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

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 The troublesome Raigne
 
 600And to the purpose for the cause you come.
 601Me seemes you set right in chaunce of warre,
 602Yeelding no other reasons for your claime,
 603But so and so, because it shall be so.
 604So wrong shalbe subornd by trust of strength:
 605A Tyrants practize to inuest himselfe,
 606Where weake resistance giueth wrong the way.
 607To check the which, in holy lawfull Armes,
 608I in the right of Arthur Geffreys Sonne,
 609Am come before this Citie of Angiers,
 610To barre all other false supposed clayme,
 611From whence or howsoere the error springs.
 612And in his quarrell on my Princely word,
 613Ile fight it out vnto the latest man.
 614Iohn Know King of Fraunce, I will not be commaunded
 615By any power or Prince in Christendome,
 616To yeeld an instance how I hold mine owne,
 617More than to answere, that mine owne is mine.
 618But wilt thou see me parley with the Towne,
 619And heare them offer me alleageance,
 620Fealtie and homage, as true liege men ought.
 621K. Philip Summon them, I will not beleeue it till I see
 622 it, and when I see it Ile soone change it.
 623They summon the Towne, the Citizens appeare vpon the
 624 walls.
 625K. Iohn You men of Angiers, and as I take it my loyall
 626Subiects, I haue summoned you to the walls: to dispute on
 627my right, were to thinke you doubtfull therein, which I am
 628perswaded you are not. In few words, our Brothers Sonne,
 629backt with the King of Fraunce, haue beleagred your Towne
 630vpon a false pretended title to the same: in defence whereof
 631I your liege Lord haue brought our power to fence you from
 632the Usurper, to free your intended seruitude, and vtterly to
 633supplant the foemen, to my right & your rest. Say then, who
 634who keepe you the Towne for?
 635Citizen For our lawfull King.
 Iohn

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