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The French King's pavilion.
[Enter CONSTANCE, ARTHUR, and SALISBURY]
CONSTANCE
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Gone to | be mar|ried? Gone | to swear | a peace?
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False blood to false | blood joined. Gone | to be
friends?
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Shall Lewis | have Blanch,| and Blanch |
those^prov|inces?
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It is / not so,| thou hast | misspoke,| misheard,
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Be well | advised,| tell ore | thy tale | again.
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It can|not be,| thou dost | but say |'tis so.
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I trust | I may | not trust | thee, for | thy
word
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Is but | the vain | breath of | a com|mon man:
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Believe | me, I | do not | believe | thee man,
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I have | a king's | oath to | the con|trary.
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Thou shalt | be pun|ished for / thus fright|ing
me,
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For I | am sick,| and cap|able | of fears,
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Oppressed | with wrongs,| and there|fore full |
of fears,
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A wid|ow, hus|bandless,| subject | to fears,
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A wom|an nat|ural|ly born | to fears;
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And though | thou now | confess | thou didst |
but jest
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With my / vexed spirits,| I can|not take | a
truce,
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But they | will quake | and trem|ble all | this
day.
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What dost | thou mean | by shak|ing of | thy
head?
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Why dost | thou look | so sad|ly on | my son?
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What means | that hand | upon | that breast | of
thine?
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Why holds | thine^eye | that la|mentab|le rheum,
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Like a proud riv|er peer|ing ore | his bounds?
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Be these sad signs | confirm|ers^of | thy words?
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Then speak | again,| not all | thy form|er tale,
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But this / one word,| whether | thy tale | be
true.
SALISBURY
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As true | as I | believe | you think | them
false,
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That give | you cause | to prove | my say|ing
true.
CONSTANCE
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Oh if | thou teach | me to be|lieve this |
sorrow,
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Teach thou | this sor|row, how | to make | me die,
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And let | belief,| and life | encount|er so,
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As doth | the fu|ry of / two des|perate men,
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Which^in | the ve|ry meet|ing fall,| and die.
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Lewis marry Blanch?| O boy,| then where | art
thou?
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France | friend with | England,| what becomes |
of me? ??
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Fellow | begone:| I can|not brook | thy sight,
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This news | hath made | thee a / most ug|ly man.
SALISBURY
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What oth|er harm | have I | good la|dy done,
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But spoke | the harm,| that is | by oth|ers done?
CONSTANCE
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Which harm | within | itself | so hein|ous is,
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As it / makes harm|ful all | that speak | of it.
ARTHUR
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I do | beseech | you mad|am be | content.
CONSTANCE
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If thou | that bidst | me be | content,| wert
grim
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Ugly,| and sland|erous to | thy moth|er's womb,
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Full of | unpleas|ing blots,| and sight|less
stains,
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Lame, foolish, crook|ed, swart,| prodig|ious,
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Patched with | foul moles, and^eye-|offend|ing
marks,
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I would | not care,| I then | would be | content,
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For then | I should | not love | thee: no,| nor
thou
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Become | thy great | birth, nor | deserve | a
crown.
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But thou | art fair,| and at | thy birth |(dear*
boy)
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Nature | and Fort|une joined | to make | thee
great.
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Of Na|ture's gifts,| thou mayst | with lil|ies
boast,
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And with the | half-blown rose.| But For|tune,
oh,
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She is |corrupt|ed, changed,| and won | from
thee,
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She adult|erates | hourly | with thine^/uncle
John,
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And with | her gold|en hand | hath plucked | on
France
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To tread down fair | respect | of sove|reignty,
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And made | his maj|esty | the bawd | to theirs.
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France is | a bawd | to Fort|une, and / King
John,
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That strump|et Fort|une, that | usurp|ing John:
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Tell me | thou fel|low, is | not France |
forsworn?
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Enven|om him | with words,| or get | thee gone,
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And leave | those woes | alone,| which I | alone
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Am bound | to und|er-bear.
SALISBURY
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Pardon | me madam,
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I may | not go | without | you to | the kings.
CONSTANCE
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Thou mayst,| thou shalt,| I will | not go | with
thee,
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I will | instruct | my sor|rows to | be proud,
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For grief | is proud,| and makes | his own|er
stoop,
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To me | and to | the state | of my / great grief,
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Let kings | assem|ble: for | my grief's | so
great,
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That no | suppor|ter but the // huge firm earth
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Can hold | it up:| here I | and sor|rows sit,
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Here^is | my throne,| bid^kings | come^bow | to
it.
