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

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 The troublesome Raigne
 
 670Bastard And art thou gone, misfortune haunt thy steps,
 671And chill colde feare assaile thy times of rest.
 672Morpheus leaue here thy silent Eban caue,
 673Besiedge his thoughts with dismall fantasies,
 674And ghastly obiects of pale threatning Mors.
 675Affright him euery minute with stearne lookes,
 676Let shadowe temper terror in his thoughts,
 677And let the terror make the coward mad,
 678And in his madnes let him feare pursute,
 679And so in frenzie let the peasant die.
 680Here is the ransome that allayes his rage,
 681The first freehold that Richard left his sonne:
 682With which I shall surprize his liuing foes,
 683As Hectors statue did the fainting Greekes. Exit.
 
 684Enter the Kings Herolds with Trumpets to the wals of
 685 Angiers: they summon the Towne.
 
 686Eng. Herold Iohn by the grace of God King of England,
 687Lord of Ireland, Aniou, Toraine, &c. demaundeth once againe
 688of you his subiects of Angiers, if you will quietly surrender
 689vp the Towne into his hands?
 690Fr. Herold Philip by the grace of God King of Fraunce, demaundeth
 691in the behalfe of Arthur Duke of Britaine, if you
 692will surrender vp the Towne into his hands, to the vse of the
 693said Arthur.
 694Citizens Herrolds goe tell the two victorious Princes,
 695that we the poore Inhabitants of Angiers, require a parle of
 696their Maiesties.
 697Herolds We goe.
 
 698 Enter the Kings, Queene Elianor, Blaunch, Bastard, Ly-
 699 moges, Lewes, Castilean, Pembrooke, Salisbury, Constance,
 700 and Arthur Duke of Britaine.
 
 701John Herold, what answere doo the Townsmen send?
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