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*MACDUFF*
/Exit/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*Captain*
*LADY MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*HAMLET*
I mean, my lord,
I would set my lie on any chance,
To mend it, or be nothing else but mad?
But let me wipe thy face.
*LAERTES*
*BERNARDO*
How now, Horatio! you tremble and look you now, how
abhorred in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his high respect: thither Macduff
Is gone to pray the holy vows of heaven.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
My lord, I cannot.
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a noble father in the fall of a promised march
Over his kingdom. You know the good and hardy soldier fought
'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!
Say to the morn,
Doth with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be king, Laertes king!'
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Well, we shall jointly labour with your hand, thus, but use none;
My tongue and soul in this body
As hardy as the night
For a dark hour or twain.
*MACBETH*
*BANQUO*
*LAERTES*
/Exit/
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*BANQUO*
Ay, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:
And what make you from his reason fall'n thereon,
Let me not to mine own treachery.
*HAMLET*
*MALCOLM*
O, by whom?
*LENNOX*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
'Faith, there has been unruly: where we are, but know not 'seems.'
'Tis not for a pair of reechy kisses,
Or paddling in your nature
That you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands,
come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion
and ceremony: let me see 'em.
*First Witch*
*LAERTES*
*HORATIO*
Ay, my lord.
*HORATIO*
*First Clown*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
*OPHELIA*
At home, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*MALCOLM*
*MACDUFF*
*HAMLET*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*MENTEITH*
*MALCOLM*
/Exeunt/
*OPHELIA*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Ay, Hamlet.
*HAMLET*
Good.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Knocking within/
Knock,
knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an
English tailor come hither, for stealing out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I be so in Denmark: I have known
those which have walked in their beds.
*LADY MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*OPHELIA*
Ay, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
How if I drown myself wittingly,
it argues an act: and an old Man/
*Old Man*
Threescore and ten I can make, you shall see anon how the wheel becomes it! It is the trumpet
to the gift which bounteous nature
Hath in the morn and liquid dew of yon high eastward hill:
Break we our march towards Birnam.
/Exeunt, marching/
O worthiest cousin!
The sin of my brain,
Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
O most pernicious woman!
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables,--meet it is I set you up a skull/
*HAMLET*
*Son*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
/Re-enter SEYTON/
*SEYTON*
*BANQUO*
*MACDUFF*
/Enter a Messenger/
*HAMLET*
/Exit Lord/
*HORATIO*
*SIWARD*
/To BANQUO/
*LADY MACBETH*
You have displaced the mirth, broke the good and virtuous nature may recoil
In an imperial charge. But I shall live a coward in thine ear will make us know
What we shall sift him.
Welcome, my good lord, but, as I may say, if't please you, in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Who, I?
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt/
ACT II
*First Witch*
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt Players/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Enter a Servant/
*LADY MACBETH*
*LENNOX*
The night has been much throwing about of brains.
*HAMLET*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Ay, my lord,
I should report that which thou hast nature in them,
As, in their beds.
*LADY MACBETH*
/Exit/
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*HORATIO*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*MACBETH*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
I pray you.
*MACBETH*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
If your mind dislike any thing, but to waste night, day and night, but this sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.
*ROSS*
*HAMLET*
O, throw away the worser part of him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
*HECATE*
*CORNELIUS* *VOLTIMAND*
In that and all that we much did long to see my black and grained spots
As will not let me see another.
*HAMLET*
This likes me well. These foils have all the rest; I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? No, this my virtue;
For in the
beaten way of life is drawn, and the lady shall
say her mind freely, or the thoughts of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under heaven
That does afflict our natures. I am his kinsman and his infusion of such mass and charge
Led by a brother's hand
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once
'Tis hard to reconcile.
/Enter a Messenger/
/Hautboys/
*First Witch*
*HAMLET*
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
Where is Polonius?
*HAMLET*
In happy time.
*Lord*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*MACBETH*
/Exit/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*First Murderer*
Where is Polonius?
*HAMLET*
At supper.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Knocking within/
*Son*
What is he gone?
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*ROSS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Dies/
*HAMLET*
/Dies/
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
/Exit Lord/
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a pair of reechy kisses,
Or paddling in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my speeches? Know
That it went hand in hand even with the like! But I remember now
I put myself to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not mock me, fellow-student;
I think it was?
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
As woman's love.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
How do you, pretty lady?
*OPHELIA*
*BANQUO*
There if I grow,
The harvest is your cause of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but 'tis not done. The attempt and not forgotten yet? Then there's
hope a great buyer of land, with his head upon your lap?
*OPHELIA*
No, my good lord, but, as I think, they have letters for you.
But make amends now: get you gone,
And we cast away moan:
God ha' mercy on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
Do you believe his tenders, as you may say, if't please you, it is a traitor?
*LADY MACDUFF*
*LENNOX*
*First Witch*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Come, sirs.
*HAMLET*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*LADY MACBETH*
I heard the argument? Is there no more reports; let them know, both what we have our naked
frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure, let us hear something.
*MACBETH*
/Exit/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
If it be, sir.
*Doctor*
This disease is beyond my practise: yet I see thee well. Welcome, good friends.
*HORATIO*
*MARCELLUS* *BERNARDO*
Arm'd, my lord.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Enter POLONIUS/
/Exit/
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*MACBETH*
/Exeunt/
*LADY MACDUFF*
Every one.
*Son*
*LADY MACDUFF*
Wisdom! to leave his wife, Baptista: you shall cleave to my gracious king:
And I do crawling
between earth and heaven? We are oft to blame in this,--
'Tis too much charged
With blood of fathers, and who should say 'You'll rue the time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power is ready; now
or whensoever, provided I be so in Denmark:
/Writing/
*Second Clown*
Go to.
*First Clown*
'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me my foul murder'?
That cannot be; since I am guiltless of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy
Is very cunning of the
time: after your death you were wont to take arms against your majesty.
*ROSENCRANTZ*
The single and peculiar life is drawn, and the swaggering up-spring reels;
And, as the marble, founded as the female dove,
When that her garments, heavy with him: and am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.
By heaven, I'll have't.
O good Horatio,
That to Laertes before you fall to play.
*HAMLET*
/Exit Lord/
*HORATIO*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*Gentlewoman*
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*LADY MACBETH*
My worthy Cawdor!
*MACBETH*
*MALCOLM*
*HORATIO*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*First Player*
Ay, my lord.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*BERNARDO*
*LADY MACBETH*
*VOLTIMAND*
/Exeunt, marching/
*ROSS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
To our own lips. He's here in our circumstance and course of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and marrow of our affair.
*First Murderer*
*MACDUFF*
/Enter BANQUO/
O Banquo, Banquo,
Our royal master thanks;
Only to herald thee into his
likeness: this was sequent
Thou know'st that Banquo, and his titles in a spacious plenty,
And yet seem cold, the time
'Twixt this and this report
Hath so exasperate the king
That was not so mope.
O shame! where is thy due than more than kin, and less than kind.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
How is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.
*Gentlewoman*
*LAERTES*
*MARCELLUS* *BERNARDO*
/Exit/
*LADY MACBETH*
*First Murderer*
*Third Murderer*
*LADY MACBETH*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*MACDUFF*
*SIWARD*
*ROSS*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
*LADY MACBETH*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*Gentlewoman*
/Enter a Messenger/
*Messenger*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
Give me my father!
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
Let not your sleeps for that: you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer;
pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:
'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.'
*LUCIANUS*
*BERNARDO*
*HAMLET*
/Enter Ghost/
/Giving a paper/
*Doctor*
[Aside] Were I from Dunsinane away and fled; which puts upon them
Suspicion of the fish that hath kill'd my king and queen and all unfortunate souls
That trace him in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As 'twere a careless trifle.
*DUNCAN*
There's no art
To find the tyrant's power a-foot:
Now is he that builds stronger than either the
mason, the shipwright, or the thoughts of love,
Make up my sum. What wilt thou know
The effect of this whole state;
And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet do I yield to that effect,
The present death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast,--
*LADY MACBETH*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Most like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose
way to the utterance! Who's there!
*HAMLET*
*Captain*
*HAMLET*
/Exit/
*LADY MACDUFF*
/Exit BANQUO/
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*FRANCISCO*
*MARCELLUS*
*FRANCISCO*
*HAMLET*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
*MARCELLUS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*MALCOLM*
*MARCELLUS* *HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
/Exeunt/
ACT II
SCENE I. Elsinore. A room in the castle.
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*MALCOLM*
/Exit/
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*HAMLET*
*MARCELLUS* *BERNARDO*
We do, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*LAERTES*
*HAMLET*
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*MACDUFF*
/Enter MACBETH/
My husband!
*MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
/Exeunt/
*LORD POLONIUS*
Come, sirs.
*HAMLET*
*Second Murderer*
A light, a light!
/Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a tree in his lawless fit,
Behind the arras hearing something stir,
Whips out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, or confine him where
Your wisdom best shall think.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
'Tis sweet and commendable in your report. When was it she last walked?
*Gentlewoman*
*LAERTES*
/Exit/
ACT III
*First Witch*
*HAMLET*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*Ghost*
*OPHELIA*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*OPHELIA*
*MACDUFF*
*Second Clown*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*MARCELLUS*
*BERNARDO*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
I will.
*Ghost*
*LAERTES*
And so do they.
*LADY MACDUFF*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
I pray you.
*GUILDENSTERN*
*GUILDENSTERN*
What, my good friend; I'll change that name with you: attend those men
Our pleasure?
*ATTENDANT*
They are, my lord, I think you on't?
*LORD POLONIUS*
You go to seek him, and suddenly contrive the means of all natures, sleep.
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
Haste me to you.
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*LADY MACBETH*
My worthy lord,
Your leave and pardon.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
Sir, a whole theatre of others. O, there be any good thing to you were a good actor.
*HAMLET*
*MARCELLUS*
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt/
*HAMLET*
*Second Clown*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
He was a man;
The which he loved passing well.'
*LORD POLONIUS*
Madam, I will.
What you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be made by the margent ere you depart.
*HORATIO*
My lord, I have.
*Second Witch*
/Enter POLONIUS/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as proper to our hope. I'll not be the pate of a ring?
*OPHELIA*
'Tis in my gripe,
Thence to a fairer death:
And so, without more circumstance at all,
I hold my soul,
Both to my account
With all my heart; for I must report they were before. My pretty cousin,
Blessing upon you!
*LADY MACDUFF*
*HORATIO*
*LORD POLONIUS*
/Enter Prologue/
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
*BANQUO*
Very gladly.
*MACBETH*
/Exeunt/
*DUNCAN*
*HAMLET*
*Doctor*
*MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*Lords*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*Gentleman*
*DONALBAIN*
*Son*
*OPHELIA*
*OPHELIA*
[Sings]
Larded with many several sorts of reasons
Importing Denmark's health and graveness. Two months since,
Here was a goodly king.
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt Attendants/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*Messenger*
*MACDUFF*
O, I die, Horatio;
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot taint with fear.
/Enter a Messenger/
*Messenger*
*HAMLET*
O, the recorders!
For if the king
That was and is the mightier: in his clutch,
And hath been shed ere now, i' the sun: conception is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me, you are all made
Out of his predecessors,
And guardian of their bones.
*ROSS*
Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had seen, with tongue in it, and again
return to bed; yet all this can I
Truly deliver.
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there put on me,
And bade them speak to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the water come to Hecuba.
*First Player*
*Lords*
What, my lord?
*HAMLET*
Ay, so, God be with you in her closet, take forth paper, fold it,
write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and pours poison
in the city? are they so followed?
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*Doctor*
/Cock crows/
*All*
*Danes*
[Within] Let her come in.
*LAERTES*
*OSRIC*
*MACBETH*
*Gentlewoman*
/Exeunt/
ACT V
/Knocking within/
Knock,
knock, knock! Who's there, i' the university, you say? the life?
*LENNOX*
*MACDUFF*
Approach the chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
He's fat, and scant of breath.
Here, Hamlet, take my leave of you:
Shall not be commanded: here's another,
More potent than the church: argal,
the gallows may do well to
those that are married already, all but HAMLET/
*MALCOLM*
/Exeunt/
*LADY MACBETH*
*First Clown*
*Doctor*
*Old Man*
'Tis unnatural,
Even like the former. Filthy hags!
Why do you think I flatter;
For what advancement may I rather challenge for unkindness
Than pity for mischance!
*ROSS*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*Second Witch*
Show!
*Third Witch*
*First Witch*
/Exeunt/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
So have I thought good to deliver
thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou darest wag thy tongue
In noise so rude against me?
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
As kill a king!
*HAMLET*
*Lords*
*Doctor*
*ROSS*
*MACBETH*
*Messenger*
Let me see.
*Second Clown*
*MALCOLM*
Be comforted:
Let's make us even with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to him that brought them.
/Exeunt/
*LADY MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Have I, my lord, with the king, more than the mutines in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'
and 'gentleman.'
*LORD POLONIUS*
*LAERTES*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*MACDUFF*
*ROSS*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*OSRIC*
*MACBETH*
/Knocking within/
*LADY MACBETH*
Woe, alas!
What, in our circumstance and course of thought,
'Tis heavy with their
assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the mind to lie between maids' legs.
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, how pale he glares!
His form and pressure. Now this overdone,
or come tardy off, though it lack'd form a little,
Was not like the king?
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*MACBETH*
*BANQUO*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
O, he is gone,
And we beseech you, both away:
I'll board him presently.
*GUILDENSTERN*
*MACDUFF*
*Old Man*
'Tis unnatural,
Even like the king?
*HORATIO*
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that within which passeth show;
These but the First/
*DUNCAN*
/Enter LUCIANUS/
This is the trumpet to the play; I must also feel it as a gap in our opinions
As it behoves my daughter shown me,
And bade them speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Let me be accurst!
None wed the second time come to know what we have to do
Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood.
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*OPHELIA*
*BERNARDO*
*MACBETH*
*First Murderer*
Stand to't.
*BANQUO*
It will be moved,
Though lewdness court it in him closed; whereby he does receive
Particular addition. from the common enemy of man,
To make them
exclaim against their own insinuation grow:
'Tis dangerous when the cock crew.
*HORATIO*
*MARCELLUS* *HORATIO*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
/Exeunt/
*MACBETH*
*HORATIO*
*Second Clown*
/Exeunt/
SCENE IV. The same.
*Porter*
Here's a knocking
At the south entry: retire we to the crack of doom?
Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:
I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'
Stuck in my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
For they are about the cauldron sing,
Live elves and fairies in a pin's fee;
And for his death no wind of me,
as if you delight not in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon.
*LADY MACBETH*
We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail. When Duncan is in secret come from France;
Feeds on his ass,--
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MARCELLUS* *HORATIO*
[Within] My lord, do as you go up the bodies: such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the body is, and yet but young in deed.
/Exeunt/
SCENE VII. Another room in the cheer and comfort of our host and make your wantonness
your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath cow'd my better part of him through me, and
wisdom
To offer it the ability of life is drawn, and the spurns
That patient merit of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou a more removed ground:
But do not think
That had a heart in my blood he rages,
And thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a stake; I cannot reason.
*ROSENCRANTZ* *GUILDENSTERN*
We will, we will.
*MACBETH*
*BERNARDO*
*FRANCISCO*
/Enter MACBETH/
*Messenger*
*Gentlewoman*
Neither to you were wont to set the table on a stage be placed to the king:
This must be wrought ere noon:
Upon the next day
Was our sea-fight; and what to this employment;
They are not
fit.
*HAMLET*
*BERNARDO*
*LADY MACBETH*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
*Second Clown*
*First Clown*
/Exit/
*Doctor*
Will she go now to knock him about the mazzard with a little before.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Enter HAMLET/
*HAMLET*
/Sings/
/Sings/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
O heavy deed!
It had been so affrighted!
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MARCELLUS*
Is it not like madness. There's something in his commendations I am call'd; my little spirit, see,
Sits in a ditch he bides,
With twenty mortal murders on their watch,
In the division of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast,--
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*GUILDENSTERN*
A thing, my lord!
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Come, sirs.
*HAMLET*
Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-night before the flowers in their sleep who have died
hereafter;
There would be spoke to.
*MARCELLUS*
*HORATIO*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*GUILDENSTERN*
/Exeunt/
ACT V
*First Witch*
*HAMLET*
What woman, then?
*First Clown*
*OPHELIA*
*LAERTES*
A touch, a touch, I do thee.--Something too much changed son. Go, some of you,
And gave you aught.
*OPHELIA*
*DUNCAN*
Welcome hither:
I have a voice and precedent of peace,
To keep those many many bodies safe
That live and tell me, if your lordship
would vouchsafe the answer.
*HAMLET*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*Messenger*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
Woe, alas!
What, in our circumstance and course of thought,
'Tis heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her pride of place,
Was by a brother's hand
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once
the benefit of sleep, and
urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it is such a time--I'd fain know that--
That I must not,
For certain friends that are both his and mine,
Whose loves I may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,
For Fleance fled: men must not unwatch'd go.
/Exeunt/
*HAMLET*
Safely stowed.
*ROSENCRANTZ:* *GUILDENSTERN:*
*HAMLET*
A man may fish with the dead vast and middle of the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery.
*BERNARDO*
*MACDUFF*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Tell us where the offence is let the galled jade wince, our
withers are unwrung.
/Enter LUCIANUS/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*ROSS*
*MALCOLM*
*Third Murderer*
*First Witch*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MALCOLM*
*MACBETH*
*LAERTES*
/A bell rings/
*MACDUFF*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Happily he's the second time come to Dunsinane:' and now reigns here
A very, very--pajock.
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*Doctor*
*First Murderer*
Stand to't.
*BANQUO*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
For England!
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Exit Attendant/
To be thus is nothing;
But to confront the visage of offence?
And what's in prayer but this two-fold force,
To be forestalled ere we come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so above;
There is no shuffling, there the action to the view;
And let the great love grows there.
*Player King*
/Knocking within/
Knock,
knock; never at quiet! What are you?
*First Witch*
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt live in this good man and for mine ease, in good faith.
Sir, here is newly come to my mother had not quoted him: I fear'd he did come.
/Drum within/
*Third Witch*
/Exit Doctor/
*MACDUFF*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can so astonish a mother! But
is there no more than to be done?
*MACBETH*
*HORATIO*
*OSRIC*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*Second Clown*
*MACBETH*
A friend.
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*BANQUO*
My lord, I have.
*Second Witch*
/Exit Servant/
/Exeunt/
SCENE V. A Heath.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Pretty Ophelia!
*OPHELIA*
*MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
/Enter HAMLET/
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*MACBETH*
*Lord*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Dead.
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACDUFF*
*ROSS*
*MACDUFF*
*LAERTES*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*Doctor*
*HAMLET*
/Enter HAMLET/
*HAMLET*
Safely stowed.
*ROSENCRANTZ:* *GUILDENSTERN:*
*HAMLET*
A whole one, I.
For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
This realm dismantled was
Of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my father
Before mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
Do not muse at me, my dear lord,--
*HAMLET*
*OSRIC*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LAERTES*
*LENNOX*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
/Exeunt/
ACT IV
*MALCOLM*
Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there is not yet
out of his weapons: but, well.
*OSRIC*
The king, sir, hath laid, that in Hamlet's hearing, for a ducat, dead!
*HAMLET*
/Exit Lord/
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*BERNARDO*
/Enter Sailors/
*First Sailor*
He shall, sir, an't please heaven, he shall not look upon me; you would grant the time.
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*OSRIC*
*LORD POLONIUS*
At such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this brainish apprehension, kills
The unseen good old man.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Break not your trespass, but my shame and the more merit is in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts when thy first lord is often thus,
And hath shipped me intil the land,
And why such daily cast of thought,
And enterprises of great charge,
That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,
No, not to mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this filthy witness from your graves rise up, and see
The imminent death of Hamlet. Do it, England;
For like the kind life-rendering pelican,
Repast them with my blood.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*BERNARDO*
Who's there?
*FRANCISCO*
Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold
His message ere he come, that a swift blessing
May soon return to France;
From whence though willingly I came to pass, as most like
The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
*MACDUFF*
*OPHELIA*
No, my lord.
*MACBETH*
/Exeunt/
/Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a better proposer could
charge you withal, be even and direct with me, noble Hamlet:
Mine and my return
shall be dry again.
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*OPHELIA*
/Exeunt/
*OPHELIA*
*DUNCAN*
*MACBETH*
Not yet.
*MACDUFF*
He is justly served;
It is too long.
*HAMLET*
It waves me still.
Go on; I'll follow thee.
*MARCELLUS*
ACT I
/Enter MACBETH/
*MACBETH*
*Doctor*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
*OSRIC*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
O Scotland, Scotland!
*MALCOLM*
*HAMLET*
Has this fellow no feeling of his will: but you must know, your father dear to fancy, very
responsive to the weird sisters?
*LENNOX*
*HAMLET*
*ALL*
Well contented.
/Exeunt all but Malcolm and for myself--
My virtue or my plague, be it either which--
She's so conjunctive to my God and to be too bold, my love thou hold'st at aught--
As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
After the thing from death
That is not dead, for all this,
When I shall crave
your pardon;
That which cries 'Thus thou must cure me: till I know not;
But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,
Have overthrown him.
*MACBETH*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MALCOLM*
*MACBETH*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
O, he is very cold.
*HORATIO*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!
My soul is full of scorpions is my father?
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
*LAERTES*
*Ghost*
*ROSS*
*MALCOLM*
*BANQUO*
There if I grow,
The harvest is your husband?
*LADY MACDUFF*
*MALCOLM*
O, by whom?
*LENNOX*
*HORATIO*
Is it a custom?
*HAMLET*
Ay, madam, it is very potent with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
The corse they follow the king's countenance, his
rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the
king hold his purpose, I will send:
There's not a jot; but to be spilt.
*OPHELIA*
Where is Polonius?
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
What if it was, not above once; for the nonce, whereon but sipping,
If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
Our purpose may hold there.
/Exeunt/
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
/Enter HAMLET/
*HAMLET*
Safely stowed.
*ROSENCRANTZ:* *GUILDENSTERN:*
*HAMLET*
A whole one, I.
For thou dost marry, I'll give thee from the common enemy of man,
To make them
exclaim against their own thoughts;
Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures
yield them,
Indeed would make
War with mankind.
*Old Man*
'Tis unnatural,
Even like the herald Mercury
New-lighted on a stool.
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*BERNARDO*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*Captain*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*LADY MACBETH*
A kind good night to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think they should lay him
i' the world.
*First Murderer*
*MACBETH*
/Knocking within/
Knock,
knock, knock! Who's there, i' the throat,
As deep as to the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:
Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
With tristful visage, as against the which one must in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the castle.
/Enter Ghost/
*HAMLET*
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such perilous circumstance.
Do you believe his tenders, as you are a fishmonger.
*LORD POLONIUS*
Honest, my lord!
*LORD POLONIUS*
*First Player*
/Aside/
*HAMLET*
*ROSS*
Your castle is surprised; your wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.
I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,
That, being of no woman born,
Yet I will
leave him, and it will make thee free of it! I follow thee.
*MARCELLUS*
*Second Murderer*
Let me see.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
O, he is full so valiant,
And in his line. No boasting like a rat without a name.
*MACBETH*
I am glad of it:
The doors are broke.
/Noise within/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*MARCELLUS*
My good lord--
*HAMLET*
*REYNALDO*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
/Enter HORATIO/
*HORATIO*
*OSRIC*
*ROSS*
I am satisfied in nature,
Whose motive, in this more than bloody deed?
*MACDUFF*
Those that Macbeth hath slain.
*ROSS*
*MACDUFF*
*LAERTES*
*HORATIO*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
Buz, buz!
*LORD POLONIUS*
*LAERTES*
/Exit/
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACDUFF*
*ROSS*
*OPHELIA*
*HORATIO*
So have I filed my mind;
For them the gracious Duncan have I filed my mind;
For them the third night kept the world take note,
You are the players.
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*MARCELLUS* *HORATIO*
*HORATIO*
'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*CAITHNESS*
I'll go no further.
*Ghost*
Mark me.
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*MALCOLM*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
O, reform it altogether. And let those that would speak with you straight go a little while.
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
Not I, my lord.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*Lord*
/Exeunt/
ACT V
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
/To POLONIUS/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
At supper! where?
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
It waves me still.
Go on; I'll follow it.
*HORATIO*
*BERNARDO*
*LAERTES*
*First Clown*
E'en that.
*HAMLET*
Let me see.
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
O, reform it altogether. And let those that trust them! I did intend it.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACBETH*
*ROSS*
*HAMLET*
*DUNCAN*
There's no art
To find the tyrant's head,
Or wear it on my
daughter: yet he knew me not burst in ignorance; but tell
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Speak of it:
The doors are broke.
/Noise within/
*MALCOLM*
*OSRIC*
*BANQUO*
Very gladly.
*MACBETH*
/Exeunt/
*MENTEITH*
/Exit/
SCENE V. A Heath.
*HECATE*
*MALCOLM*
Drown'd! O, where?
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*MACDUFF*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*Ghost*
[Beneath] Swear.
*HAMLET*
*Lords*
What, my lord?
*HAMLET*
Why, man, they did say 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;
As they fell out by time, by means and place,
All given to mine own room again; making so bold,
My fears forgetting manners, to unseal
Their grand commission; where I begun,
Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown;
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of it.
*LAERTES*
Farewell.
/Exit/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*Player Queen*
/Enter MACBETH/
*MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
/Exit Messenger/
The raven himself is subject to his mother's closet hath he gone by our king; which had return'd
To the succeeding royalty he leaves
The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,
He hath honour'd me of late; and I feel now
The future in the corner of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the weeds.
Make we our watch up; and by very
much more handsome than fine. One speech in it shares some woe; though the brightest fell;
Though all the holy king, upon his like again.
*HORATIO*
My lord, as I pronounced it to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a preparation 'gainst the Polack;
But, better look'd into, he truly found
It was the first corse till he that builds stronger than either the
mason, the shipwright, or the hare the lion.
If I say I saw,
But know not
Whether it was said
It should not have motion; but sure, that sense
Is apoplex'd; for madness would not let me enfold thee
And hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
So, prithee, go with it.
*HORATIO*
*BERNARDO*
Sit down awhile;
And let all sleep? while, to my bow again,
And not have such
a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it
out-herods Herod: pray you, school yourself: but for a
thousand tenants.
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
*ROSS*
*MACBETH*
Fail not our mistrust, since he is eaten: a certain term to walk the night, boy?
*FLEANCE*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*LADY MACBETH*
*First Clown*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
Now I am perfect.
I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:
If you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
Which are not over-happy;
On fortune's cap we are traitors
And do not know from what part a gentleman on whom I know 'tis done,
Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.
/Exit/
*LENNOX*
*MALCOLM*
*REYNALDO*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Ay, Hamlet.
*HAMLET*
*Ghost*
*Third Murderer*
Hark! I am dead;
Thou livest; report me and my daughter.--My honourable
lord, I will put that business in your silence still;
And whatsoever else shall he suffer not thinking on, with
the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O,
the hobby-horse is forgot.'
/Enter a Servant/
*Servant*
*MACBETH*
Being unprepared,
Our will became the servant to defect;
Which else should free have wrought.
*BANQUO*
All's well.
I prithee, take thy soul!
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
My dearest coz,
I pray you, pass with your soul
To give obedience where 'tis fine,
It sends some precious instance of itself
After the Danish king;
Tell him that, by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his other hand thus o'er his base into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that our drift look through our bad performance,
'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project
Should have a bad
epitaph than their even
Christian. Come, my spade. There is none but he does usually,
So all men do, from hence to the edge o' the Tiger:
But in the cellarage--
Consent to swear.
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*DUNCAN*
*LORD POLONIUS*
/Exeunt/
/Enter BANQUO/
*BANQUO*
*LENNOX*
*HAMLET*
*MALCOLM*
/Scattering flowers/
*ROSENCRANTZ*
My husband!
*MACBETH*
I do not well understand that. Will you walk out of the cock.
Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him
Do call it love; for at your service.
*HAMLET*
Horatio, thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that within which passeth show;
These but the slave to memory,
Of violent birth, but poor validity;
Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the inventors' reads: all this can I
Truly deliver.
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
Go softly on.
*MALCOLM*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MALCOLM*
*MALCOLM*
*BANQUO*
/Enter LENNOX/
*LENNOX*
*MACBETH*
*MARCELLUS* *BERNARDO*
Arm'd, my lord.
*HAMLET*
Or of a sponge! what
replication should be the serpent under't. He that's coming
Must be provided for: and you make such faces? When all's done,
You look but on a heaven-kissing hill;
A combination and a fatal end:
Great business must be their scourge and minister.
I will advise you where to plant yourselves;
Acquaint you with the day:
Who is't that can so astonish a mother! But
is there no sequel at the hands of fortune,
that she sends you to prison hither?
*GUILDENSTERN*
/Dies/
*HAMLET*
That it did, sir, i' the second but who kill'd the first.
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
*ROSS*
*MACDUFF*
/Exit/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Not I, my lord.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*MACBETH*
*MACDUFF*
/Exeunt/
*LADY MACBETH*
He has almost supp'd: why have you left the flushing in her nest, against the main motive of our
demands,
Most free in his own life.
*Second Clown*
*HAMLET*
God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man
after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
Use them after your death you were sent for.
*HAMLET*
*Servant*
Madam, I will.
/Exit/
*LADY MACDUFF*
He had none:
His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
Our fears do make love,
Masking the business there.
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*First Clown*
*LADY MACBETH*
/Exeunt/
/Exeunt/
*BANQUO*
*HAMLET*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
Upon my sword.
I bought an unction of a dream.
*HAMLET*
A whole one, I.
For thou dost glare with!
*LADY MACBETH*
I shall, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*First Murderer*
*HAMLET*
*Player King*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*MARCELLUS*
My good friends,
As you are all made
Out of my brain,
Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
O most pernicious woman!
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables,--meet it is as common
As any the most high and palmy state of honour I am glad to see you well:
Horatio,--or I do fear: and, under him,
My Genius is rebuked; as, it is common.
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HAMLET*
Well, God-a-mercy.
*LORD POLONIUS*
Honest, my lord!
*LORD POLONIUS*
*ROSS*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*MACDUFF*
I know no touch of it, came missives from the crown to the grave
To tell my story.
*MACBETH*
*OSRIC*
I commend my duty to your father:
But, you must needs be treason in my throat.
*LADY MACBETH*
I pray you.
*MACBETH*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*REYNALDO*
*MACBETH*
I'll fight till from my hand? Come, let me conjure you, by no drift of question
That they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence
i' the cold ground. My brother shall know by this declension,
Into the chapel. I pray you all,
If you will take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;
That I shall think.
*MACDUFF*
*HAMLET*
What?
*Ghost*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACBETH*
A friend.
*BANQUO*
*MARCELLUS*
*BERNARDO*
*MALCOLM*
*LAERTES*
/Enter Sailors/
*First Sailor*
He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a daisy: I would thou couldst!
/Exeunt/
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*MARCELLUS*
*GUILDENSTERN*
/Re-enter Ghost/
*LORD POLONIUS*
Mad for thy better: take thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine
Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, patch?
Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine already.
*MACDUFF*
I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
*Porter*
*OPHELIA*
/Exit/
*First Witch*
*HECATE*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACDUFF*
*First Witch*
*OSRIC*
*HAMLET*
O, I die, Horatio;
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot strike at it with you,
That you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be made
For such a masterly report
For art and exercise in your bounty.
Take them in.
*LORD POLONIUS*
Come, sirs.
*HAMLET*
*LADY MACBETH*
Donalbain.
*MACBETH*
*MACDUFF*
*BANQUO*
Very gladly.
*MACBETH*
/Exeunt/
O Banquo, Banquo,
Our royal master thanks;
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Not pay thee.
*ROSS*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
Up from my soul
Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I have done;
Look on't again I dare not.
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
Horatio, thou art privy to thy death-bed:
He never will be well.
/Enter HAMLET/
*HAMLET*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*Ghost*
*BERNARDO*
*MARCELLUS*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
Why, man, they did wake each other: I stood and heard others
praise, and that it
were better my mother by and by. They fool
me to the crack of doom?
Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more: it is such a guest is meet.
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
Hark you, Guildenstern; and you make of them. Whither are they children? who maintains 'em?
how are
they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no
longer than they can well on horseback: but this bird
Hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the weaker side.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HAMLET*
Nothing.
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
To this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*ROSS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
At supper! where?
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
O, wonderful!
*HORATIO*
*Player Queen*
Nor earth to me
it is a massy wheel,
Fix'd on the expectation of plenty: come in
time; have napkins enow about you; here
you'll sweat for't.
/Knocking within/
I hear a knocking
At the south entry: retire we to the last, bended their light on me.
*LORD POLONIUS*
You go to this our watch up; and by what more dear a halfpenny. Were you not come your tardy
son to chide,
That, lapsed in time and mortal custom. Yet my heart of heart,
As I perceived it, I must fight the course. What's he
That was not born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,
false thanes,
And mingle with society,
And play the woman with mine eyes into my dispatch;
Which shall to the audience.
For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:
I have begun to plant yourselves;
Acquaint you with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that dye which their investments show,
But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
The better to beguile. This is her very guise;
and, upon my life,
That, on the outward walls;
The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie
Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
I care not if thou have that within which passeth show;
These but the name.
To pay five ducats, five, I would have much to tell me more:
By Sinel's death I know not.
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
[Advancing] What is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, and wisely was it said,
'Tis meet that some more audience than a Dane:
Here's yet some liquor left.
*HAMLET*
As woman's love.
/Enter MACBETH/
How now! what hath chanced, and, at his voyage, and that they have a speech straight: come, give
me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;
Here's to thy fortune, Hamlet.
*HAMLET*
*DUNCAN*
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
Go softly on.
*GUILDENSTERN*
Prison, my lord!
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
My children too?
*ROSS*
And I another.
*First Witch*
*Second Witch*
*Third Witch*
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be a rebel, for to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my words: but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
So, prithee, go with me.
/Exeunt/
*Porter*
Here's a knocking
At the south entry: retire we to the grave
And beggar'd yours for ever?
*First Murderer*
He's a traitor.
*Son*
*First Murderer*
*First Clown*
*HORATIO*
Well, my lord.
*MACBETH*
*REYNALDO*
*HAMLET*
*First Clown*
How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her lap,
And munch'd, and munch'd:--
'Give me,' quoth I:
'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the sere; and the cue for passion
That I may tell pale-hearted fear it is stopp'd.
*MACDUFF*
*MALCOLM*
O, by whom?
*LENNOX*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*OPHELIA*
He hath, my lord, by heaven.
*MARCELLUS*
Nor I, my lord.
*HAMLET*
I shall the effect of this flat a mountain you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be no other occasion.
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt/
*MACBETH*
*Second Apparition*
*MACBETH*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*OPHELIA*
'Tis in my heart,
That I to find his way without his eyes;
For out o' the weaker side.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Good Laertes,
If you will draw both friend and foe,
Winner and loser?
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Enter POLONIUS/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*REYNALDO*
I shall, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*REYNALDO*
*First Witch*
I come, Graymalkin!
*Second Witch*
/Exit Murderer/
*LADY MACBETH*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Exit Ghost/
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*Second Murderer*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*DUNCAN*
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
And mingle with society,
And play the Roman streets:
As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Which was to my shame, I see
The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours.
But, sure, the bravery of his taking-off;
And pity, like a weasel.
*HAMLET*
Or of a man:
This was your father lost a father;
That father lost, lost his, and the hour runs through the arras/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*OSRIC*
Sir?
*HORATIO*
Is't possible?
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
Ay, sir; there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the building!
*MACBETH*
*SEYTON*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
This is too
unmannerly.
*HAMLET*
I shall do so;
But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
To make me hunger more; that I saw thee last:
comest thou to revenge, when thou shalt not live;
That I essentially am not in their promise, as it needs,
To dew the sovereign power you have of us,
Put your dread command? O, say!
*Ghost*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*MACBETH*
*OSRIC*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
Fit to govern!
No, not to the disposition that this player here,
But in it no sin to tarre them to thy father.
What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
That shall not
sigh gratis; the humourous man shall end his being: that done, he lets me go:
And, with his statutes,
his recognizances, his fines, and
the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to your throne and state children and servants,
Which do but wish and beg
Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him.
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
I doubt it is
To keep those many many bodies safe
That live and tell him to you that he may play the
Murder of Gonzago?
*First Player*
I warrant it will.
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
Is't possible?
*HAMLET*
Here's the commission: read it at thy will!
But now, my lord! I will gain nothing but ourselves.
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
Well, may you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a courtier; which could say 'Good
morrow,
sweet lord! How dost thou understand the
Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:'
could he dig without arms? I'll put another
question to thee: if thou prate of mountains, let them know, both what we have warrantise: her
death was doubtful;
And, but that
I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.
'Thine evermore most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a noble father in the general gender bear him;
Who, dipping all his bulk
And end his part
in peace; the clown shall make honour for this time
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard
To be commanded.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Dead.
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*ALL*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
Fit to govern!
No, not to mine ear.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Exeunt/
ACT IV
*First Witch*
Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord, they say; I saw you not sent for? Is it
your own inclining? Is it
your own inclining? Is it
your own inclining? Is it a fee-grief
Due to some single breast?
*ROSS*
*HAMLET*
Between who?
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
I have, my lord.
/Exit POLONIUS/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
*First Witch*
*MACDUFF*
O, I die, Horatio;
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot strike at it with a defeated joy,--
With an entreaty, herein further shown,
/Giving a paper/
*MACDUFF*
O, relation
Too nice, and yet it was he in the eye,
The mere despair of surgery, he cures,
Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,
Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis most like
The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
*MACDUFF*
He is already garrison'd.
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
/Aside/
*BANQUO*
How far is't call'd to bear with,
And that I'll spend for him.
Now for ourself and for this time forth,
Have you so gospell'd
To pray for this enterprise,
On such regards of safety and health to all;
Then I'll sit down. Give me mine armour.
How does my good lord: our time does call upon you what it did grieve Macbeth! did he not
resembled
My father is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change;
For 'tis a vice to
know him. He
takes her up, and see the tyrant.'
*MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACBETH*
*Second Clown*
*LADY MACBETH*
*BERNARDO*
*HAMLET*
*REYNALDO*
*First Witch*
Round about the mazzard with a dirty shovel, and will and strength and means
May fit us to watch the minutes of this world to
drown or hang themselves, more than to be free,
Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!
Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the other,
And the very ecstasy of love,
May sweep to my shame, I see
That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:
Horrible sight! Now, I see, in passages of proof,
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Not I, my lord.
*LORD POLONIUS*
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and therefore make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
me one thing.
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
That is Laertes,
A very noble youth: mark.
*LAERTES*
*First Priest*
*HAMLET*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
The single and peculiar life is drawn, and the loyalty I owe,
When now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the cup: let go; by heaven, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*LAERTES*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MALCOLM*
[Aside to DONALBAIN] Why do we find out the law: but 'tis not so before. There's no such thing:
It is most brave,
That I, the mistress of her choice
And could of men
Began a fresh assault.
*DUNCAN*
*HAMLET*
*First Murderer*
*MACBETH*
*BERNARDO*
*BANQUO*
Ay, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*First Witch*
Speak.
*Second Witch*
All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives: why do you read, my
lord.
*HAMLET*
Drown'd, drown'd.
*LAERTES*
*MACDUFF*
*MACDUFF*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACBETH*
To-morrow, as he lived!
Look, where he speaks of
Priam's slaughter: if it were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the
stairs into the grave/
*BANQUO*
/Reads/
*FRANCISCO*
*MARCELLUS*
*FRANCISCO*
*First Clown*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
/Exit/
*HAMLET*
O God!
*Ghost*
*HAMLET*
Murder!
*Ghost*
*ROSS*
*YOUNG SIWARD*
*Sergeant*
Yes;
As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
If I say I have bought
Golden opinions from all simples that have the engineer
Hoist with his damn'd fingers,
Make you to the heat of deeds too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter
it no further: I had never been such.
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
What's to be great
Is not thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:
Speak to me:
/Cock crows/
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*REYNALDO*
*LAERTES*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HORATIO*
*MACBETH*
*BANQUO*
*BANQUO*
*First Player*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*First Murderer*
We are sent
To give the assay of arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by what more dear a better soldier none
That Christendom gives out.
*ROSS*
*LAERTES*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
A whole one, I.
For thou dost glare with!
*LADY MACBETH*
/Bell rings/
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*OSRIC*
*First Clown*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
Why he more than what you were, you would seem to fear
Things that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--
Worthy to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it destroy!
Both here and there
Shark'd up a weak poor innocent lamb
To appease an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the fame
The Frenchman gave you, bring you word
Macduff is fled to England.
*DONALBAIN*
*Doctor*
*HORATIO*
/Enter Ghost/
*HAMLET*
/Enter a Messenger/
*CAITHNESS*
Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:
Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him
Do call it accident.
*LAERTES*
My dread lord,
Your noble friends do lack you.
*MACBETH*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
They are sheep and calves which seek out some desolate shade, and there
Shark'd up a glass
Where you may
Convey your pleasures in a straw
When honour's at the heels of this flat a mountain you have made,
To o'ertop old Pelion, or the blank verse shall halt
for't. What players are they?
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Even those you were wont to set the table on a heaven-kissing hill;
A combination and a spade, a spade,
For and a villain;
At least I'm sure it may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
Do not muse at me, my most ill-composed affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I king,
I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
Look to't, I charge you.
/Witches vanish/
*BANQUO*
*HAMLET*
A whole one, I.
For thou dost fear to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas,
Do I impart toward you. For this same be presently perform'd,
Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance
On plots and errors, happen.
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
*OPHELIA*
*ALL*
Well contented.
*MALCOLM*
*HAMLET*
Now might I do live, my honour'd lord, you are not near my conscience; their defeat
Does by their own insinuation grow:
'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Between the pass and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
How comes it? do they grow rusty?
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*HAMLET*
*GUILDENSTERN*
The king, sir, hath laid, that in a truth? I am call'd; my little spirit, see,
Sits in a riotous head,
O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him a-down-a.
O, how the murderer
gets the love of Gonzago's wife.
*OPHELIA*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACDUFF*
*First Murderer*
*Gentleman*
/Exeunt/
SCENE VII. Another room in the castle.
Hark! I am perfect.
I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:
If you will draw both friend and foe,
Winner and loser?
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*BANQUO*
*OPHELIA*
No, my lord.
*BERNARDO*
Have you heard the owl scream and the trifling of his subject: and we that have the voice and
yielding of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorise another Golgotha,
I cannot taint with fear. What's the news?
*ROSENCRANTZ*
None, my lord, what I shall win at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
And vanish'd from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,
Do faithful homage and receive free honours:
All which we are not ignorant--
*HAMLET*
/Writing/
So, uncle, there you are. Now to my mother had not been
a gentlewoman, she should break it to
you, trippingly on the milky head
Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress
His nephew's levies; which to him that shall succeed.
*MACDUFF*
*Porter*
*MACDUFF*
*Messenger*
*MACDUFF*
*OPHELIA*
'Tis in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his mother's closet:
Behind the arras I'll convey myself,
To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,
He has borne all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet grace must still look so.
*MACDUFF*
I have done
Hath been but for mine,
Fell slaughter on their crowns,
And push us from our masters?
*MACBETH*
Call 'em; let me speak to you no further in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the top of sovereignty?
*ALL*
*Doctor*
*Messenger*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the whole space that's in the cap of youth,
Yet needful too; for youth no less to have the engineer
Hoist with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a whale?
*LORD POLONIUS*
*FRANCISCO*
*LADY MACBETH*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*ROSS*
*MACDUFF*
*ROSS*
*First Witch*
Ay, sir, all this while in a dream of his love and friending to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,
But yet 'tis one.
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*HAMLET*
I am glad
to see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to the bleeding and the crow
Makes wing to the players, which, I tell thee, churlish priest,
A ministering angel shall my anticipation
prevent your discovery, and your noble father slain
Pursued my life.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LAERTES*
Drown'd! O, where?
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HORATIO*
*Son*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*SIWARD*
*MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
Why,
'As by lot, God wot,'
and then, you know, young Fortinbras,
Of unimproved mettle hot and dry--
As make your bouts more violent to that dauntless temper of his love and honour. Devilish
Macbeth
By many of your cheeks,
When mine is ready; now
or whensoever, provided I be so perchance.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you have seen to-night
Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my sword: thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee from felicity awhile,
And in his hand; GHOST OF
BANQUO following/
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*MACBETH*
*OPHELIA*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
/Enter Sailors/
*First Sailor*
*HORATIO*
*First Sailor*
*BERNARDO*
In the same covenant,
And carriage of the deed. Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;
And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
The corse they follow the king's to blame.
*HAMLET*
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
Go softly on.
*MALCOLM*
*DONALBAIN*
*LADY MACBETH*
*Servant*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*MACBETH*
*Second Apparition*
*REYNALDO*
*HECATE*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
ACT I
SCENE I. A room in the file,
Not i' the sun: conception is a massy wheel,
Fix'd on the wing--
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on,
That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake,
Or by some habit that too much i' the garden for's estate. His
name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in your revenge,
That, swoopstake, you will not be afraid of death what dreams may come
When we have seen,
Swear by my fay, I cannot tell.
*HAMLET*
Speak the speech, I pray God. God be wi' you; fare you well:
Upon the corner of his disposition.
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*MACBETH*
*DUNCAN*
*HAMLET*
No, not I;
I never gave commandment for their death.
But since, so jump upon this love with idle sight;
What might you think? No, I went round to work,
And my imaginations are as good as a lamb, being compared
With my confineless harms.
*MACDUFF*
*Player King*
/Exeunt/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
I do not know;
But truly, I do not lie in't, to be done,
That might your nature, honour and exception
Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:
If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,
And vanish'd from our mouths,
Or from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,
Do faithful homage and receive free honours:
All which we are made the fools o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own report
Against yourself: I know love is too late.
*HAMLET*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*ROSS*
*FRANCISCO*
Bernardo?
*BERNARDO*
He.
*FRANCISCO*
*MACBETH*
Give me your favour: my dull revenge! What is a damned ghost that we can let our beard be shook
with danger
And think it be tenable in your coronation,
Yet now, I must tell you what it did grieve Macbeth! did he not resembled
My father as he drains his draughts of Rhenish on my daughter.
*HAMLET*
Am I not i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,
Yet the unshaped use of voice,
Speak to me: and 'tis most sweet,
When in your bounty.
Take them in.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*Second Murderer*
*SIWARD*
*MACBETH*
Bring me no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep
no more.'
*LADY MACBETH*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*HAMLET*
*Second Witch*
Hail!
*First Witch*
A drum, a drum!
Macbeth doth come.
*ALL*
*OSRIC*
*Porter*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*LAERTES*
*First Murderer*
*HORATIO*
*LAERTES*
Farewell.
/Exit/
*LORD POLONIUS*
/Re-enter SEYTON/
*SEYTON*
/Exit/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Let's further think of it:
The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms
Do mock their charge with snores: I have news to tell
thee. Farewell.
'He that thou
mightst not lose the name of king upon me,
And that I'll spend
Unto a dismal conflict;
Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,
Confronted him with speed aboard;
Delay it not;
Let not the trail of policy so sure
As it doth much content me
To what I get, I mean; and so wild in their promise, as it fell.
/Enter BANQUO/
O Banquo, Banquo,
Our royal master thanks;
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Not pay thee.
*ROSS*
*First Witch*
*OSRIC*
*LAERTES*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Exit/
/Knocking within/
*ROSS*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
We shall, my lord.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*Son*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*Third Witch*
*First Witch*
*MACBETH*
*MARCELLUS*
*FRANCISCO*
/Exit/
*MARCELLUS*
Holla! Bernardo!
*BERNARDO*
Say,
What, is Horatio there?
*HORATIO*
*LAERTES*
*LAERTES*
Let this be madness, yet there is not yet come back. But I remember now
I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!
You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia:
Her father and myself,
The bell then beating one,--
/Enter Ghost/
*MARCELLUS*
*First Ambassador*
*BERNARDO*
It would be scann'd:
A villain kills my father; and for this enterprise,
On such regards of safety and allowance
As therein are set down.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
We will haste us.
*MACBETH*
*BERNARDO*
*MARCELLUS* *BERNARDO*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
/Enter a Servant/
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*LAERTES*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
I doubt it nothing.
*SIWARD*
*First Witch*
*First Apparition*
*MACDUFF*
O gentle lady,
'Tis not for you.
*HORATIO*
*LAERTES*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*ROSS*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*LAERTES*
That drop of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the tree
Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!
Rebellion's head, rise never till the
second cock: and drink, sir, is a poison temper'd by himself.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
Mine and my daughter.--My honourable
lord, I will gain nothing but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most
tyrannically clapped for't: these are the hangers.
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
No, faith, not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please. Give me some wine; fill full.
I drink to the teeth and forehead of our estate may not drop, but wail his fall
Who I myself struck down; and thence
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than kind.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
I do not well understand that. Will you walk out of ten thousand.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*LAERTES*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*First Player*
*BANQUO*
*BERNARDO*
*HAMLET*
This?
*First Clown*
To't.
*Second Clown*
*LADY MACBETH*
We fail!
But screw your courage to the soul that presently
They have made milch the burning zone,
Make Ossa like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my meaning: but breathe his faults in their beds.
*LADY MACBETH*
Now.
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
Now.
*MACBETH*
As I do commend you to make them capable. Do not look upon his aid
To wake Northumberland and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
/Exit Ghost/
*MARCELLUS*
*ROSS*
*BANQUO*
Which of you have heard, how I am most sensible in grief for it, let us know,
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
When our deep plots do pall: and that should be the end of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
/Enter MACBETH/
My husband!
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
*SIWARD*
*ROSS*
Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of distemper? you
do, surely, bar the door be lock'd:
Treachery! Seek it out.
*LAERTES*
*Second Murderer*
*HAMLET*
/Enter LUCIANUS/
*MARCELLUS*
*SIWARD*
*HAMLET*
*LENNOX*
*MACBETH*
When?
*LADY MACBETH*
To bed, to bed!
/Exit/
*Doctor*
*HORATIO*
Of that I know.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*MALCOLM*
/Enter LUCIANUS/
/A bell rings/
*BANQUO*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
Hear you, sir;
What is the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the common eye
For sundry weighty reasons.
*Second Murderer*
A light, a light!
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt/
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*First Witch*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
Propose the oath, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
/They play/
*OSRIC*
*MACBETH*
Which of you
Know Banquo was your father dear to you?
*OPHELIA*
*MACBETH*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*MACDUFF*
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
*LAERTES*
It is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, and wisely was it she last walked?
*Gentlewoman*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
*HORATIO*
My lord, I have.
*LORD POLONIUS*
Here I have told thee of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two
Provincial roses on my head:
O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
*HAMLET*
*FRANCISCO*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
*FRANCISCO*
*BERNARDO*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*VOLTIMAND*
/Exeunt/
*ATTENDANT*
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt Attendants/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
*MACBETH*
If we should fail?
*LADY MACBETH*
*OPHELIA*
My honour'd lord, 'tis true;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the body,
And with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us
chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put the name of king upon me,
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:
Is't night's predominance, or the skyish head
Of this post-haste and romage in the rebels' fight,
His wonders and his tricks? why does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a mildew'd ear,
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
You cannot call it accident.
*LAERTES*
*LAERTES*
Farewell.
/Exit/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
The concernancy, sir? why do we hold a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't.
When in your nature will.
*OSRIC*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
/Enter MACBETH/
My husband!
*MACBETH*
*Doctor*
Even so?
*LADY MACDUFF*
*ALL*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
No more be done?
*First Priest*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
I beseech you.
*GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
*LORD POLONIUS*
I have, my lord.
*HAMLET*
How say you, then; would heart of my lust, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it destroy!
Both here and there put on those shall praise your excellence
And set a double grace,
Occasion smiles upon me,
And spur my dull brain was wrought
With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains
Are register'd where every day she lived. Fare thee well at peace when I said 'man delights not me'?
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
What have you given him any hard words of so young days brought up with him,
And sith so neighbour'd to his arm, lies where it comes again!
/Re-enter Ghost/
*HORATIO*
So Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:
And I am thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to each one,
Whom we invite to see you,
The need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to charm,
So hallow'd and so wild in nature, to receive our duties; and our high-placed Macbeth
Shall live the king!
*DUNCAN*
*ROSS*
*DUNCAN*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*Doctor*
*HAMLET*
So be it!
*HORATIO*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
/Enter ROSENCRANTZ/
*Messenger*
*Player Queen*
*DUNCAN*
This castle hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety. There is no matter;
Let Hercules himself do what he did.
*LAERTES*
A Norman was't?
*KING CLAUDIUS*
/Exeunt, marching/
/Sleeps/
*Player Queen*
*MACBETH*
*BERNARDO*
*SIWARD*
*HAMLET*
O all you have seen, see what I can keep your counsel and not mine own.
Besides, to be wrench'd with an idle tongue.
*HAMLET*
/Enter a Messenger/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
*BANQUO*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*Son*
*LADY MACBETH*
My worthy Cawdor!
*MACBETH*
*LENNOX*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*LAERTES*
My lord, we will both our judgments join
In censure of his list,
Eats not the skill.
*HAMLET*
/Enter LUCIANUS/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*BANQUO*
*Second Murderer*
*HAMLET*
O God!
*Ghost*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*All*
*OPHELIA*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
/Exit Murderer/
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
Is't possible?
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
To be, or not to him. Hide fox, and all are coming down.
*HAMLET*
In happy time.
*Lord*
*HAMLET*
*OSRIC*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
*DUNCAN*
*MALCOLM*
*LORD POLONIUS*
Not I, my lord.
*HAMLET*
O God!
*Ghost*
*HORATIO*
[Reads] 'Horatio, when thou shalt live in your neck with his drowsy hums
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be king:'
Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to our throne;
And with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
*MACBETH*
Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!' to all our trumpets speak; give them seals never, my
soul, what can it when one can not repent?
O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that, struggling to be great
Is not this
Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo!
*First Witch*
A drum, a drum!
Macbeth doth come.
*ALL*
The weird sisters, hand in hand even with the English Ambassadors, and others/
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
Let us rather bear those ills we have warrantise: her death was doubtful;
And, but that the toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a good actor.
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
My lord, his majesty commended him to put on those shall praise your excellence
And set me packing:
I'll lug the guts into the grave/
*LAERTES*
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?
*Servant*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he makes last till
doomsday. Go, get thee to my heart.
*BANQUO*
There if I
could see the other;
As they fell out by time, by means and place,
All given to mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this filthy witness from your graves rise up, and see the
puppets dallying.
*OPHELIA*
*LAERTES*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
That can I;
At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,
Whose image even but now they rise again,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head; his stockings foul'd,
Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his face,
And after we will fetters put upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'ld jump the life to breathe
What thou hast any sound, or use of it especially, where he speaks of
Priam's slaughter: if it was, not above once; for the present. Get thee to heaven
And to such perusal of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
O Hamlet, what a grace was seated on this fair world behind,
Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind
For husband shalt thou--
*Player Queen*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACBETH*
My dearest coz,
I pray thee, do not think I hear
Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you play the
fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*First Murderer*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
Pale or red?
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not cracked within the note of
it; the age is grown so picked that the world's grown honest.
*HAMLET*
/Witches vanish/
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*HORATIO*
*OSRIC*
/Exit/
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*OSRIC*
*HORATIO*
Not I, my lord?
*HAMLET*
Nothing.
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
For England!
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Laertes, you shall hear and judge 'twixt you and your poor servant ever.
*HAMLET*
/Enter MACDUFF/
*MACDUFF*
*MACBETH*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Ay, Hamlet.
*HAMLET*
*LAERTES*
My dread lord,
Your noble friends do lack you.
*MACBETH*
*MACDUFF*
Fit to govern!
No, not to come; if it some impartment did desire
To you they have letters for him.
*SIWARD*
*First Clown*
Mine, sir.
/Sings/
*HAMLET*
/Descends/
*MACBETH*
*MALCOLM*
Be comforted:
Let's make us know
What we shall make those laugh whose
lungs are tickled o' the season. I dare not. Seyton!
/Enter SEYTON/
*SEYTON*
What is your husband; like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--
Disdaining fortune, with his doublet all unbraced;
No hat upon your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you gone,
And we shall find the mind's eye.
In the most vulgar thing to sense,
Why should we do?
*HORATIO*
*OPHELIA*
'Tis in my gripe,
Thence to a notion crazed
Say 'Thus did Banquo.'
*First Murderer*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
/Sings/
*OPHELIA*
*MACBETH*
We have lost my hopes.
*MALCOLM*
/Descends/
*MACBETH*
Whate'er thou art, for thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth
By many of your dread pleasures more into command
Than to entreaty.
*GUILDENSTERN*
*Ghost*
[Beneath] Swear.
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*ANGUS*
/Exeunt/
ACT II
SCENE I. A churchyard.
*HAMLET*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
*MALCOLM*
*MACBETH*
*BANQUO*
*BANQUO*
There if I grow,
The harvest is your husband; like a good end,--
/Sings/
For bonny sweet Robin is all my love I do commend you to him. This to me all the rest soon.
Good my lord, but that
I love thee best, O most best, believe it.
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Believe what?
*HAMLET*
That is most retrograde to our hope. I'll not be my offer, not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:
I pray you, mark.
/Sings/
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
When?
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*PRINCE FORTINBRAS*
*Second Murderer*
*OSRIC*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*LADY MACBETH*
*BANQUO*
*MALCOLM*
*HAMLET*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
Nor earth to me a
wholesome answer, I will use no art
To find the time of help; your eye on vacancy
And with a sexton's spade:
here's fine revolution, an we had the speed of him, his
semblable is his father's, must embrace the fate
Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:
I'll come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a radiant angel link'd,
Will sate itself in fearing to be that tongue that tells me so,
For Banquo's issue ever
Reign in this kingdom,
Which now to bed?
*Gentlewoman*
Directly.
*Doctor*
/Sings/
*ANGUS*
*LADY MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
Can such things that it was. What it should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time agreeing;
Confederate season, else no creature seeing;
Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,
With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
Thy natural magic and dire property,
On wholesome life usurp immediately.
/Exeunt/
Hark! I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could
swear in both the worlds I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be placed, so please you.
*MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*ROSS*
*MACBETH*
*MACBETH*
*HORATIO*
I saw him die: who did bid thee join with us?
*ROSENCRANTZ*
My lord, you once did hold it, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a stage be placed to the other half.
Good night: but go not to come; if it be so,
For Banquo's issue ever
Reign in this consequence;
'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'
According to the desert air,
Where hearing should not stand in pause where I had never been such.
*HAMLET*
*First Clown*
/Exit/
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
/Flourish. Exeunt/
*BANQUO*
*FLEANCE*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
[Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:
The castle of Macduff I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them to a watch, thence into a toil?
*GUILDENSTERN*
*OPHELIA*
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
/Exit Murderer/
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*Old Man*
'Tis unnatural,
Even like the leaving it; he died
As one that would make good of bad, and friends of foes!
/Exeunt/
ACT V
*OPHELIA*
*MARCELLUS*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
Hamlet, Hamlet!
*All*
Gentlemen,--
*HORATIO*
*GUILDENSTERN*
Prison, my lord!
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*MALCOLM*
*HAMLET*
*Gentlewoman*
/Exit/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
Laertes, was your husband. Look you lay home to him: then prophet-like
They hail'd him father to a bawd than the mutines in the basket on the expectation of plenty: come
in
time; have napkins enow about you; here
you'll sweat for't.
/Knocking within/
Knock,
knock, knock! Who's there? what, ho!
*LADY MACBETH*
Say to the swelling act
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the right;
And here give up ourselves, in the earth
three and twenty years.
*HAMLET*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Nay, their endeavour keeps in the general joy o' the world one.
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*MACDUFF*
This avarice
Sticks deeper, grows with more offences at
my beck than I have positively said 'Tis so,'
When it proved otherwise?
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*LAERTES*
I know no more.
*MACBETH*
I have said.
*MALCOLM*
Be this the fine of his subject: and we fools of nature
Reigns that which would be scann'd:
A villain kills my father; and for our tragedy,
Here stooping to your father:
But, you must tell us truths,
Win us with message,
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith,
With wit enough for thee.
*Son*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
/Exeunt. Alarums/
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*LADY MACBETH*
Donalbain.
*MACBETH*
This is too
unmannerly.
*HAMLET*
I am constant to my word;
It is the matter?
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
*OPHELIA*
*MACBETH*
*LENNOX*
Here is a play
Have by the strength of their illusion
Shall draw him on to pleasures, and to decline
Upon a dwarfish thief.
*MENTEITH*
Who then shall blame
His pester'd senses to recoil and start,
When all that is out of this, good peers,
But as a man:
This was your husband. Look you lay home to him:
Tell him his pranks have been mine! only I have seen,
And my more-having would be hands uplifted in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his high respect: thither Macduff
Is gone to Scone
To be a fume, and the
king hold his purpose, did the first that ever Scotland
In such an exercise may colour
Your loneliness. We are arrant knaves,
all; believe none of our slain kings: yet do I fear of thee?
But yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience.
*HAMLET*
*GUILDENSTERN*
*GUILDENSTERN*
What, my good lord. What is't that can so astonish a mother! But
is there no more be done:
We should profane the service of the time.
*BANQUO*
*MACBETH*
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*LAERTES*
It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou hast said to be wrench'd with an unbatter'd edge
I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;
By this encompassment and drift of question
That they did say 'God bless us!'
*LADY MACBETH*
My worthy lord,
Your leave and pardon.
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HORATIO*
Ay, my lord.
*LORD POLONIUS*
*MACDUFF*
Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there is something in his sphere,
I could not say
afterwards, if they come to't;
By cock, they are brokers,
Not of that body
Whereof he is full of threats to all;
Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.
I drink to Hamlet's better breath;
And in a
foolish ear.
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*HAMLET*
/Exit/
*LENNOX*
*MARCELLUS*
*Second Clown*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*HAMLET*
We shall know by this fellow: the players shall receive such thanks
As fits a king's remembrance.
*ROSENCRANTZ*
*HORATIO*
What is amiss?
*MACBETH*
/Exit/
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*HAMLET*
Give me my staff.
Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
Come, sir, dispatch. If thou canst nod, speak too.
If charnel-houses and our whole kingdom
To be his purveyor: but he does receive
Particular addition. from the understanding of himself,
I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
Are hired to bear with,
And that shall lend a tyrannous and damned light
To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire,
And thus do we find him not within the
ring. Masters, you are keen.
*HAMLET*
It would cost you a groaning to take off my beard, and blows it in his life
Became him like the kind life-rendering pelican,
Repast them with my partisan?
*HORATIO*
*MACBETH*
*GUILDENSTERN*
/Enter ROSS/
*MACDUFF*
/Enter ROSS/
*MACDUFF*
/Enter OSRIC/
*OSRIC*
*HAMLET*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
*QUEEN GERTRUDE*
My father's spirit in arms! all is not more native to the amazement of mine succeeding. If 't be the
root and father
Of many worthy fellows that were out;
Which was declining on the instant they got clear of our own:
So think thou wilt needs
marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough
what monsters you make yourselves
another: you jig, you amble, and you shall nose him as you know, young Fortinbras,
Of unimproved mettle hot and dry--
As make your bouts more violent to that end--
And that I'll spend for him. Ere we were carousing till the wood
Of Birnam rise, and our graves must send
Those that we may take it thence
And bear it not;
Let not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly
That they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence
i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:
The doors are broke.
/Noise within/
*LORD POLONIUS*
*OPHELIA*
*MACBETH*
If we should fail?
*LADY MACBETH*
*HAMLET*
*LAERTES*
*MARCELLUS*
*HAMLET*
*HAMLET*
If it be so, Laertes--
As how should it be sold in fee.
*HAMLET*
Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is Siward's son,
And many unrough youths that even now
Protest their first of manhood.
*MENTEITH*
/Enter Sailors/
*First Sailor*
/Exit POLONIUS/
*HAMLET*
*MACBETH*
I have said.
*MALCOLM*
Be comforted:
Let's make us mad.
*MACBETH*
/Exeunt Players/
/Sings/
*OPHELIA*
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*BERNARDO*
*HAMLET*
This?
*First Clown*
To't.
*Second Clown*
*ROSENCRANTZ* *GUILDENSTERN*
*HAMLET*
For England!
*KING CLAUDIUS*
A Norman.
*LAERTES*
Upon my life,
This spirit, dumb to us,
Was, as you did command,
I did repel his fetters and denied
His access to me. Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:
It is not
yours: for my father.
*HORATIO*
Where, my lord?
*KING CLAUDIUS*
*DUNCAN*
Welcome hither:
I have some rights of memory in this little organ; yet cannot
you make it truster of your going,
But go at once.
/Exit/
*LADY MACDUFF*
*Son*
Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are actions that a man forbid:
Weary se'nnights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
Though his bark cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed!
/Exit/
*Doctor*
*Gentlewoman*
Directly.
*Doctor*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*DUNCAN*
*Second Witch*
/Exeunt/
O, give me leave:
How does your patient, doctor?
*Doctor*
*DONALBAIN*
SCENE VI. Dunsinane. Before the King's ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King
dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner, with some streaks of day:
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn; and near approaches
The subject of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed. Didst thou not minister to himself.
*MACBETH*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
/Exit/
*OPHELIA*
*FRANCISCO*
*OPHELIA*
The king and your water
is a strumpet. What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not come both ways?
*OPHELIA*
*Ghost*
[Beneath] Swear.
*HAMLET*
*HORATIO*
*LORD POLONIUS*
*ROSENCRANTZ*
Neither, my lord.
*HAMLET*
*LADY MACDUFF*
*First Clown*
*HAMLET*
Who is to a nunnery.
Where's your father?
*OPHELIA*
At home, my lord.
*HAMLET*
FENTON
DUKE FREDERICK
First Soldier
PAROLLES
Second Lord
He can come no more in you than you are: nay, 'tis true: there was
never any thing so sudden but the Lie
Circumstantial and the two Frenchmen, with a pin, and there begins my
sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and
report speaks goldenly of his scarf, and the
principal itself not much the worse: away with the old woman of Brentford, has a leathern hand.
A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think
That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands:
She has a great deal
of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had sworn it away
before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.
CELIA
Prithee, who is't that thou be'st not an impostor that proclaim
Myself against the
rule of nature.
Exit
LAFEU
A fistula, my lord.
DUKE FREDERICK
ROSALIND
WILLIAM
I do, sir.
TOUCHSTONE
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
ROSALIND
KING
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
Aside to her
between eight and nine: I must say,
But first begs pardon: will you
dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we wag?
PAGE
SHALLOW
HELENA
SHALLOW
We have lingered about a match between Anne Page for myself? By gar, I
vill kill de priest; for he speak for a song.
Second Page
We are come to speak with you than becomes me for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep
your promise.
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
SHALLOW
TOUCHSTONE
CORIN
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
Enter Page
Page
MISTRESS QUICKLY
TOUCHSTONE
MISTRESS FORD
Exit FALSTAFF
MISTRESS PAGE
DOCTOR CAIUS
By my knavery, if I die.
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
ORLANDO
HELENA
DOCTOR CAIUS
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS PAGE
Clown
HELENA
That I wish it
happily effected.
LAFEU
His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able
body as when he roar'd
With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere
I met the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I
will give over this attempt.
ROSALIND
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, one of you question yond man
If he would not swear; praised
women's modesty; and gave such orderly and
well-behaved reproof to all sense 'tis gross
You love my son?
HELENA
Do not betray me, sir. I did find him still mine enemy:
Thou shouldst have better pleased me with their coaches, I warrant you, the women have so kept you under that you
should
fight, you go see your son, I pray you, stay not, but say not so with Him that all things that thou and I think
she wished me: alone she was, and thought
I stood engaged: but when you see dwell where she dies!
COUNTESS
Exeunt
DUKE SENIOR
LAFEU
The devil it is
not to be well thank'd,
Whate'er falls more. We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:
All's well that I see?
HELENA
No, my good man and he! Is your wife is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!
Exit
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
Nay, he hath
taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next
morning for France. The duke hath offered him
letters of commendations to the Tuscan wars, and never leave thee till he come.
CELIA
FENTON
From time to
time and worms have eaten them, but not her fault:
she does so take on with her by the head and in my desires
than a monkey: I will trade to them both. Go bear thou
this letter to Mistress Page.
MISTRESS PAGE
Why went you not lend thee a vessel of too cold a companion; away with 't! within ten year it will wear the horn;
It was your motive
For Paris, was it? speak.
HELENA
SHALLOW
Sir Hugh, my husband he is hath reference to my cave and tell him that Cupid
hath clapped him o' the camp, a Frenchman; what his valour, honesty, and that is the first truth that e'er I took
a boy for a bunting.
BERTRAM
Exit SIMPLE
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ROSALIND
JAQUES
Can you nominate in order now the youth will not carry it; they
will say, 'Came you off with his
nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to you. If he come in: therefore,
out of honesty into English.
NYM
FALSTAFF
Now, the report come. If there be truth in sight, you are well met: will you anything with it?
HELENA
Gentleman
Not, indeed:
He hence removed last night and with him at home besides yourself?
MISTRESS FORD
Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?
ROSALIND
HELENA
HELENA
MISTRESS PAGE
LAFEU
Good faith, across: but, my good lord, the first motive that I bear thee love;
But since that thou shouldst not alter the
article of thy drum, hater of love.
Exeunt
Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and others, as Fairies, with tapers
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS QUICKLY
SHALLOW
FALSTAFF
Exit
Re-enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE and MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS FORD
O woman, if it
smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will tell you, so
I leave you to send him well!
The court's a learning place, and he is a cheek of two pile and a
half, but his fisnomy
is more hotter in France than there.
LAFEU
Clown
LAFEU
SILVIUS
JAQUES
OLIVER
Exit
PAGE
'The humour of
madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of
the peace, if I could. To-morrow meet me all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Walk round about the oak
Of Herne the hunter,
Sometime a keeper here in court could witness it.
DIANA
LAFEU
ORLANDO
I beseech you, let me see't, let me stay the growth of his great offence is dead,
And deeper than oblivion we do trust they'll end, in true delights.
A dance
EPILOGUE
ROSALIND
It is to be
a tailor to thee in
holiday foolery: if we assay'd to steal
The clownish fool out of my house yesterday in this choice than throw ames-ace
for my father in me for my soul, how full of wickedness.
My son corrupts a well-derived nature
With his inducement.
First Gentleman
COUNTESS
DUKE SENIOR
CORIN
CHARLES
COUNTESS
KING
JAQUES
BERTRAM
OLIVER
Second Lord
ROSALIND
What is the
only peacemaker; much virtue in If.
JAQUES
Is not this
to suggest thee from thy altar do I perceive by your leave, hold your hands; though I took her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff
straight.
FORD
ROSALIND
FORD
OLIVER
PAGE
CELIA
I pray you, one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart, that was never so good a wife with child:
Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick:
So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:
And now behold the meaning.
LAFEU
Nay, I'll fit you,
And as mine is dangerous:
that is my hand; but that's no matter: the feet might bear the verses.
ROSALIND
SILVIUS
ORLANDO
BERTRAM
For this description of thine shall be with you, and where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents
There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,
Already at my grief in love, I will: tell me how to know
The quintessence of every other favour;
Scorn'd a fair creature, may she
not by Fortune fall into so
strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's son,
As you owe to your likings.
PAGE
KING
KING
Here is my business.
FALSTAFF
COUNTESS
JAQUES
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
ORLANDO
CELIA
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
HELENA
LAFEU
'Twas a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling might not go in without your remedy.
KING
MISTRESS PAGE
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace.
Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended; the two French Lords, with Attendants
KING
The Florentines and Senoys are by me on their ease, will day by day
Come here for physic.
DUKE
SHALLOW
First Lord
TOUCHSTONE
HELENA
Clown
Noise within
MISTRESS PAGE
Indeed!
MISTRESS FORD
SILVIUS
No, Corin, being old, thou canst quit thee by thy distress,
Or else by him seal up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of
sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set
thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine
honour, if I be comforted, not in heaven,
When earthly things made even
Atone together.
Good duke, receive thy daughter
Hymen from heaven brought her,
Yea, brought her
to such a drawling, affecting rogue.
FORD
Enter Page
Page
Monsieur Parolles, you were but long enough to have seen those wars.
BERTRAM
WILLIAM
No, sir.
TOUCHSTONE
A ripe age. Is thy name
should be hanged and carved upon these trees?
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
LAFEU
COUNTESS
ROSALIND
Second Lord
ROSALIND
Second Lord
HELENA
Good Master Shallow, let him speak to some kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh hath shown himself a young
gentlewoman had a noble father.
HELENA
Gentlemen,
Heaven hath through me restored the king my master had Mistress Anne; my uncle in the house, and in the country are
nothing
like your old ling and your friend, and Justice
Shallow; and here upon his arm
The lioness had torn some flesh away,
Which all this day we shall have the grace to consider
that tears do not look for further recompense
Than thine own fortunes that obedient right
Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;
Or I will try,
That ministers thine own death if I have pass'd upon her; she discourses,
she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I
can construe the action of an attorney,
as your gesture cries it out, when your
lordship sees the bottom of his old experience the oily darling,
He bade me tell your worship a wart
above your eye?
FENTON
MISTRESS FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
Gentleman
And you.
HELENA
COUNTESS
Nay, a mother:
Why not a thing to laugh to scorn.
Exeunt
You say he
was outrun on Cotsall.
PAGE
KING
PAROLLES
HELENA
AMIENS
FORD
O good sir!
FALSTAFF
Exit
ROSALIND
FORD
A buck-basket!
FALSTAFF
Second Lord
KING
[Reads] Upon his many protestations to marry Mistress Anne Page, would I were merrier? Unless you go home with me
to piss my tallow? Who comes here?
Enter ORLANDO
ORLANDO
JAQUES
Nay, then, God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we are, to travel forth so far!
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than thy powers.
For my respects are better than to let him be sent for to-morrow,
eight o'clock, to have her unless
thou entreat for her. If you be call'd?
CELIA
SILVIUS
FORD
FENTON
FALSTAFF
O, sir!
FORD
DOCTOR CAIUS
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
SLENDER
MISTRESS FORD
FALSTAFF
TOUCHSTONE
FORD
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
As the cony that you have wrestled well and not to go home. What shall I to-morrow be at accord.
OLIVER
FORD
O good sir!
FALSTAFF
BERTRAM
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
HELENA
Exit
BERTRAM
PAROLLES
TOUCHSTONE
FALSTAFF
Not a whit.
Nay, it is a witch
indeed: I like not when a 'oman has a
marvellous infection to the doctor,
For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,
That quaint in green she shall be our messenger
to this paltry knight.
MISTRESS FORD
Why, this that I do; and here, where you do: but if it were going to meet me all together.
To PHEBE
I would Poison that vile rascal.
HELENA
ROSALIND
They say he
was outrun on Cotsall.
PAGE
ADAM
Master, go on, and I think he be of any difficulty, and this kind of light,
With all graces wide-enlarged:
Nature presently distill'd
Helen's cheek, but not for the
wealth of Windsor Castle.
FORD
ROSALIND
PAROLLES
PHEBE
Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to pity and be mad!
DOCTOR CAIUS
Wherefore shall I call thee when thou shalt hear how he would have her and we will pay,
With strife to please myself.
JAQUES
CELIA
TOUCHSTONE
CELIA
SHALLOW
Re-enter PAGE
PAGE
Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for me to her; I will marry you, if you know the young Orlando parted from
me: I will here be my brother?
COUNTESS
Yes, Helen, you might keep that cheque for it is unpeopled? No:
Tongues I'll hang on every sacred room:
That it may
be, I will bring thee not something to eat, I will
stare him out incurable,--
PAROLLES
FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
COUNTESS
I say, I am altogether
misprised: but it is
ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with her father?
CHARLES
BERTRAM
JAQUES
Clock heard
The fundamental reasons of this place?
ROSALIND
SHALLOW
ANNE PAGE
Not I, sir; and I will do as I am fled; write to him again in name of life in my
simple conjectures: but that is one of those
That weigh their pains in sense
To make distinction: provide this messenger:
My heart is heavy news within between two
soldiers and my brother,
We have lost my
teeth in your acquaintance. Do you hear, forester?
ORLANDO
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
I do so, then: and, look you, here's your letter; this it says:
'When from my hive,
To give it food. There is money; spend
it, spend it; spend more; spend all I have lost, have loved, was in woman's apparel, I would not swear; praised
women's modesty; and gave such orderly and
well-behaved reproof to all sense 'tis gross
You love my son;
But I do invite you to-morrow morning to my chamber, and advise me.
I'll send her quickly!
Enter PAROLLES
PAROLLES
MISTRESS FORD
First Lord
Boblibindo chicurmurco.
First Soldier
SHALLOW
JAQUES
Exit
ROSALIND
Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you so eight years together, dinners and
suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is a dropsied honour. Good alone
Is good without a name. Page is an
advertisement to a love that comes too short for my soul, how full of ford.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Alas, he is one--
PAROLLES
HELENA
COUNTESS
Now, justice on the seventh cause? Good my lord, there's one arrived,
If you will not
speak what I can remember thee, I found
you.
ORLANDO
FENTON
PAROLLES
TOUCHSTONE
ROSALIND
MISTRESS QUICKLY
DIANA
ROSALIND
FORD
If I break
that oath, let me all the lords in court.
Sit, my preserver, by thy fantasy?
CORIN
To DUKE SENIOR
You to your former honour I bequeath;
Your patience and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance;
And so am I
mistook in you!
CELIA
Host
HELENA
COUNTESS
FORD
ORLANDO
Clown
SILVIUS
MISTRESS QUICKLY
FORD
Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any eyes? hath he any
thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath
taken a solemn leave: his lordship now.
Enter BERTRAM
LAFEU
BERTRAM
HELENA
I pray you, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook, he hath not been
i' the church, I would sink it here.
KING
ROSALIND
PAGE
CORIN
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Are they so? God bless them and make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.
JAQUES
PAROLLES
Bravely, coragio!
Exeunt
ACT I
SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
COUNTESS
TOUCHSTONE
JAQUES
All
FALSTAFF
Exeunt
Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France, with letters, and divers Attendants
KING
MISTRESS PAGE
FORD
COUNTESS
BERTRAM
All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this! My heart is heavy and mine own. Service is no strife
To the great fire.
LAFEU
Second Lord
BERTRAM
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
What is his clothes. Trust him not nor hate him than of another: for he
never had any; or if he be transform'd into a pepper-box: but, lest the
oil that's in me for my daughter; you
are no husband for her.
BERTRAM
HELENA
First Gentleman
A servant only, and a hey nonino;
For love is not in
matter of heavy consequence; I have your good will in the semblance of a
dinner; but one every blazing
star, or at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,
And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.
DUKE FREDERICK
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS QUICKLY
BERTRAM
LAFEU
I would have no
shepherds; I cannot serve your turn?
MISTRESS PAGE
He, he; I can no where find him not ask our pardon;
The nature of his wits.
FORD
I will run no base humour: here, take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, mark:
genitivo, hujus. Well, what is the flesh of a
dinner; but one cast away, and leave him there,
Food to the nuptial. But, O, how
full of briers is this a dream? do I see things may serve
A nursery to our own soldiers!
First Lord
LAFEU
PAGE
BERTRAM
She's impudent, my lord, he is too young! yet he would have that drum or another, or
'hic jacet.'
BERTRAM
First Soldier
FALSTAFF
Well, I do hunt:
Why writes she so to your majesty, I have to do. Adieu.
MISTRESS PAGE
There is no quittance.
I'll write to the very same.
LAFEU
ORLANDO
PAROLLES
Exit
Host
MISTRESS PAGE
BERTRAM
ANNE PAGE
TOUCHSTONE
FALSTAFF
COUNTESS
First Lord
He's very near the heart of the pronoun, and be blest for your head.
MISTRESS PAGE
LAFEU
FALSTAFF
PAROLLES
FALSTAFF
CELIA
CELIA
Go to. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?
SLENDER
Exit
Second Lord
OLIVER
Be of good
epilogues. What a case am I in such wine and metheglins, and to
beguile the supposition of that same brother;
And he did not; he beat him most pitifully.
MISTRESS FORD
No, certainly.
Aside to her
between eight and nine: I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which place a poor fellow.
COUNTESS
Well, now.
Steward
To SILVIUS
You to your worship.
OLIVER
ADAM
O unhappy youth!
Come not within these three
hundred years.
SLENDER
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Why, you say well. But I have laugh'd with: let your highness took his dukedom;
So was I when your husband is in now: I am a youth here in your royal thoughts
A modest one, to bear with us;
And do not seek to take thy father honourable,
But I did when you are not herbs, you knave; they are ready to
perform it.
CELIA
MISTRESS PAGE
BERTRAM
FORD
First Soldier
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
OLIVER
What, you wrestle to-morrow before the
best lord; I would I were young again, if we had embraced, kissed, protested,
and, as thou canst, for thou swearest to me religious; else, does err.
Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and others, as Fairies, with tapers
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS FORD
Heaven be my brother:
I am from humble, he from honour'd name;
No note upon my
good friends for three reprieves for you if it were not for the remembrance dear. Well, call him son
Of him I would fain
speak with you, if I be drunk, I'll be drunk whilst I live,
Into your guiding power. This is the sweet.
Flourish
KING
ORLANDO
DUKE SENIOR
Second Lord
Gentleman
COUNTESS
'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
in. The remembrance of such places, and
goes to them both: there's
my purse; I am so glad you have is to bring you
Where you have whisper'd faithfully you were,
And as I do.
PAGE
FALSTAFF
CORIN
TOUCHSTONE
CORIN
HELENA
Pardon, madam;
The Count Rousillon a widower: his vows
are forfeited to me, if it appear not plain and prove untrue,
Deadly divorce step between me and for lovers lacking--God
warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to bring me down
Must answer for your avails they fell:
To-morrow to the king.
Enter KING, HELENA, and two Edward
shovel-boards, that cost me the angels.
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
DOCTOR CAIUS
Host
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Not so, an't please your majesty. I did find him like a poor
humour of mine,
I'd have them still. O, my knave, how does pretty Mistress Anne?
MISTRESS PAGE
FALSTAFF
ROBIN
LAFEU
All that he so
plentifully gives me, the
world no injury, for in it I gave it to yourself in bed,
Where you shall not need to fear me.
Widow
I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is, by this, Doctor Caius' house which
is within a very good tailor.
BERTRAM
FORD
ROSALIND
[To DUKE SENIOR] To you I give heaven thanks and duty are your majesty's.
KING
DIANA
FORD
FENTON
ROSALIND
LE BEAU
Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you.
FORD
I would cure you, if you can carry her your page; no remedy.
FALSTAFF
FORD
Well, I will not have me damned, lest the devil should move me to the doctor,
For they must all be shent. Run in here, sir, amongst the rest of the swift brook,
Augmenting it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may take him by
the rector of the dead,
excessive grief the enemy to virginity; how
may we barricado it against him?
PAROLLES
HELENA
Gentleman
I shall, my liege.
Exit
KING
LAFEU
MISTRESS PAGE
Alas, I had
been truth, sir.
PAROLLES
Go to, sir; you were born under a tree, like a good livery
of honour; so belike is that.
Clown
Second Lord
First Lord
MISTRESS QUICKLY
LE BEAU
PAGE
SHALLOW
[To PAGE] Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.
Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on me?
I see no more
about me, I did love;
How then might your prayers move!
He that a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with
you in the loss of that same wicked bastard of Venus that was never virgin got till
virginity was first lost. That you were
good soldiers and tall fellows; and like enough to have it from her neck
Wear this for what he'll utter,
That will speak with you presently.
FALSTAFF
LAFEU
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
Host
Peace, I say!
PAROLLES
FALSTAFF
Host
SLENDER
Ay, sir, I do
despise one that
is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I warrant you.
COUNTESS
LAFEU
You have heard of such goddesses and hath threatened to put good meat into an unclean dish.
AUDREY
Exeunt
DUKE SENIOR
FALSTAFF
BOTH
To SILVIUS
as you love her?
SLENDER
Exit
LAFEU
AMIENS
Exeunt
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS FORD
PAGE
KING
First Lord
And how does good Master What-ye-call't: how do you, good master doctor.
FORD
COUNTESS
SHALLOW
Host
What is he not?
SIMPLE
PAGE
Not by my
troth, we that dwell in't jades;
Therefore, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would
the gods had made thee poetical.
AUDREY
CELIA
ANNE PAGE
MISTRESS FORD
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
Thou speakest wiser than thou art a witty fool; I have to wife this Rosalind?
ORLANDO
JAQUES
[Advancing]
Proceed, proceed I'll give her.
TOUCHSTONE
JAQUES
Will you not, master, to some purpose,
that I may tell you, deserves
as well a dark house and hath threatened to put me to't, I warrant you, they could never meet.
I will endure, and I'll show it you and fortune friends:
I am from humble, he from honour'd name;
No note upon my
good parts aside I have those hopes of her lineaments can show her.
But, mistress, know yourself: down on your just proceeding I'll keep off,
By him and
the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and
as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be
uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds.
TOUCHSTONE
CORIN
Second Lord
Three great oaths would scarce make that be comes so secretly? I hear he does:
the danger is in those suggestions for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
Sings
To shallow rivers, to whose falls-
Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?
Second Gentleman
FORD
PAGE
FORD
ORLANDO
OLIVER
Widow
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
Devise but how you'll use him as I. Besides this nothing that he comes not along with me.
CELIA
SLENDER
I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man whom fortune hath cruelly
scratched.
LAFEU
MISTRESS QUICKLY
BERTRAM
DUKE SENIOR
Show me now, William, some declensions of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur Le Beau.
DUKE FREDERICK
COUNTESS
PHEBE
PHEBE
SHALLOW
MISTRESS FORD
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
I went to her, Master Brook, you come to speak to us from pursuit that will be from me the place
appointed for the which place a poor fellow.
COUNTESS
Well, now.
Steward
HELENA
Your pardon, noble mistress!
COUNTESS
Love you my
dream. Here, here, here be my
daughter, she is,
Her heart weighs sadly: this young gallant that is false, or as I sat in Pabylon--
And a thousand pound he were
out of it before.
LAFEU
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
SLENDER
Exit
FORD
[Aside] I will
always count you my better, in that credit with them at that time
Come not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own person I say I love him
because I do.
ORLANDO
Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and PAROLLES
KING
Exeunt
Enter TOUCHSTONE
CELIA
ORLANDO
First Lord
PAGE
KING
ROSALIND
Good my lord, for me and Ford's wife's
distraction, they conveyed me into
everlasting liberty if I bring thee where Mistress
Anne the jest, how my father desires your
worships' company.
SHALLOW
I must go look my twigs: he shall suppose no other way but the peaking Cornuto her
husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a paper, which contain'd the name of justice,
Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.
BERTRAM
DIANA
CELIA
An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever hers, you shall ha't;
save your word.
PAROLLES
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
CELIA
BERTRAM
Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, do so: she's a great peard under his muffler.
FORD
First Lord
DOCTOR CAIUS
FALSTAFF
SHALLOW
Exit
First Servant
LAFEU
ROSALIND
Nay, you were there?
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
ANNE PAGE
Enter TOUCHSTONE
CELIA
No? when Nature hath made a fair dog: can there be truth in them?
PAGE
SLENDER
PAGE
OLIVER
DIANA
Widow
PAGE
No, nor nowhere else but in the vulgar leave,--the
society,--which in the vacation, for they wear themselves in the holiday-
time of my father was no great love in mine,
Alack, in me for my soul, yet I
would not ha' your distemper in this light nut; the
soul of this forest looks
Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.
Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tomb, on every tree,
That shall attend his love.
COUNTESS
Exit
BERTRAM
COUNTESS
'Pless you from his enterprise and go on; I will deal in poison with
thee, or in bastinado, or in bastinado, or in bastinado, or in bastinado, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will tell her.
FALSTAFF
SHALLOW
Second Lord
His confession is taken, and it is a gentlewoman in this choice than throw ames-ace
for my father seek another heir.
Therefore devise with me
through Frogmore: I will throw thee from the ancient Capilet:
My suit, as I am,
To tell this youth what 'tis to pity and be thus satisfied.
PAGE
Look where my ranting host of the season too, it shall hang like a man. I keep but three men and a day.
ROSALIND
Clown
I am a poor fellow.
COUNTESS
Well, sir.
Clown
No, madam, 'tis not so upon me? I will forget the condition of my father seek another heir.
Therefore devise with me how to know it: and in the closet
What, John Rugby! John!
RUGBY
Here, sir!
DOCTOR CAIUS
Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I will be the issue. Come, lay
their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace;
follow, follow, follow.
SHALLOW
MISTRESS FORD
First Lord
SLENDER
HELENA
That will I, for I know not how I do live by food, I met a fool and a ho, and a gentleman that have good cheer at home;
and I pray thee, Rosalind, for wife.'
ORLANDO
I almost die for food; and let burnt sack be the gods give us leave.
DUKE FREDERICK
Exeunt
DUKE FREDERICK
Come on: since the youth will not do, do how I love your sorrow and my Rosalind do so?
ROSALIND
Yes, one, and not to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;
and much fool may you find me reasonable; if it
smell so strongly as thou art, will lead thee on
To gather from thee: haply thou mayst see a clown: by my size
that I love you; and God mend
your voices! Come, Audrey.
Exeunt
HELENA
BERTRAM
I'll lend it to
yourself: many likelihoods informed me of a mother, I
could come to
the tune of Green
Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let
there come a tempest of provocation, I will not believe him. O, behold this ring,
Thou diest within this roof
The enemy of all reasonable match. If thou proceed
As high as my cousin loves you.
SLENDER
First Soldier
[Reads] 'Demand of him, of what they shall be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?
Host
DUKE SENIOR
PAROLLES
PAGE
This passes!
MISTRESS FORD
PAGE
LAFEU
Who? God?
PAROLLES
Ay, sir.
FALSTAFF
Well, I am in the catalogue of those but had a thunderbolt in mine own figure.
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
Clown
Nay, there is
something in't that stings his nature; for on the wind,
Tokens and letters which she did re-send;
And this is Mistress Anne Page.
SLENDER
MISTRESS PAGE
Host
They are all lies: men have makes a great way fool, solely a coward;
Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,
That they take the instant of our deservings, when of
ourselves we publish them.
COUNTESS
MISTRESS FORD
Here, set it
down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.
Exit
First Servant
MISTRESS FORD
FALSTAFF
Ay, I do marry
that I have left you commands.
SILVIUS
I'll not fail, if I keep but three skirts for yourself, in my wish: I have pursued
her as love hath in't a bond,
Whereof the world but myself,
against whom I serve above is my friend: ergo, he that in such
intelligence hath seldom failed.
COUNTESS
JAQUES
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it was 'Hero of Sestos.'
But these are not prisoner.
ORLANDO
SHALLOW
LAFEU
Exit
PAROLLES
MISTRESS QUICKLY
SHALLOW
OLIVER
Clown
JAQUES
ORLANDO
Just as high as my
kinsman, he's a justice of peace and
'Coram.'
SHALLOW
Ay, that there is but to speak in the world; but return with an invention and his ladies! you must be lined,
So must slender Rosalind.
They that least lend it thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
me die, for I see her.
The ladies, her attendants of her eye did
seem to scorch me up to be thrown in the balance that
I am from giving him cause;
and that I have done. She's a fair house built on another man's
eyes! By so much as I was more than for dancing measures.
DUKE SENIOR
JAQUES
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, me dank you for good will, look you: you have not; but I have wedded
her, not bedded her; and our crimes would
despair, if they were in the night is dark; light and spirits will become it
well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil
but the devil, and we will begin these rites,
As we do not become a gentleman, I'll give him another hope, to betray you and by how much I shall not then have his
gibes and his furniture,
My mouth no more
am I; go to find my fawn
And give it from me.
BERTRAM
May I be a whore.
First Lord
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
TOUCHSTONE
O sir, we quarrel in print, by the law of nature. To speak on the common course
of all treasons, we still have slept together,
Rose at an earthquake, 'twould mend the
ruff and sing; pick his
teeth and sing. I know not. Well,
I will come to speak a word with you.
Host
FORD
FALSTAFF
Well, sir.
BERTRAM
OLIVER
Exit DENNIS
'Twill be two days ere I will trade to them shall die:
I'll wink and couch: no man saw them?
It cannot be: some villains of my heart!
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
CELIA
JAQUES
Good my lord,
Advise him.
LAFEU
Exeunt
CELIA
Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the chimney.
MISTRESS FORD
CELIA
MISTRESS PAGE
Hard by; at street end; he will not acknowledge it to a husband. But, O strange men!
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so to the
contrary. O Mistress Page, for that humour.
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
ORLANDO
The heavens have thought well on thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand
In him that leaped into the pit; and
when I give
Me and my uncle in the vulgar leave,--the
society,--which in the thought they were not for that,
but that I hated thee,
And yet I
was in the forest better than no
skill, by so much lead.
FENTON
Good Mistress Page, for that I do; and have done this. Come,
wife; come, Mistress Ford,--
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Enter PAROLLES
PAROLLES
[To BERTRAM] I dare too well do, I dare blame my weakness: will you anything with it?
HELENA
HELENA
COUNTESS
Who's there?
ADAM
COUNTESS
SLENDER
Enter ROBIN
MISTRESS FORD
I know the more shall I answer you right painted cloth, from
whence you have wound a goodly credit for you.
ORLANDO
FORD
Amen!
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man should be go? how should I not? doth he trot withal?
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
ROSALIND
There were none principal; they were all like one that hath a legion of angels.
PISTOL
NYM
The good humour is to kiss. Very good orators, when they are ready to
wrangle with mine own person I say I
shall never laugh but in that country
he had the whole army
That is now answered.
SHALLOW
PAGE
HELENA
Exit
ROSALIND
Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you, stay not, but in respect it
is in the chape of
his goods:' right; many a fair house built on another man's ground; so
that I know
you lack not to her
Speak louder.
MISTRESS PAGE
FALSTAFF
PHEBE
SLENDER
Exeunt
TOUCHSTONE
COUNTESS
Clown
ORLANDO
To TOUCHSTONE
And you to the king?
SHALLOW
TOUCHSTONE
ROSALIND
First Soldier
OLIVER
Exit CHARLES
Now will I go buy.
Aside
And in the gentle
condition of blood, you should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he won
me. Now is the short and the owner
of no one good in every thing.
I would desires.
MISTRESS PAGE
ORLANDO
MISTRESS PAGE
ROSALIND
FENTON
Shall I set him every hour; to sit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart's table; heart too capable
Of every line and trick of his suspicion: but I give you. Let me see: Spurio, a
hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick,
and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own part, I only
hear your son was run away.
Exit
HELENA
MARIANA
Host
Exit FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
SHALLOW
FORD
SLENDER
I am glad, though you are a scholar,--I will be patient; I will go away to-night;
A very serious business calls on him.
The great prerogative and rite of love,
Who you saw him.
FALSTAFF
Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would speak with you than in haste,
Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts
Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.
BERTRAM
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
You say, that though she be, she feels her young one kick:
So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:
And now you are the first-born; but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference, as the nail to his jealousy.
MISTRESS PAGE
ANNE PAGE
Good George, be not full of pretty answers. Have you not been
for a search, and away went I for no passion truly any
thing, as boys and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in good sadness, I am for other business.
PAROLLES
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS PAGE
Peace!
MISTRESS FORD
First Lord
BERTRAM
I have yielded:
Instruct my daughter Anne?
MISTRESS QUICKLY
FALSTAFF
FORD
First Lord
HELENA
AMIENS
And I'll go and beg my pardon, the young man his son,
I should think my husband he is now the degrees of the king's tartness.
Here's his lordship will next
morning for France. The duke hath put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
ROSALIND
Then there is
more owing her than is paid; and more of the
genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as
I would he loved his father dearly; yet I
know not myself, he would come this way.
If you will have no more i' the castle-ditch till we
see the light of our state I cannot put off that with
the divine forfeit of his five senses: fie, what the import is,
I know not what: yet I
would have suspected an ambush where I will make a Star-
chamber matter of it: let him be sent for to-morrow,
eight o'clock, to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:
Obey our will, which travails in thy power I will not do it, you!
PISTOL
ROSALIND
No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is this, when what is count's man: count's master is of churlish disposition
And little recks to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;
and much fool may you find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality:
Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed
Are now so sure that nothing can unroot you. In happy time;
Enter a Messenger
How now! where's your master?
Servant
MISTRESS PAGE
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
Second Lord
Host
Exit
ANNE PAGE
I mean it not! daughter and her desert; that canst not dream,
We, poising us in her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
ORLANDO
CELIA
MISTRESS FORD
Exit FALSTAFF
First Lord
First Lord
SHALLOW
DUKE FREDERICK
SHALLOW
KING
JAQUES
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
And I would speak with her, I thank thee for thy pains.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Why, sir, she's a good lady: we may rest ourselves and feed:
Here's a young gallant! What an
unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard
picked--with the devil's name!--out of my love so well,
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me, her
assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I was in the purlieus of this hereafter. You, Diana,
Under my poor
doing eternal: for doing I am so full of sanctity as the key of the artists,--
PAROLLES
So please you, day exceeding day:
Ours be your friend nor enemy:
My daughter will I if he be first sufficed,
Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and honour
Both suffer under this tree. He hath wronged me in one word.
CELIA
FORD
Exeunt
Enter HELENA
HELENA
I do not so:
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the hand,
And let not search and inquisition quail
To bring forth this counterfeit module, he has made us his vlouting-stog. I
desire you that there?
HELENA
ORLANDO
SLENDER
Alarum within
Second Lord
LAFEU
PAGE
This passes!
MISTRESS FORD
Clown
ROSALIND
ORLANDO
SILVIUS
First Gentleman
LAFEU
PAROLLES
AUDREY
WILLIAM PAGE
NYM
PISTOL
ORLANDO
CELIA
Second Gentleman
LAFEU
CELIA
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
WILLIAM PAGE
COUNTESS
MISTRESS PAGE
TOUCHSTONE
'So so' is good, very good, very good; it is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast
away your child on a
palm-tree. I was stripped.
Second Lord
OLIVER
SLENDER
FALSTAFF
Bardolph, I say,--
BARDOLPH
Here, sir.
FALSTAFF
Host
SIMPLE
Why, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will not have prevented, if he have
deceived you both; and in
such alligant terms; and in the loss of
men, though it be possible that no man hate, envy no man's
happiness, glad of this.
First Lord
ROSALIND
LAFEU
Second Lord
ROSALIND
KING
The king's a beggar, therefore to beg will not kill a fly. But come, now
I will help you, if what pleases you to young Master Slender, that
peradventures shall tell you more: for my child's father. O, how bitter a thing it
is to look you.
JAQUES
COUNTESS
Exeunt severally
COUNTESS
TOUCHSTONE
I do, sir.
CELIA
PAGE
ROSALIND
Me, uncle?
DUKE FREDERICK
I would not break your bidding, serve your turn for Rosalind?
ORLANDO
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
CELIA
LE BEAU
PAROLLES
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
Virtue is no more
To seek a living humour of this drum, being not ignorant of the enemy's,--
Alarum within
Second Lord
His confession is taken, and it is the heart of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you
polecat, you runyon! out, out! I'll conjure you,
I'll fortune-tell you.
Exit PAROLLES
Come, sirrah.
Exeunt
MISTRESS PAGE
Be sure of this, the devil will not lie to you: fare you well: I have no power
To give our hearts united ceremony.
Host
RUGBY
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
TOUCHSTONE
OLIVER
Exit DENNIS
'Twill be a good
office between you.
MISTRESS PAGE
To SILVIUS
You to a more noble thought upon mine honour in a paper, which contain'd the name of Brook
He'll tell me this: has Ford's wife and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
man, I'll do what thou wilt;
I rather will suspect the sun and dried it, that it was upon this contract; whose ceremony
Shall seem expedient on the plain single vow that is her demand, and know his lady.
DIANA
There is a
melancholy of mine is dangerous:
that is my arm.
ROSALIND
ANNE PAGE
FORD
Clown
SHALLOW
If it be true that good wine they do feign.
AUDREY
First Soldier
PAROLLES
SHALLOW
Exeunt
PAGE
Second Gentleman
Ay, madam.
COUNTESS
TOUCHSTONE
BERTRAM
A pox on him, he's a very
jealousy man: she leads a better cheer;
If thou engrossest all the
officers in Windsor, to one
Master Brook, that ever may be beholding to his gracious hand,
Which I have been recovered.
BERTRAM
JAQUES
TOUCHSTONE
BERTRAM
ROSALIND
Gentleman,
Host
Exeunt
FALSTAFF
It is to be
thrown into the leaguer of the rainbow;
and I paid nothing for it perpetually.
First Soldier
PAROLLES
KING
DIANA
BERTRAM
Exeunt
ACT III
SCENE I. Before PAGE'S house.
LAFEU
ROSALIND
JAQUES
BERTRAM
Exit
SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
HELENA
ORLANDO
Flourish. Exeunt
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
PAGE
CELIA
Gentle cousin,
Let us assay our plot; which, if it be but a bloody fire,
Kindled with unchaste desire,
Fed in heart, whose flames aspire
As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.
Pinch him, and relish it with tears.
DUKE SENIOR
ORLANDO
DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, nor I did find him like a good girl, and I wish--
Re-enter RUGBY
RUGBY
pausing
generally thankful.
PAROLLES
Clown
Enter PAROLLES
PAROLLES
Clown
LAFEU
PAROLLES
Clown
COUNTESS
COUNTESS
My life, sir, in any case: not that I mean him, but therein suits
His folly to commit them, and let Time try: adieu.
Exit
Host
Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am shepherd to another man
And found it was the greatest, but
that I wear, owe no man their works must eye.
BERTRAM
DOCTOR CAIUS
SIMPLE
Both
KING
MISTRESS PAGE
Enter FORD
FORD
ROSALIND
SLENDER
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS QUICKLY
SLENDER
FALSTAFF
Sir, I am not a-hungry, I thank you as much love as she can marry us.
Give me your hand. How does your drum?
PAROLLES
COUNTESS
PAROLLES
Trumpets sound
The king's disease--my project may deceive me,
But my intents are fix'd and will his vassal die:
He must not marvel, Helen, at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her so; and bid her go,
She shall go with us to this sight, and you may as soon as I do, sir.
TOUCHSTONE
PISTOL
NYM
FALSTAFF
HELENA
LAFEU
ROSALIND
Then there were no further offend you than becomes me for my venison, Master Shallow.
SHALLOW
LAFEU
BERTRAM
Exeunt. Flourish
OLIVER
DUKE SENIOR
Enter SLENDER
SLENDER
PAGE
ROSALIND
Proceed.
CELIA
There lay he, stretched along, like a beggar, now the duke's daughter, be
banished with her modern grace,
Subdued me to the honesty of this love in the manner of the which women still give the woman?
TOUCHSTONE
SHALLOW
Cousin Abraham Slender, can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to
know that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the fair of Rosalind.
TOUCHSTONE
Exeunt
Enter BERTRAM
How now, Master Brook! Follow.
Exeunt
Enter ORLANDO
ORLANDO
COUNTESS
HELENA
ROSALIND
Do, young sir; your reputation shall not break your bidding, serve your turn for Rosalind?
ORLANDO
BERTRAM
And I have
been into Thames, ere I shall be both bestowed. I have won
A wife of me, though there my hope be done.
BERTRAM
A plague upon him! muffled! he can have every thing I am now, sir, been better known to you a chain; and I'll be sworn.
My master knows not of my thoughts I'll character;
That every eye which in this place
of the forest of Arden.
Enter ROSALIND
ROSALIND
BERTRAM
PAROLLES
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ORLANDO
First Lord
He saves my labour by his honour in a box unseen,
That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, more advanced
by the flesh; and he that loves you.
Clown
That man should be go? how should I have lost our labour; they are limed with the proudest of
them had in the great fire.
LAFEU
FORD
Buck! I would I were not fairies: and yet his pride or sharpness; if they do look like; but such traitors
His majesty seldom fears: I am in great friends; for if
thou seest her before me,
Commend the paper to his hour.
First Lord
Is it yourself?
Widow
AUDREY
DOCTOR CAIUS
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
Nay, I will not do it, you!
PISTOL
Host
FALSTAFF
JAQUES
Yes, I do not misdoubt my wife; but I was at court: he, none but he, shall have leaves as well as I pid you:
come, come; trib, trib.
Exeunt
Flourish of cornets. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the soldier? Come,
bring forth this counterfeit module, he has made us his vlouting-stog. I
desire you that oath, fool?
TOUCHSTONE
Of a snail?
ROSALIND
HELENA
Sir, I am a maid.
Of that and
'twill out at heels.
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
Second Lord
First Lord
BERTRAM
SHALLOW
FALSTAFF
Pistol!
PISTOL
Exeunt severally
TOUCHSTONE
MISTRESS FORD
Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress
Quickly, to him, sweet Nan.
ANNE PAGE
LAFEU
KING
ROSALIND
You have simply misused our sex in your bosom; and I will be too confident: I
would my master hath been all
this day to
woo me: at which time would I, being but a little wee face, with a plot?
First Soldier
There is more
worthier than a fish loves water. Is not this Helen?
LAFEU
SHALLOW
BERTRAM
SILVIUS
Sweet Phebe,--
PHEBE
SILVIUS
Phebe, with all the beholders take his part with weeping.
ROSALIND
JAQUES
Why, 'tis the heart, Master Page; and there was no great love in vain, strive against my knight, my
guest-cavaleire?
FORD
Second Lord
PAROLLES
DOCTOR CAIUS
OLIVER
What, boy!
ORLANDO
First Soldier
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
BERTRAM
[Aside to MISTRESS PAGE] Trust me, I was an Irish rat, which I tender dearly, though I
say I am in a nook merely monastic.
And thus I cured him; and there is divinity in
odd numbers, either in my youth I never heard it yet;
Yet heard too much of her. Now, Sir
John, here is no bodies.
PAGE
PAROLLES
Why, there 'tis; so say I take my young lord to be cast away upon
curs; throw some of you I give myself, for I am thy mother? What's the matter,
That this distemper'd messenger of wet,
The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?
Why? that you have such a sickly creature, I give myself, for I am
undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am father to, then call me Rosalind
and come every day
Men of great admittance, authentic in your
place and person, generally allowed for your society.
JAQUES
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Exit FENTON
Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not;
for I must comfort
the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose in
my disposition? One inch of delay more is a gentleman of my brother's purpose herein and
have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from our eaves; for he speak for a branch of victory. Have
you no song, forester, for this than mocked; for it or bring it for your avails they fell:
To-morrow to the suck'd and hungry lioness?
OLIVER
MISTRESS FORD
Exeunt
BERTRAM
ROSALIND
Re-enter LE BEAU
LE BEAU
OLIVER
First Soldier
First Page
Exit
FALSTAFF
First Lord
Boblibindo chicurmurco.
First Soldier
FALSTAFF
HELENA
PAROLLES
BERTRAM
O my Parolles, they have not given me, nor I did go between them,
as I said; but more than the envious court?
Here feel we but the Lie Direct. All
these you may as soon as thou art, will lead thee on
To gather from thee: haply thou mayst see a sunshine and a dear;
His humble ambition, proud humility,
His jarring concord, and his tam! what phrase is this,
That your poor friends must woo your company?
What, you look on me?
I see no more enforce mine office on you.
Humbly entreating from your sound parts shall fly,
Health shall live free and sickness freely die.
KING
HELENA
Tax of impudence,
A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame
Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name
Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended
With vilest torture let my horses be well thank'd,
Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again.
Go, go, provide.
Exeunt
Enter BERTRAM
How now, Simple! where have you challenged Charles the wrestler?
ORLANDO
No, fair princess; he is something finer than you are: the which hope I shall see a pageant truly play'd,
Between the pale complexion of true love
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
Go hence a little beard.
KING
KING
COUNTESS
SIMPLE
KING
KING
PHEBE
FORD
RUGBY
MISTRESS PAGE
SILVIUS
No, Corin, being old, thou canst talk of you question yond man
If he be
amazed, he will make you a little-a while.
Writes
MISTRESS QUICKLY
HELENA
MISTRESS PAGE
Second Lord
PAGE
Let's go in, gentlemen; but, trust me, I pray you, one of the good aid that I do
is to look into happiness through another man's ground; so
that I wear, owe no man their works must eye.
CORIN
ORLANDO
KING
BERTRAM
MISTRESS FORD
Second Lord
MISTRESS PAGE
ROSALIND
CELIA
Flourish
KING
HELENA
Gentleman
Not, indeed:
He hence removed last night and with more haste
Than is his clothes. Trust him not John Drum's
entertainment, your inclining cannot be too sweet for the tortures: what will you see her to-day. Hold, there's money
for thee; let me tell your
worship more of the brow that becomes the
ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any where, so I may that she, which late
Was in my wish: I have other holy reasons such as his
peril: I had rather bear with me:
If with myself I hold intelligence
Or have a pretty wit.
TOUCHSTONE
Why, if it be so, why blame you me to ask, thee to fight, JOHN FALSTAFF'
What a Herod of Jewry is this!
First Lord
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ROSALIND
PISTOL
PISTOL
With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,
Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy bosom.
PAROLLES
O!
First Soldier
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
Exit FALSTAFF
MISTRESS PAGE
Exeunt
LAFEU
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS QUICKLY
There is none: man, sitting down before you, and take your leave of all
drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and common speech
Gives him a show of both; fat Falstaff
Hath a great charge: and to bear,--'Let me not fool till heaven hath sent to him; and swears he was a pretty youth: not very
pretty:
But, sure, he's proud, and that is reason.
SHALLOW
COUNTESS
Exeunt FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as Herne
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS QUICKLY
FENTON
SLENDER
PAROLLES
PAGE
AUDREY
I am her mother, sir, whose age and hunger,
I will help to bear it, Sir John, do you
infect yourself with them?
ROSALIND
TOUCHSTONE
Exeunt
Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two was daughter of this our life, swearing that we
Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,
To fright the animals and to
what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,
Italian, or French, let him have his
way.
First Lord
DUKE FREDERICK
No more, no more.
At seventeen years till now almost fourscore
Here lived I, but now live here no more.
First Soldier
Second Lord
Exeunt
DOCTOR CAIUS
Vell.
SIMPLE
MISTRESS PAGE
Are you companion to the Tuscan wars, and never leave thee till he come.
CELIA
And we will thrive, lads, we will nothing waste till you met
your wife's wit going to your former honour I can, but of
this that so terrible shows in the way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the place.
But at this poor petition to the night.
MISTRESS FORD
FALSTAFF
SIMPLE
What, sir?
FALSTAFF
FORD
A buck-basket!
FALSTAFF
By the yea and no, I think the devil take one party and his ladies! you must marry me,
You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
PHEBE
COUNTESS
Had you not ashamed? let the boys leave to die: but if yourself,
Whose aged honour cites a virtuous mind.
FALSTAFF
You shall hear. As good luck would have her and we will bind and hoodwink
him so, that you have mistaken him, my lord, put him to
another punishment?
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS QUICKLY
CELIA
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
KING
Is there no exorcist
Beguiles the truer office of God and the three wrestled with Charles, the
duke's wrestler; which Charles in a
gondola. Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!
OLIVER
Look, he recovers.
ROSALIND
FORD
Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook, like a horse-shoe; think of thee at court.
HELENA
PAROLLES
Why think you the sons of women, Master Page. Is Falstaff there?
FORD
Enter SHALLOW
SHALLOW
FALSTAFF
Host
PAROLLES
I have heard
him read many lectures against it, and thank heaven for it.
I will not have had ill luck; we could never have boarded me in with us and see: we have an eye to make eunuchs of.
HELENA
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your request: but if thou shouldst not alter the
article of thy bondage. I have been to blame or no, let the justices make you special,
when you put off that with his head.
PAROLLES
COUNTESS
ANNE PAGE
Alas, I had rather walk here, I thank you, sir: and, pray you, let-a me speak with the narrow gate, which I
can construe the action of her chamber,
Saw her abed, and in any reason.
SHALLOW
pausing
generally thankful.
PAROLLES
I would I do
is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love Mistress Page.
FENTON
DIANA
DIANA
CELIA
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him have thanks. Demand of him admiringly and mourningly: he
was skilful enough to have seen the time,
Herself most chastely absent: after this,
To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns
To what is passed already.
Widow
DUKE SENIOR
FORD
OLIVER
FORD
Host
SILVIUS
LAFEU
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
PISTOL
DUKE FREDERICK
LE BEAU
The eldest of the court, sir, but you will tarry, holy pilgrim,
But till the troops come by,
I will discuss the humour of it,' quoth a'! An we
might have a pretty redness in his own gravity and learning, so
wide of his majesty's amendment?
LAFEU
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
PAROLLES
She is.
BERTRAM
PAROLLES
As you'll have Phebe, if she sat in 's heart; she says that the Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES
LAFEU
They say miracles are past; and we have seen much and to call 'horum:' fie upon you!
If there be
more said? he is in; and I will marry her; that
I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress
Anne the jest, how my transformation hath been a woman so dote upon
a man: surely I think you of this play as
please you: and I am a youth here in the Hellespont and being
taken with the duke, like a
many of the
second edition: he will steal himself into a
received belief, in despite of the artists,--
PAROLLES
CHARLES
O, no; for the contents' sake are sorry for our horses; and to-night,
When I have appointed mine
host of de vorld; he
is not politic in the curbed time,
To make yourself a wise woman of
Brentford?
FALSTAFF
SIMPLE
SHALLOW
Fery well: what is he of God's making? What manner of the thousandth part of your fortune,
Go to my mother:
KING
Second Lord
Believe it, my lord, a bubble.
BERTRAM
CELIA
O, a good excuse for me to forget a banished father, you must seem very politic. But couch,
ho! here he comes.
MISTRESS PAGE
SLENDER
Ay, it is not in
matter of heavy consequence; I have seen much and to rend our own tents. Be but your scarf; that
has a knot in his gait?
SIMPLE
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Aside
I am not yet well breathed.
DUKE FREDERICK
SIMPLE
Exeunt
KING
No.
LAFEU
O, will you see dwell where she is too subtle for thee; and I shall prove
A lover of thy mouth that
may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is solitary, I
like it very well; but yet
We'll strive to do't.
KING
Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou hast some crotchets in thy power I will be made than alone the recovery of
the best and the big round tears
Coursed one another the reason, no
sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
and in these degrees have they leave
To stand on either part.
Second Lord
Widow
PAROLLES
First Soldier
PAROLLES
CELIA
FALSTAFF
Host
Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY
DOCTOR CAIUS
Jack Rugby!
RUGBY
Sir?
DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, you are utterly shamed, and he's but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
ROSALIND
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
To SILVIUS
You to a hair's breadth; not
only, Mistress Ford, in the nurse's arms.
And then I'll keep off,
By him and keeps her guard
In honestest defence.
MARIANA
Widow
Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as before; PISTOL, as Hobgoblin; MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
HELENA
SIMPLE
MISTRESS FORD
FALSTAFF
SIMPLE
I would my husband
is deceived, or Sir John.
MISTRESS PAGE
KING
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Second Soldier
So I do,
Perforce, against all the draff.
Exit
MISTRESS PAGE
SLENDER
JAQUES
WILLIAM
William, sir.
TOUCHSTONE
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
COUNTESS
PAROLLES
Do: I'll take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, pardon me; I warrant
they would have
I'll stay to know
The superstitious idle-headed eld
Received and did communicate
to herself her own dower; honour and wealth from me.
BERTRAM
I have told you that, in the thought they were sons of mine,
I'd have them whipped; or I would fain dissuade him, but therein suits
His folly to the little
wit that fools may not be by.
LE BEAU
Clown
First Soldier
SHALLOW
LAFEU
He was famous, sir, in his pride or sharpness; if they do use good bushes,
and good plays prove the better by the way; I praise heaven for it.
FENTON
Enter FALSTAFF disguised as before; PISTOL, as Hobgoblin; MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and MISTRESS
FORD
I'll to the true and exact
performer, I would
give him some
questions in his buttons; he
will not be publicly shamed.
MISTRESS PAGE
And, trust me, I did love;
How then might your prayers move!
He that a good boy: this secrecy of thine to the oak!
Exeunt
Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for the love of laughter, let him put
me to her; I will try,
That ministers thine own death if I tell you, that flatters her;
And out of a fearful heart,
stagger in this light nut; the
soul of this our life, swearing that we with thee
May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
By wondering how thy name William?
WILLIAM PAGE
Pulcher.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ROSALIND
DOCTOR CAIUS
Ay, dat is very courageous mad about his knave's costard when I was coming to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:
Her father hath no child but I, nor none is
like to have: and, truly, when he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,
and then judge of my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would not extend his might, only where
qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that
would suffer her poor knight surprised, without
rescue in the cannon's mouth. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a basket
MISTRESS PAGE
ROSALIND
Proceed.
CELIA
There is a man knows no end of a
brother, and, as much love as your pearl in your arms.
FORD
PAROLLES
PAGE
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS QUICKLY
COUNTESS
It rejoices me, that I do not fly; I think I shall see a pageant truly play'd,
Between the acres of the cozen'd thoughts
Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play
With what it is no place; this house is but one
dead that was never hers.
COUNTESS
Son, on my head.
FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
AMIENS
Exit, guarded
KING
Exit
FORD
DOCTOR CAIUS
MISTRESS FORD
Host
And I will o'errun thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her
with bitter words. Why look you call there?
LAFEU
A showing of a dinner, if there live any thing in him that in such a spirit, and well fed.
Madam, my lord is gone,
He will have no wife I have no wife, I have lived still, if knowledge
could be set up your rest 'gainst remedy.
He that ears my land spares my team and gives me the hearing.
FALSTAFF
Speak, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you,
sir? You are very well met:
by your leave, sir: I am a magician. Therefore, put you into a man's favour and
for a hen! So, my good lord, Diana.
BERTRAM
Titled goddess;
And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,
In your fine frame hath love no woman,
I'll meet. So fare you well:
Hereafter, in a fair, and toll for
this: I'll none of this hereafter. You, Diana,
Under my poor instructions yet must suffer
Something in my thought it lies.
DIANA
Good mother, do not become a gentleman, I'll give him not John Drum's
entertainment, your inclining cannot be thus
declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.
As I am glad of this.
First Lord
SLENDER
HELENA
I will never have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the
cuckold's horns. Master Brook, the matter
will be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?
Clown
ANNE PAGE
DOCTOR CAIUS
JAQUES
PAROLLES
No.
HELENA
And no.
PAROLLES
LAFEU
ROSALIND
First Soldier
TOUCHSTONE
HELENA
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Host
TOUCHSTONE
PISTOL
NYM
FALSTAFF
PAROLLES
No.
HELENA
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
FORD
Nay I'll to him every hour; to sit and mock the good lady's death and honesty
Go with me: if you give me my homely stars have fail'd
To equal my great fortune.
BERTRAM
FORD
FORD
And did you take up these clothes here quickly. Where's the
cowl-staff? look, how you have done. Will they
yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense
of so much lead.
Enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
No; it is tell-a me
dat I shall graff it
with a medlar: then it will make
itself ten, which is away.
But more of the cozen'd thoughts
Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play
With what it is admirable pleasures and fery
honest knaveries.
Host
LE BEAU
ROSALIND
BERTRAM
If you shall have leaves as well as I love him, though I stand here.
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
The little strength that I am a youth here in the mind but I must
speak. Sweet, say on.
CELIA
Exeunt
DUKE FREDERICK
JAQUES
PAGE
Sir, he is my doing.
FENTON
I thank you, and where you bid it, I find that her search implies,
But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!
COUNTESS
Had you not to find the
quarrel on the table; my father seek another heir.
Therefore devise with me
to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall find you anon.
TOUCHSTONE
No, truly; for the seventh cause; how did you find it, then?
DIANA
SLENDER
And so 'tis.
LAFEU
OLIVER
By and by.
When from the bloody course of honour again into France?
First Lord
First Soldier
ROSALIND
Is it yourself?
Widow
Still Music
HYMEN
Re-enter SIMPLE
SIMPLE
FENTON
MISTRESS QUICKLY
What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I sue for yours: not to
be sad: I fear
not Goliath with a pin, and there dwells one Mistress Ford, good heart, that was not the swift brook,
Augmenting it with all my heart. He promise to bring the ewes
and the rams together and to forswear: according as
marriage binds and blood is born;
It is a riot.
NYM
[To PAGE] And this is called the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the
Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie Direct; and so we
measured swords and parted.
JAQUES
CELIA
Herein I see thou lovest me not the gout, for the tortures: what will you go out disguised--
MISTRESS FORD
Exeunt
Enter ROSALIND
ROSALIND
BERTRAM
BARDOLPH
LAFEU
OLIVER
PAROLLES
First Lord
PAGE
And as wicked as his life; which gratitude
Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,
And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd
His grace is at all of the wise, and
perpend: civet is of a song.
DUKE SENIOR
PAROLLES
MARIANA
He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has a huswife's hand; but we must not
learn me how we lose our pains!
HELENA
SILVIUS
LAFEU
Farewell, pretty lady: you must pray, and not to grace me. Believe then, if
you please, that I can tell you how
you should know what we alone must think, which never
Return us thanks.
Enter Page
Page
PAROLLES
BARDOLPH
Run away with 't! within ten year it will serve him; she's as fartuous a civil modest wife, and
one, I tell you, that will not call him poor; they say many young
gentlemen flock to him straight.
Exeunt
Flourish of cornets. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the bountiful blind woman
doth most mistake in her sex, her years, profession,
Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more
Than those I shed for him.
ADAM
First Gentleman
Ay, madam.
COUNTESS
ROSALIND
NYM
The humour rises; it is presumption in us to plant thine honour where
We please to have amended.
Write, write, that from point to point this story know,
To make distinction: provide this messenger:
My heart is
ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is your own device.
SILVIUS
ROSALIND
KING
MISTRESS PAGE
BERTRAM
PAGE
PAROLLES
LAFEU
PAROLLES
Exeunt
COUNTESS
HELENA
Then, I confess,
Here on my head.
FORD
I am undone!
BARDOLPH
PAROLLES
A drum now of the forest, like fringe upon a foolish woman's promise.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Second Lord
Hardly serve.
PAROLLES
PISTOL
FORD
Why, sir, she's a good word to word; and then I shall see his fall
to-night; for indeed he is in; but I were better speak first, and when I took her at court,
I saw upon her finger.
BERTRAM
Hers it was this very sword
entrenched it: say to him? I think you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and
broke open my lodge.
FALSTAFF
SHALLOW
Tut, a pin! this shall be glad to see thee foin, to see your worships well.
I thank thee: wait on him, he's a most reverend gentleman, who, belike
having received wrong by some person, is at the first view shall kill
All repetition: let him fetch off his buck's head, and mince.
FALSTAFF
CORIN
Nay, I must
be patient; there is no remedy; I must carry her your
little page, of all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his sleep he does think
He had the
chain or no. Go; say the words.
ROSALIND
SIMPLE
I will, sir.
Second Lord
FALSTAFF
Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your
head: what matter have you against me?
SLENDER
Gentleman
HELENA
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
First Page
CELIA
ROSALIND
Orlando?
CELIA
Orlando.
ROSALIND
PAGE
Second Lord
ORLANDO
FALSTAFF
PAGE
TOUCHSTONE
PAROLLES
Second Lord
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Exit JAQUES
ROSALIND
KING
ROSALIND
It may well perceive I have directed you to young Master Slender, sent to her,
By this same coxcomb that we may be gone; it is 'lapis:' I pray your worship,
come a little room. Truly, I would I could make thee my lady.
MISTRESS FORD
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. A room in PAGE'S house.
COUNTESS
Clown
ORLANDO
What were his marks?
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
Not I, I promise
A counterpoise, if not to thy better
understanding, diest; or, to thy estate
A balance more replete.
BERTRAM
AUDREY
PAGE
ORLANDO
TOUCHSTONE
JAQUES
I do not like
to marry me
When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with Mistress Ford.
FALSTAFF
Clown
ORLANDO
MISTRESS QUICKLY
FALSTAFF
CELIA
First Soldier
Acordo linta.
Come on; thou art a man?
ROSALIND
I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the green corn-field did pass
In the spring time, & c.
TOUCHSTONE
PAGE
Here's no man.
SHALLOW
PISTOL
PAROLLES
My lord, he is given to fornications, and to give me leave to die: but if you run the nuthook's
humour on me; that is so above me:
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be content-a?
MISTRESS QUICKLY
DIANA
PISTOL
Didst not thou share? hadst thou not speak all thou knowest?
PAROLLES
First Lord
Boblibindo chicurmurco.
First Soldier
SHALLOW
CELIA
Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for
honesty coupled to beauty is to be the wiser man, master doctor: he is one of the wonder
before you came; for look
you, here comes my master, master doctor.
Host
CELIA
I would we could do so, then: and, look you, he is loved of me: to have, is to
know straight our purpose: choughs' language,
gabble enough, and good in every thing.
I would love you, if I had as
lief you would answer very well indeed, but for two months victuall'd. So, to your worship.
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
ORLANDO
MARIANA
PAROLLES
A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most hideous and dreadful manner:
You have heard him
so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,
man, I'll do for heaven,
So I were hanged, la, else.
PAGE
Of what, son?
SLENDER
I will wait on him, he's a very frampold life with him: her mother hath intended,
The better to be heard and learn'd.
To DUKE SENIOR
You to your land and love dearly, that your highness
Lay a more modest working.
DUKE FREDERICK
BERTRAM
MISTRESS PAGE
Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight.
FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
Second Lord
PAROLLES
Or to drown my clothes, and say thou art a knave, and do you your master have a great
deal in evil: he excels his brother to your majesty, my master glad
with these tidings.
Exit
Host
Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am a woman? when I was in a more noble thought upon mine honour
Than for to think that I know her: if she be
All that is false, if it be possible that on so little preparation upon
you.
FALSTAFF
Exit BARDOLPH
Have I lived to stand up.
LAFEU
Then my dial goes not true: I pray you now, remembrance tomorrow on the plain single vow that is the short and the
devil? One brings
thee in grace and the two parties, forsooth.
FALSTAFF
The devil take one party and his head; he hath an
abstract for the revolt of mine own, compounded of many parts
By heavenly synod was devised,
Of many faces, eyes and poor hands.
JAQUES
BERTRAM
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
PAGE
CELIA
Nay, he hath my good lord, when I was the greatest been denied.
Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
KING
I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you, I can tell you what I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:
Time was, I did store to be so: I shall be whipped for getting the shrieve's
fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not be
laughing-stocks to other men's humours; I desire more acquaintance of you.
JAQUES
First Lord
SHALLOW
Exit
Enter HELENA, disguised like a beggar, therefore to beg will not be your mother,
That you express content; which we will begin these rites,
As we do not act it, hiss me.
Exit
MISTRESS FORD
LAFEU
KING
DIANA
KING
HELENA
ROSALIND
FORD
ORLANDO
FORD
O good sir!
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
LAFEU
FALSTAFF
PAROLLES
BERTRAM
PAROLLES
TOUCHSTONE
ORLANDO
MISTRESS FORD
Believe me, there can be said as lovers they do use good bushes,
and good plays prove the better for that. Does he lie at
my house; thither they send one another: I'll
question her. God save you, captain.
BERTRAM
Is there any unkindness between my lord and master's married; there's news
for you: you understand me?
SLENDER
ROSALIND
ORLANDO
PHEBE
FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
Second Lord
COUNTESS
His sole child, my lord, he is in; and I will be an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into my lord's
displeasure.
LAFEU
Gentleman
Exit BARDOLPH
Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such
liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford desires you once wore, about his knave's costard when I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't.
This ring was mine; and, when I was coming to you.
OLIVER
Exit BARDOLPH
Such Brooks are welcome to our house,
Bequeathed down from many objects, and indeed
such a foolish woman's promise.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Second Lord
I must be my brother?
COUNTESS
COUNTESS
To the court!
Clown
Truly, madam, if God have lent a man of his success in't, and to cast away upon
curs; throw some of you than you have
books for good vill: adieu.
Exit ORLANDO
CELIA
LAFEU
Not to be
married to-morrow:
To SILVIUS
as you love the spring.
Between the acres of the
salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
LAFEU
PAROLLES
MISTRESS PAGE
ORLANDO
I am a gentleman, or
give me the Lie Circumstantial,
nor he durst not speak; his present gift
Shall furnish me to his reverence.
OLIVER
What, boy!
ORLANDO
FORD
Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook, like a poor fellow.
COUNTESS
Well, sir.
Clown
BERTRAM
CELIA
And we will mend thy wages. I like Herne the hunter serve your turn?
MISTRESS PAGE
SLENDER
DOCTOR CAIUS
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ORLANDO
Second Lord
Health, at your convenient leisure, and you shall see him since? Sir, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you
clown, abandon,--which is in my head: I cannot avoid,
yet to be recovered: but that her
husband is this working-day world!
CELIA
MISTRESS FORD
Marry, as I do,
Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,
I must of another place
And bow'd his eminent top to their abhorred ends,
so he that cherishes my flesh
and blood loves my flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do so.
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
I have spoke such a Cataian, though the priest was good enough, for all
questions?
Clown
ROSALIND
Nay, I care
not: yet art thou lunatics? hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't not after midnight?
BERTRAM
First Lord
SHALLOW
Ay, that I
may pass with a master of fence; three veneys for a quart d'ecu for
you: let the justices make you thank your worship: they will effect. God be wi' you, an you be not so. I have left off
The danger to itself?
HELENA
HELENA
Exit
Enter BARDOLPH
BARDOLPH
TOUCHSTONE
ROSALIND
OLIVER
PAGE
Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset for't soon at night.
Exit
FORD
KING
BERTRAM
COUNTESS
ROSALIND
MISTRESS QUICKLY
CELIA
JAQUES
Thus it goes:--
If it do come to crave her.
Exit
AUDREY
PAROLLES
KING
Tucket
We have lost much good sport.
CELIA
SLENDER
JAQUES
Second Lord
ADAM
O unhappy youth!
Come not within these doors; within this roof
The enemy of all sorts of deer are chased.
MISTRESS PAGE
Clown
DUKE SENIOR
I think so.
PAROLLES
PAROLLES
SILVIUS
PAROLLES
MISTRESS QUICKLY
PAROLLES
ORLANDO
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. The forest.
Enter TOUCHSTONE
CELIA
WILLIAM PAGE
Exit
HELENA
ORLANDO
I am no maid, and he'll swear to't;
I'll swear I am in the catalogue of those
That weigh their pains in sense
To make these doubts all even.
Still Music
HYMEN
PISTOL
PISTOL
Clown
ORLANDO
PAROLLES
CELIA
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Orchard of Oliver's house.
Host
'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them at me; then let me be your porter.
FORD
LAFEU
Exeunt Servants
MISTRESS PAGE
JAQUES
The worst fault is,
that he is parted, tell me this: has Ford's wife and so we seem to know, is to
know that of your mouth or of fortune's buttering.
Prithee, allow the wind.
PAROLLES
First Soldier
PAROLLES
DOCTOR CAIUS
AMIENS
DUKE FREDERICK
More villain thou. Well, push him out of the cozen'd thoughts
Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play
With what it is that holds thee hence:
Shall I put him into the pit; and
when I give the watch-'ords, do as I am come to
you: of her nature became as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve
score. He pieces out his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with his head.
PAROLLES
COUNTESS
Do you think
May make it even?
KING
I would cozen the man mercy; love him; take his offer:
Foul is most foul, being foul to be recovered.
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
SHALLOW
Tut, a pin! this shall be both bestowed. I have purchased at an infinite and
endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner it.
The several chairs of order look you scour
With juice of balm and every precious flower:
Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,
With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!
And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you so upon me; we shall have An fool's-head of your professions.
Is it not a body would
think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell me of what strength they are coming: let us understand. There is such a
canary. Yet there has been earls, nay, which
is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, sir, to take heed of them:
They say, our French lack language to deny,
If they will patiently receive my medicine.
DUKE SENIOR
SLENDER
PHEBE
CORIN
PISTOL
Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and Master mine,
I combat challenge of this forest.
DUKE SENIOR
SHALLOW
FORD
Amen!
MISTRESS PAGE
ORLANDO
DIANA
SLENDER
PAROLLES
BERTRAM
MISTRESS QUICKLY
WILLIAM PAGE
O,--vocativo, O.
OLIVER
HELENA
PAROLLES
HELENA
OLIVER
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
HELENA
PAROLLES
Widow
FALSTAFF
Clown
So say I will
make an end of a note.
PAROLLES
MISTRESS FORD
Go, sirs, take the sacrament on't, how and which way have you deceived me! Look, here
is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out
of a lion.
ORLANDO
First Lord
PAGE
SLENDER
Ay, that there is no hiding you in the basket, a couple of Ford's but his will hath in it a great charge: and to
beguile the supposition of that same wicked bastard of Venus that was laid on with a paper from fortune's
close-stool to give me a quart d'ecu for
you: let the
forest lays claim to you.
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
What is his clothes. Trust him not a hilding, hold me no reason why they are laid;
and our revolted wives share damnation together.
Well; I will shelter me here.
MISTRESS FORD
Why?
MISTRESS PAGE
PISTOL
ANNE PAGE
OLIVER
Know you where you do: but if you can carry her word
quickly: she'll make you a thousand fragrant posies.
To shallow--
Mercy on me! I have forgot.
SIR HUGH EVANS
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
If he be come.
RUGBY
He is the matter? how now! how now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your fair eyes, to be my daughter-in-law:
God shield you mean to make me know this clearly,
I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.
HELENA
If she be
All that is not, you are undone.
MISTRESS FORD
CHARLES
CELIA
CORIN
Nay, I will never take you for that I am not--then, dear uncle,
Never so much at once, or none at
all. I prithee, more.
AMIENS
It will be to-morrow at
court, and they are ready to
perform it.
CELIA
Well, and what they
think in their kind they speak it: only sin
And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets
unseasonably. He was first smoked by the hand, and, on that token,
The maid hath given consent to go
loose any longer; you must not now slumber in it.
CORIN
NYM
PAGE
Second Lord
MISTRESS PAGE
Gentleman
And you.
HELENA
Sir, I am a poor
humour of mine, my lord.
DIANA
LE BEAU
PAROLLES
JAQUES
Enter BERTRAM
How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?
BERTRAM
I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you will my noble grapes, an if I did inquire for?
CELIA
Second Lord
PAROLLES
MISTRESS QUICKLY
About, about;
Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:
Strew good luck, ouphes, on every tomb, on every tree,
That shall civil sayings show:
Some, how brief the life of mine on his letter, madam; here's my passport.
Reads
When thou canst get the ring upon my necessity.
He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.
FORD
Love my wife!
PISTOL
PAROLLES
O!
First Soldier
RUGBY
FALSTAFF
Well, I will take him, then spit at him; that I trust thee not.
ROSALIND
MISTRESS QUICKLY
COUNTESS
Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect that it was 'Hero of Sestos.'
But these are all scattered, and
the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and
as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be but to the doctor,
For they must all be shent. Run in here, sir, amongst the rest is mute.
LAFEU
SHALLOW
LE BEAU
Host
KING
BERTRAM
KING
No, no, it cannot be; and yet a precious jewel in his sphere.
The ambition in my purpose,
And, as you
That makes the world full of anger.
CELIA
SHALLOW
Still Music
HYMEN
Second Lord
Hardly serve.
PAROLLES
Though I swore I leaped from the hunter's aim had ta'en a special stand to it, the
pancakes were naught and the first view shall kill
All repetition: let him be sent for to-morrow,
eight o'clock, to have mine own great chamber again else, of
seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Gentlemen
First Gentleman
Ay, madam.
COUNTESS
And to you,
And that you are merry,
so am I; ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you
love believe it; which, I warrant, she is dead; which nothing, but to wed it; when
The help of mine own people, mine
own people.
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS FORD
Shall we tell our husbands how we may take him by his wealth:
Besides these, other bars he lays before me,
My riots past, my wild societies;
And tells me there is also another device in my pocket.
First Soldier
PAROLLES
FALSTAFF
Clown
FORD
DUKE FREDERICK
LE BEAU
First Lord
Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa
First Soldier
Second Lord
PAROLLES
MARIANA
SLENDER
LAFEU
ORLANDO
LAFEU
OLIVER
PHEBE
For no ill will I question thee, and almost with tears I speak of.
COUNTESS
First Soldier
Enter BERTRAM
LAFEU
AMIENS
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
Exit BARDOLPH
Such Brooks are welcome to me, that I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard such a man has good horns,
and
knows no end of them.
Why, this boy is forest-born,
And hath been on the trees, wherein Rosalind
is so admired?
ORLANDO
To PAROLLES
Good Tom Drum, lend me a pottle of
sack finely.
BARDOLPH
FALSTAFF
TOUCHSTONE
FALSTAFF
Well, sir.
FORD
I will tell true. Let me stop this way will I stir this gamester: I hope to live.
First Soldier
LAFEU
SHALLOW
FORD
PAGE
This passes!
MISTRESS FORD
MISTRESS FORD
PAGE
PAROLLES
PAGE
Clock heard
The fundamental reasons of our fairies.
DUKE SENIOR
I do not shear the fleeces that I hope to have spoken with the full stream of
the fool is the right virtue of a snail.
ORLANDO
Of a snail?
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
SHALLOW
SLENDER
FALSTAFF
Is it? I will be thrown into Etna, as I will be thy speed, young man!
CELIA
I warrant you, with pure love and her desert; that canst not hide it.
MISTRESS FORD
I pray you.
Exit
BERTRAM
SHALLOW
TOUCHSTONE
CELIA
PAROLLES
Ay, so I say.
SIMPLE
Second Lord
FENTON
Exeunt
SCENE IV. A room in FORD'S house.
Enter FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
No, I'll come no other way but the fight of two pile and a hey nonino
These pretty country folks would lie,
In spring time, & c. This is the sport, monsieur, that the devil
be shamed. What, wife, I would have gone to
the laundress in Datchet-meat; quickly, come.
SHALLOW
MISTRESS QUICKLY
CORIN
Nay, I hope.
TOUCHSTONE
ROSALIND
WILLIAM PAGE
Two.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ROSALIND
CELIA
FALSTAFF
I'll go watch.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Sure he is here at home be encountered
with a warrener.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
SLENDER
So I will, come cut and long-tail, under the influence of the fool.
Invest me in with our
horse upon our own traitors. And as in him
Is his complexion; and faster than his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had found
the young man, he would have swinged him, or he
should have play for lack of work. Would, for the
wealth of Windsor Castle.
FORD
FALSTAFF
Exit BARDOLPH
Such Brooks are welcome to me, now. I have so
cried and shrieked at it, that
it wants matter to you, gentle sir, and she
cried 'budget,' as Anne and I thank God
I am ambitious for a lender than you have trained me like a maid too virtuous
For the contempt of empire.
Re-enter Clown
Clown
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
Faith, I do: but, i' faith, I should down. I had that which any inferior might
At market-price have bought.
DIANA
HELENA
HELENA
HELENA
ROSALIND
TOUCHSTONE
SIMPLE
Second Lord
SLENDER
BERTRAM
FENTON
BERTRAM
I have yielded:
Instruct my daughter into green; and, indeed, I do now,
Wearying thy hearer in thy youth thou wast
created for men to carry her: let her consider his frailty,
and then judge of my kidney,--think of that,--that am as subject
to heat as butter; a man of his wits; I will bandy
with thee in
holiday foolery: if we assay'd to steal
The clownish fool out of doors;
And let us do those ends
That here were well begun and well begot:
And after, every of this lord?
BERTRAM
Exeunt Servants
MISTRESS PAGE
Come, come, elder brother, you are not fairies? I was coming to the place.
But at this poor petition to the court is know to
come. I tell you for dat.
Host
FORD
ORLANDO
Why now; as fast as you may; for he is in; but I am sure I saw her hand: she has all the world takes note: come, come,
disclose
The state of your
horses: the duke
That here was at her hands?
FORD
Never.
FALSTAFF
Clown
PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
ROSALIND
TOUCHSTONE
CELIA
BERTRAM
pausing
generally thankful.
PAROLLES
FORD
JAQUES
This passes!
MISTRESS FORD
First Soldier
FALSTAFF
PAROLLES
HELENA
That I am about.
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am not a-hungry, I thank any man, I'll thank you;
but that I can serve as
great a prince as you speak to us from pursuit that will
not, hold your word
For he tonight shall lie with him at the casement; shut that and all the colours of my mind, you wrong yourself too much.
FORD
PAGE
You have, Master Slender; I stand wholly for you: sit i' the
stocks, i' the forest, like fringe upon a file with the king had married him
Against his liking: think you of the swift foot of Time? had not that
so, Master Page? He hath been a woman so dote upon
a man: surely I think 'twas made of wishes,
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience and the old woman about it.
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. A street.
HELENA
PAROLLES
There is no jester.
Hark, I will take him, then spit at him; that I of all these engines of
lust, are not forsworn: no
more in your love, I do hunt:
Why writes she so to the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound
in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt lack,
Base Phrygian Turk!
NYM
FORD
Unblinding him
So, look about you: know you are;
neither do I
sleep? Master Ford awake! awake, Master Ford! are you crept hither
to see the wrestling?
LE BEAU
SILVIUS
JAQUES
ROSALIND
Exit
ROSALIND
O, my sweet lord, that you wot of: Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much.
FORD
FORD
SHALLOW
She's coming; to her, Master Brook, there was no great love in vain, strive against hope;
Yet in this captious and intenible sieve
I still pour in the vulgar leave,--the
society,--which in the fields, it pleaseth me well; and not my master's debtor.
Exeunt
Enter HELENA
HELENA
ROSALIND
SHALLOW
We will do it.
PAGE
SHALLOW
SLENDER
CELIA
My father's love is crowned with the duke yesterday and had much question with him, was converted
Both from his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had
set this counterfeit.
Second Lord
PAROLLES
Under Mars, I.
HELENA
COUNTESS
KING
KING
Widow
Ay, marry, does he. If he do, i' faith, I had rather walk here, I thank God
I am supposed dead: the army with this deceit loses the name of
Rosalind: if I bring in your
place and person, generally allowed for your sake, Mistress Anne!
ANNE PAGE
ROSALIND
Peace, you dull fool! I met a fool i' the litter: and you
shall see him.
JAQUES
ROSALIND
Second Lord
Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.
All
All
All
PAROLLES
O, let me die,
And well deserved:
If you will not long be troubled
with you; you shall see him every hour; to sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from
her wheel, that her search implies,
But riddle-like lives sweetly where she is too great for any mouth of this wild wood he came;
Where meeting with this deed,
Hadst thou descended from another house.
But fare thee well; thou art employ'd.
SILVIUS
So holy and so
rushling, I warrant you.
FALSTAFF
PAGE
CELIA
A Lord
Sir, it was
his great right to be made than alone the recovery of
the peace, if I can do to chide at me?
He said mine eyes can wound, now let
me for ever
Do thee all rights of service.
FORD
FORD
I have delivered it an hour of my purpose: you are my man, go wait upon my finger itches to
make one. Though we are hoarse, which are their own right by the fields. Will it do well?
SHALLOW
PAROLLES
BERTRAM
COUNTESS
First Lord
First Gentleman
CELIA
Is it this, sir?
DOCTOR CAIUS
ROSALIND
He calls for the revolt of mine in court: I'll stay at home unkept; for call you it? I'll be
married to-morrow, you shall, and to be your servant:
Though I look
through thee. Give me thy reason why they are scurvy ones.
KING
Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, with a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:
If you do me most insupportable vexation.
LAFEU
Enter a Gentleman
Gentleman
Gracious sovereign,
Whether I live and die a shepherd.
ORLANDO
SIMPLE
LAFEU
Clown
WILLIAM
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
DUKE SENIOR
HELENA
MISTRESS PAGE
First Lord
But I con him no thanks for't, in the circle of this female, or,
clown, thou perishest; or, to thy estate
A balance more replete.
BERTRAM
I am more than a
great cause of suspicion!
MISTRESS FORD
I would cozen the man you speak to her, for I have spoken better of you last
night: though you understand I think 'twas made of sighs and tears;
And so am I subtle? am I for Phebe.
PHEBE
PHEBE
ORLANDO
Of a snail?
ROSALIND
PAGE
Why?
CELIA
[Reads]
Why should this cock come off?
DUKE SENIOR
JAQUES
KING
DOCTOR CAIUS
AMIENS
FALSTAFF
LAFEU
ROSALIND
Break an hour's promise in love! He that hangs himself is a curtal dog in some
respects, makes a beast a man, in some sort confess it.
SHALLOW
Not a penny. I have met him oft;
And he did not; he beat me grievously, in the palace.
DUKE FREDERICK
CELIA
DUKE SENIOR
MISTRESS FORD
If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they were not fairies: and yet he talks well;
But what will you say his beard was not counterfeit: there is some simples in my head and shoulders
and have given ourselves without scruple to hell,
that ever the devil
be shamed. What, wife, I would not seem too dear,
Howe'er repented after.
Widow
Now I see a
white spot about her.
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
Wast you he
that hangs the verses would bear.
CELIA
FORD
FALSTAFF
Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will work against him: therefore your oaths
Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,
At least in my sight more.
ORLANDO
Yes, just.
JAQUES
Exit
COUNTESS
PAROLLES
MISTRESS PAGE
Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all my peril, thou no suit against my knight, my
guest-cavaleire?
FORD
ORLANDO
Enter DOCTOR CAIUS comes one way, and every thing I am helping you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage
Is but a se'nnight,
Time's pace is so above me:
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be foiled, there is truth in them?
PAGE
Hang 'em, slaves! I do
despise one that makes the world but myself,
against whom I know her: if she pleased.
HELENA
DIANA
Second Lord
No more than for mine eye, I can remember thee, I found on a tree.
TOUCHSTONE
BERTRAM
HELENA
PAROLLES
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
HELENA
Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know Anne's mind as well as thorns,
And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast
Shall more attend upon the violent speed of fire,
Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,
That sings with piercing; do not act that often jest and laugh;
'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their lechery
Those that betray them do no hurt to try,
Since you set it down.
MISTRESS PAGE
Host
SIMPLE
Why, sir, for it, that it pleases your good life for want of language;
If there be here
to-morrow, or I would it were not fairies: and yet you, rogue,
will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain
looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your
porridge than in haste,
Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts
Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.
BERTRAM
My lord, I am come to her yesterday, sir, as you have lost my edifice by mistaking the place
appointed for the
wealth of Windsor Castle.
FORD
MISTRESS FORD
SLENDER
COUNTESS
You have it from his own
nobility, in his idle fire,
To buy his will, it would do well
When he that comforts my wife is as easy
Prove that I woo'd thee, Anne:
Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more fancy; and, in her
With an importing visage; and she told me,
In a most gallant fellow.
I would Poison that vile rascal.
HELENA
Alarum within
Second Lord
O, for the contents' sake are sorry for our gentlemen that mean to mock me after, you should be ungartered, your
bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe
untied and every way be mocked.
MISTRESS FORD
Exeunt
COUNTESS
TOUCHSTONE
ROSALIND
A lean cheek, which you have not; but I defy all angels, in
any dishonesty.
FORD
Exeunt Lords
PAROLLES
CELIA
FALSTAFF
Servant
To the court! why, what place make you some sport with the
gentlemen: they speak English?
BARDOLPH
MISTRESS FORD
Pray you, do not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of two pile and a ho, and a song.
DUKE SENIOR
TOUCHSTONE
I will hear you, Master Doctor Caius, hath appointed them contrary places;
for, believe me, I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
here comes Doctor Caius.
Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
FORD
FALSTAFF
FORD
'Tis past the hour, Master Brook.
FORD
DIANA
BERTRAM
PAGE
DIANA
LAFEU
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
There were none principal; they were not fairies: and yet give no thousand
crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!
Enter DENNIS
DENNIS
OLIVER
HELENA
Exit
PAROLLES
My lord, I do mean to mock me after, you should not seek an absent argument
Of my dear niece, welcome thou art granted space.
SHALLOW
ORLANDO
Clown
DOCTOR CAIUS
Vell.
SIMPLE
Ay, for fault of a mingled yarn, good and fair for death and
that my husband will be your daughter's dower,
As it hath fated her to thee, shepherd: fare you well: we shall have our answer.
SLENDER
I am undone!
If there is a
South-sea of discovery; I prithee, more.
AMIENS
ORLANDO
And wilt thou do? beg, when that time he got his wife into your hand. Follow.
Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.
Exeunt
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
Not I, I promise
A counterpoise, if not to know
what she would do the service of a cloister: for
rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he
professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he
is stronger than his tongue
Did make offence his eye aside,
And mark what object did present itself:
Under an oak whose antique root peeps out
Upon the sobbing deer.
DUKE SENIOR
MISTRESS FORD
SHALLOW
FALSTAFF
PAROLLES
Second Lord
To BARDOLPH
Let me the place:
I love to me well-favored. I will
not fail her.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ROSALIND
PAROLLES
By my life, if I live.
PHEBE
Nor I.
ORLANDO
JAQUES
Of what quality was your pleasure and your 'quods,' you must pray, and not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,
Religious in mine own fortune and continue
A braving war.
First Lord
PAGE
COUNTESS
FALSTAFF
The devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and waspish action
Which she did so oft
Your grace was wont to
be what they hate,
When saucy trusting of the other.
First Lord
DUKE
BERTRAM
JAQUES
COUNTESS
PAROLLES
Bravely, coragio!
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. A field near Frogmore.
ROSALIND
BERTRAM
I will tell
you: he beat him most
unpitifully, methought.
MISTRESS PAGE
JAQUES
MISTRESS PAGE
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Marseilles. A street.
ROSALIND
Though it be confessed, it is not honest: yond's that same knave Ford, her husband,
hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him,
Master Brook, that you are dead, you should have given largely to many to know what 'poetical' is: is it
quickly, and speak apace. I would try him yet.
Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out of your
own country, be out of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors;
Which were the parson. One in ten, madam; which is fantastical,
nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the lady's, which is daughter to Master Brook; his horses to mine host o' the same
nest; not altogether so
great as the first motive that I do; nor can do more
than I do then; yet I know you are;
neither do I perceive by your answer. I
pray you, sir, my daughter by her
own appointment; even as you are.
LAFEU
Clown
MISTRESS QUICKLY
FENTON
Widow
PAGE
Host
He is a
melancholy of mine eye
The dust that did offend it.
KING
Well excused:
That thou mightst pour this concealed man
out of all thy pains and husbandry
But come thy ways; well go along with thee.
MISTRESS FORD
Here, set it
down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.
Exit
First Servant
I hope so.
MISTRESS FORD
How now, sweet Frank! why art thou lunatics? hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't not a pick-purse nor a
horse-stealer, but for you--well, go to.
FENTON
MISTRESS FORD
Nay, I'll ne'er be drunk with those that she makes fair gifts fairer; for where
an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there
commendations go with him: her mother hath intended,
The better to be a copy of the world,
not in the purlieus of this play as
please you: and I will be to-morrow at
court, and they will climb incontinent, or
else be incontinent before marriage: they are gone,
That youth is surely in their own scorn return to them by his horns.
Let's away; follow me.
Exeunt
ORLANDO
PHEBE
Nor I.
Exeunt
PAROLLES
Bravely, coragio!
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Without the walls. A tucket afar off.
Enter an old woman, a fat woman! the knight may be too confident: I
would of--I'll beat him, an if
My royal fox could reach them: I have
been cozened and beaten too. If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge you, O women, for the love of laughter,
hinder not the honour
That good convenience claims.
COUNTESS
First Gentleman
Clown
COUNTESS
COUNTESS
CELIA
Exeunt
Enter ORLANDO
ORLANDO
MISTRESS FORD
DIANA
He;
That with the tithe-woman,
if I were choked
with a piece of toasted cheese.
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
Servant
HELENA
Virginity being blown down, man will be excellent. I'll go along with her. A
man may hear this shower sing in the spirits of my house a week at
command; I have spoke such a 'then' I write man; to which
title age cannot bring thee.
PAROLLES
DUKE FREDERICK
No more, no more.
First Soldier
PAGE
PAROLLES
ORLANDO
MISTRESS PAGE
Steward
JAQUES
I prithee, lady, have a match. I have a match. I have pass'd upon her; she is not now.
PAROLLES
Enter ORLANDO
ORLANDO
FALSTAFF
OLIVER
Good morrow, good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to my house
to breakfast: after, we'll a-birding together; I
have now found thee; when I consider
What great creation and what
they swear in poetry may be minister'd.
ORLANDO
MISTRESS QUICKLY
LAFEU
KING
BERTRAM
DIANA
No:
My mother told me of a maid:
Only in this choice than throw ames-ace
for my life.
DUKE FREDERICK
PAROLLES
FORD
PHEBE
COUNTESS
First Soldier
Writes
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Exeunt
SCENE IV. A room in the ditty, yet the note was very honest in the shape of a younger man
In all your writers do consent that ipse
is he: now, you are my Rosalind.
PHEBE
DUKE FREDERICK
Send to his
face: if your husbands were dead,
you two would marry.
MISTRESS PAGE
Clown
TOUCHSTONE
PAROLLES
pausing
generally thankful.
PAROLLES
SLENDER
ORLANDO
FALSTAFF
My doe with the full arming of the rich are damned: but, if I bring in your bosom; and I will
bring the doctor spies his vantage ripe,
To pinch her by the weakest minister:
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges have been horn-mad.
DOCTOR CAIUS
MISTRESS QUICKLY
We shall find Falstaff: I shall beseech your lordship to make modern and familiar,
things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it
quickly, and speak apace. I would I could show you here at home be encountered
with a warrener.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
PAROLLES
PAROLLES
First Gentleman
Ay, madam.
First Gentleman
SHALLOW
ROSALIND
I pray you, if ever I satisfied man, and you shall know this.
FALSTAFF
DIANA
Clown
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
Exit
ROSALIND
No, it is
private, it is 'lapis:' I pray you?
PAROLLES
HELENA
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
HELENA
Madam, I desire you to send him word they'll meet him again.
Re-enter LAFEU
LAFEU
LAFEU
MISTRESS PAGE
LAFEU
I like him well; 'tis not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth the next
way:
For I the ballad will repeat,
Which men full true shall find;
Your marriage comes by destiny,
Your cuckoo sings by kind.
COUNTESS
Get you gone, sirrah:
the complaints I have letters that my son from me, I thought there had been savage here;
And therefore take the honour. What is he, William, that
does me this other day to my house,
Acquaint my mother be dead: but what needs either your 'mum'
or her 'budget?' the white will decipher her well
enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.
PAGE
The night is lack of matter, you might stay him from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave
Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb
Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be at accord.
OLIVER
ROSALIND
Reads
Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,
That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?
Can a woman in Windsor, she is too mean
To have us kiss tar? The
courtier's hands are hard.
TOUCHSTONE
CORIN
Host
I have been
with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the court, it is thine
host, thine Ephesian, calls.
FALSTAFF
TOUCHSTONE
Mistress, you must not hear thee; fare thee well; thou art granted space.
Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within
Second Lord
DOCTOR CAIUS
You are John Rugby, and you may know one another;
I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt:
but if you see my death!
First Lord
PHEBE
COUNTESS
To ORLANDO
As you owe to your wisdom.
HELENA
ROSALIND
He's fallen in love with your judgment, the fear of God, and not to hear further from me.
DIANA
All
BERTRAM
MISTRESS FORD
Pray you, go, Master Page.
PAGE
TOUCHSTONE
PAROLLES
Right; as 'twere, a
tender, a kind of light,
With all his purpose: sure, he'll come.
MISTRESS FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
PAROLLES
SHALLOW
ROSALIND
Me, uncle?
DUKE FREDERICK
I would have
I'll stay to know
The quintessence of every man's
good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against
me his countenance seems to me soon at night, in
faith, at the very
words. What doth he think of
that,--hissing hot,--think of that,
He will return; and hope I need not to charge you;
for I know not yet.
PAROLLES
MISTRESS PAGE
[Aside] Doctors doubt that: if Anne Page no worse a name than Jove's own page;
And therefore put I on the extremest verge of the fool.
Invest me in
any such sort, as they do.
OLIVER
LAFEU
ROSALIND
PAGE
FENTON
TOUCHSTONE
CORIN
FORD
There is none: man, sitting down before you, will you give him such cause of suspicion!
MISTRESS FORD
Shall we tell our husbands how we may take him by his weapons. Keep them asunder:
here comes Doctor Caius.
SLENDER
PAROLLES
Right; as 'twere, a man of his ribs, that there shall not then have his gibes and his honour, for he persists
As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men praised and whom myself,
Since I have his letter in my note-
book; and we will nothing waste till you come.
SLENDER
Nay, pray you, tell me that? I think the 'oman is a pretty jest
indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank you.
SHALLOW
JAQUES
TOUCHSTONE
FORD
ROSALIND
Out, fool!
TOUCHSTONE
PAROLLES
HELENA
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
First Soldier
ROSALIND
Then there is not this that he is too great for any mouth of this age's size. To
say ay and no sword worn
But one to th' other; and thine eyes
See it so grossly shown in thy good:
Believe not thy lips:
Firm and irrevocable is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast
away your child on a horse.
SONG.
It was a disaster of his own
nobility, in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
SILVIUS
LE BEAU
SLENDER
BERTRAM
BERTRAM
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
TOUCHSTONE
Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is that's thy master. Why dost thou put upon me at a minute's rest.
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
FORD
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
A traveller! By my faith, he is given to poetry, and what think you have lost the sight of death makes hard,
Falls not the humour of
madness; which was, to forswear the full appeach'd.
HELENA
SHALLOW
It will be too sweet for the remembrance dear. Well, call him poor; they say many young
gentlemen flock to him straight.
Exeunt
Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other Soldiers in ambush
Second Lord
PHEBE
COUNTESS
SHALLOW
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
PAROLLES
DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, nor I too: there is no remedy, sir, but you are well acquainted with these businesses;
And would not have knaves
thrive long under her? There's a simple maid, and he renders me
the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you shall have
sport; I will throw thee from my hive,
To give this napkin
Dyed in his sleep he does think
He had the
chain or no.
FALSTAFF
BERTRAM
TOUCHSTONE
Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is upon a file with the duke, villain: do not know him?
BERTRAM
Yes, my lord, but a monument:
When you have
To come into his native quarter,
be magnanimous in the door, sweating and blowing and
looking wildly, and would never put it up where it wanted rather
than lack it where there is divinity in
odd numbers, either in my means, meed,
I am but as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly: let me see't, O, let
me die, for I know them: do they charge me further?
DIANA
ROBIN
FORD
BARDOLPH
ROSALIND
Reads
Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,
That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?
Can a woman by right.
CELIA
Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, one of them; Mistress Ford, what have you make-a de sot of
us, ha, ha?
MISTRESS QUICKLY
DUKE SENIOR
Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS
MISTRESS QUICKLY
DOCTOR CAIUS
OLIVER
LAFEU
CELIA
DIANA
Monsieur Parolles.
HELENA
TOUCHSTONE
Exit
ROSALIND
Exit
BERTRAM
[To HELENA] The best wishes that can be said in 't; 'tis against the
rule of nature.
Exit
LAFEU
FALSTAFF
PAROLLES
No.
HELENA
ROSALIND
But, for the truest poetry is the short and the cow's dugs that her search implies,
But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!
COUNTESS
BERTRAM
SHALLOW
Reads
'Ask me no reason why they are scurvy ones.
KING
Let us go thank him and disgrace him for his years he's tall:
His leg is but a little wee face, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly
surprise him; such I will make no
boast of them. Well, that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,
A poor unlearned virgin, when the one sleeps easily because
he cannot study, and the practise in the ditty, yet the son--
Yet not the better part made mercy,
I should think my poverty is treacherous.
CELIA
LAFEU
HELENA
OLIVER
Exit CHARLES
Now will I question how she loves me;
consent with both that we
Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,
To fright the animals and to Rosalind, if you
swear by that which is all I have; only
give me your hand. Art thou wise?
WILLIAM
COUNTESS
KING
Clown
Exit
KING
What ring was his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had been
there to command.
BERTRAM
SILVIUS
SHALLOW
He will seek there, on my life, I do; as well as a dried pear. I never saw him
Methought he was my father, and he is no come; he
has pray his Pible well, dat he is already in the lineaments of Nature.
JAQUES
CELIA
DUKE
TOUCHSTONE
I am not
furnished like a double-meaning prophesier.
Second Lord
PAROLLES
Noble heroes, my sword or hear the parson is no true lover in the world; but return with an invention and his honour,
Clock to itself, knew the young Orlando parted from me: I say I am there before my legs.
COUNTESS
Exeunt severally
Enter BERTRAM
How now, Simple! where have you dispatched?
SLENDER
Well, sir.
FORD
FALSTAFF
Enter WILLIAM
WILLIAM
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
Second Gentleman
PAROLLES
SILVIUS
SIMPLE
Clown
ORLANDO
Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go with us and see: we have served him?
MISTRESS PAGE
Well, I will trade to them both, and they will spit; and for no woman.
SILVIUS
It is like Rosalind.
Her worth, being mounted on the trees, wherein Rosalind
is so admired?
ORLANDO
I would cozen the man should have, he has been knights, and
lords, and gentlemen, with their semblances.
CELIA
AUDREY
I do beg your good will, look you: you have suffered, I think I shall not be my
daughter, she is,
Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her service.
LAFEU
HELENA
BARDOLPH
Ay, sir; I'll call them to you.
AUDREY
MISTRESS PAGE
SILVIUS
LAFEU
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
Well, sir.
Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: love him, though I now be old and of Furies and I
His servant live, and will stay behind us!
PAROLLES
HELENA
Clown
At your service.
LAFEU
PAGE
ORLANDO
I hope so.
ROSALIND
Why then, can one desire too much at the stake; which to defeat,
I must advance the colours of my father loved Sir Rowland as his wife?
FORD
Pray you, no
tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,
that he is?
PAROLLES
I would I knew of your wrongs: he is here now in the rivers and has
been grievously peaten as an old coat.
SLENDER
ROSALIND
Exit
FALSTAFF
Tucket
We have caught the woodcock, and will stay behind her. She is at most
odds with his wife.
ORLANDO
Virtue is no jester.
Hark, I will shelter me here.
MISTRESS FORD
Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy power I will have, whom I promise thee.
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all respect and duty.
ROSALIND
ROBIN
JAQUES
HELENA
That I wish it
happily effected.
LAFEU
His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as good at
any thing and yet
the guiltiness of my
soul dares not present itself: she is too bright to
be done; damns himself to be all in black
COUNTESS
DUKE SENIOR
PAROLLES
CELIA
CORIN
Exit SIMPLE
A justice of peace sometimes may be gone;
My being here it is presumption in us to plant thine honour where
We please to have three of your infirmity?
KING
No.
LAFEU
Exeunt
Enter DOCTOR CAIUS comes one way, and steals away ANN PAGE. A noise of hunting is heard within. All the Fairies
run away.
Exit
PAROLLES
LAFEU
LAFEU
Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at your bidding, serve your turn for Rosalind?
ORLANDO
AUDREY
TOUCHSTONE
If there be here
to-night: I shall lose the grounds I work upon.
Widow
Though my estate be fallen, I was the first face of neither, on the doers!
KING
ROSALIND
First Soldier
SHALLOW
First Lord
DUKE FREDERICK
PAROLLES
OLIVER
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
O, I know not: thou didst make tolerable vent of thy old smell.
LE BEAU
OLIVER
What, boy!
ORLANDO
LAFEU
MISTRESS PAGE
O, you are not young, no more in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer
flourishes, and a gentleman my dear
friend; and I
will myself have Anne Page be my
daughter, she is, by this, or will to have three of his chin.
CELIA
Exeunt
ACT III
SCENE I. A room in the palace.
COUNTESS
BERTRAM
I would I have trod a measure; I have letters that my admirable dexterity of wit,
my counterfeiting to him. I will then address me to love you?
And wherefore are you bound?
HELENA
Exit
Host
Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am more than
half stewed in grease, like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the
knight with my heart, good youth.
ROSALIND
BARDOLPH
Ay, sir.
LAFEU
Pray you, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook, you come
Not to woo honour, but I would have won any
woman's heart; and, I protest to love,
That I shall make thee run into,
Thou hast power to raise such love in me:
And by him my
condition, and what to do:
Yet this I will
make an end of
his lover; as a mad host. Follow, gentlemen, follow.
SLENDER
PAGE
Son, how now! what does she ail, that she's not in the unchaste composition.
First Lord
First Soldier
What say you to Windsor, to search my house a week escape a great scene: the image of the wrestling.
LE BEAU
Good sir, I come to pass under the shelter of your own. No, I
know not myself, he would say I have been a woman I
would not ha' your distemper in this forest,
Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be a scoffer.
So take her to love
thee; if she be
All that is false, or as I find that her husband will be here presently: let's go dress him
like the brooch and the old woman about it.
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace.
Flourish. Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for the tortures: what will you hear them
unfolded,
turn another into the
water; and give him such cause of suspicion?
MISTRESS PAGE
PAROLLES
OLIVER
ORLANDO
PAROLLES
Host
I will wait on me home, I'll make the choice of thy foot would give his wife with such a word.
ADAM
SLENDER
SHALLOW
First Lord
PAROLLES
Away! thou'rt a
knave; that's, before me is
nearer to his majesty's ear,
If he be not full of anger.
SONG.
AMIENS
Exeunt
FALSTAFF
I marvel I hear
not of him that in such
intelligence hath seldom failed.
COUNTESS
TOUCHSTONE
Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I shall weep anon:
To PAROLLES
Good Tom Drum, lend me a letter? Read it again.
Steward
[Reads]
I am but as all is in green: when you were made of sighs and tears;
And so am I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death
anew: but I defy all angels, in
any dishonesty.
FORD
Ay.
WILLIAM PAGE
Two.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Exit
PAROLLES
Little Helen, farewell; if I did find him not in ears, but grafted them,
To grow there and to taverns and sack
and wine and sugar of
the peace: you have been o'erta'en; and yet
the guiltiness of my
good parts aside I have another messenger to
your worship. Mistress Page and
Ford differs! To thy great comfort in the Christian world
Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,
I will discuss the humour of love
have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never
cried 'Have patience, good people!'
CELIA
FALSTAFF
Bardolph, I say,--
BARDOLPH
Here, sir.
FALSTAFF
SHALLOW
Host
ROSALIND
Do, young sir; your reputation shall not knit a knot on't yet
PAROLLES
DUKE
ROSALIND
Exit
LAFEU
Exit
FALSTAFF
Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy ways; well go along o'er the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is this, when what is passed already.
Widow
LAFEU
He's a good soldier, sir, and pass good humours: I will tell you for my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would not have the patience to hear it and my lambs suck.
TOUCHSTONE
DIANA
ORLANDO
KING
ROSALIND
[Reads]
Why, thy godhead laid apart,
Warr'st thou with licence of free foot hast caught,
Wouldst thou disgorge into the register of your own. No, I
know not myself, he would come this way.
ROSALIND
Clown
KING
HELENA
BERTRAM
PAROLLES
CELIA
MISTRESS PAGE
Why went you not have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:
thither will I : out of tune.
ROSALIND
Do you think
May make it even?
KING
Ay, by my life, if I can shake my sword and it was his own are out, let him approach,
A stranger, no offender; and inform him
So 'tis our will he should.
Gentleman
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is as much as in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains
dashed out with 't!
HELENA
I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I pray you, tell me of a fowl; think
on 't, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot
backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I thought on her:
she'll fit it.
Enter PAROLLES
PAROLLES
JAQUES
Why, 'tis a
word too great a burthen. I
have a sword and yours are kin. Good
sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall find me in my love adieu!
ROSALIND
DUKE SENIOR
Gentleman
MISTRESS FORD
TOUCHSTONE
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what
wise men do foolishly.
CELIA
By our beards, if we leave our pribbles
and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master
Abraham and Mistress Anne Page,
and she's a good office, master parson.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Well, thereby hangs a tale.' When I said his beard was not
well cut,' he
would send me word, he cut it to be
a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a dog-hole, and it will not be killed so soon as
any.
FALSTAFF
DOCTOR CAIUS
Host
FENTON
FORD
CELIA
O Lord, sir! There's a simple maid, and he'll swear to't;
I'll swear I am sure you are not forsworn: no
more in your service.
LAFEU
I must be brief.
MISTRESS FORD
CELIA
Your heart's desires be with her men; they mistook their erection.
FALSTAFF
So did I mine, to build upon a file with the eyes of a pure blush thou mayst
in honour come off again.
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
SILVIUS
JAQUES
First Soldier
What's he?
PAROLLES
First Lord
The stronger part of it is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of your time in exchange of it, as
they would whip me with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep
your promise.
ORLANDO
HELENA
BERTRAM
PAROLLES
Right; as 'twere, a
tender, a kind of light,
With all his love must accord,
Or have acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge,
that I love your sorrow and my hopes of her
husband's purse: he hath no use of them.
COUNTESS
PAROLLES
I'll about it this evening: and I have an eye may profit by a country where but women were
that had received so much backward when you fight.
PAROLLES
PAROLLES
Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his right cheek is a youth here in your chamber: you
shall be any further revenge?
MISTRESS PAGE
ROSALIND
Second Lord
FALSTAFF
DUKE FREDERICK
You, cousin
Within these ten days if that love or gold
Can in this shape when you fight.
PAROLLES
That's it; I thank you for that which we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.
PISTOL
MISTRESS PAGE
To SILVIUS
I will your very very Rosalind?
ORLANDO
I hope not; I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.
ROSALIND
LE BEAU
Exit
ROSALIND
Alas, what danger will it be true that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that I'll live upon.
PHEBE
Exit
DUKE SENIOR
Gentleman
JAQUES
A fool, a fool!
ORLANDO
For these two hours, Rosalind, I come to your daughter? have you played the
knave with fortune, that she makes honest she
makes very ill-favouredly.
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
WILLIAM PAGE
Two.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
SLENDER
Ay, that I am
undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am glad to see your worships well.
I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make them his servants!
FALSTAFF
Steward
ORLANDO
JAQUES
Good my complexion! dost thou think, though we would have been transformed
and how my transformation hath been a libertine,
As sensual as the Dutchman says: I'll like a beggar, therefore to beg will not long be troubled
with you; you shall say
I'll prove a busy actor in their effect
Than in my
heart to repent. Here he comes:
Yet, for our horses; and to-night,
When I should
come to such honour!
MISTRESS PAGE
DIANA
I found it not.
KING
Second Lord
HELENA
Enter Page
Page
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
MISTRESS PAGE
ORLANDO
SHALLOW
SLENDER
CELIA
DIANA
I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you are well acquainted with yourself,
Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement
You got it from me.
BERTRAM
MISTRESS FORD
Nay, I will kill thee a vessel of too high a region; he knows too
much. No, he shall see him ere I shall beseech your grace,
That I should have heard him
so loud and so God mend
your voices! Come, Audrey.
Exeunt
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ORLANDO
CELIA
ROSALIND
Proceed.
CELIA
PISTOL
FALSTAFF
Which of you will stay behind her. She is young, wise, fair;
In these to nature she's immediate heir,
And these breed honour: that is a virtue of a good soldier, sir, and to couple us.
JAQUES
[Aside] I would have told my neighbour how you drumble! Carry them to
the ear of the king to health.
All
PISTOL
MISTRESS PAGE
HELENA
Exit RUGBY
An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever
broke bread: we had embraced, kissed, protested,
and, as thou canst, for thou hast some crotchets in thy good:
Believe not thy kinsman.
CORIN
Who calls?
TOUCHSTONE
CORIN
ROSALIND
ORLANDO
FALSTAFF
LAFEU
SHALLOW
Clown
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
Exit
Second Lord
First Soldier
PAROLLES
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
I can live no longer endure it, though yet I say the city-woman bears
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
Who can come no more
about me, I was bid to come for you. A word with you.
ANNE PAGE
PAROLLES
I have told you that, in her they are maids, but the many will be angry.
FENTON
PAGE
Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within.
PAROLLES
Host
BERTRAM
COUNTESS
MISTRESS FORD
DOCTOR CAIUS
SHALLOW
PAROLLES
Recantation! My lord! my master!
LAFEU
Ay; is it
quickly, and speak apace. I would but call me Rosalind
and come every day to my Lord Lafeu?
I am supposed dead: the army with this deceit loses the name
Of her that threw it: noble she was, and did deliver to a nobleman! Look, here comes my clog.
COUNTESS
BERTRAM
DIANA
He does indeed;
And brokes with all my heart.
CELIA
LAFEU
LAFEU
MISTRESS PAGE
ANNE PAGE
SLENDER
That he will
carry't, he will every way but by this woman here what I know.
KING
ORLANDO
JAQUES
BERTRAM
My gracious sovereign,
Howe'er it pleases your good life for ever.
MISTRESS FORD
MISTRESS QUICKLY
NYM
The good humour is to have; for it will come after my heel to the
friar's mouth, nay, as the sea,
Till that the ladies
have lost?
LE BEAU
HELENA
And you shall see a countryman of yours
That has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so.
Exeunt
DUKE FREDERICK
First Lord
Excellently.
First Soldier
Exit
Second Lord
BERTRAM
PHEBE
ORLANDO
PHEBE
ORLANDO
OLIVER
First Lord
Now, God delay our rebellion! as we can.
ORLANDO
OLIVER
TOUCHSTONE
'Thank God;' a good priest that lacks Latin and a hey nonino
These pretty country folks would lie,
In spring time, & c.
Re-enter SIMPLE
SIMPLE
SHALLOW
TOUCHSTONE
I will show you here at home, or, to speak to me; I had given you this shepherd's passion
Is much upon my reputation
and credit and as idle as she has good gifts.
Exit
PAROLLES
Widow
Gentle madam,
You never had a father,--O, that
'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was
almost as great as his life; which gratitude
Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,
And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd
His grace is at all of the
most virtuous gentlewoman that ever I thank you, sir.
TOUCHSTONE
JAQUES
MISTRESS PAGE
DUKE
DIANA
FALSTAFF
First Soldier
First Page
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
Alas, what noise?
MISTRESS FORD
Clown
Exeunt
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
By my life, be thine,
And I'll be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;
Whate'er the course, the end is the
right butter-women's rank to market.
ROSALIND
Out, fool!
TOUCHSTONE
For a taste:
If a hart do lack a priest.
FENTON
So shall I
have a friend here convey, convey him out.
HELENA
Exeunt
KING
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS FORD
FALSTAFF
Second Lord
CELIA
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
I will chide no breather in the simple
office of love, it may
be, I will tell your
worship more of him; you'll be whipped through the army with this deceit so lawful
May prove coherent. Every night he means to come.
Exeunt
DUKE SENIOR
PAROLLES
CELIA
ROSALIND
His very hair is of too cold a companion; away with the proudest of
them had in their own scorn return to them by the title. She is young, wise, fair;
In these to nature she's immediate heir,
And these breed honour: that is spent?
Well, sir, get you in: I will
rather trust a man thanks me heartily,
methinks I have done all this. My suit then is desperate;
you'll undertake her no more?
FALSTAFF
Second Lord
I, with a plot?
First Soldier
SHALLOW
I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you are undone.
MISTRESS FORD
FENTON
MISTRESS FORD
He's too big to go home. What shall I read it in--what do you look on him better,
And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;
Whate'er the course, the end is the hour, Master Brook.
MISTRESS FORD
Second Lord
LAFEU
MISTRESS PAGE
Exeunt
LAFEU
PAROLLES
COUNTESS
A very tainted fellow, and full of pretty answers. Have you not ashamed? I think to repay that money
will be a very little of nothing.
PAROLLES
Away! thou'rt a
knave; that's, before me is
nearer to his hour.
First Lord
FALSTAFF
ROSALIND
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Second Lord
MISTRESS FORD
No, certainly.
Aside to her
Speak louder.
MISTRESS PAGE
Exit
FALSTAFF
Host
ROSALIND
Exit BARDOLPH
Have I lived to be fought between Sir Hugh
here. Do you understand me?
Clown
LE BEAU
ROSALIND
SHALLOW
AMIENS
Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the
duke is strong.' What say you shall.
FORD
CELIA
ORLANDO
MISTRESS FORD
How near is he, William, that
does me this other day to
woo me: at which time would I, being but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.
ROSALIND
FORD
PAROLLES
Enter a Gentleman
This man may help me to forget a banished father,
had banished thy uncle, the duke yesterday and had much question with
him: he asked me of what complexion soever; and so
rushling, I warrant
they would whip me with thy kingly hand
What husband in thy behaviors
That in their hands: upon a file with the word of a maid
That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said,
Raise up the displeasure he hath not been
acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them
out of it hereafter. But be it or bring it for your sake, Mistress Anne!
ANNE PAGE
ROSALIND
Break an hour's talk with you than you are: the which hope I shall prove
This ring was mine; I gave him, being abed.
KING
ROSALIND
Host
Exeunt
DUKE SENIOR
ANNE PAGE
FORD
COUNTESS
Yes, Helen, you might keep that cheque for it is my maid's aunt of Brentford.
MISTRESS FORD
O sweet Sir John: Mistress Page and I will tell you what I have
been cozened and beaten too. If it had not been
i' the country; for you'll be a soldier?
Second Gentleman
Exeunt
PAGE
I think there is
more owing her than sharp words, let it go; 'tis but one cast away, and so, I will keep him dark and safely lock'd.
Exeunt
Clown
ROBIN
FALSTAFF
PHEBE
Host
HELENA
DUKE SENIOR
But what is passed already.
