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The Plays of William Shakespeare (6); With Notes of Various Commentators
The Plays of William Shakespeare With Notes of Various Commentators - 6 Author:William Shakespeare Volume: 6 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Original Publisher: Printed for G. Kearsley [Printed by T. Davies] Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial... more » access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: That such an army could be drawn in France, And she not hear of it ? Mess. My liege, her ear Is stopp'd with dust; the first of April, died Your noble mother: And, as I hear, my lord, The lady Constance in a frenzy died Three days before: but this from rumour's tongue I idly heard; if true, or fake, I know not. K. John. Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion ! O, make a league with me, till I have pleas'd My discontented peers ! -- What! mother dead ? How wildly then walks my estate in France ! -- Under whose conduct came those powers of France, That thou for truth giv'st out, are landed here ? Mess. Under the Dauphin. Enter the Bastard and Peter of Pomfrct. K. John. Thou hast made me giddy With these ill tidings. -- Now, what says the world To your proceedings ? do not seek to stuff My head with more ill news, for it is full. Bast. But, if you be afeard to hear the worst, Then let the worst, unheard, fall on your head. K. John. Bear with me, cousin ; for I was amaz'd Under the tide : but now I breathe again Aloft the flood ; and can give audience To any tongue, speak it of what it will. Barf. How I have sped among the clergymen, The sums I have collected shall express. But, as I travell'd hither through the land, I find the people strangely fantasied; Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams; Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear : And here's a prophet, that I brought with me From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found With many hundreds treading on ...« less