King Edward III

LODOWICK. I might perceive his eye in her eye lost, His ear to drink her sweet tongue’s utterance, And changing passion, like inconstant clouds That rack upon the carriage of th...

KING EDWARD. No more, Queen Phillip, pacify your self; Copland, except he can excuse his fault, Shall find displeasure written in our looks. And now unto this proud resisting to...

KING EDWARD. Then, Gobin, for the service thou hast done, We here enlarge and give thee liberty; And, for recompense beside this good, Thou shalt receive five hundred marks in g...

AUDLEY. Tis full a fortnight, since I saw his highness What time he sent me forth to muster men; Which I accordingly have done, and bring them hither In fair array before his ma...

KING JOHN. Here, till our Navy of a thousand sail Have made a breakfast to our foe by Sea, Let us encamp, to wait their happy speed.— Lorraine, what readiness is Edward in? How...

COUNTESS. Alas, how much in vain my poor eyes gaze For succour that my sovereign should send! Ah, cousin Mountague, I fear thou wants The lively spirit, sharply to solicit With...

KING EDWARD. Robert of Artois, banished though thou be From France, thy native Country, yet with us Thou shalt retain as great a Seigniorie: For we create thee Earl of Richmond...

PRINCE EDWARD. Audley, the arms of death embrace us round, And comfort have we none, save that to die We pay sower earnest for a sweeter life. At Cressey field out Clouds of War...

KING JOHN. A sudden darkness hath defaced the sky, The winds are crept into their caves for fear, The leaves move not, the world is hushed and still, The birds cease singing, an...

KING EDWARD. Just dooming heaven, whose secret providence To our gross judgement is inscrutable, How are we bound to praise thy wondrous works, That hast this day given way unto...

KING EDWARD. Since they refuse our proffered league, my Lord, And will not ope their gates, and let us in, We will intrench our selves on every side, That neither vituals nor su...

CHARLES. Thy ransom, man? why needest thou talk of that? Art thou not free? and are not all occasions, That happen for advantage of our foes, To be accepted of, and stood upon?

ONE. Well met, my masters: how now? what’s the news? And wherefore are ye laden thus with stuff? What, is it quarter day that you remove, And carry bag and baggage too?

PRINCE EDWARD. Now, John in France, & lately John of France, Thy bloody Ensigns are my captive colours; And you, high vaunting Charles of Normandy, That once to day sent me a ho...

MOUNTFORD. My Lord of Salisbury, since by your aide Mine enemy Sir Charles of Blois is slain, And I again am quietly possessed In Brittain’s Dukedom, know that I resolve, For th...

KING JOHN. Our multitudes are in themselves confounded, Dismayed, and distraught; swift starting fear Hath buzzed a cold dismay through all our army, And every petty disadvantag...

ARTOIS. Breath, then, and to it again: the amazed French Are quite distract with gazing on the crows; And, were our quivers full of shafts again, Your grace should see a gloriou...

LORRAIN. The garrison of Genoaes, my Lord, That came from Paris weary with their march, Grudging to be so suddenly imployd, No sooner in the forefront took their place, But, str...

AUDLEY. No matter, if it be; the count is cast, And, in the worst, ends but a mortal man. Good friends, convey me to the princely Edward, That in the crimson bravery of my blood...