Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 10 (earine, jarbus, alack, vapours, mishap, hapless…). Matches are highlighted.
Which in their throng, and press to that last hold, Counfound themselves. It's strange y to death should sing: I am the Symer to this pale faint Swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. How fares your Majesty? O that there were some virtue in
Full speech
It is too late, the life of all his blood Is touched, corruptibly: and his pure brain (Which some suppose the souls frail dwelling house) Does by the idle Comments that it makes, Foretell the ending of mortality. Let him be brought into the Orchard here: Does he still rage? O vanity of sickness: fierce extremes In their continuance, will not feel themselves. Death having prayed upon the outward parts Leaves them invisible, and his siege is now Against the wind, the which he pricks and wounds With many legions of strange fantasies, Which in their throng, and press to that last hold, Counfound themselves. It's strange y to death should sing: I am the Symer to this pale faint Swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. How fares your Majesty? O that there were some virtue in my tears, That might relieve you. Even so must I run on, and even so stop. What surety of the world, what hope, what stay, When this was now a King, and now is clay? At Worster must his body be interred, For so he willed it. I have a kind soul, that would give thanks, And knows not how to do it, but with tears.
Plot summary
Plot — King John
The Plantagenets have a dynastic dispute: J@lih is de facto King of England, but Alptiillir, the young son of his dead elder brother, has a better claim in primogeniture; France takes Arthur’s side. John is asked to adjudicate in another case of . disputed inheritance: Robert Falé@nbridge claims that his elder brother BHiliip is a bastard, begotten in his father’s absence by the dead King Richard. John rules for Philip’s legitimacy irrespective of parentage, since he was conceived in wedlock; but Philip decides to be a king’s son rather than a knight’s heir, cedes his brother the family lands, and joins John’s court. John meets the Kinglofibrance outside the town of Angers, which claims loyalty to the English crown but is holding out against both claimants until the issue is decided. England and France decide to defer their differences until they have subjugated Angers, but the citizens save themselves by suggesting an Anglo- French marriage between DOUISNEHEMDapHin and John’s niece BI@HEHE; France expediently transfers its support from Arthur to John. After the wedding, the papal legate Pandulph excommunicates John for his interference in ecclesiastical affairs, and declares his assassination legitimate. The French revert to support for Arthur, leaving Blanche with a conflict of interests. Arthur is captured in battle and taken back to England ===== PAGE 337 ===== 1596 in MWbert’s custody; John instructs Hubert to arrange the boy’s death. Anticipating this outcome, Pandulph .encourages Louis to prepare a claim to the English throne through his new wife’s right of succession. Hubert makes arrangements to blind Arthur, but cannot bring himself to go through with it. John’s lords demand Arthur’s release, but Hubert untruthfully reports that he is dead as ordered. The lords infer John’s responsibility and plan rebellion. Setbacks build up: John’s mother, left behind to govern his French possessions, dies, and the Dauphin lands his invasion force in England. Faced with internal rebellion and an external threat, John tries to disclaim responsibility for Arthur’s murder, only to be.told by Hubert that the boy is alive after all. But not for long: Arthur falls to his death while trying to escape from prison, and the rebel lords find the body and accept the Dauphin’s overtures. John submits to papal authority, fulfilling a prophecy that he would lose his crown. Pandulph tries to intervene with the Dauphin, only to find that he has started something he cannot…