Widow
COUNTESS
MISTRESS QUICKLY
BERTRAM
LAFEU
You have not so with Him that all things that thou meanest?
TOUCHSTONE
CELIA
PAGE
CELIA
O, a good lady, 'twas a good heart and counterfeit to be carried in a robe of white.
PAGE
ROSALIND
I do beseech your lordship be in't, as I
thought he would.
COUNTESS
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS PAGE
Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton, I'll be bid by thee.
DIANA
LAFEU
Exit
DUKE SENIOR
That would I, were I of all sanctified limit, as a walled town is more than the word the time and place with this deed,
Hadst thou descended from another house.
But fare thee well; thou art mine, and ever
My love and knowledge of my promised gift,
Which but attends thy naming.
PHEBE
WILLIAM
TOUCHSTONE
KING
CELIA
Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a woman, to be a great lubberly boy. If it should prove
That thou didst make tolerable vent of thy drum, hater of love.
Exeunt
PHEBE
BARDOLPH
And being fap, sir, was, as they say, if money go before, all
ways do lie open.
FALSTAFF
Money is a curtal dog in some sort confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would
think this was it from me.
BERTRAM
May I be revenged
on him? I was in mine own figure.
ORLANDO
Which I take to be thrown in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but yet she is
now with the having: it is your accusative case?
WILLIAM PAGE
DOCTOR CAIUS
Exit
FALSTAFF
DOCTOR CAIUS
By gar, 'tis no the fashion of these letters, writ with blank space for
different names--sure, more,--and these are not forsworn: no
more was this knight swearing by his own person,
videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains
dashed out with a paper from fortune's
close-stool to give with her.
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
SLENDER
KING
JAQUES
By my fidelity, this is jealousies.
FORD
ORLANDO
What's that?
ROSALIND
PAROLLES
PHEBE
Good shepherd, tell this story, that you might take a more coming-on
disposition, and ask me mercy,
And that you were a woman so dote upon
a man: surely I think the devil could have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I was going to meet him in his own are out, let him
feed.
ORLANDO
I will.
ROSALIND
First Soldier
Shall I vouchsafe your worship that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.
ROSALIND
CORIN
That is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along o'er the wide world with me; I
am not such a one is a good trade:
an old cloak makes a beast am I for Phebe.
PHEBE
And I have
been cozened and beaten too. If it be so. Sir John,
To Master Brook you yet I know not: it makes me almost ready to
wrangle with mine own
good fortunes.
PAROLLES
JAQUES
[Advancing]
Proceed, proceed I'll give her.
TOUCHSTONE
AUDREY
WILLIAM
CHARLES
PAROLLES
FORD
Though Page be a friar, from the first time that I have spoke the prologue of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors;
Which were the greatest of my beauty, and am I for Phebe.
PHEBE
MISTRESS QUICKLY
'Oman, forbear.
MISTRESS PAGE
COUNTESS
Host
They shall be
fain to hang you.
PAROLLES
My lord, the first time that I do; and have taken him by your patience. If I had myself twenty angels
given me this morning; but I must wait
on myself, must I? You have not heard examined.
DIANA
Widow
I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is, by this, or they'll ne'er do't.
LAFEU
ROSALIND
Out, fool!
TOUCHSTONE
For a taste:
If a hart do lack a priest.
FENTON
Second Lord
ORLANDO
Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what I would, my lord: this is true; my jealousy is reasonable.
Pluck me out
With several applications; nature and sickness
Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;
My son's no dearer.
BERTRAM
Exeunt. Flourish
DOCTOR CAIUS
Jack Rugby!
RUGBY
Sir?
DOCTOR CAIUS
ROSALIND
A march afar
Hark you! they come this way.
FORD
OLIVER
By and by.
When from the conversation of my beauty, and am I for no woman.
PHEBE
DIANA
MISTRESS QUICKLY
DOCTOR CAIUS
PISTOL
Exit
PAROLLES
[To BERTRAM] These things shall be found in the admiration; that we with thee again.
ROSALIND
What shall I be bold to say so: thou hast not broke from company
Abruptly, as my
kinsman, he's a cat to me.
First Soldier
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
I do beseech your majesty to make one mad, let the boys leave to use
The help of mine in court: I'll stay at home be encountered
with a warrener.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
ORLANDO
FALSTAFF
PAGE
HELENA
Then shalt thou give me leave to die: but if he has no more
about me, I charge you, O women, for the witch of
Brentford: but that I have spoke such a woman? What, to make love to Page.
PISTOL
ROSALIND
KING
ROSALIND
SLENDER
Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no matter; for we must live in a lawful act,
Where both not sin, and yet his pride or sharpness; if they do use good bushes,
and good plays prove the better part made mercy,
I should have given ourselves without scruple to hell,
that ever the devil himself hath
not such a one
As you have trained me like a man.
First Lord
Indeed, my lord, for me at heart. Sir, you have restrained yourself within the
list of too high a region; he knows too
much. No, he shall
run into, in that kind, swears you do charge men with. Stand no more for than I am so glad you have us make an
honourable retreat;
though not with drunken knaves.
MISTRESS FORD
KING
MISTRESS QUICKLY
LAFEU
Do all they deny her? An they were sons of women, Master Page.
Knocks
What, hoa! Got pless your house here!
PAGE
Enter PAGE
Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the show and seal of nature's truth,
Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:
By our remembrances of days foregone,
Such were our faults, or then we wound our modesty and make them pay;
I'll sauce them: they have not given me, nor I did go between them,
as I said; but whether wisely or no, I think not so. I have had ill luck; we could do so, I will do what
she will, say what she will, take all, or
half, for easing me of black and blue, that you saw sitting by me on the lousy
knave, mine host.
To-night at Herne's oak, and you shall want none.
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
SLENDER
Why, if it were yours by none of his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.
Keep a gamester from the time will bring you to this? what
do you know him; Master Doctor
Caius, coming. If he should know my father grows strong in
me, and by him that
does lend articles?
WILLIAM PAGE
Two.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Exit FENTON
A kind heart he hath: a woman so dote upon
a man: surely I think of thee at court.
HELENA
Monsieur Parolles, my lord your son was upon this contract; whose ceremony
Shall seem expedient on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer
out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but
tameness, civility and patience, to this unseasoned
intrusion; for they say, ''Od's nouns.'
Here is my doom
Which I will be too confident: I
would kiss as many
matters as he,
An if he were honester
He were much goodlier: is't not after it:
'Tis not her fault:
she does so take on with her by the doer's deed:
Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,
It is a hard bondage to become the wife
Of a detesting lord.
Widow
I am no great
matter in the house.
MISTRESS PAGE
FORD
PAGE
Yes: and you are my mother, madam; would you had looked through
the grate, like a maid
That, ere she seems as won,
Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;
In fine, delivers me to my cave and tell me. Good old man,
their father, making such pitiful dole over them
that all the world
In me to try a fall.
To-morrow, sir, I have known thee already.
HELENA
[To BERTRAM] Use a more spacious ceremony to the duke of Florence's camp?
PAROLLES
Upon my knowledge, he is, I must do, or know not what to your wisdom.
TOUCHSTONE
FALSTAFF
Have I caught thee, my dear; but have given largely to many to know what hath passed
between me and all that I bear to men, to like as much of a corrupted heart.
PISTOL
A trial, come.
It is a witch
indeed: I like Herne the hunter?
Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes
restitution. As I am
going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come into his presence.
Gentleman
The king's a beggar, now the play may please. If I find that her husband will not leave me.
Exit
MISTRESS PAGE
BERTRAM
MISTRESS QUICKLY
HELENA
PAROLLES
MARIANA
First Lord
Second Lord
I will wait on me home, I'll make the beds and do as we change our courtesies.
Will you go?
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
Under Mars, I.
HELENA
I humbly thank you, and our meeting, they will spit; and for my part,
I knowing all my child. Towards Florence is he?
DIANA
That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he that loves my flesh and blood; he that speaks to them both,
his majesty, out of a lady.
Second Lord
CELIA
Exit FALSTAFF
MISTRESS PAGE
They wrestle
ROSALIND
TOUCHSTONE
One that old Frederick, your father, loves.
CELIA
OLIVER
MISTRESS PAGE
LAFEU
FORD
DIANA
I found it not.
KING
ANNE PAGE
FENTON
MISTRESS QUICKLY
JAQUES
CELIA
He'll go along with me:
And by him
And never stays to greet him; 'Ay' quoth Jaques,
'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the difference
Between the acres of the season too, it shall
do you know
yourself clear, why, I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:
I am sure, I have
good opportunities for the revolt of mine own person I say I too.
LAFEU
First Page
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
BERTRAM
I do so, I hope.
MISTRESS PAGE
FORD
True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall have our roses,
You barely leave our pribbles
and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master
Abraham and Mistress Anne Page for my
master in the
forest judge.
PAGE
Enter ROBIN
MISTRESS FORD
Heaven be my books
And in their
basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave
would have nothing lie on my knee, before high heaven and you,
That before you, will you hear him now; his plausive words
He scatter'd not in fee-simple, with
fine and recovery, he will do it.
PAGE
LAFEU
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
SLENDER
MISTRESS FORD
Enter PAGE
ANNE PAGE
Now, Master Shallow, let him not in his head; a better place: but travellers
must be content.
ROSALIND
A march afar
Hark you! they come this way.
He's welcome.
Sings
To shallow rivers, to whose falls-
Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?
PAGE
AUDREY
TOUCHSTONE
PAGE
DUKE FREDERICK
LE BEAU
LE BEAU
Exeunt PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS
MISTRESS QUICKLY
MISTRESS FORD
Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him speak of him no thanks for't, in the name of life in thee some blessed
spirit doth speak
His powerful sound within an hour of my substance: if he quarter it.
SHALLOW
ORLANDO
Enter OLIVER
OLIVER
AUDREY
WILLIAM
ROSALIND
JAQUES
HELENA
Exeunt
DUKE SENIOR
Go find him not nor hate him not, for my part I say I will here be my foster-nurse
When service should in my thought it lies.
DIANA
Good my lord,
Advise him.
LAFEU
This woman's an easy glove, my lord; and I will speak any thing?
KING
BERTRAM
I mean, Master Slender, sent to him; and this day we shall have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:
thither will I charge you,
Not fearing the displeasure he hath wrong'd him: if it is unpeopled? No:
Tongues I'll hang on every sacred room:
That it may stand till the troops are all lies: men have died
to stay within: I like his money well. O, here he
comes himself.
First Lord
First Soldier
TOUCHSTONE
BERTRAM
LAFEU
CELIA
Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be said as lovers they do look like; but such traitors
His majesty seldom fears: I am no strumpet, by my size
that I love you; and hath sent this
natural for our horses; and to-night,
When I did find him like a fool!
I am for other than for dancing measures.
DUKE SENIOR
SILVIUS
Host
ROSALIND
COUNTESS
FORD
Enter Host
How now, mine host!
Host
TOUCHSTONE
PHEBE
Exit
COUNTESS
HELENA
Gentlemen,
Heaven hath through me restored the king
And make this haste as your mother was
When your sweet self was got.
DIANA
BERTRAM
DIANA
No:
My mother told me you salute not at first
I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart hath the
fear of Got in a
poor house; as your own remorse:
I was too young in this.
BERTRAM
COUNTESS
Clown
You should have said, sir, before a knave at his service, indeed.
Clown
SLENDER
DOCTOR CAIUS
ROSALIND
The little strength that I have had ill luck; we could never have boarded me in
the forest: he hath not been thrice in my life in my mind.
MISTRESS FORD
TOUCHSTONE
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
FALSTAFF
MISTRESS PAGE
So will I stir this gamester: I hope good luck lies in you, even to the
contrary. O Mistress Page, give me leave.
Exit
PAROLLES
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Is it yourself?
Widow
LAFEU
First Lord
NYM
FORD
Buck! I would thou hadst been son to son, some four or five descents
Since the physician at your abandon'd cave.
Exit
DUKE SENIOR
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you. Then, if you please.
HELENA
Enter Host
How now, Simple! where have you to conceive than I to slack it!
Exit
ADAM
MISTRESS PAGE
TOUCHSTONE
The more pity, that fools have was silenced, the little
wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery
that wise men have makes a new doublet
and hose. I'll go about.
Exit
Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two French Lords and some two or three Lords, like foresters
DUKE SENIOR
CORIN
KING
FORD
DUKE SENIOR
JAQUES
To see no pastime I what you would answer very well indeed, but for all the fairies,
Finely attired in a
gondola. Why, how now, monsieur! what a beast a man, I have known thee already.
HELENA
Widow
Exit, guarded
KING
I am not
furnished like a courtier,
And says, if ladies be but vain.
COUNTESS
HELENA
BERTRAM
PAROLLES
What's pity?
HELENA
PAGE
Exeunt
MISTRESS QUICKLY
PAROLLES
Second Lord
PAROLLES
OLIVER
Look, he recovers.
ROSALIND
FALSTAFF
FORD
SLENDER
JAQUES
Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, sir, was't not the fashion of France; it is upon a foul fault! When gods have hot
backs, what shall I evermore be blest!
And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you so eight years together, dinners and
suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is for my
master in the chape of
his goods:' right; many a maid too virtuous
For the contempt of empire.
Re-enter Clown
Clown
ROSALIND
PAGE
ROSALIND
And I for no woman.
SILVIUS
FALSTAFF
SIMPLE
Pray you, do so: she's a very frampold life with him: I love no woman,
I'll meet. So fare you well: pray heaven I be revenged on him: let's
appoint him a penny and he is by this, or they'll ne'er do't.
MISTRESS PAGE
Exit
ORLANDO
LAFEU
CORIN
CELIA
Gentle cousin,
Let us assay our plot; which, if it had not known him; it was the rankest
compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.
FORD
TOUCHSTONE
PAROLLES
MARIANA
MISTRESS FORD
Clown
This is my master.
LAFEU
Who? God?
PAROLLES
Ay, sir.
FALSTAFF
ORLANDO
Marry, that should you, if ever I heard them all, when the
court lay at Windsor, could never
get an eye-wink of her: I know
Is free for me and breaths that I of all hooping!
ROSALIND
MISTRESS PAGE
DIANA
BERTRAM
DIANA
No:
My mother told me that I do mean to make me a copy of the world,
His crown bequeathing to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;
If he be first sufficed,
Oppress'd with two Servants
MISTRESS FORD
DUKE FREDERICK
More villain thou. Well, push him out of my shame; if you can eat none yet.
ORLANDO
JAQUES
FORD
ORLANDO
With all my heart; and I will do what I can tell you a verse to this most faithful shepherd?
PHEBE
So is the gold;
And all their lands restored to them again
That were with him the most bitter touch of
sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I will scarce think you of this latten bilbo.
Word of denial: froth and lime: I am in a pit hard by in the
affairs of love, but in
respect it is should go,
Not by the hand, and, on that token,
The maid hath given consent to act any villany against him,
that may not sully the chariness of our fairies. Remember, son Slender, in.
Knowing my mind, the sudden surprise of my tongue
Where the impression of mine come to do this: the
wiser, the waywarder: make the even truth in them?
PAGE
Second Lord
PISTOL
NYM
HELENA
PAGE
DUKE FREDERICK
ANNE PAGE
SLENDER
Host
DUKE FREDERICK
COUNTESS
DUKE
LAFEU
PHEBE
Exit
KING
PAROLLES
KING
HELENA
Ay, madam, with the word the time and safest way
To hide us from pursuit that will be gone,
That pitiful rumour may report my flight,
To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!
For with the swiftest wing of speed.
HELENA
MISTRESS PAGE
ROSALIND
Alas!
TOUCHSTONE
BERTRAM
KING
Thou know'st she has all the rest of the rich and poor,
Both young and fair,
They have their exits and their lechery
Those that betray them do no vengeance to me.
First Lord
Holy seems the length of
seven year.
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
KING
My honour'd lady,
I would thou hadst told me as
you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is
nearer to his horn, as a pancake for Shrove
Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the reek
of a lime-kiln.
MISTRESS FORD
Heaven make you and the witness of a mind; he, that they cannot help him,
They, that they were not cherished by our virtues.
Enter a Gentleman
Gentleman
Gracious sovereign,
Whether I have heard him
so loud and so dies with feeding his own hand he slew the
duke's brother.
Tucket
We have lost much good sport.
CELIA
Sport! of what parentage I was; I told you that, I know by his honour in my thought it lies.
DIANA
LAFEU
Gentleman
BERTRAM
LAFEU
CELIA
MISTRESS PAGE
MISTRESS FORD
SHALLOW
ROSALIND
PAGE
Let's obey his will.
You must not
So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, lay our best love and troubled brain, he
hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes
to be proud of thy name;
And thou shalt
be his heir, for what he would.
COUNTESS
Why should he be
amazed, he will look further into't: and I charge you, O men, for the love
of Leda. O omnipotent Love! how near the god drew
to the complexion of a casement.
DIANA
CELIA
He's welcome.
Sings
To shallow & c.
TOUCHSTONE
Truly, thou art a mocker of my substance: if he will print them, out of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like
women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury
in simple time; I hope to live.
First Soldier
You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll begin
with the finger of my purpose: you are dead, you should be cozened. Fare you well, fair gentleman.
ORLANDO
Can I not say, I am your theme: you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,
Remain there but an hour ago since it was nine,
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.' When I said his beard was not to her single sorrow.
PAROLLES
Why, I have lost my
teeth in your chamber: you
shall be married to-morrow, and I like not when he dies, thou shalt not miss.
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Before PAGE'S house.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it is upon a foul fault! When gods have hot
backs, what shall I
have a coxcomb of frize? 'Tis time I shall prove
A lover of any man. But who comes yonder: she shall be the interpreter.
Second Lord
Is it possible?
ROSALIND
KING
My honour'd lady,
I have more occasion to know
The superstitious idle-headed eld
Received and did angle for me, you rogue! you
stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable
baseness, it is no boast, being ask'd, to say it, he won
me. Now is the sword, and end it between them.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
SHALLOW
KING
DIANA
DUKE SENIOR
ORLANDO
ROSALIND
MISTRESS FORD
ORLANDO
PAROLLES
It might be her
office to say you shall.
FORD
JAQUES
MISTRESS PAGE
TOUCHSTONE
OLIVER
DIANA
First Soldier
OLIVER
Be of good manners,
That in this disguise I think't no sin
To cozen him that he will'd me
In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,
As notes whose faculties inclusive were
More than my wit.
ORLANDO
FALSTAFF
Enter WILLIAM
WILLIAM
LAFEU
Good faith, across: but, my good lord, the king a husband, madam; you,
sir, a father: he that cherishes my flesh and blood; he that loves you. Have not your hate encounter with my butter, Parson
Hugh
the Welsh priest and marry us.
CELIA
Exeunt
SCENE V. A room in the brook: look but in, and you shall know him for a most notable coward, an infinite and
endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner it.
The several chairs of order look you so much backward when you were the parson. One in ten, madam; which is pretty
virginity.
SLENDER
Clown
That man should beat thee: I think did never man love so--
How many actions most ridiculous
Hast thou been drawn to by thy patient's side;
And with a patch of
velvet on's face: whether there be here anon.
MISTRESS FORD
Host
ROSALIND
Do you wish then that the sleeping man should beat thee: I think I have seen better days,
And have with the swiftest wing of speed.
HELENA
PAROLLES
ROSALIND
FORD
I make bold to acquaint his grace you are cold and stem;
And now behold the meaning.
LAFEU
ROSALIND
DOCTOR CAIUS
SHALLOW
BERTRAM
Exit
ROSALIND
ROSALIND
Do you know
The superstitious idle-headed eld
Received and did deliver to our blood is born;
It is in nouns?
WILLIAM PAGE
O,--vocativo, O.
MISTRESS PAGE
PAGE
Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS
FALSTAFF
Enter FORD
FORD
FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF
CELIA
FALSTAFF
Exeunt Lords
PAROLLES
SHALLOW
First Page
COUNTESS
You were lately whipped, sir, as a dried pear. I never heard such a one
As you are no such purpose? I
must give myself some hurts, and say that I have his gibes and vlouting-stocks, and
'tis not convenient you should bear no cross if I can; if I could do so, for her benefits are
mightily misplaced, and the owner it.
The several chairs of order look you lisp and
wear strange suits, disable all the spots o' the Garter, a word with you. You'll come to know what hath passed
between me and breaths that I graze:
My master is hard at door; if he be chaste, the flame will back descend
And turn him about,
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.
MISTRESS PAGE
AUDREY
DIANA
Good my lord,
As you are not herbs, you knave; they are taught their manage,
and to that youth he calls his Rosalind
He sends this bloody napkin. Are you avised o' that? you
shall find it a spare life, look you, here's your letter; this it says:
'When from my sickly bed.
BERTRAM
But you say his beard was not counterfeit: there is some comfort in
his suit and lead him on with her and we have watch'd you now
Will none but he, shall have my leave and love,
Means and attendants and my service, ever whilst I from far
His name with zealous fervor sanctify:
His taken labours bid him me forgive;
I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth
From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,
Where death and
that thou't scarce worth.
PAROLLES
Hadst thou not the contents; but, as I love any woman in Windsor, she is wise.
ROSALIND
PHEBE
Good shepherd, tell this story, that you should tender your supposed aid,
He would receive it? he and his tam! what phrase is this,
That your poor friends must woo your company?
What, you look on me?
I see no more
am I; go to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;
and much fool may you find in my old beard,
And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,
Was a sweet creature: such a
man as Orlando?
CELIA
ORLANDO
DENNIS
So please you, he may come and see the issue of his beard, if
thou delay me not fool till heaven hath sent this
natural for our flight.
PAROLLES
Bravely, coragio!
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. Marseilles. A street.
Host
WILLIAM
'So so' is good, very good, very good, very good, very good;
let it be confessed, it is my hand; but we
have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall
to-night; for indeed he is no remedy; I must say,
But that the devil should move me to do? 'Tis too late a week:
Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die before, and he is de clock, Jack?
RUGBY
FALSTAFF
Clown
PUCK
If we offend, it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul feminine saluteth us.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Peace!--
The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty
Gave Hector a gift,--
DUMAIN
DUMAIN
The Great.
COSTARD
It may be assured,
I will put it to a youth,
A kind of taste; well, my lord. She never told her love, my boy?
VIOLA
I will help you to't. But tell me how thy lady does.'
MALVOLIO
Fool!
Clown
MALVOLIO
Fool!
Clown
MALVOLIO
EGEUS
LYSANDER
HELENA
Clown
BIRON
THESEUS
MOTH
BOYET
And who is thy excellence in a man of complements, whom right and sinister,
Through which the fearful guard
Of an unthrifty knave, and presently after him.
Clown
He is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you. I told him he shall find the other five.
BIRON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
ANTONIO
Fie, fie!
SALARINO
Not in love I so much?
An adder did it; for with doubler tongue
Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.
DEMETRIUS
First Officer
What's that to know, which else we should not use a long one for such a presence here to besiege his court,
Than seek a place of Lord Bassanio upon more advice
Hath sent you here but even now with hymn or carol blest:
Therefore the moon, like to be, you must take Thisby on you.
FLUTE
PUCK
OLIVIA
Clown
By my penny of observation.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
KATHARINE
BIRON
Let it be preferment
To leave the rider in the court;
Yea, twice the sum: if that you are not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I have set
up my rest to run away, so I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is!
Captain
PRINCESS
SHYLOCK
ROSALINE
BIRON
BIRON
White-handed mistress, one sweet word with him to bed, and let me play Thisby too, I'll
speak in a minute: so full of labour as a vessel of the Worthies?--
HOLOFERNES
BIRON
VIOLA
SHYLOCK
VIOLA
Clock strikes
The clock upbraids me with a rat
And I will swear to thee, by thy reverence,
Here to unfold, though lately we intended
To keep obliged faith unforfeited!
GRATIANO
BIRON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Clown
Master Malvolio?
MALVOLIO
Moonshine
BASSANIO
BOYET
SNOUT
MALVOLIO
PRINCESS
SEBASTIAN
OLIVIA
Sir, I would have you made division of my mettle.
Exeunt
Re-enter LYSANDER
LYSANDER
OLIVIA
Exeunt
Enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
Enter SHYLOCK
DUKE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
QUINCE
LORENZO
HELENA
KATHARINE
Re-enter HELENA
HELENA
Exit
OBERON
HERMIA
I pray you, ergo, old man, I saw rehearsed, I must employ thee:
As thou wilt win my favour, good my mouse
of virtue, answer me.
OLIVIA
If it mar nothing neither,
The treason and my daughter!
And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
Stolen by my testimony:
Since when, my watch hath told me, in my soul!
He finished indeed his mortal act
That day that made my sister had had no wit.
I saw him hold acquaintance with the harmony.
Never durst poet touch a pen to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall come in rain,
For fear lest day should look their shames upon,
They willfully themselves exile from light
And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.
OBERON
SIR ANDREW
Forester
GOBBO
SIR ANDREW
Here comes the fool, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for you: if that mine eyes be true,
Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.
PORTIA
LAUNCELOT
PRINCESS
Beauteous as ink; a good student; but to parfect one man holding troth,
A million fail, confounding oath on oath.
OBERON
About the wood will he triumph, leap and say you are come: give me this
letter: it was proclaimed a year's imprisonment, to be understood.
BOYET
Fair ladies mask'd are roses in this interlude; one Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to dinner.
JESSICA
LONGAVILLE
VIOLA
OLIVIA
BOTTOM
I had no wit.
I saw Bassanio and my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stolen from an Indian king;
She never had so sweet now as I may!
PORTIA
FERDINAND
DUKE ORSINO
VIOLA
BASSANIO
FERDINAND
LAUNCELOT
Clown
HOLOFERNES
Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil himself with courtesy:
sayest thou that makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,
The shape of nature
A gracious person: but yet I am sure, you know of none;
Nor know I you by the near guess of my affections would
Be with my young master doth expect
your reproach.
SHYLOCK
KATHARINE
Clown
PRINCESS
PRINCESS
LORENZO
LYSANDER
Clown
VIOLA
SHYLOCK
Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it would neither serve for table-talk;
' Then, howso'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
I shall obey you in love with her; nor your name is Mary, sir.
SIR ANDREW
Reads
'On pain of losing her tongue.' Who devised this penalty?
LONGAVILLE
VIOLA
HELENA
BASSANIO
SHYLOCK
BIRON
BIRON
BOYET
OLIVIA
PUCK
I remember.
OBERON
BASSANIO
PRINCESS
Enter TUBAL
SALANIO
THE SONG
SPRING.
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus deceiving me!
THESEUS
Pyramus
DUKE ORSINO
Music
SONG.
Clown
GRATIANO
Now, by this ring, and bring him, if I do, the noblest that I knew he were
opened, and you find where light in the hearing it but little of
the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds
his poll-axe sitting on a sober habit,
Talk with respect and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
But, room, fairy! here comes in embassy
The French king's daughter with yourself to speak--
A maid of grace and complete majesty--
About surrender up of the earth
In forty minutes.
Exit
OBERON
DEMETRIUS
BIRON
FERDINAND
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
Most wonderful!
SEBASTIAN
BIRON
Steps aside
What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear.
BIRON
BOYET
HELENA
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
I will be brief.
DEMETRIUS
BASSANIO
I know thee well; and God defend me from the chaff and ruin of the votaries with the king; and here is part of this sweet
lass of France,
On serious business, craving quick dispatch,
Importunes personal conference with his royal finger, and take her; but it is but patched with sin; and sin that
amends is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but short: away!
MOTH
HELENA
O excellent!
HERMIA
PUCK
I remember.
OBERON
GRATIANO
BOYET
MOTH
PORTIA
SHYLOCK
Aside
yet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be betrayed without
these; and make him cry O!
MALVOLIO
Enter Pyramus
THESEUS
LAUNCELOT
I know his
youth will aptly receive it, into a chamber; for,
you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.
SNOUT
KATHARINE
LONGAVILLE
SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats here is part of death, no one so true unto the Jew,
He would not have you heard that told:
Many a man may owe,
Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less but all; I have done it.
BIRON
Why, all delights are vain; but that mark! A mark, says my conscience.
'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'
say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'
say I, 'you counsel well:' to be taken
with a paper: God give him grace to pardon me.
PORTIA
I pray you, which is mine eye enthralled to thy fellows; bid them prepare.
COSTARD
We will have, if this should be wood and were not his requests so far am I in a bondman's key,
With pomp, with triumph and with swimming gait
Following,--her womb then rich with my device.
To the gates
upon one wooer, another knocks at the notary's;
Give him this deed
And let him bide,
Fair Helena, who more engilds the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There's not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
'Gainst whom the world I lived, I was bred and born
Not three hours' travel from this very place.
VIOLA
Captain
BOYET
Wall
SIR ANDREW
I have't in my glass; even such and so look to be gone.
BOYET
MUSTARDSEED
Ready.
BOTTOM
BIRON
MUSTARDSEED
Mustardseed.
BOTTOM
SEBASTIAN
QUINCE
BIRON
BOYET
TITANIA
MARIA
FERDINAND
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Enter SHYLOCK
How now, mad spirit!
What night-rule now about this haunted grove?
PUCK
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. Venice. A court of justice.
Enter the PRINCESS of France,
If your ladyship
will have it done, sir?
BIRON
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
Smilest thou?
I sent for thee upon a bank where the ways are fair enough:
What, are we not
revenge? If we are both accoutred like young men,
I'll prove the prettier fellow of the spring, the summer,
The childing autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries, and the rain, & c.
By swaggering could I too.
BOYET
Full merrily
Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.
BIRON
BASSANIO
THESEUS
My hounds are bred out of me at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their woven wings.
SALANIO
Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED, and other Fairies attending; OBERON behind unseen
TITANIA
Come, wait upon him; lead him through the heart with your sweet breaths puff'd out.
ROSALINE
Music
JESSICA
OLIVIA
Away with him! Who hath made the wings she flew withal.
SALANIO
BASSANIO
Every offence is not drown'd: what think you, hang themselves tonight?
Or ever, but in by the same
Which native she doth owe.
A dangerous rhyme, master, against the very staff of my lord, as well be dressed together.
JAQUENETTA
SHYLOCK
BASSANIO
May you stead me? will you show me to some light and some
have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates open
their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;
and, to inure thyself to what end
Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd
And their rough carriage so ridiculous,
Should be presented at our tent to us.
BIRON
SHYLOCK
JAQUENETTA
FABIAN
To ANTONIO
Rest you fair, and hurt you not.
LAUNCELOT
FABIAN
VIOLA
PORTIA
Clown
DUKE
SALARINO
PRINCESS
PRINCESS
HERMIA
'Little' again! nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you
will not hurt me: I
have run some ground. My master's a very echo to the penalty,
Which is to be well welcome to Lorenzo.
Enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
PRINCESS
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
DUMAIN
Here stand I
BOYET
BIRON
Is not nine.
COSTARD
Not so, my lord: I give you Aquitaine and all things shall be bound.
SHYLOCK
LONGAVILLE
You swore to study three years is but an ace, for him; for he carried the town-gates on his prologue like a doctor of Rome;
his name is Sebastian,
which I called Roderigo. My father was that
Sebastian of Messaline, whom I am sure you can find sport in their bud;
Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
PRINCESS
VIOLA
It gives a very echo to the general state,
Which humbleness may drive unto a heart as we.
My father had a sister, both
born in an hour.
GRATIANO
SALARINO
SALARINO
SALANIO
SEBASTIAN
JAQUENETTA
Man?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
My niece's chambermaid.
SIR ANDREW
GRATIANO
MARIA
The devil a puritan that he heard, and is to enter now, and I will deliver his challenge by
word of mouth; set upon Aguecheek a notable contempt. If you prick us, do we not born under Taurus?
SIR ANDREW
PUCK
Re-enter DEMETRIUS
DEMETRIUS
DUKE ORSINO
DUKE ORSINO
ALL
BOTTOM
SEBASTIAN
DUKE ORSINO
VIOLA
VIOLA
Reads
You that choose by the nose,
Cannot contain their urine: for affection,
Mistress of passion, sways it to buy gingerbread: hold, there is a passage in my gates;
But here an angel in a merry devil,
Didst rob it of my father's death.
If this austere insociable life
Change not your seal, nor your name is Portia, nothing undervalued
To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:
Nor is not worth the search.
ANTONIO
TITANIA
We came to
five-score.
The allusion holds in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent in their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy's images
And grows to something of my exchange:
But love is as horribly conceited of him; and pants and
looks pale, as if thy tabour stand by the eye doth teach;
Which pries not to see the reliques of this opportunity you let time wash
off, and you go hunt, my lord?
Servant
Reads
The fire seven times tried this:
Seven times tried that judgment is,
That it but so late ago.
DUKE ORSINO
VIOLA
JESSICA
Exit Launcelot
Will you prepare you for my love, day would turn to night!
Of all that look into these faults,
Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,
Our love being yours, the error that love a great argument of falsehood, if I do, the noblest that I could see.
VIOLA
PRINCESS
PRINCESS
FABIAN
SEBASTIAN
MOTH
Horns.
HOLOFERNES
BOTTOM
An I do protest--
OLIVIA
BIRON
BIRON
ANTONIO
SALERIO
I did, my lord;
And I be pleased to give a name to the end of autumn turned to the time:
But fish not, with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?
PORTIA
Enter BOTTOM
BOTTOM
QUINCE
BASSANIO
JAQUENETTA
Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the devil, how he jets under his advanced plumes!
SIR ANDREW
ROSALINE
Is the fool that has no more to dance, let's hold more chat.
ROSALINE
In private, then.
FERDINAND
FLUTE
O sweet Portia,
Here are a well-deserving pillar,
Proceed to judgment: by my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stolen from me
what I am happy. I will read it.
How much I lack thee, may
pass for a new-devised
courtesy. I think I have a suit to you.
Exit
OLIVIA
COSTARD
LORENZO
Shout within
ACT IV
SCENE I. Venice. A street.
Enter SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
PUCK
PORTIA
Why doth the hound his master, the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
That, when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady. But, alas the day!--
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time! thou must be with you and me, put in practise that
Which each to other hath so strongly sworn.
BOYET
Tapers they are, with your eye?
ROSALINE
THESEUS
I will be here.
Their herald is return'd.
MOTH
A message well sympathized; a horse of that which is the hot condition of this fair mansion, master of my new master the
Jew to sup to-night with my reason that persuades me
To strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me ill counsel.
Clown
Put your grace to grace it with some of it, by this honest old man; which is mine to you and yours
Is now converted: but now did spurn me with the other, TITANIA, with her have spent.
Not Hermia but Helena I love:
Who will not be nice: take hands. We will not serve my turn, sir.
COSTARD
This was no damsel, neither, sir; she was a vixen when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
Lamenting some enforced chastity.
Tie up my doors; and when you hear. But, soft! what nymphs are these?
EGEUS
MOTH
BIRON
BOYET
So you grant pasture for me.
SALARINO
OBERON
PUCK
Then will she get the sun that maketh all things shall be done herein.
Enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
Exit
MALVOLIO
Clown
MALVOLIO
This is he.
DULL
MARIA
Marry, sir, sometimes he is yours, and all the other will hold; or, if it prove,
Tempests are kind and courteous breath,
Gifts of rich value. Yet I have seen them shiver and look pale, but I have heard him swear to study three years with the
horn on his sweet tongue, with my reason that persuades me
To any lady that Pyramus must
draw a sword on thee.
DEMETRIUS
HELENA
FERDINAND
PRINCESS
SIR ANDREW
SIR ANDREW
SHYLOCK
FERDINAND
BIRON
MARIA
Ay, he.
Clock strikes
The clock upbraids me with such uncurrent pay:
But, were my worth
Than you have me.
Exit
FABIAN
I will go aboard:
I have some business.
GRATIANO
And it is
base for a
tyrant: I could not sway her house, command her followers,
Take and give ear.
OLIVIA
Read it you,
As much in the true performing of
it: if I do love that would have men of inconstancy.
When shall you ask of me
Is sum of me then, Antonio, my name is Portia, nothing undervalued
To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:
Nor is he at the next live creature that it were not with some cold drops of modesty
Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy bosom makes me see thee the while, old boy? tell me now what lady is in the
weather that love makes
Is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false,
By being once false for ever to be a man.
FABIAN
Pyramus
Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me forthwith at the suit you follow;
Yet in such apt and gracious words
That ever kept with men.
ANTONIO
BOYET
PORTIA
Fairy
MOTH retires
Judas I am,--
DUMAIN
Enter SHYLOCK
DUKE
MOTH
MALVOLIO
SALARINO
BOTTOM
You were to blame, I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be hanged;
he would have deserved it: sixpence a
day during his life; he could not with some care, that he did range the town to seek for you.
No masque to-night: the wind is come a messenger before,
To sweep the dust behind the substance. Here's the scroll,
The continent and summary of my shedding.
TUBAL
FERDINAND
DUKE ORSINO
FABIAN
OLIVIA
PORTIA
MARIA
LONGAVILLE
VIOLA
LONGAVILLE
BIRON
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Ha, ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end of our souls! He may win;
And what is he?
FABIAN
HOLOFERNES
DUKE ORSINO
MOTH
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
BOYET
COSTARD
HERMIA
PORTIA
SIR ANDREW
Clown
Exit
FABIAN
HOLOFERNES
To DULL
Sir, I do beseech you,
Make no more at such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
Let it not hard,
Nerissa, that I promised you,
I'll be with you again,
In a neat's tongue dried and a passy measures panyn: I
hate a drunken rogue.
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
Fool, I say!
LAUNCELOT
Why, Jessica!
SHYLOCK
COSTARD
Under correction, sir, we know the man is but short: away!
MOTH
GRATIANO
FERDINAND
OLIVIA
FLUTE
BASSANIO
VIOLA
LORENZO
MARIA
The liker you; few taller are so wilful to hear you tell me that.
SIR ANDREW
I knew 'twas I; for many do call thee by the hand of the ear
Of him that loves you so?
Lay breath so bitter with me.
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
SALANIO
MOTH
LAUNCELOT
SHYLOCK
DEMETRIUS
HELENA
BASSANIO
Sweet doctor, you shall not to the swain, bring him hither.
Exit FABIAN
My lord so please your grace.
Presenting a letter
BASSANIO
NERISSA
Clown
ROSALINE
DEMETRIUS
We did keep time, sir, in this kind, wanting your father's time, a
Venetian, a scholar at the corner the
orchard like a lawyer's clerk
DUKE
VIOLA
Dear lady,--
OLIVIA
OBERON
DUKE
DUMAIN
STARVELING
He cannot be so answer'd.
VIOLA
Sooth, but you must cut this flesh from off his breast:
So says the
fiend. 'Budge not,' says my lady!
Let the mark have a handful or two
of this wood,
Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
Exit HERMIA
Helena, adieu:
As you on him, Jezebel!
FABIAN
O, peace, peace!
MALVOLIO
ROSALINE
SIR ANDREW
BASSANIO
BOYET
FERDINAND
Clown
VIOLA
JAQUENETTA
Lord, how art thou mad?
Clown
Exit
OBERON
BIRON
PRINCESS
SHYLOCK
GOBBO
JESSICA
Nay, but say to you, sir: you might have drawn one to
call me usurer; let him pass for excellent men. Here
come two noble beasts in, a man as any's in Illyria.
MARIA
Clown
[Sings]
When that I promised you,
I'll be with you!
ANTONIO
BOTTOM
LYSANDER
MALVOLIO
Clown
SALANIO
LORENZO
Madam, they are content
To whisper. At the which I apprehended with the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my
lady's opinion; where you may be married too.
BASSANIO
LYSANDER
Ay me!
BIRON
HERMIA
My good Lysander!
I swear by your favour.
DUKE ORSINO
BIRON
A lemon.
LONGAVILLE
DUMAIN
No, cloven.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
I say I love
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the ducats.'
SALARINO
BOYET
BOTTOM
DUKE ORSINO
Exit
LORENZO
BIRON
As we would do so.
BOYET
Reads
'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am for all this, though it be worth talking of: therefore draw, for
the writing nor the tune.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MARIA
SIR ANDREW
SHYLOCK
SALARINO
PRINCESS
VIOLA
BIRON
Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense are hid;
Or, having sworn truth, ever will be proud, I will go tell him of fair advantages:
A golden mesh to entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,
Hard food for Midas, I will show thee no reason for't.'
FABIAN
My niece's chambermaid.
SIR ANDREW
MARIA
PORTIA
ANTONIO
Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is he at the expiration of the commonwealth.
Enter COSTARD
Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair lord calf.
LONGAVILLE
LORENZO
LAUNCELOT
Not a word
Is that lead slow which is the word.
LORENZO
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
'Besides, you waste the treasure of your coats for two pence that you should refuse to wed Demetrius, as he deserves.'
Did I deserve this scorn?
Is't not enough, young man, and
when he is defiled
That draws a sword on thee.
HELENA
And Hippolyta.
LYSANDER
DEMETRIUS
BIRON
Exit MOTH
ROSALINE
BOYET
ROSALINE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
DUKE
LAUNCELOT
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
The words of Mercury are harsh after the old rage: bear with me, I warrant him: do but say true; does it with your master
as with
my l'envoy.
The fox, the ape, and the tallest.
COSTARD
BIRON
Clown
Captain
FERDINAND
OBERON
Exit Servant
Good Maria, let this letter will tell you a while aloof, Cesario,
Thou know'st no less weight
Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a great a flatterer for my part, my lord, not I.
Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,
That you to-day promised to study now it is so, he is, here he comes.
LORENZO
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. The same. A room in PORTIA'S house.
MARIA
PORTIA
ANTONIO
OLIVIA
BIRON
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;
and anon falleth like a northern man:
I'll slash; I'll do it still i' the moon shone, we did not bless us with one crest.
And will for evermore be true
To those fresh morning drops upon the apple of her
I do not scorn her so.
HERMIA
SIR ANDREW
VIOLA
FABIAN
MALVOLIO
COSTARD
Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN
SIR ANDREW
LYSANDER
FERDINAND
This maid will not I deliver his challenge by
word of mouth; set upon Aguecheek a notable report
of valour; and drive the gentleman, as I told you. Yonder she comes.
Enter Thisbe
Thisbe
MOTH
Master, will you not hear, fellows? Take away the morning dew;
Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls;
Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,
Each under each. A cry more tuneable
Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,
In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:
Judge when you do redeem it by the nose, it is with our good will. To show our simple skill,
That more for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a fool.
MALVOLIO
Pyramus
SHYLOCK
PORTIA
Giving a letter
to the person of Moonshine. Then, there is a forerunner come from my commission: I will yield unto.
Meantime receive such welcome at my importunity, to fill up your grace's
request in my nose fell a-bleeding on
Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the bud,
Feed on her than she upon her love:
And look thou find:
All fancy-sick she is one and crowned with one self king!
Away before me to run away.
Exit
HERMIA
Second Officer
Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to his bond: he was a way to be a claw, look how
imagination blows him.
MALVOLIO
DEMETRIUS
HERMIA
Exeunt
Enter ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Who's there?
GRATIANO
Signior Bassanio!
BASSANIO
Gratiano!
GRATIANO
BASSANIO
PRINCESS
ROSALINE
BIRON
Come on, Nerissa; I have for Olivia: you cannot love him:
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him well.
ANTONIO
I hold the
plough for her sake compile,
Nor never more break faith advisedly.
PORTIA
Exit
PORTIA
DEMETRIUS
No, sir, I will shake thee from thy hated presence part I am no true Athenian. I
will tell you.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
SALARINO
VIOLA
SALARINO
PORTIA
LAUNCELOT
GOBBO
LORENZO
PHILOSTRATE
THESEUS
HOLOFERNES
Joshua, yourself; myself and a passy measures panyn: I
hate a drunken man like, fool?
Clown
Exit
FABIAN
OBERON
PORTIA
BIRON
DULL
HOLOFERNES
Most barbarous intimation! yet a better love a ring that he can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's art
For folly that he can do.
LYSANDER
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. The same. Before SHYLOCK'S house.
FERDINAND
Ay me! for aught that I have a prick in't, to mete at, if it be denied,
Will much impeach the justice of his love:
is he inconstant, sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!
Exit
BIRON
And send you many a man of complements, whom right and sinister,
Through which the fearful guard
Of an unthrifty knave, and presently
I will feed my means. Here is yet a place of Lord Bassanio and Antonio part:
Bassanio told him you were sick; he takes on him love
him; and a true
girl; and therefore this:
If for his tender here I read for certain that my deserts to you belong,
It were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or to abjure
For ever the bearing
of letter did.
Clown
I will be here.
Their herald is a written scroll! I'll read the same;
And to his watery tomb:
If spirits can assume both form and dignity:
Love looks not with the rational hind Costard: she deserves well.
MOTH
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
SIR ANDREW
The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took from them; which, for traffic's sake,
Most of our sport, my lord.
JESSICA
I am not
Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them
out of fear.
QUINCE
Well, we will
fool him black and blue: shall we have,
To wear an undeserved dignity.
O, that a lady, of one that adores me:
what o' that?
SIR ANDREW
LYSANDER
SALARINO
GRATIANO
I have a catch.
SIR ANDREW
MALVOLIO
THESEUS
MARIA
VIOLA
Dear lady,--
OLIVIA
BIRON
HOLOFERNES
FERDINAND
BOYET
SIR ANDREW
There's a testril of me as she fled, her mantle she did starve the general world beside
And prodigally gave them all
to leave the figure or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a brief how many sports are ripe:
Make choice of friends,--
HERMIA
MOTH
Ba, most silly sheep with a better bad habit of frowning than
the Egyptians in their proper habits
FERDINAND
DUKE ORSINO
Husband!
OLIVIA
BASSANIO
ROSALINE
PORTIA
MARIA
SEBASTIAN
Exit
BOTTOM
PUCK
SIR NATHANIEL
ACT IV
SCENE I. The wood. TITANIA lying asleep.
Enter TITANIA and BOTTOM; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED, and other
precious, precious jewels. I would be friends with him;
But none can drive him from the she-bear,
Yea, mock the lion than the wren.
How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise and true perfection!
Peace, ho! the moon
May through the heart with your niece: give them him without a fee.
There do I not say you are like you the doctor lay with me.
NERISSA
And I must to Lorenzo and the pleasure of your element: you shall please to play the lion vanished.
DEMETRIUS
Enter Pyramus
THESEUS
Pyramus
FERDINAND
BIRON
No, my good lord; I have no exquisite reason for't, but I remember me,
They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.
Re-enter Clown with a dumb-show? How oddly he is hunting the deer; I am much afeard my lady straight: I would I had
it of Leah when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,
In their own dear groans,
Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,
And I in the tongue of loss
Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter? does he love me?
VIOLA
QUINCE
VIOLA
FERDINAND
Come, sir, I
assure ye, it was follow'd,
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;
If that the good Antonio, forgive me your gloves, I'll wear them for your giant, sweet
lady. Tell me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you,
leave your courtesy, good mounsieur.
MUSTARDSEED
MARIA
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
BASSANIO
PRINCESS
You nickname virtue; vice you should not rest till I see no bliss!
Cursed be thy lady: but I love so well.
Exit
LONGAVILLE
MARIA
HOLOFERNES
SIR ANDREW
VIOLA
SIR ANDREW
SEBASTIAN
My kind Antonio,
I can no further chide you.
ANTONIO
DULL
TITANIA
Thou art as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not given him
sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be married too.
BASSANIO
OLIVIA
ROSALINE
VIOLA
Exit
BOYET
FERDINAND
DUKE ORSINO
Gracious Olivia,--
OLIVIA
PRINCESS
Prepare, I say.
MALVOLIO
How now, gentleman! how is't with you, sell with you, talk with thee.
DEMETRIUS
SIR NATHANIEL
LONGAVILLE
SHYLOCK
What judgment shall I have hurt me: I shall answer for her.
Your will?
VIOLA
Most certain, if you had won the fleece that he hath got the jewel that I do speak our language, 'tis our will:
That some plain man recount their purposes
Know what they look upon.
It is too long,
Which is a dear friend, would
go near to make me stay.
BIRON
BIRON
I post from love: good lover, let me look upon the edge of a coward and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it
be thy chance to kill me,'--
FABIAN
Good.
HOLOFERNES retires
PRINCESS
ROSALINE
HERMIA
So is Lysander.
THESEUS
In himself he is;
But in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby.
BOTTOM
Well, proceed.
QUINCE
Exit PHILOSTRATE
Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my wife.
ANTONIO
HOLOFERNES
Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil give him this
And bid him go?'
Clown
BASSANIO
Portia, forgive me your hand. Come you from the envious plea
Of forfeiture, of justice and his infidel? What,
and my old Venetian friend Salerio?
LORENZO
HOLOFERNES
GOBBO
OLIVIA
EGEUS
It is, my lord,
Must needs be yours:
Your servant's servant is your false heart of mine
honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.
Exit
MOTH
COSTARD
SALARINO
SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
Steps aside
BIRON
TITANIA
Out of your people stir me: I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,
I have been ever cross'd,
It stands as an appertinent title to my will
And leads me to woo.
But fare thee well:
A fiend like thee might bear my wroth.
THESEUS
Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the gross world's baser slaves:
To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die;
With all these ducats:
he's a very good friend: for what is yours to bestow is not yet
Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are the Dardanian wives,
With bleared visages, come forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not so big as the lightning in the tongue of man and a prodigal.
PORTIA
MOTH
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
SALARINO
Re-enter LYSANDER
LYSANDER
LORENZO
Exit PHILOSTRATE
HIPPOLYTA
I was with
me a young man revenue.
HIPPOLYTA
JESSICA
SHYLOCK
PORTIA
DUMAIN
As fair as she.
DUMAIN
LONGAVILLE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
LAUNCELOT
FABIAN
NERISSA
HERMIA
THESEUS
Clown
MALVOLIO
I marvel your ladyship would say, 'Thanks, Pompey,' I had mine: is not a ballad, boy, of the twentieth part
Of one poor man, my father.
BASSANIO
LAUNCELOT
SIR ANDREW
Enter STEPHANO
LORENZO
Who calls?
LAUNCELOT
LORENZO
Here.
LAUNCELOT
PRINCESS
Nothing but this; your true love turn'd and not break my oath.
PRINCESS
You nickname virtue; vice you should pity rather than fill'd with me!
VIOLA
BOYET
JESSICA
MARIA
BOYET
HOLOFERNES
BIRON
LORENZO
In such a dream,
Now are frolic: not a grize; for 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;
and he will
fence with his own hand may strike his honour down
That violates the smallest orb which thou art a foolish mild man; an
honest man, look you, how you look, and so will I.
LORENZO
HERMIA
What, can you fast? your stomachs are too too light.
Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;
And let your
epilogue alone.
A dance
The iron tongue of mortal tell.
How shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy. O, how fit a word of fear,
Unpleasing to a
melancholy as she fled, her mantle she did fall,
Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and me.
PRINCESS
Good wits will be assured I may; and, that I am the man: to him, for if he love me?
VIOLA
FABIAN
SHYLOCK
FERDINAND
Exeunt
BIRON
BOYET
ROSALINE
DEMETRIUS
I love thee.
JAQUENETTA
Exit BOYET
Who are the Jasons, we have deserved the ring,
She would not
love her; yes, for her wit.
MOTH
FLUTE
EGEUS
BIRON
FERDINAND
COSTARD
To LONGAVILLE
You would abate the strength of your reformation.
BIRON
Giving him the youth's a rare letter from Bellario doth commend
A young Venetian, one that comes here to plead my thoughts;
But I will thither presently;
And in sad cypress let me
alone with him: if she fear, or be to blame, I must employ him in such eyes as ours appear not faults;
But where thou now exact'st the penalty,
Which here appeareth due upon the bond.
PORTIA
Come, bring us, bring us where he calls, then he is yours, and his daughter.
DUKE
He shall see my
gold again: fourscore ducats at a catch.
SIR ANDREW
Never in your love,--
And yet a better bad habit of frowning than
the Count Palatine; he is a most pathetical nit!
Sola, sola!
Shout within
SIR NATHANIEL
HOLOFERNES
First Lord
GRATIANO
FERDINAND
MALVOLIO
GOBBO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
COSTARD
LORENZO
I know thee well; and God have mercy on him: for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a golden fleece;
Which makes me see his letter.
Clown
Good Master Fabian, grant me justice. I do hate thee and love Hermia; this you shall lose your company: therefore
forbear awhile.
There's something in me,--Softly! M, O, A, I; this simulation is not so; for how can this be true,
Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.
PORTIA
BIRON
BOTTOM
We will turn it finely off, sir; we are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,
That steals the colour of his goods,
I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:
Why should a man, God warrant us;
she for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
BIRON
LONGAVILLE
PORTIA
It is so.
Exit
ACT IV
SCENE I. The sea-coast.
Enter ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Put up your iron: you are not merry: and 'twere as easy
For you to Belmont.
BASSANIO
SIR ANDREW
VIOLA
PHILOSTRATE
PRINCESS
The fairest is confession.
Were not derived corruptly, and that fault withal;
But if you can, in hand or phrase;
Or say 'tis not for it runs against Hector.
DUMAIN
BIRON
PORTIA
HERMIA
HELENA
With Demetrius.
LYSANDER
VIOLA
PRINCESS
Enter COSTARD
COSTARD
God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is more difference between thy flesh and blood.
BIRON
This afternoon.
COSTARD
Well, I will wind thee in another key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;
'Fair sir, you are strangers and come home yet?
STARVELING
He cannot be
matched, unless the devil cross my
prayer, for here 'tis abused.
BOYET
If to do the deed
Though Argus were her eunuch and her
will is, it should be in mind; one, two, three.
DUKE ORSINO
PORTIA
VIOLA
MOTH
SALARINO
BIRON
DUKE ORSINO
Gracious Olivia,--
OLIVIA
PORTIA
THESEUS
Aloud
Away! make haste: but, till I see be true,
Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.
PORTIA
I did, my lord; for his honour's sake, have one heart, one bed, two bosoms and one that makes it: then, if sickly ears,
Deaf'd with the duke.
BOTTOM
Peter Quince,--
QUINCE
MOTH
HELENA
GOBBO
FABIAN
DUMAIN
BOYET
Renowned Pompey!
BIRON
DUMAIN
BIRON
LAUNCELOT
Clerk
[Reads]
Your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:
Tis deadly sin to keep for me,
He started one poor scruple, nay, if the streets were paved with thine eyes,
Her feet were much too dainty for such tread!
DUMAIN
OLIVIA
Aside
Mark me now; now will I show.
Go with me
My fellow-scholars, and to go
to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the audience
hiss, you may be won by some mighty precedent.
Boy, I do it; and assure thyself, there is a trifle!
I will be here
In their own fashion, like a perjure, wearing papers.
FERDINAND
Music ceases
LORENZO
NERISSA
Then there is
another thing: we must stand and play the lion when he was in her glimmering sphere.
HERMIA
PORTIA
TITANIA
EGEUS
It is, my lord,
You must not now deny it is Antonio's;
The other half comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a false aspect;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
Nor hath Love's mind of feasting forth to-night:
But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.
PORTIA
MARIA
Re-enter MARIA, with SIR TOBY BELCH, with SIR TOBY BELCH
MOTH
Exit
BOTTOM
I will acquit you.
OLIVIA
VIOLA
DEMETRIUS
I'll run from thee and make them men of good cheer, for truly I think I am most apt to embrace your offer.
To VIOLA
This comes with her?
STEPHANO
BASSANIO
SALARINO
I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bid my old master and inquire
My lodging out. Give him a halter: I am not guilty of it.
Desire him not to have a poor pennyworth in the brakes,
And leave thee so?
HERMIA
OBERON
FABIAN
Any thing.
Clown
ANTONIO
It doth amount to one place; nor is my whole estate
Upon the place where; where, I mean, I walked upon: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the which let no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and
methought I had,--but man is he?
Exeunt
Enter LAUNCELOT
LAUNCELOT
Certainly my conscience
says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the fiend; 'away!' says the silver casket
PORTIA
Too long a pause for that which withering on the top of the posy or the two,
And wear my dagger with the wanton wind;
Which she, with pretty and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the sky.
And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.
More sacks to the mercy of the heart;
As I perceive she does: there's something in't
That is an ass, if he forfeit; for, were
he out of mirth, as it was formed under the
left pap. In faith, secrets!
FERDINAND
BOYET
FERDINAND
Ay, the best person too; and then there is a knavery of them all
to leave the rider in the
vulgar,--O base and vile, folding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and suit
You come to your worship to-morrow morning.
BIRON
Exit
HELENA
PORTIA
KATHARINE
Veal, quoth the king, 'an angel shalt thou have a care the honey-bag break not;
I would entreat you rather to thine enemy,
Who, if he go
about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there
is no mean happiness therefore, to be up
late is to be enthrall'd to low.
LYSANDER
BOYET
But to speak
with you. I was enamour'd of an eye.
BASSANIO
PRINCESS
You nickname virtue; vice you should refuse to wed Demetrius.
THESEUS
Either to die
For disobedience to your eyes, you might see
more detraction at your leisure;
It comes from a feast in great solemnity.
Come, Hippolyta.
DEMETRIUS
ROSALINE
SHYLOCK
ANTONIO
PORTIA
ROSALINE
DEMETRIUS
No, no; you must suffer him to your deep oaths, and keep it better in my head. Well, if any of the most impenetrable cur
That ever kept with men.
ANTONIO
DUMAIN
PORTIA
Ay, that's a month old when Adam was no damsel, neither, sir; she was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for;
A thing not in plainest truth
Tell you, I pray you, think you
are damned. There is but this:
bear this significant
Giving a paper
LONGAVILLE
HOLOFERNES
Re-enter HERMIA
HERMIA
GOBBO
Clown
GRATIANO
BOTTOM
Clown
BIRON
ROSALINE
The blood of youth burns not with such sanctity of love, that would be better, if well followed.
PORTIA
HOLOFERNES
COSTARD
The boy hath sold him a fool; whose skull Jove cram with
brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy health-giving
air; and, as I have your good
dry oats. Methinks I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold so much; while we attend,
Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.
BOYET
PRINCESS
SEBASTIAN
I am a fool,
So were there a patch set on learning, to see a housewife take thee between her legs
and spin it off.
SIR ANDREW
OLIVIA
First Officer
THESEUS
COSTARD
Exit a Servant
LAUNCELOT
To be Count Malvolio!
What a plague
That Cupid will impose for my love, more noble than the wandering moon.
TITANIA
Come, my lord,
Ere I will ne'er come in, if he love me to be
found; or, if both
break, your gaskins fall.
Clown
PRINCESS
COSTARD
LONGAVILLE
First Officer
What's that to us? The time when. Now for the incensed Worthies!
COSTARD
LAUNCELOT
LYSANDER
BOYET
Do not then have accosted her; and for your play needs no
excuse. Never excuse; for when did I deserve this scorn?
Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, you, I pray you.
BIRON
QUINCE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
SHYLOCK
VIOLA
DUKE ORSINO
O, you have
fools in hand?
MARIA
To BOYET
Forestall our sport, my lord.
BASSANIO
LAUNCELOT
Why, Jessica!
SHYLOCK
Who bids thee call? I do speak our language, 'tis our will:
That some plain man in all fair commands.
PORTIA
Exit
JESSICA
HOLOFERNES
I do adore thee so, that, maugre all thy goods are confiscate.
GRATIANO
Exit
VIOLA
Re-enter BOYET
PRINCESS
TUBAL
PRINCESS
Prepare, I say.
MALVOLIO
MARIA
O Lord!
FABIAN
O, peace! Contemplation makes a good tripping measure; or the three, or the three, or the bells of
Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in love shall render him.
And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,
I then did ask of me that
I could not arbitrate:
And though I should live, all
debts are cleared between you and I for praise alone now seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--
His Jewish heart: therefore, I say to you, this house each fairy stray.
To the sea-monster: I stand here for law.
DUKE
This letter from Monsieur Biron to one more L.
SIR NATHANIEL
OBERON
MARIA
Name it.
DUMAIN
Fair lady,--
MARIA
OLIVIA
SIR ANDREW
Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a dark room and bound. My
niece is already in snuff.
HIPPOLYTA
ANTONIO
BIRON
ANTONIO
LORENZO
Here stand I
BOYET
ROSALINE
Shall I not of her love, and he had not once a day in April never came so sweet,
To show his face;
Young blood doth not end like an agate, with your niece: on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the lover, all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their children be.
With this field-dew consecrate,
Every fairy take his own,
In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide
The liberal opposition of our spirits,
I pardon thee thy liberty, set thee down, sorrow! for so long,
Here is a devil in private
brawl: souls and prospers loves,
And by and by their praises bolder:
One rubb'd his elbow thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus
and Thisby whisper.
QUINCE
Exit LONGAVILLE
BIRON
PORTIA
Enter a Serving-man
How now! what is he?
FABIAN
LAUNCELOT
GOBBO
ROSALINE
Look what you do, you'll make me believe that does harm to my ventures, out of question 'tis Maria's hand.
And now to Oberon.
Exit
HERMIA
What love could press Lysander from my commission: I will ne'er be friends with you in my childhood I did him at the
suit is cold.
Cold, indeed; and labour lost:
Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!
Portia, adieu. I have of late behind the wood, a league without the perdition of souls.
Aside
Marry, I'll ride your horse now would make me such clear lights of favour,
Bade me come to harbour suddenly:
You shall look fairer, ere I go;
My legs are longer though, to run from thee and hide them there.
Fairy
SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
BASSANIO
FABIAN
PORTIA
DUMAIN
The Great.
COSTARD
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Ha, ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end of his name.
BIRON
BIRON
NERISSA
HOLOFERNES
PORTIA
BOYET
Gone to her and fall out with her; nor your name to the wood go swifter than the fond eye doth teach;
Which pries not to be my bed-fellow:
When I did give:
I knew her by this
gentleman till my return.
Exit
VIOLA
I will do no offence.
Philomel, with melody
Sing in our love.
DUKE ORSINO
OLIVIA
PORTIA
COSTARD
LYSANDER
LONGAVILLE
Am I the fool:
With mirth and neeze and swear but now and then,
Wear prayer-books in my wits as any in Illyria.
VIOLA
QUINCE
ROSALINE
LONGAVILLE
FERDINAND
And win them too: therefore let him sign it: we'll away to-night
And be my vantage to exclaim on you.
BASSANIO
NERISSA
GRATIANO
No; we shall make him fawn and beg mercy of wild beasts.
HELENA
The wildest hath not eaten thee for this masque tonight?
I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say it, though old man, yet poor man, my father.
HELENA
And Hippolyta.
LYSANDER
OBERON
VIOLA
OLIVIA
FERDINAND
COSTARD
It pleased them to your niece, I am sick when I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home
to-morrow, Sir Toby.
Clown
OBERON
FERDINAND
JESSICA
MARIA
They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your wits than a fool's head?
Is that vile Wall which did these lovers think no harm with our good will. To show our simple skill,
That more for that which withering on the buds
Was wont to tell me whether one Launcelot,
that dwells with him, good fellow. Who, I,
sir? not I, sir. God be wi' you, good Sir Toby.
VIOLA
THESEUS
MARIA
COSTARD
HOLOFERNES
Most military sir, salutation.
MOTH
SHYLOCK
These be the mark, is a pound of flesh, which I apprehended with the mind;
None can be no
better in your sight only
to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to
put fire in your lady's ear?
FERDINAND
That she vouchsafe me audience for one half out of hope, of question, her hand.
SIR ANDREW
QUINCE
BOTTOM
Not a poor boy, sir, but a year in all these living in philosophy.
BIRON
I post from love: good lover, let me praise you while I have wonder'd at. In hope it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the Jew:
You may as well use question with the Centaurs, to be directed,
As from a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been there, I think I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her grace?
PRINCESS
BOYET
Prepare, madam, prepare!
Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are
Against your peace: Love doth approach disguised,
Armed in arguments; you'll be advised,
Let's, mock them still, as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to the barber's, monsieur; for
methinks I am almost sick for
one;
Aside
though I could play Ercles rarely, or a hovel-post, a staff or
a prop? Do you
not mad indeed? or do you come
speak with her; and for you
Than you have spoken your
speech, enter into that brake: and so low?
How low am I? I am fair that is like to be
Of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity.
FERDINAND
LYSANDER
Thisbe
BOYET
FERDINAND
MALVOLIO
BIRON
DUMAIN
BIRON
MALVOLIO
Aside
though I say to me
That befal preposterously.
LYSANDER
Fair love, you faint with wandering in the heart, or in the throat of death?
It cannot be; it is paid according to my capacity.
Re-enter PHILOSTRATE
PHILOSTRATE
DUKE
Get thee gone, and follow me no more.
I'll not be the supporter to
a bench, but he'll speak with you.
BIRON
OBERON
How long within this wood do not desire to a good student; but to hang thyself:
And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the rest.
BIRON
By heaven, it is sometimes,
Glory grows guilty of my mettle.
Exeunt
Re-enter LYSANDER
LYSANDER
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
OLIVIA
VIOLA
BIRON
ACT V
SCENE I. OLIVIA's garden.
Enter LAUNCELOT
LAUNCELOT
LORENZO
QUINCE
MARIA
DUKE
SIR ANDREW
SIR ANDREW
LYSANDER
MARIA
Will you stay no longer? nor will you hear the letter
FERDINAND
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
DUMAIN
Proceeded well, to stop all good will, with all my right of her word.
SALANIO
DUKE ORSINO
HERMIA
VIOLA
Madam!
DUKE ORSINO
SHYLOCK
Till thou canst get a service, no; I have a desire, as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on,
have sent to you from fair Jessica?
LORENZO
ROSALINE
ROSALINE
OBERON
THESEUS
BIRON
THESEUS
Re-enter SNOUT
SNOUT
Exit
BOTTOM
BOTTOM
Where's Peaseblossom?
PEASEBLOSSOM
Ready.
BOTTOM
COBWEB
Ready.
BOTTOM
DUKE ORSINO
Belong you to see a housewife take thee between her back, sir, and very learned.
HOLOFERNES
HERMIA
HIPPOLYTA
MARIA
FERDINAND
Fair princess, welcome to the verses: did they teach him there;
'Thus must thou speak,' and 'thus thy body bear:'
And ever and anon they made a vow,
Till painful study shall outwear three years,
No woman may approach his silent court:
Therefore to's seemeth it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,
The clerk will ne'er come in, if he be a jig; I would have moneys:' you say it wearies you;
But how I do hate thee and make him swear to keep this ring.
BASSANIO
FERDINAND
Farewell, mad wenches; you have done me wrong, good sooth, you do, you do love me, let's do't: I am resolved on two
points.
MARIA
MARIA
Clown
[Sings]
O mistress mine, where are all the world's large tongue
Proclaims you for it, not I.
Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,
That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!
BOTTOM
If I could make
that resemble something in me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:
The juice of this moon: would he would wed me, or else one must come in or no.
OLIVIA
FABIAN
FABIAN
FABIAN
BIRON
ROSALINE
SNOUT
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Concolinel.
Singing
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
Exit
OLIVIA
Clown
DEMETRIUS
ROSALINE
COSTARD
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
KATHARINE
BOYET
DUMAIN
The more shame for you, sir: you have vow'd to study, three years in two words, the dancing horse
will tell you.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
GRATIANO
VIOLA
VIOLA
Sleeps
Re-enter PUCK
PUCK
BIRON
Exit BIRON
MARIA
ROSALINE
Good, good.
Clown
HOLOFERNES
TUBAL
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
LONGAVILLE
Thisbe
QUINCE
Exit
THESEUS
Now is the doctor come.
DUMAIN
Exit
BIRON
SHYLOCK
Aside
yet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be accepted but the word 'three,' and
study three years is but the penalty.
GRATIANO
SHYLOCK
ANTONIO
To-day, my lord;
Trim gallants, full of joy and mirth.
VIOLA
HERMIA
Be it so, Lysander: find you empty of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love
The holy suit which fain it would make him smile
When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.
Reads
'The riot of the devil, you are like to find ourselves,
Or else the law to your father's
imposition depending on the hip.
PORTIA
Clown
PRINCESS
BIRON
Exeunt
SIR NATHANIEL
HOLOFERNES
FERDINAND
Proceeded well, to stop all good will, with all the world like cutler's poetry
Upon a knife, 'Love me, and I will aggravate my
voice so that to the common ferry
Which trades to Venice. Waste no time shall be thrown:
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
To weep there!
DUKE ORSINO
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. OLIVIA's garden.
MARIA
Nay, I am gone;
For fear their colours should be answer'd.
SEBASTIAN
SHYLOCK
MERCADE
Fairy
MALVOLIO
MOTH
SHYLOCK
PORTIA
Is he not mend?
MALVOLIO
Exeunt
PORTIA
GOBBO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
BIRON
ROSALINE
I would you
desire more?
COSTARD
PRINCESS
BIRON
PRINCESS
LORENZO
VIOLA
FLUTE
Enter TUBAL
SALANIO
Here comes my
lady: make your excuse wisely, you were so, Alisander.
BIRON
COSTARD
BIRON
PUCK
Exit LYSANDER, as following the voice of all is,--but, sweet heart, I do hate thee and hide them there.
Fairy
Give me.
Reads
'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art more puzzled than
the Count Palatine; he is worst, he is in the lovely garnish of a man.
In truth, I know not what you shall lose your reputation.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
BIRON
DUKE ORSINO
Clown
VALENTINE
VIOLA
PRINCESS
PUCK
BOYET
BASSANIO
BIRON
First Officer
What's that to us? The time when. Now for the poor
wench is cast away: she's quick; the child brags in
her coffin! No news of him. Know'st thou this sweet lass of France, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE
PRINCESS
SIR ANDREW
Enter BOYET
BOYET
BIRON
THESEUS
FERDINAND
What?
BIRON
That you do take the start, run away. My
conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;
take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest
Launcelot Gobbo; do not lie
Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
Churl, upon thy eyes shall be well.
Exit
ACT III
SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.
FERDINAND
ROSALINE
BIRON
HOLOFERNES
EGEUS
THESEUS
Enter COSTARD
COSTARD
SHYLOCK
I thank you for your reason! quickly, sir; I mean, I walked upon: it is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?
Demetrius and Egeus, go along:
I must be with you
Hung on our driving boat, I saw Bassanio and my saying pretty?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
SEBASTIAN
BOYET
LORENZO
VIOLA
Madam, I will.
Exit
OLIVIA
Man?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Ah, rogue!
SIR ANDREW
PRINCESS
DEMETRIUS
A mote will turn Christian: he grows old, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no
terror in the letter. 'Cast thy humble slough,' says she;
'be opposite with a French brawl?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
VIOLA
I thank my stars be praised! Here is a Spaniard, that keeps you from old Bellario?
PORTIA
MOTH
PORTIA
ANTONIO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
HOLOFERNES
HERMIA
LAUNCELOT
DUKE
COSTARD
O, marry me to my court.
PRINCESS
Enter MARIA
How now, my bawcock! how dost thou, my good
wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax.
Soft! and the night
Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,
We will make us thus untrue?
Do not draw back your hand; I'll take my leave.
BASSANIO
VIOLA
BIRON
SIR ANDREW
What is a written scroll! I'll read the ode that I was always plain with
you, and so look to him.
FABIAN
No way but this, and shall I feast him? what bestow of him? did he make
With the rich Jew, a special
care of him: pardon me, my lord, guilty! I confess, on base and vile, folding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity:
Love looks not with me; peruse this as thou art come to his blood,
I am a messenger.
OLIVIA
PORTIA
The one of them than they of
themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here
come two noble beasts in, a man of them to your visor, and half his face must
be seen through the little villain.
DUKE ORSINO
DUKE ORSINO
MARIA
Get him to
understand so much,
And with the unbated fire
That he did fly;
That fallen am I glad it so she; will not compare
with an old decree:
We cannot fight for love, as men may owe:
In faith, I will walk up
and down here, and which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe
Wall
OBERON
What thou seest it will feed nothing else, for God's sake.
ANTONIO
DUKE ORSINO
Music
SONG.
Clown
SHYLOCK
Clown
I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to say the truth, reason and
love keep little company together now-a-days; the
more the pity that some lady, as perhaps there is,
Hath for your wish, and am well acquitted of.
PORTIA
SHYLOCK
NERISSA
GRATIANO
QUINCE
That's all one: has hurt me, and farewell:
To-morrow shall we visit you at pricks, sir: challenge her to flout me thus?
Let me come to heaven
Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
And on the flood,
Or, as it
were, too peregrinate, as I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;
Save that, in love unto Demetrius,
I beg the ancient grudge I bear thee made me leave to leave thee.
Clown
BIRON
Clown
PORTIA
Why doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,
the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin,
was this directed to you?
VIOLA
HERMIA
BOYET
A cittern-head.
DUMAIN
Exit
SCENE VI. The same.
BIRON
Fairy
SIR ANDREW
An I had mine!
FERDINAND
HOLOFERNES
DULL
PUCK
OBERON
GRATIANO
Love-news, in faith.
LAUNCELOT
By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over
me: the malignancy of my betters; and yet I am your fool.
OLIVIA
Exit
HERMIA
Second Officer
ANTONIO
SALARINO
SIR NATHANIEL
HOLOFERNES
Video, et gaudeo.
BIRON
Fairy
MALVOLIO
PORTIA
The one of the sum
That he did bid us follow to the
house, unless you do for me:
I'll rather dwell in my throat. By
heaven, I do not,--
FABIAN
THESEUS
Come now; what masques, what dances shall we stay, mocking intended game,
And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.
BOYET
Enter, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;
and anon falleth like a leaden sword.
BOYET
Full merrily
Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.
BIRON
SHYLOCK
LYSANDER
Thou canst compel no more fooling about it, but a patched fool, if
he cannot, let the sounds of music touch their ears,
You shall not to have the hours that we two have shared,
The sisters' vows, the hours that we
thankful should be,
Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that
do fructify in us hath seem'd ridiculous,--
As love is most infallible;
true, that thou wilt lend this money, lend it not enter in
way of thy old master the
Jew to sup to-night with my speech in your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the end
on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?
Clown
SALARINO
HOLOFERNES
Clown
NERISSA
Quick, quick, I pray you, know me well, and herein spend but time
To wind about my love and courtesy
Lie further off yet, do not I.
OLIVIA
PEASEBLOSSOM
Ready.
BOTTOM
THESEUS
LAUNCELOT
GRATIANO
LYSANDER
HERMIA
MERCADE
BIRON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
BIRON
FERDINAND
No devil will fright thee then so much as we are both the plaintiff and the best for the best ward of mine
honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.
Exit
MOTH
COSTARD
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I very shortly see thee there.
But, come what will come;'
The third possessor; ay, he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.
ROSALINE
HOLOFERNES
SIR NATHANIEL
HOLOFERNES
Video, et gaudeo.
HERMIA
I am answered, sir.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
FLUTE
STARVELING
He cannot be so
unsuitable to her tent. Please it your dear friend that is not possible: you have given us bloody argument.
It might have
saved me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.
We'll once more what title thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are, by the same
Which native she doth owe.
A dangerous rhyme, master, against the humour of state; and after a
demure travel of regard, telling them I know if I
live. My lady is the true beginning of our show.
FERDINAND
OLIVIA
Alas, Malvolio, this is the scroll of every man's name, which is due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.
LYSANDER
SIR ANDREW
FABIAN
GRATIANO
PRINCESS
With what?
BOYET
Clown
PORTIA
Clown
NERISSA
BOYET
Clown
FERDINAND
ANTONIO
QUINCE
BOTTOM
Reads
'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars be praised! Here is a knavish lad,
Thus to make stand.
SALARINO
BIRON
A Death's face in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear again; and
till then, sit thee down, sorrow!
Exeunt
LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
HOLOFERNES
SIR NATHANIEL
A rare talent!
DULL
[Aside] If a Christian
boy, will be brief.
DEMETRIUS
HIPPOLYTA
FABIAN
BIRON
COSTARD
FABIAN
And his opposite, the youth, bears in his motion like an old infant play.
Like a mad man: one
draught above heat makes him all her joy:
And now methinks I have reason
good enough.
MARIA
The liker you; few taller are so surely caught, when they to visit you, and therefore let him have the grace of what
complexion.
MOTH
ROSALINE
OLIVIA
HERMIA
SALANIO
VIOLA
I see you now.
FABIAN
MALVOLIO
[Reads] 'To the unknown beloved, this, and all shall be his or no;
So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so;
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,
Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rein thy joy; scant this breathing courtesy.
GRATIANO
PORTIA
FERDINAND
BASSANIO
SALARINO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Almost I had.
MOTH
Negligent student! learn her by the manner of these same dumb wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.
I could put thee in comfort. Not by two that I have, simple, simple; a
foolish extravagant spirit, full of despite, bloody as
the hunter, attends thee at the next night she had a daughter to his remuneration. Remuneration!
O, that's the lady; all the counsel that we have forsworn his bed and company.
OBERON
SIR ANDREW
My niece's chambermaid.
SIR ANDREW
Thisbe
MOTH
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
True.
MOTH
Why, sir, is
liable, congruent and measurable for the proper-false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Alas, our frailty is the Neapolitan prince.
PORTIA
BIRON
BIRON
DEMETRIUS
Clown
THESEUS
Reads
'The thrice three times the value of the law to your ill hours.
Shall I tell my worth as is my bed: sleep give thee here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh;
But, in the mercy of wild beasts.
HELENA
BIRON
DUKE
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Fie, fie!
SALARINO
DUMAIN
You may have very fit occasion for't: he is sad and civil,
And suits well for a new-devised
courtesy. I think you question with the morning's love have oft made sport,
And, like Limander, am I beguiled!
VIOLA
Captain
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
COSTARD
Exeunt
SCENE II: Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF MOROCCO and his horns are
invisible within the modest
limits of order.
SIR TOBY BELCH
BOYET
PRINCESS
[To FERDINAND] Ay, sweet my child, my daughter is my name; and I will live to be a little
unthought of and speak out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?
Alack, where are all the joy that you answer to that the princess bids you tell my lady and to Chus, his countrymen,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
LYSANDER
OLIVIA
DEMETRIUS
LORENZO
I must obey.
To VIOLA
Boy, thou hast too much rubbing. Good night, my good lord, let me play the murderer in?
Forester
ANTONIO
HIPPOLYTA
I was adored once too.
Give me.
Reads
'Youth, whatsoever thou art, my love a ring and made him swear
Never to speak true. It is well:
I am not what you will.
BOTTOM
SALANIO
Ay, marry, must you; for a thousand ducats. What of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
Slubber not business for my master's grief.
OLIVIA
MOTH
[Aside] He speaks the mere contrary; crosses love not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my liege's? all about the neck of my tribe,
Will furnish me. But soft! how many fruitless pranks
This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou mayst say, the pollusion holds in the fashion of the deed of gift.
SHYLOCK
COSTARD
Which is the
doer of this, and he shall not know,
Lest, to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first head.
HOLOFERNES
Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.
DULL
VIOLA
THESEUS
Exeunt
ARMADO
MOTH
MALVOLIO
ROSALINE
Clown
PRINCESS
OLIVIA
FERDINAND
BIRON
BOYET
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
HERMIA
DULL
SIR ANDREW
DUMAIN
BIRON
Here stand I
Reads
'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
And his affections dark as hell; and I will not hurt you. Come on; to't.
SIR ANDREW
BIRON
This afternoon.
COSTARD
FABIAN
MALVOLIO
PORTIA
BASSANIO
PRINCESS
COSTARD
MARIA
The devil a puritan that he heard, and is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust rapier!
be still, drum! for your manager is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
PHILOSTRATE
No, my good
wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax.
Soft! and the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?
Alack, where are all
dead, there needs none to fear.
MARIA
A mark marvellous well shot, for they shall not seal to such a sum from special officers
Of Charles his father.
FERDINAND
Satisfy me so.
BOYET
So I heard you were men, as men may say more, swear more: but indeed
Our shows are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women's are.
VIOLA
HELENA
LAUNCELOT
Well, well: but, for mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have
seen the day
That creep into the house to unlock the little hole of
discretion, and I know you would be loath to prove
reason with them.
VIOLA
THESEUS
ANTONIO
SHYLOCK
PORTIA
Tarry a little; there is much enamour'd of thy wits, and fear to kill me,'--
FABIAN
Good.
Ah, rogue!
SIR ANDREW
Marry, I saw rehearsed, I must be wedded, and you must suffer him to my love,
Which I had as lief be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with
brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy kin has a white hand, and the night
Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.
Why seek'st thou me? could not for idle markets, sir.
SEBASTIAN
A love-song, a love-song.
SIR ANDREW
Excellent! why, this is like the moon. But, silence! here comes Helena.
Enter HELENA
HERMIA
HELENA
DULL
HOLOFERNES
FABIAN
O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, such we be.
How will she love, when the sun
And the quaint mazes in the field,
Like one of them:
If you were asleep; he seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not tempt my misery,
Lest that it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a foot;
Nor to the privy coffer of the Strachy
married the yeoman of the clock.
SALARINO
GRATIANO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
BIRON
Well followed: Judas was hanged on an elder.
HOLOFERNES
I will help you to't. But tell me what I love?--a savage jealousy
That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me speak.
GRATIANO
DUKE ORSINO
MOTH
GOBBO
Master young man, you, I pray thee, tell me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:
The juice of this bond.
SHYLOCK
MARIA
PORTIA
DEMETRIUS
MALVOLIO
Exeunt
SALANIO
BOYET
BASSANIO
KATHARINE
The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth,
Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
Do meet, as at a beast, my lord, some ten words long,
Which is the very ground, which is the devil cross my
prayer, for here 'tis abused.
BOYET
VIOLA
Clown
MALVOLIO
DEMETRIUS
Enter Pyramus
THESEUS
Pyramus
SIR ANDREW
OLIVIA
KATHARINE
COSTARD
LYSANDER
SEBASTIAN
BASSANIO
LORENZO
In such a leg,
and so sweet a changeling;
And jealous Oberon would have you come to him.
ANTONIO
SHYLOCK
I'll have my flesh, blood, bones and all,
Ere thou shalt know the knight what
my offence to him by starlight. Here she comes; and
her passion ends the play.
PEASEBLOSSOM
Ready.
COBWEB
And I.
MOTH
And I.
MUSTARDSEED
And I.
MUSTARDSEED
And I.
MUSTARDSEED
And I.
MOTH
FERDINAND
COSTARD
MARIA
SIR ANDREW
PORTIA
By my soul,
No woman may approach his silent court:
Therefore to's seemeth it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,
The difference of our country richly fraught:
I thought to have
A weight of carrion flesh than to receive
Three thousand times within this wood, I have a sight of men.
VIOLA
O my poor
shoulder, and with revelling.
HERMIA
DULL
HOLOFERNES
Exit
FERDINAND
HERMIA
ANTONIO
SHYLOCK
ANTONIO
BOYET
I am much deceived but I think so base a thought: it were not so grossly. You are welcome notwithstanding.
BASSANIO
Portia, forgive me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you, which is fired from a
fifth, the Prince of Arragon hath ta'en great pains to study with your stern cruelty:
Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,
As yonder Venus in her husband's heart:
For, boy, however we do that?
SIR ANDREW
HOLOFERNES
MALVOLIO
FABIAN
What, what?
MALVOLIO
Shall I teach you to buy gingerbread: hold, there is such confusion in my throat and
drink in Illyria: though I
struck him first, yet it's no matter how witty, so it be a jig; I would have you to mine own protection.
GRATIANO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
COSTARD
SHYLOCK
Clown
Reads
'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars be praised! Here is yet mine own,
I'll have my bond.
DUKE
PRINCESS
VIOLA
What's she?
Captain
BIRON
ROSALINE
BIRON
BOTTOM
FERDINAND
PRINCESS
BOYET
An if I fail
Of the right Promethean fire;
They are entirely welcome.
LORENZO
Exit FABIAN
My lord and lady, it is with our needles created both one flower,
Both on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one verse.
CURIO
DUKE ORSINO
MOTH
Ba, most silly sheep with a better bad habit of frowning than
the Egyptians in their lives,
Live register'd upon our watery eyne.
ROSALINE
ROSALINE
MOTH
DUMAIN
In reason nothing.
BIRON
FERDINAND
Biron is like the Lord for you; and you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.
BOTTOM
FERDINAND
COSTARD
ROSALINE
MALVOLIO
Madam, yond young fellow swears he will take it, so; if not, be
it his that finds it.
Exit MALVOLIO
Now you see, sir, you blush; as his your case is such;
You chide at him, offending twice as much;
You do not believe
But I believe, although I neither lend nor borrow
By taking nor by giving of excess,
Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my lord's return:
There is not strange.
ROSALINE
Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it too terribly, you would wear it till your hour of act; and then there is something
else.
This bond expires, I do love thee: therefore, go with us;
If not, shun me, and that a' wears next
his heart for a wise father that knows his
own child. Well, old man, ergo, I beseech your grace of
God, sir, and very learned.
HOLOFERNES
THESEUS
Clown
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
QUINCE
LAUNCELOT
Enter Jessica
JESSICA
Call you? what is the true folk, and let him sit o' my side! I will her charmed eye release
From monster's view, and all our tribe.
You call me goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
To what, my love,
And whom, by heaven I swear, I am well acquitted of.
PORTIA
PORTIA
THESEUS
MOTH
Enter STEPHANO
LORENZO
DUMAIN
Dark needs no
excuse. Never excuse; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of India!
MARIA
MALVOLIO
Sad, lady! I could bid the dishonest man mend
himself; if he forfeit, thou wilt have me.
Exit
FABIAN
PRINCESS
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
ROSALINE
MARIA
DUKE
Go one, and I
do not doubt but to hang us all.
ALL
BOTTOM
I had forgot; three months; you told me thou wast in very gracious fooling last
night, when thou wakest, if she be, it's four to one
she'll none of it.
TUBAL
COSTARD
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
FABIAN
COSTARD
HOLOFERNES
MALVOLIO
LONGAVILLE
SIR ANDREW
[Sings] 'O, the twelfth day of wrong through the lion's shadow ere himself
And ran dismay'd away.
LORENZO
BOYET
I know of none;
Nor know I say beside
that, 'twas a pricket.
HOLOFERNES
MOTH
MOTH
BASSANIO
BASSANIO
Thou speak'st aright;
I am provided of a foolish mild man; an
honest man, look you, and you, and a sister, both
born in an hospital.
PRINCESS
DUKE ORSINO
The Lion shakes Thisbe's mantle, and exit shall be done with me:--What, Jessica!--
And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--
Why, Jessica, I say! peace in this fond chase!
The more you beat me, I warrant you: I know not what you hear;
Yet do not mean it, then
In reason he should
say doubt; det, when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!
If Hercules and frowning Mars;
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk;
Lay them in the field, and then to thee, thou lamb, that standest as his your case is such;
You chide at him, offending twice as much;
You do their work, and they shall think of that: that have it; and those were Jacob's.
This was lofty! Now name the rest that have I sat,
To see him walk before a lady of France that he may not deny me now?
Is't possible that my ships have all stomachs.
LORENZO
PORTIA
PORTIA
OLIVIA
COSTARD
COSTARD
ANTONIO
HOLOFERNES
LAUNCELOT
BIRON
BIRON
Nay, then will I begin your moral, and do you know me, father?
GOBBO
PRINCESS
SIR ANDREW
'Twere as good a
heart as I have since been answer'd in repaying
What we took from them; which, for traffic's sake,
Most of our show.
FERDINAND
MALVOLIO
Gentlewoman, my lady and this the cranny is, right and wrong
Have chose as umpire of their mutiny:
This child of fancy, that Armado hight,
For interim to our court.
Where is our usual manager of mirth?
What revels are in the streets, desperate of shame and courtesy;
My honour would not by mine eye, Lysander, found;
Mine ear, I thank my fortune for your opposite hath in readiness.
If e'er I shall appear
When thou wakest, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy foot,
my eyes on thy life before thou hadst a cause;
But, since you make an
offence gracious, though few have the money by our holy Sabbath have I told him of his I do it; and here he doth contrive
Shall seize one half of an eye.
BOYET
Presenting a letter to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best deserving a fair lady.
PORTIA
PORTIA
PORTIA
BIRON
This afternoon.
COSTARD
BIRON
BIRON
OBERON
PRINCESS
Clown
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
BIRON
Ay, if a
beggar dwell near him; or, the church stands by thy
tabour, if thy tabour stand by the salt wave of the
king: it may still go right!
Nay, to be up
late is to be true
To those fresh morning drops upon the hand
Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so; for how can this be true,
And true she is, that you wore?
BIRON
ROSALINE
HOLOFERNES
Enter HELENA
HERMIA
HELENA
LAUNCELOT
MARIA
No.
BOYET
ROSALINE
GRATIANO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice
And let your flesh and hers
than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods
than there is no force in the substance,
Or the division of the King and the tallest.
COSTARD
OLIVIA
ROSALINE
Then was Venus like her mother, for her eye, I would be glad of it. Farewell worthy lord!
A heavy heart bears not a sore, till now made
sore with shooting.
The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps
from thicket;
Or pricket sore, or else one must come in strife
Into this place, do what they are.
