And make fair weather in your blustering land. Upon your oath of fervice to the pope, Go I to make the French lay down their arms. [Exit. My crown I should give off? even so I have: Faule. All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out But Dover-castle: London hath receiv'd, Like a kind hoft, the dauphin and his powers. And wild amazement hurries up and down K. John. Would not my lords return to me again, After they heard young Arthur was alive? Faulc. They found him dead, and caft into the streets; An empty cafket, where the jewel, life, By fome damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away. Shew Shew boldness and aspiring confidence. K. John. The legate of the pope hath been with me, Faule. Oh inglorious league! Shall we, upon the footing of our land, To arms invafive? Shall a beardless boy, Mocking the air with colours idly spread 5, They faw we had a purpose of defence. K. John. Have thou the ordering of this prefent time. Faul. Away then, with good courage; yet, I know 6, Our party may well meet a prouder foe. [Exeunt. SCENE Forage, and run] To forage is here ufed in its original fenfe, for to range abroad. JOHNSON. 5 Mocking the air with colours] He has the fame image in Macbeth, 6 Where the Norwegian banners flout the sky, Away then, with good courage; yet, I know, Our party may well meet a prouder foe.] Let us then away with courage; yet I fo well know the faintnefs of our party, that I think it may easily happen that they shall encounter enemies who have more fpirit than themfelves. JOHNSON. Dr. Johnfon is, I believe, mistaken. Faulconbridge means; for all their boafting I know very well that our party is able to SCENE II. Changes to the dauphin's camp at St. Edmund's-bury 7. Enter, in arms, Lewis, Salisbury, Melun, Pembroke, Bigot, and foldiers. 8 Lewis. My lord Melun, let this be copied out, Sal. Upon our fides it never fhall be broken. cope with one yet prouder and more confident of its ftrength than theirs. Faulconbridge would otherwife difpirit John, whon he meant to animate. STEEVENS. - at St. Edmund's-bury.] I have ventured to fix the place of the fcene here, which is fpecified by none of the editors, on the following authorities. In the preceding act, where Salisbury has fixed to go over to the dauphin; he fays, Lords, I will meet him at St. Edmund's-bury, And count Melun, in this laft act, fays, and many more with me, Upon the altar at St. Edmund's-bury ; Even on that altar, where we favore to you And it appears likewife from The troublefome Reign of King John, in two parts (the first rough model of this play) that the interchange of vows betwixt the dauphin and the English barons was at St. Edmund's-bury. THEOBALD. 8 -the precedent, &c.] i. e. the original treaty between the dauphin and the English lords. STLEVENS. Το To be a widow-maker; oh, and there, And follow unacquainted colours here? What, here?-O nation, that thou could't remove ! That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyfelf, 9 And grapple thee unto a pagan fhore; Where these two Chriftian armies might combine Lewis. A noble temper doft thou fhew in this; &c. And grapple thee, &c.] The old copy reads, And cripple thee, STEEVENS. 1 Between compulfion, and a brave respect!] This compulfion was the neceffity of a reformation in the state; which, according to Salisbury's opinion (who, in his fpeech preceding, calls it an enforced caufe) could only be procured by foreign arms: and the brave refpect was the love of his country. Yet the Oxford editor, for compulfion, reads compafion. WARBURTON. My My heart hath melted at a lady's tears, But this effufion of fuch manly drops, up This shower, blown up by tempeft of the foul, As Lewis himself: fo, nobles, fhall you all, Enter Pandulph, attended. And even there, methinks, an angel fpake 2: Pand. Hail, noble prince of France ! 2 an angel fpake:] Sir T. Hanmer, and after him Dr. Warburton read here, an angel fpeeds. I think unneceffarily. The dauphin does not yet hear the legate indeed, nor pretend to hear him; but feeing him advance, and concluding that he comes to animate and authorize him with the power of the church, he cries out, at the fight of this holy man, I am encouraged as by the voice of an angel. JOHNSON. VOL. V. G That, |