Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. Hub. Is this your promise? go to, hold your tongue. Arth. Hubert, the utterance of a brace of Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes: Hub. I can heat it, boy. Arth. No, in good sooth; the fire is dead with grief, Being create for comfort, to be used In undeserved extremes: see else yourself; 100 The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit out Hub. But with my breath I can revive it, boy. Arth. An if you do, you will but make it blush That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends, Hub. Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eye For all the treasure that thine uncle owes : Yet am I sworn and I did purpose, boy, 99. want pleading, be insufficient to plead. With this same very iron to burn them out. Arth. O, now you look like Hubert! all this while You were disguised. Peace: no more. Adieu. Hub. Arth. O heaven! I thank you, Hubert. Hub. Silence; no more: go closely in with me: Much danger do I undergo for thee. [Exeunt. SCENE II. KING JOHN's palace. Enter KING JOHN, PEMBROKE, Salisbury, K. John. Here once again we sit, once again And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes. Pem. This once again,' but that your highness pleased, Was once superfluous: you were crown'd before, Sal. Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, 130 10 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 130. doubtless and secure, in fearless confidence. 132. offend, harm. To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Pem. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, Sal. In this the antique and well noted face It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about, Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected, Pem. When workmen strive to do better than They do confound their skill in covetousness; Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. Sal. To this effect, before you were new crown'd, We breathed our counsel: but it pleased your highness To overbear it, and we are all well pleased, Since all and every part of what we would I have possess'd you with and think them strong; 20 30 40 And more, more strong, than lesser is my fear, To sound the purposes of all their hearts, 42. more, more strong, than lesser is my fear, more reasons, even stronger than in proportion to my diminished fear; i.e. the superior cogency of his new arguments, far from indicating a greater anxiety, would even exceed the measure of his relief. Ff read then lesser (lesse),' where then' is a common sixteenth-century spelling of Tyrwhitt's when' 'than.' is very plausible. 48. sound, declare. 4 50. them; for they,' perhaps, 50 60 as Camb. edd. think, through the preceding 'myself' suggesting 'themselves.' Or the compositor's eye may have caught the myself and them' above. 52. enfranchisement, liberation. 60. exercise, mental and bodily training. 61. the time's enemies, the opponents of the present régime. 62. To grace occasions, to render specious their matters of complaint against you. 64. goods, good, advantage. G Than whereupon our weal, on you depending, Enter HUBERT. K. John. Let it be so: I do commit his youth Το your direction. Hubert, what news with you? [Taking him apart. Pem. This is the man should do the bloody deed; He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine: The image of a wicked heinous fault Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his Does show the mood of a much troubled breast; What we so fear'd he had a charge to do. Sal. The colour of the king doth come and go The foul corruption of a sweet child's death. K. John. We cannot hold mortality's strong Good lords, although my will to give is living, Sal. Indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure. Pem. Indeed we heard how near his death he was Before the child himself felt he was sick : 65. Than whereupon, etc., (we ask his liberty no further) than the commonwealth counts it your advantage. upon' has no distinct meaning; 'Where 70 80 it is apparently suggested by 'depending.' 78. battles, embattled armies. 79. His passion is so ripe, etc.; the image is from a tumour. |