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

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 of King Iohn.
 2878Fall as the fowle before the Eagles eyes.
 2879Only two crosses of contrary change
 2880Do nip my heart, and vexe me with vnrest.
 2881Lord Melons death, the one part of my soule,
 2882A brauer man did neuer liue in Fraunce.
 2883The other griefe, I thats a gall in deede,
 2884To thinke that Douer Castell should hold out
 2885Gainst all assaults, and rest impregnable.
 2886Yee warlike race of Francus Hectors sonne,
 2887Triumph in conquest of that tyrant Iohn,
 2888The better halfe of England is our owne,
 2889And towards the conquest of the other part,
 2890We haue the face of all the English Lords,
 2891What then remaines but ouerrun the land.
 2892Be resolute my warlike followers,
 2893And if good fortune serue as she begins,
 2894The poorest peasant of the Realme of Fraunce
 2895Shall be a maister ore an English Lord.
 2896 Enter a Messenger.
 2897Lewes Fellow what newes.
 2898Messen. Pleaseth your Grace, the Earle of Salsbury, Pen-,
 2899broke, Essex, Clare, and Arundell, with all the Barons that did
 2900fight for thee, are on a suddeine fled with all their powers, to
 2901ioyne with Iohn, to driue thee back againe.
 2902 Enter another Messenger.
 2903Messen. Lewes my Lord why standst thou in a maze,
 2904Gather thy troups, hope out of help from Fraunce,
 2905For all thy forces being fiftie sayle,
 2906Conteyning twenty thousand souldyers,
 2907With victuall and munition for the warre,
 2908Putting from Callis in vnluckie time,
 2909Did crosse the seas, and on the Goodwin sands,
 2910The men, munition, and the ships are lost.
 2911 Enter another Messenger.
 2912Lewes More newes? say on.
 2913Messen. Iohn (my Lord) with all his scattered troupes,
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