MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. A Proud Woman. HERO and URSULA. Hero. Nature never framed a woman's heart All matter else seems weak: she cannot love, Urs. Sure, I think so; And therefore, certainly, it were not good Hero. Why, you speak truth: I never yet saw man, If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds; Urs. Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable. As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable : But who dare tell her so? If I should speak, She'd mock me into air; O, she would laugh me KING JOHN. Maternal Grief and Love. (ARTHUR, Son of GEFFREY, elder Brother of King JOHN, and rightful Heir to the Throne of England, has been taken Prisoner by the English.) King PHILIP of France, Cardinal Pandulph, Constance, mother of ARTHUR. K. Philip. Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul; Holding the eternal spirit, against her will, In the vile prison of afflicted breath : I pr'ythee, lady, go away with me. : Constance. Lo, now! now see the issue of your peace! K. Phi. Patience, good lady! comfort, gentle Constance ! Const. No, I defy all counsel, all redress, But that which ends all counsel, true redress, Death, death:-O amiable, lovely death! Thou odoriferous stench! sound rottenness! Arise forth from the couch of lasting night, Thou hate and terror to prosperity, And I will kiss thy détestable bones; And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows; And ring these fingers with thy household worms; And be a carrion monster like thyself: Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smil'st, K. Phi. O fair affliction, peace. Const. No, no, I will not, having breath to cry :- Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Pandulph. Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow. K. Phi. Bind up those tresses. Const. Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it? I tore them from their bonds; and cried aloud, O that these hands could so redeem my son, And will again commit them to their bonds, And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, There was not such a gracious creature born. When I shall meet him in the court of heaven Pand. You hold too heinous a respect of grief. [Tearing off her head-dress, When there is such disorder in my wit. KING HENRY V. HENRY as King. Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely. Canterbury. The king is full of grace, and fair regard. Ely. And a true lover of the holy Church. Cant. The courses of his youth promised it not. The breath no sooner left his father's body, But that his wildness, mortified in him, Seemed to die too: yea, at that very moment,. And whipped the offending Adam out of him; To envelop and contain celestial spirits. With such a heady current, scouring faults; So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, Ely. We are blessed in the change. Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire, the king were made a prelate: You would say,-it hath been all-in-all his study: |