SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS,

WITH

GLOSSARIAL NOTES,

AND

A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

CONTAINING

KING JOHN-KING RICHARD II.-KING HENRY IV,
PART I.-KING HENRY IV., PART II.-KING
HENRY V.

NEW YORK:

R. WORTHINGTON,

770 BROADWAY.

1882.

King John.

Prince Henry, his son; afterward King Hen y III. Arthur, duke of Bretagne, son of Geffrey, late duke of Bretagne, the elder brother of King John.

William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.
Geffrey Fitz-Peter, Earl of Essex, chief justici-
ary of England.

William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury.
Robert Bigot, Earl of Norfolk.

Hubert de Burgh, chamberlain to the king. Robert Faulconbridge, son of Sir Robert Fau conbridge.

Philip Faulconbridge, his half-brother, bastard son to King Richard the First.

James Gurney, servant to Lady Faulconbridge. Peter of Pomfret, a prophet.

Philip, King of France.

Lewis, the dauphin.

Arch-duke of Austria.

Cardinal Pandulph, the pope's legate.
Melun, a French lord.

Chatillon, ambassador from France to King John.

Elinor, the widow of King Henry II. and mother of King John.

Constance, mother to Arthur.

Blanch, daughter to Alphonso, King of Castile, and niece to King John.

Lady Faulconbridge, mother to the bastard, and Robert Faulconbridge.

Lords, ladies, citizens of Angiers, sheriff, heralds, officers, soldiers, messengers, and other attend

ants.

Scene, sometimes in England, and sometimes in France.

KING JOHN

ACT I.

SCENE I.-Northampton. A room cf state in the palace. Enter King John, Queen Elinor, Pembroke, Essex, Salisbury, and others, with Chatillon.

Now,

King John.

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

Chat. Thus, after greeting, speaks the king of
France,

In my behaviour, to the majesty,

The borrow'd majesty of England here.

Eli. A strange beginning ;--borrow'd majesty! K. John. Silence, good mother; hear the em bassy.

Chat. 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.

K. John. What follows, if we disallow of this? Chat. The proud control of fierce and bloody war, To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld."

(1) In the manner I now do.