4.3.0.11996Enter Arthur on the walls [disguised as a ship-boy]. The wall is high, and yet will I leap down.
4.3.21998Good ground be pitiful and hurt me not!
4.3.31999There's few or none do know me. If they did,
4.3.42000This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite.
4.3.52001I am afraid, and yet I'll venture it.
4.3.62002If I get down and do not break my limbs,
4.3.72003I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
4.3.82004As good to die and go as die and stay.
4.3.92005O me, my uncle's spirit is in these stones.
4.3.102006Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones.
4.3.10.22007Enter Pembroke, Salisbury [with a letter], and Bigot. Lords, I will meet him at Saint Edmondsbury.
Who brought that letter from the Cardinal?
The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,
4.3.162013Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love
4.3.172014Is much more general than these lines import.
Tomorrow morning let us meet him then.
Or rather then set forward, for 'twill be
4.3.202017Two long days' journey, lords, or ere we meet.
Once more today well met, distempered lords,
4.3.222020The King by me requests your presence straight.
The King hath dispossessed himself of us,
4.3.242022We will not line his thin bestainèd cloak
4.3.252023With our pure honors, nor attend the foot
4.3.262024That leaves the print of blood where e'er it walks.
4.3.272025Return and tell him so. We know the worst.
What e'er you think, good words I think
2027were best.
Our griefs and not our manners reason now.
But there is little reason in your grief.
4.3.312030Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now.
Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege.
'Tis true, to hurt his master, no man else.
This is the prison.
[He sees Arthur's body.]
This is the prison. What is he lies here?
O, death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
4.3.362035The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.
Murder, as hating what himself hath done,
Or, when he doomed this beauty to a grave,
4.3.402039Found it too precious-princely for a grave.
Sir Richard, what think you? You have beheld.
4.3.422041Or have you read, or heard, or could you think?
4.3.432042Or do you almost think, although you see,
4.3.442043That you do see? Could thought, without this object
4.3.452044Form such another? This is the very top,
4.3.462045The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest
4.3.472046Of murder's arms. This is the bloodiest shame,
4.3.492048That ever wall-eyed wrath, or staring rage
All murders past do stand excused in this.
4.3.552054And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,
It is a damnèd, and a bloody work,
If that it be the work of any hand?
4.3.612060We had a kind of light what would ensue.
4.3.622061It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand,
4.3.632062The practice and the purpose of the king,
4.3.642063From whose obedience I forbid my soul,
[He kneels.] 4.3.652064Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,
4.3.662065And breathing to his breathless excellence
4.3.682067Never to taste the pleasures of the world,
[They kneel.] Our souls religiously confirm thy words.
Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you,
4.3.752075Arthur doth live; the king hath sent for you.
O, he is bold and blushes not at death. --
4.3.772077Avaunt thou hateful villain, get thee gone!
I am no villain.
Salisbury
I am no villain. Must I rob the law?
Your sword is bright sir; put it up again.
Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin.
[Putting his hand on his sword] Stand back Lord Salisbury. Stand back, I say.
4.3.822082By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours.
4.3.832083I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,
4.3.842084Nor tempt the danger of my true defense,
4.3.862086your worth, your greatness, and nobility.
Out dunghill! Dar'st thou brave a nobleman?
Not for my life. But yet I dare defend
Thou art a murderer.
Do not prove me so;
4.3.922092Yet I am none. Whose tongue so e'er speaks false,
4.3.932093Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.
[Drawing his sword] Cut him to pieces.
[Drawing his sword] Cut him to pieces. [Drawing his sword] Keep the peace, I say.
Stand by, or I shall gall you Faulconbridge.
Thou wer't better gall the devil Salisbury.
4.3.972098If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,
4.3.982099Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,
4.3.992100I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betimes,
4.3.1012102That you shall think the devil is come from hell.
What wilt thou do, renownèd Faulconbridge?
Lord Bigot, I am none.
Lord Bigot, I am none. [Indicating Arthur's body] Who killed this Prince?
'Tis not an hour since I left him well:
4.3.1072109My date of life out for his sweet life's loss.
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
Away, toward Bury, to the Dauphin there!
There tell the king, he may inquire us out.
Here's a good world! Knew you of this fair work?
Art thou damned, Hubert. Do but hear me sir.
Ha? I'll tell thee what.
4.3.1232124Thou'rt damned as black -- nay nothing is so black --
4.3.1242125Thou art more deep damned than Prince Lucifer.
4.3.1262127As thou shalt be if thou didst kill this child.
Upon my soul --
Upon my soul -- If thou didst but consent
4.3.1292131And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread
4.3.1312133Will serve to strangle thee. A rush will be a beam
4.3.1322134To hang thee on. Or wouldst thou drown thyself,
If I in act, consent, or sin of thought,
I left him well. Go, bear him in thine arms.
4.3.1462149The life, the right, and truth of all this realm
4.3.1492152The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
4.3.1532156Now powers from home and discontents at home
4.3.161.1Exeunt [with Hubert carrying Arthur's body].