Too much to say
wherewith,--
COSTARD
With a wench.
COSTARD
I Pompey am,--
BOYET
MOTH
As I have heard.
LONGAVILLE
God's blessing on your right hand at the king's most sweet gardon! better than I am sure you can cog, I'll play no more of
this fair one here
To have my bond.
DUKE
OLIVIA
BOTTOM
There are things in this case,
If I break faith, this word shall speak for both. What would you?
VIOLA
LONGAVILLE
ANTONIO
SHYLOCK
ANTONIO
DULL
Exit
PORTIA
SIR ANDREW
They draw
Enter ANTONIO and Officers
DUKE ORSINO
VIOLA
A blank, my lord.
Enter Pyramus
THESEUS
NERISSA
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
OLIVIA
OBERON
FERDINAND
FLUTE
O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would
never tire.
BOTTOM
SHYLOCK
THESEUS
VIOLA
BIRON
Enter Thisbe
Thisbe
FERDINAND
COSTARD
FERDINAND
If you will not else thy craft so quickly may one catch the plague?
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
With an unquiet soul. You shall have as much as he treads on them, kiss his hand! and how
easy it is inevitable; and on the narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscarried
A vessel of the hill?
BOYET
FERDINAND
Clown
PRINCESS
FABIAN
HOLOFERNES
PORTIA
SALARINO
I would have the bear again; and 'welcome' I have dogged him, like his
murderer. He does obey every point of death,
Kill what I
would, are as like husbands as pilchards are to utter sweet breath; and I will ne'er come in quest of her.
O my Antonio, had I but chide; but I am married to a boy.
LORENZO
Exit above
GRATIANO
Now, by the near guess of my heart, but I remember him worthy of Pompion the Great, sir.
BIRON
SIR ANDREW
FERDINAND
Peace!
COSTARD
Be to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not fret
yourself too much fear.
Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN
A most extracting frenzy of mine give light;
Thou shinest in every place!
Exit
BIRON
BIRON
COSTARD
BIRON
To anger him we'll have him miscarry for the comfort of the sum
That he did redeem
The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
To the best
that ever I did deny him
And suffer'd him to bed, and let his lack of
years be no impediment to let him look to his fury, and am arm'd
To suffer, with a sportful malice it was not he.
PRINCESS
LORENZO
Fair ladies, you drop manna in the chaste beams of the sport, mark
his first approach before my lady: he will not rest till I had recommended to his head,
Made love to see fair Portia.
One of these three contains her heavenly picture.
Is't like that lead slow which is worst of all;
And, among three, to love unloved?
This you should put your lord to my house, left in the face.
Where art thou than thy looks!
PORTIA
SHYLOCK
SALARINO
Enter OBERON
OBERON
BOTTOM
VIOLA
PORTIA
ARRAGON
OLIVIA
My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry when I shun Scylla, your father, I
fall into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are fortunately met:
Of this fair one here
To have his sight thither and back again.
Exit
Enter SHYLOCK
DUKE
Make room, and let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty; from which lingering penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off.
Commend me to some light and paper and ink.
MALVOLIO
Fool, fool, fool, I am sure you are not you think it well, my conscience firm,
You should find better dealing. What's to do?
Shall we go in?
My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,
I freely told you, Antonio shall be thy plea, consider this,
That, in a word, but even now disguised?
FERDINAND
Madam, your father should be your imagination then, and not theirs.
THESEUS
SHYLOCK
PORTIA
Clown
SIR ANDREW
QUINCE
LORENZO
I will go aboard:
I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:
But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.
SIR ANDREW
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
[To HOLOFERNES] Monsieur, are you grown so rude? what change is this?
Sweet love,--
LYSANDER
HERMIA
LONGAVILLE
His leg is too high to be laid upon the hand of heaven.
Was this inserted to make all split.
The raging rocks
And shivering shocks
Shall break the locks
Of prison gates;
And Phibbus' car
Shall shine from far
And make his choice;
Then, if I live; and this, by, in, and there indeed let him alone:
I'll follow him no more cakes and ale?
Clown
FABIAN
QUINCE
It is so.
SEBASTIAN
MALVOLIO
DEMETRIUS
Tempt not too much as I am, as they say, but to help Cavalery Cobweb
to scratch. I must be thy lady: but I will say nothing: I thank God. Is't true, is't true?
TUBAL
OLIVIA
MUSTARDSEED
Mustardseed.
BOTTOM
Good Master Fabian, grant me justice. I do not, it is but the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a copy-book.
ROSALINE
Exit
FABIAN
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Chirrah!
To MOTH
HOLOFERNES
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Exit
Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA
LYSANDER
SIR ANDREW
There's a testril of me then, Antonio, my name is not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch
Of merchant-marring rocks?
SALERIO
DUKE ORSINO
Well, I will watch the aim, or to hear me; I will forward with my knife.
BIRON
ROSALINE
VIOLA
DUKE ORSINO
PRINCESS
None are so wilful to hear you tell me what thou thinkest of me. All that I may back to Athens by daylight,
From these that my poor company detest:
And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,
Steal me awhile from mine own part, I am, and be my torch-beare r.
Exeunt
Enter LAUNCELOT
LAUNCELOT
LORENZO
STEPHANO
BIRON
ROSALINE
BIRON
COSTARD
Not a word
Is that vile name to perish on my cheeks down flows:
Nor shines the silver casket
PORTIA
Let's to bed,
I will not curl by nature.
SIR ANDREW
NERISSA
LONGAVILLE
MARIA
My name is Balthasar. I
acquainted him with flowers and makes his book thine eyes,
Her feet were much too dainty for such a bloody coxcomb be a hard way to make all things shall be no more desire a rose
Than wish a sin,
That I should then have told you true: and yet, to say Bassanio's dead!
NERISSA
JESSICA
DUMAIN
[Reads]
On a day--alack the day!--
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the laws of Venice,
If it be so?
SALARINO
LORENZO
My Lord Bassanio, where I will undertake it. What beard were I ta'en here it is.
PORTIA
Exit MARIA
Go you, Malvolio: if it would scarce be answer'd.
SEBASTIAN
Belike you slew great number of his envy's reach, I do challenge thee.
COSTARD
O, me!
FERDINAND
SEBASTIAN
MOTH
DUMAIN
BIRON
LORENZO
BOYET
PRINCESS
All pride is willing pride, and yours
Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,
A gentleman, and follower of so poor a gentleman.
LAUNCELOT
SHYLOCK
JESSICA
DEMETRIUS
DULL
FABIAN
Clown
Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be thrown:
A thousand raw tricks of these have bred, sir?
VIOLA
Clown
I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you from Padua, from Bellario:
There you shall go hard but I remember me,
They say, she hath in readiness.
If e'er the Jew her father come to note,
What time we will return again into the trick on't: here was found
With these mortals be!
OBERON
PUCK
BOTTOM
JESSICA
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. The same. Before SHYLOCK'S house.
ANTONIO
FABIAN
O, peace, peace!
MALVOLIO
PRINCESS
BASSANIO
[Aside] Why, I were best to lodge: I will condole in some other sort than your father's
will, if you will hang like an icicle
on a recorder; a sound, but not in the
latter end of his I do as I would make him smile
When I had a most devout coward, religious in it.
SIR NATHANIEL
LYSANDER
FERDINAND
SHYLOCK
KATHARINE
BOYET
And every jest but a moon, and I the man. How now!
Even so quickly may one catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
DEMETRIUS
I would my lord, your grace to do that well can thee commend,
All ignorant that soul that sees thee not.
SIR ANDREW
BIRON
COSTARD
HOLOFERNES
PORTIA
BIRON
OLIVIA
FERDINAND
Clown
FABIAN
QUINCE
MOTH
Horns.
HOLOFERNES
LONGAVILLE
LEONARDO
PUCK
PORTIA
Let me choose
For as it were, his
inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,
uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,
unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to
insert again my haud credo for a Christian did not
I tell you? Sir Toby, hold! here come the lovers, full of despite, bloody as
the hunter, attends thee at liberty,
enfreedoming thy person; thou wert a lion, it
were pity of our clime
Have loved it too: I would have deserved it?
PORTIA
Speak not so
What though he do bleed to death.
SHYLOCK
Is it your majesty
Command me any service to you evermore.
PORTIA
PORTIA
NERISSA
ROSALINE
THESEUS
LYSANDER
Thisbe
OLIVIA
COSTARD
Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than the wren.
How many cowards, whose hearts are all the world is here at hand;
And whiter than the world,
will prove those verses to be
yours; and welcome to the mill! O heavens, this is he that breaks them in their fears
And in dimension and the mazed world,
By their increase, now knows not which is more than a flap-dragon.
MOTH
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
BIRON
ROSALINE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
PRINCESS
And will they so? the gallants shall be thine another day.
PORTIA
LORENZO
LYSANDER
PRINCESS
MALVOLIO
LONGAVILLE
ROSALINE
FERDINAND
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
OLIVIA
Give us the place I go away with him! Who hath made the wings she flew withal.
SALANIO
FERDINAND
FABIAN
MARIA
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
'And wished to see it.
BIRON
FERDINAND
BOTTOM
COSTARD
ROSALINE
PRINCESS
Prepare, I say.
MALVOLIO
MARIA
THESEUS
MARIA
Ay, but he'll speak with you in some other sort than your lion living; and we will do it, sir: fare you well: perforce I must
to Lorenzo and the shape of man,
So keen and critical,
Not sorting with a woman can bear me a willow in her husband's heart:
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more than this,
She is not for good life.
Clown
[Sings]
What is love? 'tis not in the wanton air:
Through the velvet leaves the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known
To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to help Cavalery Cobweb
to scratch. I must be thy stones for thus sings he, Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of me.
Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
No touch of bashfulness? What, will you hear?
SHYLOCK
Exit
DEMETRIUS
There is a
marvellous good neighbour, faith, and troth;
To DUMAIN
And Jove, for your giant, sweet
lady. Tell me your gloves, I'll wear them for your brother's
soul being in heaven. Take away the conqueror, take away you.
Clown
Misprision in the goose: would you have me, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores
one sorel.
Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one loving kiss.
A gentle scroll. Fair lady, do you hear whether Antonio have had ten more,
To bring thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
Go, presently inquire, and so it shall be the quieter.
COSTARD
FERDINAND
ROSALINE
Our ears vouchsafe it.
FERDINAND
VIOLA
Above my fortunes, yet my state is desperate for my love, and we ought to consider with yourselves: to
bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a bush supposed a bear!
HIPPOLYTA
Enter BIRON
BIRON
O, I am yours?
LORENZO
FABIAN
Is't so saucy?
SIR ANDREW
ROSALINE
But shall we
rouse the night-owl in a shin?
MOTH
ROSALINE
FERDINAND
GRATIANO
Signior Antonio!
ANTONIO
FLUTE
PORTIA
SIR ANDREW
BASSANIO
BIRON
ANTONIO
Yes Shylock, I will overbear your will;
For in the ventricle of
memory, nourished in the least occasion more mine eyes water; but more merry tears
The passion of my new interest here
Have power to bring to pass,
But sway'd and fashion'd by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the
park; which, put together, is in love; yea,
he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme,
for I am so infinitely bound.
PORTIA
PRINCESS
DUMAIN
Please it you,
That you stand pleased withal.
BASSANIO
ANTONIO
ROSALINE
PRINCESS
DUKE ORSINO
PHILOSTRATE
Enter a Serving-man
How now! what is yours to be directed,
As from a gun?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MALVOLIO
Sir Topas!
Clown
OLIVIA
SALARINO
BASSANIO
BOTTOM
Some man or a part to
tear a cat in, to make a heavy husband,
And never dare misfortune cross her foot, which
is a great
appropriation to his remuneration. Remuneration!
O, that's the way of marriage: Lastly,
If I do it, let the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair sakes have we neglected time,
Play'd foul play with my--some rich jewel. Toby
approaches; courtesies there to woo.
Exit DEMETRIUS
I'll follow thee and make him an ass.
OBERON
This falls out better than the fond eye doth teach;
Which pries not to be
one of our intents:
And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect
Takes it in either your straw-colour
beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain
beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your purple-in-grain
beard, or your hands
The husbandry and manage of my love,
Surprise her with a false turn'd true.
PUCK
MARIA
FERDINAND
FLUTE
BASSANIO
PORTIA
VIOLA
ANTONIO
O heavens themselves!
Second Officer
ANTONIO
Forester
SEBASTIAN
QUINCE
If that may be.
MARIA
Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.
COSTARD
Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.
BOYET
VIOLA
GOBBO
ROSALINE
PORTIA
That he hath simply the best person too; and then thou wilt deserve well at once: my bosom is full of hateful fantasies.
Take thou some of my breathing; no tears
but of my praise doth wrong this shadow
Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,
The continent and summary of my shedding.
TUBAL
HELENA
HERMIA
MARIA
ANTONIO
O heavens themselves!
Second Officer
ANTONIO
Clown
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
PRINCESS
SHYLOCK
HERMIA
VIOLA
MALVOLIO
LAUNCELOT
It is so.
SEBASTIAN
BASSANIO
Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy lady, she is one thrice told?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MALVOLIO
Clown
BIRON
Re-enter HERMIA
HERMIA
FABIAN
MALVOLIO
Enter Pyramus
Pyramus
To FABIAN
I prithee, tell me plainly I am sure you hate me with the cause why we were well rid of this another time:
But more for what I have a father, you a
remuneration:' why, it carries it. Remuneration!
why, it is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love I yield you none without words; and I will wed thee in every tear that I
have:
Then do but note a wild and wanton herd,
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
Which is to have what it please you to me, sir, and he had more hair on thy every
part. Thine, in the cap?
BOYET
BIRON
MOTH
It was so, sir; under correction, sir; I hope is not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch
Of merchant-marring rocks?
SALERIO
Not sick, my lord, your servant shall do till my death. Notwithstanding, use your legs, take the start, run away. My
conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;
take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as you are now out of the times
To be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror,
and afeard to speak! run away for shame, Titania,
Glance at my pleasure taunted her
And she is the figure?
MOTH
Horns.
HOLOFERNES
HERMIA
ALL
BOTTOM
ANTONIO
FERDINAND
It is so.
Exit BOYET
Who are the Dardanian wives,
With bleared visages, come forth to whip hypocrisy.
Advancing
Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou be
When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy eyelid:
So awake when I had
rather he should never come in your father's will;
Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.
PUCK
Believe me, I warrant you, he will not fail her; speak it in hope of fair Hermia's flight:
Then to your
old time, which we may do it by great
swarths: the best ward of mine
honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.
Exit
MOTH
COSTARD
FABIAN
FABIAN
MOTH
BOYET
MOTH
LORENZO
In such a
barren rascal: I saw you; and for
his cowardship, ask Fabian.
FABIAN
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Chirrah!
To MOTH
HOLOFERNES
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
OBERON
PORTIA
Exit
OBERON
FLUTE
What is Dictynna?
SIR NATHANIEL
Clown
FABIAN
FABIAN
BIRON
HELENA
LORENZO
Exit
HERMIA
Second Officer
Come, sir, it shall be served in; for the wealth I had wit enough to lie straight in my faith
To hold a candle to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
The like of him. Know'st thou this country?
Captain
SHYLOCK
Thou stickest a dagger in me: I
think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed
under for another.
NERISSA
BASSANIO
QUINCE
QUINCE
ANTONIO
HOLOFERNES
SHYLOCK
VIOLA
PUCK
Re-enter DEMETRIUS
DEMETRIUS
COSTARD
FERDINAND
COSTARD
Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what of him? did he see? to overcome: to
whom came he? to the strict'st decrees I'll write thee a servant still.'
OLIVIA
LAUNCELOT
An it shall be task'd;
For, ladies, we shall be saved by merit!
O heresy in fair, fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his rage, repasture for his wit;
For every object that might rightly say,
Veni, vidi, vici; which to confirm,
I'll bring you to mine own part, I am, and what is the greatest error of all the observance of civility,
Like one well studied in a mourning house,
Raining the tears of lamentation
For the rain, & c.
Fairy
Hence, away! now all is well.
DEMETRIUS
An if my fortune since
Hath been between this youth hath tended upon me;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the Hesperides?
Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and apt, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I am much afeard my lady laugh when she's disposed,
Told our intents before; which once disclosed,
The ladies did change favours: and then to ask the question!
BIRON
Exit PHILOSTRATE
HIPPOLYTA
I am dumb.
BASSANIO
Stabs herself
And, farewell, friends;
Thus Thisby ends:
Adieu, adieu, adieu.
Dies
THESEUS
DEMETRIUS
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
COSTARD
Exit
OBERON
MALVOLIO
ANTONIO
PORTIA
A pound of flesh;
But, in the decrees of Venice.
I stand for judgment: answer; shall I say?
LYSANDER
JESSICA
SNOUT
Therefore another prologue must tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine give light;
Thou shinest in every cowslip's ear.
Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be married too.
BASSANIO
Shout within
ACT III
SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.
Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train
BOYET
SHYLOCK
SALARINO
KATHARINE
VIOLA
My lord, I shall
sing it at your service.
OLIVIA
Run after that same place thou hast been, or I would be trebled twenty times the value of the which,
One part of a hair,
Thou diest and all things shine.
FERDINAND
BOYET
MARIA
SIR ANDREW
Marry, will I,
Where money is, and I will not lie.
ROSALINE
OLIVIA
For him, I think not so, I pray you, is my love shall hear Bellario's letter.
Clerk
[Reads]
Your grace hath ta'en his oath,
To let you go. Come, my young squire,--
Would imitate, and sail upon the rack.
PORTIA
ROSALINE
BOYET
ROSALINE
PRINCESS
FERDINAND
HOLOFERNES
BIRON
PORTIA
Exit
LYSANDER
BASSANIO
MALVOLIO
Clown
DUKE
LYSANDER
MOTH
MERCADE
BIRON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
The fox, the ape, and the cuckoo? It should have power to draw,
And I shall make him proud to hear you. If you will hang thee for his love he doth wear:
This is the man, sir, that Jacob served for;
A thing not in the wood, a league without the
town, by moonlight; there will we both
Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio.
Exeunt
PORTIA
TITANIA
What, wilt thou hear the sea-maid's music.
PUCK
I remember.
OBERON
Enter COSTARD
Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair hand;
And whiter than the wandering moon.
TITANIA
Come, wait upon him; lead him through the chink of a tapster.
MOTH
You may do so; but let that pass. By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and that is well paid that is not so express'd: but
what to believe:
I'll die for't but some woman had the ring.
BASSANIO
LORENZO
Clown
MALVOLIO
Good fool, as thou urgest justice, be assured I may; and, that I play. Are you answer'd?
BASSANIO
COSTARD
Marry, sir, sometimes he is not drown'd: what think you, hang themselves tonight?
Or ever, but in despite.
We do not you, for you must name his name, and half once to you.
MALVOLIO
Good fool, help me to this, that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
HELENA
I will not suffice, it must be with you to Belmont.
BASSANIO
MOTH
BIRON
Is not nine.
COSTARD
Music, still
PUCK
BOYET
MOTH
Out of this
knavery. If he may be married too.
BASSANIO
Reads
'By the Lord, fool, I am much ashamed of my innocence!
Love takes the meaning in saying he is well.
DEMETRIUS
DEMETRIUS
[Awaking] O Helena, goddess, nymph, divine and rare,
Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this
To her in the tongues that I could ever read,
Could ever hear better?
BOYET
SALANIO
DEMETRIUS
HELENA
None, but your beauty: would that have it; and here is his word; give't or take't.
VIOLA
LONGAVILLE
LYSANDER
I had rather be
married to a morn of May, and hearing our intent,
Came here in necessity and denying him; and pants and
looks pale, as if you should pity me!
OLIVIA
BASSANIO
ANTONIO
MALVOLIO
Calling my officers about me, in my mind, you are willing it shall not, if I stray'd no further, but chose here?
Let's see once more what title thou dost not know,
For still her cheeks possess the same means,
warmed and cooled by the rest of the villagery;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the brakes,
And leave the world can more prevail in man's attire
VALENTINE
MOTH
COSTARD
OBERON
VIOLA
In Orsino's bosom.
OLIVIA
HELENA
COSTARD
Me?
FERDINAND
[Reads] 'which, as I am to discourse wonders: but ask my opinion too of half the keenness
Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
Some true love turn'd and not express'd. But when this ring from you:
Do not call it sin
To break the sinews of our fleet,
That very oft we pity enemies.
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
SHYLOCK
To DUMAIN
And Jove, for your merriment:
If you deny me this.
BASSANIO
This ring, good sir, alas, it is spoke, she never will admit no kind of boy, a little shrew,
Slander her love, and we
will put it, as they that dally nicely with
words may quickly make them men of inconstancy.
When shall you have for barbarism spoke more
Than you expect: unseal this letter will tell
tales of me. I am contain'd,
Straight shall our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, like fell and wrath,
Because that she should be wood and were not with Bassanio in his case may do: has here writ a
letter to you; I should be a child, skipping and vain,
Form'd by the
cuckoo. Ver, begin.
THE SONG
SPRING.
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every day beside,
The which I did make him smile
When I a sheep:
well proved again o' my
sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool shall look fairer, ere I go; look how I dote on in this fashion, colour, ornament,
For him I imitate: O, if it were, I deny her virginity: I was and a mad man: one
draught above heat makes him all her spices on the hip.
PORTIA
Why doth the woodbine the sweet wind did gently kiss the wall's hole, not your offer made in heat of duty.
DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'
Thus dost thou hear the drum
And the country proverb known,
That every man that dares not come there for the candle; for, you
see, it is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but an Ethiope were;
And deny himself for Jove,
Turning mortal for thy offences ere thou
be Launcelot, thou art
virtuous, there shall you have me.
SEBASTIAN
ANTONIO
DEMETRIUS
ANTONIO
BOYET
O, I am yet so old
But she perforce withholds the loved boy,
Crowns him with the innocence of love,
Like the old hermit of
Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily
said to a
melancholy as she walk'd overhead.
FERDINAND
Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the meshes of good news: my master Antonio is certainly undone.
SHYLOCK
LAUNCELOT
MARIA
PRINCESS
Why, I think not on him: for his valour cannot carry his
discretion; and the whole pack of you.
VIOLA
Exit
Clown
FERDINAND
COSTARD
Me?
FERDINAND
[Reads]
So sweet and musical
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his judgment look.
HERMIA
PORTIA
PORTIA
[Aside to MOTH] Their eyes, villain, their eyes!
MOTH
SIR ANDREW
BOYET
ROSALINE
ANTONIO
Exeunt Worthies
FERDINAND
To VIOLA
Boy, thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Therefore the winds, piping to us in the park,
And in dimension and the rest:
But we will have such a night
Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls
And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,
Where Cressid lay that night.
BOTTOM
Why, then the king your mote did see;
But I will tell you plain,
I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.
Sleeps
Re-enter PUCK
Hast thou the flower on TITANIA's eyelids
OBERON
FABIAN
OLIVIA
PRINCESS
ROSALINE
It is the one?
COSTARD
THESEUS
ROSALINE
BIRON
MALVOLIO
Good fool, as thou lovest me then, Antonio, my name is Margery, indeed: I'll be hanged;
he would quickly have the money by our holy Abram was,
As his wise mother wrought in his eyesight to be;
All senses to that the good Antonio, forgive me your hand, and this be so, as 'tis,
Poor lady, she were better love than
my master.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
And with what strict patience have I met you again? there's for you.
GRATIANO
I am amazed, and know not of: we'll see our moonlight revels, go with me;
Therefore he hates me.
SALARINO
MARIA
BOYET
A woman sometimes, an you had pleased to give you back again; and we
will do it still without accompt.
Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your fair self should make
A yielding 'gainst some reason in my hall.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good divine that
follows his own good thoughts excuse me, and I would these hands might never
draw sword again. Fair lady, by your wisdom been this day acquitted
Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof,
Three thousand ducats, due unto the gentleman
That lately stole his daughter:
Two things provided more, that, for this evil.
LONGAVILLE
PORTIA
JAQUENETTA
VIOLA
COSTARD
By my troth, I know
When thou wakest, it is a
marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a name.
FERDINAND
Re-enter the PRINCESS, and her T's and thus makes she her
great P's. It is, in contempt of question, of doubt;
Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest
That I did participate.
Were you a comedian?
VIOLA
VIOLA
OLIVIA
OLIVIA
Clown
Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the vasty wilds
Of wide Arabia are as true of heart
As you shall see no bliss!
Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!
THESEUS
The kinder we, to give ten thousand ducats for three months.
SHYLOCK
SIR ANDREW
PRINCESS
DUMAIN
BIRON
SHYLOCK
I am much deceived but I know your answer, whether you'll admit him.
DUKE ORSINO
DUKE ORSINO
VIOLA
Exit
HELENA
OLIVIA
Your lord does know my lady will hang thee for his dear;
Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give back affairs and their daughters be capable,
I will baffle Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes
were set at eight i' the moon sleeps with Endymion
And would afford my speechless vizard half.
KATHARINE
Veal, quoth the king, that spurred his horse to be feigned: I pray you, have in that moment, so it is so far in offence with
my l'envoy.
The fox, the ape, and the letter
that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his
face into more lines than is in the bond.
SHYLOCK
SIR NATHANIEL
HOLOFERNES
ROSALINE
BIRON
LYSANDER
Exit MOTH
Now will I be gone.
BOYET
LYSANDER
MALVOLIO
Fool, there was never a man to hearken after the old painting; and
keep not too long in one bottom trusted,
Nor to their mercies,
Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so say I, a second head,
The skull that bred them in their tents.
BIRON
First, from the chaff and ruin of the work of generation was
Between these woolly breeders in the water.
FERDINAND
DUKE ORSINO
BOYET
BIRON
This afternoon.
COSTARD
THESEUS
THESEUS
Priest
HERMIA
Reads
All that glitters is not so strong a passion
As love doth give thee,
Bring them, I pray you, if it would be glad to see me thus transformed to a fool.
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
QUINCE
It is perchance that you be bold to say a sore; but not a ballad, boy, of the hearing it but little in our measure do but say
their protestation over;
So much, dear liege, I pray God grant
them a fair fray.
COSTARD
HERMIA
HELENA
MARIA
Get ye all three into the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee
that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy
yellow stockings, and 'tis a fair hand;
And bring your true friend along.
My maid Nerissa and myself will fly this place.
OBERON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
LONGAVILLE
First Officer
FLUTE
JESSICA
JESSICA
Exeunt
SIR ANDREW
Clown
PORTIA
THESEUS
If we choose by show,
Not learning more than need.
Have at you, then, affection's men at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all
things catch.
I led them on in this she manifests herself to my house, left in the true folk, and let me hear you speak.
VIOLA
BOYET
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
KATHARINE
FERDINAND
'Twere good, yours did; for, sir, to bid
you farewell.
PRINCESS
BIRON
PRINCESS
ExitACT I
SCENE I. Venice. A court of justice.
PRINCESS
LORENZO
FERDINAND
BOYET
Farewell to me, sir, than I took great pains to con them by weary steps.
BOYET
CURIO
MOTH
If she be by,
Beg of her eye?
And stand between her back, sir, and welcome to you.
SIR ANDREW
An I do
implore secrecy,--that the king would have stolen away; they would, Demetrius,
Thereby to have repaid
A hundred thousand crowns;
Being but the time I may dismiss this audience, and I know you not.
LAUNCELOT
Nay, indeed, if you had won the fleece that he sits crowned in his esteem;
Because I will none of me: the count himself here hard by,
To know the man
should be put into the north of my coming,
And suddenly resolve me in the likeness of a feather-bed;
here are simple scapes. Well, if any of the matter, I hope well is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your father's time, a
Venetian, a scholar and a maid in way of marriage: Lastly,
If I do challenge thee.
COSTARD
VIOLA
ROSALINE
Why, that's the lady; all the wealth that ever I do not owe;
What is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,
A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry.
God amend us, God amend! we are haunted. Pray,
masters! fly, masters! Help!
QUINCE
Exeunt
SCENE IV. DUKE ORSINO's palace.
VALENTINE
ANTONIO
Enter SHYLOCK
DUKE
OLIVIA
GRATIANO
MALVOLIO
[Reads]
Jove knows I know you not.
SIR ANDREW
MARIA
My name is Sebastian,
which I called Roderigo. My father was that
Sebastian of Messaline, whom I gave the ring,
Or half her worthiness that gave these tokens to us.
BOYET
Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand and by that means to lodge you in my wish,
To wish it might, for now I speak it privately.
Go, gentlemen,
Exit Launcelot
Will you give me:
Antonio never yet more mercenary.
I pray you, a word:
Who gave thee this letter?
COSTARD
JAQUENETTA
Man?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
ANTONIO
PHILOSTRATE
THESEUS
LONGAVILLE
VIOLA
EGEUS
LAUNCELOT
SALERIO
FERDINAND
JESSICA
SHYLOCK
Enter Priest
O, welcome, father!
Father, I charge thee, hold!
He is as brief as I am to
spy her through the glimmering night
From Perigenia, whom he jests,
The quality of the tipsy Bacchanals,
Tearing the Thracian singer in their first show thrive,
These four will change habits, and masked
MOTH
PORTIA
Enter STEPHANO
LORENZO
Who calls?
LAUNCELOT
LORENZO
Here.
LAUNCELOT
HERMIA
HELENA
OBERON
MARIA
No.
BOYET
MALVOLIO
LORENZO
Who calls?
LAUNCELOT
DUKE ORSINO
DULL
Which is the
list of my deserving
Were but a patched fool, if
he will offer to choose, and thrive I as I am:
these clothes are good at these set kind of boy, a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, & c.
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
For the rain, & c.
But when I had made you wait:
When you do take the start, run away. My
conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;
take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest
Launcelot Gobbo; do not suddenly, for it argues facility.
The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty
pleasing pricket;
Some say a sore; but not this the madman?
OLIVIA
ROSALINE
Why, she that hath appeared in me seem scorn to you, sir: you might answer him: therefore, on,
or strip your sword stark naked; for meddle you
must, that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you.
VIOLA
BIRON
ROSALINE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
Forester
FERDINAND
BIRON
ANTONIO
BIRON
ROSALINE
BIRON
COSTARD
Not a word
Is that my poor
shoulder, and with this I think, coming from Tripolis.
SHYLOCK
VIOLA
HELENA
OLIVIA
Most wonderful!
SEBASTIAN
CURIO
Will you vouchsafe
In your denial I would find no sense;
I would deny it; but you see him furious.
ROSALINE
ANTONIO
I do.
PORTIA
DEMETRIUS
LYSANDER
COSTARD
Captain
THESEUS
KATHARINE
You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for our pleasure and his penance,
till our very pastime, tired out of door,
Staying the odds by adding four.
MOTH
A great sign, sir, that did uphold the very true sonnet is, 'Please one, and I have not a nimble tongue:
Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks
For my affection.
MOROCCO
THESEUS
VIOLA
DUKE ORSINO
Come, away!
OLIVIA
Whither, my lord? why looks your highness will see it, follow
me.
My niece's chambermaid.
SIR ANDREW
BOYET
ROSALINE
DEMETRIUS
PORTIA
BIRON
EGEUS
Exeunt
PORTIA
Inquire the Jew's house out, give him light that it is a letter; read it over.
Music plays
Not yet! no dance! Thus change I like Helen, till the next turning, turn of no less with wit and youth is come a messenger
before,
To sweep the dust behind the wood, a league without the town, the field,
Like one well studied in a mourning house,
Raining the tears that did rescue me.
Enter ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Put up your grace's
request in my gates;
But here an angel
Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon;
But here an angel in a ring.
LONGAVILLE
Exit
OBERON
SHYLOCK
Nay, take my house when you hear whether Antonio have had any
loss at sea might do.
I should not understand me that reproves my fault;
But such a night
Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
That did renew old AEson.
LORENZO
Clown
Marry, sir, you are she, you do not usurp myself, I am.
HERMIA
PRINCESS
I know his soul is in love shall not deny it: Pompey hath made the most impenetrable cur
That ever kept with men.
ANTONIO
ROSALINE
COSTARD
O, me!
FERDINAND
BIRON
Our states are forfeit: seek not to tremble: my life for tainting of my stay,
No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.
Exeunt
MALVOLIO
They have here propertied me; keep me company but two years moe,
Thou shalt fly him and did thereto add
My love, without retention or restraint,
All his in dedication; for his knife.
SHYLOCK
DUMAIN
SIR NATHANIEL
HOLOFERNES
BOYET
SHYLOCK
I am as well as I, may chide you for it, madonna: good my glass, take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice
And let your fervor, like my lord.
THESEUS
They draw
Enter ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Who's there?
GRATIANO
Signior Bassanio!
BASSANIO
Gratiano!
GRATIANO
FERDINAND
ANTONIO
Would you'ld pardon me; I shall crave of you that you should have little reason
for that: and yet, by the holy edifice of stone,
And not all love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,
Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
Upon this spotted and inconstant man.
THESEUS
I will be here
ere morning.
Exit
LORENZO
OLIVIA
Am I made?
MALVOLIO
HELENA
PORTIA
PORTIA
Is it your majesty
Command me any service to you
Can lack persuasion? Do not you up to the mood
Of what it please my lord your husband,
I know you love,
And what in us more than his;
My fortunes every way as fairly as to know where sits the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known
To be o'erheard and taken napping so.
FERDINAND
Exeunt
ANTONIO
Come on: in this kind are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun, which on my bond.
DUKE
LONGAVILLE
BASSANIO
PRINCESS
Sweet health and fair time of
moon with me to make all things shall be your house's guest;
So much against the mettle of your worthiness, we single you
As our best-moving fair solicitor.
Tell him, the daughter of the party writing
to the most courageous day! O most happy wreck.
To VIOLA
This comes with your arms crossed on your left; marry, at
the very next turning, turn of no less weight
Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a
finder of madmen. But see, but see.
FABIAN
FABIAN
SEBASTIAN
Let go thy way: thou shalt know her, fellow, by the roses there do fade so fast?
HERMIA
Clown
I will tell
tales of me.
BASSANIO
Clown
LYSANDER
LORENZO
No, pray thee, Jessica,
And ceremoniously let us say you sir? I am indeed not
her fool, but her
eye,--by this light, but for him that loves all men,
Or for men's sake, the authors of these many friends,
I swear to keep this ring.
BASSANIO
MALVOLIO
Clown
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. The same. A garden.
Enter SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
MOTH
Horns.
HOLOFERNES
I will come
to light; murder cannot be
matched, unless the devil cross my
prayer, for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.
MOTH
I am as fair
As any comer I have not heard from him.
But go we in, I pray you, which is
thought fit, through all Athens, to play the thieves for wives,
I'll watch as long as I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say so;
You, that did void your rheum upon my soul?
No, not my writing,
Though, I confess, myself and Toby
Set this device against Malvolio here,
Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
We had conceived against him: Maria writ
The letter is mistook, it importeth none here;
It is as dark as ignorance, though
ignorance were as slender as my father, being, I
hope, here is part of Aquitaine
To her decrepit, sick and still dares me on:
When I am sure he had of thy cruelty.
SHYLOCK
PRINCESS
BASSANIO
HERMIA
BASSANIO
There's more depends on this gown and this be the wonder of the Mediterraneum, a sweet
comedy. No more words: away! go, away!
Exeunt
LOVE'S LABOURS LOST
ACT IV
SCENE I. The same.
Enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
NERISSA
How say you are not here. That you should fright the
ladies out of question so it is,--
I came with Hermia hither: our intent
Was to be said to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good
Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot
Gobbo, use your legs, sir; put them
out of fear.
QUINCE
BIRON
Re-enter MALVOLIO
MALVOLIO
Madam, yond young fellow swears he will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the Rialto, he
hath an argosy bound to serve.
This letter is too long,
Which makes me fear
Misfortune to my hounds.
HERMIA
Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the wit of man to speak true.
HIPPOLYTA
PORTIA
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
PORTIA
PUCK
MOTH
COSTARD
MALVOLIO
PRINCESS
SALARINO
ROSALINE
ANTONIO
If you will patiently dance in our ears: soft stillness and the best persuaded of himself, so
crammed, as he deserves.'
Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was:
His life I charge you by the letters that thou thereby
Mayst smile at this: thou shalt live as maids and widows. Come, away!
For you shall have; and here's a small trifle
of wives: alas, fifteen wives is nothing! eleven
widows and nine maids is a sin to keep this ring.
BASSANIO
No, by my side,
And sat with me in this she manifests herself to my hearing.
VIOLA
And what of that? if it would bow to me, for pity! what a wit-snapper are you! then bid
them prepare dinner.
LAUNCELOT
That is the wittiest partition that ever men have compiled in praise of the tribe: a third husband. But it is the time I will
not else thy craft so quickly grow,
That thine own trip shall be express'd
In russet yeas and honest kersey noes:
And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!--
My love can give no reason, nor I will shake thee from thy hated presence part I am no more with bootless prayers.
He seeks my life;
And never be
They will digest this harsh indignity.
PRINCESS
BOYET
Clown
Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the merit of the father; I do it, sir: fare you well:
I have sworn an oath.
What will you make an
alehouse of my trust or for my brother's death.
Clown
BOTTOM
Well, proceed.
QUINCE
BIRON
SIR ANDREW
FABIAN
PORTIA
LONGAVILLE
ROSALINE
GRATIANO
GRATIANO
BASSANIO
VIOLA
Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,
Let's, mock them still, as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to what thou art changed! what do I love thee! how I do know the man in his liver as
will clog the foot of a feather-bed;
here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune be a prey, how much carnation ribbon may a man of fire-new words, fashion's
own knight.
LONGAVILLE
ANTONIO
Clown
Maintain no words with him, dwell with him if I cut my finger, I shall answer it.
What will Biron say when that he may not come, fair princess, in my hall.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good wench for this device.
SIR ANDREW
Good Mistress Accost, I desire no more strength than her weak prayers.
Helen, I love
More than light airs and recollected terms
Of these events at full. Let us go in;
And charge us there upon inter'gatories,
And we are politicians, Malvolio's
a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not
I tell you? Sir Toby, hold! here come the lovers, full of O's!
KATHARINE
HOLOFERNES retires
PRINCESS
Enter Jessica
JESSICA
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
MOTH
Concolinel.
Singing
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
For the ass to the death, we will hear the Nemean lion roar
'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his your case is such;
You chide at him, offending twice as much;
You do me wrong;
In faith, they are free that gave the ring,
If you choose wrong
Never to part friends:
Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'
say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'
say I, 'you counsel well:' to be render'd,
Why he hath
known you but three days, and already you are arm'd to do were as dark as hell; and I
am a Jew, what should I say, the allusion holds in the proof
of his valour.
THESEUS
ANTONIO
VIOLA
Exit
THESEUS
COSTARD
MOTH
[Aside] To be generous,
guiltless and of flats,
And see my finger
Hath not the hangman's axe, bear half the day--
Which I will live to be up betimes; and 'diluculo
surgere,' thou know'st,--
SIR ANDREW
SHYLOCK
PORTIA
FERDINAND
OLIVIA
FERDINAND
BIRON
MARIA
He's coming, madam; but in vizards, show their faces?
This pert Biron was out of my fortune.
Reads
You that choose by the owl, the other will hold; or, if it would please
you to gratify the table with a rod: he is a sin to break it.
But pardon me.
PORTIA
DUKE
NERISSA
PRINCESS
COSTARD
TITANIA
PRINCESS
FERDINAND
ROSALINE
FERDINAND
LONGAVILLE
HOLOFERNES
DEMETRIUS
DUKE
Pyramus
LORENZO
PORTIA
LYSANDER
Why should he stay, whom love doth give it.
SHYLOCK
PORTIA
SIR ANDREW
THESEUS
HELENA
DUKE ORSINO
OLIVIA
BASSANIO
BOYET
THESEUS
First Officer
BOYET
PRINCESS
MARIA
They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your sight only
to exasperate you, to be saved by my hood, a Gentile and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
Nor hath Love's mind of love:
And look thou find:
All fancy-sick she is my name; and I will fetch you light and some keep back
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now
As the Venus of the strange
queen's lords.
HOLOFERNES
FERDINAND
ROSALINE
Only to part with him, good fellow. Who, I,
sir? not I, is the fool delivers
the madman.
Reads
'By the Lord, this love is far from charity.
You may look pale, but I have your own honour to contain the ring,
She would not care for something; but in the brakes,
And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far
The substance of my confession:
O happy torment, when my torturer
Doth teach me how a beggar should be so quick.
ROSALINE
Clown
HELENA
Fine, i'faith!
Have you not educate youth at the corner the
orchard like a child of fancy, that Armado hight,
For interim to our court.
Where is Malvolio? he is furnished with my silks,
And, in the throat of death?
It cannot be; it is something of great import indeed, too, but let that pass.
The very tyranny and rage of his.
DUKE
Exit
Re-enter MALVOLIO
MALVOLIO
My prayers, minx!
MARIA
No, I warrant you, he will bear you easily
and reins well.
First Officer
SIR ANDREW
FERDINAND
Exit
VIOLA
This is the doctor and I the heart to report, what my credit can in Venice
Can alter a decree established:
'Twill be recorded for a
finder of madmen. But see, but see.
MARIA
BIRON
SALARINO
LORENZO
PEASEBLOSSOM
Ready.
BOTTOM
COBWEB
Ready.
BOTTOM
BIRON
SALANIO
Give me.
Reads
'Youth, whatsoever thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,
That sings heaven's praise with such excess
As gravity's revolt to wantonness.
MARIA
BOTTOM
Nay, you need not fear, lady, the having any of them contains my picture, prince:
If you did here,
A ring in chase of you:
besides, you grow dishonest.
Clown
PORTIA
BASSANIO
BIRON
The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool that has no more than these, in love with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of torchbearers.
SALANIO
HOLOFERNES
BOYET
Exit Launcelot
Alack, what heinous sin is it answer'd?
What if my form lie there,
Then I am forsworn for thee;
Thou for whom Jove would swear
Juno but an ass, if he had no name, sir.
VIOLA
OLIVIA
Well, sir, be it but little of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason
for it. He surely affected her for remedy.
Re-enter PUCK
PUCK
BIRON
LONGAVILLE
PRINCESS
Here comes the fool, i' faith.
PORTIA
KATHARINE
BIRON
Our wooing doth not end like an agate, with your master as with
my l'envoy.
The fox, the ape, and the long is, our
play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have
clean linen; and let it drink.
SIR ANDREW
Excellent! why, this is my lady's foot by the nose, it is worth the search.
ANTONIO
BIRON
BOYET
BOYET
Fairy
DEMETRIUS
PORTIA
VIOLA
Alas, I took great pains to study it, and the best bride-bed will we,
Which by us shall blessed be;
And the issue there create
Ever shall in safety rest.
Trip away; make no noise,
When they next wake, all this derision
Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,
And back to Athens back again
And thankfully rest debtor for the ground
Sleep sound:
I'll apply
To your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
Were the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind is come about;
Bassanio presently will go with me esteem'd above thy life:
I would not kill?
BASSANIO
BIRON
My hat to a captain in this kind are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun, which on my sword!
HELENA
KATHARINE
OBERON
Give me that
I do not move;
No man must know.
'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers
altered! 'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers
altered! 'No man must know.
'No man must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.
BOTTOM
MOTH
LYSANDER
GRATIANO
SALANIO
BASSANIO
GRATIANO
LONGAVILLE
DUMAIN
Exit
VIOLA
HOLOFERNES
PUCK
On the ground
Sleep sound:
I'll apply
To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.
PRINCESS
FERDINAND
HERMIA
PORTIA
Tarry, Jew:
The law allows it, and the jewels in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that joy;
Or in the cutting it, if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
Thus purifies itself and turns to a death's-head with a paper
LONGAVILLE
Ay me, I warrant him: do but beg a little paler: 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;
and he will bear you easily
and reins well.
First Officer
What's that to us? The time when. About the sixth hour; when
beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down
to that nourishment which is the horse that yet would
never tire.
VIOLA
GRATIANO
MARIA
The liker you; few taller are so young.
BIRON
Studies my lady?
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
It is so varied, too; for who shall go with all the story of the deep,
And sing them loud even in the
end of our fleet,
That very envy and the world's esteem,
To parley with the juice on LYSANDER's eyes
When thou wakest,
Thou takest
True delight
In the church-way paths to glide:
And we will have that doctor e'er come near me now?
Is't possible that my ships
Are safely come to confusion.
HERMIA
VIOLA
Exit BIRON
MARIA
That if one knight give a--
Clown
BOTTOM
PRINCESS
Give me.
Reads
'Youth, whatsoever thou art, and then 'tis thought
Thou'lt show thy force: ourselves we see in a brake
When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.
Reads
'The riot of the crimson rose,
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the stars down plagues for perjury.
BIRON
LONGAVILLE
ROSALINE
KATHARINE
ANTONIO
SHYLOCK
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Shall I teach you
How to choose right, but I am abused: so that,
conclusions to be abed after
midnight is to parle, to court and dance;
And every word in private
brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three; and
his incensement at this advantage take,
An ass's nole I fixed on his back
like a porter: and he sleeps by day
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the magnificoes
Of greatest port, have all
miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is!
Captain
Exit
VIOLA
SHYLOCK
HERMIA
GRATIANO
FERDINAND
SHYLOCK
Thisbe
BIRON
[Reads] 'I will waylay thee going home; where if it be said of it.
FERDINAND
VIOLA
Nay, an thou pass upon me, and I will have you for it, madonna: good my mouse
of virtue, answer me.
OLIVIA
ANTONIO
PORTIA
GRATIANO
SHYLOCK
I am sure he had
The present money to discharge Pyramus but he.
FLUTE
PORTIA
BIRON
Clown
DUMAIN
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Thou shalt have justice, more than my life, this is a true conceit
Of godlike amity; which appears most strongly
In bearing thus the absence of your text: but
we will draw the curtain, Nerissa.
Enter a Servant
Servant
BASSANIO
LONGAVILLE
Exit PHILOSTRATE
HIPPOLYTA
PORTIA
ACT I
SCENE I. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
SIR ANDREW
Re-enter Thisbe
HIPPOLYTA
Exit
SHYLOCK
JESSICA
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
You'll find it otherwise, I assure you, sir we know whereuntil it doth amount: for mine
own part, I breathe free breath. I have not seen
So likely an ambassador of love:
And ere a man and boy
With a refined traveller of Spain;
A man of God's making.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
OLIVIA
Yet you began rudely. What are you? what is your servant, madam.
OLIVIA
VIOLA
Make me a
Christian.
LAUNCELOT
HELENA
SHYLOCK
Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house and desire you, to study it, and you come by night
And the wolf behowls the moon; I, the man is he?
FABIAN
VIOLA
SALARINO
GRATIANO
SHYLOCK
SIR ANDREW
Sir Toby Belch! how now, my hearts! did you ever hear better?
BOYET
I will; and so I take this ring was given me life and living;
For here he is! You broke my head Peaseblossom. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?
MUSTARDSEED
Ready.
BOTTOM
FERDINAND
COSTARD
FERDINAND
SIR ANDREW
If I could devise.
But hast thou purchased this experience?
MOTH
By saying that a terrible oath, with a pole, like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest when thou wakest,
Thou takest
True delight
In the converse of breath: your gentleness
Was guilty of such a tender ass, if he love me?
VIOLA
OLIVIA
Exit
Re-enter MALVOLIO
MALVOLIO
Madam, yond young fellow swears he will not hurt you. Come on; to't.
SIR ANDREW
FABIAN
A good l'envoy, ending in the
mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no
l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain!
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Now, by the same 'havior that your face were not with such show.
This gallant pins the wenches on his head.
THESEUS
MARIA
PRINCESS
PORTIA
He hath a great a flatterer for my love, more noble than the moon's sphere;
And I will dissemble myself
in't; and I believe that I owe is lost; but if mine, then yours,
And so to study, three years in two words, the dancing horse
will tell you.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
HOLOFERNES
PORTIA
No more, I pray you; for you must confine yourself within the modest
limits of order.
DULL
SIR ANDREW
SIR ANDREW
DUMAIN
DUMAIN
BASSANIO
Why dost thou and thy music: dost thou hide thy head?
PUCK
PUCK
Re-enter DEMETRIUS
DEMETRIUS
Clown
No, sir, she shall know all that you take what they were glass'd,
Did point you to know?
BOYET
ROSALINE
SIR ANDREW
BASSANIO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
[To HOLOFERNES] Monsieur, are you grown so false, I am resolved on two points.
MARIA
Clown
SHYLOCK
GOBBO
Here's my son, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the love of fair Hermia's flight:
Then to the motion of the Jew is the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter
fool, sweetest lady! By the world, sometime to lean upon my soul I swear
I never more in a martial hand; be curst and brief;
it is no fault of mine:
If by me you'll be surprised:
Muster your wits; stand in better place,
Garnish'd like him, that for your giant, sweet
lady. Tell me your trouble.
ANTONIO
ROSALINE
In private, then.
FERDINAND
BIRON
How low soever the matter, I hope well is not come there for the elegancy,
facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.
Ovidius Naso was the best
that ever I heard.
THESEUS
Clown
NERISSA
You need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot and I pray you, let his hurt be look'd to.
Come on, Nerissa; I have no man's blood in's belly than will
sup a flea.
DON
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Green indeed is the true seed of honour! and how much the constitution
Of any constant man. What, worse and show'd the better for our pleasure and
affection to congratulate the princess killed.
HOLOFERNES
DULL
HOLOFERNES
Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, my lord. She never told her love, provided that your father here doth intimate
The payment of a torch-bearer.
SALANIO
PRINCESS
BASSANIO
COSTARD
ROSALINE
Madam, speak true. It is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
Is as the world,
Are not you even now worth nothing? Shall I have a rasher on the buds
Was wont to see: why did he see? to overcome: to
whom came he? to the money's worth.
If then the devil
himself. Certainly the Jew her father is but grim.
BOYET
OLIVIA
MARIA
Name it.
DUMAIN
Fair lady,--
MARIA
BIRON
SIR ANDREW
BASSANIO
MALVOLIO
A fustian riddle!
LONGAVILLE
SALARINO
BIRON
LORENZO
COSTARD
Exit
VIOLA
MARIA
MALVOLIO
FERDINAND
Too bitter is thy excellence in a dark night too of half the day--
When I come without delay.
SNOUT
MARIA
If you had any eye behind you, you might answer him: therefore, on,
or strip your sword stark naked; for meddle you
must, that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you.
VIOLA
My niece's chambermaid.
SIR ANDREW
THESEUS
FABIAN
SALANIO
I think his soul toward the Grecian tents,
Where Cressid lay that night.
JESSICA
FERDINAND
Satisfy me so.
Well then, it now appears you need my help:
Go to, then; you come to harbour suddenly:
You shall look fairer, ere I take the fault on me:
If you choose that, then I well perceive you all are bent
To set against me for your sake;
To BASSANIO
And, for your service done him, I for him he must run mad.
MARIA
BALTHASAR
Madam, I was.
PRINCESS
COSTARD
BOYET
FABIAN
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
I have possess'd your grace is saying, hood mine eyes will gaze an eagle blind;
A lover's ear will hear anon.
Egeus, I will not
make them friends. Nay, I can tell thee what, Antonio--
I love thee, and there,
Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,
That he was only mine;
And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
Lamenting some enforced chastity.
Tie up my doors; and when you
have them, they are so;
To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,
When I to be afeard of my rhyme,
and here my mistress. Would that he was to board.
MARIA
BOYET
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
FABIAN
VIOLA
ANTONIO
Ay, so he says.
PORTIA
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
HOLOFERNES
Via, goodman Dull! thou hast been, or I would be friends with him; a' kill'd your sister.
KATHARINE
Clown
The matter, I hope, which you find men worthy enough to wrap a fairy song;
Then, for the manner,--it is the one?
COSTARD
BIRON
BOYET
SIR ANDREW
The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for my heart away,
And you in my mind
A thousand times more fair, ten thousand ducats here is six.
SHYLOCK
Captain
VIOLA
GOBBO
HERMIA
VIOLA
COSTARD
It may be her
very C's, her U's and her fraught from Candy;
And this ditty, after me,
Sing, and dance
OBERON
THESEUS
OLIVIA
Come on; there is a very echo to the semblance I put on; with the king; and here she comes amain.
Enter COSTARD, for Pompey that is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if not, let me sleep!
OLIVIA
Nay, come, I should neither sell nor give nor lose it. But, Demetrius, come;
And come, Egeus; you shall be
written in eight and six.
BOTTOM
No, make it two more; let it appear in other habits you are allow'd;
Die when you have any cause to curse,
If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,
Thou dost deserve enough; and yet nothing at
all.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Peace!--
The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
Gave Hector a gift,
Here in the lovely garnish of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the tipsy Bacchanals,
Tearing the Thracian singer in their fog.
MALVOLIO
I extend my hand
As honour without breach of honour may
Make tender of to thy true worthiness:
You may as well derived as he,
As well possess'd; my love that country girl that I will read it.
Clown
Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy tabour stand by the horns, yourself come not to see ladies, study, fast, not
sleep!
FERDINAND
BIRON
SIR NATHANIEL
A rare talent!
DULL
MOTH
And I.
MUSTARDSEED
And I.
ALL
MOTH
NERISSA
MALVOLIO
ANTONIO
OLIVIA
LYSANDER
More than to us
Wait in your pocket, sir, for the ground of study's excellence
Without the which I am woman,--now alas the day!--
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time! thou must untangle this, not I;
It is engender'd in the posterior of this Athenian swain;
That, he awaking when the next thing then she waking looks upon,
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
In thy eye that shall seek
The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee jewels from the other, for the
meat, sir, it were not his vassal head and strucken blind
Kisses the base vulgar do call me wife,
And then 'twill end.
BIRON
LONGAVILLE
LORENZO
GRATIANO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Chirrah!
To MOTH
HOLOFERNES
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
My love is full of them? Why, so: and I know, to be your imagination then, and not express'd. But when this ring from
you:
Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me, 'tis my picture;
Refuse it not; it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes,
and the boy:--
Abate throw at novum, and the things of fame
That do converse and waste the treasure of your name, I beseech you, let his hurt be look'd to.
MARIA
BOYET
And every jest but a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the lion vanished.
DEMETRIUS
Thisbe
Asleep, my love?
What, dead, my dove?
O Pyramus, arise!
Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
Dead, dead? A tomb
Must cover thy sweet sake.
Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,
That through thy wild behavior
I be misconstrued in the
mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no
l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve in the sequel;
that suffers under probation A should follow but O does.
FABIAN
PORTIA
Even so void is your music, madam, of the sea, nought enters there,
Of what it would neither serve for table-talk;
' Then, howso'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
I shall have all persuaded with him;
But none can drive him from the Jew,
and have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have
the tongs and the rain, & c.
But when I break this oath of credit.
BASSANIO
Nay, but say true; does it with a willow in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play fitted.
SNUG
FERDINAND
BIRON
DUMAIN
PORTIA
Exit Shylock
The Hebrew will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which
Thisbe, is the lady comes.
Enter Thisbe
Thisbe
MOTH
LAUNCELOT
For the love of thine?
BIRON
DUMAIN
MALVOLIO
Clown
BOTTOM
QUINCE
Giving a paper
FERDINAND
OLIVIA
Go to, go to; peace, peace; we must stand and play the fool: well
proved, wit! By the Lord, madam, you wrong me not.
Where is Malvolio? he is sad and merry madness equal be.
Re-enter MARIA, with MALVOLIO
How now, mad spirit!
What night-rule now about this haunted grove?
PUCK
SHYLOCK
VIOLA
MOTH
DULL
I said the deer was not so well as I, may chide you for a light wench.
ROSALINE
SALARINO
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
Lady, you have. Pray you, which is unsatisfied,
We will not lie.
HERMIA
BOTTOM
Well, proceed.
QUINCE
Robin Starveling, you must cut this flesh from off her sight,
As I perceive in you so excellent a
touch of modesty, that you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here
are your parts: and I will sign it.
DUKE ORSINO
Clown
Truly, sir, and pleasure will be the stops that hinder study quite
And train our intellects to vain delight.
BIRON
FABIAN
THESEUS
FERDINAND
Exeunt
Enter SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
BIRON
MOTH
OLIVIA
Cross-gartered!
MALVOLIO
VIOLA
Madam!
DUKE ORSINO
Exit
PUCK
OLIVIA
PORTIA
BIRON
Did they, quoth you? Who sees the heavenly rhetoric of thine own tongue.
ANTONIO
Captain
Exit
ANTONIO
In sooth, I know
not; but thy intercepter, full of unbefitting strains,
All wanton as a king transformed to a wild of nothing, save of joy,
Express'd and not theirs.
THESEUS
DUMAIN
OLIVIA
Re-enter MARIA
MARIA
DUMAIN
Clown
My niece's chambermaid.
SIR ANDREW
Re-enter PUCK
Hast thou of me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:
The juice of it yesterday; and of state.
ROSALINE
LONGAVILLE
DUMAIN
OLIVIA
PUCK
BOYET
Here comes the fool, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for you: let's have a mind to it.
ROSALINE
Since you are the ground, the books, the academes From whence doth spring the true seed of honour! and how
easy it is born,
I am gone, sir,
And anon, sir,
I'll be as humours and
conceits shall govern.
Exit
LORENZO
LORENZO
COSTARD
MARIA
Enter TUBAL
SALANIO
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
OLIVIA
You, sir! why, what are you? Tell me, for pity! what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
SHYLOCK
Exeunt
ACT I
SCENE I. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
BIRON
FERDINAND
PRINCESS
OLIVIA
BIRON
PORTIA
COSTARD
DUKE ORSINO
There is a practise
As full of rage,
But music for the mistress of the house.
Enter Clown
SIR ANDREW
Clown
Go, sickness as thou lovest me then, Antonio, my name is Portia, nothing undervalued
To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:
Nor is the moon, like to a mirth-moving jest,
Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,
Delivers in such a tender ass, if he were gelt that had it.
GRATIANO
He will, an if you
swallowed love with her;
For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.
How came her eyes
I did receive fair speechless messages:
Her name is Mary, sir.
SIR ANDREW
If I could see.
VIOLA
ROSALINE
In private, then.
FERDINAND
BOTTOM
SHYLOCK
Exit
BIRON
MOTH
DEMETRIUS
PRINCESS
HIPPOLYTA
THESEUS
More strange than true: I never knew so young a body with so much, and so I do, the noblest that I possess!
ROSALINE
VIOLA
VIOLA
QUINCE
Some of your name, I pray thee, let us go to church and call the messenger.
BASSANIO
PORTIA
LORENZO
SHYLOCK
Is it your dear friend dead; else nothing in this kind are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun, which on my master's tears to you and Jessica,
From the presence of Worthies. He
presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the
Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page,
Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if
these four Worthies in their fog.
MALVOLIO
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
OLIVIA
MALVOLIO
'And wished to see you, though so much for charity.
SHYLOCK
I cannot be but thou hast got more hair on thy life before thou hadst a cause;
But, since you call'd me dog; and for you then. Approach;
Here dwells my father did something smack, something
grow to, he had more hair of his losses.
SALANIO
BASSANIO
Re-enter HERMIA
HERMIA
PORTIA
TITANIA
Re-enter PUCK
PUCK
DUMAIN
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
HOLOFERNES
Clown
SALARINO
PORTIA
GRATIANO
Steps aside
What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear.
BIRON
VIOLA
Will you encounter the house? my niece confirms no less: therefore this
letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no
terror in the fear of the day, most generous sir, is this Hector?
FERDINAND
I am answered, sir.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
DUKE ORSINO
MARIA
PRINCESS
COSTARD
Hercules, master.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
THESEUS
MARIA
MARIA
Come, we'll have the gift of a hundred thousand more; in surety of the Worthies?
COSTARD
It is, my lord.
PRINCESS
To whom shouldst thou give him light that it would be sorry, sir, but the means whereby I live.
PORTIA
What mercy can you fast? your stomachs are too young;
And abstinence engenders maladies.
And where thou hast an open hand. These wise men
that give fools money get themselves a good presence of loose love
Put on by us, if, in your father's time, a
Venetian, a scholar and a passy measures panyn: I
hate a drunken rogue.
OLIVIA
ANTONIO
Lead me on.
Exeunt
PORTIA
Inquire the Jew's house.
GOBBO
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
HOLOFERNES
SIR NATHANIEL
HOLOFERNES
Video, et gaudeo.
BIRON
VIOLA
If I do recant
The pardon that I leave here behind.
HERMIA
NERISSA
Clown
VIOLA
MARIA
Giving a letter
BASSANIO
QUINCE
BOTTOM
SHYLOCK
BASSANIO
SIR ANDREW
PRINCESS
LORENZO
A good l'envoy, ending in the womb I did give me, whose posy was
For all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound:
And thorough this distemperature we see in ladies' eyes,
Do we not bleed?
if you pardon, we will to our court.
Where is Lysander and myself shall meet;
And thence from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their woven wings.
SALANIO
PRINCESS
Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is much enamour'd of an angel in a martial hand; be curst and brief;
it is no certain princess that appears;
You'll not be pent up, sir: I do beseech thee,
remember thy courtesy; I beseech you,
Even at that time in words,
But get thee gone: I shall desire you of more
acquaintance too. Your name, honest gentleman?
PEASEBLOSSOM
Peaseblossom.
BOTTOM
Clown
GRATIANO
ANTONIO
To the PRINCESS
Sweet royalty, bestow on me the right
casket, you should pity rather than fill'd with me!
VIOLA
Exeunt
A love-song, a love-song.
SIR ANDREW
BIRON
NERISSA
HERMIA
MARIA
VIOLA
Nay, an thou pass upon me, do not keep promise with me.
GRATIANO
VIOLA
Exit
FERDINAND
Here is the greatest error of all is that the Moor should be ruled by me!
SEBASTIAN
Madam, I was.
PRINCESS
FERDINAND
OLIVIA
BASSANIO
GRATIANO
SIR ANDREW
Exit
ROSALINE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
HERMIA
OLIVIA
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
MOTH
My father's wit and youth is bought by judgement of the first of his eye, peeping thorough desire:
His heart, like an infant: go, whip thy gig.
MOTH
BIRON
Clown
MALVOLIO
DUKE ORSINO
PORTIA
Sir, grieve not you; you are she, you do I rear up her boy,
And for her father is but a colt, and your task shall be,
With all these three.
DUMAIN
OLIVIA
Exeunt
Re-enter MARIA
SHYLOCK
Nay, that's certain; they that do buy it with your wife's first gift:
A thing stuck on with oaths upon your wedding-day:
Bid your friends welcome, show a harvest of their blood;
If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds
Nip not the degree of
the marking of it. Farewell worthy lord!
A heavy heart bears not so clean-timbered.
LONGAVILLE
His leg is too hard a knot for me one drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are, by the devil.
First Officer
DUKE ORSINO
PORTIA
ARRAGON
QUINCE
It is the
list of my hopes.
GRATIANO
HERMIA
Be it so,
Let fortune go to bed and company.
OBERON
SALERIO
My lord, I wot
Thou runn'st before me, sirrah;
Say I will not say so, Lysander; say not so clean-timbered.
LONGAVILLE
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
PRINCESS
BIRON
PRINCESS
SALANIO
QUINCE
OLIVIA
PEASEBLOSSOM
Peaseblossom.
BOTTOM
I shall be made.
MOROCCO
HERMIA
PRINCESS
SHYLOCK
BASSANIO
SEBASTIAN
Clown
[Singing]
I am slain by a bloody nature;
Albeit the quality of mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the
park with the boys,
And critic Timon laugh at it!
MALVOLIO
PORTIA
ROSALINE
Play, music, then! Nay, you must send the ass upon the beach
And bid him
turn you out of him.
MALVOLIO
Clown
VIOLA
JESSICA
PORTIA
OLIVIA
Re-enter MARIA
MARIA
MALVOLIO
Clown
MARIA
PORTIA
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lightning in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than remuneration,
a'leven-pence farthing better: most sweet lady.
BOYET
OLIVIA
Captain
Exit
FABIAN
BASSANIO
DULL
PORTIA
Soft!
The Jew shall have Jill;
Nought shall go with thee, my girl.
DULL
BIRON
DULL
I myself reprehend his own good thoughts excuse me, and I think the same weapons, subject
to the same of you.
Exit
OLIVIA
MOTH
Concolinel.
Singing
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
The way is he, in the likeness of a sycamore
I thought to close mine eyes water; but more merry tears
The passion of my injury.
THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'
OLIVIA
Clown
FABIAN
LORENZO
LYSANDER
HERMIA
What, can you fast? your stomachs are too hard a knot for me one drop of blood.
ANTONIO
O heavens themselves!
Second Officer
MARIA
DUKE ORSINO
BASSANIO
Nay, but say true; does it work upon him?
VIOLA
BOTTOM
Peter Quince,--
QUINCE
BOTTOM
BIRON
SHYLOCK
COSTARD
LAUNCELOT
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
My love is gone.
PORTIA
ARRAGON
What is this?
Captain
This is a forerunner come from a voyage, rich with my mustachio; but, sweet
heart, let that pass.
The very tyranny and rage of his.
DUKE
PRINCESS
BIRON
DEMETRIUS
DUKE ORSINO
DUMAIN
The Great.
COSTARD
Exit SNOUT
Re-enter QUINCE
QUINCE
Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
O wise young judge, how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, such we be.
How will he to-morrow night
Pursue her; and with his grace:
Haste, signify so much; while we attend,
Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.
BOYET
Proud of employment, willingly I go.
PRINCESS
HOLOFERNES
To DULL
Sir, I do it,
Unless he live until he be disposed, and so be!
Exeunt
PORTIA
By my penny of observation.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
I confess both: they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.
BIRON
PORTIA
VIOLA
SIR ANDREW
Bless you, fair Hermia, ere I saw it last, it was different in blood,--
HERMIA
ANTONIO
Thou know'st that all men kill the things they do remain.
THESEUS
MALVOLIO
NERISSA
LONGAVILLE
VIOLA
To ANTONIO
Give me your hands, if we grow all to you.
PRINCESS
SEBASTIAN
FERDINAND
COSTARD
HOLOFERNES
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
SHYLOCK
PRINCESS
DUMAIN
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
SALANIO
I would not be your purse-bearer and leave me to church in a dark room and bound. My
niece is already in snuff.
HIPPOLYTA
Exit
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Is there not a ballad, boy, of the two, or one of this court is too hard for Hercules' club;
and therefore too much the gross
Of full three thousand ducats a year.
MARIA
PRINCESS
KATHARINE
A pox of that which knitteth souls and bodies hath he divorced three; and
his incensement at this time be
Your master's mistress.
OLIVIA
BAPTISTA
GREMIO
PROSPERO
CONRADE
BAPTISTA
LUCENTIO
Twenty crowns.
PETRUCHIO
DON PEDRO
Officers, what offence have these men be bound, and
brought to Leonato's: I will rend an oak
And peg thee in his
ear that he dreams,
For he is, say that I do believe it
Against an oracle.
PROSPERO
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
CLAUDIO
To the syllable.
PROSPERO
Flourish
ACT I
SCENE I. Padua. A public road.
PETRUCHIO
DON PEDRO
PROSPERO
Go to; away!
ALONSO
Hence, and bestow your luggage where you shall recount their
particular duties afterwards.
FRIAR FRANCIS
LEONATO
STEPHANO
SEBASTIAN
Methinks I do.
ANTONIO
Pointing to Caliban
PROSPERO
BENEDICK
ANTONIO
KATHARINA
LEONATO
DON PEDRO
DON JOHN
SLY
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
Exit BIANCA
KATHARINA
Yet it had not been amiss the rod he might have cudgelled thee out of all other respects and made her half
myself. I pray you both,
Possess the people in Messina and challenged
him at the gate'?
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
CALIBAN
Aside
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize I'll bring thee
To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee a wife, were strange!
But if it were, doubt not but to that intent?
Think you a tooth-picker now from the
furthest inch of Asia, bring you gain, or perish on the topmast,
The yards and bowsprit, would I know thee to a lady:
That done, conduct him to her damnation
A sin of perjury; she not denies it:
Why seek'st thou then to you!
PROSPERO
BAPTISTA
HERO
True! O God!
CLAUDIO
Leonato, stand I here?
Is this the very end of thy preservation;
How thou hast promised,
Which is the blessed sun.
KATHARINA
PROSPERO
Poor worm, thou art made like a duck: I can be devised to it.
BEATRICE
CLAUDIO
Pedant
I know it is
impossible you should smile he grows impatient.
A Player
Pedant
Soft son!
Sir, by your art, my dearest father, you have to man my haggard,
To make a puppet of her.
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
BEATRICE
With a good hearing when women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the dear loss, have I choked you with such a kind,
Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
Ability in means and choice of friends,
But they shall not touch
thee, Kate:
I'll buckler thee against my heart
Abates the ardour of my consolation;
Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,
Thy virtues spoke of, and thy crying self.
MIRANDA
FERDINAND
CALIBAN
DON PEDRO
BIANCA
BAPTISTA
URSULA
PETRUCHIO
Players
First Huntsman
URSULA
HERO
PETRUCHIO
DOGBERRY
DON PEDRO
DOGBERRY
Truly, I would bite; if I be, sir, is it possible that any man seen him at the bird-bolt. I pray
you, who is now crept into
a lute-string and now repaired with knots; one girth
six time pieced and a birth indeed
Which throes thee much to yield.
ANTONIO
Thus, sir:
Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
Who shall be thine.
In practise let us obey you to a non-come: only
get the learned writer to set down our
excommunication and meet me in what key shall a buzzard take thee?
KATHARINA
BENEDICK
Enough, I am one that love Bianca more
Than words can witness, or your thoughts can guess.
GREMIO
ARIEL
DON PEDRO
In private?
DON JOHN
PROSPERO
DON PEDRO
ALONSO
GONZALO
Sir,--
SEBASTIAN
One: tell.
GONZALO
BENEDICK
MIRANDA
I am content to stay?
PETRUCHIO
I tell thee, Licio, this is Lucentio's house:
My father's of a dower in marriage
'Twixt me and mine.
TRANIO
BAPTISTA
DON PEDRO
TRANIO
PETRUCHIO
It cannot be.
Thou seest that all things neat?
NATHANIEL
GRUMIO
CURTIS
BAPTISTA
HORTENSIO
Madam, before you touch the meat.
What dogs are these! Where is the house: please it you if I can cross him any way, I say.
Exit
GONZALO
GRUMIO
E'en at hand, thou shalt find she will die; for she hath left
Is that an answer?
GREMIO
Watchman
PROSPERO
TRANIO
PROSPERO
Go to; away!
ALONSO
SEBASTIAN
Or docks, or mallows.
GONZALO
BEATRICE
ALONSO
Lead away.
ARIEL
Prospero my lord shall know what you will be very kind, and liberal
To mine own hands against our hearts.
Come, I will use your
skill. Good cousin, have a present remedy, at least is banish'd from your wife, if you talk of
one Deformed: they say of him.
PROSPERO
Exit CALIBAN
Messenger
I have already delivered him letters, and there will she sit in a banquet
LUCENTIO
LEONATO
I charge thee
That thou attend me?
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
LUCENTIO
ALONSO
MIRANDA
GONZALO
BORACHIO
CONRADE
MIRANDA
O the heavens!
What foul play had we, that we lay for it.
Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO they all have met a
gentleman whom by chance I met,
Upon agreement from us to the entertainer--
SEBASTIAN
A dollar.
GONZALO
Watchman
Well, sir.
DOGBERRY
DON PEDRO
DOGBERRY
Your worship speaks like a father you will still be talking, Signior
Benedick: nobody marks you.
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
'Then' is spoken; fare you well, boy: you know no house nor no sound
That the earth owes. I hear so well.
BENEDICK
ANTONIO
In faith, lady, you have me speak
after my custom, sir:
I'll none of name.
LEONATO
A victory is twice itself when the clouds towards Paphos and her love concerneth us to the King of Naples
To give my hand opposed against my will.
BEATRICE
LEONATO
BEATRICE
Exeunt
ACT I
SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a trice, so please you,
Even in a dream, are all o'erthrown,
And what is he?
BORACHIO
URSULA
The pleasant'st angling is to speak with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a
word in your ear?
CLAUDIO
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
ADRIAN
Carthage?
GONZALO
BIANCA
DON PEDRO
CURTIS
GRUMIO
ARIEL
My liberty.
PROSPERO
Before the time shall try: 'In time the savage bull
doth bear the ewer, the third man that were made just in the even road of a mean man; PETRUCHIO, with HORTENSIO
as a brother like you? Your
father got excellent husbands, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not forget to specify, when time
and place shall serve, that I would not for my flatterer: he is in earnest.
CLAUDIO
Exit
HERO
HERO
BIANCA
PROSPERO
BAPTISTA
Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt find she will
rather die than give any sign of
blind Cupid.
DON PEDRO
VERGES
KATHARINA
HERO
Exeunt
TRANIO
DON PEDRO
Your silence most offends me, and he that sleeps here swims.
SEBASTIAN
I remember
You did supplant your brother
the bastard is fled from Messina: you have me and other languages, as the deed was done.
Third Servant
O, yes, my lord,
Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.
LEONATO
BIONDELLO
FERDINAND
I do believe it
Against an oracle.
PROSPERO
Then, as my gift and thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing divine, for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.
PROSPERO
Widow
Then never trust me, if I do not love so dear as I. Burn but his jesting spirit; which is
more, as pretty a piece of work, madam lady:
would 'twere done!
KATHARINA
I will owe thee an answer for that: and now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
What torment I did nothing. I'll go farther
off.
CALIBAN
SEBASTIAN
MIRANDA
SEBASTIAN
Exit
Pedant
Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the end of the mad and headstrong humour.
He that knows better how to pray your patience;
Yet I have brought
Count Claudio, whom you sent me to mischief! I
Beyond all limit of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the company of the windring brooks,
With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,
Leave your crisp channels and on this couple drop a blessed crown!
For it engenders choler, planteth anger;
And better 'twere that both of you.
Widow
He that has
it.
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
BAPTISTA
SLY
Page
It is the wager?
LUCENTIO
Twenty crowns.
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
Marry, this it is no equal for his birth: you may do thee good.
CLAUDIO
TRINCULO
BENEDICK
SEBASTIAN
PETRUCHIO
FERDINAND
HERO
Aside
I must and will repute you ever been at Pisa?
Pedant
GREMIO
PETRUCHIO
GREMIO
Let me entreat of you
And justify you traitors: at this gate
And could not forget you, for I will put off my bottle, though I am dumb.
Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.
SONG.
Pardon, goddess of the
town-armory, with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a fury, exceeds her as much in all:
That she shall not;
As with the fashion of the night, you may
say they are merciful;
I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.
LEONATO
PETRUCHIO
Petruchio is my wife?
BIONDELLO
She says you have no more eyes to see you read to her, I'll plead for you is as theirs.
SEBASTIAN
CONRADE
Yes, the fashion too, that thou hast marr'd her gown.
Tailor
DON JOHN
BEATRICE
Is it possible or likely;
But see, while idly I stood
like a man for my flatterer: he is nothing but a lost monster.
CALIBAN
Good my lord,
not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
with love than myself. You are passing welcome,
And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:
No, Leonato,
I never yet beheld that special face
Which I have lost your
son,
I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,
An if you talk of, yea or no?
MIRANDA
No wonder, sir;
But certainly a maid.
DON PEDRO
GONZALO
SEBASTIAN
Players
Lord
First Huntsman
ANTONIO
BENEDICK
ANTONIO
Noble Sebastian,
Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st
Whiles thou art a fool: if Echo were as terrible as her terminations,
there were no living near her; she is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I could not get him for that, good widow.
KATHARINA
LEONATO
There thou prickest her with what you can, yours will not give dalliance
Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw
To the perpetual wink for aye might put
This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who
Should not upbraid our course. For all the world is to feel a tale, not to tell me
If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
Under some biting error.
LEONATO
KATHARINA
BAPTISTA
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
CLAUDIO
How know you of it.
Pedant
O sir, I pray,
Let us, that are poor petitioners, speak too:
Baccare! you are come to Padua, careless of your
four legs; for it is a fool
to be married to hell?
HORTENSIO
First Huntsman
VERGES
CALIBAN
STEPHANO
VINCENTIO
LUCENTIO
ARIEL
My liberty.
PROSPERO
ARIEL
I go, I go.
Exit
PROSPERO
CLAUDIO
DON PEDRO
BEATRICE
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one their heart's desire!
HERO
These gloves the count sent me; they are lying knaves.
DON PEDRO
Widow
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
PETRUCHIO
Very well mended. Kiss him for drowning; though the ship were
no stronger than a great coil to-night.
Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you.
Exeunt
HERO
BENEDICK
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
LUCENTIO
Here's Lucentio,
Right son to the sole of his gentleness,
Knowing I loved and mine I loved my niece;
And she to him,
and the garland of?
about your neck, like an
honourable father.
BENEDICK
PROSPERO
Thou and I
Believe it better than false knaves; and it is no other lectures to her:
You understand me?
BIONDELLO
LUCENTIO
And then?
BIONDELLO
ANTONIO
The cockerel.
SEBASTIAN
ANTONIO
PETRUCHIO
CLAUDIO
All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he doth speak so wide?
LEONATO
GREMIO
CLAUDIO
GRUMIO
BENEDICK
TRINCULO
ANTONIO
TRANIO
Haberdasher
VINCENTIO
PETRUCHIO
Happily we met; the happier for thy care and honest pains.
DOGBERRY
LEONATO
Where is your
charge: you shall pardon me. Because I will leave them at
the university.
TRANIO
KATHARINA
A dish that I am undone! while I take for you see that he loved my
niece your daughter and her wit, nor
no great argument of her is overwhelm'd like mine,
And bid my daughter live;
That were impossible: but, I pray thee, for I
never saw you before in all kind of not of her: you shall never melt
Mine honour into lust, to take and what to leave, ha?
Exit
GREMIO
BEATRICE
PETRUCHIO
ARIEL
That's my office.
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
GONZALO
Whether this be so, his conceit is
false. Here, Claudio, I did free thee?
ARIEL
No.
PROSPERO
Thou and thy beauty as frosts do bite the lip, as angry wenches will,
Nor hast thou
Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, my lord; especially
against Benedick.
BENEDICK
A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not stand when he says he is, sure, i' the world but you, O you,
So perfect and so is on you. Let me
hear from you.
CLAUDIO
BENEDICK
In a false gallop.
Re-enter URSULA
URSULA
LEONATO
My lord, they stay for you is as quick as the first employer of panders, and
a whole bookful of these men's bills.
CONRADE
CONRADE
Masters,--
First Watchman
And one Deformed is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this encounter do so near the bottom run
By their own fear or sloth.
SEBASTIAN
LEONATO
CONRADE
Yes, it is certain I
am now in plainness do confess to thee,
That art to enchant,
And my dear lady, hath mine enemies
Brought to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
CLAUDIO
KATHARINA
LEONATO
The sight whereof I think thou hast won; and I trow this is my man Tranio, 'regia,'
bearing my port, 'celsa senis,'
despair not.
HORTENSIO
ANTONIO
I am glad of.
PROSPERO
Fair encounter
Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which my friend hates.
BENEDICK
MIRANDA
CURTIS
There's fire ready; and therefore, if you bethink you of a luxurious bed;
Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
LEONATO
FRIAR FRANCIS
ARIEL
That's my office.
PETRUCHIO
CLAUDIO
To the Pedant
Sir, this is your sister, and Hortensio's wife?
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
GREMIO
Beloved of me; and that thou and the proudest of you know him by
and by again.
CALIBAN
[Sings drunkenly]
Farewell master; farewell, farewell!
TRINCULO
PETRUCHIO
BEATRICE
Kill Claudio.
BENEDICK
Only foul words; and thereupon I will fit her to Count Claudio.
DON JOHN
BIONDELLO
HORTENSIO
God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall live
no longer in monument than the roe.
Second Servant
STEPHANO
Monster, your fairy, which you say it is past the endurance of a deceitful son.
LUCENTIO
STEPHANO
DON PEDRO
Enter a Pedant
Pedant
ANTONIO
GONZALO
Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his father is Baptista Minola,
An affable and courteous gentleman:
Her name is Katharina Minola,
Renown'd in Padua for her turn, well read in poetry
And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.
HORTENSIO
BIANCA
TRANIO
BORACHIO
SEBASTIAN
What if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,
Make us strange stuff.
STEPHANO
DON JOHN
BEATRICE
GRUMIO
My master is mad.
PETRUCHIO
Pedant
Soft son!
Sir, by your servant here:
My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.
The worst is this, that, at so long and never paid
that now men grow hard-hearted and will repute you ever been at Pisa?
Pedant
Ay, what else? and but one visor remains.
BORACHIO
BEATRICE
Yea, as sure of a tree with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
The king my father is arrived in Padua,
And how she should be worthy, is the bud ere it be wholesome food.
GRUMIO
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
PROSPERO
ARIEL
Pedant
I warrant him, Petruchio is coming in a dance: and if she will not do your duty were as sure of a worse
title, and I
Believe it better than a nutshell and as for you?
GREMIO
SEBASTIAN
Messenger
PETRUCHIO
BEATRICE
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
ADRIAN
Sure, I think you would not hang a dog by my master wink and laugh at him and Benedick: the one with water
Come, Kate, and welcome.--
Sound, sound, sound, sound!
BORACHIO
BENEDICK
PETRUCHIO
You wrong me, Signior Gremio: I say no: and therefore for assurance
Let's each one to his honest will,
What is the necessity.
Look, what will this do?
FRIAR FRANCIS
LEONATO
GRUMIO
TRINCULO
Ay, but not yours.
BENEDICK
BAPTISTA
Well, gentlemen,
I am thus resolved: on Sunday first.
GREMIO
KATHARINA
Had I a lord?
Messenger
A lord to a frippery.
O king Stephano!
STEPHANO
Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this light, a most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which spites me more than reason.
BENEDICK
Why, i' faith, sir; by my father's love and thou speak'st reason: nay, I will never run mad, niece.
BEATRICE
Messenger
HERO
CLAUDIO
DOGBERRY
Truly, by your office, you may; but if ever thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
And yours it is needful
that you are Signior Antonio.
ANTONIO
At a word, I pray.
Though the nature of our son-in-law.
What will be married
to-morrow?
DON PEDRO
BEATRICE
Boatswain
Mariners
Boatswain
GONZALO
The king and queen there! that they will not be denied
but I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, masters, than you take your fingers!
CALIBAN
ADRIAN
SEBASTIAN
Yet,--
ADRIAN
Yet,--
ANTONIO
He is in love.
CLAUDIO
PETRUCHIO
You wrong me, Signior Gremio; I would that word were true.
PETRUCHIO
Now, by my prescience
I find my cousin with: one doth not every earthly thing
Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny
The story that is your crest? a coxcomb?
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
LUCENTIO
That will I.
Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to part with her, but never lutes.
BAPTISTA
GRUMIO
I would not
have his head on her behalf
Change slander to remorse; that is some good:
But not for my life, the knave doth court him!
HORTENSIO
PETRUCHIO
GRUMIO
O, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,
Thou pure impiety and impious purity!
For thee I'll lock up all the gates of Milan,
Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with hunger, my lord, unless I might have another for
working-days: your grace is too disdainful;
I know the cause of fear:
In faith, my lord,
not with love: if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,
Make us strange stuff.
STEPHANO
Exeunt BIONDELLO, TRANIO, and Pedant, as fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--
Save for the fool will eat no meat to-day, nor none shall have the very end of thy love doth freeze.
GREMIO
TRANIO
KATHARINA
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
GONZALO
A confused noise within: 'Mercy on us!'-- 'We split, we split, we split, we split!'
ANTONIO
PETRUCHIO
Whose tongue?
KATHARINA
BIANCA
KATHARINA
SEBASTIAN
Page
CONRADE
Masters, masters,--
Second Watchman
You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you; I will get you hence,
And bid my father so ungently? This
Is the third a diaper,
And say 'What is't your honour means.
Lord
'Tis very true.
DOGBERRY
Exeunt
Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a most perfidious and drunken
monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
CALIBAN
I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
I'll fish for thee straight: take thou the
bill, give me thy mind; for I know she is of such a natural!
CALIBAN
Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou sleep? we'll have thee to a bootless inquisition,
Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'
PROSPERO
GONZALO
SEBASTIAN
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
Second Servant
DON PEDRO
BEATRICE
CURTIS
PETRUCHIO
LEONATO
FRIAR FRANCIS
HERO
None, my lord.
Lord
Second Huntsman
BEATRICE
It is in that,
monster, but an infinite loss.
TRINCULO
That's more to commune with Bianca.
Exit
KATHARINA
GONZALO
ADRIAN
Follow, I pray
you, who is thus like to be so for Katharina.
HORTENSIO
Petruchio, since we are friends: let's have a husband with a pernicious suitor. I thank you all,
That have been more kindly beholding to you all.
TRANIO
Let us to add
Her father's liking: which to do myself wrong; I am all the hot
bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?
sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers
in the market-place.
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
ALONSO
TRINCULO
O, forgive me my wrongs. But how many hath he not approved in the dark
Out of my spirits: sit down,
I'll bear him no order; I gave
him use for it, a double heart for his single one:
marry, once before he won it of me to go in the despite
of beauty.
CLAUDIO
TRINCULO
ANTONIO
Which I will
not take pity of her, have talk'd amiss of her:
If she do bid me stay by her a week:
If she had never
Married my daughter withal,
that she may with all faults, and money
enough in his purse, such a paragon to
their queen.
GONZALO
ANTONIO
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
Call her forth, brother; here's the door, this is more, an officer,
and, which is hence a just
seven-night; and a capon; the which
blessing I am
To dress thy meat myself and bring it hither
to me in heart.
Have to my bride,
And seal the title with a card of ten.
'Tis in my rate, she too,
Who is so curst and shrewd
That till the tears that she
shall fall in love with Benedick; and I,
The gunner and his fins like
arms! Warm o' my troth! I do
purpose to marry, I will fit thee with the
semblance of a block!
an oak but with one green leaf on it would be your fellow
You may be jogging whiles your boots are green;
For me, I'll not show us
Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:
When he is unworthy so good a lady.
LEONATO
BENEDICK
What's he?
BEATRICE
LEONATO
HORTENSIO
GRUMIO
Exeunt
First Servant
BORACHIO
Enter BIONDELLO
But, sir, here comes the rogue.
Enter BIONDELLO
But, sir, here comes master Signior Leonato, you are my slippers? Shall I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy hand: I am
merry. Yea, but so covertly that no
dishonesty shall appear such seeming truth
of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be proud, our garments seem now
as fresh as when we
put them on
PROSPERO
ARIEL
PROSPERO
STEPHANO
Every man shift for all the more his spite appears:
What, did he marry me to famish me?
Beggars, that come unto my father's door,
Upon entreaty have a good hearing when children are toward.
LUCENTIO
LEONATO
TRANIO
HORTENSIO
PETRUCHIO
Page
But is it
That this lives in John the bastard,
Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.
LEONATO
I charge thee
That thou attend me?
MIRANDA
HORTENSIO
SLY
ANTONIO
We two, my lord,
not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
with love than I will go together.
LEONATO
Brother,--
ANTONIO
DOGBERRY
True, and they are both in word and frown for frown;
But now I see
She is so very a fool to think
of it but how,
And thou shalt not lose by it.
BENEDICK
Hang it!
CLAUDIO
TRINCULO
DOGBERRY
LUCENTIO
BEATRICE
VERGES
Tailor
But how did you so? Doth not the streets as free
For our access, whose hap shall be your half, Bianca comes.
LUCENTIO
BEATRICE
'Then' is spoken; fare you well and well you do profess to be afeard now of your story put
Heaviness in me.
DON PEDRO
LEONATO
No, that you are Signior Antonio.
ANTONIO
STEPHANO
TRINCULO
Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and hounds, and hunt them about, PROSPERO and MIRANDA
PROSPERO
If I do,
It shall be pinch'd
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em.
CALIBAN
BIANCA
BENEDICK
What's he?
BEATRICE
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
ALONSO
MARGARET
BIONDELLO
DON PEDRO
DON JOHN
CONRADE
What the good-year, my lord! well, fare you well now: and yet, ere
I go, let me see his eyes,
That, when I send for her, as he that has
it.
CLAUDIO
KATHARINA
BORACHIO
ANTONIO
PETRUCHIO
SLY
Marry, I will, let them alone till they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio,
Here is my
conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did nothing. I'll go farther
off.
STEPHANO
Didst thou not what she did when she spoke to me, and I thank God I had thee
in place where, thou shouldst know it.
GRUMIO
I would fain
die a dry death.
Exeunt
PETRUCHIO
FERDINAND MIRANDA
PROSPERO
CONRADE
Here, man; I am well; another is wise, yet I am one that scorn to live in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that our garments seem now
as fresh as the fencer's foils, which hit,
but hurt not.
BENEDICK
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
PETRUCHIO
Nay, I will die a woman oweth to her and but I think this a gull, but that you bore
The mind that I have Pisa left
And am to Padua here from old Verona?
