1889I haue a way to winne their loues againe:

1890Bring them before me.

1891Bast. I will seeke them out.

1892Iohn. Nay, but make haste: the better foote before.

1893O, let me haue no subiect enemies,

1894When aduerse Forreyners affright my Townes

1895With dreadfull pompe of stout inuasion.

1896Be Mercurie, set feathers to thy heeles,

1897And flye (like thought) from them, to me againe.

1898Bast. The spirit of the time shall teach me speed. Exit

1899Iohn. Spoke like a sprightfull Noble Gentleman.

1900Go after him: for he perhaps shall neede

1901Some Messenger betwixt me, and the Peeres,

1902And be thou hee.

1903Mes. With all my heart, my Liege.

1904Iohn. My mother dead?

1906Hub. My Lord, they say fiue Moones were seene to (night:

1907Foure fixed, and the fift did whirle about

1908The other foure, in wondrous motion.

1909Ioh. Fiue Moones?

1910Hub. Old men, and Beldames, in the streets

1911Do prophesie vpon it dangerously:

1912Yong Arthurs death is common in their mouths,

1913And when they talke of him, they shake their heads,

1914And whisper one another in the eare.

1915And he that speakes, doth gripe the hearers wrist,

1916Whilst he that heares, makes fearefull action

1917With wrinkled browes, with nods, with rolling eyes.

1918I saw a Smith stand with his hammer (thus)

1919The whilst his Iron did on the Anuile coole,

1920With open mouth swallowing a Taylors newes,

1921Who with his Sheeres, and Measure in his hand,

1922Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste

1923Had falsely thrust vpon contrary feete,

1924Told of a many thousand warlike French,

1925That were embattailed, and rank'd in Kent.

1926Another leane, vnwash'd Artificer,

1927Cuts off his tale, and talkes of Arthurs death.

1928Io. Why seek'st thou to possesse me with these feares?

1929Why vrgest thou so oft yong Arthurs death?

1930Thy hand hath murdred him: I had a mighty cause

1931To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him.

1932H. No had (my Lord?) why, did you not prouoke me?

1933Iohn. It is the curse of Kings, to be attended

1934By slaues, that take their humors for a warrant,

1935To breake within the bloody house of life,

1936And on the winking of Authoritie

1937To vnderstand a Law; to know the meaning

1938Of dangerous Maiesty, when perchance it frownes

1939More vpon humor, then aduis'd respect.

1940Hub. Heere is your hand and Seale for what I did.

1941Ioh. Oh, when the last accompt twixt heauen & earth

1942Is to be made, then shall this hand and Seale

1943Witnesse against vs to damnation.

1944How oft the sight of meanes to do ill deeds,

1945Make deeds ill done? Had'st not thou beene by,

1946A fellow by the hand of Nature mark'd,

1947Quoted, and sign'd to do a deede of shame,

1948This murther had not come into my minde.

1949But taking note of thy abhorr'd Aspect,

1950Finding thee fit for bloody villanie:

1951Apt, liable to be employ'd in danger,

1952I faintly broke with thee of Arthurs death:

1953And thou, to be endeered to a King,

1954Made it no conscience to destroy a Prince.

1955Hub. My Lord.

1956Ioh. Had'st thou but shooke thy head, or made a pause

1957When I spake darkely, what I purposed:

1958Or turn'd an eye of doubt vpon my face;

1959As bid me tell my tale in expresse words:

1960Deepe shame had struck me dumbe, made me break off,

1961And those thy feares, might haue wrought feares in me.

1962But, thou didst vnderstand me by my signes,

1963And didst in signes againe parley with sinne,

1964Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,

1965And consequently, thy rude hand to acte

1966The deed, which both our tongues held vilde to name.

1967Out of my sight, and neuer see me more:

1968My Nobles leaue me, and my State is braued,

1969Euen at my gates, with rankes of forraigne powres;

1970Nay, in the body of this fleshly Land,

1971This kingdome, this Confine of blood, and breathe

1972Hostilitie, and ciuill tumult reignes

1973Betweene my conscience, and my Cosins death.

1974Hub. Arme you against your other enemies:

1975Ile make a peace betweene your soule, and you.

1976Yong Arthur is aliue: This hand of mine

1977Is yet a maiden, and an innocent hand.

1978Not painted with the Crimson spots of blood,

1979Within this bosome, neuer entred yet

1980The dreadfull motion of a murderous thought,

1981And you haue slander'd Nature in my forme,

1982Which howsoeuer rude exteriorly,

1983Is yet the couer of a fayrer minde,

1984Then to be butcher of an innocent childe.

1985Iohn. Doth Arthur liue? O hast thee to the Peeres,

1986Throw this report on their incensed rage,

1987And make them tame to their obedience.

1988Forgiue the Comment that my passion made

1989Vpon thy feature, for my rage was blinde,

1990And foule immaginarie eyes of blood

1991Presented thee more hideous then thou art.

1992Oh, answer not; but to my Closset bring

1993The angry Lords, with all expedient hast,

1994I coniure thee but slowly: run more fast. Exeunt.

1997Ar. The Wall is high, and yet will I leape downe.

1998Good ground be pittifull, and hurt me not:

1999There's few or none do know me, if they did,

2000This Ship-boyes semblance hath disguis'd me quite.

2001I am afraide, and yet Ile venture it.

2002If I get downe, and do not breake my limbes,

2003Ile finde a thousand shifts to get away;

2004As good to dye, and go; as dye, and stay.

2005Oh me, my Vnckles spirit is in these stones,

2006Heauen take my soule, and England keep my bones. Dies

2008Sal. Lords, I will meet him at S. Edmondsbury,

2009It is our safetie, and we must embrace

2010This gentle offer of the perillous time.

2011Pem. Who brought that Letter from the Cardinall?

2012Sal. The Count Meloone, a Noble Lord of France,

2013Whose priuate with me of the Dolphines loue,

2014Is much more generall, then these lines import.