Bla. The Sun"s orecast with bloud: faire day adieu, Which is the side that I must goe withall?
I am with both, each Army hath a hand, And in their rage, I hauing hold of both, They whurle a-sunder, and dismember mee.
Husband, I cannot pray that thou maist winne: Vncle, I needs must pray that thou maist lose: Father, I may not wish the fortune thine: Grandam, I will not wish thy wishes thriue: Who-euer wins, on that side shall I lose: a.s.sured losse, before the match be plaid
Dolph. Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies
Bla. There where my fortune liues, there my life dies
Iohn. Cosen, goe draw our puisance together, France, I am burn"d vp with inflaming wrath, A rage, whose heat hath this condition; That nothing can allay, nothing but blood, The blood and deerest valued bloud of France
Fra. Thy rage shall burne thee vp, & thou shalt turne To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire: Looke to thy selfe, thou art in ieopardie
Iohn. No more then he that threats. To Arms let"s hie.
Exeunt.
Scoena Secunda.
Allarums, Excursions: Enter b.a.s.t.a.r.d with Austria"s head.
Bast. Now by my life, this day grows wondrous hot, Some ayery Deuill houers in the skie, And pour"s downe mischiefe. Austrias head lye there, Enter Iohn, Arthur, Hubert.
While Philip breathes
Iohn. Hubert, keepe this boy: Philip make vp, My Mother is a.s.sayled in our Tent, And tane I feare
Bast. My Lord I rescued her, Her Highnesse is in safety, feare you not: But on my Liege, for very little paines Will bring this labor to an happy end.
Enter.
Alarums, excursions, Retreat. Enter Iohn, Eleanor, Arthur b.a.s.t.a.r.d, Hubert, Lords.
Iohn. So shall it be: your Grace shall stay behinde So strongly guarded: Cosen, looke not sad, Thy Grandame loues thee, and thy Vnkle will As deere be to thee, as thy father was
Arth. O this will make my mother die with griefe
Iohn. Cosen away for England, haste before, And ere our comming see thou shake the bags Of hoording Abbots, imprisoned angells Set at libertie: the fat ribs of peace Must by the hungry now be fed vpon: Vse our Commission in his vtmost force
Bast. Bell, Booke, & Candle, shall not driue me back, When gold and siluer becks me to come on.
I leaue your highnesse: Grandame, I will pray (If euer I remember to be holy) For your faire safety: so I kisse your hand
Ele. Farewell gentle Cosen
Iohn. Coz, farewell
Ele. Come hether little kinsman, harke, a worde
Iohn. Come hether Hubert. O my gentle Hubert, We owe thee much: within this wall of flesh There is a soule counts thee her Creditor, And with aduantage meanes to pay thy loue: And my good friend, thy voluntary oath Liues in this bosome, deerely cherished.
Giue me thy hand, I had a thing to say, But I will fit it with some better tune.
By heauen Hubert, I am almost asham"d To say what good respect I haue of thee
Hub. I am much bounden to your Maiesty
Iohn. Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet, But thou shalt haue: and creepe time nere so slow, Yet it shall come, for me to doe thee good.
I had a thing to say, but let it goe: The Sunne is in the heauen, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawdes To giue me audience: If the mid-night bell Did with his yron tongue, and brazen mouth Sound on into the drowzie race of night: If this same were a Church-yard where we stand, And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs: Or if that surly spirit melancholy Had bak"d thy bloud, and made it heauy, thicke, Which else runnes tickling vp and downe the veines, Making that idiot laughter keepe mens eyes, And straine their cheekes to idle merriment, A pa.s.sion hatefull to my purposes: Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes, Heare me without thine eares, and make reply Without a tongue, vsing conceit alone, Without eyes, eares, and harmefull sound of words: Then, in despight of brooded watchfull day, I would into thy bosome poure my thoughts: But (ah) I will not, yet I loue thee well, And by my troth I thinke thou lou"st me well
Hub. So well, that what you bid me vndertake, Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it
Iohn. Doe not I know thou wouldst?
Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert throw thine eye On yon young boy: Ile tell thee what my friend, He is a very serpent in my way, And wheresoere this foot of mine doth tread, He lies before me: dost thou vnderstand me?
Thou art his keeper
Hub. And Ile keepe him so, That he shall not offend your Maiesty
Iohn. Death
Hub. My Lord
Iohn. A Graue
Hub. He shall not liue
Iohn. Enough.
I could be merry now, Hubert, I loue thee.
Well, Ile not say what I intend for thee: Remember: Madam, Fare you well, Ile send those powers o"re to your Maiesty
Ele. My blessing goe with thee
Iohn. For England Cosen, goe.
Hubert shall be your man, attend on you With al true duetie: On toward Callice, hoa.
Exeunt.
Scaena Tertia.
Enter France, Dolphin, Pandulpho, Attendants.
Fra. So by a roaring Tempest on the flood, A whole Armado of conuicted saile Is scattered and dis-ioyn"d from fellowship
Pand. Courage and comfort, all shall yet goe well
Fra. What can goe well, when we haue runne so ill?
Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost?
Arthur tane prisoner? diuers deere friends slaine?
And bloudy England into England gone, Ore-bearing interruption spight of France?
Dol. What he hath won, that hath he fortified: So hot a speed, with such aduice dispos"d, Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, Doth want example: who hath read, or heard Of any kindred-action like to this?
Fra. Well could I beare that England had this praise, So we could finde some patterne of our shame: Enter Constance.