey's son,
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Arthur | Plantag|enet, lays | most^law|ful claim
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To this / fair is|land, and | the ter|ritories:
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To Ire|land, Poic|tiers, An|jou, Tour|aine,
Maine,
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Desi|ring thee | to lay | aside | the sword
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Which sways | usurp|ingly | these^seve|ral titles,
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And put | these same | into / young Arth|ur's
hand,
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Thy neph|ew, and / right roy|al sov|ereign.
KING JOHN
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What fol|lows if | we dis|allow | of this?
CHATILLON
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The proud | control | of fierce | and bloo|dy
war,
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To enforce | these^rights,| so for|cibly |
withheld.
KING JOHN
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Here have | we war | for war,| and blood | for
blood,
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Control|ment for | control|ment: so ans|wer
France. ??
CHATILLON
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Then take | my king's | defi|ance from | my
mouth,
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The farth|est lim|it of | my em|bassy.
KING JOHN
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Bear mine to him,| and so | depart | in peace,
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Be thou | as light|ning in | the eyes | of
France;
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For ere | thou canst | report,| I will | be
there:
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The thund|er of | my can|non shall | be heard.
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So hence:| Be thou | the trump|et of | our wrath,
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And sul|len pre|sage of | your own | decay:
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An hon|orable // conduct let | him have,
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Pembroke look | to it: Fare|well Chat|illon.
[Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE]
QUEEN ELINOR
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What now | my son,| have I | not ev|er said
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How that | ambit|ious Const|ance would / not
cease
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Till she | had kind|led France | and all | the
world,
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Upon | the right | and part|y of | her son.
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This might | have been | prevent|ed, and / made
whole
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With ve|ry ea|sy arg|uments | of love,
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Which now | the man|age of / two king|doms must
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With fear|ful bloo|dy is|sue ar|bitrate.
KING JOHN
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Our strong | posses|sion, and | our right | for
us.
QUEEN ELINOR
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Your strong | posses|sion much | more than | your
right,
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Or else | it must | go wrong | with you | and me,
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So much | my con|science whisp|ers in | your ear,
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Which none | but heaven,| and you,| and I,| shall
hear.
[Enter a Sheriff]
ESSEX
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My liege,| here is the | strangest | controv|ersy
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Come from | country | to be | judged by | you,
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That ere | I heard:| shall^I | produce | the men?
KING JOHN
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Let them approach: \\
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Our ab|beys and | our pri|ories | shall pay
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This^ex|pedi|tion's charge:| What men | are you?
[Enter ROBERT and the BASTARD]
BASTARD
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Your faith|ful sub|ject, I | a gent|leman,
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Born in | Northamp|tonshire,| and eld|est son
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As I | suppose,| to Rob|ert Faul|conbridge,
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A sol|dier by | the hon|or-giv|ing hand
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Of Coeur-|de-li|on, knight|ed in | the field.
KING JOHN
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What art | thou? \\
ROBERT
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The son | and heir | to that / same
Faul|conbridge.
KING JOHN
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Is that | the eld|er, and / art thou | the heir?
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You came | not of one moth|er then | it seems.
BASTARD
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Most cert|ain of / one moth|er, migh|ty king,
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That is well known,| and as I | think
one^|father:
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But for | the cert|ain know|ledge of | that
truth,
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I put | you ore | to heaven,| and to my | mother;
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Of that | I doubt,| as all | men's^child|ren may.
QUEEN ELINOR
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Out on thee | rude man,/ thou dost | shame thy
| mother,
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And wound | her hon|or with | this dif|fidence.
BASTARD
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I madam? No,| I have no | reason | for it,
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That is | my broth|er's plea,| and none | of
mine,
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The which | if he | can prove,| he pops | me out,
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At least | from fair | five^hund|red pound | a
year:
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Heaven | guard my | mother's | honor,| and my
land.
KING JOHN
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A good blunt fel|low: why | being young|er born
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Doth^he | lay claim | to thine | inher|itance?
BASTARD
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I know | not why,| except | to get | the land:
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But once | he sland|ered me | with bast|ardy:
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But where | I be | as true | begot | or no,
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That still | I lay | upon | my moth|er's head,
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But that | I am | as well | begot | my liege
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(Fair fall the bones | that took | the pains |
for me)
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Compare | our fac|es, and | be judge | yourself.
