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 VI. An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey. Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally HUBERT       Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot. BASTARD       A friend. What art thou? HUBERT       Of the part of England. BASTARD       Whither dost thou go? HUBERT 5     What's that to thee? why may not I demand       Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine? BASTARD       Hubert, I think? HUBERT       Thou hast a perfect thought:       I will upon all hazards well believe 10    Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well.       Who art thou? BASTARD       Who thou wilt: and if thou please,       Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think       I come one way of the Plantagenets. HUBERT 15    Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night       Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,       That any accent breaking from thy tongue       Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear. BASTARD       Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad? HUBERT 20    Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,       To find you out. BASTARD       Brief, then; and what's the news? HUBERT       O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,       Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible. BASTARD 25    Show me the very wound of this ill news:       I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it. HUBERT       The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:       I left him almost speechless; and broke out       To acquaint you with this evil, that you might 30    The better arm you to the sudden time,       Than if you had at leisure known of this. BASTARD       How did he take it? who did taste to him? HUBERT       A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain,       Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king 35    Yet speaks and peradventure may recover. BASTARD       Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty? HUBERT       Why, know you not? the lords are all come back,       And brought Prince Henry in their company;       At whose request the king hath pardon'd them, 40    And they are all about his majesty. BASTARD       Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,       And tempt us not to bear above our power!       I'll tell tree, Hubert, half my power this night,       Passing these flats, are taken by the tide; 45    These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;       Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped.       Away before: conduct me to the king;       I doubt he will be dead or ere I come. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene