Enter ning JOHN, ARTHUR, and HUBERT. K. John. Hubert, keep this boy :-Philip, make up: My mother is assailed in our tent, And ta'en, I fear. Bast. My lord, I rescu'd her; SCENE III. [Exeunt. The same. Alarums; Excursions; Retreat. Enter King JOHN, ELINOR, ARTHUR, the Bastard, HUBERT, and Lords. K. John. So shall it be; your grace shall stay behind, So strongly guarded.-Cousin, look not sad: Thy grandam loves thee; and thy uncle will [TO ELINOR. [To ARTHUR. Arth. O, this will make my mother die with grief. And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags Use our commission in his utmost force. Bast. Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. I leave your highness :-Grandam, I will pray (If ever I remember to be holy,) For your fair safety; so I kiss your hand. Eli. Farewell, my gentle cousin. K. John. Coz, farewell. [Exit Bastard. Eli. Come hither, little kinsman; hark, a word. [She takes ARTHUR aside. K. John. Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert, We owe thee much; within this wall of flesh There is a soul, counts thee her creditor, [8] This expression like many other of our author's, is taken from the sacred writings "And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for babitation." 107th Psaim.-Again: "He hath filled the hungry with good things," &c. St. Luke, i. 53. MALONE. [9] In an account of the Romish curse given by Dr. Grey, it appears that three candles were extinguished, one by one, in different parts of the execration. JOHNSON. And with advantage means to pay thy lo.. K. John. Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet: I had a thing to say,-But let it go : The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Had bak'd thy blood, and made it heavy, thick; Or if that theu could'st see me without eyes, Hub. So well, that what you bid me undertake, K. John. Do not I know, thou would'st? [5] Conceit here as in many other places, signifies conception, thought. MALONE. [6] All animals while brooded, i. e. with a brood of young ones under their pru tection, are remarkably vigilant. STEEVENS. And, wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread, Hub. And I will keep him so, That he shall not offend your majesty. K. John. Death. Hub. My lord? K. John. A grave. Hub. He shall not live. K. John. Enough. I could be merry now: Hubert, I love thee; K. John. For England, cousin : Hubert shall be your man, attend on you With all true duty.-On toward Calais, ho! [Exeunt. The same. SCENE IV. The French King's Tent. Enter King PHILIP, K. Phil. So, by a roaring tempest on the flood, A whole armados of convicted sail9 Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship. Pan. Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well. K. Phil. What can go well, when we have run so ill? Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost? Arthur ta'en prisoner? divers dear friends slain ? O'erbearing interruption, spite of France? Lew. What he hath won, that hath he fortified: So hot a speed with such advice dispos'd, K. Phil. Well could I bear that England had this praise, [7] This is one of the scenes to which may be promised a lasting commendation. Art could add little to its perfection; no change in dramatic taste can injure it; and time itself can subtract nothing from its beauties. STEEVENS. [8] Armado is a Spanish word signifying a fleet of war. The armado in 1588 was called so by way of distinction. STEEVENS. [9] Overpowered, baffled, destroyed. To convict and to convince were in our author's time synonymous. MALONE So we could find some pattern of our shame. Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul; I pr'ythee, lady, go away with me. Const. Lo, now! now see the issue of your peace! Come, grin on me; and I will think thou smil'st, K. Phil. O fair affliction, peace. Const. No, no, I will not, having breath to cry:- Pand. Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow. 4 [1] Modern, is trite, ordinary, common. STEVENS. C And teaches me to kill or hang myself: : K. Phil. Bind up those tresses : Ö, what love I note In the fair multitude of those her hairs! Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen; Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends Do glew themselves in sociable grief; Like true, inseparable, faithful loves, Const. To England, if you will. K. Phil. Bind up your hairs. Const. Yes, that I will; And wherefore will I do it? I tore them from their bonds; and cried aloud, O that these hands could so redeem my son, As they have given these hairs their liberty! And will again commit them to their bonds, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven : For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child; There was not such a gracious creature born. Pand. You hold too heinous a respect of grief. [2] It was necessary that Constance should be interrupted, because a passion so violent cannot be borne long. I wish the following speeches had been equally happy: but they only serve to show how difficult it is to maintain the pathetic long. JOHNSON. [3] To suspire in Shakespeare, I believe, means to breathe. STEEVENS. |