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If old | sir Rob|ert did | beget | us both,
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And were | our fath|er, and | this son | like^him:
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Oh^old | sir Rob|ert fath|er, on | my knee
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I give | heaven thanks / I was | not like to
thee.
KING JOHN
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Why what | a mad|cap hath | heaven lent us here?
QUEEN ELINOR
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He hath | a trick | of Coeur-|de-li|on's face,
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The ac|cent of | his tongue | affect|eth him:
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Do you | not^read | some tok|ens of | my son
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In the / large com|posi|tion of | this man?
KING JOHN
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Mine eye | hath well | exam|ined | his parts,
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And finds | them per|fect Rich|ard: Sir|rah
speak,
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What doth | move you | to claim | your broth|er's
land.
BASTARD
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Because | he hath a / half-face | like my |
father:
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With half | that face | would he | have all | my
land,
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A half-faced groat,| five^hund|red pound | a
year?
ROBERT
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My gra|cious liege,| when^that | my fath|er
lived,
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Your broth|er did | employ | my fath|er much.
BASTARD
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Well sir,| by this | you can|not get | my land,
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Your tale | must be | how he em|ployed my |
mother.
ROBERT
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And once | dispatched | him in | an em|bassy
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To Ger|many,| there with | the emp|eror
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To treat | of high | affairs | touching | that^time:
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The advant|age of | his ab|sence took | the king,
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And in | the mean|time so/journed* at my |
father's;
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Where how | he did | prevail,| I shame | to
speak:
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T T . T
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But truth | is truth,| large lengths of seas |
and shores
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Between | my fath|er, and | my moth|er lay,
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As I | have heard | my fath|er speak | himself
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When this / same lus|ty gent|leman | was got:
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Upon | his death|bed he*| by will | bequeathed
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His lands | to me,| and took | it on | his death
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That this | my moth|er's son | was none | of his;
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And if | he were,| he came | into | the world
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Full fourteen weeks | before | the course | of
time: ??
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Then good | my liege | let me | have what | is
mine,
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My fath|er's land,| as was | my fath|er's will.
KING JOHN
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Sirrah,| your broth|er is | legit|imate,
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T
Your fath|er's wife | did aft|er wed|lock bear
him:
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And if she | did play false,| the fault | was
hers, (hex with prev)
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Which fault | lies on the | hazards | of all |
husbands
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That mar|ry wives:| tell me,| how if my | brother
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Who^as | you say,| took pains to get | this
son,
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Had of | your fath|er claimed | this son | for
his,
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In sooth,| good* friend,| your fath|er might |
have kept
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This calf,| bred from | his cow | from all | the
world:
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In sooth | he might:| then if he | were my |
brother's,
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My broth|er might | not claim | him, nor | your
fath||er,
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Being | none of | his, re|fuse him:| this
concludes, ??
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My moth|er's son | did get | your fath|er's heir,
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Your fath|er's heir | must^have | your fath|er's
land.
ROBERT
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Shall then | my fath|er's will | be of / no
force,
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To dis|possess | that child | which is / not his?
BASTARD
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Of no | more force | to dis|possess | me sir,
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Than was | his will | to get | me, as | I think.
QUEEN ELINOR
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Whether | hadst thou | rather | be a
Faul|conbridge,
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And like | thy broth|er to | enjoy | thy land:
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Or the re|puted | son of | Coeur-de-|lion,
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Lord of | thy pres|ence, and | no land | beside.
BASTARD
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Madam,| and if | my broth|er had | my shape
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And I | had his,| sir Rob|ert's his | like^him,
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And if | my legs | were two | such^rid|ing-rods,
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My arms | such^eel-|skins^stuffed,| my face | so
thin,
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That in | mine^ear | I durst | not stick | a
rose,
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Lest men | should say,| look where | three*
farth|ings goes. ??
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And to | his shape | were heir | to all | this
land,
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Would I | might nev|er stir | from off | this
place,
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I would give | it ev|ery foot | to have | this
face:
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It would | not be | sir Nob | in an|y case.
QUEEN ELINOR
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I like | thee well:| wilt thou for|sake thy |
fortune,
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Bequeath | thy land | to him,| and fol|low me?
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I am | a sol|dier, and / now bound | to France.
BASTARD
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Brother,| take you | my land,| I'll take | my
chance;
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Your face | hath got | five^hund|red pound | a
year,
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Yet sell | your face | for five | pence* and
|'tis dear:
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Madam,| I'll fol|low you | unto | the death.
QUEEN ELINOR
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Nay, I would | have you | go be|fore me |
thither.
BASTARD
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Our count|ry man|ners give | our bet|ters way.
KING JOHN
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What is thy name? \\
BASTARD
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Philip | my liege,| so is | my name | begun,
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Philip,| good old sir | Robert's | wife's eldest
son. ??
KING JOHN
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From hence|forth* bear | his name
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Whose form |
thou bearst:
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T T T
Kneel thou | down Phil/ip, but | rise more great,
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Arise | sir Rich|ard, and | Plantag|enet.
BASTARD
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Brother | by the moth|er's side,| give^me | your
hand,
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My fath|er gave | me hon|or, yours | gave^land:
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Now bles|sed by | the hour | by night | or day
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When I | was got,| sir Rob|ert was | away.
QUEEN ELINOR
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The ve|ry spir|it of | Plantag|enet:
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I am | thy grand|am Rich|ard, call | me so.
BASTARD
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Madam | by chance,| but not | by truth,| what
though;
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Something | about | a lit|tle from | the right,
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In at | the wind|ow, or / else ore | the hatch:
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Who dares | not^stir | by day,| must walk | by
night,
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And have | is have,| howev|er men | do catch:
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Near or | far^off,| well-won is still |*well-shot,
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And I | am I,| howere | I was | begot.
KING JOHN
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Go, Faulconbridge:| now hast | thou thy | desire;
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A land|less knight,| makes thee | a land|ed
squire:
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Come^mad|am, and / come Rich|ard, we | must speed
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For France,| for France,| for it | is more | than
need.
BASTARD
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Brother | adieu,| good for|tune come | to thee,
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For thou | wast got | in the way | of hon|esty.
[Exeunt all but BASTARD]
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A foot | of hon|or bet|ter than | I was,
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But ma|ny a ma|ny foot | of land | the worse.
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Well, now / can I | make any | Joan a | lady,
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Good^den sir | Richard,| God-a-|mercy | fellow,
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And if his | name be | George, I'll | call him |
Peter;
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For new-|made^hon|or doth | forget | men's^names:
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'Tis too | respect|ive, and / too soc|iable
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For your | convers|ion, now | your trav|eller,
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He and | his tooth|pick at | my worsh|ip's mess,
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And when | my knight|ly stom|ach is | sufficed,
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Why then | I suck | my teeth,| and cat|echise
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My picked | man of | countries:| My dear sir,
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Thus lean|ing on | mine el|bow I | begin,
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I shall | beseech | you; that | is ques|tion now,
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And then | comes ans|wer like | an Ab|sey book:
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O sir,| says^ans|wer, at | your best | command,
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At your | employ|ment, at | your serv|ice sir:
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No sir,| says^ques|tion, I | sweet* sir | at
yours,
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And so | ere ans|wer knows | what ques|tion
would,
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Saving | in di|alogue | of comp|liment,
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And talk|ing of | the Alps | and Ap|ennines,
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The Pyr|ene|an and | the riv|er Po,
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It draws | toward sup|per in | conclu|sion so.
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But this | is worsh|ipful | soci|ety,
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And fits | the mount|ing spir|it like | myself;
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For he | is but | a bast|ard to | the time
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That doth | not smack | of ob|serva|tion;
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And so | am I | whether | I smack | or no:
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And not | alone | in hab|it and | device,
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Exter|ior form,| outward | accout|rement;
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But from the | inward | motion | to de|liver
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Sweet, sweet, sweet | poison | for the a|ge's
tooth,
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Which though | I will | not prac|tice to |
deceive,
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Yet to | avoid | deceit | I mean | to learn;
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For it | shall strew | the foot|steps of my |
rising:
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But who | comes in | such haste | in rid|ing
robes.
