Are turn'd to one thread, one little hair; my power, Faule. The Dauphin is preparing hitherward, Where, heav'n he knows, how we fhall answer him, For, in a night, the best part of As I upon advantage did remove, Were in the washes, all unwarily, Devoured by the unexpected flood. [The King dies. Sal. You breathe thefe dead news in as dead an ear: My Liege! my Lord! but now a King now thus. Henry, Ev'n fo muft I run on, and ev'n so 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, And then my foul shall wait on thee to heav'n, Now, now, you ftars, that move in your bright spheres, Where be your pow'rs? fhew now your mended faiths, And inftantly return with me again, To push destruction and perpetual fhame Out of the weak door of our fainting land: Sal. It feems you know not then so much as we: The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest, Who half an hour fince came from the Dauphin; Faule. He will the rather do it, when he fees Sal. Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already; To the fea-fide, and put his Cause and Quarrel With whom yourself, myself, and other lords, If To confummate this business happily. Faulc. Let it be fo; and you, my noble Prince, Henry. At Worcester muft his body be inter'd. Faulc. Thither shall it then. And happily may your sweet felf put on 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, And we shall shock them!-Nought shall make us rue, THE tragedy of King Jahn, though not written with the utmoft power of Shakespeare, is varied with a very pleasing interchange of incidents and charac [Exeunt omnes. ters. The Lady's grief is very affecting, and the character of the Baftard contains that mixture of greatnefs and lenity which this authour delighted to exhibit. There There is extant another play of King John, published with Shakespeare's name, fo different from this, and I think from all his other works, that there is rea fon to think his name was prefixed only to recommend it to fale. No man writes upon the fame fubject twice, without concurring in many places with himself. The END of the THIRD VOLUME, |