2460Sal. I did not thinke the King so stor'd with friends.

2461Pem. Vp once againe: put spirit in the French,

2462If they miscarry: we miscarry too.

2463Sal. That misbegotten diuell Falconbridge,

2464In spight of spight, alone vpholds the day.

2465Pem. They say King Iohn sore sick, hath left the field.

2467Mel. Lead me to the Reuolts of England heere.

2468Sal. When we were happie, we had other names.

2469Pem. It is the Count Meloone.

2470Sal. Wounded to death.

2471Mel. Fly Noble English, you are bought and sold,

2472Vnthred the rude eye of Rebellion,

2473And welcome home againe discarded faith,

2474Seeke out King Iohn, and fall before his feete:

2475For if the French be Lords of this loud day,

2476He meanes to recompence the paines you take,

2477By cutting off your heads: Thus hath he sworne,

2478And I with him, and many moe with mee,

2479Vpon the Altar at S. Edmondsbury,

2480Euen on that Altar, where we swore to you

2481Deere Amity, and euerlasting loue.

2482Sal. May this be possible? May this be true?

2483Mel. Haue I not hideous death within my view,

2484Retaining but a quantity of life,

2485Which bleeds away, euen as a forme of waxe

2486Resolueth from his figure 'gainst the fire?

2487What in the world should make me now deceiue,

2488Since I must loose the vse of all deceite?

2489Why should I then be false, since it is true

2490That I must dye heere, and liue hence, by Truth?

2491I say againe, if Lewis do win the day,

2492He is forsworne, if ere those eyes of yours

2493Behold another day breake in the East:

2494But euen this night, whose blacke contagious breath

2495Already smoakes about the burning Crest

2496Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied Sunne,

2497Euen this ill night, your breathing shall expire,

2498Paying the fine of rated Treachery,

2499Euen with a treacherous fine of all your liues:

2500If Lewis, by your assistance win the day.

2501Commend me to one Hubert, with your King;

2502The loue of him, and this respect besides

2503(For that my Grandsire was an Englishman)

2504Awakes my Conscience to confesse all this.

2505In lieu whereof, I pray you beare me hence

2506From forth the noise and rumour of the Field;

2507Where I may thinke the remnant of my thoughts

2508In peace: and part this bodie and my soule

2509With contemplation, and deuout desires.

2510Sal. We do beleeue thee, and beshrew my soule,

2511But I do loue the fauour, and the forme

2512Of this most faire occasion, by the which

2513We will vntread the steps of damned flight,

2514And like a bated and retired Flood,

2515Leauing our ranknesse and irregular course,

2516Stoope lowe within those bounds we haue ore-look'd,

2517And calmely run on in obedience

2518Euen to our Ocean, to our great King Iohn.

2519My arme shall giue thee helpe to beare thee hence,

2520For I do see the cruell pangs of death

2521Right in thine eye. Away, my friends, new flight,

2522And happie newnesse, that intends old right. Exeunt