Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, K. Phi. Well could I bear that England had this praise, So we could find some pattern of our shame. Enter CONSTANCE. Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul; I prithee, lady, go away with me. Const. Lo, now! now see the issue of your K. Phi. Patience, good lady! comfort, gentle Const. No, I defy all counsel, all redress, And ring these fingers with thy household worms Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest, O, come to me! K. Phi. O fair affliction, peace! Const. No, no, I will not, having breath to cry: O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with a passion would I shake the world; And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy 40. anatomy, skeleton. 20 4 30 40 Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation. ; Pand. Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow. I note O, what love 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 Like true, inseparable, faithful loves, Sticking together in calamity. Const. To England, if you will. K. Phi. Bind up your hairs. Const. Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it? I tore them from their bonds and cried aloud 42. modern, ordinary. rags. 60. plague, torment. 70 60 50 As they have given these hairs their liberty!' And will again commit them to their bonds, And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, There was not such a gracious creature born. As dim and meagre as an ague's fit, And so he'll die; and, rising so again, When I shall meet him in the court of heaven Pand. You hold too heinous a respect of grief. Const. He talks to me that never had a son. Const. Grief fills the room up of my absent Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, 80. suspire, draw his (first) breath. 85. dim, faded, colourless. 90. You hold too heinous a 80 90 respect of grief, you take a too hateful view of grief, sinfully think too much of it. 96. Remembers, reminds. I could give better comfort than you [Exit. K. Phi. I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her. [Exit. Lew. There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness. Lew. All days of glory, joy and happiness. Pand. If you had won it, certainly you had. No, no; when Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost In this which he accounts so clearly won: Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit; 101. this form, i.e. the usual arrangement of the hair. 110. world's; Pope's emendation for Ff' words.' Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub, Thy foot to England's throne; and therefore mark. 130 That John may stand, then Arthur needs must So be it, for it cannot be but so. Lew. But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall? Pand. You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife, May then make all the claim that Arthur did. Lew. And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did. John lays you plots; the times conspire with you; Shall find but bloody safety and untrue. No scope of nature, no distemper'd day, 128. rub, obstacle. 138. Makes nice of, scruples to seize. 153. exhalation, meteor. 140 150 effect produced within the limits of nature, no 'natural phenomenon.' 154. distemper'd, troubled, stormy. |