[Seats herself on the ground. Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILLIP, LEWIS, BLANCH,
QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, AUSTRIA, and Attendants]
KING PHILIP
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'Tis true |(fair* daught|er) and | this bles|sed
day,
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Ever | in France | shall be / kept fest|ival:
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To sol|emnize | this day | the glor|ious sun
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Stays in | his course,| and plays | the
alch|emist,
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Turning | with splend|or of | his pre|cious eye
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The meag|er clod|dy earth | to glit|tering gold:
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The year|ly course | that brings | this day |
about,
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Shall nev|er see | it, but | a ho|ly day.
CONSTANCE
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A wick|ed day,| and not | a ho|ly day.
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What hath | this day | deserved?| What hath | it
done,
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That it | in gold|en let|ters should | be set
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Among | the high | tides in | the cal|endar?
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Nay, rath|er turn | this day | out of | the week,
??
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This day | of shame,| oppres|sion, per|jury.
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Or if it | must stand still,| let wives | with
child
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Pray that | their burd|ens may | not fall | this
day,
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Lest that | their hopes | prodig|iously | be
crossed:
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But^(on | this day)| let sea|men fear | no wrack,
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No bar|gains break | that are not | this day
made;
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This day | all things begun | come to^ill end,
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Yea, faith itself | to hol|low false|hood change.
KING PHILIP
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By heav|en la|dy, you | shall have | no* cause
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To curse | the fair | proceed|ings of | this day:
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Have I | not pawned | to you | my maj|esty?
CONSTANCE
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You have | beguiled | me with | a count|erfeit
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Resem|bling maj|esty*, which | being touched |
and tried,
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Proves val/ueless:| you are | forsworn,|
forsworn,
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You came | in arms | to spill | mine^en|emies'
blood,
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But now | in arms,| you strength|en it | with
yours:
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The grap|pling vig|or, and / rough frown | of war
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Is cold | in am|ity,| and paint|ed peace,
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And our | oppres|sion hath | made^up | this
league;
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Arm, arm, you heavens, against these
perjured kings, ????
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A wid|ow cries,| be hus|band to | me (heavens)
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Let^not | the hours | of this / ungod|ly day
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Wear out the | day in | peace; but | ere sunset,
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Set^armed | discord 'twixt | these* per|jured
kings,
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Hear me,| oh, hear | me.
AUSTRIA
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La|dy Const|ance, peace.
CONSTANCE
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War, war, no peace,| peace^is | to me | a war:
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O Ly|moges,| O Aust|ria, thou | dost shame
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That bloo|dy spoil:| thou slave,| thou wretch,|
thou coward,
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Thou lit|tle val|iant, great | in vil|lany,
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Thou ev|er strong | upon | the strong|er side;
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Thou Fort|une's champ|ion, that | dost nev|er
fight
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But when | her hum|orous lad|yship | is by
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To teach | thee safe|ty: thou | art per|jured
too,
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And sooth|est up | greatness.| What a fool | art
thou,
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A ramp|ing fool,| to brag,| and stamp,| and
swear,
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Upon | my part|y: Thou / cold-blood|ed slave,
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Hast thou | not spoke | like thund|er on | my
side?
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Been sworn | my sol|dier, bid|ding me | depend
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Upon | thy stars,| thy fort|une, and | thy
strength,
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And dost | thou now | fall^ov|er to | my foes?
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Thou wear | a li|on's hide,| doff it | for shame,
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And hang | a calf's-|skin on | those rec|reant
limbs.
AUSTRIA
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O that | a man | should speak | those words | to
me.
BASTARD
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And hang | a calf's-|skin on | those rec|reant
limbs.
AUSTRIA
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Thou darst | not say | so vil|lain for | thy
life.
BASTARD
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And hang | a calf's-|skin on | those rec|reant
limbs.
KING JOHN
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We like | not^this,| thou dost | forget |
thyself.
[Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH]
KING PHILIP
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Here comes | the ho|ly leg|ate of | the pope.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
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Hail you | anoint|ed dep|uties | of heaven;
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To thee | King^John | my ho|ly er|rand is:
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I Pandulph,| of fair | Milan | cardinal,
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And from | Pope In/nocent | the leg|ate here,
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Do in | his name | relig|iously | demand
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Why thou | against | the church,| our ho|ly
moth||er,
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So | willfully | dost^spurn;| and force |
perforce
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Keep* Steph|en Lang|ton chos|en arch|bishop
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Of Cant|erbu|ry from | that ho|ly see:
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This in | our* fore|said ho|ly fath|er's name
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Pope In/nocent,| I do | demand | of thee.
