King John - Tapa blanda

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II. SCENE I—France. Before the Walls of Anglers. Enter on one side, the Archduke Of Austria, and Forces; on the other, Philip, King of France, and Forces; Lewis, Constance, Arthur, and Attendants. Lew. Before A ngiers well met, brave Austria.— "Arthur,' that great forerunner of thy blood, Richard, that robbed the lion of his heart, And fought the holy wars in Palestine, By this brave duke came early to his grave;2 And, for amends to his posterity, At our importance 3 hither is he come To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf, And to rebuke the usurpation Of thy unnatural uncle, English John: Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither. Arth. God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion s death Tin, rather that you give his offspring life, Shadowing their right under your wings of war. 1 Arthur.] This is a nominative of direct address. 2 By thin brave duke, $c. This is not true. Leopold V., archduke of Austria, discovered and seized the disguised Cceur-de-Lion in Vienna, and afterwards gave him tip to the Emperor Henry VI., by whom he was imprisoned in a fortress at Worms; but Leopold died five years before Richard. 3 Importance Importunity. I give you welcome with a powerless hand, But with a heart full of unstained love: Welcome before the gates of Anglers, duke. Lew. A noble boy ! who would not do thee right! Aust. Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss, As seal to this indenture of my love— That to my home I will no more return, Till Anglers, and the right thou hast in France, Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,'.— Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tidus, And coops from other lands her islanders, Even till that England, hedged in with the main, That water-walled bulwark, still secure2 And confident from foreign purposes, Eve...