The Life and Death of King John: ACT V
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace. SCENE II. LEWIS's camp at St. Edmundsbury. SCENE III. The field of battle. SCENE IV. Another part of the field. SCENE V. The French camp. SCENE VI. An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey. SCENE VII. The orchard in Swinstead Abbey. About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE V. The French camp. Enter LEWIS and his train LEWIS       The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,       But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,       When English measure backward their own ground       In faint retire. O, bravely came we off, 5     When with a volley of our needless shot,       After such bloody toil, we bid good night;       And wound our tattering colours clearly up,       Last in the field, and almost lords of it! Enter a Messenger Messenger       Where is my prince, the Dauphin? LEWIS 10    Here: what news? Messenger       The Count Melun is slain; the English lords       By his persuasion are again fall'n off,       And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,       Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands. LEWIS 15    Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart!       I did not think to be so sad to-night       As this hath made me. Who was he that said       King John did fly an hour or two before       The stumbling night did part our weary powers? Messenger 20    Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord. LEWIS       Well; keep good quarter and good care to-night:       The day shall not be up so soon as I,       To try the fair adventure of to-morrow. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene