Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Michael BestPeer Reviewed
King John (Folio 1, 1623)
2439Alarums. Enter Iohn and Hubert. 2440Iohn. How goes the day with vs? oh tell me
Hubert.
2441Hub. Badly I feare; how fares your Maie
sty?
2442Iohn. This Feauer that hath troubled me
so long,
2443Lyes heauie on me
: oh, my heart is
sicke.
2445Mes. My Lord: your valiant kin
sman
Falconbridge,
2446De
sires your Maie
stie to leaue the
field,
2447And
send him word by me, which way you go.
2448Iohn. Tell him toward
Swinsted, to the Abbey there.
2449Mes. Be of good comfort: for the great
supply
2450That was expe
cted by the Dolphin heere,
2451Are wrack'd three nights ago on
Goodwin sands.
2452This newes was brought to
Richard but euen now,
2453The French
fight coldly,
and retyre them
selues.
2454Iohn. Aye me,
this tyrant Feauer burnes mee vp,
2455And will not let me welcome this good newes.
2456Set on toward
Swinsted: to my Litter
straight,
2457Weakne
sse po
sse
sseth me, and I am faint.
Exeunt.