Pemb. He is more patient,

Than when you left him; even now he fung.
Henry. Oh vanity of fickness! fierce extreams
In their continuance will not feel themselves.
Death having prey'd upon the outward parts,
Leaves them; invifible his fiege is now,
Against the mind; the which he pricks and wounds-
With many legions of ftrange fantafies;

Which, in their throng, and prefs to that last hold, Confound themselves. 'Tis ftrange that death fhould

fing:

I am the cygnet to this pale, faint fwan,
Who chaunts a doleful hymn to his own death;
And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, fings

His foul and body to their lafting reft.

Sal. Be of good comfort, Prince; for you are born To fet a form upon that indigeft,

Which he hath left fo fhapeless and so rude.

King John brought in.

K. John. Ay, marry, now my foul hath elbow-room; It would not out at windows, nor at doors. There is fo hot a fummer in my bofom, That all my bowels crumble up to duft: I am a fcribbled form drawn with a pen Upon a parchment, and against this fire Do I fhrink up.

Henry. How fares your Majefty?

K. John. Poifon'd, ill fare! dead, forfook, caft off; And none of you will bid the winter come

To thruft his icy fingers in my maw;

Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their courfe
Through my burn'd bofom: nor intreat the north
To make his bleak winds kifs my parched lips,
And comfort me with cold. I ask not much,
I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait,
And fo ungrateful, you deny me that.

Henry. Oh, that there were fome virtue in my tears, That might relieve you!

K. John. The falt of them is hot.

Within me is a hell; and there the poison
Is, as a fiend, confin'd to tyrannize
On unreprievable, condemned blood.

Enter Faulconbridge.

Faule. Oh! I am fcalded with my violent motion, And spleen of speed to fee your Majesty.

K. John. Oh! coufin, thou art come to fet mine eye: The tackle of my heart is crackt and burnt; And all the shrouds, wherewith my life should fail, Are turned to one thread, one little hair : My heart hath one poor ftring to stay it by, Which holds but 'till thy news be uttered; And then all this thou feeft, is but a clod, And module of confounded royalty.

Faulc. The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,

Where, heav'n he knows, how we fhall anfwer him.
For, in a night, the best part of my power,

As I

upon advantage did remove,

Were in the wafhes, all unwarily,
Devoured by the unexpected flood.

[The King dies.

Sal. You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear
My Liege! my Lord!--but now a King-now thus.
Henry. Ev'n fo must I run on, and ev'n fo stop.
What furety of the world, what hope, what stay,
When this was now a King, and now is clay?
Faule. Art thou gone fo? I do but stay behind,
To do the office for thee of revenge:

And then my foul fhall wait on thee to heav'n,
As it on earth hath been thy fervant still.

Now, now, you stars, that move in your bright spheres,
Where be your pow'rs? fhew now your mended faiths,
And inftantly return with me again,

To push deftruction and perpetual fhame

Out of the weak door of our fainting land:
Strait let us feek, or strait we shall be fought;
The Dauphin rages at our very heels.

Sal. It feems, you know not then so much as we:
The Cardinal Pandulph is within at reft,

Who half an hour fince came from the Dauphin:

And

And brings from him fuch offers of our peace,
As we with honour and respect may take,
With purpose presently to leave this war.

Faulc. He will the rather do it, when he fees
Ourselves well finewed to our defence.

Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already;
For many Carriages he hath dispatch'd
To the fea-fide, and put his Cause and Quarrel
To the difpofing of the Cardinal :

With whom yourself, myself, and other lords,
If
you think meet, this afternoon will post
To confummate this business happily.

Faulc. Let it be fo; and you, my noble Prince,
With other Princes that may best be spar'd,
Shall wait upon your father's Funeral.

Henry. At Worcester must his body be interr'd,
For fo he will'd it.

Faulc. Thither shall it then.

And happily may your fweet felf put on
The lineal State, and Glory of the Land!
To whom, with all Submiffion on my knee,
I do bequeath my faithful fervices,

And true fubjection everlastingly.

Sal. And the like tender of our love we make, To reft without a Spot for evermore.

Henry. I have a kind foul that would give you thanks,

And knows not how to do it, but with tears.

Faulc. Oh, let us pay the time but needful woe,

Since it hath been before-hand with our griefs.
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lye at the proud foot of a Conqueror,
But when it firft did help to wound itself.
Now these her Princes are come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,

And we shall shock them!-Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do reft but true.

[Exeunt ones.

The End of the Third Volume.

J