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

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 of King Iohn.
 2807The Friers fasten on it streight:
 2808But let vs in to taste of their repast,
 2809It goes against my heart to feed with them,
 2810Or be beholding to such Abbey groomes. Exeunt.
 
 2811 Manet the Monke.
 
 2812Monk. Is this the King that neuer loud a Frier?
 2813Is this the man that doth contemne the Pope?
 2814Is this the man that robd the holy Church,
 2815And yet will flye vnto a Friory?
 2816Is this the King that aymes at Abbeys lands?
 2817Is this the man whome all the world abhorres,
 2818And yet will flye vnto a Friory?
 2819Accurst be Swinsteed Abbey, Abbot, Friers,
 2820Moncks, Nuns, and Clarks, and all that dwells therein,
 2821If wicked Iohn escape aliue away.
 2822Now if that thou wilt looke to merit heauen,
 2823And be canonizd for a holy Saint:
 2824To please the world with a deseruing worke,
 2825Be thou the man to set thy cuntrey free,
 2826And murder him that seekes to murder thee.
 2827 Enter the Abbot.
 2828Abbot Why are not you within to cheare the King?
 2829He now begins to mend, and will to meate.
 2830Monk What if I say to strangle him in his sleepe?
 2831Abbot What at thy mumpsimus? away,
 2832And seeke some meanes for to pastime the King.
 2833Monk Ile set a dudgeon dagger at his heart,
 2834And with a mallet knock him on the head.
 2835Abbot Alas, what meanes this Monke to murther me?
 2836Dare lay my life heel kill me for my place.
 2837Monk Ile poyson him, and it shall neare be knowne,
 2838And then shall I be chiefest of my house.
 2839Abbot If I were dead, indeed he is the next,
 2840But ile away, for why the Monke is mad,
 2841And in his madnesse he will murther me.
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