THE

PLAYS

or

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE,

ACCURATELY PRINTED FROM THE

TEXT OF THE CORRECTED COPY LEFT BY THE LATE

GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ,

WITH

GLOSSARIAL NOTES,

AND

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SHAKSPEARE.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

CONTAINING

KING JOHN-KING RICHARD 11.-KING HENRY IV,
PART I-KING HENRY IV., PART 11-KING

HENRY V.

BOSTON:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: JAMES C. DERBY.

1854.

King John.

Prince Henry, his son; afterward King Henry III. Arthur, duke of Bretagne, son of Geffrey, late duke of Bretagne, the elder brother of King John.

William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.

Geffrey Fitz-Peter, Earl of Essex, chief justiciary of England.

William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury.
Robert Bigot, Earl of Norfolk.

Hubert de Burgh, chamberlain to the king. Robert Faulconbridge, son of Sir Robert Faulconbridge.

Philip Faulconbridge, his half-brother, bastard son to King Richard the First.

James Gurney, servant to Lady Faulconbridge. Peter of Pomfret, a prophet.

Philip, King of France.

Lewis, the dauphin.
Arch-duke of Austria.

Cardinal Pandulph, the pope's legate.

Melun, a French lord.

Chatillon, ambassador from France to King John.

Elinor, the widow of King Henry II. and mother of King John.

Constance, mother to Arthur.

Blanch, daughter to Alphonso, King of Castile, and niece to King John.

Lady Faulconbridge, mother to the bastard, and Robert Faulconbridge.

Lords, ladies, citizens of Angiers, sheriff, heralds, officers, soldiers, messengers, and other attend

ants.

Scene, sometimes in England, and sometimes in

France.

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KING JOHN

ACT I.

SCENE I.-Northampton. A room of state in
the palace. Enter King John, Queen Elinor,
Pembroke, Essex, Salisbury, and others, with
Chatillon.

King John.

Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with

us?

Chat. Thus, after greeting, speaks the king of
France,

In my behaviour, to the majesty,

The borrow'd majesty of England here.

Eli. A strange beginning;--borrow'd majesty !
K. John. Silence, good mother; hear the ein-

bassy.

Chat. Philip of France, in right and true behalf
Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,

Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
To this fair island, and the territories;

To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine.
Desiring thee to lay aside the sword,
Which sways usurpingly these several titles ;
And put the same into young Arthur's hand,
Thy nephew, and right royal sovereign.

K. John. What follows, if we disallow of this?
Chat. The proud control of fierce and bloody war,
To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.

(1) In the manner I now do.