Through my burn'd bosom ; nor entreat the north And comfort me with cold :-I do not ask you much, And so ingrateful, you deny me that. P. Hen. O, that there were some virtue in my tears, That might relieve you! K. John. The salt in 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 the Bastard. Bast. O, I am scalded with my violent motion, K. John. O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye : Bast. The Dauphin is preparing hitherward; Where, heaven he knows, how we shall answer him: [The King dies. Sal. You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear. -My liege! my lord!-But now a king,-now thus. P. Hen. Even so must I run on, and even so stop. What surety of the world, what hope, what stay, When this was now a king, and now is clay! Bast. Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind, And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven, [3] Module and model, were in our author's time, only different modes of spelling the same word. Model signified not an archetype after which something was to be formed, but the thing formed after an archetype; and hence it is used by Shakespeare and his contemporaries for a representation. MALONE. And instantly return with me again, To push destruction, and perpetual shame, Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought; Sal. It seems, you know not then so much as we; Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin • Bast. He will the rather do it, when he sees Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already; With whom yourself, myself, and other lords, If To consummate this business happily. Bast. Let it be so :-And you, my noble prince, P. Hen. At Worcester must his body be interr'd ;' Bast. Thither shall it then. And happily may your sweet self put on To whom, with all submission, on my knee, I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly. Sal. And the like tender of our love we make, To rest without a spot forevermore. P. Hen. I have a kind soul, that would give you thanks, And knows not how to do it, but with tears. Bast. O, let us pay the time but needful woe," Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.This England never did, (nor never shall,) [1] A stone coffin containing the body of King John, was discovered in the cathedral church at Worcester, July 17, 1797. STEEVENS. [2] Let us now indulge in sorrow, since there is abundant cause for it. England has been long in a scene of confusion, and its calamities have anticipated our tears. By those which we now shed, we only pay her what is her due. ALÁLONE, |