KING JOHN
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What earth|y name | to int|errog|atories
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Can task | the free | breath of | a sac|red king?
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Thou canst | not (card/inal)| devise | a name
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So slight,| unworth|y, and | ridic|ulous
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To charge | me to | an ans|wer, as | the pope:
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Tell him | this^tale,| and from the | mouth of |
England,
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Add thus | much^more,| that no | Ital|ian priest
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Shall tithe | or toll | in our | domin|ions:
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But^as / we, und|er heaven,| are su/preme
head,
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So und|er Him | that great | suprem|acy
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Where we | do reign,| we will | alone | uphold
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Without | the assist|ance of | a mort|al hand:
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So tell | the pope,| all reve|rence set | apart
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To him | and his | usurped | author|ity.
KING PHILIP
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Brother of | England,| you blaspheme | in this.
KING JOHN
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Though you,| and all | the kings | of
Christ|endom
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Are led | so gross|ly by | this med|dling priest,
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Dreading | the curse | that mon|ey may | buy^out,
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And by | the merit | of vile | gold, dross, dust,
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Purchase | corrupt|ed pard|on of | a man,
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Who in | that sale | sells pard/on from |
himself:
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Though you,| and all | the rest | so gross|ly
led,
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This jug|gling witch|craft with | revenue |
cherish,
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Yet I | alone,| alone | do me | oppose
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Against | the pope,| and count | his friends | my
foes.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
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Then by | the law|ful pow|er that | I have,
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Thou shalt | stand cursed, and^ex|commun|icate,
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And bles|sed shall | he be | that doth | revolt
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From his | alleg|iance to | a her|etic,
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And mer|itor|ious shall | that hand | be called,
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Cano|nized and | worshipped | as a | saint,
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That takes | away | by an|y sec|ret course
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Thy hate|ful life.
CONSTANCE
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O law|ful let | it be
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That I | have room | with Rome | to curse |
awhile,
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Good* fath|er card|inal,/ cry thou | amen
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To my keen | curses:| for with|out my wrong
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There is / no tongue | hath power | to curse |
him right.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
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There's law | and war|rant (la|dy) for / my
curse.
CONSTANCE
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And for / mine too,| when law | can do | no
right.
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Let it be | lawful,| that law | bar no wrong:
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Law can|not give | my child | his king|dom here;
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For he | that holds | his king|dom, holds | the
law:
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Therefore | since law | itself | is per|fect
wrong,
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How can | the law | forbid | my tongue | to
curse?
CARDINAL PANDULPH
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Philip | of France,| on per|il of | a curse,
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Let go | the hand | of that / arch-her|etic,
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And raise | the power | of France | upon | his
head,
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Unless | he do | submit | himself | to Rome.
QUEEN ELINOR
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Lookst thou | pale France? Do not | let go | thy
hand.
CONSTANCE
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Look to | that dev|il, lest | that France |
repent,
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And by | disjoin|ing hands | hell lose a soul.
AUSTRIA
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King Phil|ip, list|en to | the card|inal.
BASTARD
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And hang | a calf's-|skin on | his rec|reant
limbs.
AUSTRIA
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Well ruf/fian,| I must pock|et up | these wrongs,
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Because,
BASTARD
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Your breech|es best | may
car|ry them.
KING JOHN
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Philip,| what sayst | thou to | the card|inal?
CONSTANCE
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What should | he say,| but as | the card|inal?
LEWIS
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Bethink | you fath|er, for | the dif|ference
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Is purch|ase of | a hea|vy curse | from Rome,
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Or the / light loss | of Eng|land for | a friend:
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Forego | the eas|ier.
BLANCH
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That's | the curse | of Rome.
CONSTANCE
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O* Lewis,| stand fast, the dev|il tempts | thee
here ??
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In like|ness^of | a new | untrim|med bride.
BLANCH
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The La|dy Const|ance^speaks | not from | her
faith,
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But from | her need.
CONSTANCE
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Oh, if | thou grant | my need,
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Which on|ly lives | but by | the death | of
faith,
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That need,| must needs | infer | this prin|ciple,
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That faith | would live | again | by death | of
need:
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O then | tread^down | my need,| and faith |
mounts^up,
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Keep my | need up, and faith | is trod|den down.
KING JOHN
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The king | is moved,| and ans|wers not | to this.
CONSTANCE
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O be | removed | from him,| and ans|wer well.
