And ftrew'd repentant afhes on its head. Hub. But with my breath I can revive it, boy. That mercy which fierce fire and iron extend, Hub. Well, fee to live; I will not touch thine eye, For all the treafure that thine uncle owns : Yet am I fworn; and I did purpose, boy, Arth. O, now you look like Hubert. All this while You were difguifed. Hub. Peace: no more. Adieu, Your uncle must not know but you are dead. Arth. O heav'n! I thank you, Hubert. Hub. Silence, no more; go clofely in with me. Much danger do I undergo for thee. SCENE II. Changes to the Court of England. [Exeunt. Enter King John, Pembroke, Salisbury, and other K. John. H Lords. TERE once again we fit, once again. crown'd, And look'd upon, I hope, with chearful eyes. Pemb. Pemb. This once again, but that your highness pleas'd, Was once fuperfluous; you were crown'd before, To feek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnish, Hemb. But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome : Sal. In this the antique and well-noted face It makes the courfe of thoughts to fetch about : Makes found opinion fick, and truth fufpected, Pemb. When workmen ftrive to do better than well, 2 They do confound their skill in covetousness; And oftentimes excufing of a fault Doth make the fault the worfe by the excufe: As patches, fet upon a little breach, Sal. To this effect, before you were new-crown'd, Muft make a stand at what your highness will. 4 K. John. Some reafons of this double coronation Th' infranchisement of Arthur; whofe restraint 3 in hiding of the FAULT, Than did the FAULT WORD ] We should read FLAW in both places. WARBURTON. 4 Some reasons of this double co ronation I have poffeft you with, and think them frong. And more, more strong, the leffer is my fear, I fhall endue you with.] I have told you fome reasons, in my opinion firong, and shall tell more yet ftronger; for the stronger my realons are, the less is my fear of your disapprobation. This feems to be the meaning. 5 To found the purposes.] To declare, to publifh the defires of all those. That That the time's enemies may not have this Enter Hubert. To your direction. Hubert, what news with you? The image of a wicked heinous fault Sal. The colour of the King doth come and go, Pemb. And when it breaks, I fear will iffue thence The foul corruption of a sweet child's death. K. John. We cannot hold mortality's ftrong hand. Good Lords, although my will to give is living, The fuit which you demand is gone, and dead. He tells us, Arthur is deceas'd to-night. Sal. Indeed, we fear'd, his ficknefs was paft cure. Pemb. Indeed, we heard how near his death he was, Before the child himfelf felt he was fick. This must be anfwer'd, either here, or hence. K. John. Why do you bend fuch folemn brows on me? Think you, I bear the fhears of deftiny? That blood, which own'd the breadth of all this ifle, K. John. They burn in indignation; I repent. There is no fure foundation fer on blood; No certain life atchiev'd by others' death Enter a Messenger. A fearful eye thou haft; where is that blood, So foul a fky clears not without a storm; Pour down thy weather. How goes all in France? Mej. From France to England. Never fuch a power, For any foreign preparation, Was levy'd in the body of a land. 9 From France to England.-] The king afks bow all goes in France, the meffenger catches the word goes, and anfwers, that whatever is in France goes now into England. The |