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This once again (but that your Highness pleased) Was once superfluous: you were Crowned before, And that high Royalty was never plucked off: The faiths of men, never stained with revolt: Fresh expectation troubled not the Land With any long'd-for-change, or better State. But that your Royal pleasure must be done, This act, is as and ancient tale new told, And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. When Workmen strive to do better then well, They do confound their skill in covetousness, And oftentimes excusing of a fault, Does make the fault the worse by the excuse: As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Then did the fault before it was so patched. Then I, as one that am the tongue of these To found the purposes of all their hearts, Both for my self, and them: but chief of all Your safety: for the which, my self and them Bend their best studies, heartily request the infranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint Does move the murmuring lips of discontent To break into this dangerous argument. If what in rest you have, in right you hold, Why then your fears, which (as they say) attend The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up Your tender kinsman, and to choke his days With barbarous ignorance, and deny his youth The rich advantage of good exercise, That the times enemies may not have this To grace occasions: let it be our suit, That you have bid us ask his liberty, Which for our goods, we do no further ask, Then, whereupon our weal on you depending, Counts it your weal: he have his liberty. This is the man should do the bloody deed: He showed his warrant to a friend of mine, The image of a wicked heinous fault Lives in his eye: that close aspect of his, Do show the mood of a much troubled breast, And I do fearfully believe it's done, What we so feared he had a charge to do. And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence The foul corruption of a sweet child's death. Indeed we herd how near his death he was, Before the child himself felt he was sick: This must be answered either here, or hence. Stay yet (Lord Salisbury) I'll go with thee, And find the inheritance of this poor child, His little kingdom of a forced graven. That blood which owed the breadth of all this I'll, Three foot of it does hold; bade world the while: This must not be thus born, this will break out To all our sorrows, and ere long I doubt. Who brought that Letter from the Cardinal? Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege. All murders passed, do stand excused in this: And this so sole, and so vnmatcheable, Shall give a holiness, a purity, To the yet unbegotten sin of times; And prove a deadly bloodshed, but a jest, Exampled by this heinous spectacle. Cut him to pieces. Up once again: put spirit in the French, If they miscarry: we miscarry too. They say King John soar sick, hath left the field. It is the Count Meloone. His Highness yet does speak, & holds belief, That being brought into the open air, It would allay the burning quality Of that fell poison which assaileth him. He is more patient Then when you left him; even now he sung. O death, made proud with pure & princely beauty, The earth had not a hold to hide this deed. There tell the king, he may inquire us out.
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…