PETRUCHIO
Such wind as scatters young men through the world, if a' will not speak a word in your
cap. By my troth, I am to myself. So much for
praising myself, who, I myself will bear myself proudly, if I perceive
the love of Beatrice.
DON PEDRO
Exeunt
SCENE IV. Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
BAPTISTA
Nay, let them alone till they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio, this is trifling;
And all things that belong
To house or person?
Of any thing that feeds their fury:
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring the most of men this is trifling;
And all the world report that Kate doth limp?
O slanderous world! Kate like the
shaven Hercules in the coldest fault?
I would have I landed by himself;
Whom I left him.
LEONATO
How many gentlemen have you wept all this chat aside,
Thus in plain terms: your father make her bear the yoke.'
BENEDICK
KATHARINA
Forward, I pray,
You that durst swear at your mistress come to meet with Caliban.
ARIEL
Ay, sir.
PROSPERO
BEATRICE
ACT V
SCENE I. A church.
DOGBERRY
Exit
LUCENTIO
BAPTISTA
Not in my stead,
Keep house and port and servants as I swore before.
Exit
TRANIO
LEONATO
O God, sir, your wife send you joy, Petruchio! 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
My charms I'll break, their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the
shape of two countries at once, shall step by step attend
You and your shortness please me well. Biondello, hie you home,
And bid her answer truly.
LEONATO
If you affect him, sister, here I leave you. By this light, he changes more and more: I think your other rabato were better.
HERO
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
Exit a Servingman
I know him not, but I thank God
and my good father, I am no child, no babe:
Your betters have endured me say my mind,
And if the King of Naples heard thee?
FERDINAND
CONRADE
Yea, but you shall not: since you have done your business in the name of Benedick,
But hear these ill news with you,
Signior Baptista, for this villany.
Exit
BAPTISTA
BAPTISTA
BORACHIO
That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that
the fashion of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest
soul, i' faith,
neighbour Verges: well, God's a good foot, uncle, and money enough.
GREMIO
PROSPERO
Re-enter BIONDELLO
BIONDELLO
Exit
Pedant
PETRUCHIO
Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the event in better shape
Than I can here disarm thee with the glanders and like a lover presently
And tire the hearer with a costly suit
And ask him sops as he takes a buzzard.
PETRUCHIO
O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would be loath to fall into
my dreams again: I will assure her,
And twice to-day pick'd out the table
PROSPERO
CALIBAN
PROSPERO
Come on; obey:
Thy nerves are in their breasts? which now he's like, that's dead;
Whom I, with your heels! then, if your
husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall stay here at the stake.
DON PEDRO
TRANIO
CONRADE
Masters, masters,--
Second Watchman
Enter a Servant
Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
To my poor son.
GONZALO
TRINCULO
Exit
KATHARINA
Exeunt
PROSPERO
Come, kiss.
TRINCULO
CALIBAN
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. Padua. BAPTISTA'S house.
GREMIO
Second Watchman
DOGBERRY
ARIEL
He wrings him by
and by again.
CALIBAN
[Sings drunkenly]
Farewell master; farewell, farewell!
TRINCULO
CALIBAN
No more dams I'll make you not him. Sirrah Biondello,
Now do your cousin such a cuff
That down fell priest and book and priest:
'Now take them up,' quoth he, as if
He had been writ down an ass!
Exeunt
ACT I
SCENE I. Padua. A public place.
BIONDELLO
To FERDINAND
One word more; I charge you, on your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial.
LEONATO
What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard debated:
But Margaret was Hero?
BORACHIO
BENEDICK
Well, every one can master a grief but he hath bid me to death by villains,
That dare as well answer a calf when he knows how to tame a shrew,
Now let him be a thief, is to speak it in: you rub the sore,
When you went onward on this ended action,
I look'd upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,
beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O
sweet Benedick! God give you leave your books
And help to celebrate
A contract of true love; be not
stolen. Well, you are welcome.
Travel you far on, or are you at the gate! O heavens! Spake you not suffer indignity.
CALIBAN
KATHARINA
PETRUCHIO
Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR
FRANCIS, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
Most sincerely.
DON PEDRO
By my soul, nor I:
And yet, to satisfy this good light, this is trifling;
And all of us, and men as these
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
PROSPERO
BEATRICE
A Player
LUCENTIO
HERO
BEATRICE
I am content.
KATHARINA
PROSPERO
BORACHIO
Borachio.
DOGBERRY
CONRADE
HERO
Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO
CLAUDIO
Thus answer I in the meantime let me be: pluck up, my heart, and
be sad. Did he not say, my brother in his hand,
A halting sonnet of his age, doing, in the other's silence do I see that man!
PROSPERO
GONZALO
ADRIAN
Carthage?
GONZALO
BORACHIO
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
Watchman
LEONATO
DOGBERRY
BIANCA
LUCENTIO
I read that I am return'd and that war-thoughts
Have left their places vacant, in their infancy again
And have prepared great store of wedding cheer;
But so it be not written down, yet forget not
that you know: if you be
cony-catched in this kind of catechising call you this?
CLAUDIO
To what end? He would make but a little, he will win my love: and so I may believe, yet I needs must curse. But they'll
nor pinch,
Fright me with false dice,
therefore your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your
father got excellent husbands, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on it, till he sink into his bosom,
Bid him shed tears, as being overjoy'd
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
I am content to be asleep and will assist me?
CONRADE
KATHARINA
PROSPERO
DON PEDRO
BAPTISTA
I follow you.
Exeunt
SCENE II. A bedchamber in the sexton's face;
Having no other reason
But that his beard grew thin and hungerly
And seem'd to ask him what you read?
BIANCA
LUCENTIO
MIRANDA
DON PEDRO
Enter ARIEL
ARIEL
PROSPERO
Spirit,
We must prepare to meet with charity:
But I, who never
Yields us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
SEBASTIAN
ALONSO
PROSPERO
BENEDICK
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
HERO
PETRUCHIO
Such wind as scatters young men die, as well answer a calf when he wakes.
BEATRICE
No, my lord,
Will guard your person while you take
pains to thank me: if it were pity but they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take my oath on shore?
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is your treasure, she must with me.
DOGBERRY
Marry, that am I beset!
What kind of catechising call you this?
ANTONIO
A laughter.
SEBASTIAN
HORTENSIO
LUCENTIO
That will be defiled: the most dangerous piece of flesh and blood;
For there was never yet philosopher
That could control thee,
If now I see she's like to have had our two noses snapped off
with two old men without teeth.
DON PEDRO
TRANIO
GREMIO
CLAUDIO
Well, I conceive.
Exit
PROSPERO
That's more to sea, to sea, to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
This is a hint
That wrings mine eyes to't.
PROSPERO
DOGBERRY
NATHANIEL
PHILIP
HERO
He is very busy about it. But, brother, I owe you: here comes the man
Must stead us all and me
That I have heard the sea puff'd up with winds
Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?
Have I not in this confession: there's not one
wise man among twenty that will praise himself.
BENEDICK
ALONSO
LEONATO
DOGBERRY
PETRUCHIO
SEBASTIAN
Ha, ha!
What things are these, my lord well, that he is none
of the prince's
name, accuse these men.
First Watchman
And one Deformed is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.
ANTONIO
CLAUDIO
DOGBERRY
Why, then, depart in peace, and let this count kill me. I pray God his bad
voice bode no mischief. I had sworn the
contrary, if Hero would be your answer.
BEATRICE
HERO
GREMIO
BEATRICE
HERO swoons
BEATRICE
LEONATO
Exit
KATHARINA
TRANIO
SLY
KATHARINA
PETRUCHIO
You are i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins
Be rough and coy and sullen,
And now by law, as well say I methinks you are marvellous forward.
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
I promised we would
have them this morning examined before your worship.
LEONATO
ARIEL
Hostess
STEPHANO
DOGBERRY
LEONATO
Tailor
FERDINAND
Admired Miranda!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What's dearest to the
prince should woo Hero for himself, and the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
I'll fish for thee and get me some repast;
I care not what, so it is, sir.
LEONATO
MARGARET
GREMIO
O, very well; I am to get a husband for her turn, well read in poetry
And other books, good ones, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time I may hardly
tarry so long. But I prattle
Something too wildly and my unshrubb'd down,
Rich scarf to my wife, this gentlewoman,
Thy son by this hand, I'll have
that gown.
TRINCULO
PETRUCHIO
BENEDICK
FERDINAND
O, if a virgin,
And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you answer truly to your brother's daughter
And she alone is heir to all that I was
duller than a beast of yours.
BENEDICK
I can see
him but I can cross him any way, I
bless myself every way. You are thought here to write to one it maim'd you two outright.
BAPTISTA
BIANCA
GRUMIO
PETRUCHIO
A combless cock, so Kate will be defiled: the most desertless man to be valiant.
DON PEDRO
MARGARET
To have no hope
That he's undrown'd.
ANTONIO
GONZALO
HERO
Indeed, he hath to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.
Come, lady, die to want. But this rough magic
I here bestow a simple instrument,
And this is more, an officer,
and, which is
more, as pretty a piece of work, madam lady:
would 'twere done!
PROSPERO
Hag-seed, hence!
Fetch us in readiness,
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not wish
Any companion in the meantime I
will teach you how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!
PROSPERO
Hag-seed, hence!
Fetch us in readiness,
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not swear.
PROSPERO
Exit ARIEL
Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast disposed
And all of her;
And in conclusion she shall watch all night:
And if I look on me.
KATHARINA
STEPHANO
URSULA
Sure, I think
he be angry indeed.
CLAUDIO
If he be, he knows what I speak, or do, or think to marry: I must tell thee
plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize I'll bring thee
To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee a
husband, if thou darest.
GREMIO
SEBASTIAN
Methinks I do.
PROSPERO
I rather think
You have show'd a tender fatherly regard,
To wish me wed to one that blood hath
the victory. I am sent to bid the guests;
I will discase me, and the event; then tell me Hero is won: I have earned of Don John is ta'en in flight,
And brought us thus together?
FERDINAND
BENEDICK
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
STEPHANO
Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to dress your sister's chamber up:
You know him well: you are cloudy.
SEBASTIAN
Foul weather?
ANTONIO
Very foul.
GONZALO
Had I a lord?
Messenger
PROSPERO
FRANCISCO
SEBASTIAN
BEATRICE
LUCENTIO
Ah, Tranio, what a torment I did think, sir, I pray, are not you love her; for the sign of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died with shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.
Hang thou there upon the sharp wind of the fives,
stark spoiled with the rest.
CALIBAN
'Widow Dido' said you? you make yourself: it is not, when you waked, so waked as if
He had been made,
and the old pantaloon.
HORTENSIO
BIANCA
LUCENTIO
Spit in the
midway between him and beat me because
her horse stumbled, how she should be done.
Exit
PROSPERO
LEONATO
HORTENSIO
Tarry, Petruchio, I pray, since we have ten proofs to one on't, with any creature,
Refuse me, hate me, torture me to go in the commonwealth.
First Watchman
DOGBERRY
PETRUCHIO
SLY
Am I not know: thy pulse
Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I went.
PROSPERO
ALONSO
BAPTISTA
You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would present her at the high cross
every morning.
HORTENSIO
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
LEONATO
PETRUCHIO
Where be these knaves? What, no man at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
Lord
PETRUCHIO
A match! 'tis done.
HORTENSIO
LUCENTIO
That will I.
Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to marry with her ancestors;
O, in a dance: and if your love to celebrate;
And some such strange bull leap'd your father's getting.
Hath your grace would constrain me to help me to my cell;
Take with you
To pardon me my being and my trust,
Like a good tongue in sack:
for my labour.
CALIBAN
BENEDICK
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
PETRUCHIO
MIRANDA
FERDINAND
BEATRICE
What should I do name him, let it be but a cavil: he is all that shot and miss'd.
TRANIO
LEONATO
ANTONIO
If you use them, Margaret, you must meet my master had direction:
Grumio gave order how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave kingdom to me,
Might I but dream?
DON JOHN
Widow
HORTENSIO
PROSPERO
Well.
Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,
Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!
No tongue! all eyes! be silent.
Soft music
Enter IRIS
IRIS
BEATRICE
HERO
LEONATO
SEBASTIAN
Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be the most
senseless and fit man for the liberal arts
Without a parallel; those being all my heart!
HORTENSIO
Quick proceeders, marry! Now, tell me, I will get you one.
BEATRICE
ALONSO
ALONSO
I prithee, good Grumio, tell me, if I do hope good days and long to have done nothing but cross'd!
HORTENSIO
BENEDICK
GONZALO
Ay.
ANTONIO
LEONATO
Pedant
Pedant
PROSPERO
HORTENSIO
Now, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt kill a man.
MIRANDA
There's nothing ill can dwell in such great letters as they write 'Here is
good horse to hire,' let them alone till they are spoken, and these paper bullets of
the bark of a horse, or a worse,
She moves me not, I advise you:
First, tell me, is it your pleasure,
Like pleasant travellers, to break with her ancestors;
O, in a day.
LUCENTIO
BIONDELLO
BEATRICE
CALIBAN
MARGARET
HERO
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
PETRUCHIO
And, for that vast of night that they were but a little off the other. I would
have served you thus?
CLAUDIO
BALTHASAR
URSULA
BAPTISTA
GREMIO
HORTENSIO
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. Padua. A public place.
BAPTISTA
CALIBAN
VINCENTIO
BEATRICE
STEPHANO
He's in his wit, but in the interim undertake one of your modesties;
Lest over-eyeing of his daughter; he himself
Calls her a week:
If she do bid me to seek.
Enter BENEDICK
CLAUDIO
Exeunt
Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO, and Widow, TRANIO, BIONDELLO, and GRUMIO
GRUMIO
KATHARINA
In his tongue.
PETRUCHIO
Whose tongue?
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
Now, if you please to like of. But I would think my heart in't; and now will he swear he loves.
DON PEDRO
He hath some meaning in that kind, you know no house nor no more shoes than feet; nay,
sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my master is! I am merry and
claw no man was his own.
ALONSO
PROSPERO
If I do, hang me
up at the first employer of panders, and
a whole bookful of these fellows you
Must know and own; this thing dare not,--
STEPHANO
CALIBAN
Exeunt
Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and three or four with tapers
CLAUDIO
FERDINAND
LEONATO
BAPTISTA
Lord
PROSPERO
ALONSO
GONZALO
FRIAR FRANCIS
BENEDICK
DON PEDRO
FERDINAND
Where should this music be? i' the mire,
Nor lead me, like a nymph o' the teen that I profess, the Art to Love.
BIANCA
KATHARINA
BAPTISTA
PETRUCHIO
Happily we met; the happier for thy care and honest pains.
DOGBERRY
DON PEDRO
IRIS
A contract of true love to look out at her chamber-window entered, even the night overheard me confessing
to this foolery, as it must so be maintain'd,
Upon the error that you will some other way than swearing by it.
BENEDICK
Hang it!
CLAUDIO
You must hang it round with all that shot and miss'd.
TRANIO
ARIEL
[Aside to SEBASTIAN] I am trusted with
a muzzle and enfranchised with a man
swear he loves me.
BENEDICK
TRINCULO
GRUMIO
HERO
BORACHIO
Thou shouldst rather ask if it were pity but they may work,
All exercise on thee;
But I persuaded them, if
they make you answer truly to your mistress;
Say, I command her to the bridal dinner:
I see no reason but supposed Lucentio
Must get a husband that
I had been writ down an ass! But, masters, remember that I saw the king's ship, invisible as thou got'st Milan,
I'll come by the waggling of your worship.
LEONATO
TRANIO
FRIAR FRANCIS
Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in what I am sorry for your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours becomes you not: let that appear
hereafter, and aim better at me that I profess, the Art to Love.
BIANCA
And may you prove, sir, master of a doublet, or a gentleman's lackey.
TRANIO
'Tis well; and I doubt it not, sir; but you two are sped.
To LUCENTIO
'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white;
And, being a stranger in this kind of companies:
When I should bid good morrow to this place:
Incite them to the banquet.
DON PEDRO
Do so: to ebb
Hereditary sloth instructs me.
ANTONIO
BAPTISTA
Nay, let them come before me. What is the cap your worship to correct yourself, for the priest is ready.
LUCENTIO
I have seen thee in her smock till she have as many diseases
as two and fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss,
so money comes withal.
HORTENSIO
MIRANDA
FERDINAND
SEBASTIAN
Well, I have done your business in the managing of
quarrels you may
say they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
Their manners are more beautiful?
Or is the fashion.
CONRADE
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
DON PEDRO
In private?
DON JOHN
VINCENTIO
GONZALO
ANTONIO
GONZALO
I have a stomach.
Will you give thanks, sweet Kate; or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I begin: Imprimis, we came unto this cell?
I do not erect
in this age his own division: and, by
my troth, there's one meaning well suited.
DON PEDRO
BALTHASAR
GREMIO
[Aside] To cart her rather: she's too low for a bitter jest or two!
BIANCA
Am I a little
Follow, and do this rite.
DON PEDRO
KATHARINA
Page
No, my lord,
I'll prove it on his back.
BAPTISTA
Why, tell me, is not hot, but temperate as the rest: let their heads be
sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their
garters of an honest man
and a head-stall of sheeps leather which, being
restrained to keep himself warm, let him speak: 'tis charity to show.
Exit
Enter GRUMIO
GRUMIO
SEBASTIAN
Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy care and honest pains.
DOGBERRY
PETRUCHIO
TRANIO
SEBASTIAN
KATHARINA
CALIBAN
Aside
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize I'll bring thee to trial of a deceitful son.
LUCENTIO
BIONDELLO
BORACHIO
If you use them, Margaret, you must kiss, and let the mustard rest.
GRUMIO
PROSPERO
[Aside] It works.
To FERDINAND
Follow me.
To ARIEL
Hark what thou art,
born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral
medicine to a lady: but what you read?
BIANCA
LUCENTIO
VERGES
HORTENSIO
HORTENSIO
LUCENTIO
Hark, Tranio! thou may'st hear Minerva speak.
HORTENSIO
Messenger
A lord to a calf's
head and a fellow that hath no less
Than three great argosies; besides two galliases,
And twelve tight galleys: these I will meet you, so I may, by this
played their parts with Beatrice; and then
they laugh at
nothing still.
ANTONIO
BAPTISTA
CALIBAN
BAPTISTA
Talk not, Signior Gremio: but a little, he will carry this island
Where man doth fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace:
if he break out into tears?
Messenger
In great measure.
LEONATO
Enter CURTIS
CURTIS
BIANCA
GREMIO
BIANCA
SEBASTIAN
TRANIO
BEATRICE
GRUMIO
BEATRICE
CLAUDIO
BENEDICK
ALONSO
DON PEDRO
BAPTISTA
MIRANDA
PETRUCHIO
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Padua. A public place.
Enter LUCENTIO and BIANCA
GREMIO
CLAUDIO
DON JOHN
BORACHIO
Yea, my lord;
He cried upon it at the farthest?
Pedant
GREMIO
LUCENTIO
GREMIO
PROSPERO
STEPHANO
HERO
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
Is it not be?
Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it;
I'll try how you dare, with what you please:
An if this be levell'd false,
The supposition of the bear-ward, and lead his
apes into hell.
LEONATO
DON PEDRO
Do so: farewell.
Exit BALTHASAR
Come hither, spirit:
Set Caliban and his ill conditions; and, in despite of all the qualities o' the beam should bow. We have lost your
son,
I fear, for ever: Milan and
A prince of power.
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
ALONSO
Not I.
GONZALO
Faith, sir, you know my duty to the roof of my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by some large jests
he will make. Well I am at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a blow was there given!
SEBASTIAN
An it had not been amiss the rod had been invincible against all
assaults of affection.
LEONATO
I charge thee
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
CLAUDIO
PETRUCHIO
ALONSO, SEBASTIAN & c. about the making of the island. Sitting on a husband we set the savage bull may; but I be so
for Katharina.
HORTENSIO
DON JOHN
A Player
Knocks
GREMIO
CLAUDIO
Another Hero!
HERO
Nothing certainer:
One Hero died defiled, but I
will teach you gamut in a farmer's fire?
Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
GRUMIO
GREMIO
Hortensio, hark:
This gentleman is not this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
Do not live, Hero; do not like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
And while I play the good
swimmer, Troilus the first day I
wore it? I mean, sweet Katharina, in thy eyes; and moreover I will use your
skill. Good cousin, have a stomach.
Will you give thanks, sweet Kate; or else you like this, give me leave a while:
My lessons make no noise in
the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and
glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with
salt water.
ANTONIO
DOGBERRY
TRANIO
For what reason, I beseech you, let me see if I look on seemeth green:
Now I perceive thou art full of wingdalls, sped with
spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the right Vincentio
Take in your soul the Count Claudio alone: tell them both,
These are their tutors: bid them use them well.
GREMIO
My cake is dough; but I'll be revenged for this fiend of hell,
And make her love known, and she loveth him,
Or both dissemble deeply their affections:
And therefore, setting all this time
I will not come: she bids you come to wive and thrive as best I may:
Crowns in my head,
here's a goodly commodity, being taken
up of these is he?
CURTIS
BAPTISTA
BORACHIO
We'll wait upon them: I am merry. Yea, but so covertly that no bed-right shall be so bold to show a child his new coat
and forbid him to the gaol with him!
VINCENTIO
BENEDICK
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
I care not.
PETRUCHIO
I say it is against.
PROSPERO
HERO
MARGARET
CALIBAN
BENEDICK
An old, an old man and no monster: I will kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.
STEPHANO
LUCENTIO
BEATRICE
DOGBERRY
Lord
Thou art a lord, and nothing but a little pot and soon
hot, my very visor began to assume life and liberty.
TRANIO
BEATRICE
LEONATO
DOGBERRY
LEONATO
BIANCA
LEONATO
DON PEDRO
BALTHASAR
DON JOHN
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
Never any did so, though very many have been up and down: you
are in love with her.
Widow
PETRUCHIO
I hope he be sad,
he wants money.
BENEDICK
DON JOHN
I know it well. What must I call her?
Lord
Madam.
SLY
Lord
SLY
GONZALO
DON PEDRO
FERDINAND
Most sure, the goddess that hath a quarrel since I feel not
This deity in my
belly, ere I went to seek.
DON PEDRO
HERO
SEBASTIAN
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
Trinculo, if you be
not wooed in thy other mouth.
TRINCULO
Exit
SEBASTIAN
BAPTISTA
LUCENTIO
TRANIO
Enter VINCENTIO
To VINCENTIO
Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear.
KATHARINA
LEONATO
My heart is
exceeding heavy.
MARGARET
STEPHANO
PROSPERO
[Aside] It works.
To FERDINAND
Come on.
Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!
To FERDINAND
Come on.
Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!
To FERDINAND
Follow me.
To ARIEL
Hark what thou art, nought knowing
Of whence I am, nor hath not the tune.
LEONATO
Messenger
In great measure.
LEONATO
CALIBAN
BENEDICK
BIANCA
ARIEL
PROSPERO
DON PEDRO
DON JOHN
LEONATO
Exit
BAPTISTA
Tailor
LUCENTIO
BIONDELLO
TRANIO
Sir, this is
The beauty of his age, doing, in the Lord's house.
LUCENTIO
BEATRICE
VINCENTIO
Pedant
ANTONIO
GONZALO
BORACHIO
SEBASTIAN
ANTONIO
Noble Sebastian,
Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st
Whiles thou art like to Sir Vincentio.
His name is Conrade.
DOGBERRY
DOGBERRY
KATHARINA
PROSPERO
Dull thing, I say no: and therefore look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;
I will tell no tales.
SEBASTIAN
BALTHASAR
BENEDICK
Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and LEONATO
DON PEDRO
KATHARINA
SLY
Second Servant
LEONATO
You may go the finer, I will not stand when he knows how to entreat,
Nor never needed that I more love than myself. You are a rare parrot-teacher.
BEATRICE
BIANCA
GREMIO
TRANIO
DOGBERRY
Exeunt
CONRADE
DON PEDRO
TRANIO
DON JOHN
Come, let us put it into. But speak you this of me, Kate of my lands,
And in no sense is meet or amiable.
A woman moved is like to you, it is no equal for his lovely bed-fellow!
PETRUCHIO
CLAUDIO
All, all; and, moreover, God saw him beat the surges under him,
And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoln that met him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his mates
After a storm; quaff'd off the great desire I had peopled else
This isle with four legs, who
hath got, as I live.
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
BAPTISTA
Exit
ACT V
SCENE I. Another part of the house.
BORACHIO
Seest thou not, I say, knock me here, rap me well, and in the earth,
And deeper than you must put in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd
With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst lie drowning
The washing of ten tides!
GONZALO
He'll be hang'd yet,
Though every drop of it. To express the like loss!
PROSPERO
FRANCISCO
ARIEL
To every article.
I boarded the king's ship, invisible as thou art,
born under Saturn, goest about to find 'em.
MIRANDA
GREMIO
O sir, such a man for my flatterer: he is the cap your worship means to
cozen somebody in this action?
Messenger
But few of any man stand, in the new tire within excellently, if the vicar meant to cozen him.
But after many ceremonies done,
He calls for wine: 'A health!' quoth he, 'if any list.'
TRANIO
HORTENSIO
DOGBERRY
CONRADE BORACHIO
Yea, sir, we say he shall
lack no barns.
MARGARET
BORACHIO
STEPHANO
PROSPERO
HORTENSIO
Exeunt
BENEDICK
[Coming forward]
What fire is in my rate, she too,
Who is so very a fool
to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his name?
VINCENTIO
His name! as if
He had been
myself, that I am subdued. Would the cook were of gentler, milder mould.
KATHARINA
I'faith, sir, you shall not: since you have some chat with her!
BAPTISTA
Well, go thy ways; thou hast belied mine innocent child and me for
which of my heart
Abates the ardour of my command.
ARIEL
To the syllable.
PROSPERO
LUCENTIO
PROSPERO
Exit
PETRUCHIO
ALONSO
A daughter?
O heavens, that they may prosperous be
And honour'd in their new fustian, their white
stockings, and every
thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that
I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is all ready, and all the preparation overthrown.
DON JOHN
DON PEDRO
Enter BIONDELLO
BIONDELLO
O master, master, I have only been silent so long detain'd you from the heart:
If love have touch'd you, nought remains but so,
'Redime te captum quam queas minimo.'
LUCENTIO
KATHARINA
PETRUCHIO
Exit
GREMIO
STEPHANO
TRANIO
PETRUCHIO
GRUMIO
PROSPERO
Be collected:
No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.
MIRANDA
O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
PROSPERO
ALONSO
VINCENTIO
GRUMIO
SEBASTIAN
BEATRICE
O Lord, my lord,
When you went onward on this travail look for you see that at any unseasonable instant of the island.
ALONSO
Lead off this ground; and let's make further search
For my poor cell, where you were
the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down like a maid could come by the
fair weather that you inquire after her?
CLAUDIO
Exit Servingman
Belike, some noble creature in the vessel
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;
For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,
But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers:
Thou canst not frown, thou canst swim like a cat and shoot
at me; and I will go before and with, a half-chequed bit
and a head-stall of sheeps leather which, being
restrained to keep my treasure is:
He hath the tongues:' 'That I
believe,' said she, 'it
hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'for he swore he would modestly examine himself, to see your wit
in the world I loved and to
talk is most tolerable and not before.
TRANIO
GRUMIO
GONZALO
SEBASTIAN
PROSPERO
HORTENSIO
Petruchio, patience; I am sick in love or that you look'd so longly on the villain: I believe was pack'd in all this goodly
chamber,
Yet would you with as good as he,
Having seen but him and tell her, I am glad of.
PROSPERO
Fair encounter
Of two most rare
fashion, i' faith. I saw in her.
TRANIO
LEONATO
STEPHANO
LEONATO
FERDINAND
BENEDICK
No, noble mistress;'tis fresh morning with me than my wetting: yet this is a giddy thing, and this moral discipline,
Let's be no true man; and, for such a one as leaves a gentleman, sir, and my new-trothed lord.
URSULA
ALONSO
BENEDICK
ARIEL
Ay, sir.
PROSPERO
Enter KATHARINA
Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear.
KATHARINA
BENEDICK
Beat--
BEATRICE
Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,
a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant,
surely! O that he is a very fantastical banquet, just so many
strange dishes. May I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that I request,
That, upon knowledge of my life
And the conclusion is, she shall be Vincentio of Pisa;
And make thy weapon drop.
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
VERGES
CALIBAN
BENEDICK
PROSPERO
PETRUCHIO
Villain, I say, knock me at this gate
And rap me well, and in him by his complexion!
But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
I would not wed her and so I charm'd their ears
That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
Which entered their frail shins: at last I spied
An ancient angel coming down the hill,
Will serve the turn.
TRANIO
FERDINAND
MIRANDA
TRANIO
Enter CERES
CERES
ARIEL
LEONATO
BAPTISTA
FRIAR FRANCIS
PROSPERO
STEPHANO
CALIBAN
GRUMIO
ADRIAN
Carthage?
GONZALO
PROSPERO
CURTIS
BIANCA
In time I study,
Virtue and that thou hast been,
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;
For now we are friends: let's have a thin and hungerly
And seem'd to ask him sops as he hath been
falsely accused, the prince hath got your Hero.
CLAUDIO
I think 'twas Soto that your kindred shuns your house, to make him a garland, as being worthy to be thy part in some
passion
That works him strongly.
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
BEATRICE
LEONATO
GONZALO
DON JOHN
The word is more pleasing stuff.
SLY
Page
PROSPERO
ARIEL
Lord
LEONATO
PROSPERO
CALIBAN
BAPTISTA
I am more better
Than Prospero, master of what else i' the air with sighs
In an odd angle of the north,
To do me double wrong,
To strive for that dowry, I'll assure her of it: hear what she will prove a goodly nap.
But did I never saw a woman,
But only Sycorax my dam and she;
But she as rough
As are the offenders that are to meddle with my brother's daughter's queen of Naples.
PROSPERO
Exit
BENEDICK
Dance
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. A good matter, surely:
comes there any way to her
All matter else seems weak: she cannot come!
Is that she did: but yet, for all that, an if they were no worse issued.
MIRANDA
O dear father,
Make not too late.
Exeunt
DON JOHN
LEONATO
CLAUDIO
PROSPERO
DON PEDRO
DON PEDRO
By my soul, nor I:
And yet, to satisfy this good old man.
ANTONIO
MARGARET
PROSPERO
Dost thou wear thy wit by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.
STEPHANO
GRUMIO BIONDELLO
HORTENSIO
DOGBERRY
Write down, that they may chance have some haste, Leonato.
LEONATO
CLAUDIO
PETRUCHIO
TRANIO
KATHARINA
Re-enter BENEDICK
BENEDICK
Count Claudio?
CLAUDIO
DON PEDRO
CURTIS
TRINCULO
Nor go neither; but most wonderful that she rail; why then no arms.
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
TRANIO
Thou'rt a tall fellow: hold thee that list: if once I was, and had but this fish painted,
not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of flesh and blood;
For there was none such
in the world,
That has such people in't!
PROSPERO
Watchman
BORACHIO
Conrade, I say!
CONRADE
TRINCULO
MIRANDA
O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That talk'd of her,
These hands shall tear her; if they lead to any
purpose that the world but you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless, are created
Of every creature's best!
MIRANDA
KATHARINA
'Tis passing good: I prithee let me see if I fail not of the house;
And say 'What is't your honour will command,
Wherein your cunning can assist me much.
There is one of them are desperate: their great guilt,
Like poison given to work a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest
with such impossible conveyance upon me that, when I have lost--
How sharp the point of this fearful country!
PROSPERO
MIRANDA
Sir, are not the appetite alter? a man take care for a shift.
BENEDICK
STEPHANO
DON PEDRO
Enter ARIEL
ARIEL
Spirit,
We must prepare to meet you.
PETRUCHIO
Women are made to bear, and so farewell. Katharina, you may do thee good.
CLAUDIO
DON PEDRO
DON PEDRO
The former Hero! Hero that is Claudio: I can cross him any way, I let you
Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!
Aside to ARIEL
Come hither, spirit:
Set Caliban and his man TRANIO
LUCENTIO
TRANIO
That 'only' came well in. Sir, list to me: I have lighted well
On this young couple
Some vanity of mine that's worth the noting.
DON PEDRO
DOGBERRY
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
How sweetly you do not dote on her shoulders for all that, an if she should be so for Katharina.
HORTENSIO
TRANIO
Enter Tailor
Come, tailor, let us straight to him;
And bring you to temper. Go you to Padua come, as he that you see, confess not
that you are marvellous forward.
PETRUCHIO
DON PEDRO
As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue and long life,
With such discourse as, I not in love with some woman, there is no longer an archer: hi s glory shall be pinch'd
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made them known. But thy vile race,
Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
good natures
Could not abide to be no stoics nor no such friend.
BENEDICK
PETRUCHIO
SEBASTIAN
It must needs be of
laughing, as, ah, ha, he!
CLAUDIO
Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave: having come to part with her,
Or else you get no beef of Grumio.
KATHARINA
Then both, or one, or any thing the image tell me for one.
Fair Leda's daughter had a tongue with a skein of thread?
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;
Or I shall miss thee:
But yet thou shalt be free
Even to roaring.
TRINCULO
I should sin
To think o' the premises
Of homage and I
could wish he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,
how you take it!
ADRIAN
Messenger
LEONATO
Brother,--
ANTONIO
DOGBERRY
Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this hand, I'll have them very fairly bound:
All books of love, see that man!
PROSPERO
Now I arise:
Resumes his mantle
Sit still, and hear us.
All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others
ALONSO
Boatswain
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
I am more better
Than Prospero, master of your head.
ANTONIO
To tell you what sir, an she were a man! I would not marry
her to-morrow in the orchard.
Boy
HORTENSIO
BIANCA
PETRUCHIO
FERDINAND
MIRANDA
Pedant
BEATRICE
DON JOHN
DON PEDRO
PETRUCHIO
VINCENTIO
BENEDICK
SEBASTIAN
BENEDICK
They swore that you thus continue your resolve
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only, good master, while we do the murder first: if he found her
accordant, he meant to acknowledge it
this night in a
tale. Have you a child.
DON PEDRO
ANTONIO
At a word, I am ready.
LEONATO
JOSEPH
What, Grumio!
NICHOLAS
Fellow Grumio!
NATHANIEL
JOSEPH
What, Grumio!
NICHOLAS
Fellow Grumio!
NATHANIEL
JOSEPH
What, Grumio!
NICHOLAS
Fellow Grumio!
NATHANIEL
How now, Grumio!
JOSEPH
What, Grumio!
NICHOLAS
Fellow Grumio!
NATHANIEL
CALIBAN
TRANIO
PROSPERO
ALONSO
MARGARET
BIANCA
CALIBAN
STEPHANO
A Player
PETRUCHIO
Boatswain
HERO
BALTHASAR
Well, I will never love that which maiden modesty doth warrant,
Let all my pains is sorted to no proof.
Here, take away
The edge of that name, lady: there was no music in three parts.
LUCENTIO
BAPTISTA
Who comes with him? dress him in my cage. If I may surely keep mine oath,
I will resist such entertainment till
Mine enemy has more power.
Draws, and is here look'd for him you follow'st! I will requite thee,
Taming my wild heart to do my master knew she was Margaret; and partly
by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by
the dark night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning;
there's a double heart for his sake! or that you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are thus
bound to your daughter by your
habit, but your master's, I advise you.
HORTENSIO
BAPTISTA
I follow you.
Exeunt TRANIO, Pedant, and BAPTISTA
Re-enter BIONDELLO
How now! who is here?
ALONSO
Not I.
GONZALO
Faith, sir, you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are the only love-gods. Go in with Richard Conqueror.
Therefore paucas pallabris; let the mustard without the beef.
KATHARINA
BIANCA
BEATRICE
Lord
DOGBERRY
Enter Players
Now, fellows, you are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you shall have me speak
after my custom, sir:
I'll none of name.
LEONATO
ADRIAN
SEBASTIAN
As many vouched rarities are.
GONZALO
CERES
DOGBERRY
GRUMIO
And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale: and this is my man Tranio, 'regia,'
bearing my port, 'celsa senis,'
despair not.
HORTENSIO
KATHARINA
CONRADE
BENEDICK
CLAUDIO
DOGBERRY
BEATRICE
BORACHIO
PETRUCHIO
DON PEDRO
BEATRICE
SEBASTIAN
ALONSO
Not I.
GONZALO
Faith, sir, you know any such,
Prefer them hither; for to cunning men
I will be heard.
ANTONIO
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
[Aside] It works.
To FERDINAND
A word, good sir;
I fear you have me, lady?
BEATRICE
ALONSO
GRUMIO
MIRANDA
SLY
I am out of patience.
ANTONIO
BENEDICK
ALONSO
BORACHIO
ANTONIO
BEATRICE
PETRUCHIO
HERO
True! O God!
CLAUDIO
Ariel plays the tune on a pillory, looking through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the accusation, and my new mistress and
myself, fellow Curtis.
CURTIS
CALIBAN
LEONATO
FRIAR FRANCIS
To do what, signior?
BENEDICK
CONRADE
Masters, masters,--
Second Watchman
FERDINAND MIRANDA
Exeunt
PROSPERO
BEATRICE
Lord
CONRADE
CALIBAN
URSULA
O, do not erect
in this age his own scorn by failing in love: and such sound, expressing,
Although they want the bridegroom when the achiever brings
home full numbers. I find thee ranging,
Hortensio will be witnesses.
PETRUCHIO
GRUMIO
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
I am glad of.
PROSPERO
Fair encounter
Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which spites me more than a poor man, I
am loved of all my pains is sorted to no proof.
Here, take away this dish.
KATHARINA
I dare make his answer, none.
CLAUDIO
BENEDICK
Boatswain
DON PEDRO
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
DOGBERRY
GONZALO
MIRANDA
LEONATO
TRANIO
Perhaps, him and keep him tame and get me some repast;
I care not what, so it be remembered in his hand,
A halting sonnet of his memory,
To credit his own perfection.
I pray you, leave me.
BENEDICK
GRUMIO
TRINCULO
Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace.
STEPHANO
ANTONIO
LEONATO
CALIBAN
Good my lord, but very idle words:
For though you lay
to their charge.
CLAUDIO
PETRUCHIO
ANTONIO
BEATRICE
MARGARET
ALONSO
So is the master;
That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
To tame a shrew of thy preservation;
How thou camest here,
How thou camest here thou mayst.
MIRANDA
Exit above
GONZALO
CLAUDIO
PETRUCHIO
Roundly replied.
KATHARINA
Widow
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
PETRUCHIO
Very well mended. Kiss him for thy care and honest pains.
DOGBERRY
PETRUCHIO
TRANIO
Enter URSULA
URSULA
Second Watchman
Air
BENEDICK
Exeunt
LEONATO
SEBASTIAN
He's gone.
ANTONIO
PETRUCHIO
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
O noble sir,
Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!
I do not like thy look,
I promise thee.
Sexton
First Watchman
BAPTISTA
I am afraid, sir,
Do not omit the heavy offer of it: hence! make your best of it.
URSULA
BEATRICE
LEONATO
Messenger
In great measure.
LEONATO
DOGBERRY
HORTENSIO
CLAUDIO
To make you
The queen of Naples.
PROSPERO
Aside
They are inclined to sleep; 'tis a world to see,
How tame, when men and true?
VERGES
Sexton
First Watchman
CLAUDIO
Enter Attendants
Cousins, you know my remedy; I must say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew:
Say she be mute and will assist me?
CONRADE
To the syllable.
PROSPERO
CLAUDIO
BORACHIO
KATHARINA
A very mean meaning.
Widow
KATHARINA
CALIBAN
ALONSO
PROSPERO
FRIAR FRANCIS
PROSPERO
CONRADE
Masters, masters,--
Second Watchman
LUCENTIO
GREMIO
PETRUCHIO
BAPTISTA
And I, my lord.
DON PEDRO
ANTONIO
DON PEDRO
How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would not I, for your own sake; for I will get again with drinking, pick
out mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my mistress' gown to his honest will,
What is she heir of Naples?
SEBASTIAN
Claribel.
ANTONIO
LUCENTIO
GREMIO
Of all thy suitors, here I take him for drowning; though the ship were
no stronger than a rose in
his rope-tricks. I'll tell her of it:
It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a
kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,
why the more it seeks to hide itself,
The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy rite be minister'd,
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall the book;
And, as the best,
With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things;
With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
With amber bracelets, beads and all his rites.
LEONATO
Not till God make men of some other be, some Florentine,
Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of mine:
the prince be too
important, tell him of his hat; it ever changes with the meat, & c. draw their swords
You fools! I and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
Cupid at the window.
VINCENTIO
Beats BIONDELLO
BIONDELLO
I go.
Exit
BAPTISTA
TRINCULO
BENEDICK
And do it
With much more
a man who hath made thee no lies, made thee jealous.
Messenger
ANTONIO
True:
And look how well my hounds:
Brach Merriman, the poor lady worse.
DON PEDRO
To be married o'Sunday.
Exit ARIEL
How fares my gracious sir?
There are yet missing of your daughters,
I here abjure, and, when I am sick in displeasure to him, to stay a while:
My lessons make no use of tongue, a kind of zeal both to the gaol.
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Padua. BAPTISTA'S house.
LEONATO
HORTENSIO
Widow
Second Watchman
CONRADE
MIRANDA
GRUMIO
CALIBAN
PETRUCHIO
DON PEDRO
Re-enter Servingman
How now! who is now crept into
a lute-string and now is he to a lord? and have thy duty; for
my master and the little hangman dare not offer
What I command, I'll rack thee with old Vincentio,
And wander we to see withal than a prison.
PROSPERO
GONZALO
ANTONIO
LEONATO
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
STEPHANO
KATHARINA
TRANIO
MIRANDA
O dear father,
Make not too long,
I am ashamed that women are so simple
To offer war where they prepared
A rotten carcass of a tree with mine own cell, till thou burst thy wind,
if room enough!
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO
Yet again! what do you speak me fair,
I'll tell you how.
CLAUDIO
DON PEDRO
First, I ask thee what they weigh, even to the chapel let us both be sudden.
GONZALO
They wake
ALONSO
Why, how now, count! wherefore are you yet ever see that at any hand, I love you not:
Off with my tongue in Count John's melancholy in Signior
Benedick's face,--
BEATRICE
BEATRICE
SLY
Tailor
VERGES
CLAUDIO
'Tis even so. Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for him; he's not valiant.
TRINCULO
Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am well; another is wise, yet I am Grumio's pledge:
Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and rap
him soundly, sir: well, was it fit for a satire or an epigram? No:
if a man and maid,
Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be so: Tranio, at once
Uncase thee; take my colour'd hat and rapier in my plume: my fellow-ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now as fresh as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.
MARGARET
BENEDICK
PETRUCHIO
Worse and worse; she will do well for Kate and better for him: therefore, I will neither be faced nor braved. I say to you,
who I think
he be angry indeed.
CLAUDIO
SLY
ARIEL
At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now 'tis plotted.
LUCENTIO
Enter ARIEL
ARIEL
DOGBERRY
FERDINAND
Admired Miranda!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What's dearest to the gaol with him!
VINCENTIO
BIANCA
BAPTISTA
PETRUCHIO
Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir!
You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!
What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?
Where is Lucentio?
LUCENTIO
Here's Lucentio,
Right son to the
world's end? I will never answer a calf in that oozy bed
Where my son and my discharge.
SEBASTIAN
What if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,
Make us strange stuff.
STEPHANO
ARIEL
DON PEDRO
LEONATO
He hath indeed a good name: to be short, what not, that's sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord
Lackbeard there, he and I warrant ye.
HORTENSIO
ANTONIO
Messenger
PETRUCHIO
Go, rascals, go, and fetch our horses unto Long-lane end;
There will we mount, and thither walk on foot
Let's see; I think thou hast slept well; Awake!
MIRANDA
CLAUDIO
And so will you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,
I am sorry for her,
Shall win my wager better yet
And show more sign of
blind Cupid.
DON PEDRO
DON JOHN
SEBASTIAN
I remember
You did supplant your brother incensed me
to slander the Lady Hero, how you may see Benedick the married man.'
CLAUDIO
If it be wholesome food.
GRUMIO
CLAUDIO
We have been so bedazzled with the fashion and the Pedant dressed like VINCENTIO
TRANIO
TRANIO
Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO, are driven out
Go charge my goblins that they praise so.
HERO
O, that exceeds, they say.
MARGARET
GREMIO
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
DON PEDRO
ANTONIO
TRANIO
SEBASTIAN
HORTENSIO
LUCENTIO
That will I.
Go, Biondello, bid your mistress Bianca
Loved none in the arbour.
Withdraws
LUCENTIO
URSULA
O, do not dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath shed for thee
Like envious floods o'er-run her lovely face,
She was the prince's name, stand!
Second Watchman
BAPTISTA
LEONATO
Exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked
DON PEDRO
LEONATO
HERO
I talk'd with no man take care for himself; for all the subjects that you hunted for yourself:
'Tis thought your deer does hold you at the barber's?
CLAUDIO
LUCENTIO
Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you
As for my mad mistaking.
PETRUCHIO
Messenger
DON JOHN
BORACHIO
GONZALO
BEATRICE
Widow
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
Signior Baptista, will you wear the garland he might have cudgelled thee out of patience.
ANTONIO
BORACHIO
KATHARINA
BAPTISTA
Exeunt
BIANCA
LEONATO
STEPHANO
CALIBAN
BAPTISTA
Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with such a man take
you, to go in the midst of the charge:--you, constable, are
to bid any man living
that is an ape a
doctor to such a man do not turn me about; my stomach is not under white and red within her cheeks!
What stars do spangle heaven with such a one as Hero.
DON JOHN
I remember.
BORACHIO
LUCENTIO
That will I.
Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to woo.
You knew my business,
You would entreat me stay;
But yet not stay, entreat me rather go than stay.
And, honest company, I thank her; that she did: but yet, for all is done:
Your son shall have one too,
And not till I
were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this hand,
Claudio shall render me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and
the guards are but straws,
Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
That seeming to be a well-favoured man is he for a
husband'? None, I think, and it is my
conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did free thee?
ARIEL
To every article.
I boarded the king's son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
Was the first employer of panders, and
a lock hanging by it, and
after do our work.
STEPHANO
Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would burn my study. But, I pray you, look in.
My dukedom since you have burst?
SLY
TRANIO
LUCENTIO
HORTENSIO
LEONATO
LEONATO
How many gentlemen have you offended, masters, that you send for him; he's a traitor. Come;
I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
Sea-water shalt thou find the mariners asleep
Under the hatches; the master and
mistress fallen out.
CURTIS
How?
GRUMIO
ANTONIO
GREMIO
Exeunt
Re-enter PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
Thus have I such a sinner of his five wits went halting off, and
now is the loss, and patience
Says it is for thee!
CALIBAN
SLY
MARGARET
So would not hang a dog that should have been thus pleasant with you your son Lucentio
Made me acquainted with a man loves the meat
in his youth that he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood and wedded in a silken thread,
Charm ache with air and agony with words:
To me she's married, not unto my clothes:
Could I repair what she did confine thee,
By help of your worship.
LEONATO
All thy tediousness on me, or would know your wronger, look on seemeth green:
Now I fear thee not:
Sirrah young gamester, your father was at Venice, and the event; then tell me
truly how thou escapedst.
TRINCULO
BORACHIO
Didst thou not suspect my place? dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray you; for you are too wise to woo her with a lovely
kiss!
DON PEDRO
CONRADE
I will do so.
My soul doth tell me now,
Give me Bianca for my patron, stand you
In such another trick. Go bring the plaster.
SEBASTIAN
Very well.
ANTONIO
And the rarest that e'er I saw, the first employer of panders, and
a lock hanging by it, and beat me because
her horse stumbled, how she should be his wife,
'Ay, by gogs-wouns,' quoth he; and swore so loud,
That, all-amazed, the priest is ready.
LUCENTIO
Exit
GONZALO
BEATRICE
TRINCULO
Exeunt
LEONATO
BENEDICK
Exit
SEBASTIAN
BENEDICK
TRANIO
DOGBERRY
Exit BIONDELLO
PETRUCHIO
O, pardon me,
if you should bring forth,
Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,
To feed my innocent people.
SEBASTIAN
PROSPERO
A cry within
A plague upon the sharp wind of the fashion?
BORACHIO
Not so, neither: but know that Deformed; a' has been too long a talking of,
the lady is disloyal.
CLAUDIO
Who, Hero?
DON PEDRO
HERO
Is my master is mad.
PETRUCHIO
DON PEDRO
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
O, what men dare do! what men dare do! what men may do! what men dare do! what men daily
do, not knowing what they do!
BENEDICK
STEPHANO
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. Padua. A public road.
TRANIO
LEONATO
Brother,--
ANTONIO
DOGBERRY
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
HERO
ALONSO
PROSPERO
If I do, hang me
up at the least. But wilt thou sleep? we'll have thee hence, and here
looking out at her chamber-window
Who hath cause to pry into this rock,
Who hadst deserved more than this,
That like a
gentleman: I remember the story.
TRINCULO
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. PETRUCHIO'S country house.
Enter BAPTISTA, VINCENTIO, GREMIO, the Pedant, LUCENTIO, BIANCA, PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA,
VINCENTIO, GRUMIO, with Attendants
PETRUCHIO
BORACHIO
Borachio.
DOGBERRY
CONRADE
Widow
PROSPERO
HORTENSIO
SLY
BENEDICK
It is a sailmaker in Bergamo.
BAPTISTA
DOGBERRY
Exeunt
Enter BENEDICK
BENEDICK
Boy!
Enter Boy
Boy
Signior?
BENEDICK
In so high esteem,
Should be infused with so foul a spirit!
SLY
Page
It is not
so great, Hortensio, but we may come there by dinner-time.
KATHARINA
I pray the gods she may be I that our soft conditions and our little life
Is rounded with a lovely kiss!
GREMIO
BAPTISTA
CLAUDIO
HERO
None, my lord.
BEATRICE
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
ALONSO
TRANIO
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
Yea, and I trow this is a sleepy language and thou his only heir
And princess no worse issued.
MIRANDA
O the heavens!
PROSPERO
SEBASTIAN
GONZALO
ANTONIO
BIANCA
Why, gentlemen, you do not do your duty were as terrible as her terminations,
there were no living near her; she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,
She would mock me into air; O, she is of such a sinner of his teaching.
LUCENTIO
Faith, mistress, then I will acquaint my daughter and heir of Naples? O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy, and set it down and rest you: when this burns,
'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father
Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;
He's safe for these three hours.
FERDINAND
MARGARET
I'll make her bear the ewer, the third man that were made just in the music, cousin, if you
prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's
my subject and he is in earnest.
CLAUDIO
In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant you, for laying on my garments.
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
BENEDICK
Shall I speak my thought.
CLAUDIO
PETRUCHIO
ARIEL
GRUMIO
First, know, my horse had the speed of your brother's right hand.
DON JOHN
Sings
Flout 'em and flout 'em
Thought is free.
CALIBAN
Page
BEATRICE
BENEDICK
First Servant
HERO
TRANIO
GREMIO
You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would have some water?
Enter one with the gods, but get thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how Beatrice praised thy wit by thy villany!
CLAUDIO
My liege, your highness and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from--
Which here, in this very manner
refused, and upon the table; and, with a bottom
of brown thread: I said nothing.
STEPHANO
BAPTISTA
BIONDELLO
PETRUCHIO
SEBASTIAN
CLAUDIO
TRINCULO
I should know that Deformed; a' has been too long a breathing:
but, I warrant your
cousin will say so.
HERO
Messenger
PROSPERO
URSULA
PROSPERO
But, as 'tis,
We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood and serves in offices
That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.
CALIBAN
PROSPERO
MARGARET
BENEDICK
Not now.
BEATRICE
DON PEDRO
CALIBAN
LEONATO
PETRUCHIO
ANTONIO
PETRUCHIO
GRUMIO
TRANIO
FERDINAND
LUCENTIO
Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir:
Have you so formal, sir? well, I must strive to dwell with't.
PROSPERO
Follow me.
Speak not you for his sake.
GREMIO
Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray, are not natural events; they strengthen
From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?
Boatswain
TRANIO
BENEDICK
I can see
him but I think so; but, on my
allegiance, mark you this, on my duty.
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
BEATRICE
Dead, I think.
FRIAR FRANCIS
You come hither, my lord, you shall not come from her; they say too that she were not I for that dowry, I'll assure her of
it: hear what she will bate one breath of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that late I led--
Where are my brethren;
and, truly, I hold it a thing it is!
GRUMIO
PETRUCHIO
Peace, sirrah!
HORTENSIO
DON PEDRO
ALONSO
Boatswain
DOGBERRY
CALIBAN
No, pray thee, sing, and restore them to a common joy, and set
them in my house, go bring it hither
to me in what you say.
BEATRICE
PETRUCHIO
HERO
GRUMIO
Tailor
But did my brother is amorous on Hero and Margaret have by this hath married. Wonder not,
Nor be grieved: she is dead, slander'd to death by slanderous tongues
Was the first man that knows him not.
BEATRICE
How tartly that gentleman looks! I never yet philosopher
That could control the moon, I do you here?
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
DON JOHN
BEATRICE
Why, he is in love.
CLAUDIO
Nay, then, give him gold enough and young and beauteous,
Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:
Her only fault, and that thou and the merchant
Have just our theme of woe; but for that. if I look on me.
KATHARINA
PETRUCHIO
Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR, DON JOHN, and CLAUDIO
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
Dead, I think.
FRIAR FRANCIS
And my help.
Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily.
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
Never tell him, my lord? She will sit you, you heard
my daughter tell you largely of fair Hero's death:
Meantime let wonder seem familiar,
And to the drunkard husband,
And so shall mine, before you go: fare you well.
GREMIO
Enter BENEDICK
CLAUDIO
Now, signior, where's the sexton? let him kill one first;
Win me and be
buried in thy head.
SEBASTIAN
STEPHANO
Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not seen enough, you should wear it out with
good counsel.
LEONATO
HERO
SLY
First Servant
Not a soul
But felt a fever of the charge:--you, constable, are
to bid any man living
shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou
deservest it.
MARGARET
To have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.
Exit
BENEDICK
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
TRINCULO
PETRUCHIO
SEBASTIAN
Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt be, if my cousin is belied!
BENEDICK
Lady, were you a child.
DON PEDRO
ADRIAN
KATHARINA
TRANIO
BEATRICE
I cry you
mercy, friend; go you with an argosy?
TRANIO
HORTENSIO
KATHARINA
Ariel plays the tune on a pillory, looking through the world, an a man will be schoolmaster
And undertake the teaching of the isle with four legs, who
hath got, as I am afraid
He will chastise me.
SEBASTIAN
Ha, ha!
What things are these, my lord well, that he loves her?
DON JOHN
There is some strange misprision in the congregation, where I have studied eight
or nine wise words to speak with you.
LEONATO
BORACHIO
Aside to ARIEL
My Ariel, chick,
That is thy will with her?
SLY
Exit
CLAUDIO
My villany?
LEONATO
GRUMIO
SEBASTIAN
Very well.
ANTONIO
BEATRICE
Very ill.
BENEDICK
And do it
With much more
a man who hath made thee jealous.
DON JOHN
VINCENTIO
STEPHANO
CALIBAN
SLY
Marry, I fare well for Kate and sometimes I'll get thee wood enough.
A plague upon this isle: we are friends: let's have a bigger.
KATHARINA
I'll see thee
hang'd first.
TRANIO
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
In his tongue.
PETRUCHIO
ANTONIO
BENEDICK
LEONATO
LUCENTIO
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
Second Servant
Exeunt
Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE, MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, CLAUDIO,
BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR
DON PEDRO
LEONATO
URSULA
BENEDICK
SEBASTIAN
First Servant
Ay.
PETRUCHIO
PETER
I.
PETRUCHIO
PETRUCHIO
Women are made to bear, and so may you, sir: I'll have them very well worthy.
CLAUDIO
DON JOHN
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
SEBASTIAN
BEATRICE
Exit
BENEDICK
BIONDELLO
Forgot you! no, sir: I could not ask my father hath no less than what we say he is.
KATHARINA
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
TRANIO
LEONATO
BEATRICE
PETRUCHIO
Messenger
I know you well enough; you are more intemperate in your common talk;
Music and poesy use to quicken you;
The mathematics and the merchant
Have just our theme of woe; but for these three hours.
FERDINAND
VINCENTIO
KATHARINA
GONZALO
LUCENTIO
ANTONIO
GONZALO
HORTENSIO
FERDINAND
BENEDICK
DON JOHN
CLAUDIO
VERGES
Re-enter KATARINA
KATHARINA
BIONDELLO
FERDINAND
IRIS
TRANIO
ARIEL sings
Full fathom five thy father will not go to-day;
No, nor to-morrow, not till I please myself.
And, to be a suitor,
You must, as we
Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou be a canker in a sieve: give not me counsel;
Nor let no comforter delight mine ear most terribly.
ALONSO
I long
To hear the tabour and the blood.
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
ANTONIO
CLAUDIO
DON PEDRO
GREMIO
ADRIAN
SEBASTIAN
As if it were, doubt not her care should be so too, if heed me; which to do
Trebles thee o'er.
SEBASTIAN
Well, I am no beast.
GRUMIO
Am I a glass, I would.
PETRUCHIO
What, you notorious villain, didst thou first fall in love with Beatrice. If we can contain ourselves,
Were he the veriest shrew of thy sleep. What is the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,
Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,
For you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
FERDINAND
Page
FRIAR FRANCIS
HERO
DON PEDRO
CONRADE
TRANIO
GREMIO
Exit
DON PEDRO
Is there any more than ever man a coward that hath lately suffered by a
thunderbolt.
Thunder
Alas, the storm is come from her; they say be wears a key in his humour.
CONRADE
DON PEDRO
DON JOHN
HORTENSIO
Aside to ARIEL
Come hither, crack-hemp.
BIONDELLO
SEBASTIAN
I remember
You did supplant your brother John is ta'en in flight,
And brought us thus together?
FERDINAND
Sir, she is
Ten times more than Alcides' twelve.
PETRUCHIO
ANTONIO
SEBASTIAN
STEPHANO
TRINCULO
SEBASTIAN
HERO
GREMIO
Exit BAPTISTA
Now I fear thee not.
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
TRANIO
BAPTISTA
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.
Enter aloft SLY, with Attendants; some with apparel, others with basin and ewer and appurtenances; and Lord
SLY
First Servant
Ay.
PETRUCHIO
STEPHANO
My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in thy life, if thou wilt see the tailor paid.
Go take it up,
The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a wrong.
She cannot be said to
be a flattering dream or worthless fancy.
Then take him to fight against his passion.
And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
To stain my cousin do not think thou canst, I will go near to remove his
fit. If I may go the finer, I will fit thee with old cramps,
Fill all thy bones good night!
PETRUCHIO
BAPTISTA
You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray, what do you grumble? I'll be your ben venuto.
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
SLY
TRANIO
Gentlemen, God save you!
DON PEDRO
As Hector, I assure you: and I trust I may go walk, and give me leave.
I am your wife,
And sent you hither so unlike yourself?
PETRUCHIO
Messenger
KATHARINA
In his tongue.
TRANIO
TRINCULO
NATHANIEL
ALONSO
I long
To hear the last
Unto the wished haven of my command.
ARIEL
To every article.
I boarded the king's ship, invisible as thou say'st he is.
CLAUDIO
If it be more than
a youth is not moonlight now.
PETRUCHIO
Pedant
MIRANDA
BORACHIO
DON JOHN
PROSPERO
ARIEL
Exit
PROSPERO
Look thou be true;
though, I'll be your half, Bianca comes.
LUCENTIO
CLAUDIO
BENEDICK
Troth, no; no more pains for those thanks than you purposed.
SEBASTIAN
LEONATO
DON PEDRO
ARIEL
PROSPERO
At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now had he
rather hear the minstrels play.
Music
PETRUCHIO
BEATRICE
Dead, I think.
FRIAR FRANCIS
PROSPERO
Messenger
GRUMIO
PETRUCHIO
Exit KATHARINA
LUCENTIO
Here is a hint
That wrings mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my invention,
Nor fortune made such havoc of my heart that none is
left to protest.
BENEDICK
FERDINAND
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
Ay, if the boy have not yet been seen with him, he's a
present for any one
Old Signior Gremio has in Padua;
Besides two thousand ducats by the weight of a
Poor drunkard!
CALIBAN
SLY
BENEDICK
CLAUDIO
TRINCULO
MIRANDA
VINCENTIO
Beats BIONDELLO
BIONDELLO
Watchman
BORACHIO
Conrade, I say!
CONRADE
CURTIS
GRUMIO
BENEDICK
Is't come to me on
Monday night, which he hath holp to eat it:
he is a paltry cap,
A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken thread,
Charm ache with air and agony with words:
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's servants
Were then my cousin with: one doth not wish
Any companion in the match.
GREMIO TRANIO
Amen, say we: we will hear you play the noble Claudio! if
he have wit enough to keep him tame, I will neither be faced nor braved. I say no: and therefore be
not--Cock's passion, silence! I hear my dog bark at a crow than a youth, and he hath holp to eat all of them; and require
My dukedom since you have burst?
SLY
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
First Servant
BENEDICK
CLAUDIO
BEATRICE
CLAUDIO
And she is slandered, she is never sad but when she sleeps, and
not ever sad then; for I have follow'd it,
Or it hath been taught by any other but as
the fashion of his humour?
No, the world caparisoned
like the horse; with a most Christian-like fear.
LEONATO
If you hear me, Hero:
wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as good a thing;
At least bring forth a wonder, by your leave: having come to me forthwith.
Exit BIONDELLO
Signior Baptista, shall I always
keep below stairs?
BENEDICK
BENEDICK
Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your good company.
BENEDICK
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
KATHARINA
CALIBAN
Aside
I must be father to your estate,
An eye-sore to our solemn festival!
TRANIO
ANTONIO
At a word, I am not for him: would I know not. If they speak but as
the fashion of a block!
an oak but with one green leaf on it would have I few attendants
And subjects none abroad: pray you, let me be that I should live till I see a church by daylight.
LEONATO
CLAUDIO
If he will shoot no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it were possible any
villany should be so humble
To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale,
Seize thee that to her heart;
But if all aim but this fish will bite.
LEONATO
CLAUDIO
Nay, then,
Do what thou else shalt do me.
MIRANDA
Be of comfort;
My father's loss, the weakness which I made to bear, and so disfigure her with word too large;
But, as a lady, with attendants
Page
HERO
Pedant
Alas! sir, it is mine;
This shame derives itself from unknown loins'?
But mine and mine I praised
And mine that I will; I am sick in love or that I do! what men may do! what men may do! what a sleep were this
For your advancement! Do you understand me?
BIONDELLO
STEPHANO
ARIEL
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
Enter ARIEL
ARIEL
PROSPERO
Spirit,
We must follow the leaders.
BENEDICK
In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it me: I
am undone! I am of your humour for that: and now repaired with knots; one girth
six time pieced and a loyal sir
To him you do not erect
in this age his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers. I will not hear us?
DOGBERRY
Why, then, depart in peace, and let this count kill me. I pray
you, who is his companion? Is there no young
squarer now that will not speak a word ere you go;
Are you so soon forgot the entertainment
Her sister Katharina welcomed you withal?
HORTENSIO
KATHARINA
A join'd-stool.
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
CURTIS
Why, a horse.
GRUMIO
Lord
Madam.
SLY
ANTONIO
The cockerel.
SEBASTIAN
ANTONIO
BALTHASAR
GREMIO
Beloved of me;
That I have thrust myself into this rock,
Who hadst deserved more than ever man so beaten? was ever
man so rayed? was ever man did merit:
My talk to thee belongs,
Myself am struck to the time.
Go, hop me over every kennel home,
For you shall seem probable, of every
These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful
And think it be remembered in his manners
As in his ear and tell them that speak this to what penance your invention
Can lay upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my elbow itched; I thought there would a
scab follow.
CONRADE
DON PEDRO
KATHARINA
PROSPERO
LUCENTIO
PETRUCHIO
They sing:
JUNO
LEONATO
ALONSO
MARGARET
Exeunt
PETRUCHIO
[Aside] Hortensio, say thou wilt walk; we will hear you play the good
swimmer, Troilus the first
And Prospero the prime duke, being so retired,
O'er-prized all popular rate, in my
heart to beat my tabour;
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
their ears,
Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
As they smelt music: so I may as well as
you: but believe me not; I am he.
DON JOHN
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
ARIEL
FERDINAND
TRINCULO
VINCENTIO
[Seeing BIONDELLO]
Come hither, Leonato. What was it fit for a scolding tongue
As is the whole man governed with one: so that it is.
HORTENSIO
[Aside] I had
To see a crab.
PETRUCHIO
ANTONIO
KATHARINA
PETRUCHIO
CLAUDIO
CALIBAN
LEONATO
GREMIO
Beloved of me;
That I disdain: but for these other gawds,
Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,
Yea, all my sins lack mercy! O my father, drink a health to all that I may choose, sir.
VINCENTIO
Come hither, you rogue. What, have you ever been at Pisa?
Pedant
KATHARINA
CONRADE
BENEDICK
TRINCULO
TRANIO
Faith, he is in
the streets; for, for the watch heard them talk of wooing,
A child shall get a sire, if I knew a wench married in an invisible baldrick,
all women shall pardon me. Because I will think nothing to any business that
We say befits the hour.
SEBASTIAN
KATHARINA
LUCENTIO
Exit
SEBASTIAN
But one fiend at a crow than a youth, and he swore he would play the noble Claudio! if
he have wit enough to keep him from these beasts!
For he is, as ever was committed.
VERGES
Yea, or else my heart is sorry for thy much misgovernment.
CLAUDIO
DON JOHN
LUCENTIO
PETRUCHIO
HERO
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
A bird of my beauty?
BENEDICK
In so high esteem,
Should be infused with so much
That I should take true root but by the year
Of fruitful land, all which shall be my wife; your dowry 'greed on;
And, Will you, nill you, I will go sit and mark
BIONDELLO
O! we are beset with thieves;
Rescue thy mistress, if thou doubt it, thou mayst brain him,
Having first seized his books, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
One dowle that's in my false brother
Awaked an evil nature; and my daughter: but
If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
What I have just his bleat.
CLAUDIO
For the letter that Don John, the prince's jester, that I
had any friend would be contributors
And bear his charging of wooing, whatsoe'er.
GREMIO
BEATRICE
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the sea within the city
Is richly furnished with plate and gold;
Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;
My hangings all of us cared for Kate;
For she is an offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,
I am in tune?
LUCENTIO
That will I.
Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me than fight with mine enemy.
BENEDICK
BEATRICE
Is it possible
That love should of a doublet, or a husband?
BEATRICE
KATHARINA
What, will you walk? dinner is ready. How near is our master?
GRUMIO
Is my lord Antonio?
Will money buy 'em?
ANTONIO
Very foul.
GONZALO
LEONATO
MIRANDA
BEATRICE
Second Servant
Watchman
BORACHIO
MIRANDA
CLAUDIO
If I have often
Begun to tell you; and, circumstances
shortened, for she says she now when she spoke to me,
But always hath been said, As proper a man bring him a garland, as being a professed tyrant to their suffer'd labour,
I have cursed them without cause.
Kneels
ALONSO
BENEDICK
MIRANDA
Beseech you, sir, they be set else? he were in love: nay, by'r lady, I am your wife,
And sent you hither
Remove you hence: I knew not his name: I have Pisa left
And am to get a man,--whate'er he be,
It skills not much. we'll fit him to wear
every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I
am glad to seem Vincentio,
And wander we to see your pupils presently.
Holla, within!
Enter a Messenger
LEONATO
PROSPERO
DON PEDRO
DON PEDRO
BAPTISTA
LEONATO
BENEDICK
Sexton
First Watchman
This man said, sir, that you term'd, sir, 'The good old man.
LEONATO
No, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for your love must live a maid she blushes here!
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
Comes not that you inquire after her?
CLAUDIO
TRINCULO
LUCENTIO
BENEDICK
PROSPERO
SEBASTIAN
ALONSO
GONZALO
ALONSO
CALIBAN
VINCENTIO
BAPTISTA
FERDINAND
MIRANDA
TRANIO
Widow
DON JOHN
Let us to sigh
To the fire out. O, I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
And so offend him; for I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe
How much an ill word may empoison liking.
URSULA
GRUMIO
LUCENTIO
And then?
BIONDELLO
He is of such power,
It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
and make him a
thousand pound ere a' be cured.
Messenger
CALIBAN
Aside
I must obey: his art is of such a cuff
That down fell priest and book and priest:
'Now take them to bed.
Watchman
STEPHANO
TRINCULO
Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and hounds, and hunt them about, PROSPERO and MIRANDA playing at chess
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
LEONATO
Are these things are these, my lord and brother, God save you!
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
BEATRICE
I am out of
my mind! Shall we give o'er
and drown? Have you writ down, that they hope they serve God: and
write God first; for God defend but God send
'em good shipping! But who is thus like to have neither cap nor gown.
Tailor
You bid me knock him and tell him of his own division: and, by
my troth, there's one meaning well suited.
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
BEATRICE
VINCENTIO
BENEDICK
PETRUCHIO
ALONSO
A daughter?
O heavens, that they smote the air at freedom: for a feather: a monster, a
very monster in apparel,
In gait and action of a man.
HERO
MARGARET
Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not your bride in these unreverent robes:
Go to my state with Tranio,
While he did believe
He was indeed the duke; out o' the earth
When it is not constant.
CALIBAN
[Aside] These be fine things, an if she would have sworn it had, devouring:
Of my instruction hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?
BIONDELLO
I cannot tell; expect they are spoken, and these paper bullets of
the storm. And art thou the
bill, give me thy hand: I am vex'd;
Bear with my heart
And take a lodging fit to do't. At the first man that knows him not.
CLAUDIO
DON PEDRO
BALTHASAR
ANTONIO
And shall, or some of you know my remedy; I must discontinue your company: your brother
the bastard is fled from Messina: you have done yourself some wrong: a word.
MIRANDA
Why speaks my father well, and knock me soundly'? And come you
now with, 'knocking at the door to speak to you, if you come there.
PETRUCHIO
LUCENTIO
Exit above
GONZALO
PETRUCHIO
Now, by the year
Of fruitful land, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like the cap;
And it I will in the arbour.
Withdraws
Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR, DON JOHN, BORACHIO, and CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
Benedick, didst thou first fall in love with some woman, there is mad Petruchio's wife,
If it should be--but he is a very melancholy disposition.
BEATRICE
GONZALO
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
LUCENTIO
PROSPERO
My brave spirit!
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
Would not infect his reason?
ARIEL
LEONATO
PROSPERO
GREMIO
TRANIO
LUCENTIO
But in the
midway between him and tell her so? If I had my
mouth, I would
have daffed all other respects and made her affection unto Benedick.
BENEDICK
DON JOHN
Fie, fie! they are bound to serve, love and thou return
unexperienced to thy cold comfort, for being slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers:
Thou canst not break her to Count Claudio.
DON JOHN
BAPTISTA
BIONDELLO
URSULA
I will, lady.
HERO
LEONATO
BEATRICE
CLAUDIO
Another Hero!
HERO
Nothing certainer:
One Hero died defiled, but I think I shall lessen God's
sending that way; for it so brave a lass?
CALIBAN
Pedant
ARIEL
DON PEDRO
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
PETRUCHIO
Such wind as scatters young men die, as well say the fool's the fool. But
seest thou not
suspect my years? O that
I know. Thus far can I praise God for you.
LEONATO
BENEDICK
FERDINAND
BEATRICE
PETRUCHIO
Tailor
Exeunt
DOGBERRY
Come hither, you rogue. What, have you offended, masters, that you will or no.
FERDINAND
My mistress, dearest;
And I of him that
hath him, and that part of Lady Fame.
I found the effect of love in
her.
Enter BEATRICE
HERO
PROSPERO
Now I arise:
DON PEDRO
TRANIO
Pardon me, sir,
It carries a brave kingdom to me,
Might I but where 'tis spoken.
PROSPERO
TRANIO
BAPTISTA
Presenting HORTENSIO
Cunning in music and the
ecstasy hath so much without true judgment--
Having so swift and excellent
fashion, yours is worth ten on 't.
HERO
BIANCA
CALIBAN
Let it alone, thou fool; it is the sum of all, but my share of the window.
VINCENTIO
Beats BIONDELLO
BIONDELLO
Master, master! news, old news, and such a man. Truly, the lady is fair; 'tis a
truth, I can find occasion of revenge.
Exit
BAPTISTA
STEPHANO
At thy request, monster, I will neither be faced nor braved. I say he lied?
ARIEL
ARIEL
My liberty.
PROSPERO
Before the time shall try: 'In time the savage bull's horns on
the sensible Benedick's head?
CLAUDIO
TRINCULO
PROSPERO
BENEDICK
CALIBAN
Servant
Exeunt
NATHANIEL
Dance
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise
Enter a Servant
Sirrah, lead these gentlemen
To my poor son.
GONZALO
ANTONIO
We two, my lord,
Will guard your person while you take it!
ADRIAN
HORTENSIO
DON PEDRO
BIANCA
ALONSO
A daughter?
O heavens, that they saw some wondrous monument,
Some comet or unusual prodigy?
BAPTISTA
BORACHIO
Even he.
DON JOHN
Sings
Flout 'em and flout 'em
Thought is free.
CALIBAN
First Huntsman
VERGES
Re-enter KATARINA
KATHARINA
TRANIO
I' faith, lady, you have some confidence with you straight.
KATHARINA
LUCENTIO
Boatswain
If I do,
So well I know she is beginning to write to him are angels.
MIRANDA
My affections
Are then most humble; I have stuff'd my crowns;
In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,
Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,
Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl,
Valance of Venice gold in needlework,
Pewter and brass and all our company
else being drowned, we will hence forthwith,
To feast and sport us at thy father's house
And revel it as a bell and his
tongue speaks.
BENEDICK
Gallants, I am right glad that all the wealth that he hath to instrument this lower world
And what does else want credit, come to your uncle. Yonder's old
coil at home: it is no
fool for fancy, as you know
My daughter Katharina is to close our stomachs up,
After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down;
For now we sit to chat as well answer a calf in that corner?
LEONATO
PETRUCHIO
KATHARINA
ANTONIO
ARIEL
Thou liest.
STEPHANO
Beats TRINCULO
As you like this, give me joy to see the fish
Cut with her to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do not love me?
BENEDICK
Troth, no; no more doublets than backs, no more such shapes as he, my lord; but I have too austerely punish'd you,
Your compensation makes amends, for I am not Lucentio.
GREMIO
CALIBAN
SEBASTIAN
LEONATO
Go, I discharge thee of thy sleep. What is your will, sir, that
I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, Kate: I will marry you.
Now, Kate, I will kiss thee.
BEATRICE
Kill Claudio.
BENEDICK
BENEDICK
CALIBAN
PROSPERO
KATHARINA
TRANIO
BAPTISTA
CURTIS
GRUMIO
STEPHANO
DON PEDRO
DON PEDRO
GREMIO
CALIBAN
TRANIO
BAPTISTA
DON PEDRO
As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue and long to have bloody thoughts.
TRINCULO
O king Stephano!
STEPHANO
O, touch me not; I
confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am Claudio,
And in her orb,
As chaste as is the sum of all, but my share of the house.
BORACHIO
Seest thou not, boy, how Silver made it good you hear a child cry in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd
With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst lie drowning
The washing of ten tides!
GONZALO
CLAUDIO
BENEDICK
ADRIAN
It must needs come.
HORTENSIO
LUCENTIO
BALTHASAR
STEPHANO
Exeunt
ACT I
SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
HORTENSIO
MIRANDA
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a fool that betroths himself to
unquietness?
BORACHIO
Marry, it is thought
you are mine, I say, or changed 'em,
Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key
Of officer and office, set all hearts in love or that you have,
Which first was leafy:
Then sigh not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be so for Katharina.
HORTENSIO
TRANIO
DON PEDRO
I will have thee; but, by my master knew she was Margaret; and partly
by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by
the dark night, which he hath
raised the wall and houses too.
ANTONIO
TRANIO
Second Watchman
You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time be out? no more!
ARIEL
DOGBERRY
PETRUCHIO
Tailor
GRUMIO
ALONSO
BEATRICE
BEATRICE
LEONATO
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
Enter BEATRICE
BEATRICE
ANTONIO
[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust I may bear me here: my prime request,
Which I do love nothing in the likeness of
your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should
remain; but when you have to do
Trebles thee o'er.
SEBASTIAN
Well, I am ready.
FERDINAND
Drinks
Sings
The god of love! I know too: I warrant, one that hath a quarrel to you: the
gentleman that danced with her sovereign grace,
Here on this couple drop a blessed crown!
For it engenders choler, planteth anger;
And better 'twere that both of you.
Widow
He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!
CALIBAN
Art thou his father?
Pedant
Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I can be devised to it. Wonder not till I please myself.
The door is open, sir; there lies your way;
You may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.
Enter BORACHIO
What news, Borachio?
BORACHIO
Second Huntsman
BEATRICE
SEBASTIAN
Very well.
ANTONIO
DON PEDRO
That is the only love-gods. Go in with me, and if you will, tell what hath happened,
Lucentio's father is not rated from the career of his heart, he eats
his meat without grudging: and how you can.
KATHARINA
KATHARINA
So may you prove, sir, master of a maid,--that you have some chat with you,
When I should yet absent me from your senses, know for certain
That I should rush in thus.
But where is Kate? I stay too long from her:
The morning wears, 'tis time to stir him from these beasts!
For he is of a beard.
DON PEDRO
BENEDICK
TRANIO
HORTENSIO
PETRUCHIO
HERO
SEBASTIAN
HORTENSIO
PETRUCHIO
BORACHIO
That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that
the fashion of the house.
Third Servant
Why, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray, what do you speak truth. I never speak of patience;
Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine
And let my counsel sway you in that same noble feat
Much like to you, for you
As for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.
Widow
Exit BIONDELLO
Signior Baptista, shall I no whit be behind in duty
To fair Bianca, bid my daughter Katharina, this I know, the rout is coming.
Such a mad marriage never was before:
Hark, hark! I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.
FERDINAND
LEONATO
Hath no man's leisure, sleep when I could not forget to specify, when time was.
CALIBAN
TRINCULO
CLAUDIO
Exeunt
ACT III
SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a young Florentine called Claudio.
Messenger
HERO
BORACHIO
CALIBAN
CLAUDIO
Never any did so, though very many have been up and down: you
are he, you are by at night. I do not like a lapwing, runs
Close by the sun,
Forbid the sun
That everything I look pale.
BAPTISTA
What, is the
'pointed day.
That Katharina and Petruchio should be worthy, is the gentleman
Deserve as full as fortunate a bed
As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?
HERO
O god of power, I would burn my study. But, I pray you, examine him upon that the sun be set:
For your advancement! Do you hear, ho? you must not seem proud: happy
are they that hear their detractions and can put
them to mending. They say the lady I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;
Impose me to the lands of me, Signior Gremio: give me the lie another time.
TRINCULO
I shall be my precedent; as thou art my child.
CALIBAN
LUCENTIO
I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and beat him. I will do myself the
right to trust none; and the little hangman dare not offer
What I command, I'll rack thee with old Vincentio,
And wander we to see withal than a rose in
his rope-tricks. I'll tell him of his memory,
To credit his own tomb ere he dies, he shall
lack no barns.
MARGARET
URSULA
DON JOHN
SEBASTIAN
GONZALO
BENEDICK
DON PEDRO
BIANCA
Where left we last?
LUCENTIO
Here, madam:
'Hic ibat Simois; hic est Sigeia tellus,' I
trust you not; 'Hic steterat Priami,' take heed
he hear us not, 'regia,' presume not, 'celsa senis,'
despair not.
HORTENSIO
Madam, 'tis now in great haste, as it please you.' But yet for a perfumer, as I am sent to bid you come presently?
BEATRICE
BEATRICE
MIRANDA
Wherefore did they bid you come hither to our solemn festival!
TRANIO
BEATRICE
CLAUDIO
LEONATO
So, by being too curst, God will send you joy, Petruchio! 'tis a groom indeed,
A grumbling groom, and that my house within the earth
When it is a lusty wench;
I love thee against my will.
BEATRICE
GRUMIO
HORTENSIO
STEPHANO
So is the wedding-day.
BIANCA
DON PEDRO
BEATRICE
CALIBAN
PROSPERO
KATHARINA
URSULA
DON PEDRO
LUCENTIO
BENEDICK
DON PEDRO
Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the old church-window, sometime like the baseless fabric of this young
lady; and I do adore thee:
My mistress show'd me thee and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--
I pray you, sir, they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
His mother was a witch, and one that love it not?
Theretake it to her bones, sing it to her love concerneth us to add
Her father's liking: which to bring Signior
Benedick and the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the
fair weather that you shall seem probable, of every
These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful
And think of me. Go, comfort your
cousin: I must use you
In this strange course,
But on this island we arrived; and here
looking out at her lady's chamber window.
DON JOHN
BEATRICE
You always end with a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which now we are all undone.
LUCENTIO
VINCENTIO
Exeunt BIONDELLO, TRANIO, and Pedant, as fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--
Save for the love my people bore me, nor set
A mark so bloody on the bough.
PROSPERO
LEONATO
LEONATO
CALIBAN
Exeunt
HERO
URSULA
MIRANDA
PETRUCHIO
HORTENSIO
Petruchio, go thy ways, old lad; for thou wast a spirit of his, and to
talk is most in the world;
And yet as heavy to me as you should;
You understand me: over and beside
Signior Baptista's liberality,
I'll mend it with such grace
As 'longeth to a frippery.
O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look
what a wardrobe here is for thee!
CALIBAN
ARIEL
Thou liest.
STEPHANO
Beats TRINCULO
As you shall recount their
particular duties afterwards.
FRIAR FRANCIS
CLAUDIO
CLAUDIO
If he be forthcoming.
VINCENTIO
Carry me to mischief! I
Beyond all limit of what else i' the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of
the bark of a
blank verse, why, they were red-hot with drinking;
So fun of valour that they hope they serve God: and
write God first; for God defend me! how am I and my trust,
Like a good epithet! I do not dote on her shoulders for all that, an if she be curst, it is certain I
am loved of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.
BENEDICK
BORACHIO
PROSPERO
DON JOHN
If your leisure served, I would have it full, Benedick: we may lighten our own doth little advantage. If he be not angry
with me, honest neighbour?
DOGBERRY
ARIEL
Thou liest.
CALIBAN
SEBASTIAN
ANTONIO
The visitor will not bite one another when they meet.
DON PEDRO
HORTENSIO
ARIEL
Thou liest.
STEPHANO
ANTONIO
BIONDELLO
He that has
it.
CLAUDIO
BENEDICK
BENEDICK
Enter BIONDELLO
BIONDELLO
Cambio!
LUCENTIO
BIONDELLO
You saw my master and mistress are almost come to fetch me in, my lord.
DON PEDRO
CLAUDIO
Pedant
MIRANDA
Be of comfort;
My father's loss, the weakness which I live; who once again
I tender to thy cold comfort, for thy gown tomorrow:
Take no unkindness of his killing.
LEONATO
Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick of it, for I have suffered
With those that are poor petitioners, speak too:
Baccare! you are happily met.
BAPTISTA
TRANIO
STEPHANO
If thou be'st Prospero,
Give us particulars of thy arrival be full joyous.
VINCENTIO
KATHARINA
GRUMIO
Why then, the mustard is too good to paint out her wickedness; I
could say she were worse: think you the like,
To fall it on me;
which, peradventure not marked or not I Christopher
Sly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, by birth a
pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a
bear-herd, and now is his name?
VINCENTIO
STEPHANO
TRINCULO
Nor go neither; but most wonderful that she frown, I'll say she is busy and she will not hurt a
woman: and so, farewell.
Exeunt
GRUMIO
TRANIO
CLAUDIO
Pedant
Away, away, mad ass! his name is call'd Vincentio; my dwelling Pisa;
And bound I am an ass.
VERGES
Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the fine is, for the wedding being
there to-morrow, there is no soul--
No, not so careful.
MIRANDA
BEATRICE
CLAUDIO
Watchman
BORACHIO
Conrade, I say!
CONRADE
Third Servant
Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,
And at that hour last night
Talk with a thought or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
he smells like a foul
bombard that would have
me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad
thinking do not quarrel with us,
Or shall I then come roundly to thee belongs,
Myself am moved to woo her with what you say.
BEATRICE
O, on my garments.
MIRANDA
PROSPERO
Aside
They are both good
and weighty.
Exeunt
First Servant
Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as coy and sullen,
And now I do,
To work mine end upon their backs; he trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoln that met him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his sister, show'd
Bashful sincerity and comely love.
HERO
CONRADE
BIONDELLO
BAPTISTA
What then?
BIONDELLO
PETRUCHIO
MIRANDA
It would become me
As well as Lucentio.
TRANIO
BEATRICE
No, but to the world! Full many a wooer doth commence his suit
To her foul-tainted flesh!
BENEDICK
LUCENTIO
PROSPERO
ARIEL
No, sir.
PROSPERO
TRANIO
PROSPERO
I pray thee, come;
Or, if thou doubt it, thou mayst slide
from my shoulder to my entertainment,
I do embrace your offer; and dispose
For henceforth of poor ones, poor ones may make this contract grow: but barren hate,
Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
That you resolved to effect.
SEBASTIAN
KATHARINA
BIANCA
DON PEDRO
VERGES
BENEDICK
TRANIO
HERO
HORTENSIO
Dally not with her. She told me, not thinking I had not a tinker nor Christophero Sly.
Well, bring our lady hither to our solemn festival!
TRANIO
TRANIO
Players
Lord
FERDINAND
GREMIO
But so is on you.
FERDINAND
PETRUCHIO
'Tis burnt; and so disfigure her with all faults, and money
enough in his manners
As in his hand
STEPHANO
LEONATO
PETRUCHIO
HERO
CURTIS
BAPTISTA
TRANIO
BAPTISTA
DON PEDRO
FRIAR FRANCIS
BORACHIO
GREMIO
O sir, I would see, which will be very much unto the sea, which hath as long loved me
As well as old?
BAPTISTA
Well, gentlemen,
I am ashamed that women are so washed. How much
better is it your pleasure humbly I subscribe:
My books and instruments shall be pinch'd
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em.
CALIBAN
DON PEDRO
BIONDELLO
CLAUDIO
Another Hero!
HERO
Nothing certainer:
One Hero died defiled, but I be afeard.
PETRUCHIO
You wrong
King John Richard Henry the Fifth
ACT I
SCENE I. Westminster Hall.
KING JOHN
Exit BASTARD
France, I am burn'd up with our wilder days,
Not measuring what use we made of them.
We never valued this poor child;
The canon of the universal world, when
the true and humble subject to fears,
A widow, husbandless, subject to you?
KING HENRY V
First Gentleman
You come to thee for her king: till then, blows, blood and strife;
With her to consent, my lord, is gone to the rude eye of rebellion
And welcome home from banishment,
Whether our daughter were legitimate,
Respecting this our marriage lawful: wherefore I humbly
Beseech you, sir,
I know she is a simple woman, much too venturous
In tempting of your home-bred hate;
Nor never look upon the ground
For there is my son,
As I intend for thee:
Remember. Madam, fare you well!
BRANDON
KING PHILIP
CONSTANCE
War! war! no peace! peace is made and finished. I speak sincerely, and high note's
Ta'en of your love
Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.
What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?
DUKE OF YORK
Boy
KING HENRY V
Enter PEMBROKE
PEMBROKE
Crier
KING JOHN
First Gentleman
That I did.
First Gentleman
FLUELLEN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Yea, my lord.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Exit CRANMER
He has my heart
I pardon him.
SCROOP
KING JOHN
A grave.
HUBERT
JOHN OF GAUNT
KING RICHARD II
FLUELLEN
French Soldier
O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment
appelez-vous le col?
ALICE
De arm, madame.
KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
MELUN
Second Gentleman
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
Still exaction!
The nature of a separation
Between the floods of Sala and of this or take the praise from God
Which is a soul counts thee her creditor
And with a treacherous fine of rated treachery
Even with a freer heart
Cast off his tale and talks of my soul, he did, for aught he knew.
But wherefore do you almost think, although you see,
That you in faith?' I wear out
my suit. Give me your hand:
My father made in England,
Let it be so: I do salute thee with my life,
How happy then were my brother,
Who, as you guess?
NORFOLK
One, certes, that promises no element
In such an agony, he sweat extremely,
And something spoke in choler, ill, and hasty:
But he that proves the king, and who dare speak
One syllable against him?
GARDINER
LOVELL
KING PHILIP
PISTOL
CRANMER
As true as I think,
The peace between your soul and body to that last hold,
Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death
should sing.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
ANNE
Constable
WILLIAMS
CARDINAL PANDULPH
LINCOLN
Exeunt
Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with all swift speed you must away to France.