AUSTRIA
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Do so | King^Phil|ip, hang | no more | in doubt.
BASTARD
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Hang^noth|ing but a / calf's skin | most sweet
lout.
KING PHILIP
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I am | perplexed,| and know | not^what | to say.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
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What canst | thou say,| but will | perplex | thee
more?
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If thou | stand ex|commun|icate,| and cursed?
KING PHILIP
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Good* reve|rend fath|er, make | my pers|on yours,
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And tell | me how | you would | bestow |
yourself?
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This roy|al hand | and mine | are new|ly knit,
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And the | conjunc|tion of | our in|ward souls
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Married in | league, coup/led, and | linked
to|gether
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With all | relig|ious strength | of sac|red vows,
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The lat|est breath | that gave | the sound | of
words
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Was deep-|sworn faith, peace,| amity,| true* love
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Between | our king|doms^and | our roy|al selves,
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And even | before | this truce,| but new | before,
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No long|er than | we well | could wash | our
hands,
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To clap | this roy|al bar|gain up | of peace,
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Heaven knows / they were | besmeared | and
ov|er-stained
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With slaught|er's pen|cil; where | revenge | did
paint
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The fear|ful dif|ference | of in/censed kings:
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And shall | these hands | so late|ly purged | of
blood?
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So new|ly joined | in love?| So strong | in both,
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Unyoke | this seiz|ure, and | this kind | regreet?
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Play fast and loose | with faith?| So jest |
with heaven,
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Make^such | unconst|ant child|ren of | ourselves
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As now | again | to snatch | our palm | from
palm:
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Unswear | faith sworn, and | on the mar|riage bed
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Of smil|ing peace | to march | a bloo|dy host,
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And make | a ri|ot on | the gent|le brow
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Of true | sincer|ity?| O ho|ly sir
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My reve|rend fath|er, let | it not | be so;
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Out of | your grace,| devise,| ordain,| impose
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Some gent|le ord|er, and / then we | shall be
blessed
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To do | your pleas|ure, and | contin|ue friends.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
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All form | is form|less, ord|er ord|erless,
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Save what | is op|posite | to Eng|land's love.
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Therefore | to arms,| be champ|ion of | our church,
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Or let | the church | our moth|er breathe | her
curse,
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A moth|er's curse,| on her | revolt|ing son:
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France, thou | mayst^hold | a serp|ent by | the
tongue,
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A chaf|ed li|on by | the mort|al paw,
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A fast|ing tig|er saf|er by | the tooth,
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Than keep | in peace | that hand | which thou |
dost hold.
KING PHILIP
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I may | disjoin | my hand,| but not | my faith.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
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So makst | thou faith | an en|emy | to faith,
, ,
, ,
,
And like | a civ|il war | setst^oath | to oath,
,
, , ,
,
Thy tongue | against | thy tongue.| O let | thy
vow
, x
, x
,
First^made | to heaven,| first^be | to heaven |
performed,
,
, , 2 ,
,
That is,| to be | the champ|ion of | our church,
, ,
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,
What since | thou sworst,| is sworn | against |
thyself,
, ,
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And may | not be | perform|ed by | thyself,
, ,
, ,
,
For that | which thou | hast sworn | to do |
amiss,
, , ,
, ,
Is not | amiss | when it | is tru|ly done:
x
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,
And being | not^done,| where do|ing tends | to
ill,
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The truth | is then most done | not do/ing it:
,
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The bet|ter act | of pur|poses | mistook,
, ,
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Is to | mistake | again,| though in|direct,
, ,
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Yet in|direc|tion there|by grows | direct,
, ,
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And false|hood, false|hood cures,| as fire cools
fire
, , , .
T T T
Within | the scorch|ed veins | of one
new-burned:
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It is | relig|ion that doth | make vows kept,
??
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But thou | hast sworn | against | reli|gion:
,
, ,
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By what | thou swearst | against | the thing |
thou swearst,
, ,
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And makst | an oath | the sure|ty for | thy
truth,
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Against | an oath | the truth,| thou art | unsure
. T T T
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To swear, swears on|ly not | to be | forsworn,
,
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Else what | a mock|ery should | it be | to swear?
, ,
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But thou | dost swear,| only | to be | forsworn,
, ,
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And most | forsworn,| to keep | what thou |
dost^swear,
,
, ,
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Therefore | thy lat|er vows,| against | thy
first,
,
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Is in | thyself | rebel|lion to | thyself:
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And bet|ter con|quest never canst | thou make,
, ,
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Than arm | thy const|ant and | thy nob|ler parts
, , ,
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Against | these gid|dy loose | sugges|tions:
, ,
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Upon | which bet|ter part,| our prayers | come
in,
, ,
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If thou | vouchsafe | them. But | if not,| then
know
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The per|il of | our curs|es light | on thee
, ,
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So hea|vy, as / thou shalt | not* shake | them off
, ,
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But in | despair,| die und|er their / black
weight.
AUSTRIA
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Rebel|lion, flat | rebel|lion.
BASTARD
x ,
Will it | not be?
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Will not | a calf's skin stop | that mouth | of
thine?
LEWIS
, ,
Father,| to arms.
BLANCH
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Upon | thy wed|ding day?
, ,
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,
Against | the blood | that thou | hast mar|ried?
,
, ,
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What, shall | our feast | be kept | with
slaught|ered men?
,
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Shall bray|ing trump|ets, and / loud churl|ish
drums
,
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Clamors | of hell,| be meas|ures to | our pomp?
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O hus|band hear | me: aye,| alack,| how new
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Is hus|band in | my mouth?| Even for | that name
, ,
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Which till | this time | my tongue | did nere |
pronounce;
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Upon | my knee | I beg,| go not | to arms
, ,
Against | mine^unc|le. \\ ????
CONSTANCE
, ,
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O, u|pon my | knee made^|hard with | kneeling,
, ,
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,
I do | pray to | thee, thou | virtuous | Dauphin,
, ,
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Alter | not the | doom fore|thought by | heaven.
BLANCH
,
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,
Now shall | I see | thy love,| what mot|ive may
,
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,
Be strong|er with | thee, than | the name | of
wife?
CONSTANCE
,
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That which | uphold|eth him,| that thee |
upholds,
, ,
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2->
His hon|or, oh | thine^hon|or, Lewis |
thine^ho||nor.
LEWIS
, , ,
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I muse | your maj|esty | doth seem | so cold,
,
, , ,
,
When such | profound | respects | do pull | you
on?
CARDINAL PANDULPH
,
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, ,
I will | denounce | a curse | upon | his head.
KING PHILIP
, ,
, 2 ,
,
Thou shalt | not^need.| England,| I will fall |
from thee.
CONSTANCE
, ,
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O fair | return | of ban|ished maj|esty.
QUEEN ELINOR
, ,
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,
O foul | revolt | of French | inconst|ancy.
KING JOHN
,
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France, thou | shalt rue | this hour | within |
this hour.
BASTARD
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Old Time the clock-|setter, that | bald sexton
Time:
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Is it | as he / will? Well | then, France | shall
rue.
BLANCH
, ,
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The sun's | orecast | with blood:| fair day |
adieu,
,
, ,
, ,
Which^is | the side | that I | must go | withal?
, ,
, ,
,
I am | with both,| each ar|my hath | a hand,
, , ,
, ,
And in | their rage,| I hav|ing hold | of both,
, , ,
, ,
They whirl | asund|er, and | dismem|ber me.
, ,
, ,
,
Husband,| I can|not pray | that thou | mayst^win:
, ,
, ,
,
Uncle,| I needs | must^pray | that thou |
mayst^lose:
, ,
, ,
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Father,| I may | not wish | the fort|une thine:
, ,
, , ,
Grandam*,| I will | not wish | thy fort|unes
thrive:
,
, ,
, ,
Whoev|er wins,| on that | side shall | I lose:
,
, , ,
,
Assur|ed loss,| before | the match | be played.
LEWIS
, ,
, ,
,
Lady,| with me,| with me | thy fort|une lies.
BLANCH
,
, ,
, ,
There where | my fort|une lives,| there* my /
life dies.
KING JOHN
, ,
, , ,
Cousin,| go draw | our puis|sance to|gether.
,
, ,
, ,
France, I | am burned | up with | inflam|ing
wrath,
,
, , ,
,
A rage,| whose^heat | hath^this | condi|tion,
, ,
, ,
,
That noth|ing can | allay,| nothing | but blood,
, ,
, ,
,
The blood | and dear|est val|ued blood | of
France.
KING PHILIP
, ,
, ,
,
Thy rage | shall burn | thee up,| and thou |
shalt turn
, , , ,
,
To ash|es, ere^/our blood | shall quench | that
fire:
,
, , ,
,
Look to | thyself,| thou art | in jeo|pardy.
KING JOHN
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No more | than he | that threats.| To arms let's hie.
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