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      The Complete Historical Plays of William Shakespeare

      King John, The Tragedy Of King Richard The Second, King Henry IV, King Henry V, King Henry VI…

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       KING JOHN

      

       THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND

      

       KING HENRY IV, THE FIRST PART

      

       KING HENRY IV, SECOND PART

      

       KING HENRY V

      

       KING HENRY VI, FIRST PART

      

       KING HENRY THE SIXTH, SECOND PART

      

       KING HENRY THE SIXTH, THIRD PART

      

       THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III

      

       KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

      KING JOHN

       Table of Contents

      By William Shakespeare

      PERSONS REPRESENTED

       KING JOHN.

       PRINCE HENRY, his son; afterwards KING HENRY III.

       ARTHUR, Duke of Bretagne, son to GEFFREY, late Duke of Bretagne,

       the elder brother to King John.

       WILLIAM MARSHALL, Earl of Pembroke.

       GEOFFREY FITZ-PETER, Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciary of England.

       WILLIAM LONGSWORD, Earl of Salisbury.

       ROBERT BIGOT, Earl of Norfolk.

       HUBERT DE BURGH, Chamberlain to the King.

       ROBERT FALCONBRIDGE, son to Sir Robert Falconbridge.

       PHILIP FALCONBRIDGE, his half-brother, bastard son to King

       Richard I.

       JAMES GURNEY, servant to Lady Falconbridge.

       PETER OF POMFRET, a prophet

       PHILIP, King of France.

       LOUIS, the Dauphin.

       ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA.

       CARDINAL PANDULPH, the Pope’s legate.

       MELUN, a French lord.

       CHATILLON, Ambassador from France to King John.

       ELINOR, Widow of King Henry II and Mother to King John.

       CONSTANCE, Mother to Arthur.

       BLANCH OF SPAIN, Daughter to Alphonso, King of Castile, and Niece

       to King John.

       LADY FALCONBRIDGE, Mother to the Bastard and Robert Falconbridge.

       Lords, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, Attendants and other Attendants.

       SCENE: Sometimes in England, and sometimes in France.

       ACT I.

       SCENE 1. Northampton. A Room of State in the Palace.

       [Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and others, with CHATILLON.]

       KING JOHN.

       Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?

       CHATILLON.

       Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France,

       In my behaviour, to the majesty,

       The borrow’d majesty of England here.

       ELINOR.

       A strange beginning:—borrow’d majesty!

       KING JOHN.

       Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.

       CHATILLON.

       Philip of France, in right and true behalf

       Of thy deceased brother Geffrey’s son,

       Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim

       To this fair island and the territories,—

       To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine;

       Desiring thee to lay aside the sword

       Which sways usurpingly these several titles,

       And put the same into young Arthur’s hand,

       Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.

       KING JOHN.

       What follows if we disallow of this?

       CHATILLON.

       The proud control of fierce and bloody war,

       To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.

       KING JOHN.

       Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,

       Controlment for controlment;—so answer France.

       CHATILLON.

       Then take my king’s defiance from my mouth,

       The farthest limit of my embassy.

       KING JOHN.

       Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:

       Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;

       For ere thou canst report I will be there,

       The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:

       So, hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath,

       And sullen presage of your own decay.—

       An honourable conduct let him have:—

       Pembroke, look to ‘t. Farewell, Chatillon.

       [Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE.]

       ELINOR.

       What now, my son! Have I not ever said

       How that ambitious Constance would not cease

       Till she had kindled France and all the world

       Upon the right and party of her son?

       This might have been prevented and made whole

       With very easy arguments of love;

       Which now the manage of two kingdoms must

       With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.

      

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