Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILIP, LEWIS, BLANCH, ELINOR, the BASTARD, AUSTRIA, and Attendants. K. Phi. 'Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed day Ever in France shall be kept festival : To solemnize this day the glorious sun Const. A wicked day, and not a holy day! [Rising. K. Phi. By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause Const. You have beguiled me with a counterfeit Resembling majesty, which, being touch'd and tried, 86. high tides, festivals of the church. 91. prodigiously, i.e. by the birth of a monstrosity, 92. But, save. 100 100. touch'd and tried, proved with the touchstone.' Proves valueless: you are forsworn, forsworn; And our oppression hath made up this league. A widow cries; be husband to me, heavens ! Wear out the day in peace; but, ere sunsét, Aust. Lady Constance, peace! Const. War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war. O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight 103. in arms, by embraces. 105. painted, feigned, hollow. 119. humorous, capricious. 121. sooth'st up, flatterest. Up implies that 'greatness' is flattered into complete com ΙΙΟ 120 pliance (to the top of its bent'). 122. ramping, rearing; in heraldry an epithet of the lion and other beasts of prey; here with derisive allusion to Austria's lion-skin. Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, Bast. And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. Aust. Thou darest not say so, villain, for thy life. Bast. And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. K. John. We like not this; thou dost forget thyself. Enter PANDULPH. K. Phi. Here comes the holy legate of the pope. Pand. Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven! To thee, King John, my holy errand is. I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal, And from Pope Innocent the legate here, Why thou against the church, our holy mother, K. John. What earthy name to interrogatories 129. a calf's - skin; the normal garb of the domestic fool. The 134. Enter Pandulph. intervention of Pandulph to demand an explanation of John's refusal to admit Langton belongs historically to 1211; Lewis's betrothal to 1200. 147. earthy, earthly. 130 140 ib. interrogatories, authoritative questions; properly applied to questions so put in certain legal procedures and answered upon oath. 148. task (to interrogatories), compel, command. Theobald's correction for Ff 'tast(e).' So slight, unworthy and ridiculous, To charge me to an answer, as the pope. Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England But as we, under heaven, are supreme head, Where we do reign, we will alone uphold, K. Phi. Brother of England, you blaspheme K. John. Though you and all the kings of Are led so grossly by this meddling priest, Against the pope and count his friends my foes. Pand. Then, by the lawful power that I have, And meritorious shall that hand be call'd, That I have room with Rome to curse awhile! 150 160 170 180 quibble, the words being then identical in pronunciation. Good father cardinal, cry thou amen To my keen curses; for without my wrong curse. Const. And for mine too: when law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong: Law cannot give my child his kingdom here, Pand. Philip of France, on peril of a curse, Eli. Look'st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand. Const. Look to that, devil; lest that France repent, And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul. Aust. King Philip, listen to the cardinal. Bast. And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs. Aust. Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Because Bast. Your breeches best may carry them. K. John. Philip, what say'st thou to the cardinal? Const. What should he say, but as the car- Lew. Bethink you, father; for the difference 190 200 |