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What wom|an-post | is this?| Hath she no |
husband
2
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That will take | pains to | blow a | horn be|fore
her?
[Enter LADY FAULCONBRIDGE and GURNEY]
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O* me,| 'tis my | mother:| How now | good* la||dy,
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What | brings you | here to court | so has|tily?
??
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
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,
Where is | that slave | thy broth|er? Where | is
he?
, ,
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That holds | in chase | mine hon|or up | and
down.
BASTARD
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My broth|er Rob|ert, old | sir Rob|ert's son:
,
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*Colbrand | the gi|ant, that / same migh|ty man,
, ,
, , ,
Is it | sir Rob|ert's son | that you / seek so?
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
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Sir Rob|ert's son,| aye thou | unreve|rend boy,
,
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2 ,
Sir Rob|ert's son?| Why scornst | thou at sir |
Robert?
, ,
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He is | sir Rob|ert's son,| and so | art thou.
BASTARD
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James Gurn/ey, wilt | thou give | us leave |
awhile?
GURNEY
, ,
Good leave | good Phi|lip.
BASTARD
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,
Phi|lip, spar|row, James,
,
, , ,
,
There's^toys | abroad,| anon | I'll tell | thee
more.
[Exit GURNEY]
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Madam,| I was / not old | sir Rob|ert's son,
, ,
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Sir Rob|ert might | have eat | his part | in me
,
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Upon | Good* Fri|day, and / nere broke | his fast:
,
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Sir Rob|ert could | do well,| marry | to confess
,
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Could he | get me | Sir Rob|ert could / not do
it:
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2 ,
We know | his hand|iwork,| therefore good*|
mother
, ,
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To whom | am I | behold|ing for | these^limbs?
,
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Sir Rob|ert nev|er holp | to make | this leg.
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
,
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Hast thou | conspir|ed with | thy broth|er too,
, 2
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That for thine^|own gain / shouldst de|fend
mine^|honor?
, ,
, ,
,
What means | this scorn,| thou most | unto/ward
knave?
BASTARD
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Knight,| knight good*| mother,| Basi|lisco-|like:
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What,| I am | dubbed, I | have it | on my |
shoulder: (hex with prev?)
,
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But moth|er, I | am not | sir Rob|ert's son,
,
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I have | disclaimed | sir Rob|ert and | my land,
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Legit|ima|tion, name,| and all | is gone;
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Then good | my moth|er, let | me know | my
fath|er,
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Some prop|er man | I hope,| who was | it moth|er?
(hex with prev)
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
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, , ,
Hast thou | denied | thyself | a Faul|conbridge?
BASTARD
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As faith|fully | as I | deny | the devil.
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
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King^Rich|ard Coeur-|de-lion | was thy | father,
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By long | and ve|hement suit | I was | seduced
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To make | room for | him in | my hus|band's bed:
Tx T T
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2 ,
Heaven lay not | my trans|gression | to my
charge,
,
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That art | the is|sue of | my dear | offense
, ,
, , ,
Which was | so strong|ly urged | past^my |
defense. ??
BASTARD
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Now* by | this light,| were I | to get | again,
x
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Madam I | would^not | wish a | better | father.
,
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,
Some* sins | do bear | their priv|ilege | on
earth,
,
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And so | doth^yours:| your fault,| was not | your
fol||ly,
,
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Needs | must you lay | your heart | at his |
dispose,
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Subjec|ted tri|bute to | command|ing love,
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Against | whose^fu|ry and | unmatch|ed force,
,
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The awe|less li|on could | not^wage | the fight,
, ,
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Nor keep | his prince|ly heart | from Rich|ard's
hand:
, 2
T T T ,
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He that per|force robs li|ons of | their hearts,
, 2 ,
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, o
May ea|sily win | a wom|an's: aye | my moth|er,
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o
With all | my heart | I thank | thee for | my
fath|er: (hex with prev)
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Who lives | and dares | but say,| thou didst |
not well
,
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,
When I | was got,| I'll send | his soul | to
hell.
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Come^la|dy I | will show | thee to | my kin,
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And they | shall say,| when Rich|ard me | begot,
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If thou | hadst said | him nay,| it had | been
sin,
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Who says | it was,| he lies,| I say |'twas not.
[Exeunt]