The Troublesome Reign of King John ((Quarto, 1581))

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 The troublesome Raigne
 
 314Ile ceaze the lazie Abbey lubbers lands
 315Into my hands to pay my men of warre.
 316The Pope and Popelings shall not grease themselues
 317With golde and groates, that are the souldiers due.
 318Thus forward Lords, let our commaund be done,
 319And march we forward mightely to Fraunce.Exeunt.
 320Manet Philip and his Mother.
 321Philip Madame I beseech you deigne me so much leasure
 322as the hearing of a matter that I long to impart to you.
 323Mother Whats the matter Philip. I thinke your sute iu
 324secret, tends to some money matter, which you suppose burns
 325in the bottome of my chest.
 326Phil. No Madam, it is no such sute as to beg or borrow,
 327But such a sute, as might some other grant,
 328I would not now haue troubled you withall.
 329Mother A Gods name let vs heare it.
 330Philip Then Madame thus, your Ladiship sees well,
 331How that my scandall growes by meanes of you,
 332In that report hath rumord vp and downe,
 333I am a bastard, and no Fauconbridge.
 334This grose attaint so tilteth in my thoughts,
 335Maintaining combat to abridge my ease,
 336That field and towne, and company alone,
 337Whatso I doo, or wheresoere I am,
 338I cannot chase the slaunder from thy thoughts.
 339If it be true, resolue me of my Sire,
 340For pardon Madame, if I thinke amisse.
 341Be Philip Philip and no Fauconbridge,
 342His Father doubtles was as braue a man.
 343To you on knees as sometime Phaeton,
 344Mistrusting silly Merop for his Sire,
 345Strayning a little bashfull modestie,
 346I beg some instance whence I am extraught.
 347Mother Yet more adoo to haste me to my graue,
 348And wilt thou too become a Mothers crosse?
 349Must I accuse myself to close with you?
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