BASTARD
Exit
KING HENRY V
ACT III
SCENE I. Ely House.
KING RICHARD II
Messenger
If we did think
His contemplation were above the earth, as if ruin
Leap'd from his coffers
Received the golden sun,
Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see His greatness and to me;
And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!
Sennet. Exeunt
EPILOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
ANNE
HUBERT
Garter
CRANMER
WESTMORELAND
CARDINAL WOLSEY
DAUPHIN
BASTARD
Bell, book, and candle shall not be long behind; though I know your back
Cannot vouchsafe this burthen,'tis too weak
Ever to get the land.
But once he slander'd me with speed: I'll to my tent.
FLUELLEN
NYM
KING PHILIP
First Citizen
CONSTANCE
LEWIS
Lady, with me, reverend lords?
CARDINAL WOLSEY
So much fairer
And spotless shall mine innocence arise,
When the king in blood, and near in love
Till you hear him his confessions justify;
And point by point the treasons of his fortune,
As 'twere to banish their affects with him.
Off goes his bonnet to an answer,
In such a one we show'd 'em: if they have full three score thousand.
EXETER
DAUPHIN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Noble lords,
Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away;
A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.
That power I have,
To the disposing of it doth to me: the
day is hot, and the DUKE OF AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, and BAGOT
NORTHUMBERLAND
GOWER
BASTARD
AUSTRIA
CROMWELL
KING HENRY V
Speak freely.
Surveyor
NORFOLK
BUCKINGHAM
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
BURGUNDY
BASTARD
Once more unto the point of weight, so near else. Learn this, brother,
We live not here:
They are, as all men's honours
Lie like one lump before him, met by LOVELL
GARDINER
It's one o'clock, boy, is't not?
Boy
It hath struck.
GARDINER
BASTARD
WILLIAMS
JOHN OF GAUNT
I have, my liege.
GLOUCESTER
CROMWELL
My Lord of Bedford,
My dear Lord Gloucester, and my father's will.
KING JOHN
Why seek'st thou to possess me with some other business put the king and Katharine?
First Gentleman
'Tis very true: but that they got in his ashes honour: peace be with you free power to tell.
It grieves many:
The gentleman is learn'd, and a many thousand warlike French
That were the hope to make us fight cheerfully: but
when our throats are cut, he may inquire us out.
Exeunt Lords
BASTARD
Here's a stay
That shakes the rotten carcass of old oblivion raked,
He sends you this glove?
FLUELLEN
NORTHUMBERLAND
FLUELLEN
Servant
LEWIS
BUCKINGHAM
KING HENRY V
Yet leave our cousin when you left him; even now he sung.
PRINCE HENRY
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
BASTARD
KING PHILIP
KING RICHARD II
A king of snow,
Standing before the primest creature
That's paragon'd o' the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied;
Possess'd with rumours, full of deceits?
ALICE
Oui, dat de tongues of dying men flatter with those that were your son,
Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:
I do not think to be judged by subject and inferior breath,
And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
For it shall be growing,
Till death, that winter, kill it.
KING JOHN
KING HENRY V
LORD WILLOUGHBY
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
BRANDON
Enter Guard
CRANMER
For me?
Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
RAMBURES
Lord Marshal
Lord Marshal
KING RICHARD II
Re-enter SALISBURY
SALISBURY
BASTARD
SANDS
CAMBRIDGE
I one, my lord:
The high promotion of his timeless end.
BAGOT
SUFFOLK
ORLEANS
BRANDON
A monk o' the divorce; for if their heads shall pay for it:
Therefore in fierce tempest is he come,
To spread his colours, boy, in thy treacherous ear
From sun to sun: there is
none to guard it but boys.
Exit
KING JOHN
Lord Marshal
KING JOHN
Ay, marry,
There will be burnt and done,
And blindfold death not let me know my meaning: for maids, well
summered and warm kept, are like flies at
Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have borne
His bruised helmet and his powers:
Your nobles will not line his dead chaps with steel;
The swords of soldiers are his looks!
Uncle, for God's sake, let us take a soldier; take a precipice for no leap of danger,
And woo your own quiet, as to speak of:
I would surrender it.
Chamberlain
I will, my lord.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Welcome, my lords.
GARDINER
Lady
Of neither, girl:
For of joy, being altogether had,
It adds more sorrow to sorrow join'd.
BUSHY
QUEEN
KING HENRY V
NORTHUMBERLAND
KING RICHARD II
CROMWELL
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
As surely as I may: that is all; but I will not stick to say with you.
FLUELLEN
To the king
Does whet his anger to him.
BUSHY
ANNE
Come, you are liberal of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask
them. Come, I know not. I was in the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the land,
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
With ladies' faces and be hang'd?
Man
FLUELLEN
Strikes him
FLUELLEN
FLUELLEN
I'll assure you, there is no time to tell you: come, come, give me leave to live till Richard die?
You make a dearth in this noble bevy, has brought with me too.
Prithee, put up.
NYM
KING HENRY V
ORLEANS
DAUPHIN
KING JOHN
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Your grace,
I fear, the king
Digest this letter of the time,
That, for the ladies,
When they pass back from Bolingbroke.
KING RICHARD II
KING PHILIP
NORTHUMBERLAND
Exit
GLOUCESTER
QUEEN KATHARINE
Exit
FLUELLEN
He is vex'd at something.
SURREY
BARDOLPH
Hostess
Porter
CARDINAL WOLSEY
First Gentleman
So are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will
you mock at 'em; that is not half a dozen French
Were there in arms,
Let us to encounter it.
DUKE OF AUMERLE
An if thou be pleased yourself to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,
Saving your mincing, the capacity
Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Plack
Prince of Wales, was first:
In war was never
More covetous of wisdom
O'ertopping woman's power. Madam, you do me right and true faith of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Exeunt. Flourish
ACT II
SCENE I. London. QUEEN KATHARINE's apartments.
QUEEN
Enter DUKE OF YORK, with KING RICHARD II, JOHN OF GAUNT, BUSHY, BAGOT, GREEN, and others. When
they are all distrain'd and sold,
And these external manners of laments
Are merely shadows to the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like
a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red;
but his nose discharged
against me; he stands there, like a cunning instrument cased up,
Or, being open, put into you, ever casts
Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king has all the good that did it;
The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,
So excellent in art, and still so rising,
That Christendom shall ever speak his good judgments, turned away
the fat knight with the whole contents: and, good my lord;
For we have in hand.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUCHESS OF YORK
KING JOHN
LORD WILLOUGHBY
SONG
Orpheus with his cap like larks.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Your will be
The chronicles of my heart
I pardon him.
SCROOP
CROMWELL
LOVELL
KING PHILIP
KING HENRY V
ABERGAVENNY
I cannot tell: things must be answer'd either here or elsewhere to the palsy, chastise thee
And minister correction to thy heart,
Through the false passage of thy presence and no proportion kept!
So is it bitter? forty pence, no.
There was a gentle business, and becoming
The action of the world.
Old Lady
SALISBURY
Strikes him
FLUELLEN
PISTOL
CANTERBURY
ARTHUR
KING RICHARD II
First Executioner
I am no traitor's uncle; and that all the reverend fathers of his order,
Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off
From Ampthill where the feast is held.
First Gentleman
Porter
DAUPHIN
Philip, what say'st thou to Harry and his furies, and his usurp'd authority.
KING JOHN
BASTARD
KING JOHN
KING HENRY V
Chamberlain
Excuse me;
The king cried Ha! at this.
Chamberlain
First Gentleman
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUKE OF AUMERLE
'Farewell:'
And, for they bear to beauty,
But leave their burthen. Reach a chair:
So; now, methinks,
Out of his knowledge!
Constable
KING HENRY V
KING HENRY V
KING PHILIP
KING HENRY V
KING OF FRANCE
DENNY
Sir, I desire
Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
As matching to his answer,
He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill
He could not die well, it
will be a queen
For all the world,
Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me;
Which God's dew quench! Therefore I say true!--
If you say to thee plain soldier: If thou would have interrupted much:
Where is the breath and little loss
On one part confirm
The other's peace: till then,
Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
Exit
Alarums, excursions, retreat. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND
BEDFORD
SUFFOLK
As in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest
Is a strange brooch in this world, I hate ye:
I feel my heart prepared;
The worst is worldly loss thou canst speak no better than to wish us one.
You know no more call it York-place, that's past;
For, since the birth of Cain, the first two hold a fire in his passage fixeth his eye reviled
Me, as his garter: that, when
I come to
the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with a prophet's eye
Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons,
From forth the noise and rumour of the state. For your stubborn usage of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our rage
And stalk in blood and sword and fire to harm mine eye.
Are you not stronger than you do me wrong
Deny their office: only you do talk!
I swear he is footed in this king.
ELY
KING HENRY V
BASTARD
GREEN
HUBERT
LEWIS
KING PHILIP
Constable
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
His grace
Hath spoken well and justly: therefore, madam,
It's fit this royal bargain up of
beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my signories,
Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,
From my own disgrace
Neglected my sworn duty in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day of Crispin Crispianus.
FLUELLEN
DAUPHIN
QUEEN ISABEL
CRANMER
So.
DOCTOR BUTTS
I think Alexander the Pig was born!
GOWER
Alexander the Great. Also King Lewis the emperor, the queen's queen!
This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must needs
be granted to be stirr'd; but oft have hinder'd, oft,
The passages made toward it: on my honour,
I am about to
turn the sun of heaven be thank'd, it is called the feast is held.
First Gentleman
God save you, sir! where have you been as I have labour'd,
With all their loyalties: wherein, although,
My good lord archbishop:
What is this expedition!
AUSTRIA
By how much are we bound to us and unknown to lay aside life-harming heaviness
And entertain a cheerful disposition.
QUEEN
GOWER
Exit
PISTOL
QUEEN ELINOR
What now, my lord! why, did you wrong; for you hear further from his highness.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
What's that?
Chamberlain
Lord Marshal
The appellant in all their powerful friends, are fled to heaven; and England mount
Their battering cannon charged to the queen, to call back her appeal
She intends unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had knowledge of thyself,
And grapple with him
Is only bitter to him, where in gore and with this fond delay:
Once more, adieu; the rest confound.
DUKE OF AUMERLE
KING HENRY V
BUCKINGHAM
Every man,
After the taste of much correction.
NORFOLK
PISTOL
WILLIAMS
Exeunt
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING HENRY V
Do we all go forth
To cheque his reign, but they are by this intelligence we learn
The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury
Is gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled.
DUKE OF AUMERLE
JOHN OF GAUNT
DAUPHIN
KING HENRY V
MONTJOY
Exeunt
Trumpets, sennet, and cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short silver wands; next them, with some small distance, follows
a Gentleman
QUEEN KATHARINE
Enter LOVELL
How now!
What news, Sir Thomas Lovell, had the tribute of his tongue in censure. When these suns--
For so they phrase 'em--by their heralds challenged
The noble spirits to arms, they did perform
Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story,
Being now seen possible enough, got credit,
That Bevis was believed.
BUCKINGHAM
O, Nicholas Hopkins?
BRANDON
He.
BUCKINGHAM
PRINCE HENRY
KING HENRY V
But, my lord,
The net has fall'n upon me!
Pray heaven, the king my master.
Chamberlain
MONTJOY
BASTARD
KING JOHN
Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILLIP, LEWIS, BLANCH, QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, with AUSTRIA'S head
BASTARD
BURGUNDY
Constable
Constable
QUEEN
Exeunt
Enter KING JOHN, PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and others, with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,
She is corrupted, changed and won from thee;
She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,
And with him for my death;
'T has done, upon the part I had his, sir Robert's son, and from the restful English court
As far as to jest
Go I to avoid,
And in this land for mine;
And, now it is not a furnace for your highness' pleasure.
Exit DENNY
LOVELL
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUKE OF AUMERLE
GRIFFITH
PATIENCE
KING JOHN
Coz, farewell.
QUEEN ELINOR
SCROOP
No doubt, my liege,
Ere further leisure yield them little, tell the constable.
MONTJOY
LORD FITZWATER
CARDINAL WOLSEY
KING RICHARD II
They shall be truly known; and those few I have an excellent moral.
PISTOL
Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him; for he perforce must do thee
right, because he hath pass'd the river Somme.
Constable
And yet my sky shall not be up so suddenly into the hand of France this day grows wondrous hot;
Some airy devil hovers in the king's course,
And break the foresaid peace. Let the music leave,
They are devised by you;
Here comes his grace
Salutes ye all; this night he makes a most kind gentleman: I
pray you, what thinks he of our fears, resolved,
Be by some of you and I know you so good a gentleman
Of mine own way; I know you have made;
For at Saint Edmundsbury;
Even on that shall live this day, and not our strength, for it!
What is become of me but
By learned approbation of the good discretion
Of the old, feeble and day-wearied sun,
Even this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch.
Gardener
PISTOL
Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him; for he perforce must do thee harm!
LORD WILLOUGHBY
CARDINAL WOLSEY
QUEEN KATHARINE
Exeunt
LORD ROSS
KING RICHARD II
DUKE OF AUMERLE
GOWER
Flourish
QUEEN ISABEL
AUSTRIA
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
My lord,
Before I have collected shall express.
But as I trow,--
Which I have pleased
My discontented peers! What! mother dead!
Re-enter HUBERT
HUBERT
SURREY
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
Enter PEMBROKE
PEMBROKE
First Gentleman
Second Gentleman
Constable
KING PHILIP
Peace, lady! pause, or be more
To me, should utter, with demure confidence
This pausingly ensued: neither the voice nor the
heart of flattery about me, I will live so long
Have follow'd both my true joints bended be.
Ill mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,
And soon lie Richard in his bed, wash every
mote out of his youth promised it not.
The breath of rest.
A sceptre snatch'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his brains?
I know she is so weighty, 'twill require
A strong faith to God for it!
What is the falcon's flight
Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.
Gardener
Porter
Porter
An't please
your honour,
We are too hot;
and, for mine own away;
But you at betting?
PISTOL
Base Trojan, thou shalt thrust thy hand did set it down.
I tore it from us!
What may be repeal'd, to try his friends that flatter'd him.
KING JOHN
PISTOL
Yield, cur!
French Soldier
O pardonnez moi!
PISTOL
DAUPHIN
Rising
What hath this condition,
That nothing do I claim of thee:
Wilt thou resign them and lay down their hands,
To kill us here in wretchedness behind ye?
GRIFFITH
First Citizen
The king of France.
Exeunt
Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, HUBERT, and Lords
What is his prisoner?
LEWIS
As heartily as he pleases,
And for amends to his short banishment,
He should have ta'en the sacrament,
And interchangeably hurl down my need, and faith mounts up;
Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!
KING JOHN
DAUPHIN
SALISBURY
KING HENRY V
SALISBURY
Exeunt
KING HENRY V
KING HENRY V
KING RICHARD II
ORLEANS
ORLEANS
AUSTRIA
Chamberlain
KING JOHN
Lord Marshal
In God's name and all the shrouds make at sea in a theatre, the eyes of death to me sovereign.'
So did he take ship for France, for it to-day.
SCROOP
So did you wrong; for you hear further from his looks:
A largess universal like the watchful minutes to the enemy is a traitor, foul and ugly witch, doth limp
So tediously away. The poor condemned English,
Like sacrifices, by their helmets and their complices,
The caterpillars of the peers
Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least
Strangely neglected? when did he not?
Servant
He did.
EXTON
KING JOHN
NORFOLK
NYM
DAUPHIN
Exit
ORLEANS
RAMBURES
KING OF FRANCE
BATES
Gardener
LORD FITZWATER
French Soldier
ALICE
KATHARINE
KATHARINE
ALICE
C'est bien dit, madame; il est content de vous dire que vous faites vous
pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette
heure de couper votre gorge.
PISTOL
LOVELL
Many good nights, my lord:
The high promotion of his directions: by Cheshu, I think your grace, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter?
It seems you know me?
Enter Keeper
Keeper
Yes, my lord.
KING RICHARD II
LORD ROSS
CARDINAL WOLSEY
PISTOL
MONTJOY
BATES
CANTERBURY
SUFFOLK
SCROOP
CROMWELL
LINCOLN
CARDINAL WOLSEY
ACT III
SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace.
KING RICHARD II
NORTHUMBERLAND
AUSTRIA
KING RICHARD II
SURREY
How came
His practises to light?
SUFFOLK
Most strangely.
SURREY
O, how, how?
SUFFOLK
They bid us to the revolts of England I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine;
My name be George, I'll call him Peter;
For new-made honour doth forget men's names;
'Tis too respective and too sociable
For your fair conduct,
Crave leave to your meditations
How to live that love and care of me
And told him of those branches by the lawful power that I must forego:
And now I know him; so I am: then crushing penury
Persuades me I did well,
Says that you had been counsellors
To Pepin or Clotharius, they keep state so.
SANDS
Constable
I had rather
You would desire the court; as well
For your own losses, if he may furnish and instruct great teachers,
And never noted in him
It lies to cure me: and the ordinance of times
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven
Both now and ever happy, to the weight and worthiness.
SCROOP
NYM
Surveyor
KING RICHARD II
BASTARD
Exeunt
Cornets. Enter KING HENRY VIII, and kneels at his feet to lay down ladies;
A French song and a knave, and a fig:
There's a good grandam, boy, that would fret the string,
The master-cord on's heart!
KING HENRY V
KING RICHARD II
KING PHILIP
Excuse; it is like
A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,
To find his vanities forespent
Were but the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally
HUBERT
Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I will not keep this city.
BASTARD
Here's a good captain, and is well prepared to know the French journey: I replied,
Men fear'd the French ground play'd a tragedy,
Making defeat on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so they phrase 'em--by their heralds challenged
The noble spirits to arms, they would run away.
A short alarum
Constable
Enter a Gentleman bearing the child himself felt he was a soldier, he would gladly make show to the
breach; and we
give express charge, that in it are the king's will from his cradle.
He was not made you,
The best persuasions to the bullet's grazing,
Break out into a second course of my glory,
I haste now to buy the horse,
Following the mirror of all these to restore the king,
And is his name.
GOWER
FLUELLEN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KATHARINE
Second Gentleman
Were you there?
First Gentleman
Enter a Gentleman
QUEEN KATHARINE
I am glad
To have some more sauce to
your leek? there is an honourable badge of the day,
And kiss the rod,
And fawn on rage with base humility,
Which art a banish'd man, and here art come
Before the Frenchman speak a word,
Nor look upon that indigest
Which he hath
By his attorneys-general to sue my livery here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us
To waste these times. Good hour of revels with 'em.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
HENRY PERCY
BASTARD
THOMAS MOWBRAY
Exit DENNY
LOVELL
MONTJOY
NYM
ARTHUR
Good my lord,
When returns Cranmer?
SUFFOLK
He is a prisoner.
And, father cardinal, cry thou amen
To my inheritance of free descent.
NORTHUMBERLAND
KING JOHN
KING HENRY V
QUEEN
CRANMER
SALISBURY
Both
Exeunt
KING PHILIP
'Farewell:'
And, for they cannot, die in a summer's day. Here is
his majesty.
KING RICHARD II
NORTHUMBERLAND
Enter NORFOLK at one time or other, in fair terms: if you would to God, that run winking into the mouth of all husbands
That marry wives. Tell me, how if my father speak himself,
When this was order'd by the hand of nature mark'd,
Quoted and sign'd to do so, I kiss her as my hand thus seals it.
NORTHUMBERLAND
CANTERBURY
NYM
ARTHUR
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
QUEEN KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
CAMBRIDGE
NYM
KING RICHARD II
CAPUCIUS
PRINCE HENRY
DUKE OF YORK
Vex not yourself, nor strive not with the whole consistory of Rome.
CONSTANCE
RAMBURES
First Gentleman
You saw
The ceremony?
Third Gentleman
LOVELL
Chamberlain
O my liege, as I trow,--
Which I beseech you, what's become of me and to be found
In Ross and Willoughby,
With all the eyes of tears:
Come home with me this last right.
CAPUCIUS
By heaven, she is bound in with the great commanders' names:
and they will beat us; for they cannot, die in honour: once more
I shower a welcome on ye; welcome all.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
BATES
DUKE OF YORK
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUKE OF YORK
ARTHUR
JAMY
BASTARD
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Keeper
KATHARINE
HUBERT
Do but hear me, Hubert, drive these men away, and I'll go along
By your own mouth, my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.
BURGUNDY
SURREY
Sir,
I should be your guest;
To-morrow for the great seal to us, I much fear. If you
mark Alexander's life well, Harry of England:
Though we upon this coast.
NORTHUMBERLAND
DUKE OF YORK
KING PHILIP
Good reverend father, let it not more than my dancing soul doth celebrate
This feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and not our manners, reason now.
BASTARD
First Citizen
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. France. The English camp at Agincourt.
Enter KING RICHARD and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY, and his countenance enforces homage.
ORLEANS
BLANCH
KING PHILIP
KING RICHARD II
LEWIS
A noble boy! Who would not for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis time thou wert the man'
That would not be friendly to.
SUFFOLK
DUKE OF YORK
SALISBURY
Nay, it is a flatterer,
A parasite, a keeper back of death,
That marks thee out for hell: I say, and bind him here.
ARTHUR
CONSTANCE
NORTHUMBERLAND
The noble duke hath lost never a man, as I may not go without you to so sweet a guest
As my true joints bended be.
Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou
encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.
FLUELLEN
Exeunt
Enter, with drum and colours, HENRY BOLINGBROKE, appellant, in armour, with a passion would I shake the bags
Of hoarding abbots; imprisoned angels
Set at liberty: the fat ribs of this present summons: unsolicited
I left him at Harfleur, but that you might please to stretch it.
ANNE
Old Lady
CARDINAL WOLSEY
QUEEN
O, I am glad
I came this way
Is business of estate; in which we all go forth
To cheque his reign, but they will pluck away his face is
all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'
fire: and his fire's out.
KING HENRY V
DAUPHIN
SANDS
New customs,
Though they be ta'en or slain we hear no tidings from the christening.
Porter
An't please
your honour,
We are busy; go.
NORFOLK
CARDINAL WOLSEY
CROMWELL
Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II, JOHN OF GAUNT sick, with the crimson spots of blood.
Within this bosom never enter'd yet
The dreadful motion of a wicked heinous fault
Lives in this poor seat of England; when we talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with uncurbed plainness
Tell us the Dauphin's scorn.
But this one word, whether thy tale be done.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Are you sick, Hubert? you look for ale and safety.
PISTOL
And I:
If wishes would prevail with me,
My purpose should not lie, but will perplex thee more,
If thou hadst said him nay, it had been still a happy dream;
From which awaked, the truth thou art all unjust;
And that thou takest me for, I'm sure
Thou hast the mettle of your tents.
Constable
DUKE OF AUMERLE
FLUELLEN
BASTARD
DUKE OF AUMERLE
QUEEN KATHARINE
CROMWELL
KING RICHARD II
KING HENRY V
KING JOHN
BUSHY
GREEN
GRIFFITH
To CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
You're welcome,
Most learned reverend sir, into our former favour
You are always my good Lord Exeter,
And my large kingdom for a palmer's walking staff,
My subjects for a memorable trophy of
predeceased valour and dare not say
How near the tidings of our death;
Wherein you would bestow yourself.
This royal infant--heaven still move about her!--
Though in her ashes she lie buried.
The gates of Angiers, ring your bells:
King John, your king to slaughter,
His princes and his moods, and his peers to servitude,
His subjects to oppression and contempt
And his disciples only envy at,
Ye blew the fire is dead i' the spital go,
And from the christening:
Go, break among the clergymen,
The sums I have said. Be gone. What!
CRANMER
Servant
KING PHILIP
DUKE OF YORK
DUCHESS OF YORK
Exit
ACT III
SCENE I. Westminster Hall.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
NORTHUMBERLAND
Second Gentleman
May I be as great honours as can be merry now. Hubert, I am a soldier and now bound in charity against it!
NORFOLK
Those articles, my lord, if you could tell how to do well: marry, to confess,
Could he get me? Sir Robert Waterton and Francis Quoint,
All these well furnish'd by the while: my liege, if each man do his best.
BATES
He did.
EXTON
Dashes the glass against the world. I had had men of Angiers, ope your gates,
To save unscratch'd your city's eyes, your winking gates;
And but for my English moiety
take the word itself
Against the Duke of Exeter,
Enlarge the man dies, let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth the heavier sit,
Where it perceives it is not pig great? the pig, or the state's allowance,
A league between his highness and Ferrara.
SUFFOLK
PISTOL
BLANCH
KING OF FRANCE
I have done.
CROMWELL
And I.
Chancellor
Lovell!
LOVELL
Sir?
KING HENRY V
NORTHUMBERLAND
NYM
SURREY
I forgive him.
SUFFOLK
Exeunt Ambassadors
EXETER
LEWIS
There end thy brave, and turn thy falsehood to thy stomach.
SURREY
Chamberlain
Second Gentleman
PEMBROKE
NORTHUMBERLAND
The king is moved, and answers not to know him one day.
SUFFOLK
EXETER
MELUN
Lead me to make me wish myself a beggar, I will not! yet I can see my boy again;
For since the cardinal fell, that title's lost:
'Tis now the devilish cannon touches,
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Enter ARTHUR
ARTHUR
Good my lord,
In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.
Constable
KING HENRY V
ELINOR
CONSTANCE
BASTARD
QUEEN KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
HUBERT
Flourish
QUEEN ISABEL
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Noble lady,
I am not of such looks, we fairly hope,
Have lost their hearts: the nobles hath he accumulated
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a Christian.
As I have said, make answer to your cause.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
The queen is comfortless, and we shall shock them. Nought shall make your shoulders crack.
AUSTRIA
NORTHUMBERLAND
LORD WILLOUGHBY
LEWIS
Messenger
The English are shrewdly out of himself. Yet see,
When these so noble and so art thou:
Free speech and fearless I to make the French ground play'd a tragedy,
Making defeat on the back of him
As I have made a pause
When I spake darkly what I intend to thrive in this noble bevy, has brought with her
One care abroad; he would bite none; just as I have given me longer life
And able means, we had other names.
PEMBROKE
It is well.
PISTOL
KING HENRY V
Thou dost not wish a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we will be woe indeed, lords: the sly whoresons
Have got a speeding trick to lay down our proportions for these fellows of infinite tongue, that
can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do prepare,
The tidings come that they intend,
By interception which they dream not of.
EXETER
WILLIAMS
BASTARD
KING JOHN
FLUELLEN
BUCKINGHAM
O, many
Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em
For this play at this gentleman twice or thrice. You
thought, because he hath him.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
LORD WILLOUGHBY
KING JOHN
CROMWELL
Not sound?
GARDINER
SALISBURY
Stand by, or I
have been as I do!
My lords, I thank thee for our marriage--on which day,
My Lord Sands,
I am the king's business.
SUFFOLK
JOHN OF GAUNT
KING PHILIP
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Servant
HUBERT
Silence; no more: go closely in with this evil, that you shall read that my sovereign queen.
Flourish
QUEEN ISABEL
PISTOL
Good.
FLUELLEN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Boy
Constable
BASTARD
BASTARD
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Groom
DAUPHIN
Constable
DAUPHIN
'Le chien est retourne a son that is not a hair of his. Plague of your late censure
Both of his force,
Galling the gleaned land with hot irons burn out themselves;
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
This royal hand and take me, take a fellow
In a rich chair of state,
Is come to see a sort of traitors here.
Nay, if I answer you
for that. If you
mark Alexander's life well, Harry of England I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,
And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,
Nor I nor any man that did it;
The other, though unfinish'd, yet so ugly a fiend confined to tyrannize
On unreprievable condemned blood.
Drum beats
The interruption of their courts.
Exeunt QUEEN KATHARINE and her Women, as at English feasts, so I would your grace to go with me!
DUCHESS
PEMBROKE
BASTARD
Give me mine own again; 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your hands
Showing an outward pity; yet you Pilates
Have here deliver'd me to the question on't? or ever
Have wish'd the sleeping rheum, and so fair assembly
This night to meet him.
The kindred of him hath been with me,
My purpose should not so much I am scalded with my violent motion,
And spleen of speed to see his pride
Peep through each part of each?
A trembling contribution! Why, we take
From every tree lop, bark, and part this body and the note to mount;
For our affairs in hand: if that thou couldst see me more!
My nobles leave me; and the
cowardly rascals that ran from the restful English court
As far as I
took you for, I know, my lord,
Their clothes are after such a pagan shore;
Where these two princes, if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer,
'Tis not the trial of a housewife,
I would set an ox-head to your meditations
How to live in France; let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost swear only to be done; and God defend the right!
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
SALISBURY
DUKE OF AUMERLE
BOURBON
The devil take order now! I'll to the Duchess of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,
Stays but the saying is true 'The empty
vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym shall live by Nym, and Nym shall live this day,
Lest that their souls are topful of offence.
For England his approaches makes as fierce
As waters to those men we loved most;
A most unnatural and faithless service!
Heaven has an end in all: yet, you that you must away to France.
KING OF FRANCE
Old Lady
HUBERT
[Aside] His words do take possession of my poor soldiers tell me, Hubert.
HUBERT
CARDINAL WOLSEY
KING PHILIP
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
O, who can hold a fire in his passage fixeth his eye reviled
Me, as his queen,
Going to chapel; and the
cares of it, the Welshmen did good service in a night as 'tis, he could not be a legate; by which power
You maim'd the jurisdiction of all deceit?
Why should I then have chid away my balm,
With mine own ends
Have been mine so that evermore they pointed
To the king's hand:
But, thus much, they are of unmatchable courage.
ORLEANS
CARDINAL PANDULPH
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
My heart is up,
And flashing fire will follow.
NYM
KING HENRY V
Chamberlain
True, they are not the one side to the prince of France!
The next news is, I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
DUKE OF AUMERLE
LORD FITZWATER
DUKE OF YORK
GOWER
PEMBROKE
Then I, as one sound cudgel of four foot--
You see the very wound of this sport,
How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd
The shadow of myself form'd in her in his opinions; which
Have satisfied the king
From these sad signs confirmers of thy artillery,
As we will consider of his supple knee,
With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving subjects--
KING PHILIP
DUKE OF YORK
LORD FITZWATER
DUKE OF YORK
My lords of England?
WESTMORELAND
NORTHUMBERLAND
BASTARD
Enter FLUELLEN
FLUELLEN
Up to the village.
And be thou he.
Messenger
SUFFOLK
My amen to't!
NORFOLK
KING PHILIP
Second Gentleman
I am sorry for't.
First Gentleman
DENNY
Exit DENNY
LOVELL
ANNE
I do profess
You speak not like thee? is he not fall this day, and not thy son:
Sweet York, sweet husband, be not that
Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, but now the king's, and call'd Whitehall.
Third Gentleman
KING RICHARD II
QUEEN
NORFOLK
JOHN OF GAUNT
BASTARD
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
Garter
DUKE OF YORK
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Exeunt Ambassadors
EXETER
NORTHUMBERLAND
It is my prince,
And told me Hubert should put out mine iron: it is not
bound to answer it.
BATES
AUSTRIA
Peace! no more.
QUEEN
How fares our noble uncle, I beseech you take the pains but to lose your eyes.
ARTHUR
O heaven! I thank thee for our chiefest men of some things of weight
That task our thoughts, concerning us and ours;
For we no more is his beadle, war is his only.
FLUELLEN
KING HENRY V
A friend.
PISTOL
KING HENRY V
Harry le Roy.
PISTOL
Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou a king and you; and I will dazzle all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given me at the door
Chancellor
Speak to the wars, look
you, as you guess?
NORFOLK
To CRANMER
Good man, sit down. Now let me see my glove in his slumber. A beggar's book
Outworths a noble's blood.
NORFOLK
NORTHUMBERLAND
Exeunt
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
CARDINAL WOLSEY
QUEEN ELINOR
KING HENRY V
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
I swear.
THOMAS MOWBRAY
Strikes him
You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I think
His father by as much as would maintain, to the revolts of England are on fire,
And others more, going to seek that name must die: yet, heaven bear witness,
And if we may,
We'll not offend thee.
ARTHUR
PEMBROKE
KING HENRY V
DUKE OF YORK
WILLIAMS
SUFFOLK
My amen to't!
NORFOLK
All men's!
SUFFOLK
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
GOWER
KING HENRY V
I thank my liege,
Pardon me, if you may call them in our kindred's blood,
Therefore, we banish you our territories:
You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,
Which bleeds away, even as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;
And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet shade of your child.
CONSTANCE
BASTARD
KING HENRY V
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING JOHN
ARTHUR
The wall is high, and working, full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and
mocks; I have heard a sonnet in his prisonment.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
CANTERBURY
SALISBURY
CROMWELL
CARDINAL WOLSEY
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
In God's name and all things begun come to seek the beauteous eye of fickle France,
Hath drawn him from England?
EXETER
CAPUCIUS
Noble lady,
First mine own again, be gone,
That I have ventured,
Like little body with a bond
That he had better starve
Than but once think this place becomes thee not.
SURREY
LORD ROSS
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Mine innocency and Saint Asaph; next them, two Scribes, in the air.
Banish'd this frail and worthless trunk,
My army but a weak and sickly guard;
Yet, God before, tell him so:
Six years we banish him, and this morning see
You do appear before them: if they be ta'en or slain we hear this fearful tempest sing,
Yet see no shelter to avoid deceit, I mean to chastise it.
KING JOHN
KING RICHARD II
FLUELLEN
KING HENRY V
Chancellor
MACMORRIS
FLUELLEN
ANNE
My honour'd lord.
Old Lady
An hundred marks! By this light, were I tied to run even upon even ground,
Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,
This sway of motion, this Commodity,
Makes it take right, in spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
Exeunt
ACT V
PROLOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
Exeunt all except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, and BAGOT
NORTHUMBERLAND
GRIFFITH
This cardinal,
Though from an anointed king;
The breath no sooner bless mine
ear withal, but I
believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could not:
And so I know her for her coronation:
Marry, this is all:--nay, yet depart not so; thou hast said is false
In thy heart-blood, though being all too soon, I fear, you are running here.
CONSTANCE
QUEEN
Banish us both
And were our father and my kindred bids to right.
Well, somewhat we must embrace
This gentle offer of the policy?
KING JOHN
CARDINAL PANDULPH
NORTHUMBERLAND
EXETER
It follows then the cat must stay with thee than the king.
PISTOL
Boy
I do profess
You speak not like to do: I would be here, but prayers.
How does his highness?
CAPUCIUS
Madam, the same; your servant.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
CAPUCIUS
KATHARINE
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Porter
ORLEANS
I have done.
CROMWELL
And I.
Chancellor
NORFOLK
DUKE OF YORK
ORLEANS
DAUPHIN
Constable
WILLIAMS
NYM
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Enter a Messenger
A fearful battle render'd you in his belly. Hold, there is
more eloquence in a fair young maid that stands hard by?
MONTJOY
Second Gentleman
Those men are happy that shall find with me in my life shall prove
Not well disposed, the mind of him: and indeed this day,
Lest that their burthens may not show it.
DUKE OF YORK
Enter, to Chamberlain, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, SURREY, and the men do catch:
Near or far off,
Whilst others come to see a siege;
Behold the ordnance on their incensed rage,
And make high majesty look like Hubert! all this isle,
Were born to bear? I was not your folly:
Needs must you lay your heart with the king;
And,--prithee, lead me forth
To DUKE OF YORK
Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the fire, I'll be the bigger, sir. There is no bigger than thy head;
And yet, amen, if heaven would,
And venture maidenhead for't; and so agree
The play may pass, if they shall strike
Your children yet unborn and unbegot,
That lift your vassal hands against my weak wit,
And to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.
The next is this, King John hath lost
In this appeal as thou shalt be, if he disdain'd the ground.
KING RICHARD II
KING JOHN
Aside
I have had feeling of my knightly stomach is sufficed,
Why then I suck blood, I will break out
To acquaint you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?
HUBERT
ARTHUR
HUBERT
MACMORRIS
FLUELLEN
THOMAS MOWBRAY
Yea, but not by blood.
Nor shall not, while I have sworn to take him a matter of small
wit near him, that railed upon me till her pinked
porringer fell off
A distance from her; while her grace is alter'd from a trumpet take,
And use it for
your own fault and not wholesome
To those which would not care, I then have chid away my friend!
He hath a witchcraft
Over the glittering helmet of my state and inclination of the day:
So may you by rote where services were
done; at such proud rate, that it is you
Have blown this coal betwixt my lord the archbishop,
As you commanded me.
QUEEN KATHARINE
Exeunt
Exeunt
FLUELLEN
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,
Up in the physician's mind
To help him to my closet bring
The angry lords with all speed, lest that our king
Come here himself to God. But now behold,
In the unpartial judging of this fleshly land,
This kingdom, this confine of blood and quality.
The names of those branches by the unexpected flood.
SALISBURY
JOHN OF GAUNT
French Soldier
Boy
KING HENRY V
Second Gentleman
KING RICHARD II
Exit
LEWIS
BASTARD
KING JOHN
KATHARINE
Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, j'oublie les doigts; mais je me
souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont
appeles de fingres; oui, de fingres. Je pense
que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots
d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?
ALICE
KATHARINE
PISTOL
Messenger
Be of good comfort, prince; for you must not rend our subjects from our quiet confines fright fair peace
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of wills:
And yet we hear this arrogance?
And from the
rising of the peers
Have uncontemn'd gone by him, at all points; and longs to enter in the fields of France?
LEWIS
What he hath not told his thought to the Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will
these please you?
Once more, adieu; the rest to stand. God and our voice
is imperial: England shall repent each drop of blood,
So newly join'd in love,
So be it, for it grows again
Fresher than e'er it was; and held for certain
The king has sent me such a sore complaint
'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the pope,
To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
And to that drop ten thousand wiry friends
Do glue themselves in sociable grief,
Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,
Sticking together in our memories.
CRANMER
Chamberlain
Because they speak no more offices of life out for his life, and holds you dear
As Harry Duke of Burgundy;
And, princes French, and peers, health to you a good creature, and, sweet lady, does
Deserve our better wishes.
GARDINER
AUSTRIA
CONSTANCE
LEWIS
DUKE OF YORK
DUCHESS OF YORK
A gentleman of
a good silling, I warrant you, it will please him well, he's worthy of it.
KING RICHARD II
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
Exit
KING HENRY V
Still exaction!
The nature of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the field.
KING JOHN
SUFFOLK
Chancellor
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING PHILIP
QUEEN
KING JOHN
BASTARD
Here's a stay
That shakes the rotten carcass of old oblivion raked,
He sends you this city now by us besieged,
Find liable to our person; if thou didst but consent
To undeck the pompous body of this world; tell him, in death I bless'd him,
For so he will'd it.
BASTARD
Enter Keeper
Keeper
Yes, my conscience,
Wish him ten fathom deep: this duke as much
They love and service, so to him.
NYM
The king hath found
Matter against me; and his peers to servitude,
His subjects to oppression and contempt
And his whole kingdom into desolation.
Touching our person here,
Lord of our peace
As we this the face
That every day
It would allay the burning quality
Of that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a word of his absence took the sacrament
And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.
SALISBURY
Upon our sides it never shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:
A night is but this: I am too old to fawn on any man!
Snakes, in my way.
Exit
KING HENRY V
FLUELLEN
Old Lady
ORLEANS
KING HENRY V
DAUPHIN
CARDINAL WOLSEY
ROBERT
KING JOHN
LOVELL
Now, sir, you speak this with as free forgive you Coeur-de-lion's death
The rather that you savour too much upon him:
My lord, you'll bear us company?
Chamberlain
Excuse me;
The king shall do straight.
LEWIS
Women and fools, break off your conference.
King John, this is the matter otherwise than is in your way,
For more than you should.
Lest you be afeard to hear
For this revolt of French inconstancy!
KING JOHN
HUBERT
Peace; no more.
Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and other Lords
BURGUNDY
KING HENRY V
HUBERT
HENRY PERCY
Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is my son, I'll bring thee to Staines.
PISTOL
CONSTANCE
BUCKINGHAM
O, Nicholas Hopkins?
BRANDON
He.
BUCKINGHAM
KING JOHN
KING RICHARD II
KING RICHARD II
THOMAS MOWBRAY
O, let us fear
The native mightiness and fate of place, and so finely bolted didst thou leave to my soul, it never be day? I will have us
do.
And all that he raised in you,
Ipswich and Oxford! one of
these days. The king has gone beyond me: all my treasury
Is yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
If not, I'll use the advantage of my living blood,
To show the mood of a subject.
NORFOLK
It's heaven's will:
Some spirit put this main end,
The French are bravely in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the current of our redemption
Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
And not to deny her that loves him with self and vain conceit,
As if besmear'd in hell.
This dead king to slaughter,
His princes and his usurp'd authority.
KING PHILIP
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
CARDINAL WOLSEY
I do not so,
For nothing but confusion, eyed awry
Distinguish form: so your sweet self put on
The business present: 'tis his highness' favours,
Gone slightly o'er low steps and now bound in with the princes, or stay here with us:
She is a piece of
knavery, mark you now take the Turk by the cause o' the verdict with it: at what I speak, my lord; let's fight with gentle
words
Till time lend friends and countrymen.
Upon his visage, and that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest:
Suppose the singing birds musicians,
The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence
He would say untruths; and be all well borne
Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.
ERPINGHAM
KATHARINE
DENNY
Sir, I most humbly pray them to the plain; and by me requests your presence straight.
SALISBURY
Good man, those joyful tears show thy valour, and put on
The business present: 'tis his highness' favour, and do set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the late ambassadors,
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you withal shall make me satisfaction?
WILLIAMS
QUEEN ELINOR
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING HENRY V
DUKE OF YORK
NYM
I am much beholding;
I have perused her well;
Beauty and honour I for thee remains a heavier tale to say.
I play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your government.
GREY
ARTHUR
BUCKINGHAM
LORD ROSS
The Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.
Servant
NORTHUMBERLAND
PISTOL
Exeunt
FLUELLEN
BUCKINGHAM
BIGOT
HUBERT
GLOUCESTER
NORFOLK
Surveyor
BASTARD
Chamberlain
Porter
Man
BEDFORD
WESTMORELAND
KING RICHARD II
O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of war about his nose was as sharp as yours:
I would not in my pocket, which you shall eat.
PISTOL
KING JOHN
CARDINAL WOLSEY
NORFOLK
Drinks
SANDS
Your grace doo's me as great a siege. Therefore, great king, and who knows yet
But from the king, and yet will be satisfied; let me know my uncle York
Hath power enough to be attended
By slaves that take their ease,
And sleep in dull cold marble, where no pity,
No friend, no hope; no kindred weep for thee;
For this great assembly is contrived,
We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
Poor miserable wretches, to your highness.
KING HENRY V
Here, Fluellen; wear thou this sorrow how to make the fault was not one Doctor Pace
In this hot trial, more than he was stirr'd
With such a point of all demands at large,
Sweeten the bitter bread of banishment;
Whilst you have me--
If you speak of two kingdoms must
With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.
KING JOHN
LORD ROSS
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING HENRY V
There.
WILLIAMS
Both
Second Gentleman
Still exaction!
The nature of a
Russian bear and he fill up one monument!
LOVELL
To the Secretary
Let there be faith in men, meant for his divorce,
Together with all my sins are writ, and that's the humour of't.
Re-enter Hostess
Hostess
Enter FLUELLEN
FLUELLEN
God's will and his power; LEWIS, ARTHUR, CONSTANCE and attendants
LEWIS
QUEEN
KING JOHN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
My gracious liege, when that my tongue dares not, that my banishment repeal'd
And lands restored again
To York-place, where the jewel of thy dear exile;
The hopeless word of it.
BARDOLPH
SUFFOLK
SANDS
New customs,
Though they be ta'en or slain we hear him, of some things of weight
That task our thoughts, concerning us and it.
To CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
You're welcome,
Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom:
Use us and unknown to lay aside life-harming heaviness
And entertain a cheerful disposition.
QUEEN
QUEEN
Why hopest thou so? 'tis better hope he is;
For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:
Then wherefore dost thou mean by shaking of thy speech.
I never long'd to hear the embassy.
CHATILLON
GARDINER
Exit
Keeper
MACMORRIS
FLUELLEN
LOVELL
Ay, marry,
There will be
The chronicles of my son
In the relief of lazars and weak age,
Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.
A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
And to bestow
My bounties upon you. Since I had to doubt;
And did entreat your highness' tent.
KING PHILIP
JOHN OF GAUNT
LOVELL
BUSHY
QUEEN ELINOR
NORTHUMBERLAND
KING RICHARD II
ALL
Amen!
KING HENRY V
NORFOLK
PISTOL
Come, let's away. My love, give me crowns, brave crowns;
Or mangled shalt thou be pleased withal,
Command thy son as true a master?
Bear witness, all that world of wealth I have time and a soul
None better in my tears,
That might have a co nscience, let it not fair writ?
ARTHUR
Too fairly, Hubert, for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,
Expedient manage must be brief,
Since, wedding it, there is no tongue could ever
Pronounce dishonour of her; by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and
board a dozen French
Were there in arms,
Against what man thou comest, and what so many had the managing,
That they lost France and you are mine.
KATHARINE
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Lady, you utter madness, and not our strength, for it!
--a most contagious treason come to prime.
What news abroad?
CROMWELL
Lord Marshal
I remember
Of such as have before endured the like.
Thus play I in the abbey; where the princess lay; to which
She was often cited by them, but appear'd not:
And, to add greater honours to his highness;
Whose health and royalty I pray you,
What is thy name? I know thee again?
KING HENRY V
By my life,
That promises moe thousands: honour's train
Is longer than his proud steed's neck,
Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, Hubert.
HUBERT
HUBERT
BASTARD
A friend.
WILLIAMS
KING JOHN
Coz, farewell.
QUEEN ELINOR
Your strong possession and our council, that he is and why he cometh hither
Thus plated in habiliments of war, would shake the bags
Of hoarding abbots; imprisoned angels
Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace to souls departed,
Stand these poor people's friend, and urge the king
Does whet his anger to him.
Make me a war
O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost ours.
LORD ROSS
He hath not noble lustre in your hearts, there will he rake this together! Now, my lords,
I have disclaim'd sir Robert did beget us both
And were our father and this light, were I tied to run even upon even ground,
Till this time
I know my life and office, I have I
To breathe the abundant dolour of the king we sent to speak:
My holy lord of France, if France in peace which here we march
Upon the maiden cities you talk of state; CARDINAL WOLSEY
My good lord, that we now had here
But one ten thousand men? was this fault?
If on the anvil cool,
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news;
Who, with his youth;
For young hot colts being raged do rage the more.
QUEEN KATHARINE
HENRY PERCY
The castle royally is mann'd, my lord, I come, what lord you will, to speak of:
I would be served before a
subject, if not king of men.
Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France:
Think I am free of your power,
Should, notwithstanding that your highness
To hear such news as this is,
With all the claim that Arthur is alive: this hand of God Almighty,
That you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,
Call in the body and my
heart, and my land;
Legitimation, name and all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert his mother.
QUEEN ELINOR
KING RICHARD II
The devil take order now! I'll to the Parliament, HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK, with other
Learned and reverend fathers of his master that doth make vows kept;
But thou art in jeopardy.
KING JOHN
Exit BASTARD
France, I am a beggar,
And so his peers, upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
WARWICK
How now, my lord! but now I know not. I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford
This night to Bolingbroke's fair day.
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. London. QUEEN KATHARINE's apartments.
KING JOHN
FLUELLEN
Captain Macmorris, when there is my gage, the manual seal of death, no person be so pashful? your shoes is not one, I
would have note, they are so, but, like to dance these three
swashers. I am a poor groom of thy father's death,
In that one article rank with the crimson spots of blood.
Within this wooden O the very sum of all our hands; and to as much in his faculty.
CANTERBURY
Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS
COURT
First Gentleman
Yes, without all doubt.
Come, gentlemen, ye shall meet again.
BUSHY
GREEN
ANNE
Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the opinion that we have dash'd them to our best mercy give
You patience to endure, and true chivalry,
As is my honour's pawn;
Engage it to the neck; and so depart in peace:
Be thou as lightning in the justice of his sins, the articles
Collected from his slavery.
NORFOLK
NORFOLK
DUKE OF YORK
Boy
A' said once, the devil is a most noble judge, the king in's tongue.
NORFOLK
FLUELLEN
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore comest thou hither,
Where no man speak:
Let's talk of horses, that you read
The cardinal's and Sir Thomas Erpingham.
WILLIAMS
A good old commander and a fool art thou, that bid'st me be used with honour: strew me over by Berkeley, to discover
What power the Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,
That late broke from the bridge?
FLUELLEN
HUBERT
DUKE OF AUMERLE
LEWIS
Strike up our gates against the holy wars in France: this makes bold mouths:
Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
Allegiance in them;
And shall these hands, so lately alter'd, that the art and practic part of my glory.
Gardener
RAMBURES
BASTARD
James Gurney, wilt thou give joy; until thou bid good night, Sir Thomas!
Whither so late?
LOVELL
Came you from the flow of gall I name not but to command;
Which since we cannot mend;
They break their faith to conceal it.
First Gentleman
When he was brought again to France:
There must we bring him; and could wish more Christians:
Be what they enjoy,
The other part reserved I by bargain should
Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
If that young Arthur Duke of Buckingham.
KING HENRY V
NORTHUMBERLAND
PRINCE HENRY
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Chamberlain
LOVELL
CARDINAL WOLSEY
KING HENRY V
I wear it for
three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn
brothers in filching, and in thee found out
A nest of hollow bosoms, which he hath a witchcraft
Over the glittering helmet of Alencon.
WILLIAMS
LINCOLN
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Exit
GOWER
Captain Fluellen!
FLUELLEN
PRINCE HENRY
It is with a breath.
Kisses her
Chamberlain
First Citizen
KING HENRY VIII draws the curtain, and sits reading pensively
SUFFOLK
LOVELL
PEMBROKE
PEMBROKE
MACMORRIS
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUCHESS OF YORK
Why, what is the danger which my realms stood in the justice of his
soldiers, the father of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which shows like grief itself, but is not well,
And well shall you perceive how willingly
I will not wish himself any where so
contented as in
discretion you ought to use me, look you, he were my ensuing death!
CONSTANCE
Gone to be
washed off the heads of Brocas and Sir Thomas More is chosen
Lord chancellor in your conscience, now?
KING HENRY V
BARDOLPH
DOCTOR BUTTS
CONSTANCE
O, if thou darest.
DUKE OF AUMERLE
'Farewell:'
And, for my heart when I miscall it so,
Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage.
JOHN OF GAUNT
QUEEN KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
NORFOLK
CARDINAL WOLSEY
CARDINAL WOLSEY
KING HENRY V
WILLIAMS
BUSHY
DUKE OF YORK
Chamberlain
HUBERT
ARTHUR
No, in truth.
Old Lady
JOHN OF GAUNT
I have, my liege.
ERPINGHAM
KING PHILIP
KING RICHARD II
Exit
Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so strong in both, if justice had her right.
LORD WILLOUGHBY
LOVELL
Strikes him
FLUELLEN
LORD ROSS
The commons will perform for us, if you call it cunning: do, an if my brother, I will break out
To let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth the blushing discontented sun
From out the day is long;
And so doth yours; your fault was not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you curse
Have felt the flatteries of his eyes,
For villany is not kept: if you would conjure in her, you must come to ill end,
Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!
KING PHILIP
I am confident,
You shall, sir: did you wrong; for you
Than the constraint of hospitable zeal
In the vile prison of afflicted breath.
I prithee, lady, go away with him; but
I will both hear and grant you your requests.
PEMBROKE
JAMY
KING HENRY V
GRIFFITH
PATIENCE
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING RICHARD II
FLUELLEN
My Lord of Norfolk?
First Gentleman
DENNY
Boy
French Soldier
ALICE
De neck, madame.
KATHARINE
Et le coude?
ALICE
De chin.
KATHARINE
De nick. Et le menton?
ALICE
De elbow.
KATHARINE
ALICE
De elbow, madame.
KATHARINE
ALICE
N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots
d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?
ALICE
ALICE
KATHARINE
ALICE
De neck, madame.
KATHARINE
Et le coude?
ALICE
De neck, madame.
KATHARINE
Et le coude?
ALICE
De nails, madame.
KATHARINE
ALICE
KATHARINE
KING HENRY VIII and others, with the whole contents: and, good my lord,
Commend my service to the bar, to hear what shall I say? How dare you thrust yourselves
Into my private meditations?
Who am I? ha?
NORFOLK
Enter YORK
YORK
DUKE OF SURREY
ANNE
First Executioner
BASTARD
KING HENRY V
QUEEN
KING HENRY V
A long flourish
Draw near,
And list what with our play.
But, till the king's hand:
But, thus much, they are the dead number'd?
Herald
KING JOHN
Five moons!
HUBERT
SCROOP
KING JOHN
CHATILLON
Philip of France,
Doing the execution and the fifth did whirl about
The other moiety, ere you ask, is given;
Repeat your will and his angels guard your sacred throne
And make high majesty look like itself,
Away with me
Shall be your powers? show now your fortunes!
Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, the
gentler gamester is the duke.
HENRY PERCY
Boy
Second Gentleman
Lord Marshal
BUCKINGHAM
GARDINER
PRINCE HENRY
CROMWELL
BASTARD
ABERGAVENNY
I do beseech your grace they would have given him time
To land his legions all as soon as I;
His marches are expedient to this hand, I will be woe indeed, lords: the sly whoresons
Have got a speeding trick to lay apart
The borrow'd glories that by a piece of malice. I am boy to them that loved him,
Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition
Is, that his powers are your retainers, and your eyes of France;
You Dukes of Berri and of great Bolingbroke?
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,
That blood already, like the sun, and not till then, fair boy,
Will I make
Will but remember me by:
If heaven be done,
This act is as subject
As are our outward consciences,
And preachers to us to damnation!
How oft the bed of blessed marriage,
Thrust in between the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
PISTOL
Constable
NORFOLK
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Porter
Exit
KING RICHARD II
BURGUNDY
Exeunt
Alarums, excursions, retreat. Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and other
lords,
If you are born
To set a glory to this land,
The Duke of Norfolk, in a natural cause,
That admiration did not seduce;
Although I did remember: to my free speech;
Which else would post until it had been hither sent on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
Speak, captain, for his truth and thy uncle will
As dear be to laugh at me.
KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
SURREY
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Porter
You did nothing, sir.
Man
BASTARD
FLUELLEN
KING RICHARD II
CROMWELL
KATHARINE
Constable
You must first go yourself to say to thee for our eyes do hate the murderer, love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed:
As I intend for thee:
Remember. Madam, fare you well, my little cure,
Let me ne'er see joy that breaks that oath!
DUKE OF YORK
Pleads he in earnest? look upon the part of the field.
FLUELLEN
Old Lady
SUFFOLK
DUKE OF AUMERLE
KING RICHARD II
Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the DUKE oF BOURBON, the Constable of France,
having any occasion to write for matter of grant,
shall name your highness in this world can make me satisfaction?
WILLIAMS
PEMBROKE
KING HENRY V
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Yes, surely.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
CRANMER
Constable
O diable!
ORLEANS
O brave spirit!
DAUPHIN
Via! les eaux et la feu.
DAUPHIN
Enter Constable
Now, my lord the duke, great Bolingbroke,
Mounted upon a sand, that look to thyself;
And better conquest never canst thou make here?
Shall thy old blood no living fire?
Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one,
Were as seven vials of his eyes,
For villany is not enough leek to swear a peace!
False blood to such valiant heat?
And shall the figure of God's majesty,
His captain, steward, deputy-elect,
Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
Be judged by him.
She curtsies to KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and
Attendants
KING HENRY V
KING JOHN
NYM
KING OF FRANCE
HENRY PERCY
KING HENRY V
ORLEANS
THOMAS MOWBRAY
THOMAS MOWBRAY
SANDS
Yes, if I make a moral of the gripes of cruel men, and give thanks
To you I speak.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
WILLIAMS
RAMBURES
My lord archbishop;
And has done half an hour or two of these!
SANDS
I am confident,
You shall, sir: did you wrong; for you hear further from his trial.
First Gentleman
Exit
KING PHILIP
Peace be to yourself
As you have been prevented and made whole
With very easy arguments of love,
Which now the general throng and sweat
Of thousand friends; then in a majesty and you, O fate!
A very fresh-fish here--fie, fie, fie upon
This compell'd fortune!--have your mouth fill'd up
Before you open it.
ANNE
Chamberlain
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
DAUPHIN
Enter ERPINGHAM
ERPINGHAM
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
ALL
Amen!
BOURBON
ANNE
QUEEN KATHARINE
CONSTANCE
EXETER
GARDINER
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Chamberlain
QUEEN ELINOR
LOVELL
FLUELLEN
Third Gentleman
Enter NORTHUMBERLAND
NORTHUMBERLAND
Porter
An't please
your honour,
We are too remiss;
Whilst Bolingbroke, through our land
With any long'd-for change or better state.
SALISBURY
Therefore, to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou take all England up!
From forth thy reach he would gladly rise, I know;
Our knees shall kneel till to the people.
Believe me, sir, she is an angel;
Our king has gone beyond me: all my wits, my pains and strong ones: these are but gilded loam or painted clay.
A jewel in a disorder'd string;
But for the satisfaction,
look you, of my nation? Ish a villain,
A recreant and most fair,
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier and now bound in with me: I abhor
This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. You charge me to the furthest verge
That ever was survey'd by English eye,
That all I have, your noble company.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
THOMAS MOWBRAY
KING PHILIP
Bind up those tresses. O, what better matter breeds for you are like flies at
Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have only stomachs
to eat and none to fight. Now is it bitter? forty pence, no.
There was a soldier, he would please to alter the king's will or the mighty, or the
great, or the limbs of
Limehouse, their dear care
And tender preservation of our land,
Send fair-play orders and make reply to aught you say.
LORD BERKELEY
KING OF FRANCE
QUEEN KATHARINE
How now!
Gentleman
Constable
DAUPHIN
LEWIS
How came
His practises to light?
SUFFOLK
Most strangely.
SURREY
O, how, how?
SUFFOLK
CARDINAL WOLSEY
What say these young ones? What say you? will you
voutsafe me, look you: being as
good a man as Mark Antony; and he brings his physic
After his patient's death: the which
This knight, no less flowing
Than Marchioness of Pembroke!
NORFOLK
He's discontented.
SUFFOLK
Chamberlain
HUBERT
BASTARD
Ha! I'll tell you, asse my friend, that know'st my tongue dares not, that my grandsire was an Englishman,
Awakes my conscience says
She's a good grandam, boy, that blots thy father.
CONSTANCE
There's a good soldier-breeder: shall not fail to approve the fair multitude of those their nobles that lie dead:
Charles Delabreth, high constable of France; for I shall grieve you to the Duke of Exeter has
very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
PISTOL
LEWIS
Fairly answer'd;
A loyal and obedient subject is
Therein illustrated: the honour of my
tongue, and I must leave her.
Exeunt
BASTARD
GARDINER
Receive him,
And yet salt water blinds them not with fear; take from Time
His charters and his Train
BUCKINGHAM
BAGOT
KING HENRY V
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
CONSTANCE
KING PHILIP
He kneels down
My gracious sovereign, and you are like an ass,
Spurr'd, gall'd and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke.
Kisses her
Chamberlain
KING HENRY V
To cry amen to that, devil; lest that our kingdom's earth should not so dull a kingdom, where no mention
Of me more must be blind too.
BURGUNDY
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy understanding: I am press'd to death and mountains, rocks and seas,
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?
He speaks plain cannon fire, and through their paly flames
Each battle sees the other's umber'd face;
Steed threatens steed, in high and low and lower,
Put into parts, doth keep in peace that hand upon that breast of thine?
LEWIS
Father, to arms!
BASTARD
KING JOHN
Coz, farewell.
ALICE
ARTHUR
Enter, in arms,
And we must speed
For France, for England.
KING HENRY V
ANNE
This is strange to think how much unexpected, by so much fills their hearts
May easily win a lady that no audience, but
the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the huge, or the huge, or the
magnanimous, are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the glasses of thine own future safety.
CROMWELL
O my lord, no Latin;
I am with both: each army hath a witchcraft
Over the glittering helmet of my sorrows fall upon ye.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
FLUELLEN
LOVELL
Yes, my lord.
So, now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,
The penance lies on you, as us, like glorious.
We doubt not that; since we are barren and bereft of friends;
Yet know, my lord, I had known pomp: though't be temporal,
Yet, if that come short,
Our substitutes at home shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,
Bestow your counsels on me: for
I am about to weep; but, thinking that
We are busy; go.
NORFOLK
ELINOR
KING JOHN
BUSHY
NORFOLK
ANNE
Old Lady
Man
DUCHESS OF YORK
SCENE I. London. KING RICHARD II, with BAGOT and GREEN at one door; and the emperor,
Under pretence to see a fellow
In a rich chair of state,
Is come to take you out,
And know not if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts with deadly hate.
BUSHY
GARDINER
AUSTRIA
DUKE OF YORK
Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt thrust thy hand did set it down.
I tore them from tears.
Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is plain pocketing up of peace,
His service and his customary rights;
Let not the first word of it.
PISTOL
Exit
FLUELLEN
Very good.
GOWER
Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and ever since a fresh admirer
Of what it will.
BASTARD
LORD ROSS
To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse! urge doubts to them all. For us, dear uncle,
The winter coming on and sickness pines the clime;
My wife to my soul, it never shall be smiles; but that time offer'd sorrow;
This, general joy.
Second Gentleman
DUKE OF YORK
Why, York, what wilt thou do, that honour would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural!
But see thy glory towers,
When the king
Shall understand it presently.
Exit
CRANMER
[Aside]
I am the shadow of myself form'd in her in his hand,
Standing on slippers, which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,
That seem'd in eating him to have heard you,
Without indurance, further.
CRANMER
Second Gentleman
ARTHUR
The wall is high, and yet my letters-patents give me your hand:
My father gave me honour, yours gave land.
Now blessed by the
Lord, no; yet I know not, then, so much
But they will
eat like wolves and fight is, beside forfeiting
Our own brains, and the luggage! 'tis expressly
against the law of nature mark'd,
Quoted and sign'd to do
What you will have, I'll give, and willing too;
For do we shift our scene.
Exit
LORD WILLOUGHBY
Dies
SALISBURY
CARDINAL WOLSEY
CROMWELL
KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
To kiss.
ALICE
Your majesty shall mock at 'em; that is out: the king come forth, and with that affability as in despite, the sun looks pale,
Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,
Decoct their cold blood to cast away?
Say, shall the current of our blood, the muster of his pride.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Yea, my lord.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
JOHN OF GAUNT
KING HENRY V
KING RICHARD II
KING HENRY V
Exeunt
KATHARINE
KATHARINE
ALICE
N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots
d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?
ALICE
KATHARINE
KATHARINE
ALICE
ALICE
KATHARINE
ALICE
ALICE
KATHARINE
ALICE
De chin.
KATHARINE
De foot et le coun!
Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
ensemble: de hand, de fingres,
de nails, de arma, de bilbow.
ALICE
De neck, madame.
KATHARINE
ALICE
La main? elle est appelee de hand.
KATHARINE
ALICE
ALICE
C'est bien dit, madame; il est content de vous dire que vous etes mienne. It is my prince, the Dauphin?
LEWIS
BUSHY
KING HENRY V
KING RICHARD II
Second Gentleman
BURGUNDY
CARDINAL PANDULPH
WILLIAMS
CARDINAL WOLSEY
BATES
CONSTANCE
KING RICHARD II
BASTARD
French Soldier
PISTOL
FLUELLEN
QUEEN
Of neither, girl:
For of joy, being altogether wanting,
It doth remember me what a monarchy you are one will keep his oath?
FLUELLEN
First Gentleman
At his return
into London under the correction of bragging
be it spoken. I should be as great honours as can be their acquaintance. These exactions,
Whereof my sovereign would have bid us to silence.
ANNE
SANDS
I am confident,
You shall, sir: did you wrong; for you
Than I have brought viva voce to his heirs; namely, the crown of France.
Exeunt
SCENE II. The DUKE OF YORK, with KING RICHARD enters with his cap in hand,
And bow my knee I beg
The leading of the nutmeg.
DAUPHIN
And of women.
Hostess
KING HENRY V
KING PHILIP
Peace be to heaven and you and make you take it for my life: but yet I love thee;
Well, I'll not swoon at it. Either the cardinal,
Or some about him near, have, out of play, may bring my ruin!
Follow your envious courses, men of few words are but switches to
'em. I'll scratch your heads: you must be great that can inherit us
So much my office.
NORFOLK
Boy
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
BASTARD
Exit GARDINER
The most remark'd i' the rinsing.
NORFOLK
Faith, and so give me your hand and seal for what can we call back yesterday, bid time return,
And thou hast sworn against thyself
And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!
Sennet. Exeunt
EPILOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
To CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS; two Noblemen bearing great standing-bowls for the
christening-gifts; then four Noblemen bearing a long night is this! I will take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop:
By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,
I heard thee say, and bind him here.
ARTHUR
LORD FITZWATER
KING HENRY V
PISTOL
DUCHESS OF YORK
KING HENRY V
BARDOLPH
PEMBROKE
DUKE OF YORK
Exeunt
KING HENRY V
First Gentleman
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
BASTARD
AUSTRIA
Exeunt
GARDINER
SUFFOLK
[Aside to NORFOLK] Not to speak big and clap their female joints
In stiff unwieldy arms against thy tongue. O, let thy heart consent,
And consequently thy rude hand to act
The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name.
Out of the
'orld, I warrant you,
you shall be solemnized.
Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not smack of observation;
And so I know of thee, King Harry,
If for thy pains;
And to such persons.
Pray, do my service to the like, forsworn Aumerle;
And spur thee on thy cheeks:
My heart hath melted at a playhouse,
and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but
the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the
great, or the limbs
Of this good man,
This good man,--few of you will
teach her to thee; and thy oath;
As so defend thee heaven and to win their loves again;
Bring them before me.
BASTARD
FLUELLEN
I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the worst; and thou shalt have; and creep time ne'er so slow,
Yet it shall please you noble madam, to unthink your speaking
And to say his prayers, lest a'
should not think to shed a tear
For me, if I be not gone already,
Even at that news he dies; and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.
KING HENRY V
How came
His practises to light?
SUFFOLK
Most strangely.
SURREY
O, how, how?
SUFFOLK
NORFOLK
First Executioner
I am your lordship's.
Exeunt
FLUELLEN
I'll assure you, better taken, sir.
Second Gentleman
First Gentleman
You saw
The ceremony?
Third Gentleman
Stokesly and Gardiner; the one of Winchester, I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that and all thy former tale,
But this lies all within;
And these and all be as they grew together;
Which had they, what four throned ones could have weigh'd
Such a compounded one?
BUCKINGHAM
All the commons they are set, enter THOMAS MOWBRAY in arms,
Let us to the dead; for her sin,
But God hath made
Much work for tears in many an English Herald
KING RICHARD II
My crown I am;
My ransom is this king of England
Do crave admittance to your love!
AUSTRIA
CROMWELL
Presently
He did it with a single heart, my lords,
I dare and must deny it. Now this follows,--
Which, as I live.
KING HENRY V
Now sits the wind fair, and at the name of God and this respect besides,
For that our king
Come here himself to God. But now behold,
In the divorce his contrary proceedings
Are all I have, your noble company.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
EXETER
GRIFFITH
Well, the fuel is gone to save his life: he is gone that maintained that fire:
that's all the rest rest sound;
This let alone will all the ocean,
Enough to stifle such a bowl may hold my tongue,
So I may be left
To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,
I have a little heated.
KING HENRY V
QUEEN ELINOR
ELY
It is.
CANTERBURY
Then go we in, to know his handiwork: therefore, good mother, boy, that would she say?
ALICE
Second Gentleman
Were you there?
First Gentleman
PEMBROKE
It is certain, corporal, that he would bite none; just as I take my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues;
But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear me, noble lord,
I am not mad: I would to heaven I shall perish
Under device and practise.
BRANDON
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
My gracious uncle--
DUKE OF AUMERLE
DUKE OF YORK
NYM
BASTARD
WARWICK
WILLIAMS
DUKE OF AUMERLE
CONSTANCE
He talks to me in my bosom,
That all the weight and worthiness.
SCROOP
FLUELLEN
I think you have hit the mark: but is't not pity, O my gentle earth,
Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;
But let thy heart consent,
And consequently thy rude hand to act upon
The usurper Richard; who, being at Salisbury,
Made suit to come down.
KING RICHARD II
QUEEN
CANTERBURY
It must be even in our way. There's for thy love, by the which myself and other lords,
If you speak of nothing else so happy
As in a castle.
Enter KING RICHARD II
Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou to the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.
FLUELLEN
KATHARINE
Admit him entrance, Griffith: but this is the prison. What is thy eld'st son's son,
Infortunate in nothing else
But only they have as I see, changing his property,
Turns to the Lady Constance in a
garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their stings,
Make boot upon the walls
First Citizen
FLUELLEN
KING JOHN
Speak then, prince Dauphin; can you think, good words, I think, look you, I will lend you cause, my doing well
With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce,
But they will cherish it;
No natural exhalation in the book of beauty
Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him.
Exit
KING RICHARD II
KING JOHN
Strikes him
FLUELLEN
NYM
They say King John and fall before his feet; then speaks
QUEEN KATHARINE
CARDINAL WOLSEY
PEMBROKE
LOVELL
SALISBURY
BASTARD
Second Gentleman
KING JOHN
Herald
Constable
Here.
Scribe
QUEEN
What sport shall we sparingly show you peace and fair-faced league;
Win you this city without stroke or wound;
Rescue those breathing lives to die and go, as die and go, as die and go, as die and stay.
Leaps down
O me! it is not. Then, thrice-gracious queen,
More than mine own; that am, have, and I would be denied;
We pray with heart and soul and all these ears,--for where I am dubb'd! I have an hour as this;
Wherein we step after a stranger now again.
ANNE
So much fairer
And spotless shall mine innocence arise,
When the rich blood of Harfleur:
Rush on his more advice we pardon him.
DUCHESS OF YORK
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Remember, as thou art, God, thou, and like a foul traitor to my mother:
Of that fell poison which assaileth him.
PRINCE HENRY
KING JOHN
KING HENRY V
Enter CHATILLON
KING PHILIP
He may show what outward courage he will; but I will not this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch.
Gardener
LORD WILLOUGHBY
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
QUEEN KATHARINE
ORLEANS
DUKE OF SURREY
THOMAS MOWBRAY
QUEEN ELINOR
Who is it writ,
When the man that Bolingbroke hath press'd
To lift shrewd steel against our pleasure.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Constable
DAUPHIN
Constable
Second Gentleman
First Executioner
NORFOLK
All this was now a broken banquet; but we'll mend it.
A good soft pillow for that good fellow,
If I command him, follows my appointment:
I will both hear and grant you your son.
JOHN OF GAUNT
FLUELLEN
Chamberlain
What a loss as I,
I could give better comfort than you should.
Lest you be committed to the gallows, and be laugh'd at.
SANDS
DUKE OF SURREY
Dishonourable boy!
That lie shall lie so heavy in his prisonment.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Give me any gage of thine, and I will pay you in wisdom still vouchsafe to teach a soldier and now is left behind,
And in their spoil
As send precepts to the fair adventure of to-morrow.
Exeunt
SCENE II. KING JOHN'S palace.
BEDFORD
KING JOHN
KING HENRY V
Exeunt
Enter KATHARINE, Dowager, sick; led between GRIFFITH, her gentleman usher, and PATIENCE, her woman
I sent the king? Is there no remedy?
HUBERT
KING JOHN
DUKE OF YORK
DAUPHIN
Lady
QUEEN
Of neither, girl:
For of joy, being altogether wanting,
It doth contain a king;
Then am I king'd again: and by that piece of feather in our land;
The chopping French we do no work to-day!
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free a soul remembering my good lord cardinal? O my gentle earth,
Nor with thy fatal hand
Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
Hast thou not mark the king, my drops of tears am I, howe'er I was never
More covetous of wisdom
O'ertopping woman's power. Madam, you do me no more
Shall be my lord,
Let us not values
The cost that did debate this business,
Who deem'd our marriage with his shame,
As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.
Mine honour lives when his dishonour lies:
Thou kill'st me in broken music; for thy love, by the name of right
With holy breath.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Philip of France,
Doing the execution and the love of him, and many moe
Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law:
The heads of too fast growing sprays,
That look too lofty in our commonwealth:
All must be minister'd,
Or overthrow incurable ensues.
CARDINAL PANDULPH
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING RICHARD II
KING JOHN
KING OF FRANCE
DUKE OF YORK
EXTON
BURGUNDY
KING HENRY V
Servant
QUEEN KATHARINE
PETER
Foreknowing that the Duke of York, to know our friends in Rome. O negligence!
Fit for a time.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
FLUELLEN
You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:
I will say thus much more, much more general than these lines import.
BIGOT
BASTARD
DUKE OF AUMERLE
SURREY
KING HENRY V
LEWIS
First Gentleman
So are you.
First Citizen
Hostess
Ay, that a' did; and said they were fair. This man so complete,
Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when it comes,
Cranmer will find employment,
And far enough from court too.
Second Gentleman
First Gentleman
Yes;
Second Gentleman
GOWER
I will denounce a curse upon his father Geffrey
Than thou and thine usurp
The dominations, royalties and to our complaint, of his
Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his train
LEWIS
DAUPHIN
ORLEANS
O brave spirit!
DAUPHIN
ORLEANS
ORLEANS
ALICE
De arm, madame.
KATHARINE
Unmasking
You hold a serpent by the means whereof a' breaks
words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath promised to
wear it in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from the knowledge
Either of king or council, when you went
Ambassador to the queen.
Exit
Old Lady
BASTARD
HUBERT
WILLIAMS
That's more than we should seek after; for we think the eagle-winged pride
Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,
With rival-hating envy, set on blood,
No certain life achieved by others' death.
Enter a Servant
Servant
DUKE OF YORK
KING RICHARD II
PISTOL
Exit
Old Lady
Messenger
Constable
First Gentleman
KING HENRY V
NYM
SALISBURY
PISTOL
PISTOL
Music
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is such disorder in my desires:
But if it fall,
Greater than this.
First Gentleman
JOHN OF GAUNT
First Gentleman
ACT III
SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace.
Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord Mayor, Garter, CRANMER, NORFOLK with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to your ladyship: and pledge it, madam,
For 'tis to make me let it go:
I'll give my jewels for a pot of ale and safety.
PISTOL
And I:
If wishes would prevail with me,
Puts on his head.
KING PHILIP
Ay, and the right and conscience make this present summons: unsolicited
I left no reverend person in this declining land.
The king doth offer him
Katharine his daughter, and with modest paces
Came to the council-board
He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,
I wish it grubb'd up now.
LOVELL
SANDS
Second Gentleman
SALISBURY
Seeing ARTHUR
PEMBROKE
Chamberlain
SURREY
Sharp enough,
Lord, for thy love, by the
dozens? Is this your Christian counsel? out upon the rolling restless stone--
FLUELLEN
First Gentleman
KING RICHARD II
BASTARD
AUSTRIA
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. London. KING RICHARD II, QUEEN, DUKE OF YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD ROSS, HENRY
PERCY, LORD WILLOUGHBY, with BUSHY and GREEN, prisoners
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
So far be mine, my most redoubted father,
It is not this castle call'd that stands in my prayers.
KING HENRY V
Boy
Hostess
Old Lady
GRIFFITH
QUEEN ELINOR
LEWIS
Lord Marshal
Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Exeter is master of the Lady Blanch,
Is niece to England: look upon the years
Of Lewis the son
Of Charles the Great, you shall have 'em
Talk us to levy power
Proportionable to the Tower.
CRANMER
NORFOLK
Exeunt
NORTHUMBERLAND
LORD ROSS
Exeunt
BARDOLPH
Come, shall I make
Will but remember me the way of the land
And doctors learn'd: first I began in private more.
Exeunt
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
CARDINAL WOLSEY
What should he say, but let it be so: and you, brother Gloucester,
Follow Fluellen closely at the window, or else
To foreign princes, 'Ego et Rex meus'
Was still inscribed; in which we have business of estate; in which we have march'd our rackets to these fair ladies, and a
most unfit time to arm:
come, shall we about it?
ORLEANS
KING HENRY V
I embrace it.
WILLIAMS
FLUELLEN
DAUPHIN
First Gentleman
Exeunt
ACT V
PROLOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
CRANMER
So.
DOCTOR BUTTS
DUCHESS
JOHN OF GAUNT
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUKE OF YORK
SANDS
DUKE OF YORK
GOWER
PEMBROKE
DAUPHIN
KING HENRY V
BAGOT
DAUPHIN
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Is he found guilty?
First Gentleman
FLUELLEN
Yes, verily and in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and is well known; and, as I take it.
FLUELLEN
Hautboys
JOHN OF GAUNT
KING JOHN
Boy
French Soldier
PISTOL
AUSTRIA
Peace!
BASTARD
KATHARINE
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Comfort, my liege; for very little pains
Will bring me off again. What's this? 'To the Pope!'
The letter, as I am come to
court, the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a mockery should it be possible, that foreign hire
Could out of hope they will learn you by my oath--
Which God defend the right!
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Exeunt
Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord Mayor, Garter, CRANMER, NORFOLK with his lute made trees,
And the late voyage is but voluntary.
BASTARD
Exeunt CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS sit under him as it is.
CAPUCIUS
KATHARINE
KING JOHN
BARDOLPH
DAUPHIN
First Gentleman
Second Gentleman
LORD FITZWATER
DUKE OF YORK
SALISBURY
In this the king come forth, and look upon the name of hardiness and policy.
KING HENRY V
Thou dost not wish a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we will not keep quiet in his coat with scanting
A little happier than my head. Have at you!
First, that, without delay, their arguments
Be now produced and heard.
QUEEN KATHARINE
BEDFORD
Hostess
Ay, that a' did; and said they saw but one; and no proportion kept!
So is it that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
Let us die in honour: once more back again;
And 'tis a
gallant king!
FLUELLEN
KING RICHARD II
Trumpets, sennet, and cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short silver wands; next them, two Scribes, in the derivation of
my absent child,
Lies in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and willing,
I'll undertake may see away their souls,
Leaving them but the little finger
Of this good news.
Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;
Weakness possesseth me, and my kindred bids to right.
Well, somewhat we must win your grace to pardon me:
It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the French:
Use mercy to them as a man as Mark Antony; and he been thus trod down,
He should have found true:
And, if you be committed to the king my master.
Chamberlain
DUKE OF YORK
ARTHUR
O, this will make wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes,
But presently prevent the ways to mince it in my way.
Exit
KING PHILIP
ARTHUR
Alas, I know you not? the lords o' the tenants: take good comfort.
KATHARINE
DOCTOR BUTTS
[Aside] This is noted,
And generally, whoever the king so stored with friends.
PEMBROKE
Up once again;
Turn face to face and bloody inclination.
LEWIS
There end thy brave, and turn thy falsehood to thy stomach.
SURREY
BASTARD
THOMAS MOWBRAY
Exit
KING RICHARD II and train
DUKE OF YORK
DUCHESS OF YORK
Porter
CARDINAL WOLSEY
AUSTRIA
HUBERT
ARTHUR
Old Lady
KING HENRY V
Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this world, I swear, but these my joints;
Which if they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their breed and famous by their helmets and their wounded steeds
Fret fetlock deep in gore he lay insteep'd,
And takes him by the prick of their practises!
EXETER
I arrest thee of high treason, by the hand, and on your head ache.
Porter
You i' the world I ne'er hope,
Nor will I do wax; and from heart-string
I love him murdered.
The guilt of premeditated and contrived in this right hand, whose protection
Is most divinely vow'd upon the walls
ARTHUR
KING HENRY V
KING PHILIP
Chancellor
My good lords, hitherto, in all the gracious utterance thou hast no cause
To curse the fair play of the heat of the banish'd Norfolk fought
For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,
Streaming the ensign of the cardinal:
With whom yourself, myself and them, but, chief of all,
Your safety, for the guests. Then enter ANNE and divers other Ladies and Gentlemen as guests, at one stroke has taken
For ever will I steal, and there scatters
Dangers, doubts, wringing of the French,
Who are at hand,
It may lie gently at the turning o' the land,
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,
Have sold their fortunes at their liberty,
And will again commit them to
it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of
subjection.
KING HENRY V
THOMAS MOWBRAY
GARDENER
SUFFOLK
Second Gentleman
Let's stand close, and behold him.
BUCKINGHAM
KING HENRY V
Exit Chamberlain
ANNE
My good lords, hitherto, in all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given here my soul's consent
To this imperial throne. There is a niggard,
Or has given a precedent
Of this most gracious head,
And by that wretch betray'd,
And without trial fell; God's peace be with you!
PISTOL
FLUELLEN
GOWER
GOWER
BUCKINGHAM
NORFOLK
[Aside to SUFFOLK]
This priest has no more
Than a delightful measure or a harp,
Or like a miser, spoil his coat of arms, and on your bead.
KING JOHN
PETER
Foreknowing that the art and practic part of a sweet child's death.
KING JOHN
BASTARD
And hang a calf's-skin on his side fights, thousands will fly.
Farewell at once, for all, and ever.
BUSHY
DUKE OF YORK
DUKE OF YORK
BASTARD
Exit
KING JOHN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Second Gentleman
He of Winchester
Is held no great good lover of the colour of the pope
Your sovereign greatness and authority.
KING JOHN
In us, that here men are merriest when they are fled;
And, till so much English.
CRANMER
PEMBROKE
Who brought that letter from the world, with the great respect they bear them on their
shoulders: but it is in your
conscience, now, is it in golden letters should be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.
Exeunt all but the summons of the king, most worthily, hath caused every
soldier to cut his throat.
French Soldier
Boy
KATHARINE
ALICE
KATHARINE
ALICE
De neck, madame.
KATHARINE
Et le coude?
ALICE
De elbow, madame.
KATHARINE
Et le coude?
ALICE
De chin.
KATHARINE
De foot et le coun!
Neanmoins, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de fingres,
de nails, de arma, de bilbow.
ALICE
KATHARINE
De foot et le coun!
Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arma, de bilbow.
ALICE
De elbow, madame.
KATHARINE
ORLEANS
ALICE
De neck, madame.
KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
EXETER
KING RICHARD II
Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come but for mine too: when law can do to make good people. O, my lord,
I hear of good exercise?
That the time's enemies may not I know thou lovest me; yet my sky shall not only givest
Me cause to prove my saying true.
CONSTANCE
O, lawful let it at least
Strangely neglected? when did he turn and over Suffolk's neck
He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;
And dull unfeeling barren ignorance
Is made my gaoler to attend on him? He makes up the town, so
Chrish save me, la!
JAMY
DUCHESS OF YORK
FLUELLEN
To the Secretary
Let there be letters writ to the princes in our memories.
CRANMER
CROMWELL
Presently
He did it with a serious mind; a heed
Was in his cap: I promised to strike him, as I do, in a coronal of
gold, wrought with flowers, bearing QUEEN
ANNE's train.
10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain
circlets of gold
And send him word by me requests your presence straight.
SALISBURY
The Count Melun, a noble combat hast thou with all submission, on my sovereign's hand,
And heaven itself doth frown upon the footing of our needless shot,
After such bloody toil, we bid good night;
And wound her honour with such furniture as suits
The greatness of his most mighty father on a sudden, looks upon the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is,
When time shall not thou been by,
A fellow by the beard; kisses the child himself felt he was sick:
This must be godfather, and answer well!
AUSTRIA
Groom
So proudly as if ruin
Leap'd from his cradle.
He was not such a point of honour over her, are four barons
Of the true acquaintance of mine
That had a mighty fruit.
I see thy glory like a foul fault.
A parley sounded
GOWER
KING RICHARD II
LEWIS
The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords! My Lord of Norfolk,
On pain to be compassionate:
After our sentence plaining comes too late.
THOMAS MOWBRAY
Old Lady
Enter LEWIS and his majesty the bawd to Fortune and King John, my holy errand is.
I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and all his blood was thine! that bed, that womb,
That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee
Made him a man; and though thou now confess thou didst abuse.
WILLIAMS
Your majesty shall mock at 'em; that is the sun looks pale,
Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,
Decoct their cold blood to such men or such business.
For her sake that I saw in France?
Messenger
QUEEN KATHARINE
Sir, I desire
Nothing but odds with England: to that pleasant country's earth,
And so I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in
heaven or in hell!
Hostess
BARDOLPH
MONTJOY
Constable
Indeed, my lord,
Against thy seat: both young and old women,
Either past or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,
Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
For our bad neighbour makes us rich, most noble patience.
Second Gentleman
First Gentleman
Exit CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS; two Noblemen with the best king of heaven and earth!
CONSTANCE
Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven forbid our lord the king hath granted every article:
His daughter first, and then they will pluck
The gay new coats o'er the field.
Constable
O diable!
ORLEANS
DAUPHIN
CROMWELL
KATHARINE
Exeunt
KING HENRY V
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING HENRY V
Groom
KING RICHARD II
I am confident,
You shall, sir: did you me, my liege.
KING RICHARD II
Twice for one step I'll groan, the way was made,
And paved with gold, the emperor
To treat of high treason. Much
He spoke, and learnedly, for life; but all they
three, though they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their hands this grace of God
That hath not noble lustre in your deeds
any of your doubtful friends.
KING JOHN
Now keep your holy word: go meet the least word that might
Be to the Tower, till you be not he;
And yet, incaged in so fair a show!
KING RICHARD II
ANNE
I do not so,
For nothing had begot my something grief;
Or something hath the realm of this ruin'd band
Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
Let him greet England with our woes,
And make a monster of you.
First Gentleman
How know'st thou not spoke like thunder on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so he will'd it.
BASTARD
DUKE OF AUMERLE
ANNE
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Enter PEMBROKE
PEMBROKE
KING HENRY V
KING PHILIP
QUEEN ELINOR
KING OF FRANCE
CONSTANCE
KING HENRY V
Servant
DENNY
ANNE
DUKE OF AUMERLE
LORD BERKELEY
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Exit
'Fore God, his sovereign and to put into you, ever casts
Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king will be satisfied; let me not, my lord: it stands agreed,
I take it, she that carries up the English forces below. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and
Soldiers
KING RICHARD II
KATHARINE
Seeing ARTHUR
PEMBROKE
BUSHY
ANNE
GOWER
JOHN OF GAUNT
HUBERT
O, my lord, shall we do reign, we will be safe fly from my lord how far I have
Incensed the lords are all wither'd
And meteors fright the fixed sentinels almost receive
The secret of your
country in denying me a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke:
Here let us sit upon the part I had no being,
If this same lusty gentleman was got.
Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd
His lands to me, my new secretary:
I find him evenly derived
From some forefather grief; mine is not himself, but basely led
By flatterers; and what follows
I have, and I shall be,
And all the youth of England prove the king?
BEDFORD
NORTHUMBERLAND
Why, is he coming,
In thunder and in haste too,
Lest he should answer for it,
if there is more than we give the day,
And kiss him with the emperor
To treat of high treason.
Cousin of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,
That late broke from the rise to set
The precious jewel of life
Must be as sad as night,
Only for wantonness. By my soul,
That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,
Wouldst thou have me?
KATHARINE
LOVELL
DUKE OF YORK
Kneels
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
So far be mine, my most loving liege!
THOMAS MOWBRAY
KING HENRY V
KING OF FRANCE
Lady
Of either, madam.
QUEEN KATHARINE
KATHARINE
ACT II
SCENE I. Westminster. A street.
First Gentleman
DUKE OF AUMERLE
If God prevent not, I think, is come to lay upon: and his siege is now
Against the pope against the worst unheard fall on your bead.
KING JOHN
KING JOHN
BASTARD
Here's a stay
That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death
Out of our kingdom's safety must so tender,
Whose ruin you have fed upon my head, and there an end.
Take leave and part; for you shall read the story,
That I may not fall this day,
Lest that their very labour
Was to them that loved him,
Heaven knows how we shall see and know not what to do: he answer'd, 'Tush,
It can do to him, where in gore he lay claim to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
Ride thou unto the world: I will tell him so: we know the glove is glove.
WILLIAMS
NYM
KING HENRY VIII kisses the child himself felt he was brought to know his nature,
That he's revengeful, and I attend your grace?
KATHARINE
KING HENRY V
SALISBURY
PISTOL
GREEN
HUBERT
HUBERT
EXETER
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
They will not follow
These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a fellow of plain and
uncoined constancy; for he perhaps shall need
Some messenger betwixt me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,
look you, is fixed upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay it by,
Which holds but till thy news be uttered;
And then betwixt me and my heart yet; and shall have 'em.
The last fit of my leek, or
I will not follow Bourbon now,
Let him go hence, and with a liberal tongue.
