Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion, Phil. Madam, an if my brother had my shape, [goes! Lest men should say, Look, where three-farthings And, to his shape, were heir to all this land, 'Would I might never stir from off this place, I'd give it every foot to have this face; I would not be sir Nob1 in any case. Eli. I like thee well; Wilt thou forsake thy fortune, Bequeath thy land to him and follow me? I am a soldier, and now bound to France. Phil. Brother, take you my land, I'll take my chance: Your face hath got five hundred pounds a year; Eli. Nay, I would have you go before me thither. Phil. Philip, my liege; so is my name begun ; Philip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son. K. John. From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st: Kneel thou down, Philip, but arise more great; Arise sir Richard, and Plantagenet. [hand; Phil. Brother, by the mother's side, give me your My father gave me honour, yours gave land. I am thy grandame, Richard; call me so. Great in thine own person. 2 If I had his shape,-Sir Robert's, -as he has. 3 The allusion is to a silver coin of three-farthings in the reign of Elizabeth, extremely thin, and impressed with a rose. 4 Sir Robert. Phil. Madam, by chance, but not by truth: What though? 2 Something about, a little from the right, In at the window, or else o'er the hatch : K. John. Go, Faulconbridge; now hast thou thy desire, A landless knight makes thee a landed 'squire.— Come, madam, and come, Richard; we must speed For France, for France; for it is more than need. Phil. Brother, adieu; Good fortune come to thee! For thou wast got i' th' way of honesty. [Exeunt all but PHILIP. A foot of honour better than I was; For your conversion. Now your traveller,- honesty. Something irregularly. 9 Faulconbridge is now entertaining himself with ideas of greatness, suggested by his recent knighthood.-Good den, sir Richard, he supposes to be the salutation of a vassal,-God-amercy, fellow, his own supercilious reply.-STEEVENS. 4 respectful. 5 Change of condition from a private gentleman to a knight. 6 I catechise my spruce man about the countries through which he has travelled. And then comes answer like an ABC-book.'— And talking of the Alps, and Apennines, It draws towards supper in conclusion so. And fits the mounting spirit, like myself: For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising.- Enter Lady FAULCONBRIDGE and JAMES GUrney. O me! it is my mother: How now, good lady? What brings you here to court so hastily? Lady F. Where is that slave thy brother? where is he? That holds in chase mine honour up and down? Lady F. Sir Robert's son! Ay, thou unreverend boy, Written and pronounced absey-book. A Danish giant.-Faulconbridge is making merry with his brother Robert's diminutive person. . Sir Robert's son, why scorn'st thou at sir Robert? Phil. James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave a while? Phil. Philip? sparrow!-James, There's toys abroad ;3 anon I'll tell thee more. Exit GURNEY. Madam, I was not old sir Robert's son; Sir Robert never holp to make this leg. Lady F. Hast thou conspired with thy brother too, That for thine own gain should'st defend mine honour? What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave? Phil. Knight, knight, good mother, BasiliscoWhat! I am dubb'd; I have it on my shoulder. [like :a But, mother, I am not sir Robert's son ; I have disclaim'd sir Robert, and my land; Legitimation, name, and all is gone: Then, good my mother, let me know my father ; Lady F. King Richard Coeur-de-lion was thy Good leave means a ready assent. 2 Philip indeed! Do you take me for a sparrow ?—meaning, that he should have called him sir Richard. 3 Rumours, idle reports. 4 Like Basilisco in the play. Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,' Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I.-France. Before the walls of Angiers. Enter, on one side, the Archduke of Austria, and forces; on the other, PHILIP, king of France, and forces; LEWIS, CONSTANCE, ARTHUR, and Átten dants. Lew. Before Angiers well met, brave Austria.-- 1 There are sins that, whatever may be determined of them above, are not much censured on earth. |