That judge hath made me guardian to this boy: son. Eli. Out, insolent! thy bastard shall be King; That thou may'st be a Queen, and check the world! Const. My bed was ever to thy son as true, As thine was to thy husband: and this boy Liker in feature to his father Geffrey, Than thou and John in manners; being as like, It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother. thy father. Const. There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thec. Aust. Peace! Bast. Hear the crier. Aust. What the devil art thou? Bast. One that will play the devil, Sir, with you, An 'a may catch your hide and you alone. Blanch. O, well did he become that lion's robc, That did disrobe the lion of that robe! Bast. It lies as sightly on the back of him, As great Alcides' shoes upon an ass: But, ass, our ears With this abundance of sperfluous breath? K. Phi. Lewis, determine what we shall do straight. Lew. Women and fools, break off your con*ference. King John, this is the very sum of all, Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand; Eli. Come to thy grandam, child. Const. Do, child, go to it, grandam, child; Give grandam kingdom, and it' grandam will Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig: There's a good grandam. Arth. Good my mother, peace! I would, that I were low laid in my grave! weeps. Const. Now shame upon you, whe'r she does, or no! His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames, Draw those heaven-moving pearls from his poor Which heaven shall take To do him justice, and eyes, in nature of a fee; beads heaven shall be brib'd revenge on you. Eli. Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth! Const. Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth! Call not me slanderer; thou, and thine, usurp The dominations, royalties, and rights, Of this oppressed boy: This is they eldest son's son, Infortunate in nothing but in thee; Thy sins are visited in this poor child; That he's not only plagued for her sin, Eli. Thou unadvised scold, I can produce A will, that bars the title of thy son. Const. Ay, who doubts that? a will! a wicked will; A woman's will; a canker'd grandam's will! K. Phi. Peace, Lady; pause, or be more tem perate: It ill beseems this presence, to cry aim Some trumpet summon hither to the walls These men of Angiers; let us hear them speak, Whose title they admit, Arthur's os Johu's, Trumpets sound. Enter Citizens upon the walls. 1 Cit. Who is it, that hath warn'd us to the walls? K. Phi 'Tis France, for England. K. John. England, for itself: You men of Angiers, and my loving subjects,K. Phi. You loving men of Angiers, Arthur's subjects, Our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle. hear us first, These flags of France, that are advanced here And merciless proceeding by these French - Who painfully, with much expedient march, They shoot but calm words, folded up in smoke, K. Phi. When I have said, make answer to Lo, in this right hand, whose protection And King o'er him, and all that he enjoys: Than the constraint of hospitable zeal To pay that duty, which you truly owe, To him that owes it; namely, this young Prince. Which here we came to spout against your town, |