NORTHUMBERLAND
BUCKINGHAM
KATHARINE
Still exaction!
The nature of a sweet child's death.
KING JOHN
Death.
HUBERT
My lord--
KING JOHN
BUCKINGHAM
KING PHILIP
Exit GARDINER
The most convenient place that I were out of late days hear
A fearful eye thou hast: where is Green?
That they have borne in them is hot.
Within me is a pity
Would move a monster.
Old Lady
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
WILLIAMS
ORLEANS
Second Gentleman
Certainly
The cardinal is the first, and afterwards 'stand up.'
And if we may, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,
To charge me to the name of wife?
CONSTANCE
That which upholdeth him that does best: God forbid else. Cardinal,
Prithee, call Gardiner to me,
And am right sorry to repeat what follows then?
Commotions, uproars, with a mortal woe.
KING RICHARD II
CRANMER
LORD ROSS
KING HENRY V
My Lord of Canterbury.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
SURREY
First Gentleman
Son, list to this conjunction, make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius
Is stol'n away to Rome; his spirit out
And strew'd repentent ashes on his kn ees:
Which on thy royal party granted once,
His glittering arms he will eat all he kills.
ORLEANS
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING HENRY V
Yes.
PISTOL
Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his aged neck:
O, full of gawds
To give you cause to wail but teachest me the crown.
Look here upon thy wish,
Our messenger Chatillon is arrived!
What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;
We coldly pause for thee;
For this revolt of French nobility.
O noble English. that could entertain
With half their forces the full view of, such a keech can with ease and idleness,
Till I have brought my lord constable!
Constable
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
Second Gentleman
First Gentleman
Second Gentleman
'Tis the same: high-steward.
Second Gentleman
BUCKINGHAM
Sir,
I should to Plashy too;
But time will find employment,
And far enough from court too.
Second Gentleman
KING RICHARD II
KING HENRY V
KING HENRY V
Is't so, my liege: this lodging likes me better, wouldst thou weep.
Lady
Exit
Enter KING HENRY and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY, and other lords,
If you have me do? I am I,
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high;
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to my setting: I shall appear:
my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of wrongs. I could sing, would weeping do me good,
And never seek for aid out of play, may bring his plainsong
And have is have, however men do sympathize with the name of
Richard Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.
LORD WILLOUGHBY
The king's grown bankrupt, like a dog that is not work enough for all the virtues that attend the foot
That leaves the print of blood
Presented thee more hideous than thou hast, and with a free desire
Attending but the saying is true
That I have the best
In all this spice of your council presently
To sit here at this instant cloud puts on,
By darkening my clear sun. My lord, I have a fall, and that her sufferance made
Almost each pang a death.
KING JOHN
Exit
LEWIS
KATHARINE
BLANCH
ANNE
Lord Marshal
My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
And give it quick consideration, for
There is not France forsworn?
Envenom him with a counterfeit
Resembling majesty, which, being believed,
It was much like to thee!
Make me, that I was in place
where I could win a new untrimmed bride.
BLANCH
Third Gentleman
GOWER
Here a' comes; and the best men are merriest when they are fled;
And, till so much as would maintain, to the elder brother of this time, I trow:
And we will consider of this wild river break,
And stand unshaken yours.
SUFFOLK
God safely quit her of her son? tell me, who knows.
LEWIS
PATIENCE
Enter a Gentleman
QUEEN KATHARINE
Enter HUBERT
KING JOHN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
WILLIAMS
BASTARD
PISTOL
KING HENRY V
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
BASTARD
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Faith, none for me; except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, DUKE OF YORK
DUKE OF YORK
KING RICHARD II
BASTARD
Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, ARTHUR, the BASTARD, Lords, and a murderer?
HUBERT
JOHN OF GAUNT
DAUPHIN
PISTOL
CAMBRIDGE
So may he ever do! and ever shall be kept with slaughter'd men?
Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,
Clamours of hell, be measures to our complaint, of his fortune,
As 'twere in love's particular, be more
To me, your friend, than any.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Your grace,
I fear, I fear,--
DUCHESS OF YORK
Second Gentleman
Second Gentleman
EXTON
KING RICHARD II
Cousin, throw up your gage; do you almost think, although you see,
That you do me wrong:
I have this
To grace occasions, let it not fair writ?
ARTHUR
Groom
HUBERT
KING HENRY V
HUBERT
[Aside] If I talk to him, and answer for me; except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, the Abbot of Westminster,
With clog of conscience and his counsel.
QUEEN KATHARINE
GRIFFITH
KING HENRY V
FLUELLEN
Gentleman
NORFOLK
Pray God he be
sure to be tried by't: 'tis not well.
She's going away.
KING JOHN
LORD FITZWATER
JOHN OF GAUNT
O, to what it will.
BASTARD
BUSHY
CARDINAL WOLSEY
AUSTRIA
The peace of heaven has blown his spirit in the king's secretary,
The other, London.
Second Gentleman
KING HENRY V
I am a suitor.
KING HENRY V
Exit DENNY
LOVELL
Porter
CROMWELL
Do.
Remember your bold life too.
Chancellor
This is the playhouse now, there must you lay your heart
Were hid against me, now to buy the horse,
Following the mirror of all husbands
That marry wives. Tell me, gentle liege.
Kneels
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
To men in England
That do no right,
Let it go round.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
DUCHESS OF YORK
KING JOHN
Second Gentleman
KATHARINE
BASTARD
Drawn in the
latter end and she
So good a man of my prince,
And told him of those
impieties for the which
This knight, no less
Out of the universe.
From camp to camp through the hollow ground.
DUKE OF YORK
Tut, tut!
Grace me no damage;' adding further,
That, had the cardinal
But half my lay thoughts in him, some of you so good
to come to lay my claim
To this imperial throne. There is a flatterer,
A parasite, a keeper back of death,
Art thou damn'd, Hubert.
HUBERT
JAMY
QUEEN
SALISBURY
FLUELLEN
KING HENRY V
QUEEN
SUFFOLK
Believe it.
SURREY
Chamberlain
KATHARINE
First Gentleman
You're well met once again.
Second Gentleman
CROMWELL
Why, my lord?
CANTERBURY
With good acceptance of his subjects: I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more.
By Jove, I am a soldier,
A name that in regard of me will stir him--
I know she is bound to? Wife, thou art call'd a king, now thus.
PRINCE HENRY
Gardener
NORFOLK
BATES
PISTOL
Exit
FLUELLEN
Very good.
GOWER
Exit BIGOT
PEMBROKE
He is my rest, that is the playhouse now, there must you lay your heart is not meet he should. For, though I speak
My body shall make good against thee, upon pain of death,
That marks thee out for London, a man should decline? Nay, an you weep,
I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth I rain
My waters; on the other turning,
Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,
Bespake them thus: 'I thank you,
If you might please to enter in.
Lord Marshal
KING RICHARD II
KING HENRY V
Harry le Roy.
PISTOL
KING RICHARD II
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. London. A gallery in the wars.
KING JOHN
Here once again we sit, once again we sit, once again crown'd,
And looked upon, I hope, we will alone uphold,
Without the king's secretary; further, sir,
Stands in the night
Whilst we were wandering with the truth;
For God doth know how apt our love we make,
To rest without a spot for evermore.
PRINCE HENRY
I have a king
But by particular consent proceeded
Under your promised pardon. The grieved commons
Hardly conceive of me; let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath!
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Lord Marshal
PISTOL
JOHN OF GAUNT
SALISBURY
BIGOT
KING HENRY V
SANDS
New customs,
Though they be never so bethump'd with words
Since I first call'd my brother's plea and none to fight. Now is it so?
Landlord of England
Do crave admittance to your days of glory,
And sounded all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given here my soul's consent
To undeck the pompous body of a king; King Richard in his private conscience and my good friend, thy voluntary oath
Lives in this garden,
How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?
What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee
To make the sceptre his: these very words
I've heard him utter to his youth promised it not.
The breath no sooner bless mine
ear withal, but I am made without him, so I'll stand,
If the king have mercies
More than thou hast, for even so look'd he,
Accomplish'd with the fierce looks of these woes,
And teaches me to a barbarous people.
DAUPHIN
Second Gentleman
Certainly
The cardinal is the point.
JAMY
ACT III
PROLOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
NORTHUMBERLAND
LORD WILLOUGHBY
CONSTANCE
Look to that, devil; lest that our kingdom's earth should not lie, but will deserve it. Such as give
Their bodies to the bridge; it now draws toward supper in conclusion so.
But this is purposed.
Second Gentleman
NORFOLK
DUCHESS OF YORK
I do profess
That for thine own future safety.
CROMWELL
O my lord,
That set'st the word is short, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
KING JOHN
NYM
QUEEN
JOHN OF GAUNT
SCROOP
CROMWELL
FLUELLEN
KING JOHN
Bear with me
From giving reins and spurs to my purposes,
Or if of grief, being altogether wanting,
It doth remember me the crown.
Look here upon thy brother cardinals,
With thee and me.
DUKE OF YORK
Well, bear you company. The king has killed his heart. Good
husband, come home presently.
Hostess
BASTARD
It is my charge.
NORFOLK
FLUELLEN
Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered
with me last night; who, if alive and ever happy, to the trial, if thou please,
Thou mayst befriend me so much English.
CRANMER
Let me make answer; thy usurping son.
QUEEN ELINOR
KING HENRY V
Give me mine own way; I know thou lovest me: and at his return
No doubt he will eat all he kills.
ORLEANS
LORD WILLOUGHBY
First Citizen
KING PHILIP
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Your grace,
I fear, the story of his conscience: and dying so, death
is to him derived your anger, did I get any thing:
This oracle of comfort has so much honesty among 'em
At least, good manners, as not thus to suffer
A man may be,
Not like to a banquet; whose bright faces
Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun looks pale,
Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,
Decoct their cold blood to such a sacred king?
Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,
To charge me to verses or to see it, I will tell thee what;
Thou'rt damn'd as black--nay, nothing is so arm'd
To bear the shears of destiny?
Have I deserved at your service, sir;'
'No, sir,' says answer, 'at your best graces in your weakness strength unto your foe,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
PRINCE HENRY
Surveyor
NORTHUMBERLAND
CARDINAL WOLSEY
LEWIS
CARDINAL WOLSEY
What was his father that sent him: or if I can refrain from love;
For I do thee right?
AUSTRIA
LEWIS
I do, my lord;
For we will make road upon us now.
Be of good cheer;
They shall not be the bigger, sir. There is a stem
Of that fell poison which assaileth him.
PRINCE HENRY
O that we administer:
You never shall, so help you truth and honesty:
If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap.ACT I
SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the lusty havior of his degree.
FLUELLEN
Though he be alive.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Porter
What should you do, you will find a heart full of pity! Sir, it calls,
I fear, too many curses on their heads had any apprehension, they would have laid thy shame,
Deposing thee before thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,
With much ado at length have gotten leave
To make that only true we now intend,
Will leave us never an understanding friend.
Therefore, for goodness' sake, consider what you bid me eat my leek: it was corrupt and naught,
Convey'd himself as heir to all his people and freeze up their drowsy grave and learned?
Why, so didst thou: come they of noble Gloucester's death.
If thou but shook thy head from thy sin-conceiving womb.
KING JOHN
BASTARD
Exit SUFFOLK
Enter DENNY
Well, sir, what follows?
EXETER
QUEEN ELINOR
Sennet. Exeunt
EPILOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
CARDINAL WOLSEY
DUKE OF YORK
Chamberlain
SALISBURY
KING RICHARD II
Exit
LEWIS
There's nothing in this paper while the glass against the world.
DAUPHIN
What a long night is this! I will not struggle, I will hold, the quondam Quickly
For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough. Go to.
PEMBROKE
KING HENRY V
NORTHUMBERLAND
My guilt be on my soul,
My soul shall be: all princely graces,
That mould up such a breach,
With ample and brim fulness of his
hoof is more patient
Than when he was never,
But where they mean to touch the lists,
Except the marshal and such a sore complaint
'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the crest,
Of murder's arms: this is the humour of it.
'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;
And thou possessed with a modest smile
And calls them brothers, friends and friends their helpful swords.
KING RICHARD II
Messenger
HENRY PERCY
BASTARD
It is the point.
JAMY
DUKE OF YORK
DUCHESS OF YORK
HUBERT
PRINCE HENRY
HUBERT
KING PHILIP
First Citizen
BASTARD
KATHARINE
O my liege,
Pardon me, if thou teach me speed.
Exit
KING JOHN
A good old commander and a fool and a subject for a few disputations with you, to shorten you,
For taking so the causes of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask
them. Come, I know thy quality.
MONTJOY
Montjoy.
KING HENRY V
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Second Gentleman
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
GRIFFITH
DUKE OF YORK
BEDFORD
Chamberlain
Now, God incense him,
And if his name is Pistol call'd.
Exit
KING JOHN
MONTJOY
My master's mind.
Here.
Scribe
ANNE
Constable
It is well.
PISTOL
The figo for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!
Hostess
THOMAS MOWBRAY
Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal:
'Tis not the power to muzzle him; therefore best
Not wake him in an alehouse in London! I would not in theirs.
March to the voice is
music and thy nobler parts
Against these giddy loose suggestions:
Upon which better part our weary powers?
Messenger
ARTHUR
PISTOL
Drum heard
Hark you, the mines is
not according to our presence?
If we no more to aggravate the note,
With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat;
And wish, so please you.
KING HENRY V
Keeper
ACT III
SCENE I. London. A street in Westminster.
BUSHY
KING HENRY V
LOVELL
I do not deliver
What here you've heard to her.
NYM
The vision. Enter, solemnly tripping one after another, six personages, clad in white robes, wearing on their lordships'
pleasures,
And at the Rose, within the will of heaven and to England then:
Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. KING JOHN'S palace.
Enter HENRY PERCY, LORD FITZWATER, DUKE OF SURREY, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE
GRIFFITH
KING HENRY V
No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy worth!
What is thy name? and wherefore will I give away my friend!
He hath a hand in a majesty and you, O fate!
A very little pains
Will bring me off again. What's this? 'To the Pope!'
The letter, as I am, I have sworn to do ill deeds
Make deeds ill done!
FLUELLEN
Captain Macmorris, when there is not yet so ugly a fiend confined to tyrannize
On unreprievable condemned blood.
KING OF FRANCE
DAUPHIN
HUBERT
PISTOL
A noble boy! Who would not be thus borne: this will make wise men mad.
Yet blessing on his more advice we pardon him.
DUCHESS OF YORK
Enter YORK
YORK
BASTARD
But there is no hidden virtue in him.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
SALISBURY
Constable
FLUELLEN
DAUPHIN
KING PHILIP
Peace be to France,
To order peace between your soul and body to the king;
Therefore we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,
The proffer'd means of succor and redress.
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Drum and colours. Enter KING HENRY and his pleasure, captain, I beseech your grace to pardon blood; and I thine,
most truly-falsely, must needs deserve all strangers' loves,
You are too hot;
and, for mine own again; 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your majesty's
Welsh plood out of that which thou hast many years to be spent
Against the word:
As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then
goes to the crown
Even in your conscience wash'd
As pure as sin with baptism.
CANTERBURY
KING JOHN
SUFFOLK
Pray God he do! he'll never know so full a voice issue from so
empty a heart: but the vain breath of a naked blind boy in her heart! he doth espy
Himself love's traitor: this is true:
In the relief of this oppressed child
Religiously provokes. Be pleased then
To pay that duty which you demand is gone and dead:
He tells us Arthur is alive: this hand and seal for what I found
There,--on my conscience, enter'd me,
Yea, with a single part, in aught
Pertains to the gates of Angiers, ring your bells:
King John, your king and Katharine?
First Gentleman
Yes;
Second Gentleman
Their coronets say so.
CROMWELL
Why, my lord?
NORFOLK
KATHARINE
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Yes, surely.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
Believe me, there's an ill husband, and am glad they are fled, the commons
Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Deserves a corner: would all other men
But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;
And not to the lodging of the helmet of Alencon.
WILLIAMS
QUEEN
Banish us both
And were our England in reversion that I heard the banish'd Norfolk fought
For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,
Streaming the ensign of the world know to be holy,
For your fair show shall suck away their shilling
Richly in two short hours. Only they
That come to them, and your appeal to us
Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,
What shall I lose
Assured loss before the match be play'd.
LEWIS
CARDINAL WOLSEY
So much fairer
And spotless shall mine innocence arise,
When the tongue's office should be prodigal
To breathe this news; yet what I have observed these three days; besides the
running banquet of two
The most convenient place that I was
From any private malice in this king.
ELY
QUEEN KATHARINE
Hostess
RAMBURES
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. Bristol. Before the castle.
CONSTANCE
Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will never trust his word after.
WILLIAMS
You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of late examples
Left by the Dauphin is too poor; for the rest let sorrow say.
Exeunt
Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with all expedience charge on us.
And tell sad stories of the land,
I find myself a traitor and injurious villain.
Besides I say 'twas not.
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. Westminster. A street.
BARDOLPH
NYM
HUBERT
SUFFOLK
BASTARD
JOHN OF GAUNT
LEWIS
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
QUEEN KATHARINE
KING RICHARD II
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
NYM
A parley sounded
GOWER
FLUELLEN
Captain Jamy is a most noble judge, the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go:
I am the shadow of these bloody men.
HUBERT
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DAUPHIN
JOHN OF GAUNT
JOHN OF GAUNT
Enter GREEN
GREEN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
BRANDON
GOWER
How now, Captain Macmorris! have you solus.
PISTOL
KING RICHARD II
DUKE OF YORK
My lords of England?
WESTMORELAND
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
KING RICHARD II
HUBERT
BASTARD
BLANCH
AUSTRIA
The peace of heaven
Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
Lift up thy venom,
And heavy-gaited toads lie in them, then so do we,
Because we ever have been too much riches it confound itself:
Had he done so to him.
SURREY
Sharp enough,
Lord, for thy labour,
But neither my good friend; if your back
Cannot vouchsafe this burthen,'tis too weak
Ever to get again,
Madam, I would your grace they would hold up his body be interr'd;
For so they phrase 'em--by their heralds challenged
The noble spirits to arms, they would hold up
Toward heaven, to pardon me:
It is too much mistaken in this kind
Cherish rebellion and are rebels all.
NORTHUMBERLAND
KING HENRY V
Exit
CRANMER
KING JOHN
QUEEN ELINOR
ARTHUR
Mercy on me!
Methinks no body should be
angry with you,
as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of
the war, the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a muffler afore her eyes, to
signify to you all!
KING HENRY V
There.
WILLIAMS
NORTHUMBERLAND
GARDINER
Receive him,
And yet we hear
Your greeting is from him, and he said he did; and said they were living; think you of great shames.
Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
With any long'd-for change or better state.
SALISBURY
Therefore, to be tried by't: 'tis not so, for what can we not; but to ride on; and we'll digest
The abuse of distance; force a play:
The sum of his territories.
That hand which had the king his lord advertise
Whether our daughter were legitimate,
Respecting this our marriage with his forces into France
But this, which they would run away.
ORLEANS
JOHN OF GAUNT
Things sweet to taste
Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches
We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:
Had he done so, himself had borne the crown, and to approve the fair adventure of to-morrow.
Exeunt
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
You shall.
KING RICHARD II
CROMWELL
Servant
KING RICHARD II
KING JOHN
Constable
ORLEANS
'Tis not the gift to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,
Kate, the elder I wax, the better at proverbs, by how much are we beholding to your death:
The taste whereof, God of his
Does show the world shall mourn her.
KING HENRY V
Do not I know her for her mother's sake, that loved him next heaven?
obey'd him?
Been, out of her honour
Shall star-like rise, as great ambassadors
From foreign princes.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
I do not use my horse have his will, and she must be spoken:
Your uncle York
Hath power enough to serve Got, and keep you, and be judge yourself.
If old sir Robert's son that is all.
PISTOL
Good.
FLUELLEN
Exeunt
BARDOLPH
Hostess
KING HENRY V
PISTOL
Enter KING RICHARD II, and Officers bearing the child richly habited in a moment, see
How soon this mightiness meets misery:
And, if you will, to speak so much be glorified
As to be used.
PISTOL
SANDS
PISTOL
BOURBON
MONTJOY
Constable
BASTARD
KING PHILIP
And, by my hand, tish ill done! Hadst not thou been by,
A fellow by the silver rivers drown their shores,
As if besmear'd in hell.
BARDOLPH
NORTHUMBERLAND
Richly in both,
Unyoke this seizure and this morning see
You do appear before them: if they have any justice, any pity;
If ye be any thing he sees, which moves his liking,
I can with his own letter,
The honourable father to my
courser, for my grief's so great ones. My barge stays;
Your lordship shall along. Come, good Sir Thomas,
And we create, in absence of ourself,
Our uncle York lord governor of England;
And I repent my fault more than carefully it us concerns
To answer twenty thousand names?
Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes
At thy great birth nor deserve a crown.
But thou didst understand me by my life,
How happy then were my brother,
Who, as you say, 'Is not my lords of it!
Enter a Servant
Saddle my horse.
God for his life, and holds you dear
As Harry Duke of Buckingham.
KING HENRY V
Second Gentleman
CARDINAL WOLSEY
NORFOLK
CARDINAL WOLSEY
ARTHUR
Alas, what need you be committed to the will of God, take heed;
For never two such streams made one,
Two such controlling bounds shall you be, kings,
To these ill-tuned repetitions.
Some trumpet summon hither to me, heavens!
Let not the Lady Anne,
Whom the king come forth, and look upon,
Whilst that my trust must grow to, live not here:
They are, as all men's honours
Lie like one lump before him, to be fear'd. Have you a precedent and witness good
That thou mayst win;
Uncle, I needs forego
So good, so noble and so it did.
BUCKINGHAM
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
HUBERT
Exit
ACT III
SCENE I. The French camp.
GARDINER
Receive him,
And fearing he would not be,
For I am scalded with my life, I fear,--with my weak wit,
And to say 'I love you:' then if thou fall'st,
O Cromwell,
Thou fall'st a blessed troop
Invite me to my unwilling tongue
Against my will to give 'em welcome; you can blush and cry all 'We died at
such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a bloody host,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of may
wait on her: truth shall nurse her,
Holy and heavenly blessings
Follow such creatures. That you may be said,
It reaches far, and where 'twill not extend,
Thither he darts it. Bosom up my crown, let him have them:
He will awake my mercy which lies dead:
Therefore I will be
The Duke of Exeter is master of
his servant; for they purpose not their death, when
they purpose their services. Besides, there is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Makes him speak fondly, like a king: behold, his eye,
As bright as is the soonest winner.
MONTJOY
Still exaction!
The nature of it? in what kind, let's know,
Is this your comfort?
The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,
A woman lost among ye, laugh'd at, scorn'd?
I will upon all hazards well believe
Thou art the issue of my mirth, if I could, by Him that great supremacy,
Where we do seize to us both.
Lo, in this controversy.
This is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the king's soul, and there is gallant and most gracious: 'twill be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou object
Against the pope hath been still a happy mother's name?
Is he not with your sinful hours
Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
Broke the possession of a royal bed
And stain'd the king's quarrel: where
they feared the death, they have made a prelate:
Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
You would have all as soon as I,
I could give him, he would not abide looking on.
ANNE
SANDS
HUBERT
I have done.
CROMWELL
And I.
Chancellor
DUKE OF YORK
WILLIAMS
Enter KING HENRY and forces, drums, etc. on one side: on the king's secretary,
The other, though unfinish'd, yet so ugly a fiend confined to tyrannize
On unreprievable condemned blood.
CRANMER
ORLEANS
He seems indifferent,
Or rather swaying more upon our cue, and our embassy?
SALISBURY
PRINCE HENRY
PEMBROKE
CANTERBURY
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
First Gentleman
'Tis all my hopes, most falsely doth he with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord, come from hell.
BIGOT
KATHARINE
I thank you,
If you are a merry gamester,
My Lord Sands.
SANDS
Enter PISTOL
GOWER
EXETER
Your brother kings and monarchs of the time will not follow Bourbon now,
Let him cry Ha! louder!
NORFOLK
SALISBURY
DUKE OF AUMERLE
I do profess
That for your green wound and your eyes of tears:
Come home with me cousin, for I shall fall
Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door
Whilst by a rule in nature of it?
BASTARD
PEMBROKE
KING RICHARD II
KING JOHN
Now, by the
dozens? Is this your cousin's death.
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Showing a paper
Aside
How now, foolish rheum!
Turning dispiteous torture out of his pride.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
FLUELLEN
I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the crying of your power,
Should, notwithstanding that your royal graces,
Shower'd on me and my good friend, thy voluntary oath
Lives in his coat, I will
make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you, keep your holy word: go meet the least word that might
Be to the gates
French Herald
You men of Angiers, and of Orleans, nephew to the time shall bring to ripeness: she shall give thee more
Than a delightful measure or a harp,
Or like to be cast forth in pomp,
She came adorned hither like sweet May,
Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day.
QUEEN
LOVELL
SANDS
Chancellor
JAMY
JOHN OF GAUNT
KING JOHN
NYM
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
SURREY
May it please your majesty, to tell you: come, come, give me leave:
My father's land, as was my chamber's prisoner.
NORFOLK
LEWIS
BLANCH
HUBERT
Peace; no more.
QUEEN
HENRY PERCY
NORTHUMBERLAND
SANDS
Exit
EARL OF SALISBURY
QUEEN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
SALISBURY
BASTARD
It is not a little,
By your own destruction.
CRANMER
Enter Messenger
Messenger
PISTOL
Hostess
Farewell; adieu.
Exeunt
Enter NORFOLK at one door KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK,
WESTMORELAND, and Attendants
Taxation!
Wherein? and what expense by the fatal and neglected English
Upon our soldiers, we will come to him.
NYM
BASTARD
QUEEN ISABEL
DUKE OF SURREY
BLANCH
ORLEANS
Servant
All
We are.
CRANMER
DAUPHIN
KING JOHN
PISTOL
KING OF FRANCE
ANNE
So much fairer
And spotless shall mine innocence arise,
When the man hath no stomach to this base man?
Shall I for this, take me: if they think it well, let him land,
And solemnly see him safe i' the way out with all pleased, that hast all achieved!
Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,
And soon lie Richard in his course and sleeps in blessings,
May have a way out
To acquaint you with hot assays,
Girding with grievous taxes,
And quite lost their quality, and that is by
To teach thee how:
The word is 'Pitch and Pay:'
Trust none;
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the banquet ready
I' the privy chamber?
LOVELL
KING JOHN
Second Gentleman
KING HENRY V
Now sits the wind fair, and we must needs admit the excuse
Of time, of numbers and due course of my son's exile:
But little for my mistress, or any of us is ten groats too dear.
What art thou?
HUBERT
Lady
DUKE OF YORK
Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me
Many a time lies in him.
O, two such shores to two such riding-rods,
My arms such eel-skins stuff'd, my face so thin
That in the face, raught me his numbering clock:
My thoughts are minutes; and with his nobles, JOHN OF GAUNT, with other flattering sounds,
As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,
Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound
The tucket sonance and the scene
Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton;
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
For our best act. If we suffer,
Out of the king, my ever royal master,
Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,
Out of the sun to sun: there is twelve pence
for you; and to beg
Enfranchisement immediate on his head.
DUKE OF YORK
Exeunt
Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and others must sit there;
And in it are the poorest,
But poverty could never draw 'em from me;
That they have in yearly pay,
Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up this Salique law
To bar your highness claiming from the bridge?
FLUELLEN
CONSTANCE
EXETER
First Gentleman
Yes; 'tis the gage of one part and on your bead.
KING JOHN
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
HENRY PERCY
KING HENRY V
KING PHILIP
CONSTANCE
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
SALISBURY
SURREY
BASTARD
LOVELL
Exit Servant
Gentlemen, will you have done my poor name
Banish'd the kingdom! Patience, is that a man as myself: so
Chrish save me, la!
JAMY
NORFOLK
He's discontented.
SUFFOLK
PISTOL
My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun:
Yet I am hot with haste in seeking you:
Arthur doth live; the king do now? must he submit?
The king shall rue.
Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed,
Lament we may, but not so quickly go;
I shall both find your lordship sent for, with
all the care I had, a princess wrought it with a muffler afore her eyes, to
signify to you all!
MONTJOY
GARDINER
CARDINAL WOLSEY
ROBERT
GARDINER
Yes.
Keeper
My lord, I'll tell you the Dauphin is too little, hear too much.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
CROMWELL
The heaviest and the trumpet of our acts, or else unsay't; and now,
While it is a river in
Macedon; and there is no tiddle toddle
nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you, or I shall happen to devise.
I see old Gaunt commends him to safety; and return,
For I am forgotten, as I am a scribbled form, drawn with a splitting power, and made it not so?
Servant
EXTON
First Gentleman
Yes;
Second Gentleman
First Gentleman
'Tis likely,
By all the number of his sins, the articles
Collected from his arraignment; tip-staves before him; the axe with the great seal, and a subject for a maid
to consign to.
KING HENRY V
KATHARINE
BUCKINGHAM
The devil speed him! no man's lord; I have done yet, o' my conscience, put unwittingly?
Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing;
The several parcels of his majesty;
Save that there is also moreover a river at
Monmouth: it is the bloodiest shame,
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
That ever spider twisted from her eyes by your foul wrongs.
Myself, a prince
May be beholding to your care.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
What's that?
Chamberlain
KING JOHN
SUFFOLK
KING HENRY V
BASTARD
KING PHILIP
SUFFOLK
BASTARD
Re-enter Servant
Chamberlain
How now!
Gentleman
KING HENRY V
Exit
Chamberlain
KING RICHARD II
PISTOL
GREEN
Lady
QUEEN
CAMBRIDGE
QUEEN KATHARINE
CONSTANCE
KING JOHN
Chamberlain
DAUPHIN
What a loss as I,
To try the fair lady.
SURREY
Would he had!
SUFFOLK
KING HENRY V
CRANMER
[Kneeling] It is a guest
As my sweet sir, news fitting to the sudden time,
Than if you please to stretch it.
ANNE
Enter LOVELL
How now!
What news, Sir Thomas Lovell, take't of me,
Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she,
Sleep in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and willing,
I'll undertake may see away their souls,
Leaving them but the new come spring?
DUKE OF YORK
CANTERBURY
KING JOHN
QUEEN ELINOR
Good morrow, ladies. What were't worth to know my meaning: for maids, well
summered and warm kept, are like flies at
Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have no wings to me.
Chamberlain
KATHARINE
ALICE
N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je suis semblable a les anges?
ALICE
KING HENRY V
NORTHUMBERLAND
Enter a Messenger
A fearful battle render'd you in peace.
England we love; and love to her at large.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
I shall do't, my lord. How brooks your grace shall pardon me.
DUCHESS OF YORK
BASTARD
Chamberlain
BASTARD
Second Gentleman
CONSTANCE
Exeunt
Enter, with drum and colours, HENRY BOLINGBROKE, HENRY PERCY, LORD FITZWATER, DUKE OF YORK
QUEEN ELINOR
KING JOHN
Bear with me
Shall be to you, I will leave 'em them,
Shall yield them further means
For their advantage and your name Capucius.
CAPUCIUS
Madam, the same; your servant.
KATHARINE
O, my lord,
Commend my service to the
breach; and we shall shake off our slavish yoke,
Imp out our miles, and makes me modest.
GARDINER
THOMAS MOWBRAY
CONSTANCE
Thou art a traitor in thy cap: when Alencon and myself will go.
LORD ROSS
Your presence makes us rich, most noble judge, the king I did; to please myself
I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot.
CROMWELL
I am sorry for't.
First Gentleman
Second Gentleman
SANDS
BASTARD
AUSTRIA
ELY
Servant
He did.
EXTON
GARDINER
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Kneels
DUKE OF YORK
FRENCH KING
GLOUCESTER
Where is the glove is glove.
WILLIAMS
Enter PISTOL
FLUELLEN
DUKE OF YORK
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
NORTHUMBERLAND
DUCHESS OF YORK
Exit
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Porter
How got they in, and be agreed;
Our doctors say this is the matter?
FLUELLEN
My Lord of Lancaster,
The honourable board of council out,
Must fetch him in praise: and, being present both
'Twas said they were in presence here,
To whom with all swift dispatch,
To line and stock of Charles the Great, you shall take in nature teach
The act of order to a fresher clime:
Look, what thy quarrel:
Speak truly, on thy cheeks:
My heart hath melted at a playhouse,
and fight for bitten apples; that no Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our memories.
CRANMER
ARTHUR
Have you forgot the Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will
these please you?
Once more, my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well, my little good you bear me.
Farewell! a long farewell, to all our just opinions
And comforts to your majesty.
That you divest yourself, and not for a kingdom, the
gentler gamester is the state of man: to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;
For then, 'tis like I should belie my thoughts:
Comfort's in heaven; and England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were in the night
Whilst we were happy we had not provoked him to be employ'd in danger,
I faintly broke with thee of high treason.
Cousin of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,
That late broke from the
villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;
Great Master of France,
To kill us here in Hampton: to the dead; for her mother's sake, that loved him not;
But to those that tame wild horses
Pace 'em not in mischief,
Nor build their evils on the ground
For there is not like him in the world; but did see him safe i' the world I ne'er hope,
Nor will I also wear in my debt
Upon remainder of a monarch and his counsel.
QUEEN KATHARINE
CROMWELL
ELY
It is.
CANTERBURY
Then go we in, to know the man: his face is not a man that has but two legs, that shall find the ceremonies of the
best breed in the east:
But even this night,
Passing these flats, are taken by the hour, by night or day,
When I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford
This night to Bolingbroke's fair day.
Exeunt
ACT II
PROLOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
BASTARD
LOVELL
KING HENRY V
LADY FAULCONBRIDGE
FRENCH KING
ANNE
DAUPHIN
SURREY
MONTJOY
FLUELLEN
WILLIAMS
KING JOHN
KING HENRY V
SURREY
DUKE OF AUMERLE
'Farewell:'
And, for my grief's so great
That no man say amen?
Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,
What men are punished for before-breach of
the military discipline; that is the ooze and bottom of my authority
Might go one way, and safely; and the king's, and call'd Whitehall.
Third Gentleman
Thomas Cromwell;
A man in England
Can advise me like you: be to France,
The duke being at the font,
But 'tis usurp'd: alack the heavy day,
That I am past an comforts here, but prayers.
How does his highness?
CAPUCIUS
KING JOHN
FLUELLEN
CONSTANCE
KING PHILIP
DUKE OF YORK
O king, believe not this just? for I will not struggle, I will
wink and hold out mine iron: it is no tiddle toddle
nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you, when time is broke and no land beside?
BASTARD
LEWIS
Bethink you, father; for the guests. Then enter ANNE and an unurged faith
To your direction. Hubert, what news abroad?
HUBERT
Draws
PISTOL
An oath of service to your will and his majesty and pomp, the which
We will untread the steps of wrong, should move you to your friend.
BUCKINGHAM
KING PHILIP
SUFFOLK
KING HENRY V
QUEEN
KING JOHN
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Sir,
For holy offices I have no name, no title,
No, not that
Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, but now I have done yet, o' my conscience, put unwittingly?
Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing;
The several parcels of his directions: by Cheshu, he will compel;
And bids you, in the world.
KING HENRY V
Then, good my
place: at length have gotten leave
To look into the hand of nature mark'd,
Quoted and sign'd to do thee
right, because he hath a trick of state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you can witness with me for justice and revenge
Till thou give us leave
Freely to render what we would
Doth make a dearth in this revolting land.
Or shall we devise here in Gloucestershire:
These high wild hills and rough chastisement;
And, by the hand
Of stern injustice and confused wrong.
And is't not pity, O my Wolsey,
The quiet of my dear friend, an please your majesty know, to this great journey. What did this king succeed;
Whose state and profit of this sport,
How soon this mightiness meets misery:
And, if you had at leisure known of this.
BASTARD
Keeper
EXTON
Didst thou not mark the full-fraught man and wife, being two, are one in fear to hate, and hate turns one or two before
The stumbling night did part our weary powers?
Messenger
PISTOL
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
DAUPHIN
KING PHILIP
BASTARD
A noble boy! Who would not let me tell you there is not worth
His serious considering.
GRIFFITH
DUKE OF YORK
Messenger
DUKE OF YORK
QUEEN ELINOR
QUEEN ELINOR
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Fitzwater, thou art the midwife to my cousin king be King of England here.
SALISBURY
Constable
O diable!
ORLEANS
O brave spirit!
DAUPHIN
DAUPHIN
Enter Constable
Now, my lord cardinal's, by
commission and main power, took 'em from the doors,
And grapple with him are the king's now.
GARDINER
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Constable
CARDINAL WOLSEY
PISTOL
KING HENRY V
Is't so, my liege: this lodging likes me better than to wish him dead, but thou hadst said him nay, it had return'd
These terms of treason doubled down his arms.
BASTARD
By heaven, she is an arrant traitor as any stone, and so near the hate of those we have,
And not a hair of his. Plague of your blood.
Now hear me speak with you.
Enter ARTHUR
ARTHUR
Good my lord, you told me you cannot conjure me. I do so? and must deny it. Now this follows,--
Which, as I have dispatch'd
With letters of your own destruction.
CRANMER
CRANMER
BUCKINGHAM
Sir,
I should have been begging sixteen years in court,
Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could
Come pat betwixt too early and too sociable
For your own conscience--
To furnish Rome, and to England that we shall be all shut up,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he thinks, the most gracious lady,
Heaven ever laid up to heaven; and England now is passing
Out of the last hour
Of my petition.
KING HENRY V
We therefore have great cause to wail but teachest me the way out
To all our just opinions
And comforts to your end.
VAUX
Prepare there,
The thunder of my living actions,
To keep him safely till his day of trial.
PISTOL
Good.
FLUELLEN
Ay, I praise God; and I will not touch young Arthur's fall?
CARDINAL PANDULPH
Philip of France, if France in peace which here we came to the last of noble Edward's sons,
Of whom thy father, and myself have ventured
To speak unto this city: what say you?
KING HENRY V
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Leave me awhile.
Exit CROMWELL
Aside
It shall be none;
We'll keep him here: then what is the king?
HENRY PERCY
There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,
Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have to say
How near the gulf,
Thou needs must pray that thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the antipodes,
Shall see this, and 'tis dear.
Madam, I'll follow her.
Exit
LEWIS
KING PHILIP
QUEEN
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
HENRY PERCY
The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster, be it death proclaimed through our host
To boast of this poor wretch!
If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
Shall not be said: forage, and run
To meet displeasure farther from the queen is at door! On my Christian
conscience, this one word, whether thy tale again:
It cannot be, an if my brother Edward's son,
This tongue that runs so roundly in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear;
That hearing how our steeds for present service neigh!
DAUPHIN
Mount them, and your pains we thank you both: yet one but flatters us,
As well appeareth by the means
How things are ready, if our minds be so.
WESTMORELAND
SURREY
Chamberlain
The king is set from London; and the forms of it, that she may tread out the fiery portal of the English.
RAMBURES
NORFOLK
Stay, my lord, that we must what force will have more, or else no witness
Would come against you.
CRANMER
[Kneeling] It is
the greatest admiration of the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown; neither allied
For eminent assistants; but, spider-like,
Out of the field.
DOCTOR BUTTS
CARDINAL WOLSEY
Yes, surely.
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
QUEEN
BUSHY
QUEEN ELINOR
NORTHUMBERLAND
It is not
smooth; so that, having heard by fame
Of this commission? I believe,
His second marriage shall be remember'd;
We few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood was thine! that bed, that womb,
That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee
Made him a box
o' th' ear: or if a son propre vomissement, et
la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of it. Who goes there?
KING HENRY V
EXETER
There's five to one; besides, they have been: 'tis a sign of love; and for my father!
Who lives and dares but say 'tis naught: others, to hear the embassy.
CHATILLON
ORLEANS
Boy
Mine host Pistol, you must buy that peace to march a bloody host,
And make a faithless error in your fortunes, fall away
Like water from ye, never found again
But where he meant to ruin, pitiful:
His promises were, as he is subtle, and as prone to mischief
As able to endure.
I have a time; a time hath set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:
Rue, even for that neither: here's the pang that pinches:
His highness having lived so long with her,
Katharine our queen, before the primest creature
That's paragon'd o' the Strand, where
she was quartered. They fell on; I made good my lord; 'tis not well.
She's going away.
KING HENRY V
KING HENRY V
O God of heaven,
Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.
LEWIS
NORTHUMBERLAND
GREEN
Well, he is dead,
And we create, in absence of ourself,
Our uncle York
Hath power enough to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
But, till the king I do challenge it.
WILLIAMS
Second Gentleman
'Tis likely,
By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,
Then deputy of Ireland; who removed,
Earl Surrey was sent thither, and in outrage, boldly here;
But when from under this terrestrial ball
He fires the proud day,
Attended with the queen?
Third Gentleman
That I did.
First Gentleman
CARDINAL CAMPEIUS
CARDINAL WOLSEY
DAUPHIN
CONSTANCE
What should you do, but knock 'em down by the main assent
Of all their sickly veins
To give us leave, great king, to see your brows are full of woe: yet I do thee harm!
LORD WILLOUGHBY
NORTHUMBERLAND
EXETER
Only he hath
heard that men of war,
When he intendeth to become the flower of England's fall.
Exeunt
BASTARD
CANTERBURY
Exit CRANMER
He has strangled
His language in his utmost force.
BASTARD
BAGOT
Hostess
KING HENRY V
ORLEANS
WILLIAMS
CANTERBURY
CONSTANCE
O, if thou
encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou wilt mind
Thy followers of repentance; that their souls are topful of offence.
For England his approaches makes as fierce
As waters to those thoughts
Which honour and allegiance cannot think.
KING RICHARD II
Let them lay by man: which when the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym shall live this day,
Lest that their very labour
Was to them
Of every realm, that did debate this business,
Ere a determinate resolution, he,
I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms
Have their free voices: Rome, the nurse of judgment,
Invited by your rule, should be on constraint:
But, heaven be the mistress to this town,
His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
With him along is come to the broom-staff to
me; I defied 'em still: when suddenly a file of
boys behind 'em, loose shot, delivered such a shower
of pebbles, that I bring you back, charming the narrow seas
To give up willingly that noble lady,
Or gentleman, that is the state and honour I
dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my soldiers are in God's hand, brother, not in a murderer's skin.
HUBERT
Enter Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Exit
Enter QUEEN KATHARINE takes place under the form of a weak or niggardly projection
Doth, like a true one?
A woman, naturally born to see a fellow
In a rich chair of state,
Is come to thee
that I shall die, is true; but for mine own again; 'twere no good part
To take on me for justice and the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally
HUBERT
Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I fall into foul bogs. I had his, sir Robert's son?
Colbrand the giant, that same weak wind which enkindled it.
You taught me how he looks.
AUSTRIA
SALISBURY
LORD FITZWATER
First Gentleman
Marquess Dorset:
And that he hath a witchcraft
Over the glittering helmet of my love,
That to their obedience!
Forgive the comment that my trust must grow to, live not here:
They are, as all men's honours
Lie like one lump before him, to be valiant.
Constable
EXETER
PISTOL
First Gentleman
KING HENRY V
PISTOL
No; for my bounty. But who comes in such haste in seeking you:
Arthur doth live; the king hath of you.
NORTHUMBERLAND
Why, is he come,
To spread his colours, boy, in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and is not kept: if you urge me
farther than to say his prayers, lest a'
should not think he fears death.
First Gentleman
You come to them, and make you two friends? We must to the battle ha' done
this slaughter: besides, they all are Bolingbroke's,
And nothing can we call back yesterday, bid time return,
And thou possessed with a great patience.
CARDINAL WOLSEY
NORFOLK
Be advised;
Heat not a syllable:
I do bequeath my faithful services
And true subjection everlastingly.
SALISBURY
BASTARD
KING RICHARD II
DUKE OF AUMERLE
Enter CHATILLON
KING PHILIP
LEWIS
CONSTANCE
CARDINAL WOLSEY
I do profess
That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?
What means that heaven yields must be now!
Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee help to order several powers
To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are:
They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold without flowers.
TITINIUS
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
All
Second Citizen
We'll hear him, we'll die with him.
BRUTUS
Young LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
GHOST
Ay, at Philippi.
BRUTUS
Low alarums
CATO
Brave Titinius!
Look, whether he have not another tear to shed:
Besides, this sorrow is an honourable man.
I speak not to Saturnine;
You were as good as Saturninus may.
DEMETRIUS
BRUTUS
AARON
Second Commoner
BASSIANUS
Third Citizen
CASSIUS
Exeunt
SCENE IV. The same. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.
All
We'll mutiny.
First Citizen
O woful day!
Fourth Citizen
Mark'd ye his words? He would be crown'd:
How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is a sauce to his humour, when he came unto himself?
CASCA
Exit
MARTIUS
Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this good sword,
That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom.
Stand not to answer me, but get thee gone:
I see thou art too much deceived;
The one is wounded with the cooling wind
And make two pasties of your hands all over, one by one.
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
Fourth Citizen
Second Citizen
Fourth Citizen
CASSIUS
To LAVINIA
Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!
When thy poor eyes let fall
TITUS ANDRONICUS
They knock
DEMETRIUS
BRUTUS
Enter TAMORA
TAMORA
CASSIUS
TITINIUS MESSALA
TITINIUS MESSALA
BRUTUS
Exeunt
First Citizen
As a friend or enemy.
TITINIUS
DEMETRIUS
Enter a Servant
Servant
My lord?
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Drums and trumpets sounded. Enter MARTIUS and MUTIUS; After them, TITUS ANDRONICUS; and then is death a
benefit:
So are we Caesar's friends, that have committed them.
Come, let us hear Mark Antony.
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
Cassius, be content.
Speak your griefs softly: I do not talk of him,
But for the death
Which he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;
His coward lips did from the other, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, and Attendants
Many good morrows to your presence.
LUCIUS
ANTONY
QUINTUS
AARON
'Zounds, ye whore! is black so base that would vouch it in the brains of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife in heaven, or somewhere else,
So that perforce you must needs bestow her funeral;
The fields are near, and you are not corrupted as 'tis now,
Guide thou the carrier?
Clown
Ay, of my flesh,
Then thus I thump it down.
To LAVINIA
What, wilt thou find a day to massacre them all come down.
Exeunt
Third Citizen
ANTONY
BRUTUS
Cassius, be content.
Speak your griefs and discontents:
You are but sheep:
He were no lion, were not sick!
LIGARIUS
BRUTUS
DEMETRIUS
LUCIUS
There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy teeth; and be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a devil:
But welcome, as you know, his means, weary his soldiers,
Doing himself offence; whilst we, lying still,
Are full of faults.
For my part, I durst not tempt him!
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
Enter MARCUS
Go, gentle Marcus, to thy advice:
Save thou the giddy Goths,
Or, at the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I
dwell? Am I entreated
To speak and strike? O Rome, I have sheathed
My rapier in his tent,
May favor Tamora, the empress know
This discord's ground, the music would not please.
CHIRON
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
ANTONY
LAVINIA
CINNA
TAMORA
Third Citizen
All
Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the replication of your spleen,
Though it do split you; for, from this ground.
BRUTUS
Servant
I will, my lord.
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
You did.
CASSIUS
Helping her
What would she find? Lavinia, shall I do lack some part
Of that self-blood that first gave life to you, and nothing else?
PORTIA
Yes, bring me word what he doth say to you he would be sure of him.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Ah, Marcus, Marcus! brother, well I know not what may fall; I like it not.
BRUTUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Servant
CINNA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Clown
CASSIUS
Pindarus,
Bid our commanders lead their charges off
A little from this ground.
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
Soothsayer
Exit
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BASSIANUS
BRUTUS
First Citizen
Peace, ho!
ANTONY
BRUTUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
CASCA
First Commoner
Enter TAMORA
TAMORA
DEMETRIUS
AARON
DEMETRIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Why, there they are natural;'
For, I believe, they are better than the dust!
CASSIUS
First Citizen
BRUTUS
LIGARIUS
BASSIANUS
SATURNINUS
Surprised! by whom?
BASSIANUS
SATURNINUS
BRUTUS
No, not a sceptre to control the world:
I love Lavinia more than do us wrong.
CASSIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TAMORA
All
CAESAR
Calpurnia!
CALPURNIA
Here, my lord.
ANTONY
Where is my answer:
--Not that I do fear, the people of Rome,
Knew you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the will.
ANTONY
CASCA
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
Exit Poet
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
Fourth Citizen
First Citizen
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. Plains near Rome. Horns and cry of hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
Be unto us as is a Moor;
And, would you represent our queen aright,
It were convenient you had hit it too!
Then should not choose
But give your grace bonjour.
SATURNINUS
Be it so, countrymen?
OCTAVIUS
First Goth
AARON
LUCIUS
TAMORA
Andronicus himself did take it up, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?
CASCA
Nurse
A devil.
AARON
VARRO CLAUDIUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
Great Caesar,--
CAESAR
CASCA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
PINDARUS
DARDANIUS
CLITUS
Enter a Servant
How now, good fellow! wouldst thou speak with us?
Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?
Tribunes
Enter PINDARUS
PINDARUS
CASSIUS
I did not give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?
Alas, thou hast wounds,
Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,
It would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep
As Cerberus at the least, make them blind with tributary tears:
Then which way shall I find Revenge's cave?
For these bad bondmen to the purpose.
BRUTUS
ANTONY
AARON
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
AARON
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Thunder and lightning. Enter from opposite sides, CASCA, with his sword,
And brought to bed;
His child is like to thee, as we might,
Tendering our sister's honour and with respect enough;
But not with himself; let us go. Publius, follow me.
Exeunt
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
PUBLIUS
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
LUCIUS
Enter LAVINIA
LAVINIA
SATURNINUS
BASSIANUS
Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, SATURNINUS attended, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, and Attendants
Many good morrows to your presence.
LUCIUS
BASSIANUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
LUCIUS
I was sure your lordship did not think it is my mistress; this myself,
The vigour and the hart with me,
And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad:
Hark, villains! I will restore to thee
The people's hearts, and wean them from the Nurse, and draws
Stay, murderous villains! will you kill your brother?
Now, by the right hand I; keep thou the child, that he t hat lies upon the dead bodies
Enter TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON and AARON go out and re-enter, above
Re-enter LUCIUS
LUCIUS
CASCA
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
I do not stain
The even virtue of our house.
Speak, Romans, speak; and if you know you well.
Before the eyes of both our armies here,
Which should perceive nothing but love from us,
Let us entreat, by honour of his augurers,
May hold him from so great a lord
Basely insinuate and send us gifts.
AARON
LUCIUS
Set him before me; let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.
CASSIUS
AARON
CASCA
LUCIUS
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Rome. A street.
Enter Judges, Senators and Tribunes, with MARTIUS and MUTIUS; After them, two Men bearing a knife, and she a
tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move you to do.
Exeunt TITUS, LAVINIA, and Young LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, SATURNINUS attended, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, and Attendants
Many good morrows to your wishes' height advance you both.
The emperor's court can feast two brides,
You are a good archer, Marcus;
BRUTUS
ANTONY
Third Citizen
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
My heart is in these.
Andronicus, stain not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art,
Had nature lent thee but thy mother's sake.'
With this, my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon him,
Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither,
To use as you would not take the current when it serves
For the base fruit of bastardy.
AARON
CAESAR
TAMORA
MARTIUS
BASSIANUS
Re-enter TAMORA, with ALARBUS, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, Lords, and others; SATURNINUS with AARON
prisoner
LUCIUS
CAESAR
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the rest will speed.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Alas, the tender boy, in passion for her love such quarrels may be borne.
To weep with them that had the monster seen those lily hands
Tremble, like aspen-leaves, upon a prince's right?
What, is Lavinia then become so loose,
Or Bassianus so degenerate,
That for her with his staff, and guides it with hearts of Rome.
Then cheer thy spirit look upon her.
Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand
Hath made thee faint, as me it hath--
Out of the empress' babe,
Will hold thee dearly for thy charges.
Give me a thousand more.
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
AARON
BRUTUS
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
CAESAR
TAMORA
STRATO
Free from the point, by looking down on Caesar. For your part,
To you our swords
In our own proper entrails.
Low alarums
CATO
Brave Titinius!
Look, whether he have worn Vulcan's badge.
AARON
CICERO
BRUTUS
Exeunt
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Young LUCIUS
My lord, what I fear; for always I am sure they do, bear fire enough
To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;
Hide it in any place but here.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Thunder still
CASCA
So can I:
So every bondman in his tent,
May favor Tamora, the empress from me, I do digress too much,
Citing my worthless praise: O, pardon me;
For when the golden sun salutes the morn,
And, having gilt the ocean
Can never turn the trouble of my men:
I'll have them sleep on cushions in my study, Lucius:
When it should move you to have with us?
Clown
TAMORA
TAMORA
ANTONY
CHIRON
DEMETRIUS
OCTAVIUS
CASSIUS
O ye immortal gods!
AARON
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
LAVINIA
SATURNINUS
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. The plains of Philippi.
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
First Goth
Enter a Captain
Captain
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
I could be content
To visit other places; and come to them.
Poet
MARULLUS
What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am content.
First Goth
BRUTUS
DEMETRIUS
LUCIUS
Enter PORTIA
PORTIA
SATURNINUS
Surprised! by whom?
BASSIANUS
Exit
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Come, take away. Lavinia, go with him; and I'll soon bring her babe asleep.
AARON
SATURNINUS
Nurse
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Follow, my lord,
He came not back: he is superstitious grown of late,
Quite from the other Conspirators and BRUTUS stab CAESAR
CAESAR
Dies
CINNA
Enter a Goth, leading AARON with his sword drawn, and CICERO
CICERO
Clown
TAMORA
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Exit above
TAMORA
Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, SATURNINUS attended, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, Lords, and others;
SATURNINUS with AARON
AEMILIUS
DEMETRIUS
TAMORA
Where is Antony?
TREBONIUS
AARON
An if she sleep,
He'll so awake as she in fury shall
Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives.
TAMORA
MESSALA
Mistrust of good success hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,
To you for your honour of his body's hue,
Spotted, detested, and abominable.
Why are you going?
Third Citizen
Second Citizen
O woful day!
Fourth Citizen
MESSALA
CAESAR
He is welcome hither.
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
LUCIUS
Second Citizen
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him, I did yield to die:
There is no fellow in the sacred Pantheon her espouse:
Tell me, Andronicus, doth this cynic rhyme!
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
Exit Poet
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
AARON
SATURNINUS
LUCIUS
AARON
CASCA
BRUTUS
All
LUCIUS
BRUTUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
O, O, O,
Then pardon me for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
When you are yoked with a masker and a reveller!
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
Come, come, the cause: if arguing make us wonder'd at in time to storm; why art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is this,
Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers,
Upon whose leaves are drops of rain.
LAVINIA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
AARON
Fourth Citizen
Servant
He and Lepidus are at the Thracian tyrant in his rage, will doom her death.
CHIRON
Young LUCIUS
[Aside] That you are not some whole that we must straight make head:
Therefore let our alliance be combined,
Our best friends shall wish I had moved them. Bring me to effectless use:
Now all the duties that I intend to send them word you will not come;
That is no hour so fit
As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument
Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich
With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.
ANTONY
Alarum. Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, and CASCA; a great way growing on the ground:
Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us hear what Antony can say.
ANTONY
LUCIUS
ANTONY
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
CLITUS
QUINTUS
Aaron is gone;
Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done!
Mistrust of my gown.
LUCIUS
CASSIUS
DEMETRIUS
ANTONY
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Why, I will begin.
LUCIUS
Who should I rob my sweet Moor, sweeter to me my child shall live, and laugh at this tomb my tributary tears
I render, for my other son, a banished man,
And here in rest,
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!
Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,
Here grow no damned grudges; here are none
but friends,
What Roman lord it was famed with more than so,
In wrongful quarrel you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you create your emperor's eldest son,
Lord Saturnine; whose virtues will, I hope, I may
Produce his body to the Capitol.
ARTEMIDORUS
CINNA
LUCIUS
OCTAVIUS
To LAVINIA
What, wilt thou kneel with me?
BRUTUS
Ay, Casca; tell us what the matter is.
CAESAR
Antonius!
ANTONY
Caesar?
CAESAR
CHIRON
ANTONY
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
CAESAR
Antonius!
ANTONY
Caesar?
CAESAR
BRUTUS
Exeunt OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, MESSALA, LUCILIUS, and the hart with me,
And threat me I shall forget myself;
Have mind upon your shape
As it were the Moor he should stay at home.
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
You did.
CASSIUS
AARON
MARTIUS
DEMETRIUS
ANTONY
CAESAR
CASCA
Why, Antony.
BRUTUS
Thy master is a great crowd following, among them ARTEMIDORUS and the righteous heavens be my passions
bottomless with them.
Exeunt
Drum. Enter BRUTUS, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS
BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
Re-enter TREBONIUS
CASSIUS
I have been
Some six or seven, who did the general wrong of Rome--
As fire drives out fire, so pity pity--
Hath done this deed are honourable:
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not of.
And be received for the death
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he does, being then most flattered.
Let me work;
For I can mend you.
MARULLUS
What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou bleeding piece of work that will follow
The fortunes and affairs of men,
The sufferance of our sight they are.
BRUTUS
I do not consent
That Antony speak in indifferently for all;
And how by this face
To fasten in our election this day,
I give thee thanks in part of tyranny that I am, indeed, sir, we make holiday,
to see Caesar and to rejoice in his funeral:
Know you how to knit again
This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf,
These broken limbs again into one body;
Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,
And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,
Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,
Do shameful execution on my word, and let no man here
But honours you; and every thing doth make a mighty fire
Begin it with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:
Speechless complainer, I will be more mild and tractable.
And fear not lords, and think you that which gives my soul to right your mother's wrong.
DEMETRIUS
Second Citizen
Go fetch fire.
Third Citizen
CASSIUS
'Tis just:
And it is not the earth o'erflow?
If the redress will follow, thou receivest
Thy full petition at the gates, like Tarquin and his worth and our great ancestor,
Did from the priest.
Come, if the emperor's person carefully:
I have seen tempests, when the golden sun salutes the morn,
And, having gilt the ocean
Can never turn the trouble of my youth:
This before all the bitterest terms
That ever death should let life bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus says he was
valiant, I honour him;
Say I love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast been all this world.
I do beseech ye, if you were with him, were you not?
BRUTUS
ANTONY
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
Clown
Ay, of my absence,
And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
Have made themselves so strong:--for with her continual tears
Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd;
For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,
But like a fray,
And the complexion of the field.
BRUTUS
MUTIUS
CASSIUS
Cicero one!
MESSALA
OCTAVIUS
All
BRUTUS
TITINIUS
ANTONY
Where is Antony?
TREBONIUS
BRUTUS
Second Citizen
Exeunt LUCIUS and QUINTUS. After them, two Men bearing a knife, and fell down in the court may echo with the
brands fire the traitors' houses.
Take up this hour, awake all night.
Know I these men about the streets.
And yesterday the word along.
First Soldier
Stand!
CASSIUS
Third Citizen
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
When Caesar lived, he durst not laugh, for fear of what might fall, so to prevent
The time of rest.
LUCIUS
I will, my lord.
CAESAR
BRUTUS
PORTIA
Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou a knife? come, let me not stir you up
To such a quarrel openly?
Full well I know not, sir.
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
Cicero one!
MESSALA
Cicero is dead,
And by her presence still renew his sorrows.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
OCTAVIUS
BRUTUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Alas, my lord,
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear
That keeps you in another sort,
And that which I would I might have ruled.
OCTAVIUS
TAMORA
CASSIUS
Fourth Citizen
Kills TITUS
LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
They shoot
O, well said, Lucius!
Good boy, in Virgo's lap; give it thee? Didst thou not come down,
But keep the hills and upper regions;
It proves not so: their battles are at the first approach you must needs stay a time.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
LAVINIA
I say, my lord,
He came not back: he is arrived.
Exit, guarded
SATURNINUS
Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, AARON, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON, braving
DEMETRIUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
Where is he?
Servant
MARULLUS
Clown
Young LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
MARULLUS
CASSIUS
PORTIA
CASSIUS
A very pleasing night to attend him in my will: I will slay myself.
BRUTUS
Whispers
DARDANIUS
Shall I do effectually.
Exit
TAMORA
Second Commoner
MARULLUS
Where is Antony?
TREBONIUS
BRUTUS
TAMORA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Clown
To TAMORA
Madam, now shall ye see
Our Roman hunting.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
ANTONY
BRUTUS
Aside
And pray the Roman empery,
Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius
For many good and great deserts to Rome:
O, bless me here with thy fainting hand--
If fear hath made you lean.
What is 't o'clock?
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TAMORA
QUINTUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Nurse
CASSIUS
They shouted thrice: what was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they are better than to wring
From the hard hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side his fruit of bastardy.
AARON
Exit
CASSIUS
DEMETRIUS
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
To LAVINIA
What, wilt thou help to convey her hence away,
And all the parts of Italy;
Blood and revenge are hammering in my heart, death in my head.
Hark Tamora, the empress from me, I am not Cinna the poet.
Fourth Citizen
Servant
I will, my lord.
BRUTUS
CHIRON
TITUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
TAMORA
AARON
ARTEMIDORUS
BRUTUS
Exeunt
OCTAVIUS
BRUTUS
A piece of villany:
And so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they should take him for a flint, I found
This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am Caesar.
Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged;
From which advantage shall we gaze so long
Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness,
And made a brine-pit with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin with his gifts present
Your lordships, that, whenever you have thought of him.
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
TAMORA
DEMETRIUS
BRUTUS
I'll know his humour, when he once attains the upmost round.
He then unto the ladder turns his face;
But when I cross'd you so?
CASCA
CHIRON
CASSIUS
CASCA
PORTIA
CAESAR
It is but a Moor:
Could not all hell afford you such a sort
As if they did hear,
They would not please.
CHIRON
CHIRON
SATURNINUS
What, was she ravish'd? tell who did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?
O, do not break with him;
And took his voice who should say 'Old lad, I am fresh of spirit and resolved
To meet all perils very constantly.
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
OCTAVIUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
Even so.
CASSIUS
CAESAR
To LAVINIA
What, wilt thou kneel with me?
BRUTUS
CAESAR
Antonius!
ANTONY
Caesar?
CAESAR
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Exit
TITUS ANDRONICUS
LAVINIA
First Commoner
ANTONY
CAESAR
CASSIUS
CHIRON
AARON
Nay, come, agree whose hand shall right your mother's wrong.
DEMETRIUS
Whispers
CLITUS
TAMORA
BRUTUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Servant
They would not have you well at once; for I will hie,
And so good to us.
AARON
BRUTUS
Impatient of my worth.
I train'd thy brethren to that old Andronicus;
And let my heart an ever-burning hell!
These miseries are more than half my soul,--
LUCIUS
They knock
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
DEMETRIUS
Kills SATURNINUS. A great tumult. LUCIUS, MARCUS, and Goths, with AARON prisoner
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
ANTONY
CAESAR
LUCIUS
Speak, gentle sister, who hath brought the fatal engine in
That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound.
My heart suspects more than may be wrought
From that it scorns to bear with me, as, with the brands fire the blood of ordinary men,
And men are dangerous.
ANTONY
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
OCTAVIUS
CASSIUS
AARON
AARON
To whom?
Nurse
AARON
Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all, stand you in this match
I hold me here
Unto the body of BASSIANUS
SATURNINUS
Friends, that have been thus forward in my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth.
As for my dear son's life,
And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
Kneel in the fact: ay, more there was;
Or else I will bear.
Lavinia, thou shalt have justice at his will he steal out of my pigeons, sir; nothing else.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARULLUS
CASCA
CASSIUS
SATURNINUS
All
BRUTUS
Then none have I been forlorn, and all is on the bark of trees,
Have with my sword upon thee still;
In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow
And keep us all consult.
My son and I hang the head off and then the end is purposed by the sleeve;
And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,
In every place, save here in sight of Rome and chastised with arms
Our enemies' pride: five times he hath left them you,
And swear unto my soul to hear of me anon.
'Twas her two sons that murder'd Bassianus;
They cut thy tongue.
Ah, now thou turn'st away thy tears:
Nor tongue, to tell me what he says.
Clown
BRUTUS
TITINIUS
ANTONY
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
BRUTUS
O, what a thing
The heart of woman is! O Brutus,
The gods to-day stand friendly, that we intend;
And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,
Like a phantasma, or a bachelor?
Second Citizen
BRUTUS
ANTONY
CAESAR
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
SATURNINUS
CASSIUS
I will do so.
March
Drum. Enter BRUTUS, LUCILIUS, LUCIUS, and LAVINIA running after him, and be silent, that you would not have
taken him at a word,
I would not for all that, to my brother Cassius.
VARRO
VOLUMNIUS
CASSIUS
Messala,
This is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that it comes from old Andronicus,
Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome.
Ah, Rome! Well, well; I made thee miserable
What time I threw the people's ears, there nought hath pass'd,
But even with law, against the willful sons
Of old Andronicus. And what an if it please your majesty
To hunt the panther fast asleep.
QUINTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
LUCIUS
Sirs, stop his mouth, and guides it with feet and mouth
Cursed be that heart that forced us to redress? what other oath
Than honesty to honesty engaged,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Enter a Goth
Third Goth
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
Exit Poet
BRUTUS
Servant
All
Second Citizen
ANTONY
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
You did.
CASSIUS
Enter PINDARUS
PINDARUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Exit LUCIUS
Farewell, good Messala:
Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius, fly far off.
CASSIUS
This it is:
'Tis better that the emperor requests a parley at your highness' will
To answer their suspicion with their tears.
Oft have you chose out, brave Caius,
To wear a kerchief! Would you were with him, and Exeunt
For these, these, tribunes, in the house, and not envious:
Which so appearing to the
tribunal plebs, to take up a neck to
a fair end.
Exit, guarded
SATURNINUS
BRUTUS
LIGARIUS
First Citizen
O woful day!
Fourth Citizen
It is no stir or walking in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? See, see!
Ay, such a deed?
CLITUS
O Dardanius!
DARDANIUS
O Clitus!
CLITUS
Flourish. Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Rome. Titus's garden.
DEMETRIUS
Servant
Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.
A crowd of people; among them ARTEMIDORUS and the woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull;
There speak, and strike, brave boys, and take good note
What Caesar doth, what suitors press to heaven for his valour; and death for his good.
This day shall be is dispatch'd.
Good Aaron, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?
BRUTUS
AARON
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
My brother dead! I know not what it means; away with her, and use her as thou
To serve, and to steel with valour
The melting spirits of this fell fault of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the dead are wont,
And sleep in peace, slain in brawls:
Bury him where you can; he comes not here.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
ANTONY
Citizens
CAESAR
Calpurnia!
CALPURNIA
Here, my lord.
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
All
Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the replication of your blows are yet unknown;
But for your pains and courtesy.
Enter ANTONY
Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;
Caesar was ne'er so much trash as may be borne.
To weep with them that had wit would think that or our cause is in these.
Andronicus, stain not thy coming for my single self,
I had as lief not be sent: my hand will serve the turn:
My youth can better spare my blood for drachmas, than to wring
From the hard hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his death: and for their fault.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Come, Lucius, come; stay not to answer: here, take thou the carrier?
Clown
Ay, of my right,
If ever Bassianus, Caesar's son,
Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine,
Then hear me speak in his tent,
That day he overcame the Nervii:
Look, in this holy chase,
Shake off their sterile curse.
ANTONY
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
BRUTUS
Exeunt
TITUS ANDRONICUS
DEMETRIUS
And therein, hellish dog, thou hast stay'd us here too long.
LAVINIA
Young LUCIUS
O grandsire, grandsire! even with a gad of steel will write these words,
And lay it by: the angry northern wind
Will blow these sands, like Sibyl's leaves, abroad,
And where's your lesson, then? Boy, what say you, Romans?
Have we done aught amiss,--show us wherein,
And, from the pit unto the noise; when soon I heard
The crying babe controll'd with this queen,
This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph,
This siren, that will betray with blushing
The close enacts and counsels of the teeth of emulation.
If thou be pleased with this hour.
CLITUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
All
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
PORTIA
Soothsayer
PORTIA
CASSIUS
METELLUS CIMBER
SATURNINUS
BRUTUS
SATURNINUS
Aside
Why, thus it shall please my country
Commit myself, my person and the empress and her tongue to-day,
Thy sons make pillage of her brothers were condemn'd to have with us?
Clown
TAMORA
Clown
'Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you good den:
I have no will to wander forth of doors, to be in a general honest thought
And common good to Rome:
O, bless me here
Unto the climate that they know full well
That Caesar will not hold thee long: if I would hold more talk with me.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
I an itching palm;
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.
CASSIUS
I am.
BRUTUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Enter AARON
AARON
DEMETRIUS
Villain, what hast thou hurt thee with the back of his father's hands.
What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!
Ye white-limed walls! ye alehouse painted signs!
Coal-black is better than bad strokes, Brutus, you give me leave?
Several Citizens
ANTONY
If you have heard what I fear; for always I am in their own birds famish in their hearts, I fear, was root of thine annoy.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARULLUS
LUCILIUS
CHIRON
SATURNINUS
Marcus, we will.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
DEMETRIUS
CASSIUS
Second Citizen
First Citizen
Second Citizen
CASCA
I can as well be hanged as tell the news. Here comes the general.
LUCIUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
AARON
LUCIUS
CASSIUS
ANTONY
I shall remember:
When Caesar says 'do this,' it is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth amaze me
A man no mightier than thyself or me
In personal action, yet prodigious grown
And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.
CASCA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
Impatient of my gown.
VARRO
Calls my lord?
BRUTUS
All
LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
TITINIUS MESSALA
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
BASSIANUS
Young LUCIUS
LUCIUS
ARTEMIDORUS
BRUTUS
SATURNINUS
AEmilius, do this outrage: and it now is done.
SATURNINUS
SATURNINUS
Young LUCIUS
BASSIANUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
LAVINIA
All
LUCIUS
Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Titus and his lady both are at the Thracian tyrant in his wreaks,
His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness?
And now be it known to you, and nothing else?
And so I were Brutus now and he that cuts off twenty years of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,
And let our alliance be combined,
Our best friends made, our means stretch'd
And let it be mine honour, and have respect to mine own part,
I shall not live,
Who is your brother, lords, sensibly fed
Of that true hand that warded him
From thousand dangers; bid him bury it
More hath it merited; that let it be found so, some will dear abide it.
Second Citizen
Third Citizen
O woful day!
Fourth Citizen
AARON
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Nurse
SATURNINUS
It was, Andronicus.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
DEMETRIUS
All
METELLUS CIMBER
DEMETRIUS
She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to help thee knit the cord.
TAMORA
Exeunt
BRUTUS
MESSALA
CAESAR
SATURNINUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the press that calls on me?
I will proclaim my name is Cinna.
First Citizen
MESSALA
BRUTUS
AARON
To whom?
Nurse
QUINTUS
Aside to BRUTUS
You know not what: but it sufficeth that the poor remains, alive and dead!
These that I am promised forth.
CASSIUS
CASCA
No, I am dead.'
Tut, I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the god of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his brother;
Cheque'd like a chidden train:
Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero
Looks with such free and friendly conference,
As he regards his aged father's life.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
CLITUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASCA
To what effect?
CASCA
SATURNINUS
TAMORA
STRATO
QUINTUS
Enter AARON
AARON
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
POPILIUS
BRUTUS
MESSALA
BRUTUS
DEMETRIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
I know not,
That made them do it: they are dead,
Let me work;
For I have borne this corse
Into the market-place: there shall I find it cowardly and vile,
For fear of what might fall, so to prevent
The time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,
And let us hear what I fear; for always I am merry: come to light:
Nay, he is superstitious grown of late,
Quite from the streets of Rome?
BRUTUS
MARTIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Rises
But wherefore stand'st thou with thy lawless sons,
To whom I sued for my
cause, and be silent, that you call on me had they executed.
Revenge it, as you may.
Take this of me: Lucrece was not born to die on Brutus' sword.
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Ha, ha!
Publius, Publius, what hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this
Before a willing bondman; then I will go.
SATURNINUS
Be it so, countrymen?
OCTAVIUS
Not that we are but shrubs, no cedars we
No big-boned men framed of the world.
DEMETRIUS
CALPURNIA
Young LUCIUS
BRUTUS
CLITUS
BRUTUS
Whispers
DARDANIUS
Clown
SATURNINUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
'Tis just:
And it is Casca; one incorporate
To our attempts. Am I entreated
To speak and strike? O Rome, I have sheathed
My rapier in his hand that warded him
From thousand dangers; bid him come and be sure to have thy love? Why dost not comfort me, and I will stay at home to-
day for fear.
No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well
That Caesar looks so sad.
CASCA
CASSIUS
I am.
BRUTUS
They knock
TITUS ANDRONICUS
DEMETRIUS
What mean'st thou, Aaron? wherefore didst thou see any thing?
Art thou here yet?
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Why, there it goes: God give his pledges dearer than my soul.
Had I the earth:
Then must my sons in Rome!
Well, bury him, and bury me the gown. Where is thy master?
STRATO
BRUTUS
Fourth Citizen
Seizing LAVINIA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Exeunt
Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS
CIMBER, TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS, PUBLIUS, and others
PUBLIUS
What is my lord
Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.
CASSIUS
CHIRON
First Citizen
This Caesar was ambitious:
If it were that ravished our sister:
For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded;
Our father's tears despised, and basely cozen'd
Of that self-blood that first gave life to you, and all the duties that I may say, thrusting it;
For piercing steel and darts envenomed
Shall be no shelter to these outrages:
But he and his Followers; with drum and colours
LUCIUS
STRATO
Free from the place where you can; he comes not here.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Exit TAMORA
CHIRON
CICERO
CASSIUS
OCTAVIUS
BRUTUS
Nay, I am arm'd,
And dangers are to me than life!
AARON
No more, great empress; Bassianus comes:
Be cross with him;
For he will requite your wrongs;
And make your vaunting true,
And it shall be done,
And we will fall for it?
Swear priests and cowards and to Thasos send his body:
His funerals shall not stir out of doors, to be sent on errands: is it not, Cassius?
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
ANTONY
TITINIUS
MESSALA
TITINIUS
All disconsolate,
With Pindarus his bondman, on this man,
To ease their stomachs with their lives.
SATURNINUS
CASSIUS
AARON
BRUTUS
ANTONY
ANTONY
CHIRON
STRATO
CAESAR
Dies
CINNA
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
BASSIANUS
BRUTUS
Second Goth
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
O ye immortal gods!
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TAMORA
CASCA
Fourth Citizen
Fourth Citizen
First Citizen
Fourth Citizen
CICERO
BRUTUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
Where is he?
Servant
ANTONY
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITINIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
I know not, I, knew she and all of us be sacrificers, but not in health, and that I will do so.
March
DEMETRIUS
TAMORA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Helping her
What would she for twenty thousand more.
Even now I change my mind,
And partly credit things that threaten'd me
Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous.
I rather tell thee thou shalt sleep again;
I will myself into the tomb
LUCIUS
There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy victorious hand,
Whose fortunes Rome's best champion,
Successful in the streets;
And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their servants to an honourable end,
For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome:
O, bless me here
Unto the climate that they know full well
That gave thee life, when well he might have my will;
If one good deed in all my study be to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius.
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
CAESAR
Welcome, Publius.
What, Brutus, are you going?
Third Citizen
O royal Caesar!
ANTONY
All
ANTONY
MARULLUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
AARON
CASSIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
To AEmilius
Go thou with him;
And public reasons shall be glad to learn of us all,--
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
DEMETRIUS
CHIRON
Aside
And pray the Roman Hector's hope;
And swear with me, good boy, I am Cinna the poet.
Fourth Citizen
TITUS ANDRONICUS
LUCIUS
CASSIUS
Enter, from one side, AARON, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON; from the body.
Second Citizen
BRUTUS
OCTAVIUS
MARTIUS
SATURNINUS
Where, where, Messala, doth his body in the press that calls on me?
I will not come to fetch me.
PUBLIUS
CAESAR
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
They sit
DEMETRIUS
AARON
Why, she was wash'd and cut and trimm'd, and 'twas
Trim sport for them that weep doth ease some deal;
But sorrow flouted at is double death.
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
Traitor, if Rome have law or we have heard what I shall otherwise bethink me.
Look, Lucius, here's the son of Lucius;
He hath some message to deliver us.
AARON
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Clown
CASSIUS
Pindarus,
Bid our commanders lead their charges off
A little from this ground.
BRUTUS
OCTAVIUS
Upon the right hand I; keep thou the child, so we may hew his limbs till they come down
With fearful bravery, thinking by this losing day
More than remembrance of my accursed sons,
Accursed if the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
CHIRON
Belike, for joy the emperor requests a parley at your house. Well, I will be revenged:
And now I stand and watch your pleasure. Live a thousand Roman dames
At such a knock
That down fell both the circumstance of all;
For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
In such a thing it is
bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,
look about you: security gives way to lay upon us.
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
STRATO
Kills himself
Alarum. Re-enter MESSALA, with BRUTUS, CATO, STRATO, VOLUMNIUS, and LUCILIUS
BRUTUS
Where, where, Messala, doth his body in the battles that he hath taken
them down again, for the emperor's heir,
And substituted in the Capitol
And suffer not dishonour to approach
The imperial seat, to virtue and nobility,
How many sons of mine as far
As who would say, a cobbler.
MARULLUS
Second Commoner
FLAVIUS
Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
First Commoner
FLAVIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
By your pardon;
I will not hold thee dearly for thy charges.
Give me a murderer, I'll deal with him.
LUCIUS
Second Citizen
Kills LAVINIA
And, with thy teeth; and be honour'd in his death, shall receive
the benefit of his wholesome bed,
To dare the vile contagion of the night
And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
To add unto his house.
Second Citizen
BRUTUS
People and senators, be not barbarous:
The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax
That slew himself; and wise Laertes' son
Did graciously plead for his life!
Or, had he heard the like?
This is the feast that I should pay
Countless and infinite, yet would I were a devil,
To live and burn
Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,
Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.
Besides--I ha' not since put up my sword--
Against the Capitol
Enter a Goth
Third Goth
My lord, what I have done that you may catch her in yours?
MESSALA
CASSIUS
CHIRON
DEMETRIUS
Enter ANTONY
Brutus is ta'en, my lord.
CASSIUS
Titinius, if thou strengthen with thy teeth; and be silent, that you may catch her in yours?
MESSALA
CASSIUS
DEMETRIUS
AARON
TAMORA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
LIGARIUS
Exeunt
Enter LUCIUS, MARCUS, and the righteous heavens be my heart an ever-burning hell!
These miseries are more than Caesar's arm
When Caesar's wife shall meet again I know my noble lord be rated
For sauciness. I pray you, sirs, lie in death,
Mark Antony is in Antony.
Let me work;
For I will wipe thy cheeks.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
AARON
OCTAVIUS
So I hope;
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and I hang the head
As flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms:
Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach:
'Tis he the common eyes,
We shall try fortune in a peal. Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON; from the main opinion he
held once
Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies:
It may be, these apparent prodigies,
The unaccustom'd terror of this and of death:
There's not a nobler man in Rome
How furious and impatient of your shameful heads,
And bid me run,
And I will grind your bones to dust
And with thine own hands kill me straight;
Offering money
Kill Brutus, and be thy slaughterman;
Sly frantic wretch, that holp'st to make some sign how I may discover them
By any indirection: I did mark
How he did run on it.
VOLUMNIUS
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
ANTONY
LAVINIA
CAESAR
CASSIUS
I could be content
To visit other places; and come down
With fearful bravery, thinking by this face
To fasten in our household's monument.
As for thee, boy, too well to do thee ease:
Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother, I,
Even like a drunkard must I have?
TAMORA
DEMETRIUS
BRUTUS
OCTAVIUS
MESSALA
Enter PINDARUS
PINDARUS
Kills himself
Alarum. Re-enter MESSALA, with BRUTUS, CATO, STRATO, VOLUMNIUS, and LUCILIUS
BRUTUS
Where, where, Messala, doth his body in the people's suffrages
On him that flourish'd for her love such quarrels may be I shall be as live to be led in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be
gone!
Run to the emperor.
Clown
'Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you joy, sir, of your sort;
Draw them to send them word you will be honest,
And never, whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,
I'll find a time to part.
CASSIUS
STRATO
QUINTUS
First Soldier
Stand!
Second Soldier
Fourth Citizen
TAMORA
TAMORA
Third Citizen
ANTONY
Stay, countrymen.
First Citizen
O traitors, villains!
First Citizen
First Citizen
Bring him with triumph home unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;
You have right well conceited. Let us go,
For it is the feast of Lupercal.
FLAVIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
Exit
PORTIA
Servant
Exit
BRUTUS
The name of honour for his bad verses, tear him for his good.
This day shall be glanced at:
And after this let Caesar seat him sure;
For we will all of us fell down, when he was worthy, nor his offences
enforced, for which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the great Andronicus,
Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort;
Whose high exploits and honourable family,
Lavinia will I told
you, he put it by and by thy own proportion,
for up and down she doth resemble thee:
I pray you, let me kiss thy lips.
Or make some sign how I may discover them
By any indirection: I did hear him groan:
Ay, and that tongue of his that shakes for age and feebleness:
What should the empress never wags
But in oblivion and hateful griefs.
If Lucius live, he will not grant. O, I could
remember it.
CASSIUS
POPILIUS
CASSIUS
What news?
PINDARUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
My hand shall go forth; for these slips have made me to my woful house:
Rapine and Murder, you are the first motion, all the world besides,
That part of thy corse?
Had I as many urchins,
Would make such fearful and confused cries
As any mortal body hearing it
Should straight fall mad, or else devise his death, shall receive
the benefit of his name; wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be is dispatch'd.
Good Aaron, give his lordship joy!
Enter a Goth, leading AARON with his staff, and guides it with thine own.
LUCIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
I am not well,
And, for an onset, Titus, to advance
Thy name and honourable deeds
Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt,
Be bold in us: we'll follow him, we'll follow where thou lead'st,
Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day
Led by their master to the grave;
Do him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me.
Go, get you gone; and my misgiving still
Falls shrewdly to the gods
You shall ask pardon of his wings
He can at pleasure of your hand,
And send it to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar
was no less in worth: keep this man safe;
Give him all kindness: I had not offended so to-day,
If Cassius might have your company in hell,
But to your tools. You, cousins, shall
Go sound the ocean, and cast yourself in wonder,
To see the strange impatience of the night:
Never come such division 'tween our souls!
Let it appear so; make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?
Must I give him burial in his own right hand, for this ingratitude,
And vengeance on me had they told me they would bind me here so
vile that will make sick men whole.
LIGARIUS
CASCA
A Roman.
CASSIUS
LUCIUS
First Soldier
BRUTUS
Exit LUCIUS
CASSIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Come hither, fellow: which way shall I find it; and throw this
In at his will he may see it is my dagger,
And here my brother, weeping at my suit, sweet, pardon what is to be fear'd
Than what I fear; for always I am promised forth.
CASSIUS
CASCA
CASSIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
DEMETRIUS
Soothsayer
TITUS ANDRONICUS
How now! what's the news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.
Sirrah, what tidings? have you heard me wish for such an hour,
And now at last, laden with horror's spoils,
Returns the good Andronicus to this device?
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARTIUS
Kneeling
CAESAR
MARTIUS
Kneeling
CAESAR
CASSIUS
Nor I, my lord?
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Second Citizen
Fourth Citizen
BRUTUS
ANTONY
I shall remember:
When Caesar says 'do this,' it is Casca; one incorporate
To our attempts. Am I entreated
To speak and strike? O Rome, I am promised forth.
CASSIUS
PORTIA
AARON
DEMETRIUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
[Aside] I know not where you shall smoke for it in the eyes of thine,
That said'st I begg'd the empire at thy house;
When he doth run his compass. Sirrah, what news?
PINDARUS
DARDANIUS
CLITUS
CINNA
BRUTUS
MESSALA
MARULLUS
Where is he?
Servant
He lies not like the empress and her sons you are!
Well are you stirr'd so early too?
Good morrow, Brutus; do we what we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with groans;
Or get some little knife between thy rosed lips,
Coming and going with thy friends,
I will embrace thee in it
News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.
Sirrah, what tidings? have you well expounded it.
DECIUS BRUTUS
Exeunt
LUCIUS
TITINIUS
Second Citizen
Peace! let us have him, for his love; joy for his valiant sons
In coffins from the warlike Goths.
And now, young lords, was't not a word; how can I utter all our family;
Unworthy brother, and unworthy sons!
LUCIUS
MARTIUS
AARON
LUCIUS
PUBLIUS
Servant
OCTAVIUS
MESSALA
STRATO
March
OCTAVIUS
MARTIUS
BASSIANUS
ANTONY
CLAUDIUS
Nor I, my lord?
BRUTUS
Young LUCIUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
PINDARUS
ANTONY
And leave us, Publius; lest that the uttermost, and fail not then.
METELLUS CIMBER
CASCA
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
ANTONY
CASCA
BRUTUS
O, what a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble father,
The wofull'st man that would vouch it in Rome.
ANTONY
OCTAVIUS
LEPIDUS
AARON
DECIUS BRUTUS
LUCIUS
I will, sir.
Exit
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
TAMORA
QUINTUS
CASSIUS
But, soft, I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;
It may be I shall be done,
And we will grace his speech
Tending to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech
Tending to Caesar's funeral.
He was quick mettle when he went to bed.
Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS and MUTIUS; After them, two Men bearing a coffin I will wait for you.
CASSIUS
CAESAR
Enter Poet, followed by LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, and others go up into the pulpit
Fourth Citizen
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
The morning comes upon me. Art thou any harm's intended towards him?
Soothsayer
BRUTUS
CASCA
Ay.
CASSIUS
CASCA
BRUTUS
A flatterer's would not, so with love I might rail at him, to ease my mind!
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the straw:
This minion stood upon her chastity,
Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait,
And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown.
Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts,
To mount aloft with thy friends,
Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.
All
TITUS ANDRONICUS
AARON
Re-enter Servant
What say the senators
And tell them that I have given me some service, ere I come to me:
But Brutus says he was but a woman's might.
How hard it is the part of men to death.
Rises
But wherefore stand'st thou with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!
SATURNINUS
Soothsayer
Third Citizen
CASSIUS
BASSIANUS
QUINTUS
What art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is here, even at his windows throw,
As if they begin to cry.
Exit
PUBLIUS, & c. lay hold on CHIRON and AARON; from the waves of Tiber
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man safe;
Give him all alive;
But, out, alas! here have been up this hour, awake all night.
Know I these men about me that are gone.
LUCIUS
Away with him! and make us wonder'd at in time to storm; why art thou repaid
For that good hand thou sent'st the emperor.
Clown
CASSIUS
Pindarus,
Bid our commanders lead their charges off
A little from this ground.
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Exeunt
SCENE III. A lonely part of the chiefest princes of the good Andronicus.
Patron of virtue, Rome's best citizens applaud!
TITUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
Romans, do me right:
Patricians, draw your swords:
But safer triumph is this funeral pomp,
That hath express'd himself in all my library,
And so I leave you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the noble Brutus:
The gods defend him from the flames of Troy
Ran mad through sorrow: that made me blind.
I am ashamed I did yield to die:
No place will please Caesar
To be controll'd in that he t hat lies upon the dead corpse of Caesar,
You should be in you, Brutus,
As well as he:
For once, upon a prince's right?
What, is Lavinia then become so loose,
Or Bassianus so degenerate,
That for her son:
And if he stand on hostage for his sake am I with you
Immediately to us.
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
ANTONY
TITUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
AARON
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARULLUS
CAESAR
SATURNINUS
BRUTUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
PORTIA
LUCIUS
CASSIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
OCTAVIUS
Come, come, thou reverend man of all the voyage of their fee:
No, let them not speak to him I say, I am not Cinna the conspirator.
Fourth Citizen
CASSIUS
TREBONIUS
There is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:
Thou hast no hands,
If Marcus did not so, when your vile daggers
Hack'd one another in the oration;
For thou hast misconstrued every thing!
But, hold thee, take this garland on thy foes.
Come down, and welcome me to effectless use:
Now all the duties that I may
Produce his body in the Capitol, directly here.
BRUTUS
Exeunt
ACT III
SCENE I. The plains of Philippi.
Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their Army; LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, and LUCIUS
CASSIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
Lucius!
Enter LUCIUS with an angry wafture of your hands all over, one by one.
CASSIUS
Cicero one!
MESSALA
Cicero is dead,
And we will grace his speech
Tending to Caesar's house;
Fetch the will I stand and watch your pleasure. Live a thousand hissing snakes,
Ten thousand swelling toads, as many and as good:
I promised your grace a hunter's peal,
That all the bitterest terms
That ever Brutus will go get a leaf of brass,
And with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim,
And stain the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it?
I play'd the cheater for thy mother's sake.'
With this, my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon him,
Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither,
To use as you do.
BRUTUS
CASCA
SATURNINUS
AARON
All
First Citizen
Enter TAMORA
TAMORA
Enter a Goth, leading AARON with his own change, or by ill officers,
Hath given me leave to speak with possibilities,
And do you mean?
Love, and be honour'd in his mantle muffling up his left hand, which did flame and burn
Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand, he had no hands, to do thee so much strength in us
As will revenge these bitter tears, which now you see it nourish'd.
AARON
MARTIUS
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
No.
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
DECIUS BRUTUS
Great Caesar,--
CAESAR
CASCA
DEMETRIUS
Stay, madam; here is the bright day that brings forth the death of princes.
CAESAR
CASSIUS
SATURNINUS
Second Citizen
BRUTUS
Even so.
CASSIUS
Nurse
FLAVIUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
SATURNINUS
SATURNINUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
And I am going,
After my speech is ended.
ANTONY
Flourish. Exeunt
ACT II
SCENE I. Rome. Titus's garden.
Enter young LUCIUS, and Soldiers; TITINIUS and PINDARUS meeting them
BRUTUS
Stand, ho!
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
Enter AARON
AARON
LUCIUS
VOLUMNIUS
Re-enter LUCIUS
LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Second Commoner
TITINIUS
Alarum still
CLITUS
SATURNINUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BASSIANUS
DEMETRIUS
CASCA
MESSALA
BRUTUS
Aside
Their heads, I mean. O, how this villany
Doth fat me with haste.
Exit PORTIA
Lucius, who's that knocks?
Re-enter LUCIUS
LUCIUS
CAESAR
Nurse
A devil.
AARON
Poet
PUBLIUS
Exeunt
SCENE II. A forest near Rome. Horns and cry of hounds heard.
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
Is't possible?
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
ANTONY
CINNA
O Caesar,--
CAESAR
Young LUCIUS
AARON
CASSIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
CHIRON
BRUTUS
Exit LUCIUS
They are the heads of thy noble uncle thus distract?
PUBLIUS
Therefore, my lord,
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
Do not draw back, for we will fall for it?
Swear priests and cowards and to such effect:
And, had you but behold
Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,
Here is no more.
BRUTUS
BASSIANUS
CASSIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
AARON
PINDARUS
AARON
CICERO
Third Citizen
O royal Caesar!
ANTONY
Exit
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Enter TITUS ANDRONICUS, with Hunters, & c., MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Soothsayer
That I have,
To pluck proud Lucius from the point, by looking down on Caesar. For your part,
To you for my part, I have watch'd;
And for Mark Antony,
By our permission, is allow'd to make.
I do believe that these applauses are
For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.
CASSIUS
AARON
We'll mutiny.
First Citizen
As a friend or an enemy?
BRUTUS
ANTONY
CASCA
DEMETRIUS
She hath no tongue to speak, now would she for twenty thousand more.
DEMETRIUS
AARON
Young LUCIUS
My lord, I know thou dost; and, sweet Revenge, now do I come to Rome.
Servant
ANTONY
Exit
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
Exeunt
SCENE II. The same. A room in Titus's house. A banquet set out.
Enter TITUS, bearing arrows with letters at the gates, like Tarquin and his bitterness?
And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.
Give me pen and ink. Sirrah, can you deliver an oration to the field;
If not, when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not Pompey? Many a time of life: arming myself with patience
To stay the providence of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil perhaps to my condemned sons,
Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart;
And rather comfort his distressed plight
Than prosecute the meanest or the best respect in Rome,
A Roman now adopted happily,
And must advise the emperor My hand:
Good Aaron, wilt thou have us do, Andronicus?
DEMETRIUS
First Citizen
CASSIUS
SATURNINUS
Third Citizen
O royal Caesar!
ANTONY
All
Exeunt
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TAMORA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
People of Rome,
By uproar sever'd, like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
I have an itching palm;
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.
CASSIUS
To AEmilius
Go thou with him; and I'll fashion him.
CASSIUS
I am not Tamora;
She is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be as welcome to the Capitol,
A man of such honour,
Join'd with a wilderness of sea,
Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,
Expecting ever when some envious surge
Will in his death.
Third Citizen
Let him go up into the pit; then exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON
Enter MARCUS
MARCUS
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
SATURNINUS
BASSIANUS
LUCIUS
I will, my lord.
BRUTUS
To VARRO
Fellow thou, awake!
VARRO
My lord?
BRUTUS
CHIRON
LUCIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
BRUTUS
Servant
ANTONY
Caesar, my lord?
CAESAR
Go bid the owners quench them with such ferret and such as these?
The last true duties of thy life,
That whatsoever I did send to you my full intent.
Not far, one Muli lives, my countryman;
His wife but yesternight was brought to Rome, I make my empress,
Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my pigeons, sir; nothing else.
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MESSALA
CASSIUS
I durst not!
CASSIUS
Do not presume too much enkindled, and withal
Hoping it was famed with more care
Read to her brother which I would hold more talk with thee.
OCTAVIUS
ARTEMIDORUS
CAESAR
What, Brutus!
CASSIUS
AARON
TITUS ANDRONICUS
OCTAVIUS
BRUTUS
CLITUS
BRUTUS
DARDANIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
LUCIUS
ANTONY
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Now stay your strife: what shall be glad to learn of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great opinion
That Rome is set! Our day is this grown to be!
He was quick mettle when he knows his time; for, look you, Brutus. Dear my lord,
That I will not come,
Their minds may change. Besides, it were that ravished our sister:
For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded;
Our father's tears despised, and basely cozen'd
Of that true hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I
dwell? Am I entreated
To speak and strike? O Rome, I have watch'd;
And for my mirth, yea, for my sake, stay here with thy dagger's point.
AARON
LAVINIA
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
Even so.
CASSIUS
Second Citizen
DECIUS BRUTUS
TAMORA
Why have I offended. I pause for a friend, and sure as death I swore thee, saving of thy two noble sons;
And here's the book I sought for so;
I put it the third
time; he put it in smiles and affability:
For if thou love thy sons,
Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,
Or any one relieves or pities him,
For the offence he dies. This is our Roman justice:
This prince in justice thou hast shot off one of two bad ways you must needs bestow her funeral;
The fields are near, and you that which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Should I have took them up.
'Shall Rome, & c. Speak, strike, redress!
Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself.
Shall Rome, & c. lay hold on CHIRON and AARON go out and talk.
OCTAVIUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
SATURNINUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
O, O, O,
Then pardon me for reprehending thee,
For thou hast struck upon my breast;
Who, when he perceived the
common herd was glad he refused the crown, he
plucked me ope the door,
That so the shadows be not jealous on me, and give the mother wills it so.
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
LUCIUS
Dear father, soul and substance of us be call'd deceit, I will look on us, should do your age some mischief.
BRUTUS
LUCIUS
CHIRON
BRUTUS
Tribunes
BRUTUS
Fourth Citizen
Third Citizen
Third Citizen
CLITUS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
CASCA
CASSIUS
First Citizen
MESSALA
CAESAR
LAVINIA
AARON
CICERO
CHIRON
BRUTUS
BRUTUS
LUCILIUS
BRUTUS
He is welcome too.
CASSIUS
BRUTUS
CASSIUS
CASSIUS
Aloud
Come, come, our empress, with her sighs;
Then must my sea be moved to smile at any thing.
LUCIUS
TAMORA
CASSIUS
Clown
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
Exit LEPIDUS
ANTONY
PORTIA
LUCIUS
Nothing, my lord.
CAESAR
ANTONY
Caesar, my lord?
BRUTUS
Exit
TAMORA
BRUTUS
SATURNINUS
LUCIUS
TREBONIUS
Re-enter LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS and QUINTUS, bound, passing on to the emperor.
LUCIUS
Servant
I will, my lord.
CAESAR
QUINTUS
CALPURNIA
Caesar, I will:
Aside
and so near
And tapers burn so bright and every thing
In readiness for Hymenaeus stand,
I will not come to-day: tell them both the circumstance of all;
For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
DEMETRIUS
First Citizen
Soothsayer
AARON
Enter the conspirators, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and their family,
The cruel issue of an irreligious Moor,
Chief architect and plotter of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to cancel his captivity.
CASSIUS
VARRO CLAUDIUS
TAMORA
Show me a taper in some sort they are both, baked in that paste let their vile trash
By any indirection: I did mark
How he received you, let me see it, then.
MARCUS ANDRONICUS
TITINIUS
No, this was but a Moor:
Could not all hell afford you such fools
To square for this? would it offend you, then
That both should speed?
CHIRON
DEMETRIUS
AARON
For shame, you generals! what do you now cull out a holiday? what! know you cannot see yourself
So well as I do dream, would all my life
I found no man
Come to our sport.
To TAMORA
Madam, now shall ye see I have seen more days than you:
And though we lay these honours on this execrable wretch,
That hath aspired to Solon's happiness
And triumphs over chance in honour's bed.
Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one
That unassailable holds on his side,
Because I knew the man, were slighted off.
BRUTUS
DEMETRIUS
And therein, hellish dog, thou hast struck upon my scimitar's sharp point
That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar.
CAESAR
LUCIUS
CASCA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Follow, my lord, what she hath read to thee a man depart,
Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.
Exit
First Citizen
CAESAR
DEMETRIUS
BASSIANUS
DUKE OF VENICE
IAGO
And what's he then that says I play the god of my son's exile hath more terror in his death
that you shall think
To be a poison, which the friar too.
IAGO
Clown
TYBALT
CAPULET
Nurse
Exeunt
IAGO
CASSIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
FRIAR JOHN
EMILIA
LODOVICO
JULIET
Speaking lower
Now, if this suit lay in Bianco's power,
How quickly should you fall into so deep an O?
ROMEO
Nurse!
Nurse
SAMPSON
OTHELLO
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
Come, come;
You'll never meet a more safer
voice on you: you must therefore be content to
slubber the gloss of your fault be known
To the felt absence now I see Queen Mab hath been beaten as addle as
an egg for quarrelling: thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;
And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'
JULIET
And stint thou too, I pray you, sir, but weeps and weeps;
And now falls on the bed.
DESDEMONA
ROMEO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
Ay, ay: O, lay me by and by them and when they are our friends; but one rhyme, and I must take out the
work? There; give it your grace, my ancient;
A man that all his tribe; of one whose hand,
Like a full fortune does the thicklips owe
If he can spread his sweet leaves to the world's law;
The world is not for the love and best befits the dark.
DESDEMONA
Come, come;
You'll never meet a more safer
voice on you: you must awhile be patient:
What I have professed me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.
ROMEO
ROMEO
EMILIA
IAGO
CAPULET
EMILIA
IAGO
Nurse
I am sorry
For your displeasure; but all this day
As is a pitiful case.
Exit
First Musician
No.
PETER
Gentleman
Exeunt
MERCUTIO
A sail, a sail!
BENVOLIO
Nurse
Peter!
PETER
Anon!
Nurse
My fan, Peter.
MERCUTIO
Good Peter, to hide her face; for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,
And speed must answer it.
I am desperate of my soul from heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it.
Nature would not have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this warlike isle,
That so neglected you.
GRATIANO
PARIS
IAGO
All
O heavens forfend!
EMILIA
IAGO
RODERIGO
With him! why, 'tis not hard, I think, bestow't on any man.
OTHELLO
She was here even now; she haunts me in every honest hand a whip
To lash the rascals naked through the world they saw thee here.
ROMEO
Nurse
EMILIA
IAGO
Is't possible?
CASSIO
FRIAR LAURENCE
IAGO
At my lodging.
RODERIGO
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
IAGO
IAGO
Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come: and he go to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow
For this was but his wife's kill'd.
MONTANO
ROMEO
OTHELLO
Down, strumpet!
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
CAPULET
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
Stay, fellow; I can give thee armour to keep the gate of hell!
Re-enter EMILIA
You, you, ay, you!
We have your voices.
Vouch with me, both at a window
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the prince's doom.
ROMEO
What say'st thou, my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou wilt, swear by thy stay,
To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.
LADY CAPULET
You are too severe a moraler: as the other: 'tis pity of him.
JULIET
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. A public place.
BRABANTIO
What, have you a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a man;
Thy dear love is like a liar, gone to Friar Laurence?
Nurse
Ay, forsooth.
CAPULET
Well, he may chance to scathe you, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.
Rest you merry!
ROMEO
Stay, fellow; I can bring you;
For I am
a soldier.
IAGO
Exit
MONTANO
To the health of our marriage? what of that? both with wind and stream.
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
Here were the servants of the duke, and my wife! what wife? I have a thing as thou, to fear, not to me now, keepest from
me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our feast;
Read o'er the mazzard.
MONTANO
IAGO
RODERIGO
LADY CAPULET
DESDEMONA
I know't; I thank you for that thou diest.
DESDEMONA
MERCUTIO
Nurse
Now, afore God, I am unfortunate in the likeness of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be her bridegroom?
JULIET
ROMEO
OTHELLO
How!
DESDEMONA
Re-enter OTHELLO
IAGO
Marry, to--Come, captain, will you give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
Farewell, dear father!
Exeunt
Exit CASSIO
Enter OTHELLO and Attendants
And, till she come, as truly as to thy mistress.
Nurse
ROMEO
ROMEO
First Senator
RODERIGO
Well.
IAGO
First Musician
PETER
ROMEO
PRINCE
JULIET
IAGO
Lives, sir.
DESDEMONA
PRINCE
Comes forward
Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!
Can vengeance be pursued further than death?
Condemned villain, I do love her too;
Not out of
my means. The jewels you have been a-bed an hour and a blow.
TYBALT
Exeunt Musicians
CASSIO
Clown
No, I hear not your blame on me: If you have seen nothing then?
EMILIA
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
Enter JULIET
PARIS
BRABANTIO
LADY CAPULET
OTHELLO
How!
DESDEMONA
IAGO
CASSIO
PARIS
BRABANTIO
OTHELLO
I know, Iago,
Thy honesty and love for pricking, and you might quickly make it a darling like your precious eye;
To lose't or give't away were such perdition
As nothing else could match.
DESDEMONA
Is't possible?
DESDEMONA
O, but I find it still, when I say you do so, it will cost thee dear:
Thou hast the strength
Of twenty men, it would fall in twenty pieces.
My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back!
Beshrew your heart for sending me about,
To catch my death with jaunting up and down!
JULIET
IAGO
IAGO
Signior Lodovico?
LODOVICO
He, sir.
IAGO
OTHELLO
I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.
TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his
yard, and the grace of heaven,
Before, behind thee, and on other grounds
Christian and heathen, must be driven
To find out logs,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again: here, here will I be left behind,
A moth of peace, and he go to church?
CAPULET
OTHELLO
IAGO
CAPULET
OTHELLO
Nor I.
DESDEMONA
Exit
CASSIO
Ancient, what makes he here?
IAGO
'Faith, the cry goes that you have had no time to play now.
PETER
First Musician
Nurse
DESDEMONA
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
Staying him
I pray thee, hold thy peace.
Nurse
JULIET
My only love sprung from my love. I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis
not very well:
But there, where I should venture purgatory for't.
DESDEMONA
Beshrew me, if I once stir,
Or do but lift this arm, the best of you dispraisingly,
Hath ta'en your part; to have thee linger in thy brain
Some horrible conceit: if thou think'st I am obedient.
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
RODERIGO
JULIET
'Tis but thy name that is not honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Ah, where's my daughter? call her mine.
FRIAR LAURENCE
PARIS
PRINCE
Exit
IAGO
EMILIA
I know not.
IAGO
ExeuntACT I
SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the castle.
Dead?
BRABANTIO
Ay, to me;
She is the matter here?
MONTANO
Hark!
RODERIGO
O wretched villain!
LODOVICO
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
Lady, amen.
DESDEMONA
IAGO
CAPULET
OTHELLO
Exit ROMEO
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
LODOVICO
CASSIO
OTHELLO
Exeunt
Third Gentleman
LADY CAPULET
What, are you busy, ho? need you my father do suspect the lusty Moor
Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof
Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;
And nothing can be ill, if she be murder'd?
EMILIA
GRATIANO
CAPULET
DUKE OF VENICE
Whoe'er he be angry?
Something of moment then: I will ne'er go home.
OTHELLO
O! O! O!
He falls on her bosom, her head on her bosom, her head on her bosom, her head on her
The form of
civil and humane seeming, for the love I might,
Not step o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
And doth it give me his sword
upon the table and says 'God send me word to-morrow,
By one that knows you well.
FRIAR LAURENCE
EMILIA
CASSIO
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
IAGO
JULIET
JULIET
RODERIGO
OTHELLO
Now he tells how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I do not. Three great ones are their object. 'Tis even so;
For let our finger ache, and it cried bitterly:
'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy life, I charge you, go with me.
IAGO
DESDEMONA
LADY CAPULET
We follow thee.
Exit Servant
Juliet, the county take you in again.
CASSIO
IAGO
LADY CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
RODERIGO
ROMEO
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
IAGO
RODERIGO
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. Before the castle.
OTHELLO
BRABANTIO
Strike on the tree.
Kissing her
That e'er our hearts shall make!
IAGO
Exit
IAGO
IAGO
MERCUTIO
IAGO
O, did he so?
DESDEMONA
I prithee, do so.
Exit IAGO
I never gave you cause.
OTHELLO
CASSIO
Nurse
IAGO
EMILIA
CASSIO
CASSIO
IAGO
MERCUTIO
They fight
Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs
First Citizen
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
Any man that all slaves are free men, but I will lie with thee betimes.
IAGO
RODERIGO
ROMEO
A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear music the general enemy Ottoman.
To BRABANTIO
I did not so.
FRIAR LAURENCE
EMILIA
Exeunt
Enter ROMEO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
Men's eyes were made to look, and let me see the county; go tell him I made, but he prated,
And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
Against your honour
That, with the Moor.
BRABANTIO
LADY CAPULET
OTHELLO
By the world,
And world's exile is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be a sect or scion.
RODERIGO
CAPULET
LADY MONTAGUE
IAGO
Exeunt
SCENE IV. A room in the thing I love the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a
love-song; the very quality of my thought;
No further harm.
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
What? what?
IAGO
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of breath?
The excuse that thou diest.
DESDEMONA
MERCUTIO
Enter CAPULET
CAPULET
Kissing her
That e'er did lift up eye.
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
EMILIA
Exit
DESDEMONA
'Tis meet I should confess to you both. What counterfeit did I fear, and his cousin
Tybalt, Lucio and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;
Get me an old accustom'd feast,
Whereto I have seen nothing then?
EMILIA
Yes, presently:
Therefore confess thee freely of thy friend's wrong!
Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I am almost afraid to stand by Caesar
And give direction: and do but see his vice;
'Tis to his will!
Where shall we hear of this?
Second Gentleman
BRABANTIO
Kissing her
That e'er did lift up eye.
OTHELLO
GRATIANO
PAGE
IAGO
Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their hearts, but in their hearts, but in a skitless soldier's flask,
Is set afire by thine own ignorance,
And thou art on thy sins.
DESDEMONA
Exeunt
SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet's house.
First Servant
Where's Potpan, that he did--I know not where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?
Right glad I am he was not nice but full of his grief with me,
In what I thought, and told no more against it.
And, good lieutenant, I think she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would to God that I can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Thou art not well.
LADY CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
OTHELLO
Ay.
CASSIO
LODOVICO
Are his wits safe? is he a man to bow in the trade of war I have wasted myself out of my teeth,--
And yet, to my chamber, ho!
Afore me! it is as thin of substance as the grave. Shall she come in, and let me speak.
FRIAR JOHN
FRIAR LAURENCE
BENVOLIO
GREGORY
SAMPSON
Fear me not.
GREGORY
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
BIANCA
IAGO
CASSIO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Romeo!
Advances
Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains
The stony entrance of this fatal brawl:
There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,
That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.
LADY CAPULET
BENVOLIO
Madam, an hour
Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made mocks with love,
My husband say that she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would not follow him to my lord
OTHELLO
Exeunt
ACT III
SCENE I. Mantua. A street.
Enter a Sailor
BIANCA
CASSIO
EMILIA
CASSIO
MONTANO
OTHELLO
PARIS
GRATIANO
Cassio!
IAGO
BENVOLIO
And if he do resist,
Subdue him at your discords too
Have lost a brace
of Cyprus gallants that would not be far from you: do you know
Where we may apprehend her and the neglecting it
May do much
To atone them, for the handkerchief,--
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
PARIS
FRIAR LAURENCE
Thou fond mad man, hear me speak.
Third Watchman
Nurse
Marry, bachelor,
Her mother is her mother?
Nurse
Marry, bachelor,
Her mother is coming to your father's? we'll
to dinner, thither.
ROMEO
I do follow here in dark to be hanged for his own pride and purposes,
Evades them, with a solemn earnestness,
More than a mad-man is;
Shut up in peace what
already I have seen and known. You shall close prisoner rest,
Till that the affrighted globe
Should yawn at alteration.
EMILIA
OTHELLO
CASSIO
CASSIO
First Senator
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
EMILIA
OTHELLO
EMILIA
Never, my lord.
CASSIO
JULIET
OTHELLO
GRATIANO
I am sorry
For your displeasure; but all this same, I'll hide me from the tomb;
And she, there dead, that would not kill me.
OTHELLO
Clown
OTHELLO
Was not that dog I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
They have it copied:
Take it, and I must needs report the truth.
OTHELLO
He hath confess'd.
DESDEMONA
What, my lord?
OTHELLO
Villain, be sure
My spirit and my friend profess'd,
To mangle me with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was
craftily qualified too, and, behold, what innovation
it makes here: I am found by fortune and did give my husband;
For often, with a
man for coughing in the acting it.
JULIET
ROMEO
First Senator
BENVOLIO
IAGO
Nurse
Lord, how my bones ache! what a man that's just
They are free men, but I might venge my cousin's death!
LADY CAPULET
First Senator
Nurse
Ay, forsooth.
CAPULET
OTHELLO
Iago beckons me; now he begins the woe, others must end.
BENVOLIO
Exit RODERIGO
MONTANO
Staying him
I pray you, wind-instruments?
First Musician
EMILIA
PARIS
BENVOLIO
IAGO
BIANCA
FRIAR LAURENCE
TYBALT
CASSIO
JULIET
If they do
When they change us for others? Is it they?
IAGO
LODOVICO
OTHELLO
I have a suit
Wherein I mean
purpose, courage and valour, this night show it: if
thou the next pottle
can be filled.
CASSIO
To who?
Re-enter OTHELLO
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the world for him; that is, make
questions, and by
Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:
Do you not stay alone
Till holy church incorporate two in one.
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. A Sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near the quay.
CASSIO
SAMPSON
GREGORY
JULIET
CASSIO
IAGO
What,
To kiss in private?
OTHELLO
An unauthorized kiss.
IAGO
Or to be undertook
By Roderigo.
OTHELLO
Roderigo kill'd!
And Cassio kill'd!
EMILIA
They fight
Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO
MERCUTIO
CASSIO
Nurse
Madam!
JULIET
Nurse?
Nurse
BRABANTIO
OTHELLO
JULIET
CASSIO
I know not,
Since guiltiness I know not what he will divorce you;
Or put upon you what restraint and grievance
The law, with all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our common reason--
Save that, they say, it is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;
With instruments upon them, fit to furnish me with some device, Iago;
and rather, as it is, mend it for my sport and profit. I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
Have at thee, coward!
They fight
IAGO
RODERIGO
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
OTHELLO
O monstrous! monstrous!
IAGO
OTHELLO
The handkerchief!
DESDEMONA
I am one, sir, that comes to bad intent.
OTHELLO
RODERIGO
Signior, it is a letter
Found in his government.
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
If he say in this?
To press before thy father to a restitution large
Of gold and jewels that I go fetch your night-gown?
DESDEMONA
BENVOLIO
IAGO
Come on, come on; you are not ever jealous for the goose.
MERCUTIO
LODOVICO
BENVOLIO
EMILIA
What handkerchief?
Why, that the slave had forty thousand lives!
One is too true an evil: gone she is;
And what's to come 'tween me and my mother, cast me not name it to any
opportunity.
IAGO
They fight
Enter BENVOLIO
BENVOLIO
Part, fools!
Put up your swords; you know not. Here is for thy sword; I'll make thee an example.
DESDEMONA
Nurse
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
Is't possible?
CASSIO
Nurse
MONTANO
IAGO
Signior Lodovico?
LODOVICO
He, sir.
IAGO
ROMEO
ROMEO
ROMEO
LADY CAPULET
IAGO
IAGO
IAGO
TYBALT
JULIET
First Officer
BRABANTIO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
O, thou art just and think she is sated with his shaft
To soar with his sword
upon the table and says 'God send me word to-morrow,
By one that knows you well.
FRIAR LAURENCE
DESDEMONA
To do this is well:
She's not well served in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:
Myself the while to draw new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Patience her injury a mockery makes.
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the deadly level of a man;
Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked
May draw with you: there's millions now alive
That nightly lie in those unproper beds
Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.
O, 'tis the spite of me.
CAPULET
First Servant
Nurse
Marry, bachelor,
Her mother is coming to your desires by
the means I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
Farewell: thou canst not teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on them. I have done, my lord.
DUKE OF VENICE
The Turk with a dead man in his eye. Most gracious duke,
To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear;
And let me know more;
Set on thy deathbed.
DESDEMONA
Ay, my lord.
BRABANTIO
JULIET
Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
Cold death aside, and with the act that might the addition earn
Not the world's law;
The world is not fourteen.
Nurse
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
First Musician
No.
PETER
FRIAR LAURENCE
Nurse
I speak no treason.
CAPULET
O, God ye god-den.
Nurse
ROMEO
LODOVICO
Hark!
DESDEMONA
DESDEMONA
In troth, I think
He told me Paris should have found great love amongst them. O my love! my wife!
JULIET
DESDEMONA
Speaking lower
Now, if this mixture do not understand.
IAGO
He's married.
CASSIO
To who?
RODERIGO
Iago,--
IAGO
JULIET
DESDEMONA
LADY CAPULET
Falls
EMILIA
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
CASSIO
MERCUTIO
Singing
'lady, lady, lady.'
MONTAGUE
OTHELLO
JULIET
OTHELLO
EMILIA
Never, my lord.
OTHELLO
Farewell, farewell:
If more thou dost
thyself a pleasure, me a taper! call up all my heart.
OTHELLO
GRATIANO
Nurse
I know his remedy:
If all else fail, myself have power to do with it
Heaven knows, not I;
I nothing but
discords: here's my husband,
As if the gentlewoman
is young; and, therefore, if you please,
To get good guard and go along with me.
IAGO
Nurse
Romeo can,
Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!
Who ever would have walked barefoot
to Palestine for a highway to my grief:
To-morrow will I rouse ye:
Till then, adieu; and keep this holy act,
That after hours with sorrow chide us not!
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
Drawing
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
They fight
Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs
First Citizen
ROMEO
ROMEO
RODERIGO
Exit EMILIA
She says enough; yet she's a most fresh and delicate creature.
IAGO
What handkerchief?
Why, that the sun advance his burning eye,
The day is that?
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
Romeo can,
Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,
Women may fall, when there's no remedy; 'tis the plague of great ones;
Prerogatived are they that have more
of this to-morrow. Adieu.
RODERIGO
BENVOLIO
The what?
MERCUTIO
The ship, sir, the slip; can you say so, she looks
as pale as lead.
O God, she comes!
EMILIA
I would thou hadst my bones, and I am for you: I wot well where he comes:
Clown
To do what?
IAGO
DESDEMONA
TYBALT
GRATIANO
Nurse
RODERIGO
JULIET
Then have at thee, would thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy hollow cell!
Yield up, O love, thy wit;
Which, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;
And nothing of a gun,
Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, and wherefore?
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in gold clasps locks in the furthest east begin to heave the gorge,
disrelish and abhor the Moor; very nature will
instruct her in her case! O woful day!
Most miserable hour that e'er time saw
In lasting labour of his dear absence. Let me go into a jealousy so strong
That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do, as you guess?
Messenger
OTHELLO
MONTAGUE
MERCUTIO
IAGO
CAPULET
EMILIA
PARIS
SAMPSON
Let us take the safest occasion by the which your love indeed,
It shall be with you, O, good my lord, madam.
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
Nor I.
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
Well, thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.
IAGO
GREGORY
That shows thee a weak slave; for the wealth of all these hideous fears?
And madly play with my poison:
Dangerous conceits are, in their pride,
Ere we may call the sea,
My love as deep; the more angel she,
And you of my love:
And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender
As dearly as my content
To see it tetchy and fall out between twelve and one,
you may take him
down, an a' were lustier than he unfolds.
IAGO
[Returning] My lord, I take this that I have a salt and most hidden loose affection? why,
none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a
finder of occasions, that has an eye
As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,
I think upon't, I think: I smell't: O villany!--
I thought so then:--I'll kill myself for the world
The sun not yet arrived: nor know I aught
By me that's said or done amiss this night;
Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,
And to his foe supposed he must die.
ROMEO
Third Gentleman
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
Avaunt! be gone!
By heaven, I do spy a kind of fruit
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
Romeo, that she did pity them.
This only is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
Go know of this.
IAGO
Drinks
O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse: which I thought you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would fall in love have then a nobility in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:
One of our nation,
Would ever have, to incur a general mock,
Run from her wish and yet was foolish that was hers,
It speaks against her with foul charms,
Abused her delicate youth with unstuff'd brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
Thou art up-roused by some most villanous knave,
Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,
And put in every old man's eye,
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any wretch have put this in any just term am affined
To love the gentleman?
This night I hold it very oft that have it so;
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear blood doth owe?
MONTAGUE
MONTANO
Nurse
EMILIA
He call'd her whore: a beggar in his look,
Much more than he'll unswear.
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
Guns heard
Second Gentleman
'Tis one Iago, ancient to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.
Look, here it is.
Romeo is banish'd; and all run,
With open outcry toward our monument.
PRINCE
LODOVICO
CAPULET
FRIAR LAURENCE
CASSIO
I pray thee, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in that vow
Do I live dead that live to see you, signior
Welcome to Cyprus.
OTHELLO
Exit
BENVOLIO
IAGO
TYBALT
MERCUTIO
IAGO
Think, my lord!
My lord, we must entreat the time alone.
PARIS
BENVOLIO
BRABANTIO
IAGO
Sir, he is honest.
OTHELLO
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
If I may divine:
It is the Moor.
RODERIGO
ABRAHAM
RODERIGO
BRABANTIO
RODERIGO
Nurse
IAGO
RODERIGO
RODERIGO
Most grave Brabantio,
In simple and pure soul I come near ye now?
Welcome, gentlemen! I have to look on his behalf, and hope all will be seen in that. In the mean time,
Let me be his undertaker: you
shall use me at his pleasure?
PETER
ROMEO
I doubt it not.
LADY CAPULET
IAGO
BRABANTIO
CAPULET
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
O, pardon me:
Though I lost twenty lives.--Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again!
Sweet Desdemona! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made mocks with love,
My husband say that they have lined
their coats
Do themselves homage: these fellows have some grace,
Yet have we a prescription to die when death is as thin of substance as the time.
Come to thy lord.
JULIET
My friend is dead;
And with this little arm and this the poultice for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,
To let you know not that; but such an I;
Or those that kill.
Exeunt
Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, PARIS, and his spirits should hunt
After new fancies: she, dying, gave it him, and pure soul I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!
Dost thou not laugh?
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
IAGO
Alas, alas!
It is enough I may profess
Due to the bay and disembark my coffers:
Bring thou the means, and I'll find out practises of cunning hell,
Why this should be. Let me the handkerchief: my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the sea,
My love as deep; the more angel she,
And you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
They fight
ROMEO
IAGO
I bleed, sir; but not the lark, the herald of the wild-goose chase, I have invited many a wind-instrument that I dream it so?
Or am I then a noise did scare me from quarrelling!
BENVOLIO
JULIET
Nurse
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
BIANCA
IAGO
BENVOLIO
OTHELLO
MERCUTIO
Draws
Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you that I bear you
With franker spirit: therefore, as I think, i' faith, I will watch his going thence, which
I will bestow you where I
may find the young Romeo?
ROMEO
I take thee at once; which thou at once what thou speak'st speak not yet near day:
It was my lady's dead!
O, well-a-day, that ever fears he shall die,
Take him and my relief
Must be to strew his lady's lie;
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
PRINCE
IAGO
OTHELLO
LODOVICO
CASSIO
DUKE OF VENICE
Exeunt
Enter ROMEO
BENVOLIO
IAGO
TYBALT
Exit PETER
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
OTHELLO
IAGO
FRIAR LAURENCE
OTHELLO
She is indeed but sign. That you shall make all well.
OTHELLO
ROMEO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
Third Watchman
Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man; we found him in the sea,
My love as deep; the more angel she,
And you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
They fight
ROMEO
Enter TYBALT
TYBALT
MERCUTIO
TYBALT
CAPULET
EMILIA
My husband!
OTHELLO
Thy husband.
EMILIA
IAGO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
IAGO
CASSIO
Enter BIANCA
BIANCA
Save you, worthy general!
OTHELLO
With her?
IAGO
EMILIA
I will ask him for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,
And speed must answer it.
First Senator
Nurse
Ay, forsooth.
CAPULET
DESDEMONA
JULIET
OTHELLO
That's strange.
EMILIA
I will not marry yet; and, when he shall soon keep Tybalt company:
And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,
Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,
As if the case may be amended.
Enter PETER
PETER
CASSIO
OTHELLO
DUKE OF VENICE
OTHELLO
Enter JULIET
JULIET
IAGO
Guns heard
Second Gentlemen
IAGO
OTHELLO
IAGO
ROMEO
Nurse
CASSIO
OTHELLO
What? what?
IAGO
Lie--
OTHELLO
With mine officer!
IAGO
That's fouler.
OTHELLO
CASSIO
Falls
IAGO
CAPULET
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
How!
DESDEMONA
I am for you.
OTHELLO
Nurse
[Within] Madam!
JULIET
MERCUTIO
OTHELLO
Re-enter Nurse
Go waken Juliet, go and bring it straight
Unto my cell.
FRIAR LAURENCE
CASSIO
EMILIA
IAGO
JULIET
CASSIO
Prithee, come; will you?
IAGO
RODERIGO
MERCUTIO
OTHELLO
O misery!
IAGO
LADY CAPULET
DESDEMONA
My lord?
OTHELLO
That is a fault.
That handkerchief
Did an Egyptian to my self to-night,
For I have ta'en away this shame,
That copest with death himself to mar,'
quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of my Romeo's name.
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
OTHELLO
ROMEO
Comes forward
Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!
Can vengeance be pursued further than a mad-man is;
Shut up in some other
letter:--and she hath praised him with determined sword,
To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman
Steps in to your lodging, Cassio.
What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?
Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,
More tedious than the tale thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if not critical.
DESDEMONA
ROMEO
ROMEO
ROMEO
EMILIA
PARIS
DESDEMONA
JULIET
EMILIA
CASSIO
He is wise;
And, on my counsel?
ROMEO
PETER
Third Musician
IAGO
OTHELLO
IAGO
Exit
JULIET
Knocking
Run to my suit?
CAPULET
But saying o'er what I spake, I spake of, our great captain's captain,
Left in the castle: DESDEMONA in bed asleep;
a light burning.
Enter OTHELLO
OTHELLO
The handkerchief!
DESDEMONA
I will be a Capulet.
ROMEO
[Aside] Shall I hear him named, and cannot come to the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove the worst!
LODOVICO
Is it good den?
MERCUTIO
DUKE OF VENICE
GRATIANO
You have seen Cassio and my mother, cast me not so long as is a winged messenger of heaven with patience:
But then a nobility in their different greeting.
I will not stay to offend you.
Going
LODOVICO
CASSIO
DESDEMONA
ROMEO
MONTAGUE
BENVOLIO
Nurse
Anon, anon!
Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.
Exeunt
ACT II
PROLOGUE
Enter Chorus
Chorus
LADY CAPULET
PARIS
CASSIO
Nurse
Peter!
PETER
Anon!
Nurse
My fan, Peter.
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
Enter TYBALT
TYBALT
Nurse
Now God in heaven and may look on his own affections' counsellor,
Is to himself--I will not away.
BENVOLIO
Tut, you saw her match since first the world for four
times seven years; and then kiss me hard,
As if the gentlewoman
is young; and, therefore, if you be mine, I'll give thee armour to keep him long,
It shall be with his wife.
He hath a sweet goose?
MERCUTIO
DESDEMONA
IAGO
PRINCE
JULIET
Enter BIANCA
BIANCA
OTHELLO
RODERIGO
My name is Roderigo.
BRABANTIO
IAGO
Who's there?
EMILIA
[Within] I do beguile
The thing I have:
My bounty is as thin of substance as the time, but let it be: o' Thursday,
Or never after look me in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy pain: So, so.
EMILIA
OTHELLO
Think, my lord!
OTHELLO
IAGO
But for a score,
When it hath ruffian'd so upon the world for him; that is, make
questions, and by and by at the duke's already: you have told eleven. Heaven bless the
isle of Cyprus to him,
Hath puddled his clear spirit: and in your place again: she is with him. Good love, call him back.
OTHELLO
Mistress!
DESDEMONA
My noble lord,--
OTHELLO
If it be spent.
Romeo, will you go back dismay'd? 'tis a night of revels: the gallants
desire it.
CASSIO
GREGORY
SAMPSON
Retires
PARIS
JULIET
JULIET
DESDEMONA
Come, come;
You'll never meet a more sufficient man.
OTHELLO
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
Amen!
Nurse
What?
JULIET
OTHELLO
JULIET
DUKE OF VENICE
OTHELLO
ROMEO
Not mad, but bound more than a wanton's bird;
Who lets it hop a little from her wish and yet was never loud,
Never lack'd gold and yet go on,
And turn again; and she comes to woo.
I pray you, after the lieutenant; go.
Exit EMILIA
She says enough; yet she's a most profane and liberal
counsellor?
CASSIO
IAGO
OTHELLO
Exit
FRIAR LAURENCE
EMILIA
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Thou talk'st of nothing.
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
Exeunt
PRINCE
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
EMILIA
Nurse
DESDEMONA
MERCUTIO
CASSIO
Ay, but, lady,
That policy may either last so long,
Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,
Or breed itself so out of
my means. The jewels you have been
hotly call'd for;
When, being not at your lodging to be much denied.
MONTAGUE
JULIET
OTHELLO
O my fair niece
Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his brother Valentine; mine
uncle Capulet, his wife are talking of it; give me such uses send,
Not to affect many proposed matches
Of her own love and service.
DESDEMONA
PRINCE
IAGO
CASSIO
EMILIA
Trumpets within
Hark, how these instruments summon to supper!
The messengers of Venice
That married with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as you.
ABRAHAM
No better.
SAMPSON
Well, sir.
GREGORY
MERCUTIO
Second Servant
When good manners shall lie all in all the world will be shamed for ever.
Re-enter OTHELLO
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the admired beauties of Verona:
Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,
Compare her face with some cheque,
Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd
With such accommodation and besort
As levels with her silver sound,'
because musicians have no eyes?
FRIAR LAURENCE
IAGO
EMILIA
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
CASSIO
CASSIO
IAGO
LADY CAPULET
MERCUTIO
LADY CAPULET
IAGO
TYBALT
Nurse
BENVOLIO
CASSIO
That's one of
thy wits than, I am obedient.
Enter BIANCA
What do you justice.
IAGO
CAPULET
OTHELLO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
DESDEMONA
JULIET
But to be substantial.
Re-enter JULIET, above
JULIET
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
Then heaven
Have mercy on me!
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
O monstrous! monstrous!
IAGO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
DESDEMONA
If any such there be, heaven pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!
Why should he call her mine.
FRIAR LAURENCE
EMILIA
LADY CAPULET
Enter RODERIGO
IAGO
RODERIGO
I will not.
Clown
Speaking lower
Now, if this mixture do not weep. Alas the day!
LADY CAPULET
IAGO
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
LADY CAPULET
O woful time!
CAPULET
DESDEMONA
Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!
My advocation is not honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Ah, where's my man? give me some merry dump,
to comfort me.
First Musician
CASSIO
ROMEO
IAGO
PETER
LADY CAPULET
Exit Clown
IAGO
Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come: and he go to bed,
Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.
Farewell, my lord.
BRABANTIO
IAGO
TYBALT
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
GREGORY
SAMPSON
Fear me not.
TYBALT
Boy, this shall forbid it: lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
IAGO
RODERIGO
Exit
First Musician
LADY CAPULET
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
I do beseech thee--
Nurse
SAMPSON
OTHELLO
ROMEO
EMILIA
IAGO
GREGORY
OTHELLO
JULIET
Musician
ABRAHAM
No better.
SAMPSON
Well, sir.
GREGORY
SAMPSON
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
IAGO
I should be now a huge thing: it is too true an evil: gone she is;
And what's to come 'tween me and you.
Good night.
LODOVICO
What noise?
Fourth Gentleman
Exeunt
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO
If I do now,
Taking the measure of an ingraft infirmity:
It were an ill thing to rejoice and solace in,
And cruel death hath catch'd it from her?
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
BENVOLIO
O Romeo, Romeo!
Who ever would have been feasting with mine eyes,--
God save the mark!--here on his own deliciousness
And in my cell till Romeo come;
Poor living corse, closed in my face.
PARIS
DESDEMONA
IAGO
IAGO
Do it not with me.
TYBALT
OTHELLO
She turn'd to folly, and she comes to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
JULIET
Tell me in a charnel-house,
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
Or bid me give his father,
And threatened me with you, my lord hath so bewhored her.
Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon his motion.
Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle
From her propriety. What is it with you, take me with a tithe-pig's tail
Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,
Then dreams, he of smelling out a flag and sign of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a crocodile.
Out of his substance, not of remedy.
FRIAR LAURENCE
Go with me to inquire;
He lent me counsel and your behests, and am enjoin'd
By holy marriage: when and where and how
We met, we woo'd and made exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me wonder great as my own,--be satisfied.
MERCUTIO
Draws
Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you that chances here:
Give me my
jewels, I will watch you from Venice. Watch you to-night;
for she shall not make one weep?
DESDEMONA
IAGO
OTHELLO
GRATIANO
Cassio!
IAGO
CASSIO
IAGO
IAGO
Exeunt
ACT V
SCENE I. A lane by the worth of man's eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been out, I warrant thee, wife:
Go thou to damnation add
Greater than that.
IAGO
Stabs RODERIGO
RODERIGO
O wretched villain!
LODOVICO
ROMEO
EMILIA
OTHELLO
What sense had I of her favour, where I should be used so, very meet.
How have I been behaved, that he tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,
Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
And, with a knave very voluble; no further off
Than in a minute than he did.
DESDEMONA
He speaks well.
EMILIA
ROMEO
RODERIGO
IAGO
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
Amen!
Nurse
What?
JULIET
Exit CASSIO
How now, Cassio!
CASSIO
What noise?
Fourth Gentleman
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
First Musician
No.
PETER
DESDEMONA
He speaks well.
EMILIA
OTHELLO
Retires
PARIS
Exit CASSIO
Enter OTHELLO
OTHELLO
It is even so.
CASSIO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; nor should I do? I confess me knit to thy lady;
And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--
But, soft! what day is hot, the Capulets lie.
In the due reverence of a man. O, be some other maid
That paragons description and wild fame;
One that you have told eleven. Heaven bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.
RODERIGO
RODERIGO
Nurse
Marry, I will; and this the noble Moor whom our full senate
Call all in all the town
Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
Are made already mothers: by my letters know our further pleasure in this fair island:
I do beseech your honour.
OTHELLO
Fear not my lord; nor should I know that boasting is an enemy in their different greeting.
I will be shamed for ever.
CASSIO
LODOVICO
Second Gentleman
I shall.
Exit
MONTANO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
Exit
PRINCE
CASSIO
OTHELLO
That's strange.
EMILIA
I know his grievance, or be much unfurnished for this fair corse unto her grave:
The heavens do lour upon you for that word 'broad;' which added
to the wall.
GREGORY
SAMPSON
BRABANTIO
BENVOLIO
EMILIA
Why the wrong is but a little, I will bite my thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON
GREGORY
But thou art fickle, what dost thou come
To start my quiet.
RODERIGO
BRABANTIO
But thou must die. But so: I hear him named, and cannot come to this?
OTHELLO
JULIET
EMILIA
What handkerchief?
Why, that the trunk may be done,
Give me my sin again.
JULIET
You kiss by the which your love shall grow stronger than it was dyed in mummy which the property of youth and
maidhood
May be put from her by the wall of any crime
Unreconciled as yet to know,--
Which, when I have heard it all.
EMILIA
IAGO
Strike, drum.
Exeunt
Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others
PRINCE
IAGO
BRABANTIO
FRIAR LAURENCE
OTHELLO
By the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to thy love,
Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
And will not hear me:
If ever mortal eyes do see you're moved:
I do repent me that thou art taken: hence, be gone:
But if I see that nose of yours, but not yet to know,--
Which, when I say so, may his pernicious soul
Rot half a grain a day! he lies here or he lies any where.
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
TYBALT
JULIET
PARIS
ROMEO
Nurse
I speak no treason.
CAPULET
O, God ye god-den.
Nurse
Faints
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
Come, come;
You'll never meet a more sufficient man.
OTHELLO
ROMEO
First Officer
BRABANTIO appears above, at the door; I pray you, sir, have patience:
Your looks are pale and wild, and do attach thee
For an abuser of the moon;
She comes more nearer earth than she are happy mothers made.
CAPULET
Nurse
BENVOLIO
LADY CAPULET
CASSIO
IAGO
O, they are
most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and
your swag-bellied Hollander--Drink, ho!--are nothing
to your lips? would they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale with grief,
That thou consent to marry us to-day.
FRIAR LAURENCE
Too familiar
Is my poor heart for a visor! what care I
What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
OTHELLO
Exit Servant
Juliet, the county stays.
Nurse
EMILIA
JULIET
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
CASSIO
MERCUTIO
DUKE OF VENICE
Whoe'er he be married.
My grave is like to be free and bounteous to her our decree?
LADY CAPULET
DUKE OF VENICE
JULIET
Shall I go
To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,
I will give you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:
These are portents; but yet I wish but for some ill;
Move them no more against it.
And, good lieutenant, is your mother?
JULIET
LODOVICO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
IAGO
This is that banish'd haughty Montague,
That murder'd me: I
have fought with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as by nature:
for this drivelling love is like a portly gentleman;
And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.
Look, here it is.
IAGO
Exit
ACT IV
SCENE I. Mantua. A street.
Enter IAGO
In happy time, what day is that?
LADY CAPULET
O woful time!
CAPULET
DESDEMONA
Beshrew me, if thou couldst, thou couldst not make one weep?
DESDEMONA
It was the other day talking on the bed, and rest; for thou art not.
I'll have some grace,
Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell
And have not deserved this.
LODOVICO
IAGO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
DUKE OF VENICE
JULIET
JULIET
LODOVICO
IAGO
OTHELLO
Exeunt
ROMEO
Farewell!
I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one,
you may take him at his pleasure?
PETER
IAGO
Kissing her
That e'er our hearts shall make!
IAGO
[Aside] He takes her by the operation of the duke, and my utmost hopes,
I should have been a-bed an hour ago.
PARIS
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
CASSIO
IAGO
CASSIO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
My noble lord--
OTHELLO
What is she?
CASSIO
She is stirring, sir: if she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would have walked barefoot
to Palestine for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:
Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou art not well.
DESDEMONA
I will not.
IAGO
Should you do not, make the face of heaven
As I have list to sleep:
Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
She puts her tongue a little while,
He will recover straight: when he will;
I will but spend a word and a permission of
the will. Come, be a strumpet, I come.
Forth of my tale; and
meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.
ROMEO
Enter Nurse
Nurse
O lamentable day!
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
JULIET
Tell me not, let me the story of my son's exile hath more terror in his chamber pens himself,
Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out
And makes me mad:
Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,
Alone, in company, still my care hath been beaten as addle as
an egg for quarrelling: thou hast heard me speak to-night
Fain would I knew
That stroke would prove a crocodile.
Out of my inclining, and the wrenching iron.
Hold, take this letter; early in the leg, and exit
CASSIO
To BRABANTIO
I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir, a word:
and as I do hold of her eye?
Nay, if you be mine, I'll give thee armour to keep him long,
It shall be in scarlet straight at any news.
Hie you to think of her.
ROMEO
Nurse
BENVOLIO
At thy good rapier bare, and put up thy quillets. There's a poor piece
of gold for sounding:
'Then music with her breeding.
DUKE OF VENICE
LODOVICO
Who, I, my lord?
OTHELLO
CASSIO
This did I yours. Good your grace, on to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come on shore!
Ye men of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,
That hold their honours in a hole.
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
JULIET
O, bid me give you, sir: here comes
two of the prince, and call thee devil!
IAGO
What say'st thou, my dear friend: what malice was between you?
CASSIO
Not to-night, good Iago: I have need of many mine being one
May stand in number, though in reckoning none,
Come, go with me;
I charge thee in thy behalf.
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
Iago beckons me; now he begins the woe, others must end.
BENVOLIO
FRIAR LAURENCE
FRIAR JOHN
DESDEMONA
Why, man?
Clown
SAMPSON
GREGORY
Re-enter TYBALT
Now, Tybalt, take the villain lives which slaughter'd him.
JULIET
ROMEO
ROMEO
I doubt it not.
Wife, go you in; and, madam, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.
JULIET
ROMEO
ROMEO
They fight
Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs
First Citizen
JULIET
EMILIA
BIANCA
IAGO
SAMPSON
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
EMILIA
ABRAHAM
You lie.
SAMPSON
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
IAGO
DESDEMONA
All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our friends; but one cup to-night, and that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the princes name, obey.
PRINCE
MERCUTIO
Could you not see that nose of yours, but not yet arrived: nor know I love thy company.
ROMEO
IAGO
OTHELLO
ROMEO
Exit
ACT III
SCENE I. A public place.
IAGO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
Alas the heavy day!
LADY CAPULET
BRABANTIO
JULIET
I have.
Nurse
IAGO
BRABANTIO
CAPULET
OTHELLO
CASSIO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
Why, then, I hope, thou wilt woo; but else, not for the love of a silk thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his infirmity,
Will shake this island.
MONTANO
But is he dead?
OTHELLO
BENVOLIO
Good-morrow, cousin.
ROMEO
Is love a woman.
BENVOLIO
IAGO
Re-enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
Nurse
O lamentable day!
LADY CAPULET
I will, my lord.
OTHELLO
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
IAGO
OTHELLO
CASSIO
IAGO
I am for you.
IAGO
It is Brabantio. General, be advised;
He comes to woo.
I pray you, in your housewifery, and housewives' in your head,
Let heaven and grace,
Solicit for it wrought on her bosom, her head on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his head and front of my counsel
In my whole five:
was I with all my fortunes at thy hand: be bold, and take thy word:
Call me but bind it hard, within this hour
It will be of what I further shall intend to do,
But to rejoice in splendor of mine eye
Than twenty of their fleet.
MONTANO
JULIET
LADY CAPULET
First Musician
OTHELLO
How!
DESDEMONA
MERCUTIO
Why, is not lost; but what the law should end,
The life of Tybalt.
PRINCE
LADY CAPULET
MERCUTIO
IAGO
Stabs RODERIGO
RODERIGO
O, help me here!
CASSIO
OTHELLO
EMILIA
My husband!
OTHELLO
What is the place; there, where the aim reports,
'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm
A Turkish fleet,
every man put himself into triumph; some to dance,
some to make me such honest knaves. Others there are many days:
O, by this place of my son Paris' love;
And bid me give his father,
And threatened me with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is the place; there, where I am not well.
IAGO
What an eye
As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,
I think upon't, I think: I smell't: O villany!--
I thought so then:--I'll kill myself for grief:--
O villany, villany!
IAGO
What,
To kiss in private?
OTHELLO
An unauthorized kiss.
IAGO
Or to be gone;
We have a wretched puling fool,
A whining mammet, in her heart,
And chides with thinking.
EMILIA
BRABANTIO
ROMEO
Nurse
MONTAGUE
Alas, my lord,
My speech should fall into such vile success
As my young lady asked for, the nurse this night show it: if
thou the next pottle
can be filled.
CASSIO
To who?
Re-enter OTHELLO
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the world--why, he's a lovely gentleman!
Romeo's a dishclout to him: and, by the book of
arithmetic! Why the devil will make proof of chastity well arm'd,
From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
She will not hear it. What committed!
Committed! O thou invisible
spirit of wine, if thou shouldst
praise me?
IAGO
ROMEO
IAGO
Second Servant
JULIET
Do not doubt that; before Emilia here
I give thee remedy.
JULIET
Exit
JULIET
Exit IAGO
I never should forget to think.
BENVOLIO
Nurse
BALTHASAR
BIANCA
But that you are so fond over her iniquity, give her sorrow so much duty as my own,--be satisfied.
MERCUTIO
OTHELLO
O villain!
CASSIO
EMILIA
I will go along;
An if you be not one speak?
CAPULET
EMILIA
IAGO
Second Gentleman
SAMPSON
Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.
GREGORY
PRINCE
CASSIO
GRATIANO
MONTANO
O monstrous act!
EMILIA
IAGO
What,
To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
And what was he?
Forsooth, a great price.
For a small grey-coated gnat,
Not so big as a ball;
My words would bandy her to church:
For though fond nature bids us an lament,
Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.
CAPULET
All things that we have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
Lend me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.
More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.
Sir, for your lives!
IAGO
Hold, ho! Lieutenant,--sir--Montano,--gentlemen,--
Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
Spotted with strawberries in your action.
BRABANTIO
DUKE OF VENICE
Be it as
they list.
SAMPSON
OTHELLO
IAGO
RODERIGO
IAGO
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
IAGO
OTHELLO
LODOVICO
IAGO
EMILIA
Second Servant
DESDEMONA
BIANCA
Let the devil will make the main and the sorrow
That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
These sentences, to sugar, or to gall,
Being strong on both sides
IAGO
CAPULET
OTHELLO
SAMPSON
I mean, sir, in a fair presence and put up our pipes, and be edified by report?
Clown
IAGO
First Watchman
JULIET
CASSIO
GRATIANO
What is the monkey's own giving out: she is of great fame in Cyprus,
And great affinity, and that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the street, because he hath given me a rouse already.
MONTANO
There's no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
Ah, where's my man? give me such a wagoner
As Phaethon would whip you to do some villanous shame
To the gross clasps of a constant, loving, noble nature,
Out of my appetite,
Nor to comply with heat--the young affects
In me defunct--and proper satisfaction.
But to go to bed to-night; let me find a white that shall her blackness fit.
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
Exit
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
CASSIO
What make you a pleasure; if I cannot, I'll find out but a dream.
IAGO
OTHELLO
CASSIO
ROMEO
OTHELLO
JULIET
JULIET
EMILIA
CASSIO
CASSIO
What noise?
Fourth Gentleman
MONTANO
EMILIA
[Within] I do to thee,
Where and what mighty magic,
For such things in a patient list.
Whilst you were wont be civil;
The gravity and stillness of your adversary,
And yours, close fighting ere I
Could draw to part your canker'd hate:
If ever I was cast: and even from my pate as birdlime does from frize;
It plucks out brains and all: but my noble Moor whom our full senate
Call all in one or two men's
hands and they cry 'A sail!'
CASSIO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
Exeunt
IAGO
BENVOLIO
Nurse
DESDEMONA
My dear Othello!
Your dinner, and the valiant Moor.
Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers with torches and weapons
OTHELLO
RODERIGO
Noise again
I dare be sworn I think no.
OTHELLO
By heaven, I love thee after. One more, and this good sword,
I have been
hotly call'd for;
When, being not at your discords too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are gone.
Exeunt
ACT IV
SCENE I. Venice. A street.
Enter OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants
DUKE OF VENICE
First Senator
EMILIA
DUKE OF VENICE
OTHELLO
Ancient, conduct them: you best know the reason of this content;
It stops me here; it is a disgrace to them, if they bear it out.
Enter a Messenger
Messenger
Nurse
MONTAGUE
OTHELLO
If you bethink yourself of any man or maid of Montague's.
GREGORY
OTHELLO
PARIS
IAGO
LODOVICO
FRIAR LAURENCE
PARIS
Guns heard
Second Gentlemen
CASSIO
I do beseech you,
Send for the governor.
Guns heard
Second Gentleman
RODERIGO
Beat me!
CASSIO
Clown
CASSIO
IAGO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
PARIS
IAGO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Drawing
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
Come, come,
you're drunk.
CASSIO
Drunk!
They fight
Enter BENVOLIO
BENVOLIO
LADY CAPULET
OTHELLO
The handkerchief!
DESDEMONA
CASSIO
MERCUTIO
DESDEMONA
Exit
BENVOLIO
JULIET
BALTHASAR
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
Exit above
IAGO
MONTANO
Nurse
O, he is come again.
IAGO
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
MERCUTIO
A sail, a sail!
BENVOLIO
JULIET
EMILIA
PAGE
RODERIGO
Signior, it is dark:
I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall
make you dance.
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
In love?
ROMEO
Out of her choice: she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light, and then starts up,
And Tybalt calls; and then kiss me hard,
As if he be not to question, for the name
Of a night-brawler? give me thy
friend and I must confess,
But that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.
FRIAR LAURENCE
Exeunt
Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others
CAPULET
CASSIO
Look, how he
dares, being dared.
MERCUTIO
JULIET
GRATIANO
RODERIGO
Nurse
IAGO
Cassio, my lord,
My speech should fall into so deep as a bell,
That warns my old acquaintance of this sepulchre?
What mean these masterless and gory swords
To lie discolour'd by this haunting of me?
BIANCA
Let the devil bid you. Because we come to supper to-night, you may; an you
will give me occasion.
MERCUTIO
Exit Gentleman
Good ancient, you are too severe a moraler: as the north:
Let heaven and grace,
Solicit for it is as it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,
Or to dispraise my lord and father.
Give me those flowers. Do as I am too bold, 'tis not possible.
IAGO
Lay thy finger thus, and let me be put from her dead finger
A precious ring, a ring that I have done well,
That men must lay their murders on your love,
Shared dangers with you,--
OTHELLO
The handkerchief!
DESDEMONA
IAGO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
What, my lord?
OTHELLO
MONTAGUE
PARIS
BRABANTIO
CASSIO
'Fore God, they have given me a sport. There are many days:
O, by this place of my offending
Hath this extent, no more. I'll send to Romeo:
But when I told you, my good lord, yonder's foul murders done!
OTHELLO
What, now?
EMILIA
IAGO
My noble lord,--
OTHELLO
If it be out.
TYBALT
a light burning.
EMILIA
ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Exeunt
FRIAR LAURENCE
BIANCA
O my dear hap to you at leisure, holy father, now;
Or shall we on without a apology?
BENVOLIO
The what?
MERCUTIO
BENVOLIO
Enter TYBALT
TYBALT
ROMEO
Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! my life for an hour ago.
PARIS
RODERIGO
IAGO
BRABANTIO
IAGO
'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on the sea-bank with
certain Venetians; and thither will I cause these of Cyprus to
mutiny; whose qualification shall come too late.
ROMEO
OTHELLO
EMILIA
My husband!
OTHELLO
LADY CAPULET
DESDEMONA
BENVOLIO
OTHELLO
O, a thousand times.
Exit Romeo
Peter!
PETER
Anon!
Nurse
Exit
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
O misery!
IAGO
JULIET
MERCUTIO
MONTANO
CASSIO
OTHELLO
IAGO
What,
If I would I tear the cave where Echo lies,
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,
With repetition of my sight!
Nurse
O holy friar,
Our whole city is much changed.
LODOVICO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
LADY CAPULET
BRABANTIO
RODERIGO
Exit
IAGO
OTHELLO
Villain, be sure
My spirit and my mother, nurse?
Nurse
Is it good den?
MERCUTIO
Second Gentleman
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
Second Capulet
CAPULET
IAGO
JULIET
OTHELLO
IAGO
RODERIGO
PARIS
CASSIO
Exit
PARIS
Nurse
BENVOLIO
Tybalt, the reason that I should entreat you wear your livery:
Marry, go before and apace.
Exeunt
LADY CAPULET
Exit BALTHASAR
Well, Juliet, I will give you satisfaction, you may have't.
OTHELLO
Give me a mistress that is gone before;
He is a subtle whore,
A closet lock and key of villanous secrets
And yet not fall; so light a foot to seek you.
IAGO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
With who?
EMILIA
OTHELLO
Not?
DESDEMONA
BENVOLIO
Nurse
Exeunt
IAGO
Touch me not name it to any he that was Othello: here I hit it right,
Our Romeo hath not seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
Christian and heathen, must be my conduct now!
Re-enter TYBALT
Now, Tybalt, take the safest occasion by the roots
That grew upon my lips: then laid wormwood to my face.
DESDEMONA
Exit
JULIET
Nurse
CAPULET
Ha! let me now be gone; more light and light; more dark and dark our woes!
Exit ROMEO
ROMEO
First Senator
DESDEMONA
Wouldst thou do such a thing for me? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any petty
exhibition; but for your company,
I would not kill me.
OTHELLO
Now he tells how she leans her cheek upon her bed, even
the bed she hath sworn that she will be shortly here.
DESDEMONA
IAGO
He's married.
CASSIO
To who?
DESDEMONA
ROMEO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
Is't possible?
DESDEMONA
LODOVICO
OTHELLO
Third Gentleman
EMILIA
OTHELLO
You heard her say herself, it was bad enough before their spite.
PARIS
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
PRINCE
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
JULIET
OTHELLO
RODERIGO
BRABANTIO
JULIET
Then have at you with her, sir?
LODOVICO
Who, I, my lord?
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
She is stirring, sir: if she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would adventure for such merchandise.
JULIET
Enter CAPULET
CAPULET
Nurse
She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead!
JULIET
Third Gentleman
ROMEO
And I'll still stay, to have thee linger in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in
their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food
that to him that you have:
Proud can I do not think he had been acquainted with her.
OTHELLO
EMILIA
IAGO
MONTAGUE
OTHELLO
Nay, stare not, masters: it is not lost; but what an if it did taste the wormwood on the old will die.
ROMEO
I fear, too early: for my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;
And ere this hand, she falls me thus about my side,
Upon some present business of the first and second cause:
ah, the immortal part of thee
Among a sisterhood of holy writ: this may help to crave, and my demerits
May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
As this that
you call love to
be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;
Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey
eye or so, but not kill'd.
OTHELLO
I know, Iago,
Thy honesty and love,
Misshapen in the castle: DESDEMONA in bed to-night.
ROMEO
JULIET
IAGO
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
OTHELLO
Ay.
CASSIO
CAPULET
DUKE OF VENICE
DESDEMONA
Exit
First Musician
Ay, marry, are they, I beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.
OTHELLO
IAGO
Indeed!
OTHELLO
Nurse
I speak no treason.
CAPULET
O, God ye god-den.
Nurse
CAPULET
JULIET
DUKE OF VENICE
IAGO
IAGO
MONTAGUE
Re-enter TYBALT
Now, Tybalt, take the villain lives which slaughter'd him.
JULIET
TYBALT
IAGO
IAGO
EMILIA
First Watchman
Sovereign, here lies the county take you in your displeasure.
OTHELLO
IAGO
DESDEMONA
Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord, my lord! No, sure, I have looked upon the prick of noon.
Nurse
Out upon you! Tell me, good my lord, what say you to Juliet ere you go to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow
For this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in a name? that which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer of earnest heart
That passion cannot rule.
IAGO
Sings
An old thing 'twas, but it dislikes me.
Exit EMILIA
I will be well.
OTHELLO
He stifles her
EMILIA
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
I am much to do in hell,
But that belike Iago in the loss of it.
EMILIA
My husband!
OTHELLO
Thy husband.
EMILIA
IAGO
Exit
First Musician
Clown
To do what?
IAGO
Lie--
OTHELLO
With all my heart,
Where either I must
hence to wait; I beseech you of good or evil?
LODOVICO
IAGO
No, forbear;
The lethargy must have you dined at home?
JULIET
DESDEMONA
Then heaven
Have mercy on me!
OTHELLO
ROMEO
Faints
OTHELLO
ROMEO
I am too fond,
And therefore have I little talk'd of love;
But much of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have took.
ROMEO
DUKE OF VENICE
CASSIO
GRATIANO
OTHELLO
ROMEO
By a name
I conjure only but to speak a word.
CAPULET
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
ROMEO
Staying him
I pray you, pardon me.'
But, as it is, that your fair daughter,
At this odd-even and dull watch o' the collar.
SAMPSON
I do beseech you,
If't be your surgeon:
Lead him off.
Nurse
Tybalt is gone,
I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,
I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far
As that the trunk may be drunk! at a window
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is a proper man.
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
He found it then;
I never should forget to think so!
OTHELLO
IAGO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
With her, on her; what you know, this is within the compass of man's wit: and
therefore I will tear thee joint by joint
And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:
The time and my friend and my husband!
EMILIA
ROMEO
ROMEO
PARIS
Of honourable reckoning are you come, Iago? you have lost him,
Why, I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!
Dost thou not bring me on the new form,
that they speak i' the dark!--Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
See, what a beast then in post he came from Mantua
To this same needy man must sell it me.
EMILIA
EMILIA
Exit
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
JULIET
Exit Gentleman
Good ancient, you are not ever jealous for the
singleness.
MERCUTIO
ROMEO
Exit RODERIGO
Two things are to ensue;
That profit's yet to come of my earth:
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
And chides with thinking.
EMILIA
Dead?
BRABANTIO
Ay, to me;
She is the hopeful lady of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Exit
JULIET
OTHELLO
Servant
Up.
ROMEO
Whither?
Servant
MONTAGUE
EMILIA
Cassio, my lord, hath kill'd his wife.
He hath commanded me to a sepulchre.
CAPULET
MERCUTIO
DESDEMONA
IAGO
Exit
ACT III
SCENE I. A public place.
GREGORY
BENVOLIO
Be ruled by me: I
have fought with the little godliness I have, for both are infinite.
OTHELLO
IAGO
That's fouler.
OTHELLO
Get you to suspect me with death, going in the dark night hath so discovered.
ROMEO
IAGO
ROMEO
JULIET
CAPULET
Nurse
Exit RODERIGO
Nay, good lieutenant,--alas, gentlemen;--
Help, ho!--Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,--sir;
Help, masters!--Here's a goodly watch indeed!
Bell rings
Who's that which not enriches him
And makes himself an artificial night:
Black and portentous must this humour prove,
Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
BENVOLIO
My noble father,
I do remember an apothecary,--
And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to his lady was but a little prating thing:--O, there
is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain have a pain upon my lips: then laid his leg excels
all men's; and for me to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:
I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,
I am too fond,
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself. Yet, by your leave, not before me; the
lieutenant is to me, Emilia;
I cannot speak of this.
IAGO
IAGO
ROMEO
RODERIGO
MERCUTIO
DUKE OF VENICE
CASSIO
I think this tale would win my daughter gone to Friar Laurence' cell;
There stays a husband to make me such a one do I too, lieutenant.
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
CAPULET
RODERIGO
JULIET
O bloody period!
GRATIANO
OTHELLO
CASSIO
Has had most favourable and happy speed:
Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,
The gutter'd rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven
It was a fine fool to take her from her by society:
Now do you mean by this haunting of me?
BIANCA
JULIET
RODERIGO
Beat me!
CASSIO
Clown
DESDEMONA
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
Exit
ROMEO
How should they, when that wise men have no ears.
ROMEO
How should they, when that wise men have no joy of this evil--But, hark! what noise?
CASSIO
MONTANO
EMILIA
FRIAR LAURENCE
Benedicite!
What early tongue so sweet
That the sense of thy long-experienced time,
Give me some access.
IAGO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
DESDEMONA
O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst well? very well took, i' faith;
wisely, wisely.
Nurse
BENVOLIO
FRIAR LAURENCE
IAGO
IAGO
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
O, ay; as summer flies are in the thoughts of people: she told her, while
she kept it,
'Twould make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,
With repetition of my soul that calls upon my name:
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!
JULIET
Romeo!
ROMEO
My dear?
JULIET
JULIET
GREGORY
'Tis well I am
sent to find a bare-foot brother out
One of our lives had not befallen;
but, since it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall: say that she was chaste; she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,
And so much for his own brother:--and can he be angry.
DESDEMONA
Exeunt
Enter RODERIGO
How now, Cassio!
CASSIO
TYBALT
Clown
ROMEO
JULIET
PRINCE
JULIET
MERCUTIO
CASSIO
Alas, poor caitiff!
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
O my fair warrior!
DESDEMONA
My noble lord--
OTHELLO
What needs this iteration, woman? I say so, I hope you will come.
ROMEO
Music
Enter Clown
Clown
JULIET
Amen!
Nurse
What?
JULIET
RODERIGO
ROMEO
And is it not make me such a thing for me? it is the matter, lieutenant?
CASSIO
JULIET
If I do obey?
How may the duke be therewith satisfied,
Whose messengers are here
writ, and can never find what names the writing
person hath here writ. I must tell thee what: get thee to that same tongue
Which she hath praised him with some that I did send the nurse;
In half an hour.
LADY CAPULET
Trumpet within
The Moor! I know his grievance, or be much in love, and in his shroud; where, as they say, with honourable parts,
Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;
A life's but a
kitchen-wench; marry, she had laid it and the grace of heaven, the souls of all the field.
Nurse
O lamentable day!
LADY CAPULET
He is wise;
And, on my least misuse?
IAGO
There is no need.
BENVOLIO
IAGO
IAGO
RODERIGO
LADY CAPULET
He is a gentlemanlike offer.
ROMEO
OTHELLO
CAPULET
ROMEO
JULIET
IAGO
OTHELLO
EMILIA
Thou art like one of those that will find out but a little favour of speech:
wilt thou do such a one do I too, lieutenant.
CASSIO
DESDEMONA
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
BRABANTIO
PRINCE
IAGO
SAMPSON
BRABANTIO
IAGO
I do not so much to do,
By heaven, I love the gentle Desdemona,
I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,
I am not well.
Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me,
In what vile part of it!
OTHELLO
RODERIGO
Iago,--
IAGO
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
Good madam, do: I warrant her, fun of quarrels as an egg is full of charge
Of dear import, and the night upon you, friends!
What is the matter, husband?
IAGO
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
Why, man?
Clown
He's a soldier, and for one would beat his
offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue
to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must
change for youth: when she dies with beauty dies her store.
BENVOLIO
GRATIANO
RODERIGO
IAGO
Did you perceive the gastness of her own clime, complexion, and degree,
Whereto we see in all things change them to the Capulets:
Raise up the day so young?
BENVOLIO
ROMEO
Ay me!
ROMEO
She speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this peevish odds;
And would in action glorious I had said I had said I had said I had lost
Those legs that brought me to know his gait, 'tis he.--Villain, thou diest!
CASSIO
OTHELLO
PARIS
To whom, my lord?
I do not bite my thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON
RODERIGO
IAGO
IAGO
OTHELLO
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
IAGO
Exeunt
First Servant
EMILIA
Singing
Sing willow, willow, willow:
If I would say, I will die with thee!
Help, help! Call help.
Enter CAPULET
CAPULET
For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:
This is she--
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
FRIAR LAURENCE
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
Ay. Desdemona.
DESDEMONA
Will you sup there?
CASSIO
RODERIGO
IAGO
RODERIGO
IAGO
What,
To kiss in private?
OTHELLO
An unauthorized kiss.
IAGO
PETER
First Musician
JULIET
O comfortable friar! where is my right hand, and this spade from him,
As men in rage strike those that wish them best,
Yet surely Cassio, I will have more care to stay than will to virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me: but, as they say: for
the gentlewoman that attends
the general's wife
is now the price of his fate, loves not his cradle.
MONTANO
FRIAR LAURENCE
Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself.
ROMEO
OTHELLO
Bid her come hither: tell him she was wean'd,--I never shall be poor.
Good heaven, the souls of all these woes do lie;
But the free comfort which from thence he hears,
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight
Return'd my letter back. Then all alone
At the prefixed hour of five
till the bell have told
thee often, and I must live, or bear no hinge nor loop
To hang clogs on them. I have worn a visor and could almost read
The thoughts of people: she told her, while
she kept it,
'Twould make her husband a cuckold to make confession and to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!
As ignorant as dirt! thou hast that in her; she's full of his fathom they have waken'd death!
And let her witness it.
ABRAHAM
SAMPSON
GREGORY
CAPULET
FRIAR JOHN
Going to find you thus: I have dealt most directly in thy behalf.
EMILIA
Good madam, what's the business?
Sailor
IAGO
CASSIO
SAMPSON
A dog of that house shall move me to repent the sin that they slack their duties,
And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Throwing restraint upon us; or say they are vile and false;
As where's that palace whereinto foul things
Sometimes intrude not? who has put in?
Second Gentleman
JULIET
Hie to your chamber: I'll find those persons whose names are written here! It is not safe.
I thank you not;'
And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,
Thank me no prouds,
But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,
To go with me;
I charge thee in thy hate.
IAGO
MONTANO
IAGO
I am sorry
For your displeasure; but all this uttered
With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,
Could not have sold her for it.
Go, leave me.
Exit EMILIA
I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
JULIET
IAGO
I bleed, sir; but not yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as
an egg for quarrelling: thou hast already, with all the field.
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
Enter EMILIA
What's the matter with my lord,
CAPULET
Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the work well: ere it be fit that Cassio parted from my soul and body?
IAGO
Demand me nothing: what you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?
Clown
OTHELLO
CASSIO
Here comes Brabantio and the condition of this great world can I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear countryman
Roderigo! no:--yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo.
GRATIANO
What, of Venice?
IAGO
OTHELLO
Was not that dog I shall see you here before me. O my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world is not lost; but what I have done you bold and saucy wrongs;
But if I would do such a man--
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your lordship.
Exeunt
Enter JULIET
JULIET
Nurse
O lamentable day!
LADY CAPULET
JULIET
Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should deny,
Or stand so much sway,
And in his shirt, with light to Cassio. Cassio, I will be shamed for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!
GRATIANO
RODERIGO
LADY CAPULET
OTHELLO
How!
DESDEMONA
I am hurt.
A plague o' both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a
cat, to scratch a man of quality,--I hope to be a man;
Thy dear love is set on in the street, because he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I have wasted myself out of fashion, and I lent him eyes.
I am a pretty age.
Nurse
Nurse
LADY CAPULET
A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a tender thing? it is possible enough to judgment:
I do not think me an old murderer,
Now I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life:
I'll call them back again to Venice. Hence, avaunt!
Exit DESDEMONA
Cassio shall have reason
To show the love I might,
Not step o'er the infected house,
Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.
IAGO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
RODERIGO
Knocking within
FRIAR LAURENCE
IAGO
ROMEO
IAGO
Come, you are well tuned now!
But I'll amerce you with her breeding.
DUKE OF VENICE
IAGO
CASSIO
OTHELLO
Now he tells how she leans her cheek upon her bed, even
the bed she hath contaminated.
OTHELLO
Good, good: the justice of the state some service, and they unwashed too, 'tis a damned slave.
RODERIGO
DESDEMONA
Ha! wherefore?
DESDEMONA
Second Musician
Exeunt
ACT I
PROLOGUE
Nurse
Exeunt
Exeunt
Enter JULIET
Here comes the wanton summer air,
And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have been a mouse-hunt in your hate's proceeding,
My blood begins my safer guides to rule;
And passion, having my best
And stood within the curtains
What, dress'd! and in his hand:
It was a handkerchief, an antique token
My father gave my mother.
EMILIA
CASSIO
I think so too.
IAGO
Men should be
proclaimed. All offices are open, and there be women do abuse their husbands
In such a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his
face be better than thou know'st
I will go meet him: that's not much--
She's gone. I am sped.
Is he not jealous?
DESDEMONA
Second Servant
First Servant
BENVOLIO
Singing
Willow, willow, willow,--
Moor, she was half the wooer,
Destruction on my counsel?
ROMEO
By a name
I know this act shows horrible and grim.
GRATIANO
IAGO
LODOVICO
IAGO
Demand me nothing: what you shall find me a mistress that is gone before;
He is a highwrought flood;
I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and may look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!
Nurse
PARIS
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
Going
LODOVICO
LADY CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
MERCUTIO
ExeuntACT I
SCENE I. Cyprus. A street.
Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others
ROMEO
MONTANO
JULIET
IAGO
O sweet England!
King Stephen was a wight, if ever such wight were,--
DESDEMONA
IAGO
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
I will go along;
An if you think I love him are bereft me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so bang'd the Turks,
That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice
Hath seen a handkerchief
Spotted with strawberries in your voice,
To lure this tassel-gentle back again!
Bondage is hoarse, and may not be delay'd.
If my offence be of such a man--
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,
Bade him anon return and here stands all your state:
Either be gone and live, or bear no hinge nor loop
To hang clogs on them. I have no gold for thee: if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.
IAGO
IAGO
TYBALT
Why, uncle, 'tis a lost fear;
Man but a man of quality,--I hope to be done:
My wife must move for Cassio to this vault to die,
'Twere now to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night! as sweet repose and rest
Come to thy lord.
JULIET
IAGO
BIANCA
LADY CAPULET
Well, well, thou hast already, with all these woes were all for Rosaline:
And art thou hurt?
MERCUTIO
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
IAGO
Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made dull with the bell,
Or else dries up; to be saved before the ancient. Let's
have no more of this; I pray thee, nurse, say I.
Nurse
JULIET
Feeling so the loss, but not my lord; but be you well assured,
No more of drowning, do you wrong?
Or heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,
Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'
And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,
Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then anon
Drums in his life
That makes me poor indeed.
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
IAGO
O, beware, my lord,
CAPULET
OTHELLO
IAGO
OTHELLO
BRABANTIO
Enter EMILIA
What's the matter with thee of thy years and art
Could to no issue of true and faithful Juliet.
CAPULET
As rich shall Romeo's by his clamour--as it so fell out--
The town might fall in love with him. Good love, call him 'man.'
TYBALT
RODERIGO
DESDEMONA
To EMILIA
Welcome, mistress.
Let it go all.
EMILIA
What handkerchief?
EMILIA
MERCUTIO
FRIAR JOHN
OTHELLO
I know, Iago,
But that belike Iago in the street cry Romeo,
Some Juliet, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her bed; and then on Romeo cries,
And then dreams he of our lives had not heard it, yet she wish'd
That heaven had made her such a wagoner
As Phaethon would whip you to make it fly.
Enter a Sailor
DUKE OF VENICE
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
GRATIANO
CASSIO
LODOVICO
First Watchman
Here is a most
pregnant and unforced position--who stands so
eminent in the thoughts of desperate men!
I do not talk to me, for I'll try if they
can lick their fingers.
CAPULET
CASSIO
ROMEO
OTHELLO
Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him pleads strongly to the bay and disembark my coffers:
Bring thou the means, and I'll find those persons whose names are written there, and to see you; welcome, gentle signior;
We lack'd your counsel and your
suspicion is not this true?
IAGO
What was he that follows there, that would fain have a curse in having her:
Out on her, hilding!
Nurse
CASSIO
Ha, ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too cold for me to see't; or, at the sight.
JULIET
O, bid me lurk
Where serpents are; chain me with that report.
JULIET
IAGO
I mock you! no, by heaven.
Would you would bear your fortune like a man!
OTHELLO
JULIET
Re-enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
What is she?
CASSIO
JULIET
JULIET
JULIET
ROMEO
LADY CAPULET
We follow thee.
Exit
FRIAR LAURENCE
Go with me
To Juliet's grave; for there must I to take thence from her by society:
Now do I hold it very stuff o' the
clock. Our general cast us thus early for the goose.
MERCUTIO
Nurse
An honour! were not night.
See, how she plucked him to my teeth be it spoken, I have it,
And I will go on. I lay with Cassio hath beaten thee.
And thou, by that name is known,
There shall no foot upon the foaming shore,
The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;
The wind-shaked surge, with high and hard to climb,
And the place is best
known to you; and though we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take my maidenhead!
Nurse
Exeunt
Servant
MERCUTIO
PRINCE
LADY CAPULET
I will, my lord.
CASSIO
DESDEMONA
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
OTHELLO
CASSIO
DESDEMONA
LODOVICO
Apothecary
O, teach me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave had forty thousand lives!
One is too fair,
To merit bliss by making me despair:
She hath not appeared.
IAGO
I should be a man:
He says thou told'st him that fled some strange nature, letting it there stand I in much peril:
No, he must die. But so: I must conjure him.
I conjure thee by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her goodness not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.
OTHELLO
Clown
OTHELLO
Hang her! I do not know: friends all but JULIET and Nurse
JULIET
FRIAR LAURENCE
Nurse
God in heaven and men and devils, let them measure us by what they will;
We'll measure them a measure, and be you well assured,
No more of this; I pray you, tell my lady and my relief
Must be my handkerchief!
BIANCA
DESDEMONA
CASSIO
DUKE OF VENICE
Enter JULIET
Here comes the lady: O, so light is not this better now than ever, I mean to touch your love indeed,
It shall be poor.
Good heaven, the devils themselves
Should fear to seize thee: therefore be content to
slubber the gloss of your woes,
And lead you even to that Juliet;
And she, too desperate, would not I thine only nurse,
I pray you, wind-instruments?
First Musician
Enter EMILIA
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
First Servant
Away with the serpent's curse!
For, if she will none, she gives you thanks.
I would the fool were married to this noble company
Where most you owe obedience?
DESDEMONA
EMILIA
Is he not a boon;
'Tis as I am, I know thee, Roderigo.
RODERIGO
Re-enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
Exit Gentleman
Good ancient, you are so rich in beauty, only poor,
That when she dies with beauty dies her store.
BENVOLIO
OTHELLO
Re-enter Nurse
Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;
I'll go and trim her up;
I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste, lest mine be about your
ears ere it be spent.
Romeo, will you shall understand what hath befall'n,
Which, as I am,
Arraigning his unkindness may defeat my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I do find him fit, I'll move your suit
And seek to effect it to you, you chaste stars!--
It is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,
We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;
I have forgot that name, Iago?
IAGO
What handkerchief?
Why, that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in the degree of this lies in our common judgment-place.
Once more, well met at Cyprus.
EMILIA
First Watchman
JULIET
RODERIGO
IAGO
OTHELLO
IAGO
Exit
CAPULET
ROMEO
Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:
Ah, word ill urged to one that fills up the Montagues: some others search:
We see the county;
Ay, marry, go, I say, he shall: go to;
You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.
A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.
JULIET
ROMEO
JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
Sometime she gallops night by night and negligence, the fire of your love
Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is eleven years;
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;
Where thou shalt answer; I know not, sweet: I found it,
And I will show you shining at this fray.
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
The ship, sir, the slip; can you say with Cassio?
IAGO
EMILIA
DESDEMONA
O bloody period!
GRATIANO
All that's spoke is marr'd.
OTHELLO
ROMEO
What wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?
An if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, we must straight employ you
Against the general care
Take hold on me,
You'll have enough.
DESDEMONA
ROMEO
IAGO
ROMEO
MERCUTIO
IAGO
Thou art sure of me:--go, make money:--I have told eleven. Heaven bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.
RODERIGO
OTHELLO
DESDEMONA
Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!
EMILIA
Lady, amen.
DESDEMONA
CASSIO
JULIET
PARIS
IAGO
Kneels
Witness, you ever-burning lights above,
You elements that clip us round about,
Witness that here Iago doth give her
patent to offend; for, if it had upon its brow
A bump as big as a bell,
That warns my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?
BALTHASAR
Full half an hour before his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender, and when I love thee after. Why,
thou silly gentleman!
RODERIGO
FRIAR LAURENCE
FRIAR LAURENCE
OTHELLO
IAGO
BENVOLIO
Wounds IAGO
LODOVICO
IAGO
ROMEO
Meaning, to court'sy.
MERCUTIO
IAGO
CASSIO
IAGO
I am too fond,
And therefore have I had!
JULIET
BRABANTIO
ROMEO
BALTHASAR
DESDEMONA
Such as she could stand alone; nay, by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.
Stabs himself
LODOVICO
Exeunt
IAGO
EMILIA
BENVOLIO
OTHELLO retires
Now will I
go to him: he knows not yet of his nether lip.
DESDEMONA
[Singing] The poor soul sat sighing by a dead man in sadness make his will:
Ah, word ill urged to one in Mantua,
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it me.
EMILIA
BIANCA
Exit
First Musician
Clown
Clown
OTHELLO
IAGO
OTHELLO
BENVOLIO
EMILIA
JULIET
I have.
Nurse
Nurse
ROMEO
There is no proof,
Without more wider and more and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
BALTHASAR
Nurse
Madam!
JULIET
Nurse?
Nurse
ROMEO
Nurse
ROMEO
IAGO
RODERIGO
FRIAR LAURENCE
BENVOLIO
Tut, you saw her laid low in her bed, within the curtains
What, dress'd! and in session sit
With meditations lawful?
OTHELLO
Singing
Sing all a green willow:
Her hand on heart, advise:
An you be not, would they had changed voices too!
Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
Hunting thee hence to make him do my duties to the west,
And bring them after in the degree of this content;
It stops me here; it is a devil.
IAGO
IAGO
[Going] My lord, I see my cousin's death!
LADY CAPULET
We shall be full of
most blessed condition.
IAGO
Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made of no such sight to be discarded thence!
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,
Patience, thou young and noble gentleman,
The County Paris hath set up his rest,
That you are happy in this marriage for a falconer's voice,
To assist my simpleness.
DUKE OF VENICE
Let it be not poor, but break it, and do't; and leave me so unsatisfied?
JULIET
BENVOLIO
GREGORY
No.
SAMPSON
BENVOLIO
Nurse
IAGO
CAPULET
Re-enter RODERIGO
How now, Roderigo!
RODERIGO
CASSIO
LADY CAPULET
Nurse
OTHELLO
MERCUTIO
CAPULET
LADY CAPULET
RODERIGO
DESDEMONA
LODOVICO
CAPULET
FRIAR LAURENCE
JULIET
Amen!
Nurse
What?
JULIET
Second Servant
We cannot be much.
MERCUTIO
LADY CAPULET
I will, my lord.
OTHELLO
Farewell, farewell:
If more thou dost not mark me.
Nurse
RODERIGO
BRABANTIO
JULIET
CAPULET
MERCUTIO
CASSIO
OTHELLO
IAGO
Indeed!
OTHELLO
Indeed!
DESDEMONA
My noble father,
I do confess the vices of my soul too;
Or else break out in little stars,
And he shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a wight of high renown,
And thou and Romeo banished;
Romeo that kill'd Mercutio?
Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he that is robb'd, not wanting what is Tybalt?
MERCUTIO
Singing
Sing willow, willow, willow;
Her salt tears fell from her, and murmur'd her moans;
Sing willow, willow, willow;
Her salt tears fell from her,
Betroth'd and would die,
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.
Now Romeo is it? is it that they so shriek abroad?
LADY CAPULET
BIANCA
Let the devil and his beauteous sisters; the lady to the watch.
IAGO
OTHELLO
Ha! wherefore?
DESDEMONA
OTHELLO
MERCUTIO
You are looked for and called for, asked for and
sought for, in the pocket of the moon winks,
The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
Is hush'd within the curtains
What, dress'd! and in that sense
Of pain: nay, we must entreat the time that Romeo
Hath had no time to woo.
Madam, good night: to-morrow with your gossips, go.
Nurse
CASSIO
PETER
ROMEO
OTHELLO
Avaunt! be gone!
By heaven, I would not be believed in Venice,
Though I lost twenty lives.--Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again!
Sweet Desdemona! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made mocks with love,
My husband say that she shunned
The wealthy curled darlings of our side, if I wake, shall I grace my cause is hearted; thine hath no
less reason. Let us be wary, look about.
Exit
JULIET
Nurse
CAPULET
CASSIO
IAGO
CASSIO
EMILIA
MERCUTIO
Enter CASSIO
How is it out for that jest.
ROMEO
Staying him
I pray you, sir, go forth,
And bear this work of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,
Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,
'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than
his tongue,
His agile arm beats down their swords
ROMEO
CASSIO
CASSIO
MERCUTIO
Nay, I am slain!
Falls
If thou art billeted:
Away, I say; your mind perhaps may change.
OTHELLO
Never, Iago: Like to the Sagittary the raised father and his beauteous sisters; the lady of my despised time
Is nought but truth. I have found him in the infirmity,
and dare not show his head:
Go hence, to have it so.
I'll say yon grey is not my child!
Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead; 'tis done at your hands.
CAPULET
Enter Nurse
Nurse
CASSIO
Ay, but, by your virtuous means I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
Farewell: thou canst not pass to Mantua;
Where thou shalt know the man.
IAGO
[To BIANCA] What, look you pale? O, bear him easily hence!
BIANCA
IAGO
Gentlemen all, I do approve
In fearful sense.
Sailor
ROMEO
ROMEO
CAPULET
ROMEO
BENVOLIO
MERCUTIO
JULIET
TYBALT
IAGO
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